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

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Penelope and Jason. Thank you for making the show possible. Tonight,

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I'll be revisiting my personal experience with the unknown. It's

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an encounter that has baffled me for over three decades,

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and since I first discussed it on the podcast back

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in twenty seventeen, I've remembered some additional details that I'd

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like to share with you, So let's get into it.

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Thank you for joining me and welcome. I'm your host,

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Nick Ryan. Have you ever experienced something that affected you

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so deeply that you have trouble processing yet? I'm not

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talking about just confusion, but more like a deep frustration

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with trying to analyze and understand something that is unfolding

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before your very eyes, but even stranger, at least in

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my case. After the experience has ended and in the

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hours or days that follow, you almost entirely forget that

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the events even took place until something jogs your memory.

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It's at this time when the experience comes flooding back

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to you like some sort of long forgotten memory. Well,

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this is exactly what I experienced almost thirty one years

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ago now if you're not familiar with my story, I'm

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referring to something that I witnessed while living in a

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rural town in my home state of Michigan. I discussed

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my encounter in episode six, which aired in twenty seventeen,

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but more recently I realized that there were some details

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that I failed to include in that episode. Nothing earth shattering,

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just minor things that I think are important to put

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down on paper. At the very least, this will help

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me to document the exact series of events that unfolded

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that night for my own records, but perhaps it will

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also help someone listening who may have seen the same

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anomaly that I did, and hopefully compel them to come forward.

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So tonight, I'd like to once again share my experience

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and include all the missing details that I previously overlooked.

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I appreciate you joining me, and please remember that if

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my experience shares similarities with something that you encountered, please

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don't hesitate to reach out to me, because I would

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love to hear about your experience. My story begins in

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southeast Michigan, where I was born. I was raised in

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a fairly small town outside of Detroit, where Friday night

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football was the high point of everyone's week, and our

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version of social media was to meet down at the

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local dairy queen and hang out with friends. Life was good, quiet,

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even predictable, and besides the occasional night terrors that I

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had as a younger child, the realm of actual paranormal

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phenomena never factored into my daily life. That is until

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elementary school. I was in the library one day and

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I came across a series of books by Time Life

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called Mysteries of the Unknown, if memory serves. One of

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the books in this series focused on time anomalies like

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portals and alternate dimensions. I remember one story in particular

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that involved a pilot who was flying near the Bermuda

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Triangle and somehow made what was normally a several hour

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flight in just under an hour after flying through what

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they described as a circle in the clouds. I can

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still recall the bizarre illustration on the page portraying a

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small Sesma sized airplane navigating through an ominous cloud formation.

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That image has always stayed with me. From that point on,

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my interest in the unexplained slowly began to grow, but

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it was never anything that I sought out to explore.

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It was merely a curiosity that stayed in the back

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of my mind. It never caused me to question the

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world around me. After all, I had more important things

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to think about, like birthday parties, sleepovers, and teenage mutant

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ninja turtles. Of course, I did have small, and what

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I would consider at the time to be insignificant experiences

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that I assumed all kids had. For instance, my grandparents'

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basement was always dark and musty, and I distinctly remember

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always running up those stairs feeling like someone was always

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right behind me. And then, of course, there were a

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couple of times that my friends and I messed around

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with Ouiji board and we all swore that someone else

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was moving the plan chat This would inevitably lead to

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a night of telling ghost stories or reading the infamous

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book by Alvin Schwartz Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.

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And let's not forget the terror inducing game called Bloody Mary,

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where there was always that one friend that swore that

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they could see something looking back at them in the mirror. Again,

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all these experiences create positive core memories that I and

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my friends still enjoy reminiscing about to this day. They

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were creepy, sure, but they never felt truly real, and

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ultimately they gave us a way to connect and have fun. However,

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just a handful of years later, something did happen that

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made me take the paranormal much more seriously, and to

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this day I cannot explain what I witnessed to the

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best of my recollection. This took place during the summer

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of nineteen ninety five, and I believe it was just

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before midnight Eastern Time. I wish I could be more

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specific with the time and the date that this occurred,

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but try as I might, that particular part of the

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memory eludes me. In any case, I was about fifteen

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years old and I had recently finished my freshman year

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of high school. At that time, my mother and I

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lived in a duplex in a rural area just outside

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the small town of Hamburg, Michigan. Our daily routine played

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out as it usually did, and since it was summer break,

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my mother dropped me off at my grandparents farm, which

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was only about ten minutes from where we lived, and

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she then went on to work her typical nine to

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five shift. I enjoyed a normal day with my grandparents

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as usual, and before long it was late afternoon. That

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evening my mother picked me up from my grandparents. We

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drove home, and shortly thereafter she made dinner. As the

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sun went down, we watched TV and talked about our day,

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and nothing unusual happened the entire evening that I can recall. Then,

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at around ten pm, she told me that I should

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get some rest and to go to bed, so I

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got up from the couch and went to the bathroom

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to brush my teeth. She decided that she was going

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to go to bed as well, so we said good night,

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turned off the lights, and we went to our rooms.

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I closed my bedroom door, sat down on the edge

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of my bed, and took my glasses off, which I

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then placed on my nightstand. By this time it was

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around ten thirty, but I wasn't very tired, so I

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laid there for at least another hour, just thinking of

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my day and staring out my bedroom window. My room

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had only the one window, and my bed was in

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the opposite corner from it, which made it very easy

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for me to look out and see the clear night sky.

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Although I had taken my glasses off, I could still

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make out the moon and stars for reference the direction

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that I would have been facing when looking out my

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window would have been south by southwest and toward the

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direction of Dexter, Michigan. Out my window, I also had

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a clear view of our next door neighbor's old dilapidated farmhouse,

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as well as a couple of large dead trees that

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stood on the northeast side of their property. These trees

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were very tall and the branches jutted out in front

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of the moonlit sky, which made it very easy to

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notice when a plane or satellite was moving off in

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the distance behind them. I do remember the air being

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very still that night, so the stationary tree limbs made

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any moving objects in the distance extremely obvious. As I

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lay motionless in bed, I began to notice what looked

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like a star behind the branches of the trees. This

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object looked as if it was pulsating or breathing very slowly,

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as some stars appeared to do. As I observed it

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over the next few minutes, it remained stationary, but it

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continued to fluctuate from dark to light. At this point

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I was absolutely sure that what I was seeing was

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in fact a star, satellite, or possibly even an airplane

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that was very very far away. But as I continued

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watching it, appeared to start moving horizontally again. I used

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the large tree branches in our neighbor's yard as a

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point of reference, and after a moment or two of

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keeping my body absolutely motionless and trying to debunk what

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I was seeing, I was ultimately convinced that this object

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was indeed moving. Although I was hesitant to look away,

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I wanted to put my glasses on, thinking that my

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poor eyesight was to blame for this anomaly. But reluctantly

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I reached for my glasses and put them on, nervously

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looking back out the window and worried that it would

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be gone. But there it was, in the exact same

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spot and still moving very slowly. Although it was strange,

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I was still convinced that it must be something completely normal.

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But as I watched, it stopped moving and it then

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began moving horizontally in the other direction. This is when

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I realized that whatever this thing was, it wasn't normal.

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It didn't move like a plane or a helicopter, and

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it would stop and change direction instantly. I watched it

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do this back and forth movement for several minutes, and

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it was at this point when I began to feel

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slightly uncomfortable. I wasn't scared, but I knew something wasn't right.

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I laid there in my bed, staying perfectly still and

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mesmerized by what I was seeing. Then, without warning, the light,

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which was still in the same location in the sky

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and still appeared to be the size of a star,

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began to get a little brighter, and at this moment,

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a piercing white light seemed to emanate from the object.

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I don't know how, but I could actually see the

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light travel from this object toward my bedroom window and

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then light up the entire wall next to my bed.

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It was like a strobe light, but with only a

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single flash, and it happened in a millisecond. In fact,

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it happened so fast and with such intensity that I

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flinched and blinked after the light had already gone. Absolutely

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stunned by what I had seen, I looked out my window,

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trying my best to locate the object once again, but

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I could find no trace of it. It was in

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this very moment when I had the overwhelming feeling of

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being watched, and this was accompanied by the sensation of

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having my privacy invaded. It was a bizarre, visceral feeling

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that I wasn't accustomed to, and it felt inescapable. After

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several minutes, I reluctantly got out of bed, went to

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my mom's room, and I tried to wake her, hoping

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to tell her about what I had just witnessed. I

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wasn't upset, but I was fairly unsettled, and I didn't

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know exactly what to say, but I just felt like

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any someone to be aware of what had just happened.

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My mother, however, is a very deep sleeper, so I

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couldn't fully wake her, and after a few minutes of

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me trying to tell her what I saw, she eventually

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just rolled back over and went back to sleep. At

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this point, I went out to the living room, which

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was only a few feet away, and since I was

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already feeling a bit exposed, I didn't turn on any lights.

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I quietly walked across the carpet toward the two large

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windows that were located in the corner of our living room.

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From these windows, you could easily see our driveway, a

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small dirt road leading to the main road, and you

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could easily see our neighbor's farmhouse and the two trees

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that I mentioned earlier. Everything was silent, and although I

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once again looked for the odd light, it did not

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make another appearance. As I stood there in the dark,

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staring out the windows, a last wave of unease crept

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over me, but as soon as it came, it left

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and was instantly replaced by a feeling of unnatural calm.

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Everything seemed peaceful and I became very relaxed. It was

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like something had flipped a switch and I was now

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completely uninterested in contemplating what I had just experienced. I

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then returned to my bedroom, got into bed, and I

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went to sleep. The next morning, I woke up and

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started my day as usual, but it wasn't until a

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day or two later that I remembered what I experienced

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that night. It's like I blocked it out, and to

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this day, I still have long stretches of time where

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I'll forget that it even happened until something reminds me

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of it. The older I get, the more I think

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about my experience, and of course I wonder what it

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was that I saw, But over the years, the question

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that really seems to haunt me the most is what

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the object was doing. Was it actively searching for something

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or did it just notice me noticing it. In that

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moment after getting out of bed, I remember feeling as

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though I had been targeted. It was almost as if

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I had interrupted it, as it was in the midst of

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doing something nefarious, and it then turned its attention towards me.

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Is this really what was happening? Though? I don't know,

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but it's how I felt at the time it occurred.

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What bothers me the most about this experience is the

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feeling of my privacy being invaded. You see, I thought

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this object was hundreds, if not thousands of miles away,

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only to have it shine a light directly into my

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bedroom window. What I also find disturbing is how I

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felt fear and anxiety one moment and absolute peace the next.

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Was it a higher intelligence putting me into a state

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of relaxation in an effort to make me forget the encounter,

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or was it simply a natural reaction to a stressful event.

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I don't know. I know it may sound like I

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believe this was some type of encounter with a UFO,

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but the truth is that I really don't know what

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it was. As many of you know, I pride myself

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on being skeptical, not in the sense that I don't

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believe in certain phenomena, but instead I try to look

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at everything from a practical perspective first before turning to

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the paranormal for answers. But no matter how many times

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I revisit these events, I simply cannot find a mundane

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explanation for what I saw that summer night back in

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nineteen ninety five. So there you have it, my personal

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encounter with the unknown. Maybe someone listening has witnessed something similar,

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or perhaps even the exact same thing, and if so,

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I would like to hear about your experience, which you

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can email to me at Paranormal Mysteries Podcast at gmail

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dot com. Please remember that all experiences, no matter how

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insignificant or outlandish you believe they might seem, are always welcome.

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Until next time. Thank you so much for listening, and

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please remember, don't wait for the unknown to come to you,

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get out there and find it