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Speaker 1: I think that somehow, in some way, that like the

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universe just allows certain things to happen, and one of

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those things might have just been him showing up one

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last time, maybe, you know, just to let me know

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like he's still here.

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Speaker 2: Today's episode is about unanswered questions. But also, as I

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was talking with Nicholas throughout the story that you're about

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to listen to, I couldn't help but wonder and think

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about a friend that I lost recently. This is what

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the story is all about, unanswered questions, the confusion that's involved,

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and sometimes the paranormal. My name is Edwin, and here

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is Nicholas true scary story.

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Speaker 1: This particular story happened in Davenport, Iowa, on August twentieth

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of twenty twenty. The event took place on the twentieth,

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but it all started August nineteenth of twenty twenty. My

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wife and I were living with my in laws. We

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were living in the basement. One night, my wife and

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I were just sitting there watching TV and just kind

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of hanging out, and I got this really sudden urge

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to what I get up and go clean my bathroom.

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As weird as that sound, so I go in there

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and start cleaning. It's about eleven forty ish at night.

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I'm standing in the bathroom cleaning and I step in

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the shower. It's one of those glass sliding door showers,

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so I'm in there and I'm just kind of cleaning

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and doing my thing. All of a sudden, it sounds

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like I hear a man yelling, and it sounds like

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he's saying help or hello. It was just like a

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very sudden and very quick thing, but it was enough

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to catch my attention. So I walked out of the shower.

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In our basement, we had a bit of a long

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hallway that reached the living room that we had, and

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I walked out there and I asked my wife. I said, Hey,

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did you just call for me? And she's like no, why,

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And I said, I swear I just heard somebody yelling.

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I said, but it sounded like a man's voice, just

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something louder, maybe deeper, And She's like no. I went

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back out to the living room and just kind of

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hung out the rest of the night with my wife.

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The following day, on August twentieth, we had woke up.

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My wife and I were off work. We had just

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gotten up at about nine o'clock in the morning. I

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was checking my phone just as I usually do, just

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kind of doom scirling. I was on Facebook and I

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had noticed that I had gotten a message from a

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girl that I know him, Katie. This particular person is

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my best friend's ex girlfriend. I had known her for

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quite a few years. I had known him actually for

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quite a few years, about seven. But I had gotten

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a text message saying, Hey, I know you and I

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haven't talked in a long time, but I just need

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you to know that Kendall had passed away last night

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in a car accident. That kind of struck me as

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odd because I hadn't talked to her or heard from

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her quite a few years after they had broken up.

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From that moment, I proceeded to get up and I

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ran into our bathroom that I was cleaning the night before,

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and my wife had just got up, so she was

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in there and I burst in and I was just

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like shaking, but I couldn't really say what had happened,

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so I had just handed her my cell phone. It

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was a very jarring panic, almost like your world is

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just collapsing in because it just doesn't seem real. But

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then my wife started screaming, She's like what, and she

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like threw my phone at me. Immediately after that, I

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had called my best friend trying to reach him. His

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phone was just going to voicemail. I think I called

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it probably ten times, ran upstairs to try to get

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a better signal. Maybe it wasn't connecting. I tried to

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call his mom. It rang probably twice and it she

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had picked up and I said, Michelle, I said, I

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just got a text message about Kendall. What's going on.

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She's just screaming, my baby's dead. When you hear a

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mother lose a child, it's just the most soul shattering

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noise to hear. We had found out that he was

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in an automobile accident driving in on the highway. So

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we live in a small town in the Midwest. He

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was driving into town at think twelve oh five from

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a friend's house, and when he had passed a certain intersection,

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somebody came. They were traveling the opposite direction and they

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had t boned him. That accident basically it ripped his

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car into half, and it threw his car down into

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like a ravine or a ditch. It was probably like

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twenty feet down. He was killed instantly. We were just

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very distraught. It was horrible. Like I remember just going

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and sitting on my back porch at my mother in

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law's house. Like he was the type of best friend

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that would be at every family function, even with my

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wife's family. He was just very accepted and loving. So

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we would go sit on the back porch all the time.

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They had this like really nice deck. But all I

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could do, like I just immediately went out there and

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it just kind of collapsed on the steps. I was

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sitting on the deck and there was this big butterfly

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that just like flew up on us and it like

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landed right on this the sterea railing, and it was

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black and yellow, and it was just weird because like

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my buddy, he was into comics and stuff. He was

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a big nerd. He loved Deadpool, Batman, and he always

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wore Batman and Deadpool jackets. And my wife's like, that's

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really weird. She's like, why is this butterfly just lingering around?

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But one of the things that had bothered myself and

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my wife was that our friend he was a very

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conscientious person of his looks. He took very good care

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of himself, and he had these really really long dreadlocks.

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They went all the way down to his butt. Like

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he was just so proud of him. He took care

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of him. When the accident had happened, we weren't sure

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did he burn alive in the car? Was he killed

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on impact? You know, did he suffer like what happened

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to him. We had found out that the cause of

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death was actually blunt force trauma to the head when

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he was hit by the individual that was driving the

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other car. It actually ejected his passenger out of the

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front windshield. And when the police and the EMS and

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fire trucks all got there, they didn't find his passenger

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until about five o'clock in the morning. It had been

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about five hours that the car was in that spot,

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and we had actually gone to see the sight of

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the accident. It was about a week later, and we

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were kind of just surveying to see how bad it

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was and you know, if we could help find anything,

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because they didn't know where his cell phone was. His

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mom wanted his cell phone back, so we went there

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in the intent of trying to just find anything. The

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site was just horrific. It was all like burned brush

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and grass. There was a tree that had been caught

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on fire, but it only burned on one side, which

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is very odd. There was stuff from his car that

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was scattered. He had like an emergency pack in his

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glove box that was probably fifty feet away from where

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his car was. His battery was still at the site.

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There was random evidence bags and toe tags. It was

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pretty horrific. He used to have these glasses. They were

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like these funky, like seventies looking glasses. They were like

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clear with like these weird tiger stripe print inside of them.

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We were surveying the accident site and I found his

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eyeglasses and it was weird because I was like, oh, like,

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I found his glasses, you know, and it was broken.

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One of the earpieces was gone, and it just was like,

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what do I do with this? You know, this is

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kind of it's weird. I don't want to leave it here.

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But that was actually something I had called his mom

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and I said, hey, Michelle, you know, I found his glasses.

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I think these should go to you, Like these these

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are like one of the only things that's left. She

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didn't even get his wallet or his idea or anything.

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So I was able to actually give his mom his

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glasses back. I didn't really handle his loss very well

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in the coming weeks and months after, because we didn't

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know when there was going to be a service for him,

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and the manner in which he died. There had to

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be a criminal investigation to see that the person that

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hit him was actually drunk. Where the person was coming from,

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they had actually just left party, So we didn't know

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when his services were going to be after we had

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had his funeral. It was during COVID. It was twenty twenty.

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It was really bad because we we had to be

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social distance. So I remember just like going there with

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my wife and like everybody was just spaced five feet

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apart or six feet or whatever that was. And I

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just remember sitting there sobbing because like, now this person

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that I knew, that had, you know, just such a

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big personality and larger than life, was sitting in this

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box on a pedestal because he had to be cremated.

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It was scarring. We had actually just seen him. It

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was like a week before his accident. We had in

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the Midwest called a d ratio, so it's like an

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on land hurricane. It was bad, but he just moved

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in with some other roommates because we had lived with

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them for a while. It was our roommate for a

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few years, but he had lost power and he came

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over to our mother in laws and was visiting. That

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was the last time we've seen him. There was no

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text or any phone calls. It was just you see

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your friend, and then a week later you find out

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they're gone. A few months after his accident, I was

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sleeping and we were still in my mother in law's

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basement at the time. I had this very weird, vivid

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dream that my friend Kendall had come to see us.

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a third person view, so like I could see myself

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and my wife sleeping on our bed. He walked into

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our bedroom and the way that he walked in. He

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did this a lot when we lived together. I would

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usually work really early mornings, and then by the time

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I got off, I was coming home to fall asleep

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and he was getting up to go to work. But

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he would just come in and he would just stand

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in our doorway and I would just be knocked out, snoring,

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and he would just kind of laugh, you know, and giggle,

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and my wife would make fun of me because I

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was snoring. So loud, but it was just a very

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vivid experience, and I remember I caught him one time.

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I was like, what are you doing? Man, Like you're

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being weird. That particular dream, I remember he walked in

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and he was just standing there and I could see

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him like smiling, and he was wearing his usual clothes.

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He used to wear like this Deadpool jacket and he

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would kind of wear it hanging off his shoulders a

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little bit unzipped, but just loosely hanging off his shoulders.

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It was like I was just watching him come in

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and he would watch us since he smiled. And then

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I just woke up. The next day. I told my wife,

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I was like, you know, I had this dream, and

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I explained it to her and I was like, am

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I going crazy? I know people handle grief and depression

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in very certain ways, and it has effects on people.

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And I've lost people in my life before and I've

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had other experiences with them, but like this felt real

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in my opinion. It felt like maybe the accident was

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so horrific and so scarring just to the extent that

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it happened, and he didn't get to say goodbye. Nobody

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said goodbye to anybody, and you're just gone. I believe

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that he had passed away in maybe one of those

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safe places that he knew where people were was unfortunately,

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I don't say unfortunately, but like it was my house,

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and I think that the noise that I had heard

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in my shower was actually him, because I think the

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accident was just so traumatic and so sudden that when

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somebody dies, I don't think their soul just goes to

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a heaven or hell like sometimes you're just kind of

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stuck in maybe a limbo maybe until your soul can

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move on or wherever we go. I'm not sure. It

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was shortly after my dream that my wife had told

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me that she had a dream, but she had described

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her dream. It was her and our friend Kendall, and

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they were just in like this white room. It was

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just all bright. I knew she took it a lot

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harder in how he had passed away, and she was

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always worried, like, you know, did he suffer, you know,

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finding out the details of his burns. While my wife

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was in this dream, in this white room with our friend,

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she had asked him, how are you here? Your hair like?

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Your hair's okay? He smiled at her and he just said,

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don't worry about it. I'm okay. I've been through so

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much and I've lost a lot of people in a

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short amount of time, and there's just been so many

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things that I can't explain how they happen. I've lost

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my mom, my grandmother, my best friend, I've lost another grandma,

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all within like five years since twenty twenty. We'll be

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sitting here and like we'll see like a piece of

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paper go flying off of a shelf when it sounds

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like it's something that would make sense, but in reality,

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like there's no fans, there's no no breeze or anything

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to make those things happen. Or we'll hear something at

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the other end of our trailer that sounds like somebody's

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in our trailer, and it's like we just accept that, Hey,

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someone's here visiting us. I don't want to say that,

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like I want to invite things into my life spiritually,

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like because you can invite the wrong things in. But

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I'd like to think that maybe somehow he's kind of

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just watching over us. We had went to his mom's

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house after the car accident. She wanted to give me

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some of his belongings, and when we were there, she

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was giving me this deadpool jacket that I had actually

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bought him for Christmas. When we were there, she was

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saying that she's experienced weird things in her apartment as well.

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My best friend that had passed. He actually had two

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younger brothers. His mom had actually just given birth to

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one of them. She had raised these three boys by

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herself and him being the oldest one, like she relied

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on him for a lot of support growing up. But

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she said that the youngest boy that she had, you know,

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was randomly just talking in a room with nobody in it.

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She was standing in his older brother's room, and the

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older brother wasn't there, but he was just sitting in

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there talking, like standing by himself in the middle of

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the room, just talking. It wasn't really like coherent words

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because he was really little. He was like maybe three,

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I think around that time. It's crazy too, because in

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his mother's apartment complex, like I had actually helped her

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move in there with him because he didn't have anybody else,

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and he's like, hey, will you help me do this?

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We moved her in there, but one of the knights

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that we were leaving his mom's house, we had just

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gotten all, you know, his belongings that she was giving us.

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But we were like in the hallway and we were

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passing this guy and it looked just like him. It's

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so jarring and weird because like he was the same height,

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he was an African American individual with long dreads down

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to his back. He had these black rimmed glasses. It

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almost put out not in my stomach because it was like, wait,

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how am I seeing this? And then my wife's like

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she nudged me and she's like that looks like Kendall

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and I'm like it does, but I'm like that's it's

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obviously not him. And it's weird too because like I

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live right by the accident site now. I would say

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it's probably like a mile and a half away from me,

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and I drive by it all the time after like

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the accident had happened. I would specifically like avoid this

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side of town, and I would just ask my wife like, hey,

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like let's not go this way unless we absolutely have to.

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But I drive by there every day now coming home

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from work, and it's just scary because like we drive

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over there and it's like I immediately look to that spot.

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That area is like tainted now with whatever bad event

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that happened there, there have been other accidents at that

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actual location. His mom had to fight with the city

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because there's no stop lights out there. There's no there's

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like very few street lights out there in this city.

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Had basically told his mom that it was a state issue,

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like the city wasn't responsible for it, and the best

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that they ended up doing was putting some stop signs

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with like red flashing lights. It's not going to do

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anything just because the side road you have to pull

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kind of into the intersection of the highway to see

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because there's there's like a blind spot. It was a

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month or two after my friend had died at that

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location a woman was driving from in town running from

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the police and she had crashed her car and she

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died there. And then literally, I think it was last week,

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I was on Facebook and there was a car that

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got flipped over there. There's been a lot of accidents.

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Every time my wife and I, like whether I'm leaving

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work or she's getting ready to come home or where

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anytime we're separated and like I know she's driving, I

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always text her, I love you, drive safe. And it

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almost maybe to some people would seem like a broken record,

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but like today, it's almost like clockwork. She knows exactly

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when I get off work, and she texted me drive safe,

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I love you. On February eighteenth of twenty twenty four,

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my wife and I were driving and we were going

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to get coffee. We just went and got groceries. We

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went and picked up some Taco John's. We were passing

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this church and out of nowhere, a lady out of

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the corner of my left side t boned our car.

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She was going pretty fast. She had flipped our car.

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It was bad. My car was totaled, and it felt

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weird because when the accident was actually happening, I had

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never been in a car accident before. My wife has.

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I hadn't and I was driving when it happened. It

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flipped our car, but it was like slow motion. As

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soon as the car accident had settled and our car

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was upside down, I didn't panic, you know. I kind

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of got up and I told my wife. I was like,

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we got to get out of the car, like something

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is leaky. I don't know if it's fuel a liquid.

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So we were getting out of our car and I

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was trying to kick the windows out. The next thing,

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I know, like this man like pried our door open

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and he reached his hand and he grabbed us. We

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got out. We'd realize what had happened, and the cops came.

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Tow trucks started, you know, showing up, you know, to

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tell the cars away. There was already a local tow

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truck company on site, and they asked, They're like, you know,

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do you want us to take your car? And I said,

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I'm on the phone with my insurance. I had gotten

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a hold of my insurance, and they're like, we're sending

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somebody out. The tow truck finally showed up. They got

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us towed away, and my wife and I had went

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back home. I think just the jarring shock of that,

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because that's just been one of my biggest fears is

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being in a car accident. My wife and I we

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came home and like we just broke down, and we

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had realized like how bad it was that one of

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us or both of us and I might not have

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came home, and luckily we had only walked away with

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is like some scrapes, bruises. My car was totaled. I

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was opening my wallet, I was getting the card out

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from the tow truck company. I realized that the name

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of the tow truck company was Kendall's Towing, which struck

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me as very odd because he was like that best friend,

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like if I had car troubles, or like an ex

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partner that I was with, like her wheel literally came

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off her car and I called him and I'm like, hey, man,

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like this happened, Like is there any way that you

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can come pick me up? And He's like, yeah, I

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got you. You know, he showed up. And it was

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just so striking and odd that the toe trup company

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name was Kendall's Towing, and this this individual that meant

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so much and like was always that person to come

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save me, that was the name of the tow truck company.

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I'm not a religious person by any means. I think

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I'm probably more spiritual, and I believe in something. But

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I think that somehow, in some way, that like the

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universe just allows certain things to happen, and one of

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those things might have just been him showing up one

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last time, maybe you know, just to let me know,

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like he's still here. I one hundred percent believe if

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the voice that I heard that night was him, just

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because we had lived with my mother in law for

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probably two years and she had like a ranch style

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house and it was very much backed away in like

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a little neighborhood. And like those people that lived there,

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they were very quiet. There weren't people out partying, or

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there weren't kids, you know, out late hours of the night.

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Like we were in a basement that was just kind

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of more or less sealed off from the world. And

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the people that lived there was my mother in law,

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my father in law, and then my wife's grandfather. But

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they all went to bed very very early, like eight

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nine o'clock at night. And those people weren't loud people either,

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Like it was just very chill. It was a very

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quiet environment because her grandfather was very old, and you know,

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we more or less knew not to make noise after

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a certain time. I remember years ago, my grandmother had

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passed away in twenty eighteen. She had pink reatic cancer,

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and like that was really hard on me. But I

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remember my best friend was there, you know, him and

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my wife, like we worked together, Like I worked with

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this guy at many jobs. I would get hired somewhere

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and then I'd get him hired on with me, and

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then that would just kind of go on for a

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few years. We were just always in contact and if

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it went a few weeks or a month, you know,

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it was still sort of we'd pick up where we

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left off when we would see each other. But with

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my grandmother passing away, like he was all very spiritually inclined,

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like very open. He was always just sort of open

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to me, being like, hey, like what do you think

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happened to her? You know, like where do we go

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when we die? And he would always just tell me, like,

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you know, it's kind of what you believe. Like I said,

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I don't really believe in heaven or hellp per se.

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But it was just knowing that he was there to

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be supportive. And now he's gone in such a tragic manner,

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and I know his death he wouldn't want it to

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hurt and he wouldn't want to put that on us.

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But it's just something that happens when you meet somebody

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in life that you just click with them, and you

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know we would still be friends have the accident not happened.

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He was the best man in my wedding. But I

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do one hundred percent believe that the voice that I

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heard that night it was him, and I believe maybe

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he was just scared or trying to let one of

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us know what was going on.

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Speaker 2: So this story really got me. And you know, as

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I've mentioned before, we have these mini conversations sometimes people

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who are telling me the stories, and you know, during

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the actual recordings, like we have questions. Sometimes there are

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things that are I'm wondering about the story, but I

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don't come out in the final recording. You know, my

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questions kind of get edited out, so it sounds like

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the person is just telling their full story. Most of

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the time, that's how it is, right, but every once

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in all, we have these additional conversations. And it got

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me because, you know, several months ago, I mentioned to

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you guys that I lost my best friend. He passed away, unfortunately,

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and it was a very tough thing, you know, for

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us to get adjustice adjusted to as a group of friends.

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By the way, you might be hearing a cat out

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in the front door. He is really trying to get in.

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We're gonna let him hang out there for a little bit.

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But anyway, thinking about all that, in the aftermath, everything's confusing.

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We don't know, we know how this is going to

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work now our dynamic even as us friends who are

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left on earth, right, like, we don't we don't know

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what that's going to be like. But I started thinking

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about the paranormal, like, is there anything paranormal that happened?

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You know? By the way, his name's Felipe and he's

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the one who told the very first story on this

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very podcast him. It was him and Italia. They both

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told a story and in the same episode about the

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same event. But anyway, so as I'm thinking back on

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all this, I remember that his wife told me that

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they were I think she was picking out clothing, like

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something for him to wear. Actually didn't know what he

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was going to wear. It was obviously a tough decision

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for the for the viewing, I believe. And then some

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like clothing just fell out of a shelf, like out

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of you know where they keep the clothes. It was

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something like that that I was like, Wow, is that possible, Yeah,

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it's possible, right. And then I remember, even as I

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was navigating through all this, we were out at a

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restaurant with some of our all of our friends, and

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I remember just like I was just out of it, right,

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And then I just hear a voice like in a

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song you know, this Island in the Sun by Weezer,

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it just says something like we'll never feel bad anymore.

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We'll never feel bad anymore. And by the way, it's

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one of my favorite songs of all time, and you

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guys should should go look it up, you know, be

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in case you're wondering. But it's a very it's one

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of my favorite songs. And I don't get to hear

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that often. I'm not in the US as often anymore,

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but that song plays sometimes in the background. Right, But

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I was seeing it as like, okay, this might have

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been a coincidence, right, but what if it was right,

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what if it's him telling us like, hey, he's okay,

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like he's fine. Then also saw him in a dream

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and it just showed up and he looked completely different.

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He was tall, he had like he was different, like

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he was just a different per like I knew. It

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took me a little bit to understand that it was him,

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and it was a very confusing thing, you know, for

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me to to come to terms with. I guess maybe

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you want to say it like that that this might

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have been something that I that I saw, like something

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that actually I can consider paranormal and it makes me wonder,

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has anyone else experienced something like this, something that maybe

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you see you ignore because you think it's a coincidence,

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but really it might have been a sign and in

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hindsight you think, hey, maybe this this meant something. Has

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that ever happened to you? I want to know. I

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want to know because sometimes, I mean, I have that

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belief where like people ignore paranormal signs and things like

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that because our logical minds take over. But again it's

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just an idea. So I want to take the time

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here to thank Nicholas for sharing the story is very private,

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very intimate story, and I know I needed to hear

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it when I heard it, and I appreciate that very much,

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So thank you for that. And if you have a

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story that you want to share here on True Scary Story,

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be it something about the deep dark woods, be it

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about a ghost, or being about something that you experience,

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something that you just want to share with the rest

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of us, it has to deal with the paranormal, please

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send it in. You can send me an email. You

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can also head on over to true scarystory dot com

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fill out the form there we'll get back to you

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and we can get started that way. This episode of

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True Scary Story was edited and sound designed by Sarah

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Vorhez Wendel a VW Sound with additional production by me

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Edwin Kovarujaz and the Scary FN team. Thank you very

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much for listening. It's scary everyone. See you soon.