WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:03.000 Legends have a way of surviving longer than the people 2 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:06.080 who tell them, and tonight the listener shares a terrifying 3 00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:09.800 moment when an old curse or something even darker seemed 4 00:00:09.839 --> 00:00:13.119 to reveal itself beneath the full desert moon. My name 5 00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:17.760 is Edwin and here is taw wishes true scary story. 6 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:31.039 Growing up, we were exposed to a lot of religion. 7 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:33.359 And we I mean me and my brother and my family. 8 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:39.320 We were raised Catholic through my grandma. She immigrated from 9 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:43.200 Mexico from dra Ango, and there's a lot of speculation 10 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:47.960 and a lot of gossip in our family that we have. 11 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:52.200 I guess you can call like a little generational curse. 12 00:00:52.520 --> 00:00:56.719 And it's nothing that I've really paid much attention to. 13 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:00.359 Even when I was little, we believed in go ghosts. 14 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:04.200 Me and my brother would watch ghost hunters and ghost 15 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:07.719 adventures literally every week. Whenever any chance that we could, 16 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:11.640 we would get on YouTube and watch ghost videos. So 17 00:01:11.719 --> 00:01:14.480 I feel like we kind of manifested a lot of 18 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:18.480 that stuff up for us. So we had a very 19 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:22.079 strong interest in the paranormal growing up, and we didn't 20 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:26.680 really experience too much. But I noticed a lot of 21 00:01:26.719 --> 00:01:30.599 this started after my grandma died in two thousand and five. 22 00:01:33.239 --> 00:01:36.760 After she passed, it was pretty hard for my family 23 00:01:36.840 --> 00:01:39.719 for my grandpa, He and my grandma moved from Texas, 24 00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:44.000 and the majority of the stories that happened are at 25 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:48.640 my grandpa's property. They lived with a family who owned 26 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:52.000 a church in a little area on the outskirts of 27 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:59.319 Las Cruces. So imagine desolate desert, tumbleweeds, not even a highway, 28 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:02.879 just come fleet, barren desert, and this desert was a 29 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:07.439 small family church that they offered up a room for 30 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:10.479 my grandpa and for his family to live in. They 31 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:13.719 traded work for a piece of land that my grandpa 32 00:02:13.719 --> 00:02:16.680 can build his house eventually on, and he did build it. 33 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:19.120 It was a beautiful two story house that he built 34 00:02:19.759 --> 00:02:24.319 with my grandma's help, with his son's help and my 35 00:02:24.439 --> 00:02:29.039 auntie's help, who were of age at the time. So anyways, 36 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:34.039 fast forward into the present. After my grandma had unfortunately 37 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:36.599 passed away in the house, that's when we realized a 38 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:42.520 lot of spiritual energy was still heavily connected. My grandpa 39 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:48.240 went into a very very dark, deep depression and it 40 00:02:48.280 --> 00:02:50.960 was really hard to get him out of it. So 41 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:54.439 we would my brother and I would constantly go visit 42 00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:57.879 him in the summers, on our fall breaks, on our 43 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:00.240 spring breaks, anytime that we had a break. You know, 44 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:02.639 we were always there. There was a lot of division 45 00:03:03.199 --> 00:03:08.240 in the family because he did remarry maybe three years 46 00:03:08.280 --> 00:03:11.199 after my grandma had passed. I felt like after that 47 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:17.520 that's when the uptick in spiritual I don't know, manifestations 48 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:21.960 started happening. There was an instance where I was staying 49 00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:25.919 over one summer at my grandpa's house and he was 50 00:03:25.960 --> 00:03:29.479 gone for the day. He was out in town, and 51 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:31.680 so was his wife. So I was the only one 52 00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:36.439 in a humongous two story house. In his main living room, 53 00:03:36.520 --> 00:03:39.520 it's it's huge, it takes up the majority of the house. 54 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:45.159 I could hear what sounded like my grandpa arguing with 55 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:49.000 somebody in Spanish. I could hear it through the walls 56 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:52.919 where his bedroom was. His bedroom was connected to the 57 00:03:52.919 --> 00:03:57.560 living room. I walked up to the door of his 58 00:03:57.599 --> 00:04:00.360 bedroom and I put my ear against it to make 59 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:02.680 sure I heard what I had thought. You know, I 60 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:05.759 was hearing was a loud argument in Spanish. When I 61 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:08.800 went up to the door, I didn't hear anything behind it, 62 00:04:09.319 --> 00:04:12.159 so I jiggled the handle. I knocked just to make 63 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:16.079 sure my grandpa wasn't in there, And when I opened 64 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:21.040 the door, it was completely empty. I looked inside his closet, 65 00:04:21.759 --> 00:04:24.279 there was nobody in there. I also looked inside his 66 00:04:24.399 --> 00:04:28.800 bathroom because it's connected to the main kitchen. They kind 67 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:32.079 of share like a Romeo and Juliet style doors where 68 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:34.519 someone can enter through the kitchen and exit out through 69 00:04:34.519 --> 00:04:39.319 the bathroom. And all those doors were closed. So I 70 00:04:39.439 --> 00:04:42.800 go about my business. I shut the door, leave the room, 71 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:47.560 and I'm in the kitchen. So like I said, like 72 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:50.759 I said, the you can have easy access to my 73 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:54.000 grandpa's room from the kitchen or from the hallway. So 74 00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:58.399 while I was in the kitchen making myself something to eat, 75 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:06.879 I heard furniture moving upstairs. Now this wouldn't have been 76 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:10.600 an issue if there was some people moving the furniture. 77 00:05:10.680 --> 00:05:15.240 The furniture that was being moved around was heavy cherrywood 78 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:19.199 furniture from like the fifties, like really thick industrial stuff. 79 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:21.399 It would take like a five man army to move 80 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:25.399 around this bedroom set. It was heavy. So as I'm 81 00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:31.439 making my food, I'm listening to the shelves moving around, 82 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:36.160 to the bedframe moving around like you can hear something 83 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:41.160 dragging pieces of furniture above me, and above me was 84 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:46.160 actually my mom's old room. Whenever my grandpa constructed the house, 85 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:49.839 he set bedrooms aside for my auntie, for my uncle, 86 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:52.920 and for my mom. So above the kitchen was my 87 00:05:52.959 --> 00:05:58.920 mom's bedroom. After my mom had moved out, my grandpa 88 00:05:59.319 --> 00:06:02.319 took over that room himself, and he's still sleeping in 89 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:04.839 that room. Mind you, he has this whole bedroom like 90 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:08.279 seven bedroom house to himself, and he only chooses to 91 00:06:08.319 --> 00:06:10.639 sleep in my mom's room. He doesn't want to sleep 92 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:14.000 in the master bedroom anymore or any of the auxiliary 93 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:16.639 bedrooms that he has. He'd rather sleep in my mom's bedroom. 94 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:22.600 So he is a little bit older and he does 95 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:25.680 have caretakers that take care of him well. One of 96 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:31.600 his caretakers was fixing the bed and as she was 97 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:36.000 adding the fitted sheet to the mattress, she put her 98 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:39.600 fingers underneath the mattress to kind of spread it the 99 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:43.920 fitted sheet underneath it, and she felt a bag as 100 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:46.360 she stuck her hand underneath the mattress a little bit more. 101 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:49.879 She took out a ziploc bag that was filled with 102 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:55.480 human teeth. And this isn't the first time anybody has 103 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:58.839 found something like that in my grandpa's home. A lot 104 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:05.519 of common with human hair, with human teeth is associated 105 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:11.680 a lot with gorandaria or bruchheria. Sometimes it's not all 106 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:15.879 good luck and happy charm. Sometimes it's very awful things 107 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:24.199 that happen because of that. After his caretaker found that 108 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:28.040 bag of teeth, she showed it to my grandpa right away. 109 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:33.319 My grandpa has been one to like dismiss supernatural things 110 00:07:33.439 --> 00:07:37.839 unless it happens to him, so her finding a bag 111 00:07:37.879 --> 00:07:42.759 of teeth underneath his mattress didn't face him at all. 112 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:48.279 And this man is a veteran of the Vietnam War, 113 00:07:48.439 --> 00:07:51.879 so seeing that, I kind of figured it wouldn't face 114 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:56.480 him as much. It's usually the unexplainable that really gets 115 00:07:56.480 --> 00:08:04.199 his gears going. During the summer of twenty twenty four, 116 00:08:06.199 --> 00:08:12.680 I feel is when a lot of my faith was tested, 117 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:17.759 my family's faith was tested, and in general it really 118 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:20.920 put us in a rock and a hard place. Unfortunately, 119 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:27.079 in that summer, I lost my stepdad. He had a 120 00:08:27.120 --> 00:08:30.920 heart attack in his sleep, and that really shook the 121 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:35.559 family to its core. It was very strange and unusual. 122 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:38.399 While he was he did have a lot of health 123 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:42.720 issues prior to his last and final heart attack. He 124 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:47.360 was hospitalized for about two months, and he and my 125 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:51.679 mom made the choice to move back to Las Crusis 126 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:56.200 because it was cheaper. Honestly, it was a very hard summer. 127 00:08:56.279 --> 00:09:00.000 It was a death that really took us by surprise, 128 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:07.240 and it was heartbreaking because the night prior, my grandpa 129 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:11.559 told me that he just heard my mom and my 130 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:15.320 stepdad laughing and laughing like they were just little children, 131 00:09:15.480 --> 00:09:19.440 just giggling and laughing at anything, till two in the morning, 132 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:24.919 and that morning my mom said that he just didn't 133 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:28.799 wake up. We had lost him. Unbeknownst to my brother 134 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:32.960 and I, our biological father was actually not doing well 135 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:38.919 for himself either. That year, we also lost my biological 136 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:48.080 dad in December. It was during the funeral of my 137 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:54.320 biological father that I feel like it was I don't 138 00:09:54.320 --> 00:09:57.039 know how to put into words. It was a revelation 139 00:09:57.200 --> 00:10:02.320 to me of how close death is for all of us. 140 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:06.840 It's not on the doorstep like everybody's thinking about, or 141 00:10:07.919 --> 00:10:12.679 it's not somebody that can walk over the grave. It's 142 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:16.600 like a whisper, something that you'll hear in the wind, 143 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:20.360 but you'll only hear the clarity once it's close to 144 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:29.000 your ear. Behind my grandpa's house, there's a hill. And 145 00:10:29.039 --> 00:10:33.200 I'm not sure how significant this hill is to the 146 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:37.600 community or to the little town that my grandpa lives in, 147 00:10:38.519 --> 00:10:42.559 but growing up, my mom would always tell me that 148 00:10:42.879 --> 00:10:45.480 it was like a party hill. A lot of teenagers 149 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:49.279 would go and drink and smoke up there, and it 150 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:53.000 was easy to access. It wasn't a hill that was 151 00:10:53.120 --> 00:10:56.600 too crazy with too many trails. It was just a 152 00:10:56.639 --> 00:11:00.120 small hill and when you get on the top, but 153 00:11:00.159 --> 00:11:04.679 it you could probably see maybe fifty to sixty miles 154 00:11:04.679 --> 00:11:10.279 into nothing but farming community and dairies and the highway. 155 00:11:10.919 --> 00:11:12.759 It's all you can see from the top. I don't 156 00:11:12.759 --> 00:11:16.000 know the history of the hill too much. My grandpa 157 00:11:16.240 --> 00:11:19.559 did tell me at one point that the hill was 158 00:11:19.639 --> 00:11:25.639 so ancient and it had so much spiritual meaning towards 159 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:29.960 the Apaches or the indigenous folk that did live in 160 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:35.039 that area before the Concises colonized. And he had said 161 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:41.720 that there was a band of renegade Indians who would 162 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:44.799 use that mountain to do their rituals and to do 163 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:49.679 their dances, and they cursed the land and whoever lives 164 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:53.080 on it something like that, just old ghost stories basically, 165 00:11:53.159 --> 00:11:59.799 And eventually the hill got built into a small community 166 00:11:59.799 --> 00:12:06.320 guard garden that the little village of Mesquito del the 167 00:12:06.360 --> 00:12:09.559 little area that my grandpa lives in. They all got 168 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:13.559 together and just made the cutest little garden, you know, 169 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:19.600 just out of recyclables, tires, palettes, built right into the hillside. 170 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:23.080 So this night, my husband and I decided to take 171 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:28.399 a walk to this little community garden, and as we're walking, 172 00:12:28.919 --> 00:12:33.440 the full moon is illuminating the desert landscape. When you 173 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:36.799 have the full moon and the desert, nothing is invisible. 174 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:42.440 It's like the sun is out again. Things aren't visible 175 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:46.039 too much into detail, but just enough where you can 176 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:49.159 tell where something, you can make out the shape of something. 177 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:54.240 So as my husband and I are walking to this 178 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:59.000 community garden, and the closer that we get to it, 179 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:05.519 are realize that it's getting darker. The light of the 180 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:11.720 moon is it's casting a shadow rather than light. And 181 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:17.480 as we're getting closer to the community garden, I feel 182 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:23.559 what I can only describe as spider webs or in 183 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:27.480 my eyes. And no matter how much how hard I 184 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:31.679 rubbed or how much I scratched out my eyes, it 185 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:34.879 felt like I couldn't get the spider webs out, And 186 00:13:37.240 --> 00:13:42.840 as we were getting closer, my husband was reaching at 187 00:13:42.840 --> 00:13:45.120 his face and he said, oh, I think I ran 188 00:13:45.159 --> 00:13:48.120 into a spider web or something. There's something in my eyes. 189 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:52.279 I can't see all that well. Now. While he's experiencing this, 190 00:13:52.519 --> 00:13:55.480 I'm dead silent because I'm struggling on my own. You know, 191 00:13:55.559 --> 00:13:58.320 it's hard to walk in the desert with only the 192 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:02.960 moon as your guide. Me also being severely blind, it's 193 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:07.120 very difficult for me to watch where I'm walking, managing 194 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:10.799 my eyesight and trying to listen to him. So in 195 00:14:10.919 --> 00:14:14.000 doing so, I lost my footing a little bit in 196 00:14:14.080 --> 00:14:18.039 the loose sand, and I had bumped into a porta 197 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:21.519 potty that they have sat in front of the community garden. 198 00:14:21.600 --> 00:14:25.399 And as I realized I had bumped into it, I 199 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:28.679 look at my husband and I tell him, you know what, 200 00:14:29.279 --> 00:14:33.120 it's getting really hard for me to see. And he's 201 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:36.159 like me too, Do you think we should just go back? 202 00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:39.080 And I told him no, we're already here. We may 203 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:42.840 as well just continue on and the picnic tables aren't 204 00:14:42.840 --> 00:14:45.000 too far from us, so we can continue just a 205 00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:49.519 little bit more. And we should have turned back when 206 00:14:49.559 --> 00:14:52.600 I said that. As we were walking closer to the 207 00:14:52.720 --> 00:14:58.200 picnic tables, it felt like we were walking through a 208 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:04.960 haze or a fog. Everything started feeling so heavy. I 209 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:08.840 was having a hard time breathing, but I didn't want 210 00:15:08.879 --> 00:15:11.360 to mention anything to my husband because we were already 211 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:16.840 so close to the picnic tables. As we're getting closer, 212 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:24.080 I'm noticing in my peripheral vision, I'm seeing shapes manifest 213 00:15:24.200 --> 00:15:33.879 themselves into people, like puddles of ink were just in 214 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:39.320 contrasting the desert nighttime sky versus the moon, and the 215 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:44.559 only thing I could see were just odd figures just 216 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:49.559 existing and then not existing at all, if that makes 217 00:15:49.559 --> 00:15:53.039 any sense. Like they would manifest and then they would 218 00:15:53.080 --> 00:15:57.600 just disappear, and it felt like they were and hiding 219 00:15:57.679 --> 00:16:02.399 behind the foliage of the desert. So there's a lot 220 00:16:02.399 --> 00:16:08.879 of heavy trees and a lot of thick thorn bushes 221 00:16:10.240 --> 00:16:16.759 that are basically encapsulating this community garden. While I'm noticing 222 00:16:16.879 --> 00:16:20.559 these shapes taken place, my husband says out loud, I 223 00:16:20.639 --> 00:16:25.720 see people at the picnic table. I turn around and 224 00:16:25.799 --> 00:16:29.799 look at the picnic tables, and I reply back to 225 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:32.200 him like, yeah, I see them too. I see a 226 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:37.559 few people sitting around, so my husband asks me to 227 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:39.879 call out to them to see if we can join them, 228 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:42.840 or if we can join their area. My family and 229 00:16:42.840 --> 00:16:45.879 I are pretty local to this area, so it wouldn't 230 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:48.960 be too crazy for me to ask, can we hang 231 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:51.799 out there? Is it okay if we join you? It's 232 00:16:51.799 --> 00:16:54.159 a very small community and a lot of people know 233 00:16:54.279 --> 00:16:59.799 my grandpa. As I'm calling out to the darkness, I 234 00:17:00.559 --> 00:17:04.839 ask in English, Hello, Hi, can we join you? And 235 00:17:04.920 --> 00:17:09.920 we didn't receive a response, so I shouted back in Spanish, 236 00:17:10.039 --> 00:17:12.079 you know, can we visit with you? Is it okay 237 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:15.720 if we join your area? And there wasn't a reply. 238 00:17:16.920 --> 00:17:22.200 But at the picnic table, you can see humanoid figures 239 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:28.480 staring back at my husband and I like they're understanding, 240 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:35.680 but they're not responding to my question or responding back 241 00:17:35.759 --> 00:17:40.599 if I can sit with them. At this moment, I 242 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:44.079 realized that my husband and I are screaming at nothing 243 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:51.480 because nothing is replying back to us. As I turned 244 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:56.279 my body away from the picnic tables to look at 245 00:17:56.279 --> 00:18:02.400 the highway, I notice that it's very dark, like somebody 246 00:18:02.440 --> 00:18:05.519 had snuffed out the moon. And mind you, the moon 247 00:18:05.640 --> 00:18:09.680 was very full this night, and it was illuminating everything 248 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:13.240 I could see. But when I turned around, it felt 249 00:18:13.240 --> 00:18:17.920 like somebody had cloaked us in a thick, dark veil. 250 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:22.200 It was hard to breathe still. I could feel all 251 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:26.920 the hairs on my arms just stand on end. And 252 00:18:28.440 --> 00:18:31.079 I heard next to the picnic tables that sounded like 253 00:18:31.319 --> 00:18:36.400 a stick or something was being crunched underneath a foot. 254 00:18:36.839 --> 00:18:43.599 And as I turn around, I see a white face 255 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:50.359 that's contrasting between the hillside, the picnic table, and the 256 00:18:50.440 --> 00:18:55.000 community garden. Everything was pitch black except this face. Now, 257 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:57.839 the face wasn't looking straight at me at the turn. 258 00:18:58.640 --> 00:19:02.039 It was turned to itsile, as if it was watching 259 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:07.319 something in the desert. And after I saw the face, 260 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:10.480 my husband was standing next to me, and I grabbed 261 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:14.599 his arm in a panic, and I just made a sound. 262 00:19:14.640 --> 00:19:20.799 I just gasped. As I gasped, what felt like something 263 00:19:20.839 --> 00:19:25.599 out of a movie. This face was looking out into 264 00:19:25.640 --> 00:19:29.279 the desert, and it felt like it had phased out 265 00:19:29.279 --> 00:19:33.160 of reality, if that makes any sense. It was looking 266 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:36.759 at the desert, and I could have sworn I heard 267 00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:41.640 like a thick snap of the neck where it shuddered itself. Can't, 268 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:45.160 I can't even explain it not restraining the movement of 269 00:19:45.279 --> 00:19:48.920 snapping its neck towards us to get like if a 270 00:19:49.039 --> 00:19:52.680 predator was in the woods and its prey had snapped 271 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:56.200 a twig next to it, how it snapped its head 272 00:19:56.279 --> 00:19:59.799 towards the sound. That's what it did. It snapped its 273 00:19:59.880 --> 00:20:03.440 head towards the sound that my husband and I had made. 274 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:07.799 I hear this all the time from ghost shows and 275 00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:13.160 paranormal movies, that people's blood runs cold, and I had 276 00:20:13.200 --> 00:20:17.039 never experienced that until this night. I felt like my 277 00:20:17.160 --> 00:20:21.079 blood had turned into ice, and it was so hard 278 00:20:21.119 --> 00:20:23.839 for me to breathe. I felt like the world stopped. 279 00:20:24.039 --> 00:20:28.240 Everything stopped. There was no noise, there was no light, 280 00:20:28.400 --> 00:20:33.960 there was no heartbeat in my chest. I stood there 281 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:37.880 frozen looking at this face, and it was staring back 282 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:41.039 at me. Now, it wasn't a face that looked like 283 00:20:41.079 --> 00:20:48.680 a human face. It had pitched black eyes that seemed 284 00:20:50.319 --> 00:20:55.279 not to have an ending. They were hollow. It was 285 00:20:55.359 --> 00:20:59.319 hollow black eyes, and it didn't smile. It didn't have 286 00:20:59.359 --> 00:21:02.920 a grin. But you can tell where the mouth was 287 00:21:03.079 --> 00:21:10.079 because it looked like a mask with a simple like 288 00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:12.839 covering of the mouth. I'm not sure how to explain it. 289 00:21:13.119 --> 00:21:15.839 The best I can say is like the roar shark 290 00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:21.440 mask from that Superhero movie. I forgot what it's called, 291 00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:25.799 but it was pretty much like that. The black masses 292 00:21:25.839 --> 00:21:30.640 on its face were moving around, taking different shapes, not 293 00:21:30.880 --> 00:21:36.160 different eye shapes, but different sized hollowness of the eyes. 294 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:42.160 And at that moment, I grabbed my husband's arms and 295 00:21:42.359 --> 00:21:44.519 I looked at him and I said, we need to go. 296 00:21:45.960 --> 00:21:48.880 He didn't ask me why, He didn't ask me what happened. 297 00:21:49.319 --> 00:21:54.279 He also turned himself around and was on my heels 298 00:21:54.920 --> 00:21:57.920 running basically back to my grandpa's house. And I made 299 00:21:57.920 --> 00:22:01.680 it a point not to share what I had seen 300 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:06.440 because I know he was experiencing something. At the same time, 301 00:22:07.079 --> 00:22:09.920 he was also very silent. Now, my husband is a 302 00:22:09.960 --> 00:22:14.480 dibber dribber. He loves to talk except whenever something important's happening, 303 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:18.279 and this was one of those times, and he was 304 00:22:18.359 --> 00:22:22.440 dead silent. He followed me all the way to my 305 00:22:22.440 --> 00:22:26.160 grandpa's house, and I was full horse running. I am 306 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:30.480 not a runner, except for this time. I ran like 307 00:22:30.559 --> 00:22:33.880 my life depended on it, because I felt like it did. 308 00:22:35.200 --> 00:22:38.319 As we make our way back to my grandpa's house, 309 00:22:39.799 --> 00:22:42.400 we come in through the kitchen. Un this is pretty important. 310 00:22:42.400 --> 00:22:44.720 I know it's random, but it is important detail. We 311 00:22:44.839 --> 00:22:49.440 come in through the kitchen and we turn into the 312 00:22:49.480 --> 00:22:53.440 hallway which leads into some extra bedrooms and my grandpa's 313 00:22:53.480 --> 00:22:58.279 master bedroom. As we go in and try to settle in, 314 00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:02.920 me aside and he looks at me, and my husband 315 00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:07.640 asks me, I know you saw something. What did you see? 316 00:23:07.799 --> 00:23:13.160 And I told him about how it felt like I 317 00:23:13.200 --> 00:23:16.400 couldn't see as we were walking through the community garden, 318 00:23:16.519 --> 00:23:22.680 how it felt like there was a thick fog that 319 00:23:22.759 --> 00:23:25.799 we were walking into that was preventing me from breathing. 320 00:23:25.960 --> 00:23:30.920 And he confirmed that he felt like that too, like 321 00:23:31.000 --> 00:23:34.640 he was walking through a fog of humidity. It was 322 00:23:34.799 --> 00:23:38.319 just hard for him to breathe as well. I told 323 00:23:38.359 --> 00:23:44.119 him about the face I saw, and he told me 324 00:23:44.160 --> 00:23:48.680 to stop what I was talking about because he saw 325 00:23:48.720 --> 00:23:53.480 it too. I was having my experience. He was witnessing 326 00:23:53.519 --> 00:23:58.160 the exact same thing I was witnessing. After he told 327 00:23:58.160 --> 00:24:01.160 me to stop telling him the story, not is because 328 00:24:01.240 --> 00:24:05.880 he was scared, but because he wanted to finish off 329 00:24:06.359 --> 00:24:12.440 what he had seen, and he told me the exact 330 00:24:12.440 --> 00:24:15.680 same things that I was watching. He saw it all 331 00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:22.440 unfold at his very feet as well. So we're trying 332 00:24:22.480 --> 00:24:26.480 to make an idea of what we thought it was, 333 00:24:26.799 --> 00:24:30.400 or at least if it could be explained by science, 334 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:36.359 and it couldn't. It's something that really marked us and 335 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:49.759 it wasn't done with us. So while my husband and 336 00:24:49.799 --> 00:24:54.039 I are trying to get into bed, the bathroom light 337 00:24:55.000 --> 00:25:00.039 in the master bathroom turns on. Now, this wouldn't be 338 00:25:00.279 --> 00:25:08.200 too crazy if the light switches we're connected normally. So 339 00:25:09.759 --> 00:25:11.920 there's a set of light switches that you can control 340 00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:14.839 the bathroom on in the bedroom that we're staying in, 341 00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:18.559 and there's also a set on the outside of the 342 00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:22.480 bathroom towards the kitchen. Now it's important to know this 343 00:25:22.640 --> 00:25:26.559 because the outside bathroom lights they control one part of 344 00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:32.759 the bathroom. It's connected to a vanity. Whereas the lights 345 00:25:32.799 --> 00:25:36.079 that can be controlled in the bedroom, those are the 346 00:25:36.200 --> 00:25:43.480 overhead lights and both lights both switches. They don't control 347 00:25:43.640 --> 00:25:47.640 both lights, if that makes any sense. So while we're 348 00:25:47.640 --> 00:25:51.920 getting ready for bed, the bathroom lights turn on. I 349 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:55.759 thought originally it was my brother that had come into 350 00:25:55.799 --> 00:25:59.200 the bathroom and forgot to turn them off. But we 351 00:25:59.240 --> 00:26:05.519 waited about an hour and a half and we realized 352 00:26:05.519 --> 00:26:11.119 that the bathroom lights weren't turning off, so I opened 353 00:26:11.119 --> 00:26:16.440 the bathroom to check nobody's there, and that's when I 354 00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:20.000 figured out that it wasn't the vanity lights that were 355 00:26:20.079 --> 00:26:23.880 on as if somebody was coming from the outside in. 356 00:26:24.920 --> 00:26:29.039 It was from our bedroom, like the lights were turned 357 00:26:29.039 --> 00:26:33.400 on in there, but which was impossible. My husband was 358 00:26:33.440 --> 00:26:37.880 already asleep and I was watching TV in bed, so 359 00:26:40.119 --> 00:26:42.720 I turned off the lights. Tried not to make a 360 00:26:42.720 --> 00:26:46.720 big deal out of it, but then we heard a 361 00:26:46.839 --> 00:26:51.839 cat meowing in the hallway. My grandpa doesn't own a cat. 362 00:26:52.039 --> 00:26:55.240 It was loud enough to wake up my husband and 363 00:26:55.279 --> 00:26:58.440 he asked me, did you hear that? I asked him, 364 00:26:58.519 --> 00:27:00.759 was it a meow? He's like, yeah, I thought I 365 00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:03.039 just heard a freaking cat, and I told him, you did. 366 00:27:03.640 --> 00:27:07.240 It's in the hallway. So we waited a little bit 367 00:27:07.319 --> 00:27:11.000 longer to see if we could hear nowing again, and 368 00:27:12.559 --> 00:27:16.160 we did hear meowing, except it was coming from the 369 00:27:16.200 --> 00:27:20.960 bathroom that was right next to our bedroom. That had 370 00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:24.599 gone to check to see if somebody had left the 371 00:27:24.680 --> 00:27:28.920 lights on outside of the bathroom, and nobody did, and 372 00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:31.400 I made sure I closed that door while I was 373 00:27:31.440 --> 00:27:35.799 coming back into the bedroom. So I don't know how 374 00:27:35.839 --> 00:27:40.640 the cat got inside that bathroom, but it felt like 375 00:27:40.680 --> 00:27:42.960 it was trying to come into our bedroom, you know. 376 00:27:43.079 --> 00:27:47.319 It was scratching out the door, and I pointed my 377 00:27:47.440 --> 00:27:50.960 flashlight on my phone towards the bottom of the doorframe, 378 00:27:51.079 --> 00:27:57.240 and you could see a little paw trying to come in. 379 00:27:57.720 --> 00:28:01.680 So while I've tried to scare this cat, I asked 380 00:28:01.759 --> 00:28:05.559 my husband run around to the opposite side where the 381 00:28:05.640 --> 00:28:09.759 kitchen is. I'm gonna scare the cat from inside the bedroom. 382 00:28:10.319 --> 00:28:13.359 You open up the door so that way it can 383 00:28:13.480 --> 00:28:18.839 run out. So I go to the bathroom door trying 384 00:28:18.839 --> 00:28:22.160 to scare this cat. And when he opened up the 385 00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:27.400 door to let it run outside the opposite way, there 386 00:28:27.440 --> 00:28:30.079 was no cat at all, and there's no way for 387 00:28:30.160 --> 00:28:34.839 it to escape other than through the kitchen door or 388 00:28:35.079 --> 00:28:40.599 the bedroom door. As for that night, my husband and 389 00:28:40.640 --> 00:28:43.680 I we called it. We said good night. Whatever is 390 00:28:43.720 --> 00:28:47.519 gonna happen is gonna happen while we were asleep. So 391 00:28:47.640 --> 00:28:51.839 we went to bed. The next morning, we felt drained, 392 00:28:53.319 --> 00:28:58.359 as if something came through the night and just sucked 393 00:28:58.359 --> 00:29:03.440 out all the moisture, all the energy, all of sense 394 00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:07.960 of life out of my husband's eye, even to the 395 00:29:08.039 --> 00:29:11.480 point where we joined my grandpa for breakfast in the 396 00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:14.279 kitchen and he looked at us both and said, what 397 00:29:14.319 --> 00:29:17.960 did you guys do last night? Because you look tired? 398 00:29:19.440 --> 00:29:22.279 And my husband and I looked at each other reluctantly 399 00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:25.720 trying to figure out, like you know, nonverbal communication, if 400 00:29:25.720 --> 00:29:29.559 we should tell my grandpa what we saw the night prior. 401 00:29:31.000 --> 00:29:33.160