1 00:00:08,199 --> 00:00:13,679 Today's scary story comes from Louisa. It takes place across southern California, an 2 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:18,640 area that I'm very familiar with. The events described in this episode are real, 3 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:23,839 so please listen at your own roads. The end of the episode will 4 00:00:23,839 --> 00:00:29,920 include part of the scary plus bonus material. My name is Edward, and 5 00:00:30,039 --> 00:00:45,479 here is Luisa's true scary story. My story is based in Riverside mostly, 6 00:00:45,679 --> 00:00:52,920 but I've had experiences since I was very young. My family was scattered at 7 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:57,280 the time. My brother was living in Englewood with a friend of his, 8 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,600 and my sister and I were living with my dia in Riverside. This is 9 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:06,959 the first time that I was in a city that was really quiet at night. 10 00:01:07,799 --> 00:01:11,480 In the city in La you hear the sirens and you hear people at 11 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:19,040 all hours traffic, and then Riverside it's quiet at night, so you hear 12 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:22,920 the trains and like you can barely sleep at first because you're not used to 13 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:26,560 just not hearing much even just like the crickets are like kind of creepy. 14 00:01:27,719 --> 00:01:32,239 Anyways, it was a nice house with front yard and an orange tree in 15 00:01:32,239 --> 00:01:37,359 the front and like an attached garage to the house, so as you walked 16 00:01:37,439 --> 00:01:40,879 up the walkway of the house. The garage is the first thing to the 17 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:44,000 right, and then you have the porch and the front door, and as 18 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:49,560 you walk in, the kitchen is to the left, and as you walk 19 00:01:49,599 --> 00:01:53,519 another step to the right is the hallway where all the rooms are. So 20 00:01:53,599 --> 00:01:56,319 there's a four bedroom house with two rooms near the front of the house, 21 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:00,200 two near the back. And then if you don't go in that hall and 22 00:02:00,239 --> 00:02:02,319 you keep walking, it's the living room. If you want to talk about 23 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:06,879 dark hallways even in the daytime, but you could close the door in the 24 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:08,840 hallway and it was just like pitch black if you just closed all the doors 25 00:02:08,879 --> 00:02:12,319 from the bedrooms. And at the end of the hallway it was the bathroom, 26 00:02:12,319 --> 00:02:15,919 so you closed that door too. It was just my sister and I 27 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:19,919 living there, and we would sleep in the living room and it was like 28 00:02:20,039 --> 00:02:25,599 my cousins, three boys, my aunt, and my uncle. My Tia 29 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:30,919 was a very strict person. Everything was in order in the house. Every 30 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:35,639 Saturday you woke up the music blasting. Everyone had their chores to do. 31 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:38,080 We all grew up really close from when they used to live in Compton. 32 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:45,120 My cousins and I, we'd all hang out and my sister. One day 33 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:50,919 when we're all just hanging out, she tells us that she's seen a ghost, 34 00:02:51,199 --> 00:02:53,199 and we're like, a ghost, what do you mean a ghosts? 35 00:02:53,439 --> 00:02:58,680 She said that it was a lady and she was all in white with long 36 00:02:58,719 --> 00:03:05,599 hair, and she was in a nightgown of some kind. My cousins and 37 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:09,479 I were just like, no, there's no way. We all proceeded to 38 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:13,960 just make one of her and be like, oh, Casper's going to get 39 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:15,919 you or something like that. And especially because they're all dudes, right, 40 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:21,879 so they're quick on their feet to be like, oh, ha ha, 41 00:03:22,719 --> 00:03:27,960 you're crazy or you're just a scaredy cat. I'm fifteen at the time. 42 00:03:28,039 --> 00:03:32,240 Teenagers we can be cruel just to be funny, and so none of us 43 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:37,360 believed her, and we just left it at that. When my sister was 44 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:43,400 adamant that she saw a woman in this house, so we're like whatever, 45 00:03:43,439 --> 00:03:46,759 We all brushed it off. Any time goes by, I don't feel besides 46 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:51,639 the creepy hallway, nothing of the house really gives me like bad vibes. 47 00:03:53,919 --> 00:04:03,159 One night, though, I'm sleeping in our rollout couch sofa bed and I'm 48 00:04:03,199 --> 00:04:10,479 dead asleep. My sister's sleeping right next to me. She's dead asleep. 49 00:04:12,759 --> 00:04:18,920 In my sleepiness, dreaming, I had this feeling that just came over me, 50 00:04:19,399 --> 00:04:23,360 like when you're out and about doing your thing and you just feel like 51 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:25,879 someone staring at you and you turn and you're like, what the heck? 52 00:04:26,399 --> 00:04:33,600 I had that feeling like someone's watching me for whatever reason. From my sleep, 53 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:41,279 I woke up to look up over the covers to the foot of the 54 00:04:41,319 --> 00:04:50,879 bed, and this woman is just standing there staring. She looked exactly like 55 00:04:50,959 --> 00:04:57,920 my sister had described her. She had a nightgown on that was white, 56 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:02,120 and the sleeves were long, like down to her wrists, and it was 57 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:08,040 those like old school ones with the little ruffles around the edge of the shoulders 58 00:05:08,079 --> 00:05:14,079 and down the front of the chest. And her hair was long and it 59 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:17,040 looked a little white, like she was maybe older. But she didn't look 60 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:23,439 mean. She just looked curious, like she was just looking at us. 61 00:05:25,079 --> 00:05:28,560 And even though she didn't look mean or anything, I just was I can't 62 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:30,480 believe. In my mind. I was like, dang, she was right. 63 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:36,120 And I threw the blankets over my head super fast, and I was 64 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:39,319 like, you're not real, You're not there. You're not real, You're 65 00:05:39,319 --> 00:05:42,680 not there. You're not real, You're not there. And I looked back 66 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:57,480 up and she was gone. Around that time, a few creepy things were 67 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:03,040 happening, or just everything seemed really unsettled because everything was so unstable in my 68 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:12,480 life. So like my mom was in Pomona and she was having her own 69 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:18,519 experience is there as well. She was sleeping on my uncle's couch in Pomona, 70 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:29,680 and she would feel presences there to the point like when I told her 71 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:33,720 and we told her what we saw, she was like believed us right away. 72 00:06:34,639 --> 00:06:39,079 My mom, in general, she's very spiritual. She used to read 73 00:06:39,199 --> 00:06:45,399 tarot cards as well. I feel like she's very sensitive to a lot of 74 00:06:45,439 --> 00:06:53,199 things, just energies. My uncle didn't believe there was anything in their house, 75 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,360 so when we told my mom about my aunt's house, she was like, 76 00:06:57,439 --> 00:06:59,879 yeah, I believe it. That Holly is creepy right, and youthink 77 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:09,639 could be there. My mom's experiences though, the one time she did see 78 00:07:09,639 --> 00:07:15,000 someone in Pomona was still when she was staying there and she had came to 79 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:20,240 pick us up from my aunt Holston Riverside for a family party that they were 80 00:07:20,279 --> 00:07:26,600 having in Pomona. They lived in a little kind of like duplex four plex 81 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,000 apartment situation. Right. So Mom and I walk in because we're arriving. 82 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:33,160 It's still early though, so people are still setting things up. There's not 83 00:07:33,199 --> 00:07:38,399 that many people there yet. We say, kai, how are you to 84 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:42,399 the lady we see in the kitchen who's like washing dishes, just like a 85 00:07:42,439 --> 00:07:46,639 regular lady, and nothing seemed really different about her, just your average outfit 86 00:07:47,399 --> 00:07:50,519 for a party, or her hair wasn't a ponytail, and she says hi 87 00:07:50,639 --> 00:07:57,160 back to us, and we walk into the hallway to say hi to my 88 00:07:57,199 --> 00:08:01,839 aunt who's in there with her friend, and she introduces her to the lady 89 00:08:01,879 --> 00:08:03,920 that's there, and she's like, well, I met your friend in the 90 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,839 kitchen. She was washing the dishes. I put whatever down on the table 91 00:08:07,879 --> 00:08:11,160 that I brought whatever, she said, And then she was like, what, 92 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:16,360 lady, there's no other lady here. We're the only ones here so 93 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:20,279 far, and you all just arrived. And she said, no, there 94 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:24,720 was a lady. She just said hi to me. She looked at me 95 00:08:24,759 --> 00:08:26,759 like, didn't we just say hi to a lady in there? It's like, 96 00:08:26,839 --> 00:08:30,079 yeah, we did. And we went back looking for this lady and 97 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:37,720 there was nobody there. Eventually it got to a point where, like my 98 00:08:37,799 --> 00:08:41,919 mom was finally able to move in with us at least at the house in 99 00:08:43,039 --> 00:08:46,000 Riverside with my aunt, and my aunt at this time is going through her 100 00:08:46,039 --> 00:08:54,159 own divorce as well. So I feel like the feeling of unhappiness and maybe 101 00:08:54,159 --> 00:08:58,799 like depression and anger things that people go through. All these emotions to process 102 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:03,159 life changes that are so drastic, like marriage is ending after twenty plus years, 103 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:11,120 put a lot of those vibes out. Because if misery loves company, 104 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:16,480 like all that negativity, you can really attract some weird things into your life. 105 00:09:18,799 --> 00:09:22,279 But when my mom finally moved in, I think at that point, 106 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:28,200 I was like seventeen, and I had already dropped out of high school because 107 00:09:28,159 --> 00:09:31,120 it had been so hard for my mom to do things. I was out 108 00:09:31,159 --> 00:09:37,799 of school and I was working. My mom and I would work long hours, 109 00:09:37,039 --> 00:09:41,799 really long hours, like five am call times, and we'd be home 110 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:46,679 by eight pm and we'd do it all over again. So on this particular 111 00:09:46,799 --> 00:09:50,519 day, when my mom and I after a day's work, she's in the 112 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:54,799 living room talking to my THEA. I decided that, like, I'm really 113 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:58,919 tired, so I want to go to sleep. The bedroom that we had 114 00:09:58,399 --> 00:10:05,440 was the on the right that was near the front of the house that's connected 115 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:11,799 to the garage. It was four of us sharing a room. I'm seventeen. 116 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:15,840 I sleep on the floor at the foot of the bed, in front 117 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:20,279 of the door that comes into the bedroom and in front of the door into 118 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:26,000 the garage. At the time, I was going to high school in Riverside 119 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:31,039 called Ramona that I had dropped out of previously, and I met this girl, 120 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:35,879 Tabitha, and she told me that she knew someone who lived in the 121 00:10:35,919 --> 00:10:41,600 house that my cousin that we were living in, and she mentioned that the 122 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:48,360 person that she had spoke to in that house mentioned the previous owners of that 123 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:56,360 house had someone who had committed suicide in the house in my cousin's room, 124 00:10:56,399 --> 00:11:01,879 and I was just like, no way, that's maybe that's why there's such 125 00:11:01,879 --> 00:11:11,440 a creepy feeling in the house, like this heavy feeling. I'm sleeping, 126 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:16,559 everything's fine, but at one point I remember I wanted to wake up. 127 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:20,960 I'm a light sleeper as it is anyway, so when I turn over when 128 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:24,600 I'm in bed, or if I need to go to the bathroom real quick 129 00:11:24,639 --> 00:11:28,840 overnight, like I get up quickly, my cat can drop something and I 130 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:33,639 can hear it. So I wanted to wake up, and I was awake 131 00:11:35,879 --> 00:11:41,759 in my mind, but I could not move, And as much as I 132 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:48,000 tried, I just felt like someone or something was sitting on my chest and 133 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:54,200 literally pinning me down from every limb. If I tried to move an arm, 134 00:11:56,639 --> 00:12:01,000 a leg, it's almost like I was screaming at the top of my 135 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:07,639 lungs and I could feel my chest just concaving because every breath I wanted to 136 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:11,480 take, I wasn't able to expand any further. It's almost like when you're 137 00:12:11,519 --> 00:12:18,200 stuck in a small space, like those stories you read from a person in 138 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:20,559 a cave that went into a space that was too small for them, and 139 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:28,399 as they start getting wedged and further tighter tighter. That's how I felt on 140 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:35,519 my chest. When I finally was able to move, it was almost like 141 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:39,000 a twitch, like a jerk because I was trying so hard that like my 142 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:46,000 body intentionally came forward, Like I woke up with this intense energy and I 143 00:12:46,039 --> 00:12:48,720 just remember getting up and feeling like I need to get out of this room. 144 00:12:48,879 --> 00:12:52,080 What was that I need to get out of the room, and I 145 00:12:52,200 --> 00:13:00,559 hustled down that hallway and just saw my mom and I started crying and I 146 00:13:00,639 --> 00:13:05,159 feel and you remember a certain feeling. I can feel it now almost. 147 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:11,240 My mom just said like a prayer for me, and she hugged me real 148 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:13,120 tight, and she was like, it's okay, Mi, huh, get 149 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:16,159 the best soul. What's wrong with you? And I was like, I 150 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:22,759 don't know, it's just I feel so scared. Like it was terrifying and 151 00:13:22,799 --> 00:13:31,039 it was humbling, because like you don't realize how hard it is to experience 152 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:35,919 some things like that alone, you know. And it was so comforting to 153 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:37,720 be able to turn to my mom and be like, dude, I'm scared 154 00:13:37,759 --> 00:13:41,240 and I don't know what that was and just her being like it's okay and 155 00:13:41,279 --> 00:13:50,200 saying a prayer over me. It was definitely comforting, and it was not 156 00:13:50,279 --> 00:13:54,080 one of the first time I've had those type of experiences. Like shortly after 157 00:13:54,120 --> 00:14:01,000 that, it seemed like everything was chill and calm, but it was hard 158 00:14:01,039 --> 00:14:07,039 to sleep in the back room because that garage, I don't know what it 159 00:14:07,159 --> 00:14:11,519 was like. I just felt like anybody at any moment could come in and 160 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:20,080 walk in from there, and you would hear l knocks or creeks that most 161 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:22,840 people would equate to, like me, use the house settling, or the 162 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:31,600 change of weather, the wood expands or whatever. But it was not for 163 00:14:31,679 --> 00:14:35,559 us for that much longer, because we finally were able to get an apartment 164 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:41,960 elsewhere, and that had its own experiences as well. We were still in 165 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:46,360 Riverside, but like I mentioned, my dad had left, and my mom 166 00:14:46,399 --> 00:14:54,159 always thought that we were experiencing all these weird things because he was being worked 167 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:58,559 on or something. And I feel like that's a very common thing in like 168 00:14:58,559 --> 00:15:05,120 our mex culture. You have you're like people who work in Santiria and people 169 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:11,840 who work their white magic and their black magic, and it's all very unsettling 170 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:18,000 sometimes when a person like my mom who knows exactly what that is because she's 171 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:22,480 had her own experiences that the countless story she's told me about in Mexico, 172 00:15:22,879 --> 00:15:30,600 or when we lived in Texas and she was doing her tarot car readings and 173 00:15:30,679 --> 00:15:33,799 someone tried to steal her energy with these black candles. So when she said 174 00:15:33,799 --> 00:15:39,000 that and we were in Riverside, still struggling, she always said that it 175 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:43,559 was like a seven year curse. Every time this lady went to Mexico, 176 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:54,039 we'd always have some weird stuff happened. Luisa is referring to the woman that 177 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:58,200 her father was now with and also the person who had put a curse on 178 00:15:58,279 --> 00:16:03,360 her family, which, as we will see, manifested in the strangest ways. 179 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:11,360 Lisa will be right back with the rest of her story. Right before 180 00:16:11,559 --> 00:16:15,120 we had to split up and get to Riverside with my sister and my mom 181 00:16:15,159 --> 00:16:18,480 is in Pomona and my brother in Englewood, Like, we had an apartment 182 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:23,440 in Highland Park, and at the time that was still a struggle because my 183 00:16:23,519 --> 00:16:27,799 mom's single mom. She hadn't been by herself before the marriage that she was 184 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:33,320 with my dad for twenty years, and so she was very adamant that we 185 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:40,679 were struggling because whoever he ended up with had some kind of ties to Bruheria. 186 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:45,240 So we'll hop back to Riverside. We had another time where my dad's 187 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:49,840 a new lady was in Mexico. During the time, we're moving around a 188 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:55,399 lot. My mom is not a stable single mom, and that's okay. 189 00:16:55,519 --> 00:16:57,960 She's doing her best. So with everything going on, my mom still wanted 190 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,759 to keep us connected with family in general, and like we would see her 191 00:17:02,759 --> 00:17:06,880 family a lot. But this event came up with my dad's side of family 192 00:17:07,519 --> 00:17:11,279 because my niece, who just happened to be a little older than me, 193 00:17:11,839 --> 00:17:18,680 was visiting from Texas, and so my sister decides not to go, but 194 00:17:18,039 --> 00:17:22,920 I decide to go because I wanted to see at the time, I just 195 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:27,599 want to experience moments of joy and happiness when family is a good place to 196 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:33,599 find that most times. So I hadn't seen or even met some of the 197 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:36,920 side of that family that I was going to go see, but I knew 198 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:45,599 Joanna, so I my niece. So we go and I meet a couple 199 00:17:45,759 --> 00:17:49,319 cousins, girl cousins, which to me was like really cool because all my 200 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:52,440 cousins growing up were mostly boys and it's three of them, right, so 201 00:17:52,519 --> 00:17:56,720 now it's five, five of us hanging out together. We did the church 202 00:17:56,839 --> 00:18:00,200 thing, and that was Chill, one of my cousin, and the oldest 203 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:04,960 one. Her boyfriend was hanging out with us most of the day too, 204 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:11,599 and during those conversations he was like one of those teen pastures and he held 205 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:15,640 like group meetings and stuff for the youth. He had just came back from 206 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:23,440 some kind of program or lecture or something where they were dealing with youth that 207 00:18:23,519 --> 00:18:33,279 were having ties to demonic entities and they were too curious, so they were 208 00:18:33,319 --> 00:18:38,680 playing with Luigi, and so he's telling us all these things about people that 209 00:18:40,079 --> 00:18:44,920 have experienced possessions and just weird experiences and what we should do if we ever 210 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:48,680 run into those situations. And he's telling us, so you need to rebuke 211 00:18:48,799 --> 00:18:55,599 that and put yourself in the hands of God. And he's like creeping us 212 00:18:55,599 --> 00:18:57,319 out in a way where he's giving us all these stories. Right, So 213 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:03,279 like, okay, and we end up at my cousin's house and grown out 214 00:19:03,279 --> 00:19:07,000 of hills and they have a big, old house. I can't even go 215 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:11,480 into describing it because I've only been there maybe once or twice. But we 216 00:19:11,519 --> 00:19:21,279 went upstairs to my cousin's room and she had a bathroom in her bedroom, 217 00:19:22,039 --> 00:19:27,079 and one of those stories that her boyfriend had told us was about people who 218 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:34,039 get into the mirror and start chanting a demon's name over and over again until 219 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:38,200 either they see something in the mirror or they feel something, or something happens. 220 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:44,720 So one of my other cousins decides while we're all hanging out in the 221 00:19:44,759 --> 00:19:48,079 bedroom that she was going to go to the bathroom. None of us thought 222 00:19:48,079 --> 00:19:55,559 anything of it, nothing at all. She comes back and we're all talking. 223 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:59,799 Somebody decides, like it's getting late. Who wants to tell scary stories? 224 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:03,480 Of course, like I mentioned my Lady in White story because it recently 225 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:07,519 happened right at this point, like it wasn't that far off in timelines, 226 00:20:07,519 --> 00:20:15,440 while all these things were going on around the same time. And they mentioned 227 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:18,880 a few scary stories. And then my cousin, the one who had gone 228 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:25,640 to the bathroom, she's like, you, guys, I feel weird. 229 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:27,279 And we're like, why, what's wrong? Are you okay? Do you 230 00:20:27,319 --> 00:20:32,400 feel sick? Is it what we ate? And she's no, I just 231 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:37,400 I don't feel right, and we're like, what's wrong? And she goes, 232 00:20:38,039 --> 00:20:41,920 I have to tell you all something, but you can't get mad. 233 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:45,839 And me, I'm like, what the heck's going on? Because I just 234 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:52,880 met these three cousins and my niece Joanna I've known and they're all very religious 235 00:20:52,079 --> 00:20:56,920 of religious families and they're still practice and everything. So I'm just like, 236 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:02,680 well, what's going on? And she said when she went to the bathroom, 237 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:08,200 she decided to repeat a name into the mirror, and she saw a 238 00:21:08,279 --> 00:21:15,319 face, like a transparent face that kind of went over her own face, 239 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:22,240 and so she got scared and ran out, and we're like, what do 240 00:21:22,279 --> 00:21:25,079 you mean, why would you do that? And she said, I don't 241 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:27,759 know, but I feel really sick. I don't feel good. And so 242 00:21:30,599 --> 00:21:37,759 my cousin calls her boyfriend and tells him what my other cousin did and that 243 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:41,279 she's not feeling good, and he tells us to start praying for her. 244 00:21:41,319 --> 00:21:45,440 And he said, whatever you do while you're praying, close your eyes, 245 00:21:48,039 --> 00:21:52,559 and if you feel anything, don't look at whatever is there, because as 246 00:21:52,559 --> 00:21:56,319 soon as you might look at it, it can jump to you, and 247 00:21:56,359 --> 00:22:00,920 if you show any fear whatsoever, it's going to attach to you. So 248 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,240 I'm like, what is going on. I haven't really been in a setting 249 00:22:06,839 --> 00:22:10,000 of church in a long time. I had just gone to a service and 250 00:22:10,039 --> 00:22:12,039 then I'm hearing all these stories and now this is happening. Now we're all 251 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:18,200 praying, and I'm like, I don't know what's going on, but I 252 00:22:18,279 --> 00:22:22,880 just start praying because I don't know what else to do. We're all praying, 253 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:32,440 and my niece, she starts acting funny okay, like really weird, 254 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:37,839 and it starts pulling her hand away because we had all grabbed hands to pray, 255 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:42,599 and we're like, Joanna, what's wrong with you? She wouldn't answer. 256 00:22:42,759 --> 00:22:49,680 She just started tossing her head kind of sigh decide like somebody was if 257 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:56,559 somebody's like lazily being like no, no, And my cousin was trying to 258 00:22:56,599 --> 00:23:02,200 get her to pray and say in the name of Jesus Christ, and she'd 259 00:23:02,279 --> 00:23:07,920 just be like shit, and we're like at that point, I was scared 260 00:23:10,079 --> 00:23:18,599 because I had no idea. That's very uncharacteristic of most people in general world 261 00:23:18,599 --> 00:23:22,640 to not just be able to repeat a phrase, and for her, especially 262 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:33,039 because she is a firm believer and has never wavered. My whole family on 263 00:23:33,039 --> 00:23:37,000 my dad's side, I feel like they're very devout. My cousin's boyfriend was 264 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:41,839 still on the phone and he starts praying, and I kid you not. 265 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:49,720 My cousin was just very almost like aggressive, to the point where she started 266 00:23:52,079 --> 00:23:55,759 trying to bash her head on the back wall that was behind her, like 267 00:23:55,799 --> 00:24:00,799 throwing her head back, and we have to stop her. It took about 268 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:08,000 two hours of us praying, praying, and praying till she finally started coming 269 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:17,960 back to herself. I don't know what happened that night exactly, but I 270 00:24:18,079 --> 00:24:26,599 learned not to ever mess around with anything of that nature now that I've already 271 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:33,759 experienced that semi maybe possession. Being with my cousins. We're in Riverside, 272 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:38,160 on the East side of Riverside, and we have this apartment. It's just 273 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:44,000 a two bedroom upstairs. We're all feeling okay at this point, not too 274 00:24:44,039 --> 00:24:48,000 bad because we finally have our own space with all four of us. My 275 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:51,160 sister and I are sharing a room, my mom has her own room. 276 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:56,000 My brother sleeps in the living room. Now, my brother, he's a 277 00:24:56,079 --> 00:24:59,759 straight edged type of person. A lot of things don't scare him, even 278 00:24:59,799 --> 00:25:03,759 though when he was younger and he was scared of the dark and the chupacabra, 279 00:25:03,039 --> 00:25:08,240 your usual stories or whatever. But he's a big dude. He's six 280 00:25:08,319 --> 00:25:14,160 ' five over three hundred pounds. He solid mass of a dude, so 281 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:18,960 a lot of things just didn't face him. Him and my father share the 282 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:27,519 same name. When we lived in Riverside, in that apartment in Eastside, 283 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:37,720 there was one time in particular that this lady was in Mexico. My brother 284 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:45,519 was not feeling good for some reason, which is very strange for him to 285 00:25:45,559 --> 00:25:51,720 even say anything because even if he's like worried or scared about something or it's 286 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:55,920 very few the people he'll ever confide in because he's just one of those kind 287 00:25:55,920 --> 00:26:02,319 of like somber manity dudes, very macho, good heart. I love him 288 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:07,000 to death, but it's hard to read him sometimes because he won't really share 289 00:26:07,279 --> 00:26:11,119 all that much. This day, in particular, though he was scared. 290 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:18,839 It was late at night, he was working, I was working, my 291 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:23,160 mom, so like the typical night was for us to turn in, maybe 292 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:30,480 somebody was on the computer and then eventually everybody like turned in and lights out. 293 00:26:30,759 --> 00:26:37,039 This night, he was really unsettled though, worried even He said he 294 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:44,079 felt like something was gonna get him. And my mom was like, she's 295 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:48,960 in Mexico. That's why you're feeling like this, Like something something weird is 296 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:52,279 probably happening. And at first I was like, what's going on? Like 297 00:26:52,319 --> 00:26:57,200 why you try to rationalize it? I guess it makes sense though they have 298 00:26:57,279 --> 00:27:02,880 similar names. If she's working him to feel a certain way, maybe my 299 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:06,440 brother might be feeling those same things. They have the exact same name. 300 00:27:07,839 --> 00:27:10,440 You never know. I don't know how that works. So that night, 301 00:27:10,519 --> 00:27:18,839 my brother's tripping and then he starts saying that at the front door, he's 302 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:25,359 hearing knocks, and I'm like, I don't hear anyhing is you don't see 303 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:30,039 it. Look at the bottom of the door, you don't see it. 304 00:27:30,279 --> 00:27:36,960 When he finally said that though we all saw a green glowing light at the 305 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:41,519 bottom of the door, I don't know what that was. I got a 306 00:27:41,519 --> 00:27:47,240 few experiences up until then, but like, never like that, and that 307 00:27:47,319 --> 00:27:52,039 fear that he was feeling, I think took over all four of us because 308 00:27:52,079 --> 00:27:53,920 we now all of us were in the living room looking at the front door 309 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:59,720 like it's locked whatever, it's not going to get in. I don't know. 310 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:06,880 I had just had the experience not that long ago in Granada Hills. 311 00:28:07,599 --> 00:28:11,359 So I told them we need to start praying. And my mom wasn't sure 312 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:15,000 how to even go about it, like she was like, I don't know 313 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:22,160 if our regular prayers would work. And luckily I had just heard my cousin's 314 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:27,640 boyfriend doing the prayer over my niece and was like, we rebuke everything. 315 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:32,759 We rebuked this, and then I was just taking whatever I remembered and praying 316 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:37,359 as hard as I could, which was different for me because that's not me. 317 00:28:40,599 --> 00:28:44,440 We all were holding hands in a circle and praying, and I was 318 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:52,079 holding my sister's hand, and it felt like somebody was pulling her arm, 319 00:28:55,079 --> 00:28:59,039 and I could feel her pulling back, like trying to squeeze my hand and 320 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:03,680 keep her hands steady. But it felt like something was pulling at us to 321 00:29:03,839 --> 00:29:12,599 break it, break our link up. We prayed for a good while, 322 00:29:14,319 --> 00:29:18,200 I think, probably until we finally all just settled in and huddled in on 323 00:29:18,319 --> 00:29:26,920 the floor and just fell asleep together. None of us slept in our rooms 324 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:32,200 that night. None of us wanted to be apart. We just almost like 325 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:40,000 a safety and numbers situation just took over. And I don't think we've ever 326 00:29:40,039 --> 00:29:49,400 felt that kind of intense collective fear as a unit like we did that night. 327 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:04,519 After our calls, As those of you who have told your stories on 328 00:30:04,559 --> 00:30:10,480 the show may know, we talked for a bit and additional stories while brief 329 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,799 also pop up every once in a while. These are typically cut from the 330 00:30:14,839 --> 00:30:18,079 final version of the episode for the sake of time, but based on your 331 00:30:18,079 --> 00:30:22,839 requests for wanting to know what Scary Plus is like, I will add part 332 00:30:22,839 --> 00:30:33,960 of the unedited content for you now here It is Scary Plus. Thank you 333 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:37,640 so much for being a part of Scary Plus. I asked Lisa some questions 334 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:42,319 about certain parts of the story to what she talks about here. It was 335 00:30:42,359 --> 00:30:47,119 creepy because she looks so real, like you would think because I had already 336 00:30:47,119 --> 00:30:51,480 seen the lady in White and Riverside, so I was thinking it was more 337 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:55,000 for her. She was a little more like ethereal, a little more like 338 00:30:55,039 --> 00:30:59,480 what you expect someone who is in the spirit world would look like. With 339 00:30:59,559 --> 00:31:07,839 this whoever we saw at my in Pomona house. That was creepy because it 340 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:11,240 wasn't shortly after from the lady in Riverside, and we were still all living 341 00:31:11,279 --> 00:31:15,519 apart, so we were just like, what is going on with all these 342 00:31:15,559 --> 00:31:25,279 experiences we're having. I did tell my cousins. I told him that my 343 00:31:25,319 --> 00:31:30,319 sister was not lying and my thea she is a very like my La Lada. 344 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:37,440 She has a sailor's mouth kind of situation, Mexican lady. And she 345 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:41,079 was just like, nah Allah, you know whatever, that's not no, 346 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:49,160 that's not happening here. She was just like y'all will wake up anything to 347 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:55,119 not clean or do what you need to do or go somewhere alone. When 348 00:31:55,160 --> 00:32:00,559 I was in high school, like fourteen, barely just turned started freshman year, 349 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:05,960 I had met this new girl, Ava, and she wanted to play 350 00:32:06,039 --> 00:32:09,160 Luigi but on a piece of paper, the kind that you draw up yourself. 351 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:13,200 And I had my flip phone and it was like, I'm app with 352 00:32:13,279 --> 00:32:16,160 my friend. I'm so dope. Yeah. You can hear the rest of 353 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:21,359 the extended version on Scary Plus that you can try for free by going to 354 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,559 scaryplus dot com. 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