WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.480 --> 00:00:07.919 This episode is brought to you by my newest supporters, 2 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:14.960 Frosty the Penguin, Sarah Holly, Samantha Dixie, and Pink Cranberry. 3 00:00:16.039 --> 00:00:34.960 Thanks so much for making the show possible. Welcome back 4 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:38.560 to Paranormal Mysteries, and thank you for joining me. I'm 5 00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:43.159 your host, Nick Ryan. Our first encounter of the night 6 00:00:43.439 --> 00:00:47.359 comes to us from Sharon, who calls their experience did 7 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:52.759 I jump through a portal? Sharon says, I had something 8 00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:55.840 happen to me recently, and of course my first thought 9 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:58.359 was to tell you and your listeners about it. It 10 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:01.079 was odd because I literally just listen the day before 11 00:01:01.240 --> 00:01:03.439 to the story about the woman that was lost during 12 00:01:03.479 --> 00:01:06.000 an expedition where she just kept ending up on the 13 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:09.120 same floor of an asylum that they were exploring. I 14 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:11.719 was thinking to myself that I'm glad I've never had 15 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:14.760 anything like that happen to me. But two days later 16 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:17.920 I had a weird experience that I still cannot explain. 17 00:01:19.079 --> 00:01:21.280 I was driving to our local Sam's Club, which is 18 00:01:21.319 --> 00:01:23.760 on the outskirts of my town, and though there is 19 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:26.359 a direct route on Broadway that takes you straight there 20 00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:29.200 from anywhere in town, I do not usually take it. 21 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:32.159 They've been doing a lot of construction, and half the 22 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:35.000 way there it narrows down into one lane of traffic 23 00:01:35.239 --> 00:01:38.319 and it gets backed up quite a bit. Fortunately, though, 24 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:40.920 there's another entrance from a less popular road that you 25 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:43.799 can take to the back area of where Sam's is. 26 00:01:44.319 --> 00:01:47.560 I have taken this road many, many times. It's one 27 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:50.519 of my go to secret shortcuts because I hate driving 28 00:01:50.519 --> 00:01:54.200 on Broadway even if there is no construction. I was 29 00:01:54.239 --> 00:01:56.159 on my way there when I took the turn that 30 00:01:56.200 --> 00:01:58.959 would take me to Sam's Club, and from this point on, 31 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:03.840 I can't really explain what happened. As I'm driving, all 32 00:02:03.879 --> 00:02:07.079 I'm seeing is houses, and these aren't even familiar houses. 33 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:09.400 They're not the houses that you would pass on your 34 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:12.560 way there. I've seen them a hundred times too, But 35 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:15.599 this was like I had driven into a subdivision. I 36 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:18.800 was driving through literally rows and streets of houses, like 37 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:22.039 a neighborhood, which does not exist over by Sam's Club. 38 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:26.159 That's all primarily industrial area with big name stores and 39 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:30.080 huge parking lots and empty fields. There is no subdivision there, 40 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:32.560 just a few random houses that were there before the 41 00:02:32.599 --> 00:02:35.919 stores were. I was getting confused. I did not know 42 00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:38.240 where I was at I did not recognize any of 43 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:41.080 the houses, and I did not recognize any of the 44 00:02:41.199 --> 00:02:44.439 names of the streets. Panic set in and I kept 45 00:02:44.439 --> 00:02:47.879 asking myself where the hell am I, over and over again, 46 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:51.199 almost bringing myself to tears. You see, one of my 47 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:54.680 biggest fears is being lost in an unknown location with 48 00:02:54.759 --> 00:02:56.719 no one that I know around to help me find 49 00:02:56.719 --> 00:02:59.840 my way back, which is one of my biggest reasons 50 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:03.919 why I don't travel well. I thought about calling my husband, 51 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:06.120 but then I thought, how is he going to save 52 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:07.919 me if I can't even tell him where I am. 53 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:11.800 So finally my brain said, check your phone. I pulled 54 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:14.120 over to the curb and I pulled up Google Maps 55 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:17.280 and I checked my location. I was in a subdivision 56 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:20.159 on the northern end of town, about two miles from 57 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:23.719 Sam's Club. Now this made no sense. I would have 58 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:26.439 had to have crossed Broadway to have gotten up this far, 59 00:03:26.919 --> 00:03:30.800 and I did not cross Broadway. I got directions on 60 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:33.159 how to get back to Sam's from my phone, and 61 00:03:33.240 --> 00:03:34.879 I had to do a U turn to go back 62 00:03:34.919 --> 00:03:37.680 the opposite direction that I was going, and I did 63 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:40.280 end up crossing over Broadway to get me back on 64 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:43.280 track to where I wanted to be. I was never 65 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:45.479 so relieved in my life to see the Sam's Club 66 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:49.719 parking lot and the sign come into view. I've been 67 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:52.840 wondering to myself ever since then, what the hell happened? 68 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:55.159 How did I go from that little back road to 69 00:03:55.199 --> 00:03:57.960 a subdivision two miles north in the blink of an eye? 70 00:03:58.439 --> 00:04:01.240 And how do I not remember any thing? I wish 71 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:03.199 I had been paying attention to my clock at that 72 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:05.360 time so I could see how long it took this 73 00:04:05.479 --> 00:04:08.919 to take place, But unfortunately I'm not a clock watcher, 74 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:11.319 so I was not looking at the clock at the time. 75 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:14.919 With the other lady's story, you said something about her 76 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:17.439 getting stuck in a time loop. I think that I 77 00:04:17.639 --> 00:04:20.519 just jumped through a portal or something. Your thoughts would 78 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:24.199 be appreciated, as well as those of your listeners. I'm 79 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:26.439 still working at the nursing home, and I have a 80 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:29.360 few unusual things happening that I will tell you about 81 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:36.160 another time. Take care Neck. I love the podcast, Sharon. 82 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:38.480 I know that many people would call something like this 83 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:41.319 a glitch in the matrix. I've also heard people like 84 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:44.040 yourself calling it some sort of a portal, which I 85 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:48.079 do suppose is possible if it is indeed something paranormal happening. 86 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:50.360 I tend to err more on the side of it 87 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:53.480 being some sort of a thinning of the veil, if 88 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:57.160 you will, a space or an area where our reality 89 00:04:57.439 --> 00:05:00.160 tends to get a little thinner somehow, allowing us to 90 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:03.480 travel distances that would usually take us much longer. I 91 00:05:03.519 --> 00:05:06.360 don't pretend to understand it. I just have a theory 92 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:09.199 about it, so take it for what you will. I've 93 00:05:09.240 --> 00:05:12.399 heard experiences like yours over the years, over and over again, 94 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:15.959 so you're not alone by any means, and hopefully anybody 95 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:19.000 listening that has had a similar experience will come forward 96 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:22.480 and share their story as well. Thanks again for sharing 97 00:05:22.519 --> 00:05:25.439 your experience, and I'm looking forward to hearing what else 98 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:32.360 is going on at the nursing home. Our next experience 99 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:36.600 comes to us from Victoria in Victoria's experience is called 100 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:42.680 Footsteps in My Bedroom. Hi, Nick, I'm writing this while 101 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:45.399 I wait in line for a doctor's appointment. I've been 102 00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:47.920 listening to paranormal mysteries on and off for about two 103 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:50.839 years during my shifts at work. Sometimes I would get 104 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:53.759 too spook to continue, and I would start feeling like 105 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:57.399 maybe I was drawing negative energy to myself by listening. However, 106 00:05:57.480 --> 00:06:00.839 I always come back because I love hearing listeners and 107 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:05.800 learning how I might react or defend myself in those situations. Now, 108 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:08.560 in May of twenty twenty six, I've finally caught up 109 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:11.480 to the present episodes. I had told myself that once 110 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:15.920 I reached those latest episodes, I'd finally submit my own story. Well, 111 00:06:16.040 --> 00:06:20.199 my experience happened around July of twenty twenty four. My 112 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:23.360 parents were out of town for two weeks visiting Mexico City, 113 00:06:23.639 --> 00:06:26.480 so I had our apartment in San Diego to myself. 114 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:29.000 I didn't go because I didn't think I could afford 115 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:32.000 another vacation and still keep up with my bills, so 116 00:06:32.079 --> 00:06:35.639 I stayed home and continued working my regular shifts. With 117 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:38.079 their permission, I was allowed to have people over on 118 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:40.879 the condition that the apartment would be clean and tidy 119 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:45.079 when they returned. The night this happened was during the weekend, 120 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:48.480 about a week into my family being away. My boyfriend 121 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:51.480 at the time was staying over with me. Honestly, it 122 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:54.519 was nice playing house for a bet. We cooked dinner together, 123 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:57.839 had some drinks and snacks, and spent the evening relaxing 124 00:06:57.879 --> 00:07:00.759 in the living room. Watching Bee and Puppy Cat or 125 00:07:00.920 --> 00:07:04.279 some similar soft, bubbly cartoon that felt really soothing at 126 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:08.040 the time. By around nine pm, I was getting sleepy, 127 00:07:08.279 --> 00:07:09.600 so I told him that I was going to go 128 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:12.639 to bed, and he said, yeah, go ahead, I'll join 129 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:14.879 you soon. I just want to keep watching for a 130 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:18.199 little longer. I said okay, and I went to my room. 131 00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:21.360 Without thinking much of it. I left my bedroom door open, 132 00:07:21.639 --> 00:07:24.120 and the glow from the TV spilled faintly down the 133 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:28.680 hallway into my room. Everything was quiet and dark, and 134 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:32.199 I fell asleep pretty quickly. At around four a m. 135 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:35.839 On Saturday, my work alarm suddenly went off. I had 136 00:07:35.839 --> 00:07:38.240 forgotten to turn it off since I wasn't scheduled to 137 00:07:38.279 --> 00:07:41.800 work that morning. It startled me awake, but I silenced 138 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:44.120 it pretty quickly, and I looked around to see if 139 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:47.279 I had disturbed my boyfriend, assuming that he had eventually 140 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:50.839 joined me in bed, but he wasn't there. With the 141 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:53.519 dim light still coming in from the hallway, I looked 142 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:55.839 up and walked into the living room, where I found 143 00:07:55.920 --> 00:07:59.319 him asleep upright on the couch. I nudged him awake, 144 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:02.399 and I said, come on, let's go to bed. Still 145 00:08:02.439 --> 00:08:05.839 half asleep. He agreed, I turned off the TV and 146 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:09.040 we both got into bed again. I left the bedroom 147 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:11.800 door open without really thinking about it, even though I 148 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:15.519 normally never slept that way. Now. I remember laying face 149 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:18.360 down with my head propped up on my hand, facing 150 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:22.120 the bedroom door. My boyfriend laid beside me, on his side, 151 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:25.519 with one arm draped lazily over me. We had both 152 00:08:25.560 --> 00:08:28.160 started drifting off again, and I could hear his breathing 153 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:30.920 getting heavier, the way it always sounds right before he 154 00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:34.559 starts snoring. I think only maybe five minutes had passed. 155 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:37.840 I was right on the edge of sleep when it happened. 156 00:08:38.639 --> 00:08:42.919 I suddenly heard footsteps. They sounded like they began just 157 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:46.679 outside my bedroom door, maybe a foot away, before slowly 158 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:50.120 stepping about three feet into my room. The pace was 159 00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:54.480 calm and relaxed, not rushed or aggressive. I remember feeling 160 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:57.559 a presence before I fully processed what I was hearing. 161 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:01.159 My eyes were still closed, but I felt it close, 162 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:04.600 close enough to be standing only in arm's length away 163 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:09.080 from me. Whoever or whatever it was stood there silently 164 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:12.159 for a second or two before turning around and walking 165 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:16.080 back out and into the hallway. The footsteps then continued 166 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:19.200 down the hall toward the living room, maybe fifteen feet away, 167 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:23.399 and then I heard someone begin to speak. It sounded 168 00:09:23.440 --> 00:09:26.440 like a woman's voice, but very muffled, kind of like 169 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:29.320 hearing someone through a thin wall. She seemed to be 170 00:09:29.399 --> 00:09:33.360 casually announcing something or speaking in conversation, but I couldn't 171 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:37.200 understand a single word. It lasted maybe three seconds before 172 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:40.679 everything went completely silent again. I then noticed that my 173 00:09:40.759 --> 00:09:44.919 boyfriend was no longer breathing heavily, so I whispered, Hey, 174 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:50.159 did you hear that? After a short pause, he quietly replied, yeah, 175 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:53.279 I heard it. I then asked him what was that, 176 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:57.039 and he answered, I don't know, but don't worry about it. 177 00:09:57.480 --> 00:10:00.720 Just go back to sleep. It's okay. Even though I 178 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:04.480 was confused and definitely unsettled, his calm reaction kept me 179 00:10:04.519 --> 00:10:07.759 from panicking. I listened to him, and somehow we both 180 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:12.080 fell asleep pretty quickly. After that, nothing else happened that night. 181 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:15.600 The next morning, we woke up around nine a m. 182 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:20.120 Feeling surprisingly rested. While sitting at the kitchen table eating breakfast, 183 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:23.240 we finally talked about what had happened. He admitted that 184 00:10:23.279 --> 00:10:25.559 he had actually been pretty freaked out, but that he 185 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:27.879 didn't want to scare me more in that moment, so 186 00:10:27.919 --> 00:10:29.960 he tried to stay calm and encourage me to go 187 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:33.720 back to sleep instead of focusing on it. Then I 188 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:36.399 asked him to tell me exactly what he remembered. Hearing 189 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:41.360 what he said genuinely shocked me. According to him, he 190 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:44.720 heard a woman speaking before the footsteps even entered the bedroom. 191 00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:48.440 Then he heard the footsteps walk into the room, pause, 192 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:52.279 turn round, and then continue down the hallway and into 193 00:10:52.279 --> 00:10:55.159 the living room. Then he heard the same muffled female 194 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:58.480 voice that I heard, but unlike me, he also heard 195 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:01.320 a man respond to her. That was the part that 196 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:04.919 really stuck with me. We had both heard nearly identical things, 197 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:07.600 but he heard slightly more than I did. I even 198 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:10.120 mimicked the sound by cupping my hands around my mouth 199 00:11:10.279 --> 00:11:13.360 and making muffled adult voices like the grown ups in 200 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:16.720 the Peanuts cartoons, and he immediately agreed that it sounded 201 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:20.559 almost exactly like that. To this day, I still wonder 202 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:23.320 if maybe he was somehow more in tune than I was, 203 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:26.600 and able to pick up more on whatever we experienced. 204 00:11:27.639 --> 00:11:30.120 I called my mom after and I told her everything 205 00:11:30.279 --> 00:11:33.360 while she and my aunt listened on speakerphone. My mom 206 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:36.240 was more concerned that someone might have actually broken into 207 00:11:36.279 --> 00:11:39.000 the apartment, so she told us to check every room 208 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:42.360 and closet to make sure that nobody was inside. We 209 00:11:42.440 --> 00:11:44.600 did a full sweep of the apartment, but it was 210 00:11:44.679 --> 00:11:48.759 completely empty except for the two of us. After breakfast, though, 211 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:51.320 I started spiraling a little trying to come up with 212 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:55.679 a rational explanation. Our apartment complex had two stories, and 213 00:11:55.720 --> 00:11:58.840 our unit was on the first floor. However, our apartment 214 00:11:59.000 --> 00:12:01.840 was one of the only unions built over a parking area. 215 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:04.879 Sometimes I could hear a loud engine pull into the 216 00:12:04.919 --> 00:12:07.399 spot underneath my room, or I would hear a car 217 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:11.080 door slam, but I never ever heard conversations or footsteps. 218 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:14.080 People usually had to walk further out toward the street 219 00:12:14.200 --> 00:12:16.399 before I could hear them through my window, so I 220 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:19.840 rolled that out pretty quickly. As for the apartment above us, 221 00:12:19.960 --> 00:12:23.559 nobody had lived there for months. Occasionally, though, when previous 222 00:12:23.559 --> 00:12:27.600 neighbors wore heavy shoes, we could hear footsteps overhead, especially 223 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:30.519 in the hallway area where the layouts lined up closely, 224 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:33.840 but we could never hear voices through the ceilings, the walls, 225 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:37.320 and floors honestly weren't thin enough for that. So I 226 00:12:37.399 --> 00:12:40.559 begin wondering if maybe someone new had quietly moved into 227 00:12:40.559 --> 00:12:43.919 the upstairs apartment without me noticing. But when previous tenants 228 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:47.000 moved in, we always heard furniture being dragged around, and 229 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:50.320 we saw them constantly using the staircase outside our front door. 230 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:54.679 I hadn't noticed any of that. Well. Later that day, 231 00:12:54.919 --> 00:12:58.080 I saw our apartment manager walking through the complex gates, 232 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:00.720 and I immediately went outside to talk to her. I 233 00:13:00.840 --> 00:13:03.639 probably startled her a little by suddenly greeting her from 234 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:08.480 my doorway, and the conversation went something like this, Hey Teresa, 235 00:13:08.960 --> 00:13:12.279 Oh hi, Hey, do we have any new neighbors upstairs yet? 236 00:13:12.840 --> 00:13:15.879 She thought about it for a second before saying no, 237 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:19.080 nobody's moved into Unit twenty yet, and I remember just 238 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:23.159 saying oh okay. She kept looking at me and finally 239 00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:27.159 asked why, what's up? So I explained what my boyfriend 240 00:13:27.159 --> 00:13:29.240 and I had heard, and I admitted that I was 241 00:13:29.279 --> 00:13:31.960 hoping it had just been a new upstairs neighbor. To 242 00:13:32.039 --> 00:13:34.200 her credit, though she didn't laugh or look at me 243 00:13:34.279 --> 00:13:37.919 like I was crazy. I suggested that maybe somehow someone 244 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:40.960 had gotten inside the vacant apartment at around four am, 245 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:43.279 so she said that she would go and check it out. 246 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:46.519 I then thanked her, but when I went back inside, 247 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:50.639 I honestly didn't feel much better. She never updated me afterward, 248 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:53.279 and I rarely saw her again for the remainder of 249 00:13:53.320 --> 00:13:56.480 that week, so I just assumed that nobody was up there. 250 00:13:56.519 --> 00:14:00.919 After all, this was my first real paranormal experience as 251 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:04.399 an adult, and honestly, I'm just grateful I wasn't alone 252 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:07.279 when it happened. I lived there for another year and 253 00:14:07.279 --> 00:14:10.039 a half before eventually moving out of my parents' apartment, 254 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:14.279 and thankfully I've never experienced anything like that ever again there. 255 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:17.879 I'm also glad that we stayed calm. Whatever it was 256 00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:20.919 didn't feel malicious to me. It honestly felt more like 257 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:24.720 something casually passing through or checking in on us. The 258 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:30.039 energy felt strangely neutral. Still, hearing unseen footsteps walk into 259 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:32.759 your bedroom at four am, and then hearing in disembodied 260 00:14:32.840 --> 00:14:35.879 voices in your apartment is something that sticks with you. 261 00:14:36.679 --> 00:14:39.000 Part of me does feel like if we had panicked, 262 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:41.840 challenged it, or focused too much attention on it in 263 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:44.720 that moment, maybe it would have become more active or 264 00:14:44.759 --> 00:14:48.799 even made itself more known to us. That's definitely not 265 00:14:49.080 --> 00:14:53.840 something that I'm interested in finding out. Well, thank you 266 00:14:53.960 --> 00:14:56.480 for everything that you do, and thank you for sharing 267 00:14:56.799 --> 00:15:08.759 our stories. Keep on keeping on, Nick regards Victoria. 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Percy Marie says, Hi, Nick, 279 00:15:53.320 --> 00:15:55.000 this is going to be a bit of a long one, 280 00:15:55.200 --> 00:15:58.000 but hopefully a worthwhile one for you to read. I've 281 00:15:58.039 --> 00:15:59.960 gone back and forth a lot on whether I should 282 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:03.360 share because it sounds unbelievable, But my sister and I 283 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:06.759 are longtime listeners and she's been telling me to share it. 284 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:09.159 It all sounds like a conjuring movie to me, but 285 00:16:09.240 --> 00:16:12.279 it was my life for about four months, and it 286 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:17.080 was truly the most terrifying experience of my life. Back 287 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:20.399 in January of twenty nineteen, I fled from my abusive 288 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:22.799 ex with my two children, and I moved in with 289 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:25.559 my best friend at the time and her boyfriend, who 290 00:16:25.639 --> 00:16:29.679 for simplicity we'll call Tom. My two children were almost 291 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:34.679 two and three. The first few months were uneventful, even peaceful. 292 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:38.200 The kids were adjusting well, I was working full time. 293 00:16:38.639 --> 00:16:42.039 Things were good. One day in May, I was getting 294 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:44.399 ready in my bathroom while my daughter was playing in 295 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:47.200 the living room by herself. My son was with their 296 00:16:47.240 --> 00:16:50.000 father per the custody order, and we were the only 297 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:53.320 two in the house. For context, when you walked into 298 00:16:53.320 --> 00:16:55.399 the house, there was a hallway to the right to 299 00:16:55.440 --> 00:16:57.720 get to the kitchen in the living room. When you 300 00:16:57.759 --> 00:17:00.240 got to the kitchen, there was another hallway open to 301 00:17:00.279 --> 00:17:02.519 your right where you could get to the restroom and 302 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:05.119 the two bedrooms. But you couldn't see the living room, 303 00:17:05.640 --> 00:17:08.319 so I couldn't see my daughter, but I could hear her. 304 00:17:09.200 --> 00:17:12.119 The TV was quietly playing nursery rhymes and I was 305 00:17:12.160 --> 00:17:14.400 listening to her talk to her toys to the best 306 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:17.960 of an almost two year old's ability. After a while, though, 307 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:21.079 it started sounding like she was having a full conversation. 308 00:17:21.559 --> 00:17:25.480 She was asking questions, waiting for answers, and responding to 309 00:17:25.559 --> 00:17:28.880 whatever she heard. This was not the normal way my 310 00:17:28.960 --> 00:17:32.160 daughter played, and being that we were by ourselves, I 311 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:36.079 went out to see what was going on. Stepping into 312 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:38.200 the living room, she was sitting right where I had 313 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:40.599 left her, and she was staring up to something in 314 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:44.000 the air with a big smile. There wasn't anything on 315 00:17:44.039 --> 00:17:46.440 the walls there for her to be looking at, just 316 00:17:46.599 --> 00:17:50.799 empty space. Who are you talking to, baby, the lady, Mamma, 317 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:54.000 the lady, And she then pointed a little finger up 318 00:17:54.039 --> 00:17:57.000 to the space that she'd been looking at. I wasn't 319 00:17:57.000 --> 00:17:59.240 super freaked out yet, and I figured that she was 320 00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:02.160 just playing, So I nodded and I told her okay, 321 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:05.799 and I went back to getting ready. Now. Nothing else 322 00:18:05.880 --> 00:18:08.799 unusual happened until my son came home from his father's 323 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:11.119 A few days later. I was trying to put my 324 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:13.880 kids down for a nap after lunch and I heard 325 00:18:13.880 --> 00:18:17.119 something moving through the backyard. We lived right next to 326 00:18:17.160 --> 00:18:19.839 a wetland area, so my first thought was that it 327 00:18:19.920 --> 00:18:22.839 must be an animal. We didn't have any neighbors, and 328 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:25.200 it would have been difficult to climb to the backyard 329 00:18:25.200 --> 00:18:28.359 for a person with how thick the brush was. After 330 00:18:28.400 --> 00:18:31.759 a few minutes of listening, however, there was tapping on 331 00:18:31.880 --> 00:18:35.119 my bedroom window. We kept the doors and windows locked 332 00:18:35.119 --> 00:18:38.240 at all times, but I was definitely more on edge now. 333 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:41.000 I told the kids to stay put and I crept 334 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:44.200 out to the living room's big sliding glass door. When 335 00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:47.480 I peeked out of the curtains, the backyard was trashed, 336 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:52.599 things broken, stuff scattered everywhere. The back gate was undone. 337 00:18:53.400 --> 00:18:55.279 I went to the front door because you could see 338 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:57.720 the window from there, and you couldn't even see any 339 00:18:57.720 --> 00:19:01.200 footprints in the dirt. So I cleaned up the backyard. 340 00:19:01.559 --> 00:19:03.920 Called my friend and I told her what happened, and 341 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:06.240 I kind of forgot about it for a while. I 342 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:09.599 just wanted to pretend that it didn't happen. A few 343 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:12.599 days later, I was in the bathroom, once again, still 344 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:15.559 the only one home with my kids, and I heard 345 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:19.079 the fridge door open. Neither of my kids could open 346 00:19:19.079 --> 00:19:21.559 the fridge at that time. I ran out to see 347 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:24.279 what was going on, and there was a shadow bigger 348 00:19:24.279 --> 00:19:26.839 than the kitchen in the shape of a person holding 349 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:30.000 open the fridge door. My kids were standing in front 350 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:32.960 of the fridge, excited to get a snack as always. 351 00:19:33.559 --> 00:19:36.799 I remember seeing the shadow's fingers going over the edge 352 00:19:36.839 --> 00:19:39.440 of the door, where the light shouldn't have allowed a 353 00:19:39.480 --> 00:19:43.039 shadow to be. It took me a second to realize 354 00:19:43.319 --> 00:19:46.119 what I was looking at. I called my kids over 355 00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:49.160 as nonchalantly as I could, and only as they tuddled 356 00:19:49.160 --> 00:19:52.640 past the kitchen threshold did the door close. That's when 357 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:55.200 I looked up for my kids, and I watched as 358 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:58.480 this shadow engulfed the kitchen. Despite it being the middle 359 00:19:58.559 --> 00:20:01.400 of the day, it was just like in the scary movies. 360 00:20:01.880 --> 00:20:04.559 It was like something was blocking any light from coming 361 00:20:04.599 --> 00:20:07.720 in well. I scooped up my kids in my arms 362 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:09.960 and we stayed in the bedroom for a few hours 363 00:20:10.119 --> 00:20:12.359 until I was brave enough to go back out and 364 00:20:12.480 --> 00:20:16.000 see if anything seemed out of sorts. Nothing was there. 365 00:20:16.680 --> 00:20:20.440 The kitchen was full of light. Once again. I did 366 00:20:20.440 --> 00:20:23.160 my best to brush off everything that had happened so far, 367 00:20:23.559 --> 00:20:26.759 but it was getting difficult. My daughter never seemed afraid, 368 00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:29.599 but she still talked to the lady, and my son 369 00:20:29.759 --> 00:20:33.200 started having horrible night terrors. After a while, he would 370 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:36.279 tell me that the lady was scaring him, and he 371 00:20:36.319 --> 00:20:39.680 would point to the closet by his bed. I talked 372 00:20:39.680 --> 00:20:42.599 with my roommates and they started hearing weird sounds around 373 00:20:42.640 --> 00:20:45.319 the house as well when they were home alone. However, 374 00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:48.519 Tom was a skeptic, so we decided, because he owned 375 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:50.920 the house, we would do our best to ignore it. 376 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:54.160 We hoped that ignoring it would take any power away 377 00:20:54.160 --> 00:20:57.440 from it, sort of like if you saw something, no 378 00:20:57.559 --> 00:21:00.359 you didn't Now. This worked for a while. A while, 379 00:21:00.720 --> 00:21:04.200 we still heard things, see shadows, watch things move across 380 00:21:04.240 --> 00:21:07.160 the room with no explanation, but we didn't know what 381 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:09.920 else to do. I guess it decided that it was 382 00:21:09.960 --> 00:21:12.799 time to get creative because I was watching TV with 383 00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:15.759 my new boyfriend late one night we'll call him Drew, 384 00:21:16.240 --> 00:21:18.759 and a figure appeared in the corner of the room 385 00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:21.920 next to my dresser. I saw it and I tried 386 00:21:21.920 --> 00:21:24.200 to ignore it, but Drew, who didn't know what was 387 00:21:24.240 --> 00:21:28.680 going on, slowly tapped my shoulder and then pointed to it. 388 00:21:28.680 --> 00:21:31.160 It was hunched over like it was holding its knees 389 00:21:31.200 --> 00:21:34.559 to its chest with its head down. I grabbed his 390 00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:36.599 hand to let him know that I saw it, and 391 00:21:36.640 --> 00:21:39.000 I then pointed back at the TV, hoping that he 392 00:21:39.039 --> 00:21:43.839 would understand. After a few minutes, it disappeared again. I 393 00:21:43.880 --> 00:21:46.079 think we had both been holding our breath because we 394 00:21:46.119 --> 00:21:49.640 both let out a heavy sigh. We let ourselves relax, 395 00:21:50.160 --> 00:21:53.240 and we then went to bed. The next night, the 396 00:21:53.279 --> 00:21:56.960 same thing happened figure in the corner. This time, though 397 00:21:57.319 --> 00:22:00.279 it just stared at us. Its head was raised and 398 00:22:00.359 --> 00:22:04.000 its legs were relaxed. When we did nothing to acknowledge it, 399 00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:07.480 the bed started to shake violently. We moved to the 400 00:22:07.480 --> 00:22:10.119 middle of the bed and all we could do was watch. 401 00:22:10.559 --> 00:22:13.000