1 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:11,080 Speaker 1: Tonight's episode is brought to you by my newest supporters, 2 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:17,039 jo Anne, Mickayla and Alexander. Thank you so very much 3 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:51,159 for making the show possible. Thank you all for joining me, 4 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:57,439 and welcome. I'm your host, Nick Ryan. On September seventeenth 5 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:00,880 of twenty seventeen, I published my very first episode regarding 6 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:03,840 sleep paralysis, and I talked about the many facets of 7 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:08,239 this highly debated phenomenon. Many people, including doctors, will tell 8 00:01:08,239 --> 00:01:11,840 you that this bizarre and unsettling affliction is grounded in science, 9 00:01:12,159 --> 00:01:15,120 but many folks have had such horrific experiences during an 10 00:01:15,159 --> 00:01:18,560 episode that they swear there is something much more sinister 11 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:24,000 taking place, something that science cannot explain. Now. As I 12 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:26,840 said in my first episode, I too, am no stranger 13 00:01:26,879 --> 00:01:29,280 to sleep paralysis, and if you were to ask me 14 00:01:29,359 --> 00:01:32,000 what I believe is taking place during these episodes, I 15 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,959 would typically give you a scientific explanation. However, I've heard 16 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:38,120 so many reports that don't seem to align with a 17 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:42,159 rational explanation that I have to admit that, in my opinion, 18 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:47,439 something truly unnatural may be taking place. As always, though, 19 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:51,200 I'll let you be the judge. Our first experience of 20 00:01:51,239 --> 00:01:54,560 the night comes to us from my good friend Sarah Now. 21 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:56,640 Sarah asked me if I would do another episode that 22 00:01:56,719 --> 00:02:00,079 focused on sleep paralysis as well as other connected fish 23 00:02:00,079 --> 00:02:03,680 noma and I agreed that it was about time. Sarah. 24 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:08,360 I appreciate your recommendation. This is what Sarah had to say. 25 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:11,800 Good evening, sir Nick, I hope you and your family 26 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:14,599 are doing well. If you read this on the podcast 27 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:18,080 to all listening, I hope you're doing well yourself. With 28 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:21,120 all the stories sent in about sleep paralysis, I wanted 29 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:23,439 to send in a few episodes that I've had with it. 30 00:02:24,039 --> 00:02:27,039 I was a teenager when I first experienced sleep paralysis. 31 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:29,599 I am thirty four now and I haven't had an 32 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:32,840 issue with sleep paralysis since that time period, so it's 33 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:35,400 been a while, but the few times that I did 34 00:02:35,439 --> 00:02:38,240 have the experience with them, they have stuck with me. 35 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:41,800 The first experience that I remember having it was on 36 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:44,840 a Saturday morning. I woke up pretty early that morning 37 00:02:44,879 --> 00:02:46,840 with a headache, so I decided to go and eat 38 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:48,960 some crackers and take a tile in all before going 39 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,719 back to sleep. I did all that and I laid 40 00:02:51,759 --> 00:02:54,919 back down. I am a side and stomach sleeper, and 41 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:57,240 I was real bad about sleeping on my stomach before 42 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:00,319 I was diagnosed with severe sleep apnea and I was 43 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:04,240 eventually put on a sea pap machine. So at this time, 44 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:06,520 I was on my stomach in the process of trying 45 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:09,080 to fall back asleep when I felt a pressure on 46 00:03:09,159 --> 00:03:11,800 my back like someone was laying on me, and I 47 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:15,280 felt heavy breathing in my left ear. It stayed there 48 00:03:15,319 --> 00:03:17,599 for a few minutes. The only thing I could do 49 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:20,680 was repeat Psalms twenty three over and over until I 50 00:03:20,719 --> 00:03:24,199 fell asleep. I wasn't able to move, so falling asleep 51 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:26,199 was the only thing that I could really do at 52 00:03:26,199 --> 00:03:29,319 that time. Later, I thought that it maybe could have 53 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:32,000 been my brain making up that scenario when it was 54 00:03:32,039 --> 00:03:36,000 in that phase between consciousness and unconscious sleep. Or it 55 00:03:36,039 --> 00:03:37,759 could have been the fact that I didn't have much 56 00:03:37,759 --> 00:03:39,840 to eat when I took my tile in all, but 57 00:03:39,919 --> 00:03:42,919 that only makes me nauseous, so that is definitely out 58 00:03:42,919 --> 00:03:45,680 of the question. It could still be reasoned that it 59 00:03:45,759 --> 00:03:48,800 was just in my mind, but it certainly doesn't feel 60 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:51,759 like it was. Later I told my dad, who is 61 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:54,560 a firm believer in God and is a born again Christian, 62 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:56,800 and he said that it was a demon that was 63 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,840 trying to enter my body. I've never had an ex 64 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:05,400 experience like that prior or since. My second story happened 65 00:04:05,439 --> 00:04:07,759 around the same time, and I was on the couch 66 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:11,319 sleeping instead of in my bed. This time. I never 67 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:14,039 felt someone laying on me or breathing in my ear. 68 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:17,360 Yet I did feel some entity standing behind me and 69 00:04:17,399 --> 00:04:20,560 behind the couch just staring at me. When I think 70 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:22,759 about it now, I think of a creepy man in 71 00:04:22,879 --> 00:04:26,079 black suit and a top hat, maybe like what you'd 72 00:04:26,079 --> 00:04:29,319 call a man in black. He just stood there looming 73 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:31,439 over me, and I knew that he wanted to do 74 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:35,079 me harm. Luckily he didn't and it didn't last very long, 75 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:38,879 but it was the scariest episode. I've had a few 76 00:04:38,879 --> 00:04:41,360 others that weren't really on the same level as these two, 77 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:44,160 But during those times, I remember trying to call out 78 00:04:44,199 --> 00:04:46,639 to my mom to help me wake up. Before actually 79 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,600 waking up. I did find that if I made some 80 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:53,079 sort of hissing type noise when sleep paralysis happens, it 81 00:04:53,079 --> 00:04:55,959 doesn't last as long. But like I said, I haven't 82 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,839 had any experiences with it for years. Well, those are 83 00:04:59,839 --> 00:05:02,720 my paralysis stories, but I do want to share one 84 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:04,959 more brief story of a detailed dream that I had 85 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,079 in my early twenties. This may be graphic for some, 86 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:12,920 so please listeners be advised. At this time I was 87 00:05:12,959 --> 00:05:16,199 really active in a local church and considered myself a Christian. 88 00:05:16,639 --> 00:05:20,160 I have since deconstructed and left organized religion, though I 89 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:22,920 still believe in a creator God, but I have also 90 00:05:22,959 --> 00:05:27,120 adopted the path of druidry. As for Christianity, it goes 91 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:29,959 pretty far back in my family ancestry, all the way 92 00:05:29,959 --> 00:05:34,439 to my parents, who are firm believing Christians. Anyway, on 93 00:05:34,519 --> 00:05:37,319 to my dream. In the dream, I was in my 94 00:05:37,399 --> 00:05:40,279 parents house, and during the dream I saw myself wake 95 00:05:40,399 --> 00:05:42,800 up and go downstairs to the main floor to use 96 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:45,920 the bathroom. I walked into a pitch black living room, 97 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:48,600 where to my left all I could see was a 98 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:52,160 beaten Jesus hanging on the cross. We all know in 99 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:55,839 Christianity he is divine because he was the son of God, 100 00:05:56,199 --> 00:05:59,800 but he was also human the human form his body 101 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:02,759 was in such agony that it was convulsing on the cross, 102 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:04,839 and all I could hear was the slap of his 103 00:06:04,959 --> 00:06:08,600 body against the wood. It was very graphic, but all 104 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:11,920 I could do was stand there and observe. While I 105 00:06:11,959 --> 00:06:14,879 was dreaming this, the hymnal there is a Fountain Filled 106 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:18,480 with Blood started playing in my mind. Many people have 107 00:06:18,639 --> 00:06:22,079 dreams that confirm or deny their beliefs, and to this day, 108 00:06:22,199 --> 00:06:24,399 I really can't say how I feel about the dream. 109 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:28,680 Like I mentioned, I've deconstructed from organized religion and I'm 110 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:30,720 still working on a lot of what it is that 111 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:34,800 I believe and what I don't. Thank you for all 112 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:38,079 that you do, and keep up the amazing work. This 113 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:48,600 podcast keeps getting better and better every season, your friend Sarah. 114 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,319 Our next Experience of the Night comes to us from 115 00:06:51,439 --> 00:06:57,959 Lira and Lera's story is called Sleep Paralysis and Mother's Instinct. 116 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:02,759 Lera's experience contains details that may be inappropriate for younger listeners, 117 00:07:03,199 --> 00:07:09,399 and discretion is advised. Leras says he Nick. Throughout my life, 118 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:12,839 I have experienced things I would classify as paranormal. For 119 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:15,560 just a bit of history and context. I ma a 120 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:18,720 RN and had started working night shift for the first time, 121 00:07:18,959 --> 00:07:20,879 and I thought that a change in my sleep and 122 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,560 wake schedule was the cause of what I experienced. I 123 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:27,279 will never forget waking up and not being able to 124 00:07:27,319 --> 00:07:30,920 move a muscle. I was completely paralyzed and only being 125 00:07:30,959 --> 00:07:34,600 able to dart my eyes. My entire room was bathed 126 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:37,399 in a deep red light. I was horrified when my 127 00:07:37,439 --> 00:07:40,079 eyes landed on what looked like an exact replica of 128 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:43,519 the demon in one of Tom Cruise's first movies Legend. 129 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:49,240 It was huge, tall, solid red horns and all I 130 00:07:49,279 --> 00:07:51,879 wanted to scream, and I tried to yell for my husband, 131 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:54,120 but the only thing I could do was stare at 132 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:58,399 this demon and be terrified. This demon appeared to be 133 00:07:58,439 --> 00:08:01,680 having sex with something or someone that I couldn't see 134 00:08:01,759 --> 00:08:03,959 at the foot of my bed. I can't begin to 135 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,720 explain the abject terror that gripped me. And it was 136 00:08:06,759 --> 00:08:09,480 at that moment that I heard what sounded like fingernails 137 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:12,120 scratching on the other side of the door. It was 138 00:08:12,199 --> 00:08:15,040 like nails going down a chalkboard. I was able to 139 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:17,560 wake myself up fully at that moment, and I got 140 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:20,040 out of my bed as quickly as I could. I 141 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:23,360 certainly didn't sleep for the rest of the day. I 142 00:08:23,399 --> 00:08:27,279 had other experiences with sleep paralysis, but never anything like that. 143 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,199 I am a forty eight year old female and I 144 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:34,399 still have night terrors, and I sleep walk. When my 145 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:37,519 now teenage daughter was just a toddler, she slept with me, 146 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:40,120 and I swear that she was a conduit to have 147 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:43,799 out of body experiences. I have two experiences that I 148 00:08:43,799 --> 00:08:46,879 will never forget, and they were so completely vivid and 149 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:50,080 real to me. I would roll out of my body 150 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:52,480 with great ease, it seemed, and I would zip up 151 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:55,919 at tremendous speed. The first time I remember this happening, 152 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:58,200 I was flying back to my home from where we 153 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:01,600 attended mass, about forty minutes away. I was flying over 154 00:09:01,639 --> 00:09:04,320 the fields and seeing the tops of houses and barns 155 00:09:04,399 --> 00:09:07,080 which I had seen for years. I remember coming to 156 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:10,080 the signs over the exits on the interstate and turning 157 00:09:10,159 --> 00:09:13,200 at my exit. It was quite fun and I will 158 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:16,399 never forget that one. The second experience that I will 159 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:19,360 share is one that seemed incredible to me. I felt 160 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:22,320 what I can only describe as an understanding of what 161 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:25,960 infinity truly is. I woke up on my daughter's bed 162 00:09:26,159 --> 00:09:29,360 in a plain bathed in blue light. It was a 163 00:09:29,399 --> 00:09:33,200 perfect sky blue, and the floor was clouds as far 164 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:36,639 as I could see. Somehow I knew this expanded for infinity, 165 00:09:36,879 --> 00:09:39,279 and I understood that I could go anywhere at any 166 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:43,399 time in the universe. Words cannot adequately describe how that 167 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:46,919 exactly felt. When I had gotten off the bed, I 168 00:09:46,919 --> 00:09:50,960 immediately felt two spirits. These were possibly spirit guides, but 169 00:09:51,039 --> 00:09:53,480 I wouldn't even begin to guess who or what they 170 00:09:53,519 --> 00:09:56,120 were beside me. One of them was close to me 171 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:58,320 on my right, and the other was to my left, 172 00:09:58,399 --> 00:10:01,080 a little further away. I knew they were there to 173 00:10:01,159 --> 00:10:03,879 help me, and I could sense their very gentle energy. 174 00:10:04,279 --> 00:10:06,279 I also knew that I could just think about it, 175 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:08,759 and I could be absolutely anywhere in the universe that 176 00:10:08,799 --> 00:10:11,519 I wanted to go. I wanted so badly to find 177 00:10:11,519 --> 00:10:14,080 my ex husband, who was deceased, and I thought that 178 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:16,320 I could find him since I was in a different plane, 179 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:20,240 but I never could. I always looked for him, but 180 00:10:20,399 --> 00:10:23,759 I could never find him. After a moment, I got 181 00:10:23,799 --> 00:10:26,120 scared of not being able to get home, and I 182 00:10:26,159 --> 00:10:28,720 crawled back to the safety of the bed. Being on 183 00:10:28,759 --> 00:10:31,960 a different plane of existence was utterly amazing. Although I 184 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:36,000 sometimes discounted as a very vivid dream, the understanding of 185 00:10:36,039 --> 00:10:39,159 infinity and being terrified that I couldn't go home or 186 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:43,080 that I'd get lost, will always stick with me. My 187 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:47,960 next experience, I'm going to call mother's instinct. My son 188 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,279 had enlisted in the Navy and it was his first 189 00:10:50,279 --> 00:10:54,279 time out on a sub. He was in navigation. One 190 00:10:54,279 --> 00:10:57,679 particular night, I was terror stricken with worry. My stomach 191 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:00,320 clenched and I became nauseous, and at one time point 192 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:03,480 I vomited. I was so anxious and worried. I worried 193 00:11:03,519 --> 00:11:06,759 about him all night long, but my anxiety lessened the 194 00:11:06,799 --> 00:11:09,960 next day. Two days later, I had received a call 195 00:11:10,039 --> 00:11:12,080 that he had fallen from the very top of one 196 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:14,919 of those spiral staircases and landed on the palm of 197 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:17,600 his hand. He was hurt badly enough that they had 198 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:19,679 to go to the next port so that he could 199 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:22,919 have surgery on his hand. I will never forget it, 200 00:11:23,159 --> 00:11:25,919 and no one can convince me that it wasn't my 201 00:11:26,039 --> 00:11:30,559 mother's intuition. Thank you for this space to share. Just 202 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:32,759 a few days ago, I had told somebody that I 203 00:11:32,799 --> 00:11:35,960 had never experienced anything related to the paranormal, But as 204 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,840 I write my experiences, I realized that might not be 205 00:11:38,879 --> 00:11:41,799 the case. I would be interested if anyone has an 206 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:45,320 idea about what I experienced during my sleep paralysis with 207 00:11:45,399 --> 00:11:48,679 the room turning red and the demon having sex with 208 00:11:48,799 --> 00:11:54,759 something that was indeed a horrific experience. I am sending 209 00:11:54,799 --> 00:12:02,399 positive energy your way. Our next experience of the night 210 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:06,360 comes to us from William, and William's experience is called 211 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:13,159 sleep paralysis. William says, good afternoon, Nick. I hope you 212 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:15,679 are doing well. I have been enjoying listening to your 213 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:18,759 podcast for the last few months. I appreciate being able 214 00:12:18,799 --> 00:12:21,440 to talk about this as I try to sometimes but 215 00:12:21,519 --> 00:12:25,120 people don't get it or they think I'm crazy. Anyway, 216 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:29,080 here's my story. I have had bouts of sleep paralysis 217 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:31,799 since I was a kid. My first memory is from 218 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:35,080 when I was around thirteen. He used to happen frequently 219 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:38,159 and would usually manifest from a nightmare. I would try 220 00:12:38,159 --> 00:12:40,480 hard to wake up and then would open my eyes 221 00:12:40,519 --> 00:12:42,799 to see my room, and for a second I was 222 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:46,120 relieved until I realized that I couldn't move and I 223 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:49,919 felt the presence of someone or something else in my room, 224 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:55,480 a dream within a dream. Back then, it was always shadows, 225 00:12:55,759 --> 00:12:58,840 lots of them, no noises, no one talking to me. 226 00:12:59,399 --> 00:13:02,120 They were just there. It was just as scary as 227 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:04,039 the dream that I just tried so hard to get 228 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:06,720 out of and now I was trying to scream or move, 229 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:09,679 but I couldn't. I would do everything I could to 230 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:12,559 wake up, and back then they were pretty much all 231 00:13:12,639 --> 00:13:15,240 like this. I never got a clear view of any 232 00:13:15,279 --> 00:13:18,879 being or entity, just ominous shadows closing in on me. 233 00:13:19,399 --> 00:13:21,960 I was always amazed at how perfect my room looked. 234 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:25,759 It wasn't like a dream at all. When I was 235 00:13:25,799 --> 00:13:28,200 a freshman in college, I had an incident during a 236 00:13:28,279 --> 00:13:30,639 nap in the daytime. It was the only time I 237 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:34,559 ever experienced sleep paralysis during the daytime hours. I was 238 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:37,120 sleeping on a futon in my dorm room and listening 239 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:40,679 to Pantera extremely loud. Somehow I was able to sleep 240 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:43,279 through that. I used to sleep with my right arm 241 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:45,759 over my eyes, I guessed to block out the light, 242 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:49,960 although I sometimes slept like that at night as well well. 243 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:52,759 I opened my eyes and I couldn't move. I could 244 00:13:52,799 --> 00:13:55,759 hear Pantera crystal clear, and I had a dreadful feeling 245 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:58,600 that something was sitting on my chest. I had my 246 00:13:58,759 --> 00:14:00,840 arm over my eyes, so I could only see a 247 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:04,120 little light coming in from under my elbow. Whatever was 248 00:14:04,159 --> 00:14:07,279 sitting on me started to get heavier and heavier. I 249 00:14:07,399 --> 00:14:09,759 was having a hard time breathing, and that is what 250 00:14:09,879 --> 00:14:13,600 woke me up. I woke up gasping for air. My 251 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:16,320 roommate didn't seem to notice anything odd with me, so 252 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:19,799 I assumed that to him, I was just asleep again. 253 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:22,360 The detail of the song and what little I could 254 00:14:22,399 --> 00:14:26,000 see in my room was quite different than a normal dream. 255 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:29,879 More recently, I had an experience that was much more 256 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:32,960 lucid and quite a bit clearer. It must have been 257 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:35,679 around seven years ago. Now I was in my bed 258 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:39,320 and I woke up, but I couldn't move again. There 259 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:42,080 was a vague feeling of dread. I looked to my 260 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:44,519 left and I could see my wife sleeping next to me. 261 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:46,840 I was trying to look over her to see the 262 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:49,759 digital clock that was on the end table, but I 263 00:14:49,759 --> 00:14:52,960 could not lift my head. Then I looked to my right, 264 00:14:53,559 --> 00:14:57,039 and there it was clear as day. There was some 265 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:59,679 light coming into my room from outside, so it was 266 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:03,360 not pitch dark in my room. There were red eyes. 267 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:06,639 As soon as we made eye contact, it quickly moved 268 00:15:06,639 --> 00:15:09,279 toward me and it poked me in my right side. 269 00:15:09,759 --> 00:15:12,440 That woke me up instantly, and I got out of bed. 270 00:15:12,919 --> 00:15:17,000 It hurt not horribly, but it was noticeable. My wife 271 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:19,679 is a light sleeper, and she did not wake up. 272 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:22,840 I walked around the room for about five minutes rubbing 273 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:26,000 my side. The pain lasted about five or ten minutes, 274 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:28,759 and then I went back to sleep. I didn't think 275 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:31,840 much about this. I'm not sure why I didn't look 276 00:15:31,879 --> 00:15:34,480 into sleep paralysis, but I guess I didn't know that 277 00:15:34,519 --> 00:15:37,360 it was as common as it is. I was listening 278 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:39,639 to a podcast one day and I heard a comedian 279 00:15:39,759 --> 00:15:43,399 talking about sleep paralysis. He was affected by it. He 280 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,279 talked about what people see, and he said that everyone 281 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:49,480 sees the same thing. Just google it. It's the first 282 00:15:49,519 --> 00:15:52,840 image that pops up. So I did, and there it 283 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:57,039 was exactly what I saw, a black, hooded being with 284 00:15:57,159 --> 00:16:01,159 red eyes and no discerning features. Now I really thought 285 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:03,559 a lot about this, and I started wondering if this 286 00:16:03,759 --> 00:16:06,639 being was malevolent, or maybe it was trying to help 287 00:16:06,679 --> 00:16:09,360 me in some way. I kept thinking about the way 288 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:13,039 it moved. It didn't float or glide. There was no smoke. 289 00:16:13,559 --> 00:16:16,440 He or she walked over to me like a person. 290 00:16:16,919 --> 00:16:21,039 I wondered if maybe it was a person underneath that cloak, interdimensional. 291 00:16:21,039 --> 00:16:24,120 Maybe I started thinking that maybe he rushed me as 292 00:16:24,159 --> 00:16:26,519 soon as he made eye contact, because he knew I 293 00:16:26,519 --> 00:16:28,600 would be scared and try to wake up as soon 294 00:16:28,639 --> 00:16:33,200 as possible. I also wondered if I could communicate with him. 295 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:37,080 I then found a book on Amazon titled Sleep Paralysis, 296 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:40,679 A Guide to Hypnagogic Visions and Visitors of the Night 297 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:44,720 by Ryan Hurd. In it, the author starts with scientific 298 00:16:44,799 --> 00:16:47,960 data a chemical that your brain naturally produces to keep 299 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,960 people from acting out in their dreams. People with sleep 300 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,480 paralysis are in between wake and sleep, and they wake 301 00:16:54,559 --> 00:16:58,000 up when the chemical is kicking in. Apparently people with 302 00:16:58,159 --> 00:17:01,240 night terrors don't get enough of this, and to me, 303 00:17:01,679 --> 00:17:05,039 this makes sense. He then spoke about the dream aspect 304 00:17:05,079 --> 00:17:08,319 of this and how the mind can manifest these scary visions. 305 00:17:08,839 --> 00:17:11,279 I have an issue with this because why would people 306 00:17:11,319 --> 00:17:13,799 report the same vision? And I can think of much 307 00:17:13,799 --> 00:17:17,000 scarier things than a black shadow with red eyes. That 308 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:20,079 aspect of it just didn't sit well with me. He 309 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:22,680 also talked about how to parley this event into a 310 00:17:22,759 --> 00:17:26,559 lucid dream. He advised to practice focusing on your belly bottom, 311 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:29,880 which feels like going downhill on a roller coaster. It's 312 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:33,079 that drop feeling. It wants to pull you into a dream, 313 00:17:33,519 --> 00:17:36,519 so let it. He also mentions what I was thinking 314 00:17:36,519 --> 00:17:40,160 about confronting the entity or being. He advised though, that 315 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:43,119 he himself has done this and he cautions against it 316 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:47,480 as it can be very scary. Since then, my incidents 317 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:50,000 of sleep paralysis have ramped up a lot. I have 318 00:17:50,079 --> 00:17:53,000 been obsessed with seeing him again. I also want to 319 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,039 mention that I have had some trauma that has been 320 00:17:55,079 --> 00:17:57,799 ongoing for the last seven years. I don't want to 321 00:17:57,839 --> 00:17:59,799 get into that, but I do think it has something 322 00:17:59,839 --> 00:18:02,920 to do with why the frequency has kicked up. I 323 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:05,160 also want to mention that I have a large mirror 324 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:07,599 in front of my bed, which is where I saw him. 325 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:11,599 I think that is important as well. The first time 326 00:18:11,599 --> 00:18:14,359 I felt sleep paralysis coming on after I read the book, 327 00:18:14,519 --> 00:18:16,720 I was able to focus on my stomach and I 328 00:18:16,799 --> 00:18:19,359 let it pull me down into a lucid dream. It 329 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:22,720 was pretty awesome. I fell onto a street at night. 330 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:25,839 There was an office building or an old school or something. 331 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:30,480 I felt compelled to go in. Once inside, there were others. 332 00:18:31,039 --> 00:18:33,039 I asked if they would help me on a quest, 333 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:35,119 as I was searching for something that had to do 334 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:37,880 with my trauma. They said that they would help, but 335 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:39,960 they too were in the middle of their own battle 336 00:18:40,279 --> 00:18:43,160 and asked if I would help them. I looked up 337 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:45,440 and there was a giant snake with a dragon head. 338 00:18:45,759 --> 00:18:49,079 It looked metallic and organic at the same time. It 339 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:52,039 was a dark gray color, and they were all fighting it. 340 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:55,640 I wished myself into a ninja suit and was practicing 341 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:59,400 throwing stars when and this happened so fast. The serpent 342 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:02,720 turned into a woman and seduced me, and I woke up. 343 00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:05,519 I felt like they had kicked me out and that 344 00:19:05,559 --> 00:19:08,160 I had failed. I have not been able to do 345 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:12,759 that since then. It's strange. Now I anticipate the sleep 346 00:19:12,799 --> 00:19:15,839 paralysis and I can feel it coming on. Usually i 347 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:20,200 wake up it's like electricity and a vibration. It's pretty strong. 348 00:19:20,519 --> 00:19:23,039 But now there is usually no entity, and I have 349 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:26,279 not been able to get back into a dream. A 350 00:19:26,319 --> 00:19:28,359 couple of nights ago, I was in my bed and 351 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:31,359 it happened again. I had the blankets pulled up snug 352 00:19:31,519 --> 00:19:34,039 and I felt the paralysis and I opened my eyes. 353 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:37,359 A small shadowy head peeked over the edge of the blanket, 354 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:41,119 then another one. I was not scared. It seemed like 355 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:44,119 they were just checking me out. I tried really hard 356 00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:46,519 to get up, and I was able to eventually, and 357 00:19:46,559 --> 00:19:49,160 there was a shadowy figure pointing to my bedroom door, 358 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:52,519 as if to say, go that way. I started to 359 00:19:52,559 --> 00:19:55,839 walk out of my room, but then I suddenly woke up. 360 00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:58,519 I was still laying in my bed, and it was 361 00:19:58,599 --> 00:20:02,640 not like sleepwalking. I think that it's important to note 362 00:20:02,799 --> 00:20:05,799 that the sleep paralysis dreams are different, and that they 363 00:20:05,839 --> 00:20:08,960 are so vivid and not really dream like. I think 364 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,960 that we have all had dreams of being in our 365 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,359 houses or familiar places, and there is always something off 366 00:20:14,559 --> 00:20:18,200 or something exaggerated. The house is bigger, or the room 367 00:20:18,279 --> 00:20:22,799 is in a different location, the hallway is longer, et cetera. However, 368 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:26,039 in the sleep paralysis dreams, everything is exactly as it 369 00:20:26,079 --> 00:20:30,079 is in real waking life. The light, the walls, anything 370 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:33,240 that would be there is there. This is where the 371 00:20:33,279 --> 00:20:38,000 mystery lies for me, What is this realm? I have 372 00:20:38,039 --> 00:20:40,279 been listening to your podcast for a few months, and 373 00:20:40,319 --> 00:20:43,640 I'm always drawn to the sleep paralysis or shadow people's stories. 374 00:20:44,319 --> 00:20:47,000 I hope this helps anyone who is struggling with it. 375 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:53,160 Thank you for listening, William. I have added a link 376 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:55,960 to the book that William mentioned in the show notes 377 00:21:03,319 --> 00:21:07,519 before I continue, Please consider showing your support by subscribing, sharing, 378 00:21:07,839 --> 00:21:10,920 and given the podcast a positive review. You can also 379 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,319 visit me on Patreon, buy me a coffee or PayPal 380 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,440 and make a donation, or become a member starting at 381 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:19,680 just a dollar a month. You can even join my 382 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:22,839 Patreon membership for free and get access to all of 383 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:26,119 my future updates. And of course, just listening to the 384 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:28,960 show is the best support of all and I'm grateful 385 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:33,200 to have you here. Now, Please stay tuned and I'll 386 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:41,079 be right back. After these brief messages, our next experience 387 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:44,160 of the night comes to us from C and Sees. 388 00:21:44,279 --> 00:21:51,319 Experience is called Paranormal Experiences and sleep paralysis se says 389 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:55,519 he Nick First and foremost, I appreciate your podcast and 390 00:21:55,559 --> 00:21:58,480 listener's submissions. Thank you for an outlet for us to 391 00:21:58,519 --> 00:22:01,720 compare and share our experience, says I have been pondering 392 00:22:01,759 --> 00:22:04,680 telling my story since I started listening about two years ago, 393 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,759 and it was after hearing about Italia's story that I 394 00:22:07,759 --> 00:22:11,759 thought it was probably time to do so. My experience 395 00:22:11,759 --> 00:22:14,680 started when I was about five years old. My family 396 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,440 and I were living in a Victorian style home and 397 00:22:17,519 --> 00:22:21,000 for the first year or so, it was quiet. Then 398 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:24,279 it seems suddenly I started hearing an old rocking chair 399 00:22:24,319 --> 00:22:27,240 in the attic rocking every night, or I would hear 400 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:30,640 footsteps pacing from one end to the other. When I 401 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:32,680 asked my parents about it, they would tell me that 402 00:22:32,759 --> 00:22:36,480 it was just my imagination. Soon enough, though, I started 403 00:22:36,519 --> 00:22:39,759 hearing the same pacing on the balcony outside my bedroom. 404 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:42,640 I knew that it was not my imagination because the 405 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:46,200 footsteps were unmistakable on the tin overlay of the balcony. 406 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:49,440 Being young, though I was too afraid to get up 407 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:53,519 and investigate, I had experienced other things, and so did 408 00:22:53,559 --> 00:22:56,759 my siblings. I would hear scratching under my bed and 409 00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:00,400 seeing things being pulled under my bed. My brother would 410 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,640 hear odd sounds, and also, once my brother's room was 411 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:07,079 torn apart after we had moved from there, my mother 412 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,880 confessed that she used to hear the same thing, and 413 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:13,039 she would also hear children playing in our bedrooms when 414 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:16,400 we were all at school. We had moved into an 415 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,599 old bank building when I was thirteen. The building had 416 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:22,079 a lot of history. It was chartered as a bank 417 00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:25,119 in nineteen eleven, and then a mining company which was 418 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:28,559 owned by long ago relatives of my family. My mom 419 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:30,960 also had a doll store in the bank part of 420 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:33,880 the building, all sorts of dolls, from new to the 421 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,119 very old. I knew people say that dolls are vessels 422 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:39,799 for souls, but at that time I had never given 423 00:23:39,799 --> 00:23:43,599 it much thought. It was just my normal. There was 424 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:47,039 activity there as well, but nothing too startling, except for 425 00:23:47,079 --> 00:23:49,720 the creepy man at the bottom of the stairs. I'm 426 00:23:49,759 --> 00:23:52,319 not sure how to describe him other than ashy in 427 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:57,119 color and long, white, scraggly hair. This will be important later. 428 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,400 I had moved away from home when I was nineteen 429 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,279 years old. I moved into an old school building about 430 00:24:03,279 --> 00:24:06,759 three hours away from home. There really wasn't anything outstanding 431 00:24:06,799 --> 00:24:10,640 in the way of paranormal activity, but it was peaceful. However, 432 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,119 one night we decided to play with the Ouiji board, 433 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:17,680 both of us being inexperienced. We read the instructions, yet 434 00:24:17,799 --> 00:24:21,400 we didn't follow them. I was inappropriate with it, and 435 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:24,759 I paid for it later. That night was my first 436 00:24:24,759 --> 00:24:29,359 experience with sleep paralysis. I remember not being able to breathe. 437 00:24:29,759 --> 00:24:32,079 My eyes were fully open, and I could hear different 438 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:35,200 voices talking and laughing at me. I felt like I 439 00:24:35,279 --> 00:24:38,000 was a side show in a circus. Although I can't 440 00:24:38,079 --> 00:24:40,920 quite remember what the voices were saying, the laughs are 441 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,640 still a noise that rings in my ears as being 442 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:47,440 sadistic in nature. This happened for the next two nights. 443 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,920 After that first night, the TV would also change channels 444 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:55,839 by itself to the ominous six sixty six constantly. After 445 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:58,720 moving from there, life was quiet for a bit, just 446 00:24:58,839 --> 00:25:02,319 faint noises of my name and the overwhelming smells of 447 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:06,640 perfume from time to time. Fast forward a few years later, 448 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,759 I was married and my husband was deployed to Iraq. 449 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,039 I was living with my mom and dad in their 450 00:25:12,079 --> 00:25:14,960 old bank building. It was around two thirty on a 451 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,440 Saturday afternoon and I decided to take a nap. My 452 00:25:18,559 --> 00:25:20,680 parents were leaving and I could hear them as they 453 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:23,480 were walking down their stairs. I turned the radio on 454 00:25:23,559 --> 00:25:27,240 to a local country station for some background noise. Just 455 00:25:27,279 --> 00:25:29,799 as I could feel myself drifting off to sleep, the 456 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,920 radio instantly went to a white noise with a high 457 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:37,119 pitched squeal. My eyes shot open, but I could not move. 458 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:40,480 I felt something standing on the bed by my feet, 459 00:25:40,799 --> 00:25:43,480 and I then proceeded to feel every footstep as it 460 00:25:43,559 --> 00:25:46,000 walked up to my head and then back down to 461 00:25:46,039 --> 00:25:49,359 my feet. Once again, I was trying to scream, but 462 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,720 nothing would come out. Once this being got back down 463 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:55,079 to my feet, I felt it lay down next to 464 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:58,039 me in a spooning position, and it was trying to 465 00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:01,319 get in between my legs. As I felt the pressure, 466 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,359 the presence I felt was that of the creepy man 467 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,279 at the bottom of the stairs that I had mentioned previously. 468 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,359 I felt like I was fighting for my life. Soon though, 469 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:13,839 the radio went back to normal and I was finally 470 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,440 able to move. I grabbed my phone and I ran 471 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:19,279 out of the building, only to return when my parents 472 00:26:19,319 --> 00:26:23,039 returned from their outing. I had explained to my mom 473 00:26:23,079 --> 00:26:25,000 what had happened, and I told her who I thought 474 00:26:25,039 --> 00:26:27,759 that it was. She looked at me puzzled, and then 475 00:26:27,759 --> 00:26:30,119 she told me that she had had that happen before 476 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,279 with the same creepy man. However, it was years ago 477 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:37,000 in our previous home. This type of assault would happen 478 00:26:37,079 --> 00:26:42,000 a handful of other times between then and now. In 479 00:26:42,039 --> 00:26:45,160 two thousand and eighteen, my husband and I divorced and 480 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:47,960 I moved back home. Although my parents still had the 481 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,400 old building, they were now living in a town twenty 482 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:53,880 miles away. The building had been vacant for about twenty years. 483 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:57,319 I needed somewhere to live, and with housings so expensive, 484 00:26:57,599 --> 00:27:00,720 I talked my parents into selling me their building. My 485 00:27:00,799 --> 00:27:02,680 best friend and I decided that it would make for 486 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,200 an awesome shop for us to go into business together. 487 00:27:05,519 --> 00:27:08,440 We just weren't sure what though, the coolest part about 488 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,920 it was that the old vault was still intact and 489 00:27:11,039 --> 00:27:14,640 my parents had the combination. To be honest, the building 490 00:27:14,759 --> 00:27:18,119 wasn't empty, and my mom's doll shop was still fully intact, 491 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:22,039 along with various other things. We were tasked with clearing 492 00:27:22,039 --> 00:27:24,039 all of it, and boy, did we have our work 493 00:27:24,079 --> 00:27:26,960 cut out for us. My dad came over to see 494 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,319 the progress that was made and he opened the vault. 495 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,000 I had my camera out and was taking pictures of 496 00:27:32,039 --> 00:27:34,920 the opening. I'm not sure why, but I'm glad I did. 497 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,160 As soon as the vault opened, I caught two orbs 498 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,559 flying out. I was in amazement, and I showed them 499 00:27:41,599 --> 00:27:45,160 to all of my believing friends. One night, we were 500 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,039 there pretty late, as we were both night owls. We 501 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,960 had the music streaming from a big Bluetooth speaker, and 502 00:27:51,039 --> 00:27:53,160 my friend decided that she was going to start pulling 503 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,880 stuff from a blocked off hallway where my mom displayed 504 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,240 vintage clothes for sale. In the same hallway was the 505 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:01,720 rocking chair that my parents took from the attic from 506 00:28:01,759 --> 00:28:05,400 our old home, the same one that would rock by itself. 507 00:28:06,279 --> 00:28:09,279 In that rocking chair was a defective composition doll from 508 00:28:09,279 --> 00:28:12,839 the nineteen forties. The doll was a factory defective doll 509 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,039 with two left hands. I told her to be careful, 510 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:18,880 and I gave her the history of it. She didn't 511 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:22,039 much care, though, and she started pulling it out. She 512 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:23,839 got it to the end of the hallway and the 513 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:27,559 lights went out and the bluetooth speaker stopped. It was 514 00:28:27,559 --> 00:28:29,640 a good fifteen seconds that we sat there in the 515 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,799 silent dark when the lights were restored by my own hand. 516 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,319 You see, it wasn't a power outage. The lights had 517 00:28:36,319 --> 00:28:40,000 been physically turned off. The speaker had been manually turned 518 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:45,240 off as well. We left shortly thereafter. A couple days 519 00:28:45,279 --> 00:28:47,599 later we were back at it. My friend went back 520 00:28:47,599 --> 00:28:49,920 to the rocking chair and grabbed the doll from the chair, 521 00:28:50,119 --> 00:28:52,720 and a piece of the composition popped off and struck 522 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:55,559 her hard right below her eye. She placed it in 523 00:28:55,599 --> 00:28:58,759 a box and that is where it stayed. We ended 524 00:28:58,799 --> 00:29:00,839 up having a big sale to get rid of everything. 525 00:29:01,319 --> 00:29:03,599 It was disclosed with both the rocking chair and the 526 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:05,960 doll that they may be haunted, but I think that 527 00:29:06,039 --> 00:29:09,559 it only added to the lower Eventually the building was 528 00:29:09,599 --> 00:29:11,839 sold because there was just too much work for me 529 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:15,640 to do on my own with my own means. I 530 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:19,000 have since remarried and have moved out west. Since then, 531 00:29:19,319 --> 00:29:22,440 my sleep paralysis has picked up, each time seeing a 532 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,799 shadow man at the foot of my bed, motioning me 533 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:28,279 to follow him or to come to him. Sometimes though 534 00:29:28,359 --> 00:29:30,960 he would be up by my head and staring down 535 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,119 at me. I have woken up abruptly with flashing lights 536 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,759 coming from my living room and seeing a full apparition 537 00:29:36,839 --> 00:29:39,480 of a man staring out my bedroom window. And I 538 00:29:39,519 --> 00:29:42,319 have also seen a stained glass window being projected on 539 00:29:42,359 --> 00:29:45,119 the wall by my side of the bed. This could 540 00:29:45,119 --> 00:29:48,480 not be explained, but then again, none of it can be. 541 00:29:49,599 --> 00:29:52,119 My last straw was while I was washing my face 542 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:55,359 before bed. I was wearing a sleeveless shirt and had 543 00:29:55,359 --> 00:29:58,359 a soapy washrag in my hand scrubbing away at my face. 544 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:01,119 And this is when my inner own arms started to sting, 545 00:30:01,519 --> 00:30:04,480 burn and hurt. I couldn't believe how much it hurt, 546 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:06,480 but there was nothing that I could do about it. 547 00:30:07,119 --> 00:30:09,839 When I finished washing, I touched and looked at my arm. 548 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:14,440 There were two visible scratched red lines. Now, I will 549 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:16,720 say and I do believe this was the reason for 550 00:30:16,759 --> 00:30:19,359 the uptick in activity in the past two years. That 551 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:21,680 it's because I have come back to the Lord after 552 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:25,039 stepping away for a while. I've been reading the Bible daily, 553 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:29,319 listening to sermons, and going to church. With that being said, 554 00:30:29,599 --> 00:30:32,400 I had asked one of my sisters in Christ about 555 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:36,119 what I should do. I even contacted a church. They 556 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,400 both asked if I had played with a ouiji board, 557 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,839 been to or consulted a psychic, or other things like that, 558 00:30:42,319 --> 00:30:46,200 which I had. They had mentioned familiar spirits and how 559 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:48,720 they feel like I have invited the men and they 560 00:30:48,799 --> 00:30:51,359 feel that they have a right to me. They also 561 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,200 told me to get rid of them by praying to 562 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:56,079 God and Jesus to remove the familiar spirits from my 563 00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:58,519 life and that they have no right to me or 564 00:30:58,559 --> 00:31:02,640 my life. The night before this past Thanksgiving, I prayed 565 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:04,960 just that, and I am happy to say that I 566 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:08,319 have been sleep paralysis free. There has been no visit 567 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:12,400 from the shadow Man, mysterious flashing lights, or apparitions in 568 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:15,599 my bedroom. It has been peaceful for the first time 569 00:31:16,079 --> 00:31:19,359 in a long while. Some of the stories that I 570 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:22,240 hear on this wonderful podcast seem to be out of fear. 571 00:31:22,839 --> 00:31:25,440 If you are exhausted with your own experiences and just 572 00:31:25,519 --> 00:31:28,160 want to find peace, pray to God to remove these 573 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:32,680 familiar spirits from your life and have faith that He will. 574 00:31:34,519 --> 00:31:38,240 Thank you for reading my story and keep up the 575 00:31:38,279 --> 00:31:44,960 good work. As I bring tonight's episode to an end, 576 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:49,319 I'd like to thank Sarah Lera William and c for 577 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,559 coming forward with their experiences, and if you'd like to 578 00:31:52,559 --> 00:31:55,799 share your paranormal encounter or learn more about supporting the show, 579 00:31:56,079 --> 00:31:58,640 you can find all my contact and support information in 580 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:02,400 the show notes and of course, at Paranormal Mysteries podcast 581 00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:06,880 dot com. Until next time, thank you again for being here, 582 00:32:07,079 --> 00:32:09,240 and I hope you'll join me for my next episode 583 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:13,720 as we continue our journey into the unexplained right here 584 00:32:14,519 --> 00:32:16,039 on Paranormal Mysteries