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Speaker 1: Tonight's episode is brought to you by my newest supporter, Jess.

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

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

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

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who calls their experience dark Mass. Maya says, my dad

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was a project manager for a construction company in South Africa.

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At that time. He started on a new project in Costead,

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about a four hour drive from Port Shepstone. Coxtead was

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a small old town in the mountains. Her on apartment

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in Market, which is close to Poor Shepstone. This was

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our quote unquote base, as my dad's job required him

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to move around a lot, and frequently sometimes we would

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join him, other times we would stay in Market. I

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was twenty years old at the time and suffered from depression.

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The moment I walked into that old house, my stomach

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reacted badly and I felt like a nervous wreck, even

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though I wasn't nervous at all. It's a very strange

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thing to try to explain to someone that feeling and

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sensation your body is reacting like you're in a very

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stressful situation, but you are not stressed. It's the only

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way I can describe the effect that house had on

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my body in my mind. I have never felt anything

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like it, and I had no idea what to do

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about it, so I tried to go about my days

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as normal. It started slowly. For instance, a light bulb

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angled at forty five degrees would land on my brother's

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head when he had already passed it and was walking

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in the opposite direction. I would open only the hot

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water faucet and fill the bathtub with extremely hot water,

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only to have it be ice cold by the time

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that I had taken my clothes off. And the other

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thing that would happen was we would all be sitting

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in front of the television and there would very clearly

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be someone walking from the kitchen to the room that

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I was sleeping in. The last one was particularly strange,

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as both my dad and I both realized at the

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same time that all four of us were sitting together

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in the living room at that time and watching TV.

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My dad looked at me and I asked him, who

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the hell was that? Is there someone else in the house? Well,

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at that moment, we all got up and walked through

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the house, but there was no one there. We had

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a plumber come over to check the pipes one day,

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and we decided to leave our little dog in the

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room I had been sleeping in. This was just to

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make sure that she didn't get out by accident or

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run away while there was a stranger in our house.

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My mom loved that pup as much as she loved

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does we all did. She was part of the family.

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So we told the plumber that we had to complete

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a few errands and that she would be in the

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room in case he heard something. We put some food, water, peepads,

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and her comfy bed in there. We then locked the

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door and we took the keys with us. Well. We

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hadn't been gone for more than ten minutes when the

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plumber phoned my mom and asked whether someone else was

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in the room with our dog because there was a

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terrible ruckus going on in there. This was extremely odd,

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as she was a very quiet and relaxed dog. We

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felt extremely worried, so we left everything and we headed

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straight back. Immediately after his call, I said to my mom,

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it's that damn room. She then gave me this strange look,

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but didn't say a word. We rushed back, unlocked the door,

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and our dog came bolting out. I ran after her,

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got a hold of her and comforted her. She was

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crying like a baby. I just held her and soothed her.

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I felt guilty for leaving her in there when I

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was fully aware that that room, that house made me

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feel the same way. My mom then called out to me,

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and I put our dog on the couch, not wanting

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to take her back into that room, and I walked

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to where my mom was. It was a mass. Even

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the plumber came over to have a look. The bed

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had been toppled over, my pillows were all over the place,

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and our little dog had peed and pooped everywhere. It

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was clear that she was terrified in the room, and

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that's how her little body reacted to the fear. We

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felt terrible for leaving her in that damn room right there,

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and then I told my mom that I was going

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to leave the next day and that I would take

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our dog with me. I didn't want to be there,

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not since arriving five days ago. The house affected me

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and our dog the worst. My mom, dad, and brother

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were also aware of something, some feeling or sensation, but

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they never felt like they were in any sort of danger. Unfortunately,

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I didn't have a license yet and it was pretty

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late in the afternoon. My dad suggested that I stay

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the night and that my mom could take me back

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to our apartment the next morning. It was a good

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four hour drive, so I agreed. Otherwise, my poor mom

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would have had to drive that road through a mountain

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pass at night. No one wanted to do that, as

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the road to the mountain was tricky and very dangerous.

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That night, I went and took a shower in my

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parents' bathroom. As it was on the newer side of

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the house. You could clearly see The rest of the

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house was old, but their onsuite area had been built

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and added to the structure much later on. I wanted

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to spend as little time in the old part of

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the house as I possibly could, so I sat in

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their room, listened to some music, took a shower, and

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then went to bed. Unfortunately, I had to sleep in

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that terrible room for one more night. Feeling scared and

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getting that nervous feeling in my stomach every five minutes,

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I decided that it was a good idea to read

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a few verses from the Bible and pray for protection.

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It worked, and I felt a bit more at ease,

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even being able to fall asleep quite fast. Now I'm

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not sure how long it was after this, but I

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woke up and things went south very fast from there.

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I woke up because I couldn't really breathe. I remember

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trying to breathe in but I only managed a very

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shallow breath. My next thought was to try to move,

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which I was able to do. But I realized that

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I could try and move as much as I wanted,

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but I was only moving around on the bed, kind

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of like an insect trying to get out of its cocoon.

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I panicked. I kept moving and struggling, and I mean struggling.

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I remember getting this picture in my mind of a

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person being in a strait jacket. That was probably what

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it felt like. Through all this, it began occurring to

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me that there was something pitch black on top of me,

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not touching me, but almost hovering on top of me.

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Now this town was high up in the mountains with

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very little light pollution, so it was dark, but this

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was darker. I remember how I could clearly see a

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small space between my body and this pitch black mass,

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just hovering. It wasn't touching me, but it was putting

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immense pressure on my lower chest and my stomach. Or

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was it pushing me down on the bed. Either way,

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the result had been the same. I couldn't get out

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of that bed, and that damn room and this dark

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mass was the cause of my inability to get up.

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I needed to get out of there. I tried to

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scream for help, really doing my absolute best, but I

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remember only being able to get a whisper out. I

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was crying at this point, and I'm sure that I

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was on the verge of getting hysterical, so in my fear,

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I started praying. I was unable to shout or scream,

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but I was whispering as clearly as I could. I

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was pleading for help for protection, reciting the Lord's Prayer

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and every verse I managed to remember from the Bible.

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And then finally, as I was still squirming around on

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the bed like a person in a strait jacket, I

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managed to throw myself off the bed. I got up

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as fast as I could and started running for the door.

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The damn door started closing on me, and I hit

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my shoulder on my way out. However, nothing was going

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to keep me in there. I ran straight to my

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parents room. It was shut, but I paid no attention

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to it, and I burst in there, crying hysterically. I

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think my dad immediately saw that this was something else,

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and he quickly sat me down on his side of

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the bed. As he was guiding me, he held my

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hands in his and he started praying. At that point,

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I hadn't uttered a word. I was still only crying hysterically,

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but he just knew. As he was praying, his side

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table was knocked over. There was no one there. Whatever

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was in that room had followed me into their room,

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which was strange as this was the new part of

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the house. As I mentioned earlier, I just remember the

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side table going up into the air and everything that

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was on there, the ashtray, his glass, everything was going

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up and up into the air, and it was almost

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in slow motion. I was not aware of what happened

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after that. I woke up in the living room on

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the couch with my mom and dad sitting next to me.

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My dad looked at me and asked how I was feeling.

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He was looking at me like he was searching for

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something in my eyes. Very intently. I was fine. I

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was tired, but fine. They then grabbed my suitcase, which

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my mom had packed as I was sleeping, and my

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mom then took me and our dog to our apartment

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four hours away. I will never forget that experience, the terror.

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I didn't know it at that time, but my dad

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was looking so intently at me because he wanted to

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make sure that he was speaking to me. Years later,

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my mom said that after he started praying for me

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that terrible night, that they couldn't really recognize me. It

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was like they were looking into someone else's eyes. She

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said that I wasn't responding to anything that my dad

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had asked me at that time. While he was praying,

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I was just laughing, hysterically, peed my pants, and then

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I passed out. She said that he continued praying for

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me and that she he joined in, and that at

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some point they could see that my body started to relax.

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I honestly do not remember any of this. I can't

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explain what happened to me after that side table flew

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up in the air. To this day, I never stepped

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foot in a house that has that sick feeling about it.

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I prayed diligently, and I never go to bed without

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reading from the Bible. There are dark things hiding everywhere

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around us. We need to be aware, vigilant, and prepared.

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A few years ago I read up about that house.

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About ninety two years ago, a mister Hawthorne lived in

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that very house, which is a long time ago. In

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South Africa, apart from the cradle of Humankind, history is

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quite young in the country. Regardless, every record of Hawthorne

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suggests that he was a hateful and cruel man. He

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had many workers, and he would take the men's wives,

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rape them and abuse the men. He would hit them

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and disrespect them in every way possible. These poor men

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were unable to do anything as he was their master. Now,

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I don't think it's just Hawthorne that hangs around there.

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I think the workers are still there too. A house

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or land keeps hate, helplessness, and anger within its walls.

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I think there are many spirits there, and together it

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adds up to one big, sick and terrible energy. That

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house is sick, the land is sick, and sensitive people

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are receptive to its sickness. I believe that's what happened

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to me there. I never went back, and my family

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moved into another townhouse on the other side of town.

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I started listening to your podcast a few months ago

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when I got a job in China. My parents passed away,

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and I'm taking care of my brother as he's on

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the autism spectrum. Life can be cruel, but your show

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I have empathy for the others who had their own

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terrible expls Uerian says, but I appreciate that you have

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of the Evening comes to us from Emma Grace. Hello, Nick.

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I started listening to your podcast over the last couple

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of weeks, and I'm obsessed with that. Listening to your

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episodes has also reminded me of all the weird, unexplained

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things that have happened to me in the past and present.

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I am a Christian and I believe in the supernatural world,

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but I don't necessarily believe in ghosts, but I do

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believe in spirits and demons. I have three main places

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that I have experienced weird paranormal activity. The first place

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is my childhood home, and I will title this story

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The Creepy Smiling Man and the Tree House. For some

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back story, I have grown up in eastern Colorado and

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my parents and I lived on a rural sixty acre

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ranch that is mostly woods and hills. We have a

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tiny cabin there with only one bedroom and a loft

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that you can't stand up in. I lived in that

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loft until I was around eight years old, when my

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dad and my brother built me a tree house for

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my bedroom. The treehouse is about two hundred feet from

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the house and is fully finished and has electricity in everything.

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It's every child's dream room. The woods around here are

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very pretty and fun to hike around in, but they

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are also very spooky and I always felt like I

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was being watched and I was always on edge. There

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had also been lots of known Native American wars in

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this area as well. I don't know if that is

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why I have had some weird experiences here or not.

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While I was living in that treehouse, I had numerous

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times where I heard footsteps coming up the stairs and

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I would go to check and see what it was

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and see if it was an animal, but there would

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be nothing there every time. I would also regularly wake

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up at three o two in the morning, which was

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strange for me because I'm a very hard sleeper. This

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information will also be important later. I also had multiple

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instances when walking in the woods where I would see

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a black figure go behind trees, or I would hear weird,

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non animal like sounds. I was also in the garage

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one time home alone and there was knocking on the

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door in the middle of the night. This was very

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strange because there wouldn't have been many people out there,

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especially coming all the way up our long head a

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half mile driveway in the middle of the night. I

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thought that somebody might be lost or stuck on the

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road or something, and I went outside to check, but

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there was nobody anywhere. The knocking continued for several intervals

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for over an hour, and then stopped and I never

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heard it again. The scariest experience I had at my

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home was when I was around fifteen and I was

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home alone. This particular night, I was on edge, and

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so I decided to stay the night in the house

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instead of my tree house, and I went to bed

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in my parents' bed. I woke up in the middle

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of the night and I looked at the clock on

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the wall and it read three o two am. I

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then rolled over to my right and in the open

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space on the bed was a man with a huge,

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creepy smile looking straight at me. At first, I tried

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to believe that I was dreaming or something, but I

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knew it was real. This was the first time that

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I was ever paralyzed with fear, and I stayed awake,

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frozen until the sun came up that morning. Ever since

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that incident, I would always sleep with my dogs whenever

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I was home alone to make me feel more safe

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the next place. I have had a lot of weird

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supernatural experiences with was my mom's office, and I'll title

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this one the office goes for context and backstory. My

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mom bought her cosmetic medical office in twenty sixteen, and

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it was previously a medical center as well, and it's

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likely that some people have died there. And it's also

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in a sketchy part of Colorado Springs. The layout of

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the office is kind of confusing, but there is an

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upstairs with lots of different rooms that are rented out

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by other estheticians as well as massage therapists. Then there

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is a basement that you can access from the outside

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in the back. The basement has a U shape with

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three hallways and there are rooms with doors lining the hallways,

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and each door corresponds with other offices in the building

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who rent the basement from my mom. There is also

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a laundry room on the left side of the first hall.

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The opposite side of the U shaped hall is a

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room that is not finished and it just has a

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dirt pit and it's really creepy. Many of the people

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who have worked there have noticed strange things happen, or

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thinking somebody walked past the front desk when they were

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there alone. Some clients have even said that they felt

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a male presence there. Personally, though, I have the most

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experiences here because my mom would leave me there alone

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a lot at night as a kid so that she

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could go to meetings and stuff. Countless times I have

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been there alone at night and I would hear loud

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footsteps walk through the office and they would stop at

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the doorway at my mom's private office room that I

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would be in. One time, during the middle of the day,

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everyone upstairs heard very loud metal crashing downstairs. It sounded

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like big metal shelves were falling over or something. The

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office manager and I decided to go downstairs and check

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it out. The basement was locked and the lights were off,

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so it wasn't likely that there were people down there.

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We decided to go and check all the individual doors

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to see if there were still long The first door

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we checked on the left was unlocked, but there were

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still cobwebs in front of it, so no one had

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been in or out. We then went upstairs and got

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more people to come down and check it out with us,

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But when we went back to the open door once again,

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it was locked but the cobwebs were still there. It

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was just weird. The biggest incident that happened was when

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we built a new wall to close off a room

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of the office upstairs. That night, in the stock room

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that we lock, every single piece of product had been

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pushed onto the floor. The next morning, when one of

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the ladies who worked there came in, she opened the

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door and had to push the product out of the way,

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proving that no person had opened the door. Later, we

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tried all sorts of things to get the merchandise to

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fall on the floor by banging on the walls and

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slamming the doors, but nothing happened. I ended up calling

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this entity Ivan, and we all joke about him now

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and we don't have as many occurrences with him anymore.

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The third place is my current home, and I'll call

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this one the old new house. So I moved in

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with my second oldest sister and her family because my

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parents are getting a divorce and I'm still a minor.

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This house is super old, and it's straight out of

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the seventies and it's in the middle of nowhere in Montana.

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The lights flicker all the time, but my sister likes

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to blame it on bad wiring, But whenever I tell

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it to stop, loudly. It usually stops for the rest

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of the day. My nieces and nephews, who are around

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ten also say that it feels creepy here. One time,

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when I was having a sleepover in my room with

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my niece, which by the way, I live in the

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basement where most of the creepy stuff occurs. I closed

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my closet door, and I then went and got ready

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for bed. When I came back in and turned the

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main light off and was getting in bed, my closet

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door slowly opened and the light inside was on, which

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was originally off. My closet door stays put even when

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it's partially open, and it doesn't swing back and forth.

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Although this happened, I don't think that it was threatening,

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and it didn't scare me as much as I think

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it should have. The most recent occurrence that has happened

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was when my niece was in the garage, which is

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part of the basement since we are on a hill.

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She was playing with the puppies that my sister's dog

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just had when the lights flickered and a hammer fell

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off the table. The poor girl was scared out of

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her wits. And now the kids don't like going down

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there alone, and I'm the only one who lives down there,

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which is a little unnerving. Before I bring tonight's episode

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to an end, i'd like to thank all of our

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experiencers for coming forward with their stories, and of course,

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I truly appreciate each and every one of you for

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listening and showing your support. With that said, I hope

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you have a wonderful rest of your evening and I'll

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be back in just a few short days with more

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tales of the unexplained right here on Pair A normal

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