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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show once again, and as always, I

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am your host, Nick Ryan. Tonight's show brings us nine

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listener stories, and our first experience comes to us from

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our Ours story is called past life, time travel, or

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a random dream r says he Nick. I found your

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podcast on Spotify last month and have been binge listening

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ever since. Like some of your listeners, it inspired me

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to share some of my own experiences and or dreams

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I've had that make me believe there is something more

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to them. But first a little background. I come from

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a family that believes in the paranormal, and I have

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been exposed to it since I was a child. Some

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members of my family are gifted in different ways as well,

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which leads me to believe that some of my experiences

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are related to some sort of gift I may have,

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and potentially my young daughter. But for now, here is

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the story that I have to share. And one of

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your old podcasts actually triggered the memory. Several years ago,

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I had quite the vivid dream about wandering the streets

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of a beautiful white city surrounded by mountains. I was

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dressed all in white and was visiting a temple where

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apparently my dream sister was the high priestess. I could

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smell the air and feel it, but I didn't think

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anything of it, as it all felt so natural to me.

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Within the dream, my sister was advising what I think

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was someone of high nobility about her recent visions. But

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from there things were a bit strange, as she saw

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me approaching and only smiled as if to let me

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know that all was well. Fast forward, I found myself

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walking with her through the temple and she shared what

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she saw, which was that our home would soon disappear

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from the world and that I needed to repair for

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what was to come. Unfortunately, from here on, my memory

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only recalls me having to say goodbye to not only

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my sister, but also my family as well, running through

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the streets, smelling fire and feeling the earth shaking beneath

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my feet. I did manage to get safely away, and

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from a distance I was able to see the beautiful

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white city collapse into the earth. The shock of it

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woke me, and just like in my dream, I woke

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up in tears and feeling extremely heartbroken. The city was

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named Lemeria, but before the dream I never knew of

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the stories about Leamyria. It was the dream that made

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me look into it, and whether or not the name

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was just a figment of my imagination. Weeks later, I

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was at a bookstore and while I was there, a

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book caught my eye, so I bought it and I

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took it home. It was a book about angels. Inside

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the pages, I found a letter that spoke about Leamyria,

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and it was signed Mikhail. But that's another story. Guards Are.

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The episode that r is referring to is episode seventy,

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in which I talk about the odd things that happen

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around Mount Shasta, as well as the lost city of Lemeria.

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Our next listener story comes to us from Maria. Maria's

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story is called The Three Ladies at Dawn. Maria says, Hello.

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Not long ago, I was living in Texas with my grandmother,

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her two daughters, and their sheetsu dog. They are very

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devoted Christians and their house has this really peaceful, calming vibe.

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I used to sleep on the biggest couch in the

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living room with my head facing the front door and

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a lamp just above my head. One of the last

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nights I've spent living there with them, I woke up

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at around four thirty am, as usual because around five am,

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my aunts would come to the kitchen to make breakfast. Obviously,

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I had no intention of getting up yet, so I

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kept laying there facing the door, with the dog on

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the floor just beside the couch, and I shut my eyes,

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hoping I would fall back asleep. I kept opening my

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eyes every now and then because I could not go

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back to sleep, but never would have imagined what I saw.

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There were three ladies standing in front of the front door.

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The three of them were wearing long, puffy black dresses.

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Each of them were holding something at chest level, but

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I couldn't clearly see what it was. They were looking

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at me with anger, and I started to feel very frightened.

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I closed my eyes immediately, and the little dog started

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to howl in this really creepy way. The Holy Father

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prayer was the first thing that came to my mind,

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and I started praying silently, waiting for the dog to

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stop howling and for the ladies to disappear as soon

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as possible. The dog kept doing the same creepy thing

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for about two minutes. I kept my eyes shut for

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about twenty to thirty minutes, when I started to hear

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noises coming from one of the rooms, and it wasn't

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until one of my aunts came out that I opened

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my eyes. To my relief, everything was bad to normal

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and peaceful once again. I've never told them about this experience,

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and I'm still not sure of what these entities were

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or why they were there. I spent all of my

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childhood in that house without any paranormal occurrences, and I've

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spent more nights there after moving out and nothing related

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has happened. Again. Our neck listener story comes to us

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from Mattie. Mattie's story is called the Old Grace. Mattie says, Hey, Nick,

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it's Mattie again. I hope this email finds you well.

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I have another story for you if you choose to

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use it. A couple years back, myself, my ex, and

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two other friends decided to go into an old, abandoned

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nursing residence. Keep in mind that we actually had to

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sneak into this building and it was really hard to

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do so. We were sure that no one else was

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in the building with us. We went in with the

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intentions of making a connection with whatever was in the building.

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After finding out that the building was supposed to be

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so here we were walking through this building with a

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couple of recording devices to try and catch any EVPs

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while we walked around. After we got out of the

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basement and onto the main floor, we started our investigation

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and it wasn't long before we started hearing footsteps around

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us while we weren't moving, and we moved on after

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a couple of minutes of no activity. So after a

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couple of floors, we came to a room with a

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smaller glass room inside of it, and one of my

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friends said that she thought that the room was used

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for testing out people's hearing, like a raise your hand

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if you can hear the sound kind of thing. We

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stood in silence. After asking a few questions in the room,

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and with no signs of activity, we moved on. We

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took a stairwell up to the very top floor, which

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was flooded to an extent due to the roof being

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so bad. A couple minutes after we got up there,

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we started hearing a faint rumble above us, like someone

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was running through the ceiling. It got louder and louder,

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and we all started to get nervous as we didn't

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know what it was, and suddenly a huge flock of

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pigeons flew out of the ceiling and out a window

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next to us and scared the living hell out of us.

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to our makeshift ladder and head home, thinking that we

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had had a waste of a night, and we slowly

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made our way down to the basement, which was just

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below ground level, and slowly made our way out one

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by one. I was the first one out, then my

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friend Tom came out with me. It took a little

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bit because we had to crawl out of the window

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off the ladder on our stomachs. My ex and my

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friend Zoe started handing out our gear through the boarded

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out window. My ex started saying that she could hear

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someone coming down the stairs, but it sounded like they

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weighed hundreds of pounds, so they started to rush things

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out of the window to us. The window was roughly

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seven to eight feet off the ground where we had

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our ladder, so it was a bit of a stretch

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to get things up and out fast. The second they

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had all the gear out to us, my ex and

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my friend tried to both get out as fast as

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they could to avoid whatever was coming down the stairs.

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right behind her. She was about half way out the

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window when she screamed, something's got my legs. Myself and

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my friend Tom grabbed her by the shoulders and began

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to pull I'm a strong woman myself, and my friend

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to put our feet on the wall to pull Zoe

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out of the window because whatever had hold of her

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legs was pulling her, myself and even Tom back in

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the window in a few seconds that seemed like forever.

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Zoe was let go and the three of us all

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fell to the ground. Zoe started to run as soon

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as she was able to, and the rest of us followed.

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Zoe's legs and noticed there were huge hand prints around

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her ankles that were big enough to wrap completely around

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her ankles and then some. She said that the hands

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felt like ice and were very strong. The next day,

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myself and Zoe decided to listen to the recording that

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we had taken in the building, and for the most part,

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there was nothing until we got to the part where

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we were in the room with the glass room in it.

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You could hear Zoe saying what she thought, I thought

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the room was used for. But then you could hear

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what sounded like a little girl's laugh, But the laugh

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quickly turned very deep and dark. To this day, we

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don't know what grabbed Zoe's legs or what made that

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laughing noise, but neither of us have been back to

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the Old Grace since. Thanks for reading, and I wish

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you and all the listeners well and safe times Mattie.

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Mattie also included some pictures of the Old Grace, and

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I'll be putting those up on the forum for everyone

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to see. Our next Lester story comes to us from Maria.

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Maria's story is called Grandpa Came Back to say Goodbye.

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Maria says, hello, I've always been able to see spirits

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and have dreams of what's going to happen. Therefore, I

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have several stories that I want to share with you,

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but I'll start with this one. The last time I

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saw my grandfather was at my house, weeks before he

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was taken to the hospital. He used to stay with

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us for a few months, then another few months at

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my aunts, and so on. My mom was pregnant with

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twins at the time and I was nine years old.

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allowed to go there due to his bad condition. I

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guess my parents were trying to protect me from emotional trauma,

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not knowing that it was hurting me deeper not being

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able to see him. I think it was a few

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months after he was committed to the hospital that my

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parents told me that he had passed away. My grandfather

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was the closest I had to a friend, and I

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did not have a chance to say goodbye. He used

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to spoil me more than my own parents, and he

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used to tell me stories about his childhood days on

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a daily basis. He used to play pranks on us

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every time he got the chance. We sneaked sodas and

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candy into the house together, and the list goes on.

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Every morning at school, we used to line up before

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walking into the classroom. Some parents and nanny's would usually

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wait at the school entrance for the kids to enter

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their classroom before leaving. At this point, it had been

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almost a month since he had passed away, and I

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was dropped off at school in the morning as you usual,

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and just when we started walking into the classroom, I

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saw my grandfather at the entrance, just standing there in

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his usual outfit, a white guyabera, perfectly ironed brown jeans

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and his neat hair combed. All the way back. I

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couldn't stop walking because I would get in trouble, but

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I couldn't stop staring at him. I was well aware

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that he had passed, and I knew that this wasn't possible.

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I asked myself if what I was seeing was real.

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I may never have proof, but I know who I saw.

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It was unmistakably him. He knew how much I wished

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that I had been able to say goodbye to him,

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and in a way, he made it possible. Thanks for sharing, Regards, Maria.

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Our next Lister story comes to us from Rob. Rob's

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story is called Ghost. Rob says, Hey, firstly, I would

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like to say that before this happened, I didn't believe

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in ghosts, and a big part of me still doesn't.

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I was raised in an atheist family with a wrong

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scientific influence from my parents. I've stayed and rented in

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a lot of different accommodations and I've never experienced anything paranormal.

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I own a house now and nothing has ever happened here.

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property back in two thousand and five, in which a

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few strange things happened that I can't explain. Not long

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after I moved in, I had a very scary sleep

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paralysis experience. I woke up lying across my bed, outside

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of the covers, and face down, with what felt like

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someone sitting on top of me, holding me down. I

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tried to shout to get off of me, but couldn't

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utter any sound, but it seemed to will the figure

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off of me and into the corner of my room.

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whole room, but obviously there was nothing there, so I

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quickly dismissed it as sleep paralysis. Then one night, at

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nine thirty one p m. I received a text message.

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It's important to note that at this time I had

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a monophone, and if I received a picture message from

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a color phone, it would tell me that I had

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a picture message and that I had to log on

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to my mobile phone account to view it. Seeing that

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the message was from my sister's phone, I ignored it

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and decided to view it later. The next day. I

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was driving back to work at lunch time. When I

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received another message from my sister's phone that was also

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a picture message. A few minutes later, I logged into

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my mobile phone account and checked the two picture images,

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except they weren't pictures exactly. They were pixels that scrolled

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down the screen spelling two words in capital letters. Guess who.

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Confused as to why my sister would be sending me

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these questions when I knew their origin, I called her.

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She assured me repeatedly that she hadn't sent me any

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messages in the last couple of days. So I just

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wrote it off as a technical error on my mobile

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phone's provider's part and didn't think anything else of it.

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But one night I woke up and could feel like

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someone was sitting at the end of my bed, even

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though there was no one there. This happened on a

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number of nights, but it didn't feel scary or threatening.

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It would probably freak me out now, and to be honest,

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I can't explain why it didn't freak me out then.

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Then one Friday night, I received another text. The time

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was again nine thirty one p m. And before I

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even opened it up, I knew what it said. Sure enough,

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it said I had another picture message and to log

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on to my mobile phone account, and when I did,

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guess who was spelled out in small pixels on the screen.

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A flat mate stayed with me for a short period,

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but usually stayed at his girlfriend's flat. One night, I

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woke up and heard what sounded like people talking in

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the t V on and then the front door closing,

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as if they had left the flat. The next time

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I saw him, I simply said that I had heard

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him in the flat that night, but he advised me

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that he hadn't been there that night, even after I

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repeatedly questioned him. It was a short term lease as

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I was moving to London for a new job, so

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all this happened during those six months. A couple other

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things happened, but I feel that this account is long

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enough and everything I have written is exactly what what occurred.

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I draw no exact conclusions, and I am still a skeptic,

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but I keep more of an open mind. Now, keep

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up the good work. I've recently started listening to your podcast,

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and I will continue to do so in the future.

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Best wishes, Rob Our next listener story comes to us

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from Melanie. Melanie's story is called a Ghostly story. Melanie

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says Heinich love the podcast. I appreciate you giving a

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platform to us that have experienced unexplainable events. You do

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a great job. Ever since I can remember, I've always

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had ghostly encounters from friendly to not so friendly spirits.

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I seemed to have somehow attracted spirits to me throughout

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my life without actually trying to. I have never played

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with a Wiji board out of fear that it would

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attract even more, but I digress. I thought I would

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write to you about one of my more validated experiences.

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One day, my family and I were all in the

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kitchen talking when a strong smell of bo came out

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of nowhere. This smell was very pungent and was not

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ignored by any of us. We began to inspect where

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it was coming from, all smelling each other's pits, and

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could not figure it out. The smell eventually subsided and

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was brushed off by us. A couple of days later,

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I was sitting on the couch watching TV when in

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my peripheral I saw a figure of a woman with

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short brown hair wearing a blue jersey with a zero

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zero on it. She had shorts, high socks, and yellow

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sweat bands on her wrists and head. She was just

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watching me from the hallway. I then started to smell

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that pungent bo and the puzzle pieces began to be

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put together. She disappeared as soon as I looked at her.

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Of course, I saw this lady a couple of more

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times in the same spot, watching me while I watched TV.

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This was unusual to me because I could see details,

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whereas most of my encounters are only white or black shadows.

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One day, I decided to tell my mom about this.

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My mom is a very open minded person and has

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always been a blue in the spirit world. Before I

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was able to finish explaining what I had been seeing,

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my mom stopped me and expressed that she also had

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seen her, and she then finished my description to the tea.

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This was so validating to me because I typically brushed

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these experiences off, thinking my mind is playing tricks on me.

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My mom began trying to think of why this spirit

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would be visiting us, and one memory came to mind

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for her. She decided to pull out her old yearbook

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from high school and started going through the pages. She

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stopped on a page and showed me a girl that

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looked a whole lot like the spirit I had been seeing.

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My mom began to explain to me that this particular

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girl was a friend of hers from high school and

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she was huge into sports and was awarded athlete of

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the year. While in a soccer game, my mom accidentally

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kicked her in the head, which made the girl furious.

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This gave her a concussion and she was unable to

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play for the next week or so. My mom had

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expressed her apologies, but to no avail, and this girl

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ignored my mom for the rest of high school. Not

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long after high school, this girl apparently received a full scholarship,

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but not long after she died suddenly of heart complications.

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My mom has always felt guilty about what she had

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accidentally done to her back in high school, and it

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was our thought that she was visiting my mom because

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of this. It was quite the epiphany to us. But

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why would she visit now? We could not understand it.

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We never saw this lady again, and my mom now

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feels at peace about the unfortunate occurrences from high school.

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It makes you think of how interesting the afterlife is.

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Can we come back to mend old regrets or unfinished business?

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One can only wonder. Thank you for reading my story.

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I have many other experiences, so let me know if

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you'd like to hear more. I'd be happy to write

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more stories. All the best, Melanie. Before I continue, please

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consider showing your support by subscribing, sharing, and giving the

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And of course, just being a listener is the best

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support of all and I'm grateful to have you here. Now.

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Please stay tuned and I'll be right back. After these

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brief messages, our next listener story comes to us from Ash.

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Ash's story is called Strange Encounters. Ash says, like many

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of the people who write in, I've had many things happen,

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from ghosts to the unexplained. Below is just one of

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the many things that have happened. When I was around fourteen,

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I'm thirty four now, I used to babysit for a

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couple that lived near me. To preface this, I lived

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in a bad area that at one point was a

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Native American burial ground in Michigan. There were so many

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things that happened here, it's insane. I was alone with

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a six month old and a dog named Mary. I

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put the baby to bed and his The room was

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the first room on the left of a trailer so

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along hallway with a room at the end, and as

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I closed the door, I saw something at the end

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of the hall that was crouched down on all fours

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and I saw eyeshine. I assumed it was the dog,

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so I called out to her. She came up to

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my side from behind me, hunched up and growling, looking

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down the hall to what I now realized was a

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humanoid shape with eye shine of yellow orange. It whipped

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its head in my direction and showed its teeth, which

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seemed pointed. I opened the baby's door, grabbed the dog

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in with me, and called the parents, who came home

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within ten minutes. They then proceeded to tell me that

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the previous owner had shot himself in the back room,

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and they have had a lot of activity. I was

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witnessed to quite a few events, including balls of light

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going down the hall, and my friend was tipped off

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the couch from behind. I did not see that entity again,

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and I never baby sat there alone after that. I

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do have more stories, so if you are interested, please

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let me know. Our next listener story comes to us

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from Justin. Justin's story is called Haunted House. Justin says, Hey,

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Nick love the show. I enjoy hearing other stories and

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felt like I should share one of mine. My grandparents

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live in rural Idaho, and when I was about twelve

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years old, they purchased a new house. It was a

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big house and had two apartments on the back side.

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It was in the center of town and had a

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huge yard. The only catch was that it used to

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be the town's funeral home. It had been remodeled a

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few years ago, but was originally built in the mid

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eighteen nineties and was used as a funeral home until

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the mid nineteen eighties. A new funeral home was built

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a few blocks away, and the owners decided to remodel

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the house before selling it. My grandparents were the third

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people to purchase this house after the remodel, and I

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always got a creepy feeling when we went to visit

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and never really liked be alone in the house. But

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my grandparents never said a word about anything other than

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how much they loved the house. Eventually, my parents decided

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to leave town and I was forced to spend the

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night with my grandparents. Against my will. I was set

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up in the upstairs bedroom, and after fighting it for

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what seemed like forever, I finally went to the bedroom

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to go to sleep. The room was big and had

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a big walk in closet at the head of the bed,

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and at the foot of the bed. In the corner

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was my grandmother's piano. I laid in bed and was

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fighting my fears, trying to relax enough to go to sleep.

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This was before the time of smartphones, probably even cell phones, really,

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so it was hard not to keep my mind from wandering.

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After I finally drifted off, I was woken up by

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the sound of a door slowly opening. I turned to

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see the closet door open, and without thinking, I quickly

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jumped up out of bed and shut the door. I

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thought about going and waking up my grandparents, but eventually

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I just brushed it off as an old house and

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tried to go back to sleep. I was laying in

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bed overthinking the situation when I thought I heard one

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of the keys on the piano play. I shot straight

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up in bed and saw nothing in the room. I

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laid back and again tried to play it off as

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an old house and that my mind was playing tricks

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on me. I finally drifted off to sleep, only to

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be woken up by someone actually playing the piano. My

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first thought was, Oh, it must be morning and the

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alarm clock is tuned to a station that plays piano music.

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I woke up and looked at the clock. It was

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only around three am, and I was confused and fear

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set in quickly. I scanned the room again and immediately

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noticed the closet door was open again and the piano

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music was coming from the foot of the bed. This time.

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When I looked at the piano, the bench was pulled

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out and there was a translucent girl sitting on the bench.

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She was small enough that her feet didn't touch the

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ground and she was wearing a pink puffy dress with

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puffy sleeves, and she looked as if she was ready

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to go to church. Her hair was in pigtails and

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had matching pink bows tied around the pigtails. She didn't

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seem to notice me at all and just kept playing

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the piano slowly. At this point, I had had enough

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and between the pan and adrenaline. I jumped up out

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of bed and sprinted to my grandmother's room, falling down

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in the hall. I woke up my grandmother, and in

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my panic, I managed to somehow blurt out that there

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was a little girl in my room. My grandma looked

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unfazed and annoyed that I had woken her up for this.

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She told me, with a very straight face, to tell

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her that I am trying to sleep and to leave

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me alone. She then rolled over and pulled the sheets

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back up and said go back to bed. I was

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still terrified and now confused that my grandma had shown

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zero concern for the ghost in her house. I stood

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in the hallway for a good five minutes before getting

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the courage to go back into the room. The piano

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was still softly playing while I was walking back to

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the room, and as I entered, I slowly looked around

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the door and saw that the piano bench was now

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empty and the closet door was now closed. I shakily

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said out loud that I was trying to sleep and

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the little girl needed to leave me alone. I did

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feel better after saying this, but I knew I was

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00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:58,319
going to get no sleep in that room if I

483
00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:01,240
stayed there. I grabbed it pillow and a blanket and

484
00:25:01,279 --> 00:25:03,480
decided to take my chances on the couch for the

485
00:25:03,519 --> 00:25:06,799
rest of the night. When my grandparents came downstairs in

486
00:25:06,839 --> 00:25:08,839
the morning, they went on with their day like nothing

487
00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,759
had happened. As I was sitting down for breakfast, I

488
00:25:11,799 --> 00:25:13,680
was just about to say something about the girl that

489
00:25:13,759 --> 00:25:16,039
I saw that night, only to be cut off by

490
00:25:16,039 --> 00:25:18,640
my grandmother and told that we don't talk about those

491
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:21,799
things at breakfast. I took the hint and never brought

492
00:25:21,839 --> 00:25:25,160
it up again. After this visit, I tried my hardest

493
00:25:25,279 --> 00:25:27,440
to never have to stay over at my grandparents house,

494
00:25:27,559 --> 00:25:30,400
but unfortunately it did happen several more times during my

495
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:34,480
teenage years and into my twenties. I have many more

496
00:25:34,519 --> 00:25:37,519
stories about that house, and oftentimes I wish that it

497
00:25:37,599 --> 00:25:40,559
was only the little girl's spirit there. She was tame

498
00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:43,400
compared to most of the others that I was unfortunate

499
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:46,680
enough to cross paths with. I'm happy to answer any

500
00:25:46,759 --> 00:25:50,039
questions and share more stories. Keep up the good work,

501
00:25:50,559 --> 00:25:56,960
and I hope to converse more soon. Our last story

502
00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:00,480
of the night comes from Stephanie. Stephanie's story is called

503
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:05,599
I think I was possessed, Stephanie says hither Nick. I

504
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,440
found your podcast on Spotify back in October and have

505
00:26:08,559 --> 00:26:11,319
enjoyed every minute listening to your episodes. I have a

506
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:13,359
story that I have been thinking about writing to you

507
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,599
for some time now, and I just decided that it

508
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:18,160
won't hurt to share, and maybe your other listeners will

509
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,359
have some advice or answers for me about my experience.

510
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:25,240
I apologize in advance if this gets lengthy, but here

511
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,480
it goes. I don't think I have any special abilities

512
00:26:28,519 --> 00:26:31,720
when it comes to attracting or communicating with spirits. I've

513
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,200
had a few spooky encounters before, but there was a

514
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:37,359
period in my life when I experienced them almost every day.

515
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:40,599
When I was in middle school between twelve and thirteen,

516
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:43,119
I became best friends with a few girls who lived

517
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:46,200
in my neighborhood. Three of them were sisters, Two were

518
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:48,880
my age and were twins, and the youngest was only

519
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,880
two years younger than us. Me and these sisters lived

520
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:54,480
on the same street on the same block. The other

521
00:26:54,519 --> 00:26:57,160
girl was an only child my age and lived a

522
00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,960
few streets over. All of us lived in single path

523
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,200
a homes and never had much parental supervision. Growing up,

524
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,400
with our parents always working, we would usually hang out

525
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:08,920
at the sister's house after school and on the weekends.

526
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:15,279
This house was undeniably haunted. Footsteps, shadows, objects moving or missing,

527
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:19,839
cold chills, whispers, the whole works. That is just your

528
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:22,440
basic haunted house stuff, but there was plenty more that

529
00:27:22,519 --> 00:27:24,960
went down there that I won't get into right now.

530
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,039
One day over the summer, we were all at the

531
00:27:28,039 --> 00:27:31,640
sister's house and we're playing with Ouiji board. By this time,

532
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:33,880
we had been playing with it for weeks at least

533
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:37,440
over a month, and had communicated with multiple spirits. One

534
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:39,440
of the twin sisters had apparently found it in her

535
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:42,000
mom's room one day and decided to show it off.

536
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:44,000
I don't know if she knew that we would get

537
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,839
so hooked on it, but that's what happened. We talked

538
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,519
to spirits almost every single day for weeks, and we

539
00:27:49,599 --> 00:27:53,200
watched the paranormal activity in the house increase right before us.

540
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,279
One spirit in particular that we talked to was a

541
00:27:56,319 --> 00:27:59,119
girl who called herself Lucy, and she told us that

542
00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:02,319
she was about our aide thirteen. She was always in

543
00:28:02,319 --> 00:28:04,519
the mood to chat and would sometimes be the only

544
00:28:04,559 --> 00:28:07,359
spirit we talked to for days at a time. We

545
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:10,319
were mostly okay with that because she always complimented us,

546
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:14,599
asked us about school, our families, and our pets. She

547
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,119
even told us about another spirit in the house, an

548
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:20,200
angry spirit of a man called George. We had talked

549
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,279
to him a few times, and he was always nasty

550
00:28:22,319 --> 00:28:24,400
to us on the board, saying that he wants us

551
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:26,680
to leave and that we don't belong in the house.

552
00:28:27,319 --> 00:28:30,119
Lucy claimed to help protect us from him, and we

553
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,359
believed her. If the TV suddenly shut off or if

554
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,920
we heard pounding on the ceilings above us, we knew

555
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,200
it was George and we would ask Lucy to tell

556
00:28:38,279 --> 00:28:41,160
him to stop, and sure enough, George was quiet for

557
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:44,119
the rest of the day. So this was an ordinary

558
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:46,440
summer day and we were on the Wigi board talking

559
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,039
to Lucy as usual when our friend, who lived a

560
00:28:49,039 --> 00:28:51,440
couple streets over, wanted us to hang out at her

561
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,839
house that day, just to try the Wigi board at

562
00:28:53,839 --> 00:28:56,799
a different location. We were all down and one of

563
00:28:56,799 --> 00:28:59,640
the twins had asked Lucy, who we were still communicating with,

564
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,079
if she wanted to come with us. The oracle shifted

565
00:29:03,079 --> 00:29:06,559
to yes. And then started spelling out it is hard.

566
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:10,559
We asked what was hard, and she spelled out travel.

567
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:13,319
I was the one that told Lucy that if she

568
00:29:13,359 --> 00:29:15,720
wanted to come with us, she was more than welcome to,

569
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:17,720
but that I didn't want her to do anything that

570
00:29:17,799 --> 00:29:20,000
was too hard for her, and we wouldn't get mad

571
00:29:20,079 --> 00:29:23,480
if she didn't make it. Lucy said okay, and we

572
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:27,119
said goodbye and ended the conversation. We then headed downstairs

573
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,359
and started getting ready to go to our friend's house.

574
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:32,160
And I will never forget what happened to me next.

575
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,079
I remember sitting on the stairs and putting on my

576
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:37,920
shoes and was all ready to go. I was carrying

577
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,160
the Uiji board under my right arm and had the

578
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,000
oracle in my pocket. I looked at my friends and

579
00:29:43,039 --> 00:29:46,960
said ready, and they all nodded. The sister's front door

580
00:29:47,039 --> 00:29:49,000
was big and heavy, and it had a screen door

581
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,640
in front of it too. I opened the big door,

582
00:29:51,799 --> 00:29:54,759
and I remembered feeling such an intense warmth flood over me.

583
00:29:55,359 --> 00:29:58,240
The sunlight coming from outside was almost blinding, and I

584
00:29:58,279 --> 00:30:02,079
could barely see anything in the white. While it was summer,

585
00:30:02,279 --> 00:30:05,079
I live in the Northeast, where our summers aren't too intense.

586
00:30:05,519 --> 00:30:07,400
I also live in a small town that is in

587
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,319
the middle of a large valley, so it's almost always cloudy.

588
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,079
Not to mention, the sister's front door was under a

589
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:16,039
roofed porch, so it made no sense for the sunlight

590
00:30:16,079 --> 00:30:18,440
to be so bright and for the summer heat to

591
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,599
be as intense as it was. I pushed the handle

592
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:23,799
to open the screen door, and before it was even

593
00:30:23,799 --> 00:30:26,559
fully open, I was suddenly at my other friend's house,

594
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,440
who lived a few streets away. With the same hand

595
00:30:29,519 --> 00:30:32,599
on the door handle to her house, the light started

596
00:30:32,599 --> 00:30:35,559
to fade and my vision was returning to normal. I

597
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:38,160
became freezing cold all of a sudden. I felt like

598
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:41,519
I had just ran a marathon, and I was absolutely exhausted,

599
00:30:41,759 --> 00:30:43,440
even though it was not more than a ten or

600
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,759
fifteen minute walk to this friend's house. I stood there,

601
00:30:46,799 --> 00:30:49,880
confused and feeling weak, but still holding the Ouiji board.

602
00:30:50,319 --> 00:30:52,720
I slowly looked over my shoulder and some my friends

603
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,599
standing behind me on the sidewalk, maybe twenty feet away.

604
00:30:56,279 --> 00:30:58,079
They were looking at me like they were just as

605
00:30:58,119 --> 00:31:00,599
confused as I was. I just stared at them for

606
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:03,559
a few moments before I said what. Then one of

607
00:31:03,599 --> 00:31:07,000
the twins said Stephanie, and I said, what what are

608
00:31:07,039 --> 00:31:09,480
you guys doing? They looked at each other and then

609
00:31:09,559 --> 00:31:11,839
back at me, before asking, as if they were talking

610
00:31:11,839 --> 00:31:15,000
to the Ouiji board. Are we speaking to Stephanie right now?

611
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,920
I said, yes, obviously, you're speaking to me. They all

612
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,960
sighed with relief, but then became super freaked out and

613
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,680
started yelling that I was acting so strange and that

614
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,559
I was telling my friends that I was Lucy, and

615
00:31:27,599 --> 00:31:30,319
that my voice had sounded off while we were walking.

616
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,640
Apparently when I spoke, I sounded like I was trying

617
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:36,680
to talk and gargle water at the same time. I

618
00:31:36,759 --> 00:31:39,319
kept insisting that my friends call me Lucy and that

619
00:31:39,359 --> 00:31:41,720
we take a different route to my friend's house that

620
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:45,559
was actually very out of the way. They started pressing

621
00:31:45,559 --> 00:31:47,960
me with questions and telling me to tell them that

622
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,920
I was playing a joke. I started crying because I

623
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:53,599
was confused myself, and I had just lost at least

624
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,359
fifteen to twenty minutes of my own memory and actions,

625
00:31:56,519 --> 00:31:59,880
and I just felt so extremely tired and frustrated. So quickly,

626
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,799
I could barely process what they were saying, and I

627
00:32:02,799 --> 00:32:05,160
didn't know what else to do. At that point, I

628
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,440
sat down at my friend's port step and placed the

629
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:09,960
Wigi board next to me on the ground. I told

630
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:11,759
my friends I just had no idea what they were

631
00:32:11,799 --> 00:32:14,759
talking about, and that I felt awful physically and mentally,

632
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,880
and that I had no idea how we had got

633
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:19,799
to our friend's house. I told them about the flash

634
00:32:19,799 --> 00:32:21,680
of heat and light that had just hit me a

635
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,279
minute ago, and then it seemed like I was teleported.

636
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:27,000
I apologized and told them that I truly had no

637
00:32:27,039 --> 00:32:29,720
idea what they were talking about or had any recollection

638
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,440
from when I had left the sister's house until now.

639
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,279
I don't know if they really believed me or just

640
00:32:35,359 --> 00:32:37,720
wanted to calm me down, but they said it was fine,

641
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,200
and we all went inside to relax for a bit.

642
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,039
Some One else had picked up the wigi board and

643
00:32:43,079 --> 00:32:45,960
brought it inside, and they almost immediately wanted to try

644
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:50,039
making contact with someone and start playing again. I decided

645
00:32:50,079 --> 00:32:52,920
to just watch from the couch. I had cocooned myself

646
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,319
in a blanket because I was still freezing and shaking,

647
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,400
and I did not have much interest in touching that

648
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:01,720
Ouiji board anymore. They did the usual hello, is anyone

649
00:33:01,799 --> 00:33:05,240
there can anyone communicate with us, and the board began

650
00:33:05,319 --> 00:33:08,799
spelling out my name. I just stared and said nothing,

651
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,680
while my friends got giddy. The next thing that was

652
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:15,839
spelled out was thank you. Someone in the spiritual realm

653
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,559
was thanking me, and my friends asked, who are we

654
00:33:18,599 --> 00:33:22,720
speaking to now, and the board spelled out Lucy. I

655
00:33:22,759 --> 00:33:25,319
felt like I was going to faint. Lucy had traveled

656
00:33:25,319 --> 00:33:27,599
with us from one house to another, and it became

657
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:29,839
very clear that she had used me as some sort

658
00:33:29,839 --> 00:33:32,960
of vessel. My friends kept asking Lucy if she had

659
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:36,400
possessed me to get herself here, but she became unresponsive,

660
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:39,559
which was very unusual for her. We would always talk

661
00:33:39,599 --> 00:33:42,119
to Lucy until we told her goodbye, and she would

662
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,240
never tell us goodbye first, and she still didn't. She

663
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,359
just wouldn't answer that particular question, but there was nothing

664
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,480
else to ask her about. My friends closed out the

665
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:53,640
board and we were all very silent for the rest

666
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:55,960
of the day. I think we were all just trying

667
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,640
to process what had happened. After a couple of hours,

668
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,279
I was feeling better physically and I decided that I

669
00:34:02,319 --> 00:34:05,119
was going to go home. There was nothing unusual about

670
00:34:05,119 --> 00:34:07,799
my walk home, and I took the normal route, and

671
00:34:07,839 --> 00:34:10,199
as I was walking, I remembered how my friends told

672
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:11,920
me that I was trying to take them a different

673
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,679
route to our other friend's house. The way that we

674
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,800
would usually go took us past two churches, and I

675
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:20,400
wondered if that was the reason why I or Lucy

676
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,559
wanted to go a different way. I arrived at home

677
00:34:23,599 --> 00:34:25,360
and had a normal rest of the day and night.

678
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:27,920
I think I fell asleep early that night as well.

679
00:34:28,519 --> 00:34:30,480
The next day, I was again down the street at

680
00:34:30,519 --> 00:34:33,360
the sister's house, but nobody was mentioning what had happened

681
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:36,199
with Lucy or even using the Ouiji board at all.

682
00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:39,159
That was the last time I ever touched or even

683
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,400
looked at a Oigi board, and it was also one

684
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:45,000
of my last paranormal experiences. I would still hear things

685
00:34:45,079 --> 00:34:47,599
in see shadows while at the sister's house, but I

686
00:34:47,679 --> 00:34:50,360
even started to hang out there less and just invited

687
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:54,159
them over instead. The mystery and excitement of communicating with

688
00:34:54,199 --> 00:34:56,559
spirits was gone for me, and being in a house

689
00:34:56,599 --> 00:34:59,880
with so much spiritual energy became genuinely scary to me.

690
00:35:00,679 --> 00:35:03,800
I don't remember having any more significant conversations about this

691
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,679
with these girls, and after middle school, we all sort

692
00:35:06,679 --> 00:35:10,199
of drifted apart. Anyway. I've thought about reaching out and

693
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,519
asking if any of them remember this, but I think

694
00:35:12,559 --> 00:35:14,840
it might be weird to randomly bring it up now,

695
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:18,239
after so many years of not talking. I've only told

696
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:20,519
this to a few other people before, and they all

697
00:35:20,599 --> 00:35:22,519
laughed at me and told me that I was making

698
00:35:22,559 --> 00:35:25,960
it up or just remembering the situation wrong because I

699
00:35:26,039 --> 00:35:28,800
was younger. I know that neither of that is true,

700
00:35:29,079 --> 00:35:32,039
because after a decade, I've never changed my story, and

701
00:35:32,079 --> 00:35:35,440
I've never suddenly remembered any new details. And above all,

702
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,840
I was there. It happened to me, and I had

703
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:43,239
four real time reactions to what had happened to me too. Regardless,

704
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:45,760
It's not a story that I tell at parties or anything,

705
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,000
because I know how it sounds, and I know it

706
00:35:48,039 --> 00:35:51,320
makes me sound crazy. You and your listeners are the

707
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,480
only people I could feel comfortable enough to tell this too.

708
00:35:55,679 --> 00:35:57,880
I still wonder what Lucy is up to these days,

709
00:35:58,119 --> 00:36:00,440
whose house she's at, and if she ever had any

710
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,760
bad intentions. While none of us ever got hurt by her,

711
00:36:04,119 --> 00:36:05,800
the fact that she did not want to pass by

712
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,519
any churches or give any heads up about what she

713
00:36:08,599 --> 00:36:10,559
was going to do to me has left me very

714
00:36:10,599 --> 00:36:14,840
suspicious of who or what she really was. I know

715
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,360
some of your listeners have had a lifetime of paranormal

716
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,000
experience and knowledge, and I would love to hear what

717
00:36:20,039 --> 00:36:22,599
anyone would have to say, especially if they could tell

718
00:36:22,639 --> 00:36:25,079
me if they thought Lucy was a good spirit or

719
00:36:25,119 --> 00:36:28,679
something else more sinister. I also have a few more

720
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:31,119
stories I could tell about this haunted house down the

721
00:36:31,159 --> 00:36:34,239
street from me, but this story, inspecific is something I've

722
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:36,719
been wanting to write in since I started listening to

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paranormal mysteries. Thank you so much for reading and creating

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a safe space for others and I to share our

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experiences freely. You do an amazing job. I hope you,

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your family, and your listeners stay safe and healthy and

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have a wonderful holiday season. Thanks again, Stephanie. As we

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come to the end of to night episode, I'd like

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to say thank you to all of you for tuning

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in and supporting the podcast, and a special thank you

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goes out to our Maria, Maddie, Maria, Rob, Melanie, Ash Justin,

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and Stephanie for writing in and sharing their experience with

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all of us. If you've witnessed something unexplainable and you'd

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like to have your story shared on the podcast. Please

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contact me at Paranormal Mysteries Podcast at gmail dot com

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or visit us at Paranormal Mysteries podcast dot com and

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click on the tell your Story link. All of our

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contact information can be found in the show notes from

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all of us at Paranormal Mysteries. Thank you so much

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for listening, and remember, don't wait for the unknown to

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come to you, get out there and find it. Sho