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We got a bunch of first hand 23 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:41,199 experiences with some hauntings and ghosts, so I hope you 24 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:43,759 guys enjoy it. We're working on a little bit of 25 00:02:43,759 --> 00:02:48,360 a new format here as well, during the encounter stories 26 00:02:48,439 --> 00:02:51,840 that we hope you'll enjoy. A few of the stories 27 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:54,960 tonight are going to have some extra dressing on them 28 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:58,599 and hopefully that adds to the production value of the show. 29 00:02:58,719 --> 00:03:03,000 And prease is your listening pleasure. But if any of 30 00:03:03,039 --> 00:03:04,919 you have a story of your own that you'd like 31 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:08,400 to share on the Portal, please feel free to email 32 00:03:08,479 --> 00:03:13,000 us at Paranormal Portal Radio at gmail dot com and 33 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:17,719 we'd be happy to share your story right here on 34 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:20,639 the show. So thank you so much, and sit back 35 00:03:20,719 --> 00:03:37,599 and enjoy the rest of the journey. It was late 36 00:03:38,319 --> 00:03:41,479 last August two thousand and seven, and now my fiance 37 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:44,080 and I lived in separate cities, about an hour from 38 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:46,759 each other in fact, so every chance I got to 39 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:49,080 go spend a night with him, or even see him 40 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:54,240 for longer than an hour, I did. He told me 41 00:03:54,319 --> 00:03:56,879 he'd be watching one of his coworkers' homes for the 42 00:03:56,919 --> 00:03:59,240 next week so since he was going to be away 43 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:03,120 on vacation and the friend had some animals that needed 44 00:04:03,159 --> 00:04:06,159 every day attention, I was invited to spend the week 45 00:04:06,199 --> 00:04:09,360 with there with him, so of course I accepted. Everything 46 00:04:09,439 --> 00:04:11,840 was fine on the first day. We chilled in the 47 00:04:11,879 --> 00:04:14,919 trailer and watched some TV and had a few beers, 48 00:04:14,919 --> 00:04:17,639 and everything was good. Well, the day went on and 49 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:21,439 it became time to get to bed, and Jamie wasn't tired, 50 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:24,000 but I was exhausted, so I told him I was 51 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:27,439 going to go to bed with or without him. As 52 00:04:27,439 --> 00:04:30,120 soon as I closed the door, I got this strange 53 00:04:30,199 --> 00:04:34,000 feeling like someone was watching me. And since this person's 54 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,879 trailer was in a bad neighborhood, I told Jamie so 55 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:38,759 he would set the alarm and check all the windows 56 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:41,920 and stuff. With all that done, I felt a little better, 57 00:04:41,959 --> 00:04:45,000 but not a lot. I laid down and started to 58 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,639 fall asleep when the cat jumped on me. So now 59 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:50,959 I'm fully awake. I turned on the TV to try 60 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:55,759 to bore myself to sleep. Raw writers sitting in the 61 00:04:55,920 --> 00:05:03,160 army like John went David. Then, I'd say about five 62 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:07,319 minutes or so later, the bed started to shake violently. 63 00:05:08,439 --> 00:05:10,639 Jamie yelled to me to stop how our horsing around, 64 00:05:10,639 --> 00:05:12,959 but this wasn't our place and he didn't want me 65 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:16,800 to accidentally break anything. I was so astonished I couldn't speak. 66 00:05:17,439 --> 00:05:19,360 The cat at this point had her claws dug into 67 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:23,120 my shoulder and she huddled onto my neck, and finally 68 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:26,120 it really hit me that this was real. So I 69 00:05:26,199 --> 00:05:29,160 yelled for Jamie to come here right now. And I 70 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:31,759 then heard a voice as clearly as I could hear 71 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:34,399 you if you were talking to me in a normal tone, 72 00:05:34,439 --> 00:05:36,800 and it said, he's fine. 73 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:40,199 Speaker 3: Here, but you need to go. When he gets through 74 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:43,160 the door, he will see nothing. Well. 75 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:46,160 Speaker 2: I was shocked, and as soon as he touched the doorknob, 76 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:49,879 you know, the jingle noise that they make the beds stopped. 77 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:53,720 I wasn't really scared. I was just shocked and amaze. 78 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:58,319 And what surprised me the most Jamie said was someone 79 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:02,079 in here with you. I heard another voice. The TV 80 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:04,120 volume was all the way down by that, by the way, 81 00:06:04,399 --> 00:06:07,160 so I was so amazed. I told him what had happened, 82 00:06:07,199 --> 00:06:11,680 and he, being my loving fiance, believed me. The cat 83 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:16,040 was my proof. She still terribly trembled, and after this 84 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:18,839 he just watched TV in the room with me while 85 00:06:18,879 --> 00:06:27,079 I slept well. The second night, the same thing happened 86 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:30,959 in the same detail, but instead of calling for Jamie, 87 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:33,959 I asked the ghost, whatever, why don't you want me here? 88 00:06:34,519 --> 00:06:37,439 I'm a friend of Jordan's who is the owner, and 89 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:39,879 I'm only here to helping to make sure this place 90 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:42,920 doesn't get broke into. You are the one who should go. 91 00:06:43,439 --> 00:06:46,519 It's time to move on. And again I got this 92 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:49,600 feeling that someone was sitting next to me staring at me. 93 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:53,279 I turned to look at the cat because she was 94 00:06:53,319 --> 00:06:56,079 now hissing at something, and when I did, I saw 95 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:59,959 a woman in the mirror. Most people at this point 96 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:01,759 I think, would be out of the door and down 97 00:07:01,759 --> 00:07:04,920 the street. She looked dead at me, like she was 98 00:07:04,959 --> 00:07:08,439 mad at me and I should not be there. Then 99 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:11,720 she smiled and pointed. I looked in the direction she 100 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:15,759 was pointing, and when I look back, she was gone. 101 00:07:15,959 --> 00:07:17,439 I got up and went over to see what she 102 00:07:17,519 --> 00:07:20,920 pointed at, and it was a picture of Jordan and 103 00:07:20,959 --> 00:07:25,839 the woman. I was just visited by his mother. She 104 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:29,800 died about a year before, and he was badly depressed 105 00:07:29,839 --> 00:07:32,839 when she died. I never said anything to Jamie about 106 00:07:32,839 --> 00:07:35,920 this because I didn't want him to upset Jordan. I 107 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:39,240 just told Jordan that he has a guardian angel who's 108 00:07:39,319 --> 00:07:42,560 watching over him and that loves and protects him more 109 00:07:42,560 --> 00:08:29,839 than he will ever know. Those are always the stories 110 00:08:29,839 --> 00:08:34,679 that I enjoy, the meaningful ending, the seeing through the 111 00:08:34,759 --> 00:08:38,440 darkness and finding the light and you know, taking the 112 00:08:38,519 --> 00:08:42,559 time to explore what is going on and why is 113 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:46,159 this thing here and what does it mean? And this 114 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:49,519 person obviously did and I think that that's pretty incredible, 115 00:08:49,519 --> 00:08:54,000 and it's a great opportunity to uh see the intention 116 00:08:54,159 --> 00:08:57,120 behind the haunting, because I think most times people don't 117 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:00,679 understand exactly what they're dealing with, they don't understand the 118 00:09:00,799 --> 00:09:03,679 nature of it, and the assumption is always like, oh 119 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:08,240 my god. But I think in this case they were 120 00:09:08,279 --> 00:09:12,080 able to determine it was not indeed quite as bad 121 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:17,440 as they thought. My mother comes from a country where 122 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:20,440 even until today, things are still old fashioned, that secluded 123 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:23,679 from the city. All her life, she has been followed 124 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:29,200 by occurrences, experiences, sightings that can't be explained. She's not 125 00:09:29,279 --> 00:09:32,559 a stranger to see in ghosts or entities, but this 126 00:09:32,639 --> 00:09:35,200 is by far one experience I as well as she 127 00:09:35,399 --> 00:09:43,360 will never forget. My father was not a very good 128 00:09:43,399 --> 00:09:45,440 man while he lived on this earth, and my mom 129 00:09:45,519 --> 00:09:48,639 had more painful memories of him than good. And I 130 00:09:48,679 --> 00:09:50,840 had no recollection of him until I met him when 131 00:09:50,879 --> 00:09:52,919 I was about eight years old, and he was a 132 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:56,120 stranger to me, a stranger who had brought pain and 133 00:09:56,159 --> 00:10:00,399 suffering to my mom's life. It was when I was 134 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:02,559 ten years old that he decided to take his own 135 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:06,960 life in a violent way. It was within that week 136 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,679 of learning of his death and attending his funeral that 137 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:13,080 I noticed strange things started happening. My mother seemed more 138 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:16,080 afraid than in mourning. I remember her telling one of 139 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:18,600 my aunts about the plants she had out on the 140 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:20,559 back porch, and she was accustomed to leave in a 141 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:24,000 glass of water out for the recently deceased. I still 142 00:10:24,039 --> 00:10:27,399 do not understand the meaning behind that. While she left 143 00:10:27,399 --> 00:10:29,639 that glass of water by her plants on the back porch, 144 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:38,399 and the next morning, all of the plants had been 145 00:10:38,399 --> 00:10:41,360 torn to pieces, as if they were ripped by hand 146 00:10:41,399 --> 00:10:44,679 from the pots, and the water was just spilled. My 147 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:47,480 aunt then told my mom she had heard a voice 148 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:51,360 whisper in her ear, it's not worth it. While she 149 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:54,960 sat in her dining room table, mourning the death of 150 00:10:55,039 --> 00:10:58,519 my father. Since the suicide of my father, my mother 151 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:02,200 had this uneasiness about her. It wasn't until I got 152 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:04,840 older that my mom told me most of the things 153 00:11:04,919 --> 00:11:08,320 she had experienced. For years, she had been followed and 154 00:11:08,399 --> 00:11:12,799 tormented by what she solemnly believed was my father's unresting ghost. 155 00:11:13,759 --> 00:11:16,279 She told me how she clearly felt she was being watched. 156 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:19,159 At night when she was sleeping, she would suddenly smell 157 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:22,240 the stench of men's cologne and someone laying next to 158 00:11:22,279 --> 00:11:25,320 her in bed, but never had the courage to turn around. 159 00:11:26,279 --> 00:11:29,279 When she would bathe, she would feel that someone was 160 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:33,879 outside looking through the window. Another time, she got out 161 00:11:33,879 --> 00:11:37,120 of the shower, crying and completely horrified. She told me 162 00:11:37,159 --> 00:11:41,159 something had struck her clear across her back. I looked 163 00:11:41,159 --> 00:11:43,080 at her back, and there was a red mark on 164 00:11:43,159 --> 00:11:46,080 her back. It almost seemed in the shape of a 165 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:49,519 letter to me. But I was in such a disbelief 166 00:11:49,519 --> 00:11:52,519 that I didn't know what to say to her. My 167 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:54,759 mom would tell me she knew when my father's ghosts 168 00:11:54,759 --> 00:11:57,799 would be in her room. She could hear the train 169 00:11:57,879 --> 00:11:59,960 every night at about the same time, and shortly after 170 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:02,679 the train, the stench of cigar. 171 00:12:02,399 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 3: And cologne would fill her room. 172 00:12:04,759 --> 00:12:07,639 Speaker 2: After seeing my mother in such pain and incomplete fright, 173 00:12:08,279 --> 00:12:10,639 I stayed up one night and I remember hearing the 174 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:14,279 train from a distance, and I went outside and started 175 00:12:14,279 --> 00:12:16,039 to speak to the man that I had only meant 176 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:20,080 once in my life and never called father. I asked 177 00:12:20,159 --> 00:12:23,879 him to leave, leave in peace and bring my mother peace. 178 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:26,639 As I said this, I could not help but feel 179 00:12:26,639 --> 00:12:27,679 a horrible rage. 180 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 3: I was so angry. 181 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:34,399 Speaker 2: I asked him to rest. About a week later, I 182 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:37,399 noticed a change in my mom. She was less reluctant 183 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:39,679 to be alone to go to sleep, and I asked 184 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:41,720 her if she was all right, and then she told 185 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:44,399 me one night, while she was sleeping, she had heard 186 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:48,799 the voice of my father ask for her forgiveness. My 187 00:12:48,879 --> 00:12:52,159 mother woke up and looked around and said, I forgive you. 188 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:55,759 It was at that moment that she knew my father's 189 00:12:55,840 --> 00:13:32,879 unresting soul had finally found peace. So again, kind of 190 00:13:32,919 --> 00:13:37,360 another happy ending there. It certainly was an ugly situation 191 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:40,519 for quite a long time, and in fact, sounds like 192 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:43,960 it happened over a period of many years. But as 193 00:13:44,039 --> 00:13:46,879 the daughter got older and could learn about the situation 194 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:50,799 that mom was dealing with. It was just troubling her 195 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:55,000 so much that she confronted what she believed to be 196 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:59,159 her own father's spirit and it turned out okay. I 197 00:13:59,159 --> 00:14:02,960 guess maybe that's the closure that was needed, and then 198 00:14:03,039 --> 00:14:07,679 the closure of asking forgiveness because of all that vile 199 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:11,720 ugliness that had occurred. So kind of a beautiful story. 200 00:14:11,759 --> 00:14:14,840 I like that one, and I think that there's there's 201 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:19,639 a lot of merit to that. I think most times 202 00:14:20,039 --> 00:14:25,120 hauntings are are the results of some kind of unfinished business, 203 00:14:25,159 --> 00:14:28,519 something that needs to be done, something that hasn't been said, 204 00:14:28,639 --> 00:14:31,320 or needs to be heard, or whatever. 205 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:31,559 Speaker 3: The case, and. 206 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:37,519 Speaker 2: They by doing that it can be resolved and hopefully 207 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:39,679 some form of peace is. 208 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:41,879 Speaker 3: Resumed. 209 00:14:42,039 --> 00:14:45,799 Speaker 2: But I don't know. It's a pretty touching story all 210 00:14:45,840 --> 00:15:00,320 the same. When I was a kid doing this school 211 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:03,799 summer holidays when my parents were working, myself and my 212 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:07,559 two brothers would stay with my grandparents. We loved it there. 213 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:11,399 My grandparents had a wonderful house with a beautiful garden, 214 00:15:11,399 --> 00:15:13,519 and they were very loving. Each and every day was 215 00:15:13,559 --> 00:15:17,200 filled with new, exciting adventures and we were a very 216 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:21,360 close family. When I was around ten or eleven, years old, 217 00:15:21,399 --> 00:15:23,879 my granddad had a heart attack and when he was 218 00:15:23,919 --> 00:15:26,039 in the hospital, my parents felt I was too young 219 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:29,000 to visit him. Then he died a few days later. 220 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:32,039 Again my parents felt I was too young to go 221 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:35,320 to the funeral, and this was absolutely heartbreaking to me. 222 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:39,159 I never got the chance to say goodbye. I loved 223 00:15:39,159 --> 00:15:42,960 my granddad with my whole heart. My relationship with my 224 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,879 granny stayed the same. We were very close, and at 225 00:15:45,879 --> 00:15:48,559 the age of eighteen, I left Scotland to go traveling 226 00:15:48,639 --> 00:15:52,039 and finally settled in Florida, where I'm still living today 227 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:54,960 at the age of twenty eight. I'm still close to 228 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:59,320 the family, but not obviously as much. Last year, I 229 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:03,279 returned to sky that one as my granny found out 230 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:06,200 that she had cancer and only had a few months left. 231 00:16:06,639 --> 00:16:09,399 It was a very emotional and sad visit, but every 232 00:16:09,399 --> 00:16:13,639 moment was special and precious. After the funeral, I returned 233 00:16:13,639 --> 00:16:20,759 to Florida. Once I returned, I started having dreams, very 234 00:16:20,919 --> 00:16:25,000 very vivid. They were almost real. The first one, I 235 00:16:25,039 --> 00:16:26,879 was sitting in my granny's living room with her and 236 00:16:26,919 --> 00:16:29,200 she told me that she was upset about the damp 237 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:32,840 patch above the window well. I called my mom in 238 00:16:32,879 --> 00:16:35,159 Scotland and told her about the dream. And during this time, 239 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:37,879 my Grannie's house was being emptied as it was still 240 00:16:37,919 --> 00:16:41,039 being sold, and my mom went to the house, removed 241 00:16:41,039 --> 00:16:44,799 the curtains, sent to her surprise, found a damp patch 242 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:49,039 which had not been there before. The next dream, my 243 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:50,720 granny came to me and told me that she had 244 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:54,360 forgot to leave something special for my dad, which is 245 00:16:54,399 --> 00:16:58,120 her son. She had left something special for her other 246 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:01,840 children but had forgotten. She told me to tell him 247 00:17:01,879 --> 00:17:05,440 to go to a very specific drawer and a special 248 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:09,480 book would be there and for him to keep. I 249 00:17:09,519 --> 00:17:12,440 again called home, told my mom, who told my dad, 250 00:17:12,519 --> 00:17:14,799 and they both went to my granny's house, looked in 251 00:17:14,839 --> 00:17:19,880 the drawer and found a very special book. Later on, 252 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:22,400 when the will was read, every child of my grannyes 253 00:17:22,519 --> 00:17:27,559 was left something special except my dad. The next few dreams, 254 00:17:27,559 --> 00:17:29,960 my granny told me about specific items in the house 255 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:33,160 which had been overlooked or lost and that she really 256 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:36,720 wanted retrieved. She would tell me exactly where they were, 257 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:39,480 and I'd called my parents and lo and behold, they 258 00:17:39,519 --> 00:17:42,880 would be right where she said. The dreams went on 259 00:17:43,039 --> 00:17:45,759 for a few weeks. It was as if my gran 260 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:48,160 was using me to help her finish off her business. 261 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:52,880 The last dream was just amazing. I was standing outside 262 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:55,519 my granny's house and my granddad walked out the front door, 263 00:17:55,599 --> 00:17:58,960 and he walked to me and told me that he 264 00:17:59,039 --> 00:18:02,079 loved me. He missed me and was looking over me. 265 00:18:03,279 --> 00:18:05,160 I told him I missed him so much, and then 266 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:08,160 I was so sorry I never said goodbye. He gave 267 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:10,079 me a big hug and I could feel on my 268 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:13,319 cheek the bristles of his sweater, and I said it 269 00:18:13,359 --> 00:18:16,079 again that I loved him, and he told me he 270 00:18:16,119 --> 00:18:19,640 loved me too. Then I woke up. Tears were still 271 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:23,839 streaming down my face. It was so emotional, vivid and real. 272 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:27,240 I could still feel where the sweater bristles had rubbed 273 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:30,839 my cheek. Since then, I've had no dreams about my 274 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:33,960 granny or my granddad, but I'm glad that I was 275 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:54,000 of help to them after their passing. Those kind of 276 00:18:54,039 --> 00:18:58,240 dreams are so intense, They're so powerful and special, and 277 00:18:58,519 --> 00:19:02,480 I feel really fortunate because this is something I've experienced myself. 278 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:07,160 I visited with both my grandmother after her passing and 279 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:11,279 my father after his passing, and some other relatives as well. 280 00:19:11,519 --> 00:19:15,240 And while nothing quite as profound as this came through, 281 00:19:15,279 --> 00:19:19,759 there was really some amazingly healing and cathartic moments that 282 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:24,119 were possible because of these dreams, because of these meetings, 283 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:28,599 if you will, so, I believe wholeheartedly that we can 284 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:31,720 and probably do meet with our loved ones after they pass. 285 00:19:32,599 --> 00:19:35,839 And perhaps we don't always remember it, but I think 286 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:43,039 they're always there somewhere. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, Well, we 287 00:19:43,319 --> 00:19:47,039 are going to go to our break here. I guess 288 00:19:47,079 --> 00:19:50,079 this is about a perfect time for that. But we 289 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:53,880 certainly hope you're enjoying the journey so far. We got 290 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:56,279 a couple more great stories on the other side of 291 00:19:56,319 --> 00:19:59,480 the break to share with you, and hope you enjoy 292 00:19:59,519 --> 00:20:03,519 them as well well. But these stories I think are 293 00:20:03,559 --> 00:20:09,319 incredibly profound. Again, some people don't believe in ghosts, and 294 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:12,680 some people don't believe in the possibility of having interactions 295 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:15,559 with them. But if you think about all of these 296 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:21,039 encounters that people have shared, both in person and through 297 00:20:21,799 --> 00:20:25,799 other sources, if only one percent of them is true, 298 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:31,920 we are dealing with an incredibly profound phenomena. And I 299 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:34,079 think there's something really incredible going on. 300 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:35,039 Speaker 3: But don't go. 301 00:20:35,039 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 2: Away, everybody, We'll be right back after these messages. All right, everybody, 302 00:21:24,279 --> 00:21:26,759 welcome back for the break, and we are back at 303 00:21:26,759 --> 00:21:30,039 it here on the Paranormal Portal podcast. We got a 304 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:35,640 couple more amazing stories coming up, Encounter stories with the 305 00:21:35,759 --> 00:21:41,920 spiritual kind. Encounter stories of the spiritual kind. So sit 306 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,799 back and enjoy the rest of the journey, and I 307 00:21:45,839 --> 00:21:50,680 hope you're having a good time. According to my landlord, 308 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:52,720 the house that I live in was constructed around the 309 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:56,160 time of the Civil War. At the time, it served 310 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:58,279 as a barracks and later as a hotel, and today 311 00:21:58,319 --> 00:22:01,880 it is split into four separate apartment We live in 312 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:05,920 the top left one if you're facing the house. I've 313 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:08,680 tried researching the house, as there are many historic houses 314 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:11,400 in this town, but I couldn't find anything in the 315 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,480 library about it, which is quite unusual, as I've found 316 00:22:14,559 --> 00:22:17,480 just about every other house in Oxford there. I even 317 00:22:17,559 --> 00:22:21,559 found houses that aren't that old. The closest I got 318 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:23,240 was the next door neighbors and I could see a 319 00:22:23,279 --> 00:22:26,960 portion of our front porch. I think something happened there 320 00:22:27,599 --> 00:22:30,359 on the property that Oxford wants to be kept secret. 321 00:22:31,319 --> 00:22:33,880 I know me and some sensitive friends of mine have 322 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,960 the distinct feeling that there's a very large tree missing 323 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:41,160 from the farm or from the yard, and it is 324 00:22:41,279 --> 00:22:43,880 the south and I wonder if it was a hanging 325 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,480 tree that could have been burned down during the race 326 00:22:46,559 --> 00:22:51,960 riots here we moved in September eleventh, two thousand and one. 327 00:22:52,039 --> 00:22:54,000 That in itself should have been a sign that this 328 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:57,519 was an extraordinary place. Considering the age of the place, 329 00:22:57,519 --> 00:23:01,559 I figured it would have its haunts. It wasn't until 330 00:23:01,559 --> 00:23:04,680 well after we had settled in. I'd say the following 331 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:07,480 spring was the first evidence that there was something else 332 00:23:07,559 --> 00:23:12,079 living here. I was home alone, completely alone, as in 333 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,880 nobody was in the building, and relaxing on the sofa 334 00:23:16,079 --> 00:23:18,240 in the living room reading, and suddenly I heard the 335 00:23:18,279 --> 00:23:27,880 sound of footsteps walking toward me in the hall. The 336 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:31,039 hall runs past all the bedrooms railroad style and ends 337 00:23:31,039 --> 00:23:33,440 in the living room, in the kitchen, laundry room in 338 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:36,160 the back door at the other end, and I sat 339 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:39,160 up in preparation, thinking my sweetie was off work early. 340 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:44,160 Then as they neared something struck me odd. I realized 341 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,920 what I was hearing was the sound of men's dress 342 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:50,079 shoes or even boots on hard wood, and the hall 343 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:54,160 is carpeted. The sound carried the whole way to the end, stopped, 344 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:56,799 and then turned around and went to the kitchen, and 345 00:23:56,839 --> 00:24:00,480 then stopped. I took a look, and of course nobody 346 00:24:00,519 --> 00:24:03,720 was there, but I still heard it. As I looked. 347 00:24:04,279 --> 00:24:07,079 The phenomenon happened a few times there here and there, 348 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:11,319 and then ceased, and it would happen differently every time. 349 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,039 Sometimes it would stop in the living room. Sometimes it 350 00:24:14,039 --> 00:24:18,480 would stop halfway down the hall. Something that happened recently 351 00:24:18,519 --> 00:24:23,400 involved that same hallway happened in August, and it happened 352 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:27,599 while my cat Muffin was still alive. I was once 353 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,519 again laying on the couch reading and Jeff was behind 354 00:24:30,519 --> 00:24:34,400 me at his computer as usual, and suddenly all three 355 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,039 of my cats came tearing into the living room like 356 00:24:37,079 --> 00:24:40,880 their tails were on fire. They all three jumped to 357 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:43,680 the back of the couch where sometimes they would sleep 358 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:46,519 in a line, and I laughed at them and I asked, 359 00:24:46,519 --> 00:24:50,519 what are you silly kiddies doing. At the same time, 360 00:24:50,599 --> 00:24:54,039 all three of them looked into the hallway. I looked, 361 00:24:54,079 --> 00:25:00,519 and I distinctly saw a shadow person. It was the 362 00:25:00,599 --> 00:25:04,319 upper left part of him, and he was reaching out 363 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:07,640 to the wall as if to stop himself from running, 364 00:25:08,279 --> 00:25:11,640 and then he ducked back out of my view. My 365 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:14,000 hair stood on end. Jeff went to the back of 366 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,200 the house to check for me as I was a 367 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:19,400 little freaked out, and the back door was still closed 368 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:25,960 and locked. Another phenomena that happened after some now ex 369 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,880 friends moved out of the apartment across the hall they 370 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:32,000 were bad tenants and friends, and a new set of 371 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,599 friends moved in Jamie and Robert. After they moved in, 372 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:38,960 we would each have our doorbells ring at the same 373 00:25:39,039 --> 00:25:44,799 time and sometimes separately, but no one was ever there. 374 00:25:46,599 --> 00:25:49,799 Then there was one time that scared the crab out 375 00:25:49,839 --> 00:25:53,799 of me. The doorbell rang and Jamie was there. I 376 00:25:53,839 --> 00:25:56,839 opened the door expecting to see nobody, and there she was, 377 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,720 asking me if I just banged on her door. Sometimes 378 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,359 you expect the paranormal and it is the normal that 379 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:07,519 ends up scaring you. This door activity would occur anywhere 380 00:26:07,519 --> 00:26:10,359 from midnight till three in the morning, and there came 381 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,799 a point I just took my doorbell down because of 382 00:26:12,799 --> 00:26:16,559 the annoyance. But when I did that, I would hear 383 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:21,119 knocking at the same time every night. One night I 384 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,880 was a little tipsy, and the knocking came three times, 385 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:29,119 as usual. Well, the verse in the Bible about Jesus 386 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:31,880 knocking three times came to mind, and I opened the 387 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,519 door and said, come on in, Jesus. The knocking ceased 388 00:26:35,559 --> 00:26:39,680 for a month, then it started again, but when it 389 00:26:39,759 --> 00:26:43,200 did I was sleeping. I ran to the door, thinking 390 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,200 it was my sister and there was something wrong for 391 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:50,240 some reason, as usual, there was an empty hall. I 392 00:26:50,319 --> 00:26:53,599 yelled into the hall, stop it already. It isn't cute anymore. 393 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:57,359 I slammed the door shut, and it hasn't happened again 394 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:02,119 since after that. Everyone who comes to visit mentions having 395 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,240 a really bad feeling in the hall. One of my 396 00:27:05,279 --> 00:27:08,640 friends makes me escort her halfway down the stairs. Then 397 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,720 she comes to visit me, and I don't always get 398 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:15,559 the feeling, but I do feel the tension sometimes. A 399 00:27:15,599 --> 00:27:20,480 month or so later, something wicked happened. I was heading 400 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,640 out the door and I can't remember where I was going, 401 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:25,640 and I got a really bad feeling. And I looked 402 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:29,200 into the open door of my landlord's apartment and there 403 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,279 the bad vibe had something to do with him. But 404 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,480 in retrospect, I think it was whatever is in the hall. 405 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,640 As I was slowly going down the stairs and holding 406 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:44,960 onto the railing looking into the apartment, I felt a 407 00:27:45,079 --> 00:27:49,920 hand shoved me down the four remaining steps. It showed 408 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:51,920 me hard enough for me to lose my grasp on 409 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:55,880 the railing. I uncontrollably stumbled to the bottom and my 410 00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:01,400 hand went through the window at the end of the steps. 411 00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:05,680 I got a really nasty cut that needed stitches on 412 00:28:05,799 --> 00:28:09,480 the base of my hand onto my wrist. The cut 413 00:28:09,519 --> 00:28:12,799 is ironically in the shape of an S and conveniently 414 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:16,440 dodged a major vein and artery. It was deep enough 415 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:20,079 to sever these. I yelled at the spirit in the 416 00:28:20,079 --> 00:28:22,359 hall that if it ever pulled a stunt like that again, 417 00:28:22,839 --> 00:28:25,240 I would have it exercise so fast it would make 418 00:28:25,279 --> 00:28:29,880 its head spin. Nothing like that ever happened again, but 419 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,519 sometimes going down those steps, I feel like someone is 420 00:28:32,559 --> 00:28:36,519 behind me wanting to push me down. It is a 421 00:28:36,559 --> 00:28:40,799 really nasty feeling when you can feel that spirit. I 422 00:28:40,839 --> 00:28:43,200 don't blame anyone who would want an escort out of 423 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,559 the building with that thing there. I still live in 424 00:28:46,599 --> 00:28:49,720 this old apartment and have had a couple other experiences 425 00:28:49,759 --> 00:28:53,319 in it, as well as in my friend's apartment across 426 00:28:53,319 --> 00:29:02,079 the hall, but that's another story. Wow, those old homes, 427 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,720 especially in the South but anywhere, really old homes just 428 00:29:05,799 --> 00:29:09,079 have a spirit. They have a vibe, They have a presence, 429 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,359 and it can be pretty heavy, and it can be 430 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:16,200 sometimes not so heavy. It can just be a presence. 431 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:21,319 But whatever the case is, man, that's pretty hardcore. I 432 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:25,839 think I would probably go ahead with getting that exorcist 433 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:27,440 there to get that thing out of the hall, because 434 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,160 it maybe has a pact with you, but it doesn't 435 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:33,759 have a pact with everyone else. And I think if 436 00:29:33,759 --> 00:29:37,079 it's doing aggressive things like that, then it needs to go. 437 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:52,440 But I guess that's just my two cents. I've always 438 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,160 been fascinated with ghosts. I was a little girl who 439 00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:59,079 was intrigued by a good ghost story and ask questions afterwards, 440 00:29:59,079 --> 00:30:03,160 putting myself in the spirit's situation. I'm very understanding and 441 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:07,119 try to see any situation from both perspectives. So yeah, 442 00:30:07,279 --> 00:30:11,079 I believe in ghosts. Yet how ironic. When my grandmother 443 00:30:11,119 --> 00:30:14,720 passed away, the thought of my grandma's house being haunted 444 00:30:15,279 --> 00:30:20,000 was really hard to accept. My two aunts, Della and Chewy, 445 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:22,960 lived with my grandmother to take care of her and 446 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:27,079 my grandmother passed away in January, and she had Alzheimer's disease, 447 00:30:27,119 --> 00:30:30,359 so my family was prepared. I was at ease when 448 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,000 she died because I knew she wouldn't be suffering anymore. 449 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:38,680 She could now rest in peace, so we thought. My 450 00:30:38,759 --> 00:30:41,920 family's first visit was a day after my grandmother died. 451 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:46,720 I wasn't there when this occurred. Aunt Dela Chewy, Uncle Lupe, 452 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:50,720 and my mom, my grandma's children, were at my grandma's 453 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:54,559 house making funeral arrangements. My mom was in Aunt Della's 454 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:58,200 room calling the funeral home. Aunt Della Chewy and Uncle 455 00:30:58,279 --> 00:31:00,960 Loupe were sitting on the couch in the living room 456 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:04,119 and they could hear my mom talking over the arrangements 457 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:08,000 when they heard footsteps in the hall. My grandma's hallway 458 00:31:08,119 --> 00:31:11,359 was wooden floors, so the footsteps were loud and clear, 459 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,799 and they said it sounded as if someone was walking 460 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,880 in the hallway and going towards the kitchen. No one 461 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:21,440 wanted to go and check for it was only them 462 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:25,079 and my mom who were in the house. I first 463 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:29,079 noticed something odd weeks after the funeral. I was at 464 00:31:29,119 --> 00:31:31,400 the dining room table eating and I can't recall where 465 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,440 Aunt Dela a Chowy were. They still live at my 466 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,880 grandmother's house. So I was eating and just getting used 467 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:41,359 to not seeing my grandmother physically in her house anymore. 468 00:31:42,039 --> 00:31:44,359 The house was quiet without her there, and I lost. 469 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:49,200 I was lost in thought when I saw someone standing 470 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,400 in the middle of the hallway looking at me. For 471 00:31:51,559 --> 00:31:54,960 my purfole vision, if you were to sit at the 472 00:31:55,039 --> 00:31:58,119 end of the table and look straight ahead, you can 473 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:02,200 see the hallway and anyone stands there. Whoever I saw 474 00:32:02,359 --> 00:32:05,119 were dressed in white. I couldn't get a good look 475 00:32:05,119 --> 00:32:08,440 at whoever it was because when I faced their direction, 476 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,759 they were gone. I turned away for a split second, 477 00:32:12,799 --> 00:32:14,920 and the white figure was there in the hallway. Again, 478 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,559 I looked, and it was gone as fast as it disappeared. 479 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:24,400 I was puzzled. Then, when I looked away for the 480 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:28,680 third time in my profro vision, nothing was there. The 481 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:35,440 hallway was empty, so something was there. This hallway event 482 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,359 happened numerous times. Sometimes the white figure would be at 483 00:32:38,359 --> 00:32:41,519 the entrance of the hallway, the middle, or at the 484 00:32:41,599 --> 00:32:44,359 very end, so this figure could move about as it chose. 485 00:32:45,799 --> 00:32:47,559 Another incident occurred in the living room. 486 00:32:47,599 --> 00:32:48,240 Speaker 3: I was bored. 487 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,480 Speaker 2: I didn't want to watch TV or be on the computer, 488 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:55,559 so I decided to sit down and rest. I was 489 00:32:55,599 --> 00:32:57,920 sitting at the very end of the couch when in 490 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:01,000 the corner of my eye I saw figure sitting at 491 00:33:01,039 --> 00:33:04,599 the other end of the couch. From what I interpreted, 492 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,160 this figure didn't seem to know I was just a 493 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,680 few feet away and never looked in my direction. I 494 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,759 couldn't tell if it was male or female. I could 495 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:15,920 make out a dress, so I guess it must have 496 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:19,160 been a female. I quickly turned towards the other end 497 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:22,079 of the couch and the figure was gone. Just like 498 00:33:22,119 --> 00:33:25,720 in the hallway incident. I returned to whatever I was 499 00:33:25,759 --> 00:33:27,680 doing when out of the corner my eye, the figure 500 00:33:27,759 --> 00:33:32,519 reappeared and their legs were crossed well. I freaked out 501 00:33:32,799 --> 00:33:36,119 and walked out of the living room fast. Even when 502 00:33:36,119 --> 00:33:38,839 I got up and walked out, passing the couch I 503 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:42,039 was sitting on, the figure was still sitting there out 504 00:33:42,039 --> 00:33:46,640 of I got out of their asap. The hallway and 505 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:50,359 the couch incident would happen almost every day, but then 506 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,640 it slowed down. There would be times when I didn't 507 00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:55,759 see the white figure for weeks or a good month, 508 00:33:56,759 --> 00:33:59,799 but then it would start all over again. It was 509 00:33:59,839 --> 00:34:01,960 as if the figure could come and go out at 510 00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:05,200 my grandma's house any time it wanted to. But those 511 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:09,000 weren't the only incidents happening at my grandmother's house. My 512 00:34:09,079 --> 00:34:12,599 mom and her sisters Della an Chewi went to Walmart, 513 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:14,800 but I decided to stay at grandma's house. And I 514 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,480 was tired and wasn't in the mood to go out. 515 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:21,159 And as they left, I locked the front door and 516 00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:25,079 headed to the bathroom. The bathroom was located next to 517 00:34:25,119 --> 00:34:29,000 the kitchen. I was doing my business when I heard 518 00:34:29,079 --> 00:34:32,280 voices talking. I couldn't make out what they were saying, 519 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:35,320 but it came from the kitchen. I thought my mom 520 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,199 had forgotten something in the house, so she came back 521 00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:41,079 to get it. But the conversation I heard was between 522 00:34:41,119 --> 00:34:44,960 two people. As I stepped out of the bathroom, I said, Mom, 523 00:34:45,159 --> 00:34:50,800 you're back. Silence. I looked in the kitchen, only to 524 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:54,320 find no one was there. I walked to the front door. 525 00:34:54,599 --> 00:34:57,119 It was locked, just as I had left it. I 526 00:34:57,159 --> 00:35:00,079 looked out the window. My mom's SUV wasn't in the driveway. 527 00:35:01,159 --> 00:35:05,440 I was spooked. I know I heard voices, but I 528 00:35:05,519 --> 00:35:08,400 shrugged it off and went to my uncle John's room 529 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,440 by the dining area, watched TV and waited for my 530 00:35:11,519 --> 00:35:15,599 mom to get back. On other occasions, I would hear 531 00:35:15,679 --> 00:35:19,119 my name being called. I'd ask Chuey or Aunt Della 532 00:35:19,119 --> 00:35:22,239 if they called me, and they both answered no. But 533 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:25,360 then again, I've always heard my name being called, even 534 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:28,039 when I was a child, so I was actually used 535 00:35:28,039 --> 00:35:32,679 to this. I would also see a shadow figure passing 536 00:35:32,679 --> 00:35:35,679 by the doorway of my grandma's room or in the hallway, 537 00:35:35,679 --> 00:35:38,039 and I would look, but no one would be there. 538 00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:41,719 The same goes for the knocking on the front door. 539 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:43,679 In the back door, and I would hear knocking on 540 00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:46,119 the front door, but when I open it to greet 541 00:35:46,119 --> 00:35:50,559 whoever it is, no one is there. A year had 542 00:35:50,599 --> 00:35:52,960 passed and these events were still occurring, and I thought 543 00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:56,400 I must be going crazy. Why was I the only 544 00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,920 one seeing these phenomena. My worries came to rest her 545 00:36:00,119 --> 00:36:03,760 a family gathering at my grandmother's house in November two 546 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,320 thousand and six. On a Monday. We had a small 547 00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,360 gathering and I was talking to my mom Chewi and 548 00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:14,119 my cousin Yvette, which is Uncle Loupe's daughter, and if 549 00:36:14,159 --> 00:36:17,559 they had ever heard or seen anything. Yvette was staying 550 00:36:17,559 --> 00:36:19,719 at my grandma's house for a couple of nights at 551 00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:22,480 the time, and she told us that at night she 552 00:36:22,559 --> 00:36:26,719 hears noises and footsteps in the hall. After she said that, 553 00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:28,800 we all looked at each other and we all started 554 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:33,039 to talk about our own experiences. My mom mentioned on Friday, 555 00:36:33,199 --> 00:36:36,119 she saw someone in white standing in the hallway. She 556 00:36:36,119 --> 00:36:38,280 couldn't make out the face, but knew it was a person. 557 00:36:39,119 --> 00:36:42,760 Then Chewi said often when she was washing dishes or 558 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,840 doing laundry, she saw a shadow in the corner of 559 00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:49,039 her eye, just passing by in the hall. Wow, so 560 00:36:49,079 --> 00:36:50,920 I'm not the only one who's seeing or hearing things 561 00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:54,239 at my grandma's house. So then it was my turn. 562 00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:58,039 I confess that sometimes when I stay alone in the house, 563 00:36:58,639 --> 00:37:02,360 I hear voices or someone calling my name, and also 564 00:37:02,519 --> 00:37:05,760 sometimes see a shadow passing by in the hallway and 565 00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:09,960 the footsteps. Then all of us confess that sometimes when 566 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,960 we sit down at the couch, we see someone dressed 567 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:17,000 in white sitting on the other end. Then we talked 568 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:20,280 about knocking on the door. After each of us confessed 569 00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:23,960 our weird experiences, we all looked at each other and said, 570 00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:29,079 this house is haunted. It was creepy and funny at 571 00:37:29,079 --> 00:37:32,360 the same time. I felt relieved that I wasn't the 572 00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:35,199 only one seeing the white figure in the hallway and 573 00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:39,039 on the couch, and my mom, Chewy and Yvette felt 574 00:37:39,039 --> 00:37:43,719 better talking about what they'd seen. I then told my cousin, 575 00:37:44,599 --> 00:37:47,119 sucks for you because you're still spending the night here again. 576 00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,239 So we concluded that something was at my grandmother's house, 577 00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,199 and we also concluded that it was my grandmother who 578 00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:57,599 was the white figure who we were seeing. I guess 579 00:37:57,599 --> 00:37:59,719 she's just checking on us and letting us know she's 580 00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:04,159 wanting over us. I had doubts, though, although I'm a 581 00:38:04,159 --> 00:38:06,280 big believer in ghosts, when it came down to my 582 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:09,639 grandmother's house, a house I'm very close to, it was 583 00:38:09,679 --> 00:38:12,840 hard to accept. I was used to hearing and watching 584 00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:15,960 ghost stories on TV and never thought I would experience 585 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:19,159 an actual haunting. But then reality sank in and I 586 00:38:19,199 --> 00:38:22,199 asked myself, it can't help me in my head because 587 00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:24,119 I'm not the only one who has seen these things. 588 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,679 Chewy and even an Della said they've seen shadows walk 589 00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:32,920 by doorways and the whole hallway and couch incidents. Those 590 00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:36,559 really did happen. I guess we all at one point 591 00:38:36,679 --> 00:38:39,880 had doubts, but it wasn't until someone else, not a 592 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:44,119 member of the family, had an experience. Another year had passed. 593 00:38:44,119 --> 00:38:47,320 Around spring two thousand and seven, my boyfriend Vince had 594 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,199 come over to my grandma's house to eat. Chewie had 595 00:38:50,199 --> 00:38:52,400 made some food, and I had told Vince about my 596 00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:55,000 grandma's house and that it was haunted. And he was 597 00:38:55,039 --> 00:38:58,639 interested because he too had seen some pretty creepy, unexplainable 598 00:38:58,639 --> 00:39:02,159 things at his cousin's house when he was young. But 599 00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:05,199 that day the idea of my grandma's house being haunted 600 00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:08,440 escaped his mind. I made him sit down at the 601 00:39:08,519 --> 00:39:12,360 end of the kitchen table on purpose. I ate quietly 602 00:39:12,599 --> 00:39:15,000 and didn't mention anything like look in the hallway or 603 00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,679 do you see anything. I waited until we were at 604 00:39:18,679 --> 00:39:22,400 my house and in the room, we started talking about school. 605 00:39:23,159 --> 00:39:25,960 We were in high school seniors, so we were counting 606 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:27,880 down the days, and I then asked him if he 607 00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:32,480 had seen anything at my grandma's house. I was surprised 608 00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:33,360 at his response. 609 00:39:34,079 --> 00:39:34,400 Speaker 3: Yes. 610 00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,119 Speaker 2: He told me he would see a dark shadow in 611 00:39:38,159 --> 00:39:41,000 the hallway and every time he looked, it was getting 612 00:39:41,039 --> 00:39:44,480 closer and closer. It was unsettling to him, so he 613 00:39:44,599 --> 00:39:47,079 just looked away. When he looked back in the hallway, 614 00:39:47,159 --> 00:39:51,239 the shadow was gone. He also told me he knew 615 00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:54,199 something was in the hallway because it would disappear and 616 00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:58,559 then reappear. I was excited that Vince saw something, and 617 00:39:58,639 --> 00:40:02,519 Vince was still a bit creeped out. What puzzled me 618 00:40:02,599 --> 00:40:05,639 is the fact that the dark instead of white. Vince 619 00:40:05,679 --> 00:40:09,199 concluded that it was if it was my grandmother since 620 00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,599 she knows my family, she appears white to us because 621 00:40:12,599 --> 00:40:15,559 she doesn't know him. She appeared dark, as in trying 622 00:40:15,599 --> 00:40:19,079 to say, what are you doing in my house. Vince 623 00:40:19,119 --> 00:40:21,719 had another encounter with my grandmother in May two thousand 624 00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:25,440 and seven, a few months after his previous sighting. It 625 00:40:25,519 --> 00:40:28,039 was Memorial Day and my friends and I were going 626 00:40:28,079 --> 00:40:31,559 to the island South Padre Island. It's about thirty minutes 627 00:40:31,599 --> 00:40:34,039 from where we live, so we can come and go 628 00:40:34,079 --> 00:40:37,239 as we wish. My friend Becky was going to pick 629 00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:39,760 me up, and Vince picked me and Vince up at 630 00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:44,000 my grandma's house since she lives close by. And while 631 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,000 we were waiting for Becky in the living room. I 632 00:40:46,079 --> 00:40:49,119 went to the kitchen to get water for the short trip, 633 00:40:49,159 --> 00:40:52,199 and leaving Vince alone on the couch. He had just 634 00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:54,639 gotten out of bed and was still waking up. When 635 00:40:55,199 --> 00:40:58,079 I came back into the living room, Vince looked confused. 636 00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,639 I sat next and asked what's wrong, and he told 637 00:41:01,679 --> 00:41:04,159 me he saw someone in white on the other end 638 00:41:04,159 --> 00:41:07,719 of the couch. I was shocked. It had been a 639 00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:10,239 while since I've seen the white figure. Then all of 640 00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:13,199 a sudden, Vince sees it. He also told me he 641 00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:15,840 thought it was me, but when he saw me coming 642 00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,760 from the kitchen, then who was on the couch next 643 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:22,119 to him. He also said the figure looked as if 644 00:41:22,119 --> 00:41:25,360 it were steering at him to see how he was. 645 00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,039 I laughed and reassured him that it was my grandmother 646 00:41:29,559 --> 00:41:31,480 and that it's good that she appeared to him in 647 00:41:31,519 --> 00:41:34,800 white instead of dark. That must mean she likes him. 648 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:39,000 As of today, my grandmother's house still has a few strange, 649 00:41:39,079 --> 00:41:43,119 unexplainable experiences happen. I have yet to see my grandmother 650 00:41:43,159 --> 00:41:46,559 fully whoppear before us, But my family concludes that the 651 00:41:46,559 --> 00:41:50,239 white figure we see is indeed my grandmother. But because 652 00:41:50,599 --> 00:41:53,920 there'll be months when nothing happens, and then we see 653 00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:56,960 something a few days later, but then it'll be quiet 654 00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:01,320 for another good few months. So conclude that my grandmother 655 00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:05,199 pays us visits every so often, letting us know she's 656 00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:11,519 watching over us and her house. Very cool story. I 657 00:42:11,639 --> 00:42:16,159 like that one. Very long story though, that was a 658 00:42:16,159 --> 00:42:18,599 big one. And yeah, I don't think there's anything wrong 659 00:42:18,639 --> 00:42:21,480 with that. Some people are really uncomfortable with the whole 660 00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:23,360 idea of well there's. 661 00:42:23,199 --> 00:42:23,880 Speaker 3: A spirit here. 662 00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:27,360 Speaker 2: There shouldn't be a spirit here, but spirits have a 663 00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:30,239 right to be there. I guess, I don't know. I've 664 00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:33,679 spoken with people of both schools of thought. They're like, 665 00:42:34,159 --> 00:42:36,639 their time is over, they need to pass on, go beyond. 666 00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:39,880 But what if the grandmother has passed on and she's 667 00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:42,960 just coming back to watch over her family. Then isn't 668 00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:45,719 that a beautiful thing? Isn't that a good thing? I 669 00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:54,079 think it is so just a cool idea anyway, all right, 670 00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:57,719 I think that's going to wrap it up for tonight. 671 00:42:57,719 --> 00:42:57,880 Speaker 3: Though. 672 00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:00,960 Speaker 2: I hope you guys enjoyed this journey in the Paranormal Portal, 673 00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:04,880 and I hope you will click the subscribe definitely do that. 674 00:43:05,039 --> 00:43:08,239 Follow us on Facebook, Facebook dot com, slash Paranormal Portal 675 00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:14,039 Radio and find us on Twitter at Paranormal Portal and 676 00:43:14,199 --> 00:43:15,760 check us out on YouTube if you want to see 677 00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:18,880 us doing this live and that's YouTube dot com slash 678 00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:22,719 Paranormal Portal. But I love you all. Be good, be kind, 679 00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:25,960 be nice, take care of each other, help each other out, 680 00:43:26,519 --> 00:43:28,599 find the magic and every day, and remember to laugh 681 00:43:28,639 --> 00:43:29,440 as much as you can. 682 00:43:30,119 --> 00:46:42,480 Speaker 3: Good night, everybody. 683 00:45:00,920 --> 00:46:57,320 Speaker 4: School Sports betting is sweeping across the country faster than 684 00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:58,480 the coronavirus, and. 685 00:46:58,639 --> 00:47:00,719 Speaker 1: Wagering weak as your antidote. 686 00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:03,400 Speaker 4: I'm Tom Martin, and I'm a veteran sports analyst and 687 00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:07,039 respected sports handicapper who will help build ESPN's brand. I've 688 00:47:07,039 --> 00:47:10,199 been recognized and awarded by Pro Football Weekly and Gaming 689 00:47:10,199 --> 00:47:14,079 Today Magazine as the honest handicapper. 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