1 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:16,760 When his daughter begins explaining her strange dreams, Brandon begins to suspect that something 2 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:22,079 else is going on aside from a simple nightmare. Wouldn't be long before he 3 00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:29,960 himself had a face to face encounter disensity. My name is Edmon, and 4 00:00:30,079 --> 00:00:44,799 here is Brandon. It's true scary story. All this started happening a month 5 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:52,000 ago. I live in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, which is about thirty minutes north 6 00:00:52,079 --> 00:00:58,439 of Pittsburgh, PA. It's a really industrial kind of city. Everything's old 7 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:07,480 and data looking as most coal feel mines and construction places. I moved there 8 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:14,760 last year, went through a divorce, found this apartment that is a really 9 00:01:14,799 --> 00:01:18,760 old building. It's really small and right off of one of the main streets 10 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:25,000 in Ambridge. I took it out of desperation. It was either that or 11 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:30,680 moved to Georgia with my family. I wanted to stay in PA. My 12 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:38,439 daughter's here. I move into this apartment. Nothing much really happens for the 13 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:44,280 first year. A month ago, I go to pick my daughter up from 14 00:01:44,359 --> 00:01:51,840 daycare. We're about halfway home. At this point, my daughter starts telling 15 00:01:51,879 --> 00:01:57,120 me about this dream she has where she's at her mom's house. These bad 16 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:04,200 guys are opening up doors to her bedroom and the door that leads to her 17 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:12,000 mom's room. These bad guys approach her, cut her face and her mom's 18 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:19,719 face. I knew to take this kind of seriously, this dream that she 19 00:02:19,879 --> 00:02:24,800 was having. I knew it was more than just a nightmare. I've always 20 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:30,879 been a spiritually sensitive person. My family is sensitive to it. I asked 21 00:02:30,879 --> 00:02:38,159 her, what do these bad guys look like? One is a ghost and 22 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:46,360 another one is a monster. That really disturbed me, just hearing that my 23 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:53,520 three and a half year old daughter is having these visions that she's seeing this 24 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:57,960 happen. I didn't really have a response at the moment. I was AWESTRUCKI 25 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:05,039 I changed the subject, but she just talked about it so nonchalantly. It 26 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:09,840 just rolled off her tongue. I knew that this was something that a child 27 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:16,680 her age can't make up on their own. I brought it up to her 28 00:03:16,719 --> 00:03:21,520 mom. Her mom kind of seemed to dismiss it. She's more of a 29 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:24,759 skeptic. She thinks that it could just be her imagination or she's having bad 30 00:03:24,879 --> 00:03:30,840 dreams. When I told my mom, my mom told me that I should 31 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:36,319 do a cleanse of the apartment. She agreed, with me. She agreed 32 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,240 that there was no way for her to make that up. She thinks it 33 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:46,879 could have been some kind of malevolent demonic entity trying to attach itself to her. 34 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:53,960 Those malevolent entities like to attach themselves to people who are in really vulnerable 35 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:59,039 moments, times of despair or trauma, especially to children, because children are 36 00:03:59,319 --> 00:04:05,639 naturally more perceptor to the paranormal. With child of divorce seems like a good 37 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:15,479 target for malevolent spirits. So I get her home that night, and it 38 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:23,480 was almost instantaneous. The air in my apartment felt heavy. I live on 39 00:04:23,519 --> 00:04:26,839 the third floor, in the very top floor of this little apartment building. 40 00:04:27,519 --> 00:04:31,240 I didn't feel any tension and negativity until we got into my apartment. It 41 00:04:31,439 --> 00:04:36,720 just it was heavy, It was tense. It felt like any positivity was 42 00:04:36,759 --> 00:04:44,120 just being drained from it. I could feel myself and my daughter. We 43 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:47,839 both seemed to be getting angrier a lot, quicker, easily, frustrated, 44 00:04:47,879 --> 00:04:54,600 and agitated. I kept having this looming anxiety the whole time. It kept 45 00:04:54,720 --> 00:05:00,079 lingering like that saying when you're waiting for the other shoe to drop, That's 46 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:04,160 what it felt like. I was in that anxious anticipation. I knew something 47 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:12,319 was there, that something could happen. A few days go by of that 48 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:17,879 feeling, nothing really happens until one night I put my daughter in bed, 49 00:05:18,959 --> 00:05:23,839 I do my nightly routine. I stay up for a little, play some 50 00:05:23,959 --> 00:05:27,279 video games, take a shower, all that stuff to wind down for bed. 51 00:05:28,319 --> 00:05:32,199 I get in bed, start drifting off to sleep, start going into 52 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:40,120 the onset of sleep paralysis, which I never experienced before. I do have 53 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:43,759 sleep apne yet I have a feel for what sleep issues are like. I 54 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:46,959 used to wake up a lot at night, but as soon as I got 55 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:51,240 myself in bed, I was laying on my back while the seapaps started going. 56 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:57,000 I start closing my eyes to drift asleep. All of a sudden, 57 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:01,399 my limbs start feeling really stiff and heavy, almost to the point of numbness. 58 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:08,519 I wasn't in control of my body for a bit. I thought of 59 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:14,959 paranormal stuff in the association with sleep paralysis. Maybe if I can muster some 60 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:21,959 kind of strength to move my body, I can break the sleep paralysis before 61 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:28,920 it gets too bad. I start trying to move one of my arms. 62 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:33,680 I'm able to grab the closest thing to me, my phone, that grounds 63 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:38,600 me and do my best to stay calm and not to panic. I'm able 64 00:06:38,639 --> 00:06:46,480 to sleep fine after a few nights pass and no other sleep paralysis incidents like 65 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:54,199 that happen, but that tense feeling, that anticipation was still all there. 66 00:06:55,680 --> 00:07:00,480 I was so anxious if my daughter woke up in the night crying, I 67 00:07:00,519 --> 00:07:04,959 would wake up, but I would just be frozen in fear. Pardon me, 68 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:11,000 and my gut had this spot if I go in there, what's going 69 00:07:11,079 --> 00:07:15,199 to be in there with her? I'm able to get up. I go 70 00:07:15,279 --> 00:07:21,079 in and I check on her. I see nothing. I'm able to calm 71 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:26,600 her, tell her everything's okay, and go back to sleep. I'm still 72 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:33,240 left in that state of fear of whatever's in there in that apartment with us. 73 00:07:35,079 --> 00:07:41,160 A week after the first sleep paralysis incident, I put her to bed, 74 00:07:42,279 --> 00:07:46,399 did my own thing for a couple hours, went to bed. I 75 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:50,279 wake up, and I had no idea what time of night it is. 76 00:07:50,319 --> 00:07:55,920 I didn't check my phone. I naturally woke up from a dream. I 77 00:07:56,040 --> 00:08:01,759 look over from the foot of my bed, and on the wall to my 78 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:11,480 right of that doorframe is a shadow figure. My room's pitch black. It 79 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:20,079 was blacker than that black, absence of light completely. It had no discernible 80 00:08:20,399 --> 00:08:24,399 facial features. I couldn't see eyes, limbs, or anything. It just 81 00:08:24,439 --> 00:08:30,879 looked like a silhouette of someone's shadow being projected. I could tell it was 82 00:08:30,959 --> 00:08:35,759 looking at me. I just had that feeling. It was about the height 83 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:41,440 of a child, probably three and a half, no taller than four feet 84 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:48,399 tall, just staring there at me. My daughter's bedroom door is closed. 85 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:56,320 I just knew what it was. I knew it was something malevolent. I 86 00:08:56,440 --> 00:09:01,240 knew it was something that wanted to feed off of whatever negativity there was. 87 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:07,039 Instead of speaking or trying to turn on the light and cast it out, 88 00:09:07,159 --> 00:09:15,159 I chose to ignore it and not show any kind of fear. I've always 89 00:09:15,159 --> 00:09:20,720 thought that if you feed into the sense of fear that they're trying to project 90 00:09:20,759 --> 00:09:26,240 onto you, that makes them stronger. I ignore it. I do my 91 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:31,840 best to go back to sleep. When I wake up at my normal time 92 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:37,279 six am to start getting my daughter ready for daycare and myself ready for work. 93 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:43,720 It's gone. There's no trace of it whatsoever. Never would have even 94 00:09:43,759 --> 00:09:48,759 known it was there if I hadn't seen it myself. No other real encounters 95 00:09:48,799 --> 00:09:54,559 happened for a little while up next, as he comes across a medium, 96 00:09:54,919 --> 00:10:05,720 he gets a stern warning to do with this. I was working on the 97 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:11,440 process of moving in with my girlfriend. The next weekend that I didn't have 98 00:10:11,519 --> 00:10:16,879 my daughter and she was at her mom's. My girlfriend and I go to 99 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:20,440 a flea market together. I like to look at antique old video games and 100 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:26,240 try to restore them. There happens to be a medium there. My girlfriend 101 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:31,519 and I get to talking to her, making small talk and learning more about 102 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:37,919 her profession. I go back after that talk to the medium alone, tell 103 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:41,799 her about my daughter's dreams and the kind of happenings that are going on. 104 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:48,679 She gets this concerned look on her face says, you need to cleanse like 105 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:56,919 now. She confirmed there's no way that a child her age has the kind 106 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:01,279 of imagination to come up with what she seen in that level of detail. 107 00:11:03,279 --> 00:11:09,879 It was something strictly evil that was trying to attach itself to her, and 108 00:11:09,919 --> 00:11:18,039 it wanted to follow her from house to house. She suggested that both myself 109 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:26,200 and her mother should cleanse our respective houses. I by saints and a smudging 110 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:31,519 feather off of her. She gives me a bottle, a little cork bottle 111 00:11:31,519 --> 00:11:39,480 of holy oil for free tells me to anoint my doorframe to my apartment with 112 00:11:39,799 --> 00:11:45,639 the shape of a cross using the oil, and to recite the Lord's prayer 113 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:50,159 while I'm doing it, and I'm doing the same thing with my daughter's forehead. 114 00:11:50,519 --> 00:11:56,799 The next time that I saw I told my mom that I had spoken 115 00:11:56,840 --> 00:12:03,159 with a medium. She said the meat and was right that after I do 116 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:09,679 the cleans to close all the windows again and to put salt at the doorway 117 00:12:09,159 --> 00:12:15,440 and on the windowsills to act as a seal to keep the bad spirits from 118 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:20,399 coming back in again. But the next day, my girlfriend and I, 119 00:12:20,759 --> 00:12:28,039 after her kid goes down for his nap, we go to my apartment and 120 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:33,360 get ready to do the cleanse. First, we saged ourselves once we got 121 00:12:33,399 --> 00:12:39,840 in to keep any negativity from attaching onto us to keep the spirits at bay. 122 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:45,360 We put the sage in the dish and take the smudging feather and I 123 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:54,159 start walking around the apartment in a clockwise direction, just like the medium suggested 124 00:12:54,240 --> 00:13:01,159 that I do. I keep saying this prayer to cast out all negative spirits 125 00:13:01,159 --> 00:13:07,840 and energy to bring love and peace back into the house by making the circle 126 00:13:07,919 --> 00:13:13,679 around the apartment. I get done with my daughter's room. As soon as 127 00:13:13,679 --> 00:13:18,919 I go into the living room and start doing the cleanse, the door, 128 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:22,759 the front door that we left wide open, slammed itself, shut out of 129 00:13:22,759 --> 00:13:30,519 nowhere, loud, slammed with some force. I asked my girlfriend if she 130 00:13:30,639 --> 00:13:35,120 shut the door while I was cleansing. She tells me no, but I 131 00:13:35,279 --> 00:13:45,759 just saw it close itself. We finished the cleanse, We do the anointing 132 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:50,480 with the holy oil, say the Lord's prayer. We even anointed my daughter's 133 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:56,480 door frames to her room just to be safe, and left after that. 134 00:13:58,639 --> 00:14:03,600 I didn't go back to that apartment until the next day when I had to 135 00:14:03,639 --> 00:14:09,279 pick my daughter back up from daycare. I put the oil on her forehead, 136 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:16,080 say a prayer. She asked me what I'm doing, and I tell 137 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:20,240 her this is to keep all negative things away from you, to keep you 138 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:26,080 safe and happy. She goes, oh, okay, that's good, goes 139 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:31,879 off on her own thing. Ever since then, there's never been an encounter. 140 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:37,120 I haven't heard my daughter talk about nightmares or anything. The overall tension 141 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:45,960 in the air, that whole feeling of negativity has gone away. It seemed 142 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:50,519 like it worked. Then. I found out a couple things after the cleanse 143 00:14:50,679 --> 00:14:54,840 was done. Before the cleanse happened, whenever my daughter would wake up in 144 00:14:54,879 --> 00:15:00,679 the middle of the night, her covers would be pulled off her or on 145 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:05,519 the floor, or her stuffed animals that she slept with would also be on 146 00:15:05,559 --> 00:15:09,919 the floor. She has a toddler bed that has a guard rail by her 147 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:13,600 side that she sleeps. If those were to fall, she would have to 148 00:15:13,679 --> 00:15:20,159 throw them, which maybe she didn't or sleep too. But it is interesting 149 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:26,759 to see that that stopped happening after the cleanse. I do think that whatever 150 00:15:26,919 --> 00:15:31,480 was in there may have been doing that to mess with her in some way, 151 00:15:31,559 --> 00:15:37,759 or to get to her, try to get attention. I did research 152 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:41,679 on my apartment over at Ambridge. When I looked up the house history, 153 00:15:41,759 --> 00:15:46,240 I couldn't find anything on anyone who died there. I did find out it 154 00:15:46,279 --> 00:15:52,919 was built in nineteen fourteen, but almost one hundred and ten years old and 155 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:58,200 is seted right next to a funeral home. There's actually two parking lots. 156 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:04,519 There's one part lot at the building for the funeral home specifically, and another 157 00:16:04,559 --> 00:16:11,000 parking lot for tenants. The combination of an old building and a really old 158 00:16:11,759 --> 00:16:17,279 almost Rundown city that happens to be next door to a funeral home, just 159 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:22,440 gives it a more creepy vibe and makes it seem like it could be more 160 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:30,080 of a hotspot for paranormal things. I think it was something malevolent. I 161 00:16:30,159 --> 00:16:34,279 don't think it was a ghost at all. I don't think I've ever heard 162 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:41,080 of or read anything about a ghost appearing that solid black of a mass. 163 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:52,440 I have heard that usually demonic entities will appear as shadows that dark, and 164 00:16:52,519 --> 00:16:56,600 I have seen ghosts before too. In the past, I've been able to 165 00:16:57,559 --> 00:17:03,279 make that mental comparison, and when I saw it, it was something evil 166 00:17:03,359 --> 00:17:10,119 or demonic trying to attach itself to my daughter who had been going through the 167 00:17:10,319 --> 00:17:15,079 trauma that she had been going through in the past year. When I talked 168 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:19,240 to my mom about it, she asked if her mom or I watch any 169 00:17:19,599 --> 00:17:23,200 scary movies while she's in bed, or maybe she hears stuff. I told 170 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:27,839 her no, I would never watch anything like that when my daughter's around. 171 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:33,680 My mom is a spiritual person. She's almost wicked, but she practices more 172 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:37,519 of the light side of it, healing, cleansing. She does talk to 173 00:17:37,599 --> 00:17:45,079 spirits, mainly my grandfather, her dad that died a few years ago when 174 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:48,559 I told her about the cleanse that we were going to do to get rid 175 00:17:48,559 --> 00:17:56,480 of the spirit attacking my daughter and me. She had brought out divination rods 176 00:17:56,519 --> 00:18:02,240 while I was on the phone with her. They're dowsing rods. People have 177 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:07,799 used them to also talk to spirits. The concept that if you let go 178 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:11,759 of the rods, the spirits will manipulate them and move them to kind of 179 00:18:11,799 --> 00:18:18,599 make signs. She had brought out divination rods started talking to my grandfathers through 180 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:22,960 them. Every time I started talking, she had me on speakerphone, the 181 00:18:23,079 --> 00:18:30,960 rods would point to me. I asked if my grandfather had seen her before 182 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:34,599 in their old house when we used to visit after he died. They said 183 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:42,279 yes. My mom asked if my grandfather would offer some kind of comfort or 184 00:18:42,319 --> 00:18:48,519 help protect my daughter and me to drive this bad spirit out. The rods 185 00:18:48,519 --> 00:18:53,119 were again pointing to yes. It did kind of bring a comfort and kind 186 00:18:53,119 --> 00:19:00,400 of relieve some of my anxiety. Just knowing that even though I was going 187 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:10,319 to my apartment to cast out something evil potentially demonic, that I add helped 188 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:17,400 to on the other side in the form of my grandfather wanting to still watch 189 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:23,319 over me and his great granddaughter. It all stopped kind of suddenly and abruptly, 190 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:29,880 like after the cleanse. She hasn't said that she's seen anything or had 191 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:40,160 any dreams like that since. If you'd like the show, text it to 192 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:44,039 a friend. The link to share it is on your podcast app for ad 193 00:19:44,079 --> 00:19:47,440 For you listening, check out scaryplus dot com and give it a try for 194 00:19:47,519 --> 00:19:51,599 free. And to connect with me, find me on Instagram at edwin Cove. 195 00:19:51,759 --> 00:19:56,440 That's ed w i nCoV. 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