Speaker 1: I think that somehow, in some way, that like the
universe just allows certain things to happen, and one of
those things might have just been him showing up one
last time, maybe, you know, just to let me know
like he's still here.
Speaker 2: Today's episode is about unanswered questions. But also, as I
was talking with Nicholas throughout the story that you're about
to listen to, I couldn't help but wonder and think
about a friend that I lost recently. This is what
the story is all about, unanswered questions, the confusion that's involved,
and sometimes the paranormal. My name is Edwin, and here
is Nicholas true scary story.
Speaker 1: This particular story happened in Davenport, Iowa, on August twentieth
of twenty twenty. The event took place on the twentieth,
but it all started August nineteenth of twenty twenty. My
wife and I were living with my in laws. We
were living in the basement. One night, my wife and
I were just sitting there watching TV and just kind
of hanging out, and I got this really sudden urge
to what I get up and go clean my bathroom.
As weird as that sound, so I go in there
and start cleaning. It's about eleven forty ish at night.
I'm standing in the bathroom cleaning and I step in
the shower. It's one of those glass sliding door showers,
so I'm in there and I'm just kind of cleaning
and doing my thing. All of a sudden, it sounds
like I hear a man yelling, and it sounds like
he's saying help or hello. It was just like a
very sudden and very quick thing, but it was enough
to catch my attention. So I walked out of the shower.
In our basement, we had a bit of a long
hallway that reached the living room that we had, and
I walked out there and I asked my wife. I said, Hey,
did you just call for me? And she's like no, why,
And I said, I swear I just heard somebody yelling.
I said, but it sounded like a man's voice, just
something louder, maybe deeper, And She's like no. I went
back out to the living room and just kind of
hung out the rest of the night with my wife.
The following day, on August twentieth, we had woke up.
My wife and I were off work. We had just
gotten up at about nine o'clock in the morning. I
was checking my phone just as I usually do, just
kind of doom scirling. I was on Facebook and I
had noticed that I had gotten a message from a
girl that I know him, Katie. This particular person is
my best friend's ex girlfriend. I had known her for
quite a few years. I had known him actually for
quite a few years, about seven. But I had gotten
a text message saying, Hey, I know you and I
haven't talked in a long time, but I just need
you to know that Kendall had passed away last night
in a car accident. That kind of struck me as
odd because I hadn't talked to her or heard from
her quite a few years after they had broken up.
From that moment, I proceeded to get up and I
ran into our bathroom that I was cleaning the night before,
and my wife had just got up, so she was
in there and I burst in and I was just
like shaking, but I couldn't really say what had happened,
so I had just handed her my cell phone. It
was a very jarring panic, almost like your world is
just collapsing in because it just doesn't seem real. But
then my wife started screaming, She's like what, and she
like threw my phone at me. Immediately after that, I
had called my best friend trying to reach him. His
phone was just going to voicemail. I think I called
it probably ten times, ran upstairs to try to get
a better signal. Maybe it wasn't connecting. I tried to
call his mom. It rang probably twice and it she
had picked up and I said, Michelle, I said, I
just got a text message about Kendall. What's going on.
She's just screaming, my baby's dead. When you hear a
mother lose a child, it's just the most soul shattering
noise to hear. We had found out that he was
in an automobile accident driving in on the highway. So
we live in a small town in the Midwest. He
was driving into town at think twelve oh five from
a friend's house, and when he had passed a certain intersection,
somebody came. They were traveling the opposite direction and they
had t boned him. That accident basically it ripped his
car into half, and it threw his car down into
like a ravine or a ditch. It was probably like
twenty feet down. He was killed instantly. We were just
very distraught. It was horrible. Like I remember just going
and sitting on my back porch at my mother in
law's house. Like he was the type of best friend
that would be at every family function, even with my
wife's family. He was just very accepted and loving. So
we would go sit on the back porch all the time.
They had this like really nice deck. But all I
could do, like I just immediately went out there and
it just kind of collapsed on the steps. I was
sitting on the deck and there was this big butterfly
that just like flew up on us and it like
landed right on this the sterea railing, and it was
black and yellow, and it was just weird because like
my buddy, he was into comics and stuff. He was
a big nerd. He loved Deadpool, Batman, and he always
wore Batman and Deadpool jackets. And my wife's like, that's
really weird. She's like, why is this butterfly just lingering around?
But one of the things that had bothered myself and
my wife was that our friend he was a very
conscientious person of his looks. He took very good care
of himself, and he had these really really long dreadlocks.
They went all the way down to his butt. Like
he was just so proud of him. He took care
of him. When the accident had happened, we weren't sure
did he burn alive in the car? Was he killed
on impact? You know, did he suffer like what happened
to him. We had found out that the cause of
death was actually blunt force trauma to the head when
he was hit by the individual that was driving the
other car. It actually ejected his passenger out of the
front windshield. And when the police and the EMS and
fire trucks all got there, they didn't find his passenger
until about five o'clock in the morning. It had been
about five hours that the car was in that spot,
and we had actually gone to see the sight of
the accident. It was about a week later, and we
were kind of just surveying to see how bad it
was and you know, if we could help find anything,
because they didn't know where his cell phone was. His
mom wanted his cell phone back, so we went there
in the intent of trying to just find anything. The
site was just horrific. It was all like burned brush
and grass. There was a tree that had been caught
on fire, but it only burned on one side, which
is very odd. There was stuff from his car that
was scattered. He had like an emergency pack in his
glove box that was probably fifty feet away from where
his car was. His battery was still at the site.
There was random evidence bags and toe tags. It was
pretty horrific. He used to have these glasses. They were
like these funky, like seventies looking glasses. They were like
clear with like these weird tiger stripe print inside of them.
We were surveying the accident site and I found his
eyeglasses and it was weird because I was like, oh, like,
I found his glasses, you know, and it was broken.
One of the earpieces was gone, and it just was like,
what do I do with this? You know, this is
kind of it's weird. I don't want to leave it here.
But that was actually something I had called his mom
and I said, hey, Michelle, you know, I found his glasses.
I think these should go to you, Like these these
are like one of the only things that's left. She
didn't even get his wallet or his idea or anything.
So I was able to actually give his mom his
glasses back. I didn't really handle his loss very well
in the coming weeks and months after, because we didn't
know when there was going to be a service for him,
and the manner in which he died. There had to
be a criminal investigation to see that the person that
hit him was actually drunk. Where the person was coming from,
they had actually just left party, So we didn't know
when his services were going to be after we had
had his funeral. It was during COVID. It was twenty twenty.
It was really bad because we we had to be
social distance. So I remember just like going there with
my wife and like everybody was just spaced five feet
apart or six feet or whatever that was. And I
just remember sitting there sobbing because like, now this person
that I knew, that had, you know, just such a
big personality and larger than life, was sitting in this
box on a pedestal because he had to be cremated.
It was scarring. We had actually just seen him. It
was like a week before his accident. We had in
the Midwest called a d ratio, so it's like an
on land hurricane. It was bad, but he just moved
in with some other roommates because we had lived with
them for a while. It was our roommate for a
few years, but he had lost power and he came
over to our mother in laws and was visiting. That
was the last time we've seen him. There was no
text or any phone calls. It was just you see
your friend, and then a week later you find out
they're gone. A few months after his accident, I was
sleeping and we were still in my mother in law's
basement at the time. I had this very weird, vivid
dream that my friend Kendall had come to see us.
But it was almost as if I was in like
a third person view, so like I could see myself
and my wife sleeping on our bed. He walked into
our bedroom and the way that he walked in. He
did this a lot when we lived together. I would
usually work really early mornings, and then by the time
I got off, I was coming home to fall asleep
and he was getting up to go to work. But
he would just come in and he would just stand
in our doorway and I would just be knocked out, snoring,
and he would just kind of laugh, you know, and giggle,
and my wife would make fun of me because I
was snoring. So loud, but it was just a very
vivid experience, and I remember I caught him one time.
I was like, what are you doing? Man, Like you're
being weird. That particular dream, I remember he walked in
and he was just standing there and I could see
him like smiling, and he was wearing his usual clothes.
He used to wear like this Deadpool jacket and he
would kind of wear it hanging off his shoulders a
little bit unzipped, but just loosely hanging off his shoulders.
It was like I was just watching him come in
and he would watch us since he smiled. And then
I just woke up. The next day. I told my wife,
I was like, you know, I had this dream, and
I explained it to her and I was like, am
I going crazy? I know people handle grief and depression
in very certain ways, and it has effects on people.
And I've lost people in my life before and I've
had other experiences with them, but like this felt real
in my opinion. It felt like maybe the accident was
so horrific and so scarring just to the extent that
it happened, and he didn't get to say goodbye. Nobody
said goodbye to anybody, and you're just gone. I believe
that he had passed away in maybe one of those
safe places that he knew where people were was unfortunately,
I don't say unfortunately, but like it was my house,
and I think that the noise that I had heard
in my shower was actually him, because I think the
accident was just so traumatic and so sudden that when
somebody dies, I don't think their soul just goes to
a heaven or hell like sometimes you're just kind of
stuck in maybe a limbo maybe until your soul can
move on or wherever we go. I'm not sure. It
was shortly after my dream that my wife had told
me that she had a dream, but she had described
her dream. It was her and our friend Kendall, and
they were just in like this white room. It was
just all bright. I knew she took it a lot
harder in how he had passed away, and she was
always worried, like, you know, did he suffer, you know,
finding out the details of his burns. While my wife
was in this dream, in this white room with our friend,
she had asked him, how are you here? Your hair like?
Your hair's okay? He smiled at her and he just said,
don't worry about it. I'm okay. I've been through so
much and I've lost a lot of people in a
short amount of time, and there's just been so many
things that I can't explain how they happen. I've lost
my mom, my grandmother, my best friend, I've lost another grandma,
all within like five years since twenty twenty. We'll be
sitting here and like we'll see like a piece of
paper go flying off of a shelf when it sounds
like it's something that would make sense, but in reality,
like there's no fans, there's no no breeze or anything
to make those things happen. Or we'll hear something at
the other end of our trailer that sounds like somebody's
in our trailer, and it's like we just accept that, Hey,
someone's here visiting us. I don't want to say that,
like I want to invite things into my life spiritually,
like because you can invite the wrong things in. But
I'd like to think that maybe somehow he's kind of
just watching over us. We had went to his mom's
house after the car accident. She wanted to give me
some of his belongings, and when we were there, she
was giving me this deadpool jacket that I had actually
bought him for Christmas. When we were there, she was
saying that she's experienced weird things in her apartment as well.
My best friend that had passed. He actually had two
younger brothers. His mom had actually just given birth to
one of them. She had raised these three boys by
herself and him being the oldest one, like she relied
on him for a lot of support growing up. But
she said that the youngest boy that she had, you know,
was randomly just talking in a room with nobody in it.
She was standing in his older brother's room, and the
older brother wasn't there, but he was just sitting in
there talking, like standing by himself in the middle of
the room, just talking. It wasn't really like coherent words
because he was really little. He was like maybe three,
I think around that time. It's crazy too, because in
his mother's apartment complex, like I had actually helped her
move in there with him because he didn't have anybody else,
and he's like, hey, will you help me do this?
We moved her in there, but one of the knights
that we were leaving his mom's house, we had just
gotten all, you know, his belongings that she was giving us.
But we were like in the hallway and we were
passing this guy and it looked just like him. It's
so jarring and weird because like he was the same height,
he was an African American individual with long dreads down
to his back. He had these black rimmed glasses. It
almost put out not in my stomach because it was like, wait,
how am I seeing this? And then my wife's like
she nudged me and she's like that looks like Kendall
and I'm like it does, but I'm like that's it's
obviously not him. And it's weird too because like I
live right by the accident site now. I would say
it's probably like a mile and a half away from me,
and I drive by it all the time after like
the accident had happened. I would specifically like avoid this
side of town, and I would just ask my wife like, hey,
like let's not go this way unless we absolutely have to.
But I drive by there every day now coming home
from work, and it's just scary because like we drive
over there and it's like I immediately look to that spot.
That area is like tainted now with whatever bad event
that happened there, there have been other accidents at that
actual location. His mom had to fight with the city
because there's no stop lights out there. There's no there's
like very few street lights out there in this city.
Had basically told his mom that it was a state issue,
like the city wasn't responsible for it, and the best
that they ended up doing was putting some stop signs
with like red flashing lights. It's not going to do
anything just because the side road you have to pull
kind of into the intersection of the highway to see
because there's there's like a blind spot. It was a
month or two after my friend had died at that
location a woman was driving from in town running from
the police and she had crashed her car and she
died there. And then literally, I think it was last week,
I was on Facebook and there was a car that
got flipped over there. There's been a lot of accidents.
Every time my wife and I, like whether I'm leaving
work or she's getting ready to come home or where
anytime we're separated and like I know she's driving, I
always text her, I love you, drive safe. And it
almost maybe to some people would seem like a broken record,
but like today, it's almost like clockwork. She knows exactly
when I get off work, and she texted me drive safe,
I love you. On February eighteenth of twenty twenty four,
my wife and I were driving and we were going
to get coffee. We just went and got groceries. We
went and picked up some Taco John's. We were passing
this church and out of nowhere, a lady out of
the corner of my left side t boned our car.
She was going pretty fast. She had flipped our car.
It was bad. My car was totaled, and it felt
weird because when the accident was actually happening, I had
never been in a car accident before. My wife has.
I hadn't and I was driving when it happened. It
flipped our car, but it was like slow motion. As
soon as the car accident had settled and our car
was upside down, I didn't panic, you know. I kind
of got up and I told my wife. I was like,
we got to get out of the car, like something
is leaky. I don't know if it's fuel a liquid.
So we were getting out of our car and I
was trying to kick the windows out. The next thing,
I know, like this man like pried our door open
and he reached his hand and he grabbed us. We
got out. We'd realize what had happened, and the cops came.
Tow trucks started, you know, showing up, you know, to
tell the cars away. There was already a local tow
truck company on site, and they asked, They're like, you know,
do you want us to take your car? And I said,
I'm on the phone with my insurance. I had gotten
a hold of my insurance, and they're like, we're sending
somebody out. The tow truck finally showed up. They got
us towed away, and my wife and I had went
back home. I think just the jarring shock of that,
because that's just been one of my biggest fears is
being in a car accident. My wife and I we
came home and like we just broke down, and we
had realized like how bad it was that one of
us or both of us and I might not have
came home, and luckily we had only walked away with
is like some scrapes, bruises. My car was totaled. I
was opening my wallet, I was getting the card out
from the tow truck company. I realized that the name
of the tow truck company was Kendall's Towing, which struck
me as very odd because he was like that best friend,
like if I had car troubles, or like an ex
partner that I was with, like her wheel literally came
off her car and I called him and I'm like, hey, man,
like this happened, Like is there any way that you
can come pick me up? And He's like, yeah, I
got you. You know, he showed up. And it was
just so striking and odd that the toe trup company
name was Kendall's Towing, and this this individual that meant
so much and like was always that person to come
save me, that was the name of the tow truck company.
I'm not a religious person by any means. I think
I'm probably more spiritual, and I believe in something. But
I think that somehow, in some way, that like the
universe just allows certain things to happen, and one of
those things might have just been him showing up one
last time, maybe you know, just to let me know,
like he's still here. I one hundred percent believe if
the voice that I heard that night was him, just
because we had lived with my mother in law for
probably two years and she had like a ranch style
house and it was very much backed away in like
a little neighborhood. And like those people that lived there,
they were very quiet. There weren't people out partying, or
there weren't kids, you know, out late hours of the night.
Like we were in a basement that was just kind
of more or less sealed off from the world. And
the people that lived there was my mother in law,
my father in law, and then my wife's grandfather. But
they all went to bed very very early, like eight
nine o'clock at night. And those people weren't loud people either,
Like it was just very chill. It was a very
quiet environment because her grandfather was very old, and you know,
we more or less knew not to make noise after
a certain time. I remember years ago, my grandmother had
passed away in twenty eighteen. She had pink reatic cancer,
and like that was really hard on me. But I
remember my best friend was there, you know, him and
my wife, like we worked together, Like I worked with
this guy at many jobs. I would get hired somewhere
and then I'd get him hired on with me, and
then that would just kind of go on for a
few years. We were just always in contact and if
it went a few weeks or a month, you know,
it was still sort of we'd pick up where we
left off when we would see each other. But with
my grandmother passing away, like he was all very spiritually inclined,
like very open. He was always just sort of open
to me, being like, hey, like what do you think
happened to her? You know, like where do we go
when we die? And he would always just tell me, like,
you know, it's kind of what you believe. Like I said,
I don't really believe in heaven or hellp per se.
But it was just knowing that he was there to
be supportive. And now he's gone in such a tragic manner,
and I know his death he wouldn't want it to
hurt and he wouldn't want to put that on us.
But it's just something that happens when you meet somebody
in life that you just click with them, and you
know we would still be friends have the accident not happened.
He was the best man in my wedding. But I
do one hundred percent believe that the voice that I
heard that night it was him, and I believe maybe
he was just scared or trying to let one of
us know what was going on.
Speaker 2: So this story really got me. And you know, as
I've mentioned before, we have these mini conversations sometimes people
who are telling me the stories, and you know, during
the actual recordings, like we have questions. Sometimes there are
things that are I'm wondering about the story, but I
don't come out in the final recording. You know, my
questions kind of get edited out, so it sounds like
the person is just telling their full story. Most of
the time, that's how it is, right, but every once
in all, we have these additional conversations. And it got
me because, you know, several months ago, I mentioned to
you guys that I lost my best friend. He passed away, unfortunately,
and it was a very tough thing, you know, for
us to get adjustice adjusted to as a group of friends.
By the way, you might be hearing a cat out
in the front door. He is really trying to get in.
We're gonna let him hang out there for a little bit.
But anyway, thinking about all that, in the aftermath, everything's confusing.
We don't know, we know how this is going to
work now our dynamic even as us friends who are
left on earth, right, like, we don't we don't know
what that's going to be like. But I started thinking
about the paranormal, like, is there anything paranormal that happened?
You know? By the way, his name's Felipe and he's
the one who told the very first story on this
very podcast him. It was him and Italia. They both
told a story and in the same episode about the
same event. But anyway, so as I'm thinking back on
all this, I remember that his wife told me that
they were I think she was picking out clothing, like
something for him to wear. Actually didn't know what he
was going to wear. It was obviously a tough decision
for the for the viewing, I believe. And then some
like clothing just fell out of a shelf, like out
of you know where they keep the clothes. It was
something like that that I was like, Wow, is that possible, Yeah,
it's possible, right. And then I remember, even as I
was navigating through all this, we were out at a
restaurant with some of our all of our friends, and
I remember just like I was just out of it, right,
And then I just hear a voice like in a
song you know, this Island in the Sun by Weezer,
it just says something like we'll never feel bad anymore.
We'll never feel bad anymore. And by the way, it's
one of my favorite songs of all time, and you
guys should should go look it up, you know, be
in case you're wondering. But it's a very it's one
of my favorite songs. And I don't get to hear
that often. I'm not in the US as often anymore,
but that song plays sometimes in the background. Right, But
I was seeing it as like, okay, this might have
been a coincidence, right, but what if it was right,
what if it's him telling us like, hey, he's okay,
like he's fine. Then also saw him in a dream
and it just showed up and he looked completely different.
He was tall, he had like he was different, like
he was just a different per like I knew. It
took me a little bit to understand that it was him,
and it was a very confusing thing, you know, for
me to to come to terms with. I guess maybe
you want to say it like that that this might
have been something that I that I saw, like something
that actually I can consider paranormal and it makes me wonder,
has anyone else experienced something like this, something that maybe
you see you ignore because you think it's a coincidence,
but really it might have been a sign and in
hindsight you think, hey, maybe this this meant something. Has
that ever happened to you? I want to know. I
want to know because sometimes, I mean, I have that
belief where like people ignore paranormal signs and things like
that because our logical minds take over. But again it's
just an idea. So I want to take the time
here to thank Nicholas for sharing the story is very private,
very intimate story, and I know I needed to hear
it when I heard it, and I appreciate that very much,
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