241: Confessions Of A Military Witch, Alien Abduction & The Furryman

[00:00:00] Thank you for joining me and welcome to Paranormal Mysteries. I'm your host, Nic Ryan. On today's episode, I'll be covering ghosts, alien abduction, a bizarre nighttime visitor, and a military witch. But before we start, I'd like to thank everyone for their support and generosity.

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[00:01:06] And now, let's start the show with our first listener story of the night. Which comes to us from Mike. Mike says, Hi Nic, I've been listening to your show and submitted a couple stories from my past. This time I'd like to submit a much more recent story.

[00:01:23] But first, some history. I lived in a rented ranch-style house for about a decade. It was a good size, inexpensive, had a big fenced-in yard and two-and-a-half car garage in a decent area. And the rent was never raised in the ten years that I lived there.

[00:01:40] Which partially explains why I lived there for so long, even though both myself and my dog would see, hear, and even physically feel things. After I moved from there, I lived in a couple different places.

[00:01:53] In one house, I woke up on a Saturday morning and stumbled into the living room to find a child's handprint in the carpet under the coffee table. That was weird because there was no child there.

[00:02:05] Weirder still, was about an hour or so after I woke up and saw it, it simply disappeared. But what made it even more weird was that when I went into the attached garage to my car, the same handprint was on the hood of my car.

[00:02:20] I lived at that house for a few years before moving south to Florida. Due to my job, I lived in a couple different cities in different areas of the state. Eventually, I made my way to Orlando.

[00:02:31] My friend bought a home there and needed some roommates to help with the mortgage. So myself and another friend moved in. The house was a three-bedroom, two-bath, single-story home. It was a nice size for us and was the typical, relatively new Florida house with high ceilings.

[00:02:47] To better understand what happened there, I have to describe the house. The house was longer than it was wide and the front door and garage situated facing the road. When you walked in the front door, immediately to the right was a bathroom and on the other

[00:03:02] side of that were two of the three bedrooms. Walking in the front door, you'd walk down a foyer area into an open concept-style living room slash kitchen. If you continue walking, you'd walk through the living room.

[00:03:16] To your right is the kitchen and to the left, the third bedroom. Continue on and you'd walk out the sliding glass door into the backyard. The living room was situated so that when you'd watch TV, the kitchen was directly behind you.

[00:03:30] On multiple occasions while watching TV, off to my right, towards the two bedrooms and front door, I'd see something out of the corner of my eye. It looked to me like three glittery or shiny balls of light that were different sizes and

[00:03:44] slightly smashed into an oval or almond shape. They seemed to be at the very top of the ceiling, which was much taller than a person, and when I'd turn to look at them, they seemed to duck around the corner and out of view.

[00:03:59] A few years prior to moving to Orlando, I lost my previous dog of 18 years. I missed him greatly and after a couple dogless years, I decided it was time for another. I picked a dog from a local rescue and brought her home.

[00:04:14] Not too long after that, I met someone and we were married. I moved him in the place I was at while we saved some money for our own place. So now there were three of us and a dog in the same house.

[00:04:26] At this time, I was working weekdays 10 to 7. Around 6 or 6.30 one evening, I got a text from my roommate asking if I was home. I replied that I wasn't and I asked why. He said he'd tell me more once I got home.

[00:04:41] After I got home, I asked him what was up and he said that while he was watching TV, the dog was sitting off to his right, slightly in front of him, staring back into the kitchen intently.

[00:04:51] A few seconds later, one of her toys came flying through the air at her. She jumped and caught it while playing with it. It surprised him because he didn't know that I was home and turned to say something to me. But there was no one there.

[00:05:04] That's when he texted, asking if I was home. A few months later, I woke up early and was sitting on the couch killing some time before I had to go to work, playing on my phone when off to the right, I heard deep breathing. Almost snoring.

[00:05:19] Immediately, I thought it was my dog asleep, but she was in the bedroom sleeping. I then thought it was my roommate's dog, but she was in his bedroom sleeping. I then realized I was the only one awake. And when I looked to my right, the breathing noise stopped.

[00:05:35] This area is the same area the dog was looking at when her toy came through the air towards her earlier. A few weeks later, we were sitting on the couch watching TV when my husband looked to his right, got up, and started looking around in the kitchen.

[00:05:49] I asked him what he was looking for, and he said that he had heard breathing. My husband's culture is highly superstitious and doesn't like to discuss such things, so I never told him about either of my experiences with the noise or the dogs.

[00:06:03] This past year, my dog, husband, and I moved out of Florida to a northern state. After a month or two in the new place, we went to dinner. When we returned home as usual, we took the dog out for a walk.

[00:06:15] And when we arrived back inside, she immediately went to a spot in the middle of the floor and started sniffing. Upon investigating, we found an old chicken nugget from a certain fast food restaurant in the middle of the floor.

[00:06:28] Neither of us eat those nuggets, and the dog having been in the house alone for the previous hour or so would have already seen it and eaten it. It seemed it appeared during the 30-40 minute dog walk.

[00:06:42] A few days later, we noticed the towel hanging in the bathroom had what looked like small blood droplets on it. Neither of us were bleeding, and even if we were, we certainly wouldn't have used a white towel for any blood.

[00:06:55] A few days after that, when we returned home, a plant that had been sitting on the floor fine for a couple of months was toppled over with no apparent reason. A week or so later, the kitchen table had several water droplets in the middle of the

[00:07:07] table when we woke up one morning. We searched the ceiling and found no evidence of water leak from above. This happened for two to three more days, and then stopped. The most recent things that have happened was while on the couch, the dog would look

[00:07:23] back down the hallway with a concerned look on her face. The last time, I turned my head to follow her gaze and said, Go away, loudly, to whatever she was looking at. And she seemed content after that.

[00:07:36] That was last week, and so far this week things have been... normal. To people with pets, I'd advise them to pay attention to your pets. They often times seem to know more about what's going on around you than you do.

[00:07:54] Our next story of the night comes to us from Marlene. And Marlene's story is called, UFO Abduction. Marlene's story may be a little graphic for some listeners, so please be warned. Marlene says, Hi Nick.

[00:08:09] I have been listening to every episode in your podcast and I feel that it is my turn to contribute to the show. I was born in Venezuela and was adopted to Sweden when I was 11 months old. Fast forwarding to about two weeks after, I celebrated my 8th birthday.

[00:08:25] My birthday is the 11th of September. That night, two weeks after my birthday, I had what I thought at the time was a very strange dream. Now I know that it was a UFO abduction. And it began like this.

[00:08:41] I was in my bed and trying to go to sleep when I was drifting off when suddenly woke up in a very bright room. I was standing in the middle of a bright round room and big tanks with some sort of liquid

[00:08:52] and humanoid creatures were positioned alongside the wall. I could hear a very low humming and my feet felt cold. I started to look around the bright room when I saw him approaching me.

[00:09:04] He looked like a little devil with black, very straight hair, horns on each side of his head, big round ice blue eyes and he was short and had skin that shifted in light brown and red.

[00:09:17] He told me that they wanted to have someone to help them with the babies. Someone to give birth to them and to nurture them. The strangest thing was that he spoke Swedish but he didn't move his lips at all. I could hear his voice in my head.

[00:09:32] He then looked behind him and another creature that looked like him and must have been a woman walked up to him and in her arms was some sort of caterpillar creature that had human eyes, lots of arms and green fur all over its body.

[00:09:47] When I saw this ugly baby creature thing, I felt provoked, angry and I remembered how tired I was and that I just wanted this terrible nightmare to end. So I took the small creature baby thing, threw it on the floor and jumped on it.

[00:10:02] I didn't stop until the small creature was a wet spot on the floor. Then I looked up and looked the man straight in the eyes and I said, I am tired, my feet are cold and I just want this strange and very unpleasant nightmare to end now.

[00:10:17] The man then looked at me and said that it was for the best that he returned me to my bed. When I opened my eyes, I was in my bed and my mother was standing over me and she asked me where I had been.

[00:10:29] She said that she had been in my room ten minutes ago checking up on me but I wasn't in my bed. I grew up in a house with two floors so she went downstairs to see if I was on the toilet

[00:10:39] and when she couldn't find me there, she decided to go back upstairs to my room and this is when she found me sound asleep in my bed. As I am writing this, I am 36 years old and I have tried to forget about this abduction but I cannot.

[00:10:55] Thank you Nick for the podcast and thank you all for contributing with your stories. Best regards. Marlene Our next experience of the night comes to us from Dawn and Dawn's story is called Confessions of a Military Witch. Dawn says, Merry meet.

[00:11:18] I am a mother of four, retired U.S. Army officer and school teacher of many years. However, none of that for your audience would even be remotely interesting were it not for my lineage as a hereditary witch.

[00:11:31] Aside from a few years where I set aside my practice of the old religion and tried the new one, I have walked, lived, and grown all my life weaving in and out of the borderlands where death and life mingle.

[00:11:45] One could easily say, my life is dark and paranormal. There are so many misconceptions surrounding those who follow the witch's way but it is not my purpose here to address the stereotypes and ignorance that mainstream society attaches to us.

[00:12:00] It is my purpose to relate a few episodes from my lonely soul travel that remain creepy and hitherto still unexplained. Around ten years ago I had just returned from another combat tour to the country of Iraq.

[00:12:14] It was with great joy that I removed the tarp from my old jeep and threw my gear in and motored out to my farm. I had been gone for over a year.

[00:12:23] My farm, as the kids and I refer to it, was a farm fifty years earlier but now was just a solitary house at the end of a dirt road, surrounded by spooky wetlands and forgotten woods.

[00:12:35] It was so remote and you could just see one light from the porch burning in the distance from a barn door two fields away. We loved it there, sitting in front of our wood stove, drinking dry red wine and listening to owls hooting at the stars above.

[00:12:50] It was the perfect location to practice witchcraft without having to hide from prying eyes. We were lucky to even have one car pass by on any given day. While stationed in Talil Air Force Base or Camp Adder, Iraq months earlier, I had become

[00:13:06] enamored by the idea of conducting an evocation of a spirit to full physical appearance. This is a rite where the witch employs devices gleaned from old grimoires to coax a spirit to either use a medium, i.e. copious amounts of incense, or messenger, i.e. willing human

[00:13:24] host, to manifest in and perform feats on behalf of the magician. The work is ancient, creepy, and efficacious in the hands of one who is well practiced. The impetus for this path of inquiry began when visiting the archaeological dig site

[00:13:41] of the Ziggurat of Ur, located with the base. This building is a temple where the priest would ascend and commune with the Sumerian moon god. There are the ruins of a grand palace, royal courtyards, wealthy homes, and ornate tombs in the shadow of the ziggurat.

[00:13:58] On a previous tour, my spirit guide told me that I would return to that place again, and sure enough, seven years later, not only did I return, I could see the ziggurat out of my office window where I worked every day. A witch and old pagan shrine?

[00:14:14] Moth to a flame. During times of meditation and trance states, I saw a great colossus of a spirit rise up frequently from the ziggurat. He looked to be a fifty-foot, dark minotaur, muscular and foreboding. He would proudly walk with enormous strides around the airbase, especially during times

[00:14:33] of a red crescent moon or dust storms. In addition, there was the spirit of a veiled lady who started presenting to myself and a male witch I simply called Windel. She was becoming ever-present, and when he mentioned during a circle meeting that he

[00:14:49] was being visited by her too, I thought about all I was learning concerning evocation. When he said that her veil was made up of nothing but the night sky, I was hooked. When I saw her, that was my perception too. A hollow emptiness cloaked in nothing but stars.

[00:15:07] So we set up a meeting. I will spare you all of the details, but suffice it to say that I made the preparations to evoke this mysterious lady into Windel. We had about fifteen other service members who were practitioners of some form of earth-based

[00:15:22] religions who wanted to attend. I started the ritual, grimoire in hand, using all of the energy the group was focusing toward the intention, confident yet a little apprehensive as to what would, if anything, actually happen. Chant. Chant. Visualize her, I thought to myself.

[00:15:42] There was a physical flash of white light, followed by a crash of falling water bottles and an old DVD player. I saw my spirit guide pass like a shadow before my confused eyes, and then Windel screamed before falling paralyzed to the floor.

[00:15:57] This group of combat soldiers and airmen scattered, most fleeing outside while a few gathered around Windel's stiffened body. A couple just stared at me saying that they could see a ghost of a dead soldier behind me, coming through a door that opened slowly by itself. Success?

[00:16:15] Well, after all of the damage control was over, the place cleaned up and egos repaired, I finally got to spend some time alone with Windel. We were sitting on a bench one night at the Resiliency Center barbecue pit.

[00:16:28] The stars were blazing overhead and the soft sounds of military generators and trucks moaned in the distance. So, what happened, Sergeant? I reluctantly whispered. He had a distant look. I was with her, he finally replied. She and I were sitting, like on the steps of the ziggurat.

[00:16:46] Do you regret the ritual? No, it was amazing. It just took a long time to get back into my body. With this experience in the back of my mind, I still intended to pursue the right, just hopefully in a more controlled and less destructive way.

[00:17:02] After all the post-deployment BS was taken care of, we settled back into life on the farm. It was not long before my son and I had assembled a working temple, with our newly constructed altar of wood, thermatic triangle, nine-foot circle, and with all of the consecrated implements

[00:17:19] and assortments of incense. We researched sigils in old grimoires and started perfecting the art of contacting and communing with powerful entities from the other side. We were extremely successful. Maybe some other moon I will write about some of those encounters, especially with demonic lords.

[00:17:38] That would keep the listeners up at night for sure. This world is not like you believe. Now, during the same couple of years, an entire crowd of party-loving friends grew about my son and daughter until the regular group was about nine.

[00:17:54] We had booze, go-karts, and Xbox Mortal Kombat going nonstop at least one weekend a month. In that group was a Christian man and wife couple who were aspiring ghost hunters. They figured out that we were practicing some heavy occult magic and wanted to do a

[00:18:09] ghost hunt to see if our activities had brought in some spirits who clung to our temple and rites. I thought it would be fun and had no doubt that they would find more than they bargained for. So, the night came, approximately in the fall.

[00:18:24] We had just done a ritual a few nights before where a dead man stood in our triangle explaining that he was still looking for his daughter who had passed from a childhood disease. We guessed that they were from the 1930s from their speech and appearance, and we later

[00:18:39] found their graves accidentally in a small country cemetery not five miles from the farm. So I assumed the ghost hunters with their spirit box, iPhone apps, and EVP recorders would catch him or someone like him.

[00:18:52] They wandered about for about an hour outside but were disappointed in finding no signs. I was perplexed. Well, do you want to try in the temple? I offered. They reluctantly entered into the dark room where the kids and I had met with the otherworld entities many, many times.

[00:19:11] The air was thick and heavy, and the inky blackness only yielded to the candlelight on the altar and the dull glow of cell phones. Ouija, I proposed. Again our ghost hunting guest slowly relented, but I could tell the man, James, was reaching his cringe limit.

[00:19:29] We worked the board resulting in an unremarkable display and energy barely reading on their devices. I was a little bit miffed. I mean, here we were, sitting on the floor of my temple where through the broil of smoke

[00:19:40] had stepped visible spirits of all kinds and spoke to us. These specters were not the product of imagination or inebriation. They were answering the ancient magician's call. How could they not be registering on all of this ghost hunting equipment? Then I had an idea.

[00:19:58] Do you mind if I call the four, I asked. The man shrugged, thinking that it was just another dead end. I slipped into trance and whispered a simple enchant. Suddenly the old ones arrived.

[00:20:11] As a thick darkness flowed from the ceiling, causing the dim lights to grow even fainter, the spirit box started at first to howl. It sounded like a distant animal in pain, but quickly became a circular screech, resembling

[00:20:24] the words of a black mass, but distorting and growling uncomfortably loud. The wife operating the box was frozen, while James' eyes darted back and forth in animalistic fear. It has never done that. Ever. Never, she remarked nervously.

[00:20:42] James then shot to his feet and flung open the door and disappeared into the living room. He is going to be mad, she said, gathering her things to follow after. My kids and I also casually left the temple to see them off.

[00:20:55] Their exit was immediate, and they never did another ghost hunt after that. Finally, I was delighted. That is just one paranormal mystery for your most excellent podcast. I respect your integrity, and if you want more witch confessions, I will happily share.

[00:21:13] These things are true, and I'm not sure why I'm sharing them so openly. Maybe I just don't care anymore. Merry meet, merry part. May we merry meet again. Love and Light. Daughter of Heseti. Our next listener story comes to us from Ashley. And Ashley's story is called...

[00:21:39] Sandman or Furry Man? Ashley says... Hi again, Nick. I was listening to one of your recent episodes involving a person waking up to something entering their room and it leaving peacefully after they gave in. This story sparked a creepy memory.

[00:21:58] When I was a kid, I had an interaction with some entity while sleeping in the living room. My parents set up our mattresses and my sister and I had been indoor camping for a couple of days.

[00:22:09] In the middle of the night on day two or three, I was laying on my side with my back to the long and dark hallway. I woke up because I was cold, so I tried grabbing more of the blanket, but we didn't have extra.

[00:22:21] A few moments later, I felt something big sit on the mattress behind me, and then wrap themselves all over me. It felt like it was laying on me, but I could breathe just fine. It was also wrapping slightly around me like a moss or something.

[00:22:36] Fur was wrapping around the back of my head, legs, and arms. I was trying to think who was behind me, but I quickly realized that I do not know anyone who feels so large. To make this even stranger, this person was a very, very, very furry, hairy thing.

[00:22:55] I felt afraid, but it was warming me up, and I quickly began to fall back to sleep. When I woke up, I told my sister, but she didn't believe me. Her reaction made me dismiss it altogether, so I didn't tell my parents.

[00:23:09] Years and years later, my mom was telling me a story of when she was little and sleeping in the top bed of a bunk bed. She said she felt a giant furry man lay behind or on top of her.

[00:23:21] My mom is a lot more in tune with the paranormal world, coming from a family of witches in Central America. So she immediately knew this was not human, and definitely not supposed to be in her bed, of all places.

[00:23:34] Struck with fear, she tried to get up, but it's like the weight of the furry thing gently pushed her efforts back to the bed, almost feeling like it was telling her to get back to sleep. Reluctantly, she stops fighting, gets comfortable, and falls back asleep.

[00:23:50] The only thing she vividly remembers about this thing is that it smelled of death. Her story made me immediately remember that I had the same encounter, and almost to the T. I told her and it freaked her out, thinking something or someone follows our family specifically.

[00:24:07] Neither of us have ever encountered this thing again, so knowing it's only happened once slightly settled our fears. It's not the only thing that's followed me or her from my grandmother, but those are stories for a different day.

[00:24:22] I wonder, has anyone out there experienced the same or similar furry thing hug or lay on you while you were asleep? Thanks again for all you do for the paranormal mysteries community. Stay safe out there guys. Ashley

[00:24:40] As we come to the end of tonight's episode, I appreciate all of you for being here, and a special thank you goes out to Mike, Marlene, Dawn, and of course Ashley for sharing their experiences.

[00:24:53] And if you've had a paranormal experience and would like to share your story, you may contact me through email, voice message, or on our website via the links in the show notes.

[00:25:04] Until next time, I hope you all have a great weekend, and I look forward to seeing you back here on Monday with our next episode. From everyone at Paranormal Mysteries, thank you for listening, and remember... Don't wait for the unknown to come to you.

[00:25:20] Get out there and find it.