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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Paranormal Mysteries, and thank you for joining

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me as we explore the unknown. As always, I'm your host,

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Nick Ryan. Tonight, I'll be presenting my third and final

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part of my listener experience recap for twenty twenty five.

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I received so many interesting experiences that it was difficult

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to know which ones to include, but I think you'll

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appreciate the ones that I chose to finish out the year.

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We have a lot of reports to listen to, so

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I'll get right into it, but I will be back

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at the and of the episode to say farewell and

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to wish each and every one of you a happy

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new year. Let's begin. Let's begin tonight's journey with Ellie,

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who calls their experience a grandfather's love and an unborn memory.

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Ellie says, Heinik, I've been an avid listener of your

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podcast for a couple of years now, and I figured

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that I would like to contribute and share two of

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my stories. It's not your typical story of shadow people,

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but rather one of great love, and the other well,

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I'm not sure how to classify it. First, a little

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background for my first story. My grandparents made their home

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in a very small rural town on the outside of Austin, Texas.

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They built their home from the ground up when my

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mom was about seven years old and raised her and

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my uncle in that house. When I was around two,

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my mom divorced my dad and we moved in with

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my grandparents. My grandfather was an amazing man. He knew

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just how to make anyone smile. He loved the dance,

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loved to cut the grass, and he loved watching his

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hometown sports. He worked for our hometown school as a

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maintenance man. My five other cousins and I would see

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him and call out for Grandpa. Therefore, all my friends

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did the same thing until the whole school, spanning from

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high school to elementary all called him Grandpa. Living with

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my grandparents, he was my brother and I's father figure.

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He helped raise us, taught us everything we needed to know,

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showed up for us, and supported us through anything with

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unconditional love. Me being the only granddaughter, I was absolutely

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a Grandpa's girl, and needless to say, he greatly spoiled

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me growing up. He was diagnosed with cancer when I

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was a child, along with many other health issues, and

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in the summer of twenty fifteen, after battling cancer for

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thirteen years, he passed away peacefully at the home that

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he built, surrounded by all his family. We were all

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absolutely heartbroken, including our hometown community. Our family is Catholic

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and we do believe in the paranormal, but my grandmother

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does not like to talk about it or watch anything

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that mentions the paranormal, so we usually talk or watch

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shows when she's not present. About two months after my

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grandfather passed, my grandmother, brother, mom, and myself were all

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sitting in the living room and watching TV. My grandmother

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got up to get a glass of water and we

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heard the loudest gasp of air come from the kitchen.

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We all popped up from the couch and ran to

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my grandmother, who was crying uncontrollably. She pointed to the

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calendar hanging on the wall, and she said that she

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could see my grandfather's face in the calendar, kind of

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like how people see the Virgin Mary in their toast.

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No one else could see anything, but she kept saying

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over and over, he's here. We agreed with her to

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help calm her down and said that he must have

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stopped by to check in on her. In the months

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following he made his presence known, so we knew that

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he was still with us. Some days, out of nowhere,

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we would smell the scent of fresh cut grass, even

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though we had not cut the grass. He also had

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a distinct walk, kind of like a shuffle, and we

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could hear him shuffling up and down the hallway. Due

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to the medical condition he had, he also had a

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certain cough or a grunt that he did to clear

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his throat. Every so often, we would hear his cough

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or shuffle and it would always stop us in our tracks,

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not in a scared way, but just to stop and

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wait and see if we could hear him more. But

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we never did. I moved out of the house when

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I was eighteen, but I continued to visit my family

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almost every other weekend over the years. My mom and

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grandma say that they can hear him every now and then. However,

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it has been some time since we have really felt

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him at the house. It has now been ten years

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since his passing. I am twenty five and I recently

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had I had my first child, a baby girl. The

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first time I stayed at my grandma's house, it was me,

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my baby girl, my mom, and my Grandma. I slept

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in my mom's room, which is down the hallway to

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the left. My Grandma slept in her room adjacent to

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my mom's room, and my mom slept on the front couch.

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Of course, as all babies do, my daughter woke up

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in the middle of the night for her bottle. I

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got up, walked into the hallway up to the kitchen,

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and started to make the bottle. As I'm warming the bottle,

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I heard shuffling coming from the hallway, thinking that it

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was my grandma who heard the baby crying and woke up.

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I stick my head into the hallway, but I saw nothing.

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I didn't make much of it, so I finished the

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bottle and I headed back to my room. As I'm

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feeding my daughter, I feel this overwhelming sense of love

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and a warm, comforting feeling. A scent of fresh cut

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grass filled the room, and I knew then that my

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Grandpa was with me, admiring my daughter, as she was

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the first baby to ever be in the house and

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she would have been his first great granddaughter, again, a

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little girl to spoil. I couldn't help but smile, and

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I cried a bit, knowing that he was there to

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tell me that he was with me, and that he

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was so happy to finally see his great granddaughter. Ellie's

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next experience contains some very graphic details involving domestic abuse

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as well as abortion and miscarriage, which may be triggering

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for some listeners. Discretion is advised. My next story has

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given me some confusion for years. If you or anyone

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knows what I experienced and can help give me some

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clarification or explanation on it, I'm open to anything. My

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father was an abusive man. When my mom found out

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she was pregnant, he told her that she should get

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an abortion and he wasn't ready for a baby. My

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mom knew that she wouldn't ever terminate her pregnancy, so

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my father would consistently beat her to try and make

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her miscarriage. One day, we went out to my grandparents

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house due to family members coming over to visit. I

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was in the back room where the walls are maroon

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and there are white curtains over the windows. The bed

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was in the far right corner, and in the middle

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of the room are my mother and father. The details

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of the room will become relevant later. They were arguing

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about something and I was looking up at my mom

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as she was pleading with him and crying and bleeding

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from her mouth. My father then hit her in the face,

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causing her lips to get caught in her braces, and

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he then throws a punch at my mother's stomach. She

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falls to the floor and he begins to kick her.

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and they tackle my father to the floor, screaming, hitting him,

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kicking him, and then dragging him out of the room.

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and helps her up. We then walk to the front

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of the house and we get into my cousin's car.

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She is in the driver's seat crying and telling us

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to hurry up. In the front yard, my grandpa, great

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uncles and cousins are giving my father what he deserves

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for beating a pregnant woman, and I just watch as

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we drive away. We take my mom to the hospital

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where she is told that there is a high risk

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of her losing the pregnancy and she has to be

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on complete bed rest for the remaining five months of

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her pregnancy. She also had to get her lips taken

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out of her braces surgically. It was a very long

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and painful process. When I was around seven or eight,

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I decided to talk to my family about that incident.

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My father hadn't been in our lives for about six

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years at this point, and I felt like I needed

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to tell them about what I had seen. When I

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was telling them what I saw, they looked completely shocked,

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and I mean their jaws dropped and their eyes were wide.

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that I could have a memory of that or saw

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what happened because I wasn't even born yet. You see,

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my mother was pregnant with me at the time that happened.

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But yet, and I told them exactly what happened in

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perfect detail, even naming the exact family members who were

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there that day. The back room I described had been

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turned into a nursery for me. They painted the walls

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a shade of pink and the curtains were a soft gray,

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which were all done before my mom gave birth to me,

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known that it was maroon with white curtains. How could

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that be? How do I recall something when I wasn't

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even born. It has brought me a lot of confusion

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over the years, I can't explain how I remembered that incident. However,

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it is always stuck with me like a bad core memory.

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I have done a bit of research on babies in

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utero and what they can see, but it comes up

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with the usual light sensitivities, and some babies can see faces,

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but I have yet to find anything like what I saw.

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I don't speak of this memory, especially with my family,

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due to it having to deal with past trauma, but

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it's something I seem to always remember and question why

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I was able to see it happen. I believe that

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God allowed me to see what my mother endured for

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a reason, but what reason specifically, I do not know. Again,

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I am open to yours or anyone else's thoughts on this,

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but ultimately I have to come to terms with not

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ever having an explanation to how I had seen those

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events without being born. Thank you for allowing me to

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tell my stories. I love listening to your podcast. Keep

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up the good work and blessings to you and all

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your listeners. Sincerely, Ell. This next experience comes to us

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from Jaman, and Jaman's first story is called The Fawn.

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I've felt these two pretty near and dear to my heart.

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And I haven't really told many people because I know

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they sound quite outlandish. But these come from two people

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who are completely trustworthy to me and no longer with us,

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So I'm the one who has to pass these stories along. Now,

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this is a story that my father had told me

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my entire life. I want to start this story by

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saying that my father did not lie, nor did he

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make things up. He was one of those men who

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was painfully honest. He would tell you the truth no

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matter what, even if it's stung, and even if it

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made you sad. I'm saying that to let you know that,

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while I know this story may sound outlandish, my father

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did not lie. We're from rural Appalachia in eastern Tennessee,

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and this occurred in a town called Hampton, Tennessee, right

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near Elizabethton, Tennessee. This was in the mid nineteen eighties.

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My father spent a lot of time outdoors in this

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area of Appalachia. The forestry is very dense and lush.

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My father grew up with my grandparents. They raised him.

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They had a house all the way up in the

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woods with no other houses around, and not really many

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more people. My dad said that one day he was

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out back in the yard where the house sat on

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the property. They had cut all the trees around it,

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but besides that, the house was covered on all sides

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by forest on the property line. As he was sitting

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in the yard, he said that he was playing and

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noticed something out of the corner of his eye. There

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was movement in the tree line ahead. He said he

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ignored it and didn't think much of it. He said

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he kept playing and noticed more movement, but this time

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he immediately looked over, and what he explained to me

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has stuck with me in my head forever. It's quite scary,

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even though I don't think this being is a scary being.

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He explained that he saw a fawn, the creature from folklore.

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I swear I'm getting chills right now writing this story.

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He said that it was in the distance, and from

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what he saw, it came from behind one tree and

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then quickly went across to another and then disappeared. From

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what he explained, it was also small, and he could

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see that it was looking at him as it ran

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across the tree line. Before it completely disappear, he said

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he immediately ran over to the trees to look around

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and see if there was anything else. Another thing that

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he said about the story is that it did not

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scare him. However, my father was a very brave man.

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woods around that house. My next experience I call bigfoot

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in the window. The second part of this story is

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from my mamma up in the same woods. My mamma,

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which is my great grandmother, was hanging out with her

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sister in a small little house up the road near theirs.

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houses around each other that were deep up into those woods.

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My mamma was very matter of fact and didn't joke often,

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nor did I ever really see her smile. I just

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feel that's important to add with how insane this story is.

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This story is from the early nineteen sixties. She explained

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that as her and her sister were sitting on the

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kitchen counter in their house talking, they then heard a

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faint tapping coming from the window, and, to her shock

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and horror, when they looked over to the window, she

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saw a big, gruff, ape man like looking face that

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was staring right back at them. She said, it shocked

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them so bad that her sister's face went pale, and

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she was sure that hers did too. She said she

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screamed at the top of her lungs and screamed for

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their brother to go outside and check on what they

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just saw. He ran outside with a gun and there

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was nothing to be found. He told them that it

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was someone messing with them, but they swore that it wasn't.

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The next morning, they checked around outside that window and

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they saw footprints at least a foot and a half

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long in the dirt, and a little further away near

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the property line, there were even more footprints. That land

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up there has a very old and creepy vibe to it.

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There was definitely Indian burial grounds in and around that forest.

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That house is also haunted, and there's a hand full

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of stories that me and my brother have from that house,

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which I can tell you about at a later time.

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Let's begin tonight's journey with Benny, who calls their experience

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Haunted Farmhouse. Benny says this is a recollection of the

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many happenings that occurred while living in an old farmhouse

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in south central Michigan. These events span three years from

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twenty twenty one to twenty twenty four, and when taken individually,

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the fear factor is low. However, upon reflection of these

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events in totality, I felt a pit of unease and

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fear well up inside of my being. The spooky old

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farmhouse is set on approximately sixty acres and the property

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includes a few barns and outbuildings, and it lies firmly

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within Amish territory. While I do not know the exact

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age of the house itself, it was one hundred plus

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based on the fieldstone found fund and the dirt floor

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in the basement. Now, all old houses contain flaws that

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may explain many oddities which occur. One example being the

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constant swinging of my aprons that were hung in the kitchen,

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which were likely caused by a draft from one of

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the windows. With all the occurrences in the house, my

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first thought was to find the natural explanation. As time

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went on, however, the explanation to a few experiences were

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difficult to find. One of the more common happenings was

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things falling off or being moved on the kitchen counters,

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including silverware, food, paper, towel rolls, et cetera. While I

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typically chalk this up to the many mice that we

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had in the home. The repetitive nature was unsettling. The

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next uncomfortable event was doors being open. Three times I

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left for work and came home to exterior doors wide open.

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I did have a habit of not locking or sometimes

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even fully closing the back door and instead just close

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using the screen door, so the fact that this door

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was wide open was not too startling. The same, however,

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cannot be said about the side door, which was not

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a door that I ever used, and it remained constantly

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locked with a dead bolt. How that door was flung

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wide open when I returned home from work is a mystery,

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and it caused me to sweep my house looking for intruders.

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The same thing happened to my basement door a couple times,

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which was old and you had to yank the door

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knob up a bit to open it. The house only

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lost power twice, and after the first time, I learned

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that the home had its own power pole behind the

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garage that ran power to the house, barns, and garages. Therefore,

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whenever I lost power in the home, I just had

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to go to the pole to reset the breaker. The

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second time that I lost power was creepy, but it

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could be traced back to coincidence. You see, we were

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three days into a massive snow and ice storm, to

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the point where the snow and ice was beginning to

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melt and puddle everywhere. I was home as we had

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a snow day from the school that I worked at,

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and we had lost power mid day. Again. This was

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only the second time losing power in three years, and

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it came days after the giant storm. So I walked

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out to the pole and switched the breaker. I couldn't

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see the house from the pole, so I had to

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walk back in to see if I had effectively reset

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the power. I walked back toward the house and I

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saw the front light was on. Immediately upon re entering

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the house, though, the power flipped back off, so I

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repeated the pattern three more times. This happened four times

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that I lost power, reset the breaker, and then lost

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power again within seconds of walking back into the house.

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The creepiest moment, which still raises my hairs anytime I

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recount it, occurred one night as I was sitting on

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the couch and watching TV. The staircase leading upstairs to

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the two bedrooms was directly behind the living room separated

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by a wall, so I was sitting with my back

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to the wall stairs behind my back, and the bedrooms upstairs. Upstairs,

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in one of the bedrooms was a little crawl space

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for storage, which had a door cut out to fit

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the opening with no handles. When using this door, you

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just kind of swung it shut as best you could. Well,

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all of a sudden, a loud banging noise came from

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the bedroom behind me and up the stairs. It was

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a loud bang followed by a few quieter bangs. These

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bangs repeated eight to ten times, with each bang causing

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more fear and worry. Now, this particular week had been

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abnormally windy, and there was a window facing that crawl

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space door, so after considering every possible explanation, I landed

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with wind gusts causing that door to open and then

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swing shot. So I grabbed my handgun because I was terrified,

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and I walked upstairs to close the window, half expecting

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to see someone or something standing in the bedroom. When

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I got upstairs, the window was open, and before closing

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I felt for the breeze entering the room, but it

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was minimal. I went over and pushed the cross base

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door open to see if the window could somehow shut it,

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but after a minute of watching, it remained closed, even

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after many gusts entered the window, so window shut. I

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head back down the stairs to the couch, hoping that

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the activity would cease. However, the door continued to open

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and shut for the next hour or so, each time

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with more of a time gap between. I slept on

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the couch the rest of the night with my handgun

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close by for comfort. The final occurrence was seeing an

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orb blank ball of light in my bedroom as I

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was lying in bed. It was straight ahead of me,

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and it was bright and round like a light bulb,

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and it kind of bobbed in the air. Then it vanished.

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When considering all these events at once, it causes me

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some concern to consider that something might have been causing

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all of them. Then again, they could all have simple

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natural explanations. I moved out of that house last year

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when I got married and I moved into my wife's house.

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I kept some things stored in the farmhouse in agreement

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with the owners, who did not plan to rent it

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out to anyone new. About a month after moving out, though,

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I received a message from the owners asking me to

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come and remove the remainder of my things out of

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the house because they were moving back into the home

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in order to make some repairs. When I entered the

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home to gather my things, a shot of dread shot

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through my body and all the hairs on my arms

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stood on end. Looking across the interior walls, there were

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huge gaps and seams across the dry wall. The walls

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over the stairs had shifted, causing creeks and moans everywhere

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we walked. Wallfooters had slipped and stuck out over the staircase.

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My wife and I got my things and we quickly left.

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Now I had one person at work who would compare

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creepy stories with me from her home, and upon telling

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her of this destruction, her first comment was, maybe they

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were mad that you left. Well, I don't know if

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this was happenstance an old home falling into disrepair, or

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if there actually was something in that house that was

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upset that I left. Our next experience comes to us

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from Tina, and Tina's story is called Saying Goodbye to Mom.

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I just found your podcast and shared it with my

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sister and we've enjoyed listening. My sister and I have

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had many experiences from childhood to adulthood. Intuition and sensitivity

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run deep in our family. This is the most standout

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experience to me. At the time, I lived in Kansas

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and my mom still lived in my childhood home in

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San Diego, where a huge Mexican family and were raised Catholic.

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My mom was at the end of her journey with

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stage four lung cancer. December twenty nineteen, I had received

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a call from my dad suggesting that I come home.

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Mom was sleeping a lot and not eating any more.

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My oldest son and I flew home to San Diego

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on Tuesday, December tenth. In the afternoon. Days prior to

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me flying in, my mom would wake up and would

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ask if I had arrived. She was sleeping, and we

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entered her room. I kissed my aunt and had a

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short conversation. When my mom woke up, I was sitting

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next to her bed. She turned and was surprised to

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see me and my son. I kissed her and gave

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her a gentle hug to her frail body. This was

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the total opposite of the mom in my memories. My

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mom was always a very strong person and always looked

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bigger than me, but not this time. The disease had

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taken her and it had robbed her body. She sat

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up and said hi, tea, and to my surprise, she asked,

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are you going to be okay? This threw me off guard.

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I knew the reason that I was coming back. It

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was to help my mom transition to heaven. I tried

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to be strong and I replied yes, Mom. She then

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laid back down and she stayed awake until bedtime. December eleventh, Wednesday,

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Mom woke up late morning and then fell back asleep.

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My son and I had to move her to the

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center of the bed to keep her from sliding out.

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We carefully slid our hands under her body while she

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slept and moved her to the center of the bed

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and wedged between pillows for safety. She let out a

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moan of discomfort and was awakened. That evening was painful

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for her. I went into my bedroom to get my

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phone to call hospice for instructions. I had left the

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light on and went back to my mom's bedroom with

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my son and my dad was in the garage watching TV.

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I finished the conversation with my son, who was standing

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next to me and he says to me, did you

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see that? And I said no, what? And he said,

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the light just went off in your bedroom. Now, we

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were still in my mom's bedroom and I could not

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explain it, nor did we feel any kind of fear.

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As we settled in for the night, my son and

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I decided to sleep in her room. Around ten thirty pm,

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my son heard footsteps coming down the hallway. My dad

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was already in his room with the door closed and

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fast asleep. No one else was in the house besides me,

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my son, dad, and my mom. Everyone was accounted for.

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My son peeked out of the room and then walked

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down the hallway, seeing no one. He then asked me,

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did you hear that? I was busy tending to my

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mom and I hadn't heard anything. Roughly an hour later,

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he laid down in the air mattress facing the doorway

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of my mom's room. He then saw a dark shadow

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that passed by the doorway going into my bedroom where

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I had left the light. On December twelfth, Thursday, Mom

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was sleeping and stayed asleep all day and night, and

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I was on a scheduled rotation giving her meds. At

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eleven pm, I was given her the meds and I

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was standing at the table between her bed and the

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closet when I saw a shadow standing next to me.

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I didn't feel any bad energy, but it was like

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a person was watching over us. I turned my head

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and it was gone. Then I turned to my mom

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with the dropper of medicine. When I saw sparkles over

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her head. I was mesmerized again, feeling no fear. I

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asked my son, did you see that? But my son

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said no. Both of us were just amazed at the

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activity that was going on in the bedroom. Friday, December thirteenth,

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Mom slept all day. At this point, she was comfortable,

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no pain, and her heart rate was okay. That night,

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my sister said that she would be over for the

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night rotation for medicines. It was evening before my sister arrived.

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We finished dinner and were watching TV. All of a sudden,

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the lamp across the room blinks on and off a

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couple of times. We looked at each other and I

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decided to check the light bulb. However, everything was fine.

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Pay attention to this lamp at the end. That's when

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I felt my instinct kick in and I had to

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check on Mom. I walked into her bedroom and she

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was doing just fine. She was sleeping and feeling no pain. Saturday,

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December fourteenth, Mom slept comfortable with no pain. Her breathing

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pattern had slowed. The hospice nurse checked her, and my

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00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:30,119
sister came over for the nightly meds on Sunday, December fifteenth.

482
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:34,680
By five am, Mom's breathing was sporadic. It was her time.

483
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,680
We gathered around her bed so she would feel our

484
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:42,599
presence of support, and at five forty eight am, Mom

485
00:27:43,039 --> 00:27:47,640
became an angel. Around six thirty am, we were sitting

486
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:50,759
in the kitchen. Everyone was sitting around the island when

487
00:27:50,799 --> 00:27:54,559
the same lamp with no problem blinked a couple of times. Again.

488
00:27:55,319 --> 00:27:57,880
Everyone looked at it and then looked at each other.

489
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:02,599
I said that that is Mom letting us know she

490
00:28:02,759 --> 00:28:09,640
made it. Our next experience comes to us from Sharon,

491
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:15,039
and Sharon's story is called Old Soldiers don't die, They

492
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:20,640
just annoy you. In the kitchen, Sharon says, hello, Nick,

493
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,160
I really enjoy your podcast. While I'm on my way

494
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,799
to work in the morning. And though I love the paranormal,

495
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,160
I have had very few experiences. I live in a

496
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,079
moderate sized city on the Mississippi River, and not a

497
00:28:32,079 --> 00:28:36,039
whole lot happens here. I don't have any really dramatic experiences,

498
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,319
but there is one that stands out in my mind

499
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:40,920
that I still have not quite explained to this day

500
00:28:41,359 --> 00:28:44,519
that I would like to share. I can't really give

501
00:28:44,519 --> 00:28:46,359
you the name of the place that I worked at.

502
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:48,799
They are government owned, so they have a lot of

503
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,519
NDAs to sign. But it was a nursing home for

504
00:28:51,559 --> 00:28:53,839
the military. You had to have been a member of

505
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,480
the military or married to a member of the military

506
00:28:56,599 --> 00:28:59,440
in order to be admitted there as a resident. It

507
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,920
was a huge place with several buildings that takes up

508
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,440
quite a large section of the area, and there's even

509
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:08,279
a small petting zoo. Peacocks freely roamed the grounds. There's

510
00:29:08,319 --> 00:29:10,720
a large pond to fish in, and it's a very

511
00:29:10,759 --> 00:29:14,279
beautiful area. I worked in the building that housed a

512
00:29:14,319 --> 00:29:17,759
diner like situation, where even though they had meals served

513
00:29:17,759 --> 00:29:20,400
at the cafeteria on a regular basis, it is an

514
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:23,240
actual little diner or restaurant on the property that they

515
00:29:23,279 --> 00:29:25,640
could go to and get something else to eat, or

516
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,880
even ice cream or a snack or something along those lines.

517
00:29:29,359 --> 00:29:31,160
I believe it was one of the few buildings that

518
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,680
never housed residents. It was always used as a restaurant,

519
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,960
meeting place or dance hall type building because there was

520
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,279
a very large room out front of the restaurant that

521
00:29:40,319 --> 00:29:43,880
they would have meetings and get togethers in. The original

522
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:46,559
buildings were built in the late eighteen hundreds or early

523
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,640
nineteen hundreds and had seen a lot of soldiers come

524
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:53,160
and go. The diner itself was not very large, and

525
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:56,279
the kitchen was separated by a large wall. Behind that

526
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,599
wall was where a huge freezer and refrigerator was, and

527
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:01,599
on the op opposite side of the wall was where

528
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,720
the sink and prep area was. When you walked around

529
00:30:04,759 --> 00:30:06,799
the wall, you were back in the kitchen or the

530
00:30:06,839 --> 00:30:11,319
oven fryer, grill, another little refrigerator, and the area where

531
00:30:11,319 --> 00:30:13,440
they could buy sodas and stuff like that was that

532
00:30:14,519 --> 00:30:17,119
when this experience happened, I was in the area where

533
00:30:17,119 --> 00:30:20,200
the sink was located. Now, mind you, like I said,

534
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,559
there was a wall between us and the kitchen, and

535
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:24,680
you had to go around the corner through the door

536
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,759
to get into the kitchen. So I was standing at

537
00:30:27,759 --> 00:30:30,400
the sink doing dishes, and my brother was working with

538
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:32,920
me at the time. He had come up to ask

539
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,640
me something and I was standing there talking with him,

540
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,480
and this is when I felt something tap or gently

541
00:30:38,559 --> 00:30:41,480
hit the back of my leg. I looked down and

542
00:30:41,519 --> 00:30:44,440
there was a long, narrow, plastic tube looking thing on

543
00:30:44,519 --> 00:30:47,640
the floor by my feet. Puzzled, I picked it up

544
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,160
and I asked my brother, did you throw this at me?

545
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,920
But he said no, I was standing right here, which

546
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,279
he was, so there was no way he could have

547
00:30:56,319 --> 00:30:59,440
thrown it at me. Now, we had another coworker at

548
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,400
the time who was also our delivery driver. The campus

549
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,759
was so large that we literally had to have someone

550
00:31:04,799 --> 00:31:06,839
with the car to drive to the outer buildings to

551
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:11,640
deliver food. We'll call him Mike. During this experience, Mike

552
00:31:11,759 --> 00:31:13,799
was in the office area, which was in a hall

553
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,880
behind the kitchen. So I hollered to him, did you

554
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:21,200
throw something at me? But he said no, Why. I

555
00:31:21,279 --> 00:31:23,920
then showed him the little black tube and I said,

556
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:27,319
what is this and he says, well, it looks like

557
00:31:27,359 --> 00:31:30,039
the handle to our can opener. I looked around and

558
00:31:30,079 --> 00:31:33,000
I said, where is the can opener and he said

559
00:31:33,359 --> 00:31:36,240
it's hanging up where it usually is. So I looked

560
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:39,000
around the corner, and sure enough, the can opener was

561
00:31:39,039 --> 00:31:41,799
hanging up on its hook on the wall and it

562
00:31:41,839 --> 00:31:45,079
was missing its handle. Now, I would have been facing

563
00:31:45,119 --> 00:31:47,440
toward the wall that the can opener was on when

564
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,440
the handle hit me on the leg, so there was

565
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,559
no way that thing could have fallen and hit me

566
00:31:51,839 --> 00:31:54,720
because the angle would have been all wrong. However, I

567
00:31:54,799 --> 00:31:57,440
told myself it was just loose, and that it fell

568
00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:00,440
off and then bounced and hit me. Id to find

569
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,440
a valid reason for the handle to come off the

570
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,559
can opener go around a ninety degree angle and then

571
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,359
hit me in the leg, but I couldn't find one.

572
00:32:09,039 --> 00:32:10,839
When I had to put it back on, I had

573
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,519
to literally force it on because it would not easily

574
00:32:13,559 --> 00:32:17,079
slide back on. I then said to myself, did our

575
00:32:17,119 --> 00:32:19,000
ghost just hit me in the leg with a can

576
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,960
opener handle? And if so, why would he do that?

577
00:32:23,039 --> 00:32:26,160
Then I remembered something from earlier that day, when I

578
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,759
was in the kitchen. We had a whiteboard that was

579
00:32:28,799 --> 00:32:31,359
propped up against the counter that had the daily specials

580
00:32:31,359 --> 00:32:33,839
on it. It had been sitting there all week and

581
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:37,160
not been touched or moved when it suddenly toppled and

582
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,240
fell onto the kitchen floor. I was very busy at

583
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:43,000
that time making a bunch of call in orders, and

584
00:32:43,119 --> 00:32:45,160
when I reached over and picked the board back up,

585
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,319
I hollered, knock it off, George. I don't have time

586
00:32:48,359 --> 00:32:51,079
for this today. You see, we had a ghost in

587
00:32:51,119 --> 00:32:54,039
our building that we called George. Now I don't know

588
00:32:54,079 --> 00:32:56,599
if that was actually his name or not, but that's

589
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,799
what we called him. So then I thought to myself,

590
00:33:00,119 --> 00:33:02,519
maybe George wasn't too happy with me for yelling at

591
00:33:02,559 --> 00:33:05,599
him that morning, and he was letting me know. So

592
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:07,759
I just kind of stood in the kitchen and I

593
00:33:07,799 --> 00:33:10,799
said out loud, I'm sorry that I yelled at you, George.

594
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,880
Please don't throw stuff at me anymore. I moved on

595
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,799
to another job about six months after that, and even

596
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,680
though we did have random things that happened around the kitchen,

597
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,160
like the sound of pots and pans moving and the

598
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,880
sound of a stack of pots being dropped, we would

599
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:29,359
always find that nothing had fallen. We would also find

600
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:31,920
doors and cabinets that had been left open, and I

601
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,279
would get accused of leaving them open when I left

602
00:33:34,319 --> 00:33:37,880
the night before. However, I know perfectly well that they

603
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:41,640
were closed when I left. Nothing was ever thrown at

604
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:45,920
me again. That was the only unexplained thing that ever

605
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:48,759
happened to me, But it didn't frighten me. It just

606
00:33:48,839 --> 00:33:52,640
made me realize that ghosts may have feelings too, and

607
00:33:52,680 --> 00:34:00,920
they don't like having their feelings hurt. Her. Next experience

608
00:34:01,079 --> 00:34:04,000
comes to us from Will and this is what he

609
00:34:04,039 --> 00:34:07,839
had to say. My father was prior military and this

610
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:11,159
experience happened on an army post. This was about twenty

611
00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:13,679
two years ago and I was a sophomore in high school.

612
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,199
My mom would get contracts to clean empty houses after

613
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:21,039
someone was stationed somewhere else for extra cash. Sometimes I

614
00:34:21,079 --> 00:34:24,000
would go with her to help her out. One night,

615
00:34:24,119 --> 00:34:26,079
she told me that she needed to strip and wax

616
00:34:26,119 --> 00:34:28,119
the floors of a house because it was due the

617
00:34:28,119 --> 00:34:30,719
next day, and she asked me to help, so we went.

618
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,320
She had a vacuum that she would run through the

619
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:36,679
house before putting stripper on the floor, so she started

620
00:34:36,679 --> 00:34:39,079
doing that in the back bedroom. I was in the

621
00:34:39,119 --> 00:34:41,960
living room adding the chemical to the mop bucket, and

622
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:45,639
the vacuum was audible. As she made her way into

623
00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:49,280
the living room with the vacuum, I noticed something odd.

624
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:52,760
The end of the power cord was visibly unplugged, and

625
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,360
it was in the middle of the hallway. However, the

626
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,199
vacuum was still running. I don't know if she could

627
00:34:58,199 --> 00:35:00,840
feel my vibe or what, but my mom looked at

628
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,480
me and at that same time, I pointed toward the

629
00:35:03,559 --> 00:35:06,159
end of the power chord. When she saw it, she

630
00:35:06,199 --> 00:35:09,719
immediately shrieked and dropped the vacuum, running out of the house.

631
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:12,199
As soon as she had let go of the vacuum,

632
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:15,519
it powered off. I would say that from the time

633
00:35:15,519 --> 00:35:18,079
that I noticed it was unplugged but still on to

634
00:35:18,159 --> 00:35:20,800
when we freaked out and it turned off was about

635
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:24,039
six or seven seconds. How long before that when it

636
00:35:24,079 --> 00:35:29,199
became unplugged, we don't know. Anyway, I followed my mom

637
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,760
out front, and she wouldn't go back in, so I

638
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,960
finished the floors. Don't get me wrong, I was freaked

639
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,880
out too, but not enough to stop me, as I

640
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:41,440
didn't feel any kind of danger. My mom was brought

641
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:45,239
up Roman Catholic and is very superstitious. She thinks it

642
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:48,159
was spirit related, while I, on the other hand, feel

643
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:50,719
like it was more of a glitch. I saw what

644
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,360
I saw, though, and I am thankful to have seen it,

645
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:56,800
and I came up with a couple of theories. First,

646
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:01,760
perhaps it's some quantum type stuff, think slit experiment. And

647
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,280
my second theory is that maybe she did it with

648
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:08,400
her mind without knowing. We do still talk about it sometimes,

649
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:10,639
and I've asked her what she was thinking about when

650
00:36:10,639 --> 00:36:13,079
she was vacuuming, and she said that she was just

651
00:36:13,199 --> 00:36:15,679
making a list in her head of the things that

652
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:20,000
needed to get done. So what do you think glitch

653
00:36:20,519 --> 00:36:23,320
or power of the mind type thing or was the

654
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:26,320
government emitting some type of electrical current to the air

655
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:31,280
and somehow it channeled to the vacuum. Anyway, thank you

656
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,800
for reading my story and for sharing a multitude of

657
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:37,760
experiences across the world. Your podcast makes me feel less

658
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:41,280
alone with things that I've seen and experienced. I do

659
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:44,239
have an interesting UFO story for you as well, and

660
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:46,880
I will have to send that in soon and it

661
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:51,599
takes place on the same army base. Again, thank you

662
00:36:51,639 --> 00:37:00,199
for what you do and until next time, will our

663
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:04,760
next experiences come to us From Chong and Jong's experiences

664
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:09,519
are called Where Was I and the Time I Lost

665
00:37:11,039 --> 00:37:14,039
he Nik. I'm from China. I listen to your podcast

666
00:37:14,079 --> 00:37:18,199
every day and I have always been passionate about UFOs, aliens,

667
00:37:18,519 --> 00:37:21,880
and ghost stories because they can help me forget anxieties

668
00:37:22,119 --> 00:37:25,639
and achieve inner peace. Now, I want to share some

669
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:30,119
strange experiences of mine. About thirty years ago, when I

670
00:37:30,159 --> 00:37:33,039
was around the fourth grade of elementary school, maybe eleven

671
00:37:33,159 --> 00:37:36,239
or twelve years old, I was obsessed with arcade games

672
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:38,639
and often went to the arcade, which was about a

673
00:37:38,639 --> 00:37:42,199
ten minute walk from my home. The arcade was located

674
00:37:42,199 --> 00:37:44,639
on the first basement floor of a building, and it

675
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:48,079
was open from nine am to eleven pm. Since I

676
00:37:48,159 --> 00:37:51,239
frequented the arcade, I was very familiar with its boss

677
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,760
and its surroundings. Yes, I mean every building and every

678
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:58,519
street around it. I remember at that time that my

679
00:37:58,599 --> 00:38:01,440
parents went to another city to visit my sick grandmother

680
00:38:01,639 --> 00:38:03,800
and they wouldn't be back for a few days, so

681
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,159
I was totally free and I spent all of my

682
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:10,320
spare time in the arcade during these days. It was

683
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:13,599
a Sunday or Saturday when I completed a very popular

684
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:17,239
three Kingdoms game at that time in China. The boss

685
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:19,599
of the arcade then came over and told me they

686
00:38:19,599 --> 00:38:23,119
were about to close. He smiled and said, hurry up

687
00:38:23,159 --> 00:38:25,679
and get out of here with your tail between your legs,

688
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:29,760
so I left the arcade. There were two exits leading

689
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:32,360
to the ground level, one on the east side and

690
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:35,159
the other on the west. Usually I choose the east

691
00:38:35,159 --> 00:38:38,039
one because it's closer to my home. No matter which

692
00:38:38,039 --> 00:38:40,280
one I choose, I have to climb a long flight

693
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:43,400
of stairs to reach the ground level. These stairs are

694
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:46,679
narrow and very dim, with only two orange light bulbs

695
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:49,719
hanging on the walls. When I got to the ground

696
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:52,400
level and took the first breath of fresh air, I

697
00:38:52,519 --> 00:38:57,039
was stunned, my mind going completely blank. I must emphasize

698
00:38:57,079 --> 00:38:59,599
firstly that although I had played the arcade game for

699
00:38:59,599 --> 00:39:02,599
almost all day, I was very clear headed at that time,

700
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:05,840
and I didn't feel tired at all. The reason that

701
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,559
I was so stunned was that what unfolded before me

702
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:11,599
was a scene completely different from the familiar one that

703
00:39:11,639 --> 00:39:14,599
I was used to. You see, there are two buildings

704
00:39:14,599 --> 00:39:17,400
in front of the eastern exit of the basement. One

705
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:20,679
is ten stories high and the other is seven stories high.

706
00:39:21,159 --> 00:39:24,599
Both of these buildings are still standing, but when I

707
00:39:24,639 --> 00:39:26,800
got out of the exit that night, I did not

708
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:30,000
see these two buildings. They were gone, and in their

709
00:39:30,039 --> 00:39:32,760
place was a row of single story buildings, and all

710
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:35,920
of them had their roller shutters down. I can still

711
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,519
remember very clearly that it was so quiet that I

712
00:39:38,559 --> 00:39:42,280
couldn't hear anything. Usually every night at this time, there

713
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:45,079
were many food trucks selling late night snacks here during

714
00:39:45,119 --> 00:39:47,760
those years, with quite a few people stopping by for

715
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:51,079
a bite, but they had disappeared at that moment as well.

716
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,280
Maybe it's not accurate to say that it was quiet,

717
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:57,920
because it was as if all sounds vanished, just like

718
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:01,960
the two buildings. It was a very strange, indescribable feeling

719
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:05,320
and something very hard to put into words. I then

720
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:08,159
took about two steps forward and I looked around and

721
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:11,960
I saw a completely unfamiliar street. It was not any

722
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:15,920
of the streets around my home. I was so scared

723
00:40:16,039 --> 00:40:19,519
that I ran back to the basement arcade to get help. Luckily,

724
00:40:19,679 --> 00:40:22,800
I saw the arcade's roller shutters were still open. I

725
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:24,880
was in a panic to find the boss or any

726
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,239
servers to tell them what I saw. But when I

727
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:30,639
rushed into the arcade, I found nobody, even though it

728
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:35,519
was open, no boss, no servers, and no players. All

729
00:40:35,559 --> 00:40:39,920
the arcade machines were turned off. I shouted, but still

730
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,880
no replies. It was the second weird thing that I

731
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:45,519
met that night, and I felt like I was about

732
00:40:45,519 --> 00:40:49,159
to break down. What was wrong with this world? Where

733
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:53,639
was I? Where was everybody else? Well, I couldn't stay

734
00:40:53,679 --> 00:40:56,039
in the basement anymore, so I rushed over to the

735
00:40:56,039 --> 00:40:59,360
west exit, and to put it simply, after I exited

736
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:02,440
through it, I saw a completely different scene. Once again.

737
00:41:03,159 --> 00:41:06,559
I wanted to cry, but no tears came out. Maybe

738
00:41:06,559 --> 00:41:09,519
the fear had choked them back. At that moment, I

739
00:41:09,559 --> 00:41:12,320
thought that I would never see my parents again. The

740
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:16,800
sky had fallen and I was finished. At this point,

741
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,400
I ran back to the basement, huddled in a corner,

742
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:23,480
desperate and not knowing what to do. About five minutes later,

743
00:41:23,679 --> 00:41:26,360
I heard footsteps right next to me. I looked up

744
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:29,480
and I saw a cleaner standing beside me and asking

745
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,679
me in surprise, what are you doing here? I then

746
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:35,960
jumped up and hugged her tightly, bursting into tears as

747
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:39,000
I recounted what had happened to me. She clearly didn't

748
00:41:39,039 --> 00:41:42,760
believe me, though, and she took me outside. When I

749
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:45,079
returned to the ground level, I found that it was

750
00:41:45,119 --> 00:41:48,360
already daytime, and I was overjoyed to find that everything

751
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:51,800
had returned to normal. The two familiar buildings were there

752
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:55,280
once again. I couldn't believe it. I thanked her and

753
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:58,360
I rushed to my home. When I got home, I

754
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:01,760
instinctively glanced at the wall and it showed that it

755
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:04,920
was around six am. That's when it suddenly hit me

756
00:42:05,039 --> 00:42:08,760
that something was terribly wrong once again. You see, as

757
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:12,119
I told you before, the arcade closed at eleven PM,

758
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:15,239
so I left at eleven PM. I can remember it

759
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:17,960
very clearly that no more than thirty minutes could have

760
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:21,000
passed between my first exit from the arcade that night

761
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:24,440
and my encounter with the cleaner. And there was absolutely

762
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:27,519
no way that I fell asleep or lost consciousness in

763
00:42:27,519 --> 00:42:31,280
that basement corner. So where did those six and a

764
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:36,800
half hours go? My second paranormal experience happened during my

765
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,480
college years when I was working part time in a

766
00:42:39,519 --> 00:42:42,000
bar which was only about a ten minute walk from

767
00:42:42,039 --> 00:42:46,199
my college. My work schedule was every Wednesday, Friday, and

768
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:50,559
Sunday from seven pm to ten pm. One night on

769
00:42:50,639 --> 00:42:53,679
maybe a Friday or Sunday, due to some mistakes at work,

770
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:56,679
I left the bar at around ten forty five pm.

771
00:42:57,039 --> 00:43:00,679
Since the college dormitory closed at eleven PM, I decided

772
00:43:00,679 --> 00:43:03,280
to take a short cut between my college and the

773
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:05,760
bar I worked in. There was an open air clothing

774
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:09,159
market which had since been vacated and was awaiting demolition.

775
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:13,119
The market has rows of stalls with narrow pathways between them,

776
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:16,079
and cutting through these alleys can save me several minutes.

777
00:43:16,599 --> 00:43:19,599
Surrounding the market was a perimeter wall, but someone had

778
00:43:19,679 --> 00:43:22,880
knocked out two gaps through it, likely left by others

779
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:26,039
taking the same short cut before me. But it wasn't

780
00:43:26,079 --> 00:43:30,320
an easy route. First, there was no lighting inside. Second,

781
00:43:30,599 --> 00:43:33,679
the grounds were littered with broken bricks and wooden planks

782
00:43:33,679 --> 00:43:36,719
that were studded with rusty nails. I had only taken

783
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:39,360
this shortcut once before, and I did not want to

784
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:42,039
take it again. But on that night, all I cared

785
00:43:42,039 --> 00:43:44,440
about was saving time to get back to the campus

786
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:48,280
as fast as possible. It was near summer, so not

787
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:51,000
very cold at night. I had to walk solely on

788
00:43:51,039 --> 00:43:53,920
the moonlight. I quickened my pace through the center of

789
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:57,079
the market. Now I could see another gap in the wall,

790
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:01,360
this one much larger, about three meters wid Through the gap,

791
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:04,400
I could see a tea junction, its street lights casting

792
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:07,840
a bright glow. When I was about several steps away

793
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:10,920
from the gap. Suddenly I saw a middle aged man

794
00:44:11,039 --> 00:44:14,760
pulling a rickshaw through it. This was utterly strange, as

795
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:18,199
rickshaws had disappeared from China half a century ago, and

796
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:21,559
the man was dressed in century old clothing that nobody

797
00:44:21,599 --> 00:44:25,639
wore today. Driven by curiosity, I rushed out of the

798
00:44:25,639 --> 00:44:28,159
gap and looked in the direction the rickshaw had gone,

799
00:44:28,639 --> 00:44:32,159
But I saw nothing. The entire sequence from spotting the

800
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:34,480
rickshaw until I ran out of the gap to look

801
00:44:34,679 --> 00:44:37,639
couldn't have taken more than three seconds, Yet both the

802
00:44:37,679 --> 00:44:40,719
man and the rickshaw had vanished. To one side of

803
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,159
the road were shops, and to the other was the

804
00:44:43,199 --> 00:44:47,280
market's wall. The nearest intersection was over one hundred meters ahead,

805
00:44:47,519 --> 00:44:49,480
and there was no way that anyone could pull a

806
00:44:49,519 --> 00:44:53,079
rickshaw that distance and then turn the corner in three seconds.

807
00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:57,199
Had I hallucinated. No, A street light right beside the

808
00:44:57,199 --> 00:45:00,079
gap had illuminated the scene perfectly. What I said I

809
00:45:00,079 --> 00:45:03,719
saw was unmistakably real, but with my dorm curfew looming,

810
00:45:04,199 --> 00:45:07,159
I didn't dwell on it. I ran back to the

811
00:45:07,199 --> 00:45:10,519
dorm panting, only to find the door locked. I pulled

812
00:45:10,559 --> 00:45:12,800
up my phone to check the time. This was when

813
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:16,199
mobile phones had just started becoming common in China. It

814
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:19,679
was my very first phone, a cheap Motorola, and I

815
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:23,519
froze when I saw the screen one ten a m.

816
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:27,159
Even now, more than twenty years later, I can still

817
00:45:27,199 --> 00:45:31,519
recall the exact time with perfect clarity. It was impossible.

818
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:34,320
There was no way more than fifteen minutes had passed

819
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:37,239
since I left the bar. My phone must be broken,

820
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:39,960
I thought, and I knocked on the door, but there

821
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:43,159
was no answer. I kept knocking for what felt like

822
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:46,800
ages before the dorm supervisor came. She threw it open,

823
00:45:47,199 --> 00:45:50,079
glared at me, and snapped, it's one in the morning.

824
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:53,360
Are you blind to the rules? I then walked into

825
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:56,199
the dorm building with my head down and not saying

826
00:45:56,199 --> 00:45:59,559
a word. As I passed by the supervisor's office, I

827
00:45:59,559 --> 00:46:02,079
looked clo mostly at the wall clock and it showed

828
00:46:02,159 --> 00:46:06,360
around one fifteen am. So my phone wasn't broken after all.

829
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:10,079
But that couldn't be right. When I got back to

830
00:46:10,119 --> 00:46:13,159
the dorm room, that door was locked as well. Our

831
00:46:13,199 --> 00:46:15,880
dorm room had a large padlock on the outside and

832
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:18,760
a latch on the inside, so if someone inside had

833
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:21,400
the latch shut, no one on the outside could open

834
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:26,039
it without help from within. Feeling terribly embarrassed, I knocked

835
00:46:26,039 --> 00:46:28,639
for quite a while before our dorm leader finally came

836
00:46:28,679 --> 00:46:31,840
to let me in. My other roommates were all asleep.

837
00:46:32,599 --> 00:46:35,639
I checked our wall clock again, more carefully this time,

838
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:40,679
and it still read around one fifteen am. As I

839
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:43,280
laid in bed, replaying the events in my mind, a

840
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:47,119
profound sense of unreality washed over me. Had I truly

841
00:46:47,159 --> 00:46:50,039
seen the middle aged man and the rickshaw? I was

842
00:46:50,079 --> 00:46:53,159
certain that I saw him. Was my memory playing tricks

843
00:46:53,199 --> 00:46:56,800
on me? Or worse, had it been tampered with? And

844
00:46:56,920 --> 00:47:00,239
where had those missing two hours in fifteen minutes on?

845
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:05,440
The next experience that I want to share happened about

846
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,480
fifteen years ago, when I had graduated from college for

847
00:47:08,559 --> 00:47:12,159
several years. One night, my mom and I walked home

848
00:47:12,199 --> 00:47:15,440
from my eldest aunts when we passed by an underground

849
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:18,480
shopping mall. I wanted to check if a bookstore inside

850
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:20,960
had a book that I was waiting for. We went

851
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:23,239
down the stairs, but it was around nine p m.

852
00:47:23,599 --> 00:47:26,599
And there were few people below. We walked through the

853
00:47:26,679 --> 00:47:30,480
underground passage and arrived at the bookstore entrance. My mom

854
00:47:30,519 --> 00:47:32,639
said she didn't want to go inside, and that she

855
00:47:32,639 --> 00:47:35,280
would wait for me write at the bookstore entrance. The

856
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:39,639
bookstore was tiny, with just a single entrance. At that moment,

857
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:43,079
there was nobody inside except for the owner. The owner

858
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:46,159
was reading a newspaper. When I asked him if the

859
00:47:46,159 --> 00:47:49,079
book had arrived, he said no and lowered his head

860
00:47:49,119 --> 00:47:52,239
back toward the paper. Then I casually glanced at the

861
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:55,559
books on the nearest shelf, but nothing interested me, so

862
00:47:55,639 --> 00:47:59,360
I left. However, when I stepped outside, I didn't see

863
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:02,199
my mom. Now, from the time that I entered the

864
00:48:02,199 --> 00:48:05,119
bookstore until I came out, it had only been less

865
00:48:05,119 --> 00:48:07,199
than a minute. There was no way that she could

866
00:48:07,239 --> 00:48:10,119
have gone far, so I shouted for her several times,

867
00:48:10,559 --> 00:48:13,840
but I got no response. At that time, she didn't

868
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:16,519
have a cell phone yet, so I couldn't just call her.

869
00:48:17,519 --> 00:48:19,400
To the left of the book store was a long,

870
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:23,000
straight hallway with only several people in sight, but my

871
00:48:23,119 --> 00:48:26,480
mom wasn't there. To the right, the hallway was completely

872
00:48:26,519 --> 00:48:29,480
empty and I could see the stairs leading up. I

873
00:48:29,559 --> 00:48:33,039
then circled around near the underground mall entrance, but I

874
00:48:33,079 --> 00:48:37,280
couldn't find my mom. Starting to worry, it suddenly struck

875
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:39,559
me that she might have gone to the washroom, so

876
00:48:39,599 --> 00:48:43,400
I went downstairs again, checked both nearby washrooms, and I

877
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:47,159
yelled for her, but still nothing. Then I realized that

878
00:48:47,199 --> 00:48:50,360
the underground mall had two entrances, so I rushed back

879
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:54,519
to check the other one, but again I found nothing. Finally,

880
00:48:54,639 --> 00:48:56,719
I decided to return to the entrance that we had

881
00:48:56,760 --> 00:49:00,880
originally come down. If she wasn't there, would call the police.

882
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:04,599
As I returned to the entrance and started up the stairs,

883
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:07,599
I saw my mom. She was coming down the stairs,

884
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:10,519
and the moment she saw me, she cried, where have

885
00:49:10,599 --> 00:49:14,199
you been? I've searched everywhere. I then told her everything,

886
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:17,000
but she didn't believe a word of it. She insisted

887
00:49:17,039 --> 00:49:19,519
that she had waited for me outside the bookstore entrance

888
00:49:19,639 --> 00:49:22,400
for nearly ten minutes, and when I still hadn't come out,

889
00:49:22,599 --> 00:49:25,360
she went in to look for me. With no customers

890
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:28,119
in sight, she asked the store owner where the person

891
00:49:28,159 --> 00:49:31,360
who had just entered had gone. The owner then glanced

892
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:35,199
up and said, he just laughed, But how's that possible.

893
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:39,840
She then argued with him until it turned into a quarrel. Eventually,

894
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:43,320
she left the bookstore, searching everywhere for about twenty minutes

895
00:49:43,559 --> 00:49:48,000
and nearly crying. Now, I must emphasize that my mom

896
00:49:48,079 --> 00:49:50,639
was a deeply serious woman who never joked with me.

897
00:49:51,199 --> 00:49:54,000
At that time, she was under sixty, without a single

898
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:57,239
white hair, and had always been in excellent health. She

899
00:49:57,320 --> 00:50:00,320
and I had never had any history of psychiatric or

900
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:07,159
psychological disorders. Our minds remained clear. So did I enter

901
00:50:07,159 --> 00:50:09,760
a parallel universe when I stepped out of the bookstore.

902
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:15,960
That's absurd. Thank you for reading my stories and best

903
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:24,079
wishes to you and your family. Our next experience comes

904
00:50:24,119 --> 00:50:29,199
to us from Tina, and Tina's story is called Dark Presence.

905
00:50:30,679 --> 00:50:33,760
In August of nineteen eighty five, my family moved into

906
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:37,239
an older, two story home in Kissimi, Florida. I was

907
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:39,840
a very young teenager with a six week old son.

908
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:42,960
My parents gave me the downstairs bedroom that had a

909
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:46,119
bathroom attached to it. The very first night that we

910
00:50:46,119 --> 00:50:48,199
were in the home, I was in my room and

911
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:51,440
had walked into the bathroom and there was the most overwhelming,

912
00:50:51,599 --> 00:50:55,960
strongest smell of urine. The following night, the exact same

913
00:50:56,039 --> 00:50:59,000
smell was overpowering, and I called my mom and dad

914
00:50:59,039 --> 00:51:01,320
into the bathroom and I asked them if they could

915
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:05,400
smell it. Both of them said that they smelled absolutely nothing.

916
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:08,840
From day one. The moment that I set foot into

917
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:12,559
the home, I felt something really dark. The home scared

918
00:51:12,599 --> 00:51:15,480
me about a week and was living there. I told

919
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:18,079
my mom how uncomfortable I was in the home and

920
00:51:18,119 --> 00:51:21,639
that I wasn't exactly sure why. It was probably a

921
00:51:21,639 --> 00:51:23,840
week later when I took my son to change his

922
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:26,679
diaper and I swaddled him in his blanket and he

923
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:30,239
quickly fell asleep in my arms. My family decided to

924
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:33,320
go shopping, and with my son falling asleep, I opted

925
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:37,760
out and I decided to stay home. I was home alone.

926
00:51:38,079 --> 00:51:40,440
Our living room had a partial wall that separated the

927
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:43,159
living room from the kitchen, so I took my son

928
00:51:43,199 --> 00:51:45,480
into the living room area and I placed him in

929
00:51:45,519 --> 00:51:47,880
the middle of our long couch, up against the seating

930
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:50,679
area and where your back would be at the end

931
00:51:50,719 --> 00:51:53,199
of the couch. On both sides, we had an end table.

932
00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:56,800
I walked around the partial wall, turned down the gas stove,

933
00:51:57,079 --> 00:51:59,280
and I placed some soup in a pan and I

934
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:02,960
began warming up. Out of nowhere, I heard my six

935
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:06,440
week old son screaming. I have never heard a baby cry,

936
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:10,320
and scream so hard before I immediately turned the stove off,

937
00:52:10,599 --> 00:52:12,440
took the pot of soup and set it off to

938
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:14,639
the side on the counter, and I went straight to

939
00:52:14,679 --> 00:52:16,840
the living room to the couch where I had left

940
00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:20,360
my son. The whole time, I could hear my son screaming,

941
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:24,440
but my son was not on the couch. I must

942
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:27,639
have stood there for a few seconds in total disbelief.

943
00:52:28,559 --> 00:52:30,559
I turned my head as I could hear my son

944
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:33,639
screaming coming from the right side where I was standing.

945
00:52:34,079 --> 00:52:36,239
I ran to the end of the couch, looked down

946
00:52:36,679 --> 00:52:40,119
and I saw my son still perfectly swaddled in his blanket,

947
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:43,039
and he was underneath the middle of the end table

948
00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:45,960
at the end of the couch. I quickly took my

949
00:52:46,039 --> 00:52:48,119
son in my arms and I placed him against my

950
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:52,000
chest and began crying in fear and uncertainty of what

951
00:52:52,079 --> 00:52:55,800
had just occurred. I scanned the room and immediately checked

952
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:58,440
the front door, which was locked as I had locked

953
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:02,760
it when my family left. I looked everywhere downstairs and upstairs,

954
00:53:03,039 --> 00:53:05,800
but there was nobody there. I checked all the windows

955
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:09,840
and doors, but everything was secured and locked. With my

956
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:12,400
son still in my arms, as I was terrified to

957
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:14,639
let him out of my sight. I walked back to

958
00:53:14,679 --> 00:53:17,000
the kitchen to pour the soup into a bowl, and

959
00:53:17,079 --> 00:53:19,880
the pot of soup was back on the stove and

960
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:23,280
at a rapid boil. I don't recall if I ever

961
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:25,440
told my mom what had happened, but it was a

962
00:53:25,519 --> 00:53:28,800
very short time later that my mom announced that we

963
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:32,960
were moving. The following day, when our family was loading

964
00:53:33,039 --> 00:53:35,360
up our belongings into the truck, I had walked to

965
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:38,079
the mail box to get our mail. That's when a

966
00:53:38,119 --> 00:53:40,719
young boy, probably around the age of eight years old,

967
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:43,559
was riding his bike down the street. He came up

968
00:53:43,599 --> 00:53:47,079
beside me and stopped, looked at me, looked at the house,

969
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:49,880
and then looked back at me and said, you guys

970
00:53:49,880 --> 00:53:52,760
are moving out already. I told him, yes, that we

971
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:55,920
were moving, to which he replied, well, if you didn't

972
00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:58,320
know when you moved in, you know now that the

973
00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:02,280
house is haunted. Right then he just rode away on

974
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:06,519
his bike. To this day, I still get shivers running

975
00:54:06,559 --> 00:54:09,760
through me when I think about that day. Every detail

976
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:12,719
of that time plays in my head as if it

977
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:19,960
just happened. Our next experience comes to us from Manny

978
00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:25,440
and Mannie's experience is called when no one was home.

979
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:30,719
Mannie says py Nick. I've been listening to your podcast

980
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:33,199
for about six months now, and I really enjoy hearing

981
00:54:33,199 --> 00:54:36,519
your listener stories. Even though I get the creep sometimes

982
00:54:36,639 --> 00:54:38,760
it's nice knowing there are people out there who've had

983
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:41,559
similar experiences to the one I'm about to share with you.

984
00:54:42,679 --> 00:54:45,440
To give a little context, I live in Dallas and

985
00:54:45,519 --> 00:54:48,480
this happened during peak coved and I was fourteen at

986
00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:51,800
the time. My school, like most schools around the world,

987
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:55,480
switched to online classes. My parents and my brother still

988
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:58,199
had to work since the rules didn't apply to their jobs,

989
00:54:58,519 --> 00:55:02,440
so I would spend the entire morning by myself. One day,

990
00:55:02,639 --> 00:55:04,880
my mom woke me up as usual to get breakfast

991
00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:08,000
before they left. Whenever she'd leave for work, she'd always

992
00:55:08,079 --> 00:55:10,239
remind me to lock the door since I was still

993
00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:12,920
young and there were a lot of weirdows in our area.

994
00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:16,440
Just so you know, our door had double locks, meaning

995
00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:18,280
that if the key was removed from the lock on

996
00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:21,159
the inside, it was impossible to open the door from

997
00:55:21,159 --> 00:55:24,400
either side. Without the key, there was no way anyone

998
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:27,960
could get in unless they broke the door down. So

999
00:55:28,239 --> 00:55:30,760
after my parents left, I double locked the door like

1000
00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:32,960
they always told me to, and I turned on my

1001
00:55:33,079 --> 00:55:36,519
computer and I joined my Zoom class like usual. After

1002
00:55:36,599 --> 00:55:39,400
class ended, I decided to go to the bathroom, and

1003
00:55:39,559 --> 00:55:41,800
even though I was alone, I closed the door out

1004
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:45,320
of habit And here's where things got a little weird.

1005
00:55:46,159 --> 00:55:49,119
I usually scroll through social media while doing my business.

1006
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:52,679
Don't ask me why, It's just something I do. This

1007
00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:56,000
is when I started hearing heavy footsteps. I didn't think

1008
00:55:56,079 --> 00:55:57,800
much of it at first, since I lived in an

1009
00:55:57,800 --> 00:56:00,440
apartment complex and it could have just been someone on

1010
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:05,159
another floor. But then the footsteps stopped. About ten or

1011
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:09,400
twenty seconds later, something or someone knocked on the bathroom

1012
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:14,519
door three soft knocks. Trying to stay calm, I told

1013
00:56:14,519 --> 00:56:17,440
myself it was just noise from another floor. But then

1014
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:20,960
whatever it was hit the door three times, super hard,

1015
00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:24,079
like it was trying to break it down. I whispered

1016
00:56:24,079 --> 00:56:28,679
to myself, what the f is going on? And I froze.

1017
00:56:29,159 --> 00:56:32,199
I stood there for what felt like five minutes, just listening,

1018
00:56:32,599 --> 00:56:36,079
waiting to see if it would happen again. I finished

1019
00:56:36,079 --> 00:56:38,559
my business and tried calling my parents to tell them

1020
00:56:38,559 --> 00:56:41,280
that someone might be in the apartment, but none of

1021
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:44,320
them answered. I finally worked up the courage to leave

1022
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:47,480
the bathroom, and I grabbed the only quote unquote weapon

1023
00:56:47,559 --> 00:56:50,159
that I could find, which was a plunger, and I

1024
00:56:50,199 --> 00:56:54,440
slowly opened the door. I crept around the apartment, checking everything,

1025
00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:57,760
but there was no one there. I checked every window,

1026
00:56:58,119 --> 00:57:00,719
The front door was still locked, no signs of a

1027
00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:04,519
break in. Nothing. I went to my room and waited

1028
00:57:04,599 --> 00:57:07,920
until my parents got home. Then I told them everything,

1029
00:57:08,199 --> 00:57:12,719
and they checked the entire apartment again, still nothing. That

1030
00:57:12,880 --> 00:57:16,840
was the only and hopefully last, unexplainable thing that has

1031
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:20,079
ever happened to me. One last thing that I'd like

1032
00:57:20,119 --> 00:57:23,000
to add is that, ever since that day, every time

1033
00:57:23,039 --> 00:57:26,519
I tell someone this story, my eyes get watery. But

1034
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:30,960
I don't know why. If anyone else has experienced something similar,

1035
00:57:31,599 --> 00:57:41,360
please let me know, sincerely, Manny. This next experience comes

1036
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:46,159
to us from Cassandra, and Cassandra calls her experience the

1037
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:52,519
dark glob in the house for Sale. Cassandra says it

1038
00:57:52,639 --> 00:57:55,519
was a small, non glamorous house built in what I

1039
00:57:55,599 --> 00:57:58,519
recall as the nineteen fifties on a long street that

1040
00:57:58,599 --> 00:58:02,000
was filled with similar houses. A little remodeling had been

1041
00:58:02,039 --> 00:58:05,039
done to this house, but nothing special or over the top.

1042
00:58:05,119 --> 00:58:08,280
To make me reach immediately for my check book. As

1043
00:58:08,320 --> 00:58:11,039
I and my real estate agent entered in February of

1044
00:58:11,079 --> 00:58:14,599
twenty twenty, there was no sign of the previous owners whatsoever.

1045
00:58:15,079 --> 00:58:18,400
Every spec of their existence had been removed or relocated

1046
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:21,360
to somewhere else. How long had this house been empty?

1047
00:58:21,719 --> 00:58:24,400
I don't know. I was new to the area and

1048
00:58:24,519 --> 00:58:27,239
anxious to get settled, but I don't leap at every

1049
00:58:27,239 --> 00:58:30,079
fly that comes along, and something told me that it

1050
00:58:30,119 --> 00:58:33,679
wouldn't be this house. The front door opened to a

1051
00:58:33,719 --> 00:58:37,000
small living room, then an odd kitchen, and after a

1052
00:58:37,079 --> 00:58:39,719
jog left and a step down, there was a ho

1053
00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:42,480
hum den, as if this had been a cheap edition.

1054
00:58:42,639 --> 00:58:45,920
Later on, I remember entering the back yard from here,

1055
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:48,920
but I was already not impressed, and I was ready

1056
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:51,440
to move on to the next showing. As much as

1057
00:58:51,440 --> 00:58:54,679
I love gardens and patios and flowers and trees, there

1058
00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:57,079
was nothing of that, as if this house had no

1059
00:58:57,199 --> 00:59:00,719
life at all, inside or out. I took only a

1060
00:59:00,760 --> 00:59:04,880
few steps before coming back inside. My reeltor and I

1061
00:59:05,079 --> 00:59:07,480
re entered the kitchen and walked to the hallway. In

1062
00:59:07,559 --> 00:59:10,400
between the kitchen and living room. I looked down the

1063
00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:13,159
hallway and noticed that out of the four rooms adjoining

1064
00:59:13,199 --> 00:59:16,679
the hallway, only one door was closed. It was the

1065
00:59:16,719 --> 00:59:19,039
bedroom door at the end of the hallway and to

1066
00:59:19,119 --> 00:59:24,239
the left. Immediately I stopped and stared. My intuition said,

1067
00:59:24,800 --> 00:59:28,440
this isn't good. That door shouldn't be closed, especially when

1068
00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:32,559
all the other doors are open. More importantly, who closed it?

1069
00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:36,760
Unbeknownst to me at the time, my reeltor's intuition told her,

1070
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:39,639
I don't want to open that door, but as a

1071
00:59:39,679 --> 00:59:43,400
real tour I'm obliged to show the house. As we

1072
00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:46,280
progressed down the hallway, first up was the bathroom on

1073
00:59:46,320 --> 00:59:49,360
the left, then a small bedroom on the right, and

1074
00:59:49,480 --> 00:59:51,920
next to it was a small master bedroom with a

1075
00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:55,519
small bath typical of that time period. The only thing

1076
00:59:55,599 --> 00:59:57,440
left to look at was the room at the end

1077
00:59:57,480 --> 01:00:00,480
of the hallway on the left, the one with the

1078
01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:05,440
closed door. My realtor opened the door and entered The room,

1079
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:08,840
like all the others, was completely devoid of anything personal.

1080
01:00:09,519 --> 01:00:11,840
She talked about the bedroom and went to the closet

1081
01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:14,719
doors to open them again. They were typical of the

1082
01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:17,639
time period. It was a small closet with doors that

1083
01:00:17,719 --> 01:00:20,480
slide left and right. I could see them from the

1084
01:00:20,519 --> 01:00:24,079
doorway of the room. As she did this, I tried

1085
01:00:24,079 --> 01:00:27,440
to enter the room, but my feet wouldn't budge, not

1086
01:00:27,599 --> 01:00:30,400
for nothing. I looked down at my feet that were

1087
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:32,960
seemingly stuck to the floor and would not cross the

1088
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:37,000
threshold into that room. My feet stood stuck in the doorway.

1089
01:00:37,639 --> 01:00:39,920
In fifty eight years of living at that time and

1090
01:00:40,039 --> 01:00:43,840
having paranormal experiences out the wazoo for several years, my

1091
01:00:43,960 --> 01:00:47,840
feet have never refused to move. I asked them, point blank,

1092
01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:51,360
why have you stopped. I am bewildered. Tell me what's

1093
01:00:51,400 --> 01:00:55,159
going on. Simultaneously, as I looked at my feet, I

1094
01:00:55,199 --> 01:00:58,400
began shouting out loud, I will not enter that room.

1095
01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:03,440
I will not enter that room. I cannot enter that room.

1096
01:01:03,760 --> 01:01:06,119
At the same time that I was shouting, my realtor

1097
01:01:06,199 --> 01:01:08,960
began shouting, I must get out of this room. I

1098
01:01:09,079 --> 01:01:11,800
must get out of this room. And like a linebacker,

1099
01:01:12,039 --> 01:01:15,039
she turned toward me, eyes as wide as pies, and

1100
01:01:15,119 --> 01:01:18,480
she started running directly towards me. Queue to my feet,

1101
01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:22,960
get out of here now. We both ran toward the kitchen,

1102
01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:26,599
where my realtor had left the house keys. We escaped outside,

1103
01:01:26,880 --> 01:01:29,519
and she nervously locked the door and returned the keys

1104
01:01:29,519 --> 01:01:31,599
to the odd location on the side of the house

1105
01:01:31,639 --> 01:01:34,320
that was attached to the gas meter, not the front door,

1106
01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:37,719
which is typical, which we both thought was very unusual.

1107
01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:41,079
We stood there, shaking in the front yard, short of

1108
01:01:41,159 --> 01:01:44,719
breath and asking each other over and over, what was that?

1109
01:01:45,320 --> 01:01:49,000
What was that? As we talked later in compared notes,

1110
01:01:49,199 --> 01:01:51,320
we both thought of just flat out running down the

1111
01:01:51,360 --> 01:01:54,000
street at full notch, even though both of our cars

1112
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:57,559
were parked just feet away at the curb. We eventually

1113
01:01:57,599 --> 01:02:00,119
retreated to the street to get off the property, but

1114
01:02:00,159 --> 01:02:02,519
it still took us a bit to calm down. Our

1115
01:02:02,559 --> 01:02:06,159
breathing was heavy and almost frantic. It took about thirty

1116
01:02:06,199 --> 01:02:09,639
minutes before either of us could drive. We then followed

1117
01:02:09,639 --> 01:02:12,599
each other out of the subdivision to ensure our safety.

1118
01:02:13,840 --> 01:02:15,800
There is a part two to this story, when I

1119
01:02:15,880 --> 01:02:18,400
hired the same realtor to sell the house I eventually

1120
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:21,599
bought in March of twenty twenty with her help. It

1121
01:02:21,679 --> 01:02:24,199
was sold in April of twenty twenty five, and it

1122
01:02:24,280 --> 01:02:27,880
was filled to the top with paranormal activity. It affected me,

1123
01:02:28,320 --> 01:02:31,320
my new husband, and our new puppy every day. I

1124
01:02:31,320 --> 01:02:33,159
would love to tell you about it if you would

1125
01:02:33,199 --> 01:02:36,679
be willing to hear it. There were voices, things flying

1126
01:02:36,719 --> 01:02:41,400
off shelves, the sound of metal clanging or wood rolling, visions,

1127
01:02:41,840 --> 01:02:46,119
footsteps continually waking up at three a m. Whispers from

1128
01:02:46,199 --> 01:02:51,199
dark entities with names not our own, seeing former owners, portals,

1129
01:02:51,760 --> 01:02:57,480
physical attacks, and more. I also meditated years later, and

1130
01:02:57,519 --> 01:02:59,239
I was shown that there was a creature in that

1131
01:02:59,320 --> 01:03:02,320
first house we toured that was a black like glob

1132
01:03:02,719 --> 01:03:05,280
and it had tricked its way into a child's bedroom.

1133
01:03:05,920 --> 01:03:08,320
It was not a good entity, and if I had

1134
01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:11,280
been able to enter that bedroom, that door would have

1135
01:03:11,320 --> 01:03:19,440
shut and locked behind us. Our next experience comes to

1136
01:03:19,559 --> 01:03:24,320
us from anonymous and their experience is called Ghosts of

1137
01:03:24,440 --> 01:03:29,119
Dacasville Elementary School. Hello Nick, I'm a huge fan of

1138
01:03:29,159 --> 01:03:31,320
the show, and I wanted to share with you one

1139
01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:35,519
of the few paranormal experiences that I've had while attending college.

1140
01:03:35,559 --> 01:03:37,960
In this story, I'm really more of a person retelling

1141
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:41,079
others' experiences, but I did fully believe them to be

1142
01:03:41,159 --> 01:03:43,920
true because of the energy that I felt there, as

1143
01:03:43,920 --> 01:03:48,039
well as seeing telltale signs of a haunting. The year

1144
01:03:48,119 --> 01:03:50,639
was twenty nineteen and I was in my senior year

1145
01:03:50,679 --> 01:03:54,880
of college as an elementary education major. In your final semester,

1146
01:03:55,039 --> 01:03:57,320
you are with a student teacher and are assigned to

1147
01:03:57,320 --> 01:04:01,679
a school. I was assigned to Dakasville Elementary in Pickens County,

1148
01:04:01,719 --> 01:04:04,599
South Carolina. I am about to share with you what

1149
01:04:04,679 --> 01:04:08,000
I witnessed and heard in this quiet and dark corner

1150
01:04:08,480 --> 01:04:12,599
of South Carolina. Upon learning of my assignment, I got

1151
01:04:12,599 --> 01:04:15,079
to researching the school, as we are so encouraged to

1152
01:04:15,119 --> 01:04:17,920
do because you want to be mentally prepared and you

1153
01:04:17,960 --> 01:04:21,360
want to structure your classroom to your student's needs. In

1154
01:04:21,400 --> 01:04:24,440
that research, I learned that Dakisville has a very dark,

1155
01:04:24,719 --> 01:04:28,800
unsettling history, including its elementary school. As I discovered several

1156
01:04:28,880 --> 01:04:32,079
years back that the school experienced the tragedy in which

1157
01:04:32,119 --> 01:04:34,639
two students that were siblings were taken home by their

1158
01:04:34,679 --> 01:04:38,599
mother after school dismissed. They never returned because their mother

1159
01:04:38,760 --> 01:04:42,679
tragically murdered them. Regardless of learning of this tragic and

1160
01:04:42,719 --> 01:04:45,519
disturbing news, though, I went into that school with a

1161
01:04:45,559 --> 01:04:48,199
heart to teach and the hope to make a positive

1162
01:04:48,239 --> 01:04:51,960
impact on the students. Every day, I would arrive early

1163
01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:54,119
with the other's staff, and I noticed that it was

1164
01:04:54,159 --> 01:04:56,920
always extremely cold in the building, even when the air

1165
01:04:57,039 --> 01:04:59,960
was not flowing, and honestly, it was just super cold

1166
01:05:00,119 --> 01:05:02,440
in certain parts of the classroom I was teaching in.

1167
01:05:02,920 --> 01:05:05,679
It was normal for students and teachers alike to need

1168
01:05:05,719 --> 01:05:09,639
a sweater or jacket when in the building. Additionally, I

1169
01:05:09,679 --> 01:05:13,119
always noticed lights, in particular hanging polka dots they had

1170
01:05:13,159 --> 01:05:16,000
in the entrance way swinging back and forth, but I

1171
01:05:16,039 --> 01:05:18,360
never thought anything of it because I was not as

1172
01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:21,159
aware of the supernatural at that point, and I just

1173
01:05:21,239 --> 01:05:25,320
thought that it was the air conditioning. One afternoon, myself

1174
01:05:25,360 --> 01:05:27,360
and the teacher that I was working with and her

1175
01:05:27,400 --> 01:05:30,760
assistant were sitting and just chatting after school when we

1176
01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:34,920
randomly got into supernatural topics. I shared my first paranormal

1177
01:05:34,960 --> 01:05:39,400
experience at what we call Crybebe Bridge in Upstate, referring

1178
01:05:39,440 --> 01:05:43,280
to a haunted bridge in Anderson, South Carolina. It's another

1179
01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:47,840
story that I'll share another day. After telling my terrifying tale,

1180
01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:50,760
they both kind of laughed and then told me, you

1181
01:05:50,840 --> 01:05:54,039
know this school is haunted, right And I laughed and said, no,

1182
01:05:54,159 --> 01:05:56,760
it's not. I then saw them both look at each

1183
01:05:56,800 --> 01:05:59,840
other and they then assured me that it indeed was.

1184
01:06:00,599 --> 01:06:02,559
Why do you think it's always cold in the building?

1185
01:06:02,719 --> 01:06:06,320
And random lights are flickering and swinging, they said. They

1186
01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:08,800
also told me that even the middle school next door

1187
01:06:08,840 --> 01:06:12,639
has a ghost of a little girl that they've named Natalie.

1188
01:06:12,719 --> 01:06:16,440
I was hesitant to believe, but after my first paranormal experience,

1189
01:06:16,800 --> 01:06:21,039
I knew that these things were very real. Needless to say,

1190
01:06:21,320 --> 01:06:24,920
these coworkers had my attention. In fact, these ladies were

1191
01:06:24,960 --> 01:06:27,639
so excited to talk about the subject of the paranormal

1192
01:06:27,639 --> 01:06:30,599
occurrences at the school they took me to other staff

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01:06:30,639 --> 01:06:33,320
to hear their stories, probably to show me that they

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01:06:33,360 --> 01:06:37,599
weren't making this up. The school janitors both shared their experiences,

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01:06:37,800 --> 01:06:40,840
with one mentioning staying later in the evening and seeing

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01:06:40,880 --> 01:06:43,519
a tall man in a Civil War uniform going in

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01:06:43,599 --> 01:06:46,559
and out of the classrooms. The other one stayed behind

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01:06:46,639 --> 01:06:49,199
during a fire drill to clean the bathroom and heard

1199
01:06:49,199 --> 01:06:52,960
a little scream saying make it stop, and it sounded

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01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:55,559
exactly like a student that we were teaching. But the

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01:06:55,639 --> 01:06:57,760
janitor knew for sure there were no students in the

1202
01:06:57,760 --> 01:06:59,920
building or in the bathroom due to them all being

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01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:03,360
being outside during the fire drill. In fact, he was

1204
01:07:03,400 --> 01:07:06,119
even able to video record the voice, and he showed

1205
01:07:06,159 --> 01:07:08,440
it to me and I remember the shivers. It gave

1206
01:07:08,519 --> 01:07:11,800
me down my spine. The last story that I heard

1207
01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:14,400
about that day was a teacher that stayed behind with

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01:07:14,480 --> 01:07:17,400
her daughter, planning and preparing for a fun lesson the

1209
01:07:17,440 --> 01:07:20,960
next day. Everyone had gone home for the day. This

1210
01:07:21,159 --> 01:07:23,840
they knew for sure because the building was locked, no

1211
01:07:23,880 --> 01:07:26,400
one was in the parking lot, and also the staff

1212
01:07:26,400 --> 01:07:28,519
had made sure when she would leave the building that

1213
01:07:28,599 --> 01:07:32,519
she would lock the door and engage the security system.

1214
01:07:32,719 --> 01:07:35,320
While they were wrapping up their preparations, they heard a

1215
01:07:35,360 --> 01:07:38,199
man whistling a tune and footsteps in the distance of

1216
01:07:38,239 --> 01:07:42,800
the hallway. The daughter slowly turned to her mother and asked, Mommy,

1217
01:07:43,159 --> 01:07:46,159
did you hear that? This staff member said that it

1218
01:07:46,199 --> 01:07:48,440
wasn't but two seconds later that they dropped what they

1219
01:07:48,480 --> 01:07:52,800
were doing, grabbed their things, and they went home. While

1220
01:07:52,880 --> 01:07:56,320
she was telling me this story, an administration staff overheard

1221
01:07:56,519 --> 01:07:59,239
and came up and asked, are y'all telling the student

1222
01:07:59,280 --> 01:08:02,960
teacher about air? It's kind of like Meredith, but put

1223
01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:06,840
an air instead of Mayre at the beginning. ALDA staff

1224
01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:11,079
enthusiastically told her yes, and she proceeded to tell me, Yep,

1225
01:08:11,159 --> 01:08:14,159
you're gonna see a lot of swinging banners, lights and

1226
01:08:14,239 --> 01:08:17,319
polka dots swinging Aradath is what we call the ghost

1227
01:08:17,439 --> 01:08:20,640
that hangs onto all the lights. We've even had professionals

1228
01:08:20,680 --> 01:08:25,159
come out here, and they've all reported no airflow. I

1229
01:08:25,239 --> 01:08:28,199
was honestly too stunned to speak after hearing these stories.

1230
01:08:28,439 --> 01:08:31,439
But my whole time there, the lights definitely flickered and

1231
01:08:31,520 --> 01:08:34,600
swung aggressively, and I definitely didn't stay long enough in

1232
01:08:34,640 --> 01:08:37,079
the evenings to find out if there were any ghost

1233
01:08:37,079 --> 01:08:41,640
sightings or hear their sounds of eerie whistling tunes. There

1234
01:08:41,640 --> 01:08:44,720
were more occurrences there, for sure, with whatever was dwelling

1235
01:08:44,760 --> 01:08:47,960
in that school, and there was an undeniable heavy feeling

1236
01:08:48,319 --> 01:08:52,039
upon the building. As amazingly beautiful of a place as

1237
01:08:52,079 --> 01:08:56,520
the Greenville, Spartanburg, and Pickens County areas in South Carolina are,

1238
01:08:57,039 --> 01:09:00,880
they do have an undeniable haunting history and tear fine tales,

1239
01:09:01,439 --> 01:09:04,399
and this is simply the tip of the iceberg of

1240
01:09:04,479 --> 01:09:12,800
its haunting past. Before I continue, please consider showing your

1241
01:09:12,840 --> 01:09:17,279
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1242
01:09:17,680 --> 01:09:20,760
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01:09:20,960 --> 01:09:23,840
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01:09:26,439 --> 01:09:29,439
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1246
01:09:29,520 --> 01:09:32,840
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1247
01:09:32,880 --> 01:09:35,000
to the show is the best support of all and

1248
01:09:35,039 --> 01:09:39,119
I'm grateful to have you here. Now. Please stay tuned

1249
01:09:39,479 --> 01:09:46,760
and I'll be right back. After these brief messages, our

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01:09:46,800 --> 01:09:49,520
next experience of the night comes to us from Kate,

1251
01:09:50,279 --> 01:09:56,119
and Kate's experience is called a Grateful Ghost. Hi. Nick,

1252
01:09:56,399 --> 01:09:58,560
I've been listening to your podcast for a few months

1253
01:09:58,560 --> 01:10:01,239
now and I've binge listened to all of it. I

1254
01:10:01,279 --> 01:10:04,800
really enjoy people's stories and learning about paranormal phenomena such

1255
01:10:04,840 --> 01:10:07,479
as the Mothman. I am a true believer of the

1256
01:10:07,520 --> 01:10:11,079
paranormal and I have a few stories to share today, though,

1257
01:10:11,239 --> 01:10:13,159
I thought i'd share a story that came to mind

1258
01:10:13,279 --> 01:10:16,399
when listening to podcasts number three forty one, as the

1259
01:10:16,399 --> 01:10:20,039
themes were somewhat similar. All the names in my experience

1260
01:10:20,239 --> 01:10:23,800
have been changed. Some years ago, I used to work

1261
01:10:23,840 --> 01:10:27,119
in a child protection unit in the UK. I often

1262
01:10:27,159 --> 01:10:30,199
worked with a friendly police officer named Jane, and we

1263
01:10:30,239 --> 01:10:33,560
would often chat about our past experiences within our respective

1264
01:10:33,600 --> 01:10:37,079
careers and home life. One day, she told me of

1265
01:10:37,119 --> 01:10:40,399
a very sad case of a child's death. The little

1266
01:10:40,439 --> 01:10:42,960
girl was six years old and had been killed by

1267
01:10:43,000 --> 01:10:46,720
her mother and stepfather. The death was a shock to everyone,

1268
01:10:46,960 --> 01:10:49,840
but also the neighbors of the family. The family were

1269
01:10:49,840 --> 01:10:52,199
considered well to do and they lived in a very

1270
01:10:52,239 --> 01:10:56,520
prestigious area of the town. The day after the child's death,

1271
01:10:56,880 --> 01:10:59,319
Jane was sent to the family home by her sergeant

1272
01:10:59,399 --> 01:11:04,000
to collect some When she arrived, the child's clothes, toys,

1273
01:11:04,199 --> 01:11:07,760
and life possessions were strewn in the gutter outside the home.

1274
01:11:08,479 --> 01:11:11,640
This shocked Jane beyond belief, and it showed what total

1275
01:11:11,680 --> 01:11:15,359
disregard the child's mother and stepfather had for her poor life.

1276
01:11:15,960 --> 01:11:18,840
Jane had also just had a baby girl herself, so

1277
01:11:19,000 --> 01:11:23,079
this really hit home and it upset her. Jane decided

1278
01:11:23,119 --> 01:11:26,039
to pick up a toy Teddy Bear, unbeknownst to anyone else,

1279
01:11:26,239 --> 01:11:28,159
and she took it to the local mortuary to be

1280
01:11:28,239 --> 01:11:31,840
placed with a little girl. Jane didn't want her feeling lonely,

1281
01:11:32,159 --> 01:11:34,680
and she never told her work colleagues about this as

1282
01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:37,880
she didn't want to get into trouble. Some months later,

1283
01:11:38,199 --> 01:11:41,760
Jane attended a Spiritualist church with her friend Jane didn't

1284
01:11:41,760 --> 01:11:44,399
really believe in all that, but she'd been persuaded to

1285
01:11:44,439 --> 01:11:47,479
go anyway. When she was in a circle at the church,

1286
01:11:47,760 --> 01:11:50,119
one woman kept staring at her, and it was making

1287
01:11:50,119 --> 01:11:53,479
her uncomfortable. When the session was over, Jane went to

1288
01:11:53,560 --> 01:11:55,960
leave hastily, but the woman caught up with her at

1289
01:11:55,960 --> 01:11:59,239
the exit. The woman said to Jane, I know you

1290
01:11:59,239 --> 01:12:01,680
don't believe in all this, but I have someone here

1291
01:12:01,680 --> 01:12:04,319
who is desperate to give you a message. It's a

1292
01:12:04,359 --> 01:12:07,279
little girl, and she is thanking you for the Teddy Bear.

1293
01:12:07,960 --> 01:12:13,720
She is forever grateful. Jane was dumbfounded and left very quickly.

1294
01:12:14,439 --> 01:12:18,880
Needless to say, Jane was then a believer. When she

1295
01:12:18,960 --> 01:12:21,960
told me this story, we both sat there and sobbed,

1296
01:12:22,399 --> 01:12:25,319
firstly at the cruelty of the incident, but then at

1297
01:12:25,319 --> 01:12:28,359
how grateful this little girl was. It just goes to

1298
01:12:28,439 --> 01:12:31,600
show that it's the little things that matter the most,

1299
01:12:32,199 --> 01:12:35,560
even to those who do not walk this earth anymore.

1300
01:12:36,800 --> 01:12:38,760
I have other stories here and there that I'll be

1301
01:12:38,800 --> 01:12:41,159
happy to share at some point, but I hope this

1302
01:12:41,199 --> 01:12:44,439
story provides some proof that life does go on, and

1303
01:12:44,479 --> 01:12:48,199
that our loved ones and those around us never truly

1304
01:12:48,640 --> 01:12:56,079
leave us. Our next few experiences come to us from

1305
01:12:56,159 --> 01:13:02,159
our TEMI, and their experiences are called childhood. I want

1306
01:13:02,199 --> 01:13:04,319
to thank you Nick for giving us all this wonderful

1307
01:13:04,359 --> 01:13:07,680
platform to share our experiences with others. It took me

1308
01:13:07,720 --> 01:13:09,760
a while, but I managed to get caught up on

1309
01:13:09,800 --> 01:13:12,840
all the episodes before offering up my own. I feel

1310
01:13:12,840 --> 01:13:15,319
like I have a few experiences that are rarely, if

1311
01:13:15,359 --> 01:13:20,840
ever spoken of. My first experience is called childhood memories.

1312
01:13:22,039 --> 01:13:25,199
The first memories I can consider being paranormal would be

1313
01:13:25,279 --> 01:13:28,039
when I was about five. On my dresser, I had

1314
01:13:28,079 --> 01:13:30,479
a can of Lincoln logs, and one night I heard

1315
01:13:30,520 --> 01:13:33,039
it shift on its own. I was still too short

1316
01:13:33,039 --> 01:13:35,079
to reach it myself, and it was next to my

1317
01:13:35,159 --> 01:13:38,199
closed door, so no one could have moved it. This

1318
01:13:38,279 --> 01:13:40,880
creeped me out, so my solution was to sleep with

1319
01:13:40,960 --> 01:13:43,239
my back to that side of the room from then on.

1320
01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:46,439
It worked for a short time, and then one night

1321
01:13:46,520 --> 01:13:49,600
I heard another noise, either right behind me or from

1322
01:13:49,720 --> 01:13:52,720
under the bed. This time I didn't even bother to

1323
01:13:52,800 --> 01:13:55,880
look or guess, and I then put my head under

1324
01:13:55,880 --> 01:13:59,279
the blanket. These two instances had me sleeping like this

1325
01:13:59,399 --> 01:14:02,720
into my early twenties, whether out of fear or just

1326
01:14:02,760 --> 01:14:07,000
growing accustomed to the habit I'll never know. When I

1327
01:14:07,039 --> 01:14:09,520
was about eight, we had moved into a new house,

1328
01:14:09,800 --> 01:14:12,359
a farm out in the middle of nowhere. I would

1329
01:14:12,359 --> 01:14:14,399
live there until I moved out to rent a place

1330
01:14:14,439 --> 01:14:18,039
with my fiance at age twenty three. The nearest town

1331
01:14:18,319 --> 01:14:20,760
was five minutes away by car, and it was small

1332
01:14:20,800 --> 01:14:24,119
at that The house was built in the early nineteen twenties.

1333
01:14:24,520 --> 01:14:26,880
Aside from the standard amenities that you would find in

1334
01:14:26,920 --> 01:14:29,560
a home, the second floor had been built as a kitchen,

1335
01:14:29,760 --> 01:14:32,399
with a door leading out onto the gently sloped roof.

1336
01:14:32,920 --> 01:14:34,600
It was an odd thing that it would have a

1337
01:14:34,720 --> 01:14:37,520
kitchen on the second floor, and we never really figured

1338
01:14:37,560 --> 01:14:40,920
out why. This had long been converted to a standard

1339
01:14:40,920 --> 01:14:45,000
bedroom and the kitchen was relocated directly below. There was

1340
01:14:45,039 --> 01:14:47,560
also a fully floored attic and a basement with an

1341
01:14:47,600 --> 01:14:50,439
old cistern built into it next to the furnace, and

1342
01:14:50,479 --> 01:14:54,399
a couple of cement wash basins across from that. While

1343
01:14:54,399 --> 01:14:56,840
there was never really a malevolent energy in the home,

1344
01:14:57,159 --> 01:15:00,560
some strange things did occur. First of which which my

1345
01:15:00,640 --> 01:15:03,199
mom had this horrible picture of a clown that she

1346
01:15:03,319 --> 01:15:05,600
wanted hung up in one of our rooms. Even in

1347
01:15:05,640 --> 01:15:08,520
the old house. We would always take it down as

1348
01:15:08,600 --> 01:15:10,520
it looked like the clown was going to pop out

1349
01:15:10,560 --> 01:15:13,560
of the picture and take us into it while we slept.

1350
01:15:14,119 --> 01:15:16,560
It was last attempted to be hung up in my room,

1351
01:15:16,920 --> 01:15:20,720
and one day the picture just disappeared. My mom didn't

1352
01:15:20,720 --> 01:15:22,880
know what happened to it, and she swears that she

1353
01:15:23,000 --> 01:15:26,159
never sold it. The second thing to go missing was

1354
01:15:26,199 --> 01:15:29,319
my dad's shotgun. My mom didn't like the gun being

1355
01:15:29,399 --> 01:15:31,840
out where us kids could get a hold of it. However,

1356
01:15:31,920 --> 01:15:34,359
we were all well informed that it wasn't a toy.

1357
01:15:34,920 --> 01:15:36,720
My dad made sure that we knew the kind of

1358
01:15:36,800 --> 01:15:40,600
damage guns could do and how loud it was. Again,

1359
01:15:40,880 --> 01:15:43,800
the shotgun was never sold or stolen, and I kind

1360
01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:46,000
of always figured that if we happened to tear into

1361
01:15:46,000 --> 01:15:49,840
the walls that we would find one or both inside somehow.

1362
01:15:50,960 --> 01:15:52,880
The one time that I felt really uneasy in the

1363
01:15:52,920 --> 01:15:56,000
house would be to go into the basement, usually alone,

1364
01:15:56,279 --> 01:15:59,800
and smash some cans for recycling. Between the cistern and

1365
01:15:59,800 --> 01:16:02,840
the wash basins. I would get a creepy feeling looking

1366
01:16:02,880 --> 01:16:05,960
toward the washer and dryer that now stood in that alcove.

1367
01:16:06,600 --> 01:16:08,920
I could chalk it up to remembering the scariness of

1368
01:16:08,920 --> 01:16:12,000
the boiler scene from home alone too, But even as

1369
01:16:12,000 --> 01:16:14,720
I grew up, I would still sense a presence coming

1370
01:16:14,760 --> 01:16:17,840
from that direction. I had ended up making a play

1371
01:16:17,960 --> 01:16:20,119
room with an old couch and TV down in that

1372
01:16:20,199 --> 01:16:23,720
basement in a separate room. I never had any issues there,

1373
01:16:24,079 --> 01:16:27,119
but between that door and getting up the stairs, I

1374
01:16:27,159 --> 01:16:31,399
often felt watched. The last odd thing that happened. While

1375
01:16:31,399 --> 01:16:33,960
the kids of my family lived there was a strange

1376
01:16:34,000 --> 01:16:37,199
patch of ceiling outside the master bedroom that would get

1377
01:16:37,239 --> 01:16:40,399
discolored and brownish, and it would smell of tuna fish

1378
01:16:40,439 --> 01:16:43,439
for several days. Once a year or so, my dad

1379
01:16:43,479 --> 01:16:46,880
had washed and disinfected it, repainted it, and even went

1380
01:16:46,920 --> 01:16:49,000
to the attic to clear it from the back side,

1381
01:16:49,319 --> 01:16:51,520
but it would always show up a year later with

1382
01:16:51,600 --> 01:16:54,960
that same smell. Eventually we gave up and just let

1383
01:16:55,000 --> 01:16:57,960
it be, as it never really caused any harm other

1384
01:16:58,039 --> 01:17:02,079
than the smell. I moved out, my parents would report

1385
01:17:02,159 --> 01:17:05,039
new things happening. They had hired a maid to come

1386
01:17:05,039 --> 01:17:07,560
in once a week to help keep things clean, and

1387
01:17:07,640 --> 01:17:09,800
she became a good friend of my parents while they

1388
01:17:09,840 --> 01:17:13,039
lived there. Every so often she would clean the kitchen

1389
01:17:13,119 --> 01:17:15,359
and put the chairs back in order before moving on

1390
01:17:15,399 --> 01:17:17,880
to the next room. But later she would come back

1391
01:17:17,880 --> 01:17:20,079
in and one of the chairs would be pulled out

1392
01:17:20,359 --> 01:17:22,600
like you would to sit and lace up your shoes,

1393
01:17:22,960 --> 01:17:26,479
or vice versa. Another time, she heard my dad come

1394
01:17:26,479 --> 01:17:29,239
in the main door from working outside, and she called

1395
01:17:29,239 --> 01:17:31,560
out to him to ask if he had forgotten something.

1396
01:17:32,199 --> 01:17:35,079
When no reply came, she went around the house and

1397
01:17:35,159 --> 01:17:38,199
found that he wasn't there. A few minutes later, my

1398
01:17:38,319 --> 01:17:41,239
dad actually did come back inside, and when she asked

1399
01:17:41,319 --> 01:17:44,399
him about coming in before, he didn't know anything about it.

1400
01:17:45,119 --> 01:17:46,840
We were all fairly certain that it had to be

1401
01:17:46,880 --> 01:17:49,880
an old farmer who had never left, a kindly father,

1402
01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:52,520
probably as we suspect that he may have been able

1403
01:17:52,560 --> 01:17:55,159
to take the gun away and maybe the painting as well.

1404
01:17:55,920 --> 01:17:58,159
We never heard of these kinds of things happening when

1405
01:17:58,239 --> 01:18:01,319
us kids were living there. Maybe he did his best

1406
01:18:01,560 --> 01:18:06,479
to not scare and upset us. My next experience is

1407
01:18:06,560 --> 01:18:12,239
called grandparents House. My grandparents house was a big home

1408
01:18:12,319 --> 01:18:15,239
in many ways. It was always full of life, from

1409
01:18:15,319 --> 01:18:18,600
raising five kids, taking in a foreign exchange student who

1410
01:18:18,600 --> 01:18:22,159
became like family to us, all providing food for hitchhikers

1411
01:18:22,199 --> 01:18:24,720
needing a home cooked meal in the sixties and seventies,

1412
01:18:25,159 --> 01:18:28,479
hosting aunts and uncles and cousins and grandkids every summer

1413
01:18:28,520 --> 01:18:31,479
to sell sweet corn at the roadside stands, and really

1414
01:18:31,600 --> 01:18:35,039
just being the center of the family unit. Countless happy

1415
01:18:35,039 --> 01:18:37,880
memories still come to me this day, even as they

1416
01:18:37,920 --> 01:18:41,600
both have passed on. But despite all that good energy

1417
01:18:41,600 --> 01:18:44,439
of devout Christians, there were a few times when I

1418
01:18:44,560 --> 01:18:47,399
was there that freaked me out. The first time, I

1419
01:18:47,479 --> 01:18:49,560
was in one of the back rooms with my cousins

1420
01:18:49,640 --> 01:18:52,000
during the summer, and it must have been about lunchtime

1421
01:18:52,079 --> 01:18:55,119
or so. The closet door was open and the bottom

1422
01:18:55,159 --> 01:18:58,079
section from wall to wall were dresser drawers tall enough

1423
01:18:58,119 --> 01:19:00,680
to be a place to sit if need be. In

1424
01:19:00,720 --> 01:19:03,159
front of that is the gap of maybe two inches.

1425
01:19:03,880 --> 01:19:06,199
I had looked over, and I saw a huge snake

1426
01:19:06,319 --> 01:19:09,319
going across the closet in that space, heading toward the

1427
01:19:09,319 --> 01:19:12,439
corner nearest the outer wall. It was the biggest snake

1428
01:19:12,520 --> 01:19:15,199
I had ever seen outside of a zoo. When I

1429
01:19:15,239 --> 01:19:17,199
felt safe enough to run out of the room, I

1430
01:19:17,279 --> 01:19:19,960
told my grandmother and my aunt, but when they checked

1431
01:19:20,000 --> 01:19:23,359
the room there was nothing there. I had even checked

1432
01:19:23,359 --> 01:19:25,960
some time later and there wasn't even a hole for

1433
01:19:26,039 --> 01:19:29,960
it to slither through. The second experience was a lamp

1434
01:19:30,039 --> 01:19:32,920
down in the finished basement, next to my grandfather's chair.

1435
01:19:33,359 --> 01:19:35,640
I can't recall if it was still a manual knob

1436
01:19:35,680 --> 01:19:37,680
on the lamp or if it was a touch lamp.

1437
01:19:38,000 --> 01:19:40,359
In either case, though no one was in the corner

1438
01:19:40,399 --> 01:19:43,199
as I came down the stairs. When the lamp turned

1439
01:19:43,239 --> 01:19:46,520
itself on, I jumped and I ran back upstairs to

1440
01:19:46,520 --> 01:19:49,520
tell everyone what I saw, but they just dismissed it.

1441
01:19:50,760 --> 01:19:53,359
The third, and perhaps the more questionable of the three,

1442
01:19:53,840 --> 01:19:56,000
was when I was in my playroom in the basement.

1443
01:19:56,439 --> 01:19:58,880
This was a full half of the full sized basement.

1444
01:19:59,600 --> 01:20:02,319
The light at the stairs was a double switch, meaning

1445
01:20:02,319 --> 01:20:04,720
that it could be turned on or off from either

1446
01:20:04,800 --> 01:20:07,560
switch at the top of the stairs or the bottom.

1447
01:20:07,920 --> 01:20:10,239
It became standard practice to flicker it when it was

1448
01:20:10,279 --> 01:20:12,680
time to eat, as there was usually someone in the

1449
01:20:12,720 --> 01:20:15,359
adult half of the basement, which had a chair for

1450
01:20:15,399 --> 01:20:19,199
each of my grandparents, a TV, and also two card tables.

1451
01:20:19,840 --> 01:20:22,399
This time, however, it was just me down there and

1452
01:20:22,479 --> 01:20:24,600
I was leaving the playroom when I saw the light

1453
01:20:24,680 --> 01:20:27,239
turn on, so I went up the stairs to see

1454
01:20:27,239 --> 01:20:30,199
what was up. However, no one claimed to have touched it,

1455
01:20:30,399 --> 01:20:32,640
and they said that maybe I just thought that it

1456
01:20:32,680 --> 01:20:35,199
turned on. Now, it could have just been one of

1457
01:20:35,239 --> 01:20:37,199
my cousins that did it just to mess with me.

1458
01:20:37,720 --> 01:20:40,359
They were of my older brother's age, and it wouldn't

1459
01:20:40,359 --> 01:20:42,800
have been too out of character to tease me and

1460
01:20:42,880 --> 01:20:49,720
deny it. However, it was strange. Nonetheless. My next experience

1461
01:20:49,840 --> 01:20:55,000
is called church camp. Before I became pagan, I had

1462
01:20:55,039 --> 01:20:57,760
spent my youth and teen years going to church camps.

1463
01:20:58,199 --> 01:21:00,720
My grandma would often volunteer to cook for the camp,

1464
01:21:00,960 --> 01:21:03,640
as that not only kept her involved but encouraged us

1465
01:21:03,760 --> 01:21:07,039
kids to participate as well. I enjoyed my time there

1466
01:21:07,079 --> 01:21:09,159
and I made a number of friends during that time.

1467
01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:13,399
Two events happened when I was about seventeen during the camps,

1468
01:21:13,600 --> 01:21:16,960
and this would have been nineteen ninety nine or two thousand.

1469
01:21:17,479 --> 01:21:20,399
The first one was during the summer. US older kids

1470
01:21:20,439 --> 01:21:22,640
and some of the counselors had decided that we wanted

1471
01:21:22,640 --> 01:21:24,800
to go and get ice cream in town, which was

1472
01:21:24,840 --> 01:21:27,760
perhaps a ten minute drive. I was still rather new

1473
01:21:27,760 --> 01:21:29,960
to driving, and I didn't know the town at all.

1474
01:21:30,439 --> 01:21:33,439
GPS and smartphones weren't really a thing then, or were

1475
01:21:33,479 --> 01:21:36,800
at least quite rare. To have so. Lacking a map,

1476
01:21:36,920 --> 01:21:38,800
I just figured that i'd be able to follow the

1477
01:21:38,840 --> 01:21:41,760
other car into town. It was dark out, so it

1478
01:21:41,840 --> 01:21:44,359
was likely after nine pm at this point, and the

1479
01:21:44,359 --> 01:21:47,680
streets weren't lit all that well. I thought that I

1480
01:21:47,760 --> 01:21:50,279
was following just fine, but I must have lost them.

1481
01:21:50,319 --> 01:21:54,039
After a turn, I crossed an intersection and suddenly headlights

1482
01:21:54,079 --> 01:21:56,680
came on right in front of me. Adrenaline hit me,

1483
01:21:56,960 --> 01:21:59,800
and everything seemed to slow down. It was too dark

1484
01:21:59,840 --> 01:22:02,199
to really see anything not lit up, but I heard

1485
01:22:02,239 --> 01:22:05,239
a nondescript voice in my head tell me to turn

1486
01:22:05,319 --> 01:22:08,920
right here. With no time to even process or question it,

1487
01:22:09,159 --> 01:22:12,000
I did so, and as luck or fate would have it,

1488
01:22:12,319 --> 01:22:15,279
there happened to be an empty parallel parking spot right there,

1489
01:22:15,640 --> 01:22:18,279
and just the one. The car that was coming at

1490
01:22:18,279 --> 01:22:21,319
me drove past, and after my heart started slowing down,

1491
01:22:21,600 --> 01:22:24,159
I noticed the road was a one way and I

1492
01:22:24,239 --> 01:22:27,439
was going the wrong way. I turned around and I

1493
01:22:27,520 --> 01:22:30,039
tried to continue finding my way to the ice cream place.

1494
01:22:30,680 --> 01:22:33,399
At the intersection, I looked for any sign, and I

1495
01:22:33,439 --> 01:22:36,079
saw one announcing the change to a one way, but

1496
01:22:36,119 --> 01:22:39,359
it was severely stripped of any reflective material. It was

1497
01:22:39,399 --> 01:22:42,600
impossible to know without crawling by it, knowing the town

1498
01:22:43,000 --> 01:22:46,319
or seeing it in daylight. Well, I got a little

1499
01:22:46,359 --> 01:22:48,760
lost and ended up giving up, and I made my

1500
01:22:48,800 --> 01:22:51,720
way back to camp about twenty minutes later. The other

1501
01:22:51,800 --> 01:22:54,399
group came back after ten minutes, and I told them

1502
01:22:54,399 --> 01:22:57,239
that I got lost, but I didn't mention the near accident.

1503
01:22:58,079 --> 01:23:00,680
I'm certain that I and my passion would have been

1504
01:23:00,720 --> 01:23:04,359
severely injured or killed had I not been told what

1505
01:23:04,520 --> 01:23:08,680
to do. The second incident was a bit more spooky

1506
01:23:08,960 --> 01:23:11,119
and longer still, and I would like to give a

1507
01:23:11,159 --> 01:23:14,079
trigger warning for the mention of suicide in this story.

1508
01:23:15,079 --> 01:23:17,119
I think it was early autumn when it was still

1509
01:23:17,199 --> 01:23:20,000
quite warm out. A friend wasn't having a good time

1510
01:23:20,039 --> 01:23:22,239
of things, and I don't know what was plaguing him

1511
01:23:22,239 --> 01:23:25,199
at home or whatever. He just wasn't in a good place.

1512
01:23:26,239 --> 01:23:29,279
Some time at or after dinner, he had gone missing.

1513
01:23:29,720 --> 01:23:32,239
There was some panic, but we quickly began setting up

1514
01:23:32,279 --> 01:23:35,439
search parties. With about forty kids and maybe ten or

1515
01:23:35,439 --> 01:23:37,960
so adults. We went out in groups of five or

1516
01:23:38,000 --> 01:23:41,560
six each searching certain areas of the camp. It was

1517
01:23:41,600 --> 01:23:44,279
a large area, but it was mostly open grass with

1518
01:23:44,319 --> 01:23:47,359
bunches of trees spread out. There was an old quarry

1519
01:23:47,399 --> 01:23:49,720
that was filled with water, which had a fence around

1520
01:23:49,720 --> 01:23:52,439
it and you couldn't really climb it without hurting yourself,

1521
01:23:52,640 --> 01:23:55,039
but a group with an adult was sent to investigate.

1522
01:23:55,680 --> 01:23:57,800
There was another area near the river that was also

1523
01:23:57,960 --> 01:24:01,319
checked out. The surrounding trees if the property were pretty

1524
01:24:01,319 --> 01:24:04,439
dense with undergrowth and poison ivy and it wasn't all

1525
01:24:04,479 --> 01:24:07,800
that traversible. Another group was sent to check the entrance

1526
01:24:07,840 --> 01:24:09,800
of the camp, as that was the only way to

1527
01:24:09,880 --> 01:24:12,920
drive or walk in and out of the property. I

1528
01:24:13,039 --> 01:24:14,760
was with the group that was sent to search the

1529
01:24:14,840 --> 01:24:17,920
area where our vs would sit during family camps, as

1530
01:24:17,960 --> 01:24:20,760
well as the old groundkeeper's house back when it had

1531
01:24:20,800 --> 01:24:23,760
one on the site. I kept mentioning that we should

1532
01:24:23,800 --> 01:24:26,199
be looking up because it wasn't human nature to look

1533
01:24:26,279 --> 01:24:28,600
up when looking for something, so if they didn't want

1534
01:24:28,640 --> 01:24:31,800
to be found, they would probably climb a tree. The

1535
01:24:31,840 --> 01:24:34,520
problem for my group was the trees in my area

1536
01:24:34,600 --> 01:24:37,560
were all old growth, with the lowest branch being some

1537
01:24:37,680 --> 01:24:39,800
thirty feet up and way too thick to get a

1538
01:24:39,840 --> 01:24:42,880
handhold to climb. As we reached the end of our

1539
01:24:42,920 --> 01:24:45,920
search zone and were wondering what to do, I suddenly

1540
01:24:45,920 --> 01:24:49,359
heard Clara's day, one of the girls say, we found him.

1541
01:24:49,560 --> 01:24:52,479
He's over here. I then told my group what I

1542
01:24:52,560 --> 01:24:55,640
heard now. Our plan for when he was found was

1543
01:24:55,640 --> 01:24:57,239
that we were all supposed to meet up at the

1544
01:24:57,279 --> 01:25:00,479
central location, which was the canteen hut. There was a

1545
01:25:00,479 --> 01:25:03,159
bell there that we were supposed to ring, so I

1546
01:25:03,239 --> 01:25:05,199
high tailed it over there and I rang the bell.

1547
01:25:05,760 --> 01:25:07,600
The cord to the bell slipped out of my hands

1548
01:25:07,600 --> 01:25:10,880
at first, and I couldn't grab it, so in my exuberance,

1549
01:25:11,039 --> 01:25:13,119
I just slapped the bell with my hand to get

1550
01:25:13,159 --> 01:25:16,399
it ringing. As the first people started to arrive, and

1551
01:25:16,399 --> 01:25:19,119
seeing that I didn't have anyone with me, they asked

1552
01:25:19,159 --> 01:25:21,960
me where he was. I then pointed directly at a

1553
01:25:22,000 --> 01:25:24,760
specific point in a group of trees across the grass

1554
01:25:24,800 --> 01:25:27,600
field that was about one hundred yards away. There was

1555
01:25:27,640 --> 01:25:30,000
an old oak tree and a sharp drop off about

1556
01:25:30,000 --> 01:25:33,239
ten feet to where we would have our bonfires. Well,

1557
01:25:33,239 --> 01:25:35,560
this was actually the place I thought of first when

1558
01:25:35,560 --> 01:25:38,439
we were assembling. Where I actually pointed to was to

1559
01:25:38,479 --> 01:25:41,359
the right of that oak, about fifty feet where some

1560
01:25:41,399 --> 01:25:45,520
smaller trees were. About thirty seconds after that, the group

1561
01:25:45,560 --> 01:25:48,079
of girls came walking out near that spot with a

1562
01:25:48,079 --> 01:25:52,479
boy in tow they walked calmly toward us. Now, before

1563
01:25:52,479 --> 01:25:55,399
I go on, let me make some things clear. The

1564
01:25:55,439 --> 01:25:57,399
girl I heard was one of the girls in that

1565
01:25:57,479 --> 01:26:00,640
group who found him. What I heard was not a yell,

1566
01:26:01,039 --> 01:26:03,359
but it was as if they were speaking right beside me.

1567
01:26:04,279 --> 01:26:07,359
A few years after this event, that girl died of cancer.

1568
01:26:07,880 --> 01:26:10,680
She also happened to be someone I had mutually agreed

1569
01:26:10,720 --> 01:26:13,319
to go to each other's proms together, since neither of

1570
01:26:13,399 --> 01:26:16,880
us were comfortable with anyone in our schools. I bring

1571
01:26:16,920 --> 01:26:19,319
this up because I think time as we know it

1572
01:26:19,399 --> 01:26:22,720
isn't linear, and after she passed on, she used our

1573
01:26:22,720 --> 01:26:26,319
connection to send a message into my past, the same

1574
01:26:26,359 --> 01:26:29,880
message that let me ring the bell. But now back

1575
01:26:29,920 --> 01:26:33,079
to the story. I found out later that he was

1576
01:26:33,119 --> 01:26:35,800
planning to hang himself in that tree and saw the

1577
01:26:35,800 --> 01:26:38,520
group of girls below him at that moment I had

1578
01:26:38,560 --> 01:26:40,960
rung the bell, and it struck him suddenly that we

1579
01:26:40,960 --> 01:26:43,840
were searching for him, and that we all cared. He

1580
01:26:43,880 --> 01:26:45,840
then dropped down from the tree right in front of

1581
01:26:45,840 --> 01:26:49,560
the group and gave up his attempt. We then all

1582
01:26:49,600 --> 01:26:52,000
went back to the main building, and the head counselor

1583
01:26:52,039 --> 01:26:54,119
and a couple others took him to a private room

1584
01:26:54,159 --> 01:26:57,079
to speak to him and to pray over him. Everyone

1585
01:26:57,159 --> 01:26:59,880
was elated or crying for a whole range of reasons.

1586
01:27:00,439 --> 01:27:03,399
Snacks were set out early, and anything that was planned

1587
01:27:03,479 --> 01:27:06,520
was canceled. I don't know how it all began, but

1588
01:27:06,600 --> 01:27:08,760
we made our way upstairs to the dorm room hall

1589
01:27:09,000 --> 01:27:12,960
and started singing praise songs. It was entirely camper led,

1590
01:27:13,279 --> 01:27:16,079
and we joined hands, singing for at least an hour.

1591
01:27:17,039 --> 01:27:19,199
At some point I noticed that the kid had come

1592
01:27:19,239 --> 01:27:22,119
out of the room and joined us. When I noticed him,

1593
01:27:22,239 --> 01:27:25,600
I asked, are you all right? And he said yeah,

1594
01:27:25,760 --> 01:27:29,079
with the biggest grin on his face. A short time later,

1595
01:27:29,319 --> 01:27:31,920
I noticed my grandma's sitting on the stairs behind us,

1596
01:27:32,159 --> 01:27:34,800
just listening to the singing. I left the group and

1597
01:27:34,880 --> 01:27:36,840
I sat down next to her, and she gave me

1598
01:27:36,880 --> 01:27:39,880
a hug. I then heard another voice in my head

1599
01:27:39,960 --> 01:27:44,439
say it's OK. You can let go now. At that point,

1600
01:27:44,560 --> 01:27:47,199
a huge weight or tension lifted from me, and I

1601
01:27:47,279 --> 01:27:52,600
fell into uncontrollable sobbing. I was happy, tired, sad, and

1602
01:27:52,760 --> 01:27:55,439
probably a few more emotions I couldn't put a name to.

1603
01:27:56,159 --> 01:27:58,840
I remember several kids stepping back to me and asking

1604
01:27:58,880 --> 01:28:01,840
if I was okay. However, the only response I could

1605
01:28:01,840 --> 01:28:04,560
give them was a nod of my head. It was

1606
01:28:04,600 --> 01:28:07,359
at least ten minutes of this before I could regain

1607
01:28:07,399 --> 01:28:11,840
my composure. I don't remember what exactly happened after that.

1608
01:28:12,319 --> 01:28:14,840
I think I had something to eat and drink. I

1609
01:28:14,880 --> 01:28:16,920
think we all sat in the circle of couches that

1610
01:28:16,960 --> 01:28:20,079
we called the pit, and we discussed what happened and

1611
01:28:20,119 --> 01:28:22,920
how we felt. However, that could have been the next day,

1612
01:28:23,399 --> 01:28:26,520
but regardless, we all eventually shuffled off toward bed, and

1613
01:28:26,600 --> 01:28:29,439
while I laid there, I recalled talking about what I

1614
01:28:29,479 --> 01:28:33,039
was feeling. I said, I feel like a great evil

1615
01:28:33,119 --> 01:28:36,439
is coming and this is only the beginning. I also

1616
01:28:36,479 --> 01:28:39,159
recall what I felt. I told my bunk mates that

1617
01:28:39,239 --> 01:28:41,600
I felt like I was holding back whatever evil had

1618
01:28:41,680 --> 01:28:44,359
visited us, like there was a big wall or dome

1619
01:28:44,479 --> 01:28:47,720
over everyone. I said that when I broke down, it

1620
01:28:47,760 --> 01:28:50,119
was like someone was taking over the task for me

1621
01:28:50,439 --> 01:28:52,560
and it was no longer something that I needed to

1622
01:28:52,640 --> 01:28:56,079
concern myself with. I also think that I was keeping

1623
01:28:56,159 --> 01:29:00,399
absolutely everything out, which wasn't as helpful as I had intended.

1624
01:29:01,439 --> 01:29:03,840
I asked the boy the next day what all happened,

1625
01:29:04,000 --> 01:29:06,600
and he didn't really remember anything after coming down from

1626
01:29:06,600 --> 01:29:08,960
the tree. I had also gone to look at the

1627
01:29:09,000 --> 01:29:11,760
area where he was found and to where I had pointed,

1628
01:29:12,000 --> 01:29:14,960
and there was a very climbable tree right there. None

1629
01:29:14,960 --> 01:29:17,600
of the other trees were hardy enough to support much weight.

1630
01:29:18,760 --> 01:29:21,680
This was actually a turning point in my life. While

1631
01:29:21,720 --> 01:29:24,039
I had always had a sense of being a defender,

1632
01:29:24,319 --> 01:29:26,920
this was the first time I actually felt like there

1633
01:29:26,960 --> 01:29:30,319
was a strength behind that will. The power of will

1634
01:29:30,359 --> 01:29:34,119
behind it was impressive. As I found my way to

1635
01:29:34,159 --> 01:29:37,640
paganism and exploring what abilities I have and can develop,

1636
01:29:38,079 --> 01:29:40,880
this has been my main path of work. I haven't

1637
01:29:40,880 --> 01:29:42,920
been able to feel that kind of raw strength in

1638
01:29:42,920 --> 01:29:45,640
my ability since, but I had let it go dormant

1639
01:29:45,680 --> 01:29:48,439
for years. It is only in the past eight years

1640
01:29:48,520 --> 01:29:50,640
or so that I've had to put some serious work

1641
01:29:50,640 --> 01:29:54,399
into it to learn to protect my family and my home. However,

1642
01:29:54,560 --> 01:29:57,399
that is a much longer story for another day, and

1643
01:29:57,520 --> 01:29:59,319
one that I hope to give my best effort to

1644
01:30:00,119 --> 01:30:07,600
since I hold it dear to my heart. Let's begin

1645
01:30:07,640 --> 01:30:14,359
tonight's journey with Mr, who calls their experience university demon attachment.

1646
01:30:15,880 --> 01:30:20,319
M R says, dear Nick, The following is an experience

1647
01:30:20,359 --> 01:30:23,319
I had in my third year of undergraduate studies at

1648
01:30:23,399 --> 01:30:27,119
university in New Brunswick, Canada, and it spanned a two

1649
01:30:27,159 --> 01:30:31,159
year period. I am generally a skeptic. While I have

1650
01:30:31,319 --> 01:30:34,319
always wanted to believe, I had never had any personal

1651
01:30:34,359 --> 01:30:37,560
experiences before this that I could say for certain were

1652
01:30:37,560 --> 01:30:41,439
in fact paranormal and that couldn't be explained rationally until

1653
01:30:41,439 --> 01:30:46,680
this experience, and I haven't really had any strong experiences since. However,

1654
01:30:46,920 --> 01:30:49,560
I know this happened, and I know it was scary.

1655
01:30:50,239 --> 01:30:52,600
It's a long story that has parts to it, so

1656
01:30:52,720 --> 01:30:57,520
I will break it into manageable sections. This is the introduction.

1657
01:30:59,119 --> 01:31:02,159
After having spent two years in the university dorms, my

1658
01:31:02,279 --> 01:31:04,680
dorm neighbor and I were excited to be moving out

1659
01:31:04,680 --> 01:31:07,600
on our own. We would have control over our diet

1660
01:31:07,640 --> 01:31:10,039
and environment, and it would just feel nice to have

1661
01:31:10,159 --> 01:31:12,720
kind of a home away from home rather than that

1662
01:31:12,800 --> 01:31:17,399
dormitory institution situation. A friend of mine who had just graduated,

1663
01:31:17,520 --> 01:31:20,000
had been living in an apartment above the student run

1664
01:31:20,159 --> 01:31:23,279
art gallery, which was down near the train tracks. I

1665
01:31:23,319 --> 01:31:25,880
had visited her for dinner a few times, and it

1666
01:31:25,920 --> 01:31:29,399
seemed cozy in a run down artistic student sort of way.

1667
01:31:30,000 --> 01:31:32,800
I was studying fine arts, and it felt like somehow

1668
01:31:32,840 --> 01:31:35,920
this starving artist vibe would, you know, help me be

1669
01:31:35,960 --> 01:31:41,159
a better artist. But I was young and had stupid ideas. Anyway,

1670
01:31:41,399 --> 01:31:44,039
they were moving out. It was cheap and cool, so

1671
01:31:44,079 --> 01:31:46,640
we wanted to move in. I was also dealing with

1672
01:31:46,680 --> 01:31:50,319
some spiritual questioning. I had spent the summer reading religious

1673
01:31:50,319 --> 01:31:53,560
texts like the Bible and the Buddhist texts, all spurred

1674
01:31:53,640 --> 01:31:56,960
on by reading Siddhartha by Hesse and having a battle

1675
01:31:57,000 --> 01:31:59,800
with an eating disorder, and still struggling with that. I

1676
01:31:59,880 --> 01:32:03,920
was leaning towards the attraction of asceticism. I don't know why,

1677
01:32:04,640 --> 01:32:07,439
looking back, I had always had some body image issues

1678
01:32:07,479 --> 01:32:10,439
growing up in the nineteen nineties, but also a schoolmate

1679
01:32:10,479 --> 01:32:12,439
of mine I grew up in a small town in

1680
01:32:12,479 --> 01:32:15,840
British Columbia died of anorexia at the age of fourteen.

1681
01:32:16,399 --> 01:32:19,800
I was thirteen, and now knowing that it's a social contagion,

1682
01:32:20,119 --> 01:32:22,760
I think this added to that kind of thing. So

1683
01:32:22,920 --> 01:32:26,119
while this might seem like an aside, this mindset does

1684
01:32:26,199 --> 01:32:30,520
play into the paranormal events that were to occur. The

1685
01:32:30,640 --> 01:32:34,479
layout of this apartment was as follows. The art gallery

1686
01:32:34,560 --> 01:32:37,079
was below and there were three or four units above it,

1687
01:32:37,239 --> 01:32:40,800
side by side, accessed by a long outside staircase and

1688
01:32:40,880 --> 01:32:43,640
a deck. The front door of the apartment led to

1689
01:32:43,680 --> 01:32:46,039
a long hallway at the end of which was a

1690
01:32:46,039 --> 01:32:49,960
small bathroom. On the left of the hallway were three bedrooms.

1691
01:32:50,319 --> 01:32:53,000
Mine was first, the second was for a friend who

1692
01:32:53,039 --> 01:32:55,680
stayed for a while but then decided to leave because

1693
01:32:55,680 --> 01:32:58,479
they liked the dorm better, and the third was my

1694
01:32:58,600 --> 01:33:01,439
friend Jays. On the right of the hallway was a

1695
01:33:01,479 --> 01:33:04,520
small living area and then a kitchen. The kitchen and

1696
01:33:04,640 --> 01:33:07,439
living area were connected by a kind of open pantry.

1697
01:33:08,000 --> 01:33:10,960
There were also windows in every bedroom looking out over

1698
01:33:11,000 --> 01:33:13,479
the marsh and the train tracks, and windows in the

1699
01:33:13,560 --> 01:33:16,800
kitchen and living room. Besides being a little run down

1700
01:33:16,840 --> 01:33:20,399
from student use, it was quite roomy and comfortable, as

1701
01:33:20,479 --> 01:33:22,880
is common on the East Coast. However, there was a

1702
01:33:22,880 --> 01:33:26,600
mildew issue. The bedrooms had mildew on the walls, so

1703
01:33:26,720 --> 01:33:30,199
we decided to do a bit of a renovation. This

1704
01:33:30,439 --> 01:33:33,680
next part of my story, I'm going to call Kenneth

1705
01:33:34,960 --> 01:33:37,000
Jay and I decided to tear down some of the

1706
01:33:37,079 --> 01:33:41,479
drywall in our rooms that were moldy. I replastered, albeit badly,

1707
01:33:41,840 --> 01:33:44,479
but she never got around to fixing hers, leaving her

1708
01:33:44,520 --> 01:33:47,760
wall kind of a lathe and plaster bare. I was

1709
01:33:47,800 --> 01:33:50,640
being crazy and I painted my floor an ice brown.

1710
01:33:51,039 --> 01:33:54,199
The walls were white, and everything else was clean. I

1711
01:33:54,239 --> 01:33:56,680
had a big closet so I could hide everything in there,

1712
01:33:56,960 --> 01:33:59,000
but I didn't want to spend money on a mattress,

1713
01:33:59,359 --> 01:34:01,279
so I got I got some cinder blocks and a

1714
01:34:01,279 --> 01:34:03,920
piece of plywood, and I decided that that would be

1715
01:34:04,000 --> 01:34:08,680
my bed to be more ascetic. Now, besides this ascetic

1716
01:34:08,800 --> 01:34:12,279
and eating disorder behavior and some emotional difficulties from my

1717
01:34:12,359 --> 01:34:16,239
female cycle, I'm a pretty normal person, and despite trying

1718
01:34:16,239 --> 01:34:19,760
to access spiritual planes, I was still a skeptic at heart.

1719
01:34:20,359 --> 01:34:23,119
My friend, on the other hand, is indigenous, and she

1720
01:34:23,199 --> 01:34:26,359
seems to be more in tune with spiritual things. To

1721
01:34:26,479 --> 01:34:28,520
my mind, I thought she was making it up a

1722
01:34:28,600 --> 01:34:31,720
little bit. That was always my private position when someone

1723
01:34:31,760 --> 01:34:35,039
told me about a paranormal experience, I always just kind

1724
01:34:35,079 --> 01:34:38,640
of thought they were convincing themselves with their imagination or

1725
01:34:38,680 --> 01:34:43,319
wishful thinking, et cetera. Since I never experienced anything for myself,

1726
01:34:43,680 --> 01:34:47,640
I figured it was all made up to some degree. Anyway,

1727
01:34:47,920 --> 01:34:50,520
I knew my friend was a little gullible in this way.

1728
01:34:50,840 --> 01:34:54,239
So when she painted her door and the name Kenneth appeared,

1729
01:34:54,520 --> 01:34:56,439
I took it as an opportunity to play a little

1730
01:34:56,560 --> 01:34:59,720
joke on her. I said, ooh, maybe your room is

1731
01:34:59,760 --> 01:35:02,800
haunt by Kenneth. As an art student, I knew that

1732
01:35:02,840 --> 01:35:05,680
if you paint with acrylic over something written in pencil

1733
01:35:05,800 --> 01:35:08,960
or pen, the pencil or pen will show through. I

1734
01:35:09,079 --> 01:35:11,640
laughed at it, but she took it kind of seriously

1735
01:35:11,960 --> 01:35:15,760
on a light level. Now, my friend Jade, to my mind,

1736
01:35:15,960 --> 01:35:18,560
was a bit of a scatterbrain, intended to lose things,

1737
01:35:18,680 --> 01:35:21,880
including my things, which I found a little annoying. So

1738
01:35:22,159 --> 01:35:23,920
when she told me that she'd put a hat or

1739
01:35:23,960 --> 01:35:26,319
a scarf for something on her bed and it then

1740
01:35:26,359 --> 01:35:28,680
went missing, I just chalked it up to her being

1741
01:35:28,680 --> 01:35:32,000
a flake and I didn't think much of it. She, however,

1742
01:35:32,279 --> 01:35:35,479
would blame Kenneth, and I would just laugh and encourage

1743
01:35:35,479 --> 01:35:38,199
her because I thought it was fun to imagine a haunting.

1744
01:35:38,800 --> 01:35:41,880
I've always been fascinated by the paranormal, and I wanted

1745
01:35:41,880 --> 01:35:44,880
an experience, so joking about it was as close as

1746
01:35:44,920 --> 01:35:48,680
I could get. I figured the first semester was pretty decent.

1747
01:35:48,920 --> 01:35:51,840
We had a lot of fun, hosted breakfast parties and

1748
01:35:52,000 --> 01:35:56,319
enjoyed our autonomy and besides missing things, everything seemed fine.

1749
01:35:56,800 --> 01:36:00,920
But then came the Christmas break disaster. I went home

1750
01:36:00,960 --> 01:36:03,600
for Christmas. It's a fourteen hour travel to b C

1751
01:36:03,800 --> 01:36:06,520
from New Brunswick, so it's quite a journey, and I

1752
01:36:06,600 --> 01:36:10,199
had a good Christmas resting and catching up with my family. However,

1753
01:36:10,439 --> 01:36:12,640
the night before I was scheduled to leave home for

1754
01:36:12,720 --> 01:36:15,159
school again, a friend of mine called me to tell

1755
01:36:15,199 --> 01:36:17,279
me that a very close friend of mine had been

1756
01:36:17,319 --> 01:36:20,760
in an avalanche and was on life support. In shock,

1757
01:36:20,880 --> 01:36:23,279
I said, oh, my god, is he going to be okay?

1758
01:36:23,840 --> 01:36:28,359
But she said no, you don't understand. He's already dead.

1759
01:36:29,239 --> 01:36:31,880
I was devastated. I wanted to go down to the

1760
01:36:32,079 --> 01:36:34,439
ice you at the hospital and say good bye, but

1761
01:36:34,479 --> 01:36:38,000
my mom advised against it. She's not someone that understands

1762
01:36:38,039 --> 01:36:41,880
the importance of closure. And also it was night snowing

1763
01:36:42,239 --> 01:36:45,520
and a somewhat dangerous drive down to the hospital, plus

1764
01:36:45,520 --> 01:36:48,399
I had to leave early the next morning. This was

1765
01:36:48,399 --> 01:36:50,600
a friend who had been very close to since I'd

1766
01:36:50,640 --> 01:36:53,319
moved to town at the age of twelve. Part of

1767
01:36:53,399 --> 01:36:55,720
me was in love with him, and part of him

1768
01:36:56,119 --> 01:36:58,319
was in love with me, but we had always been

1769
01:36:58,399 --> 01:37:01,840
somewhat star crossed for some reason though, I always had

1770
01:37:01,840 --> 01:37:04,279
this feeling about him, like I was worried about him,

1771
01:37:04,319 --> 01:37:07,159
and I could never say why. But when this happened,

1772
01:37:07,479 --> 01:37:11,279
that feeling made sense. He was only twenty when he died.

1773
01:37:11,760 --> 01:37:14,960
We hadn't ended things between us well, and that alone

1774
01:37:15,399 --> 01:37:18,319
haunted me. I had to go back to school and

1775
01:37:18,359 --> 01:37:20,680
move on, but no one around me knew my friend.

1776
01:37:21,000 --> 01:37:24,039
They didn't understand what I was going through. I myself

1777
01:37:24,079 --> 01:37:26,840
didn't fully understand how grief works through the body the

1778
01:37:26,880 --> 01:37:29,279
way it does at that age, so I felt very

1779
01:37:29,319 --> 01:37:32,159
isolated in my grief and it started showing up as

1780
01:37:32,239 --> 01:37:37,399
depression and emotional outbursts in my second semester. Because of

1781
01:37:37,439 --> 01:37:39,520
my grief, I did a lot of calling out to

1782
01:37:39,560 --> 01:37:42,720
the unknown. Part of me asked to join him, and

1783
01:37:42,840 --> 01:37:45,479
part of me asked for help from who knows what.

1784
01:37:46,319 --> 01:37:48,359
I was very alone and I had no one to

1785
01:37:48,399 --> 01:37:51,239
turn to. I didn't think of a counselor or anything.

1786
01:37:51,640 --> 01:37:55,600
I just spiraled down into darkness. My work suffered, my

1787
01:37:55,680 --> 01:37:58,920
friendship suffered, and I had a really hard time keeping

1788
01:37:58,960 --> 01:38:02,520
it together. One night, I decided to cut my hair

1789
01:38:02,560 --> 01:38:05,159
really short. It was really long at the time, and

1790
01:38:05,279 --> 01:38:07,199
I just decided that I had to cut it off

1791
01:38:07,359 --> 01:38:10,399
like it would be cathartic. It only made things worse

1792
01:38:10,640 --> 01:38:12,800
and made it harder for me to feel like myself.

1793
01:38:13,399 --> 01:38:17,159
I was a mass and I was very vulnerable. Meanwhile,

1794
01:38:17,399 --> 01:38:19,680
my friend Jay began to report that she was starting

1795
01:38:19,680 --> 01:38:22,239
to feel like something was touching her at night in

1796
01:38:22,279 --> 01:38:25,479
her room. This escalated to the point where she was

1797
01:38:25,520 --> 01:38:28,399
feeling violated and she was getting scared to go to

1798
01:38:28,399 --> 01:38:32,119
bed at night. I was concerned for her. This sounded scary,

1799
01:38:32,359 --> 01:38:34,600
but again I sort of thought that this was Attenson

1800
01:38:34,640 --> 01:38:38,000
seeking behavior and that it couldn't possibly be real, or

1801
01:38:38,039 --> 01:38:41,199
maybe it was a reoccurring dream. This had been going

1802
01:38:41,199 --> 01:38:43,239
on for a while and she didn't want to sleep

1803
01:38:43,239 --> 01:38:46,119
in her room anymore, so, thinking that sleeping on a

1804
01:38:46,159 --> 01:38:48,680
mattress for a change would be nice, I offered to

1805
01:38:48,680 --> 01:38:51,359
sleep in her room for her, and despite my horrible

1806
01:38:51,399 --> 01:38:56,359
plywood bed, she agreed and thanked me. Now, one thing

1807
01:38:56,359 --> 01:38:59,159
that I'd experienced up until this point was that whenever

1808
01:38:59,199 --> 01:39:00,880
I had to go to the bedroom in the middle

1809
01:39:00,880 --> 01:39:03,560
of the night, I could hear something clicking coming from

1810
01:39:03,560 --> 01:39:06,600
her room. I knew that it was likely the baseboard heater,

1811
01:39:06,880 --> 01:39:09,439
but it always made me feel uneasy whenever I walked

1812
01:39:09,479 --> 01:39:11,920
past her room. But I've always been a little scared

1813
01:39:11,960 --> 01:39:14,640
of the dark, so I just figured that that's what

1814
01:39:14,720 --> 01:39:20,560
it was. But then came my terrifying experience. So one

1815
01:39:20,640 --> 01:39:24,079
night we switched rooms. It was February in New Brunswick,

1816
01:39:24,479 --> 01:39:28,560
that means negative forty degree weather, despite it being cold outside,

1817
01:39:28,560 --> 01:39:30,960
though we were above the art gallery so it didn't

1818
01:39:31,000 --> 01:39:33,399
get too too cold at night in our apartment, and

1819
01:39:33,439 --> 01:39:36,359
I often turned the heater down or even off at night.

1820
01:39:37,000 --> 01:39:39,119
I did this in her room, and I cracked open

1821
01:39:39,159 --> 01:39:41,680
the window about an inch because I liked sleeping in

1822
01:39:41,760 --> 01:39:45,319
cooler environments. I was tired and very much looking forward

1823
01:39:45,359 --> 01:39:48,399
to sleeping in a comfortable bed. I thought that I

1824
01:39:48,479 --> 01:39:51,920
was getting a sweet deal for free. I fell asleep

1825
01:39:52,039 --> 01:39:55,279
quite quickly and was very comfortable and happy. I think

1826
01:39:55,359 --> 01:39:57,920
my friend also had Christmas lights in the room, and

1827
01:39:58,000 --> 01:40:00,199
I'm pretty sure that I left those on as well,

1828
01:40:00,279 --> 01:40:03,640
because the ra cozy glow to sleep too. So I

1829
01:40:03,680 --> 01:40:06,399
slept soundly until I woke up to the sound of

1830
01:40:06,439 --> 01:40:09,359
the heater. Clicking and feeling very hot in the room.

1831
01:40:09,880 --> 01:40:12,159
I opened my eyes briefly to check the heater was

1832
01:40:12,199 --> 01:40:14,840
off and the window was still open, and both of

1833
01:40:14,880 --> 01:40:17,199
these things were as I had left them, but the

1834
01:40:17,199 --> 01:40:20,399
heater was clicking anyway. I was so cozy though, that

1835
01:40:20,520 --> 01:40:23,359
despite being annoyed by the heat, I fell quickly back

1836
01:40:23,399 --> 01:40:25,920
into a doze, and as I was drifting off, I

1837
01:40:25,960 --> 01:40:29,399
said to myself, oh, yeah, I forgot about the ghost.

1838
01:40:29,800 --> 01:40:32,239
And I then laughed a bit to myself and I

1839
01:40:32,279 --> 01:40:36,000
settled my mind back down again. Then I had a

1840
01:40:36,079 --> 01:40:39,039
kind of dream. In this dream, I got up to

1841
01:40:39,119 --> 01:40:41,600
check the heater and it was on, so I turned

1842
01:40:41,600 --> 01:40:44,159
it down and I got back into bed. Then I

1843
01:40:44,199 --> 01:40:48,119
heard a voice like a man's voice say, hey, you're

1844
01:40:48,159 --> 01:40:51,720
not Jay. I laughed and said, yes, I am. I

1845
01:40:51,840 --> 01:40:55,560
just cut my hair. Then the voice said we'll see

1846
01:40:55,560 --> 01:40:59,239
about that. At that my mind kind of woke up,

1847
01:40:59,359 --> 01:41:02,359
and I said to myself, Okay, very funny, stop making

1848
01:41:02,359 --> 01:41:05,520
stuff up, let it go and go back to sleep.

1849
01:41:06,439 --> 01:41:09,680
So at this point I was fully mentally awake. I

1850
01:41:09,760 --> 01:41:11,640
was lying on my stomach with my head turned to

1851
01:41:11,640 --> 01:41:14,439
the right. My right hand was under my pillow and

1852
01:41:14,479 --> 01:41:17,560
my left hand was down pulm up alongside my leg.

1853
01:41:18,199 --> 01:41:20,920
The door and the heater were on my right, the

1854
01:41:21,000 --> 01:41:24,199
window was on my left. This is when I suddenly

1855
01:41:24,199 --> 01:41:27,720
felt like something pressed down on the palm of my hand. Now,

1856
01:41:27,760 --> 01:41:31,640
at this point, I'm really awake, but I haven't moved yet. Now,

1857
01:41:31,680 --> 01:41:33,760
I've had a lot of muscle spasms in the past,

1858
01:41:34,000 --> 01:41:36,039
and that's kind of what I felt like this was.

1859
01:41:36,520 --> 01:41:39,119
So I quickly told myself it was a muscle spasm,

1860
01:41:39,239 --> 01:41:42,159
and I tried to ignore it. But then quite suddenly,

1861
01:41:42,199 --> 01:41:44,760
from the bottom left corner of the bed, I feel

1862
01:41:44,800 --> 01:41:47,880
something jump onto the bed, about the size of a cat,

1863
01:41:48,199 --> 01:41:50,359
and it then ran up to the back of my head.

1864
01:41:50,920 --> 01:41:53,760
I was paralyzed with fear at this point, and whatever

1865
01:41:53,800 --> 01:41:56,439
this thing was then scratched at the blanket by my

1866
01:41:56,600 --> 01:42:00,640
head and it made a growling and hissing noise. I

1867
01:42:00,720 --> 01:42:03,960
then felt it leave, like a cat getting off the bed. However,

1868
01:42:04,079 --> 01:42:08,760
we never had animals or rats or anything. After it left,

1869
01:42:08,800 --> 01:42:11,560
I managed to open my eyes and look around, but

1870
01:42:11,640 --> 01:42:14,319
I saw nothing, and I then gathered all my strength

1871
01:42:14,359 --> 01:42:17,000
to get up and walk down the hallway, which seemed

1872
01:42:17,000 --> 01:42:19,600
like the longest hallway on earth. I felt like I

1873
01:42:19,680 --> 01:42:22,039
was going to pass out, and I remember thinking to

1874
01:42:22,079 --> 01:42:25,800
myself that my whole perception of existence had just changed forever.

1875
01:42:26,159 --> 01:42:28,520
And I ran crying into my plywood bed with my

1876
01:42:28,640 --> 01:42:33,199
friend and I told her about what happened. Now, I

1877
01:42:33,279 --> 01:42:35,920
assumed that that would be the one and only experience.

1878
01:42:36,279 --> 01:42:38,560
I thought that telling my friend and crying about it,

1879
01:42:38,600 --> 01:42:41,640
that that would be it an isolated thing. But no,

1880
01:42:42,319 --> 01:42:44,840
we both began to feel and sense things right then

1881
01:42:44,880 --> 01:42:47,680
and there. It felt like something was trying to touch

1882
01:42:47,720 --> 01:42:50,079
our feet, and we both began to hear a voice

1883
01:42:50,079 --> 01:42:52,439
in our head that wasn't our own, and it was

1884
01:42:52,479 --> 01:42:54,960
saying things in a way that we wouldn't say it.

1885
01:42:54,960 --> 01:42:58,319
It was kind of vulgar and masculine. Never in my

1886
01:42:58,399 --> 01:43:01,399
life had I experienced anything like this, nor could I

1887
01:43:01,439 --> 01:43:04,279
have ever imagined it, having never heard anything like this

1888
01:43:04,600 --> 01:43:07,920
or seen anything like this in films. Even we made

1889
01:43:07,960 --> 01:43:10,159
it through the night, and we promptly decided to stay

1890
01:43:10,159 --> 01:43:12,680
at a friend's house for a while. This friend of

1891
01:43:12,720 --> 01:43:15,920
ours dabbled in reikie and tried to cleanse us. However,

1892
01:43:15,960 --> 01:43:18,479
she felt quite ill dealing with us, and she had

1893
01:43:18,479 --> 01:43:21,800
trouble getting permission from me to cleanse me. I think

1894
01:43:21,840 --> 01:43:23,880
that because of the mental anguish that I was in

1895
01:43:24,000 --> 01:43:28,920
and my skepticism, my soul wasn't very accessible. My parents

1896
01:43:28,960 --> 01:43:31,960
were very understanding and believed us. They thought that we

1897
01:43:31,960 --> 01:43:34,279
should move out, but there wasn't much we could do,

1898
01:43:34,439 --> 01:43:36,920
having signed a contract and we only had a few

1899
01:43:36,920 --> 01:43:40,079
months left of school. So after two weeks we went

1900
01:43:40,119 --> 01:43:42,479
back at the apartment and slept in my room together

1901
01:43:42,560 --> 01:43:45,520
for quite a while. My friend eventually decided to sleep

1902
01:43:45,520 --> 01:43:47,800
in her room once again when she had a boyfriend,

1903
01:43:48,119 --> 01:43:51,399
but she still struggled with feeling violated on some nights.

1904
01:43:52,319 --> 01:43:54,640
We were vegan at the time, but there were times

1905
01:43:54,640 --> 01:43:57,279
in the kitchen where I'd smell rotten meat in places

1906
01:43:57,319 --> 01:44:00,520
where it wouldn't be like, not in the fridge, garbage,

1907
01:44:00,640 --> 01:44:02,680
or the sink, but just like in the middle of

1908
01:44:02,720 --> 01:44:06,640
the room or the pantry, and then it would move around.

1909
01:44:07,560 --> 01:44:09,840
One evening, we were having tea at the kitchen table

1910
01:44:10,039 --> 01:44:12,239
when a wooden spoon flew out from a container of

1911
01:44:12,359 --> 01:44:15,479
utensils on the top shelf. The container was an old

1912
01:44:15,520 --> 01:44:18,079
ice cream tub crammed with a bunch of stuff, so

1913
01:44:18,239 --> 01:44:21,039
in theory, if one of them were taken out, everything

1914
01:44:21,079 --> 01:44:23,880
would spill, But it was just the one spoon and

1915
01:44:23,960 --> 01:44:26,359
it clattered to the floor in the middle of the kitchen.

1916
01:44:27,000 --> 01:44:30,760
We then yelled stop Kenneth, which probably was not a

1917
01:44:30,760 --> 01:44:34,479
good idea. Another time, we were sitting in the living room.

1918
01:44:34,840 --> 01:44:38,039
We usually avoided talking about Kenneth by this point because

1919
01:44:38,079 --> 01:44:41,000
whenever we did, weird things would happen, or I would

1920
01:44:41,039 --> 01:44:43,319
feel like something brushed up against the left side of

1921
01:44:43,359 --> 01:44:46,960
my head and it creeped me out. However, this time

1922
01:44:47,000 --> 01:44:49,079
we talked about it a little, and we both heard

1923
01:44:49,159 --> 01:44:52,560
someone run down the hall like small feet, and then

1924
01:44:52,720 --> 01:44:54,880
there was a bizarre swirl of light in the living

1925
01:44:54,960 --> 01:44:58,079
room and we both saw it. I had never seen

1926
01:44:58,119 --> 01:45:00,760
anything like that before, and we then looked at each

1927
01:45:00,800 --> 01:45:04,880
other to confirm that we both experienced it. I slept

1928
01:45:04,880 --> 01:45:07,199
in her room again for a few times. I was

1929
01:45:07,239 --> 01:45:10,840
surrounded with salt and various amulets for protection. But one

1930
01:45:10,920 --> 01:45:13,760
night she saw a large shadow figure and I felt

1931
01:45:13,840 --> 01:45:16,520
someone tap me hard on the head another night, even

1932
01:45:16,600 --> 01:45:19,119
though my head was covered with my sleeping bag and

1933
01:45:19,159 --> 01:45:22,359
there was nothing behind me. Then came the end of

1934
01:45:22,399 --> 01:45:25,319
the year and we all happily moved away for the summer,

1935
01:45:25,640 --> 01:45:27,760
and for some reason we had plans to return to

1936
01:45:27,760 --> 01:45:31,560
the apartment later, or at least I did again. I

1937
01:45:31,600 --> 01:45:35,840
spent the summer soul searching, still feeling down and troubled.

1938
01:45:36,960 --> 01:45:40,279
This brings us to the following year. Two weeks before

1939
01:45:40,319 --> 01:45:42,640
my final year at school, I took a fourteen day

1940
01:45:42,680 --> 01:45:47,199
meditation workshop at a Tibetan Buddhist monastery on Cape Breton Island.

1941
01:45:47,640 --> 01:45:51,159
It's a beautiful place and an interesting practice, but I'll

1942
01:45:51,159 --> 01:45:54,680
focus on the paranormal stuff. While I was there, we

1943
01:45:54,720 --> 01:45:57,239
slept in these kind of cubbies on the floor, and

1944
01:45:57,399 --> 01:46:00,119
often as I was falling asleep, I would feel something

1945
01:46:00,199 --> 01:46:02,960
run up the left side of me and hiss into

1946
01:46:02,960 --> 01:46:06,439
my ear. One morning, however, I heard something like this,

1947
01:46:06,720 --> 01:46:08,880
but there was a pause in the running. It was

1948
01:46:08,920 --> 01:46:11,720
a little different, and when I opened my eyes there

1949
01:46:11,760 --> 01:46:14,640
was a chipmunk. I was delighted, and I figured out

1950
01:46:14,680 --> 01:46:16,760
that this must have been what was running around at night,

1951
01:46:17,079 --> 01:46:20,479
and the hissing sound must have been my imagination. A

1952
01:46:20,520 --> 01:46:22,680
friend of mine at the workshop offered to do some

1953
01:46:22,800 --> 01:46:25,079
energy work on me, kind of like a past life

1954
01:46:25,079 --> 01:46:27,640
regression type thing, after I had told some of them

1955
01:46:27,640 --> 01:46:31,680
about my ghost story. This was an interesting experience, but

1956
01:46:31,800 --> 01:46:35,359
again I was skeptical The night after that happened, though,

1957
01:46:35,720 --> 01:46:39,000
I had a really terrifying dream. In the dream, I

1958
01:46:39,079 --> 01:46:40,800
was in a room and I saw my friend who

1959
01:46:40,840 --> 01:46:43,479
had passed away. I was so happy to see him.

1960
01:46:43,640 --> 01:46:45,520
I ran to him and hugged him and I was

1961
01:46:45,560 --> 01:46:47,640
going to kiss him, and I was crying with joy

1962
01:46:47,640 --> 01:46:50,560
to see him. But as we were hugging, I remembered

1963
01:46:50,560 --> 01:46:52,880
that he was dead, and I pulled away to see

1964
01:46:52,920 --> 01:46:56,079
this large baby type figure. It kind of had a

1965
01:46:56,159 --> 01:47:00,520
huge head, big red lips, and sharp teeth. It was

1966
01:47:00,600 --> 01:47:03,600
kind of a baby shaped head, but big, like over

1967
01:47:03,640 --> 01:47:07,479
half its whole size. It had large, bluish, creepy eyes,

1968
01:47:07,800 --> 01:47:11,239
and it was wearing a kind of diaper. I was terrified.

1969
01:47:11,560 --> 01:47:14,039
I screamed and tried to turn on the light, but

1970
01:47:14,119 --> 01:47:17,479
it didn't work and I woke up. However, I woke

1971
01:47:17,600 --> 01:47:20,880
up into a different dream. And this happened over almost

1972
01:47:20,920 --> 01:47:24,159
five different dream levels. I would wake up startled but

1973
01:47:24,279 --> 01:47:27,239
happy that this was just a dream. I'd feel uneasy

1974
01:47:27,359 --> 01:47:29,199
and try to turn on a light, but then the

1975
01:47:29,279 --> 01:47:32,880
light wouldn't turn on, and then I would encounter something crazy,

1976
01:47:33,239 --> 01:47:35,840
and then I would wake up into a different dream.

1977
01:47:36,239 --> 01:47:39,520
This all happened until morning, when I finally woke up.

1978
01:47:40,319 --> 01:47:42,399
I believe that what I saw was the shape of

1979
01:47:42,439 --> 01:47:45,640
this demon thing that seemed to be following me, But

1980
01:47:45,760 --> 01:47:50,119
it was just a dream. Right. Well, when I eventually

1981
01:47:50,119 --> 01:47:53,159
got back to school, I realized how awful the apartment was,

1982
01:47:53,520 --> 01:47:55,600
almost like I had a spell on me before that

1983
01:47:55,640 --> 01:47:58,000
I couldn't see how horrible it was when I first

1984
01:47:58,039 --> 01:48:00,000
moved in, and I just had to get out of there.

1985
01:48:00,760 --> 01:48:03,199
I found a really nice, almost new apartment above the

1986
01:48:03,199 --> 01:48:05,920
post office, and I got to live alone, which was

1987
01:48:06,039 --> 01:48:08,399
nice because I was having such a hard time dealing

1988
01:48:08,439 --> 01:48:12,000
with other people in my emotional state. I enjoyed being

1989
01:48:12,039 --> 01:48:15,399
alone and having my own space. I was still sleeping

1990
01:48:15,439 --> 01:48:18,319
on the floor, though, but mostly because it seemed wasteful

1991
01:48:18,359 --> 01:48:20,800
to spend three hundred dollars on a mattress which I

1992
01:48:20,800 --> 01:48:23,520
would only be using for one year. Back in the

1993
01:48:23,520 --> 01:48:27,439
two thousands, this was a lot of money. Well, one day,

1994
01:48:27,520 --> 01:48:29,399
when I was all set up in my new apartment,

1995
01:48:29,640 --> 01:48:32,000
I got home and closed the door and I said

1996
01:48:32,039 --> 01:48:36,640
to myself, phew, I'm all alone now. But then a

1997
01:48:36,760 --> 01:48:40,359
voice that wasn't my own in my head said, except

1998
01:48:40,439 --> 01:48:44,279
for me. I quickly told myself, however, that I made

1999
01:48:44,359 --> 01:48:47,680
that up and to ignore it. I still would get

2000
01:48:47,680 --> 01:48:49,840
this chill on the left side of my head occasionally,

2001
01:48:50,119 --> 01:48:52,960
and I couldn't talk about the experience without feeling spooky,

2002
01:48:53,359 --> 01:48:56,439
so I would avoid it. However, nearly every night, as

2003
01:48:56,479 --> 01:48:59,079
I was just falling asleep, I would feel something run

2004
01:48:59,159 --> 01:49:02,239
up my left side and hiss in my ear. This

2005
01:49:02,720 --> 01:49:05,600
was not a chipmunk. I guess I just got used

2006
01:49:05,640 --> 01:49:08,640
to this. But my mood remained low and I remained

2007
01:49:08,720 --> 01:49:11,720
in a dark place. And while I was always interested

2008
01:49:11,760 --> 01:49:15,319
in dark topics and the paranormal, like X Files type things,

2009
01:49:15,640 --> 01:49:18,840
I was not a dark person. So this was hard.

2010
01:49:19,279 --> 01:49:23,159
I didn't feel like myself. I felt very lost, classic

2011
01:49:23,239 --> 01:49:26,359
twenty one year old I know, but still it was

2012
01:49:26,399 --> 01:49:29,560
a hard time. As I said, I just kind of

2013
01:49:29,600 --> 01:49:32,279
lived with this thing and I tried to ignore it.

2014
01:49:32,279 --> 01:49:35,039
It didn't bother me too much. I had bad dreams,

2015
01:49:35,279 --> 01:49:37,359
but maybe I didn't think my mood could be linked

2016
01:49:37,399 --> 01:49:41,159
to it. Finally, I graduated and I moved back home.

2017
01:49:41,640 --> 01:49:45,760
I started exercising, mountain biking and rock climbing. These things

2018
01:49:45,800 --> 01:49:48,800
got my mind off everything. But as with all exercise,

2019
01:49:49,000 --> 01:49:51,720
one gets sore, and a massage is a good idea,

2020
01:49:52,039 --> 01:49:55,279
and my right shoulder muscle had been bothering me. My

2021
01:49:55,399 --> 01:49:57,960
mom had seen a massage therapist in town and had

2022
01:49:58,000 --> 01:50:01,199
recommended her highly. In my mind, Mom, who barely believes

2023
01:50:01,199 --> 01:50:03,760
in anything, said that this woman was a little weird.

2024
01:50:04,279 --> 01:50:06,479
She had kind of read my mom's mind about a

2025
01:50:06,479 --> 01:50:09,720
symbolic dream that she'd had about a raven. My mom

2026
01:50:09,800 --> 01:50:12,359
was a bit taken aback by that, and she said

2027
01:50:12,359 --> 01:50:15,760
that it was interesting. I actually didn't give it much thought, though,

2028
01:50:15,880 --> 01:50:18,319
since a lot of people seem to pretend to be mediums,

2029
01:50:18,439 --> 01:50:21,039
and I'd seen some people about tarot and palm reading

2030
01:50:21,199 --> 01:50:24,159
and stuff since, and they all seem to be pretty inaccurate.

2031
01:50:24,520 --> 01:50:27,520
So I was just in it for the massage. She

2032
01:50:27,800 --> 01:50:31,079
was indeed a good messuse, and I was enjoying the experience.

2033
01:50:31,319 --> 01:50:33,720
When she asked me what was up with my left shoulder,

2034
01:50:34,279 --> 01:50:36,960
I was surprised and a little annoyed because it was

2035
01:50:37,000 --> 01:50:40,000
my right shoulder muscles that were actually bothering me. So

2036
01:50:40,359 --> 01:50:43,039
I just told her that my shoulder muscles were always tense,

2037
01:50:43,319 --> 01:50:45,319
but that it was my right shoulder that was causing

2038
01:50:45,319 --> 01:50:48,880
me trouble. But then she said, I'm not talking about

2039
01:50:48,920 --> 01:50:53,039
your muscles there's something on your left shoulder, a presence.

2040
01:50:53,520 --> 01:50:56,319
I see it like a kind of mist. What is that?

2041
01:50:57,359 --> 01:51:00,119
I was so shocked, and I then told her my story,

2042
01:51:00,319 --> 01:51:02,239
and she then told me that it was likely a

2043
01:51:02,359 --> 01:51:05,520
gollum that had attached itself to me and was sucking

2044
01:51:05,520 --> 01:51:08,760
my energy. She then muttered some words over me and

2045
01:51:08,840 --> 01:51:11,000
told me that that evening I was to tell this

2046
01:51:11,079 --> 01:51:13,279
thing that it wasn't welcome, and to go into the

2047
01:51:13,399 --> 01:51:17,680
light and to surround myself with light, et cetera. So

2048
01:51:17,880 --> 01:51:20,880
I did what she said. As I did this, I

2049
01:51:20,920 --> 01:51:23,840
felt it resist. I could hear it again, and I

2050
01:51:23,920 --> 01:51:27,279
felt the left side of my head tingling. I was scared,

2051
01:51:27,439 --> 01:51:29,840
but she said not to be scared. So I tried

2052
01:51:29,880 --> 01:51:32,720
really hard to just be firm, and after a bit

2053
01:51:32,720 --> 01:51:38,000
of a storm, I've never felt it again since. I

2054
01:51:38,079 --> 01:51:40,319
know this story was a little long, but I think

2055
01:51:40,359 --> 01:51:42,640
it's important to share all the details so that people

2056
01:51:42,720 --> 01:51:46,359
understand that these things are not made up. They really happen,

2057
01:51:46,760 --> 01:51:49,880
and there really is another dimension out there. I just

2058
01:51:49,960 --> 01:51:53,439
can't explain it any other way. I haven't had many

2059
01:51:53,479 --> 01:51:56,800
experiences since I believe that a part of myself has

2060
01:51:56,840 --> 01:51:59,520
closed itself off from other realms due to the fear

2061
01:51:59,520 --> 01:52:04,880
I curienced, but I believe that's okay. Thank you so

2062
01:52:05,000 --> 01:52:08,399
much for reading and sharing if you do, and everyone's

2063
01:52:08,479 --> 01:52:20,239
stories are truly fascinating. Kind regards, Mr. Our next experience

2064
01:52:20,319 --> 01:52:24,119
comes to us from J and Jay's experience is called

2065
01:52:24,880 --> 01:52:30,439
a Dream that became a luxury carmaker commercial. Jay says,

2066
01:52:31,560 --> 01:52:35,560
I'm originally from Venezuela. When I was about eighteen years old,

2067
01:52:35,760 --> 01:52:38,319
I had one of the most vivid and extraordinary dreams

2068
01:52:38,319 --> 01:52:41,359
of my life. It began with me walking into a

2069
01:52:41,399 --> 01:52:45,439
foggy tunnel, thick with vapor and almost impossible to see throw.

2070
01:52:45,920 --> 01:52:48,840
As I moved forward, I began to hear distant voices.

2071
01:52:49,319 --> 01:52:52,000
They were muffled and hard to understand, but as I

2072
01:52:52,079 --> 01:52:55,199
got closer, I realized they were talking about someone who

2073
01:52:55,239 --> 01:52:59,439
was coming to join them. That someone was me. As

2074
01:52:59,439 --> 01:53:03,000
I approached, there was an explosion of joy. Cheers erupted,

2075
01:53:03,159 --> 01:53:06,399
and people jumped around with excitement. I saw five or

2076
01:53:06,439 --> 01:53:09,119
six young men all around my age at the time,

2077
01:53:09,319 --> 01:53:12,119
and they were genuinely thrilled to see me. I had

2078
01:53:12,119 --> 01:53:15,760
never felt such pure happiness, except perhaps when I reunite

2079
01:53:15,760 --> 01:53:19,640
with family. These people embraced me asking why it had

2080
01:53:19,640 --> 01:53:22,439
taken me so long to arrive. However, I was too

2081
01:53:22,479 --> 01:53:26,399
stunned by their welcome to even respond. We began to

2082
01:53:26,479 --> 01:53:29,079
move and talk, and I realized that we were floating

2083
01:53:29,079 --> 01:53:32,600
in the clouds. It sounds strange, but that's exactly where

2084
01:53:32,640 --> 01:53:37,079
we were. Everyone was doing silly, joyful things. One person

2085
01:53:37,199 --> 01:53:39,920
was meditating on a small cloud in the lotus position

2086
01:53:40,199 --> 01:53:43,319
like a Buddha. Another was swimming through the clouds, and

2087
01:53:43,479 --> 01:53:47,479
someone else struck a superman flying pose. The atmosphere was

2088
01:53:47,520 --> 01:53:51,439
filled with laughter, playfulness, and an overwhelming sense of love,

2089
01:53:51,960 --> 01:53:55,119
joy and belonging. It was a feeling that I have

2090
01:53:55,239 --> 01:53:59,880
never experienced again. Suddenly I noticed a break in the clouds.

2091
01:54:00,359 --> 01:54:04,640
Sunlight poured through, illuminating a breath taking valley below. I

2092
01:54:04,680 --> 01:54:08,520
can't even describe the colors, the temperature, and the sensations.

2093
01:54:09,039 --> 01:54:11,960
Though it was a dream. I could hear speak and

2094
01:54:12,039 --> 01:54:15,159
feel the air on my skin, the texture of my clothes,

2095
01:54:15,439 --> 01:54:17,840
and I could see colors that I have never seen before.

2096
01:54:18,319 --> 01:54:20,680
It was like watching a movie, not in four K,

2097
01:54:21,279 --> 01:54:24,520
but in sixty K. The valley was lush with vivid

2098
01:54:24,560 --> 01:54:28,159
green grass, a winding creek, and a road that followed

2099
01:54:28,159 --> 01:54:32,199
the creek's path. My companions decided to descend and have

2100
01:54:32,359 --> 01:54:35,359
fun in the cars that were driving below. We jumped

2101
01:54:35,399 --> 01:54:37,960
from the clouds, and the fall gave me that stomach

2102
01:54:38,000 --> 01:54:41,239
dropping sensation of a roller coaster. However, I had full

2103
01:54:41,279 --> 01:54:45,479
control of my descent. My friends were diving like superheroes,

2104
01:54:45,720 --> 01:54:50,279
doing flips and imitating Olympic swimmers. It was exhilarating. We

2105
01:54:50,319 --> 01:54:53,079
screamed and laughed all the way down. It was pure

2106
01:54:53,199 --> 01:54:56,880
joy and happiness. Even during the dive. I could feel

2107
01:54:56,920 --> 01:54:59,680
layers of warm and cool air brushing through my hair,

2108
01:55:00,119 --> 01:55:03,680
flapping my clothes. When we reached the level of the cars,

2109
01:55:03,840 --> 01:55:07,039
we flew around them, and strangely, the people inside didn't

2110
01:55:07,079 --> 01:55:11,039
notice us. We were invisible to them. I flew between

2111
01:55:11,039 --> 01:55:13,199
a car and the creek, and just as the car

2112
01:55:13,239 --> 01:55:16,520
hit a pothole filled with water, it splashed into my face.

2113
01:55:17,119 --> 01:55:20,840
My companions burst into laughter, and so did I. It

2114
01:55:20,880 --> 01:55:25,479
was pure joy. Then I woke up. The moment I

2115
01:55:25,560 --> 01:55:28,079
opened my eyes, I was hit with a deep sadness.

2116
01:55:28,479 --> 01:55:30,960
I was back in this reality where we lived like

2117
01:55:31,039 --> 01:55:35,039
prisoners in our own bodies. I felt confined, no longer

2118
01:55:35,079 --> 01:55:37,640
free like I had been with those people. If you

2119
01:55:37,720 --> 01:55:40,079
had asked me then whether I wanted to return to

2120
01:55:40,119 --> 01:55:42,960
my normal life or stay in that dream, I would

2121
01:55:43,000 --> 01:55:46,279
have said with absolute certainty that I wanted to stay.

2122
01:55:47,000 --> 01:55:50,680
I belonged there. I was loved and accepted for who

2123
01:55:50,720 --> 01:55:54,319
I was. Now, I've had happy moments in my life,

2124
01:55:54,520 --> 01:55:56,760
like the day that my son was born, but nothing

2125
01:55:56,760 --> 01:56:00,159
compares to the love, acceptance, and sense of belonging that

2126
01:56:00,199 --> 01:56:03,920
I felt in that dream. For years afterward, I struggled

2127
01:56:03,920 --> 01:56:09,239
with depression, longing to feel that way again. However, here's

2128
01:56:09,279 --> 01:56:13,199
the strangest part about thirty five years later, now living

2129
01:56:13,239 --> 01:56:16,479
in the US, I was watching TV when a BMW

2130
01:56:16,560 --> 01:56:21,600
commercial came on. It was called the BMWX five Guardian Angels.

2131
01:56:22,119 --> 01:56:25,479
To my shock and horror, the commercial depicted my dream.

2132
01:56:25,920 --> 01:56:29,159
Every detail was there, even an angel getting splashed in

2133
01:56:29,159 --> 01:56:32,439
the face with water, just like me. How is that

2134
01:56:32,520 --> 01:56:34,840
even possible? How could a dream that I had at

2135
01:56:34,880 --> 01:56:39,119
eighteen while living overseas appear in a US commercial decades later?

2136
01:56:39,600 --> 01:56:42,960
You can find it on YouTube by searching BMWX five

2137
01:56:43,039 --> 01:56:47,800
Guardian Angel TV commercial. This experience was so profound that

2138
01:56:47,840 --> 01:56:50,680
I showed the video to my wife, so she watched

2139
01:56:50,680 --> 01:56:54,279
it and she said something that sent chills down my spine.

2140
01:56:54,319 --> 01:56:57,000
She said, look at the angels. Look at the one

2141
01:56:57,000 --> 01:56:59,720
who got splashed. He looks just like you when you

2142
01:56:59,720 --> 01:57:03,359
were younger. If what you're saying is true, that angel

2143
01:57:03,800 --> 01:57:08,680
is you. They are depicting you in your dream. I

2144
01:57:08,800 --> 01:57:12,279
was overwhelmed with emotion and I started to cry. I

2145
01:57:12,359 --> 01:57:14,760
just don't know how to explain it. I'm not losing

2146
01:57:14,760 --> 01:57:17,720
my mind. I remember telling my mom about the dream,

2147
01:57:18,039 --> 01:57:20,720
and she suggested that it was maybe an astral projection,

2148
01:57:21,119 --> 01:57:25,279
which was a term I didn't understand back then. So

2149
01:57:25,600 --> 01:57:28,920
how did this happen? It feels unreal? What kind of

2150
01:57:29,000 --> 01:57:32,359
mysterious twist is this? If any of your listeners have

2151
01:57:32,399 --> 01:57:35,920
an explanation or have experienced something similar, I would love

2152
01:57:35,960 --> 01:57:39,039
to hear from them. Thank you, Nick for your program.

2153
01:57:39,199 --> 01:57:41,560
I listen every chance I get, and thank you to

2154
01:57:41,640 --> 01:57:45,159
your listeners. I truly feel as though we are part

2155
01:57:45,680 --> 01:57:50,439
of a community for anyone interested. I've added a link

2156
01:57:50,439 --> 01:57:53,239
in the show notes to the commercial that Jay mentioned.

2157
01:57:57,560 --> 01:58:01,159
Our next experience comes to us from Age G and

2158
01:58:01,239 --> 01:58:06,760
their experience is called he Just Knows Hei Nick. I

2159
01:58:06,800 --> 01:58:09,399
want to start with a little background. I have always

2160
01:58:09,399 --> 01:58:13,079
believed and had many experiences that I consider paranormal, but

2161
01:58:13,119 --> 01:58:16,279
nothing perplexes me more than the oddities with my son.

2162
01:58:16,960 --> 01:58:20,119
I have four sons, but the oldest, i'll call him R,

2163
01:58:20,399 --> 01:58:23,920
has always had an uncannyability where he just knows things

2164
01:58:24,079 --> 01:58:27,640
that he shouldn't. The first instance was when he was three.

2165
01:58:28,319 --> 01:58:30,840
We had gone on a beach vacation with my in laws.

2166
01:58:31,319 --> 01:58:33,239
My husband and I took R out to the beach

2167
01:58:33,279 --> 01:58:36,039
alone on the first afternoon and we had a blast.

2168
01:58:36,359 --> 01:58:38,239
He couldn't wait to go back the next day with

2169
01:58:38,319 --> 01:58:42,039
his grandparents and baby brothers. It rained some through the night,

2170
01:58:42,399 --> 01:58:45,720
but the morning was perfect. R, however, was adamant that

2171
01:58:45,760 --> 01:58:47,880
we could not go to the beach because there were

2172
01:58:47,920 --> 01:58:51,319
alligators in the water. We tried to reassure him, but

2173
01:58:51,439 --> 01:58:54,359
he wasn't having yet. So we went to the beach

2174
01:58:54,479 --> 01:58:57,199
and R refused to go anywhere near the water. My

2175
01:58:57,319 --> 01:58:59,840
husband brought the twins in the water, and R went

2176
01:58:59,840 --> 01:59:02,560
into a panic so bad that we decided to pack

2177
01:59:02,640 --> 01:59:05,439
up and leave. As we were walking to the car,

2178
01:59:05,600 --> 01:59:07,760
a man approached us and told us that while he

2179
01:59:07,840 --> 01:59:10,479
was fishing on the pier, he saw that an alligator

2180
01:59:10,600 --> 01:59:13,359
was stocking My husband and my twin babies up and

2181
01:59:13,399 --> 01:59:17,039
down the beach. Animal control was then called and the

2182
01:59:17,079 --> 01:59:21,279
alligator was caught and relocated. However, there was absolutely no

2183
01:59:21,359 --> 01:59:24,880
way that R could have known anything about this. The

2184
01:59:24,920 --> 01:59:27,920
next incident happened a few weeks later. We were going

2185
01:59:27,960 --> 01:59:31,439
to visit family and R said, Mama, we can't go

2186
01:59:31,560 --> 01:59:35,279
this way. The bridge is broken. I then assured him

2187
01:59:35,319 --> 01:59:37,359
that it wasn't and even made a point to call

2188
01:59:37,399 --> 01:59:40,079
my cousin, who was the county supervisor, to make sure.

2189
01:59:40,600 --> 01:59:43,760
He assured R that the bridge was safe. So we

2190
01:59:43,840 --> 01:59:46,119
get to the bridge and we find that the bridge

2191
01:59:46,199 --> 01:59:48,359
had shifted and there was now a two to three

2192
01:59:48,399 --> 01:59:51,159
foot gap between the bridge and the land on our side.

2193
01:59:51,840 --> 01:59:53,840
I called my cousin back and he sent out a

2194
01:59:53,880 --> 01:59:56,840
crew to inspect it, and the bridge stayed shut down

2195
01:59:57,279 --> 02:00:02,000
for nearly five years. Incident happened when he was five.

2196
02:00:02,880 --> 02:00:05,239
My husband and I had been trying for one more baby,

2197
02:00:05,479 --> 02:00:07,399
and I had just found out that I was pregnant.

2198
02:00:08,000 --> 02:00:10,560
When we told the boys, R said that he was

2199
02:00:10,600 --> 02:00:13,199
sad because he wanted a sister and that she was

2200
02:00:13,239 --> 02:00:17,479
going to go back to heaven instead of being born naturally.

2201
02:00:17,640 --> 02:00:20,039
This upset me, but I tried not to believe that

2202
02:00:20,079 --> 02:00:24,560
he was right. Fifteen weeks into the pregnancy, it happened

2203
02:00:25,000 --> 02:00:27,399
the baby passed, and we found out that she had

2204
02:00:27,439 --> 02:00:30,239
had a trisomy thirteen and that she wouldn't have been

2205
02:00:30,279 --> 02:00:32,920
able to survive long had she been born, and that

2206
02:00:33,000 --> 02:00:35,840
most babies with this condition don't survive in the womb.

2207
02:00:36,760 --> 02:00:40,399
Somehow R knew that she wouldn't be born, but we

2208
02:00:40,439 --> 02:00:42,319
did go on to be blessed with our last and

2209
02:00:42,399 --> 02:00:47,439
final child, a fourth boy, a year later. R is

2210
02:00:47,479 --> 02:00:50,199
older now, he's about to be twelve, and he still

2211
02:00:50,239 --> 02:00:54,439
retains his unusual insights, although spacifics are less frequent now

2212
02:00:54,560 --> 02:00:57,920
and it's usually just a very strong intuition. He's also

2213
02:00:57,960 --> 02:01:01,680
had many paranormal experiences of his and he also claims

2214
02:01:01,720 --> 02:01:04,920
to see and hear shadow people. But I always have

2215
02:01:05,039 --> 02:01:08,800
as well, so I don't doubt his claims. I'll come

2216
02:01:08,840 --> 02:01:13,039
back another time, though, and share more of those stories.

2217
02:01:17,319 --> 02:01:20,760
Our next experience of the night comes to us from Charity,

2218
02:01:21,439 --> 02:01:28,399
and Charity's experience is called sleep Paralysis demon Stole My Babies.

2219
02:01:29,960 --> 02:01:34,319
Charity says, Hello, Nick, I just recently started listening this

2220
02:01:34,399 --> 02:01:37,119
summer after I found your podcast while doing a search

2221
02:01:37,239 --> 02:01:40,039
for Ashley Inks recordings. Where I was looking to tell

2222
02:01:40,079 --> 02:01:43,119
my story. My oldest son and I are hooked now,

2223
02:01:43,319 --> 02:01:45,479
and he keeps telling me to submit my story here

2224
02:01:45,520 --> 02:01:47,880
as well. I've been trying to do so for two

2225
02:01:47,960 --> 02:01:50,840
months now, but every time something has come up that

2226
02:01:50,880 --> 02:01:53,760
distracts me. I'm not quite sure how to explain that,

2227
02:01:54,039 --> 02:01:57,039
other than it slightly ties into the main topic, which

2228
02:01:57,079 --> 02:02:00,239
I will be getting to first though, before I begin in.

2229
02:02:00,520 --> 02:02:03,800
I was recently listening to episode four forty two about

2230
02:02:03,920 --> 02:02:06,880
the Little Blue Beings, and I have to start there.

2231
02:02:07,479 --> 02:02:10,359
To preface, I can count a specific number of times

2232
02:02:10,399 --> 02:02:13,520
I have experienced any kind of sleep paralysis, and it

2233
02:02:13,560 --> 02:02:17,600
all began with Little Blue Beings. In late two thousand

2234
02:02:17,640 --> 02:02:20,079
and nine, my husband and I were crashing at my

2235
02:02:20,159 --> 02:02:22,720
inlass house for a few months while we were waiting

2236
02:02:22,760 --> 02:02:24,880
for the people who were renting our house while I

2237
02:02:24,960 --> 02:02:27,800
was in graduate school in another state to move out

2238
02:02:28,000 --> 02:02:31,760
when their lease was up. One morning, right before sunrise,

2239
02:02:32,000 --> 02:02:34,560
I woke up and I could not move anything except

2240
02:02:34,560 --> 02:02:37,720
my eyes, just like the person described in episode four

2241
02:02:37,760 --> 02:02:41,359
forty two. I mentally tried to fight this, and finally

2242
02:02:41,439 --> 02:02:43,800
I was able to slightly roll to my left side.

2243
02:02:44,159 --> 02:02:46,000
I was on the left side of the bed, which

2244
02:02:46,079 --> 02:02:49,319
was about eighteen inches from the wall. Standing next to

2245
02:02:49,319 --> 02:02:51,600
me in that space between the bed and the wall

2246
02:02:52,079 --> 02:02:55,600
were three beings. Like the story says in episode four

2247
02:02:55,640 --> 02:02:59,279
forty two, they were small, maybe three feet tall, with

2248
02:02:59,439 --> 02:03:03,399
large heads and big black eyes. They were all looking

2249
02:03:03,439 --> 02:03:06,159
at me, and one had a hand touching my arm,

2250
02:03:06,359 --> 02:03:09,319
which was covered by a comforter. I attempted to reach

2251
02:03:09,359 --> 02:03:11,560
out towards them to make sure that I was actually

2252
02:03:11,600 --> 02:03:14,039
seeing what I was seeing, and that is when they

2253
02:03:14,119 --> 02:03:17,479
all backed up and into the wall. It looked like

2254
02:03:17,520 --> 02:03:21,399
they literally dissolved into the wall. At that point, I

2255
02:03:21,479 --> 02:03:23,680
was able to sit up and I started touching the

2256
02:03:23,720 --> 02:03:26,600
wall trying to see where they went. My husband then

2257
02:03:26,680 --> 02:03:29,079
woke up and asked me what I was doing, and

2258
02:03:29,159 --> 02:03:33,520
I told him I'm trying to figure out where they went. Now,

2259
02:03:33,600 --> 02:03:35,840
he's a hardcore skeptic, and he thinks that I was

2260
02:03:35,960 --> 02:03:38,840
just dreaming. But I was absolutely wide awake for the

2261
02:03:39,000 --> 02:03:43,119
entire interaction. I had never woken or seemingly woken up

2262
02:03:43,319 --> 02:03:45,840
and not been able to move prior to this incident.

2263
02:03:46,239 --> 02:03:49,800
So I'm calling this my first episode of sleep paralysis,

2264
02:03:50,039 --> 02:03:53,199
even though I was no doubt awake for it. Also,

2265
02:03:53,439 --> 02:03:55,920
I had never heard anyone describe these beings like I

2266
02:03:55,960 --> 02:03:59,279
saw them until I heard that episode of your podcast.

2267
02:04:00,239 --> 02:04:03,039
Everyone that I told that story to always assumed that

2268
02:04:03,079 --> 02:04:05,680
I meant more of the Gray's type of description, where

2269
02:04:05,720 --> 02:04:08,920
they are tall or humanoid and gray or even green.

2270
02:04:09,399 --> 02:04:12,520
I was shocked to finally hear someone describe them exactly

2271
02:04:12,560 --> 02:04:15,960
how I had seen them and experienced them. I felt

2272
02:04:15,960 --> 02:04:19,079
a bit justified, if I do say so myself. So

2273
02:04:19,239 --> 02:04:21,720
thank you to that listener and for you for telling

2274
02:04:21,720 --> 02:04:25,359
the story. That was my only interaction with them, however,

2275
02:04:25,920 --> 02:04:29,479
or at least so far. About a month later, I

2276
02:04:29,520 --> 02:04:33,520
had my next sleep paralysis incident, specifically where you're awake

2277
02:04:33,840 --> 02:04:37,359
but not awake. I mentally woke up and everything was

2278
02:04:37,399 --> 02:04:40,199
exactly how it was supposed to be. My husband was

2279
02:04:40,239 --> 02:04:42,600
asleep next to me, the night stand was on the

2280
02:04:42,640 --> 02:04:45,119
other side of me, and the room was how it

2281
02:04:45,279 --> 02:04:48,159
was when I went to sleep. However, I could not

2282
02:04:48,279 --> 02:04:51,399
move at all, and there were tiny red demon like

2283
02:04:51,439 --> 02:04:55,479
creatures that were crawling all over me and they were laughing.

2284
02:04:56,159 --> 02:04:59,760
They were biting my toes, scratching my legs, and pinching

2285
02:04:59,800 --> 02:05:03,039
me everywhere else. I tried to scream or move, but

2286
02:05:03,119 --> 02:05:05,760
I couldn't. It felt like in some of those shows

2287
02:05:05,800 --> 02:05:10,640
where suddenly your mouth is gone or even stitched shut. Finally,

2288
02:05:10,840 --> 02:05:13,520
I'd apparently made enough garbled noise that it woke my

2289
02:05:13,600 --> 02:05:16,239
husband up, who then shook me, and I was able

2290
02:05:16,239 --> 02:05:18,279
to break out of whatever was going on with me.

2291
02:05:18,760 --> 02:05:21,920
But again, I know I was not fully asleep because

2292
02:05:21,920 --> 02:05:24,039
I saw my husband from the corner of my eye

2293
02:05:24,439 --> 02:05:28,000
wake up and then shake me before the creatures actually disappeared.

2294
02:05:28,680 --> 02:05:30,680
I was afraid to go back to sleep that night

2295
02:05:31,000 --> 02:05:34,840
with just cause because once I did, it happened all

2296
02:05:34,880 --> 02:05:39,279
over again one more time. I cannot explain what exactly

2297
02:05:39,319 --> 02:05:41,840
it was that happened that night, but I have not

2298
02:05:42,079 --> 02:05:45,520
liked sleeping in my in law's basement ever since, and

2299
02:05:45,640 --> 02:05:49,800
when the morning came, I did have unexplained marks all

2300
02:05:49,840 --> 02:05:53,479
over me. This brings me to the next portion of

2301
02:05:53,520 --> 02:05:57,079
my story, where the sleep paralysis demon comes into play,

2302
02:05:57,359 --> 02:06:00,199
and I have to issue a disclaimer here. This part

2303
02:06:00,199 --> 02:06:03,760
of my story discusses pregnancy loss, which could be triggering

2304
02:06:03,840 --> 02:06:07,880
for some listeners to start. My husband and I tried

2305
02:06:07,960 --> 02:06:11,359
unsuccessfully for a few years to have children. After so

2306
02:06:11,479 --> 02:06:15,880
long of constant disappointment, we finally had medical intervention starting

2307
02:06:15,960 --> 02:06:20,600
in early twenty twelve. Almost immediately after starting medicine, I

2308
02:06:20,640 --> 02:06:24,840
became pregnant. We were very surprised and elated, especially since

2309
02:06:24,920 --> 02:06:27,640
my husband had broken his leg not long before we

2310
02:06:27,760 --> 02:06:30,600
found out, so it was nice to have something exciting

2311
02:06:30,640 --> 02:06:34,439
to look forward to. Unfortunately, though, it ended up being

2312
02:06:34,520 --> 02:06:38,319
an ectopic pregnancy and it was not viable. I was

2313
02:06:38,359 --> 02:06:42,119
around seven weeks pregnant. However, the day before I found

2314
02:06:42,119 --> 02:06:46,479
this out, I had my first sleep paralysis demon episode.

2315
02:06:47,239 --> 02:06:49,800
I was in that same state where you're awake but

2316
02:06:49,960 --> 02:06:53,319
not awake. Everything was in its exact place around me,

2317
02:06:53,800 --> 02:06:57,039
husband and dog included, and I could not move at all.

2318
02:06:57,720 --> 02:07:00,159
My first thought was back to the little Blue being

2319
02:07:00,439 --> 02:07:03,680
and the little red demons. But then before I could

2320
02:07:03,720 --> 02:07:06,640
give it any more thought, a very large and dense

2321
02:07:06,680 --> 02:07:10,560
shadow figure came up next to me. This was the dark,

2322
02:07:10,600 --> 02:07:14,119
beyond dark kind of figure, the kind that no light

2323
02:07:14,359 --> 02:07:18,520
can penetrate. It loomed over me for a moment, and then,

2324
02:07:18,760 --> 02:07:22,239
with its i'll say appendage since it wasn't really a hand,

2325
02:07:22,600 --> 02:07:26,359
it reached into my abdomen and began almost digging around.

2326
02:07:26,479 --> 02:07:30,600
It seemed immediately all I could feel was excruciating pain.

2327
02:07:31,319 --> 02:07:34,520
Then just as quickly as it came, it slunk off

2328
02:07:34,680 --> 02:07:38,119
and I was released from the paralysis. The next day,

2329
02:07:38,640 --> 02:07:43,000
I found out that my pregnancy was not viable. Later

2330
02:07:43,079 --> 02:07:46,279
that same year, in early fall, I was finally pregnant

2331
02:07:46,279 --> 02:07:49,800
once again. My numbers were looking great, I felt great,

2332
02:07:50,079 --> 02:07:54,119
and everything was good. But then it happened again. He

2333
02:07:54,279 --> 02:07:57,000
came back. I don't know how I know that it's

2334
02:07:57,000 --> 02:08:00,720
a he, I just do, and he repeated the same process.

2335
02:08:01,359 --> 02:08:04,239
The very next week, my doctor told me once again

2336
02:08:04,600 --> 02:08:08,079
that I was losing my pregnancy at eleven weeks. This time,

2337
02:08:08,880 --> 02:08:11,880
I was devastated, and I just chalked the sleep paralysis

2338
02:08:11,920 --> 02:08:14,720
demon off to my mind, trying to subconsciously help me

2339
02:08:14,800 --> 02:08:19,960
cope with the losses. Then two months later, right after Thanksgiving,

2340
02:08:20,239 --> 02:08:22,920
I was pregnant for the third time. I just knew

2341
02:08:22,920 --> 02:08:25,039
in my gut that this one was going to be okay.

2342
02:08:25,600 --> 02:08:29,079
I can't explain how I knew, I just did. It

2343
02:08:29,159 --> 02:08:32,920
was then that I began seeing my deceased grandmother everywhere.

2344
02:08:33,399 --> 02:08:36,000
She had died when I was fourteen, but prior to

2345
02:08:36,039 --> 02:08:39,199
that we were super close. She was such an amazing woman,

2346
02:08:39,439 --> 02:08:42,800
and even now over thirty years later, I still miss her.

2347
02:08:43,600 --> 02:08:46,640
I never saw the sleep paralysis demon during that pregnancy,

2348
02:08:46,960 --> 02:08:50,279
but I did see clear as day my grandmother standing

2349
02:08:50,279 --> 02:08:53,880
over my ultrasound photos one evening early on in the pregnancy,

2350
02:08:54,239 --> 02:08:56,760
and she was pointing at them and smiling at me.

2351
02:08:57,399 --> 02:08:59,439
I turned to ask my husband if he could see her,

2352
02:08:59,800 --> 02:09:03,399
but when I turned back around, she was gone. It

2353
02:09:03,479 --> 02:09:05,680
meant so much to me that that happened. I am

2354
02:09:05,720 --> 02:09:08,399
not a religious person, but I do believe in spirits

2355
02:09:08,479 --> 02:09:12,279
and parallel planes or even dimensions. To see her there,

2356
02:09:12,439 --> 02:09:15,239
almost as if she was claiming protection over my baby,

2357
02:09:15,479 --> 02:09:18,199
meant the world to me, even after twenty years at

2358
02:09:18,199 --> 02:09:22,319
that time of her being gone. During labor for my son,

2359
02:09:22,520 --> 02:09:24,439
at the end of that pregnancy, in the summer of

2360
02:09:24,439 --> 02:09:28,199
twenty thirteen, a nurse came into my room and stopped

2361
02:09:28,239 --> 02:09:31,520
short and gasped. She then asked me who the woman

2362
02:09:31,680 --> 02:09:33,399
was that was sitting next to me in the chair

2363
02:09:33,439 --> 02:09:36,359
by my hospital bed. However, there was no one there.

2364
02:09:36,800 --> 02:09:40,159
The chair was empty. So I asked her to describe

2365
02:09:40,199 --> 02:09:43,079
the person that she was seeing, and she perfectly described

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my grandmother. And she said that she was sitting next

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to me and beaming at my son. So I like

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to think that my son definitely has his own guardian angel.

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A little bit of time later, my husband and I

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were trying for another baby. In both January in July

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of twenty fifteen, I was pregnant again, and both times

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the incident occurred with the sleep paralysis demon, and I

2373
02:10:08,319 --> 02:10:13,920
again lost both pregnancies. I was shocked and once again devastated.

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That September, I became pregnant again. It all happened for

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the third time that year in November, when I was

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twelve weeks a long, except this time when the demon came,

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I was ready pissed off and I was determined. I

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02:10:29,199 --> 02:10:31,479
fought with everything I had in my mind to get

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02:10:31,479 --> 02:10:34,760
my body to move, and somehow I did it. I

2380
02:10:34,880 --> 02:10:38,600
fought it off. However, it had substance. I was not

2381
02:10:38,720 --> 02:10:41,119
expecting that, but I think I must have caught it

2382
02:10:41,159 --> 02:10:44,399
off guard or something, because as quickly as I touched it,

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02:10:44,399 --> 02:10:48,000
it became like smoke or a mist. It was still

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02:10:48,039 --> 02:10:51,800
a solid darkness, but it had no substance, and then

2385
02:10:51,920 --> 02:10:56,000
it retreated once again. The next night, I woke up

2386
02:10:56,079 --> 02:10:58,600
and I knew something was a miss. However, I went

2387
02:10:58,640 --> 02:11:01,479
to use the restroom around midas night and I discovered

2388
02:11:01,479 --> 02:11:04,119
that I was bleeding. I started to freak out and

2389
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I called out to my husband. He rushed me out

2390
02:11:06,520 --> 02:11:08,840
the door and I was off to the hospital. However,

2391
02:11:08,880 --> 02:11:11,560
he had to stay home with our older kiddo. When

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02:11:11,600 --> 02:11:14,479
I got there, they performed all of the necessary tests,

2393
02:11:14,640 --> 02:11:17,159
but of course they couldn't tell me anything because none

2394
02:11:17,199 --> 02:11:19,960
of them were my actual doctor. I had to wait

2395
02:11:20,000 --> 02:11:21,880
four hours on the edge of my seat for my

2396
02:11:21,960 --> 02:11:25,079
doctor to walk downstairs from the maternity ward to the

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02:11:25,119 --> 02:11:28,760
emergency room. Turns out I was in the beginning stages

2398
02:11:28,800 --> 02:11:32,239
of placenta previa, where basically things are separating from where

2399
02:11:32,279 --> 02:11:34,760
they should be. So I was put on bed rest

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for two weeks, and at the two week mark I

2401
02:11:37,600 --> 02:11:41,119
was cleared. However, it was such a difficult pregnancy. I

2402
02:11:41,159 --> 02:11:44,880
had numerous complications and I almost lost my second son

2403
02:11:45,359 --> 02:11:49,760
two more times. That March, during Easter weekend, we were

2404
02:11:49,800 --> 02:11:52,159
at my in laws house. I was looking at a

2405
02:11:52,159 --> 02:11:55,399
picture on the wall and I noticed someone standing behind me.

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02:11:55,880 --> 02:11:58,159
I knew exactly who it was when I saw him,

2407
02:11:58,319 --> 02:12:01,319
and I very audibly gasped, which got the attention of

2408
02:12:01,399 --> 02:12:04,680
everyone in the realm, and of course, when I turned around.

2409
02:12:04,960 --> 02:12:07,880
There was no one there behind me. Whom I had seen,

2410
02:12:07,960 --> 02:12:11,399
though clear as day, was my husband's birth father. He

2411
02:12:11,479 --> 02:12:13,800
had died in a plane crash when my husband was

2412
02:12:13,840 --> 02:12:16,560
only two and a half years old. When I glimpsed

2413
02:12:16,640 --> 02:12:18,960
him in the reflection of the glass, he was smiling

2414
02:12:19,000 --> 02:12:21,760
at me, and I felt a kind of peaceful reassurance

2415
02:12:21,920 --> 02:12:25,319
wash over me, and lo and behold. My second son

2416
02:12:25,439 --> 02:12:29,800
was born the following spring in twenty sixteen, so I

2417
02:12:29,840 --> 02:12:32,479
suppose it safe to hazard a guess that both of

2418
02:12:32,479 --> 02:12:36,960
my boys have a guardian angel watching over them. After

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02:12:37,039 --> 02:12:40,199
my second son was born, I was pregnant three more times,

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02:12:40,600 --> 02:12:44,640
twice in twenty eighteen and once in twenty nineteen, but

2421
02:12:44,800 --> 02:12:49,079
sadly the demon won each of those battles. Like I

2422
02:12:49,079 --> 02:12:51,680
stated earlier, though I don't know if this was just

2423
02:12:51,760 --> 02:12:54,479
my subconscious telling me in its own way that my

2424
02:12:54,560 --> 02:12:57,720
pregnancies were not viable, or if this is just one

2425
02:12:57,720 --> 02:13:01,680
of those unexplainable paranormal experience and says, I hadn't had

2426
02:13:01,720 --> 02:13:04,920
a single sleep paralysis episode since that last pregnancy that

2427
02:13:05,000 --> 02:13:09,760
I lost until recently. I also mentioned earlier that I'd

2428
02:13:09,760 --> 02:13:12,560
been trying to type this up but kept getting distracted.

2429
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Every time I would sit down to type this up,

2430
02:13:15,239 --> 02:13:17,520
something would come up, to the point where even my

2431
02:13:17,600 --> 02:13:21,399
oldest son noticed. Then one night, I fell asleep while

2432
02:13:21,439 --> 02:13:23,800
trying to type this up on my phone. And it

2433
02:13:23,840 --> 02:13:26,159
may not come as a surprise as to who paid

2434
02:13:26,199 --> 02:13:29,760
me a visit that night. You guessed it the sleep

2435
02:13:29,800 --> 02:13:33,880
paralysis demon. Oddly enough, he was going after my phone

2436
02:13:33,880 --> 02:13:37,000
this time. I fought hard and kept trying to say no,

2437
02:13:37,479 --> 02:13:41,439
and then finally it ended he was gone and I

2438
02:13:41,560 --> 02:13:45,239
was released. My husband then startled me and asked me

2439
02:13:45,279 --> 02:13:48,239
if I was okay. I thought he'd been asleep, but

2440
02:13:48,359 --> 02:13:51,359
he apparently saw my whole struggle. He said that my

2441
02:13:51,399 --> 02:13:54,359
eyes were open and I kept twitching and grunting, but

2442
02:13:54,479 --> 02:13:57,239
he couldn't get my attention for a moment. He said

2443
02:13:57,239 --> 02:13:59,520
that finally he shook me enough that I snapped out

2444
02:13:59,520 --> 02:14:03,319
of it. That was just two weeks ago, right before Halloween.

2445
02:14:04,199 --> 02:14:06,800
Even now, I try to submit my story via your

2446
02:14:06,840 --> 02:14:10,239
website and it just kept having errors, so I am

2447
02:14:10,239 --> 02:14:15,039
attempting to send this via email instead. I just want

2448
02:14:15,039 --> 02:14:17,279
to say thank you. If you end up reading my story,

2449
02:14:17,479 --> 02:14:20,159
and if someone hears it that has gone through something similar,

2450
02:14:20,560 --> 02:14:23,720
I hope that it helps someone know that they're not alone.

2451
02:14:24,760 --> 02:14:27,199
Thank you for sharing and giving everyone a place to

2452
02:14:27,239 --> 02:14:30,920
feel open and free to tell our stories. And I

2453
02:14:30,920 --> 02:14:38,479
hope everyone has a great holiday season. I hope you

2454
02:14:38,600 --> 02:14:41,199
enjoyed tonight's episode, and I'd like to once again remind

2455
02:14:41,239 --> 02:14:43,520
each and every one of you how much I appreciate

2456
02:14:43,560 --> 02:14:47,319
you listening and supporting the show. Your kindness and willingness

2457
02:14:47,319 --> 02:14:49,520
to keep an open mind is what drives me to

2458
02:14:49,560 --> 02:14:52,840
continue the podcast, and I know that twenty twenty six

2459
02:14:52,880 --> 02:14:56,840
will prove to be yet another fascinating year of paranormal mysteries,

2460
02:14:57,079 --> 02:15:00,560
and I look forward to beginning my tenth season the show.

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02:15:01,640 --> 02:15:05,159
In the meantime, please keep sharing your experiences and I'll

2462
02:15:05,199 --> 02:15:07,720
be back in just a few days with more tales

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02:15:07,720 --> 02:15:11,239
of the unexplained, And until then, I hope you have

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02:15:11,319 --> 02:16:44,360
a safe and happy New Year. In