238: 2021 Recap: A Year Of Listener Stories - Part 1

[00:00:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the show, and thank you for joining me.

[00:00:09] [SPEAKER_00]: On today's episode, I'll be recapping some of the most memorable stories of 2021.

[00:00:15] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm Nic Ryan, and this is Paranormal Mysteries.

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[00:01:17] [SPEAKER_00]: 2021 was filled with amazing listener stories.

[00:01:20] [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, every experience that I had the honor of reading was fascinating.

[00:01:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Throughout the year, there were many of these stories that stayed with me for one

[00:01:28] [SPEAKER_00]: reason or another. Possibly because I connected with them in some way,

[00:01:32] [SPEAKER_00]: or perhaps they simply covered a phenomenon that I found especially interesting.

[00:01:37] [SPEAKER_00]: But whatever the reason, it's become a bit of a tradition for me to revisit these stories at

[00:01:42] [SPEAKER_00]: the end of the year, and possibly even present you with an experience that you

[00:01:46] [SPEAKER_00]: haven't had the chance to listen to. Now please keep in mind that this is by no means

[00:01:51] [SPEAKER_00]: a list of my favorite stories. And to be honest, if I could have included every single

[00:01:56] [SPEAKER_00]: story that I read in 2021, I would have. But I had to draw the line somewhere,

[00:02:02] [SPEAKER_00]: and believe me it was difficult deciding which ones to include.

[00:02:07] [SPEAKER_00]: So today I'll be presenting you with a two-part recap of 2021.

[00:02:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Part 1 is airing now, and part 2 will be available later today at 12pm Eastern time.

[00:02:18] [SPEAKER_00]: So whether you're at home, on the road, or at work,

[00:02:22] [SPEAKER_00]: I hope you enjoy part 1 of our 2021 year in review.

[00:02:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Let's begin. Our next list of stories comes to us from Melanie. Melanie's story is called

[00:02:35] [SPEAKER_00]: A Ghostly Story. Melanie says, Hi Nick, love the podcast. I appreciate you giving a platform

[00:02:42] [SPEAKER_00]: to us that have experienced unexplainable events. You do a great job. Ever since I can remember

[00:02:48] [SPEAKER_00]: I've always had ghostly encounters, from friendly to not so friendly spirits.

[00:02:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I seemed to have somehow attracted spirits to me throughout my life, without actually trying to.

[00:02:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I have never played with a Ouija board out of fear that it would attract even more,

[00:03:02] [SPEAKER_00]: but I digress. I thought I would write to you about one of my more validated experiences.

[00:03:08] [SPEAKER_00]: One day my family and I were all in the kitchen talking when a strong smell of BO came out of

[00:03:13] [SPEAKER_00]: nowhere. This smell was very pungent and was not ignored by any of us. We began to inspect

[00:03:19] [SPEAKER_00]: where it was coming from, all smelling each other's pits and could not figure it out.

[00:03:24] [SPEAKER_00]: The smell eventually subsided and was brushed off by us. A couple of days later I was sitting

[00:03:29] [SPEAKER_00]: on the couch watching TV when in my peripheral I saw a figure of a woman with short brown hair

[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_00]: wearing a blue jersey with a 00 on it. She had shorts, high socks, and yellow sweatbands

[00:03:41] [SPEAKER_00]: on her wrists and head. She was just watching me from the hallway. I then started to smell

[00:03:47] [SPEAKER_00]: that pungent BO and the puzzle pieces began to be put together. She disappeared as soon as I

[00:03:53] [SPEAKER_00]: looked at her of course. I saw this lady a couple more times in the same spot, watching me while

[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I watched TV. This was unusual to me because I could see details whereas most of my encounters

[00:04:04] [SPEAKER_00]: are only white or black shadows. One day I decided to tell my mom about this. My mom is a very

[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_00]: open minded person and has always been a believer in the spirit world. Before I was able

[00:04:14] [SPEAKER_00]: to finish explaining what I had been seeing, my mom stopped me and expressed that she also had seen

[00:04:20] [SPEAKER_00]: her and she then finished my description to the tea. This was so validating to me because

[00:04:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I typically brush these experiences off thinking my mind is playing tricks on me.

[00:04:29] [SPEAKER_00]: My mom began trying to think of why this spirit would be visiting us and one memory

[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_00]: came to mind for her. She decided to pull out her old yearbook from high school and started

[00:04:39] [SPEAKER_00]: going through the pages. She stopped on a page and showed me a girl that looked

[00:04:42] [SPEAKER_00]: a whole lot like the spirit I had been seeing. My mom began to explain to me that this particular

[00:04:48] [SPEAKER_00]: girl was a friend of hers from high school and she was huge into sports and was awarded

[00:04:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Athlete of the Year. While in a soccer game, my mom accidentally kicked her in the head which

[00:04:58] [SPEAKER_00]: made the girl furious. This gave her a concussion and she was unable to play for the next week

[00:05:03] [SPEAKER_00]: or so. My mom had expressed her apologies but to no avail and this girl ignored my mom

[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_00]: for the rest of high school. Not long after high school this girl apparently received a full

[00:05:13] [SPEAKER_00]: scholarship but not long after she died suddenly of heart complications. My mom has always felt guilty

[00:05:20] [SPEAKER_00]: about what she had accidentally done to her back in high school and it was our thought that she

[00:05:24] [SPEAKER_00]: was visiting my mom because of this. It was quite the epiphany to us but why would she visit now?

[00:05:30] [SPEAKER_00]: We could not understand it. We never saw this lady again and my mom now feels at peace

[00:05:36] [SPEAKER_00]: about the unfortunate occurrences from high school. It makes you think of how interesting

[00:05:40] [SPEAKER_00]: the afterlife is. Can we come back to mend old regrets or unfinished business? One can only wonder.

[00:05:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for reading my story. I have many other experiences so let me know if you'd

[00:05:53] [SPEAKER_00]: like to hear more. I'd be happy to write more stories. All the best. Melannie.

[00:06:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Our next listener story comes to us from TJ. TJ's story is called Time Slip.

[00:06:07] [SPEAKER_00]: TJ says, Hi Nick. Maybe I am just not as sensitive as some people but I don't have many experiences

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_00]: that I can't explain but I do have this one. I wanted to share it with you as I heard some

[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_00]: other listeners' stories that reminded me of it. When I was about 10 years old my family moved

[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_00]: to the rural area of Wisconsin where my mom is originally from. We lived out in the country

[00:06:30] [SPEAKER_00]: with about a 20 minute drive to the nearest small city. This was probably one of my first

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_00]: times that I had taken the trip and I was mostly unfamiliar with the landmarks on it,

[00:06:40] [SPEAKER_00]: so I was avidly looking out the window and observing this new place. Not too far from our house we

[00:06:45] [SPEAKER_00]: came upon a solitary barn. Anyone who is from rural Wisconsin knows that the countryside is dotted

[00:06:51] [SPEAKER_00]: with many old barns in various states of disrepair or use so it was not unusual to see.

[00:06:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I took more interest in this particular one though because there were many people who

[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_00]: seemed to be working on it. It was a crowd of men in white shirts and suspenders,

[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_00]: and it seemed as though they were raising the barn or building it. I remember young men straddling

[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_00]: big beams that would be in the hayloft hammering in nails and teams of horses hoisting those

[00:07:17] [SPEAKER_00]: beams up. There was no heavy machinery just teams of horses and men doing the heavy lifting.

[00:07:23] [SPEAKER_00]: It looked as though they were doing it in the old fashioned way.

[00:07:27] [SPEAKER_00]: I did not think this was odd either as this particular area is home to many Amish families

[00:07:32] [SPEAKER_00]: who dress similar to what I saw and shun most modern machinery. It made sense to me that

[00:07:38] [SPEAKER_00]: the Amish would be building their barn like this. My mother who was driving didn't mention it,

[00:07:43] [SPEAKER_00]: so I just watched them until we passed it. I thought nothing more about it until a few days

[00:07:48] [SPEAKER_00]: later when we were going back into town. I remembered the men working on the barn

[00:07:52] [SPEAKER_00]: and wondered how much progress they had made since I had seen them. However when we got to the

[00:07:58] [SPEAKER_00]: spot that I knew the barn was, I was shocked. The barn was now completely collapsed on itself

[00:08:03] [SPEAKER_00]: with rotting wood and vines growing up around the stone part. There were young trees and

[00:08:09] [SPEAKER_00]: bushes growing next to it and inside though I clearly remember the dusty area around where

[00:08:14] [SPEAKER_00]: the men had cleared the work area. It had obviously been abandoned for decades.

[00:08:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I turned to my mom and asked her how long the barn had been like that.

[00:08:23] [SPEAKER_00]: She seemed very confused and didn't know which barn I was talking about until I pointed it out.

[00:08:28] [SPEAKER_00]: She was then even more confused and said that it had always been that way.

[00:08:32] [SPEAKER_00]: It was not far from the road and I am certain that my mom would have seen what I saw and

[00:08:37] [SPEAKER_00]: remembered it. From living in that area in the years afterward, I have never seen a site

[00:08:42] [SPEAKER_00]: like that again, so I know that it would have been unusual enough for my mom to take note

[00:08:47] [SPEAKER_00]: of it. I am also confident that it was the same barn due to an easily recognizable landmark right

[00:08:52] [SPEAKER_00]: next to it. The barn is completely gone now as someone bulldozed its remains for a new driveway,

[00:08:59] [SPEAKER_00]: but I always think about this experience when passing by where it used to be.

[00:09:03] [SPEAKER_00]: I do not think these are ghosts in the traditional sense. To me it seemed more like

[00:09:07] [SPEAKER_00]: an echo of the past or just a moment where time got thin and I glimpsed what it was.

[00:09:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Some kind of latent energy taking form for just a second.

[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for listening to my story. Our next listener story comes to us from Vincent.

[00:09:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Vincent's story is called Saved by an Invisible Entity.

[00:09:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Vincent says, So I started listening to your podcast about a week ago and I heard the one about the

[00:09:37] [SPEAKER_00]: cloaked predator looking creature and I nearly lost it when I heard these people's stories.

[00:09:42] [SPEAKER_00]: It also made me very happy to hear that I am not the only one who has had an encounter

[00:09:47] [SPEAKER_00]: with this entity. I've never told anyone about this before in fear of being thrown into the

[00:09:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Looney Bain and just that no one would ever believe me. I'm also not really sure what it is that I

[00:09:58] [SPEAKER_00]: saw. I just know that it saved my life that day. It was in Keen, New Hampshire in early

[00:10:05] [SPEAKER_00]: December of 2014. It's a small town that looks like its smack dab in the center of a crater

[00:10:10] [SPEAKER_00]: because it has hilly mountains on all sides, except for the southern side.

[00:10:15] [SPEAKER_00]: There is a place there called Sunset Rock and it's a short hike that's kind of steep

[00:10:20] [SPEAKER_00]: until you get close to the top. At the very top there is a cell tower or radio tower,

[00:10:25] [SPEAKER_00]: but just before that is a trail that leads out to Sunset Rock. As you can guess at Sunset,

[00:10:30] [SPEAKER_00]: you can see the whole town of Keen and it turns a beautiful yellow-orange.

[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_00]: However, my encounter happened in the morning. I woke up at 7.30 in the morning to a

[00:10:40] [SPEAKER_00]: breakup text from my then-girlfriend and she was breaking things off to go back to her axe.

[00:10:46] [SPEAKER_00]: I was a little upset and decided to hike up to Sunset Rock as that place always cheers me up.

[00:10:52] [SPEAKER_00]: It was cold that morning while I was heading up the mountain and I noticed the tops of the

[00:10:55] [SPEAKER_00]: trees moving, but I couldn't feel any wind and I assumed it just hadn't reached the bottom

[00:11:00] [SPEAKER_00]: of the trail yet and that I'd feel it as I got higher up the path. It was the clicking

[00:11:05] [SPEAKER_00]: that I thought was really odd at first and it sounded like a woodpecker off in the distance,

[00:11:10] [SPEAKER_00]: but it continued to follow me and thinking back about it now, the movement of the tops of the trees

[00:11:15] [SPEAKER_00]: followed me as well. As I reached the small clearing, the clicking noises stopped and I

[00:11:21] [SPEAKER_00]: walked up to the edge of the cliff on a big rock that pops up from the ground and I gazed

[00:11:26] [SPEAKER_00]: out. Half the town was covered in mist and it was cloudy and beautiful as always. I then got

[00:11:32] [SPEAKER_00]: startled by the clicking noise again, only it sounded like it was right behind me and I tried to

[00:11:37] [SPEAKER_00]: turn around quickly to see what was making the sound and that's when I slipped off the rock.

[00:11:42] [SPEAKER_00]: My immediate thought was, crap, I'm going to die, but just then something grabbed my arm and stopped

[00:11:48] [SPEAKER_00]: my fall. I'm 6'4 and at the time I was about 300 pounds so I looked over to see who grabbed

[00:11:54] [SPEAKER_00]: me and all I could see was a shimmer like when heat radiates off the pavement. The best way

[00:12:00] [SPEAKER_00]: to describe it is when predator is cloaked. It was very similar and the shimmer was in the shape of a

[00:12:05] [SPEAKER_00]: human. It had me by my arm, it clicked again and pulled me like a rag doll up onto the top of the cliff.

[00:12:13] [SPEAKER_00]: We stared at each other for about 15 or 20 seconds. I said thank you and it clicked again

[00:12:18] [SPEAKER_00]: and before I could ask what it wanted or what it was, it jumped over my head and into the

[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_00]: trees and that's when I lost sight of it. It was almost as tall as I was but had an average

[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_00]: build from what I could tell. I continued looking for it for another 30 minutes before I started to

[00:12:35] [SPEAKER_00]: notice how cold I was getting. I decided to head back down the mountain and I thought I noticed

[00:12:40] [SPEAKER_00]: it watching me from the treetops as I made my way back down. I was blown away about what

[00:12:45] [SPEAKER_00]: had happened to me and I couldn't believe it. I was afraid no one would ever believe me

[00:12:49] [SPEAKER_00]: or they'd just laugh at me so I kept it to myself all these years. Hearing your podcast

[00:12:54] [SPEAKER_00]: and these people's testimonies brought the whole encounter back to me and I'm thrilled

[00:12:59] [SPEAKER_00]: that I'm not the only one who has encountered this being. Thank you so much for listening,

[00:13:05] [SPEAKER_00]: it feels great to have a place where I can finally get this off of my chest.

[00:13:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Today's first listener story comes to us from Jessica. Jessica's story is called

[00:13:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Windigo. Jessica says, Hey Nick and team, I'm a huge fan of this podcast and have been

[00:13:25] [SPEAKER_00]: listening to it for the past seven months and I am elated to tell you that I am planning on becoming

[00:13:30] [SPEAKER_00]: a patron. I appreciate you giving all of us a safe space to share our experiences and for

[00:13:36] [SPEAKER_00]: also being a wealth of information for me regarding other phenomena. My experience begins

[00:13:41] [SPEAKER_00]: shortly after my dad passed away in 2007 when I was 12. I don't remember the exact date

[00:13:48] [SPEAKER_00]: but it was a heavy winter that year. I live in southeastern Wisconsin but at the time

[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I was on a trip in Door County, Wisconsin with my grandmother, my younger sister and some close

[00:13:59] [SPEAKER_00]: family friends. After everyone had settled in I decided I was going to put on my snow pant overalls

[00:14:05] [SPEAKER_00]: and explore a trail that led up some hills. I've always loved walking in nature and was hoping

[00:14:11] [SPEAKER_00]: that I'd see some wildlife. My sister decided to stay behind and watch TV so I was alone,

[00:14:17] [SPEAKER_00]: which I didn't mind. I walked for about 15 minutes and I was on a hill or cliff over

[00:14:23] [SPEAKER_00]: looking a snowy clearing in valley in the woods when I immediately noticed the color of red staining

[00:14:29] [SPEAKER_00]: the snow far below. I saw what I thought at first was a shaggy looking bear with a fresh meal. I'd

[00:14:36] [SPEAKER_00]: never seen a bear outside captivity before and I got as close as I could to the edge of the cliff

[00:14:41] [SPEAKER_00]: and watched it as I was laying in the snow. I was overcome with a feeling of bitter coldness

[00:14:46] [SPEAKER_00]: to my bones and felt an intense bad feeling or sensation which I now recognize as sheer terror

[00:14:53] [SPEAKER_00]: and dread. My eyes were fixated on the bear and I was frozen in fear. I saw it lift its head up and

[00:15:00] [SPEAKER_00]: it had long antlers. It was pretty far away so I couldn't see its whole head but I saw enough

[00:15:05] [SPEAKER_00]: to scare me to my core. It stood probably seven or eight feet tall. I said, what is that to

[00:15:12] [SPEAKER_00]: myself which was a huge mistake? It had heard me whisper it to myself and all of a sudden it was

[00:15:19] [SPEAKER_00]: looking right at me. We were locked on each other and I started to hear whispers in my head and

[00:15:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I felt paralyzed. The whispers stopped after a few seconds and I got back up and ran as fast as

[00:15:31] [SPEAKER_00]: I could back to the cabin. I could feel it behind me the whole way back and the wind hissed

[00:15:37] [SPEAKER_00]: with what sounded like what I can only describe as unearthly laughter. I busted in the door and made

[00:15:43] [SPEAKER_00]: sure that every entrance and even the windows were locked. With my eyes peeled looking through

[00:15:48] [SPEAKER_00]: every window, I told it that I saw something and I didn't know what it was and she brushed me off

[00:15:53] [SPEAKER_00]: not believing what I was telling her and my sister probably wasn't even listening.

[00:15:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Sorry this was so lengthy but I've never told anyone about this before

[00:16:03] [SPEAKER_00]: and I wanted to get all the details straight. I have a plan to go up there this winter and

[00:16:08] [SPEAKER_00]: investigate further and try to find it again for proof. I also have experiences regarding spirits,

[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_00]: UFOs, aliens and a dogman. I love the podcast. Jessica. Our next listener story comes to us

[00:16:27] [SPEAKER_00]: from Josh and Josh's story is called Night Terror. Josh says, so I've been thinking

[00:16:35] [SPEAKER_00]: about writing you for a little while now. I found your podcast earlier this year and I

[00:16:39] [SPEAKER_00]: eventually thought that maybe I would share my story with you. I am probably more of a tourist in the

[00:16:45] [SPEAKER_00]: paranormal and by that I mean I come to it for entertainment but I don't spend a lot of time

[00:16:50] [SPEAKER_00]: researching it or digging too far into anything. I am a religious person but over the years

[00:16:55] [SPEAKER_00]: I have found that faith is more important to me than an actual defined religion.

[00:17:00] [SPEAKER_00]: My family has strong Christian ties. They are active members in their church

[00:17:04] [SPEAKER_00]: and I still identify as one but I am open to the ideas of all religions and faiths

[00:17:09] [SPEAKER_00]: and I enjoy learning about them. For me, things like ghosts and demons are something

[00:17:15] [SPEAKER_00]: I can believe in as a concept but I tend to be pretty skeptical about how often people

[00:17:20] [SPEAKER_00]: actually experience them. I think it happens but less often than people think. That being

[00:17:26] [SPEAKER_00]: said, I do enjoy hearing about them and I am respectful of others experiences and tend to

[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_00]: ask a lot of questions about it because it is important to me to be there to listen

[00:17:35] [SPEAKER_00]: and to try to understand what some people have gone through. Your show gives me that to a point

[00:17:41] [SPEAKER_00]: and though at some times I am the skeptic, there are times I still enjoy getting freaked out a bit.

[00:17:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, here is my experience and feel free to share it or part of it if you want to on

[00:17:51] [SPEAKER_00]: just a warning though, it is kind of long. This happened in the fall of 2005. It was just a few

[00:17:59] [SPEAKER_00]: weeks before I left for my first deployment to the Middle East with the army. Now I had been

[00:18:04] [SPEAKER_00]: a horror movie fan for most of my life by this time but this experience terrified me to the

[00:18:09] [SPEAKER_00]: point of ruining my enjoyment of horror movies until just the last few years again, something

[00:18:15] [SPEAKER_00]: like 15 years now. So that night my wife and I had gone to sleep like we always did around 10pm

[00:18:21] [SPEAKER_00]: and I don't remember having any problems falling asleep or anything so it was pretty normal.

[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Also, I am what I have heard called a lucid dreamer meaning I normally know I am dreaming

[00:18:32] [SPEAKER_00]: and I can even affect what happens in a dream when I want to. That night at some point

[00:18:38] [SPEAKER_00]: I began having the worst nightmare of my life. In the dream I was laying in my bed

[00:18:42] [SPEAKER_00]: and everything was normal. I didn't even realize I was asleep at first because it all looked right.

[00:18:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Suddenly I heard a rumbling like an earthquake physically coming up the stairs just down

[00:18:53] [SPEAKER_00]: the hall from our room. I jumped out of bed to go slam the bedroom door in order to stop it

[00:18:58] [SPEAKER_00]: as we slept with it open and I just knew that whatever was coming was evil.

[00:19:03] [SPEAKER_00]: My wife woke up when I ran to the door and was screaming asking what it was

[00:19:07] [SPEAKER_00]: and I was able to slam it closed just in time before anything got in.

[00:19:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Then I realized that whatever it was could still come through the upstairs bathroom

[00:19:15] [SPEAKER_00]: that had doors to both our bedroom and the hallway that it was currently in.

[00:19:20] [SPEAKER_00]: So I ran in there, flipped on the lights and as I reached the door to the hallway

[00:19:24] [SPEAKER_00]: I could see what was there. What I saw in the already dark hall was a pitch black

[00:19:30] [SPEAKER_00]: formless mass moving towards me and I got an overwhelming feeling that if it touched

[00:19:35] [SPEAKER_00]: me something terrible would happen. All I could get from it was this feeling of overwhelming

[00:19:40] [SPEAKER_00]: malice and evil but there was just impenetrable darkness, no form. I was able to close the

[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_00]: door before it could enter but I wasn't able to lock it and the door quickly began to shake

[00:19:51] [SPEAKER_00]: in its frame enough that the latch wouldn't catch and it couldn't lock. My wife then

[00:19:56] [SPEAKER_00]: ran into the bathroom yelling at me and asking what was out there while I was fighting with

[00:20:01] [SPEAKER_00]: the door and too afraid to answer. I was however able to pull open the drawer in the bathroom counter

[00:20:07] [SPEAKER_00]: that was right next to the doorway which blocked the door from opening any more than one or two

[00:20:11] [SPEAKER_00]: inches. Suddenly the door stopped shaking like whatever it was had changed its mind

[00:20:16] [SPEAKER_00]: and then I looked at my wife and I realized that I had never locked the hallway door to our

[00:20:20] [SPEAKER_00]: bedroom when I shut it. I tried to run back to it but then I suddenly heard the door handle

[00:20:26] [SPEAKER_00]: click and began to open. My wife started screaming but before we could see anything I suddenly woke

[00:20:33] [SPEAKER_00]: up for real, suddenly back in my bed which never happens to me. I immediately looked at our bedroom

[00:20:39] [SPEAKER_00]: door and it sat there like normal, open to the hallway and looking like everything was fine

[00:20:43] [SPEAKER_00]: but it wasn't. Now I'm a big guy over six foot three and at the time I was around 230 pounds

[00:20:50] [SPEAKER_00]: even in my reserve unit I am significantly bigger than most of the other guys and I

[00:20:55] [SPEAKER_00]: rarely find myself in a situation that I can't handle physically but at that moment I was terrified.

[00:21:02] [SPEAKER_00]: My house which we had lived in for over a year suddenly felt very different and threatening

[00:21:07] [SPEAKER_00]: and I felt like something absolutely did not want me there. Being a good Catholic at the time

[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I kept a rosary next to my bed and I grabbed it right away and began praying almost feverishly.

[00:21:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I could not shake the feelings from the dream nor the feeling I was getting now

[00:21:23] [SPEAKER_00]: that I was awake. After 15 minutes or so I woke up my wife and told her what had happened

[00:21:29] [SPEAKER_00]: hoping just explaining the dream would calm me down but it did not. In fact when I had told my wife

[00:21:35] [SPEAKER_00]: the whole dream she got creeped out as well. I ended up getting so upset that we had to

[00:21:40] [SPEAKER_00]: leave the house and for the first and only time in my life since I had to drive to my

[00:21:45] [SPEAKER_00]: parents house and wake them up just to try and get them to help me calm down.

[00:21:49] [SPEAKER_00]: It was a strange thing being a 25 year old who was about to deploy to a war zone

[00:21:54] [SPEAKER_00]: and having to go to my mom and dad's house because of a bad dream. My dad was silent

[00:21:59] [SPEAKER_00]: about it when we talked but my mom who has always been a believer in ghosts talked it all

[00:22:04] [SPEAKER_00]: out with me and my wife and eventually after an hour or so we went home. I didn't really get

[00:22:10] [SPEAKER_00]: much sleep the rest of the night nor the next few after that and I never felt totally

[00:22:14] [SPEAKER_00]: comfortable in that house again. Even after two tours in Iraq where I served in active combat

[00:22:20] [SPEAKER_00]: and having dealt with some of the most traumatizing events a person can when I came home from each

[00:22:25] [SPEAKER_00]: tour I still felt threatened by something in that house some black mass that did not want me there.

[00:22:32] [SPEAKER_00]: I even would challenge it at times when I was there alone. I would sit in the dark

[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_00]: and dare it to come out again but other than the moments of the hair in my arms and necks

[00:22:41] [SPEAKER_00]: standing up and weird noises and remember it was a townhouse it never happened again.

[00:22:47] [SPEAKER_00]: About a year and a half after my last deployment we moved out of that townhouse and built a new one

[00:22:52] [SPEAKER_00]: of our own and we moved again a few years after that as well in each new house after settling in

[00:22:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I have always felt comfortable and I don't feel like whatever that threatening presence was

[00:23:02] [SPEAKER_00]: is following me afterward though I couldn't watch horror movies anymore especially ones about

[00:23:08] [SPEAKER_00]: demons and possession I had seen a few here and there but only at someone else's insisting.

[00:23:14] [SPEAKER_00]: My brother once got me to watch the first paranormal activity and I was uneasy and looking for spirits

[00:23:19] [SPEAKER_00]: and demons everywhere I went for weeks. Recently in the last three months I have rediscovered

[00:23:25] [SPEAKER_00]: my love for the genre and it's almost like a floodgate opening because I have been reading

[00:23:29] [SPEAKER_00]: about it and watching or listening to shows about it and my wife has even brought it up to see

[00:23:34] [SPEAKER_00]: if it still freaks me out. I truthfully don't even know for sure what changed my mind or feeling about it.

[00:23:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway I have enjoyed your show and thank you for making this forum for people to get their

[00:23:45] [SPEAKER_00]: experiences out there. Truth be told I am still not sure what I experienced maybe it was just

[00:23:51] [SPEAKER_00]: the stress of knowing I was deploying but at the time I didn't think I was overly worried

[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_00]: about it. Even now thinking back about it I sometimes feel silly that I let it affect me

[00:24:00] [SPEAKER_00]: so much but then I remember how real it had felt at the time. A funny side note I have been

[00:24:07] [SPEAKER_00]: thinking about writing you for a few months now and today when I finally decided to while I was

[00:24:11] [SPEAKER_00]: looking up your email on the internet my computer speakers all of a sudden started to buzz with

[00:24:16] [SPEAKER_00]: feedback I was at work so I had to stop for a minute to do something else and when I started

[00:24:21] [SPEAKER_00]: looking again the speaker started buzzing again that hasn't happened before and I have had this

[00:24:27] [SPEAKER_00]: computer for a while now weird thanks again Josh our next story comes to us from Diana Diana's story

[00:24:40] [SPEAKER_00]: is called Yee Nald Lushi Diana says greetings Nick I have been bestowed the gift of your podcast

[00:24:47] [SPEAKER_00]: recently and I cannot express the gratitude I feel when I take a deep dive into the archive

[00:24:52] [SPEAKER_00]: of your well spent time like many of your listeners I have been surrounded by the paranormal

[00:24:57] [SPEAKER_00]: since my first breath on this plane my grandmother introduced me at a noticeably young age to ghost

[00:25:03] [SPEAKER_00]: stories television shows movies and everything of the like my earliest memories were of watching

[00:25:09] [SPEAKER_00]: the silent black and white Dracula and et was my first window to the idea of something more

[00:25:16] [SPEAKER_00]: to give a brief yet accurate depiction of my household growing up I was surrounded by

[00:25:21] [SPEAKER_00]: neo-peg and culture and became a confirmed methodist at 13 to rebel against the paganistic

[00:25:27] [SPEAKER_00]: lifestyle of my mother and sister my older sister spent many years as an eastern religions professor

[00:25:33] [SPEAKER_00]: and was one of the only white women in 50 years to participate in a traditional Haitian voodoo

[00:25:39] [SPEAKER_00]: practice I have been smacked upside the head for pronouncing voodoo and not the correct

[00:25:43] [SPEAKER_00]: way of voodoo I attended a matasori school early in the shadows of the front range mountains

[00:25:51] [SPEAKER_00]: and at 13 attended a birthday party where a well-renowned celestial medium read our cards

[00:25:58] [SPEAKER_00]: that very next day my mother took me to a store on pearl street mall in boulder colorado

[00:26:03] [SPEAKER_00]: where I purchased my first of many decks of cards according to the reading I received

[00:26:08] [SPEAKER_00]: my inner wise woman card was the first known Lilith Thanadirdra of the unspoken Christian

[00:26:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Testaments more commonly known as Lilith the first wife of Satan after being cast from the garden of

[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Eden I learned many commonalities of religion growing up and even though I was confirmed by

[00:26:26] [SPEAKER_00]: the church I walk my own path and have found my niche in the modern witchy world I'm writing

[00:26:33] [SPEAKER_00]: this short story to you because I recently listened to the tale told about skinwalkers

[00:26:38] [SPEAKER_00]: I dare only say the name once and make my story brief because as was told before the more attention

[00:26:45] [SPEAKER_00]: given the stronger the draw to invite them into your life part of attending this matasori school

[00:26:51] [SPEAKER_00]: was the privilege to participate in extravagant field trips my most memorable being to the

[00:26:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Hopi and Navajo reservations in Arizona I was of the first wasichu or greedy person

[00:27:03] [SPEAKER_00]: to not only witness but also participate in the annual kachina dances my grandmother collected

[00:27:09] [SPEAKER_00]: kachina dolls so I brought traditional handmade dolls home to her and still have them 19 years later

[00:27:15] [SPEAKER_00]: even after her departure I dare not lose them or mistreat them because of the power that still

[00:27:22] [SPEAKER_00]: remains within their hand carved statues while on the dene reservation we stayed in a Hogan

[00:27:29] [SPEAKER_00]: being Montessori our class was small 7th 7th grade and 3 8th grade I being in the 7th at the time

[00:27:36] [SPEAKER_00]: and the youngest of my grade we were instructed to enter the Hogan to the left and only walk

[00:27:42] [SPEAKER_00]: the hut in a clockwise manner each one of us was smudged with sage before entering the Hogan

[00:27:47] [SPEAKER_00]: for our stay on our first night we sat in a circle that covered the circumference of the

[00:27:53] [SPEAKER_00]: octagon nothing but our bodies sleeping bags and the wood furnace in the center consuming

[00:27:58] [SPEAKER_00]: space within the clay walls we participated in the stereotypical go around the circle and say

[00:28:04] [SPEAKER_00]: your name style that is grade school introductions by my turn I didn't even have the opportunity

[00:28:11] [SPEAKER_00]: to open my mouth before my native host locked eyes with me and said you're different we'll

[00:28:17] [SPEAKER_00]: speak later to be honest I do not believe he ever learned my name and that encounter is

[00:28:23] [SPEAKER_00]: another story for another time if so chosen to be shared on your show on our last night before

[00:28:29] [SPEAKER_00]: leaving to return home early the next morning we were all asked if we wanted to have ghost stories

[00:28:34] [SPEAKER_00]: and s'mores being the prepubescence we were of course there was a static chatter and yelps

[00:28:40] [SPEAKER_00]: of approval from my small crowd the only story I remember and the last one he told

[00:28:45] [SPEAKER_00]: was of the yee nald lusci I dare not emphasize pronunciation of this tongue because I would

[00:28:52] [SPEAKER_00]: not wish the interaction of such an unpleasant experience on my worst enemy

[00:28:57] [SPEAKER_00]: listening to your previous show resulted in my most recent encounter which I will share in a moment

[00:29:03] [SPEAKER_00]: but when our host uttered the word there was a certain omniscient cold that blanketed the

[00:29:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Hogan that night and the gentleman who had been staying in his modern house across the

[00:29:12] [SPEAKER_00]: property our entire stay slept in his clothes sitting with his back rested on the unused

[00:29:18] [SPEAKER_00]: stove facing the door that night I do not remember the exact story he told or its details

[00:29:25] [SPEAKER_00]: but I do remember the noise that crept into our naive hearts halfway through his telling

[00:29:31] [SPEAKER_00]: even thinking about it now almost two decades later my ears ring and my bones are cold

[00:29:38] [SPEAKER_00]: we were smudged again before leaving and we were told with a deathly seriousness

[00:29:42] [SPEAKER_00]: to never speak of these creatures in ill humor and to do our best to never bring

[00:29:47] [SPEAKER_00]: our minds or hearts to their attention for it would welcome them into our lives and we

[00:29:52] [SPEAKER_00]: certainly did not want that as he circled me with his bushel of burning sage from his acres

[00:29:58] [SPEAKER_00]: and acres of brush he looked me in the eyes with the same piercing gaze and whispered forgive me

[00:30:05] [SPEAKER_00]: which I do he knew I had been exposed and endured many other paranormal experiences in my life

[00:30:10] [SPEAKER_00]: and he knew I would continue to endure them until I take my last breath

[00:30:15] [SPEAKER_00]: shortly after this trip my parents grandmother and I moved to south central Pennsylvania

[00:30:22] [SPEAKER_00]: growing up in a non-traditional lifestyle my mother and my grandmother were always receptive

[00:30:26] [SPEAKER_00]: to my storytelling of experiences I had had and would often return similar encounters they

[00:30:31] [SPEAKER_00]: had had as well we lived in a house for exactly one year outside of Harrisburg and it was one

[00:30:37] [SPEAKER_00]: of the most intense paranormal years of my life again another story for another time but these

[00:30:44] [SPEAKER_00]: walkers were ever so prevalent on this property and was only a small variable in my mother's

[00:30:49] [SPEAKER_00]: actions of having our bags packed in a U-Haul before our lease was up I hated being in that

[00:30:55] [SPEAKER_00]: house alone tucked in a hillside of foliage hidden from the highway there was only feet

[00:31:01] [SPEAKER_00]: from the side of the house I had two cats in a malamute at the time and it was just

[00:31:06] [SPEAKER_00]: expected behavior to see them follow the lights around the inside of the house and growl at unseen

[00:31:11] [SPEAKER_00]: presences at all hours of the day and night we moved to a quiet little house set on top of a hill

[00:31:18] [SPEAKER_00]: miles from any other home or business in the middle of the woods not kidding my walk on the

[00:31:23] [SPEAKER_00]: driveway and road to the bus stop was a mile and a half and if I chose to take the shortcut

[00:31:28] [SPEAKER_00]: through the cornfield it was still a half a mile there was a well at the bottom of the

[00:31:33] [SPEAKER_00]: hill where the driveway bent to lead to the road and this residence happened during the era of the

[00:31:39] [SPEAKER_00]: ring movie and to say I hardly had any company is an understatement my very first time hearing a fox

[00:31:46] [SPEAKER_00]: cry was living at this residence I'm not sure if you or your listeners are familiar with

[00:31:51] [SPEAKER_00]: fox cries but it is the most terrifying natural noise I have ever been exposed to

[00:31:55] [SPEAKER_00]: and even in that distinctly less terrifying than a walker's call my high school sweetheart

[00:32:02] [SPEAKER_00]: lived on the other side of the cornfield and his bus stop was directly in front of his house

[00:32:06] [SPEAKER_00]: so for years we were dropped off on his sidewalk and he courteously took me home we were nearing

[00:32:12] [SPEAKER_00]: the age of 16 and my parents had recently divorced so I often had the house to myself

[00:32:17] [SPEAKER_00]: since my mother worked tirelessly to keep us afloat he came over one day after school to

[00:32:23] [SPEAKER_00]: spend the night and it was the only night he spent with me in my home I've always been

[00:32:28] [SPEAKER_00]: particular about my horror films and paranormal shows because I've experienced enough in my life

[00:32:33] [SPEAKER_00]: to know when something is a farce and I am drawn to pieces like your podcast for their validity

[00:32:38] [SPEAKER_00]: and factual based platforms unlike your previous author's encounter I am always afraid of these

[00:32:45] [SPEAKER_00]: encounters but the psychic who read my cards at that birthday party taught me how to create

[00:32:49] [SPEAKER_00]: a shield to protect my light from any negative effects these encounters might have

[00:32:55] [SPEAKER_00]: I have been physically hurt emotionally and spiritually as well but along with my protective

[00:33:00] [SPEAKER_00]: energy bubble I often call upon archangel Michael to stand with me thanks to my grandma

[00:33:05] [SPEAKER_00]: and have been told countless times in my life that Michael is prominent in my life

[00:33:10] [SPEAKER_00]: hence my firstborn child's middle name again another story for another time

[00:33:17] [SPEAKER_00]: my high school sweetheart and I were watching something delicately scary that night it is

[00:33:22] [SPEAKER_00]: hard to find like-minded people so to not discourage further time spent together I soften the

[00:33:27] [SPEAKER_00]: blow a bit with my preferred entertainment halfway through our show we heard the fox cry

[00:33:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Nathan as I will call him here so as not to disrespect his privacy jumped a little but quickly

[00:33:40] [SPEAKER_00]: realized what was happening and relaxed for we shared neighboring woods and it was less

[00:33:45] [SPEAKER_00]: uncommon for him growing up in this area fox cries are not only terrifying if you're not

[00:33:51] [SPEAKER_00]: familiar but they are sporadic in intervals which makes them more unsettling because you never know

[00:33:56] [SPEAKER_00]: when to expect the next if it ever comes the cry got closer and closer which I discredited

[00:34:03] [SPEAKER_00]: because their den was beneath the house and said fox was debunked before calling out to her pups

[00:34:09] [SPEAKER_00]: before retreating below our deck however as her cries grew closer a new sound emerged in

[00:34:16] [SPEAKER_00]: one I was familiar with but Nathan was not I silently prayed and called desperately upon Michael

[00:34:24] [SPEAKER_00]: while subconsciously surrounding myself my house and my boyfriend with white light it was summer

[00:34:31] [SPEAKER_00]: warm and I had left the sliding glass door open with the screen shut to keep the Junebugs

[00:34:37] [SPEAKER_00]: and various other woodland critters from entering the house the fox cry grew more

[00:34:42] [SPEAKER_00]: frequent and in a sense more distressed as she approached the house then as though a wet blanket

[00:34:48] [SPEAKER_00]: had been cast over our property it was dead silent the absence of any sound made my hair stand on end

[00:34:55] [SPEAKER_00]: and even Nathan had commented that he was creeped out the next few minutes of that night can only

[00:35:01] [SPEAKER_00]: be described as the most horrible nightmare like experience I have suffered through the howl

[00:35:08] [SPEAKER_00]: the long unhuman skin-crawling howl will always be ingrained unfavorably in my mind and soul

[00:35:15] [SPEAKER_00]: it started as a distant prolonged bark of a sick or wounded dog and with heavy breathing and my

[00:35:21] [SPEAKER_00]: heart beating in my ears soon ended up on the other side of my house opposite of the open

[00:35:26] [SPEAKER_00]: sliding door and echoing in the hollow trees of my backyard what is that was the last thing

[00:35:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I heard over the bone crunching of a small medium skull and dead thump of approximately 30 pound animal

[00:35:40] [SPEAKER_00]: on my deck as I flung my body weight to shut the door and simultaneously sweep the curtain closed

[00:35:46] [SPEAKER_00]: upstairs I barked and I believe the fear in my voice and my eyes was enough to convince Nathan

[00:35:52] [SPEAKER_00]: to haul ass up to the bedroom without questioning me like the tale told before it was large and

[00:35:59] [SPEAKER_00]: heavy-footed pacing like an angry and trapped tiger below my bedroom window I lit the candles burned

[00:36:05] [SPEAKER_00]: the sage to the nub and neither of us slept that night we broke up shortly after that for other

[00:36:11] [SPEAKER_00]: reasons but these sentient beings carry an air of bad luck to them which is why I have struggled

[00:36:17] [SPEAKER_00]: for so long to share that particular encounter I try awfully hard not to speak of these

[00:36:22] [SPEAKER_00]: experiences and dread the events that have yet to unfold after sharing this with you

[00:36:28] [SPEAKER_00]: many moons and eight years later I met my younger son's father we dated for about a year before I

[00:36:34] [SPEAKER_00]: got pregnant and he is of native descent with a like mind to the paranormal we shared many unnatural

[00:36:40] [SPEAKER_00]: experiences together and had an unspoken understanding to not bring attention to the walker however

[00:36:47] [SPEAKER_00]: one halloween night we were headed to my mother's house to pick up my oldest son

[00:36:51] [SPEAKER_00]: before trick-or-treating there is an avenue that is a straight shot from his house to

[00:36:56] [SPEAKER_00]: my mother's abode I cannot tell you how many times I've driven walked and traveled this road

[00:37:02] [SPEAKER_00]: which resides beside a small creek in a lake in the middle of a public park late one night

[00:37:08] [SPEAKER_00]: dad was in the passenger seat and shouted watch it in my peripheral I saw a dog running toward

[00:37:14] [SPEAKER_00]: the road once I locked eyes on this dog and hit my brakes I noticed that its gate was off

[00:37:20] [SPEAKER_00]: like it was injured as this creature crossed into the street light it morphed into an

[00:37:25] [SPEAKER_00]: unearthly ape-like figure that loped into the illuminated circle and crossed back into the

[00:37:31] [SPEAKER_00]: shadow shrinking toward the ground and cantering off into the night with a limp the car was stopped

[00:37:37] [SPEAKER_00]: at this point and we looked at each other silent tears in my eyes we never spoke of it except

[00:37:44] [SPEAKER_00]: maybe once or twice in private only drawing attention to it by saying do you remember

[00:37:50] [SPEAKER_00]: again I have not shared this with many and I dread the aftermath of this gaining attention

[00:37:55] [SPEAKER_00]: through your endeavors even if it is not read out loud to the listeners I just wanted to share it

[00:38:01] [SPEAKER_00]: to get it off my mind and put it in the hands of a fellow investigator to help contribute to

[00:38:06] [SPEAKER_00]: the founding research of the ever-growing otherworldly experiences in fact the reason I bring it up

[00:38:13] [SPEAKER_00]: today on the first day of the new year is because just a little while ago my eight-year-old

[00:38:19] [SPEAKER_00]: was dropped off for my shared time and out of the blue he approached me and my current partner

[00:38:24] [SPEAKER_00]: abruptly asking do you remember the time we were driving with dad and you guys saw the skinwalker

[00:38:30] [SPEAKER_00]: to which I quickly educated him that we do not speak of them think of them or draw attention to

[00:38:36] [SPEAKER_00]: them days later on my drive to work I was listening to your podcast and the show that

[00:38:42] [SPEAKER_00]: was randomly selected was your most recent walker story it gave me the courage and the

[00:38:47] [SPEAKER_00]: validation I needed to share my story with you I appreciate your time and I greatly appreciate

[00:38:53] [SPEAKER_00]: the dedication you have for investigating and delivering truthful information to your audience

[00:38:59] [SPEAKER_00]: after a few months of listening I finally had the courage to reach out to you

[00:39:03] [SPEAKER_00]: and am grateful for the space I'm allowed to consume in your day to the new year and 365

[00:39:09] [SPEAKER_00]: days of exploring and more discoveries much gratitude and great appreciation Diana our

[00:39:20] [SPEAKER_00]: next listener story comes to us from Holly Holly's story is called shadow farm Holly says hi Nick

[00:39:28] [SPEAKER_00]: I wanted to share my most recent experience with you every Sunday I spend most of my day at the

[00:39:34] [SPEAKER_00]: barn taking care of the horses I start at about 6 a.m. and usually finish in three or four

[00:39:40] [SPEAKER_00]: hours about two weeks ago I was finishing up my last stall out of the eight and I heard someone shout

[00:39:46] [SPEAKER_00]: hey so I peeked out of the stall to see if any one of the other girls had come down

[00:39:51] [SPEAKER_00]: no one else was there so I shrugged it off and continued spreading the bedding a few minutes later

[00:39:56] [SPEAKER_00]: I heard the same voice distinctly female say hello in a sing song way like in a way you'd

[00:40:03] [SPEAKER_00]: say it if you were trying to find your friend I walked out of the stall and said hello back

[00:40:09] [SPEAKER_00]: but didn't hear anything else so I shrugged it off finished up my chores and went home for lunch

[00:40:15] [SPEAKER_00]: after I went back to the barn to do night chores I was home waiting for my boyfriend

[00:40:19] [SPEAKER_00]: so we could make dinner I was standing at the sink which is at the back of the house

[00:40:23] [SPEAKER_00]: literally on the back wall washing my dishes with my dog sitting next to me I distinctly

[00:40:29] [SPEAKER_00]: heard three knocks on the wall my dog who is named pup gave a low growl and put herself

[00:40:35] [SPEAKER_00]: between my legs which if anyone knows dog training is a protective stance the lights flickered and the

[00:40:42] [SPEAKER_00]: yard light outside went out but the motion light on the front steps turned on pup stayed with me

[00:40:48] [SPEAKER_00]: until my boyfriend got home I hadn't said anything about it to him and he turned to me and said

[00:40:54] [SPEAKER_00]: that he and his buddies had found an old foundation and cast iron stove in the woods

[00:40:58] [SPEAKER_00]: while four wheeling the back property to our knowledge there is no record of anyone having

[00:41:03] [SPEAKER_00]: owned the land before his dad had bought it 21 years ago and clear cut it for the house

[00:41:09] [SPEAKER_00]: so I shrugged it off and said oh that's weird and left it at that then yesterday Sunday again

[00:41:17] [SPEAKER_00]: I was at the barn going to get hay out of the lower barn to bring up to the main barn

[00:41:21] [SPEAKER_00]: the lower barn always creeps me out it's an old milk cow barn and still has a couple

[00:41:26] [SPEAKER_00]: stanchions left I was walking towards the back of the barn about to grab a bale of hay when

[00:41:32] [SPEAKER_00]: something darted out from what used to be a horse stall that's now storage and peeked around the

[00:41:37] [SPEAKER_00]: door jam trying not to panic at this point I told the shadow that it was scaring me that it was

[00:41:43] [SPEAKER_00]: not welcome while I was in there it then vanished I grabbed the hay and speed walked my happy butt

[00:41:50] [SPEAKER_00]: back to the main barn and sat down and tried to gather my head this barn has some negativity

[00:41:55] [SPEAKER_00]: around it and just in the last year or two I know of two human deaths and quite a few

[00:42:00] [SPEAKER_00]: animals it's weird because for my friends and I the barn is usually our happy place but most of

[00:42:07] [SPEAKER_00]: the time we're angry and at each other's throats I don't know if it's because after the last year

[00:42:13] [SPEAKER_00]: with everything we're all just stressed and tired or if it's because of the negativity on the

[00:42:17] [SPEAKER_00]: property but I'm hoping it gets better soon thanks for reading and wishing you a great

[00:42:23] [SPEAKER_00]: year of happiness and health holly our next story comes to us from Patrick Patrick story

[00:42:32] [SPEAKER_00]: is called spirits good or bad Patrick says first of all thank you there isn't really a way to

[00:42:40] [SPEAKER_00]: tell this in a summary so I'll just start with one experience for now this is an incident that

[00:42:45] [SPEAKER_00]: occurred in mid fall of 2012 in Norman Oklahoma when I was 16 years old I had started having

[00:42:51] [SPEAKER_00]: night terrors on a very consistent basis they only lasted for a few months if that and I will

[00:42:57] [SPEAKER_00]: type out the details to these episodes for a later date what I really want to discuss is a

[00:43:02] [SPEAKER_00]: single event in which I was witness to something I had never seen before and have yet to again

[00:43:08] [SPEAKER_00]: my childhood home was built on what is believed to be native american burial grounds

[00:43:12] [SPEAKER_00]: and I know that there have been links to these sites with reported paranormal activities

[00:43:17] [SPEAKER_00]: but I've never heard anyone talk about anything happening where we live

[00:43:21] [SPEAKER_00]: and to this day as far as I know my family is the only one that has talked about strange

[00:43:26] [SPEAKER_00]: activities one night my mother asked me to walk our dog outside to relieve himself

[00:43:31] [SPEAKER_00]: it was relatively quiet for the time and things seemed fine I didn't have any feeling of being

[00:43:37] [SPEAKER_00]: observed or anything so I walked around the property for about 15 minutes before I started

[00:43:42] [SPEAKER_00]: to notice frantic behaviors from the animals all around the horses at the stable were rearing

[00:43:48] [SPEAKER_00]: and yelling and every dog within at least a mile barking as if they sensed a terrible presence

[00:43:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I began to get serious and I scoped my surroundings all while my dog is silent and frozen with fear

[00:44:00] [SPEAKER_00]: the next thing I know is if outside of my own control my eyes lift up from my dog

[00:44:06] [SPEAKER_00]: and approximately 50 yards ahead of me across my parents field and through the line of trees

[00:44:11] [SPEAKER_00]: I saw what shocked me to my core a large figure of a shirtless man in what looked like a

[00:44:17] [SPEAKER_00]: chieftain's headdress no less than six or seven feet tall and about 250 pounds of pure muscle

[00:44:23] [SPEAKER_00]: and entirely engulfed in fire it was as clear as day and it was just standing in my neighbor's

[00:44:30] [SPEAKER_00]: backyard staring at me I looked at it for no more than a minute before my instinct took over

[00:44:36] [SPEAKER_00]: and I picked up my dog and sprinted inside at this point I was in tears worried that it

[00:44:42] [SPEAKER_00]: was about to follow me and do the unthinkable my parents were just sitting in the living room

[00:44:47] [SPEAKER_00]: talking and they saw my state of terror and asked me what had happened I explained and they had

[00:44:53] [SPEAKER_00]: no idea what to say or think I then stayed inside as my dad went to check around the

[00:44:58] [SPEAKER_00]: surrounding area only to come back without seeing anything our next story comes to us from Jenny

[00:45:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Jenny's story is called glowing orbs Jenny says I have been listening to several podcasts that

[00:45:16] [SPEAKER_00]: share paranormal stories but I have not felt comfortable sharing with any of them but I guess

[00:45:20] [SPEAKER_00]: I can share here because some of the listener's stories you have shared give me hope that I won't

[00:45:25] [SPEAKER_00]: be viewed as crazy I remember seeing things from a very young age I was brought up in a very

[00:45:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Christian home and not allowed to view any type of scary movies I woke up several times seeing lights

[00:45:38] [SPEAKER_00]: in other rooms from my room at night I am pretty sure what I was seeing was orbs but I didn't

[00:45:44] [SPEAKER_00]: know what they were at the time the orb scared me but I never mentioned them to anyone one night

[00:45:50] [SPEAKER_00]: I saw an orb in my parents room but it was acting different this orb was bouncing up and

[00:45:55] [SPEAKER_00]: down like it wanted to catch my attention I watched it bounce for a little bit and then I noticed little

[00:46:02] [SPEAKER_00]: dots of light coming from it the dots started to cover my floor and I got really scared of them

[00:46:08] [SPEAKER_00]: the dots were writhing around on my floor and I needed to use the restroom but I wouldn't put

[00:46:13] [SPEAKER_00]: my foot down with the dots I started screaming and woke my parents up my parents then rushed

[00:46:19] [SPEAKER_00]: into my room and turned on my light we then saw that the entire floor was covered in fire ants

[00:46:26] [SPEAKER_00]: they started biting my dad as soon as he got near me he grabbed me off my bed and handed me to my

[00:46:31] [SPEAKER_00]: mother who then took me into the bathroom he sprayed the floor of my room with bug killer

[00:46:36] [SPEAKER_00]: and I slept on the couch that night the weird thing about this event was my parents never

[00:46:42] [SPEAKER_00]: figured out where the ants had come from they were only in my room and they couldn't find a

[00:46:47] [SPEAKER_00]: hole or entry point for them and I am very allergic to fire ants they always leave a big

[00:46:53] [SPEAKER_00]: welt and get infected I grew up in Texas and avoiding fire ants isn't easy it felt like this

[00:47:00] [SPEAKER_00]: orb was a warning to me trying to protect me from a danger that I couldn't see in the dark

[00:47:05] [SPEAKER_00]: I wanted to thank you for your show and the work you do you make people feel comfortable

[00:47:10] [SPEAKER_00]: telling their stories and that is priceless I have many stories of things I have experienced

[00:47:16] [SPEAKER_00]: over my childhood and also adult years I am an empath with a few other gifts so at times it

[00:47:23] [SPEAKER_00]: feels like weird things and people are attracted to me I'm willing to share some of them so others

[00:47:29] [SPEAKER_00]: will know that they are not alone love and light to everyone in this trying time be safe

[00:47:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Jen our next story comes to us from Lisa Lisa's story is called my experiences

[00:47:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Lisa says hello Nick I hope this finds you and yours healthy and doing well during these

[00:47:53] [SPEAKER_00]: challenging times I have been listening to your podcast while working the last few weeks

[00:47:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I find the stories very intriguing and many of them resonate strongly with me

[00:48:02] [SPEAKER_00]: so I wanted to share a few of my own before I begin I would like to disclose that I am

[00:48:09] [SPEAKER_00]: a heyoki empath clair sentient and although admittedly I try to ignore it mildly clair

[00:48:15] [SPEAKER_00]: audience I have a ton of stories but will only write the few right now that center around the same

[00:48:21] [SPEAKER_00]: house and I have changed the names this all happened around 2004 or 2005 when I had just

[00:48:28] [SPEAKER_00]: started dating my second husband Jake at the time he rented a room from a co-worker named Tim

[00:48:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Tim was very strange and always had a creepy vibe about him I always wondered if perhaps he

[00:48:39] [SPEAKER_00]: either dabbled in things of a dark nature or if he just had something unusually sinister

[00:48:44] [SPEAKER_00]: inside of him either way his house always had an odd feel even when he wasn't there

[00:48:51] [SPEAKER_00]: so we were laying in bed one night Jake was already dozing lightly and I was just laying

[00:48:57] [SPEAKER_00]: there waiting to drift off to sleep myself I thought at first that my mind and eyes were

[00:49:02] [SPEAKER_00]: playing tricks on me when I saw what I can only describe as a darker than black smoky mass

[00:49:07] [SPEAKER_00]: forming directly above us on the ceiling I was confused because the room was pitch black

[00:49:12] [SPEAKER_00]: yet I could still see this mass materializing before my very eyes very clearly at first I didn't feel

[00:49:20] [SPEAKER_00]: anything and wasn't sure what to think but that quickly changed as I realized I was being gripped

[00:49:25] [SPEAKER_00]: by a paralyzing fear and knew this shadow form was watching me and contemplating doing harm

[00:49:31] [SPEAKER_00]: I was wide-eyed laying stark still feeling weighed down and holding my breath I had the

[00:49:37] [SPEAKER_00]: feeling that if I moved too quickly the shadow mass would pounce on me like a wild animal

[00:49:42] [SPEAKER_00]: and all the life and air would go out of me completely I was trying to nudge Jake awake

[00:49:47] [SPEAKER_00]: without moving too much and after what seemed like an eternity he finally roused and asked

[00:49:53] [SPEAKER_00]: what what's going on he sounded rather ticked off that I woke him up in barely an audible whisper

[00:49:59] [SPEAKER_00]: I asked what is on the ceiling at first he neither saw or said anything but when he finally

[00:50:06] [SPEAKER_00]: did all that came out was a long drown out um we both just laid there staring at this thing floating

[00:50:14] [SPEAKER_00]: above us for at least a minute I was scared to move but I knew I would come to harm if I didn't

[00:50:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I then grabbed my cell phone off the nightstand and turned the screen on the mass then moved

[00:50:25] [SPEAKER_00]: into the corner of the wall and ceiling at which point Jake and I jumped up grabbed shoes and

[00:50:30] [SPEAKER_00]: coats and bolted out of the room I tried to call my friend Leah who was a psychic medium

[00:50:36] [SPEAKER_00]: and light worker to ask what I should do and even though the call connected all you could hear

[00:50:41] [SPEAKER_00]: was crazy static and the only thing I kept vaguely hearing from her was to get out of the house

[00:50:46] [SPEAKER_00]: we ended up heading to her house to get away and never encountered that particular entity again

[00:50:53] [SPEAKER_00]: my second encounter at this house was outside Jake and I were sitting on the front

[00:50:57] [SPEAKER_00]: steps enjoying the warm night when this shadow person appeared in the street in front of us

[00:51:02] [SPEAKER_00]: it was walking up the street a little way and then just disappeared I remember it looking like a

[00:51:08] [SPEAKER_00]: teenage kid wearing a black hoodie we both felt like it was something keeping watch but it did

[00:51:13] [SPEAKER_00]: not have the bad intentions of the first shadow that we had encountered my third and by far

[00:51:19] [SPEAKER_00]: saddest experience in this house I will not forget as long as I live I have to mention

[00:51:24] [SPEAKER_00]: this involves my cousin not technically related as her uncle is married to my aunt but we became

[00:51:30] [SPEAKER_00]: fast friends as we lived very close to each other and hung out together frequently Jake and I were

[00:51:36] [SPEAKER_00]: in bed and had been asleep for a few hours when I was awakened by the feeling of someone or

[00:51:40] [SPEAKER_00]: something in the room with us I did not feel any fear which seemed unusual to me at the time

[00:51:46] [SPEAKER_00]: although I was a bit apprehensive to open my eyes to see what the presence was

[00:51:52] [SPEAKER_00]: when I did finally open my eyes my attention was immediately drawn to the closet it was an open

[00:51:58] [SPEAKER_00]: closet having no doors or curtains and Jake did not have anything hanging in there as he is kind

[00:52:04] [SPEAKER_00]: of a minimalist I only mentioned this as I have woken up in the middle of the night and seen

[00:52:09] [SPEAKER_00]: things on chairs and mistaken them for entities and then laughed at myself but this was not the

[00:52:14] [SPEAKER_00]: case this time I stared into the closet to make sure I was actually seeing what my eyes

[00:52:20] [SPEAKER_00]: were telling me there stood a shadowy but well-formed grim reaper sort of figure my rational

[00:52:27] [SPEAKER_00]: brain was telling me I should be scared but my intuition was telling me to not be so I wasn't

[00:52:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I remember thinking to myself in a matter-of-fact way uh there's a grim reaper in the closet

[00:52:39] [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't think anything else of it and then drifted back to sleep I woke up the next

[00:52:44] [SPEAKER_00]: morning not really thinking about it much until my phone rang it was my aunt calling me to tell me

[00:52:51] [SPEAKER_00]: that my cousin had committed suicide the night before she had hung herself in a closet needless

[00:52:57] [SPEAKER_00]: to say I was absolutely floored and rendered completely speechless I now know it was death

[00:53:04] [SPEAKER_00]: in the closet that had come to tell me about my cousin I'm sorry for the length of this

[00:53:10] [SPEAKER_00]: I wanted to share the three somewhat similar experiences I had in the same house

[00:53:15] [SPEAKER_00]: I honestly feel as though there was something about that house or even possibly something

[00:53:20] [SPEAKER_00]: the owner was doing that made it easier for all these shadow figures to come through

[00:53:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I have had loads of other experiences and will write more when I have time

[00:53:29] [SPEAKER_00]: thank you for reading and thank you for your podcast I feel like being able to hear other

[00:53:34] [SPEAKER_00]: people's stories and also be able to tell my own is a good way to cope with some of

[00:53:39] [SPEAKER_00]: the strange things that have happened to all of us especially when the people directly around you

[00:53:44] [SPEAKER_00]: tend to not believe you Lisa our next listener story comes to us from Kenneth

[00:53:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Kenneth says hello I have a really unique story along with a peculiar photo to share

[00:54:00] [SPEAKER_00]: I've been traveling across the country the last few days on a military pcs from

[00:54:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Wyoming to my new base in Florida along the way I have become a huge fan of your

[00:54:10] [SPEAKER_00]: podcast and want to share an extraterrestrial experience of mine along with a Sasquatch related photo

[00:54:17] [SPEAKER_00]: my experience occurred back when I was around nine years old in early 2001 when I was living in a small

[00:54:23] [SPEAKER_00]: farming community in California my younger brother and I had never had any significant

[00:54:29] [SPEAKER_00]: paranormal contact before this experience we were living with my father and stepmother

[00:54:34] [SPEAKER_00]: prior to their marriage in our old house they were planning on purchasing a larger house for

[00:54:40] [SPEAKER_00]: our blended family later that year my brother and I unbeknownst to us until later shared the

[00:54:46] [SPEAKER_00]: same exact dream on multiple occasions our dream took place in what would be our shared room in

[00:54:52] [SPEAKER_00]: the new house and we couldn't have had any clue what it looked like because it was a new

[00:54:57] [SPEAKER_00]: development being built in the dream we're both being levitated above our beds with

[00:55:02] [SPEAKER_00]: blankets draped across us and hanging down towards the bed a bright white light shining through the

[00:55:08] [SPEAKER_00]: shutters illuminating the entire room and at the foot of both of our beds standing between them

[00:55:13] [SPEAKER_00]: is an alien figure the figure is short about four to five feet tall and has a slender body with

[00:55:19] [SPEAKER_00]: a long cone shaped head and the blackest eyes that seem to have stars inside them

[00:55:25] [SPEAKER_00]: the alien is lifting its left arm up above its head and making a very steady deep humming

[00:55:30] [SPEAKER_00]: sound about a minute of relative time passes before the alien vanishes the light vanishes

[00:55:36] [SPEAKER_00]: and we fall to our beds at which point we are jolted awake fast forward about a year we are

[00:55:43] [SPEAKER_00]: living in the new house and myself and my three brothers are all in the backyard sitting in our

[00:55:48] [SPEAKER_00]: new hot tub because we thought we were so cool i brought up the dream and how it took place

[00:55:54] [SPEAKER_00]: in what is now our shared bedroom and my brother expressed confusion at first then almost excitement

[00:56:00] [SPEAKER_00]: as he shared that he had had the exact same dream about five minutes later i'm looking up into the

[00:56:06] [SPEAKER_00]: sky and i see a light traveling from north to south slightly larger and more prominent than

[00:56:12] [SPEAKER_00]: the appearing stars the light was slowly pulsing in and out from light to dim i watched it for

[00:56:19] [SPEAKER_00]: a few seconds and then out of nowhere it paused at its brightest point and then maneuvered in

[00:56:24] [SPEAKER_00]: a fashion that made me positive it was moving upward away from the earth i have no idea if

[00:56:30] [SPEAKER_00]: the dreams are related to the sighting but to this day i really feel that they are let me know what you

[00:56:36] [SPEAKER_00]: think sorry that was so long here is a photo of what i think might be a sasquatch or bigfoot print

[00:56:44] [SPEAKER_00]: this was taken on the air force base in wyoming no other prints could be made out

[00:56:48] [SPEAKER_00]: so it could be coincidence i will say it was windy and the blowing powder could have very

[00:56:53] [SPEAKER_00]: likely covered the other prints meaning this one would have been made deeper in the snow originally

[00:56:59] [SPEAKER_00]: i also wear a size 12 boot and was wearing steel toad boots at the time and this thing

[00:57:04] [SPEAKER_00]: makes my boot look small for anyone that's interested i have added kenith's photo to

[00:57:10] [SPEAKER_00]: our forum so you can see it firsthand our next listener story comes to us from anonymous

[00:57:19] [SPEAKER_00]: and their story is called time loop or doppelganger anonymous says hi nick i recently found your

[00:57:27] [SPEAKER_00]: podcast and i'm enjoying it very much i have a few stories and i will write back again with others

[00:57:32] [SPEAKER_00]: as i'd like to spread them out to offer you more content this story that i will share tonight

[00:57:37] [SPEAKER_00]: comes in the point of view of my best friend who i will refer to as red i have heard her repeat

[00:57:44] [SPEAKER_00]: this story so many times over the years and the details have never changed red worked as a bartender

[00:57:51] [SPEAKER_00]: in a nightclub in downtown denver colorado it was a typical saturday night and red got to the club

[00:57:57] [SPEAKER_00]: early to set up her area of the bar there are no customers in the club at this point just a few

[00:58:02] [SPEAKER_00]: employees including herself the club she worked at is actually three levels connected by one

[00:58:08] [SPEAKER_00]: main staircase in the center of the building the employee restroom was at the very top level

[00:58:13] [SPEAKER_00]: and so she went to climb the stairs and her coworker i'll call him jay came around the corner

[00:58:19] [SPEAKER_00]: from the upper level and walked right past her on the stairs they said their hellos and continued on

[00:58:25] [SPEAKER_00]: red gets to the next level of stairs and around the corner coming down the stairs is jay

[00:58:30] [SPEAKER_00]: again he said hello and kept on walking just like he had literally seconds prior

[00:58:37] [SPEAKER_00]: she was so stunned and confused but with the club about to open and get busy

[00:58:40] [SPEAKER_00]: she had no choice but to set it aside for the time being the night wore on but red couldn't shake the

[00:58:47] [SPEAKER_00]: extremely uneasy feeling she had so when the club was finally closing for the night she hurried to

[00:58:53] [SPEAKER_00]: tell jay what she saw to red shock jay tells her a story about something similar that happened to him

[00:58:59] [SPEAKER_00]: weeks prior he was in the lower level of the club with another worker of theirs named brandon

[00:59:05] [SPEAKER_00]: jay told red that brandon was being sort of weird because he wasn't talking much at all

[00:59:10] [SPEAKER_00]: and was just unusually quiet brandon is always joking and laughing so this behavior stood out

[00:59:16] [SPEAKER_00]: to jay but he also didn't think too much of it at the time they were cleaning up for the night

[00:59:22] [SPEAKER_00]: and jay says he'll be right back because he needed to use the restroom so he climbed the three

[00:59:27] [SPEAKER_00]: floors to the top floor bathroom and right as he's about to enter in the door out walks

[00:59:31] [SPEAKER_00]: brandon jay starts freaking out and tells brandon what had just happened and they both run down

[00:59:37] [SPEAKER_00]: to the main floor bar but it was empty my friend has a lot of stories similar to this either from

[00:59:44] [SPEAKER_00]: her experiences or someone she knows a lot of bars and clubs in the area of denver are in very old

[00:59:50] [SPEAKER_00]: buildings with a lot of history and some of that history being a little bit on the darker side

[00:59:56] [SPEAKER_00]: i hope you keep releasing episodes it's been a very welcome distraction during this pandemic

[01:00:02] [SPEAKER_00]: thank you our next story of the night comes from maya and maya's story is called weird and scary

[01:00:12] [SPEAKER_00]: experiences maya says i have a few experiences one started when i was about nine years old

[01:00:19] [SPEAKER_00]: i was living in my family's house in hothorn california in 1992 i fell asleep on the living

[01:00:25] [SPEAKER_00]: room couch one day i don't know if i was dreaming or if it was an out-of-body experience

[01:00:31] [SPEAKER_00]: but i was up in the air watching myself sleep and i could see a huge dark figure standing in

[01:00:36] [SPEAKER_00]: front of me watching me sleep as well my body on the couch could not move or speak but could feel

[01:00:42] [SPEAKER_00]: a presence later on throughout my 20s when i was living on my own in los angeles i had a

[01:00:49] [SPEAKER_00]: few more experiences i was living in a two bedroom house on top of four small garages

[01:00:54] [SPEAKER_00]: there was an alley right behind my house a lot of things happened in that alley

[01:00:59] [SPEAKER_00]: i even witnessed a murder in that alley one year i am a single mother with a daughter who was a child

[01:01:06] [SPEAKER_00]: at the time but due to my law enforcement work schedule she would stay at my parents house

[01:01:11] [SPEAKER_00]: until my off days so i was alone most of the time on multiple occasions while sleeping i would

[01:01:17] [SPEAKER_00]: hear footsteps coming down the hall and into my bedroom i would then feel the unoccupied side

[01:01:22] [SPEAKER_00]: of my bed sink down as if someone got into bed with me it would never touch me or move

[01:01:28] [SPEAKER_00]: anything it just felt like it got into bed and watched me i would be paralyzed and wouldn't be able to

[01:01:34] [SPEAKER_00]: move or scream i would just pray over and over in my head until it would go away i would then be able

[01:01:41] [SPEAKER_00]: to wake up and look around only to see that nothing was there after experiencing this i started

[01:01:47] [SPEAKER_00]: taking a number of pills ambient muscle relaxers etc that would literally knock me out cold all

[01:01:54] [SPEAKER_00]: night so that i could avoid it i know it's not good and i haven't done it since it all stopped

[01:02:00] [SPEAKER_00]: my daughter's room was so close to mine that we could see each other while we were both laying in

[01:02:05] [SPEAKER_00]: our own beds one day my daughter told me when we were both in my house she woke up in the middle

[01:02:10] [SPEAKER_00]: of the night and saw a dark figure on all fours crouching on her ceiling looking at her

[01:02:16] [SPEAKER_00]: she began to pray when she opened her eyes again she said that the creature had turned

[01:02:21] [SPEAKER_00]: to crawl into my room still crawling on the ceiling i never woke up and never saw the thing

[01:02:29] [SPEAKER_00]: one of my last experiences was the scariest one i was on a seven-day cruise throughout mexico

[01:02:35] [SPEAKER_00]: i never sleep on my back one because it hurts and two because it gives me a feeling of vulnerability

[01:02:42] [SPEAKER_00]: i was in bed with my ex-boyfriend in our room on the cruise ship and he was asleep i was sleeping

[01:02:48] [SPEAKER_00]: but was then startled by a four-legged scaly creature with a tail pointed ears red eyes and a

[01:02:54] [SPEAKER_00]: snout it was standing on my chest with its tongue going into my mouth and i could hear a deep

[01:03:00] [SPEAKER_00]: raspy whisper i don't know what it was saying but it wasn't a recognizable language i got up

[01:03:07] [SPEAKER_00]: crying hysterically when i got back home i told my co-worker and he said it was probably

[01:03:12] [SPEAKER_00]: because i was in mexican waters and it may have been el duende i googled el duende and looked at

[01:03:19] [SPEAKER_00]: the images and i saw the creature that was standing on my chest lastly my daughter is a classical

[01:03:26] [SPEAKER_00]: pianist her piano teacher took a trip to jerusalem one year i never told the piano teacher about

[01:03:32] [SPEAKER_00]: our experiences but when she returned she gave me three vials one with holy water one with holy

[01:03:39] [SPEAKER_00]: oil and one with holy soil i haven't had any experiences since except for one i fell asleep

[01:03:47] [SPEAKER_00]: on my couch and as soon as i got into a deep sleep i heard running up my hallway and then something

[01:03:53] [SPEAKER_00]: jumped onto my chest again i'm not sure if it was the gift from jerusalem that stopped those

[01:03:58] [SPEAKER_00]: experiences or if it was getting out of a bad relationship or maybe both i've always wondered

[01:04:04] [SPEAKER_00]: if it was possible that a bad relationship could conjure up a negative energy does anyone else think

[01:04:11] [SPEAKER_00]: so thank you for sharing maya our next story comes from courtney and courtney's story is called

[01:04:21] [SPEAKER_00]: late night knocking courtney says like many of your readers i recently stumbled across your

[01:04:28] [SPEAKER_00]: podcast and have been hooked for as long as i can remember i've been very drawn to the paranormal

[01:04:33] [SPEAKER_00]: i love scary movies halloween and any good ghost story but not just for the good adrenaline rush

[01:04:39] [SPEAKER_00]: i am genuinely intrigued by it i was very reluctant to write in and share my experiences but like most

[01:04:47] [SPEAKER_00]: people my experiences have been ridiculed or even discounted by others throughout my life

[01:04:53] [SPEAKER_00]: until now i haven't had a forum to feel comfortable telling others what i have experienced

[01:04:58] [SPEAKER_00]: my deciding factor to write in came last night while listening to an older podcast where a

[01:05:04] [SPEAKER_00]: couple recounted their time slip experience the writer mentioned the city that they were traveling

[01:05:09] [SPEAKER_00]: from which happened to be the name of the town i grew up in forney but i was certain it wasn't

[01:05:15] [SPEAKER_00]: my forney when the author gave the name of the neighboring town i literally shouted out in

[01:05:20] [SPEAKER_00]: my car because it was my forney as odd as it seems this made me feel like it was my sign

[01:05:26] [SPEAKER_00]: to be comfortable enough to share so here goes my family moved to forney when i was in the second

[01:05:33] [SPEAKER_00]: or third grade which was in the late 80s or early 90s the house we moved into was one of the

[01:05:39] [SPEAKER_00]: historical homes in the area built in 1908 by the town doctor like most doctors in that time

[01:05:46] [SPEAKER_00]: he lived and worked out of the same structure i don't recall having experiences when i was

[01:05:51] [SPEAKER_00]: younger at least none that stick out but from age 10 on is when that changed for me

[01:05:57] [SPEAKER_00]: i grew up in a single parent household with my mother younger sister and me we were very close

[01:06:03] [SPEAKER_00]: however my mom and sister did not share the same curiosity as i did with the paranormal

[01:06:09] [SPEAKER_00]: in fact it was quite the opposite while i have many encounters i could share that happened in

[01:06:14] [SPEAKER_00]: this house and continuing throughout my life i wanted to start with one that involved

[01:06:19] [SPEAKER_00]: more than just me since my mom was the sole provider she had several jobs which often left

[01:06:25] [SPEAKER_00]: me in charge of caring for my younger sister i didn't get much time to myself but when i did

[01:06:31] [SPEAKER_00]: stuff happened the first time that it occurred my mom and sister had gone to my grandma's house

[01:06:38] [SPEAKER_00]: for the night while i was left at home to finish some chores i was in the living room

[01:06:42] [SPEAKER_00]: folding clothes and watching tv when all of a sudden someone began banging on the back door

[01:06:48] [SPEAKER_00]: this wasn't just a knocking it was so loud and aggressive that i expected to see the door

[01:06:53] [SPEAKER_00]: buckling inward as i approached bang bang bang over and over without stopping i thought something

[01:07:01] [SPEAKER_00]: had happened or someone was in trouble so i sprinted to the back door just as i put my hand

[01:07:07] [SPEAKER_00]: on the door knob it stopped and moved to the front door it was an immediate change as if

[01:07:13] [SPEAKER_00]: someone was standing at both the back and front door and had coordinated what i thought to be a

[01:07:18] [SPEAKER_00]: prank the layout of the house was pretty open so while standing at the back door i could see a

[01:07:23] [SPEAKER_00]: clear path to the front door the porch light was on and i didn't see any shadow of someone

[01:07:28] [SPEAKER_00]: through the front door glass which i should have the door was old and the deadbolt was an

[01:07:34] [SPEAKER_00]: antique solid and sturdy metal latch that you would fasten from the frame of the door

[01:07:39] [SPEAKER_00]: itself the banging was just as aggressive on the front door as was on the back and i was sure

[01:07:44] [SPEAKER_00]: that the latch was going to break i sprinted to the front door again and as soon as i put my hand

[01:07:50] [SPEAKER_00]: on the door knob it stopped and went to the back door again by the time i reached the back

[01:07:56] [SPEAKER_00]: door the second time the banging stopped i have to admit i was a little miffed about this

[01:08:01] [SPEAKER_00]: i yanked the back door open about to give someone a piece of my mind but no one was there

[01:08:07] [SPEAKER_00]: i walked outside and around the house because surely i should have seen the pranksters but there

[01:08:12] [SPEAKER_00]: was no one in fact it was eerily quiet not really knowing what to do with that i went back inside

[01:08:19] [SPEAKER_00]: locked the doors and went about finishing my chores soon after a pattern developed this event

[01:08:26] [SPEAKER_00]: would happen every single time i was left by myself and would start at 10 20 p.m back door

[01:08:32] [SPEAKER_00]: then front door then back door then it would stop no one was ever there i tried to debunk or

[01:08:40] [SPEAKER_00]: outsmart it and the next time i was alone i would watch the clock and when it was close to 10 20

[01:08:45] [SPEAKER_00]: i would wait in the back room for it to begin but it didn't it's like it knew that i was

[01:08:51] [SPEAKER_00]: trying to catch it so it would hide or something i kept this to myself because i was so used to

[01:08:57] [SPEAKER_00]: being told that i was making things up with my crazy imagination or just not believed at all

[01:09:02] [SPEAKER_00]: until one day my sister who is four years younger than me sheepishly asked me if things happened

[01:09:08] [SPEAKER_00]: when i was at home alone she wouldn't look me in the eyes while asking me like she was embarrassed

[01:09:15] [SPEAKER_00]: to even bring it up turns out she was experiencing the same late night knocking that i was when she

[01:09:21] [SPEAKER_00]: was alone it would occur at the back door front door then back door and then stop this went on

[01:09:28] [SPEAKER_00]: for about three years and i had gotten used to it and would just ignore it while it was happening

[01:09:34] [SPEAKER_00]: fast forward i was now in high school and working a part-time job my sister was at

[01:09:39] [SPEAKER_00]: home with a friend and my mom was also at work i received a call at work from my sister who was

[01:09:45] [SPEAKER_00]: absolutely hysterical she was screaming and crying and just said get home it's happening

[01:09:50] [SPEAKER_00]: it's happening there's blood there's blood i rushed home to find my sister crying uncontrollably

[01:09:57] [SPEAKER_00]: in her bedroom with sheer terror on her face and her friend sitting on the edge of the bed

[01:10:01] [SPEAKER_00]: just staring off in like a shocked or comatose state when my sister finally calmed down she told

[01:10:08] [SPEAKER_00]: me that at 10 20 p.m the banging started on the back door it took her by surprise because this

[01:10:14] [SPEAKER_00]: time she was not alone so she knew something was different she said that the banging seemed

[01:10:19] [SPEAKER_00]: louder and more aggressive than before and in efforts to calm down her friend my sister went

[01:10:24] [SPEAKER_00]: through the motions of trying to answer the door it went from back door to front door to back door

[01:10:30] [SPEAKER_00]: but here is where it changed on the last round at the back door my sister said that she approached

[01:10:36] [SPEAKER_00]: the door and she heard a loud pop like a gunshot when she opened the door no one was there

[01:10:42] [SPEAKER_00]: and on the concrete porch and down the steps was a puddle of red liquid that she thought

[01:10:47] [SPEAKER_00]: was blood she slammed the door and called me when i went to inspect the back porch there was

[01:10:54] [SPEAKER_00]: nothing there no signs of any blood or other liquid anywhere and even more curious after this finale

[01:11:00] [SPEAKER_00]: we never experienced the knocking again over the years i have tried to research and find a

[01:11:06] [SPEAKER_00]: reason or explanation for our experiences but i have not been able to find answers my sister's

[01:11:12] [SPEAKER_00]: friend would never speak of this again almost like she blocked it out of her memory and my sister

[01:11:17] [SPEAKER_00]: now denies that it happened i think that is her way of coping with it sorry this is long

[01:11:24] [SPEAKER_00]: i just couldn't fully describe what happened in short sentences thanks for your hard work

[01:11:29] [SPEAKER_00]: and know that we appreciate you and the community you have built for us

[01:11:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Courtney our next story comes from Dana Dana's story is called until we meet again

[01:11:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Dana says my brother passed away almost five years ago of leukemia it broke my heart

[01:11:51] [SPEAKER_00]: i didn't get a chance to say goodbye it was one of many deaths in my family after my big brother

[01:11:57] [SPEAKER_00]: passed away i had a really hard time dealing with it we were best friends shortly after his

[01:12:03] [SPEAKER_00]: passing i went back to work and i was battling work and a deep depression i left work and came

[01:12:10] [SPEAKER_00]: home and i napped on the sofa i felt the cushion dipped down behind me as if someone laid down behind

[01:12:16] [SPEAKER_00]: me being half asleep and very groggy i thought it was my partner i then felt a hand on my arm

[01:12:23] [SPEAKER_00]: and a soothing touch i then turned over expecting to see my partner but it was my brother he

[01:12:30] [SPEAKER_00]: was looking right at me and he looked healthy and so real he spoke to me he said hi little sis

[01:12:37] [SPEAKER_00]: i just want you to know that i'm okay and i see that you are hurting i know that you love me and

[01:12:43] [SPEAKER_00]: that you miss me know that i am doing well he was so thin and frail when he passed in here

[01:12:50] [SPEAKER_00]: he was healthy and normal he was wearing a shirt that i gave him for christmas he told me that he

[01:12:55] [SPEAKER_00]: loves me and that we will see each other again i then woke up crying and shaking so bad my partner

[01:13:02] [SPEAKER_00]: walked in the room and when i told her she said that i needed to hear that i have had several

[01:13:08] [SPEAKER_00]: experiences and they are all very different but i thought it would be nice to share this one

[01:13:13] [SPEAKER_00]: thank you for all that you do dana our first midweek mystery comes from that gi on reddit

[01:13:24] [SPEAKER_00]: and their story is called my experience in the forest of ontario that gi says this is the

[01:13:32] [SPEAKER_00]: first time i've ever told this story to anyone other than a few of my close friends i would just

[01:13:37] [SPEAKER_00]: like to hear if anyone has experienced anything similar i found some photos for proof and i may

[01:13:43] [SPEAKER_00]: be able to track more down when i go home for the holidays i grew up in a rural community in

[01:13:49] [SPEAKER_00]: southern ontario and it was one of those places where everyone wears camo and when

[01:13:53] [SPEAKER_00]: deer hunting opens everything becomes deserted as a kid i spent the majority of my time in my

[01:13:59] [SPEAKER_00]: forest playing alone as my sisters weren't too fond of leaving the house and my closest friend

[01:14:04] [SPEAKER_00]: lived a few kilometers away my favorite pastime was finding anything that i could hit things with

[01:14:10] [SPEAKER_00]: a stick an axe or a hockey stick and just run around the woods for hours practicing my combat

[01:14:16] [SPEAKER_00]: skills against the defenseless trees every day my bus would drop me off at around 255 pm giving

[01:14:23] [SPEAKER_00]: me lots of time to defeat my wooden enemies before my parents returned around 5 30 pm and once it was

[01:14:30] [SPEAKER_00]: summer i was out there from the moment i woke up but i was always sure to be back in the house before

[01:14:35] [SPEAKER_00]: my parents got home so they couldn't catch me messing about with a splitting axe this was my

[01:14:41] [SPEAKER_00]: nightly routine from about age nine to 13 by around age 13 the act started to get boring

[01:14:48] [SPEAKER_00]: i knew my forest like the back of my hand and finally i had worked hard enough to buy an xbox

[01:14:54] [SPEAKER_00]: one summer day the internet went out ruining my game of metal of honor so i decided to do

[01:15:00] [SPEAKER_00]: the one thing i had done a million times before and go and get lost in my forest it was probably

[01:15:06] [SPEAKER_00]: around 10 or 10 30 am so i knew i had plenty of time before my dad came home this being southern

[01:15:13] [SPEAKER_00]: ontario the only thing that i was remotely scared of were fishers combined with the fact that i was

[01:15:19] [SPEAKER_00]: no longer interested in fighting the trees i only brought with me my fancy pocket knife which i

[01:15:24] [SPEAKER_00]: had kidnapped from my father's police cruiser i ran into my forest up the main path and over a

[01:15:30] [SPEAKER_00]: ridge i had scaled many times before i was gone probably 20 minutes when things started to feel

[01:15:37] [SPEAKER_00]: strange for some odd reason i felt as though i was being watched i had never seen anyone but

[01:15:43] [SPEAKER_00]: my neighbor in my forest before so i immediately tossed the idea aside thinking that i was just

[01:15:48] [SPEAKER_00]: being overreactive i kept running or walking for about another 10 minutes when the feeling started

[01:15:55] [SPEAKER_00]: to get much stronger i suddenly felt as though i was somewhere that i shouldn't be as though

[01:16:00] [SPEAKER_00]: the branches overhead started to get thicker and everything got much darker and much quieter

[01:16:06] [SPEAKER_00]: occasionally i would hear this strange sound it wasn't like any animal i'd heard before

[01:16:10] [SPEAKER_00]: but more like the bell on a bike with an odd echo to it almost like a metallic cricket i decided

[01:16:17] [SPEAKER_00]: that i should probably head home and i checked the time on my phone and it said that it was 11 am

[01:16:23] [SPEAKER_00]: it was then that i realized that i had no idea where i was keep in mind that i knew every inch

[01:16:29] [SPEAKER_00]: of this forest from the roads that border three sides to the lake that borders the other and i

[01:16:34] [SPEAKER_00]: had hiked every inch of it numerous times before yet i had no idea where i was and then things started

[01:16:41] [SPEAKER_00]: to get stranger i looked down around my feet and saw a bunch of metal buckets and various metal tools

[01:16:47] [SPEAKER_00]: and this is when i heard a voice it seemed like a child calling for me by name the voice was

[01:16:53] [SPEAKER_00]: light and seemed to flow effortlessly on the wind in my panic i assumed it was one of my

[01:16:59] [SPEAKER_00]: sisters calling me to come home so naturally i called my sister's name back when i got no response

[01:17:05] [SPEAKER_00]: i took my phone out and tried calling but this being the middle of nowhere on the canadian shield

[01:17:10] [SPEAKER_00]: i had no service i looked around and out of the corner of my eye i saw something dart behind a

[01:17:16] [SPEAKER_00]: tree i looked around me and saw laying in the ground among the buckets a rusted red bicycle

[01:17:21] [SPEAKER_00]: and it looked like something from the 50s that you'd see in anti-nuke posters and the bike

[01:17:27] [SPEAKER_00]: seemed to be in the one part of the forest that light was shining through kind of staging it

[01:17:33] [SPEAKER_00]: i quickly opened my camera and took a photo thinking that my eyes were playing tricks on me

[01:17:38] [SPEAKER_00]: i then heard it again but by this time the child sounded like they were almost singing my name

[01:17:44] [SPEAKER_00]: breaking it up at the syllables i started to quickly walk away hoping that i would end up

[01:17:50] [SPEAKER_00]: anywhere but this area but the voice seemed to follow me and i kept seeing glimpses of

[01:17:55] [SPEAKER_00]: something running behind the trees that was keeping pace with me so naturally i started to

[01:18:00] [SPEAKER_00]: run as fast as i could i ran as quickly as my legs could manage not caring for the branches that

[01:18:06] [SPEAKER_00]: would whip me in my face and eyes after about 15 minutes of running things started to look familiar

[01:18:12] [SPEAKER_00]: i ran down a massive hill and the trees started to become more open and brighter

[01:18:18] [SPEAKER_00]: i slowed down and started to walk too terrified to check behind me once the feeling of impending

[01:18:24] [SPEAKER_00]: doom settled i finally mustered the strength to turn around and the moment i turned around is a moment

[01:18:30] [SPEAKER_00]: i will never forget i turned behind me and through the trees i saw my house as if i had been

[01:18:37] [SPEAKER_00]: running away from it the entire time thinking that i must have just gotten turned around and

[01:18:42] [SPEAKER_00]: absolutely hating the idea of running back into the forest i walked towards the house

[01:18:47] [SPEAKER_00]: as i was probably 100 meters from my house i heard a spine chilling shriek come from

[01:18:52] [SPEAKER_00]: the forest behind me similar to the sound of a mountain lion screaming or raccoons fighting

[01:18:58] [SPEAKER_00]: but it was far louder and seemed to be coming from not just one place but almost many places at once

[01:19:05] [SPEAKER_00]: i sprinted the final steps to my house and did not turn back and as soon as i entered the house

[01:19:10] [SPEAKER_00]: i came face to face with my father who was sitting at the kitchen table i looked at the

[01:19:15] [SPEAKER_00]: clock on the wall and saw that it was now 4 45 p.m i have no idea what happened in the

[01:19:21] [SPEAKER_00]: five hours between the time the photo was taken and the time that i got home all i remember is the

[01:19:27] [SPEAKER_00]: 30 minutes it took me to get in and around 20 minutes it took me to get out i went right to my room

[01:19:33] [SPEAKER_00]: and stared at the photo on my phone assuring myself that it had happened and i had seen what i had

[01:19:39] [SPEAKER_00]: seen this was almost five years ago and i still find myself looking at the photo to show myself

[01:19:46] [SPEAKER_00]: that it really happened and i didn't just go mad after that day i decided i would never venture

[01:19:51] [SPEAKER_00]: into the forest alone and started a new character on skyrim to assure that i wouldn't want to go

[01:19:57] [SPEAKER_00]: outside even if the internet was down my parents moved out of that house this past summer and

[01:20:03] [SPEAKER_00]: into the city i still love going outside and i even found myself working in an isolation

[01:20:08] [SPEAKER_00]: camp in the middle of the rockies this past summer yet i cannot go alone or outside the

[01:20:14] [SPEAKER_00]: calling range of a friend i have no idea what occurred that summer day and nothing paranormal

[01:20:20] [SPEAKER_00]: has ever happened to me before or since that date the picture that that gi took of the strange

[01:20:28] [SPEAKER_00]: area in the woods and the bike can be found in their post on reddit via the link in the show

[01:20:33] [SPEAKER_00]: notes and on our forum our next story of the night comes from kassandra kassandra's story is

[01:20:42] [SPEAKER_00]: called bigfoot peed on my tent kassandra says you've shared a couple of my encounters for which i'm

[01:20:50] [SPEAKER_00]: truly humbled and honored after a conversation with my family last night i was reminded of another

[01:20:56] [SPEAKER_00]: story i thought you might be interested in i'll try to keep it short as i know that you get many

[01:21:01] [SPEAKER_00]: tales sent to you my daughter and i love to go camping we found a little slice of heaven here

[01:21:08] [SPEAKER_00]: in central utah one that's a well-guarded secret from those that would exploit it the lake sits in

[01:21:14] [SPEAKER_00]: a dormant volcano with some areas speculated to be more than 400 feet deep official records listed at

[01:21:21] [SPEAKER_00]: 175 feet though those who have gone diving in that water would argue that statement there are

[01:21:27] [SPEAKER_00]: underground channels that spill out to another lake further south which provide the plentiful

[01:21:32] [SPEAKER_00]: fish means of travel between the two the lake is surrounded on the west side by beautiful aspen trees

[01:21:38] [SPEAKER_00]: and on the east side by ancient pines the dense forest and steep mountain side on the east side

[01:21:45] [SPEAKER_00]: make camping there impossible so everything is located on the west there's a beautiful marina

[01:21:50] [SPEAKER_00]: on the north side of the lake with an extremely friendly owner who remembers those that return

[01:21:55] [SPEAKER_00]: from year to year it also has an rv park for people that like to spend their summers there

[01:22:01] [SPEAKER_00]: and in the fall provides excellent space for those that like to go hunting this particular

[01:22:07] [SPEAKER_00]: camping trip was in mid-june in 2009 and my daughter and i were excited to spend the weekend in the

[01:22:12] [SPEAKER_00]: most beautiful place that we'd seen we pitched our tent bought wood for the fire and went to

[01:22:18] [SPEAKER_00]: the marina to grab a bite to eat some ice for the cooler and extra tackle we were eager

[01:22:23] [SPEAKER_00]: to get up and do some fishing so we went to bed shortly after sundown the moon was full

[01:22:28] [SPEAKER_00]: with no clouds in sight and it was truly magical i was awakened by a really foul stench around

[01:22:35] [SPEAKER_00]: two in the morning and peered out of the little window of our tent it was difficult to see where

[01:22:40] [SPEAKER_00]: the smell was coming from as whatever it was stood directly in front of it then out of nowhere

[01:22:45] [SPEAKER_00]: came the sound of water pouring on our tent but the smell assured me that it wasn't water

[01:22:51] [SPEAKER_00]: and i was quite angry that our tent was being peed on by some unseen creature at first i thought

[01:22:57] [SPEAKER_00]: it was a black bear or potentially an elk as both have a heavy presence in the area when i got up the

[01:23:04] [SPEAKER_00]: next morning however i was dumbfounded to see the largest set of footprints that i'd ever laid eyes

[01:23:09] [SPEAKER_00]: on walking around our tent they were nearly two feet long and almost a foot wide the left foot

[01:23:15] [SPEAKER_00]: appeared to be missing the pinky toe as there wasn't a print of it the right foot was normal

[01:23:20] [SPEAKER_00]: and they both stood at the side of our tent before walking off i woke my daughter right

[01:23:25] [SPEAKER_00]: away and showed her the tracks which freaked us both out a bit i had an ancient flip phone with no

[01:23:31] [SPEAKER_00]: camera capabilities so i wasn't able to take any pictures i was skeptical about the existence

[01:23:36] [SPEAKER_00]: of bigfoot but a small part of me wanted the adorable creature from harry and the hendersons

[01:23:41] [SPEAKER_00]: to be real there was no doubt in my mind that those tracks were from a sasquatch but why it

[01:23:47] [SPEAKER_00]: decided to pee on our tent is a mystery but after speaking with the foremost authority on

[01:23:52] [SPEAKER_00]: bigfoot dr. jeff meldrum i learned that this was actually a common occurrence i gave him the

[01:23:58] [SPEAKER_00]: information as well as my own contact information and left it at that he contacted me sometime later

[01:24:04] [SPEAKER_00]: to say that he'd found and made several casts of prints from the surrounding area and he thanked

[01:24:10] [SPEAKER_00]: me for my information while it was rather unnerving at the time i haven't personally heard of

[01:24:16] [SPEAKER_00]: anyone getting pee down by sasquatch and it's an experience i will never forget thanks for being

[01:24:22] [SPEAKER_00]: awesome and providing a place for us to share our experiences with others i'd be interested to know

[01:24:27] [SPEAKER_00]: if any of your other listeners have had a similar experience as it's truly remarkable and bizarre

[01:24:34] [SPEAKER_00]: love from my daughter and i kassandra our next story of the night comes from jenna

[01:24:42] [SPEAKER_00]: and jenna's story is called paranormal camping experience jenna says hello nick i have an interesting

[01:24:50] [SPEAKER_00]: paranormal experience to share with you from vancouver island canada back in 2009 my boyfriend our

[01:24:57] [SPEAKER_00]: two-year-old daughter and i decided to go camping it was still early in the year so we knew that

[01:25:03] [SPEAKER_00]: we were likely to have the entire place to ourselves we packed up the truck and camper and

[01:25:08] [SPEAKER_00]: then headed out on a long drive up island with no particular destination in mind just a general area

[01:25:15] [SPEAKER_00]: north vancouver island is mostly dense forest and quite secluded we eventually decided on a location

[01:25:21] [SPEAKER_00]: and for about two or three hours of the drive we were out of cell service driving down gravel

[01:25:27] [SPEAKER_00]: roads until we got to the lake we were correct about having the entire place to ourselves

[01:25:32] [SPEAKER_00]: so we figured we would set up camp on the public beach spot instead of the designated campsites

[01:25:37] [SPEAKER_00]: but before we did i suggested that we go and look at the sites to make sure that we got the best spot

[01:25:42] [SPEAKER_00]: one site was right on the lake so i asked my boyfriend to drive into it so we could take a

[01:25:47] [SPEAKER_00]: closer look as i got out of the vehicle i noticed a memorial located on the site it read name of

[01:25:54] [SPEAKER_00]: person died here presumably drowned so we decided to head back to our original spot we drove

[01:26:01] [SPEAKER_00]: along ways to get to the lake so by the time we were setting up it was about 10 p.m and dark

[01:26:06] [SPEAKER_00]: we decided to focus on making a fire to roast a few hot dogs and then call it a night our daughter

[01:26:12] [SPEAKER_00]: seemed to be very anxious the moment that we got out of the truck and she would hardly let her

[01:26:17] [SPEAKER_00]: dad put her down and insisted that he hold her most of the time i wandered down to the water

[01:26:22] [SPEAKER_00]: by myself while they made a fire and just stood there for a few minutes noticing the clouds

[01:26:27] [SPEAKER_00]: parting and the moon becoming visible once i returned to the fire and began roasting a hot dog

[01:26:33] [SPEAKER_00]: i asked my boyfriend if he could hear the noise over the mountains he replied that it must have

[01:26:38] [SPEAKER_00]: been a plane and i remember thinking that it was odd that a plane would be all that way out at

[01:26:43] [SPEAKER_00]: that hour but i shrugged it off after about an hour or so with our daughter becoming

[01:26:48] [SPEAKER_00]: increasingly anxious we started to hear a noise coming from the direction of the lake it sounded

[01:26:53] [SPEAKER_00]: like someone splashing around so my logical senses told me that it must be a large animal

[01:26:58] [SPEAKER_00]: walking through the stream by the lake or shore i'm quite intuitive and my instincts told me to just

[01:27:04] [SPEAKER_00]: ignore it but my boyfriend was becoming quite paranoid and couldn't stop pointing out that

[01:27:09] [SPEAKER_00]: it was going on after a few minutes i noticed that the sound seemed to get louder and felt

[01:27:14] [SPEAKER_00]: closer so i figured that we best take a flashlight and check to make sure that there

[01:27:18] [SPEAKER_00]: wasn't a bear or something coming too close we shined the light over to the area i figured it

[01:27:23] [SPEAKER_00]: must be coming from but there was nothing there i told my boyfriend that it sounded like someone

[01:27:29] [SPEAKER_00]: struggling to swim and at one point my boyfriend thought that he had seen something in the lake

[01:27:33] [SPEAKER_00]: but i was still trying to be logical thinking that it had to be an animal near the shore

[01:27:38] [SPEAKER_00]: so i made him shine the light back in that direction now i've always been a believer

[01:27:43] [SPEAKER_00]: in ghosts spirits etc so when i said well you know that guy drowned here my boyfriend got scared

[01:27:50] [SPEAKER_00]: and said do not say that i then started to notice that the splashing sounded like it was being played

[01:27:56] [SPEAKER_00]: on a loop we would hear the splashing then silence for a few minutes and then it would start up again

[01:28:03] [SPEAKER_00]: i too began to get scared when i noticed that it was not only getting louder but it felt as if

[01:28:08] [SPEAKER_00]: it was getting closer we shined the light all over the lake for as far as we could see and there was

[01:28:13] [SPEAKER_00]: no one out there we looked at the camper and thought about just climbing in but at this point i was

[01:28:19] [SPEAKER_00]: feeling scared because i felt like the ominous presence had gotten closer to us i said should

[01:28:25] [SPEAKER_00]: we just leave i could tell by his response that he wanted to but he didn't want to be the one

[01:28:30] [SPEAKER_00]: to say it so we did we quickly gathered our stuff jumped in the truck and drove off once we got

[01:28:37] [SPEAKER_00]: back into service i looked up the name of the man on my phone it turns out he had gone down in a float

[01:28:42] [SPEAKER_00]: plane accident and was presumed to have drowned because they were never able to recover his body

[01:28:48] [SPEAKER_00]: we talked about it for most of the drive back and i figured that we must have somehow

[01:28:52] [SPEAKER_00]: experienced his final moments now i'm also into astrology moon phases etc and for some reason

[01:29:00] [SPEAKER_00]: i looked up the moon phase from the day his plane went down and it was the same as the night

[01:29:05] [SPEAKER_00]: that we were there his name is william brian silvestre i wasn't sure if i should include his

[01:29:11] [SPEAKER_00]: name out of respect for the family i'll include some screenshots as well i love your podcast

[01:29:17] [SPEAKER_00]: and thanks for taking the time to read my story jenna according to archives on september 4th 1968

[01:29:26] [SPEAKER_00]: william brian silvestre was piloting a float plane which apparently crashed during takeoff

[01:29:31] [SPEAKER_00]: william brian silvestre went missing while trying to swim to shore following the failed takeoff

[01:29:37] [SPEAKER_00]: i have posted the screenshots that jenna included on our forum our first story comes to us from

[01:29:47] [SPEAKER_00]: james and james's story is called little person james says hello nick i've been listening to

[01:29:55] [SPEAKER_00]: the podcast for about two weeks and i'm almost all caught up i wanted to share this story

[01:30:00] [SPEAKER_00]: i have not heard anything like it so far on here this happened in 2011 in my hometown in oklahoma

[01:30:08] [SPEAKER_00]: i had woken up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and this is nothing out of

[01:30:12] [SPEAKER_00]: the ordinary as it happens a lot as i was in the bathroom i felt as though i was being watched

[01:30:17] [SPEAKER_00]: from the window next to the toilet i scare pretty easily so i thought nothing of it

[01:30:22] [SPEAKER_00]: and i ignored the feeling a short time passed and i was growing more uneasy i then found

[01:30:28] [SPEAKER_00]: the courage to look out of the window only to see a small figure with its hands pressed on the

[01:30:33] [SPEAKER_00]: outside window sill looking at me upon me seeing it it dropped and began to run around the side of

[01:30:40] [SPEAKER_00]: my house to the front i quickly ran out of the bathroom to the front window in my house to

[01:30:45] [SPEAKER_00]: see if i could see it i looked and saw a small figure about the size of a toddler sprinting

[01:30:50] [SPEAKER_00]: across the highway into a field and it then disappeared just a little background i have three

[01:30:57] [SPEAKER_00]: close neighbors who all have kids around my age but no children after seeing this and not believing

[01:31:03] [SPEAKER_00]: what i had just seen i checked the time to see what it was and it was 340 much too early for

[01:31:09] [SPEAKER_00]: anyone to be awake i think i was in shock but i went to bed anyway the next morning i woke up

[01:31:16] [SPEAKER_00]: and thought about what had happened it sounded crazy even now so i just thought it had been a

[01:31:21] [SPEAKER_00]: weird dream i went to the bathroom to the same window and looked out to my surprise i saw a

[01:31:27] [SPEAKER_00]: five gallon bucket right at the base of the window as if something had used it as a step stool to

[01:31:32] [SPEAKER_00]: peer into the window i then realized that what i had seen had actually happened and i just had

[01:31:39] [SPEAKER_00]: a weird feeling after that there is no folklore or any crazy stories in my town so i have no

[01:31:45] [SPEAKER_00]: clue what i might have seen and i have not seen it since if any other listeners have had a

[01:31:51] [SPEAKER_00]: similar experience please feel free to reach out to me and share your story i'm sorry for the length

[01:31:57] [SPEAKER_00]: but i really wanted to share thank you for taking the time to read my story and keep up the great

[01:32:02] [SPEAKER_00]: work i look forward to future episodes i reached out to james and asked for additional details

[01:32:08] [SPEAKER_00]: regarding the creature that he witnessed and james had this to say i could not make out anything

[01:32:14] [SPEAKER_00]: that the creature was wearing but it had human features like the eyes and mouth and moved with

[01:32:20] [SPEAKER_00]: agility like a human but it was no more than two and a half feet tall i'm sorry that i can't recall

[01:32:26] [SPEAKER_00]: more even to this day i thought it was just a fever dream until i got some validation from my siblings

[01:32:31] [SPEAKER_00]: who remember it too they never actually saw it but they all remember a bucket being under the

[01:32:37] [SPEAKER_00]: window like something small had been trying to peer inside and the same night that i saw the

[01:32:42] [SPEAKER_00]: creature my sister told me that she had heard scratching on that window when she had been

[01:32:46] [SPEAKER_00]: taking a bath that just made me feel that i wasn't crazy and i actually did experience it

[01:32:55] [SPEAKER_00]: our next story comes to us from carolin and carolin's story is called unidentified aerial

[01:33:01] [SPEAKER_00]: phenomena carolin says i'm from salt lake city utah and on november 19th 2020 i was in my backyard

[01:33:10] [SPEAKER_00]: smoking cigarettes and talking on the phone with my nephew it was newly dark cold and clear

[01:33:16] [SPEAKER_00]: the moon was out and only a few wispy clouds while i was pacing the length of my patio something

[01:33:22] [SPEAKER_00]: cut my eye and i looked upward and saw an almost invisible craft glide toward the southeast and

[01:33:28] [SPEAKER_00]: out of sight i said to my nephew i think my eyes must be playing tricks on me because i just saw

[01:33:34] [SPEAKER_00]: something really weird i explained the fleeting image and then reminded him that i have keen

[01:33:40] [SPEAKER_00]: vision 2015 in one eye and 2012 in the other aka astronaut vision the last i checked but i also

[01:33:48] [SPEAKER_00]: have a sight difference called tetra chromancy where i see more colors than the average person if that

[01:33:54] [SPEAKER_00]: counts for anything so the very next night i bundled up tight and ventured back out early

[01:34:00] [SPEAKER_00]: to widen my window of opportunity to witness it again with no distraction i searched the

[01:34:06] [SPEAKER_00]: same strip of sky luckily the weather conditions were the same as before because low and behold i

[01:34:12] [SPEAKER_00]: saw it again this time i got a good long look as it took around 10 seconds to cross the sky

[01:34:18] [SPEAKER_00]: it was silent and steady it did not change course or speed no lights blinking or reflecting

[01:34:24] [SPEAKER_00]: it was definitely in our atmosphere around the altitude of a helicopter or small plane

[01:34:29] [SPEAKER_00]: but twice as big at least it moved with mass but seemingly only the front outline was visible

[01:34:36] [SPEAKER_00]: which looked like strangely connected whitish wings with randomly placed missing puzzle pieces

[01:34:42] [SPEAKER_00]: in asymmetrical vertical lines it was like i had a cloaking device that allowed it to

[01:34:48] [SPEAKER_00]: mimic its immediate atmosphere but it was glitching it didn't appear to be man-made

[01:34:53] [SPEAKER_00]: it was kind of ethereal looking like it was made of energy and there was a force to its trajectory

[01:34:59] [SPEAKER_00]: unlike anything that a holographic projector could possibly make especially traveling that distance

[01:35:06] [SPEAKER_00]: i was baffled but felt completely elated finally knowing that i did see something

[01:35:10] [SPEAKER_00]: that wasn't a weather anomaly or a flock of birds so that night i mentioned it to my teenage

[01:35:17] [SPEAKER_00]: daughter and she agreed to attempt to watch for it with me the third night she's out there with

[01:35:22] [SPEAKER_00]: me getting bored and cold as i was demanding complete focus and undivided attention when i

[01:35:28] [SPEAKER_00]: was just about to give in and give up out of pity for her i yelled out there it is and

[01:35:34] [SPEAKER_00]: immediately she saw it too again for about just under 10 seconds now my daughter is a no-nonsense

[01:35:41] [SPEAKER_00]: kind of gal and she couldn't explain it we then researched covert military aircraft plasma

[01:35:47] [SPEAKER_00]: aircraft and interdimensional aircraft and phenomena and not a single description resembles what we saw

[01:35:55] [SPEAKER_00]: i would just like to know what it was or if someone else saw it maybe it was just a super

[01:35:59] [SPEAKER_00]: high-tech prank the three sightings were about a half hour later each night and started around

[01:36:05] [SPEAKER_00]: 6 45 pm the fourth night was overcast and the fifth and so on and i still watch for it when i can

[01:36:13] [SPEAKER_00]: there is aftermath to this story but i really tried to trim the fat so please forgive the length

[01:36:19] [SPEAKER_00]: thank you for your time and your show carolin i spoke with carolin a few times after reading

[01:36:27] [SPEAKER_00]: her story and i asked her to elaborate on the aftermath she had mentioned and carolin

[01:36:32] [SPEAKER_00]: had this to say i would like to reiterate that the craft was silently traveling the exact same

[01:36:38] [SPEAKER_00]: direction no blinking light action never shifting course at approximately the same time three

[01:36:44] [SPEAKER_00]: nights in a row why such a mundane routine for such a fantastical object the abject

[01:36:51] [SPEAKER_00]: blatancy of it all is almost eerie i'm open to any suggestions and or hypotheses

[01:36:57] [SPEAKER_00]: from the get-go the first night of the three sightings i never had a bad or foreboding feeling

[01:37:02] [SPEAKER_00]: as strange as it was it wasn't a sinister sight nor left anything ominous in the air

[01:37:08] [SPEAKER_00]: quite the contrary on the second night after witnessing the ship or whatever it was that

[01:37:14] [SPEAKER_00]: crossed the sky i felt a sense of gratification i knew that what i had seen the night before

[01:37:19] [SPEAKER_00]: was real and not a fleeting phantom now all that was needed was final confirmation through a

[01:37:25] [SPEAKER_00]: secondary witness which would happen on the third and final night thanks to my daughter

[01:37:31] [SPEAKER_00]: as i was thinking all of this i was still staring at the stars i stayed out there for a long while

[01:37:36] [SPEAKER_00]: just hoping that the craft might return finally i made my way back inside the house to warm up

[01:37:42] [SPEAKER_00]: and after shedding a few layers i realized that i wasn't even cold and i felt completely elated

[01:37:48] [SPEAKER_00]: i was just standing there alone in my living room observing my whole being buzzing with

[01:37:53] [SPEAKER_00]: exhilaration i was just standing there in utter awe not walking around or stretching or anything

[01:37:59] [SPEAKER_00]: when out of the blue my left elbow popped a big pop it felt weird but good it was immediate

[01:38:05] [SPEAKER_00]: relief as my elbow had been ailing me for a week or so and i hadn't been able to fully extend it

[01:38:11] [SPEAKER_00]: since then my body has continued to inexplicably adjust itself randomly taking turns with each

[01:38:17] [SPEAKER_00]: joint from head to toe and on a daily basis i am no stranger to chiropractic medicine but beyond

[01:38:24] [SPEAKER_00]: being a knucklecracker i can't really adjust myself i've always envied those able to crank

[01:38:30] [SPEAKER_00]: their necks and twist their backs and have the satisfaction of getting all the cricks out

[01:38:35] [SPEAKER_00]: my entire life i've been fascinated by the ability the body has to naturally align and heal

[01:38:40] [SPEAKER_00]: itself it seems like my joints are unlocking and releasing years of harbored toxins of

[01:38:46] [SPEAKER_00]: the material and emotional kind which was long overdue i have continued to experience both

[01:38:53] [SPEAKER_00]: physiological and psychological benefits for instance i am the thrive in chaos type so i

[01:39:00] [SPEAKER_00]: tend to be cluttered when i found myself craving order and symmetry i began organizing my house

[01:39:05] [SPEAKER_00]: down to the last detail it is completely foreign to me to derive any pleasure from these tasks

[01:39:11] [SPEAKER_00]: tackling junk drawers and storage boxes kitchen cupboards etc i'm doing all of this in a new way

[01:39:18] [SPEAKER_00]: calm and collected a go with the flow kind of fashion as to when what and how i organize

[01:39:25] [SPEAKER_00]: unlike what i had maniacally tried to accomplish in failed attempts of the past also i have always

[01:39:31] [SPEAKER_00]: done my best to stay present and not allow my thoughts to wallow in the past nor scurry

[01:39:36] [SPEAKER_00]: off into the future constantly striving for balance and centeredness my personal big picture

[01:39:42] [SPEAKER_00]: takeaway here is realignment of the body mind and energy system i don't so much concern myself

[01:39:48] [SPEAKER_00]: with seeking enlightenment as i do achieving and living in harmony with myself the environment

[01:39:54] [SPEAKER_00]: and others i feel now that i can do that better than ever finally i would like to mention the

[01:40:01] [SPEAKER_00]: many mysterious monoliths that started popping up around the world a while ago the first of which

[01:40:06] [SPEAKER_00]: was right here in my own backyard of moab utah i found out about all of this about a week after

[01:40:12] [SPEAKER_00]: the first sighting which was on november 19th 2020 the utah monolith was discovered on november 18th

[01:40:19] [SPEAKER_00]: the day before people said it had appeared to have been there for at least 10 years and 10

[01:40:24] [SPEAKER_00]: days later it was gone removed disappeared i've heard conflicting stories it did seem manmade

[01:40:33] [SPEAKER_00]: but no one came forward to claim it no artist or pranksters and no talk of it since fyi moab is

[01:40:41] [SPEAKER_00]: located southeast of salt lake city which was the direction the elusive apparition or ghost

[01:40:46] [SPEAKER_00]: ship or otherworldly craft was traveling on those three nights as a skeptic and a 99 percenter in

[01:40:54] [SPEAKER_00]: what little i do believe nature is extremely odd all in its own it doesn't have to be supernatural

[01:41:00] [SPEAKER_00]: to be weird so perhaps this isn't paranormal just simply unexplained as of yet whatever it was

[01:41:08] [SPEAKER_00]: i'm grateful to be graced by the experience perhaps all of these things are just a series

[01:41:12] [SPEAKER_00]: of coincidences and on that note i bid you farewell may we all be happy healthy wealthy

[01:41:20] [SPEAKER_00]: and wise godspeed carolin our first story comes to us from francesca and francesca's story is called

[01:41:32] [SPEAKER_00]: late night babysitting francesca says hello nick i've never written into anything like this before

[01:41:40] [SPEAKER_00]: but hearing everyone else's stories has made me comfortable enough to share mine with you

[01:41:45] [SPEAKER_00]: this happened in 2013 in southern california my uncle called me and asked if i could watch my

[01:41:52] [SPEAKER_00]: cousins while he took my aunt out on a date at the time my cousins were 15 13 8 and 6 years old

[01:42:00] [SPEAKER_00]: i thought it was weird that my teenager cousins couldn't watch over everything but my uncle

[01:42:05] [SPEAKER_00]: is kind of controlling so it kind of made sense he just didn't believe that they were responsible

[01:42:10] [SPEAKER_00]: enough to take care of everything so i agreed and drove over to watch them i got there around 6 p.m

[01:42:17] [SPEAKER_00]: and my uncle gave me the lowdown of the house and told me to call him if anything happens soon

[01:42:23] [SPEAKER_00]: after that my aunt and uncle left for their date i soon started to fix dinner for everyone

[01:42:29] [SPEAKER_00]: and we ended up eating together at about 7 30 p.m after dinner i told my little eight and six

[01:42:35] [SPEAKER_00]: year old cousins to get ready for bed i walked them upstairs to the bedroom and they then brush

[01:42:41] [SPEAKER_00]: their teeth and change into their pj's soon after that i tucked them in and wished them a good night

[01:42:46] [SPEAKER_00]: i turned off their bedroom lights and shut their doors i walked down the hall and turned the

[01:42:52] [SPEAKER_00]: hall light off as well and i walked downstairs to the living room there my 13 and 15 year old

[01:42:58] [SPEAKER_00]: cousins are sitting on the two of the three couches in the living room so i said on the

[01:43:03] [SPEAKER_00]: couch that's unoccupied just to let you know they are both teenage girls so as i was saying

[01:43:09] [SPEAKER_00]: we were sitting on three separate couches in the living room the tv was on and we were watching

[01:43:14] [SPEAKER_00]: netflix i've always loved the paranormal so i suggested that we watched this paranormal show

[01:43:20] [SPEAKER_00]: on netflix by this time it's about eight o'clock my 15 year old cousin didn't really care what

[01:43:26] [SPEAKER_00]: we watched but my 13 year old cousin on the other hand was very apprehensive about watching

[01:43:31] [SPEAKER_00]: the show she told me that she can't do too much stuff like this because it's just too real for her

[01:43:37] [SPEAKER_00]: i kind of laughed it off and told her don't worry we're all together and it'll be fine

[01:43:43] [SPEAKER_00]: she then begrudgingly agreed and we watched the paranormal show by about 10 p.m my 15 year

[01:43:49] [SPEAKER_00]: old cousin fell asleep i think she had been in a deep sleep because she was snoring really loud

[01:43:54] [SPEAKER_00]: i had to turn up the volume on the tv to hear the show because of it after this it was

[01:43:59] [SPEAKER_00]: just me and my 13 year old cousin who were still awake we watched two more episodes together

[01:44:04] [SPEAKER_00]: and then she said that she couldn't watch the show anymore because it was freaking her out

[01:44:08] [SPEAKER_00]: so she just put her headphones on and listened to some music while scrolling through her cell

[01:44:13] [SPEAKER_00]: phone and by this time it was midnight i was a bit of a night owl at this time so i was still

[01:44:19] [SPEAKER_00]: awake and i was slightly annoyed that my uncle and aunt were not back from their date yet

[01:44:24] [SPEAKER_00]: but there wasn't much i could do about that i then realized that all the lights were on downstairs

[01:44:29] [SPEAKER_00]: so i then proceeded to turn them all off then i returned to the living room and continued to

[01:44:34] [SPEAKER_00]: watch the paranormal show at this time the only light that could be seen was the glow from the

[01:44:40] [SPEAKER_00]: large television i watched one more episode and i turned to notice that my 13 year old cousin

[01:44:45] [SPEAKER_00]: was now fast asleep by this time it was about 1 a.m i myself started to feel a little bit

[01:44:52] [SPEAKER_00]: sleepy so i decided to turn the tv off and try to sleep on the couch let me describe the house a

[01:44:58] [SPEAKER_00]: bit more for you so you can get a feel for the layout it was located in the hills away from any noise

[01:45:05] [SPEAKER_00]: this house was kind of old and it had two stories and the floors were all wooden including the

[01:45:10] [SPEAKER_00]: stairs and hallway it was winter time so it was relatively cold by california standards

[01:45:16] [SPEAKER_00]: the living room was located by the front door of the house and the bottom of the stairs

[01:45:20] [SPEAKER_00]: and the house had good acoustics so you could hear a lot from wherever you were

[01:45:25] [SPEAKER_00]: and this was only intensified by the quiet of the night so like i was saying all the lights

[01:45:31] [SPEAKER_00]: in the tv were off it was very dark and i couldn't see very far i could only make out

[01:45:36] [SPEAKER_00]: faint things in the pale light from the windows i got comfortable on the couch and i tried to go

[01:45:42] [SPEAKER_00]: to sleep as i laid there i heard the creaking of the house settling i assumed the cold winter

[01:45:48] [SPEAKER_00]: weather was making the old wood in the house expand explaining the noises i'm almost asleep when i hear

[01:45:54] [SPEAKER_00]: loud creaking coming from upstairs i then listened more and i realized that it's footsteps coming

[01:46:00] [SPEAKER_00]: from the hallway right above me upstairs i first think it's one of my younger cousins walking

[01:46:06] [SPEAKER_00]: to the bathroom but i don't see the hall light turn on or hear the bathroom door open the

[01:46:11] [SPEAKER_00]: steps continue and i try to figure out what's going on and all of a sudden the steps

[01:46:16] [SPEAKER_00]: then stop at the end of the hallway at this time i realize i haven't heard any of the bedroom doors

[01:46:22] [SPEAKER_00]: open i immediately start getting anxious and just then the steps continue down the hall this time

[01:46:28] [SPEAKER_00]: slower heavier almost like they're dragging along the hallway i then start to hear something

[01:46:35] [SPEAKER_00]: faintly like murmurs and sniffling at this point i'm kind of frozen just listening trying

[01:46:41] [SPEAKER_00]: to stay calm the steps slump their way to the other end of the hallway and then stop at this

[01:46:47] [SPEAKER_00]: point my heart is beating so hard and the dragging steps continue back the other side of the hallway

[01:46:53] [SPEAKER_00]: but this time it's different this time i clearly hear what sounds like a woman crying and she's

[01:46:59] [SPEAKER_00]: crying a little louder every couple of steps i'm officially starting to freak out at this time

[01:47:05] [SPEAKER_00]: and it dawns on me that i don't know what's up there but i have to check and make sure that

[01:47:10] [SPEAKER_00]: my little cousins are safe i'm scared out of my mind and the steps continue and the cries become

[01:47:16] [SPEAKER_00]: more and more audible i can't seem to summon the strength to go upstairs by myself so i quietly

[01:47:22] [SPEAKER_00]: try to shake my 15 year old cousin awake multiple times she's still snoring and in such a deep

[01:47:28] [SPEAKER_00]: sleep that i can't seem to wake her up so i go next to my 13 year old cousin on the other

[01:47:33] [SPEAKER_00]: couch and i try to wake her up i shake her a few times and slowly she wakes half awake she asks

[01:47:40] [SPEAKER_00]: me what's going on and after she asks me that question the steps upstairs completely stop along

[01:47:46] [SPEAKER_00]: with the loud crying i feel like i'm going crazy as i scramble to tell her that i need her to help

[01:47:52] [SPEAKER_00]: me check on the kids upstairs she sounds confused but agrees and i practically pull her arm off

[01:47:58] [SPEAKER_00]: as we scurry to the light switches i turn on the stair lights and we slowly go up the stairs

[01:48:04] [SPEAKER_00]: at this point i think she notices that i'm truly frightened i have no poker face so it probably

[01:48:09] [SPEAKER_00]: read loud on my face she holds my hand as i flick on the hallway light i look over the hall

[01:48:16] [SPEAKER_00]: but nothing is there we walk to my six and eight year old cousins rooms to check in on them

[01:48:21] [SPEAKER_00]: they're both fast asleep none the wiser to all that i've heard i make an audible sigh of relief

[01:48:27] [SPEAKER_00]: and we walk back down the hall my 13 year old cousin then reaches for the hallway light

[01:48:33] [SPEAKER_00]: and i quickly tell her to leave it on in a very shaky voice she looks at me and shrugs and we

[01:48:39] [SPEAKER_00]: walk down the stairs together and she then tries to turn off the lights downstairs as well but

[01:48:44] [SPEAKER_00]: i quickly stop her i can tell she knows that something's up we walk back to the living

[01:48:50] [SPEAKER_00]: room and sit down on the couch together i am very uncomfortable and i honestly just wanted

[01:48:55] [SPEAKER_00]: to leave the house but i had to stay until my uncle got back my 13 year old cousin sees that i'm still

[01:49:01] [SPEAKER_00]: visibly upset and asks me what happened i try to just downplay it and i say that i thought i heard

[01:49:07] [SPEAKER_00]: an animal or something upstairs in the hallway i keep glancing at the stairs half expecting

[01:49:13] [SPEAKER_00]: the crying person to be there and my cousin then stops me and asks what really happened

[01:49:19] [SPEAKER_00]: after gathering myself and sitting there quietly for a minute or two i try to

[01:49:24] [SPEAKER_00]: give her a warning that this sounds a little crazy she says it's fine and to just tell her already

[01:49:30] [SPEAKER_00]: i kind of stumble with my words but i managed to get out that i swear that i heard someone walking

[01:49:35] [SPEAKER_00]: back and forth upstairs just crying loudly she's quiet for a while and then laughs a little bit

[01:49:41] [SPEAKER_00]: she then proceeds to say very casually oh you mean the crying woman you heard the crying woman

[01:49:48] [SPEAKER_00]: i'm floored i'm like what and she proceeds to tell me that she sees her all the time late at night

[01:49:56] [SPEAKER_00]: she told me i shouldn't be scared of her that she doesn't hurt anyone

[01:49:59] [SPEAKER_00]: and my cousin continued saying this all she does is walk up and down the hallway crying

[01:50:05] [SPEAKER_00]: she's lost somebody close to her i kind of feel bad for her this was strangely comforting for me

[01:50:11] [SPEAKER_00]: to hear and it was nice to know that at least i wasn't alone in my experience that this was

[01:50:16] [SPEAKER_00]: a real confirmed experience and not just some weird delusion of mine my cousin continued saying

[01:50:23] [SPEAKER_00]: that i should be glad that i didn't see the smiling guy she said that she sees him outside of her bedroom

[01:50:29] [SPEAKER_00]: window sometimes and by the way her bedroom is on the second floor she said that all the

[01:50:36] [SPEAKER_00]: smiling guy does is stare at you while smiling a wide and creepy grin he never talks to her

[01:50:41] [SPEAKER_00]: but he definitely knows that she can see him she told me that she feels that he's bad and

[01:50:47] [SPEAKER_00]: that he wants inside the house but can't come in for whatever reason by this time my jaws to the

[01:50:53] [SPEAKER_00]: floor and she tells me that she sees spirits all the time and that most of the time they don't

[01:50:58] [SPEAKER_00]: even acknowledge that she's there she told me that she used to be terrified of them but now

[01:51:03] [SPEAKER_00]: she's kind of just getting used to it i'm then quiet trying to wrap my mind around what she's

[01:51:08] [SPEAKER_00]: told me when my uncle shows back up from his date i hug my cousin goodbye tell my uncle and aunt

[01:51:14] [SPEAKER_00]: everything was fine and i immediately drove home they offered for me to spend the night

[01:51:19] [SPEAKER_00]: but i declined right away long story short i never babysat for them again heck i never even went

[01:51:27] [SPEAKER_00]: back to that house again i always liked paranormal stuff and i still do but it hits you a lot

[01:51:34] [SPEAKER_00]: different when it's happening to you i haven't had anything like this ever happened to me since

[01:51:39] [SPEAKER_00]: and this is forever burned into my memory thank you for letting me share my story our first

[01:51:49] [SPEAKER_00]: midweek mystery comes to us from questor and questor stories are called the fawn and the

[01:51:56] [SPEAKER_00]: redheaded phantom questor says hey nick thank you for your time to read my stories i want

[01:52:04] [SPEAKER_00]: to start with my first encounter of something rare and mythical that i witnessed as a child

[01:52:08] [SPEAKER_00]: while vacationing in fair haven messachusetts i was about eight or nine and i decided to take my

[01:52:15] [SPEAKER_00]: bike out and across the bridge to a small convenience store to get some candy the cottage my parents

[01:52:21] [SPEAKER_00]: rented was set along a rather large river that eventually goes out to the ocean as i made

[01:52:26] [SPEAKER_00]: my way into the small store to get some more airheads i noticed that it smelled like old

[01:52:31] [SPEAKER_00]: musk i'm sure this place has been here for a very long time and it gave off a rather

[01:52:36] [SPEAKER_00]: uncomfortable feeling soon after i left i noticed on the side of the building that there was a small

[01:52:42] [SPEAKER_00]: pathway leading out behind curious as i always have been i decided to leave my bike and take

[01:52:49] [SPEAKER_00]: a stroll down the mysterious path now this is when it got weird the small pathway took me

[01:52:55] [SPEAKER_00]: through what seemed to be an old riverbed that was semi muddy yet not so bad that i couldn't walk

[01:53:01] [SPEAKER_00]: through i made my way into the dried up riverbed where i began to walk around sharp corners and

[01:53:07] [SPEAKER_00]: threw thick brush until i reached this one corner that made me stop dead in my tracks

[01:53:13] [SPEAKER_00]: right in front of me about six feet away stood what seemed to be a deer yet i could only see

[01:53:19] [SPEAKER_00]: the backside of it also in the semi muddy ground i could see hoof prints reminding me that a

[01:53:25] [SPEAKER_00]: deer had just passed by what was very different about this deer is that i could see the back

[01:53:30] [SPEAKER_00]: side of a man as well his elbows and back of his head were visible to me so in other words it was

[01:53:36] [SPEAKER_00]: a half man half deer it moved around the riverbed quickly and i just froze for a second

[01:53:43] [SPEAKER_00]: i made my way to the curve that it once was turning around and saw nothing except for

[01:53:48] [SPEAKER_00]: more hoof prints in the ground i was pretty creeped out by what i just saw and ran back

[01:53:53] [SPEAKER_00]: to my bike and then rode back to the cottage i believe it was a fawn of mythical folklore

[01:53:59] [SPEAKER_00]: and i will never forget that moment my other encounter with the paranormal is that of the

[01:54:06] [SPEAKER_00]: redheaded phantom of root 44 this happened while my ex was driving i in the passenger seat

[01:54:12] [SPEAKER_00]: and my three children in the back the story goes that if you're driving down root 44 headed

[01:54:18] [SPEAKER_00]: to rohoboth from seaconk at 11 p.m or 12 a.m the phantom will come out into the street

[01:54:25] [SPEAKER_00]: trying to make the driver swerve off the road i've known about this myth for quite some time now

[01:54:31] [SPEAKER_00]: but never believed it or encountered anything like it until now it was about 11 30 p.m and we

[01:54:38] [SPEAKER_00]: had just left my mother's home in rhodeland the kids were all asleep in the back and just me

[01:54:43] [SPEAKER_00]: and my ex left to chat about our night with my family but right as we passed the sign saying

[01:54:49] [SPEAKER_00]: rohoboth my ex slammed on the brakes making me quickly look up from my cell phone just at that

[01:54:55] [SPEAKER_00]: moment i looked over to my right to see a dark shadow run into the woods i asked my ex what

[01:55:01] [SPEAKER_00]: had happened and she replied i saw a man standing very close to the side of the road

[01:55:06] [SPEAKER_00]: and as i got closer he moved out more into the road so i slammed on my brakes

[01:55:10] [SPEAKER_00]: and that's when i looked up and saw something disappear into the woods

[01:55:15] [SPEAKER_00]: i personally didn't get a good look at it but i'm quite sure it was the redheaded phantom

[01:55:20] [SPEAKER_00]: stirring up some scares the area i grew up in massachusetts has a lot of paranormal activity

[01:55:26] [SPEAKER_00]: and possibly a bermuda triangle which is called the bridge water triangle there are many stories

[01:55:32] [SPEAKER_00]: that revolve around this theory and i know you have mentioned pakwaji before which is why

[01:55:36] [SPEAKER_00]: i am writing this all to you so that hopefully others like myself will share their paranormal stories

[01:55:43] [SPEAKER_00]: thank you very much for taking the time to read this and take care and be safe

[01:55:49] [SPEAKER_00]: questor's experience with the redheaded phantom intrigued me and i found an article on a cult world

[01:55:54] [SPEAKER_00]: that has to do with this bizarre entity in the article says this one of the most popular

[01:56:00] [SPEAKER_00]: and most notorious phantoms in massachusetts walks along a dark stretch of road in the town of

[01:56:05] [SPEAKER_00]: hoboth for more than three decades a redheaded man has been seen walking down route 44 waiting to be

[01:56:12] [SPEAKER_00]: picked up at times he has been seen hitchhiking and other times he has been seen walking into the

[01:56:18] [SPEAKER_00]: woods or in the middle of the road not moving as a car passes through him at least once he was

[01:56:23] [SPEAKER_00]: seen outside the window of a car that was moving at more than 40 miles per hour just who the man

[01:56:29] [SPEAKER_00]: is is a mystery and several people have died along that stretch of road including a man

[01:56:34] [SPEAKER_00]: matching the phantom's description but no one can say for sure who the man is

[01:56:39] [SPEAKER_00]: or when the haunting started he is described as being more than six feet tall well built and

[01:56:45] [SPEAKER_00]: having red hair and a red beard he is often seen wearing jeans or work pants but he is always

[01:56:51] [SPEAKER_00]: described as wearing a red flannel shirt sometimes tucked in and sometimes left out

[01:56:58] [SPEAKER_00]: some travelers see him as well-kept but he has also been seen with his characteristic

[01:57:02] [SPEAKER_00]: red hair disheveled and dirty people who come in contact with him can tell he is not human by

[01:57:08] [SPEAKER_00]: his eyes which are often described as lifeless most of the encounters follow a similar pattern to this

[01:57:16] [SPEAKER_00]: someone is driving along usually alone when they see a man in or along the roadside they may

[01:57:22] [SPEAKER_00]: either hit him or stop to pick him up the hitchhiker will interact with the person and

[01:57:27] [SPEAKER_00]: then eventually vanish before their eyes or will no longer be there when they turn to look

[01:57:33] [SPEAKER_00]: this is followed by some type of audio finale where he laughs yells at them or taunts them

[01:57:40] [SPEAKER_00]: a woman once reported stopping to pick the man up and he disappeared as he went to grab the

[01:57:45] [SPEAKER_00]: door handle her car battery then died and then she heard a man laughing at her although

[01:57:51] [SPEAKER_00]: he could no longer be seen ten minutes later the car started but not before the woman broke

[01:57:56] [SPEAKER_00]: down in fright one man had been driving alone when he saw the redheaded man on the side of the road

[01:58:02] [SPEAKER_00]: he stopped and called out to the man who started to walk toward him and as he got closer the

[01:58:08] [SPEAKER_00]: ghost slowly faded until he completely disappeared another witness had the hitchhiker appear in

[01:58:13] [SPEAKER_00]: the backseat of his car through the rearview mirror the radio started to scan the stations

[01:58:18] [SPEAKER_00]: and then became so loud it shook the car the phantom then disappeared and began to laugh

[01:58:24] [SPEAKER_00]: on the radio local legend says that if three people are driving in the same car on route 44

[01:58:31] [SPEAKER_00]: the redheaded hitchhiker will appear in the empty seat our last story of the night comes to us

[01:58:40] [SPEAKER_00]: from sarah and sarah's story is called a disagreeable sighting sarah says hi nick i've been enjoying

[01:58:48] [SPEAKER_00]: your podcast from bristol in england where i live and it is really helping me get through

[01:58:53] [SPEAKER_00]: lockdown and hearing about other people's experiences i have had many experiences myself

[01:58:59] [SPEAKER_00]: especially from when i used to run ghost hunting events at haunted buildings in the past however

[01:59:04] [SPEAKER_00]: the oddest experience that i've had came at a time when i really wasn't expecting it i used to help

[01:59:10] [SPEAKER_00]: out at a weekly club called rainbows for young girls which took place in a local church one

[01:59:16] [SPEAKER_00]: evening after the session had ended and the girls had been collected by their parents myself

[01:59:21] [SPEAKER_00]: and the lady who ran the group were outside of the main church entrance standing on the pavement

[01:59:26] [SPEAKER_00]: and talking it was 7 30 p.m but it was in the winter so it was dark however we were on a small

[01:59:32] [SPEAKER_00]: residential street standing directly beneath a street lamp we were talking about how the night

[01:59:38] [SPEAKER_00]: had gone and what we planned to do the following week as we did every week as we were talking on

[01:59:44] [SPEAKER_00]: the now empty street a lady came towards us she looked to be in her 60s with shoulder length

[01:59:49] [SPEAKER_00]: gray hair and didn't look at us as she came towards us her eyes were cast down towards the floor

[01:59:56] [SPEAKER_00]: she was on the same pavement as us and we were blocking her path so we moved closer together

[02:00:02] [SPEAKER_00]: to make room and she walked behind my friend the lamp light showed her clearly she was the only

[02:00:08] [SPEAKER_00]: person we had seen and was so close to us that we couldn't ignore her so both of us

[02:00:13] [SPEAKER_00]: watched her as she passed it was only when instead of continuing along the street she

[02:00:19] [SPEAKER_00]: turned and walked into the church driveway that we stopped talking and turned around and we wondered

[02:00:24] [SPEAKER_00]: if she had turned up late and was looking for one of the girls who had gone home she walked

[02:00:29] [SPEAKER_00]: purposefully towards the church but not through the main door entrance that we had exited from

[02:00:34] [SPEAKER_00]: she went to the side of the building there is nothing there except the side of the church

[02:00:38] [SPEAKER_00]: and a seven foot wall as we watched she just disappeared into the darkness of the church

[02:00:44] [SPEAKER_00]: wall no more than 10 feet away from us completely shocked we walked over to where she had disappeared

[02:00:50] [SPEAKER_00]: and there was of course nothing there she had just disappeared into the wall

[02:00:56] [SPEAKER_00]: the odd thing was that when we talked about it after and six years on we still argue over it

[02:01:03] [SPEAKER_00]: I saw an old lady with gray hair and a quite jolly stern face but my friend is equally insistent

[02:01:09] [SPEAKER_00]: that she saw a young girl in her 20s with blonde hair we weren't out looking for ghosts and we

[02:01:15] [SPEAKER_00]: were in such a mundane setting for something so extraordinary to happen that I tried to avoid the

[02:01:20] [SPEAKER_00]: area I can cope with the fact that we saw a ghost but the fact that we both saw something different

[02:01:26] [SPEAKER_00]: is something I can't understand and still leaves me shaken to this day our next story of the

[02:01:35] [SPEAKER_00]: night comes to us from Sarah Marie and Sarah Marie's story is called levitating astronaut entity

[02:01:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Sarah Marie says hi nick I've spent the last three weeks plowing all the episodes and I have to say

[02:01:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I love this podcast thank you for creating a space for all us paranormal believers to share our stories

[02:01:56] [SPEAKER_00]: I personally prefer the longer stories featured and therefore I am not going to apologize in

[02:02:02] [SPEAKER_00]: advance for my lengthy feature so I live in Sweden and I grew up in an arctic town

[02:02:08] [SPEAKER_00]: located well above the polar circle the small town of karuna is widely known across Europe as

[02:02:14] [SPEAKER_00]: a space town as we host the swedish space corporation and we have a space base located

[02:02:20] [SPEAKER_00]: just outside of town we are also known for our ice hotel and when I was a child our city hosted

[02:02:27] [SPEAKER_00]: an event called the snow festival where artists from all over the world came and carved out

[02:02:33] [SPEAKER_00]: beautiful sculptures in large blocks of snow and ice in the local park it's in this park that my

[02:02:40] [SPEAKER_00]: strange encounter took place and I believe it might be connected to the fact that our city has a

[02:02:45] [SPEAKER_00]: relationship to space I am curious to find out if you or your listeners share my belief

[02:02:52] [SPEAKER_00]: as I said before this took place in our local snow sculpture park I was a small child maybe

[02:02:58] [SPEAKER_00]: around six or seven when this took place me and my friend were playing around the sculptures

[02:03:04] [SPEAKER_00]: we were the only ones there at the time being a small town it was not unusual for little children

[02:03:09] [SPEAKER_00]: to roam around without parental supervision as we were playing I suddenly got this strange

[02:03:16] [SPEAKER_00]: feeling that I was being watched like something in the atmosphere shifted in the air around us

[02:03:21] [SPEAKER_00]: felt dense and clouded by energy I can't describe I was just about to call out to my

[02:03:26] [SPEAKER_00]: friend that I felt like something was wrong when I saw something move in the corner of my eye

[02:03:32] [SPEAKER_00]: I then turned around and I saw something that I have never seen before peeping out from behind

[02:03:39] [SPEAKER_00]: a big block of ice were these two small creatures at first I could only see their heads but as I

[02:03:46] [SPEAKER_00]: stood there in awe paralyzed not by fear but more like in wonder they both came out from

[02:03:51] [SPEAKER_00]: behind the sculpture and stood only a few feet in front of me they were two small creatures

[02:03:57] [SPEAKER_00]: that resembled astronauts I say astronauts because they both had big rounded helmets

[02:04:03] [SPEAKER_00]: that were slightly larger than the rest of their bodies and the front of their helmets

[02:04:07] [SPEAKER_00]: were jet black I could not see any facial features the rest of their body was dressed

[02:04:13] [SPEAKER_00]: in a white suit that very much resembled an astronaut suit but they were small like

[02:04:18] [SPEAKER_00]: a child maybe like a five or six year old in height they just stood there staring at us from

[02:04:24] [SPEAKER_00]: behind their jet black helmets and although I couldn't see their eyes I could definitely

[02:04:29] [SPEAKER_00]: feel them staring at us and up to this point my friend had not yet seen them I turned around

[02:04:35] [SPEAKER_00]: again to tell her that she needed to see this and when she did something really strange happened

[02:04:41] [SPEAKER_00]: up until this point it might have just been two kids in costumes playing in the park

[02:04:46] [SPEAKER_00]: but when my friend saw them she just screamed at me to run so we did we ran to another sculpture

[02:04:53] [SPEAKER_00]: to hide from them and when we looked around to see if we had lost them we saw them reappear again

[02:04:59] [SPEAKER_00]: this time moving towards us however they were not walking they were just moving closer to us

[02:05:05] [SPEAKER_00]: in a slow motion movement without lifting their feet this really freaked us out I had a very

[02:05:10] [SPEAKER_00]: strong feeling that they were curious slightly observing us in the distance we ran as fast as

[02:05:17] [SPEAKER_00]: our legs would carry us and once across the street I turned around once more to see if they had

[02:05:22] [SPEAKER_00]: followed us and they had but only to the edge of the park where they just stood still and looked

[02:05:27] [SPEAKER_00]: at us silently dead still everything about them was so odd the way that we could feel them

[02:05:34] [SPEAKER_00]: stare the way they moved and the fact that they just chased us around the park I was so

[02:05:39] [SPEAKER_00]: scared I ran into a cafe and asked to borrow the phone to call my mother to come pick us up

[02:05:45] [SPEAKER_00]: what was this of course my mother did not know how to react to me being so scared to have seen

[02:05:52] [SPEAKER_00]: astronauts in the park but the way their feet never touched the ground scared me for life

[02:05:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I know what we saw and it was not from this world many years later as an adult I had an

[02:06:04] [SPEAKER_00]: intense UFO encounter in the same city and I'll share that story in the future thank you for

[02:06:11] [SPEAKER_00]: reading this and keep up the good work and thank you again for creating this platform for all us

[02:06:16] [SPEAKER_00]: experiencers to share our stories I truly believe there is much more out there than what meets the

[02:06:22] [SPEAKER_00]: eye if anyone has ever seen anything like this I would love to hear from them kind regards

[02:06:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Sarah Marie our next story of the night comes to us from Kyle and Kyle's story is called

[02:06:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Medjugorje Experience Kyle says hello I live in the state of Iowa I recently discovered your

[02:06:47] [SPEAKER_00]: podcast on Pandora and I love listening to it as I work my overnight retail stocking job

[02:06:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I actually just finished your episode 25 titled The Devil Upstairs and it reminded me

[02:06:59] [SPEAKER_00]: of an experience my family has had a long time ago my mother's side of my family has always been

[02:07:04] [SPEAKER_00]: very religious almost to a fault sometimes at the time I was about nine years old and my great

[02:07:10] [SPEAKER_00]: grandmother had paid for my grandmother my mom and I to go on a religious retreat to Medjugorje

[02:07:17] [SPEAKER_00]: for around a week a few things actually went on to happen here that we weren't able to explain

[02:07:23] [SPEAKER_00]: first we had started a tour that would lead us to apparition hill a spot where the virgin

[02:07:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Mary supposedly appeared back in the 80s I'm not one to believe in most religious things but upon

[02:07:35] [SPEAKER_00]: arriving at apparition hill my grandma took a few pictures of the surrounding area and after

[02:07:40] [SPEAKER_00]: we had had the film developed we noticed in one of the pictures specifically a picture taken of

[02:07:45] [SPEAKER_00]: the queen of peace statue it had something very strange in it in the picture the statue or

[02:07:51] [SPEAKER_00]: surroundings were barely visible and were instead replaced with a bright white ball of light covering

[02:07:57] [SPEAKER_00]: the upper half of the statue with streams of rainbow light emanating from the ball of light

[02:08:03] [SPEAKER_00]: to make it even more surprising if you look carefully the ball of light has features resembling

[02:08:08] [SPEAKER_00]: a woman's face I do not have a digital copy of this picture to send you at this time as the

[02:08:14] [SPEAKER_00]: picture was taken on a disposable camera but I will try to send you the image once I get

[02:08:19] [SPEAKER_00]: a scanned copy from my grandmother herself as the picture is framed and hung over her television

[02:08:25] [SPEAKER_00]: the other thing that happened was during the mass that we attended before we left

[02:08:31] [SPEAKER_00]: a lot of people have reported strange things happening to them during the masses

[02:08:35] [SPEAKER_00]: such as hearing voices and feeling a hand touch them or stuff like that

[02:08:40] [SPEAKER_00]: before mass began my grandmother had been praying the rosary as she would normally do

[02:08:46] [SPEAKER_00]: just before she had finished we noticed her suddenly jump up

[02:08:50] [SPEAKER_00]: gasp and start weeping as we rushed over to see what had happened she opened her hands to show us

[02:08:56] [SPEAKER_00]: her rosary what had once been a rosary made of oak wood beads and string was now a rosary

[02:09:03] [SPEAKER_00]: recovered in gold not solid gold but a thin gold film that scratched off with your fingernail

[02:09:10] [SPEAKER_00]: we showed it to the priest after mass and he said that this has happened before to people who

[02:09:16] [SPEAKER_00]: pray the rosary in the church and that it never happens when the rosary is being looked at

[02:09:20] [SPEAKER_00]: and my grandmother had held it in her hands while looking up at the cross

[02:09:24] [SPEAKER_00]: so nobody had been looking at it even 15 years later I still don't know what to make of this

[02:09:32] [SPEAKER_00]: I know it sounds absurd and unbelievable but I can promise you that this actually happened

[02:09:39] [SPEAKER_00]: thank you for reading this and keep up the amazing podcast

[02:09:46] [SPEAKER_00]: our next listener story comes to us from Tom and Tom's story is called ghost horses

[02:09:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Tom says hi Nick I've been listening for about a year now and thought I would tell

[02:09:57] [SPEAKER_00]: you about a few experiences I've had with the paranormal the one I want to tell you about

[02:10:02] [SPEAKER_00]: today happened when I holidayed in Launcheston Cornwall England back in 2018 we stayed at

[02:10:09] [SPEAKER_00]: a pub slash hotel called the Jamaica Inn which was famous for smuggling on the second night I was

[02:10:16] [SPEAKER_00]: woken up at around 2 30 am with the sound of hooves outside on the stones in the big seating area

[02:10:22] [SPEAKER_00]: outside of our room and I thought who in their right mind was traveling by horse at this time of

[02:10:28] [SPEAKER_00]: night so I got out of bed went to the window to tell them to be quiet and there was no one

[02:10:34] [SPEAKER_00]: nothing but the sound was continuing which I thought was weird so I thought I'd go and investigate

[02:10:40] [SPEAKER_00]: plus I smoked at the time so I went outside and had one while walking down the corridor I could hear

[02:10:47] [SPEAKER_00]: chatting and laughing coming from the pub section of the building so I looked through the glass

[02:10:52] [SPEAKER_00]: window in the door which was locked it was pitch black no one was in there but it sounded

[02:10:58] [SPEAKER_00]: like a Saturday night I continued outside and I could now hear the chanting in busyness but no

[02:11:04] [SPEAKER_00]: one was around and I could hear horses breathing as if they were right next to me and this was going

[02:11:09] [SPEAKER_00]: on for around 15 minutes and didn't stop at all and I finally returned to my room the noises

[02:11:16] [SPEAKER_00]: continued outside and the pub was now silent as was the corridor when I returned to my room

[02:11:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I had the feeling of my stomach falling to the floor and something wasn't right

[02:11:27] [SPEAKER_00]: and when I walked into my room I saw a dark green figure standing at my side of my bed

[02:11:33] [SPEAKER_00]: staring at my fiancee in bed he wore a dark green cloak and was wearing a tricorn hat

[02:11:40] [SPEAKER_00]: like Jack Sparrow's hat he then looked up at me with an angry disposition and then walked

[02:11:46] [SPEAKER_00]: through the wall I can safely say that I didn't get any sleep that night with that

[02:11:51] [SPEAKER_00]: experience and with the noise continuing outside in the morning before breakfast I went outside to

[02:11:58] [SPEAKER_00]: have another cigarette and noticed in the morning light that the stones in the seating area weren't

[02:12:03] [SPEAKER_00]: there it was cobbled so when I finished I asked a member of the staff and she told me that the

[02:12:09] [SPEAKER_00]: front area was stoned before the recent cobbles were added and the trading was done in that

[02:12:14] [SPEAKER_00]: area back when the inn was used for smuggling and there was a highwayman that lived in the

[02:12:20] [SPEAKER_00]: area who stole items apparently he wore a green cloak and a tricorn hat and being that I never

[02:12:27] [SPEAKER_00]: asked about the highwayman I believe it wasn't in my head and that it had happened I then went to

[02:12:34] [SPEAKER_00]: join my mom stepdad and fiancee for breakfast in which my stepdad asked if anyone had heard

[02:12:40] [SPEAKER_00]: horses the previous night we chatted about it and laughed it off but the strange happenings of

[02:12:46] [SPEAKER_00]: that night still go through my head thank you for having a platform so that we can share our stories

[02:12:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I have many more if you'd like to hear them thanks again tom our next story of the night

[02:13:03] [SPEAKER_00]: comes to us from maddie and maddie's story is called mystery rock maddie says my family

[02:13:11] [SPEAKER_00]: owns a 400 acre farm that runs along a major river as a child my cousins and I would

[02:13:17] [SPEAKER_00]: explore this vast landmass finding new paths and we would go on general adventures one day we

[02:13:23] [SPEAKER_00]: came across this massive rock split down the center the crack was wide enough to walk through

[02:13:29] [SPEAKER_00]: and on many occasions we did the split ended up being a shortcut from the main trail to the

[02:13:34] [SPEAKER_00]: river without the shortcut it was about a three mile walk and with the shortcut maybe a three

[02:13:40] [SPEAKER_00]: minute walk we never questioned this as children or even as teenagers as life went on almost all of

[02:13:47] [SPEAKER_00]: us had stopped going to the farm and we were just living our lives recently one of my cousins went

[02:13:53] [SPEAKER_00]: to the farm to spend time there with his kids he decided to show them the shortcut to the river

[02:13:58] [SPEAKER_00]: and to his surprise the rock was gone I don't mean gone as in he was looking in the wrong

[02:14:04] [SPEAKER_00]: place I mean gone and it left a clearing with its disappearance he tells all of us this recently at a

[02:14:11] [SPEAKER_00]: zoom family reunion and we were all shocked as we're talking and explaining everything to our parents

[02:14:17] [SPEAKER_00]: aunts and uncles they point out to us how the shortcut doesn't really make any sense for the

[02:14:22] [SPEAKER_00]: location or time as it is miles from the river and there is no way it took us right to it

[02:14:27] [SPEAKER_00]: but it 1000% did and we all know that it did it was then that we all realized that they were

[02:14:34] [SPEAKER_00]: right it doesn't make any sense but it did happen none of us have any idea what exactly we experienced

[02:14:40] [SPEAKER_00]: as children but I know with absolute certainty that that rock existed and that it got us to the

[02:14:46] [SPEAKER_00]: river in record time thank you for sharing and I love your podcast today's first story comes to

[02:14:56] [SPEAKER_00]: us from Aaron and Aaron says when I was about six I grew up on eight acres of land that

[02:15:03] [SPEAKER_00]: was previously a Christmas tree farm I had an active imagination being that I played alone

[02:15:09] [SPEAKER_00]: often outside finding things to do that were six-year-old fun finding bugs climbing trees

[02:15:16] [SPEAKER_00]: and trying to build forts I remember falling asleep and dreaming about my farm cat sitting

[02:15:22] [SPEAKER_00]: on the railing of the porch and when we pulled up and walked up the stairs it jumped off to

[02:15:27] [SPEAKER_00]: hiss at me and my mom it felt so realistic that I was scared that something was wrong I couldn't

[02:15:33] [SPEAKER_00]: explain what but it just was so coming back from grocery shopping after being out I saw my cat

[02:15:40] [SPEAKER_00]: in the exact same spot as it was in the dream I was walking up the steps and I had the same

[02:15:46] [SPEAKER_00]: feeling in the pit of my stomach that it would do something I took a step back as it jumped down

[02:15:51] [SPEAKER_00]: and hissed directly in front of my mom and then went about its way waiting for what goodies

[02:15:57] [SPEAKER_00]: were in the grocery bags I remember feeling such fear that I had just dreamt the exact same thing

[02:16:03] [SPEAKER_00]: the previous night and I didn't want that to ever happen again since then I've had some dreams of

[02:16:09] [SPEAKER_00]: someone who was close to me and when asking if he or his family are okay there has always been

[02:16:15] [SPEAKER_00]: something happening in his life his father became ill and suddenly passed and his mom was having

[02:16:21] [SPEAKER_00]: medical issues and he himself has had issues here and there that said I usually have dreams about him

[02:16:28] [SPEAKER_00]: and I know that something is going on I can't say that I have abilities but I can say that those

[02:16:35] [SPEAKER_00]: close to me I always seem to have dreams about and there is almost always something going on in

[02:16:40] [SPEAKER_00]: some way maybe there is something carried over from when I was younger that doesn't allow me to

[02:16:46] [SPEAKER_00]: be frightened but just has that sense this next story is also from Aaron and Aaron calls it

[02:16:53] [SPEAKER_00]: my angel and Aaron says I had become pregnant at 35 with my first child it was unexpected and

[02:17:01] [SPEAKER_00]: unplanned and I found out about it two months into the pregnancy before the second trimester we

[02:17:07] [SPEAKER_00]: picked names when we went about finding out the gender at the doctor's office we found

[02:17:11] [SPEAKER_00]: out that we were having a boy and we said that's Riley about five minutes into the appointment the

[02:17:18] [SPEAKER_00]: nurse said I need to go and ask the doctor something and ten minutes later we found out that Riley wasn't

[02:17:24] [SPEAKER_00]: going to make it if he was born due to his skull not forming correctly with that being said there

[02:17:31] [SPEAKER_00]: was a procedure following the next day and before going in I said I love you Riley and I'm so

[02:17:37] [SPEAKER_00]: sorry when I came out and we were on our way home my other half said that he felt and heard Riley speaking

[02:17:45] [SPEAKER_00]: to him he said he knew it was him and he heard Riley say I understand what happened and it's okay

[02:17:52] [SPEAKER_00]: when we got home I was sitting at the kitchen table and then my other half said

[02:17:56] [SPEAKER_00]: he says it's okay mommy I love you I've spent a long time with you mommy it's your turn daddy

[02:18:02] [SPEAKER_00]: my other half said that it felt like a warmth was next to him and he said that over the next week

[02:18:08] [SPEAKER_00]: when he was stressed at work he could feel Riley next to him for two years we tried to have another

[02:18:15] [SPEAKER_00]: child and we lost another early on but we then had a premature but now healthy boy

[02:18:22] [SPEAKER_00]: when we had him two months early before going in to have him I whispered please let it be okay

[02:18:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Riley if anything let your brother be okay now my healthy and happy four-year-old is here

[02:18:35] [SPEAKER_00]: and for about two years his electronic toys would go off for no reason believe me we

[02:18:41] [SPEAKER_00]: kept thinking it was the batteries or something making them go off but we realized it's probably

[02:18:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Riley so we kept saying hi to him the noises stopped after two years for some unknown reason

[02:18:52] [SPEAKER_00]: however I almost feel like his spirit lives on in our son he's full of love and he humbles us

[02:18:58] [SPEAKER_00]: he keeps us going and always is saying I love you thanks for reading and I love your podcast

[02:19:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Erin our next story comes to us from Tom and Tom's story is called help from my family

[02:19:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Tom's story may be a little dark for some listeners so please be warned

[02:19:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Tom says hi Nick it's been a while but I'm still tuning into the podcast twice a week

[02:19:28] [SPEAKER_00]: this experience is extremely dark and I would understand if you weren't to share it because

[02:19:33] [SPEAKER_00]: some might feel uncomfortable listening to it albeit this is something I haven't told anyone

[02:19:38] [SPEAKER_00]: and hadn't planned to until I heard a recent episode about a spirit stopping a suicide attempt

[02:19:45] [SPEAKER_00]: about 11 years ago I was suffering with depression I didn't know it at the time but I was in a really

[02:19:51] [SPEAKER_00]: bad way I was lying to friends and family to cover up how bad I was looking back I must have done a

[02:19:57] [SPEAKER_00]: pretty good job because I was bad for a while and my behavior was unrecognizable compared to the

[02:20:03] [SPEAKER_00]: person that I am now anyway one day I decided I had had enough and attempted to take my own

[02:20:10] [SPEAKER_00]: life I left my house and after taking some pills I had walked to the local fields I didn't know what

[02:20:16] [SPEAKER_00]: the pills would do but I knew that I wanted out of my deep depression while walking I decided

[02:20:23] [SPEAKER_00]: that the pills weren't enough and I ventured deeper into the trees to hang myself again I

[02:20:29] [SPEAKER_00]: am sorry this is so dark but it is hand in heart the truth after a while I did exactly

[02:20:36] [SPEAKER_00]: as I planned well as I'm here writing this you can see it wasn't a success thankfully

[02:20:43] [SPEAKER_00]: I awoke sitting against a tree stump confused and completely broken you see during my ordeal

[02:20:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I blacked out but when I woke up I recalled having two men bustling around me talking to

[02:20:55] [SPEAKER_00]: each other and working out how to get me down from the tree literally lifting me and

[02:21:00] [SPEAKER_00]: maneuvering me to the ground it was my late father and uncle I knew it as clear as I have

[02:21:06] [SPEAKER_00]: known anything before in my life this sounds absolutely mad doesn't it but it happened Nick

[02:21:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I sat there for hours thinking of how I would rebuild my life knowing I wasn't leaving just

[02:21:18] [SPEAKER_00]: yet during those hours I could see in the distance around 30 to 40 meters away a slight

[02:21:24] [SPEAKER_00]: figure that had a white glow around it it was my late grandfather again I knew it without any

[02:21:30] [SPEAKER_00]: doubt he just stood there looking over at me he was always my father figure after I lost my dad

[02:21:37] [SPEAKER_00]: my grandfather was a great great man he had a soothing calming presence in life and he did

[02:21:43] [SPEAKER_00]: that day too eventually I made my way home to face my family and I told them about my

[02:21:49] [SPEAKER_00]: depression and I got help although this is a very dark email I can thankfully say I have gone on to

[02:21:56] [SPEAKER_00]: have a beautiful young family and my mental health is okay now I do have dips but I can recognize this

[02:22:02] [SPEAKER_00]: and deal with it much better now thank you Nick I haven't ever told anyone this story

[02:22:07] [SPEAKER_00]: because quite frankly no one would ever believe me or want to hear the detail again I appreciate

[02:22:14] [SPEAKER_00]: that this is pretty strong stuff keep up the great work mate Tom today's first story comes to us from

[02:22:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Kevin and Kevin's story is called ghost Kevin says hi Nick greetings from Montreal I was introduced

[02:22:35] [SPEAKER_00]: to your podcast by a friend about a month ago and like so many others I've begun binging it

[02:22:41] [SPEAKER_00]: I'd like to share with you the craziest paranormal experience that I've had

[02:22:46] [SPEAKER_00]: I came to Montreal for university but I am originally from Kunming China located in

[02:22:51] [SPEAKER_00]: the foothills of the Himalayas Chinese people have an interesting relationship

[02:22:56] [SPEAKER_00]: with the paranormal officially the communist government condemns any depiction or belief

[02:23:01] [SPEAKER_00]: in spirits or the supernatural however millennia of ancestor worship and magic is not so easily

[02:23:08] [SPEAKER_00]: undone this has resulted in some rather comical expressions of spirituality such as the burning

[02:23:14] [SPEAKER_00]: of paper ferrari's for the ancestors to drive in the afterlife by and large the folk religions

[02:23:21] [SPEAKER_00]: of China have devolved into random superstitions designed to guarantee better luck or fortune

[02:23:27] [SPEAKER_00]: for instance not living on the fourth floor or not sticking your chopsticks straight down

[02:23:32] [SPEAKER_00]: into your rice I regard it all mostly as harmless fun but an experience me and my family had when I

[02:23:39] [SPEAKER_00]: was around 15 has taught me just how careful one needs to be when dealing with the paranormal

[02:23:46] [SPEAKER_00]: my mother's younger sister had always been fascinated by the supernatural I remember as a

[02:23:51] [SPEAKER_00]: child her always reading various books about magic and taking us to watch scary movies when

[02:23:56] [SPEAKER_00]: the other adults weren't around she had a circle of friends who were likewise interested

[02:24:01] [SPEAKER_00]: in spirituality and they often went to temples and local shamans together to have their fortune

[02:24:07] [SPEAKER_00]: told or to receive blessings she loved talking to anyone about her recent spiritual adventures

[02:24:13] [SPEAKER_00]: even as kids and I honestly loved listening to them she was a fun lively person and a great

[02:24:19] [SPEAKER_00]: storyteller one day she told us about her decision to get a spirit charm she explained that it

[02:24:25] [SPEAKER_00]: was a piece of jewelry worn around the neck containing the ashes or bones of a person

[02:24:31] [SPEAKER_00]: the charms came into main flavors one containing big spirits which had the ashes of Tibetan

[02:24:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Buddhist monks in them and ones containing small spirits which had ashes from unclaimed bodies

[02:24:44] [SPEAKER_00]: usually homeless people orphans or old people with no family inside of them the big spirits

[02:24:51] [SPEAKER_00]: were thought to protect you and provide you a set amount of good luck however since the

[02:24:56] [SPEAKER_00]: ashes of a single monk were often used to make hundreds of these charms the effect was said to

[02:25:02] [SPEAKER_00]: be a little diluted in contrast the small spirits were supposed to be souls of the unfortunate who

[02:25:08] [SPEAKER_00]: are lacking in good karma hence why they had a bad life by doing good deeds and living in a

[02:25:15] [SPEAKER_00]: righteous life you can donate a bit of your good karma to your small spirit and as it learns

[02:25:20] [SPEAKER_00]: to be good it will bless you and those around you since it is your exclusive guardian spirit

[02:25:26] [SPEAKER_00]: the small spirit is thought to have the potential to endow you with vast good fortune if it becomes good

[02:25:34] [SPEAKER_00]: not one to shy away from a challenge my aunt had applied to receive a small spirit

[02:25:38] [SPEAKER_00]: I remember even then feeling creeped out by the idea of having a complete stranger's ashes

[02:25:44] [SPEAKER_00]: around your neck about a week later we went to visit her and she was excited to show us

[02:25:50] [SPEAKER_00]: her new spirit charm it was a beautiful jade pendant with a small divot carved in the middle

[02:25:55] [SPEAKER_00]: the divot had what appeared to be a round glass bead containing a dusty gray center

[02:26:01] [SPEAKER_00]: she said that she had been presented with several pendants and had chosen this one because

[02:26:06] [SPEAKER_00]: she felt its spirit most desperately needed her I think it's an orphan she said week by week

[02:26:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I began noticing how my aunt became thinner and paler her apartment seemed colder and darker

[02:26:18] [SPEAKER_00]: each time we visited she stopped talking to the kids about her spiritual experiences

[02:26:23] [SPEAKER_00]: but we'd overhear her talking to the other adults about suffering from insomnia

[02:26:27] [SPEAKER_00]: and having nightmares all the time they suggested that her involvement with the paranormal was

[02:26:33] [SPEAKER_00]: causing her to think too much about ghosts and giving her nightmares that night we all slept

[02:26:38] [SPEAKER_00]: over at my aunt's place my parents never said why but I think it's because they thought it would

[02:26:44] [SPEAKER_00]: make my aunt feel better if we all stayed my cousin had a bunk bed despite being an only child

[02:26:50] [SPEAKER_00]: so my sister slept with her on top while I took the bottom bunk in the middle of the night I

[02:26:55] [SPEAKER_00]: experienced sleep paralysis and saw what looked like a dark figure next to our bed it wasn't

[02:27:01] [SPEAKER_00]: the first time I had experienced sleep paralysis so I did what I normally did which was screw

[02:27:06] [SPEAKER_00]: my eyes shut tell myself it wasn't real and wait to fall asleep again the next morning my cousin

[02:27:13] [SPEAKER_00]: told us about a dream she had where a man with big scary eyes was staring at us while we slept no way

[02:27:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I exclaimed jumping out of bed to look at them I saw a figure standing next to the bed too

[02:27:24] [SPEAKER_00]: my sister said she didn't see anything but admitted to having trouble sleeping

[02:27:28] [SPEAKER_00]: because she felt creeped out one by one people in my family began talking about

[02:27:34] [SPEAKER_00]: seeing ghosts or feeling sick whenever they went to visit my aunt even my hyper-communist

[02:27:40] [SPEAKER_00]: atheist grandfather said that he couldn't sleep because he kept hearing what sounded like someone

[02:27:45] [SPEAKER_00]: pacing around the living room all night when there was nobody there my aunt began putting

[02:27:51] [SPEAKER_00]: up Buddhist charms and idols around her apartment which honestly just made it feel creepier

[02:27:56] [SPEAKER_00]: the family begged her to stop partaking in magic is it was clearly harming her mental and

[02:28:01] [SPEAKER_00]: physical health finally we convinced her to get rid of the charm so she went back to the temple

[02:28:06] [SPEAKER_00]: where she had first received it she was told that severing the connection with a small ghost

[02:28:12] [SPEAKER_00]: was risky business and that it might cause her harm in revenge so to counter this she

[02:28:18] [SPEAKER_00]: bought some more charms and blessed them to protect herself and her family the week after

[02:28:23] [SPEAKER_00]: getting rid of the charm she said she was feeling better I did feel like a weight was

[02:28:28] [SPEAKER_00]: lifted off of her and her apartment however just three days after that visit my cousin came home

[02:28:34] [SPEAKER_00]: with a friend of hers let's call him Lee and the unthinkable happened Lee's parents were also

[02:28:40] [SPEAKER_00]: friends of my aunt and they worked late most days so Lee would stay at my aunt's house until his

[02:28:46] [SPEAKER_00]: parents could pick him up in the evening that day he came back from school complaining about

[02:28:51] [SPEAKER_00]: a headache and he wanted to lie down my aunt let him nap on the couch while she went to watch

[02:28:56] [SPEAKER_00]: TV my cousin then came to alert her about an hour later saying that Lee wouldn't wake up

[02:29:03] [SPEAKER_00]: he had died there on the couch I didn't learn about all of this until about a week later since in

[02:29:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Chinese culture it's seen as bad to openly discuss death my aunt her husband and their

[02:29:16] [SPEAKER_00]: daughter my cousin came to stay with us since my aunt couldn't bear to be in her own house

[02:29:21] [SPEAKER_00]: anymore I'm quite certain that my aunt didn't sleep for about three days after first arriving

[02:29:27] [SPEAKER_00]: I often woke up to hear her crying and my uncle trying to comfort her it's my fault it's all my

[02:29:33] [SPEAKER_00]: fault she'd often say between sobs Lee's parents declined to have an autopsy performed on

[02:29:40] [SPEAKER_00]: their son so the cause of death was never conclusively determined but the doctors suspected

[02:29:45] [SPEAKER_00]: an aneurysm my aunt was never the same after that she was not as fun or energetic and she never

[02:29:52] [SPEAKER_00]: set foot in that apartment again she eventually rented it out to some family friends who left

[02:29:58] [SPEAKER_00]: after a couple of months because they kept having trouble sleeping and saw a young man with spiky

[02:30:03] [SPEAKER_00]: hair walk into the living room and then suddenly disappear several times my aunt had

[02:30:10] [SPEAKER_00]: suggested getting an exorcism done on the apartment but the family was against it

[02:30:14] [SPEAKER_00]: since we felt that her dabbling with magic is what caused these problems in the first place

[02:30:20] [SPEAKER_00]: she eventually sold the place and we washed our hands of the whole thing I don't know if the new

[02:30:25] [SPEAKER_00]: owners ever had any problems but to my knowledge they never tried to contact us after the sale

[02:30:31] [SPEAKER_00]: the paranormal is extremely fascinating but I believe it can be extremely dangerous

[02:30:36] [SPEAKER_00]: and as someone who is immersed in these things please stay safe nick and thank you so much

[02:30:42] [SPEAKER_00]: for reading this Kevin our next story comes to us from s and s's story is called phasing

[02:30:53] [SPEAKER_00]: shifting creature s says hey nick I haven't been listening to your podcast long because i'm new

[02:31:00] [SPEAKER_00]: to the world of smartphones which I guess makes me a little bit of a cryptid myself but this

[02:31:06] [SPEAKER_00]: experience was one of many that has stuck with me here is a little backstory my husband and I

[02:31:13] [SPEAKER_00]: had pretty similar childhoods we both grew up rugged him in the backwoods in georgia and me on

[02:31:18] [SPEAKER_00]: the edge of the everglades we did not grow up freaking out about anything because our parents

[02:31:24] [SPEAKER_00]: taught us not to be afraid in may 2007 my husband and I were 19 and we're just finishing our

[02:31:31] [SPEAKER_00]: freshman year we were camping in the college forest which was not technically allowed and it

[02:31:37] [SPEAKER_00]: was a dark moonless overcast night but nice for may in the south it was about 11 p.m and we had

[02:31:44] [SPEAKER_00]: settled into our normal camp at 9 30 or 10 and we were spooning quietly discussing our big plans

[02:31:50] [SPEAKER_00]: to live off the grid and be homesteaders we had quieted down and I could hear my husband's breath

[02:31:56] [SPEAKER_00]: getting deeper but I've always had restlessness before sleep out of nowhere I heard what I

[02:32:03] [SPEAKER_00]: would describe as a loud snorting or growling creature furiously running towards us it sounded

[02:32:09] [SPEAKER_00]: big and I was thinking wild boar it sounded about 30 meters away at about two o'clock directionally

[02:32:15] [SPEAKER_00]: and it was heading straight for us I woke up my husband and hissed get your hatchet

[02:32:21] [SPEAKER_00]: and just when it seemed like the boar should have been on top of our site it phased I don't

[02:32:27] [SPEAKER_00]: know how else to explain it it shifted so that one second it was five meters away

[02:32:32] [SPEAKER_00]: barreling through the underbrush and then it shifted the next second it was 20 meters away

[02:32:37] [SPEAKER_00]: barreling straight towards us now from 11 o'clock directionally and in between those shifts there

[02:32:43] [SPEAKER_00]: was nothing I can imagine that if we hadn't been curled up in our shelter has too terrified to

[02:32:50] [SPEAKER_00]: move her look there would have been a flash as this thing shifted from one place and

[02:32:54] [SPEAKER_00]: direction to another instantaneously but that is just fantasy you also have to know that each

[02:33:01] [SPEAKER_00]: time it shifted it knew exactly where we were and there was no time where the creature had to

[02:33:06] [SPEAKER_00]: figure out where to run with each shift it was as if that was a section of time that was happening

[02:33:12] [SPEAKER_00]: within a larger section of time it would phase running straight towards us from the left then it

[02:33:18] [SPEAKER_00]: would shift running straight towards us from the upper right this phasing and shifting continued

[02:33:23] [SPEAKER_00]: for at least three minutes but I have to say despite everything I've been through that was the

[02:33:28] [SPEAKER_00]: most terrifying three or so minutes of my life and my husband agrees we are not ashamed to admit

[02:33:35] [SPEAKER_00]: that we were praying it was terrifying the whole time that this creature was phasing and

[02:33:40] [SPEAKER_00]: shifting its guttural sounds were getting more agitated and the sense that it was not of this

[02:33:45] [SPEAKER_00]: world was increasing to the point that we thought we were going to die of fright

[02:33:50] [SPEAKER_00]: since then our tent has been circled by coyotes and that was nothing compared to this utter terror

[02:33:57] [SPEAKER_00]: I can feel my blood pressure just thinking about it finally there was a shift where the thing actually

[02:34:03] [SPEAKER_00]: was suddenly much further away in was running in a different direction off deeper into the forest

[02:34:08] [SPEAKER_00]: up around 1030 directionally and unlike the way it came we listened as it slowly faded away

[02:34:15] [SPEAKER_00]: into the distance this was our experience it was weird terrifying and inexplicable no

[02:34:22] [SPEAKER_00]: matter how many people I've talked to I'd really like to hear your thoughts have you ever heard of

[02:34:28] [SPEAKER_00]: something like this happening s our next story of the night comes to us from Sarah and Sarah's

[02:34:37] [SPEAKER_00]: story is called woodland spirits Sarah says hi Nick I have another story for you if you'd

[02:34:44] [SPEAKER_00]: like to share it with your listeners this incident occurred in May of 2020 while one of my friends

[02:34:49] [SPEAKER_00]: and I were out biking on an abandoned railroad line and I apologize if it's a little long

[02:34:55] [SPEAKER_00]: in my last email I mentioned that I was an avid hiker a lot of places I hike to involve

[02:35:00] [SPEAKER_00]: abandoned mines buildings and old railroad beds I love history exploring abandoned places

[02:35:06] [SPEAKER_00]: and learning about them luckily my home state of west virginia is filled with such things

[02:35:12] [SPEAKER_00]: anyway I don't want to give the location for this story because I'm unsure if it's on private land

[02:35:17] [SPEAKER_00]: the last time I visited this place a few months ago there were private property signs posted that I

[02:35:22] [SPEAKER_00]: had not seen there before and I want to respect the landowners if so before I officially begin

[02:35:28] [SPEAKER_00]: the story I'd like to share a little history this particular railroad was constructed in

[02:35:34] [SPEAKER_00]: sections by various companies beginning in 1893 and going into the 1900s there are a few

[02:35:40] [SPEAKER_00]: tunnels along the way with the date on one being 1930 I believe its primary use was for logging

[02:35:47] [SPEAKER_00]: though coal mining was also prevalent in the area like many other places around it was eventually

[02:35:52] [SPEAKER_00]: abandoned the railroad was taken up and parts of the trail was designated as a rail trail

[02:35:58] [SPEAKER_00]: in 2016 we had massive statewide floods that damaged a section of this line taking out

[02:36:04] [SPEAKER_00]: part of a trestle and halting the progress of the conversion I'm unsure when it'll be finished

[02:36:09] [SPEAKER_00]: people also use a large section of the trail for a tv and four-wheel drive off-roading there isn't too

[02:36:15] [SPEAKER_00]: much to see other than some small bridges a few larger trestles some equipment and the tunnels

[02:36:21] [SPEAKER_00]: one of which is caving in from what I understand there were old homesteads on top of the mountain

[02:36:26] [SPEAKER_00]: along with small family cemeteries of those who lived in the area and the tunnel in this

[02:36:31] [SPEAKER_00]: story was named after one family that lived nearby I first found out about this trail four

[02:36:37] [SPEAKER_00]: years ago from another hiker who had posted his hike from the area seeing the abandoned tunnel

[02:36:42] [SPEAKER_00]: sparked my interest but I was afraid to go alone since it is so remote and there's no cellular

[02:36:47] [SPEAKER_00]: service in that area my friend agreed to go with me by bike to explore the area so we loaded up

[02:36:53] [SPEAKER_00]: and went we were the only ones out that day and it was on the cool side and a little rainy

[02:36:59] [SPEAKER_00]: we rode about two or so miles until we came to the tunnel this particular tunnel is a little

[02:37:04] [SPEAKER_00]: over a half mile at 3164 feet in length and leads to a beautiful trestle crossing the river

[02:37:11] [SPEAKER_00]: we hung out at the mouth of the tunnel for a bit before trying to go through as we started in

[02:37:17] [SPEAKER_00]: we didn't even make it a quarter of the way in when we saw what looked like bear scat so we

[02:37:22] [SPEAKER_00]: decided to head back out we also didn't have the best lighting and felt incredibly creeped

[02:37:26] [SPEAKER_00]: out walking inside of the tunnel once out we decided to sit on some large rocks nearby

[02:37:31] [SPEAKER_00]: and have lunch while keeping on high alert while eating we kept looking toward the other end where

[02:37:37] [SPEAKER_00]: the light is barely visible I asked her if she could see three strange figures at the other end

[02:37:43] [SPEAKER_00]: and she agreed the figures looked to be floating in a diagonal line starting at the top left and

[02:37:48] [SPEAKER_00]: descending to the bottom right it was the strangest thing they would disappear and then reappear

[02:37:54] [SPEAKER_00]: and this went on for a good length of time once we finished our lunch we stepped closer

[02:37:59] [SPEAKER_00]: to the tunnel again where she shined her headlamp into the darkness we didn't see anything until

[02:38:05] [SPEAKER_00]: something caught our attention she describes it as a light reflecting off the fur of a dark colored

[02:38:10] [SPEAKER_00]: animal it appeared to me as a transparent green streak of light it was brief but it creeped us

[02:38:16] [SPEAKER_00]: both out the point that we got up and immediately left we kept constantly checking behind us until

[02:38:22] [SPEAKER_00]: we were a good distance away from the tunnel not quite a half mile back from the tunnel

[02:38:27] [SPEAKER_00]: was a beautiful little stream that drained under the trail into the river we stopped there briefly

[02:38:32] [SPEAKER_00]: to talk about what we had seen and were looking back towards the tunnel we discussed how we felt

[02:38:37] [SPEAKER_00]: like we were being watched and followed and we kept seeing what we thought were those figures

[02:38:42] [SPEAKER_00]: floating in the trees at a distance behind us she referred to them as being woodland spirits

[02:38:48] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't really know anything about those sorts of things so I can't say for certain

[02:38:52] [SPEAKER_00]: I have tried looking up woodland spirits since the incident with no avail and I'm curious if

[02:38:57] [SPEAKER_00]: any other listeners have had a similar experience with such figures once we put some distance between

[02:39:03] [SPEAKER_00]: us and the tunnel the strange feelings eased up and we didn't see anything else strange

[02:39:08] [SPEAKER_00]: we have visited the area a few more times since the incident though each time since we have

[02:39:13] [SPEAKER_00]: been in a vehicle and drove through the tunnel we have had a couple of small strange things

[02:39:18] [SPEAKER_00]: happen in that area though nothing like that day I absolutely love the area for its beauty and history

[02:39:24] [SPEAKER_00]: but I will never visit alone and without the safety of my vehicle I attached two photos of the tunnel

[02:39:31] [SPEAKER_00]: one of the trestle and one of the river from the trestle if you wish to share

[02:39:36] [SPEAKER_00]: thank you for taking the time to read and consider my story and I hope you all continue

[02:39:41] [SPEAKER_00]: to stay safe Sarah our next story of the night comes to us from Megan and Megan's story is called

[02:39:51] [SPEAKER_00]: The Lady in White Megan says hi Nick love your podcast I wanted to share a story with you that

[02:39:58] [SPEAKER_00]: has been told to me by my mother I have her permission to share it with you when I was younger

[02:40:04] [SPEAKER_00]: maybe four or five my family all went camping in Maine I'm from Vermont so this was a common

[02:40:10] [SPEAKER_00]: place to go my uncles and aunts and cousins all went together I'll leave the name of the campground

[02:40:16] [SPEAKER_00]: out it was a very large campground the type where it would be difficult to give directions to your

[02:40:21] [SPEAKER_00]: campsite my mom took myself and my older sister to the bathrooms and while on our way my mom

[02:40:27] [SPEAKER_00]: heard a woman yelling does anyone know CPR in a panic my mother was in lna school at the time

[02:40:33] [SPEAKER_00]: so she went to help the panicked woman figuring she could help in some way she told us to

[02:40:38] [SPEAKER_00]: stay by the bathrooms and to not go anywhere and just wait when she went to help she saw this woman's

[02:40:44] [SPEAKER_00]: little son choking on something so my mom started to perform the Heimlich maneuver instead of CPR

[02:40:49] [SPEAKER_00]: on the choking boy my mother was working and working on this boy when he went unconscious

[02:40:55] [SPEAKER_00]: in her arms and she was begging anyone to help as she could not get whatever he was choking on

[02:41:00] [SPEAKER_00]: up then almost out of nowhere a woman all dressed in a long flowing white gown seemed to glide

[02:41:06] [SPEAKER_00]: over to her and the unconscious boy my mom said it was very odd because that attire is not something

[02:41:13] [SPEAKER_00]: anyone would ever wear while camping or anywhere for that matter but she didn't pay attention

[02:41:18] [SPEAKER_00]: she needed help keeping this boy alive that's when this woman reached her hand to the boy

[02:41:24] [SPEAKER_00]: and placed two fingers on his forehead and said would the power invested in me but this

[02:41:29] [SPEAKER_00]: boy stopped choking and just like that he stopped and gained consciousness my mom shocked looked up

[02:41:37] [SPEAKER_00]: and watched the woman glide into the crowd and vanish the mother of that boy had to go meet the

[02:41:43] [SPEAKER_00]: ambulance at the campground entrance because the campground was so big the ambulance could not find

[02:41:47] [SPEAKER_00]: them she went to get in her car when she slipped fell and broke her ankle the boy was okay

[02:41:54] [SPEAKER_00]: and they were staying in cabin 13 after things calmed down and the crowd dispersed my mother

[02:42:00] [SPEAKER_00]: searched and searched the campground trying to find the woman in the white gown wanting to thank her

[02:42:05] [SPEAKER_00]: and could not find her anywhere she told everyone about the woman and no one had seen her let alone

[02:42:11] [SPEAKER_00]: could find her since then my mother refuses to stay or own anything that includes the number 13

[02:42:18] [SPEAKER_00]: with any hope the little boy who has all grown up now can hear this story and know this

[02:42:22] [SPEAKER_00]: truly happened and can share an amazing story of a real life angel thanks for your show i love

[02:42:30] [SPEAKER_00]: hearing these stories megan our next story of the night comes to us from lisa and lisa's story is

[02:42:39] [SPEAKER_00]: called doppelganger lisa says hi there nick i came across your podcast at the beginning of february

[02:42:46] [SPEAKER_00]: and have been hooked on it ever since it got me thinking of a few odd experiences i've had

[02:42:51] [SPEAKER_00]: and i thought i would share one that still has me wondering up to this day

[02:42:56] [SPEAKER_00]: back in late 2019 i worked in a restaurant close to where i live it was within a busy corner

[02:43:02] [SPEAKER_00]: that had a starbucks across the street so for a full-time college student running on three

[02:43:06] [SPEAKER_00]: hours of sleep it was very convenient going into my shift one morning i arrived at work early

[02:43:12] [SPEAKER_00]: so i headed over to starbucks to buy a coffee to help me get through the shift this day was

[02:43:17] [SPEAKER_00]: a bit slow considering it was a wednesday so as i waited the barista chatted with me for a bit

[02:43:23] [SPEAKER_00]: jokingly she asked if the first drink i got earlier wasn't strong enough

[02:43:27] [SPEAKER_00]: confused i told her that this was my first time coming in today and if anything i might need

[02:43:32] [SPEAKER_00]: a second later tonight she then asked if i had a twin sister to which i answered no just a brother

[02:43:39] [SPEAKER_00]: she seemed taken aback for a moment before telling me that about a half an hour earlier

[02:43:44] [SPEAKER_00]: someone who looked exactly like me came in and she even called over her coworker who had attended to

[02:43:49] [SPEAKER_00]: the person to confirm i thought it was a little odd but i laughed it off saying it must have been

[02:43:55] [SPEAKER_00]: my long lost twin or something before i headed off and i didn't think much about it as i headed

[02:44:00] [SPEAKER_00]: into work i hadn't gone out to the dining area yet after clocking in and had just been

[02:44:05] [SPEAKER_00]: focused on taking a few sips of coffee and settling into npc mode to power through the

[02:44:11] [SPEAKER_00]: as soon as one of my co-workers walked into the employee area he had a double take when he saw me

[02:44:16] [SPEAKER_00]: my coworker told me that he was helping the server for a table with a group of people

[02:44:21] [SPEAKER_00]: and one of them looked like me they thought i was going to eat before clocking in but they

[02:44:26] [SPEAKER_00]: didn't get a chance to come over to greet me while they were taking care of their other

[02:44:29] [SPEAKER_00]: tables confused i told him i had barely just arrived and i asked where the girl had sat

[02:44:35] [SPEAKER_00]: because now i was curious although when i walked with him to peek out into the dining area

[02:44:40] [SPEAKER_00]: they had finished up and already left we asked the other worker who was busing the table who

[02:44:46] [SPEAKER_00]: also had a double take looking towards the door and then back at me they told me that the girl

[02:44:51] [SPEAKER_00]: looked exactly like me with short layered blonde hair with the roots peeking out a bit

[02:44:55] [SPEAKER_00]: i have dark brown hair but have been too lazy to get the roots touched up

[02:44:59] [SPEAKER_00]: our faces our styles and the way we sounded was similar they asked me if i had a twin as

[02:45:06] [SPEAKER_00]: well to which i answered no but now i was a little uneasy whoever this person is i missed her twice by

[02:45:13] [SPEAKER_00]: a few minutes and couldn't help but wonder if i would eventually run into her or not i told my

[02:45:18] [SPEAKER_00]: friend this and she told me about a movie that came out earlier in the year called us and it's

[02:45:23] [SPEAKER_00]: about doppelgangers and after watching it i got a little scared to say the least i haven't had

[02:45:29] [SPEAKER_00]: any more odd encounters like this since then but couldn't help but wonder if any of your

[02:45:34] [SPEAKER_00]: listeners have experienced anything similar thanks for reading and i hope you and all the

[02:45:39] [SPEAKER_00]: listeners have a safe and happy week our next story of the night comes from mary and mary's

[02:45:47] [SPEAKER_00]: story is called baseball boy mary says hello i'm a new listener to your podcast and i finally feel

[02:45:55] [SPEAKER_00]: that i have a place where i can share my experiences i have experienced paranormal events since i was

[02:46:00] [SPEAKER_00]: child but today i'm going to share one of my first experiences with you it was summertime in

[02:46:07] [SPEAKER_00]: northeastern tennessee my grandmother and i were staying a few days with our family my aunt and

[02:46:12] [SPEAKER_00]: uncle had just built a home on a beautiful piece of land overlooking a valley to our knowledge

[02:46:17] [SPEAKER_00]: no one had built a home on this property before they had a nice swimming pool that my cousin

[02:46:22] [SPEAKER_00]: and i thoroughly enjoyed throughout the day at the time i was 12 years old and my cousins were

[02:46:28] [SPEAKER_00]: six and two for privacy reasons i'm going to call the six-year-old bathe and the two-year-old

[02:46:33] [SPEAKER_00]: nicole nicole had been slipping through the gate on the porch and was making her way to the

[02:46:38] [SPEAKER_00]: swing set just beyond the pool this was a normal occurrence as we had all been outside together

[02:46:43] [SPEAKER_00]: that day nicole was a very determined child later that evening bethany decided to go for

[02:46:50] [SPEAKER_00]: a night swim this was something that they typically did together as my aunt worked

[02:46:54] [SPEAKER_00]: third shift so they stayed up late all the time it was so exciting to be outside at night like

[02:47:00] [SPEAKER_00]: that as my parents were much more strict about this all the adults and nicole were inside

[02:47:06] [SPEAKER_00]: while we had a blast swimming suddenly i saw someone running through the yard in my peripheral

[02:47:12] [SPEAKER_00]: vision i went to say nicole's name as this is who i expected had snuck back outside it was to

[02:47:18] [SPEAKER_00]: my surprise that a little boy approximately four or five years old based on his size stopped

[02:47:24] [SPEAKER_00]: and looked at me although it was only for a few seconds it felt much longer he was dressed in

[02:47:29] [SPEAKER_00]: a baseball uniform it was white with vertical black pinstripes with a cap to match as we looked at one

[02:47:35] [SPEAKER_00]: another he just vanished i panicked at this point and was frozen in fear and my grandmother was

[02:47:42] [SPEAKER_00]: the only person that believed me at the time my family still lives in this home and they

[02:47:47] [SPEAKER_00]: have experienced multiple things throughout the years it was not long after my experience

[02:47:52] [SPEAKER_00]: that beth had a friend over that felt a cold hand on the small of her back pushing her on the

[02:47:57] [SPEAKER_00]: swings of that very swing set beth said that she never told anyone about the little boy that we

[02:48:02] [SPEAKER_00]: saw due to beth being fearful her family got a dog to help her feel safer in the home this

[02:48:08] [SPEAKER_00]: dog used to growl at things that weren't there and eventually attacked my uncle unprovoked

[02:48:13] [SPEAKER_00]: one day beth also used to see a man in a hat and heard knocking on her windows my aunt

[02:48:19] [SPEAKER_00]: uncle and younger cousins have shared that they also had experiences but i don't know the details

[02:48:24] [SPEAKER_00]: of these as it is not openly discussed i did not realize until later that there is a graveyard

[02:48:30] [SPEAKER_00]: just below their home in the valley it is possible that the spirits could have been visiting them

[02:48:35] [SPEAKER_00]: beth is very skeptical of the experiences that she had as a child and as we discussed

[02:48:40] [SPEAKER_00]: them recently she brushes them off as something else i however know what i have experienced

[02:48:48] [SPEAKER_00]: thank you for taking the time to read my story and i plan to share my other experiences in a future

[02:48:53] [SPEAKER_00]: email best regards mary our next story of the night comes to us from elie an elie story is called

[02:49:05] [SPEAKER_00]: the dark shadow at the prison elie says hi nick i've been listening to your show for months

[02:49:11] [SPEAKER_00]: now and i am hooked i have a few paranormal stories to tell but i'll go ahead and tell

[02:49:16] [SPEAKER_00]: the one that is the most vivid one and the one i remember the most i work in an adult correctional

[02:49:22] [SPEAKER_00]: institution and i've worked there for 13 years it's located in texas in a town that borders

[02:49:27] [SPEAKER_00]: mexico when i started as a rookie i worked the graveyard shift for the first three years

[02:49:32] [SPEAKER_00]: and it was also when the drug cartel battles in mexico were extremely heavy so being a border

[02:49:38] [SPEAKER_00]: town we would get all the cartel members that they would extradite to the us many of

[02:49:43] [SPEAKER_00]: these cartel members were strong believers in the santa moerte or the holy death translated to

[02:49:49] [SPEAKER_00]: english some inmates would even have prison-made altars with the santa moerte sculptured out of

[02:49:55] [SPEAKER_00]: soap in them along with food items as offerings on one particular night in 2009 or 2010 i was

[02:50:02] [SPEAKER_00]: assigned to the segregation unit it's basically two hallways that run parallel to each other

[02:50:08] [SPEAKER_00]: with cells on both sides of each hallway and before entering each hallway there's a big

[02:50:12] [SPEAKER_00]: metal door around 3 a.m. that night i was with two other officers that were assigned to a housing

[02:50:19] [SPEAKER_00]: unit that was near and we were about 15 feet away from the first hallway in the segregation unit

[02:50:25] [SPEAKER_00]: we were standing in a triangle one officer had his back to the segregation unit while me and

[02:50:30] [SPEAKER_00]: the other officer were facing it as we were in the middle of a conversation i saw a really

[02:50:35] [SPEAKER_00]: dark shadow come out of the wall it crossed the hallway and went through the hallway's

[02:50:39] [SPEAKER_00]: door that leads to the first segregation hallway i immediately turned to look at the other officer

[02:50:44] [SPEAKER_00]: that was also facing the unit he then looked at me and asked me if i had also seen the dark shadow

[02:50:51] [SPEAKER_00]: i was not the only one who had seen it he had seen it too the officer with the back towards

[02:50:57] [SPEAKER_00]: the unit then turned around and asked what we were looking at but it was too late there

[02:51:02] [SPEAKER_00]: was nothing there anymore after talking about it with the officer that saw the dark shadow

[02:51:07] [SPEAKER_00]: too we think it's the santa muerte that was coming to the altars to accept the offerings

[02:51:13] [SPEAKER_00]: over the years i've also heard stories of inmates there at the segregation unit

[02:51:17] [SPEAKER_00]: that also say that they've seen the black shadow pass by their cell door thank you for

[02:51:23] [SPEAKER_00]: letting me tell my story and keep up the good work this story comes to us from julia

[02:51:31] [SPEAKER_00]: and julia's story is called skeptics stories julia says hi nick my sister and i discovered

[02:51:40] [SPEAKER_00]: your podcast while on a road trip to colorado last year and have been avid listeners ever since

[02:51:45] [SPEAKER_00]: she and i are skeptics and have never really considered ourselves believers of the paranormal

[02:51:50] [SPEAKER_00]: however we both have had some pretty interesting events happen to us that we can't easily explain

[02:51:55] [SPEAKER_00]: i've included a couple of them here i apologize for the length of this email ahead of time

[02:52:01] [SPEAKER_00]: but i think the extra details are necessary to include my first strange experience was when i was in

[02:52:07] [SPEAKER_00]: seventh grade and living in connecticut i was in washington dc with my classmates i should also

[02:52:13] [SPEAKER_00]: explain that we were on our annual school trip so we did a lot of tourist activities one activity

[02:52:19] [SPEAKER_00]: was an evening tour of colonial williamsburg in virginia the tour consisted of traveling to

[02:52:25] [SPEAKER_00]: different 18th century buildings and houses and hearing about other people's ghostly encounters

[02:52:31] [SPEAKER_00]: the tour includes walking along the dirt roads that lead to the governor's palace and all along

[02:52:35] [SPEAKER_00]: the road are 18th century houses and businesses the tour had stopped outside one big building or

[02:52:42] [SPEAKER_00]: house because this happened 17 years ago i can't really remember which building it was but i looked

[02:52:48] [SPEAKER_00]: at pictures of various tours on google and the house in my memory matches the george

[02:52:53] [SPEAKER_00]: weith house and others like it the george weith house is a two-story rectangular brick house

[02:52:59] [SPEAKER_00]: with nine windows that all have white trim a typical colonial manner anyway the tour guide and my

[02:53:06] [SPEAKER_00]: classmates were standing on the footpath about 100 yards from this house most of the class was

[02:53:11] [SPEAKER_00]: engrossed in what the tour guide was saying but my friend and i being the troublemaking

[02:53:15] [SPEAKER_00]: tweens we were had distanced ourselves from the group and we're looking around at the

[02:53:19] [SPEAKER_00]: historical dirt path road that the house sat on as we were busy goofing off and mocking

[02:53:25] [SPEAKER_00]: the tour for being silly i noticed a strange man wearing a british colonial era military uniform

[02:53:31] [SPEAKER_00]: complete with a red tailcoat and white pants tucked into his shin high boots walking towards the house

[02:53:36] [SPEAKER_00]: it's important to note that people on these tours dress up in period costumes to add to the

[02:53:42] [SPEAKER_00]: spookiness and authenticity of the tours so initially i didn't think anything of this man

[02:53:46] [SPEAKER_00]: but he was strange because he wasn't interacting with any of the tourgoers and was making a

[02:53:52] [SPEAKER_00]: beeline for the house because of that he caught my attention and i was mesmerized as i watched him

[02:53:57] [SPEAKER_00]: walk towards the house it seemed like i was the only person who had noticed him as the rest of

[02:54:02] [SPEAKER_00]: my classmates were paying attention to the tour guide i watched this man for probably 10 seconds

[02:54:07] [SPEAKER_00]: walk across the grass from about 50 yards away from me all the way to the house the

[02:54:12] [SPEAKER_00]: strangest moment came when he arrived at the house and kept walking straight through the brick

[02:54:17] [SPEAKER_00]: wall i freaked out and immediately asked my friend will call her britney if she saw what i had just seen

[02:54:24] [SPEAKER_00]: she was just as freaked out as i was and when i said did you see that she just yelled yes i double

[02:54:31] [SPEAKER_00]: checked that she saw a colonial era soldier i didn't know at the time that he was a british soldier

[02:54:36] [SPEAKER_00]: and she confirmed this by saying yes and then he walked straight into that building

[02:54:41] [SPEAKER_00]: i have had other bizarre experiences in my life that i have been able to rationally explain

[02:54:46] [SPEAKER_00]: but to this day i still can't 100% explain this experience the only plausible explanation

[02:54:53] [SPEAKER_00]: i've been able to come up with is that williamsburg uses holograms or something on its tours to show

[02:54:58] [SPEAKER_00]: fake ghosts to tourgoers to further increase the spookiness and belief that the town is haunted

[02:55:03] [SPEAKER_00]: but this happened back in 2003 which was 16 years before holograms were used for music

[02:55:09] [SPEAKER_00]: concerts and the tour was outside at night so it seems unlikely that they had the kind of

[02:55:14] [SPEAKER_00]: technology for a tour like this and that it looked so believable i tried to investigate if ghost

[02:55:20] [SPEAKER_00]: tours use holograms or something similar to trick tourgoers but i couldn't find anything maybe one

[02:55:26] [SPEAKER_00]: of your listeners knows something about this even though i am a self-described skeptic and don't

[02:55:31] [SPEAKER_00]: believe in ghosts i know what i saw and it is the most compelling evidence i have that the

[02:55:36] [SPEAKER_00]: universe is filled with unexplained phenomena my second story is from when my sister used to

[02:55:43] [SPEAKER_00]: work at a donut bakery as the head baker she has given me permission to tell this story but

[02:55:48] [SPEAKER_00]: she doesn't know that i'm submitting it now so to protect her identity i'll call her sasha when

[02:55:53] [SPEAKER_00]: sasha was 18 she worked at a donut bakery in downtown indianapolis before she went to college

[02:55:59] [SPEAKER_00]: the bakery opened at 6 a.m so she had to go into work at 2 a.m to start baking donuts so they

[02:56:04] [SPEAKER_00]: would be ready by the time the bakery opened she was the only person who worked this late shift

[02:56:09] [SPEAKER_00]: keep this in mind because it is an important detail later in the story for about a year my

[02:56:15] [SPEAKER_00]: sister would sleep in the afternoons and then wake up at 1 a.m to drive to the donut bakery from her

[02:56:20] [SPEAKER_00]: house in another town shortly after she started working at the bakery she had been alone one night

[02:56:26] [SPEAKER_00]: like usual when she heard a knock on the door like i said none of her co-workers worked at

[02:56:30] [SPEAKER_00]: night and the owners had keys so they could just come in if they wanted to and wouldn't

[02:56:35] [SPEAKER_00]: have needed to knock so she knew it wasn't one of the other employees even though it was around 4 a.m

[02:56:41] [SPEAKER_00]: and more likely early morning than the middle of the night she was scared of opening the door

[02:56:45] [SPEAKER_00]: to someone that she didn't know so she tried to ignore the knocking but the person kept knocking

[02:56:50] [SPEAKER_00]: so eventually she agreed to open the door she was relieved to find that it was just a

[02:56:55] [SPEAKER_00]: delivery truck with some supplies because the local delivery service had a lot of clients

[02:57:00] [SPEAKER_00]: and not all clients are able to receive deliveries so early they prefer to drop off at

[02:57:04] [SPEAKER_00]: the bakery first to get it out of the way but since she was a young woman working in a city

[02:57:09] [SPEAKER_00]: by herself at night she asked her bosses to let her know about deliveries ahead of time in the

[02:57:13] [SPEAKER_00]: future and they agreed things were fine for her for about the next 10 months however after

[02:57:19] [SPEAKER_00]: she had been working there for almost a year she started having nightmares every night before

[02:57:23] [SPEAKER_00]: waking up at 1 a.m these nightmares were very vivid and involved episodes of sleep paralysis

[02:57:30] [SPEAKER_00]: she would know that she was in her bed but she would think someone was in the room with

[02:57:34] [SPEAKER_00]: or she would dream that she was in the bakery for her shift like normal but wasn't alone

[02:57:39] [SPEAKER_00]: someone would be in the bakery with her even though no one else worked at that hour

[02:57:44] [SPEAKER_00]: it got to the point where she was terrified of going into the bakery for her usual shift

[02:57:48] [SPEAKER_00]: because her dreams were so frequent and realistic that she didn't feel safe in the bakery anymore

[02:57:53] [SPEAKER_00]: one night after she had been having these nightmares for several weeks

[02:57:57] [SPEAKER_00]: she was working in the doughnut bakery by herself it was around 3 a.m in the morning

[02:58:01] [SPEAKER_00]: and still dark enough to be considered the middle of the night all of a sudden she heard

[02:58:06] [SPEAKER_00]: a knock on the door even though she had never gotten a delivery at 3 a.m before she hoped it was

[02:58:11] [SPEAKER_00]: a delivery and decided to check the notice board that her bosses had made for her however she did

[02:58:16] [SPEAKER_00]: not see any deliveries scheduled for that morning it's important to note that the doughnut bakery

[02:58:21] [SPEAKER_00]: was in a converted garage so the baking and the customer areas were really one big room rather

[02:58:27] [SPEAKER_00]: than smaller separate rooms while baking the doughnuts sasha was still visible from the front door

[02:58:32] [SPEAKER_00]: so even if someone wasn't bringing a delivery they could easily see that the bakery wasn't empty

[02:58:38] [SPEAKER_00]: and sasha could see the front door from where she was making the doughnuts

[02:58:42] [SPEAKER_00]: when she realized that there was no delivery scheduled that night she peeked around the counter

[02:58:46] [SPEAKER_00]: and looked at the front door and what she saw scared her enough that she quit the doughnut

[02:58:51] [SPEAKER_00]: bakery soon thereafter the figure standing at the door asking to be led into the doughnut bakery

[02:58:57] [SPEAKER_00]: at 3 a.m was unnaturally tall and slim wore a top hat in suit and didn't have a face she was so scared

[02:59:06] [SPEAKER_00]: that she hid in the boss's tiny office for 30 minutes until she felt that it was safe to come

[02:59:10] [SPEAKER_00]: out again when she came back out the figure had gone and she did not see the figure again

[02:59:16] [SPEAKER_00]: this event terrified my sister but she didn't tell me or anyone else about it right away

[02:59:21] [SPEAKER_00]: she thought she was being foolish to be afraid of going to her job working at night and mythical

[02:59:26] [SPEAKER_00]: creatures that weren't supposed to exist however years later she told me about her

[02:59:31] [SPEAKER_00]: experience after she found out that the figure she saw matched the description of the slender man

[02:59:37] [SPEAKER_00]: we were talking about slender man perhaps in response to listening to this podcast or

[02:59:41] [SPEAKER_00]: something similar when she said oh i've seen the slender man when i told her that the slender

[02:59:47] [SPEAKER_00]: man was invented by some people on internet forums and the young girls guilty of carrying out the

[02:59:52] [SPEAKER_00]: slender man murders were tricked by these forums because slender man doesn't actually exist she

[02:59:57] [SPEAKER_00]: shrugged and said that's what i saw i reiterate that in general my sister is not a believer

[03:00:03] [SPEAKER_00]: in the paranormal she and i aren't religious and we tend to view every situation with

[03:00:08] [SPEAKER_00]: skepticism however we are superstitious and figure that we shouldn't take unnecessary chances when

[03:00:13] [SPEAKER_00]: dealing with the paranormal just in case it turns out to be real and when it comes to the slender man

[03:00:19] [SPEAKER_00]: or whatever you want to call the entity that tried to get into the bakery that night

[03:00:24] [SPEAKER_00]: my sister is 100 convinced he is real thank you for bearing with me i know my stories are

[03:00:31] [SPEAKER_00]: a bit long thank you also for sharing my stories on the podcast if you choose to do so

[03:00:35] [SPEAKER_00]: and for providing people with a forum to share their experiences take care and keep up the good work

[03:00:43] [SPEAKER_00]: julia as we bring part one to an end i appreciate all of you for tuning in and a big thank you goes

[03:00:52] [SPEAKER_00]: out to all of our contributors for sharing their experiences and if you've witnessed

[03:00:57] [SPEAKER_00]: something paranormal i'd like to hear your story you may contact me through email voice message

[03:01:02] [SPEAKER_00]: or on our website via the links in the show notes and until next time i hope you all have

[03:01:08] [SPEAKER_00]: a great beginning to your week and i look forward to seeing you back here in just a few hours for

[03:01:13] [SPEAKER_00]: part two of our 2021 recap right here on paranormal mysteries