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Speaker 1: During the early two thousands, my husband and I were

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enjoying the American dream in Texas. He was a teacher

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and a coach, and I was the jill of all trades.

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I was an elementary school tutor, cosmatologist, hairdresser, newspaper editor,

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and an advertiser. We were fortunate to live in the

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wonderful community of Lockhart, the barbecue capital of Texas, where

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my husband had a sixteen year coaching job. After several years,

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we purchased our first home there. Oddly enough, we had

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passed this house for years, never noticing until the for

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sale sign went up in the front yard. It spoke

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to me. It was Tudor style, a huge wooden oval door,

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plant boxes, a clay toil roof, and a full sized basement.

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In the South, that is unheard of. Well, being a hairdresser,

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you have connections, because when you cover a lady's gray,

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she is forever in your debt. I called up a

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favor and my realtor friend got me into the house

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for an unofficial peak. The house was sad and neglected.

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The walls were painted sherbet green, and the heavy dust

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covered slated blinds kept it dark like a cave, dimming

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the already stained stucco walls. There was standing water in

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the basement and some of the ceiling tiles were falling in,

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but there were hardwood floors and ornate light fixtures with

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sconces on the walls. When I walked into the kitchen,

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I knew it was mine. Red countertops and tattered rooster curtains.

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I collected roosters at the time, so for me it

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was a sign. Even in such a sad state, it

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was clear that the house had once been cherished, and

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something in me wanted to pour my whole heart into

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fixing it back up. So that's what we did. But

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when we moved forward with the loan process, we hit

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a snag it seeing the house needed extensive repairs and

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upgrades that we hadn't anticipated. We were crushed. And then

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after a wonderful turn of events, the seller instructed the

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realtor to take the cost of the repairs off the price.

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The realtor told us that in all her years, she

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had never seen that happen. The house had belonged to

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the seller's sister, Miss Sunshine, and her husband. They were

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the Crags, and they had no heirs. The seller was

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in a rest home and took comfort in knowing that

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a young family would be moving in well. We had

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a three year old son at the time, and when

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the repairs were finished, we had a beautifully renovated nineteen

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twenties Art deco gym, and I loved that house. One day,

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I was in the basement doing laundry when I heard

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the door to the stairs open, and I expected my

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husband to call out, because he came home sometimes during

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the day if he got a break. When he didn't

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greet me as usual, I turned and looked towards the

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sound of the footsteps coming down the stairs. But it

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wasn't my husband that I saw. It was a ghostly

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man wearing shined black leather shoes and dress slacks. I

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gasped and I squeezed my eyes shut, hollering and falling

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backward at the same time, and when I stood up

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again and composed myself, there was no one there. We

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loved this house and we will be very good to it.

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I said to the staircase and my empty basement. You

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can stay, but please don't ever show yourself to me,

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or I'll get scared and move out, and this place

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will become a rental. After that, I never had another problem.

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A year or so later, our daughter was born and

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life rolled on. Football season came and went. We had

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killer parties at the house. Kids were everywhere, men yelling

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at the game downstairs, and the wives having good gossip

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sessions upstairs, and we were very happy. One night, when

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my daughter was about four, she fell asleep after dinner

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at the bottom of our bed. I didn't want to

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wake her up and didn't be awake for the rest

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of the night, so we decided to let her stay there.

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Then in the middle of the night, she started shaking

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my leg, mommy, mommy, wake up. I heard her whispering.

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I thought she was just wanting to get me up,

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and after several tries she stopped. And the next morning

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I asked her why she had tried to wake me.

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I was trying to tell you that those people were

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coming in the room, she said, in a matter of

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fact tone. What people, I asked her, trying to look indifferent,

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while my mind started racing. Well there was a man

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and a woman, she said, that came from the kitchen

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up the hall to your room. Well, what did they

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look like? I asked her, and she thought about it

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for a while. The man had a hat that went

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down over his eyes, and the lady's hairs was in

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rolls and all over her face. She said, Well, I

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pictured mister Craig and I Fedora and Miss Sunshine with

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that classic Great Gatsby style air, which would have best

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described the era in which the house was built. Well,

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what did they want? I stammered, daring to ask. They

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wanted to play with your feet, my daughter said, nonchalantly,

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But I told them to go away. That's what I

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always tell them. I was floored, and after that I

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was so afraid that I couldn't even go to the

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bathroom at night or to the basement after dark, which

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was ridiculous because nothing ever happened. There were several times

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my son had tried to tell me that his beanie

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babies played together. I felt guilty because I didn't listen.

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I should have asked him what he meant, but I

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knew it wouldn't be able to handle the answer. The

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beauty shop sure got a kick out of my story, though,

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a few weeks later, my friend called after touring an

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old home in Fredericksburg. The tour god explained that they

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had an entity that liked to play with the guest's feet.

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She called me and we both screamed like girls. Well,

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we lived in that house for a few more years

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until coaching took us to the coast, and when it

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was time to go, I more in the house. Literally,

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I made everyone go to the car and I bawled

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on the floor. It was a hot July in Texas

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and a fluke of rain poured on us. When we

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left town, I took all the fixtures from the house,

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which I carried guilt about. But this past summer we

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visited our old town and after twenty years, we saw

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the house again, and it broke my heart. The fence

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we built had fallen down, and all my flower beds

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were gone. I was glad I saved the fixtures for

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Miss Sunshine and for me. Though it was hard for

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me to see the house in such a lapidated state again,

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I took some comfort in knowing that Miss Sunshine and

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her husband had gotten their home back. Hopefully they still

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saw the house in its full glory, just as my

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daughter had seen them. I love your stories, and as

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a proud coach's wife, I'd love to meet your wife. Well,

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you're welcome to meet my wife. I'm not a coach,

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but I did play. I did play the game. I

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love the game. I know a lot of coaches. But anyway,

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this was a wonderful story. This isn't one of those

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stories it just makes your ears bleed that it's so scary,

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But it's just a good, well put together story, and

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it's she claims it's true, and I have no doubt.

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I have no doubt that this woman and her family

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went through this. And I'd be curious to what her

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husband said about all this. I wonder if he experienced anything.

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I guess, is what I'm saying. So I've had this

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for a while. I'm glad I got to it. I

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appreciate the woman sending it to me. It's a wonderful story.

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Thank you, Hey, welcome to the podcast. This is Cam Buckner.

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I appreciate you clicking on the video. Did you guys

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have a good Labor Day? Let me know in the

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comments section. We had a great weekend and we're having

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a great week. My old lady, she's been behaving well.

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She's been doing a lot of work around the place,

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and I took her as a treat to the ever

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delicious Taco Bell today. We've changed our diet recently. We're

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feeling great, we're losing weight. Everything's going great, and we

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decided to just be bad and cheap today. And let

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reading these stories off of a computer screen, I use

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now let's get back to what I ate it. Taco

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bell I got the seven dollars Cravings Box, which includes

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a seasoned beef Chiloupa Supreme, a double stack taco beefy

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five layer burrito, chips of nacho cheese, and a medium drink,

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all for the low low price of seven dollars. She's

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been doing a lot of work around here. She got

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all the garden pulled up. We left a few tomato plants.

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She's dug a ditch between the double wide and the

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septic tank. She power washed off the back porch. She's

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got a bunch of vegetables canned. She did that on

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about three days. So my old lady's doing good. So

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I rewarded her with a taco bell, the ever delicious

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taco Bell. All right, enough of that, thanks for joining

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me on this podcast. Let's get into some more stories.

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Think you gonna like this? All right, here we go. Okay,

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here's a story from my friend kat Rabbit. I've had

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this a while, just now getting to it, but it's

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a good story. It's about an Alabama white thing, Bigfoot.

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Truly good. In nineteen seventy three, when I was thirteen

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years old, my sister lived in a small two bedroom

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trailer behind my parents' house. She worked an evening shift

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at Olympia Mills, and her husband worked out of town.

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She had a one year old son that my mother

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would keep in the afternoon, but at night I put

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him to bed. And stayed with him until she got home.

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I had suffered from insomnia at that age, so I

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didn't mind staying up late. I loved going to her

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trailer each night, and when I was there, I felt

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like it was all grown up, like I was my

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own boss. She had a new Donnie Osmond album alone together,

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and like all little girls at that age, he was

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my idol. I would listen to his album all night

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until she came in, and then I'd head to my

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house and jump in bed. My house was a good

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walking distance away, about half a football but my sister

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kept her porch lights on and my parents kept theirs on.

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For me, it was no biggie for me, and walking

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alone at night never bothered me. But one night I

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was doing my thing, and I was eating junk food

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and listening to Donnie and checking on the baby, when

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all of a sudden, I got so tired that I

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could hardly hold my eyes open. I normally didn't get

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sleepy after midnight, so the sensation was strange to me,

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to say the least. Try as I might, I couldn't

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find it. I was so overcome by exhaustion that I

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lay down on my sister's bed at the end of

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the trailer, and I instantly went into a trance like state.

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I wasn't asleep, but I wasn't fully awake either. As

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I lay there in this sudden, confusing fog of tiredness,

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I saw what I can only describe as the Abominable

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Snowman through the open window at the end of the bed.

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Alabama is known for its white thing, not but white

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thang thha n g. It's our version of Bigfoot. But

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there I was paralyzed in my sister's bed as this

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creature that looked like the Abominable Snowman from Rudolph the

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Red Nosed Reindeers film stared at me through the open window.

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But unlike a children's movie, I wasn't so sure there

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would be a happy ending, and there was no turning

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this white thing off. The creature had shaggy white hair

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that waved around as he moved and fell around his face.

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He was dark around the eyes, and his mouth was

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curled into a distorted smile, exposing his sharp teeth. He

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slowly reached his arm through the window at me, but

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I was powerless to do anything about it, to just

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lay there and let it happen. Even if the paralyzing

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fatigue hadn't overcome me, I'm sure by that point I

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would have been paralyzed by fear. I couldn't scream, or

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run or any thing. His long white hair dragged across

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the bed as he reached his arm toward me, and

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without touching me, he hovered his monstrous hand over my stomach.

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Donnie singing in the background, twisted into a faded jumble

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of sounds, and then everything went dark. It couldn't have

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been but just a few minutes, and I came to

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again to the sounds of a record player skipping. I

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didn't wake with a jerk like you do from having

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a nightmare. Instead, I felt rested and calm. I checked

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on the baby, and I spent the next thirty minutes

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trying to figure out what the hell had just happened

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to me. When my sister came home, I didn't dare

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tell her about what happened. It would have frightened her

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and she would be moving back in with Mama and Daddy.

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And when she got settled, I realized I still had

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to walk home alone in the dark. The walk was quiet,

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but I knew something was lingering in the darkness and

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watching me. I wanted to run, but I didn't let

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myself because I didn't want to give into the fear.

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I wanted to look over my shoulder, but I was

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too afraid, just in case I saw the white thing again,

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and if I saw it, that meant that it was real,

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and if it was real, that meant there was a

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monster in the woods. But my shaking legs got me

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home safely, and when I got inside, I locked the

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door behind me, and I made up my mind that

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I wasn't going to tell anyone what had happened. I'm

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the baby of the family and my older siblings would

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have ragged me to death. Years later, in twenty twelve,

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I had a game camera pointed at my chicken house

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in hopes of capturing whatever or whoever I suspected had

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been coming into my yard at night. Each day I

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would check the camera, but I didn't have any luck

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until my buddies Ashley and Denise came over. We decided

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to get the SIM card out of my game camera

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to check it because maybe they would to something that

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I had missed, and as soon as I pulled the

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footage up on my laptop, de Nise pointed her finger

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at the screen and shouted, what is that. The three

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of us huddled our heads closer to the screen to

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see what she was looking at. And at first all

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I could see was my husband's truck going down the driveway,

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which had set off the camera. But in the background

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there was something massive and white standing on two legs.

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Old boy. Were we excited? And we shouted and hollered

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for my husband to come and see, and then ran

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outside and put the SIM card back in the game camera.

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I got my friend de Nise to run out there

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to try to get a comparison picture, but it was

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too far for her to set the camera off. I

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took the picture of her with my phone anyway, excited

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to get them professionally printed as soon as possible. The

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next day, I went to the picture developer with the

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images from my game camera and my phone. The man

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working there told me that he had to blow up

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the picture of Denise just to get a glimpse of

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her white baseball gap, but otherwise she was way too

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small to see. But in comparison, the picture of the

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white figure standing exactly where Denise had been was big

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enough to see even without blowing it up. He slid

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the picture of the white creature toward me, and, out

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of curiosity, asked what it was, but I had lost

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focus on his voice on the radio behind him, Donnie

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Osmond started singing from the album Alone Together. Without looking

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at the picture, I put it in the envelope he

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gave me, and I wished him a nice day, and

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as I drove back home, the memories of what happened

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to me when I was thirteen all came flooding back.

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I glanced at the envelope of pictures on the seat

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next to me, wanting to see the image of the

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white Thing, because I knew I hadn't imagined it. But

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if I saw it, that meant that it was real,

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And if it it was real, that meant there was

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a monster in my woods. Oh cat Rabbit. I remember

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getting this email, and I remember several months ago, thinking

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I can't wait to read this to the audience. But

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I had so many stacked up in front of you.

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I didn't know this story about you. You and I

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have communicated a little bit, and I didn't know this

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story about you. This is really good. This is a

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really good story. Alabama's White Thing. If any of you

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guys know anything about Alabama, the Alabama White Thing, talk

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about it in the comment section and let others know

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what it is, and I'll do some digging on it and

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see if I can find some other stuff about it.

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I know cat Rabbit probably has tons of stories from

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others in her area. She's a Bigfoot group, kind of

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an organizer, investigator. She knows a lot about these creatures.

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So thanks for the email. Thanks for the story, kat Rabbit.

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I really appreciate it. Love you, Thank you. Hope your

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husband's doing well. My wife and I reconnected at our

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thirty year class reunion in two thy and eleven. She

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was the homecoming queen and I was the quiet kid

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in the back of the class. I wasn't social at all,

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and as you would imagine, she was exactly the opposite.

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But my career in the army brought out the man

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that was hidden within me, and I wasn't shy after that,

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and we got it together and the rest is history.

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And it's kind of funny you travel throughout the world

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have to come back home to find what you've really

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been looking for. I was working at Fort Bragg at

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the time she moved in with her items and we

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made it a home. In the spare bedroom, she ushered

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in her grandmother's dressing table and large chest of drawers.

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The room had a creepy vibe, and I thought I

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was the only one who noticed it. I rarely went

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into that room, and I noticed that the dog didn't

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go in either. I mentioned that I didn't like the room,

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and I explained to my wife why, and she told

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me that after we had set up the house, she

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decided to go in there and sleep while I was

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away on a work related trip. She wanted to see

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how quiet it was during the night, and she told

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me that in the middle of the night, she heard

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what she described as an electrical snapping or popping sound,

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and when she opened her eyes, she saw a ball

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of hazy light off the foot of the bed. She

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looked at it for a few seconds, and then it

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faded away. She admitted that she didn't want to scare

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me over this. She had heard my ghost stories from

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when I was in Germany and knew I had issues

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with the topic, but overall, she didn't have a bad

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feeling about it. It was just something that happened without explanation.

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Sometime after this I was awakened in the night by

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the same loud, popping noise that lasted for a few seconds,

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and I told my wife about it. We'd agreed that

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maybe it was just someone checking on us. My wife's

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dad was having repeated cancer issues at the time, and

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her mother was having problems coming to grips with his

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death spiral. They lived in a small town just north

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of the New Orleans area, so I found myself a

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job out there and we began the long process of

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getting the two commands to allow me to move. And

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during these four months of moving prep, my father in

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law died and after that we ended up buying a

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house just a few neighborhoods from my wife's mother. We

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set the house up and again the activity started, and

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within a month or so we got the house situated

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to include grandmother's furniture and a spare bedroom. And in

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addition to the strange things coming from that room, we

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would also occasionally smell pipe and cigarette smoke wafting through

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our house. Well, we're not in smokers, so it was

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pretty distinct and out of place smell. I don't sleep

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with the doors open if I have the choice, might

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be a military thing, I'm not sure. I also don't

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tolerate a door left a few inches open because it

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creeps me out. Either door should be completely open or

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completely closed, but not a little one or the other.

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Within our first few days of living in the new house,

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we were getting ready for bed when my wife asked

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me to open the bedroom door just a little. Well,

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because I loved that woman, I reluctantly did it for her,

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and in the split second that I glanced into the hallway,

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I saw a white figure floating there. It immediately shot

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up through the ceiling and set off the smoke alarm. Well,

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I told my wife about it. She said it was

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just my imagination, but I know what I saw. Two

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months after moving in, I noticed that our dog would

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go to the back door every night at the same

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time and wait. Well, this wasn't unusual if one of

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us was coming home from work, but even if we

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were both home, he would still go out there and wait.

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The first night had happened, I saw the dog at

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the back door, wagging his tail with his ears pulled back.

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Obviously there was someone there that I couldn't see. For

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three nights after that, I'd get my digital camera and

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sit in the kitchen and watch the dog sit at

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the back door waiting for someone. And believe it or not,

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the dog never did that again, So maybe whoever it was,

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realized what I was doing and stop. One night, we

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had the mother in law over for dinner. She had

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started to tell us about the ghost cat that she

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had and her husband had observed just before his death.

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She thought the cat had come to help him cross over.

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I'm not sure how it happened, but we started talking

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about dark spirits. My wife and I like to watch

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some of the paranormal shows whenever we have the time,

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and the topic just came up, and I told my

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life and mother in law about a particular episode that

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I saw where a guy was being pestered by a

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demon and about his journey in coming to terms in

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dealing with it. I don't believe that junk, not at all,

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my mother in law commented, and right then, directly over

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her head, a loud, popping noise went off and lasted

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a full five seconds. The three of us exchanged excited looks,

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and I suggested that we change the subject. To this day,

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my mother in law denies that the incident happened. Go

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figure that out. There was another time I was in

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the bathroom doing my business. As older married couples will understand,

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I had the door open. As I sat there, I

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heard the latch pull on grandmother's furniture. I could distinctly

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hear it dropping against the metal back plate in a quick,

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rapid manner for about fifteen seconds. I finished up and

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I asked my wife if she had heard it, and

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of course she had not. I took her into the

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room and recreated the sound, and I told her to

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listen for it in case she heard it for herself.

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One day, a few months later, she called me at

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work and we played guess what. She said that she

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had just heard that noise. Months later, at about nine

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in the evening, my wife was going to bed. I

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had just emptied the dryer and I was folding clothes,

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standing in front of the TV and directly behind my

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head again I heard the snapping noise. You better believe

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that I dropped those clothes and I moved quickly to

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the bedroom. My wife told me that I was as

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white as a sheet, and she asked if I was

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all right, and I told her what had happened, and

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we joined hands and asked the Lord to rid our

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home of any unclean and trouble making spirits. I assumed

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that whatever it was decided that it would stop bothering

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us because we no longer had any interaction with it.

479
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,880
During this time, my job required me to work shifts,

480
00:28:04,279 --> 00:28:07,079
which meant I would be gone for nearly fourteen hours

481
00:28:07,079 --> 00:28:10,359
a day several days a week. My wife told me

482
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:12,839
several times that she thought I had come home early

483
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,640
because she would often see a man in the open doorway,

484
00:28:15,799 --> 00:28:19,160
only to realize to her dismay that it wasn't me.

485
00:28:20,079 --> 00:28:23,000
But one afternoon she called me. Let me ask you

486
00:28:23,039 --> 00:28:27,720
a serious question. She said, are you really at work? Well?

487
00:28:27,759 --> 00:28:29,839
I assured her that I was, and I asked her

488
00:28:29,839 --> 00:28:32,559
what had happened. She told me that she was soaking

489
00:28:32,599 --> 00:28:35,400
in the bathtub reading when on the wall behind her

490
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:40,160
head inside the bedroom, she felt three large knocks behind her.

491
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:43,240
She said. She called out to me, but there was

492
00:28:43,279 --> 00:28:46,359
no answer, And at that moment, my wife had gone

493
00:28:46,359 --> 00:28:50,559
from being a skeptic to a believer. I have an

494
00:28:50,559 --> 00:28:53,960
ex wife in Germany. My daughter visits me often in

495
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,240
the United States. She's now a young woman and she

496
00:28:57,359 --> 00:29:00,960
enjoys reading and on one particular visit. On her second

497
00:29:01,119 --> 00:29:04,519
night with us, she had jet lag and she couldn't sleep,

498
00:29:04,599 --> 00:29:07,440
so she stayed up reading past midnight with her clip

499
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:11,079
on light. One she told me that the light kept

500
00:29:11,079 --> 00:29:14,839
flickering and turning off. Well, this went on for half

501
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,440
a minute or so when she looked off to the

502
00:29:17,559 --> 00:29:19,519
edge of the room, and in the front of the

503
00:29:19,599 --> 00:29:23,000
chest of drawers was a white, misty figure and it

504
00:29:23,079 --> 00:29:25,640
moved toward her, and when it got next to her

505
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:27,759
at the head of the bed, it went up the

506
00:29:27,799 --> 00:29:32,079
wall and through the ceiling. She said that she wasn't

507
00:29:32,119 --> 00:29:36,599
scared at all, she was just amazed, knowing how I

508
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:41,319
would have personally reacted, I was amazed that she didn't scream.

509
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:45,440
And then in October of twenty twenty, we sold the house,

510
00:29:45,799 --> 00:29:48,480
and prior to doing so, we cleaned it out. And

511
00:29:48,599 --> 00:29:50,880
while I was at work, my wife was clearing things

512
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,200
out of the attic when out of the blue, she

513
00:29:53,319 --> 00:29:57,039
noticed something that looked like a roll of wallpaper. She

514
00:29:57,079 --> 00:29:59,680
pulled it out and dusted it off and peeked inside

515
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,319
the roo that was tied up with a string, and

516
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:05,799
she discovered inside a half a dozen cartoons of the

517
00:30:05,839 --> 00:30:10,519
original owner of the house. In every drawing. It was

518
00:30:10,599 --> 00:30:14,759
an older man, sometimes in an Air Force uniform, with

519
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:18,559
either a cigarette or a pipe in his mouth. Was

520
00:30:18,599 --> 00:30:21,240
that the source of the smoke that we kept smelling?

521
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:25,799
I don't know. We completed our move to a smaller

522
00:30:25,839 --> 00:30:29,359
place and grandmother's furniture is now in a storage area

523
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:33,200
until further notice. I wonder how the spirit is coping

524
00:30:33,519 --> 00:30:37,480
with that. Oh, that's cool. A harnted piece of furniture.

525
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:43,039
Everywhere they moved and brought Grandma's furniture, a dressing table

526
00:30:43,119 --> 00:30:47,160
and large chest of drawers. These things would happen in

527
00:30:47,279 --> 00:30:49,880
their house, and then when they put it in storage

528
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,440
everything quit. Could there be horned furniture? I don't know,

529
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:55,799
but this was a really good story. I've had this

530
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,480
a really long time. I think I've had this for

531
00:30:58,559 --> 00:31:00,480
three years, and I'm so glad to be able to

532
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:04,880
pull it up read it to you guys. All right,

533
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:11,240
this is a story about a demon. My editor is saying,

534
00:31:11,759 --> 00:31:14,480
this story was so creepy that I had to edit

535
00:31:14,519 --> 00:31:17,200
it on the bike at the gym, just so I

536
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,279
wouldn't be alone. If you want to listen to this,

537
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:22,200
fore you let your kids listen to it. You might

538
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:23,559
want to do that. But I'm gonna go ahead and

539
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,079
read it now. But you've been warned. This might be

540
00:31:26,119 --> 00:31:29,279
a scary story, and there might be some subject matter

541
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,720
that kids would not need to hear. All right, so

542
00:31:32,799 --> 00:31:35,839
here we go. When I was twenty one years old,

543
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,799
I decided to move out to Albuquerque to be with

544
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:42,839
my high school sweetheart. Being that we were still young

545
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,759
and dumb to some extent, it seemed like a great

546
00:31:45,799 --> 00:31:49,559
idea at the time. Oh what a huge mistake that was.

547
00:31:49,799 --> 00:31:52,359
But either way, if I had not moved out there,

548
00:31:52,359 --> 00:31:56,359
I would not have had this experience. In two thousand

549
00:31:56,359 --> 00:32:00,480
and one, while living in Albuquerque's Northwest Heights neighbors, I

550
00:32:00,559 --> 00:32:03,880
encountered a demonic spirit that was out to ruin me.

551
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:06,759
I should have packed up and moved back home the

552
00:32:06,799 --> 00:32:10,519
second I noticed the activity, but in my young mind,

553
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:15,119
this spirit couldn't hurt me. I first realized something strange

554
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:18,480
was happening when things would move right after I put

555
00:32:18,519 --> 00:32:21,599
them in their place. Most of the time it would

556
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:25,599
be keys, or paperwork or important phone numbers, or sometimes

557
00:32:25,599 --> 00:32:28,079
they would be well hidden and not at all where

558
00:32:28,119 --> 00:32:31,839
I left them. None of it made any sense. I

559
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,200
had a friend who was a staunch Catholic, and she

560
00:32:34,319 --> 00:32:37,279
advised me to pray to Saint Anthony to recover my

561
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:41,440
lost items. I started doing this and it worked because

562
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,920
I would find every item in short order. But the

563
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:49,200
occurrences started happening more often, and a weird smell was

564
00:32:49,279 --> 00:32:53,359
starting to envelop the condo. It was something between sulfur

565
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:57,480
and the stench of a dead animal. And then something

566
00:32:57,559 --> 00:33:01,400
started writing things on the carpet. It was a longer

567
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,960
type carpet and it was very thick, so you could

568
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,839
brush the carpet in the opposite direction of which it

569
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:10,920
was made and you could see what you wrote. The

570
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,960
words that were being written were obscene and nasty and

571
00:33:14,039 --> 00:33:17,720
downright demonic. And I accused our roommate of doing this

572
00:33:17,759 --> 00:33:20,559
as a joke because I never actually saw it being written,

573
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:24,720
but both my boyfriend and his roommate vehemently denied it.

574
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:29,079
One day, I had just finished vacuuming the living area

575
00:33:29,559 --> 00:33:32,319
left to go start cleaning our bedroom, and as soon

576
00:33:32,359 --> 00:33:34,079
as I walked in the room, I heard a big

577
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,920
crashing sound, like a big window in the living room

578
00:33:37,039 --> 00:33:40,599
was being broken and crushed. I ran out to see

579
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:43,799
what had happened, but nothing was awry except that horrid

580
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:48,880
smell of sulfur and death permeating through the room. I

581
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,160
caught movement out of the corner of my eye, and

582
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:54,319
I could have sworn I saw someone dressed in black.

583
00:33:56,039 --> 00:33:59,319
I checked our roommate's room, but he wasn't home. Then

584
00:33:59,359 --> 00:34:02,920
I checked everywhere else. Every door was locked and no

585
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,599
one was home besides me. And then right in front

586
00:34:06,599 --> 00:34:10,360
of my eyes, I watched something right hell into the carpet.

587
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:15,639
It continued writing other horrible words that I'm not comfortable repeating,

588
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:21,559
mainly unspeakable things that were degrading to women. I called

589
00:34:21,639 --> 00:34:25,400
my Catholic friend, who suggested getting some holy water and

590
00:34:25,559 --> 00:34:29,960
some sage to burn. She also suggested saying the Saint

591
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,639
Michael's prayer while doing the cleansing and whenever something was

592
00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:38,679
happening in the condo. At first, this angered the entity.

593
00:34:39,519 --> 00:34:41,480
I would be getting ready for the day, and while

594
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:44,159
I was putting on my makeup, the entity would grab

595
00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:47,159
my hair and literally rip some out of my head.

596
00:34:48,039 --> 00:34:50,440
I could sit there looking at the bedroom mirror and

597
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:53,719
see the entity lift my hair up and then yank

598
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:58,559
it out violently. Things with my boyfriend were getting worse

599
00:34:58,639 --> 00:35:02,800
by the day too. He was becoming violent and more angry,

600
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:07,079
and he started abusing drugs and alcohol. It seemed that

601
00:35:07,119 --> 00:35:10,119
the more that I called on Saint Michael and Jesus,

602
00:35:10,559 --> 00:35:15,400
the worst things got. The attacks in the subsequent event

603
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,480
were getting more frequent and worse in nature, and I

604
00:35:18,519 --> 00:35:21,000
finally decided to go home for a little while just

605
00:35:21,039 --> 00:35:24,880
to see if the attacks would stop. When I was

606
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:28,800
packing my last items into my car, my boyfriend honked

607
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:31,559
his horn behind me. He wanted to talk to me,

608
00:35:31,639 --> 00:35:34,480
so I ran over to his car and got inside

609
00:35:34,519 --> 00:35:37,719
to discuss some things with him. And when I was

610
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,280
about ready to get into my vehicle, I saw a

611
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:43,639
man getting to the back seat of my car. My

612
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:46,920
boyfriend saw him too, and I sat in his car

613
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,400
while he went to check it out. But all he

614
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,800
found were my belongings, without any sign that someone had

615
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:56,840
been in there besides me. I had some holy water

616
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,039
on me, so I went over to my car and

617
00:35:59,079 --> 00:36:02,400
I started shaking the water into the vehicle and chanting

618
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:06,039
the Saint Michael's prayer while doing so. And every time

619
00:36:06,039 --> 00:36:08,960
I would sprinkle the holy water into my car, it

620
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:12,840
would immediately be thrown back into my face. And when

621
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,039
it was thrown back at me. It wasn't cool in

622
00:36:15,079 --> 00:36:18,079
temperature like it was when I sprinkled it into my car.

623
00:36:18,639 --> 00:36:21,159
It was boiling hot and it burned when it hit

624
00:36:21,199 --> 00:36:25,679
my skin. Something told me not to leave that night.

625
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:29,079
On the six hour drive home, I left my car

626
00:36:29,159 --> 00:36:31,960
packed up, got just what I needed out of it,

627
00:36:32,039 --> 00:36:35,119
and spent the night with my boyfriend. I thought that

628
00:36:35,199 --> 00:36:38,239
I would revisit leaving the next morning. In the daylight,

629
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:43,519
I woke to being strangled by something that I couldn't see,

630
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:45,519
and when I tried to get out of bed, I

631
00:36:45,559 --> 00:36:48,920
had to fight to get up. I realized that my

632
00:36:49,039 --> 00:36:51,440
holy water was in the living room, and when I

633
00:36:51,519 --> 00:36:53,400
ran to get it, I was tripped on the way

634
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,719
by what felt like an an invisible leg. And I

635
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:59,400
eventually got the holy water, and I knew I had

636
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:02,480
to go to war with this entity. I went back

637
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,679
to the bedroom and started chanting the Saint Michael's prayer

638
00:37:06,079 --> 00:37:09,840
and sprinkling the holy water. And each time I sprinkled it,

639
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:13,320
the water was thrown back into my face, and then

640
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:18,000
my hair started to be yanked out of my head. Thankfully,

641
00:37:18,039 --> 00:37:20,920
I had the stubbornness of a twenty one year old girl,

642
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,920
and I chanted with even more conviction, refusing to let

643
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,920
it deter me. Now, I would take breaks from the

644
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,000
prayer and plead with Saint Michael and Jesus to save

645
00:37:31,159 --> 00:37:34,800
me from this demonic entity. I sat in the center

646
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:38,239
of the bed, cross legged and eyes closed, and continued

647
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:42,360
to go between chanting the prayer and saying heartfelt prayers

648
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:46,800
to Saint Michael and Jesus. The sound of breaking glass

649
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:49,719
jolted my eyes open, and I saw through the blinds

650
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:54,320
a hazy sunlight coming through. It was not just regular sunlight,

651
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,880
but a beautiful array of colors. Then I saw a

652
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:01,920
figure form out of the hazy life. It was Saint Michael,

653
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,000
and he looked just like he did and all the

654
00:38:04,039 --> 00:38:07,639
paintings that I had seen of him. He was gorgeous.

655
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:11,599
He was seven feet tall with glowing skin, and everything

656
00:38:11,639 --> 00:38:16,440
about him flowed with this incandescent light. I've never seen

657
00:38:16,519 --> 00:38:20,480
anything this beautiful night before or after this event. He

658
00:38:20,519 --> 00:38:22,599
had a sword and he looked like he was ready

659
00:38:22,599 --> 00:38:26,039
for battle, and he pushed the sword through the demonic entity,

660
00:38:26,079 --> 00:38:29,360
and I watched it slump into a massive goop and

661
00:38:29,519 --> 00:38:34,119
just disappear right before my eyes. Saint Michael never said

662
00:38:34,159 --> 00:38:36,960
anything to me, but When he looked at me, all

663
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,440
I could feel was this immense love and devotion. Then

664
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:42,760
he sat down beside me, and I could even feel

665
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:46,199
the mattress being depressed by his weight. And he sat

666
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:48,679
there for just a second or two, and then he

667
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:52,920
literally flew out of the window. It felt like the

668
00:38:53,079 --> 00:38:56,239
entire ordeal only lasted a few minutes, but when I

669
00:38:56,280 --> 00:39:00,800
looked at the clock, it was eleven eleven am. This

670
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:06,880
whole ordeal took four hours. After that, I felt comfortable

671
00:39:07,039 --> 00:39:09,639
enough to get the heck out of Fair. I never

672
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:12,000
went back to that place again, and I moved on

673
00:39:12,159 --> 00:39:16,159
from that boyfriend too. I later looked up the address

674
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:19,480
and found out that a teenage boy had committed suicide

675
00:39:19,559 --> 00:39:23,760
there in nineteen ninety seven. The boy was supposedly into

676
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:27,840
devil worship. I thought you and your viewers might like

677
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:31,320
to hear something paranormal for a change. People need to

678
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:34,199
know that whether or not we can see these things

679
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:38,000
with our eyes, they exist. I have many more tales

680
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:39,960
that I will send to you at a later date,

681
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:42,840
and one is about a dog man in New Mexico,

682
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:46,199
and the other is about a chupacabra in Central Texas

683
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:50,440
near Abilene. My daughter, and I love your channel and

684
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,760
I think that you are an ambassador of all things

685
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:56,800
crypted and paranormal. Her name is Stella and she just

686
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:59,519
turned ten this year, and it would mean so much

687
00:39:59,559 --> 00:40:03,280
to her for you to wish her a happy birthday. Stella.

688
00:40:03,679 --> 00:40:07,320
And to the woman who wrote this email to me,

689
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,079
Happy birthday, Stella. I don't know when your birthday is.

690
00:40:10,599 --> 00:40:13,199
I've had this story a long time and as you

691
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:16,039
all know, and I keep saying, after I read these stories,

692
00:40:16,519 --> 00:40:19,800
I'm reaching way back and getting I've got some pretty

693
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:23,960
good help with editing now and it's making it easy

694
00:40:24,039 --> 00:40:26,480
to send these off and I get them back real quick.

695
00:40:27,119 --> 00:40:30,440
It just makes it easy to read these. So anyway,

696
00:40:30,679 --> 00:40:33,679
thanks to the woman who wrote this. What a scary,

697
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:38,519
scary story, and happy birthday to Stella. Stella's ten. Heck,

698
00:40:38,639 --> 00:40:42,199
she might be twelve by now, but happy birthday, Stella.

699
00:40:42,199 --> 00:40:44,199
I'm so glad your mom sent me this story. And

700
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:47,639
hope you're having a good school should be starting right

701
00:40:47,679 --> 00:40:50,199
about now, and I hope it's all started well for you.

702
00:40:50,639 --> 00:40:54,159
It's a happy birthday, Stella. All right, Thanks for the email.

703
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,320
Thanks for listening to this array of different kind of

704
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:02,679
stories on this podcast. I love the variety of stuff

705
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:04,599
that I can reach back and get in. Some of

706
00:41:04,599 --> 00:41:07,840
my older emails are all good stories. I kind of

707
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,639
mix it up on these latest podcasts and I'm really

708
00:41:10,679 --> 00:41:13,519
loving doing this. So thank you for watching, and we'll

709
00:41:13,519 --> 00:41:15,920
see you all on the next podcast. Thank you,