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Hey everyone. Before I begin part
one of our twenty twenty three recap,

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I want to wish all of you
a merry Christmas as well as a happy

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holiday. I also want to say
thank you for all of your support,

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as well as my most recent supporters
David, Jeff and Kathy. You are

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greatly appreciated. Twenty twenty three was
an interesting year for both the podcast and

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for myself personally, and in tonight's
episode, I'll be sharing several of my

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most popular episodes of the past year, and on Thursday, I'll be returning

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with Part two. Then on Monday, January first, I'll be back with

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an all new episode. So please
have a safe and wonderful rest of your

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holiday, and thank you again for
all of your continued support. With that

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being said, let's begin tonight's episode. Thank you for joining me and welcome.

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As always, I'm your host,
Nick Ryan. Let's begin with our

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first experience of the night, which
comes to us from Lee Li. Says,

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Hi, Nick, thanks for playing
my story on the podcast. As

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I said, as a child,
my house was very haunted and I believed

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it was the land. I know
from these experiences that there is truly evil

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in this world. But good as
well. I grew up in an old

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farmhouse in Iowa in the middle of
nowhere. At night, everything is pitch

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black, and I remember seeing shadow
figures that were blacker than the darkness behind

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the trees. As a child,
I remember swinging on our swing sat and

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seeing them even during the day,
peeking out from behind the hogshed or the

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old feed store, and I believed
that everyone could see them. The one

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I was the most afraid of had
a fedora. My room in my house

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was used as a store room.
It was one of the biggest rooms in

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the house, but for some reason, the previous owners had it locked and

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only used it for storage. We
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the north side of the house that
it was always freezing cold, but it

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was also because for some reason they
never built heat into that room. At

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night, I would hear and see
shadow figures at the doorway and walking up

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and even sitting on the bed.
I also felt as if I could feel

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icy cold fingers stroking my cheek at
night, and I remember at the time

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thinking that it was just my imagination. However, after moving away from the

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farmhouse, that has never happened again. What truly scared me about the house.

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However, wasn't the shadow people or
obvious spirits connected to the land,

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but it was that I didn't understand
it or I had never heard of it

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before. Regardless of how dark it
was or scary, I was still restless

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and loved to ride my bike round
the house and shoot baskets at night.

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One night, I was out shooting
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I had headphones in and my m
P three player, so I couldn't hear

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anything. All of a sudden,
something hit the basketball headboard so hard that

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the entire thing shook, and I
ducked just in case a ball would fly

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up and hit me. I had
my sister's bike propped up against the hoop

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so the ball would hit it and
then fly back to me instead of going

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down the hill towards the dark barn. Whatever it was hit the bike and

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knocked it over, but I still
saw no ball or anything physically hit it.

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I then turned around and pulled the
headphone out of my ear because I

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thought that it was my sister sneaking
up on me, and I said,

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Penny, you scared the heck out
of me. But when I looked back,

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no one was there. I told
myself that it must have been a

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bird that hit it, and I
let it go. But then when I

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looked ahead, there was a black
cat, and I love black cats,

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but it was just sitting there and
staring at me with its eyes open,

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and it didn't blink. The feeling
I got from this cat was the same

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feeling I would get when I would
see the shadow people as a child.

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I didn't understand why, though,
so I ignored it. I tried to

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scare the cat away, but it
never moved. I also tried to throw

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the ball at it or toward it, but it didn't flinch. I continued

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to shoot baskets until I got the
overwhelming feeling of being watched, and then

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I went inside. My mom asked
me why I ran in so fast,

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and I told her the story,
and I said that there was a cat

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that was still outside. She then
glanced outside and she saw it staring in

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the window at us, and it
was just sitting there, almost like it

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was frozen, not blinking, and
she then said, lock the doors,

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and we ignored it for the rest
of the night. I didn't tell anyone,

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as no one ever believed me anyone, and I didn't understand what it

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would even be a few weeks later, we were riding our bikes around the

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house at night when my friend ran
up to me in a panic and she

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said, we need to go inside
right now. I said, what happened?

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Where's your bike? And she said, I fell off my bike and

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when I did, there was a
black cat just sitting there staring at me.

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I then knew that it was the
same thing, but whatever it was

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was not a cat. I love
cats, and I actually own a black

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cat, and I even looked up
shape shifters. But the closest thing that

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I could find as to what it
was is a witch's spy. I believe

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it was some sort of spirit or
entity that knew its normal form would scare

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me away, so it took the
form of something else so as not to

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cause fear. However, as to
why it had to get so close and

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why it was watching me, I
don't know. The house is across the

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street from a church camp, and
I also believe that this is the reason

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for a lot of the activity,
as well as evil spirits being upset and

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disturbed by the worship that's going on
there. If anyone knows what type of

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creature or spirit that was, I
would love to know, but it's bothered

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me since the day it happened,
and I will never forget the unblinking eyes.

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Our next experience comes to us from
Nate, and Nate's experience is called

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something Big Behind the Trees. Nate
says, Hi, Nick, thank you

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for reading my story about the different
colored ghosts and my UFO story. It's

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nice to get the stories out.
I have restarted the podcast and I've really

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enjoyed listening to the stories that all
the other listeners send in. I just

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recently listened to The Phoenix Lights episode
thirty one. I started to think to

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myself about my UFO encounter. It
was right around the same time of year

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in nineteen ninety seven that I saw
that UFO. I wonder if it was

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the same. It was huge,
just like the Phoenix's Lights UFO. I

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live in northern Utah, so it
wouldn't be outlandish to say that it could

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have been the same craft. The
story I have today is what I believe

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to be Bigfoot. I was around
nineteen or twenty in about the year two

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thousand, Me and my sister's boyfriend
were going fishing in the late afternoon on

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a river that was about twenty minutes
away from my house. We stopped by

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the store to grab some night crawlers, snacks, and drinks. We were

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going to stay out late to do
some night fishing, so my friend brought

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up a spotlight. It was still
light outside when we got to the spot

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that we were going to fish at. We got set up and got our

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lines in the water. The sun
was already on the western side of the

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mountain, so the river was shaded
and we started catching fish pretty quick.

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About an hour had passed and it
was starting to get dark. I had

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a fishing pole that had a glow
in the dark tip, so I kept

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using the spotlight on the tip of
the pole so it would glow for about

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five minutes. I kept doing this
for a while before I then stuck a

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bell on the tip of my pole
so I could hear the fish pick up

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the bait. And suddenly there was
a loud splash in the river. Thinking

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that it was a large fish,
I used the spotlight in the direction of

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the splash, hoping to see the
general area of where it came from so

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that I could cast my line there. As I moved the light across the

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river, another large splash occurred just
outside the light beam. I could see

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the wave that the splash made and
was thinking that this may not be a

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fish, thinking it could be some
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beaver or muskrat. I moved the
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and I didn't see any type of
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I did see at that spot was
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The boulder was about the size of
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pounds. I asked my friend in
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and he responded with I don't know. I kept shining the light and

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starting to look across the river.
Across the river was a bunch of bush

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like trees with thick foliage about twelve
feet high. If someone had thrown that

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boulder through those trees, we would
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seen the debris in the river.
Realizing this boulder was probably thrown over the

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trees, I started to get freaked
out. I then told my friend,

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I think someone or something doesn't want
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was shining the light to the top
of the trees and I watched another boulder

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come over the top and splash into
the river. We jumped up and grabbed

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our poles. Our chairs and other
items were left next to the river as

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we ran for the truck and got
the hell out of there. My friend

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went back the next day to get
the chairs and other items. The food

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was missing, but the chairs were
still there. Something to note is that

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my great uncle saw a sasquatch in
that canyon in the early eighties. He

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had a cast of a print and
some hare that he believes to be sasquat.

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There have been other sightings of sasquatch
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but most stay quiet or tell the
story to close friends and people that they

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can trust. They don't put it
out on the news or anything like that.

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We have large mountain ranges here in
Utah with lots of wilderness that hasn't

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been deeply explored. It could easily
be a place where sasquatch could live.

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Thanks for reading my story, Nick, and keep the podcast going. This

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next odd experience comes to us from
Aaron, and Aaron's report is called real

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or false Memory in the woods,
Aaron says, Hello, the podcast is

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great. I love hearing others' experiences, and most of them sound genuine.

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I have listened to most of the
episodes, but I tend to focus on

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the forest related ones. As an
outdoorsman, I know that nature is even

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more fans fantastic than it looks.
As for paranormal I am a believer.

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However, I don't seek it out, so most of the time my life

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is rooted in the world of the
explained. I want to share a disturbing

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experience I had when I was three
years old. I have no explanation,

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so I dubbed the experience as a
false memory. In about the center of

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Michigan, my family owns twenty five
acres that back up to one hundred acres

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of state land. It gives the
illusion of no man's land, for aside

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from the cabin, there is just
the sounds of nature. From the cabin.

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Across the dirt road is the remainder
of our property, and it is

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this lot that borders the state land. As a family, we would take

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lots of hikes, so on a
fall day we did just that. This

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memory is very vivid to me.
I am going to account in full detail.

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Then afterwards you will see how strange
it is. We set off,

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my mom, dad, and I
leaving the cabin. We crossed the road

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and walked through our lot on to
state land. We hiked up a hill

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and followed that ridge. On the
hike, my family made small talk as

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we walked the clear trail. My
mom was messing with me as there was

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a large mound of sand, which
she claimed was a bear den. However,

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I didn't buy it, and we
hiked on. My parents had a

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destination in mind, so our course
led us to a trailer in the middle

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of the woods. My parents knocked
on the door and a tall man opened

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it, but I do not remember
his face. The man wore blue overalls

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and a flannel shirt. He had
a big black dog. We went inside

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the trailer. Mom and Dad talked
with the man while I played and petted

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his dog. After some time,
we left, making it back to our

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cabin before dark. We then ate
dinner and I was put to bed.

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Now I swear on whatever is worth
swearing on that this event happened in my

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life. However, nobody else remembers
it. My parents claim this never happened.

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I have recreated this hike many times, and there is absolutely no trailer

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with that man and dog to be
found. After this hike, I lost

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the ability to walk. We were
up by a lake in walking distance from

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the cabin where I fell. My
legs quit working. My parents rushed me

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to the er, and I was
diagnosed with post viral intoxia, whatever that

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is, and in time I had
to relearn how to walk. I do

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not remember losing my ability to walk, but I do remember the hike that

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nobody else remembers clear as day.
There is no clear trail on that state

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land. It is all thick bush, particularly on that ridge. It's not

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somewhere that you would be trekking with
a three year old. Also, at

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that time period, my brother was
an infant. There is no way that

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my mom would leave a baby in
the cabin alone while we hiked. So

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what happened here? Did my brain
create a false memory? And if so,

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why or did this happen and everyone
else just forgot? It just trips

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me out. If anyone has any
input on this, please pass it on.

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Thanks for reading if you do,
and be sure to take it easy.

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Thanks. After reading Aaron's experience,
I reached back out with some questions

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in order to clarify some details.
I asked Darin if there had been any

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issues with losing consciousness during this time
period, perhaps while in the forest or

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even in the er. I was
trying to rule out anything that might explain

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the theory of this being nothing more
than a false memory. I also wanted

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to verify that Aarin indeed had zero
memory of losing the ability to walk,

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as well as the rehabilitation period.
I am also aware that certain infections can

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affect the brain and cause someone to
lose their memory or even hallucinate. However,

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not only did Aaron's response answer my
questions, but it lends credibility to

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the notion that this is much more
than just a false memory. This is

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what Aaron had to say. Yes, I have no memory of losing the

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ability to walk or relearning how to
walk. They said that it took a

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month to rehabilitate. No, I
never lost consciousness. My parents said that

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I was actually happy and unaware of
my condition, or that not being able

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to walk didn't bother me. How
my folks explain this is weird. One

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moment I was running around and the
next I just couldn't walk and I was

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crawling. The incident freaked out my
parents, who still mention it from time

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to time. I remember the walk
to the trailer vividly, and to be

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honest, it is one of my
only memories from this time period. I'm

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twenty six now and I can't wrap
my head around it. And I've discussed

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this openly with my family and even
my friends. Trust me, this experience

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makes no sense to me, and
as a person I am labeled as rational.

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This false memory is so ingrained in
me, and I just wonder why,

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wh or is it even falls.
When I retold this event to my

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brother recently, while we were at
the cabin, his girlfriend told me that

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she had a dream the night prior. This is what she dreamt. Quote.

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I was in the woods across the
street. I went to a similar

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trailer. Inside was a man in
overalls and a flannel. His skin was

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gray, and he told me that
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Unquote. What she recounted was weird
to me, so I decided to

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include it. Take it easy,
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I just couldn't walk. Weird stuff
our first experience of the night comes

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to us from Will, and Will's
experience is called Lady in the Bathroom.

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Will says, let me give a
little background before I begin my story.

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From the time I was three years
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I lived with my grandma. She
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of less than fifteen hundred people.
This was in the north central part of

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West Virginia back in nineteen eighty three. At this time I was fifteen years

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old. My dad and his then
girlfriend had rented an old, two story

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house in the same town where my
grandma lived. The previous owner of the

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house had passed away years before.
Now keep in mind that this house was

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rumored to be haunted by an elderly
lady who had originally owned it, but

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a lot of people my age thought
that this was just a hoax. I

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wasn't among the non believers because it
wasn't my first paranormal experience, but it

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was the first one I had that
scared the crap out of me. I

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had gone to spend a couple of
weeks with my dad since it was summer,

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and I had stayed up until the
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When I was finely ready to go
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the bathroom before turning in. I
was already starting to have trouble keeping my

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eyes open because I was so tired. I left my room and headed down

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the hall to the bathroom, and
when I opened the bathroom door, I

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saw an old lady sitting on the
toilet. Because I was raised to be

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respectful and being half asleep, I
said, oh, I'm sorry, and

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I stepped back out of the bathroom
and I pulled the door shut. After

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a moment, it finally registered what
I had seen, and at the same

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time, I realized to the woman
was because I had just seen a picture

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of her, and yes, it
was the lady who had previously owned the

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house. Needless to say, I
went back to my room without using the

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bathroom, and I hid under the
covers until my dad got up for work.

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After that, I went to stay
with my grandma, who lived a

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couple blocks away, and I only
spent time with my dad in the evenings

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after he got home from work.
I've had many paranormal experiences since then,

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so when someone asks me if I
believe in ghosts, my answer is always

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a resounding yeaes. Our next report
comes to us from Diego, and Diego's

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experience is called just Keep Listening to
the Radio. Diego says, Hi,

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Nick, I've been listening to your
podcast for a long time, and lately

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I've been listening to it a lot, and it made me reconsider sharing my

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experience. Here it goes. I
was about twelve or thirteen years old,

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and me and my older brother by
two years had some friends on the same

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street, and we would always hang
out and do what kids do. One

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of these friends lived just a few
houses away from ours, and we would

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go there to hang out, but
not too often because I didn't really like

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the vibe of that house. It's
important to mention that this friend had two

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little sisters. One of them had
her room on one of the sides at

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the end of the corridor, and
she had many dolls on her bed.

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I never really liked those dolls because
they had this weird look and I thought

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that they were a bit creepy.
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of the corridor there was a big
mirror. Another important fact that I should

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mention is that this house had always
had bad energy. As I mentioned before,

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and my friend's family would always argue
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One day, I was hanging out
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We were listening to the radio at
his place and just talking and laughing about

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stuff. We were in the living
room on the opposite end of the corridor

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where the rooms were. Maybe twenty
minutes passed when we heard a noise come

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from one of the rooms at the
end of the corridor, like something fell

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on the floor. We didn't really
pay much attention to it and just decided

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to keep listening to the radio until
we heard the same noise again, so

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we turned the volume down and stood
facing the mirror at the end of the

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corridor. This is when we saw
a shapeless shadow crossing from the room where

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the dolls were to the opposite room, shattering the mirror on its way.

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We didn't think twice and just ran
out of the house to ours, shaking

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and asking ourselves if what we saw
was real. Many years have passed after

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that experience, and I had always
wondered if my brother remembered that day until

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a few years ago when I asked
him if he did, but his reply

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was I don't want to talk about
it. I was a bit surprised since

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my brother is very open minded,
but I just decided to respect his answer

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and I never asked again. Listening
to similar stories in your podcast made me

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realize that what I experienced may have
been an entity living there and making people

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behave in a certain way that would
make them fight and argue. I felt

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like I was being watched several times
when I used to walk past that house,

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and I always perceived this negative energy
coming from there. Thank you for

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reading, and thanks in advance in
case you decide to read my story.

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Always keep a positive energy to protect
yourselves out there. Fellow listeners, cheers,

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diego. Our next experience comes to
us from Alexandra and Alexandra's story is

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called I Believe My Daughter Saw a
Ghost. Alexandra says he Nick, I

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wanted to tell you and the listeners
about this experience my daughter and I had

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at the end of December of twenty
twenty two. We are a family of

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five, my husband and I,
two children, Camilla eleven and William one,

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and our german pointer, Casey.
We are house hunting and decided to

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schedule a viewing at a house in
LaVita, Texas. We live in Temple,

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Texas, and are trying to find
a home in a small town.

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This town only has a church,
cemetery, fire department, volunteer truck,

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and a few houses. When we
arrived at the house, everything looked normal

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outside, going inside smelled like something
was rotting, and my daughter Camilla,

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decided that she wanted to wait outside. We walked through and noticed that everything

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from the owners was still at the
home and intact, as if they left

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but didn't have time to take their
belongings. This seemed odd to me,

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but at the time I hadn't had
the time to find out any information about

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the house. Half way through,
we hear our daughters scream, mom,

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mommy, come here. I saw
someone. She was very scared and pale.

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She proceeded to tell us that while
waiting outside, she was looking at

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the grass and surroundings, and when
she looked up, she saw a woman.

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She said. The woman looked pale
and ran fast and then disappeared when

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our daughter looked at her. After
that, we got a bad vibe and

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decided that we weren't going to try
to purchase the home. I tried to

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find information about the house and found
out the owners were a couple. The

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husband died about ten years ago.
He was a veteran, and according to

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his obituary, he died in the
town, which makes me believe that he

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died in the house since there were
no hospitals close by. The wife died

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in November of twenty twenty two,
and her obituary states the same She died

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in the town. I believe they
both died in the home, and maybe

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my daughter saw the lady that owned
this house with her husband. Thank you

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for the podcast. It's very entertaining
and interesting, and I'm always looking forward

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to new episodes. Thank you.
If you read my story, Alexandra,

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our next experience, it comes to
us from Holly and Holly's encounter, is

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called Haunted Trailer. Holly says,
I've been listening for a couple months now

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and have gotten to episode two fifty
so far. I love the long stories.

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I listen in the morning, mostly
at work, before anyone gets there.

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Sometimes when something makes a noise,
I jump, but I keep listening

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anyway. I wanted to share what
happened to me back in two thousand and

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seven and two thousand and eight.
This was in Northeast Oklahoma. I was

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nineteen or twenty years old, and
a friend of mine i'll call her H,

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had her own plays. I would
hang out and occasionally spend the night.

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Until the first occurrence. H had
never mentioned anything spooky happening to her,

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but later told me that supposedly a
young man had lived in the house

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years ago when it was a meth
house and had been killed when a drug

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deal went wrong. She'd liked to
mess with me, though, so I

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kind of always doubted that story.
Something was definitely in the house, though.

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One night, maybe six months before
I moved in, I stayed at

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H's house. It was an older
trailer house at least twenty years old,

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and was fourteen by sixty so pretty
small. It had a kitchen at one

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end, then the living room,
a hallway that led to a small bedroom,

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then the bathroom, and at the
other end of the house was a

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large bedroom. She had to work
early and I didn't have anything going on

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the next day, so I slept
in after she left. She always locked

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the doors when she left. I
was in the small bedroom, which was

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about nine feet by eight feet and
the twin size bed took up most of

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the room. It was in the
corner furthest from the door. There was

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a small sliding door closet that was
closed. I couldn't sleep with the door

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opened at the time, so the
bedroom door was closed. And this door

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was hard to close. You had
to lift up and push on the door

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and knobbed to make sure that it
was closed and latched. I had stayed

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over several times before in this room, so I knew how to close the

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door, so it was completely closed. It was not quiet, there was

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always a very audible click. I
woke up suddenly, but did not open

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my eyes. I could feel a
presence in the room. I was facing

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the wall with the covers around my
shoulders and laying on my left side.

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I laid there for a minute waiting. I didn't hear anything. I just

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felt something in the room with me. I was trying to decide what to

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do when I felt what seemed to
be a knee press on the bed just

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beside my shoulder, as though someone
had been standing even with my head and

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shoulders, and then knelt with one
knee on the bed behind me, like

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they were going to kneel over me. I know I was awake. I

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very distinctly felt the bed sink down
behind my shoulder. I instantly opened my

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eye, threw back the covers,
and spun over. There was no one

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in the room. There was nowhere
for anyone to hide. The bed was

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too low to hide under, and
the closet door was closed. I did

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check both anyways. There was absolutely
no way anyone could have left the room

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without me hearing or even that quickly, I checked the rest of the house

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and then double checked the doors to
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Both were locked, and no one
was in the house besides me. I

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left and didn't stay over for a
while after that. The next incident in

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that house happened in December of two
thousand and seven. H called me nearly

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hysterical and asked me to come over. She only explained what was going on

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when I got there. She had
a small radio CD player, and the

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CD player part had the buttons that
pressed down and stayed down until pressed again,

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at which time the button popped up, so when she played a CD,

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the play button stayed depressed until she
pressed the stop button. This radio

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also had a repeat option, so
the CD could be played all night.

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She listened to a mixture of rock
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This particular evening, she had a
Christian CD playing. She told me

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that it had been turned off the
previous night, and then it had happened

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again while listening to it before bed. Usually she had it on just before

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going to bed and while sleeping.
This radio was not automatic. You had

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to press the stop button to stop
the CD. I examined the CD player,

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pushing the buttons and trying to get
it to stop somehow without pressing the

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stop button, but I couldn't figure
out a way to make it do that.

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She didn't feel comfortable staying alone that
night and asked me to stay.

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It was at this point I remembered
the knee on the bed, but she

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begged me, so I consented to
stay. She had told me the radio

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only acted up up when there was
a Christian CD in there. It didn't

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happen with rock and roll or country
CDs. But she had thought that the

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country CDs were turned down occasionally,
and she usually had the volume up as

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loud as it could go. That
night, I slept in her bed with

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the Christian CD on, and I
did wake up once and the CD had

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been stopped. I switched out CDs
to a rock and roll one and went

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back to sleep, and nothing happened
the rest of the night. Several months

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later, she wanted me to move
in, and since I wanted out of

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my parents' house and was a month
away from turning twenty, I did.

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I moved into the bedroom where I
had the previous experience. I don't know

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what I was thinking the first night
I was in there. I set up

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my room. I had a radio
with a CD player as well, which

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was at the foot of my bed. Due to how little space there was.

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The face of this radio lit up
and it had a remote with it.

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It could be set to sleep timer
when the volume station CDs and sleep

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timer could be controlled with the remote. This remote had to be pointed directly

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at the radio for it to work. If it was turned slightly away,

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it would not work. I had
had this radio for about two years at

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this point and I had never had
any issues with it. I was reading

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before bed and had the lights off
except a small lamp beside the bed,

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and the door was shut. My
radio was turned to a local country station

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00:31:30,039 --> 00:31:33,799
and was on the lowest volume setting. I had set the sleep timer to

413
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,000
thirty minutes with the expectation that I
would be asleep, but I had read

414
00:31:37,039 --> 00:31:41,920
longer than expected and was still awake
when it was on one minute left.

415
00:31:41,559 --> 00:31:45,799
I know that it was one minute
because the volume suddenly turned off. The

416
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:52,240
radio was still on, the light
still flashing, only the volume was off.

417
00:31:52,319 --> 00:31:56,599
I stopped and looked at it.
It was only about three feet away

418
00:31:56,599 --> 00:32:00,000
from where I was sitting on the
bed. I grabbed my remote and turned

419
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:04,279
back up to volume number one,
took off the sleep timer, and set

420
00:32:04,319 --> 00:32:07,279
the remote back down. I thought
that maybe when the timer got to one

421
00:32:07,319 --> 00:32:12,039
minute left, the volume would go
down and then the radio would turn off.

422
00:32:12,559 --> 00:32:15,640
I hadn't experienced this, but normally
I was already asleep when it turned

423
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:21,799
off from the sleep timer. I
had read a couple sentences when again the

424
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:25,200
volume turned off. This time,
I turned the volume up using the controls

425
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:29,559
on the radio itself, and I
moved the remote to point away from the

426
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:34,200
radio. I thought that maybe something
was going on with the remote. I

427
00:32:34,359 --> 00:32:38,559
then looked directly at the display of
the radio and watched it. About a

428
00:32:38,559 --> 00:32:44,720
minute later, the volume turned off
again and displayed on the screen as though

429
00:32:44,759 --> 00:32:49,519
someone had manually turned it down.
I was getting freaked out at this point,

430
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,079
and I looked around the room.
I didn't see anyone, of course,

431
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:57,200
but I set out loud, whoever's
there, please stop messing with my

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00:32:57,359 --> 00:33:00,759
radio. I then turned the volume
back up up to number one, and

433
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:05,880
it did not turn down again.
The rest of the time I was in

434
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,480
that house, which was about eight
months, the radio was never messed with.

435
00:33:09,119 --> 00:33:15,440
It never malfunctioned again. One night, while home alone, I was

436
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:17,759
in the shower. There was a
decent gap at the bottom of the doors

437
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,119
and you could see under them.
The bathroom was located between the bedrooms,

438
00:33:22,279 --> 00:33:27,480
and across from the bathroom door was
the washer and dryer. The door for

439
00:33:27,559 --> 00:33:31,160
the bathroom was set back a bit
from the washer and dryer space. I

440
00:33:31,279 --> 00:33:37,039
was showering when I heard footsteps.
They weren't particularly loud, but this was

441
00:33:37,079 --> 00:33:40,519
an older trailer house and it was
hard to be quiet. I freaked out,

442
00:33:40,759 --> 00:33:44,680
knowing that h wasn't supposed to be
home for at least an hour.

443
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:49,039
Her grandpa, who owned the trailer
house and lived across the road, did

444
00:33:49,079 --> 00:33:52,880
have a key, but he was
always good about giving us warning before coming

445
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,000
over, and he had my number
to text me if he was going to

446
00:33:55,039 --> 00:34:00,559
come in. My phone was in
the bathroom and it had not gone off,

447
00:34:00,839 --> 00:34:05,319
and I hadn't heard either of the
outside doors open. I was done

448
00:34:05,359 --> 00:34:08,480
showering, so I turned off the
water and I grabbed my towel and listened

449
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:14,000
hard. The steps sounded like they
came down the hall, passed my room,

450
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:17,599
and were outside the bathroom door.
There were maybe a dozen steps or

451
00:34:17,599 --> 00:34:22,480
so. My eyes were glued to
the gap under the door, but I

452
00:34:22,519 --> 00:34:25,320
couldn't see a shadow as I normally
would be able to if a person was

453
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:30,199
standing there. I didn't hear anything
more, so I talked myself into stepping

454
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:35,519
out. I seriously considered staying in
the bathroom until H got home, but

455
00:34:35,559 --> 00:34:38,239
I didn't have my clothes in there
and wanted to be dressed if I was

456
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:43,519
going to be attacked by a ghost. I stepped out of the bathroom and

457
00:34:43,559 --> 00:34:46,599
into my room, got dressed in
record time, and checked the house.

458
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:52,119
No one was there. When H
got home, I told her what happened,

459
00:34:52,199 --> 00:34:55,360
and she texted her Grandpa and asked
if he had come into the house,

460
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:59,639
although all the doors had been locked
when I got out of the shower.

461
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:05,119
He said that he had not been
in the house. In this next

462
00:35:05,159 --> 00:35:08,840
experience, we had some coasters that
H wanted to throw away as she had

463
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:13,559
gotten some new ones. Her mom
lived about a half a mile down the

464
00:35:13,639 --> 00:35:15,880
road, and we would take our
trash to her dumpster to be picked up

465
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:20,760
by the trash service. She had
taken them down there to throw away,

466
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,719
but I did not know this.
I went into my room after getting home

467
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:29,800
from class one day and they were
on the window sill. As it had

468
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:32,519
been cloudy that day and I had
left my window open. I thought that

469
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:37,239
H had the coasters, went into
my room to close the window in case

470
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:40,360
it rained, and then forgot the
coasters in my room. When she got

471
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:45,000
home that night. I questioned her, but she was adamant that she had

472
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:50,079
thrown the coasters away that morning at
her mom's. Because I liked the coasters,

473
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:53,519
we left them in my room for
my ewes and they never moved again.

474
00:35:55,119 --> 00:36:00,519
Next H's cousin came over one night
and she and H were up somewhat

475
00:36:00,559 --> 00:36:02,239
late. I had to be up
early, so I went to bed.

476
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:07,400
The wall my bed was against was
shared with the living room, and after

477
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,039
lying in bed for five minutes or
so, I began to hear noises.

478
00:36:10,599 --> 00:36:14,800
I could hear the TV just enough
to hear that it was on, but

479
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:19,519
not enough to make out what they
were watching. However, these noises were

480
00:36:19,599 --> 00:36:23,440
louder. It sounded like H and
her cousin were throwing with force a large

481
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:28,519
ball against the walls, or that
they were running and slamming their hands against

482
00:36:28,559 --> 00:36:32,519
the wall, pausing then slamming into
the wall on the other side. Because

483
00:36:32,679 --> 00:36:37,400
H was very particular about taking good
care of her house, I knew that

484
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,840
she would never do either of these
things. I almost got up to see

485
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:44,679
what they were doing, but I
had to be up very early, and

486
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:46,920
I knew that if I went in
the living room and they were quietly sitting,

487
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:51,519
I would never get to sleep.
So I tuned it out the best

488
00:36:51,559 --> 00:36:55,199
I could and went to sleep.
The next day, I asked H about

489
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:59,440
it, and she said that they
hadn't been doing anything that would make those

490
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:05,599
noises like I had described in this
next experience, a friend of H's,

491
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,280
which I knew from high school,
a little named M, stayed over one

492
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:13,360
night and we had been watching TV
in the living room. H went to

493
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:16,800
bed and I followed. Shortly after. I was reading in my room at

494
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:22,480
the door closed when M texted me
and asked if I had been standing in

495
00:37:22,519 --> 00:37:27,039
the hallway outside my door. Just
now. A quick side note about m

496
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:31,320
Supposedly he had seen H's dead father
for a few seconds years before in their

497
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:37,719
yard mowing one day. He claimed
to have seen other ghosts as well.

498
00:37:37,679 --> 00:37:40,960
Anyway, I stepped out of the
living room and stood in front of him

499
00:37:42,079 --> 00:37:45,679
where I could see him and down
the hall, and I asked what he

500
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:49,679
was talking about. He said that
as he was watching TV, out of

501
00:37:49,679 --> 00:37:52,679
the corner of his eye, he
had seen something move. It had looked

502
00:37:52,679 --> 00:37:58,000
tall, though, maybe six feet. I'm five four and H was a

503
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,000
couple inches shorter than me. He
wanted it to be me, but thought

504
00:38:01,039 --> 00:38:06,119
that it looked like a man walking
towards him. When he turned his head,

505
00:38:06,679 --> 00:38:09,199
it was gone. I slept in
the living room on the floor with

506
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:14,360
him on some blankets that night.
Though why I thought that that would protect

507
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:16,880
me, I'm not sure. I
think it was because that he had seen

508
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:21,440
it outside my door, and if
I stayed in my bedroom I would be

509
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:24,320
in there alone, so I decided
that it was best to sleep where there

510
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:30,320
was another person. Some time later, maybe a couple of months, H

511
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:32,440
was in the kitchen chopping up veggies
during the middle of the day, for

512
00:38:32,559 --> 00:38:37,039
lunch and I was doing homework in
my bedroom with the door closed. She

513
00:38:37,199 --> 00:38:40,199
hollered at me, and I came
out to the living room and asked what

514
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:45,400
she wanted. It was pretty much
the same thing. She had seen a

515
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:49,320
tall figure in the hallway from the
corner of her eye. However, when

516
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:52,920
she looked up, it was gone. I hadn't seen or heard anything.

517
00:38:53,519 --> 00:38:58,400
That was part of the reason I
always kept my door shut. I didn't

518
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:02,559
want to see or hear. We
moved out when she bought a house,

519
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:07,480
and nothing ever happened in the new
house. Her cousin moved in for a

520
00:39:07,519 --> 00:39:10,519
while and then back out, and
she moved back in after a year or

521
00:39:10,559 --> 00:39:15,199
so. She had a son under
a year old, and I asked her

522
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:19,960
at one point if anything ever happened
anymore in the trailer house. It was

523
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,599
several years after I lived there,
and she said nothing had happened after she

524
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:29,039
moved back in with her son.
Maybe the ghost didn't like kids. She

525
00:39:29,199 --> 00:39:32,199
was there for several more years,
had a boyfriend who stayed over, got

526
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:37,920
pregnant and had another son, dumped
that boyfriend and got another boyfriend who would

527
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:40,480
stay over as well with his son, and no one ever had any more

528
00:39:40,559 --> 00:39:45,800
sightings or had anything happen in the
house that I'm aware of. She then

529
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:50,679
got married to that last boyfriend and
moved into his house, and I lost

530
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:54,599
touch with her. But the trailer
house is still there. I don't know

531
00:39:54,639 --> 00:40:00,920
if anyone lives in it now,
but it was definitely interesting while I was

532
00:40:00,039 --> 00:40:07,599
there. Let's begin with our first
experience of the night, which comes to

533
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:15,159
us from Terran, and Terran's story
is called My Personal Experience with Shadow People.

534
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:21,079
Teren says, Hello. First of
all, I want to say that

535
00:40:21,119 --> 00:40:23,480
I have no pictures to show you, so you can choose to believe me

536
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:28,480
or not. It's your choice.
I'm not here to make that decision for

537
00:40:28,599 --> 00:40:32,400
you, simply to tell you my
story. So, even from a young

538
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:37,119
age, I've always felt different in
some capacity, whether that's having very vivid

539
00:40:37,119 --> 00:40:42,960
and horrifying nightmares or seeing things in
my general area while I sat on the

540
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:46,119
floor. Growing up, I'd see
lights in the sky that aren't explainable,

541
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:51,679
seeing shapes and eyes in the dark
with my friends. But that's not what

542
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:55,760
this is about. This story is
about my experience with a shadow figure.

543
00:40:57,679 --> 00:41:00,760
I deeply believe that these beings are
real, not only that, but they

544
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:06,400
feed on sadness and other negative emotions. And my reason for this is I

545
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:09,760
only started seeing this after my parents
broke up. I was thirteen at the

546
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:15,719
time. It started very nonchalant to
begin with. As frightening as it was

547
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:20,039
for a thirteen year old to see
a black, translucent person standing ominously in

548
00:41:20,079 --> 00:41:23,800
front of them, it didn't feel
threatening at least not at that stage anyway.

549
00:41:24,639 --> 00:41:28,960
For the first year or so,
it would only observe. It would

550
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:32,599
stand in various areas around my house
and or places that I frequented, like

551
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:37,719
school friends' houses, et cetera.
However, it was very rarely inside of

552
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:44,480
buildings, only usually outside in open
places or peering around walls, bushes and

553
00:41:44,639 --> 00:41:47,719
sometimes trees. No one else could
see it but me, so of course

554
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:52,800
that was unnerving. I don't know
what the turning point was, but it

555
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:55,079
was getting closer to me. At
first, it used to stand in the

556
00:41:55,119 --> 00:41:59,559
field staring up at my window,
almost as if it was hoping that I

557
00:41:59,559 --> 00:42:04,199
would like outside, whereas now it
was in my back garden instead, or

558
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,280
rather standing in the playground at school. In the open. It would be

559
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:12,320
waiting by the building, but still
visible to me through the window. I

560
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:15,360
could feel its presence getting closer to
me, but not only that, the

561
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:20,719
atmosphere would also change every time I'd
see it, and I'd have what I

562
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:23,400
can only describe as a panic attack, but it didn't feel the same.

563
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:30,199
I was frozen and hyperventilating, my
eyes transfixed on its featureless phase. Time

564
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:34,960
seemed to slow down around me,
but soon I would then have what I

565
00:42:35,039 --> 00:42:39,000
called a three second window for me
to quote unquote escape the best I could,

566
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:43,679
whether that was simply shutting the curtain
in my room and jumping into my

567
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:46,880
bed under the covers, or ducking
down in the kitchen and crawling out after

568
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:52,519
seeing it outside the window across the
street. This isn't the only time that

569
00:42:52,559 --> 00:42:57,000
I've had these prompts, and typically
before it would appear to me if I

570
00:42:57,119 --> 00:43:00,599
was outside and suddenly I would feel
a chill, mostly followed by the sensation

571
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:05,320
of wind on my skin, but
when I looked up to the trees or

572
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:09,400
anything else easily capable of moving,
it would be still. Instead, I

573
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:15,079
would just feel the wind specifically around
me, as if it was zoning in

574
00:43:15,199 --> 00:43:17,880
on me. You could say,
this would send me straight into action,

575
00:43:19,199 --> 00:43:22,159
and I would run home. If
I was out with my friends or in

576
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:24,719
any building that I thought would be
safe if I wasn't near my house.

577
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:29,679
This would happen every now and then
for over a year or two, but

578
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:34,760
the timeline is hard to remember.
This wasn'tuntil a point it got too close

579
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:38,599
to me for what I assume was
its own good One night, as I

580
00:43:38,679 --> 00:43:43,159
was just getting ready to go to
sleep, I closed my eyes. I

581
00:43:43,159 --> 00:43:46,639
should note that I was sleeping with
my bedroom lamp on for obvious reasons.

582
00:43:47,159 --> 00:43:50,960
Within a few minutes, I would
say, I heard a big, echoey

583
00:43:51,119 --> 00:43:54,559
thud just feet away from my bed. My eyes opened, immediately scanning the

584
00:43:54,639 --> 00:43:59,840
room until it locked on the black, shadowy figure standing across the room for

585
00:44:00,199 --> 00:44:02,880
me. It was staring down at
the guitar that I assume it had just

586
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:08,280
knocked over, creating the noise,
almost concerned about it. It realized I

587
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:13,280
was awake and that I was looking
straight at it. It turned to me

588
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:16,920
and then slowly dissipated and then vanished
before my very eyes. I laid there,

589
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:21,199
frozen in fear, staring at where
this being had just been standing,

590
00:44:21,639 --> 00:44:24,199
and for the first time to my
knowledge, it had been in my house,

591
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:30,239
my one safe haven had now been
infiltrated. I shouted from my mom,

592
00:44:30,519 --> 00:44:35,199
to which she came upstairs and I
explained what had happened. But despite

593
00:44:35,199 --> 00:44:38,960
her reservations, she did believe that
something must have happened, otherwise why would

594
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:43,679
the guitar be on the floor.
She had also just checked on me moments

595
00:44:43,679 --> 00:44:46,599
before and knew that I was asleep. She would have heard me get up

596
00:44:46,639 --> 00:44:52,159
afterwards, since the floorboards in bed
were squeaky. However, she heard nothing

597
00:44:52,199 --> 00:44:55,079
but the thud of the guitar,
so she almost had to believe me.

598
00:44:57,360 --> 00:45:00,440
Fast forward a few months after that, and seeing the this being was very

599
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:05,239
on and off. Some days I'd
see it more than once in a day,

600
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:07,960
but other times I could go weeks
without seeing it at all, almost

601
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:12,960
to the point of forgetting that it
was present in my life. And this

602
00:45:13,079 --> 00:45:16,519
is the major experience that I've been
wanting to tell you. It was a

603
00:45:16,559 --> 00:45:21,280
normal school day and I was sitting
in Spanish class, a lesson that I

604
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:24,639
typically enjoyed, and suddenly I felt
a kind of pull, which is the

605
00:45:24,639 --> 00:45:29,159
best way I know how to describe
it. It wasn't physical, though,

606
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,840
almost like my soul and entire being
was being pulled somewhere, but I didn't

607
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:37,840
know how or why. I ignored
it at first, but it persisted until

608
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:43,639
I slowly started to zone out.
Then every sound around me slowly faded,

609
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:49,119
as did my vision. Then I
realized what was happening. The best way

610
00:45:49,119 --> 00:45:52,400
I can describe the scenery is it
was a large green field covered with grass,

611
00:45:52,559 --> 00:45:58,440
and the sky was blue, almost
eerily similar to the old windows background.

612
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:02,360
But that wasn't my concern. Instead, as I turned around to understand

613
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:07,679
my surroundings and where I was,
I saw it. It was right there

614
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:12,599
behind me. It was a massive, towering, black humanoid mass staring down

615
00:46:12,639 --> 00:46:16,400
at me. Again. I froze
with fear, and time seemingly stopped once

616
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:22,079
again, but this time I had
no escape. It reached out with its

617
00:46:22,159 --> 00:46:24,760
long arm and grabbed me by the
throat in a quick motion, raising me

618
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:30,440
above the ground. But just as
it did so, another sensation washed over

619
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:35,039
me. It was a building type
of feeling until a massive force was expelled

620
00:46:35,079 --> 00:46:39,039
from both of us, sending both
me and the entity flying in opposite directions.

621
00:46:39,559 --> 00:46:44,440
A large orange colored ring emanated from
the source of where we had been

622
00:46:44,519 --> 00:46:47,719
standing and rippled across the landscape,
similar to when you drop a pebble in

623
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:53,519
a pond. Realizing I was freed, the being desperately crawled and clawed toward

624
00:46:53,639 --> 00:46:59,119
me, and I then closed my
eyes, accepting my inevitable fate. But

625
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:02,079
the sound of my teacher burst into
my ears, and I opened my eyes

626
00:47:02,119 --> 00:47:07,559
to find that I was back in
the classroom, unharmed. I scanned around

627
00:47:07,559 --> 00:47:10,239
the room to make sure I was
really safe, and my classmate even asked

628
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:14,639
if I was okay, and he
said that I seemed to have zoned out,

629
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:17,000
but that I looked scared. I
told him that I was okay and

630
00:47:17,199 --> 00:47:22,079
just tired, and I went back
to focusing on the lesson. But I

631
00:47:22,119 --> 00:47:27,480
will never be able to forget that
day and what happened. After speaking with

632
00:47:27,519 --> 00:47:30,480
a friend of mine about it recently, she told me that I could have

633
00:47:30,559 --> 00:47:36,199
potentially and mistakenly astral projected to this
world that this being lives in, which

634
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:39,639
wouldn't have been the first time I've
astral projected by mistake, but that's another

635
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:45,760
story for another time. After this, again, the sightings were sporadic.

636
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:50,079
It seemed to follow me even when
I was traveling with family. I once

637
00:47:50,119 --> 00:47:52,800
even saw it in my ex girlfriend's
apartment while I was hugging her in bed,

638
00:47:53,039 --> 00:47:57,199
and of course her back was toward
the doorway where I saw it.

639
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:00,639
This would happen for another few years, to the point of me even seeing

640
00:48:00,679 --> 00:48:05,280
it at work inside the building,
but I could never see it on the

641
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:08,840
cameras. I'm twenty three now and
I haven't seen it for a long time,

642
00:48:09,119 --> 00:48:13,880
but recently the nature of my job
role has changed and I now have

643
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:16,639
to walk to work at five thirty
in the morning. It's a twenty five

644
00:48:16,679 --> 00:48:22,480
minute walk and it's pitch black except
for some street lights dotted down the road.

645
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:27,239
I can assuredly tell you that I
never feel alone, and often I

646
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:30,400
feel the wind rushing around myself,
and I see the trees are still.

647
00:48:31,159 --> 00:48:35,480
I hear rustling in the bushes,
and trees behind and next to me,

648
00:48:36,079 --> 00:48:39,639
Whispers from the darkness, and leaves
on the floor seem to follow my exact

649
00:48:39,679 --> 00:48:45,400
path again, with no feeling of
the wind blowing anywhere but around me.

650
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:51,199
I constantly feel an overwhelming sense of
dread, with the anticipation of evil around

651
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:54,199
me. So maybe it's the being's
way of letting me know that even though

652
00:48:54,239 --> 00:48:59,760
I haven't seen it in over two
years now, it's still here, and

653
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:07,480
it's still watching me. Our next
experience of the night comes to us from

654
00:49:07,679 --> 00:49:13,800
Eric, and Eric's story is called
Glitch in the Matrix. Eric says,

655
00:49:14,599 --> 00:49:17,280
hello there, I would like to
share this strange event with you in hopes

656
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:22,440
of receiving an answer. This event
was witnessed by at least five people,

657
00:49:22,599 --> 00:49:27,159
including myself that I'm aware of.
This strange event occurred a few weeks ago

658
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:30,280
on a Saturday, at around one
thirty pm. It was a bright sunny

659
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:36,440
day with no clouds. Inside.
Our home was brightly lit by the sunlight,

660
00:49:36,639 --> 00:49:38,880
and we were cleaning and organizing our
kitchen when all of a sudden,

661
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:43,800
the sunlight seemed to have switched off
for a few seconds. It was a

662
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:47,159
dark, purple bluish hue, and
before our minds were able to register this

663
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:52,519
incident, poof there was sunlight.
We were shocked by this event, and

664
00:49:52,559 --> 00:49:57,360
we ran outside to see what had
happened. I speculated that a plane had

665
00:49:57,360 --> 00:50:00,519
flown over our home, but as
my mother pointed out, no airplane has

666
00:50:00,559 --> 00:50:06,840
the capacity to entirely cover the sunlight. Later that day, I spoke with

667
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:10,320
a dear friend whom I mentioned the
story to. They too experienced this strange

668
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:15,519
event in their home the prior day
to our experience. I have no idea

669
00:50:15,559 --> 00:50:19,480
what to make of this, or
perhaps God is giving us a sign that

670
00:50:19,559 --> 00:50:22,719
our time is near. I have
searched for an answer, thinking that maybe

671
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:27,880
it was a satellite or some other
man made object. From our perspective,

672
00:50:28,039 --> 00:50:31,000
it looked like the sun was either
completely covered or it was switched off.

673
00:50:31,559 --> 00:50:37,039
It did not look like something passed
over our home casting a shadow. I

674
00:50:37,079 --> 00:50:40,320
hope that there is someone out there
that may have an explanation to this,

675
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:47,039
or perhaps it was a glitch in
our matrix. I contacted Eric to get

676
00:50:47,079 --> 00:50:52,119
more information on the time of day
and location where this event took place,

677
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:55,159
and once I get more information on
the report, I'll be sure to post

678
00:50:55,199 --> 00:51:02,079
it on the show. Our next
experience of the Night comes to us from

679
00:51:02,079 --> 00:51:09,800
Madeleine, and Madeleine's experience is called
Strange Shadowy Black Figures. Madeleine says,

680
00:51:10,519 --> 00:51:15,079
Heinick. I just started watching your
podcast a few months ago, and I

681
00:51:15,119 --> 00:51:19,280
really enjoy it. I've been wanting
to share my story, and I finally

682
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:23,079
decided it's time. I was around
eleven or twelve when I went on a

683
00:51:23,119 --> 00:51:28,159
walk round my neighborhood with my dogs
and my dad. We live in a

684
00:51:28,239 --> 00:51:32,280
very large neighborhood with a golf course
located inside. It was almost dark when

685
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:37,679
we started the walk, maybe around
eight forty five p m. We started

686
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:40,960
down the side of the road and
I get uneasy feelings very often while walking

687
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:45,360
at night, and usually there has
been nothing, but this time I saw

688
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:50,519
something. We walked down one side
of the golf course and crossed the road

689
00:51:50,559 --> 00:51:53,679
to the other side, and it
was now completely dark. Normally, no

690
00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:58,119
one walks on the golf course at
night, since you can't really see anything

691
00:51:58,239 --> 00:52:01,239
without a flashlight, and it was
late when we walk. Me and my

692
00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:06,360
dad have very good vision at night, so we never use a flashlight.

693
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:10,559
We are walking down the middle of
the course when I see two seemingly tall

694
00:52:10,599 --> 00:52:15,119
people, maybe five eight or five
nine. They were all in black with

695
00:52:15,239 --> 00:52:19,760
no color, and I would have
been able to see details from how close

696
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:23,559
I was to them, but I
couldn't make out anything just black. I

697
00:52:23,639 --> 00:52:29,159
suddenly feel the hairs on my arms
and neck stand up while watching these people.

698
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:34,280
They never look wave or anything,
which I found unusual since people in

699
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:39,039
my neighborhood are very friendly and they
always wave but these people just kept walking.

700
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:43,960
I kept on talking to my dad
and trying to get rid of the

701
00:52:44,079 --> 00:52:49,119
uneasy feeling while still staring at these
people. I then looked away for one

702
00:52:49,159 --> 00:52:52,000
second to fix my dog's leash,
and they were gone. It's like they

703
00:52:52,039 --> 00:52:57,039
disappeared into thin air. I then
asked my dad if he had seen the

704
00:52:57,079 --> 00:53:00,920
people, and he was clueless about
the whole ordeal. My dogs normally bark

705
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:05,840
at people that close, but even
they didn't seem to see them. I

706
00:53:06,039 --> 00:53:08,480
was the only one who saw it. It's not like they could have gone

707
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:12,639
behind a tree or into a house, because it was a flat piece of

708
00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:17,280
land with only the golf course flagpole
nearby. They just disappeared, but I

709
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:22,239
swear that they were there. It
left me shook for the rest of the

710
00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:24,679
night, and I haven't told anyone
what I saw but my dad and my

711
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:29,800
best friend. I google searched the
next morning, and all I've found was

712
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:35,039
shadow people, but I don't know. I have another story about another encounter

713
00:53:35,199 --> 00:53:38,719
with black figures before this one,
but it's shorter and for another time.

714
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:47,840
Thank you for reading my story,
and have a nice day, Madeleine.

715
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:53,280
Our next experience comes to us from
Lord Will, and Lord Will says hello,

716
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:57,679
Nick. Ever since I found your
podcast, I have become a faithful

717
00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:00,960
listener. I have submitted stories.
I have even been able to have email

718
00:54:01,079 --> 00:54:05,920
chats with other listeners and hopefully been
able to help them, just as you

719
00:54:06,079 --> 00:54:08,920
have helped all of oz. Sometimes
we just need an outlet to get a

720
00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:14,880
story off our chest, Sometimes we
want information, and sometimes we really need

721
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:17,920
the help of others. I am
so thankful for your podcast. There is

722
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:22,760
no judgment, no ridicule, no
teasing, so I am sure I speak

723
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:28,639
for all of the other listeners when
I say thank you Nick. Now,

724
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:31,639
as promised in a previous email,
here are the stories of Milo, the

725
00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:37,519
Cat, and the Mimic. I
don't remember when the mimic actually began to

726
00:54:37,639 --> 00:54:43,199
be with me, but I remember
strange occurrences all my life. I call

727
00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:46,079
it a mimic, but sometimes it's
more like an echo. I will hear

728
00:54:46,159 --> 00:54:50,840
someone call my name, and it's
always a familiar voice, like my mother

729
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:53,800
or my sister, and then later
in life it was my wife or my

730
00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:58,960
kids. The thing is, whenever
I went to see what they were calling

731
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:01,039
me for, they would say say
they never called me, or they were

732
00:55:01,079 --> 00:55:05,800
not even there. Later in life. I would even see someone I know

733
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:08,559
walk by in the house, down
the hall or up the stairs. It

734
00:55:08,599 --> 00:55:12,480
was just a glimpse of them out
of the corner of my eye, but

735
00:55:12,559 --> 00:55:15,079
it was enough to know that I
definitely saw them. However, then I

736
00:55:15,119 --> 00:55:19,800
would see them in a different place
in the house and ask didn't I just

737
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:23,480
see you back there? And of
course the answer was always null. Eventually,

738
00:55:23,519 --> 00:55:28,440
my wife and kids started experiencing the
same things in our homes, so

739
00:55:28,599 --> 00:55:32,199
I would simply tell them, don't
worry, that's just the mimic. Over

740
00:55:32,239 --> 00:55:37,360
the years, my family and I
have not felt anything evil from the mimic,

741
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:44,400
at least not yet. This is
my next story. My family is

742
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:47,840
a cat family. We love our
feline family members very much. They are

743
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:52,920
always allowed to freely room our home
day and night. I mean, it's

744
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:57,079
their home too. The reason I
mention this will be clear later in the

745
00:55:57,119 --> 00:56:00,320
story. There was this one house
that we live in about a mile away

746
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:05,199
from the house that I call the
corner house, and I will call this

747
00:56:05,280 --> 00:56:09,400
house the very active House. This
house had an upstairs room that was boarded

748
00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:14,000
up that our landlord told us to
stay out of. Every night, we

749
00:56:14,039 --> 00:56:17,960
would hear someone in cowboy boots walking
around in there. This house had shadow

750
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:22,320
people being seen all the time.
But worst of all was the basement.

751
00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:27,599
There was one corner in the far
back that the light would never reach,

752
00:56:28,039 --> 00:56:31,320
and this was where my kids and
I could swear that we always heard growling.

753
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:36,559
So anyway, one day, my
wife was walking into the dining room

754
00:56:36,639 --> 00:56:39,280
to set the table for dinner and
I heard her kind of screech. It

755
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:44,079
was kind of like a half gasp, half scream. I ran out to

756
00:56:44,119 --> 00:56:46,320
see what had happened, thinking that
maybe it was a spider or a mouse.

757
00:56:46,719 --> 00:56:51,599
However, she just pointed to the
table and said, a cat just

758
00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:54,800
jumped from that countertop to the table. I looked at her, confused,

759
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:59,119
trying to ask her which one of
our cats it was, and wondering why

760
00:56:59,159 --> 00:57:01,440
this would have scared her. But
she then said it was a big,

761
00:57:01,519 --> 00:57:06,760
fluffy, white cat, and when
it hit the table, it disappeared.

762
00:57:07,840 --> 00:57:10,920
After that sighting, we began to
occasionally feel a cat rub up against our

763
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:15,840
leg for attention, but of course
when we would reach down to pet them,

764
00:57:15,079 --> 00:57:20,000
there would be no cat. Our
cats loved to climb into bed in

765
00:57:20,039 --> 00:57:22,960
the middle of the night sometimes and
lay either with us or on us.

766
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:27,559
We began to feel a cat come
in and climb on us to cuttle up

767
00:57:27,639 --> 00:57:30,400
and sleep, but whenever we reached
over to hug them, there would be

768
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:35,480
no cat. We began to accept
that we just happened to have a new

769
00:57:35,519 --> 00:57:40,199
cat in the family that we just
couldn't see. One really nice summer day,

770
00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:44,400
I was sitting out on the front
porch when a man walked by and

771
00:57:44,559 --> 00:57:47,119
just happened to ask, so,
how do you like living here? For

772
00:57:47,159 --> 00:57:51,400
a second, I thought, what
an odd question, but then I thought,

773
00:57:51,519 --> 00:57:54,320
well, maybe he knows something,
so I replied, it's great if

774
00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:59,239
you like weird spooky things. He
then laughed and said I know what you

775
00:57:59,320 --> 00:58:01,960
mean. I used to live here
with that. I took a chance and

776
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:07,320
asked, have you ever seen a
ghost cat? This question kind of startled

777
00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:09,760
him, and he asked me to
describe the cat. As I did so,

778
00:58:10,119 --> 00:58:15,079
the man started to tear up a
little, and then he slowly smiled.

779
00:58:15,639 --> 00:58:19,800
He said that would be milo.
He passed away while I lived here.

780
00:58:20,320 --> 00:58:23,639
I'm glad that he found a nice
family to stay with. But then

781
00:58:23,719 --> 00:58:28,400
he asked me a question that still
scares me to this day. When I

782
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:34,119
remember the fear in his voice.
I get goosebumps literally right now. He

783
00:58:34,199 --> 00:58:37,159
asked me, have you seen or
heard the demon dog in the basement.

784
00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:43,800
I then told him about the growling. Now, before I continue with Lord

785
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:49,599
Will's experience, be warned that it
involves animal cruelty and listener discretion. As

786
00:58:49,639 --> 00:58:53,559
advised, Lord Will goes on to
say, the story he told me is

787
00:58:53,599 --> 00:58:59,000
a horrible one. Apparently, the
people that lived in the Very Active house

788
00:58:59,320 --> 00:59:02,480
had dogs and used them in dog
fights. They would keep these dogs down

789
00:59:02,519 --> 00:59:07,599
in the basement and treat them horribly
and even partially starve them to make them

790
00:59:07,679 --> 00:59:10,159
mean. One day, they didn't
lock up all of the cages properly,

791
00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:15,280
and one of the dogs got out
and somehow tore open the other cages and

792
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:19,159
it killed the other dogs. I'm
not sure how many dogs there were,

793
00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:22,320
but the next day when they went
back to check on the dogs, they

794
00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:27,360
were attacked and had to shoot the
killer dog. When the police came in.

795
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:30,639
It was a horrible mess to clean
and arrests to make, and probably

796
00:59:30,679 --> 00:59:35,639
a lot of stitches for the man
that got attacked. As for the house,

797
00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:39,000
it ended up with a demon dog
spirit in the deepest, darkest corner

798
00:59:39,639 --> 00:59:44,320
of the basement. Thank you again, Nick, for all that you do

799
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:50,719
for us paranormalized people out there,
your friendly neighborhood spooky man, Lord Will.

800
00:59:53,039 --> 00:59:59,000
Our next experience also comes from Lord
Will, and he says, Hello,

801
00:59:59,079 --> 01:00:01,480
Nick. I am writing to you
to share an experience that I recently

802
01:00:01,559 --> 01:00:07,039
had while in the hospital. It
does deal with some bad news for myself,

803
01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:10,400
but I am okay if you share
this story with your listeners. This

804
01:00:10,519 --> 01:00:15,599
past Monday, January twenty third,
twenty twenty three, I had a routine

805
01:00:15,639 --> 01:00:19,760
doctor's visit in which some routine blood
work was being done. That night,

806
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:22,480
around eight pm, I received a
call from my doctor telling me that he

807
01:00:22,559 --> 01:00:28,599
needed me to get to the hospital
emergency room immediately. Although my blood work

808
01:00:28,639 --> 01:00:31,960
came back looking perfect, there was
one number that was very concerning. My

809
01:00:32,119 --> 01:00:37,119
blood platelet level was at one thousand
and a normal level is at two hundred

810
01:00:37,159 --> 01:00:42,480
thousand. Now, because everything else
on the panel looked absolutely perfect, it

811
01:00:42,599 --> 01:00:45,719
was possible that it was simply an
error, but unfortunately it was not.

812
01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:51,480
It took me until Thursday, January
twenty sixth, twenty twenty three before my

813
01:00:51,599 --> 01:00:54,320
levels got to a one hundred thousand, and they were comfortable with letting me

814
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:59,960
go home. I will be seeing
an oncologist on February sixth of twenty two,

815
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:02,639
twenty three, to find out the
results of the special blood tests that

816
01:01:02,639 --> 01:01:07,719
they have to run. If those
numbers come back weird, my next step

817
01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:10,800
will be a bone marrow biopsy.
So I will start by saying that if

818
01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:15,639
you do share this with your listeners, I am openly asking for prayers,

819
01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:20,800
good thoughts, and positive vibes or
whatever they believe in. I will accept

820
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:27,440
because I appreciate and believe in them
all. Now, for what happened on

821
01:01:27,519 --> 01:01:30,920
my second night in the ICU realm. Of course, around two thirty a

822
01:01:30,159 --> 01:01:34,440
m. I couldn't sleep due to
the nurses having to change the things they

823
01:01:34,440 --> 01:01:37,719
were pumping into my IV. After
they left my room, I felt this

824
01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:42,559
chill. Now, this room was
a hot room, so much so that

825
01:01:42,639 --> 01:01:45,360
I had been asking for a fan. However, that night there was an

826
01:01:45,559 --> 01:01:50,119
icy chill. Then, out of
the corner of my eye, I see

827
01:01:50,119 --> 01:01:53,840
a white, whispy cloudlike ribbon floating
around maybe six feet to the right of

828
01:01:53,880 --> 01:01:58,800
my bed. I watch it from
my peripheral for a good two minutes,

829
01:01:59,039 --> 01:02:02,079
knowing that when I looked directly at
it, it will disappear, then it

830
01:02:02,159 --> 01:02:07,880
floats off and out the window.
You may be thinking what was I on,

831
01:02:07,239 --> 01:02:10,840
but I guarantee you the only things
being put into my body were fresh

832
01:02:10,920 --> 01:02:16,000
platelets and plasma, no drugs.
The next day, I got the chance

833
01:02:16,039 --> 01:02:21,079
to ask one of my nurses if
she had seen anything paranormal during her time

834
01:02:21,320 --> 01:02:25,199
working on the ICU floor. To
my surprise, her only personal story in

835
01:02:25,280 --> 01:02:29,599
her one and a half years of
being there was that they have one room

836
01:02:29,639 --> 01:02:32,039
on the floor in which the lights
will turn on and off on their own.

837
01:02:32,599 --> 01:02:37,320
However, she did tell me about
the abandoned halls in the hospital,

838
01:02:37,480 --> 01:02:40,000
in which many of the nurses on
every floor at one time or another while

839
01:02:40,039 --> 01:02:44,960
working there, will get a dare
to walk down one of these abandoned or

840
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:50,239
closed off areas, and they always
come back with some creepy tails. So

841
01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:53,960
it would seem that my local hospital, like most hospitals, is haunted.

842
01:02:55,199 --> 01:03:00,639
Thank you for letting me share with
you and even your listeners to keep you

843
01:03:00,719 --> 01:03:06,880
up to date on anything paranormal as
well as my current health situation. Your

844
01:03:06,960 --> 01:03:13,719
fellow fear follower, Lord Will Lord
Will updated me after writing this email,

845
01:03:13,960 --> 01:03:16,599
and thankfully it appears that he doesn't
have cancer, but he does have some

846
01:03:16,639 --> 01:03:22,079
medical issues that will be difficult to
manage moving forward. I hope you'll all

847
01:03:22,199 --> 01:03:27,400
join me in sending Lord Will and
his family positive vibes as well as prayers

848
01:03:27,960 --> 01:03:34,800
for a speedy recovery. In our
last episode, I left you with an

849
01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:38,360
experience from a poster on Reddit who
had a shared encounter with an unknown creature

850
01:03:38,519 --> 01:03:44,440
in Kentucky's Red River Gorge. The
witness describes seeing something that many people would

851
01:03:44,480 --> 01:03:47,440
probably classify as a bigfoot, but
in my opinion, not all of the

852
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:52,719
details point toward a typical bigfoot sighting. She described the creature as being tall

853
01:03:52,800 --> 01:03:59,079
and thin and having skin that resembled
a dolphin's. She also described the eyes

854
01:03:59,119 --> 01:04:03,199
as being more like empty pits.
These details make me think that this may

855
01:04:03,239 --> 01:04:10,400
have been some type of pale crawler, but unfortunately we'll never know. The

856
01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:14,000
next case I'd like to present to
you is equally as hard to classify,

857
01:04:14,280 --> 01:04:17,519
if not more so. It's an
account from the Missing four one one subreddit

858
01:04:17,760 --> 01:04:21,800
or. A poster known as dreamland
Orchard says that he grew up in East

859
01:04:21,840 --> 01:04:26,760
Tennessee at the time of his experience. He was on a trip to the

860
01:04:26,760 --> 01:04:30,159
Great Smoky Mountains National Park with a
group of friends. They were out hiking

861
01:04:30,239 --> 01:04:35,079
up a ridge when he would encounter
something that is hard to explain but seemed

862
01:04:35,159 --> 01:04:41,400
to have malevolent intent. This report
originated on Reddit, but was brought to

863
01:04:41,519 --> 01:04:45,519
light in an article on Mysterious Universe, and as always, I urge you

864
01:04:45,559 --> 01:04:48,639
to visit the reference section of the
show notes in order to give these sources

865
01:04:48,960 --> 01:04:55,480
the much due credit that they deserve. The witness had this to say about

866
01:04:55,519 --> 01:05:00,920
his experience. We were hiking to
Little Duck Hawk Ridge and its Eye of

867
01:05:00,960 --> 01:05:04,320
the Needle to the northeast, and
that's when I saw what I call the

868
01:05:04,320 --> 01:05:10,679
transparent mind control demon. On the
hike, I was walking with these two

869
01:05:10,800 --> 01:05:14,440
girls and I was in the back. On the way up, nothing really

870
01:05:14,480 --> 01:05:17,239
happened except I kept seeing something out
of the corner of my eye, but

871
01:05:17,320 --> 01:05:21,480
of course nothing was there whenever I
looked. We ate lunch at Little Duck

872
01:05:21,599 --> 01:05:26,800
Ridge, but I couldn't eat from
the sense of dread. On the way

873
01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:30,840
back down is when it really started
happening. The girls kept talking and I

874
01:05:30,960 --> 01:05:33,159
kept trying to catch this thing out
of the corner of my eye. The

875
01:05:33,239 --> 01:05:36,719
dread kept building up as this thing
kept popping up in the corner of my

876
01:05:36,840 --> 01:05:42,639
eye, and that's when I saw
this freaking thing. It was a transparent

877
01:05:42,840 --> 01:05:46,159
entity and a big humanoid shape.
But then it flashed behind a tree.

878
01:05:46,599 --> 01:05:50,599
My heart rates sped up so fast
that my ears started ringing. And that's

879
01:05:50,639 --> 01:05:56,400
when I kept seeing it flashing behind
all these different trees. I say flashing

880
01:05:56,440 --> 01:06:00,000
because it was running at superhuman speeds. And when I stopped watching it flash

881
01:06:00,039 --> 01:06:04,920
around, I noticed that everyone was
almost out of sight and around the corner.

882
01:06:05,559 --> 01:06:10,440
I started panicking. The ringing got
louder, and I got confused.

883
01:06:10,840 --> 01:06:14,360
I started mumbling to myself and thinking
that I wanted to run back up the

884
01:06:14,400 --> 01:06:17,360
mountain, but deep down inside I
knew that the other way was the right

885
01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:23,480
way to go. I started jogging
the wrong way and laughing to myself in

886
01:06:23,599 --> 01:06:27,639
a demonic sound. The whole time, I felt fear building up, and

887
01:06:27,719 --> 01:06:30,880
I was so confused, not knowing
what was going on. I was laughing

888
01:06:30,920 --> 01:06:35,559
and jogging the wrong way, but
not able to control my body. It

889
01:06:35,679 --> 01:06:42,119
was so weird and scary. Then
my two girlfriends noticed that I was gone

890
01:06:42,320 --> 01:06:45,599
and they came back for me.
They said that when I turned around,

891
01:06:45,639 --> 01:06:48,960
it didn't look like me and that
I had black eyes. They said that

892
01:06:49,000 --> 01:06:53,639
they had to yell at me like
five times asking what was wrong with me,

893
01:06:54,239 --> 01:07:00,320
but I was so scared that I
just said, let's run. This

894
01:07:00,480 --> 01:07:04,079
next case is one that I may
have mentioned before, but I thought that

895
01:07:04,119 --> 01:07:08,239
it was worth repeating, as it
has to do with a hiker that gets

896
01:07:08,239 --> 01:07:14,079
separated from his hiking group and experiences
a very confusing phenomenon. It doesn't involve

897
01:07:14,159 --> 01:07:17,360
any strange creatures, but it does
seem to correspond with other reports that I've

898
01:07:17,360 --> 01:07:21,760
come across where the witness feels compelled
to leave the safety of their peers and

899
01:07:21,840 --> 01:07:28,719
eventually becomes confused and sometimes even lost. There are numerous examples of this on

900
01:07:28,760 --> 01:07:31,679
the missing four one one reddit forums, and this report comes from a poster

901
01:07:31,840 --> 01:07:36,360
called magnific Cone, who says this
happened when he was a young boy scout

902
01:07:36,519 --> 01:07:41,920
camping in the rugged wilderness on Mount
Washington. At the time, he was

903
01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:44,639
part of a group that were in
the process of hiking up one of the

904
01:07:44,639 --> 01:07:48,719
mountains winding trails when the two group
members that he was with decided to stop

905
01:07:48,800 --> 01:07:53,880
and take a break. However,
he felt a strange and overwhelming urge to

906
01:07:53,960 --> 01:07:58,480
keep going, often accompanied by a
sense of blurred or even lost time,

907
01:07:59,360 --> 01:08:03,239
and the witness says this. Once
my group and I got above tree line

908
01:08:03,280 --> 01:08:08,480
and by several boulders, my two
friends decided to slow down and drink some

909
01:08:08,599 --> 01:08:12,199
water. I don't know why,
but I was overcome by an urge that

910
01:08:12,320 --> 01:08:15,800
pulled me to keep moving, and
eventually I got lost and my perception of

911
01:08:15,840 --> 01:08:20,920
time vanished. It felt like a
dream because I kept changing locations, but

912
01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:27,479
I couldn't remember walking there, and
I never questioned it. Somehow I got

913
01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:30,279
to a cliff and suddenly I was
by a huge pile of rocks. I

914
01:08:30,359 --> 01:08:34,880
began feeling sick and dizzy. I
took off my gray and olive windbreaker to

915
01:08:34,920 --> 01:08:40,279
reveal my Neon Scout shirt, and
I folded my windbreaker into a pillow and

916
01:08:40,359 --> 01:08:44,960
I laid down. Suddenly, a
man dressed in black tights with a red

917
01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:47,800
cross ran towards me and told me
that I looked dehydrated and there was a

918
01:08:47,840 --> 01:08:51,560
weather station that I could eat at. I then put on my jacket after

919
01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:56,000
getting cold, and headed up to
the weather station. I met up with

920
01:08:56,079 --> 01:08:59,760
my troop there and they were worried
and informed me that I had been missing

921
01:08:59,840 --> 01:09:03,359
for almost an hour. When we
made it back down, I fell asleep

922
01:09:03,359 --> 01:09:11,479
in the car and I was totally
drained. A similar case comes from a

923
01:09:11,520 --> 01:09:15,960
poster called Super Payton M Zero two
to two, who says that he lived

924
01:09:15,960 --> 01:09:18,680
in a house nestled right up against
a large expanse of woods in the state

925
01:09:18,720 --> 01:09:24,960
of Kentucky and describes himself as an
avid hiker and outdoorsman. When he had

926
01:09:25,000 --> 01:09:29,159
his strange experience, he was around
fifteen years old and was out exploring with

927
01:09:29,199 --> 01:09:34,479
his two dogs, Max and Bow. This is his experience. I was

928
01:09:34,560 --> 01:09:39,239
hiking a trail that runs up behind
my aunt's house, one that I had

929
01:09:39,319 --> 01:09:43,119
hiked day in and day out,
and I was just out and about enjoying

930
01:09:43,159 --> 01:09:46,279
the woods. I remember looking up
the mountain, which I had never hiked

931
01:09:46,279 --> 01:09:50,720
at the top of before, and
feeling this strange call. It wasn't really

932
01:09:50,720 --> 01:09:56,079
a voice, but it was an
urge that I just couldn't ignore. Keep

933
01:09:56,119 --> 01:09:59,760
in mind that I am a very
timid person, and hiking unfamiliar trails on

934
01:09:59,800 --> 01:10:02,079
my my own freaks me out to
this day. That day, however,

935
01:10:02,319 --> 01:10:09,279
all my fear had dissipated and all
thought left my head. I climbed higher

936
01:10:09,359 --> 01:10:12,760
and higher, and my dogs followed
me. I don't even know how to

937
01:10:12,800 --> 01:10:15,560
describe the feeling that came over me, but I remember just staring down at

938
01:10:15,600 --> 01:10:20,079
my feet and feeling at peace.
As I climbed. There was a moment

939
01:10:20,119 --> 01:10:24,640
when I paused to look at the
houses below. I had never been that

940
01:10:24,760 --> 01:10:29,079
high up, and I felt amazed. I took a picture on my phone,

941
01:10:29,159 --> 01:10:31,920
and then I looked around for my
dogs. Bo had already run off

942
01:10:32,159 --> 01:10:36,399
and Max was following. I called
out to them frantically to stop, but

943
01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:42,199
they didn't listen and they disappeared.
At this point, looking down the mountain

944
01:10:42,239 --> 01:10:45,800
side, I was very afraid.
But then I looked back up the hill

945
01:10:45,279 --> 01:10:49,560
and it came over me again.
I kept hiking. I kept telling myself

946
01:10:49,600 --> 01:10:54,159
I'd go just a bit further,
just to see a little bit more.

947
01:10:55,000 --> 01:10:58,680
I remember looking down at my feet, just like before, and listening to

948
01:10:58,720 --> 01:11:02,359
the silence of the woods me and
feeling at pease. It felt so easy

949
01:11:02,399 --> 01:11:06,960
to just keep going deeper, and
so difficult to turn around. Bo felt

950
01:11:06,960 --> 01:11:11,439
this call as well, because even
after I did break out of it and

951
01:11:11,560 --> 01:11:15,279
turned around, I then called back
to her, but she wouldn't stop.

952
01:11:15,600 --> 01:11:18,159
I had to actually catch up to
her and physically turn her around and pet

953
01:11:18,199 --> 01:11:23,399
her before she would come back with
me. Eventually, I heard my walkie

954
01:11:23,439 --> 01:11:27,760
talkie crackle. Everything was distorted and
I couldn't make out any of the words.

955
01:11:28,119 --> 01:11:30,800
I assume now that I was just
out of range for it to pick

956
01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:34,119
up, But back then it freaked
me out. Whatever had come over me

957
01:11:34,399 --> 01:11:39,760
lost its hold on my mind,
and my dogs were still gone. Panicked,

958
01:11:39,800 --> 01:11:43,359
I began running down hill, and
it's a wonder I didn't get hurt.

959
01:11:43,920 --> 01:11:45,880
As I neared the wide section of
the spring near the bottom, my

960
01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:50,119
walkie talkie picked back up and I
heard my dogs running down the hill behind

961
01:11:50,159 --> 01:11:55,880
me. I got home and mostly
forgot about it. I just told myself

962
01:11:55,920 --> 01:12:00,399
I had almost been lost and to
be more careful. I don't know what's

963
01:12:00,439 --> 01:12:04,399
out there, but I do know
this. The woods called to us all.

964
01:12:08,840 --> 01:12:12,319
In some of these cases, the
lure that draws these people in is

965
01:12:12,399 --> 01:12:15,680
something other than a voice or a
feeling, but some sort of entity,

966
01:12:16,159 --> 01:12:20,920
and this can be seen in a
bizarre report from Poster Supreme Symbiat, whose

967
01:12:20,960 --> 01:12:26,880
story revolves around her mother who grew
up in an extremely rural area in Paraguay.

968
01:12:27,760 --> 01:12:30,159
One day, the mother was out
playing as a child along with her

969
01:12:30,159 --> 01:12:35,439
grandmother when it seems that she was
pulled into the nearby forest by powers beyond

970
01:12:35,520 --> 01:12:42,520
our understanding. This is what the
poster had to say. The area where

971
01:12:42,520 --> 01:12:45,000
my mom grew up is especially rural, in the countryside, where most of

972
01:12:45,039 --> 01:12:49,880
the poor people were. Her house
was across from very thick woods that stretched

973
01:12:49,920 --> 01:12:55,439
for miles. One afternoon, before
it got dark, my grandma and mom

974
01:12:55,520 --> 01:12:59,800
were outside. My mom was about
seven at a time when she spotted what

975
01:13:00,079 --> 01:13:04,119
she described as a beautiful little white
baby chick. She's always loved animals and

976
01:13:04,319 --> 01:13:09,640
enjoyed catching them, so she wanted
to catch it. It kept running away

977
01:13:09,680 --> 01:13:12,720
from her, even though it seemed
like she was just about to catch it.

978
01:13:12,880 --> 01:13:15,680
Multiple times. After what seemed like
she was running in a circle for

979
01:13:15,800 --> 01:13:19,760
minutes, my grandma came out of
nowhere and yanked on my mom's hair.

980
01:13:20,359 --> 01:13:25,279
My mom said that at that very
moment she was broken from a trance.

981
01:13:25,720 --> 01:13:29,960
The sun had already sat and she
was actually very deep in the woods.

982
01:13:30,680 --> 01:13:33,960
My grandma smacked her really hard on
the head and told her that El Palmbero

983
01:13:34,119 --> 01:13:40,000
had almost succeeded in taking her.
My mom tried to explain to my grandma

984
01:13:40,039 --> 01:13:44,800
about the pretty little chick, but
of course it was nowhere to be found.

985
01:13:45,800 --> 01:13:48,800
My grandma said that my mom seemed
to be playing normally and then all

986
01:13:48,800 --> 01:13:54,399
of a sudden just started fast walking
toward the woods. My grandma thankfully ran

987
01:13:54,439 --> 01:13:57,560
after her and was able to catch
up to her. But I always think

988
01:13:57,600 --> 01:14:02,279
about what would have happened had my
grandma not been there to stop at I'm

989
01:14:02,319 --> 01:14:10,680
glad that she was there. With
strange phenomena like this going on in the

990
01:14:10,680 --> 01:14:15,319
woods, it's no surprise that hunters
should have their own brushes with strange forces

991
01:14:15,479 --> 01:14:18,600
beyond our comprehension out in the wilderness. And this next case comes from a

992
01:14:18,680 --> 01:14:24,520
hunter by the name of James Dalton. His strange experience began with a squirrel

993
01:14:24,600 --> 01:14:28,079
hunting trip with his father and brother, and on this occasion, they had

994
01:14:28,079 --> 01:14:30,800
decided to split up and then meet
back at the car just before dark.

995
01:14:31,279 --> 01:14:35,119
This was pretty normal for them and
there was nothing particularly strange about the day

996
01:14:35,159 --> 01:14:39,800
at that point. Yet, as
the witness went through one area of the

997
01:14:39,800 --> 01:14:43,920
forest that was very familiar to him, he says that a wispy fog began

998
01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:47,319
to seep through the ferns around him, and the usual sounds of the forest

999
01:14:47,840 --> 01:14:53,239
ceased. As he stood there,
his ears began to ring for reasons he

1000
01:14:53,239 --> 01:14:57,640
couldn't understand. Unsettled by this,
he began to head back toward the car

1001
01:14:57,920 --> 01:15:01,680
when he noticed something moving through the
toward him. At first, he took

1002
01:15:01,800 --> 01:15:05,319
to be a squirrel or a possum, but it seemed to be headed directly

1003
01:15:05,399 --> 01:15:10,439
for him, which was very odd
behavior for a wild animal, and this

1004
01:15:10,479 --> 01:15:15,279
put him immediately on edge. Things
were about to get even stranger still,

1005
01:15:15,079 --> 01:15:21,399
and he explains the following, this
is very very unusual behavior for a wild

1006
01:15:21,399 --> 01:15:25,960
animal. I thought that maybe it
was a lost dog, and I suddenly

1007
01:15:26,000 --> 01:15:30,279
realized that this could be a rabid
animal. At this point, I lowered

1008
01:15:30,279 --> 01:15:33,880
my shotgun and pointed it at the
so far unseen animal. When I did

1009
01:15:33,920 --> 01:15:39,119
this, this thing changed its direction
when it was about thirty feet from me,

1010
01:15:39,399 --> 01:15:42,800
and it ran off to my left. I never did see what it

1011
01:15:43,039 --> 01:15:45,319
was, and have assumed all these
years that it was something so small.

1012
01:15:45,399 --> 01:15:49,000
I just couldn't see it, even
though it was moving in the ferns pretty

1013
01:15:49,039 --> 01:15:55,000
well as it ran through them.
Whatever it was then kept going until it

1014
01:15:55,039 --> 01:15:58,840
was about fifty feet from me,
and then it just stopped. The ferns

1015
01:15:58,880 --> 01:16:01,319
were only about two or three three
feet tall in this area and not very

1016
01:16:01,359 --> 01:16:05,079
thick, and I could never figure
out why I never saw this thing.

1017
01:16:05,680 --> 01:16:10,399
I then walked forward in the direction
of where this thing had come from.

1018
01:16:10,439 --> 01:16:13,760
I decided to walk to my right
a little and in the direction of where

1019
01:16:13,800 --> 01:16:17,119
my brother should be and just get
out of there. After walking a short

1020
01:16:17,159 --> 01:16:21,399
distance, I came to a very
thick and tall patch of briars. The

1021
01:16:21,439 --> 01:16:26,399
briars were about eight feet in height
and about ten feet in depth. I

1022
01:16:26,439 --> 01:16:30,039
remember thinking that I have never seen
such a large patch of briars in this

1023
01:16:30,119 --> 01:16:32,800
area before. I then looked in
both directions to see if there was a

1024
01:16:32,840 --> 01:16:36,319
way to walk around the briers,
and I couldn't see an end in either

1025
01:16:36,399 --> 01:16:42,279
direction. It reminded me of a
very large row of concertina wire from a

1026
01:16:42,319 --> 01:16:45,760
World War II battlefield. My first
thought was, oh, well, I'll

1027
01:16:45,800 --> 01:16:48,720
have to go back the way I
came. But as soon as I had

1028
01:16:48,760 --> 01:16:54,640
this thought, I was overtaken by
a very very ominous feeling that something was

1029
01:16:54,720 --> 01:16:58,279
not right here. At this point, I decided to push through this patch

1030
01:16:58,319 --> 01:17:00,439
of briars and get to the other
side, no matter what it took.

1031
01:17:00,960 --> 01:17:05,000
I got scratched pretty badly on my
arms while doing this, but I couldn't

1032
01:17:05,000 --> 01:17:10,319
help myself. I kept pointing my
shotgun behind me with my right hand while

1033
01:17:10,319 --> 01:17:15,159
pushing through the briers with my left, just in case this rabbit animal charged

1034
01:17:15,199 --> 01:17:18,399
me again. Now I was surprised
again that when I got to the other

1035
01:17:18,520 --> 01:17:21,560
side of the patch of briars,
the first thing I noticed was that the

1036
01:17:21,600 --> 01:17:27,680
sun was out and was setting behind
the trees. The sky was clear again.

1037
01:17:28,279 --> 01:17:31,079
It was five thirty PM. Now
I couldn't believe that it had taken

1038
01:17:31,119 --> 01:17:35,479
me two and a half hours to
walk just two hundred feet. I could

1039
01:17:35,479 --> 01:17:41,239
hear birds singing and squirrels barking.
The atmosphere was back to normal, and

1040
01:17:41,319 --> 01:17:45,399
I knew that everything was as it
should be. Then I heard my father

1041
01:17:45,560 --> 01:17:48,039
beaping the car horn, signaling that
it was time to go. What a

1042
01:17:48,079 --> 01:17:53,119
great feeling it was to hear that
horn. I never did tell my father

1043
01:17:53,279 --> 01:17:57,600
or brother about this experience, and
I'm not sure why. Maybe it was

1044
01:17:57,640 --> 01:18:00,960
because I knew that it was such
a strange experience that they would have had

1045
01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:08,439
to have been there. To feel
the foreboding feelings to understand it. In

1046
01:18:08,520 --> 01:18:12,520
these next couple of accounts, I'd
like to focus on cases where the individuals

1047
01:18:12,560 --> 01:18:16,920
actually went missing but were eventually found
in relatively good health, albeit with rather

1048
01:18:17,000 --> 01:18:24,319
perplexing explanations as to how they disappeared. In July of nineteen fifty five,

1049
01:18:24,680 --> 01:18:29,199
two year old Ida May Curtis went
missing from a lumber camp in Kutenai National

1050
01:18:29,239 --> 01:18:32,800
Forest in the U s state of
Montana. The mother of the girl frantically

1051
01:18:32,800 --> 01:18:36,560
claimed that she had seen a bear
carry off her child into the forest,

1052
01:18:36,840 --> 01:18:42,159
and that it had been cradling the
girl as it ran off. Following a

1053
01:18:42,159 --> 01:18:45,520
two day intensive search carried out by
around three hundred and fifty people, Idah

1054
01:18:45,600 --> 01:18:49,319
was found safe and sound, not
three hundred yards away from where she had

1055
01:18:49,359 --> 01:18:54,680
gone missing, in a crude shelter. She would later relate that she had

1056
01:18:54,720 --> 01:18:58,720
been fed and cared for by a
large bear during the time of her disappearance.

1057
01:18:59,399 --> 01:19:03,520
Authorities were skeptical of the tale,
but the family has always insisted that

1058
01:19:03,560 --> 01:19:12,319
it was true. This next case
is even more unnerving and involves a woman

1059
01:19:12,359 --> 01:19:15,720
who went missing in France in the
nineteen fifties. The woman claimed that she

1060
01:19:15,760 --> 01:19:20,560
had been walking along a river when
some inexplicable force had forcibly grabbed her from

1061
01:19:20,600 --> 01:19:27,000
behind and then dragged her into the
brase. This coincided with an abrupt change

1062
01:19:27,000 --> 01:19:30,920
in weather from clear to stormy,
and the woman claimed that she heard a

1063
01:19:30,000 --> 01:19:35,000
voice somewhere above her say here you
go, as if offering her to someone

1064
01:19:35,000 --> 01:19:40,359
else. Then just as suddenly as
it started, it stopped, and she

1065
01:19:40,439 --> 01:19:44,359
was abruptly dropped to the ground.
She then ran off to take refuge at

1066
01:19:44,359 --> 01:19:47,600
a nearby farm, where the farmer
claims that he found a large red handprint

1067
01:19:48,119 --> 01:19:56,760
etched across her chest. In some
cases, there is no identifiable entity,

1068
01:19:57,079 --> 01:20:00,479
but rather some mysterious force that seems
to be intense on making sure that these

1069
01:20:00,520 --> 01:20:06,079
people don't get found. One case, brought forward by radio personality Art Bell,

1070
01:20:06,359 --> 01:20:11,119
and was originally published in The forteen
Times, relates the tale of a

1071
01:20:11,239 --> 01:20:15,279
nineteen year old woman who vanished on
her way home from visiting a neighbor.

1072
01:20:15,880 --> 01:20:18,920
A search was conducted, only to
find the young woman suddenly appear in her

1073
01:20:18,960 --> 01:20:25,000
home, sobbing uncontrollably. She would
later claim that as she had been walking

1074
01:20:25,039 --> 01:20:29,760
along, she had felt her body
jerk involuntarily, after which she had felt

1075
01:20:29,760 --> 01:20:32,600
compelled to walk in the opposite direction
of where she had intended to go.

1076
01:20:33,399 --> 01:20:38,680
During the whole frightening ordeal, she
claims that an unseen barrier had prevented her

1077
01:20:38,720 --> 01:20:43,720
from returning to where she had wanted
to go, instead pushing her farther away

1078
01:20:44,359 --> 01:20:47,439
as darkness fell. She claimed that
she had seen the search party members looking

1079
01:20:47,479 --> 01:20:50,680
for her, but that they couldn't
see or hear her, no matter how

1080
01:20:50,760 --> 01:20:57,479
much she called out to them or
banged against the invisible veil that separated them.

1081
01:20:57,600 --> 01:21:00,359
Finally, the barrier lifted and she
was able to return home, save

1082
01:21:01,000 --> 01:21:10,119
but unmistakably shaken out of her weds. This report is similar to another case

1083
01:21:10,199 --> 01:21:14,239
that occurred on September twenty second,
two thousand and twelve, when fifty three

1084
01:21:14,319 --> 01:21:17,760
year old Linda Ortega was hiking along
with her fifty six year old brother Eddie

1085
01:21:17,840 --> 01:21:23,680
Huff in the forests of the Arkansas
Ozarks near the town of Saint Joe,

1086
01:21:24,239 --> 01:21:28,039
and although the brother returned and claimed
to have seen his sister off at a

1087
01:21:28,079 --> 01:21:31,960
relative's house and that she was safe, in reality she was nowhere to be

1088
01:21:32,039 --> 01:21:38,479
found. A large search was then
launched and Ortego was fortunately found that day

1089
01:21:38,479 --> 01:21:43,640
in the woods, albeit in a
profound state of distress, but the circumstances

1090
01:21:43,640 --> 01:21:48,439
surrounding the whole ordeal would become increasingly
more bizarre. When she was questioned on

1091
01:21:48,520 --> 01:21:53,319
what had happened, Ortega could not
recall how she had been separated from her

1092
01:21:53,359 --> 01:21:57,239
brother. She did mention that she
thought that he had been hurt somehow,

1093
01:21:57,439 --> 01:22:00,199
and that she had tried to find
help for him as she had walked along.

1094
01:22:00,359 --> 01:22:03,920
She claimed that she had come across
other hikers, but that all attempts

1095
01:22:03,920 --> 01:22:08,560
to communicate with them had been futile, as if they had not seen or

1096
01:22:08,600 --> 01:22:12,840
even heard her. She also said
that she could see other shadowy figures who

1097
01:22:12,880 --> 01:22:15,920
seemed to be hiding from her in
the woods, and she described these entities

1098
01:22:15,960 --> 01:22:21,039
by saying, quote, these people
were hiding in bushes. They were weird

1099
01:22:21,079 --> 01:22:28,359
people, very weird people. Unquote. One of the searchers who found Ortega,

1100
01:22:28,479 --> 01:22:30,520
a Deputy du Wayne Pierce, said
that when they had found her,

1101
01:22:31,000 --> 01:22:39,840
she wasn't quite about her head.
Among the many cases of vanishing people on

1102
01:22:39,960 --> 01:22:44,239
record, some of them seemed to
stand out as particularly odd. Some of

1103
01:22:44,279 --> 01:22:47,840
these cases involve numerous weird clues,
and there are even some occasions in which

1104
01:22:47,840 --> 01:22:54,199
the missing person suddenly comes back,
although this does not always solve the mystery.

1105
01:22:54,840 --> 01:22:58,560
On occasion, these reappearing people bring
with them a whole myriad of new

1106
01:22:58,560 --> 01:23:02,720
oddities, with the victory missing time
and unable to express where they have been,

1107
01:23:03,279 --> 01:23:08,319
in some cases, even reappearing far
from where they had started with little

1108
01:23:08,359 --> 01:23:12,640
explanation as to how they got there. One such case is that of a

1109
01:23:12,640 --> 01:23:15,640
little girl who vanished off the face
of the earth, only to reappear and

1110
01:23:15,720 --> 01:23:24,079
make her disappearance even stranger than it
already was. Located in Washington County near

1111
01:23:24,119 --> 01:23:28,399
West Fork, Arkansas, is Devil's
Den State Park, a two thousand,

1112
01:23:28,479 --> 01:23:31,840
five hundred acre wilderness area that is
a magnet for tourists in this region.

1113
01:23:32,359 --> 01:23:38,159
Here people come to engage in all
manner of outdoor activities, including picnicking,

1114
01:23:38,520 --> 01:23:44,000
camping, hiking, mountain biking,
horseback riding, and seeing the numerous sandstone

1115
01:23:44,079 --> 01:23:48,920
caves, bluffs, ravines, rock
shelters and crevices that dot the area,

1116
01:23:49,319 --> 01:23:55,039
as well as hunt for fossils,
of which the area has many. The

1117
01:23:55,119 --> 01:23:59,800
area is a popular destination for families
looking to enjoy the great outdoors. And

1118
01:24:00,039 --> 01:24:02,880
in nineteen forty six, the van
Alste family made their way here for a

1119
01:24:02,920 --> 01:24:08,119
fun family trip to do just that, but it would soon prove to be

1120
01:24:08,199 --> 01:24:13,079
anything but fun. One day,
the family were near their campsite and the

1121
01:24:13,119 --> 01:24:16,159
family's daughter, eight year old Catherine
van Alst, was playing in the creek

1122
01:24:16,279 --> 01:24:20,520
in her bathing suit as her brothers
fished, when at some point she wandered

1123
01:24:20,560 --> 01:24:26,840
off and seemingly just vanished. Her
father and brothers had apparently been right near

1124
01:24:26,880 --> 01:24:30,159
her and basically looked away for a
moment to look back and find her gone.

1125
01:24:30,640 --> 01:24:33,359
It was thought that she had just
gone off a bit and that she

1126
01:24:33,399 --> 01:24:38,000
had gone back to the campsite,
which was just a stone's throw away,

1127
01:24:38,520 --> 01:24:43,199
and there was no alarm at this
point. However, little Catherine was nowhere

1128
01:24:43,199 --> 01:24:46,880
to be seen, and she would
not answer calls to her as they continued

1129
01:24:46,880 --> 01:24:50,960
searching the woods and campsite with no
sign of her. The panicked family then

1130
01:24:51,039 --> 01:24:57,720
notified park officials and a large scale
search began. Searchers launched a meticulous search

1131
01:24:57,760 --> 01:25:00,960
of the entire area for several square
minds, with every moment that went by

1132
01:25:01,159 --> 01:25:05,159
seen as critical. Since the girl
was barefoot and dressed in nothing but a

1133
01:25:05,159 --> 01:25:10,720
bathing suit, hardly the sort of
attire appropriate for being out in the woods.

1134
01:25:11,520 --> 01:25:15,399
The search went on for six days
with no sign of the missing girl,

1135
01:25:15,680 --> 01:25:18,840
and hope was waning. That was
until at one point a team of

1136
01:25:18,920 --> 01:25:25,279
volunteers in the forest had passed by
a cave from which little Catherine van Ulst

1137
01:25:25,319 --> 01:25:30,520
suddenly appeared and casually waved at them. According to those who were there,

1138
01:25:30,640 --> 01:25:35,359
she was extremely and unnaturally calm and
almost in a daze when she simply uttered,

1139
01:25:35,880 --> 01:25:41,000
here I am. What made this
completely mind boggling was that the spot

1140
01:25:41,039 --> 01:25:45,840
where she was found was around seven
air miles away and six hundred feet higher

1141
01:25:45,920 --> 01:25:49,279
than the place where she had originally
disappeared, which would be just the first

1142
01:25:49,319 --> 01:25:54,680
of many odd details. The most
bizarre thing was that this eight year old

1143
01:25:54,680 --> 01:25:59,640
girl had walked and estimated thirty miles
zigzagging course to get where she was found,

1144
01:26:00,119 --> 01:26:03,039
all in harsh, steep, treacherous
wilderness terrain, in her bathing suit

1145
01:26:03,279 --> 01:26:08,840
and with no shoes on. This
particular area is riddled with rocky terrain,

1146
01:26:09,199 --> 01:26:13,880
thick forest and steep hills, so
one of the perplexing things for authorities was

1147
01:26:13,920 --> 01:26:17,319
how she could have managed to cover
that distance in six days through this challenging

1148
01:26:17,399 --> 01:26:23,840
landscape barefoot. Her feet were described
as swollen, and she was also covered

1149
01:26:23,840 --> 01:26:28,159
with insect bites and scratches from briers, so it was apparent that she had

1150
01:26:28,199 --> 01:26:30,880
done some wandering, But she also
didn't seem to be in nearly as poor

1151
01:26:30,880 --> 01:26:35,399
condition that one would have suspected,
and she had covered so much distance that

1152
01:26:35,479 --> 01:26:40,920
even a properly equipped adult would have
had a tough time matching it. She

1153
01:26:41,039 --> 01:26:44,920
also seemed to be in better shape
than one would have suspected from her ordeal,

1154
01:26:45,199 --> 01:26:47,479
as the cave that she was in
just happened to have a fresh water

1155
01:26:47,600 --> 01:26:53,520
spring. Another oddity was that the
place where she was found had already been

1156
01:26:53,600 --> 01:26:58,760
thoroughly searched by aircraft and tracker dogs
twice without having found any trace of the

1157
01:26:58,800 --> 01:27:02,840
girl. Why had she suddenly appeared
there and why had she been so remarkably

1158
01:27:02,960 --> 01:27:09,840
calm after such a frightening experience.
The strangeness would only continue from there.

1159
01:27:10,760 --> 01:27:15,399
According to missing person researcher David Politas, author of the Missing four one one

1160
01:27:15,520 --> 01:27:19,720
series of books and multiple documentaries,
there were several oddities. When police actually

1161
01:27:19,720 --> 01:27:24,680
spoke to the girl, she claimed
that she didn't remember much about the six

1162
01:27:24,760 --> 01:27:28,399
days that she had been missing,
merely saying that she had eaten berries to

1163
01:27:28,439 --> 01:27:32,159
stay alive and that she found herself
in the cave. Politis has mentioned that

1164
01:27:32,199 --> 01:27:36,640
the area was overgrown with many types
of poisonous berries, so the fact that

1165
01:27:36,680 --> 01:27:41,920
she chose the right ones to eat
has been seen as curious, especially since

1166
01:27:41,920 --> 01:27:46,199
she had no real outdoor experience.
The girl had also supposedly made some strange

1167
01:27:46,239 --> 01:27:50,479
remarks, explaining that when she had
gone missing, she had simply been unable

1168
01:27:50,520 --> 01:27:56,239
to find her campsite or her father
and brothers, despite being right near them.

1169
01:27:56,439 --> 01:28:00,239
And she would also claim that on
several occasions she had shouted out to

1170
01:28:00,279 --> 01:28:03,199
people searching for her, but that
they had apparently not been able to hear

1171
01:28:03,279 --> 01:28:08,359
her. She also said that she
had seen the tracker dogs but had been

1172
01:28:08,399 --> 01:28:13,119
too afraid of them to approach.
According to Politis, she also made the

1173
01:28:13,119 --> 01:28:16,359
strange mention of how she had slept
in warm grass on the first night when

1174
01:28:16,399 --> 01:28:25,760
she went missing, but she never
elaborated on what this cryptic statemant actually meant.

1175
01:28:26,640 --> 01:28:29,920
In this next case, we are
once again reminded that some of these

1176
01:28:29,960 --> 01:28:34,520
disappearances may have more to do with
bizarre entities than we think. This report

1177
01:28:34,600 --> 01:28:41,439
took place in Lumaki, Finland,
near the village of Hermunin on August nineteenth,

1178
01:28:41,560 --> 01:28:45,000
nineteen sixty five. Four members of
the Kuninga family were out picking blueberries

1179
01:28:45,039 --> 01:28:48,439
in the surrounding woodland, and at
one point they spread out to see who

1180
01:28:48,479 --> 01:28:53,159
could pick the most berries. At
this time, they still made sure to

1181
01:28:53,199 --> 01:28:58,159
stay within eyesight of one another,
but things would soon take a very odd

1182
01:28:58,199 --> 01:29:02,239
twest around Knew. On an otherwise
calm and sunny day, the father Matti

1183
01:29:02,319 --> 01:29:08,479
Kuningus would claim that he heard something
rather peculiar coming from the darkened woods,

1184
01:29:08,800 --> 01:29:13,760
which apparently sounded like odd bubbling sounds, which was coming from up on the

1185
01:29:13,800 --> 01:29:17,359
slope that he was on. Although
he couldn't see anything strange up that way,

1186
01:29:17,760 --> 01:29:23,760
The strange gurgling noises continued, and
at some point he realized that he

1187
01:29:23,920 --> 01:29:28,920
was not alone. Looking back up
the slope, he noticed a small manlike

1188
01:29:29,039 --> 01:29:33,680
being, perhaps around three feet tall, with orange skin and wearing green skin

1189
01:29:33,800 --> 01:29:40,039
tight coveralls, who was just sitting
there staring down at him. It peered

1190
01:29:40,079 --> 01:29:44,720
at him for some time before standing
up to come walking toward the startled man

1191
01:29:45,000 --> 01:29:48,199
with a shambling, stumbling gait,
and this is when a sudden gust of

1192
01:29:48,279 --> 01:29:54,359
wind swept through the area. This
peculiar creature then veered off to the side

1193
01:29:54,560 --> 01:29:59,279
to come to the edge of a
bog before vanishing into thin air. When

1194
01:29:59,319 --> 01:30:02,239
he looked at his watch, Maddy
realized that a full thirty minutes had gone

1195
01:30:02,319 --> 01:30:08,239
by, of which he could not
account for. It would later turn out

1196
01:30:08,279 --> 01:30:13,319
that the sun Tuevocaningus had also seen
the strange little man, even claiming that

1197
01:30:13,399 --> 01:30:16,520
he had heard it utter human like
speech, and it was also found that

1198
01:30:16,560 --> 01:30:21,319
this entity had been sitting atop a
massive mossy stone that no one could remember

1199
01:30:21,399 --> 01:30:27,479
ever having been there before. Strangely
enough, although both of them had seen

1200
01:30:27,520 --> 01:30:30,600
it, they both claimed that they
had been under the influence of some paralyzing

1201
01:30:30,600 --> 01:30:34,960
effect that had somehow prevented them from
calling out for help, and they would

1202
01:30:35,000 --> 01:30:40,680
also claim that they had experienced some
sort of repelling effect that kept them from

1203
01:30:40,760 --> 01:30:45,720
approaching the entity. Huevo would also
explain that this anomalous boulder also had a

1204
01:30:45,760 --> 01:30:50,600
slight repelling effect and that he had
not been able to get close to it.

1205
01:30:55,199 --> 01:30:58,439
I hope you enjoyed part one of
our recap and If you'd like to

1206
01:30:58,439 --> 01:31:01,640
submit your experience or learn more about
supporting what I do, you can find

1207
01:31:01,680 --> 01:31:08,960
all of my contact and support information
at Paranormal Mysteries podcast dot com and in

1208
01:31:09,000 --> 01:31:13,159
the show notes. Until next time, I hope you all have a wonderful

1209
01:31:13,199 --> 01:31:17,000
Christmas, and please remember don't wait
for the unknown to come to you,

1210
01:31:18,000 --> 01:32:29,840
get out there and find it.
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