1 00:00:07,719 --> 00:00:11,560 Welcome to part two of my twenty twenty three recap. I've got a lot 2 00:00:11,599 --> 00:00:46,439 of experiences to get to, so let's begin. Thank you for joining me, 3 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:52,200 and welcome. I'm your host, Nick Ryan. Let's begin with our 4 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:58,520 first experience of the night, which comes to us from Rochelle and Rochelle's story 5 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:04,599 is called the Night my Dad died. Rochelle says, Hi, Nick, 6 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:07,879 I've been listening to your show for quite some time now, and I'm a 7 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:12,319 huge fan. I've been considering writing in for a while, and since I 8 00:01:12,359 --> 00:01:17,400 haven't heard any other stories that are similar to what I've experienced, I thought 9 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:22,439 that my story would be an interesting and different one to share. To preface 10 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:26,120 this story, I will say that I've been keenly interested in the paranormal for 11 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:29,920 most of my life, and I've been told by numerous psychics that I am 12 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:34,760 a sensitive myself. This might be why I've had things happen in my life 13 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:40,560 that I couldn't fully explain away. My story takes place back in November of 14 00:01:40,599 --> 00:01:45,640 twenty nineteen. My dad had been ill and in declining health for some time. 15 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:49,920 As a result of new developments in his failing health, we were forced 16 00:01:49,959 --> 00:01:53,760 to put him into palliative care in the hospital for the last few days of 17 00:01:53,799 --> 00:01:57,239 his life. At that time, my dad was starting to lose cognition and 18 00:01:57,319 --> 00:02:01,480 didn't know where he was or who we were, so we had no other 19 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:07,000 choice. We all knew that he didn't have much time. On his second 20 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:10,960 night in the hospital, I was visiting along with my mom and my sister. 21 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:15,400 He was heavily medicated, which was causing him to waver from moments of 22 00:02:15,479 --> 00:02:21,719 paranoia and delusions to being fast asleep. It was really hard to watch, 23 00:02:21,879 --> 00:02:24,280 and we decided that we would leave him to rest and then come back the 24 00:02:24,319 --> 00:02:29,599 next morning. As we were leaving the room, I stopped and it was 25 00:02:29,719 --> 00:02:32,520 like someone or something had told me to go back in and make sure that 26 00:02:32,599 --> 00:02:38,120 I said a proper goodbye. So I went back and kissed his forehead and 27 00:02:38,159 --> 00:02:42,879 whispered into his ear that I loved him and that I would be back tomorrow. 28 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,080 We left, and then each of us went back to our respective homes 29 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:51,599 for the night. That evening, I felt very heavy. It's hard to 30 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:54,719 describe other than saying it's the feeling you have when you know that something is 31 00:02:54,759 --> 00:02:59,240 going to happen. Of course, I didn't think much of it, considering 32 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:02,039 that we all knew me my dad wouldn't be with us much longer. I 33 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:06,879 spent the next few hours talking to my husband and then called some friends and 34 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:10,360 family members to update them on my dad's condition. I went to bed around 35 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:15,439 eleven, and after more than two hours of tossing and turning, I started 36 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:20,400 drifting off into a very restless sleep. I was just falling asleep and in 37 00:03:20,479 --> 00:03:24,319 that stage where you are somewhere between awake and asleep, and that's when I 38 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:29,520 heard a voice to me. It sounded like my mom's voice, as loud 39 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:31,960 and clear as if she were standing right next to me, and it said, 40 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:38,319 Rochelle, it's done. I bolted up in bed and looked around, 41 00:03:38,439 --> 00:03:42,560 bleary eyed, expecting to see my mom in my bedroom. I immediately thought, 42 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:45,719 when did my mom get here and why is she in my room. 43 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:50,520 I then turned the bedside light on and nobody was there except my husband, 44 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:53,639 who was sleeping deeply next to me. After looking around for a moment, 45 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:58,840 I grabbed my phone and checked for texts or calls, but there were none. 46 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:01,639 At this point. It was one thirty three in the morning. I 47 00:04:01,719 --> 00:04:05,360 quickly sent a text to my mom asking if she was awake, and when 48 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:10,120 she didn't reply, I assumed that she was asleep at her house and I 49 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:14,639 laid back down, turning off the light. Well. Needless to say that 50 00:04:14,719 --> 00:04:18,120 my heart was pounding at this point and sleep wasn't on the agenda, so 51 00:04:18,199 --> 00:04:21,199 I turned on my kindle and tried to read a bit, hoping that it 52 00:04:21,199 --> 00:04:26,839 would help me to fall asleep. The room was completely dark except for the 53 00:04:26,879 --> 00:04:31,040 soft glow of my kindle. After a couple of minutes of reading, I 54 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:35,040 caught a glimpse of something moving in my peripheral vision. I looked over the 55 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:41,360 kindle and saw nothing but darkness and no movement, so I continued reading. 56 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:45,879 A few seconds later, though I saw it again. It was like something 57 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,959 darting from left to right in front of me. I quickly turned my kindle 58 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:53,240 around so I could use the faint light to see if anything was there, 59 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:58,199 and at first I saw nothing, But after a few moments I realized that 60 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:01,399 there was something flying around the room. I clicked on my light and sure 61 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:05,720 enough, there it was a bat, a freaking bat in my bedroom. 62 00:05:06,319 --> 00:05:10,519 So I did the only self respecting thing that a person would do, and 63 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:15,160 I shrieked like a banshee, pulling the covers over my head. My husband 64 00:05:15,199 --> 00:05:17,920 immediately woke up, thinking that we were under some kind of attack and asking 65 00:05:17,959 --> 00:05:20,800 what was wrong. From under the covers, I yelled that there was a 66 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:25,720 bat in the room, which he quickly spotted as it fluttered around looking for 67 00:05:25,759 --> 00:05:30,439 a dark place to land and hide. My husband quickly grabbed a towel and 68 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:34,399 captured the critter, releasing it outside and into the night. We then looked 69 00:05:34,439 --> 00:05:38,240 around to see where it might have entered, and the only place that we 70 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:42,160 can think of was that it came in through our fireplace chimney. It's a 71 00:05:42,199 --> 00:05:46,279 gas fireplace insert and we have never had anything get in through there before. 72 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,240 But to be safe, we covered it up tightly and hoped that there weren't 73 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:54,720 any more night critters on their way. By the time that we had calmed 74 00:05:54,759 --> 00:05:58,240 down from this ordeal, it was about an hour later, and I started 75 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:01,480 to tell my husband about the voice that I had heard earlier. Two such 76 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:06,120 strange events in one night was really perplexing, and he was a bit freaked 77 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:11,120 out. Just as I finished telling him about it, my phone rang. 78 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:14,839 It was my sister calling to tell me that my mom was on her way 79 00:06:14,879 --> 00:06:18,439 to the hospital as my dad had passed away. It wasn't until the next 80 00:06:18,439 --> 00:06:21,959 morning that I found out that he had passed away around one forty five a 81 00:06:23,199 --> 00:06:27,120 m. However, the sitter who was supposed to be monitoring him had left 82 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:30,800 the room and they didn't realize that he was gone until about an hour and 83 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:34,439 a half later. That means that he would have passed or been in transition 84 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:41,480 of passing away just when I had heard the voice of my mother. After 85 00:06:41,519 --> 00:06:45,199 the funeral, my mom, sister, and I were sitting and talking about 86 00:06:45,199 --> 00:06:47,800 that night. I told them what had happened, and my mom told me 87 00:06:47,879 --> 00:06:51,040 that her sister, my aunt, who had passed about a year earlier, 88 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:56,839 had a voice that sounded very similar to hers, and people often confused them 89 00:06:56,839 --> 00:07:00,279 on the phone. This gave me chills. Could it have been my aunt 90 00:07:00,439 --> 00:07:05,279 telling me that he was passing away alone? This made me feel incredibly sad. 91 00:07:06,079 --> 00:07:10,600 I then googled the meaning of seeing a bat in your home and found 92 00:07:10,639 --> 00:07:14,439 out that apparently it's an omen of death. Supposedly, if you find a 93 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:16,600 bat in your home and you kill it, you will prevent the death. 94 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:20,560 However, if you release it, as my husband did, then a death 95 00:07:20,639 --> 00:07:27,160 will follow I've never had a bat in my room before or after that night. 96 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:30,560 As I look back on the events of that evening and night, I 97 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:34,399 can clearly see all the signs that were given to me, although I did 98 00:07:34,399 --> 00:07:40,199 not immediately recognize them. In hindsight. I've had a lot of other messages 99 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:44,000 and signs from spirits in the past, but it's only now that I'm in 100 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:47,759 my mid forties that I have started to acknowledge and accept them for what they 101 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:53,519 are. I hope my story may help others to recognize that the signs and 102 00:07:53,560 --> 00:08:00,920 messages they may usually ignore just might be something more. Thank you for taking 103 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:03,639 the time to read this, Nick, I wish you and the listeners all 104 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:11,600 the best in the new year. Our next experience of the night comes to 105 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:20,160 us from Danny, and Danny's story is called forty Years of Varied Experiences. 106 00:08:20,199 --> 00:08:24,199 Danny says, Hello, Nick. Like many others, I want to thank 107 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:28,680 you for creating this platform. I have always been drawn to the paranormal and 108 00:08:28,759 --> 00:08:33,919 have been fascinated by time slips and ghosts, but I am learning about so 109 00:08:33,039 --> 00:08:39,360 many phenomena I never knew existed before, like black eyed kids, dog men, 110 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:43,399 and men in black I am grateful to be able to listen to all 111 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:48,960 of these experiences and widen my perspective. I want to share with you and 112 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:52,759 the listeners what I have experienced throughout my life. I have four key experiences 113 00:08:52,799 --> 00:08:58,600 to share, with the first one being quite mild. I was about seven 114 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,559 or eight and in my lounge room near Sydney, Australia. I looked out 115 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:07,200 my window and there was someone flying through the sky, except they weren't positioned 116 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:09,919 like they were flying. They were in a sitting position, just moving through 117 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:15,120 the sky at about a running pays. It was a male, maybe twenty 118 00:09:15,159 --> 00:09:18,200 to thirty years old. He was dressed in everyday clothes, with nothing out 119 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:24,039 of the ordinary except that he was flying through the sky. Then he turned 120 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:26,759 and saw me and kept staring for a couple of seconds, in complete shock 121 00:09:26,879 --> 00:09:31,919 that I could see him. He then flew out of view and that was 122 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:37,919 it. My next experience was in my teenage years. For context, the 123 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:41,360 movie The Craft was out when my friends and I were teenagers in the mid 124 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:43,679 nineties. For those of you that haven't heard of it, it's a movie 125 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:48,639 about teenage girls practicing witchcraft and spells, so it wasn't out of the ordinary. 126 00:09:48,639 --> 00:09:52,480 For teenage girls to be influenced by this and play with Ouiji boards. 127 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:58,080 During this era, we were ignorant teenagers who didn't do research on how to 128 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:01,519 properly conduct a seance. We would simply create our own Ouiji board with pen 129 00:10:01,639 --> 00:10:07,440 and paper, grab a candle and glass and start. I look back and 130 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:11,279 shake my head at our stupidity. We would ask to speak to spirits and 131 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:16,559 regularly got a spirit calling itself Satan or the devil, and we would get 132 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:20,639 annoyed and taunt it and swear at it. This went on for a year 133 00:10:20,759 --> 00:10:24,559 or so. One day it was just her and I, we were the 134 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:28,679 two most drawn to the paranormal. One weekend, we did a seance as 135 00:10:28,759 --> 00:10:33,200 usual, but this particular day we got impatient and annoyed at the responses that 136 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:37,000 we were getting, so we left the house and were talking about the spirits 137 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:41,840 and taunting them. Even though we had left the board back at the house, 138 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:45,559 we had walked down to the beach and we were walking on the sand, 139 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:48,240 yelling at the spirit to prove to us that it was real. We 140 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:52,279 were really yelling and being a little dramatic, when out of nowhere there was 141 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:58,759 a booming no that came from the sky. It was like its patients had 142 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:03,600 run out and it this would get us to stop. Well, it was 143 00:11:03,759 --> 00:11:07,679 right. We both stopped and looked at each other and screamed, and then 144 00:11:07,799 --> 00:11:11,919 ran back to the house a few minutes away without stopping or even looking back. 145 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:15,879 This response had echoed through the sky and you could feel it in your 146 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,519 chest, like being in front of a speaker at a big concert. We 147 00:11:18,639 --> 00:11:22,639 tried to be logical once we were back in the safety of the house. 148 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:26,120 We were on a quiet beach with small waves, and nothing could create this 149 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:31,000 big boom noise. There were no roads or flight paths nearby, or mines 150 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:35,399 or anything that would create such a noise. There were no clouds in the 151 00:11:35,399 --> 00:11:39,279 sky, let alone a storm nearby where thunder could account for the noise. 152 00:11:39,799 --> 00:11:43,399 Even if a nearby house, of which there weren't many, had been working 153 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:46,240 with power tools or something like that. The sound couldn't have come from that 154 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:50,600 angle. It came from right above us, and it was booming down. 155 00:11:52,519 --> 00:11:56,919 We stopped doing seances after that. I'm confident that we let a few nasty 156 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:01,000 things out during our time doing seance, and I regret that, and I 157 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:05,360 wish that we didn't play around with things that we didn't appreciate or understand. 158 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:11,279 I think my next experience is a direct result of not opening and closing seances 159 00:12:11,799 --> 00:12:18,039 properly. During the rest of my teenage years and my twenties, I would 160 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:22,919 have horrible dreams. I would consistently wake up between three and four am, 161 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:28,240 most of the time at exactly three sixteen am. Only recently I found out 162 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:31,519 the meaning of it, and it is a bit daunting, but it also 163 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:35,200 helps me to understand what happened to me. It happened so often I stop 164 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:39,679 using a bedside clock so I couldn't know what time it was and be scared. 165 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:43,440 I would wake up and there would be a very negative entity in the 166 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:46,639 room. I could never see it, but I always knew it was there. 167 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:50,360 Sometimes it would just be near me, and other times, while I 168 00:12:50,399 --> 00:12:54,960 was asleep, it tried to take over my body. I don't know if 169 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:58,320 possess is the right word, but I would feel a misty shadow figure try 170 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:03,639 and enter my body. Sometimes I would wake up terrified, but just in 171 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:09,080 time. And sometimes I would wake up almost fighting off the spear at This 172 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:13,320 happened in many houses in three different states, several thousand kilometers apart, so 173 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:18,720 I can only deduce that I am the common denominator. I would lay there 174 00:13:18,759 --> 00:13:22,799 and manifest a bright white light in the center of my body and expand it 175 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:26,679 so I had a protective bubble around me. I would usually expand it out 176 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:31,639 to the property boundary, and I would ensure that it was secure and say 177 00:13:31,639 --> 00:13:35,919 in my head that negative entities weren't welcome and could not pass through it. 178 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:41,519 I could feel the negative entities staring at me from the surface of the bubble 179 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:45,559 that I had created. Sometimes I could only get the bubble big enough for 180 00:13:45,639 --> 00:13:48,200 one reason or another and could only do the room I was in, and 181 00:13:48,279 --> 00:13:52,159 the entity would be at the doorway, staring at me, even though there 182 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:58,320 was nothing visually there. I look back at it now and wonder how I 183 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:03,440 ever slapped. I went for years without having any bad dreams or events, 184 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:05,679 but in my late thirties, in the middle of the night, I had 185 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:11,000 a terrible dream about a negative entity and woke up while sitting up in bed 186 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:16,440 and making the most inhuman guttural growl noise I didn't think possible with my voice 187 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:20,120 box. It's like it had been successful in taking over my body. However, 188 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:24,440 I did the protective bubble again, and I told a friend that I 189 00:14:24,519 --> 00:14:28,879 was so spooped, which is something I hadn't done before. I was not 190 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:31,480 religious at all, but I did put an open Bible and a gifted cross 191 00:14:31,559 --> 00:14:37,360 necklace in my bedside drawer for protection, and I was relieved and somewhat impressed 192 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:43,360 that it stopped the sentity. I still have them in my drawer. My 193 00:14:43,519 --> 00:14:48,320 third experience is when I lost my mom in twenty fifteen. Within twelve months 194 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:52,919 of being diagnosed with cancer, she had developed other forms of cancer and passed 195 00:14:52,919 --> 00:14:58,039 away in a way that she never wanted to go. About a month before 196 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:01,399 she passed, she was really sick, and I flew down to be with 197 00:15:01,519 --> 00:15:05,120 her. I was there for a fortnight, and in that time she had 198 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:07,320 picked right back up to a point where it looked like she was going to 199 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:11,840 be on the mend, so much so that I flew back home. Another 200 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:16,480 week and a half went by when I got a call in the morning saying 201 00:15:16,519 --> 00:15:20,799 that she had deteriorated suddenly and that I should make my way back down there. 202 00:15:20,399 --> 00:15:24,679 Where I was living at the time was fairly remote and there were only 203 00:15:24,679 --> 00:15:28,360 a couple of flights a day that left at about midnight, so I had 204 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:33,240 to wait until later at night to start traveling. I was asleep on the 205 00:15:33,279 --> 00:15:35,759 Red Eye flight, curled over with my head on the tray table, when 206 00:15:35,799 --> 00:15:39,279 out of nowhere, I woke up. In an instant, I sat straight 207 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:43,120 up, like a shot and looked straight outside to the night sky and the 208 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:48,679 stars. I looked out for a minute and I felt different. I don't 209 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:52,559 know how else to explain it, but eventually I went back to sleep. 210 00:15:52,519 --> 00:15:56,840 When I got to my train station at about seven thirty a m. Some 211 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:00,120 family members were there and they all had a look on their face, and 212 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:04,600 I knew that she was gone. They told me that she had passed away 213 00:16:04,639 --> 00:16:08,039 at about four am. This would have been right when I was on the 214 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:12,120 flight. I kicked myself to this day for not checking to see what time 215 00:16:12,159 --> 00:16:17,279 it was when I suddenly woke up, but it obviously wasn't something I was 216 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:21,679 meant to know. However, I believed that it was the moment that she 217 00:16:21,799 --> 00:16:26,080 passed away. A week and a half later, I was back home after 218 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:29,600 the funeral, and I had a dream that certainly didn't feel like a dream. 219 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:32,720 I was sitting with my mom on the edge of the bed and we 220 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:36,840 were having a great chat about random things. When I was younger, we 221 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:41,120 would sit in her bedroom in the mornings and do the crossword together and talk 222 00:16:41,159 --> 00:16:45,039 and enjoy the morning sun, so this dream was a continuation of that tradition. 223 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:49,720 She looked healthy and happy and nothing like the pained, sick person that 224 00:16:49,799 --> 00:16:55,519 she had been for the previous year. Then at some point I realized that 225 00:16:55,600 --> 00:17:00,759 she had passed away, and this catch up was pretty special. Mum's partner 226 00:17:00,799 --> 00:17:03,039 had not coped with her death well at all. So I said to my 227 00:17:03,119 --> 00:17:07,039 mom, I should get a photo of you so I can send it to 228 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:11,640 Mark. You would really appreciate that. But my mom said very quickly, 229 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:15,920 no, I'm not allowed to do that, and she then stopped me from 230 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:18,839 reaching across her to get my phone. I found that a bit shocking, 231 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:23,119 as my mom was a rule breaker her entire life, nothing nasty, just 232 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:29,759 cheeky and defiant in little, harmless ways. So her reaction was confounding because 233 00:17:29,799 --> 00:17:32,839 she would have been the first person to tout the rules for a laugh. 234 00:17:33,599 --> 00:17:37,759 That's when I realized that this was her final goodbye and there was a higher 235 00:17:37,839 --> 00:17:41,920 being that set the rules on how spirits were to behave I haven't had a 236 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:48,759 dream like that about her since my last experience is related to a potential past 237 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:55,240 life. My grandmother passed away when my mom was six from heart complications, 238 00:17:55,559 --> 00:17:59,880 so I obviously never met her. I am the eldest granddaughter and my middle 239 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,160 my name is after hers. I don't know how to describe it properly, 240 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:08,200 but I feel like I am her reincarnated. There have been a few moments 241 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:11,839 where I have made life decisions, and I wonder if it's in response to 242 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:17,000 what she wasn't able to do in her life, either due to the traditions 243 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:22,039 such as marriage and children and limited education, or due to her life being 244 00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:26,599 cut short. It's like she can now live the life she wanted through me 245 00:18:26,279 --> 00:18:32,359 slash her. I was at a family reunion in my early twenties. We 246 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:37,599 had them annually. My grandfather had three brothers. They were the four heads 247 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:41,640 of the entire family now as all great grandparents had passed away. At this 248 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:45,880 particular reunion, all three of my great aunts were in the kitchen walk in 249 00:18:47,039 --> 00:18:49,759 pantry, and I walked in and I had my mouth open to say something, 250 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,880 and at the last nanosecond, I realized that they would freak out and 251 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:57,319 never look at me the same way again, so I closed my mouth. 252 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:02,440 What I was going to say to them was, oh, look all four 253 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:07,200 of us back together again. Now, obviously that's not normal. But the 254 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:11,000 feeling I got when I walked into that pantry and saw them there was such 255 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:15,960 a full body feeling of warmth and reminiscing and love and fun. It was 256 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:19,319 like I belonged there with them, Me a twenty two year old feeling a 257 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:26,799 decade's old bond with three women in their sixties. Another experience related to my 258 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:30,039 grandmother was in late twenty twenty when I got a call saying that my grandfather 259 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:34,359 was in palliative care and I needed to get there to see him. He 260 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:38,279 had been sick for a few months and had gone downhill in the previous few 261 00:19:38,319 --> 00:19:42,880 weeks. Thankfully, there was a break between COVID lockdowns, and my partner 262 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:47,680 and I drove the eleven hours to get to him. We got there at 263 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:51,759 about one thirty am and stayed with him for a couple of hours, but 264 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:55,680 due to COVID rules, only two people were allowed in at a time, 265 00:19:56,079 --> 00:20:00,279 so we had to share our time with other family, So my part and 266 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:03,279 I went to get some sleep and wait for our next turn to see him. 267 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:07,480 We went back at about four p m. That day. My partner 268 00:20:07,559 --> 00:20:11,720 left after a short while so that my aunt and I could sit with him. 269 00:20:11,039 --> 00:20:15,200 He had only been conscious maybe two minutes the whole time I had been 270 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:18,359 there, which in total was about four hours. My aunt left to go 271 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:22,759 and get a sandwich, and as I sat with him, I got upset 272 00:20:22,799 --> 00:20:26,920 for a few minutes, but then something came over me, and I stopped 273 00:20:26,079 --> 00:20:30,319 and collected myself. I held his hand, and out of nowhere, I 274 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:36,759 said, hello, Berry, it's me Margaret. It's time. I am 275 00:20:36,799 --> 00:20:41,920 here for you. It's time to go. Then he squeezed my hand. 276 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:47,039 Not long after that, my aunt came back and I left so that she 277 00:20:47,079 --> 00:20:51,480 could have some alone time with him, as she wasn't coping well. About 278 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:55,799 an hour after I left, my aunt called saying that he had passed away. 279 00:20:56,759 --> 00:21:00,559 I still wonder if I had channeled my grandmother to guide my grandfather. 280 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:06,559 I've never called him Barry, and I never refer to myself as Margaret, 281 00:21:06,759 --> 00:21:11,319 so I don't have another explanation. I have been told by a healer that 282 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:15,119 I have a gift in relation to spirits, and I will interact with them. 283 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,359 It is due to start in the coming years, so I hope to 284 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:22,880 share more experiences with you, although writing all of this down for the very 285 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:27,599 first time makes me realize that I have been exposed to a fair bit already 286 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:33,880 in different forms. Thank you for reading this, and I wish you well. 287 00:21:36,279 --> 00:21:44,480 Danny. Cases involving unexplained disappearances or those that have almost gone missing and 288 00:21:44,559 --> 00:21:48,599 return to tell their story are some of my favorites, so when I find 289 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:52,880 reports that focus on a similar topic, my first response is to share them 290 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:56,799 with you. Tonight, I'll be sharing part of an article that I found 291 00:21:56,839 --> 00:22:00,200 on Mysterious Universe, and I recommend following the link in the show notes and 292 00:22:00,279 --> 00:22:03,960 reading the full article in order to give both the author, Brent Swanzer, 293 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:11,599 and Mysterious Universe the credit that they deserve. The article contains multiple eyewitness accounts, 294 00:22:11,759 --> 00:22:15,720 and while some of them, in my opinion, are easily explained, 295 00:22:15,039 --> 00:22:19,359 there are others that seem to be much more difficult to rationalize, one of 296 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:25,559 which comes directly from author Brent Swanzor himself. However, I'll let him tell 297 00:22:25,599 --> 00:22:32,599 you about his experience in his own words. Here is the article. There 298 00:22:32,599 --> 00:22:36,720 are plenty of cases of mysterious disappearances, which I have covered here on many 299 00:22:36,759 --> 00:22:40,720 occasions. Yet while these all seem to be people who seem to have been 300 00:22:40,839 --> 00:22:45,759 lost or have wandered off, there are some cases that are altogether stranger. 301 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:51,319 These are those instances when people have just seemed to have spontaneously been wiped from 302 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:55,559 existence at a moment's notice. And I don't mean that they have just vanished, 303 00:22:55,839 --> 00:22:59,799 but they seem to have just evaporated on the spot. It is something 304 00:22:59,839 --> 00:23:03,880 that I have delved into ever since I had my own experience with what I 305 00:23:03,039 --> 00:23:11,160 call deleted people. My first introduction into this phenomenon came to me by chance. 306 00:23:11,759 --> 00:23:15,839 This happened around over a decade ago. In the early summer. I 307 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,559 was out at a wilderness area not far from Tokyo, at a place which 308 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:22,559 draws quite a few people to come out for a variety of outdoor activities. 309 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:26,359 So this is not a remote area in the middle of nowhere, and it's 310 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:32,599 actually quite crowded in the spring and summer months, although there is camping there. 311 00:23:32,839 --> 00:23:37,160 For me, this was just a day trip picnicking and hiking. I 312 00:23:37,279 --> 00:23:41,119 was with some other people having a picnic and a large open meadow area with 313 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:45,200 picnic tables and barbecue facilities, where many other families were out enjoying the sunny, 314 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,920 warm day. There were people everywhere, in fact, and we were 315 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:53,720 even commenting on how crowded it was. Near this picnic area, there was 316 00:23:53,759 --> 00:23:59,519 a creek that meandered by and pushed against a rather steep drop and I remember 317 00:23:59,559 --> 00:24:03,519 thinking that this was sort of dangerous, considering how many people were milling about 318 00:24:03,759 --> 00:24:07,759 not too far away, and how many kids were running around the general area. 319 00:24:07,599 --> 00:24:11,160 We were sitting quite near this drop off, practically right next to it, 320 00:24:11,319 --> 00:24:15,160 and I couldn't really even enjoy my lunch because sometimes a kid would run 321 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:18,920 past, and I was worried that eventually someone was going to go over. 322 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,839 I was even telling my friends that we should mention it to the officials who 323 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:27,559 ran the area. It was nerve wracking. After a while, we were 324 00:24:27,599 --> 00:24:30,720 going to actually pack up and be on our way, and I was sort 325 00:24:30,759 --> 00:24:36,000 of walking along that ridge checking it out and thinking how they needed a railing 326 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:40,079 or something there. At this point, I was walking back to our spot 327 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:42,759 to help pack up, when a young girl of around eight years of age 328 00:24:42,839 --> 00:24:48,440 goes running by, laughing and heading right for that creek area. I wasn't 329 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:52,279 totally alarmed at this point, and there were kids everywhere. However, I 330 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:56,319 kind of kept an eye on her and was wondering what her parents thought of 331 00:24:56,359 --> 00:25:00,319 this. As she was running at full speed in the direction, I sort 332 00:25:00,319 --> 00:25:03,839 of went over in that direction as well, and as she got closer to 333 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:08,240 this danger zone, I yelled out in Japanese, you better be careful. 334 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:12,960 At around that moment, I went around a boulder and the girl ran by 335 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:18,000 it on the other side, and as this was practically red on the cusp 336 00:25:18,039 --> 00:25:22,720 of the drop off, I was now quite concerned. Yet when I rounded 337 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:26,839 the boulder, she was gone. Considering her path, speed and position, 338 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:30,319 as well as the fact that she was out of sight for not even a 339 00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:34,160 second, she should have been right there on the other side, but she 340 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:40,799 was nowhere to be seen. She had simply vanished. Thinking that she may 341 00:25:40,799 --> 00:25:44,559 have fallen down the ridge, I looked down and there was nothing, no 342 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,519 sign of her. And even if she had fallen, the creek was not 343 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:51,440 fast flowing enough for her to have been totally swept away in such a short 344 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:55,880 span of time. Looking back toward the medal also showed me that she was 345 00:25:55,960 --> 00:26:00,279 nowhere, even though if she had somehow changed course and returned, she had 346 00:26:00,319 --> 00:26:03,279 only been out of sight for a split second, and I should have been 347 00:26:03,319 --> 00:26:07,519 able to see her doing so. I was baffled, and I walked about 348 00:26:07,559 --> 00:26:12,079 looking around, but that girl was nowhere to be found. I wondered who 349 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:17,200 her parents were or where they were, but I didn't know. I was 350 00:26:17,279 --> 00:26:19,599 pretty puzzled by it all. But in the end, I suppose I just 351 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:25,799 wrote it off as having some explanation, but not really believing it myself. 352 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:30,319 I just sort of assumed that the girl had somehow escaped my attention and gone 353 00:26:30,319 --> 00:26:33,599 off back to her family in that fraction of a second that it took me 354 00:26:33,799 --> 00:26:37,200 to turn around that boulder, even though part of me knew that this was 355 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:41,519 impossible. We stayed at that area for a little while longer, and I 356 00:26:41,559 --> 00:26:45,720 did not see anyone in a panic or looking for someone. And then we 357 00:26:45,839 --> 00:26:51,400 left and I sort of put it out of my mind. That evening, 358 00:26:51,599 --> 00:26:55,440 my mind returned back to that mysterious girl that I had seen, and I 359 00:26:55,519 --> 00:27:00,079 became more and more convinced that what I had witnessed was very strange. In 360 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,839 I became sort of obsessed with it that I actually checked out the news every 361 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:07,880 day, looking for anything about a missing girl in that area, and thinking 362 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:12,920 that if something came up, I would notify authorities, but nothing ever dead 363 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:18,000 To this day, I have no idea what I saw. All I know 364 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,640 is there is no way that that little girl could have run behind that boulder 365 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:25,759 and escaped my attention. She was out of sight for a fraction of a 366 00:27:25,799 --> 00:27:32,359 second and then absolutely nothing, just there one moment and gone the next. 367 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,880 I often wonder what I actually saw, and if there is some family out 368 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:41,119 there wondering whatever happened to their daughter. I just don't know. Was this 369 00:27:41,279 --> 00:27:45,440 someone vanishing, was it a ghost, or was it just my mind playing 370 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:49,039 tricks on me. I have no idea, but I do believe it is 371 00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:55,920 at this point that I developed a keen interest in mysterious disappearances. I was 372 00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:00,039 so confused by this particular experience that I went about looking up other similar accounts, 373 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,960 and I was surprised to find that there were plenty to be had, 374 00:28:03,519 --> 00:28:07,720 all of which describe people who just seemed to have flashed out of reality, 375 00:28:08,319 --> 00:28:15,559 and it drew me deeper into this weird world. One report of someone just 376 00:28:15,599 --> 00:28:21,000 seeming to blink out of existence was given by Reddit user m zz Sanchez Act 377 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:23,480 three, who says that this happened when she had gone out to have a 378 00:28:23,519 --> 00:28:29,160 meal with her fiance at a Wendy's fast food joint. At some point during 379 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:33,440 their meal. She claims that a woman basically appeared and then disappeared out of 380 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:38,400 nowhere, and that both her and her fiance clearly saw it. The eyewitness 381 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:45,759 explains what happened. This is where it gets important. I was sitting with 382 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,880 my back facing the side the register was on, meaning that the entrance of 383 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:53,039 the Wendy's was on my right side. I can see anyone who comes in 384 00:28:53,079 --> 00:28:57,160 and out by simply turning my head or point of view slightly to the right. 385 00:28:57,799 --> 00:29:03,079 The entrance consists of the door, which leads to a small quote unquote 386 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,160 man hole, and to go out to the parking lot, you need to 387 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:10,160 make a quick left turn when you immediately reach the door. You cannot go 388 00:29:10,279 --> 00:29:12,680 straight in the man hole because right in front of the door you just walked 389 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:17,880 out from is a ceiling to floor window looking out to the parking lot. 390 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:21,640 When you step outside of the door to the parking lot, immediately there's a 391 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:25,720 fence on the right side, meaning that you need to continue walking straight and 392 00:29:25,799 --> 00:29:29,319 around the fence if you're trying to reach the right side of the parking lot. 393 00:29:30,039 --> 00:29:33,599 Also, if anyone walks out of the restaurant door to the parking lot 394 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:37,119 and walk straight, I would be able to see them through the windows along 395 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:41,680 the side of the building after the entrance way. There are no other entries 396 00:29:41,119 --> 00:29:45,640 or exts. Okay, now that we have those details. We were eating 397 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:49,279 and enjoying our meal when all of a sudden we see a lady who we 398 00:29:49,359 --> 00:29:53,519 knew didn't make any orders because we had been people watching the line and she 399 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:57,759 was never in the line, and she was not with anyone else. This 400 00:29:57,839 --> 00:30:03,119 woman was wearing a pass still blue buttoned down shirt, white capris, and 401 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:07,440 tennis shoes. She walks from the middle of the restaurant where they keep the 402 00:30:07,519 --> 00:30:11,440 sauces and napkins, to the bathroom, which is behind the tables we're sitting 403 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:14,880 at, and then comes out about two to three minutes later, but this 404 00:30:15,039 --> 00:30:18,240 time with a Wendy's drink in her hand. She then makes her way around 405 00:30:18,279 --> 00:30:22,920 the current line at the register, and right before she reaches the exit, 406 00:30:22,279 --> 00:30:27,039 she turns slightly back and looks at us. She opens the first door and 407 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:33,960 continues walking straight. Then she was gone. My fiance and I looked at 408 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:37,160 each other at that exact moment, and then looked back at the door and 409 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:41,519 started questioning out loud if we had both seen the same thing. He said 410 00:30:41,519 --> 00:30:45,759 that he saw it too. He immediately got up from our table and ran 411 00:30:45,799 --> 00:30:48,640 to the exit door and then out to the parking lot, and he said 412 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:53,279 that she was absolutely nowhere to be found. We didn't see where she went 413 00:30:53,559 --> 00:30:57,319 when she walked into the window. We didn't see her on the other side 414 00:30:57,319 --> 00:31:02,359 of the window walking through the parking lot. We didn't see her opening the 415 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:07,359 second door to the parking lot and walking straight. We literally saw her walk 416 00:31:07,599 --> 00:31:11,359 into the window. We continued discussing it and both made the point about the 417 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:15,480 window being there and how it's not possible for her to walk through it and 418 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:21,079 then exit. We also discussed how she literally appeared out of nowhere in the 419 00:31:21,079 --> 00:31:25,519 middle of the restaurant. We discussed how she literally glanced over at us before 420 00:31:25,559 --> 00:31:29,559 she left the restaurant, and this day we don't know what happened to her, 421 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,680 how she appeared in the restaurant, or even how she left the restaurant 422 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:37,599 at all. We sort of joked that she was a time traveler, But 423 00:31:37,759 --> 00:31:42,680 I really have no idea what to make of that situation. Who was this 424 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:47,839 woman, where did she come from, and where did she go? Or 425 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:52,440 were they both just imagining things. Another weird case appears on the same thread 426 00:31:52,759 --> 00:31:59,000 with a witness who claims that an elderly man with a cane disappeared, reappeared, 427 00:31:59,279 --> 00:32:02,720 and then vanished within moments. He says this happened when he was on 428 00:32:02,799 --> 00:32:09,319 vacation with his family, and he describes what happened. We stopped in a 429 00:32:09,359 --> 00:32:14,000 rest area somewhere in Alabama to let our dogs out and to head to the 430 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:17,079 bathrooms ourselves, and I was left in charge of the dogs while someone else 431 00:32:17,119 --> 00:32:22,240 went in. So when my turn came around, I walked and ran in 432 00:32:22,319 --> 00:32:27,759 pretty fast. This is when I first spotted this disappearing man. He was 433 00:32:27,799 --> 00:32:30,000 an older guy with a cane, and the only reason I noticed him was 434 00:32:30,039 --> 00:32:35,319 because of a bright green jacket that he had on. Well, I walked 435 00:32:35,319 --> 00:32:37,680 past him while he was on a bench, and I had turned around because 436 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:43,119 the green caught my eye. But he was gone. Sure he could have 437 00:32:43,119 --> 00:32:46,000 gotten up fast, Maybe he was just a fast old dude. I don't 438 00:32:46,039 --> 00:32:52,480 know, so I headed in and used the bathroom. So when I finished 439 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,000 in the bathroom, I walk out and I see the same guy walking in 440 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:59,440 front of me out the doors. I then looked down at my phone, 441 00:32:59,799 --> 00:33:02,799 and when I looked up, the guy was gone. I sped up and 442 00:33:02,839 --> 00:33:06,640 looked out the doors left and right to see if I could spot him, 443 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:12,039 but he was completely gone out of nowhere. It's one of the weirdest experiences 444 00:33:12,079 --> 00:33:15,480 I've had. Although it may not seem like much, but it was quite 445 00:33:15,519 --> 00:33:22,640 odd. Such cases can leave someone baffled, frantically looking around, trying to 446 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,799 figure out where the person has gone or what could possibly be going on, 447 00:33:27,359 --> 00:33:31,039 and coming up empty. As someone who has experienced this myself, it can 448 00:33:31,079 --> 00:33:37,680 be extremely disorienting and puzzling. In another case, Reddit user ash Seney explains 449 00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:42,200 how a man vanished right in front of him and he is at a loss 450 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:46,240 for how to explain it. He says, so late one night, I 451 00:33:46,319 --> 00:33:51,400 was walking down the sidewalk, minding my own business and listening to some tunes 452 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,759 in my headphones. It had rained a bit that day, so there was 453 00:33:53,799 --> 00:33:58,799 a lot of puddles. Walking in front of me was a man. Nothing 454 00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:04,000 unusual, just man. I remember how he was dressed, straight jeans, 455 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,079 slightly wet near the heels, a short, puffed down jacket, and a 456 00:34:07,119 --> 00:34:13,920 backpack, specifically Columbia. I was kind of in my own headspace, walking 457 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,519 and staring at the Columbia tag on the backpack. After a few minutes of 458 00:34:17,559 --> 00:34:21,960 walking, I had to step over a puddle, so I looked down at 459 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,840 it and then overstepped it. Looked back up and the man had vanished. 460 00:34:27,679 --> 00:34:30,920 Yes, I know what you're thinking about. He could have turned, but 461 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:34,760 the same thing crossed my mind at the same time that I didn't find him 462 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,440 in front of me. This is why everything that explains it doesn't work. 463 00:34:39,039 --> 00:34:43,840 To our left is a small field with a couple of benches, no trees, 464 00:34:44,159 --> 00:34:46,559 and lots of lights. To our right is a four lane road, 465 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:51,800 also with lots of lights. It was late, so me and the man 466 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,960 were the only ones walking, and he had nowhere to hide. And why 467 00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:59,440 would he want to hide in the first place? And if he ran across 468 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:05,639 the road I would have seen him do that. Another redditor, called MTV 469 00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:09,320 Challenge Fan claims that he is quite a skeptical person and has never really believed 470 00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:15,599 in strange phenomena or the paranormal, but that he did have one inexplicable experience 471 00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:19,559 involving a woman who seems to have just stepped off the face of the earth. 472 00:35:20,599 --> 00:35:25,000 This is his experience. I've lived in the same city my entire life 473 00:35:25,079 --> 00:35:30,119 in the USA, and there was this Circle K convenience store very close to 474 00:35:30,159 --> 00:35:34,199 where I lived at the time. I knew the same four or five employees 475 00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:37,599 at the store. The store only has one entrance, which also serves as 476 00:35:37,639 --> 00:35:40,880 the exit, and the parking lot in the front of the store is the 477 00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:45,800 only parking lot. The store also only has one bathroom, which is designed 478 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:51,519 for one person at a time. Back in March of twenty and eleven, 479 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,800 I drove to this Circle K and right about the same time, this white 480 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:59,039 car next to me pulled up. I'm not sure what kind of car it 481 00:35:59,199 --> 00:36:01,599 was, but it was white, a beater to say the least. Right 482 00:36:01,639 --> 00:36:05,719 when I was getting out of the car, the woman driving the white car 483 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,760 had gotten out of it and she walked into the Circle K. I took 484 00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:12,960 some time to empty out my trash for my car, and I entered the 485 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,760 store about a minute later. Keep in mind, this woman hadn't left the 486 00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:20,639 store yet, and there was only one entrance, which also served as the 487 00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:23,920 exit. Aside from the woman who worked there, I was the only one 488 00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:28,000 in the main part of the store, so I just assumed the woman I 489 00:36:28,039 --> 00:36:31,400 saw walking from the car was in the bathroom. So I got my snacks 490 00:36:31,519 --> 00:36:36,280 and I went up to the counter. I already knew the clerk well and 491 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,679 we would open up to each other about many things, and I just had 492 00:36:38,679 --> 00:36:43,880 to ask if a woman walked in and was possibly in the bathroom. I 493 00:36:44,079 --> 00:36:46,639 just thought that it was odd that this woman was using the restroom for close 494 00:36:46,679 --> 00:36:52,440 to ten minutes at this time. Anyway, I described what the woman looked 495 00:36:52,519 --> 00:36:57,039 like to the clerk. She was very pale, had black hair, brown 496 00:36:57,079 --> 00:37:00,639 eyes, and she was medium height. And as soon as I mentioned her 497 00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:05,239 very low waist to hip ratio, the clerk gasped. She told me she 498 00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:07,800 knew exactly who I was talking about, and she also told me she was 499 00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:12,840 a regular customer. But what she said to me gives me chills to this 500 00:37:13,039 --> 00:37:15,880 day. She told me that this woman had not entered the store on this 501 00:37:16,079 --> 00:37:20,760 day. I told her that I saw her walk in right before I did, 502 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,360 and the clerk told me that she was at the counter and never saw 503 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:30,119 her walk in. We were both baffled. I obviously wasn't just seeing things, 504 00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:34,400 because the clerk told me that I described their regular customer and this was 505 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:37,480 someone that I had never seen before. When I walked out of the circle 506 00:37:37,559 --> 00:37:42,199 cave, her car was still there, so I just sat in my car 507 00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:45,119 for five minutes, but then left because I didn't want to seem creepy, 508 00:37:45,559 --> 00:37:51,159 and I never found out if she came back for that car. The only 509 00:37:51,199 --> 00:37:53,360 thing I can think of is the woman from the car walked in the store, 510 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:58,920 was doing something shady in the bathroom and was in cahoots with the clerk, 511 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,239 and the clerk was just playing dumb with me. Even though I knew 512 00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:06,960 the clerk. This doesn't mean that she didn't have any secrets that she wouldn't 513 00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:12,639 tell me. Other than that, I don't know. She just disappeared into 514 00:38:12,679 --> 00:38:17,639 thin air. Another type of report that I've found while looking into the phenomenon 515 00:38:17,679 --> 00:38:22,559 of these deleted people seems to be related, and it involves people just sort 516 00:38:22,599 --> 00:38:30,119 of fading from existence retroactively or without being directly observed to do so. A 517 00:38:30,159 --> 00:38:35,440 fairly creepy case of this was related by Reddit user Bita Zamorai, who says 518 00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:37,760 that one day, a person who she knew in college just seems to have 519 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:45,440 faded away without anyone realizing how or even why. This is her story. 520 00:38:45,679 --> 00:38:50,599 Back in college, my friends and I would always all go to the cafeteria 521 00:38:50,679 --> 00:38:53,679 across campus together for lunch. There were about eight to ten of us on 522 00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:58,119 any given day, so normally you had three to four of us in a 523 00:38:58,199 --> 00:39:01,320 huddle, followed by the other three three or four. I was in the 524 00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:06,360 back group and we passed between these two bushes, and this is when the 525 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:10,800 weirdest feeling just washed over me. Something felt changed, and I was a 526 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:15,880 bit disoriented. We all kind of stopped and looked at each other while the 527 00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:20,840 first group just kept going. Someone was missing. We all just kind of 528 00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,079 knew it. However, to this day, I have no idea who it 529 00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:28,880 was. Everyone was accounted for, but we couldn't shake the feeling that someone 530 00:39:29,199 --> 00:39:32,760 was just gone. It was always a weird spot near those bushes in general, 531 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,360 and we always avoided it after that. I remember another time we all 532 00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:40,960 seemed to notice a light post there at the same time, and none of 533 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,840 us could remember if it had always been there or not, even though we 534 00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:50,360 walked that path at least twice a day. You could probably just chalk it 535 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,599 up to busy college students not paying attention. But it's weird that it's the 536 00:39:53,639 --> 00:40:00,920 same spot that we lost someone a few weeks later. A similar case comes 537 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:06,800 from Reddit user daydreamer three seventy three, who says that a person he knew 538 00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:10,840 in college seems to have just been wiped from existence, and he goes on 539 00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:15,599 to explain, there is a guy that I went to school with that has 540 00:40:15,679 --> 00:40:21,039 now disappeared. I have the strongest memory of him hanging out with our whole 541 00:40:21,079 --> 00:40:25,480 group back in the early two thousands and then gone. He's not in any 542 00:40:25,599 --> 00:40:30,840 year books. I haven't confused him with someone else. He's just gone. 543 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:35,159 However, here's the weird part. I don't live in a huge town, 544 00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:38,239 but the girl I know was his sister, and both of his parents still 545 00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:43,320 live here. She's on Facebook saying how grateful she is to her parents that 546 00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:45,639 she has the life that she does, and that she's an only child, 547 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:51,159 et cetera. I have known her for literally my whole life. For the 548 00:40:51,199 --> 00:40:57,000 first seventeen years she had a brother. I have been tripping on this along 549 00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:00,639 with Nelson Mandela not dying in the eighties, this case just disappears, and 550 00:41:00,679 --> 00:41:05,320 it's like my brain physically hurts when I try to recall the full memory of 551 00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:08,639 our last hangout. As well. I asked two of his friends what happened 552 00:41:08,639 --> 00:41:12,960 to him, and they both said that they never knew a guy with the 553 00:41:13,039 --> 00:41:16,039 name that I gave them. I then asked if that family had a son, 554 00:41:16,599 --> 00:41:22,719 but they said no, only the girl from school. I've never been 555 00:41:22,199 --> 00:41:30,239 so confused. Along the same lines is the rather odd report from redditor thunder 556 00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:34,559 fifty four, who was baffled by a class that he took in which several 557 00:41:34,599 --> 00:41:39,719 people seem to have just flickered out of existence without explanation. This is his 558 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:45,800 report. I was in my biology recitation class yesterday and I had just read 559 00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:51,360 this life Hacker article about being more observant before class. One of the things 560 00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:53,960 it talks about is counting the number of people in a room as well as 561 00:41:54,039 --> 00:41:58,280 marking exits in a room. So I thought that it would be fun to 562 00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:02,239 do this silently to myself. As class started, I counted twenty two people, 563 00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:07,920 including the ta and myself, so there were twenty one students including me. 564 00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:13,719 This is a small classroom. The TA took informal role by counting by 565 00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:16,199 twos out loud. We do have a sign in sheet, but he just 566 00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:20,880 wanted to know about how many people were missing, so there were no names 567 00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:23,480 needed. He got to the number twenty one, the same as me. 568 00:42:24,079 --> 00:42:28,360 He marked it on the sheet and then began talking about what we would do 569 00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:31,400 in class. He was going to take questions about the test. However, 570 00:42:31,679 --> 00:42:36,400 due to the way the professor not the TA, structured the test schedule, 571 00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,440 it was possible that some people had taken the test and others had not. 572 00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:45,039 He took a quick pull, asking who had already taken the test. I 573 00:42:45,119 --> 00:42:47,639 had already taken the test, so I raised my hand and he counted and 574 00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:52,519 said, all right, so this many of you have taken it out of 575 00:42:52,039 --> 00:42:58,119 nineteen. I was confused because I had just counted twenty one students and I 576 00:42:58,159 --> 00:43:02,920 heard him count twenty one as well. He was also noticeably confused and recounted. 577 00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:08,199 However, he got nineteen students again and asked, did a couple of 578 00:43:08,199 --> 00:43:13,480 you wander out while I wasn't paying attention? But no one answered, and 579 00:43:13,639 --> 00:43:16,119 I knew that no one had because I was sitting next to the door on 580 00:43:16,199 --> 00:43:21,760 this day. It was weird. It was even weirder because I would not 581 00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,960 have cared at all about this Ta's counting mistake if I hadn't been observant and 582 00:43:25,039 --> 00:43:30,480 counted the people in the class myself. I've tried to think of an explanation, 583 00:43:30,119 --> 00:43:35,719 but I just can't. We both counted twenty one, and then suddenly 584 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:43,039 there were nineteen. Yes, I counted two in disbelief. It is hard 585 00:43:43,039 --> 00:43:45,760 to know what to make of such cases, but there seem to be a 586 00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:50,000 lot of theories going around. One is that these are glitches in the matrix, 587 00:43:50,079 --> 00:43:52,239 so to speak, which is to say that perhaps we are living in 588 00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:59,239 a computer simulation and these are just examples of some sort of problem glitch or 589 00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,360 just lazy programming. There is also the idea that, in the case of 590 00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:07,559 people just vanishing in seconds, that these could be examples of interdimensional walk ins, 591 00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:12,280 in a sense, meaning that they have somehow wandered or bled over from 592 00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:16,639 another parallel dimension, only to spirit away back to where they came from. 593 00:44:17,079 --> 00:44:22,599 In the case where people have retroactively faded away, one Reddit poster called missus 594 00:44:22,679 --> 00:44:29,559 Joe Jocks gives an interesting theory. They say Okay, So I just finished 595 00:44:29,559 --> 00:44:35,000 reading a book called The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth by Dolores 596 00:44:35,119 --> 00:44:37,719 Cannon. In this book, it talks a lot about how people are starting 597 00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:43,039 to vibrate on a higher frequency, and that one by one people will sort 598 00:44:43,039 --> 00:44:47,239 of change dimension from this to a higher one as they raise their vibration. 599 00:44:49,079 --> 00:44:52,400 In the beginning, it will be people here and there, And it mentioned 600 00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:55,360 that these people who go will be a distant memory and you sort of drift 601 00:44:55,400 --> 00:45:00,559 apart for no reason and you won't find them. I wonder if this is 602 00:45:00,599 --> 00:45:07,440 really the case and that's what has happened. Other ideas have included that these 603 00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:12,519 are time travelers, portals, or even some mysterious force messing and tinkering with 604 00:45:12,639 --> 00:45:15,440 reality as we know it. There is no way to really know for sure, 605 00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:22,280 and such bizarre accounts remain firmly lodged within the world of the strange. 606 00:45:22,159 --> 00:45:25,360 What is really going on here and what are we to make of this? 607 00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:32,559 Are these explainable or are they perhaps revealing cracks in our reality? We may 608 00:45:32,679 --> 00:45:38,000 never know for sure. This is where the article ends, and it leaves 609 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:43,480 me with more questions than answers. Is it possible that some of these eyewitnesses 610 00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:47,679 are mistaken absolutely, After all, people in general are typically not very aware 611 00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:53,800 of their surroundings, especially since smartphones have become an apparent necessity. But what 612 00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:59,719 do we make of the other experiences that are not so easily explained. Perhaps 613 00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:02,480 if if we paid more attention to the world around us and less time staring 614 00:46:02,519 --> 00:46:07,920 at screens, we'd realize that our reality is far stranger than we care to 615 00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:13,920 admit. As always, though, I'll leave it up to you to come 616 00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:22,000 to your own conclusions. Many people dismiss sleep paralysis as being nothing more than 617 00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:25,760 a natural occurrence where the mind wakes up before the body, leaving the experiencer 618 00:46:27,159 --> 00:46:31,920 immobilized. However, there are countless experiences that are so strange and so unsettling 619 00:46:32,079 --> 00:46:37,159 that we can't help but wonder if there is something far more malevolent taking place 620 00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:42,800 during these episodes. Many of these reports also involve the subject sensing or even 621 00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:47,519 seeing some type of entity during the paralysis, and tonight My first listener experience 622 00:46:47,599 --> 00:46:53,320 involves a similar phenomenon, but with a bit of a twist. Tonight's first 623 00:46:53,320 --> 00:47:00,440 experience comes to us from IVY, and Ivy's experience is called sleep paralym says 624 00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:07,199 or something else. Ivey says. I was introduced to your podcast through a 625 00:47:07,199 --> 00:47:09,800 friend of mine, and now I've been binge listening for a few days. 626 00:47:10,199 --> 00:47:15,480 I've never wanted to share my experience before because it affected me so badly that 627 00:47:15,519 --> 00:47:19,199 I've had to alter the way I sleep. Also, I've never talked about 628 00:47:19,199 --> 00:47:22,440 it because when I've tried to talk about it out loud, it just sounded 629 00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:25,639 too bizarre. I don't know exactly how to start this, but I'll try 630 00:47:25,639 --> 00:47:30,119 to make it as simple as possible. This happened about four or five years 631 00:47:30,159 --> 00:47:34,920 ago when my now husband and I moved in together. I was in bed 632 00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:37,119 asleep. It was about four in the morning, and I woke up to 633 00:47:37,159 --> 00:47:42,239 the feeling of being watched. When I sat up, I saw what I 634 00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:45,800 thought was my husband standing at the end of the bed holding a cup. 635 00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:49,119 My husband often got up in the middle of the night to get water, 636 00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:52,320 so it wasn't uncommon for me to wake up to this. I looked at 637 00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:57,000 this full figure at the end of the bed. I remember smiling at it 638 00:47:57,079 --> 00:48:00,199 because, like I said, it looked exactly like my husband. Just as 639 00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:04,760 I was about to say something, I heard the toilet flush in the bathroom 640 00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:08,239 next to our room. A few seconds later, my actual husband walked into 641 00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:13,440 our room right past this thing and laid back down in bed next to me. 642 00:48:14,119 --> 00:48:17,320 I watched my husband walk right past this full body man like he wasn't 643 00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:21,800 even there. When I looked back at it, it was still there, 644 00:48:22,039 --> 00:48:27,000 only its cheeks had become sunken in and its eyes had become hollow. It 645 00:48:27,039 --> 00:48:30,159 had grown well over six feet at least, and had started to hunch over 646 00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:35,400 towards me. I grabbed my blanket and pulled it up over my head and 647 00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:38,920 turned my body toward my husband's back and buried my face into him. I 648 00:48:39,039 --> 00:48:44,159 laid there, awake, frozen until the sun came up. The next morning. 649 00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:46,519 I tried to tell my husband what had happened, but he didn't believe 650 00:48:46,559 --> 00:48:52,679 me. It didn't get brought up again. It's been quite some time since 651 00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:54,679 this has happened, and now I have to sleep with a sleeping mask on 652 00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:59,719 to completely cover my eyes. After I had a daughter a little over two 653 00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:01,880 years yars ago, I decided to keep a night light on in my room 654 00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:05,840 so I can see my surroundings when I have to wake up for her. 655 00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:08,400 It's made it a lot easier, but there are still times when I get 656 00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:14,360 anxious about waking up in the middle of the night. Nothing happened before or 657 00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:17,360 after this incident, and we no longer live in that house, and quite 658 00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:22,719 frankly, I'm glad that we don't. After that night, I hated living 659 00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:25,840 there and sleeping in that room. I have no explanation for this man or 660 00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:29,480 whatever you want to call it, that was standing at the end of my 661 00:49:29,599 --> 00:49:32,599 bed. Part of me still believes it didn't happen, but I also know 662 00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:37,079 I was fully awake and aware when it did. That's why I don't know 663 00:49:37,119 --> 00:49:43,000 whether to call it sleep paralysis or not. If you read this on your 664 00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:45,480 podcast, then I want to thank you in advance. The whole thing still 665 00:49:45,519 --> 00:49:50,280 makes me feel a little crazy at times, but after listening to the stories 666 00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:53,639 of others, including your own, I don't feel so crazy any more. 667 00:49:54,639 --> 00:49:59,239 Keep up the good work, and I plan on listening as much as I 668 00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:07,400 can. Ivy. I came across this next bizarre report on Reddit, and 669 00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:10,480 while it's hard to verify the details of this alleged experience, it does share 670 00:50:10,519 --> 00:50:16,559 some unsettling similarities to other encounters that I've heard, Perhaps someone listening has witnessed 671 00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:22,840 something similar. This report comes from a user by the name of Janella Jones, 672 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:25,719 who says this took place after she moved into an area in Essex. 673 00:50:27,159 --> 00:50:30,519 She describes the surrounding area as not totally in the middle of nowhere, but 674 00:50:30,599 --> 00:50:35,599 lots of forest and dark country roads with no street lights in the area. 675 00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:38,840 On this particular night, she was driving home down a dark country road with 676 00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:45,119 her boyfriend Dan. Eventually they found themselves on a pitch black road only narrow 677 00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:49,679 enough for one car, and it was here that they had a terrifying experience. 678 00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:55,800 Janella Jones explains what happened next. Stupidly, I sped up, wanting 679 00:50:55,840 --> 00:51:00,119 to find my way out of the dark roads. Quickly it became, I'm 680 00:51:00,119 --> 00:51:02,719 apparent that I was driving too fast for the bumpy roads, so initially I 681 00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:06,920 had to slow down, and once I did, I felt a deep thud 682 00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:09,760 on the roof of my car, like something had landed on it. I 683 00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:14,119 slammed on my brakes and my boyfriend and I looked at each other, but 684 00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:17,880 all we heard was silence. Then we heard two loud thumbs on the roof 685 00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:22,840 of the car, almost like someone was pounding a fist on it. I 686 00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:25,880 looked at my boyfriend and he looked at me, all pale and wide eyed. 687 00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:30,239 So I slammed the car into gear and took off down the road, 688 00:51:30,679 --> 00:51:35,440 seriously panicking. Now I couldn't see anything in the mirrors, and up ahead 689 00:51:35,519 --> 00:51:38,320 was a small bridge that went over a tiny river. I sped up over 690 00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:43,079 the bridge and the road veered sharply to the right. As I took this 691 00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:46,639 corner, the entire road was illuminated by my head lights and it was covered 692 00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:51,800 in blood, literally so much blood. It looked like a very big animal 693 00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:55,239 had been slaughtered there. There weren't any animal remains, but the amount of 694 00:51:55,280 --> 00:52:00,679 blood was ridiculous. I screamed, what the hell is that and looked at 695 00:52:00,679 --> 00:52:05,039 my boyfriend, who was already looking out of his window. I looked at 696 00:52:05,039 --> 00:52:07,079 where he was looking, and we could both see a faint figure of a 697 00:52:07,079 --> 00:52:12,519 man running alongside the car. Safe to say, I took off at a 698 00:52:12,599 --> 00:52:15,440 very high speed. Luckily, we were only about five to ten minutes from 699 00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:21,519 the main road and miraculously managed to find our way back. As soon as 700 00:52:21,519 --> 00:52:23,760 we got back to my house, I literally ran in and locked the door 701 00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:28,599 and swore to myself I would never drive that way again. It was the 702 00:52:28,639 --> 00:52:31,639 scariest moment of my life, and to this day, I don't know what 703 00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:37,119 it all was. I described the vision of the guy running as faint because 704 00:52:37,119 --> 00:52:40,880 it wasn't just a regular person. I don't really know how to describe it, 705 00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:45,920 because although it was pitch black outside the car, the person running also 706 00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:49,159 looked like it was black, but we could still make out the shape. 707 00:52:49,599 --> 00:52:52,159 The face had no features, it was almost a bit shimmery at the edges, 708 00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:58,960 but it was definitely a human form even if it wasn't human. Whatever 709 00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:00,960 it was. Also, I managed to keep up with my car, which 710 00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:05,639 was quite a feat considering I was driving it like a monster truck because I 711 00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:08,239 was so scared. There are no trees or anything around for a mile or 712 00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:12,039 two, so when we could see the guy running, he would have just 713 00:53:12,079 --> 00:53:15,760 been running on grass. But there was something not quite right about it. 714 00:53:15,159 --> 00:53:19,519 The vibe that I got was that it wasn't a person but an entity, 715 00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:22,199 and it was all connected, like the thing we saw running was the same 716 00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:27,519 thing that made the noise on the roof of my car and also created the 717 00:53:27,559 --> 00:53:31,440 blood. Just thinking about it now sends a shiver down my spine. I 718 00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:37,239 didn't sleep properly for weeks after that, and even now I hate driving down 719 00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:44,360 country roads alone. My next experience comes to us from a listener by the 720 00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:52,280 name of Dez and Desi's story is called the Garage. Des says Hi Nick 721 00:53:52,599 --> 00:53:54,639 First and foremost, I'd like to thank you for providing a safe space for 722 00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:59,800 us to share these stories. I don't share my experiences often, as I'm 723 00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:01,639 a afraid of what people might think of me if they heard some of the 724 00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:07,559 many stories I have from growing up in a childhood house where paranormal happenings were 725 00:54:07,599 --> 00:54:10,039 common. I have a whole bunch of things I'd like to share with you 726 00:54:10,119 --> 00:54:15,159 and the audience, But today I think I'll share two of the most profound 727 00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:19,559 and memorable ones that really solidified that some of the weird stuff we saw in 728 00:54:19,599 --> 00:54:24,159 our house was in fact paranormal. The first story I have was the first 729 00:54:24,159 --> 00:54:29,880 paranormal experience I ever had, and is still over two decades later, fresh 730 00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:34,840 in my mind as if I'm there all over again. I was in kindergarten, 731 00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:37,719 so I must have been about five or six years old, and like 732 00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:42,159 most younger siblings, I idolized my older sister, and I wanted to imitate 733 00:54:42,199 --> 00:54:45,280 everything she did. At the time, she loved playing ping pong with my 734 00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:50,840 older cousin, and as many older siblings do, she often excluded me from 735 00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:53,679 playing. As a matter of fact, because the ping pong set had been 736 00:54:53,679 --> 00:54:58,039 gifted to her from my aunt for her birthday, I was told to not 737 00:54:58,079 --> 00:55:01,239 play with it without asking first, which, of course I defied as soon 738 00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:06,840 as the opportunity presented itself. One day, while she was at school and 739 00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:09,599 my mother was busy in the kitchen making lunch, I snuck into her room 740 00:55:09,719 --> 00:55:14,480 and I positioned myself between her bed and the wall, and I tried to 741 00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:19,440 play ping pong by myself, which I quickly realized was absolutely no fun without 742 00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:22,400 some one to hold the other paddle. Not wanting to get in trouble and 743 00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:27,880 knowing how closely my sister memorized the positioning off her stuff, I made sure 744 00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:30,679 to put the paddle and the small plastic ball back in the position in which 745 00:55:30,679 --> 00:55:35,639 I found it. I snuck back out of the room, convinced that I 746 00:55:35,679 --> 00:55:39,559 had just committed the perfect crime. To my surprise, once we had picked 747 00:55:39,559 --> 00:55:44,119 her up from school a few hours later, she came home and noticed that 748 00:55:44,199 --> 00:55:47,760 both paddles were where she left them, but the ball was missing. She 749 00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:52,280 searched her room to no avail, and then she went straight to my mom 750 00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:54,280 to tell her that I had lost an essential part of the set that I 751 00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:59,800 had been specifically asked not to touch. I admitted that I had played with 752 00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:02,039 it, but I pleaded with them both to believe that I had put both 753 00:56:02,039 --> 00:56:06,760 the paddle and the ball right back where I had found them. Of course, 754 00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:08,880 no one believed me, and not only did it result in a stern 755 00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:14,199 chastising from my mom about the importance of asking before touching her stuff, but 756 00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:17,159 it also resulted in a two day long silent treatment from my older sister, 757 00:56:17,599 --> 00:56:22,280 which was probably the most painful part of it all for me. That weekend, 758 00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:27,679 my mom was preparing us both for church when I experienced what still scares 759 00:56:27,719 --> 00:56:30,800 me to think about to this day. I laid on the carpet in our 760 00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:36,119 hallway, staring straight into the dark garage. The only light in there was 761 00:56:36,119 --> 00:56:39,239 a slither of daylight coming from the windows on the garage door that were made 762 00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:45,360 of what I assume was plexiglass. My mom had my sister seated on the 763 00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:50,119 closed toilet and was braiding her long hair in preparation for Sunday service, and 764 00:56:50,159 --> 00:56:53,159 I could hear them talking from about six feet down the hallway. It was 765 00:56:53,199 --> 00:56:57,599 my turn next, which I was dreading since my mom always had a bad 766 00:56:57,639 --> 00:57:00,800 habit of pulling my ponytails way too tight, and I generally did not like 767 00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:06,519 getting dressed up like a little doll. I laid on the carpet, huffing 768 00:57:06,559 --> 00:57:10,519 at the thought when I saw something move in the darkness. I watched carefully, 769 00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:15,000 for some reason, completely unafraid, as the ping pong ball slowly rolled 770 00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:20,400 from the far back of the garage into the light cast from the windows above. 771 00:57:21,119 --> 00:57:23,880 What was strange was how slowly it rolled and how straight of a line 772 00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:28,840 it rolled in. It came straight toward my line of vision, and then 773 00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:34,159 abruptly stopped about fifteen feet from where I was laying in the hallway. I 774 00:57:34,199 --> 00:57:37,679 don't know why, but for some reason, I wasn't scared by the knowledge 775 00:57:37,719 --> 00:57:39,880 that there was no one in the garage, or that there was no airflow 776 00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:44,920 or ventilation that could have pushed it toward me from the darkness. At this 777 00:57:45,079 --> 00:57:47,679 point, I excitedly ran into the garage, took the ping pong ball, 778 00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:52,679 and came back to my mom and sister shouting about what had just happened. 779 00:57:52,239 --> 00:57:55,920 Of course, neither of them believed me, but the event was so vivid 780 00:57:55,960 --> 00:58:00,599 and so strange that I spent years replaying that moment in my head, becoming 781 00:58:00,639 --> 00:58:05,440 more and more concerned by what I had seen as the years went on. 782 00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:10,559 After years of repeating the story, and thankfully lots of other paranormal experiences that 783 00:58:10,639 --> 00:58:15,639 my sister and mom both experienced, either by themselves or as a family, 784 00:58:15,039 --> 00:58:20,599 they eventually did believe me. The strange happenings did, however, get scarier 785 00:58:20,639 --> 00:58:23,039 as I got older, and for four to six years of our lives it 786 00:58:23,119 --> 00:58:29,920 almost felt unbearable. I named our temperamental door slamming ghost Lloyd, and he 787 00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:32,559 became a running joke in our house over the years, because we couldn't do 788 00:58:32,639 --> 00:58:37,280 much else but try and make light of living with a literal invisible roommate. 789 00:58:38,519 --> 00:58:43,599 The second story is the last paranormal experience I ever had in that home, 790 00:58:44,039 --> 00:58:47,599 and it happened when I was nineteen years old, the day my dad passed 791 00:58:47,639 --> 00:58:52,400 away of having a massive heart attack. I was, to put it lightly, 792 00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:57,159 incredibly devastated. While me and my sister definitely had our issues with are 793 00:58:57,199 --> 00:59:00,920 often in and out of the house. Father I was very close to him, 794 00:59:00,079 --> 00:59:05,119 and his death impacted me so deeply. I barely remember anything from the 795 00:59:05,159 --> 00:59:09,320 two weeks after his passing. One memory, however, is still burned into 796 00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:14,840 my mind, and it took place hours after I had finally managed to cry 797 00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:19,519 myself to sleep. At three a m. I awoke to a glaring light 798 00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:22,800 and the distressed sound of my mother's voice, asking did you hear it too? 799 00:59:23,639 --> 00:59:28,559 I came to standing in the doorway of my room, confused as ever 800 00:59:28,840 --> 00:59:31,960 and wondering if I had sleep walked there. My mother stood in the doorway 801 00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:36,840 of her room, straight across the hallway, her eyes widened and her skin 802 00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:40,639 pale as I had ever seen it before. There's someone in the garage, 803 00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:45,000 she said. Before I even had time to respond, we heard the sound 804 00:59:45,039 --> 00:59:51,199 of someone rustling through my father's tool bench. I vividly registered the metallic clangs 805 00:59:51,239 --> 00:59:53,920 as the same noise as I heard when my dad was looking for various screws 806 00:59:54,119 --> 01:00:00,400 or wrenches, and my heart dropped into my stomach without hesitation. And she 807 01:00:00,519 --> 01:00:04,800 threw open the door separating the hallway and the garage and flipped on the switch, 808 01:00:05,159 --> 01:00:09,519 which then drowned the dark garage in yellow light. There was no one. 809 01:00:09,559 --> 01:00:14,320 My mom and I stared into the empty garage at my dead father's tool 810 01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:19,079 chest and tried to process what had just happened. Without saying a word. 811 01:00:19,239 --> 01:00:22,159 We decided we weren't equipped to deal with what we had just experienced, and 812 01:00:22,239 --> 01:00:27,280 we both went straight back to bed. After twenty years of voices in the 813 01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:30,599 hallway, slamming doors, and black, shadowy figures passing through the hall, 814 01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:37,360 Lloyd never came back. All strange happenings in that house stopped completely from that 815 01:00:37,519 --> 01:00:43,400 night forward. Although my mother is now gone as well, I often think 816 01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:45,840 back to that night and I wonder who it was that was rustling through my 817 01:00:45,960 --> 01:00:51,000 dad's beloved tool bench. While I'm sure the answer might be a lot more 818 01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:53,719 sinister than I'd like to know, I try and tell myself that my dad 819 01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:58,920 finally evicted Lloyd from our garage, and I think it's kind of poetic that 820 01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:04,639 it all began and ended in the darkness of my garage. I love my 821 01:01:04,760 --> 01:01:07,800 dad, I miss him dearly, and I hope that whoever owns my childhood 822 01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:13,119 house isn't kept up late too often by the sound of nuts and bolts shifting 823 01:01:13,159 --> 01:01:16,119 around the garage at night. If he's still there, I hope they're kind 824 01:01:16,159 --> 01:01:20,119 to him, and I hope they allow him space in the house that he 825 01:01:20,159 --> 01:01:27,079 helped to fix and maintain in life and still protects in death. Thanks Nick, 826 01:01:27,480 --> 01:01:35,360 I'm sending love and light to all of my fellow spooky friends. This 827 01:01:35,519 --> 01:01:38,559 next account comes from Coast to Coast, aam Or. On July fifteenth of 828 01:01:38,599 --> 01:01:44,320 twenty sixteen, a man named Nate called into report a creepy encounter that he 829 01:01:44,400 --> 01:01:49,199 had while driving his bigreg on Interstate eighty where he was heading toward Illinois. 830 01:01:49,760 --> 01:01:52,000 As he was heading down a dark and desolate stretch of the highway, he 831 01:01:52,119 --> 01:01:57,719 noticed something strange on the side of the road. And this is what Nate 832 01:01:58,000 --> 01:02:01,440 had to report. It was about dusk and the sun was just about to 833 01:02:01,519 --> 01:02:05,840 set, and I was driving when I saw a figure just ahead of me 834 01:02:05,960 --> 01:02:08,440 on I eighty and it was right on the side of the road. Now, 835 01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:10,920 when I say right on the side of the road, I don't mean 836 01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:15,519 in the grass. Its toes were right on the white line. I slowed 837 01:02:15,559 --> 01:02:19,360 down a little bit to kind of see what was going on there, and 838 01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:22,880 maybe to avoid it. When I got about fifty yards from it, I 839 01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:25,880 got down to about fifty miles per hour and I could see it clear. 840 01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:30,079 I had my brights on and everything. It was a man, well, 841 01:02:30,199 --> 01:02:34,800 it looked like a man, maybe about five nine or five ten. It 842 01:02:34,840 --> 01:02:38,039 couldn't have been more than a hundred pounds, soaking wet. When I got 843 01:02:38,119 --> 01:02:42,280 up to him, he looked at me. He had no eyes, no 844 01:02:42,440 --> 01:02:46,199 mouth, and no nostrils. There was no orifice on his face. He 845 01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:52,480 was pale white, no hair, no features whatsoever. It looked like a 846 01:02:52,480 --> 01:02:57,639 skeleton with bleached white skin. He was just kind of standing there and looking 847 01:02:57,719 --> 01:03:00,960 right at me. I slowed down, and as soon as I saw his 848 01:03:00,079 --> 01:03:05,360 face, he looked up at me. I flipped the hammer down from Illinois 849 01:03:05,440 --> 01:03:08,840 all the way to Chicago, and I never looked back. My blood ran 850 01:03:08,920 --> 01:03:14,760 cold and my hair stood up. It was one of the most disturbing things 851 01:03:15,079 --> 01:03:21,840 I've ever seen in my life. This next listener experience comes to us from 852 01:03:21,880 --> 01:03:30,239 Mary, and Mary's report is called Haunted Cemetery. Mary says this story happened 853 01:03:30,320 --> 01:03:35,320 just outside of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, July third and fourth of two thousand and 854 01:03:35,360 --> 01:03:38,039 six at this time, I was living in Las Vegas, Nevada, and 855 01:03:38,079 --> 01:03:42,960 I was planning a trip to Elizabethtown, Kentucky to visit family. And while 856 01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:45,480 talking to my brothers, Jimmy and Jack about my trip down there, they 857 01:03:45,519 --> 01:03:51,719 told me about this old cemetery called Hell's Gate. The people that told them 858 01:03:51,719 --> 01:03:54,599 about the cemetery were a couple of co workers. They said they heard about 859 01:03:54,599 --> 01:03:59,599 this cemetery that was very old and haunted and that it had been used to 860 01:03:59,599 --> 01:04:03,760 hold atenic worship and sacrifices. One other thing that they were told is that 861 01:04:03,800 --> 01:04:09,199 it was rumored that there were two large dogs that guarded this cemetery. However, 862 01:04:09,320 --> 01:04:13,159 when my brothers asked where this cemetery was located, they wouldn't tell them. 863 01:04:13,559 --> 01:04:16,719 They just said that they were better off not knowing. My whole family 864 01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:20,679 liked going to haunted sites, so we were all anxious to find this cemetery. 865 01:04:20,920 --> 01:04:26,039 So I did some research and found some general directions. I arrived in 866 01:04:26,079 --> 01:04:30,880 Elizabethtown on July second, and on July fourth, after we set off fireworks, 867 01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:34,480 we were all planning on going out to find Hell's Gate Cemetery. On 868 01:04:34,599 --> 01:04:39,280 July third, my brother Jack and I decided to go out by ourselves to 869 01:04:39,280 --> 01:04:43,400 see if we could find the cemetery. We left our father's house around midnight, 870 01:04:43,599 --> 01:04:46,679 and after following my vague directions, we finally found the road that would 871 01:04:46,719 --> 01:04:50,719 take us to the cemetery. The road was a two lane road that was 872 01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:55,480 really just big enough for one car. It was so dark as there was 873 01:04:55,519 --> 01:04:59,360 no moon and it was very cloudy. We had been on this road for 874 01:04:59,400 --> 01:05:01,920 about twenty t minutes when just up ahead of us and on the left side 875 01:05:01,920 --> 01:05:05,840 of the road, this mist appeared. It was so bright at first that 876 01:05:05,920 --> 01:05:10,920 we thought it was a fire, but it wasn't. The mist was about 877 01:05:10,960 --> 01:05:15,599 five feet tall and about three feet wide and kind of wavy. It stayed 878 01:05:15,599 --> 01:05:17,679 about fifteen feet in front of us for the next five miles or so. 879 01:05:18,519 --> 01:05:23,199 Just as the road came to a dead end right in front of Hellsgate Cemetery, 880 01:05:23,800 --> 01:05:28,920 the mist just disappeared. My brother and I were just sitting there trying 881 01:05:28,960 --> 01:05:30,880 to figure out what we had just seen, when all of a sudden, 882 01:05:31,039 --> 01:05:35,079 all the warning lights and alarms in his car came on. He wanted to 883 01:05:35,199 --> 01:05:39,639 leave right then, but I asked him to wait for just a few minutes, 884 01:05:39,800 --> 01:05:42,559 as I wanted to step out of the car and take a quick video 885 01:05:42,599 --> 01:05:45,599 of the cemetery. I only took a couple minutes of video as it was 886 01:05:45,639 --> 01:05:50,719 so scary just being there. My brother then turned the car around and we 887 01:05:50,800 --> 01:05:55,400 got maybe a block or two away from the cemetery when all the lights and 888 01:05:55,480 --> 01:05:59,440 alarms went off in his car and it was back to normal. When we 889 01:05:59,480 --> 01:06:01,639 got back to our father's house, I looked at the video I had taken 890 01:06:01,679 --> 01:06:05,400 at the cemetery, and right there in front of the car were two large 891 01:06:05,440 --> 01:06:10,000 dogs that were not visible when we were sitting there in the car with the 892 01:06:10,039 --> 01:06:15,119 headlights shining out into the cemetery. So the next night, after we set 893 01:06:15,119 --> 01:06:17,960 off the fireworks and after hearing my brother and I tell our story, our 894 01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:23,559 whole family went back out to Hell's Gate, but the mist did not appear. 895 01:06:24,400 --> 01:06:27,440 There were about four cars, so when we pulled up in front of 896 01:06:27,440 --> 01:06:30,360 the cemetery, we could see the old cemetery pretty well. Some of the 897 01:06:30,400 --> 01:06:34,719 headstones were so old that they had just fallen over. There was what looked 898 01:06:34,760 --> 01:06:39,840 like a little path that led out into the cemetery, so with flashlights in 899 01:06:39,960 --> 01:06:45,440 hand, about eight of us headed out into the cemetery. While walking around, 900 01:06:45,480 --> 01:06:47,719 we heard all kinds of noises, but when we turned our lights toward 901 01:06:47,800 --> 01:06:51,599 the sound, we couldn't see anything. After about an hour, we all 902 01:06:51,639 --> 01:06:56,119 headed back toward the cars. As we walked down the same path we had 903 01:06:56,119 --> 01:06:59,599 all just walked down. Right there in the middle of the path was what 904 01:06:59,679 --> 01:07:02,280 looked like like an armbone. When I tried to take a picture of it, 905 01:07:02,760 --> 01:07:06,800 Mike camera died. When we got back to our father's house, we 906 01:07:06,840 --> 01:07:11,519 all looked at the video and pictures I had taken, and there were orbs 907 01:07:11,719 --> 01:07:15,760 everywhere. It was an experience that I will never forget, but I would 908 01:07:15,760 --> 01:07:24,559 never go back out to Hell's Gate Cemetery. Our next experience of the night 909 01:07:24,800 --> 01:07:30,400 comes to us from Jim, and Jim's experience is called hat Man. I 910 01:07:30,440 --> 01:07:34,840 have encountered various shadow people, including the hat Man. I'm in my twenties. 911 01:07:35,159 --> 01:07:39,480 I started seeing a shadow like person after late nights at the bar. 912 01:07:40,000 --> 01:07:43,480 I would see a shadow person standing next to a light pole, behind a 913 01:07:43,559 --> 01:07:47,480 tree, and in a store window. All of these were at night time 914 01:07:47,559 --> 01:07:53,119 passed and eventually I saw the hat Man. He looked as I've heard dozens 915 01:07:53,119 --> 01:07:57,280 of encounters describe him, a tall, black being with a wide brimmed hat 916 01:07:57,440 --> 01:08:00,280 and a trench coat. Saying it looked a certain way is hard to explain, 917 01:08:00,599 --> 01:08:04,559 but it was more of an impression on my vision. One night, 918 01:08:04,719 --> 01:08:09,920 there was a discussion with coworkers about strange encounters, and a girl began telling 919 01:08:09,960 --> 01:08:14,360 everyone about a shadow person that she saw on the street. She felt like 920 01:08:14,480 --> 01:08:18,399 it was stalking her. She described no face, no features, just a 921 01:08:18,479 --> 01:08:24,199 long black coat and wide hat. Years later, I got into the same 922 01:08:24,239 --> 01:08:28,399 type of discussion with my sister. My niece was in the room and overheard 923 01:08:28,439 --> 01:08:31,720 me talking about the hat Man, which I began calling the puppet Master. 924 01:08:32,560 --> 01:08:36,680 My niece's face turned white and she told us about the same vision she would 925 01:08:36,720 --> 01:08:43,279 see walking down the hall when she was around eight years old. Time passed 926 01:08:43,319 --> 01:08:46,119 and another discussion of the hat Man was brought up with my sister and niece, 927 01:08:46,359 --> 01:08:50,760 but this time my sister's mother in law was present. She gasped, 928 01:08:50,960 --> 01:08:56,239 turned white, and also said that she used to see the same being when 929 01:08:56,279 --> 01:09:00,159 she was younger. I believe the hat Man attaches itself to a family or 930 01:09:00,239 --> 01:09:09,319 people that opened themselves to the paranormal. Our next experience comes to us from 931 01:09:09,359 --> 01:09:17,520 Mikayla and Michaela's experience is called mimicking spirits. Mikhaela says he nick I just 932 01:09:17,560 --> 01:09:23,680 finished listening to episode three thirty one about spirits mimicking a loved one's voice. 933 01:09:24,199 --> 01:09:27,520 A few years ago, my mother and her husband went on a cruise, 934 01:09:27,640 --> 01:09:30,039 and at the time I was living with them together. They have a daughter, 935 01:09:30,279 --> 01:09:33,319 my baby sister, who was a year and a half older than my 936 01:09:33,520 --> 01:09:38,680 daughter. So while my mom and her husband were on vacation, I had 937 01:09:38,720 --> 01:09:43,439 both girls. We got home from work in school and the girls were downstairs 938 01:09:43,439 --> 01:09:46,359 eating in the dining room while I was upstairs in the laundry room putting clothes 939 01:09:46,359 --> 01:09:49,880 in the dryer. All of a sudden, I hear my baby sister say 940 01:09:49,920 --> 01:09:54,399 my name, so I stepped out into the hall to see what she needed, 941 01:09:54,880 --> 01:09:58,399 but no one was there. I could hear both girls downstairs in the 942 01:09:58,439 --> 01:10:02,079 dining room giggling as little girls do. My mother has a big house, 943 01:10:02,319 --> 01:10:04,840 so if they were playing a trick on me, I would have heard them 944 01:10:04,920 --> 01:10:10,000 run down the hallway, down the steps, past the living room and kitchen, 945 01:10:10,319 --> 01:10:15,319 and then into the dining room. They couldn't possibly run that fast. 946 01:10:15,199 --> 01:10:19,600 My next story is an experience that my mother encountered and with her permission, 947 01:10:19,960 --> 01:10:24,800 I will share it. My mother was sitting in her bedroom with the TV 948 01:10:24,960 --> 01:10:28,279 off, reading her book when she heard my other sister, who was in 949 01:10:28,319 --> 01:10:32,439 her early twenties, say Mommy, I'm here. So my mom waited for 950 01:10:32,479 --> 01:10:35,920 her to come up the stairs and into her room, thinking that she was 951 01:10:36,039 --> 01:10:41,239 just stopping by for a quick visit. A couple minutes pass and my mom 952 01:10:41,319 --> 01:10:45,000 realizes that no one is in her house. She then calls my sister on 953 01:10:45,039 --> 01:10:47,800 her cell phone and asked, why did you leave? But my sister, 954 01:10:47,920 --> 01:10:51,680 having no clue what she was talking about, says, I was never there, 955 01:10:53,079 --> 01:10:57,640 and I'm on the other side of town in this same house. As 956 01:10:57,680 --> 01:11:00,119 I was preparing to move out, my mother and I came to the conclusion 957 01:11:00,199 --> 01:11:05,359 that she indeed has a spirit lingering around. She jokingly or not jokingly, 958 01:11:05,479 --> 01:11:10,159 calls out to the spirit and says, you do not have permission to follow 959 01:11:10,199 --> 01:11:14,600 my daughter to her new home. We then laughed because we clearly have watched 960 01:11:14,600 --> 01:11:18,199 too many ghost Adventure episodes, but my laugh quickly stopped when I heard a 961 01:11:18,239 --> 01:11:24,600 loud growl in my right ear. My mother noticed my facial expression and asked 962 01:11:24,600 --> 01:11:28,119 me what was wrong. However, I never told her what I heard because 963 01:11:28,159 --> 01:11:30,600 I didn't want to freak her out, so I kept it to myself until 964 01:11:30,640 --> 01:11:33,960 she moved into her new home. When I did start to tell her, 965 01:11:34,159 --> 01:11:39,239 she finished my sentence for me and said, you heard a growl, didn't 966 01:11:39,279 --> 01:11:45,680 you. Apparently she has heard this growl before. Thank you again for reading 967 01:11:45,720 --> 01:11:48,880 and sharing my story. I still have more and will share again on a 968 01:11:48,880 --> 01:11:54,520 different day. Thank you Nick for all that you do for us believers. 969 01:11:55,560 --> 01:12:02,399 Be well. There is something in the wilderness. It uses the forests, 970 01:12:02,680 --> 01:12:08,760 mountains, and wild places to disguise its mysterious intent. What is it? 971 01:12:09,239 --> 01:12:13,960 No one truly knows. It presents itself in different forms to different people, 972 01:12:14,399 --> 01:12:19,880 with some claiming to encounter strange creatures that shouldn't exist, while others experience disorientation 973 01:12:20,439 --> 01:12:25,640 and a feeling as though they're being hunted or even led into a trap. 974 01:12:26,520 --> 01:12:30,000 In some cases, the victims seem to vanish into thin air, only to 975 01:12:30,039 --> 01:12:36,600 be found days, months, or even years later under extremely bizarre circumstances. 976 01:12:38,439 --> 01:12:42,720 I've covered similar topics in many of my other episodes, and while some people 977 01:12:42,720 --> 01:12:46,960 dismiss the phenomena as nothing more than hallucinations or people simply becoming lost in the 978 01:12:47,000 --> 01:12:51,920 woods. Those that have come face to face with this nameless threat will tell 979 01:12:51,960 --> 01:12:59,399 you that what they encountered was very real and anything but innocent. Now, 980 01:12:59,439 --> 01:13:02,960 perhaps in some of these cases it is nothing more than people misidentifying a particular 981 01:13:03,039 --> 01:13:08,640 animal they're not familiar with, or just letting their imagination get the best of 982 01:13:08,680 --> 01:13:13,319 them. But for the hundreds of other eyewitnesses that have had first hand encounters, 983 01:13:13,720 --> 01:13:16,720 I believe that we owe it to them and ourselves to investigate these reports 984 01:13:16,760 --> 01:13:21,000 with an open mind, because, for all we know, the wilderness could 985 01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:28,800 be hiding something far more sinister than we could possibly imagine. Today's topic is 986 01:13:28,840 --> 01:13:32,720 one of my favorites because it encompasses so many different types of experiences, yet 987 01:13:32,760 --> 01:13:36,880 they all have one thing in common. They all took place in the great 988 01:13:36,920 --> 01:13:43,640 outdoors. So today I've put together various reports of high strangeness that involve many 989 01:13:43,680 --> 01:13:47,079 different oddities, all of which seem to lead credibility to the belief that the 990 01:13:47,079 --> 01:13:54,760 wilderness holds many bizarre and mysterious forces. As I relay each article and experience, 991 01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:58,520 I'll be mentioning the source from which it came, but please be sure 992 01:13:58,560 --> 01:14:01,680 to also visit the show no where I have referenced these reports, and I 993 01:14:01,840 --> 01:14:05,760 urge you to visit the links that I provided in order to give them the 994 01:14:05,800 --> 01:14:12,520 credit that they deserve. I'll begin tonight with the sighting of a strange creature. 995 01:14:13,119 --> 01:14:17,359 This report was posted on Mysterious Universe and originates from a website called your 996 01:14:17,439 --> 01:14:21,560 Ghost Stories, and it's an account from a woman who had a bizarre experience 997 01:14:21,720 --> 01:14:26,960 as she was hiking in the summertime with her boyfriend in the mountains of Italy. 998 01:14:28,359 --> 01:14:30,319 On one of these peaceful hikes, she reached the end of a trail 999 01:14:30,399 --> 01:14:34,680 before her boyfriend, so she decided to wait there and enjoy the tranquil scene 1000 01:14:34,880 --> 01:14:40,600 while she waited for him to arrive. As she waited, she saw something 1001 01:14:41,039 --> 01:14:45,840 unnerving. It appeared to be a creature that resembled what's known as a shammis 1002 01:14:45,119 --> 01:14:49,720 or mountain goat, which are native to the European mountains. However, there 1003 01:14:49,800 --> 01:14:55,920 was something abnormal about this particular animal, as the witness would go on to 1004 01:14:56,000 --> 01:15:00,279 explain, I was sitting there on a rock and I don't know how, 1005 01:15:00,439 --> 01:15:03,520 but I felt like something was in the woods behind me. Behind me, 1006 01:15:03,680 --> 01:15:08,319 there was a precipice that was not very deep, though, and the forest 1007 01:15:08,359 --> 01:15:12,159 would cover the end of it and all around. I stood up and tried 1008 01:15:12,199 --> 01:15:15,039 to see if there was something down there, and that's when I saw it. 1009 01:15:15,680 --> 01:15:19,880 I still get shivers when I think about it. Deep down there there 1010 01:15:19,960 --> 01:15:25,319 was a chammis, a beautiful one with long horns. I got excited because 1011 01:15:25,319 --> 01:15:29,680 I rarely see one. I was looking at him from behind. His fur 1012 01:15:29,800 --> 01:15:31,680 was light brown, and he had a black line that went from the neck 1013 01:15:31,760 --> 01:15:36,119 to the tail. But something was very wrong with it, and that's when 1014 01:15:36,119 --> 01:15:41,760 I froze. His front legs looked like they didn't end in a normal cloven 1015 01:15:41,800 --> 01:15:45,479 hoof, but he had three fingers at the end of his front legs, 1016 01:15:45,800 --> 01:15:49,399 similar to a bird claw, but not that sharp. The back legs seemed 1017 01:15:49,439 --> 01:15:54,439 normal, which I could see because he was walking very slowly and calmly through 1018 01:15:54,439 --> 01:15:59,840 the vegetation. Then I noticed with great horror that his face seemed flat with 1019 01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:02,439 there's no muzzle. I couldn't look at him directly in the face, and 1020 01:16:02,520 --> 01:16:06,920 I couldn't see his forehead and nose. But what should have been there just 1021 01:16:08,199 --> 01:16:11,960 wasn't. Thinking about it now, I really wish that I had seen his 1022 01:16:12,079 --> 01:16:15,960 face, just to see how the eyes and mouth were organized. He disappeared 1023 01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:19,560 in the pine's shadow, and I was still there shocked. When my boyfriend 1024 01:16:19,600 --> 01:16:24,560 finally arrived, I told him what I saw, but he didn't believe me, 1025 01:16:24,840 --> 01:16:28,239 and he just laughed. I know it's not scary, and it can 1026 01:16:28,279 --> 01:16:31,279 even be funny if you think about it. A shammy with eagle legs and 1027 01:16:31,319 --> 01:16:35,399 a flat face. I thought about it all the time that we were descending. 1028 01:16:35,720 --> 01:16:39,720 It was so weird, and at the end I told myself that I 1029 01:16:39,800 --> 01:16:43,399 must have dreamt it. Even if I would love to know that I wasn't 1030 01:16:43,439 --> 01:16:46,079 the only one to see that thing, I'd like to think that it was 1031 01:16:46,119 --> 01:16:51,000 a deity that took the form of a shammy. There wasn't any village at 1032 01:16:51,039 --> 01:16:55,680 the mountain's foot, so I couldn't ask if someone else had seen it too, 1033 01:16:56,279 --> 01:17:00,560 or if someone knew anything about a weird animal that was living in the 1034 01:17:00,640 --> 01:17:06,479 forest. An even otter tale comes from a Reddit poster who claims that at 1035 01:17:06,520 --> 01:17:11,119 the time he had been in the wilds outside of Houston, Texas, in 1036 01:17:11,199 --> 01:17:15,520 what he describes as an isolated patch of forest by a creek. He had 1037 01:17:15,520 --> 01:17:19,479 set up a hammock that evening and was relaxing and listening to the sounds of 1038 01:17:19,520 --> 01:17:27,880 the night when something strange came for him. He describes what happened this night. 1039 01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:30,479 It was dark, like extra dark. I think the moon was covered 1040 01:17:30,560 --> 01:17:34,600 up, but there was still enough city light to create a dim atmospheric glow. 1041 01:17:35,319 --> 01:17:40,359 I heard some movement definitely coming my way where I was on the creek. 1042 01:17:40,880 --> 01:17:44,920 It didn't seem as cautious as most of the other animals, which startled 1043 01:17:44,920 --> 01:17:49,000 me. Whatever was coming my way was ballsy. I don't think I had 1044 01:17:49,039 --> 01:17:53,319 my knife at the time, so I think I grabbed a stick and listened 1045 01:17:53,399 --> 01:17:57,920 quietly. As the sound got closer. It kept walking in my direction, 1046 01:17:58,239 --> 01:18:01,399 but I could barely see a thing. But eventually it got pretty close and 1047 01:18:01,439 --> 01:18:06,520 I could faintly see a silhouette. This wasn't an animal I had seen before. 1048 01:18:08,079 --> 01:18:11,479 It was white, with long legs, too tall to be a hog, 1049 01:18:11,720 --> 01:18:15,600 and definitely not a deer. It just stood there, staring at me 1050 01:18:15,880 --> 01:18:18,239 as if it was pissed that I was in its spot or something. I 1051 01:18:18,279 --> 01:18:23,039 don't think I made any sudden movements or anything, but I just sat there, 1052 01:18:23,079 --> 01:18:27,880 looking, trying to figure out what it was. Eventually it went back 1053 01:18:27,920 --> 01:18:30,560 into the forest and honestly, even with how much I go through those same 1054 01:18:30,600 --> 01:18:34,920 patches of woods, I've never seen it again. I was thinking that it 1055 01:18:35,000 --> 01:18:40,479 was a wolf or a coyote, but this thing was white like white enough 1056 01:18:40,479 --> 01:18:44,800 to see him in almost pitch black darkness, and he had long legs and 1057 01:18:44,880 --> 01:18:48,800 a real dignified demeanor. He just stared at me, not scared at all, 1058 01:18:48,880 --> 01:18:55,479 before he calmly disappeared. I ain't seen nothing like that before, and 1059 01:18:55,560 --> 01:18:59,439 I ain't seen it since, nor have I seen any footprints or anything that 1060 01:18:59,520 --> 01:19:04,560 releasing indicative of what it was. It just had long legs, white fur, 1061 01:19:05,119 --> 01:19:13,000 and a really calm, dignified demeanor. After his encounter, the witness 1062 01:19:13,039 --> 01:19:20,800 also described feeling a sense of power and menace coming from the entity. The 1063 01:19:20,800 --> 01:19:26,479 next couple of reports I'd like to share with you don't involve strange creatures necessarily, 1064 01:19:26,640 --> 01:19:30,520 but have more to do with bizarre forces that seem to cause confusion or 1065 01:19:30,520 --> 01:19:35,039 disorientation resulting in the eyewitness becoming lost or even turning up missing, with no 1066 01:19:35,119 --> 01:19:41,000 explanation as to why. Some people believed that this phenomena could be related to 1067 01:19:41,039 --> 01:19:45,199 faithfolk and other unexplained energies, But as always, I'll let you be the 1068 01:19:45,319 --> 01:19:50,199 judge. This particular report involves a woman who worked as a housekeeper at a 1069 01:19:50,239 --> 01:19:55,520 sprawling estate in the Irish countryside. One evening, she decided to take a 1070 01:19:55,560 --> 01:19:59,520 walk back to her own village to visit her family, a walk that took 1071 01:19:59,520 --> 01:20:03,239 her through her area with a hill called Lessard Fort, which was known to 1072 01:20:03,319 --> 01:20:10,039 locals as a place where fairies dwelled. The woman passed through without incident and 1073 01:20:10,079 --> 01:20:14,920 headed down the hill, Yet she suddenly blinked and found herself walking the opposite 1074 01:20:14,920 --> 01:20:18,199 way back up the hill. She couldn't understand how this could have happened, 1075 01:20:18,359 --> 01:20:23,199 and she turned back around and reached a ditch at the bottom of the hill. 1076 01:20:23,720 --> 01:20:26,600 All she had to do was step over this ditch and she would be 1077 01:20:26,640 --> 01:20:30,159 on the road to her village, But every time she tried, she once 1078 01:20:30,199 --> 01:20:34,159 again found herself going the opposite direction, as if some barrier was preventing her 1079 01:20:34,279 --> 01:20:39,800 from passing over. For hours, she was stuck there like this. So 1080 01:20:39,960 --> 01:20:43,680 it was with relief that she saw a search party approaching to look for her, 1081 01:20:44,079 --> 01:20:46,920 but when she shouted to them and waved her hands, they couldn't see 1082 01:20:46,960 --> 01:20:51,399 her. She would go on for another hour before whatever spell had been cast, 1083 01:20:51,800 --> 01:20:56,479 was lifted, and she was finally able to continue on her way. 1084 01:20:59,199 --> 01:21:01,640 A similar case is that of a man who attended a party at an estate 1085 01:21:01,920 --> 01:21:05,840 and left to walk home, with this path taking him across a field. 1086 01:21:06,640 --> 01:21:11,079 As he walked, he noticed that not only did the field seem to never 1087 01:21:11,279 --> 01:21:15,960 end, but that it had changed somehow to become quite unfamiliar to him, 1088 01:21:15,199 --> 01:21:19,640 despite the fact that he had gone through that field countless times before. In 1089 01:21:19,680 --> 01:21:24,520 this case, the man apparently was quick to suspect that this was due to 1090 01:21:24,560 --> 01:21:29,079 the stray sod, so he quickly turned all his clothes inside out, but 1091 01:21:29,239 --> 01:21:32,720 this did not seem to work. He would walk around the field for hours 1092 01:21:32,800 --> 01:21:36,920 without any sign of a way out before he finally found an exit and ended 1093 01:21:38,000 --> 01:21:41,840 up at the house that he had left, where it seemed that only several 1094 01:21:41,840 --> 01:21:45,359 minutes had actually passed, despite the fact that to him he had been wandering 1095 01:21:45,880 --> 01:21:54,920 for hours. There are numerous other reports of this phenomena happening outside of Ireland 1096 01:21:54,960 --> 01:21:58,199 as well, and there are other versions of what appears to be the same 1097 01:21:58,239 --> 01:22:02,760 phenomenon in the lore of For instance, in Finnish folklore, there is what 1098 01:22:02,880 --> 01:22:09,680 is called metzen Pieto, meaning forest cover, which, like stray sod, 1099 01:22:09,800 --> 01:22:14,840 is a magical force produced by forest spirits that causes people to not only become 1100 01:22:14,960 --> 01:22:19,359 lost, but to also become invisible to other people looking for them. Also 1101 01:22:19,600 --> 01:22:24,199 like the stray sod, one way to negate the effects is to either put 1102 01:22:24,239 --> 01:22:29,840 on one's clothes inside out or put their shoes on the opposite feet. Japan 1103 01:22:29,960 --> 01:22:36,079 also has its own similar phenomenon called kamika kushi or spirited away, in which 1104 01:22:36,199 --> 01:22:43,119 people are lured away by spirits to be abducted and brought to another realm. 1105 01:22:43,319 --> 01:22:46,359 Whatever one calls the phenomenon, it is almost always the same sort of thing, 1106 01:22:46,680 --> 01:22:50,760 with people getting lost, unable to find an ex st and very often 1107 01:22:50,840 --> 01:22:56,960 unable to call out for help even when someone else is nearby, often also 1108 01:22:57,000 --> 01:23:01,079 describing the sense of being in a sort of parallel realm with the scenery changed 1109 01:23:01,279 --> 01:23:10,439 or twisted somehow. There are other equally strange and difficult to categorize cases as 1110 01:23:10,479 --> 01:23:14,760 well. As In August of eighteen ninety seven, a six year old girl 1111 01:23:14,840 --> 01:23:17,920 named Lilian Carney went missing in the U. S State of Maine as she 1112 01:23:18,039 --> 01:23:23,159 was out with her parents picking blueberries. According to the parents, she had 1113 01:23:23,239 --> 01:23:27,920 vanished right from underneath their noses. A preliminary search of the area would quickly 1114 01:23:27,960 --> 01:23:32,359 expand to over two hundred searchers scouring the area and calling the girl's name, 1115 01:23:32,920 --> 01:23:38,560 all to no avail. After an extensive search, Lilian was found in the 1116 01:23:38,600 --> 01:23:43,159 woods in a dazed and trance like state. When asked what had happened to 1117 01:23:43,199 --> 01:23:45,359 her, the dazed girl replied that she had been in a place in the 1118 01:23:45,399 --> 01:23:50,439 forest where the sun had shown the entire time she had been there. This 1119 01:23:50,680 --> 01:23:55,399 was rather odd, considering that the weather at the time of her disappearance had 1120 01:23:55,439 --> 01:24:00,399 been partly cloudy, she had been enveloped by a thick canopy of trees from 1121 01:24:00,439 --> 01:24:05,479 any town, and she had been missing overnight for around forty six hours. 1122 01:24:10,119 --> 01:24:15,279 These next reports follow a similar phenomenon where the witnesses seem to experience some type 1123 01:24:15,279 --> 01:24:19,279 of confusion or the feeling that they're becoming lost, but also involves some type 1124 01:24:19,319 --> 01:24:27,760 of malevolent creature or entity that they believe is stalking them. This first experience 1125 01:24:27,840 --> 01:24:31,199 was reported by a poster named Hanny two four two, who was at Big 1126 01:24:31,239 --> 01:24:36,039 Bend National Park in southern Texas. She had gone out camping in the area 1127 01:24:36,079 --> 01:24:41,880 with a friend and her husband and describes the landscape as flat, desolate, 1128 01:24:42,239 --> 01:24:45,039 and remote, and they thought that it would be fun to take a night 1129 01:24:45,119 --> 01:24:48,439 hike out to the nearest trail. Since it was a bright moonlight evening through 1130 01:24:48,479 --> 01:24:53,319 that flat terrain, they thought that it would be easy, but the witness 1131 01:24:53,319 --> 01:24:57,000 says that as a precaution, she had set out some rock piles early on 1132 01:24:57,119 --> 01:25:01,439 to help them find their way after dinner. They headed out around ten pm, 1133 01:25:01,479 --> 01:25:08,239 but they were all in for a terrifying experience. This is her story. 1134 01:25:09,439 --> 01:25:13,199 The first ten minutes were pretty uneventful and we were all in good spirits. 1135 01:25:13,680 --> 01:25:16,560 Suddenly, though we hear a scuttling noise from about fifty feet behind us. 1136 01:25:17,079 --> 01:25:20,279 Having been used to animal noises at night, we wrote it off as 1137 01:25:20,319 --> 01:25:24,800 a critter. A few minutes later, though, we heard the same noise 1138 01:25:24,960 --> 01:25:29,640 a bit closer and sounding like a bigger animal. There are black bears here, 1139 01:25:29,680 --> 01:25:32,119 but we weren't in that area. They're normally sighted. Like I said, 1140 01:25:32,199 --> 01:25:36,079 the landscape was wide open, and we didn't see anything with our flashlights. 1141 01:25:36,600 --> 01:25:41,159 We were a bit uneasy, but willing to go on. The rock 1142 01:25:41,199 --> 01:25:45,000 piles had been doing a good job of leading us in the right direction. 1143 01:25:45,199 --> 01:25:50,760 All at once, I stopped feeling absolute terror. It's an indescribable feeling that 1144 01:25:50,840 --> 01:25:56,279 I see many others in the subreddit reference. I knew we were in danger, 1145 01:25:56,560 --> 01:26:00,000 I just didn't know why. I looked to my friend and my husband, 1146 01:26:00,079 --> 01:26:03,159 who both looked as terrified as I felt. There was no sound, 1147 01:26:03,640 --> 01:26:10,359 no wind. Then, in an instant, the most inhuman scream erupted seemingly 1148 01:26:10,560 --> 01:26:14,760 from all around us. We all froze for what felt like minutes, but 1149 01:26:14,920 --> 01:26:18,560 I'm sure it was just seconds. I don't remember making the decision to run 1150 01:26:18,640 --> 01:26:23,000 back, but the next thing I remember, we were all running. We 1151 01:26:23,079 --> 01:26:26,039 made it pretty far out, even though I thought that I was running in 1152 01:26:26,079 --> 01:26:30,000 the right direction of our camp. I remember scanning for the rock piles I 1153 01:26:30,039 --> 01:26:32,760 had made, but not being able to find any of them, and almost 1154 01:26:32,840 --> 01:26:36,439 turning back, thinking that we were heading in the wrong direction, but I 1155 01:26:36,520 --> 01:26:41,920 had the instinct not to. We made it to a rather large rock that 1156 01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:45,720 I knew was on the route back to the campsite. I also remembered putting 1157 01:26:45,720 --> 01:26:47,800 a rock pile beside the rock, so I went to check if it was 1158 01:26:47,880 --> 01:26:51,600 still there to make sure that we were headed back to our campsite. The 1159 01:26:51,720 --> 01:26:57,560 rocks were still there, but they had been knocked over. This set off 1160 01:26:57,600 --> 01:27:00,920 all the alarms, and I told my friend and my h that we had 1161 01:27:00,920 --> 01:27:03,680 to get back to the camp as soon as possible. We made it back 1162 01:27:03,720 --> 01:27:06,439 a few minutes later, and by the time we got back, I was 1163 01:27:06,600 --> 01:27:11,920 entirely freaked out and I didn't want to stay. I think my husband was 1164 01:27:11,960 --> 01:27:15,840 as well, but my friend convinced us that it was just wildlife, so 1165 01:27:15,880 --> 01:27:18,720 we stayed in the tent that night. I don't know if it was connected, 1166 01:27:19,079 --> 01:27:24,560 but there was scuttling and footsteps around the tent all night. Either way, 1167 01:27:24,680 --> 01:27:29,399 I didn't sleep. We didn't do any more primitive hiking that trip, 1168 01:27:29,520 --> 01:27:32,319 and opted instead to stay at a campsite in one of the community camps. 1169 01:27:32,920 --> 01:27:38,119 I've never felt that feeling before or since, and I've been in the woods 1170 01:27:38,119 --> 01:27:42,880 at night plenty of times. The next day, I went out to check 1171 01:27:42,920 --> 01:27:45,399 if all the rock piles had been knocked down, and they had. I 1172 01:27:45,439 --> 01:27:49,560 don't think an animal would deliberately go around knocking over the markers, and that's 1173 01:27:49,600 --> 01:27:55,119 really what makes me think that it was sentient. I don't know what it 1174 01:27:55,279 --> 01:27:59,479 was, but I don't want to know, and I'm glad that we made 1175 01:27:59,520 --> 01:28:05,039 it out. In the next report, the origin of the strange sounds and 1176 01:28:05,119 --> 01:28:12,880 inexplicable fear is actually seen. This report comes from Reddit user throwaway eight four 1177 01:28:13,039 --> 01:28:16,680 six four eight, and it was posted on the Humanoid Encounter's forum. The 1178 01:28:16,760 --> 01:28:21,239 reporter says that on this evening he headed out to a wooded area in Wisconsin 1179 01:28:21,399 --> 01:28:25,880 to go to a party that some friends were having. Along the way, 1180 01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:29,800 they got a little lost, but were able to get directions by cell phone, 1181 01:28:30,000 --> 01:28:33,279 and they continued making their way through the dark trees, finding their way 1182 01:28:33,359 --> 01:28:40,000 by the beam of their flashlight. They still seemed lost, inexplicably going around 1183 01:28:40,039 --> 01:28:45,119 in circles and passing the same clearing several times, and the witness claims that 1184 01:28:45,199 --> 01:28:49,720 some very strange things would start to occur. This is what he had to 1185 01:28:49,760 --> 01:28:55,319 say. I joked that she'd better not get me killed, and as we 1186 01:28:55,439 --> 01:29:00,640 nervously laugh, we hear a nah na naw sound coming from behind us, 1187 01:29:01,039 --> 01:29:06,039 followed by what sounded like a cross between an old train whistle and somebody blowing. 1188 01:29:06,680 --> 01:29:11,000 We turn around, thinking what the heck was that, and we shine 1189 01:29:11,000 --> 01:29:15,000 our flashlights on a deer standing up on its hind legs with one arm against 1190 01:29:15,039 --> 01:29:19,279 a tree looking at us. I know this sounds stupid, but just the 1191 01:29:19,279 --> 01:29:24,520 way that it was watching us and standing there was the most unsettling thing I've 1192 01:29:24,560 --> 01:29:29,199 seen in my life. My friend then takes off running, and I'm still 1193 01:29:29,279 --> 01:29:31,680 just standing there looking at it, trying to make heads or tails of it, 1194 01:29:31,760 --> 01:29:35,479 before I start running after Gina, trying not to be left alone with 1195 01:29:35,520 --> 01:29:40,800 this thing. Luckily for me, Gina runs into a tree and I catch 1196 01:29:40,880 --> 01:29:44,239 up with her and start yelling at her about leaving me alone. And this 1197 01:29:44,279 --> 01:29:46,760 is when we hear another whistling sound to the left of us, and we 1198 01:29:46,840 --> 01:29:51,439 turn our flashlights to see another deer looking at us. However, this one 1199 01:29:51,479 --> 01:29:56,560 is walking towards us on its hind legs, but not like a person. 1200 01:29:57,079 --> 01:30:00,479 It was like a dog. It gets close but walks behind a tree with 1201 01:30:00,600 --> 01:30:05,319 only its head and neck poking out, watching us. I have never been 1202 01:30:05,439 --> 01:30:10,039 so scared in my life, and I started to cry and started yelling at 1203 01:30:10,079 --> 01:30:13,760 Gina and telling her to call the cops. At this point, I honestly 1204 01:30:13,840 --> 01:30:15,960 thought that I was going to die. I was just so scared. And 1205 01:30:16,000 --> 01:30:20,560 then we heard another whistle somewhere else in the woods behind us. We heard 1206 01:30:20,600 --> 01:30:24,840 a rustling sound in the woods, and we were sure that this was it 1207 01:30:25,279 --> 01:30:30,000 and we were going to die, but instead, outwalked a giant black dog. 1208 01:30:30,479 --> 01:30:32,439 The dog then walked right up to us, looked at us, and 1209 01:30:32,479 --> 01:30:36,800 then looked at the deer behind the tree, which then started making a nah 1210 01:30:38,000 --> 01:30:42,439 nyah sound like we had heard earlier. However, the dog just stood there 1211 01:30:42,479 --> 01:30:46,920 looking at it, not growling or barking or anything, just staring. The 1212 01:30:46,960 --> 01:30:51,000 deer then started to make a coughing sound, but the dog just stared at 1213 01:30:51,000 --> 01:30:55,960 it without making a noise, before turning around and just ignoring it, and 1214 01:30:56,000 --> 01:31:00,000 then walking over to us and barking and baying. A minute later, a 1215 01:31:00,039 --> 01:31:04,039 professor who I'd taken a class with sophomore year, burst through the brush and 1216 01:31:04,159 --> 01:31:09,760 started yelling at Baron his dog, who had apparently run away into the woods. 1217 01:31:10,279 --> 01:31:13,800 He was really confused to see us, but saw that we were crying 1218 01:31:14,000 --> 01:31:17,159 and offered to take us back to his house and drive us back to campus. 1219 01:31:17,640 --> 01:31:21,079 I haven't slept since that night, and have been all over the internet 1220 01:31:21,119 --> 01:31:26,840 trying to make sense of what I saw. I fully intend to spoil Baron 1221 01:31:26,960 --> 01:31:34,399 Rotten for saving my life, just as bizarre and Terrifying is a report from 1222 01:31:34,439 --> 01:31:39,720 a poster called Kaija Kai, who was out camping at the Red River Gorge 1223 01:31:39,720 --> 01:31:43,560 in Kentucky with her husband and a friend at the time. They had been 1224 01:31:43,560 --> 01:31:46,640 there many times before, and on this evening they did something they often enjoyed 1225 01:31:46,680 --> 01:31:50,000 while there, which was making their way to the top of a high trail 1226 01:31:50,279 --> 01:31:55,920 to go stargazing. They had been up this trail countless times before and knew 1227 01:31:55,920 --> 01:32:00,000 it very well, but this evening was to be a bit more unusual. 1228 01:32:00,000 --> 01:32:03,319 They made it to the top and laid down to do their stargazing, but 1229 01:32:03,520 --> 01:32:09,920 almost immediately they began hearing strange noises all around them, and the witness would 1230 01:32:09,920 --> 01:32:15,520 describe the following events. We laid down and tried to stargaze, but the 1231 01:32:15,520 --> 01:32:19,640 clouds were even thicker now it was miserably hot. We could hear voices at 1232 01:32:19,680 --> 01:32:24,560 times, and my husband kept checking for people that we heard. However, 1233 01:32:24,680 --> 01:32:29,439 he never saw anyone. We saw flashes of light, but never saw anyone 1234 01:32:29,479 --> 01:32:32,359 attached to it. Then we heard a bird call, but it wasn't like 1235 01:32:32,399 --> 01:32:36,600 a real bird noise at all. It sounded like a person making bird calls. 1236 01:32:38,039 --> 01:32:42,720 It was rhythmic and not really natural. I was convinced we weren't alone 1237 01:32:42,840 --> 01:32:46,439 and hadn't been alone. But also I am the most easily spooked. I 1238 01:32:46,479 --> 01:32:49,479 asked to leave as soon as they were ready to, and they were ready 1239 01:32:49,600 --> 01:32:54,479 right then and there. It scared me that they were just as afraid as 1240 01:32:54,600 --> 01:32:58,439 me. At this point, we began going down the way that we came, 1241 01:32:58,760 --> 01:33:00,840 and it felt like it was taking yeing so long. We were going 1242 01:33:00,880 --> 01:33:04,760 steady and quick, and it was downhill, but we weren't making any ground. 1243 01:33:04,760 --> 01:33:08,960 It seemed. It's hard to explain, but it was so weird that 1244 01:33:09,000 --> 01:33:13,119 at one point I even set out loud, this feels much longer, and 1245 01:33:13,239 --> 01:33:16,319 they both agreed with me. I kept looking behind me with the flashlight, 1246 01:33:16,640 --> 01:33:21,239 my husband kept looking out to the sides, and my friend kept hers mostly 1247 01:33:21,319 --> 01:33:25,920 forward. Now, as they made their way down the trail, they could 1248 01:33:25,960 --> 01:33:30,079 hear all sorts of undefinable noises coming from the dark, and the husband would 1249 01:33:30,119 --> 01:33:32,720 say that he kept catching what looked like eyes in the beam of the flashlight. 1250 01:33:33,319 --> 01:33:36,720 There were also what sounded like footsteps in the dark, and they were 1251 01:33:36,800 --> 01:33:43,640 sure that they were being followed by someone or something. Then things got even 1252 01:33:43,680 --> 01:33:49,119 scarier, and the witness explains what happened next? My husband just stops walking 1253 01:33:49,159 --> 01:33:54,800 all together and says, what's that? But the question is more of like 1254 01:33:54,840 --> 01:33:58,600 an alert. And I moved my hand lamp in that direction, and I 1255 01:33:58,680 --> 01:34:02,159 don't see anything at first. Then both of his lights catch a shape, 1256 01:34:02,479 --> 01:34:06,720 and then my headlamp catches it. I move my hand lamp to the center 1257 01:34:06,800 --> 01:34:12,039 and catch it, while my friend simultaneously finds it in her lights as well. 1258 01:34:12,760 --> 01:34:15,640 All six of our lights shine onto and kind of reflect off of a 1259 01:34:15,720 --> 01:34:20,760 light gray creature. It's bent into a crouching position, kneeling on its right 1260 01:34:20,880 --> 01:34:26,399 leg, and it starts turning towards us. It starts to slowly stand, 1261 01:34:26,640 --> 01:34:30,239 and my mind is racing still. It looks human, but it is too 1262 01:34:30,279 --> 01:34:34,920 big. People often mistake human shapes for what actually bears in the woods. 1263 01:34:35,359 --> 01:34:40,840 But this is skinny. It's thin and big and almost white. It's so 1264 01:34:41,000 --> 01:34:45,199 light gray, and its skin resembles dolphin skin. There's a shine to it, 1265 01:34:45,399 --> 01:34:49,640 and our lights get reflected a little when they're on it. It gradually 1266 01:34:49,680 --> 01:34:54,920 comes to a full standing position in front of us. Its head is long, 1267 01:34:55,199 --> 01:34:58,560 and its eyes are in a human position, on the face in front 1268 01:34:58,800 --> 01:35:01,920 and not on the side in animals, but I couldn't see any other facial 1269 01:35:01,960 --> 01:35:08,119 features, just big, almost empty holes or pits where the eyes were. 1270 01:35:09,159 --> 01:35:13,680 It looked directly at us and our lights. The way it stood was intimidating, 1271 01:35:13,880 --> 01:35:16,880 almost like when snakes raise up and flex their necks all crazy to show 1272 01:35:16,880 --> 01:35:21,199 the prey that they're stronger and smarter. It was kind of like it was 1273 01:35:21,239 --> 01:35:27,000 stepping up to a fight, from crouching, then turning, and then standing 1274 01:35:27,039 --> 01:35:30,640 front on in front of us. The arms hung down low, and the 1275 01:35:30,720 --> 01:35:34,000 hands seemed long as well. Its hands had to be by its knees. 1276 01:35:34,600 --> 01:35:39,760 I'd guess it stood nine feet or so and not that far in front of 1277 01:35:39,840 --> 01:35:43,640 us. It had no hair at all, and its head was large as 1278 01:35:43,680 --> 01:35:48,119 well. I couldn't process what I saw, and I was frozen. Then 1279 01:35:48,239 --> 01:35:51,880 I feel my husband hitting me on the back and yelling run, run, 1280 01:35:53,079 --> 01:35:56,680 run. I start to understand that we have to get away from this thing, 1281 01:35:57,079 --> 01:36:00,520 and then it pivots and runs to the right, going backwards on the 1282 01:36:00,520 --> 01:36:03,359 trail so it could get around the barrier and onto the trail behind us. 1283 01:36:03,920 --> 01:36:06,720 We take off, running the rest of the way down the trail, knowing 1284 01:36:06,720 --> 01:36:11,359 that this thing just took off much faster than us, and that after it 1285 01:36:11,399 --> 01:36:15,359 crossed from behind the barrier, it would be gaining on us quick. We 1286 01:36:15,439 --> 01:36:18,000 didn't talk at all, because when we tried to it felt like we would 1287 01:36:18,000 --> 01:36:23,079 get caught. We keep running as we can, but some areas are so 1288 01:36:23,199 --> 01:36:26,840 steep it never felt like we were out of sight from this creature. And 1289 01:36:26,880 --> 01:36:29,800 as we made it to the trail beginning with the gravel, we could hear 1290 01:36:29,880 --> 01:36:33,640 something to the side crashing down through the forest. We ran until we got 1291 01:36:33,680 --> 01:36:38,359 to the car, and then we drove as fast as we could, and 1292 01:36:38,520 --> 01:36:41,960 as soon as we got to the main road, it cleared up and the 1293 01:36:41,960 --> 01:36:45,159 stars were out. When that thing looked at us, I knew it was 1294 01:36:45,199 --> 01:36:48,840 smarter and faster than us. I knew that if we hadn't seen it, 1295 01:36:49,000 --> 01:36:53,840 that it could have easily taken one of us and then gotten away. I 1296 01:36:53,880 --> 01:36:57,640 think that the only reason it hesitated was because so many of us saw it 1297 01:36:57,680 --> 01:37:04,920 at once, and we stayed together. Let's begin with our first experience of 1298 01:37:04,960 --> 01:37:12,000 the night, which comes to us from Savannah, and Savannah's experience is called 1299 01:37:13,000 --> 01:37:18,199 meaningful Dream. Savannah says, Hey, Nick, I've been listening to your 1300 01:37:18,199 --> 01:37:23,319 podcast for a while now and absolutely love it. I'm not sure if this 1301 01:37:23,399 --> 01:37:28,279 is exactly something that is paranormal, but I do believe it is something otherworldly. 1302 01:37:28,880 --> 01:37:31,720 It's been almost three years since my dad passed away, and I felt 1303 01:37:31,720 --> 01:37:36,079 that I should share my dream that I had the day before he passed away. 1304 01:37:38,199 --> 01:37:42,279 Here's a little bit of background of myself. I was fifteen when my 1305 01:37:42,399 --> 01:37:45,880 dad passed away, and I've always believed in the spiritual world and still do. 1306 01:37:46,760 --> 01:37:53,760 I've experienced several small paranormal things, good and bad. I've also always 1307 01:37:53,840 --> 01:37:59,600 had pretty realistic dreams, more so nightmares. For a little background on my 1308 01:37:59,720 --> 01:38:02,680 dad, my dad was diagnosed with a terminal illness when he was in his 1309 01:38:02,760 --> 01:38:08,800 early twenties, but it never really affected him until he reached his late thirties. 1310 01:38:09,520 --> 01:38:13,479 My dad became severely ill in the last week of September and had to 1311 01:38:13,520 --> 01:38:17,079 be hospitalized. The first two nights of him being in the hospital, he 1312 01:38:17,159 --> 01:38:20,840 was still fully aware, but the morning of the third day is when he 1313 01:38:20,880 --> 01:38:28,520 became extremely disoriented and was constantly in and out of consciousness. Our whole family 1314 01:38:28,680 --> 01:38:31,319 was in and out of the hospital, coming as soon as visiting hours started 1315 01:38:31,479 --> 01:38:35,960 and staying until visiting hours were over. During the time that he was in 1316 01:38:36,000 --> 01:38:41,279 the hospital, I had developed severe anxiety, causing me to never be able 1317 01:38:41,319 --> 01:38:45,159 to sleep. On the fourth day of him being in the hospital, he 1318 01:38:45,239 --> 01:38:48,800 was put on a ventilator. When I got home later that night, I 1319 01:38:48,880 --> 01:38:53,439 was able to finally go to sleep. I started dreaming that I was in 1320 01:38:53,439 --> 01:38:57,680 my high school, running late for my Spanish class. As I'm walking to 1321 01:38:57,720 --> 01:39:00,560 my Spanish class, I was stopped by the sight of my dad in the 1322 01:39:00,560 --> 01:39:04,560 middle of the hallway. As I'm looking at him, I see my Grandma, 1323 01:39:04,880 --> 01:39:09,479 his mom, walk up next to him. I'm not sure why, 1324 01:39:09,680 --> 01:39:13,640 but my grandma was in the form of her younger years. She had bright 1325 01:39:13,760 --> 01:39:17,520 red hair and her face was free of wrinkles. As she appeared, a 1326 01:39:17,560 --> 01:39:23,720 bunch of balloons appeared as well. I should also add that my grandma is 1327 01:39:23,760 --> 01:39:29,000 still alive, with gray hair and her face heavy with wrinkles. I have 1328 01:39:29,079 --> 01:39:32,920 always been confused why so many balloons had appeared and why the younger version of 1329 01:39:32,960 --> 01:39:39,880 my grandma was in this particular dream. After watching my grandma walk up next 1330 01:39:39,880 --> 01:39:43,319 to my dad, I stood there staring at the two of them. My 1331 01:39:43,479 --> 01:39:46,199 dad then opened his arms wide, beckoning me to come and give him a 1332 01:39:46,319 --> 01:39:50,840 hug. I then ran into his arms and was soon encased in a bear 1333 01:39:50,960 --> 01:39:56,640 hug. As soon as his arms wrapped around me, I was consumed with 1334 01:39:56,880 --> 01:40:00,720 relief. I was still aware what was happening outsid my dream. I knew 1335 01:40:00,720 --> 01:40:04,000 that he should not be in my school, but in the hospital bed on 1336 01:40:04,039 --> 01:40:10,079 a ventilator. I questioned him and wondered why he was here and how he 1337 01:40:10,119 --> 01:40:14,920 got better so fast. His only response was to squeeze me tighter and then 1338 01:40:15,000 --> 01:40:19,640 said it'll be okay. I woke up from my dream with tears dreaming down 1339 01:40:19,640 --> 01:40:24,279 my face, but I still felt the relief that I got whenever my dad 1340 01:40:24,319 --> 01:40:28,680 hugged me. Twenty minutes after I woke up, my mom told me that 1341 01:40:28,720 --> 01:40:31,199 it was time to go. When we got to the hospital, I found 1342 01:40:31,239 --> 01:40:35,960 out that my family decided to take my dad off the ventilator, meaning that 1343 01:40:36,039 --> 01:40:41,359 he was going to pass some time that day. I bawled my eyes out, 1344 01:40:41,399 --> 01:40:45,760 devastated that my dad was officially going to be gone, but I still 1345 01:40:45,840 --> 01:40:49,520 felt that relief. Only a couple of months ago, I talked to my 1346 01:40:49,600 --> 01:40:54,000 sister about the dream that I had, and to both of our shocks, 1347 01:40:54,279 --> 01:40:59,079 she had the exact same dream and feelings, except they were in a dollar 1348 01:40:59,159 --> 01:41:03,760 general store. Even our grandma was young in her dream. I still get 1349 01:41:03,840 --> 01:41:09,960 chills whenever I think of it. I believe that dream was him saying goodbye 1350 01:41:10,039 --> 01:41:14,479 to us and to give us strength because he knew the next day was going 1351 01:41:14,560 --> 01:41:18,560 to be his last day. Sometimes that relief I felt and my dream washes 1352 01:41:18,600 --> 01:41:25,520 over. Typically on days that is passing hits me hardest. I'm sorry if 1353 01:41:25,520 --> 01:41:29,960 this explanation is all over the place. I still get rather emotional whenever talking 1354 01:41:30,000 --> 01:41:34,560 about his dream, and it causes my mind to work in overdrive. I'd 1355 01:41:34,600 --> 01:41:38,680 like to thank you for offering an outlet to people who feel like they can't 1356 01:41:38,720 --> 01:41:48,199 talk to anyone about their experiences. Stay well, Savannah. Our next experience 1357 01:41:48,239 --> 01:41:54,479 comes to us from Goulay and Gulay, says Hi, Nick. Thank you 1358 01:41:54,520 --> 01:41:58,560 for being a great host and being a safe place to share our experiences. 1359 01:41:59,119 --> 01:42:01,479 You've shared two of them, one about a green man, and I can't 1360 01:42:01,520 --> 01:42:06,199 remember what the other one was about, maybe a duende. Well. I've 1361 01:42:06,239 --> 01:42:11,359 been talking to a co worker more recently about the paranormal because we found out 1362 01:42:11,359 --> 01:42:14,760 that we have the same interest in the paranormal, and she told me that 1363 01:42:14,880 --> 01:42:18,840 she has a shadow man that lives with her. After telling me about her 1364 01:42:18,880 --> 01:42:24,279 experiences, about a week later, I got home after work and as usual, 1365 01:42:24,359 --> 01:42:27,640 I went to our guest room on the first floor to change and as 1366 01:42:27,640 --> 01:42:30,319 I was pulling down my bedtime shirt, the door to the room was cracked 1367 01:42:30,399 --> 01:42:34,399 so that I could see outside the realm, but nobody can see inside. 1368 01:42:34,960 --> 01:42:40,039 I can see through the crack a tall man, almost shadow like, and 1369 01:42:40,159 --> 01:42:45,079 he looked similar to my fiancee same height, wait, walk and speed. 1370 01:42:46,039 --> 01:42:49,479 I asked, babe, what are you doing? As the direction he was 1371 01:42:49,520 --> 01:42:53,680 walking was as if he was going to walk out to the front door, 1372 01:42:54,159 --> 01:42:58,640 but the door never opened, assuming that he was looking out the window beside 1373 01:42:58,680 --> 01:43:01,159 the front door. I opened the bedroom door and before looking up, I 1374 01:43:01,279 --> 01:43:05,600 asked, is there someone here? What are you doing, only to find 1375 01:43:05,640 --> 01:43:10,920 out that nobody was there. I then turned the other way and walked toward 1376 01:43:10,920 --> 01:43:14,680 the kitchen to find my fiance by the fridge. I asked him if he 1377 01:43:14,760 --> 01:43:17,600 was near the room or by the front door, to which he said no, 1378 01:43:18,159 --> 01:43:21,479 that he was in the kitchen the whole time. I then told him 1379 01:43:21,520 --> 01:43:29,039 what happened and laughed and joked that my coworker's shadow man followed me home during 1380 01:43:29,079 --> 01:43:32,079 the last week of August, a few days after the shadowman experience, I 1381 01:43:32,159 --> 01:43:35,560 went to the bathroom in the downstairs guest room, and as I was closing 1382 01:43:35,560 --> 01:43:40,359 the door, I noticed that it would not shut. This door has no 1383 01:43:40,399 --> 01:43:44,600 trouble closing and no trouble opening. It's not heavy, and I do not 1384 01:43:44,760 --> 01:43:47,199 need to use force, as the house shifted barely enough to make you have 1385 01:43:47,279 --> 01:43:51,920 to lift the door to shut it entirely. Well, when I noticed the 1386 01:43:51,920 --> 01:43:56,840 door wasn't closing, it was not even touching the door frame. It was 1387 01:43:56,880 --> 01:44:00,760 as if someone's hand was between the frame and the door, trying to make 1388 01:44:00,800 --> 01:44:03,600 sure that it didn't close. I had to use the bathroom so bad that 1389 01:44:03,640 --> 01:44:08,760 I pushed harder and used the force of my body, but it still didn't 1390 01:44:08,800 --> 01:44:13,319 budge. So I gave up and did my business. But after washing my 1391 01:44:13,399 --> 01:44:16,560 hands, I double checked the door. It was still light and didn't need 1392 01:44:16,600 --> 01:44:20,600 any force to open or close. I then closed it all the way with 1393 01:44:20,720 --> 01:44:25,720 no force at all, given the fact that it didn't shot because of the 1394 01:44:25,760 --> 01:44:30,199 shifted house. But nevertheless it closed all the way still with nothing blocking it 1395 01:44:30,239 --> 01:44:34,600 from touching the frame. I did an inspection to see if anything around it 1396 01:44:34,680 --> 01:44:40,760 might have blocked at but I found nothing. Later that night, as I 1397 01:44:40,840 --> 01:44:43,720 was walking up the stairs to go to bed, we have to pass up 1398 01:44:43,760 --> 01:44:46,479 a hallway that leads to the washroom. Then the other side of the stairs 1399 01:44:46,600 --> 01:44:51,119 is the guest bedroom, both of which you can see without trying. I 1400 01:44:51,239 --> 01:44:56,920 noticed at first, before walking up the stairs that the laundry room light appeared 1401 01:44:56,920 --> 01:45:00,239 to be on. They weren't, but it was all lit as as if 1402 01:45:00,279 --> 01:45:03,560 someone had a spotlight shining into that room. I shrugged it off, as 1403 01:45:03,600 --> 01:45:06,520 if my mind was playing tricks on me, and I made my way up 1404 01:45:06,560 --> 01:45:11,319 a few more stairs until I turned to the right, because now the guest 1405 01:45:11,359 --> 01:45:15,600 bedroom appeared the same way. This was at a time that everyone was in 1406 01:45:15,680 --> 01:45:19,359 their own rooms and could not have played tricks on me, so I shrugged 1407 01:45:19,359 --> 01:45:24,439 it off, continued upstairs, and called my fiance to tell him what had 1408 01:45:24,439 --> 01:45:29,199 happened. I laughed and said, Sherry needs to come and get her shadow 1409 01:45:29,279 --> 01:45:33,439 man back. The next day, I texted my coworker saying that she needed 1410 01:45:33,479 --> 01:45:38,239 to get them, and I added a laughing emoji, only for her to 1411 01:45:38,279 --> 01:45:42,840 say that she actually hasn't seen them for a few days, which is unusual 1412 01:45:42,880 --> 01:45:45,239 because she sees them at least once every day, and it's gotten to the 1413 01:45:45,279 --> 01:45:50,279 point where her husband and son have seen them too, until they appeared at 1414 01:45:50,319 --> 01:45:58,319 my house. This is my next story. My dog of sixteen years passed 1415 01:45:58,319 --> 01:46:01,399 in February. She was a little old lady, and we each took turns 1416 01:46:01,479 --> 01:46:06,199 carrying her and giving her kisses and scratches and making sure she knew that she 1417 01:46:06,319 --> 01:46:12,720 was loved until she crossed her rainbow bridge. Well. Two nights ago, 1418 01:46:12,800 --> 01:46:15,800 my sister and I were in the kitchen and we both heard a bark that 1419 01:46:15,920 --> 01:46:20,039 sounded exactly like Coco's, our late dog. It was so real sounding that 1420 01:46:20,079 --> 01:46:24,920 we continued what we were doing until we realized that she had been gone for 1421 01:46:25,000 --> 01:46:28,880 months now and there was no way that we could have heard her. The 1422 01:46:28,960 --> 01:46:31,560 other dogs around us are big dogs, and they don't sound like her, 1423 01:46:31,960 --> 01:46:36,079 nor are they as close as her bark sounded. Another thing is that we 1424 01:46:36,159 --> 01:46:41,159 both heard it, and we both thought the same thing. We both, 1425 01:46:41,239 --> 01:46:45,319 without a doubt, know that this bark sounded like it was her, letting 1426 01:46:45,439 --> 01:46:49,439 us know she wanted to come back inside. Without a doubt, I know 1427 01:46:49,560 --> 01:46:54,520 it was her. I still get so heartbroken knowing she isn't here with us, 1428 01:46:54,920 --> 01:46:58,439 and I still cry about it, but hearing that Bark gave me the 1429 01:46:58,479 --> 01:47:02,039 biggest smile and boost a head happiness. Now I need to find a way 1430 01:47:02,079 --> 01:47:06,800 to include her in my wedding. Thank you again, Nick for all that 1431 01:47:06,880 --> 01:47:16,479 you do goo Lay. Our next experience comes to us from Roy and Roy's 1432 01:47:16,520 --> 01:47:25,239 experience is called Hot Night in Tasmanian Winter. Roy says, good day, 1433 01:47:25,319 --> 01:47:29,479 Nick, I've only just found your podcast. Although I listened to many similar 1434 01:47:29,520 --> 01:47:33,439 ones, the first story I listened to was from Tasmania and it intrigued me 1435 01:47:33,479 --> 01:47:36,960 because of the location. So I thought that I would write to you and 1436 01:47:38,079 --> 01:47:42,720 relate my little tale. In two thousand and two, my wife and I 1437 01:47:42,760 --> 01:47:47,079 spent three weeks traveling around Tasmania. We drove our four wheel drive from Bowboing 1438 01:47:47,159 --> 01:47:53,119 In near Campbelltown in New South Wales down to Victoria and we caught the ferry 1439 01:47:53,279 --> 01:47:59,239 the Spirit of Tasmania across to Devenport, arriving in Devenport at ten thirty pm. 1440 01:47:59,479 --> 01:48:02,560 We stayed overnight in a caravan park and the next day we set off 1441 01:48:02,600 --> 01:48:05,880 on our trip. We didn't have a plan as to where we would end 1442 01:48:05,960 --> 01:48:11,239 up day to day, and just winged it, only looking for accommodation around 1443 01:48:11,279 --> 01:48:15,960 four pm each day unless we were staying in the same location for more than 1444 01:48:15,000 --> 01:48:20,439 one day. We covered most of Tasmania and drove highways, dirt roads, 1445 01:48:20,880 --> 01:48:26,920 beaches, et cetera. Tasmania is a fantastic place to visit, and we 1446 01:48:26,920 --> 01:48:30,680 were there exactly six years after the Port Arthur massacre, and we spent three 1447 01:48:30,760 --> 01:48:35,960 consecutive days walking through Port Arthur and taking ghost tours in a ferry ride to 1448 01:48:36,039 --> 01:48:41,319 the Isle of the Dead, where only the landed gentry had marked graves and 1449 01:48:41,399 --> 01:48:45,880 the convicts were buried all around the rest of the small island in unmarked grave 1450 01:48:45,960 --> 01:48:49,920 sites. You were literally walking over them without knowing if you were or not. 1451 01:48:51,199 --> 01:48:55,840 We had a couple of minor strange events happened during our time at Port 1452 01:48:55,920 --> 01:49:00,119 Arthur, photos not turning out, batteries of our video camera missing and then 1453 01:49:00,199 --> 01:49:05,479 turning up unexpectedly, but nothing spokier than that, although I wished we had. 1454 01:49:06,439 --> 01:49:11,239 There are many beautiful little towns in Tasmania and we were having a great 1455 01:49:11,319 --> 01:49:16,239 time, except ironically in a town called Campbelltown. My wife and I at 1456 01:49:16,279 --> 01:49:20,960 that stage had been happily married for twenty seven years and were married happily for 1457 01:49:21,039 --> 01:49:28,119 another fifteen. But in Campbelltown we had an unexpected argument. We were standing 1458 01:49:28,119 --> 01:49:31,520 on an old bridge where a murder had apparently taken place, and we found 1459 01:49:31,600 --> 01:49:36,000 that we could not agree on anything or where to go next. It finally 1460 01:49:36,039 --> 01:49:40,479 turned out that we decided to walk to a nearby church and take a look 1461 01:49:40,479 --> 01:49:45,000 inside. There was very little conversation between the bridge and the church, but 1462 01:49:45,079 --> 01:49:47,640 as soon as we stepped into the vestibule of the church, the air seemed 1463 01:49:47,640 --> 01:49:53,600 to clear and we were happy again. The rest of the day was terrific, 1464 01:49:53,840 --> 01:49:57,159 and in the afternoon we decided to find a place to stay for the 1465 01:49:57,279 --> 01:50:00,760 night. We found a place easily, and the owner said that we could 1466 01:50:00,760 --> 01:50:03,600 stay in a house that was available or a converted stable that was out the 1467 01:50:03,640 --> 01:50:08,960 back of the house. The house looked a little spooky and far too big 1468 01:50:09,000 --> 01:50:12,960 for what we needed, so we opted for the stable. The stable was 1469 01:50:13,119 --> 01:50:16,560 very quaint and had a small lounge area and kitchen, an open fireplace, 1470 01:50:16,840 --> 01:50:23,239 and a bedroom and en suite upstairs. Now, Tasmania in early May is 1471 01:50:23,279 --> 01:50:26,399 pretty cold, so I thought that I would light the fire and warm the 1472 01:50:26,399 --> 01:50:30,520 place up. A bet kindling and firewood was supplied, so I thought that 1473 01:50:30,560 --> 01:50:33,159 it would be no problem. We had an open fireplace in our home back 1474 01:50:33,199 --> 01:50:38,720 in NSW and it was never a problem to get it going, but not 1475 01:50:38,920 --> 01:50:42,720 so in this place. Try as I might to get the fire going, 1476 01:50:42,880 --> 01:50:47,439 it kept going out. I'd like kindling newspaper, different stack methods, it 1477 01:50:47,680 --> 01:50:51,840 just would not go. The plan was get the fire going, let it 1478 01:50:51,880 --> 01:50:56,119 get established, and then go to the pub for dinner, and the place 1479 01:50:56,159 --> 01:51:00,319 would be cozy and warm for when we returned. However, finally, after 1480 01:51:00,359 --> 01:51:03,079 spending almost an hour with the fire, I gave up and we went to 1481 01:51:03,119 --> 01:51:08,359 the pub for dinner. We walked home, satisfied with our visit to the 1482 01:51:08,399 --> 01:51:12,880 pub and our meal, and we went upstairs to bed. My wife fell 1483 01:51:12,880 --> 01:51:17,000 asleep easily, but not me. I just could not get comfortable and I 1484 01:51:17,079 --> 01:51:20,920 found the place to be too warm. All this in the midst of a 1485 01:51:20,960 --> 01:51:27,199 Tasmanian winter where I couldn't even get a fire going. After a while, 1486 01:51:27,399 --> 01:51:30,039 my wife woke up and asked if I was okay. I told her that 1487 01:51:30,079 --> 01:51:33,680 I couldn't get comfortable in this place and that I was sweating all over. 1488 01:51:34,359 --> 01:51:38,520 She turned on the light and saw that I was a mess and could not 1489 01:51:38,640 --> 01:51:42,359 explain why I was in the state that I was in, and she was 1490 01:51:42,439 --> 01:51:45,159 under the covers. I told her not to worry and to go back to 1491 01:51:45,239 --> 01:51:49,319 sleep, and I would try to do the same, but it never happened. 1492 01:51:49,800 --> 01:51:54,880 I just kept sweating and could not rest. So after spending a few 1493 01:51:54,920 --> 01:51:59,119 more hours awake and wondering what was going to happen next, I just resigned 1494 01:51:59,119 --> 01:52:02,319 myself to wait for the sun to come up. Around five o'clock, I 1495 01:52:02,399 --> 01:52:06,199 went downstairs and made a cup of tea, not interested in getting the fire 1496 01:52:06,239 --> 01:52:10,319 going for myself, but I thought that I would try to light it for 1497 01:52:10,439 --> 01:52:15,920 my wife's benefit, and it lit easily. I was baffled. It was 1498 01:52:15,000 --> 01:52:18,520 the same wood as last night, and with little effort, the fire was 1499 01:52:18,560 --> 01:52:24,439 going strong. With the fire now going, I started to cool down. 1500 01:52:25,039 --> 01:52:29,960 My wife then came down and we made breakfast, showered, and said goodbye 1501 01:52:30,199 --> 01:52:34,800 to the stable. I can't explain what happened to us in Campbelltown, Tasmania, 1502 01:52:35,079 --> 01:52:39,520 but there was something about that town that didn't completely agree with us. 1503 01:52:40,039 --> 01:52:43,680 I believe there was something in that stable that just didn't want us there, 1504 01:52:44,199 --> 01:52:48,439 especially me. Tasmania is a fantastic place, but I believe because of its 1505 01:52:48,479 --> 01:52:54,000 convict history, there are many uneasy souls there. I think that it would 1506 01:52:54,000 --> 01:52:57,800 have been easier for me if I had seen an apparition in the stable or 1507 01:52:57,920 --> 01:53:04,079 heard some voice saying out, but I'm left guessing. Anyway. I'm glad 1508 01:53:04,079 --> 01:53:09,359 I've found your podcast, Nick, and I will continue to listen. I 1509 01:53:09,399 --> 01:53:18,039 am very pleased to hear stories from Australia, all the best Roy. Our 1510 01:53:18,039 --> 01:53:25,079 next report comes to us from Jay, and Jay's story is called time Traveler 1511 01:53:25,520 --> 01:53:30,840 or Doppelganger. Jay says, Hi, Nick, I just wanted to say 1512 01:53:30,880 --> 01:53:33,399 I've been listening to your podcast for about nine months now and I'm hooked. 1513 01:53:34,000 --> 01:53:39,800 Listening to people's experiences has been enthralling and has brought up memories of my own. 1514 01:53:40,399 --> 01:53:43,640 Today, I'd like to share a story that happened to me sometime in 1515 01:53:43,680 --> 01:53:47,119 two thousand and eight. I had gone to a doctor's appointment, and when 1516 01:53:47,159 --> 01:53:50,479 I got there, the receptionist looked up at me and said, wow, 1517 01:53:50,520 --> 01:53:55,119 that was fast. How did you have time to change your clothes? I 1518 01:53:55,159 --> 01:53:58,399 looked at her, confused and asked her what she was talking about, and 1519 01:53:58,520 --> 01:54:01,239 she said to me, well, you were just here you came up to 1520 01:54:01,279 --> 01:54:04,640 the desk, started talking, and then mentioned that you had an appointment in 1521 01:54:04,680 --> 01:54:09,840 a few minutes. Still confused, I told her, ma'am, this is 1522 01:54:09,840 --> 01:54:14,880 the first time I've been here today. She seemed surprised. She told me, 1523 01:54:15,399 --> 01:54:17,960 I swear you were here. You came up, talked about five minutes, 1524 01:54:18,199 --> 01:54:21,840 looked at your watch, and then said you had to go. I 1525 01:54:21,960 --> 01:54:26,920 paused for a moment and asked her if I had an appointment here and I 1526 01:54:27,000 --> 01:54:30,239 told you that it was in a few minutes, why would I suddenly decide 1527 01:54:30,279 --> 01:54:33,439 to leave. She then said, I don't know. It did seem odd, 1528 01:54:33,720 --> 01:54:38,520 but I didn't think to ask about it. The thing that baffles me 1529 01:54:38,560 --> 01:54:42,439 to this day is that I asked her what I was wearing when I came 1530 01:54:42,479 --> 01:54:45,079 in the first time, and she described an outfit that I had at home, 1531 01:54:45,279 --> 01:54:49,279 almost exactly the way it was. I know. People may ask if 1532 01:54:49,319 --> 01:54:53,680 I have a brother, and I do. He's five years older than me, 1533 01:54:54,199 --> 01:54:57,960 lives in a different county about an hour away, have different moms, 1534 01:54:58,479 --> 01:55:02,439 and we look nothing alive. People say that we all have twins somewhere in 1535 01:55:02,439 --> 01:55:05,520 the world, But what of the odds that mine just happens to be in 1536 01:55:05,560 --> 01:55:10,800 the same place that I'm going to be a few moments later. Or is 1537 01:55:10,840 --> 01:55:14,760 it possible that in the future we have figured out how to time travel. 1538 01:55:15,680 --> 01:55:23,760 I'll let you be the judge. Our next experience comes to us from Carol, 1539 01:55:24,560 --> 01:55:30,039 and Carol's story is called Ouiji Board. Carol says, Hi Nick, 1540 01:55:30,479 --> 01:55:33,760 it seems that every time I hear a new episode, it reminds me of 1541 01:55:33,760 --> 01:55:39,920 a similar experience I've had and want to share. When I was young, 1542 01:55:40,119 --> 01:55:44,600 I was gifted a Ouiji board. We're talking early nineteen seventies. At the 1543 01:55:44,640 --> 01:55:47,880 same time, I also became interested in and checked out occult books from the 1544 01:55:47,960 --> 01:55:54,039 library. My mom and I lived with my maternal grandparents as she was divorced 1545 01:55:54,079 --> 01:55:58,239 from my dad. She was a woman ahead of her time, very strong 1546 01:55:58,399 --> 01:56:03,159 and independent, yet he could also be very quiet and intimidating. My family 1547 01:56:03,199 --> 01:56:09,319 attended church every week, and my grandmother was extremely religious and always prayed. 1548 01:56:09,960 --> 01:56:13,520 If she knew the significance of the board, she never would have allowed it 1549 01:56:13,600 --> 01:56:18,239 into her home. The same goes for the books. The occult books and 1550 01:56:18,279 --> 01:56:23,319 wuigiboard were located in a bedroom I was sharing with my mom, and she 1551 01:56:23,439 --> 01:56:27,239 knew about them. Of course, Being young, I played with the Ouiji 1552 01:56:27,319 --> 01:56:30,560 board and didn't know what I was doing and was completely unaware that there were 1553 01:56:30,600 --> 01:56:35,760 certain rules to follow. This naturally meant that I didn't do anything correctly, 1554 01:56:36,279 --> 01:56:44,000 and it quickly led to chaos. It began one night with minor, unidentifiable 1555 01:56:44,079 --> 01:56:47,560 noises. I thought that I was only imagining yet and had just scared myself 1556 01:56:47,600 --> 01:56:53,079 from reading the books, but it seemed to build more and more each night. 1557 01:56:53,920 --> 01:56:59,159 On one final cataclysmic night, what started out as strange, nonplaceable noises 1558 01:56:59,199 --> 01:57:04,159 throughout the house soon evolved into full, disembodied whispers. There was a tangible 1559 01:57:04,199 --> 01:57:10,600 oppressive energy seeping into our bedroom walls, and the sharp scratching sounds that followed 1560 01:57:10,760 --> 01:57:15,359 betrayed its intention to infiltrate not just my room, but my own body and 1561 01:57:15,560 --> 01:57:21,880 mind. Then the movement in my room began. I was terrified and helpless, 1562 01:57:23,000 --> 01:57:26,960 and my mom thankfully felt and hurt it all too. At least I 1563 01:57:27,079 --> 01:57:30,640 wasn't alone. She was, needless to say, furious, and she warned 1564 01:57:30,640 --> 01:57:35,279 me to remove the books from our house and return them without delay. I 1565 01:57:35,399 --> 01:57:41,000 never saw the Wigi board again after that night, and things eventually died down 1566 01:57:41,039 --> 01:57:45,560 in the house. After that. Thank God. It's the one thing I've 1567 01:57:45,600 --> 01:57:50,079 always implored to my son not to do play with the Ouiji board. However, 1568 01:57:50,239 --> 01:57:54,640 I know that the more you prohibit someone from doing something, the more 1569 01:57:54,720 --> 01:57:58,880 likely they are to do what you forbid, and that tendency has haunted me 1570 01:57:59,119 --> 01:58:02,800 throughout my parents hood. My son is twenty six, and I believe him 1571 01:58:02,800 --> 01:58:06,479 when he says that he's never messed with one and doesn't ever intend to. 1572 01:58:06,920 --> 01:58:11,880 But I hate that the potential for negative energies to infiltrate his life as it 1573 01:58:11,920 --> 01:58:15,479 had mine, is still out there, that these seemingly innocuous traps are in 1574 01:58:15,520 --> 01:58:20,000 the world, just waiting to be found. I truly feel that if my 1575 01:58:20,159 --> 01:58:27,279 son hadn't already experienced considerable paranormal activity in our current home while he grew up, 1576 01:58:27,520 --> 01:58:31,319 he would have already been tempted to experiment with one. Thanks again, 1577 01:58:31,399 --> 01:58:36,359 Nick for the safe sharing space. I genuinely enjoy listening to everyone's stories, 1578 01:58:36,560 --> 01:58:42,279 and I love how much they validate your listener's experiences. It really lights a 1579 01:58:42,319 --> 01:58:46,319 fire in me to share and connect with the other listeners. May you, 1580 01:58:46,319 --> 01:58:51,760 your family, and your listeners find peace of mind, body, and spirit. 1581 01:58:53,800 --> 01:59:01,359 Your loyal fan and patron Carol. Our next experience comes to us from 1582 01:59:01,359 --> 01:59:09,880 Marcia, and Marcia's experience is called My Year in a Haunted House. Marcia 1583 01:59:09,920 --> 01:59:14,960 says I never believed in ghosts until I was in my early thirties and moved 1584 01:59:14,960 --> 01:59:18,680 to the eastern shore of Maryland. On December first, two thousand and five, 1585 01:59:19,000 --> 01:59:24,840 our family moved into a rental house just outside Salisbury. Everything was fine 1586 01:59:24,880 --> 01:59:29,000 and I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. Shortly after moving in, 1587 01:59:29,279 --> 01:59:32,119 I got my two school age children off to school and my husband left for 1588 01:59:32,199 --> 01:59:36,039 work. So I climbed back into bed, where my eighteen month old was 1589 01:59:36,119 --> 01:59:41,720 still sleeping. She was just waking up when I heard a little girl talking 1590 01:59:41,760 --> 01:59:45,880 in the living room down the hall. I held my breath and listened more 1591 01:59:45,880 --> 01:59:48,800 carefully, and just as I was convincing myself that it was my imagination, 1592 01:59:49,560 --> 01:59:54,560 my daughter sat up and said, Sissy's here, And this is when I 1593 01:59:54,640 --> 01:59:58,520 knew that she heard it too. I told her that her sister was at 1594 01:59:58,520 --> 02:00:00,880 school and that no one was he, but she had to go and look 1595 02:00:00,920 --> 02:00:06,840 for herself. I brushed off the incident. Not long after that, my 1596 02:00:06,960 --> 02:00:11,840 ten year old daughter told me that one Saturday morning that before I woke up, 1597 02:00:11,880 --> 02:00:15,760 she was sitting on the couch watching cartoons. From one end of the 1598 02:00:15,800 --> 02:00:18,520 couch, you could see up the hall to the bedrooms. As she was 1599 02:00:18,560 --> 02:00:24,960 watching cartoons, she was distracted by two white, mistlike little girls that came 1600 02:00:25,000 --> 02:00:28,920 out of our bathroom, skipped down the hall, and then went into my 1601 02:00:29,000 --> 02:00:32,960 bedroom, where my husband and I were still sleeping. I asked why she 1602 02:00:33,000 --> 02:00:36,039 didn't come and get me, and she said that she didn't want to go 1603 02:00:36,359 --> 02:00:41,159 where the little girls went. When I asked her what she did do, 1604 02:00:41,560 --> 02:00:45,199 she said, I moved to the other end of the couch so I couldn't 1605 02:00:45,239 --> 02:00:48,560 see down the hall. Not long after that, I saw one of these 1606 02:00:48,600 --> 02:00:54,880 little mist girls cross the hall in front of me as well. One morning, 1607 02:00:55,079 --> 02:00:58,479 I woke up and was checking the TV for a school delay for fog, 1608 02:00:58,720 --> 02:01:01,600 which I had never experience and anywhere else I'd ever lived. And as 1609 02:01:01,640 --> 02:01:05,880 I watched the delays scroll across the screen, I heard a child crying. 1610 02:01:06,560 --> 02:01:10,920 I immediately went and checked all three of my kids, who were still sound 1611 02:01:10,920 --> 02:01:15,800 asleep. I then went back to the TV and continued to watch, and 1612 02:01:15,920 --> 02:01:19,279 I then heard laughing. It made me smile, knowing that I made the 1613 02:01:19,399 --> 02:01:26,000 child laugh. This little girl or girls never made me feel afraid, but 1614 02:01:26,119 --> 02:01:29,880 my husband didn't believe me until one day he bought the kids one of those 1615 02:01:29,920 --> 02:01:33,319 big marbled, purple and white balls that make that sound when it bounces that 1616 02:01:33,399 --> 02:01:38,640 you recognize from your childhood. That night, we went to bed and my 1617 02:01:38,720 --> 02:01:43,000 husband heard it bouncing and bouncing in the living realm. He got out of 1618 02:01:43,039 --> 02:01:45,960 bed and went to check it out, and it was just sitting in the 1619 02:01:45,000 --> 02:01:48,840 middle of the living room, between the couch and the television. The next 1620 02:01:48,920 --> 02:01:53,920 day he asked if I had heard it and told me his story. I 1621 02:01:54,039 --> 02:01:58,319 was up before everyone that morning and found the ball in the kitchen about thirty 1622 02:01:58,319 --> 02:02:02,880 feet and around the corner for where he saw it at two am. We 1623 02:02:03,000 --> 02:02:08,920 had many other small things happen in this home, often hearing footsteps walking down 1624 02:02:08,920 --> 02:02:12,800 the hall. I asked our landlord if anyone had ever mentioned a ghost in 1625 02:02:12,840 --> 02:02:15,960 the home, and he said that no one had ever complained. Even after 1626 02:02:16,000 --> 02:02:19,399 we were moving out, he came to give us our deposit back, and 1627 02:02:19,439 --> 02:02:23,680 I asked him again, since we are moving out of state, you can 1628 02:02:23,720 --> 02:02:27,640 tell me the truth. But he swears that no one has ever said anything. 1629 02:02:28,279 --> 02:02:31,079 So I told him well, the next time someone asks, you can 1630 02:02:31,119 --> 02:02:36,880 tell them yes, I do have another incident that happened in this house that 1631 02:02:38,119 --> 02:02:42,279 was not so sweet as the Little mist girls, but I will save that 1632 02:02:42,680 --> 02:02:47,279 for another time. Thanks for taking the time to listen and giving me a 1633 02:02:47,399 --> 02:02:55,119 place to share. I hope you enjoyed part two, and if you'd like 1634 02:02:55,159 --> 02:02:59,039 to submit your experience or learn more about supporting what I do, you can 1635 02:02:59,079 --> 02:03:03,560 find all of my kind contact and support information at Paranormal Mysteries podcast dot com 1636 02:03:03,720 --> 02:03:09,000 and of course in the show notes. Until next time, I hope you 1637 02:03:09,000 --> 02:03:13,479 have a safe and fun New Year's Eve, and please remember, don't wait 1638 02:03:13,520 --> 02:04:26,359 for the unknown to come to you, get out there and find it. Fu