1 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 1: And she said she has been killed. She has been murdered, 2 00:00:09,759 --> 00:00:12,519 and she has been buried around somewhere in the forest 3 00:00:13,759 --> 00:00:15,560 by her own family members. 4 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 2: The child iSER mother, but she isn't really there. Then 5 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,679 a voice from the forest leads to a buried truth. 6 00:00:23,199 --> 00:00:26,519 Tonight we follow one listener's lifetime of encounters with something 7 00:00:26,519 --> 00:00:29,760 that refuses to stay in the dark. My name is Eddie, 8 00:00:30,359 --> 00:00:39,079 and here is Nitika. It's true scary story. 9 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:43,759 Speaker 1: What are you about to hear? Are not stories that 10 00:00:43,799 --> 00:00:46,880 I've ordered from people, our books or urban major legends. 11 00:00:47,079 --> 00:00:51,359 These are like real experiences. And there was times when 12 00:00:51,359 --> 00:00:54,119 I was like question myself, is it real? Is it not? 13 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:57,079 But then as I grew up, I sort of just 14 00:00:57,119 --> 00:01:00,200 went with the flow. Some happened to me when I 15 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:03,000 was a child in India, That's my motherland. I grew 16 00:01:03,079 --> 00:01:07,120 up there, I was born there. Others followed me years later. 17 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:10,640 I don't ask people to believe what I say, I 18 00:01:10,799 --> 00:01:20,599 just ask you to hear me out. I was around 19 00:01:20,599 --> 00:01:24,799 like four or five years old. At that age, the 20 00:01:24,799 --> 00:01:29,400 world feels huge. Every staircase feels taller, every shadow feels deeper. 21 00:01:30,799 --> 00:01:34,359 We were in a very larger family, like ancestral properties 22 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:37,079 in India, they're huge, so I was living there. It 23 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:42,239 was almost three stories high. The ground floor has a 24 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:46,359 living room, the kitchen, the bedrooms. The second floor was 25 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:48,959 mostly an open space that has few rooms here and there, 26 00:01:48,959 --> 00:01:52,920 and the top floor is terraced. In India, most of 27 00:01:52,959 --> 00:01:56,359 the terraces they're open terraces. They're very huge and they're 28 00:01:56,359 --> 00:02:01,400 completely open with lower boundaries. Now, the terrace was my 29 00:02:01,439 --> 00:02:04,760 favorite place. Every afternoon, I would go up there with 30 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:08,240 my smaller twice cycle with my mom and we would 31 00:02:08,319 --> 00:02:12,240 have like a mother daughter's time there. But I would 32 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:15,599 always be warned by my mother, don't go near the edge. 33 00:02:15,719 --> 00:02:20,280 It's lower boundaries. You will fall down. And that day 34 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:24,599 also felt normal. I remember climbing up the stairs, sunlight 35 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,280 was there, it was it was a very familiar feeling, 36 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:33,919 and my mother was already there. She looked like my mother, 37 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:38,400 she sounded like my mother. But something felt off, something 38 00:02:38,759 --> 00:02:42,639 felt wrong. I was too young to explain at that point. 39 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:48,240 It wasn't fear exactly, it was just discomfort. It's like 40 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:50,159 a quiet feeling in your chest, you know that's it. 41 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:54,560 Something is not right. I was like, Okay, maybe I'm 42 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:59,400 just overthinking, So I kept riding my twicelecle, just enjoying, laughing, giggling. 43 00:03:00,439 --> 00:03:04,319 I don't know where. My mother just called me. I 44 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:07,240 looked around and she is calling me to her. She's like, 45 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:11,560 come to me, come to your mama, and she had 46 00:03:11,599 --> 00:03:15,599 her arms open as if calling me to her. I 47 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:19,759 remember answering, almost automatically. I said, but mom, the boundary 48 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:23,879 is low, right, I'm not supposed to go there. Her 49 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:29,479 expression changed when I tell you, at that moment, I 50 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:32,719 don't know what I was feeling. I felt as if 51 00:03:32,719 --> 00:03:35,759 somebody just took the remote. I was watching her TV. 52 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,719 Somebody took the remote, and it's like a horror film 53 00:03:38,759 --> 00:03:43,159 out there. I was feeling scared, like genuinely scared. Her 54 00:03:43,199 --> 00:03:49,120 expression changed and she became angry. The light in her 55 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:53,599 eyes it just went away. Her face became completely something different, 56 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:58,159 and she said, don't disobey me. Come here. I don't 57 00:03:58,159 --> 00:04:02,360 know why. I just ran out. I went downstairs, took 58 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:05,400 my breath, I just drank some water, and I came 59 00:04:05,439 --> 00:04:10,960 back up. There was nobody there. It is empty. Entire 60 00:04:11,039 --> 00:04:15,759 terrors is empty. Nobody's there. I went downstairs, in the 61 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:19,759 exact down the ground floor. Everybody was there, my mother, 62 00:04:19,959 --> 00:04:23,759 my father, the extended relatives. It's like a big family 63 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:27,920 get together, so everybody was there. I went there. I 64 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:29,560 ran to my mother and I was like, Mom, you 65 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:33,040 were just upstairs with me, right She's confused. She just 66 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:34,920 looked at me. She's like, no, I thought you were 67 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:39,759 sleeping in the second floor. I'm down here. And I 68 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:42,240 started crying. I'm like, no, mom, you're with me. Please 69 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:45,959 tell me you were there with me. At that moment, 70 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:47,560 my mother looked at me. She just gave me a 71 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:49,759 half She's like, it's okay, I'm right here. I'm just 72 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:53,040 with you. And then I had a fever. When I 73 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:56,639 tell you, I had a high, high fever. I was ill. 74 00:04:56,839 --> 00:05:00,319 I was not eating well for a whole week. Is 75 00:05:00,439 --> 00:05:03,399 just like that. I don't remember much after that, but 76 00:05:04,199 --> 00:05:06,519 we didn't leave the house. My family pecked up. They 77 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:08,560 were like, okay, we're not leaving here anymore. We just 78 00:05:08,639 --> 00:05:13,480 left the house. When I grew up, I got a 79 00:05:13,519 --> 00:05:16,839 little older. I was ten or twelve. That's when one 80 00:05:16,879 --> 00:05:19,879 of my relatives they told me that there was an 81 00:05:19,879 --> 00:05:24,759 ancestor in our house, somebody who was not a good person, 82 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:30,680 and he could not see people being happy. And I 83 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:33,000 was the child there. I was the youngest in my family, 84 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:37,079 so he wanted to hurt me, to make sure that 85 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:39,639 nobody in the family is happy staying in that house, 86 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:41,959 and that is the reason that he was calling me 87 00:05:42,199 --> 00:05:45,360 towards the low boundaries. He probably would have killed me. 88 00:05:45,399 --> 00:05:48,120 I don't know, but that's one of the very first 89 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:51,000 things that happened. And sometimes I do wonder what would 90 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:53,759 have happened, right if I had obeyed that instinct fear 91 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:55,879 that I had. It was real that stopped me from 92 00:05:55,920 --> 00:06:00,560 going there. Even now, the event doesn't stay with me much, 93 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:03,079 but it's the feeling that stays with me whenever I 94 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:05,560 talk to people about it. It's the event, is the 95 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:08,639 feeling that happened with me. That's what it is. And 96 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:10,800 I think that's something that stays with me even today. 97 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:13,639 When I'm telling you I'm having busebounds right now and 98 00:06:13,639 --> 00:06:17,920 I'm telling the story, I'm feeling scared, I'm feeling suffocated. 99 00:06:18,879 --> 00:06:21,040 It's a very story that has left to mark on me. 100 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:24,759 The house is locked up. It's an answer forul property. 101 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:27,959 Nobody's taking it. It's just there. It's locked up. It's 102 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,680 just there. Nobody is there, nobody goes there. A priest 103 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:35,519 who when there after a while, DIDs some I don't know, blessings, 104 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:38,639 I would say, but our family's too scared to go 105 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:41,800 there because I was the youngest. I was a kid. 106 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,759 Everybody loved me. Everybody was like very protective of me. 107 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:51,240 So they're like, nope, bad news, So they're all just left. 108 00:06:52,079 --> 00:06:55,199 My grandmother used to live there, my mother's mom, basically 109 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:59,680 my maternal grandmom. She would hear noises like she would 110 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:02,879 hear some one calling her to the upper floor. She 111 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:06,279 would live in the basement area the ground floor. Somebody 112 00:07:06,319 --> 00:07:09,120 would call her upstairs with her name and ask her 113 00:07:09,199 --> 00:07:12,639 to come up there. Then one day my mother heard 114 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:17,279 somebody crying upstairs, somebody in pain, you know, as if 115 00:07:17,279 --> 00:07:20,920 someone is being burnt alive. That's what the pain sounded 116 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:25,199 like to her. Once after a while, one of my 117 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:27,720 family members have felt something or the other, but it 118 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:32,160 has never directly attacked anybody. This is the first time 119 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,480 something like this has happened where I have seen like 120 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:39,319 a manifestation of something which would have hurt me personally. 121 00:07:40,319 --> 00:07:42,759 And I think that word shocked them and scared them, 122 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:52,399 and that's why we moved away. Every month, a priest 123 00:07:52,439 --> 00:07:56,160 would visit us for blessings, and it's like a ritual. 124 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:59,560 In my culture, a priest would visit you some blessings, 125 00:07:59,639 --> 00:08:03,199 talk to us, feel like God is with you, stuff 126 00:08:03,199 --> 00:08:08,160 like that. I was around ten. I would say, that's 127 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:12,480 when a priestole my mother. Your daughter has like a gift. 128 00:08:12,839 --> 00:08:16,560 She can see things. She can sense things which others can't. 129 00:08:17,879 --> 00:08:20,680 She doesn't know it yet, but she has the ability 130 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:27,639 to see through what naked eyes can't. Those spirits, God 131 00:08:27,839 --> 00:08:30,879 people can communicate with her. So I need to be 132 00:08:30,959 --> 00:08:34,480 careful because you don't know. Right, even the devil dresses 133 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:38,519 up as a gentleman, that can happen. My mother didn't 134 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:42,159 pay attention to that at that point. But this is 135 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:44,720 the story. Happened. When I was twelve years old. I 136 00:08:44,759 --> 00:08:47,159 had a very close aunt of mine. It was my 137 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:52,399 mother's elder sister. She was battling cancer. It was a 138 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:57,799 very bad breast cancer case and chemotherapy had reamed a friend. 139 00:08:58,039 --> 00:09:03,519 Everybody in the family was worried about him. After three 140 00:09:03,879 --> 00:09:07,840 years of time, doctor said that she will become well. 141 00:09:07,919 --> 00:09:13,080 She's responding to chemotherapy and she'll get better. Everybody was 142 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:16,440 a happy, Right, Okay, she's getting better. That's a good news. 143 00:09:17,039 --> 00:09:21,279 But during this period I had a dream. It felt 144 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:24,080 like a dream, more of it felt like reality. For 145 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:29,720 some reason, I found myself in her house. In my dream, 146 00:09:29,759 --> 00:09:34,240 I'm in her house, but everything felt wrong. The air 147 00:09:34,399 --> 00:09:38,720 was darker, the room was colder, it was heavier, like 148 00:09:38,799 --> 00:09:43,639 the atmosphere itself was pressing down on me. I walked 149 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:48,720 down towards her bedroom. I passed the kitchen, the living area. 150 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:53,559 Nobody was there. I opened the door to her bedroom, 151 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:57,320 and inside the room, my aunt and her husband were sleeping. 152 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:04,240 Beside my aunt stood a huge, huge, shadow like figure. 153 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:10,200 I couldn't see the face. There was no clear face, 154 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:14,840 but I could see just the eyes. It was white like, 155 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:20,840 shining white eyes, and the figure had horns, pointed horns, 156 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:24,399 and I had a crown. That figure was wearing a 157 00:10:24,399 --> 00:10:29,240 crown and a large mustache, and he was wearing very 158 00:10:29,279 --> 00:10:35,600 heavy jewelries. Around Besides the figure was a massive bull. 159 00:10:37,919 --> 00:10:41,120 It was silent, watchful. It was not moving. But the 160 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:44,120 bull had red eyes and it was like looking right 161 00:10:44,159 --> 00:10:52,279 at me. The figure then spoke. It said I should 162 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:56,960 prepare my family and myself because it was going to 163 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:03,039 take her away. Soon asked who, and the figure pointed 164 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:07,840 out at my aunt and said her He said that 165 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,159 she would be leaving the world, going to heaven very soon. 166 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:19,279 That's it. I woke up. It was around four in 167 00:11:19,279 --> 00:11:23,559 the morning. And in Hinduism, in my religion, that period 168 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:26,440 for am it is considered one of the most auspicious 169 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:30,679 moments period of your life, so a lot of rituals, 170 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:33,639 a lot of worshiping moments, it takes place at that point. 171 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:43,000 I didn't tell anybody about this. Later, in almost six 172 00:11:43,039 --> 00:11:48,360 months period, my aunt passed away. The chemotherapy failed. Apparently 173 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:53,960 when she died, she was in a hospital. I had school, 174 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,080 so I was in my house. My mother and father, 175 00:11:56,159 --> 00:11:58,519 my parents were the one who went to her, you know, 176 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:02,879 to the family, to you all the last rites. I 177 00:12:02,879 --> 00:12:06,519 had dreamt of the hospital, that she was in, the bed, 178 00:12:06,879 --> 00:12:09,159 that she was in, the room that she was in. 179 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:12,879 Nobody told me where she was, Okay, I was the 180 00:12:12,919 --> 00:12:17,200 one who dreamt it. Later, when I told my parents, 181 00:12:17,279 --> 00:12:19,840 they confirmed them, like, yeah, this was the same hospital, 182 00:12:19,919 --> 00:12:26,000 the same bed everything. I told my mother after a while, hey, 183 00:12:26,039 --> 00:12:31,039 look I had dreamt this thing. She took me to 184 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:34,519 a temple and she told the priest She's like, she's 185 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:39,080 dreaming these things, like what's going on? The priest just 186 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:42,840 looked at me and he goes, You dreamt of your brage. 187 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:47,399 Yourmorrage is the god of death in our religion. He's 188 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:51,759 the one who takes the souls towards heaven or hell, 189 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:56,720 or to next lives whatever. That's Yourmorrage. So the description 190 00:12:56,879 --> 00:12:59,759 that I gave was exactly what he is supposed to 191 00:12:59,759 --> 00:13:05,000 look like. I don't know whether dreams are sometimes more 192 00:13:05,039 --> 00:13:09,600 than dreams, whether I received messages from somewhere. I don't 193 00:13:09,639 --> 00:13:12,840 know what it was, but it's just me, you know. 194 00:13:12,919 --> 00:13:15,519 I was the one who who dreamt it and it 195 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:21,840 turned out to be reality. Honestly speaking, this experience changed 196 00:13:21,879 --> 00:13:26,600 something in me because till then, whatever experiences I had, 197 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:30,320 I'm not communicating with them, but I can see them. 198 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:34,799 This is the very first time something because we consider 199 00:13:35,039 --> 00:13:37,360 jam Rash divine. It's a god of death in our 200 00:13:37,399 --> 00:13:43,000 culture's divine. I dreamt of that. I dreamt of divinity. 201 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:46,279 I've never told the story to anybody apart from my 202 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:56,480 mother till today. Growing up, I thought it was a curse. 203 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:00,879 Why am I dreaming this? Why am I the one 204 00:14:00,879 --> 00:14:04,440 being seeing this? Nobody in my family has that. So 205 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:07,279 to some extent, I was scared because I thought my 206 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:10,919 family members would think differently of me. Very religious people, right, 207 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:14,200 So what if they questioned me? What if they see 208 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:18,720 something different in me? But my mother told me. I 209 00:14:18,759 --> 00:14:21,279 remember talking to her one day and she said that 210 00:14:21,399 --> 00:14:24,960 God chose you for a reason. Maybe maybe there's a 211 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:27,600 reason you can see these things. Maybe you can help others. 212 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:34,120 I was an atheist growing up. I never believed in God. 213 00:14:34,799 --> 00:14:39,039 I never believed in divinity nothing. I never prayed. I 214 00:14:39,159 --> 00:14:45,720 was against all religion, all rituals, nothing. Once I started 215 00:14:46,159 --> 00:14:51,200 these dreams, these events, that's when I became closer to God. 216 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:53,879 That's when I started praying to God. That's when I 217 00:14:53,919 --> 00:14:59,559 started feeling God around you. Maybe that's the reason. I 218 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:03,360 don't know. I don't see it as a blessing or 219 00:15:03,399 --> 00:15:05,720 occurs anymore. I just see it as an ability that 220 00:15:05,799 --> 00:15:09,720 I have. Maybe God will tell me later how it 221 00:15:09,759 --> 00:15:15,360 will help me. That's what I feel now. So my 222 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:19,120 village in India was surrounded by forest. I would go 223 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:21,679 there during holidays and stuff, you know, to visit the 224 00:15:21,679 --> 00:15:26,759 people there, the extended relatives. Most houses had large backyards 225 00:15:26,799 --> 00:15:30,279 that connected directly to the forest, so houses have backyards 226 00:15:30,279 --> 00:15:33,519 and their fences, a big metal gate. When you cross 227 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:37,240 that fencing on the gate, it's fatest, it's dense forest. 228 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:45,480 The forest, you know, it always carries stories, that carries whispers, warnings. 229 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:48,840 It's unexplained things that people don't generally talk about, but 230 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:56,919 everybody knows. So I was around seventeen at this time. 231 00:15:57,519 --> 00:16:02,559 It was around two thirty night. I was not able 232 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:05,440 to fall asleep for some reason. I was just tossing, turning. 233 00:16:05,519 --> 00:16:08,679 So I just went outside in my backyard. It's pitch black, 234 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:14,120 but I was just on my phone doing something. I 235 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:20,120 noticed a figure right by the fencing and the gate. 236 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:24,759 I saw a young woman, maybe she was around in 237 00:16:24,799 --> 00:16:29,120 her twenties, early twenties. She was standing there. She had 238 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:32,840 a very distorted like look on her face. Her hair 239 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:39,480 was matted, her clothes were ripped off or something like dirty. 240 00:16:39,559 --> 00:16:44,039 And she called me by my name, and she did 241 00:16:44,039 --> 00:16:46,840 not call me by Nteka. That's my government name. That's 242 00:16:46,879 --> 00:16:50,559 everybody in my workplace and in professional setting calls me. 243 00:16:51,679 --> 00:16:55,879 It's my nickname, which my family member calls me. City 244 00:16:56,679 --> 00:16:59,960 that's what she calls me by. I looked at her. 245 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:04,160 I just started going in said okay, I don't want 246 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:06,920 to deal with this. I just go inside whatever. But 247 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:11,960 then she said, stop, don't go. She was talking in 248 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:16,799 my native language, of course, she said, please just listen. 249 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:21,680 I need your help. Just listen. I don't know. Something 250 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:24,240 in me just told me I couldn't just leave right. 251 00:17:24,319 --> 00:17:26,880 So I was like, I just looked at her, and 252 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:31,119 she said, she has been killed. She has been murdered, 253 00:17:32,799 --> 00:17:35,559 and she has been buried around somewhere in the forest 254 00:17:36,759 --> 00:17:41,680 by her own family members. Why because she fell in 255 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:45,319 love with someone who is from a different family name 256 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:49,880 and cultural background. So the family members do not approve it. 257 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:53,480 You might sound weird to some people, but it's a 258 00:17:53,559 --> 00:17:56,640 very common thing. Unfortunately, in a lot of places in 259 00:17:56,640 --> 00:18:00,000 my country. It's called honor killing. But the family members 260 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:03,039 kill decades if they fall in love with somebody who 261 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:06,319 was not of the same last name, same cultural background, 262 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:10,519 or same family background. It's a very unfortunate thing, but 263 00:18:10,559 --> 00:18:15,559 it happens. So she told me that, and her voice 264 00:18:15,559 --> 00:18:19,359 felt desperate. She was asking me to help. She said, 265 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:23,720 just inform the authorities do something. And she was crying. 266 00:18:24,559 --> 00:18:29,759 And while she was crying, she disappeared. I was just 267 00:18:29,799 --> 00:18:32,039 standing there for a second for a minute. I don't 268 00:18:32,079 --> 00:18:35,279 know what to do. It was around early in the morning, 269 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:38,440 around seven or something. I was like, maybe I should go. 270 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:42,240 Something within me, like a voice told me you should go. 271 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:46,240 So I did. I went to the authorities. Nobody believed me. 272 00:18:46,319 --> 00:18:49,720 Of course. I took my father with me. I'm like, Dad, 273 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:53,000 this is what happened, and I'm glad you have such experience. 274 00:18:53,039 --> 00:18:54,920 They believe me. They'll like, okay, we'll go with you. 275 00:18:56,079 --> 00:18:59,359 My dad went with me. We went to the authorities. 276 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:04,279 Around one of the police officers, the higher inspector, was there. 277 00:19:04,279 --> 00:19:07,359 He's like, okay, there's nothing wrong in checking it out. Okay. 278 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,279 So they went to the exact area where she told 279 00:19:11,279 --> 00:19:15,559 me her body was there. They were human remains there. 280 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:19,839 It was bones, of course, but there were human remains. 281 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:24,519 The circumstances match what she had told me. So they 282 00:19:24,559 --> 00:19:26,960 went to the family. They checked around. The family had 283 00:19:27,279 --> 00:19:32,119 fled back then or something. I don't know, but it's true. 284 00:19:33,799 --> 00:19:37,519 The family members had filed a missing complaint to sort 285 00:19:37,519 --> 00:19:40,559 of like cover up what they did, I guess. So 286 00:19:40,599 --> 00:19:43,920 they found it. They matched it. The DNA samples were done. 287 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:47,359 It took like almost a year or something, but they 288 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:50,440 figured out what had happened, and whatever she told me, 289 00:19:51,079 --> 00:19:55,720 that's exactly what had happened. I remember she requested one 290 00:19:55,759 --> 00:19:59,240 thing before she vanished. She said, make sure I will 291 00:19:59,279 --> 00:20:02,759 am cremated. In my religion, premission is the way you 292 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:06,680 get to the other side. So we did that. But 293 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:12,519 that's what happened. This moment forced me to question what 294 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:16,400 is wrong with me? You know, am I the one 295 00:20:16,519 --> 00:20:20,359 who has been chosen by God? Is it reality? Is 296 00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:25,839 it psychological? What is it? Maybe that day I had 297 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:29,960 damped this, but I did went through the authorities. They investigated, 298 00:20:30,559 --> 00:20:32,720 it happened, so it's the reality. 299 00:20:32,799 --> 00:20:45,880 Speaker 3: Right. 300 00:20:47,559 --> 00:20:52,480 Speaker 1: This is back in my university. I was in the 301 00:20:52,519 --> 00:20:56,480 New Delays, the capital of India. I'm twenty twenty one. 302 00:20:56,759 --> 00:20:59,079 I'm in my second or third year of my university 303 00:20:59,839 --> 00:21:04,160 and I'm living in a hostel in the university. My 304 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:09,000 university was in the outskirts of the city, so more 305 00:21:09,079 --> 00:21:14,240 closer to the huge grounds and farm lands. And there's 306 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:17,119 a humor every college. I feel our university, your school 307 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:19,079 has like a rumor that there is a ghost here. 308 00:21:19,599 --> 00:21:23,440 But I didn't believe much. Whatever it was my exam 309 00:21:23,559 --> 00:21:27,599 sessions going on, and I never studied in libraries or 310 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:30,079 in my classes, I would always like doing my room right. 311 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:33,680 For some reason, I felt more comfortable. At that day, 312 00:21:33,759 --> 00:21:37,200 there was some celebration going on in the hostel, so 313 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:41,160 I was getting disturbed. I went to one of my 314 00:21:41,559 --> 00:21:44,440 one of our classrooms. So people who stayed in the 315 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:48,359 hostel near the college, they have access to use the 316 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:52,279 university after hours, so one of the one of the 317 00:21:52,519 --> 00:21:58,480 classrooms those quiet. So I started studying. Then I hear 318 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:06,880 so I looked back. I saw a guy, a very 319 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:10,359 handsome guy, who's sitting there and he was just smiling 320 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:16,359 at me. He's hands right, his elbows were on top 321 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:19,400 of the table and I could just see till his 322 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:24,160 chest area. I couldn't see anything beyond that. This is 323 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:27,440 looking at me and smiling. Just smiled back, and I 324 00:22:27,559 --> 00:22:32,160 continued doing what I had to do. A minute passed, 325 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:39,720 I heard this down again. I looked back again, and 326 00:22:39,759 --> 00:22:43,799 the guy he's in the same way that he was, 327 00:22:43,839 --> 00:22:47,400 but in a different position. He's nearer to me. Last 328 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:49,200 time I saw, he was in the last eight leg 329 00:22:49,279 --> 00:22:53,319 bench in the chair. Now he's a little nearer to me, right, 330 00:22:54,039 --> 00:22:56,559 So I turned around again, didn't pay much attention, started 331 00:22:56,599 --> 00:23:00,839 studying again. Again, he heard the same noise. Turn around, 332 00:23:01,799 --> 00:23:05,440 saw that guy. He was like behind two three tables, 333 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:11,079 was pretty near. Now I'm scared. I didn't think ghost 334 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,279 back then. Honestly, I thought this one creepy guy, I 335 00:23:14,279 --> 00:23:18,400 should go. So I tacked up my bags and as 336 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:22,200 I'm leaving, I hear the sound again and I looked back. Immediately. 337 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:26,880 I don't know what this person was. He was moving 338 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:32,079 from one table to another using his elbows. Like his elbows, 339 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:36,240 he was using that to move. He had no body. 340 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:40,279 I could see the head, the neck, the chest to 341 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:44,240 some extent, but that's it. He was using his elbows 342 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:46,279 to move. And that's why I could hear the doctutut 343 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:52,160 sound on the table. That's what was going on. I ran, 344 00:23:52,279 --> 00:23:55,279 I left everything. I just ran from that place. I 345 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:59,200 screamed so much. The security came running in. They're like, oh, yo, 346 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:03,240 what's going on. Okay. I was like, just take my 347 00:24:03,279 --> 00:24:06,319 stuff from the classroom. I'm not going there, and I 348 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,599 just went and slept in my friend's bedroom. That day. 349 00:24:09,079 --> 00:24:14,240 I didn't I didn't live alone from that moment. When 350 00:24:14,279 --> 00:24:16,440 I told my one of my friends backed then, I 351 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:19,200 was like, yo, this is what I saw, and she's 352 00:24:19,319 --> 00:24:22,559 like yeah, a lot of people see or hear noises 353 00:24:22,599 --> 00:24:27,359 in that classroom. Apparently somebody, like a guy or something, 354 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:29,920 he was not able to do well in his studies. 355 00:24:31,079 --> 00:24:35,359 He was very under pressure because in India, education is 356 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:39,000 a very pressured thing. Families have a lot of expectations. 357 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,319 If we don't do well, a lot of students commit 358 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:44,480 to suicide. And India is there number one or two 359 00:24:44,519 --> 00:24:49,039 positions in students suicides. This guy, he committed suicide in 360 00:24:49,079 --> 00:24:55,160 that classroom. And from then on, people do hear weird stuff. 361 00:24:55,599 --> 00:24:58,799 They see chairs movings, they might see books flying off, 362 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:03,039 they might hearways. And I saw a manifestation of that thing. 363 00:25:04,799 --> 00:25:08,200 Of course, I stayed away from that classroom. The moment 364 00:25:08,279 --> 00:25:15,920 the sun went down, I'm out. I'm very wary of 365 00:25:16,039 --> 00:25:19,640 gravey els and cemetries. I stay away from them. I 366 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:22,680 stay away from the last rites area in my country 367 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,440 where the body is burned and permitted. I stay away 368 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:29,759 from those areas. I stay away from hospitals. I don't 369 00:25:29,839 --> 00:25:36,559 like hospitals. I don't like visiting these places because I 370 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,200 might say something I don't know. I feel a very 371 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:44,079 strong presence of something. I feel vibrations, I feel extreme 372 00:25:44,279 --> 00:25:47,880 either heat or cold. When I'm in these areas and 373 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:51,039 I can feel shivers running down my spine, I can 374 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:55,680 feel whispers around, I can feel somebody maybe touching me, 375 00:25:56,119 --> 00:26:00,400 somebody maybe just rests standing beside me, somebody standing behind me. 376 00:26:01,079 --> 00:26:03,720 I can have these feelings really strong, so I avoid 377 00:26:03,759 --> 00:26:11,839 these places as much as I could. This happened to 378 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:13,880 me in Canada. Okay, now I'm in Canada. It's been 379 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:17,960 three years. I live in Ontario, so even after moving 380 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:22,720 to Canada, experiences don't stop. A couple of weeks ago, 381 00:26:22,799 --> 00:26:25,599 almost a month back, I was walking home from work 382 00:26:25,839 --> 00:26:28,759 really late, so I lived really near to my workplace, 383 00:26:28,839 --> 00:26:33,000 but it's like a ten minutes walking distance, so I 384 00:26:33,039 --> 00:26:36,279 was doing night shifts. It was around two thirty or 385 00:26:36,279 --> 00:26:38,279 three in the morning when I finished my work, and 386 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:43,960 I was working now. For some reason, I took a 387 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:48,480 different route than necessary. It was very snowy, so one 388 00:26:48,519 --> 00:26:51,880 of the routes that I take was very slippery, so 389 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,720 I thought maybe I should take another route just to 390 00:26:54,759 --> 00:26:58,119 be safe. I don't want to fall down. But I 391 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,599 didn't know that this route passed smetry a wave yard. 392 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:06,079 I'm walking, I'm listening to a music or something. The 393 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:11,079 sweet sempty. Nobody's there quite in the way that almost 394 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:17,279 feels unnatural, I should say. As I walked past, I 395 00:27:17,319 --> 00:27:22,920 looked at the cemetery. I noticed a figure just standing 396 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:28,920 inside the graveyard, near a gravestone, a long French coat, 397 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:35,079 a hat, head lowered like as if staring at the ground. 398 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:39,680 He had gloves on. He had the huge boots that 399 00:27:39,759 --> 00:27:44,559 you wear that comes still your knees, very black and 400 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:49,599 leather boots. He was wearing those. I glanced once, and 401 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:53,200 I kept walking. I told my son not to think 402 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:56,200 about it. I told my son not to look again, 403 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,240 but something made me look again. I don't know what 404 00:28:00,279 --> 00:28:04,960 it was. I looked again. I glanced at the figure again. 405 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:12,039 He was not looking down anymore. The figure was staring 406 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:20,400 right at me, directly at me. His eyes were red, 407 00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:30,319 literally red. His skin was cracked. His lips were extremely dry, 408 00:28:30,559 --> 00:28:32,720 as if it would just fall out at any moment. 409 00:28:34,079 --> 00:28:38,759 He had long hair that I can see now. Slowly, 410 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:45,400 he shot a crooked smile in my direction. He looked 411 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,599 at me, and he had a smile on his face. 412 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,319 And it was not a welcoming smile. It was a creepy, 413 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:56,799 creepy smile. It was a scary smile. The moment that happened, 414 00:28:58,279 --> 00:29:01,799 I ran before I could think anything else. I ran 415 00:29:01,839 --> 00:29:05,680 in the opposite direction of the place, and I saw 416 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,119 a nearby church. I don't know why it was open 417 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:12,279 so late, but I went there. I just stood near 418 00:29:12,359 --> 00:29:15,160 that and I prayed till I could feel my breath 419 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,400 to come back. I called my mother up and I 420 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,240 was like, Mom, I saw this. She's in India, by 421 00:29:19,279 --> 00:29:21,240 the way. I'm like, I saw this. I'm so scared, 422 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,759 and my mother is like, it's okay. God is with you. 423 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:28,720 Don't worry, it's okay. Don't think about it. I did 424 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:30,960 not wanted to go back home because I was scared 425 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,519 that thing will follow me. So I stayed there till 426 00:29:33,559 --> 00:29:37,680 it was around five in the morning and I could 427 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:41,880 see some cars passing by. I could see a little 428 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:45,119 bit of light coming up. That's when I felt comfortable 429 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:48,359 enough to go back to my place. When I did, 430 00:29:49,039 --> 00:29:52,440 of course, I prayed, I took a shower, I ate something. 431 00:29:53,359 --> 00:29:58,279 I told my friends about it. I don't think about 432 00:29:58,279 --> 00:30:01,000 it anymore, and of course, as you know, I don't 433 00:30:01,039 --> 00:30:07,240 take that route anymore. These things happen, and it's not 434 00:30:07,319 --> 00:30:11,559 just nighttime. In daytimes, I can see stuff that I 435 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:13,799 feel it's a human being, but then I say, okay, 436 00:30:13,839 --> 00:30:16,680 it's not. And there's a way I check these things. 437 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 3: Now. 438 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,279 Speaker 1: When I'm walking down the road, it's twelve pm, it's 439 00:30:19,599 --> 00:30:23,759 like the afternoon, and I see somebody standing there. But 440 00:30:23,839 --> 00:30:27,000 then I cross that person, look that nobody's there. So 441 00:30:27,079 --> 00:30:29,960 these things happen here and there, and I've learned to 442 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:34,000 ignore it because I don't want to. I don't know, 443 00:30:34,039 --> 00:30:37,079 get involved with this anymore. I don't have my family here. 444 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:39,519 I feel i'm alone here. I have my friends, sure, 445 00:30:39,559 --> 00:30:42,680 but it's a foreign country. I have a lot of 446 00:30:42,799 --> 00:30:46,519 responsibilities on my shoulder. I don't want this anymore. So 447 00:30:46,599 --> 00:30:50,079 sometimes I just cry out to God. I'm like, just 448 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:54,039 take this ability away, whatever this is. But then it's 449 00:30:54,079 --> 00:30:57,000 still there. So I've learned to I guess control it. 450 00:30:59,079 --> 00:31:02,519 I take in certain precautions of men, to avoid certain 451 00:31:02,559 --> 00:31:05,839 places as much as I could, to avoid certain things 452 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:09,119 as much as I could. Does help to some extent. 453 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,400 But as this happened, right, I saw this thing out 454 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:17,160 of nowhere. I've met people who have validated me for 455 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,680 sure that there's nothing wrong with you. You know, it's a gift. 456 00:31:20,799 --> 00:31:24,920 I've met with priests or spiritual leaders or some sort. 457 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:28,799 I don't know how much of truths they have within 458 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:30,880 what they're doing, but they tell me they're like, yeah, 459 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:34,279 it happens, there's nothing wrong in it. But I've not 460 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:38,000 met anybody who has experienced things just like I have, 461 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:43,039 or experienced this thing just like I do. Maybe in 462 00:31:43,079 --> 00:31:43,839 the future, I. 463 00:31:43,759 --> 00:31:51,920 Speaker 2: Hope these kinds of stories of people who have experienced 464 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,480 things from a very very young age. As we were 465 00:31:54,519 --> 00:31:58,359 talking with Natika, like during the actual call, we were 466 00:31:58,359 --> 00:32:03,000 talking about how certain cultures you'd call them, certain regions 467 00:32:03,079 --> 00:32:06,359 where people have different ideas of what the paranormal or 468 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,920 the supernatural is like In my family, for example, when 469 00:32:10,119 --> 00:32:12,519 I can say something like I saw something out in 470 00:32:12,519 --> 00:32:16,079 the fields, turns out I'm not going to get a 471 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,039 You're just seeing things right, They're going to be like, WHOA, 472 00:32:19,359 --> 00:32:21,960 tell me more. And this is a similar thing that 473 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,720 I received with Natika during the phone call, that her 474 00:32:25,799 --> 00:32:31,880 experiences were acknowledged. People already assumed, you know that there 475 00:32:32,039 --> 00:32:35,240 is a supernatural realm, there are things that are happening 476 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:38,960 out there. So I feel like that itself reinforces more 477 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,400 of our minds to stay open about the paranormal. I mean, 478 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,440 it's just a theory that I have, but I'm interested 479 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,920 in knowing what you think. I mean, I received phone 480 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:50,519 calls about scary stories in English and in Spanish, and 481 00:32:50,799 --> 00:32:53,559 I know that some of the mentality that goes behind 482 00:32:53,559 --> 00:32:57,160 the paranormal in I guess, in Latin American countries so far, 483 00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,440 and also people from India and other countries, it's very 484 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,839 open to other things happening. And I always feel like 485 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:08,759 this openness is what sharpens our I guess, sensitivity to 486 00:33:08,839 --> 00:33:11,759 the supernatural, you know. But again it's just it's just 487 00:33:11,799 --> 00:33:14,480 my own perspective and I'm very interested in finding out yours. 488 00:33:14,839 --> 00:33:16,039 But yeah, that was Let me know what you think 489 00:33:16,039 --> 00:33:17,759 about this episode. Let me know what you thought about 490 00:33:17,839 --> 00:33:23,319 the stories. And if dreams can become premonitions, can dreams 491 00:33:23,359 --> 00:33:26,079 tell the future? 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