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Speaker 1: This episode is brought to you by my newest supporters,

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Miss R, Lisa, R Temmy, Mary and Randy Girl. Thank

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you for making the show possible. Welcome back to Paranormal Mysteries,

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and thank you for joining me as we explore the unknown.

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I'm your host, Nick Ryan. Let's begin tonight's journey with Mr,

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who calls their experience University demon attachment. M R says,

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Dear Nick, the following is an experience I had in

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my third year of undergraduate studies at university in New Brunswick, Canada,

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and it spanned a two year period. I am generally

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a skeptic. While I have always wanted to believe, I

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had never had any personal experiences before this that I

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could say for certain were in fact paranormal and that

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couldn't be explained rationally until this experience, and I haven't

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really had any strong experiences since. However, I know this happened,

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and I know it was scary. It's a long story

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that has parts to it, so I will break it

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into manageable sections. This is the introduction. After having spent

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two years in the university dorms, my dorm neighbor and

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I were excited to be moving out on our own.

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We would have control over our diet and environment, and

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it would just feel nice to have kind of a

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home away from home rather than that dormitory institution situation.

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A friend of mine who had just graduated, had been

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living in an apartment above the student run art gallery,

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which was down near the train tracks. I had visited

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her for dinner a few times and it seemed cozy

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in a run down, artistic student sort of way. I

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was studying fine arts and it felt like somehow this

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starving artist vibe would, you know, help me be a

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better artist. But I was young and had stupid ideas. Anyway,

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they were moving out. It was cheap and cool, so

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we wanted to move in. I was also dealing with

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some spiritual questioning. I had spent the summer reading religious

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texts like the Bible and the Buddhist texts, all spurred

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on by reading Siddhartha by Hesse and having a battle

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with an eating disorder, and still struggling with that. I

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was leaning towards the attraction of asceticism. I don't know why,

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looking back. I had always had some body image issues

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growing up in the nineteen nineties, but also a schoolmate

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of mine, I grew up in a small town in

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British Columbia, died of anorexia at the age of fourteen.

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I was thirteen, and now, knowing that it's a social contagion,

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I think this added to that kind of thing. So

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while this might seem like an aside this my set

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does play into the paranormal events that were to occur.

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The layout of this apartment was as follows. The art

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gallery was below and there were three or four units

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above it, side by side, accessed by a long outside

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staircase and a deck. The front door of the apartment

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led to a long hallway, at the end of which

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was a small bathroom. On the left of the hallway

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were three bedrooms. Mine was first, the second was for

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a friend who stayed for a while but then decided

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to leave because they liked the dorm better, and the

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third was my friend Jay's. On The right of the

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hallway was a small living area and then a kitchen.

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The kitchen and living area were connected by a kind

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of open pantry. There were also windows in every bedroom

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looking out over the marsh and the train tracks, and

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windows in the kitchen and living room. Besides being a

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little run down from student use. It was quite roomy

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and comfortable, as is common on the East Coast. However,

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there was a mildew issue. The bedrooms had mildew on them,

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so we decided to do a bit of a renovation.

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This next part of my story, I'm going to call

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Kenneth Jay and I decided to tear down some of

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the drywall in our rooms that were moldy. I replastered,

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albeit badly, but she never got around to fixing hers,

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leaving her wall kind of a lathe and plaster beare.

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I was being crazy and I painted my floor an

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ice brown. The walls were white and everything else was clean.

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I had a big closet so I could hide everything

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in there, but I didn't want to spend money on

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a mattress, so I got some cinder blocks and a

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piece of plywood, and I decided that that would be

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my bed. To be more ascetic. Now, besides this ascetic

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and eating disorder behavior and some emotional difficulties from my

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female cycle, I'm a pretty normal person, and despite trying

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to access spiritual planes, I was still a skeptic at heart.

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My friend, on the other hand, is indigenous, and she

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seems to be more in tune with spiritual thing. To

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my mind, I thought she was making it up a

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little bit. That was always my private position when someone

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told me about a paranormal experience, I always just kind

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of thought they were convincing themselves with their imagination or

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wishful thinking, et cetera. Since I never experienced anything for myself,

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I figured it was all made up to some degree. Anyway,

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I knew my friend was a little gullible in this way.

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I took it as an opportunity to play a little

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joke on her. I said, ooh, maybe your room is

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haunted by Kenneth. As an art student, I knew that

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if you paint with acrylic over something written in pencil

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or pen, the pencil or pen will show through. I

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laughed at it, but she took it kind of seriously

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on a light level. Now, my friend Jay, to my mind,

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was a bit of a scatterbrain, intended to lose things,

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including my things, which I found a little annoying. So

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when she told me that she'd put a hat or

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a scarf for something on her bed and it then

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went missing, I just chalked it up to her being

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a flake, and I didn't think much of it. She, however,

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would blame Kenneth, and I would just laugh and encourage

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her because I thought it was fun to imagine a haunting.

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I've always been fascinated by the paranormal and I wanted

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an experience, so joking about it was as close as

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I could get. I figured. The first semester was pretty decent.

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We had a lot of fun, hosted breakfast parties and

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enjoyed our autonomy, and besides missing things, everything seemed fine.

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But then came the Christmas break disaster. I went home

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for Christmas. It's a fourteen hour travel to BC from

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New Brunswick, so it's quite a journey, and I had

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a good Christmas resting and catching up with my family. However,

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the night before I was scheduled to leave home for

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school again, a friend of mine called me to tell

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me that a very close friend of mine had been

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in an avalanche and was on life support. In shock,

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I said, oh, my god, is he going to be okay?

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But she said, no, you don't understand, he's already dead.

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I was devastated. I wanted to go down to the

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ICU at the hospital and say goodbye, but my mom

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advised against it. She's not someone that understands the importance

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of closure. And also it was night, snowing and a

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somewhat dangerous drive down to the hospital, plus I had

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to leave early the next morning. This was a friend

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who had been very close to since I'd moved to

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town at the age of twelve. Part of me was

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in love with him, and part of him was in

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love with me, but we had always been somewhat star

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crossed for some reason, though I always had this feeling

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about him, like I was worried about him, and I

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could never say why. But when this happened, that feeling

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made sense. He was only twenty when he died. We

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hadn't ended things between us well, and that alone haunted me.

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I had to go back to school and move on,

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but no one around me knew my friend. They didn't

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understand what I was going through. I myself didn't fully

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understand how great works through the body the way it

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does at that age, so I felt very isolated in

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my grief and it started showing up as depression and

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emotional outbursts. In my second semester because of my grief.

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I did a lot of calling out to the unknown.

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Part of me asked to join him, and part of

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me asked for help from who knows what. I was

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very alone and I had no one to turn to.

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I didn't think of a counselor or anything. I just

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spiraled down into darkness. My work suffered, my friendship suffered,

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and I had a really hard time keeping it together.

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One night, I decided to cut my hair really short.

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It was really long at the time, and I just

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decided that I had to cut it off like it

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would be cathartic. It only made things worse and made

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it harder for me to feel like myself. I was

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a mess and I was very vulnerable. Meanwhile, my friend

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Jay began to report that she was starting to feel

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like something was touching her at night in her room.

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This escalated to the point where she was feeling violated

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and she was getting scared to go to bed at night.

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I was concerned for her. This sounded scary, but again

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I sort of thought that this was at tension seeking

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behavior and that it couldn't possibly be real, or maybe

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it was a reoccurring dream. This had been going on

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for a while and she didn't want to sleep in

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her room anymore, so, thinking that sleeping on a mattress

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for a change would be nice, I offered to sleep

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in her room for her, and despite my horrible plywood bed,

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she agreed and thanked me. Now, one thing that I'd

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experienced up until this point was that whenever I had

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to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night,

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I could hear something clicking coming from her room. I

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knew that it was likely the baseboard heater, but it

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always made me feel uneasy whenever I walked past her room.

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so I just figured that that's what it was. But

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then came my terrifying experience. So one night we switched rooms.

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It was February in New Brunswick, that means negative for

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forty degree weather, despite it being cold outside, though we

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were above the art gallery so it didn't get too

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too cold at night in our apartment, and I often

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turned the heater down or even off at night. I

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did this in her room, and I cracked open the

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window about an inch because I liked sleeping in cooler environments.

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I was tired and very much looking forward to sleeping

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in a comfortable bed. I thought that I was getting

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a sweet deal for free. I fell asleep quite quickly

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and was very comfortable and happy. I think my friend

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also had Christmas lights in the room, and I'm pretty

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sure that I left those on as well, because the

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were a cozy glow to sleep too. So I slept

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soundly until I woke up to the sound of the

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heater clicking and feeling very hot in the room. I

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opened my eyes briefly to check the heater was off

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and the window was still open, and both of these

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things were as I had left them, but the heater

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was clicking anyway. I was so cozy though, that despite

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being annoyed by the heat, I fell quickly back into

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a doze, and as I was drifting off, I said

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to myself, Oh, yeah, I forgot about the ghost. And

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I then laughed a bit to myself and I settled

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my mind back down again. Then I had a kind

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of dream. In this dream, I got up to check

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the heater and it was on, so I turned it

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down and I got back into bed. Then I heard

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a voice, like a man's voice, say, Hey, you're not Jay.

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I laughed and said yes, I am I just cut

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my hair. Then the voice said, we'll see about that.

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At that my mind kind of woke up, and I

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said to myself, Okay, very funny, stop making stuff up.

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this point I was fully mentally awake. I was lying

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on my stomach with my head turned to the right.

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My right hand was under my pillow and my left

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hand was down pulm up alongside my leg. The door

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and the heater were on my right, the window was

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on my left. This is when I suddenly felt like

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something pressed down on the palm of my hand. Now

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at this point, I'm really awake, but I haven't moved yet. Now,

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I've had a lot of muscle spasms in the past,

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and that's kind of what I felt like this was.

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So I quickly told myself it was a muscle spasm

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and I tried to ignore it. But then quite suddenly,

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from the bottom left corner of the bed, I feel

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something jump onto the bed about the size of a cat,

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and it then ran up to the back of my head.

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I was paralyzed with fear at this point, and whatever

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this thing was then scratched at the blanket by my head,

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and it made a growling and hissing noise. I then

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felt it leave, like a cat getting off the bed. However,

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we never had animals or rats or anything. After it left,

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I managed to open my eyes and look around, but

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I saw nothing, and I then gathered all my strength

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to get up and walk down the hallway, which seemed

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like the longest hallway on earth. I felt like I

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was going to pass out, and I remember thinking to

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myself that my whole perception of existence had just changed

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for ever. And I ran crying into my plywood bed

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with my friend and I told her about what happened. Now.

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I assumed that that would be the one and only experience.

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I thought that telling my friend and crying about it,

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that that would be it an isolated thing. But no,

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we both began to feel and sense things right then

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and there. It felt like something was trying to touch

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our feet, and we both began to hear a voice

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in our head that wasn't our own, and it was

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saying things in a way that we wouldn't say it.

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It was kind of vulgar and masculine. Never in my

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life had I experienced anything like this, nor could I

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have ever imagined it, having never heard anything like this

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or seen anything like this in films. Even we made

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it through the night, and we promptly decided to stay

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at a friend's house for a while. This friend of

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ours dabbled in reikie and tried to cleanse us. However,

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she felt quite ill dealing with us, and she had

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trouble getting permission from me to cleanse me. I think

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that because of the mental anguish that I was in

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and my skepticism, my soul wasn't very accessible. My parents

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were very understanding and believed us. They thought that we

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should move out, but there wasn't much we could do,

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having signed a contract and we only had a few

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months left of school. So after two weeks we went

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back to the apartment and slept in my room together

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for quite a while. My friend eventually decided to sleep

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in her room once again when she had a boyfriend,

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but she still struggled with feeling violated on some nights.

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We were vegan at the time, but there were times

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in the kitchen where I'd smell rotten meat in places

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where it wouldn't be like not in the fridge, garbage

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or the sink, but just like in the middle of

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the room or the pantry, and then it would move around.

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One evening, we were having tea at the kitchen table

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when a wooden spoon flew out from a container of

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utensils on the top shelf. The container was an old

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ice cream tub crammed with a bunch of stuff, so

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in theory, if one of them were taken out, everything

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would spill. But it was just the one spoon and

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it clattered to the floor in the midd of the kitchen.

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We then yelled stop Kenneth, which probably was not a

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good idea. Another time, we were sitting in the living room.

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We usually avoided talking about Kenneth by this point because

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whenever we did, weird things would happen, or I would

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feel like something brushed up against the left side of

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my head and it creeped me out. However, this time

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we talked about it a little, and we both heard

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someone run down the hall like small feet, and then

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there was a bizarre swirl of light in the living

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room and we both saw it. I had never seen

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anything like that before, and we then looked at each

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other to confirm that we both experienced it. I slept

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in her room again for a few times, I was

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surrounded with salt and various amulets for protection. But one

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night she saw a large shadow figure and I felt

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someone tap me hard on the head another night, even

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though my head was covered with my sleeping bag and

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there was nothing behind me. Then came the end of

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the year and we all happily moved away for the summer,

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and for some reason, we had plans to return to

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the apartment later, or at least I did. Again, I

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spent the summer soul searching, still feeling down and troubled.

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be right back. After these brief messages, this brings us

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to the following year. Two weeks before my final year

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at school, I took a fourteen day meditation workshop at

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a Tibetan Buddhist monastery on Cape Breton Island. It's a

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beautiful place and an interesting practice, but I'll focus on

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the paranormal stuff. While I was there, we slept in

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these kind of cubbies on the floor, and often as

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I was falling asleep I would feel something run up

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the left side of me and hiss into my ear.

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One morning, however, I heard something like this, but there

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was a pause in the running. It was a little different,

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and when I opened my eyes there was a chipmunk.

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I was delighted, and I figured out that this must

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have been what was running around at night, and the

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hissing sound must have been my imagination. A friend of

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mine at the workshop offered to do some energy work

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on me, kind of like a past life regression type thing,

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after I had told some of them about my ghost story.

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This was an interesting experience, but again I was skeptical.

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The night after that happened, though, I had a really

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terrifying dream. In the dream, I was in a room

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and I saw my friend who had passed away. I

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was so happy to see him. I ran to him

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and hugged him and I was going to kiss him,

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and I was crying with joy to see him. But

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as we were hugging, I remembered that he was dead,

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and I pulled away to see this large baby type figure.

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It kind of had a huge head, big red lips,

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and sharp teeth. It was kind of a baby shaped head,

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but big, like over half its whole size. It had large, bluish,

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creepy eyes, and it was wearing a kind of diaper.

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I was terrified. I screamed and tried to turn on

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the light, but it didn't work and I woke up. However,

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I woke up into a different dream, and this happened

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over almost five different dream levels. I would wake up

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startled but happy that this was just a dream. I'd

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feel uneasy and try to turn on a light, but

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then the light wouldn't turn on, and then I would

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encounter something crazy, and then I would wake up into

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a different dream. This all happened until morning, when I

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finally woke up. I believe that what I saw was

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the shape of this demon thing that seemed to be

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following me, but it was just a dream, right Well,

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when I eventually got back to school, I realized how awful.

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The apartment was almost like I had a spell on

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me before that I couldn't see how horrible it was

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when I first moved in, and I just had to

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get out of there. I found a really nice, almost

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new apartment above the post office, and I got to

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live alone, which was nice because I was having such

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a hard time dealing with other people in my emotional state.

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I enjoyed being alone and having my own space. I

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was still sleeping on the floor, though, but mostly because

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it seemed wasteful to spend three hundred dollars on a

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mattress which I would only be using for one year.

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Back in the two thousands, this was a lot of money. Well,

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one day, when I was all set up in my

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new apartment, I got home and closed the door and

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I said to myself, phew, I'm all alone now. But

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then a voice that wasn't my own in my head

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said except for me. I quickly told myself, however, that

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I made that up and ignore it. I still would

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get this chill on the left side of my head occasionally,

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and I couldn't talk about the experience without feeling spooky,

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so I would avoid it. However, nearly every night as

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I was just falling asleep, I would feel something run

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up my left side and hiss in my ear. This

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was not a chipmunk. I guess I just got used

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to this. But my mood remained low and I remained

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in a dark place. And while I was always interested

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in dark topics and the paranormal, like X Files type things,

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I was not a dark person. So this was hard.

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I didn't feel like myself. I felt very lost, classic

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twenty one year old I know, but still it was

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a hard time. As I said, I just kind of

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lived with this thing and I tried to ignore it.

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It didn't bother me too much. I had bad dreams,

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but maybe I didn't think my mood could be linked

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to it. Finally, I graduated and I moved back home.

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I started exercising, mountain biking and rock climbing. These things

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got my mind off everything. But as with all exercise,

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one gets sore, and a massage is a good idea,

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and my right shoulder muscle had been bothering me. My

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mom had seen a massage therapist in town and had

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recommended her highly, and my mom, who barely believes in anything,

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said that this woman was a little weird. She had

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kind of read my mom's mind about a symbolic dream

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that she'd had about a raven. My mom was a

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bit taken aback by that, and she said that it

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was interesting. I actually didn't give it much thought, though,

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since a lot of people seem to pretend to be mediums,

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and I had seen some people about tarot and palm

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reading and stuff since, and they all seem to be

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pretty inaccurate. So I was just in it for the massage.

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She was indeed a good messuse, and I was enjoying

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the experience. When she asked me what was up with

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my left shoulder. I was surprised and a little annoyed

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because it was my right shoulder muscles that were actually

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bothering me. So I just told her that my shoulder

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muscles were always tense, but that it was my right

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shoulder that was causing me t But then she said,

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I'm not talking about your muscles. There's something on your

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left shoulder, a presence. I see it, like a kind

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of mist. What is that? I was so shocked, and

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I then told her my story, and she then told

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me that it was likely a gollum that had attached

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itself to me and was sucking my energy. She then

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muttered some words over me and told me that that

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evening I was to tell this thing that it wasn't

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welcome and to go into the light and to surround

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myself with light, et cetera. So I did what she said.

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As I did this, I felt it resist I could

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hear it again, and I felt the left side of

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my head tingling. I was scared, but she said not

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to be scared, so I tried really hard to just

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be firm, and after a bit of a storm, I've

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never felt it again since. I know this story was

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a little long, but I think it's important to share

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all the details so that people understand that these things

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are not made up. They really happen, and there really

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is another dimension out there. I just can't explain it

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any other way. I haven't had many experiences since. I

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believe that a part of myself has closed itself off

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from other realms due to the fear I experienced, but

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I believe that's okay. Thank you so much for reading

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and sharing if you do, and everyone's stories are truly fascinating.

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Kind regards m R. Before I bring tonight's episode to

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an end, I'd like to thank m R. For coming

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forward with their experience, and of course I truly appreciate

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each and every one of you for listening and showing

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your support. With that said, I hope you all have

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a wonderful rest of your evening and I'll be back

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in a few short days with more tales of the unexplained.

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And until then, please remember, don't wait for the unknown

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to come to you, get out there and find.

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Speaker 2: It, proceed to perce