1 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:10,800 Have you ever been in a situation so bizarre that you have nowhere to turn 2 00:00:10,839 --> 00:00:16,600 to but to consider an other worldly reason. In today's story, Emily wrote 3 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:21,039 up her experience during what was supposed to be a regular get together with some 4 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:29,000 of her friends and family, perhaps an uninvited guest. My name is Edwin, 5 00:00:30,039 --> 00:00:43,719 and here is Emily's true scary story. A quick hello to everyone listening. 6 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:46,719 My name is Emily, and the story I have to share with you 7 00:00:46,759 --> 00:00:51,359 today is one of the unexplainable instances that I have experienced in my life that 8 00:00:51,399 --> 00:00:57,159 stands out highly above the rest, an occurrence that left me absolutely shook and 9 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:00,240 to this day still raises the hair in the back of my neck when it 10 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:04,400 crosses my thoughts. So this instance occurred about ten years ago now, on 11 00:01:04,439 --> 00:01:10,120 a warm evening in the fall. My then boyfriend's family was hosting a bonfire 12 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:15,120 in a little farming town outside of Jackson, Michigan, out in the countryside. 13 00:01:15,519 --> 00:01:18,120 I brought my friend Andy along with me, and there were other friends 14 00:01:18,159 --> 00:01:22,159 of the family there as well. One of the guests was a boy named 15 00:01:22,239 --> 00:01:25,159 Landon who was seven at the time, that I had known since he was 16 00:01:25,239 --> 00:01:29,920 just a baby. Shortly after I had arrived. We were in the house 17 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:33,239 getting some food ready to enjoy, and Landon had pointed to a picture on 18 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:37,879 the wall paid behind the couch. The picture was of my boyfriend's grandfather, 19 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:42,959 whom I had never met but was pretty sure had passed away. Landon said 20 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:46,120 to me as he pointed to the picture, I saw this man the other 21 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:51,280 day. I immediately stiffened, but to inquire further, I said, you 22 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:55,760 did. He said, yeah, I was playing on the steps and he 23 00:01:55,799 --> 00:02:00,799 said, get off the stairs, boy, or you'll trip trip. Because 24 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:02,879 I didn't know for sure if his grandfather had passed away or not, I 25 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,519 just kind of laughed and said that laying on the stairs really isn't that safe. 26 00:02:07,439 --> 00:02:10,919 I later confirmed with my boyfriend that he had in fact passed away several 27 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,319 years prior to this, but not wanting to freak him out, I didn't 28 00:02:15,319 --> 00:02:17,400 share what Lana had said to me about allegedly seeing him in the house. 29 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:24,680 We were all out at the bonfire next to the pond, and it had 30 00:02:24,719 --> 00:02:29,879 started getting pretty late, so Annie and I decided to take Landon into the 31 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:34,520 house to start winding the night down for him. My boyfriend joined us, 32 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:37,599 so it was just the four of us inside and everyone else remained out by 33 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:42,759 the fire. When we first got inside, my boyfriend posted up on the 34 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:46,439 long end of the sectional couch, and Annie and I sat on either side 35 00:02:46,479 --> 00:02:50,840 of land and on the other side of the couch. My boyfriend started watching 36 00:02:50,879 --> 00:02:53,599 TV, which was mounted super high up on the wall across the room. 37 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:58,840 I'm talking almost to the ceiling high, with nothing under it but a small 38 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:04,479 small stand for DVD player or some movies whatever. And In and I grabbed 39 00:03:04,479 --> 00:03:08,400 a book to start reading to Landing. We were taking turns reading on and 40 00:03:08,439 --> 00:03:12,800 off to him, and when we first started reading, I saw him staring 41 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:17,080 over at the steps going upstairs. He muttered under his breath, get off 42 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:21,879 them stairs, boy, you'll trip trip. When he said this, I 43 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:25,360 started thinking that maybe he really did see my boyfriend's grandfather and is recounting this 44 00:03:25,479 --> 00:03:30,400 and currets in his head. Either way, it really came out of nowhere 45 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:32,199 when he said it, So I started paying closer attention to him. As 46 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:38,159 Annie read her term. He didn't seem to be listening to the story anymore 47 00:03:38,159 --> 00:03:42,919 at all, and became very blank and disengaged. His whole energy shifted. 48 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,960 But I'm thinking he's probably getting really tired being up the sleep. A couple 49 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:51,159 of minutes go by, and I noticed him staring at the wall underneath the 50 00:03:51,199 --> 00:03:55,599 TV. Now under his breath. Ever so quietly, he says, what 51 00:03:55,639 --> 00:04:01,039 are you doing? I immediately I had full attention on him as Annie kept 52 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:05,000 reading because this was starting to get really spooky. He says it again, 53 00:04:05,159 --> 00:04:11,719 and louder this time, what are you doing? Annie heard him this time 54 00:04:11,759 --> 00:04:15,599 and stops reading. She follows his eyes to the wall under the TV and 55 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:18,040 said, who are you talking to, Bud? There's no one there. 56 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:23,680 He looked over at Annie and then over to me, then back to the 57 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:28,240 wall under the TV. He lifted a pointed finger straight ahead at it and 58 00:04:28,319 --> 00:04:33,279 said, I want that little girl to go upstairs and kill that man. 59 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:42,160 The entire room became thick, and Annie jumped up off the couch. She 60 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:46,879 started saying nope, nope, and was seriously wigged out. Landon looked at 61 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:49,639 me and his eyes were completely fogged over and he had a slightly scared expression 62 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:54,000 on his face. I said, there was no one there, Landing, 63 00:04:54,519 --> 00:04:58,680 and he just looked back ahead and then dropped his gaze. Me and Annie 64 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:00,600 exchanged a look, and I said and I'm going to go tell his grandma 65 00:05:00,639 --> 00:05:05,160 what just happened. So her and I head out to the bonfire to tell 66 00:05:05,199 --> 00:05:10,360 Debbie what just went down. She quickly brushed it off and said, ah, 67 00:05:10,399 --> 00:05:14,319 he watches too many scary movies. But it was not simply a child's 68 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:17,759 imagination getting the better of him. She wasn't there, and she didn't see 69 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:21,160 him. She didn't hear him and feel the energy thickened in the room like 70 00:05:21,199 --> 00:05:26,000 Annie and I had. So I went back inside and told land and his 71 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:30,040 grandma said to come back out to the bonfire. We were all circling the 72 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:33,480 fire in our chairs, and I'm just keeping a very close eye on Landing. 73 00:05:34,079 --> 00:05:38,439 He hadn't said a single word to anyone, had a very serious expression 74 00:05:38,439 --> 00:05:42,560 on his face. My boyfriend's dad less asked me to dance with him, 75 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:47,319 So I stood off and resurganced a little bit, and then Landon stood up 76 00:05:47,319 --> 00:05:51,959 out of his chair and aggressively charged towards Lust and started flailing his face at 77 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,800 him, trying to hurt him. He was me extremely intense and out of 78 00:05:56,879 --> 00:06:00,240 character, and everyone just laughed, thinking he was joking around. But me 79 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:02,000 and any took one look at each other and decided that we did not want 80 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:06,399 to be there anymore, and that night was the last time that we ever 81 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:15,160 hung out. And the weeks following this, I had a terrible feeling of 82 00:06:15,199 --> 00:06:18,439 someone being right over my shoulder. It was the most intense when I was 83 00:06:18,439 --> 00:06:21,399 in my house, just like there was a head I could not see right 84 00:06:21,439 --> 00:06:27,319 over my shoulder following me looking at me. I'm not one to be paranoid 85 00:06:27,319 --> 00:06:30,680 like this either, and I'm certainly not one to pray. But after a 86 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:33,639 couple of weeks in this I had enough. I went outside of my house 87 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:38,480 where I felt safer and just dropped down to my knees and prayed. I 88 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:41,879 wasn't sure exactly who I was praying to, but the prayer want something like 89 00:06:41,959 --> 00:06:46,519 this bringer of light, goodness and positive energy, please clear the spirit from 90 00:06:46,519 --> 00:06:50,920 my life and from my mind. When I went back into the house, 91 00:06:51,079 --> 00:06:56,079 I noticed an immediate difference. The feeling had dissipated, and I felt lighter 92 00:06:56,120 --> 00:07:02,000 all around. Nothing like this has happened to me since that night. There 93 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,000 has been a handful of things that have happened that are hard to explain, 94 00:07:05,319 --> 00:07:12,040 but nothing like what happened that night. To this day, almost ten years 95 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:15,279 later, I still get goose swamps on my entire body when I hear Landon's 96 00:07:15,319 --> 00:07:19,079 voice in my head saying I want that little girl to go upstairs and kill 97 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:27,560 that man. It was crazy, and I've heard noises, maybe seeing a 98 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:31,240 flash out of the corner of my eye, But when this happened, I 99 00:07:31,279 --> 00:07:35,920 mean, there was, without a doubt, something in the room with us, 100 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,680 because just the look on his face, the way he glossed over, 101 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:46,680 he was just he was like, gone, I have so many goo slumps 102 00:07:46,759 --> 00:07:54,199 right now sharing the story because it was just the craziest thing that's ever happened 103 00:07:54,199 --> 00:07:59,759 to me. I believed in ghosts up until this, and people always speculate 104 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:03,800 on what a ghost is. Was if the energy that leaves our bodies after 105 00:08:03,839 --> 00:08:07,680 we die, is it that realm that souls get stuck in between the here 106 00:08:07,759 --> 00:08:16,360 and the after? But he saw something in that room and pointed at it 107 00:08:16,439 --> 00:08:20,600 and straight up said, I want that little girl to go upstairs and kill 108 00:08:20,639 --> 00:08:26,079 that man. It was intense. I'm guessing he was referring to my boyfriend's 109 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:31,399 grandfather because he had said that he's seen him, and he told her to 110 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:37,399 get off the stairs or he'll trip. Just the whole thing just doesn't add 111 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:45,039 up. It was very freaky. I was telling my mom this story and 112 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:48,679 she said, what little girl. I'm like, I don't know. That's 113 00:08:48,759 --> 00:08:52,080 the mystery. He pointed at nothing. It wasn't like he was making it 114 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:56,320 up. You can tell when a child is lying or using their imagination. 115 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:03,440 I've known Land she was a baby, and he's very docile, very sweet, 116 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:07,279 very kind. It's not like most children to make up something like that 117 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:15,960 would spook you to your core. It was very mysterious, very spooky, 118 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:20,919 and even to this day, like if I find myself thinking about it sometimes 119 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:24,840 I have to turn the thought off because I might I feel like I might 120 00:09:24,879 --> 00:09:28,320 start having to look over my shoulder again, because it was just so real 121 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:33,799 and it was so serious, like it was a thing that happened. And 122 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:39,559 I literally have not seen my friend Anny since that night. I try and 123 00:09:39,639 --> 00:09:45,480 talk to her about it via text, and basically she just blew it off, 124 00:09:45,759 --> 00:09:48,519 Yeah, that was really spooky, hah, and then immediately change the 125 00:09:48,519 --> 00:09:52,519 subject, like she did not want to talk about it at all. I 126 00:09:52,519 --> 00:10:00,679 think because it spooked her so terribly that she didn't want to remember. Maybe 127 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:03,799 a similar thing happened to her that happened to me, and she felt that 128 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:09,720 presence looming over her shoulder following her. I thought about reaching out to her 129 00:10:11,519 --> 00:10:16,240 after the podcast was finished and seeing if she wanted to listen, but I'm 130 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:20,240 not really sure she wants to go down memory lane because it was really scary. 131 00:10:20,919 --> 00:10:24,840 His whole energy was just it was gray, if that makes sense. 132 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:31,039 It was just gray. All I thought to do was go outside and tell 133 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:35,200 his grandma and then get the heck out of that house. I had a 134 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:41,000 really hard time going back over there after that. Emily has also had other 135 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:46,440 experiences with the paranormal, and perhaps an explanation about what may have happened with 136 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:52,519 landon the rest of her story. 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I guess probably 154 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:31,080 the most profound saying that's happened to me besides this, which is a whole 155 00:12:31,159 --> 00:12:35,320 nother story. We can totally write out podcast for this one. But I 156 00:12:35,399 --> 00:12:39,559 had this piece of driftwood to paint the picture for a piece of driftwood, 157 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:45,679 and hanging off it was strings of shells and the shells were all equally spaced 158 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:48,879 apart, and it hung up on the wall in our bathroom. I was 159 00:12:48,919 --> 00:12:54,919 probably like twelve or thirteen, and I got them from Seashell City, which 160 00:12:54,960 --> 00:13:00,919 is a place in Michigan up near one of the Great Lakes, and the 161 00:13:00,919 --> 00:13:07,000 shells would randomly just start clankling against the wall and there was no draft or 162 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:11,559 no vent on nothing, and they would just softly just clink clink against the 163 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:15,480 wall, and friends that would come over would be like, Hey, what's 164 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:20,679 up with those shells in there? My whole everyone in my whole family was 165 00:13:20,759 --> 00:13:22,279 like, what's going on with these shells? And this is to the point 166 00:13:22,279 --> 00:13:26,440 where like should we destroy them? We don't want to anger any spirits. 167 00:13:26,519 --> 00:13:30,960 It was something that was happening to all of us. It's a little more 168 00:13:31,039 --> 00:13:35,720 validating when it's happening to not just one person, but multiple people are experiencing 169 00:13:35,759 --> 00:13:39,559 this. So we kept them on the wall because we were afraid to move 170 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:43,440 them, thinking that maybe the spirit or whatever's going on, is going to 171 00:13:43,559 --> 00:13:48,919 channel that energy somewhere else. So I'm in the bathtub one day and I'm 172 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:52,960 just staring at these shells and they weren't moving a muscle, and I'm starting 173 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:56,000 to think in my hand, I'm staring at like the second string from the 174 00:13:56,120 --> 00:14:00,759 left. I mean, there's probably like twelve strings, and Tole staring right 175 00:14:00,799 --> 00:14:03,960 at the string, and I'm thinking in my head, I'm thinking, if 176 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:11,720 there's a spirit in this room, move this string. Let me tell you 177 00:14:11,759 --> 00:14:18,440 what happens next. The very bottom of the string lifted up off the wall 178 00:14:20,039 --> 00:14:24,759 like three inches, as if somebody picked it up. It lifted off the 179 00:14:24,799 --> 00:14:30,559 wall three inches and then dropped back down, and then all of the seashells 180 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:35,559 started going nuts. He just started to jake vigorously, shaking, And when 181 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:39,240 I tell you, I dunned out of that bath ub. I ran out 182 00:14:39,279 --> 00:14:46,919 of that bathroom. It was scary. I'm pretty sure it was very shortly 183 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:52,639 after that we got rid of the seashells, because that was the final straw 184 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:56,320 for me, Like, okay, little soft clayland here and there, whatever. 185 00:14:56,879 --> 00:15:01,240 But when that string lifted up off the wall and then fell back down, 186 00:15:01,279 --> 00:15:09,240 and they all started going uts. It was intense. You could almost 187 00:15:09,279 --> 00:15:16,720 blame it on a stray draft, them just softly clankling. But when I 188 00:15:16,799 --> 00:15:20,440 was focusing my energy and saying in my head, but answers, the spirit 189 00:15:20,519 --> 00:15:26,080 moved this string and it just lifted up off the wall. I definitely believed 190 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:31,000 in ghosts after that. So that was when I was about twelve, and 191 00:15:31,879 --> 00:15:35,840 the story I shared today I was in my early twenties, and honestly, 192 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:43,000 since then, nothing really profound has happened to me. And I think it 193 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:46,679 might be because I keep it all in the very back of my mind, 194 00:15:46,399 --> 00:15:54,320 because it affected me so highly and was so scary that I just I tried 195 00:15:54,399 --> 00:16:00,600 not to think about anything mysterious that could be unexplained. I hear a bump 196 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:03,440 of the night, I just blamed my cats, because it's just easier that 197 00:16:03,519 --> 00:16:11,279 way. I told the story to my mom forever ago, and then she 198 00:16:11,519 --> 00:16:15,480 was telling me about Landon's cousin who was a couple years older than him, 199 00:16:15,559 --> 00:16:21,279 whose family had this house with this really old barn, really old barn, 200 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:23,919 and I guess my mom was there with them one time, and the owner 201 00:16:23,919 --> 00:16:27,919 of the house is saying that the barn was super haunted, and that the 202 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:32,080 person they bought it from was telling them all these stories about the barn. 203 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:37,679 And I guess Landon and his cousin had been playing in the barn when my 204 00:16:37,759 --> 00:16:44,080 mom was there. Maybe he picked something up, Maybe he became more susceptible 205 00:16:44,159 --> 00:16:48,000 to seeing things after that. I don't know where he is in his life 206 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:52,639 now, but he was seven years old. You say he'd be able to 207 00:16:52,679 --> 00:17:07,599 remember that. If you have a scary story you want to share with us, 208 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:11,720 go to true scarystory dot com and tell us about it. If you 209 00:17:11,799 --> 00:17:15,640 like this podcast, give us a follow on your podcast app, like on 210 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:18,480 Spotify or Apple podcasts. If you like this story, check out our other 211 00:17:18,519 --> 00:17:22,640 stories in the catalog, like The Little Girl Part one and Part two. 212 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:29,240 Just don't listen alone. Thank you very much for listening, See you as soon.