244: UFO In Ocala Florida, Sleep Paralysis & Ouija Board Session In Afghanistan

[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 discussing a UFO sighting in Ocala, Florida, a Ouija Board Session in Afghanistan, prophetic dreams, premonitions, and much more. But before we

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[00:01:04] course, all of our support and contact information can be found in the show notes. And now, let's start the show with our first listener story of the night, which comes to us from John. And John's story is called Ouija. John says, Back in 2018 I was deployed

[00:01:24] to Afghanistan. A couple of my buddies and I decided that it would be a wonderful idea to play with a spirit board in a war-ridden country. We had played with it on multiple occasions with nothing worth mentioning. One spirit came through, telling us its name was

[00:01:39] Diablo, which we all thought was odd because of the location we were in. We all thought it was kind of funny and thinking that it was one of us trying to scare us, but then

[00:01:49] the planchette started moving without us asking a question or saying anything to the entity that we were speaking with. It then spelled out FIRE, and as we were trying to figure out what was going on, the fire alarms went off in all the buildings that everyone was

[00:02:05] staying in, so everyone had to leave the buildings. Come to find out the next day that there was no fire, and the fire alarms just threw a faulty code. I have a lot of paranormal stories

[00:02:17] if you would like to hear more, and I'd be more than happy to share them with you and the audience. Thanks for the wonderful podcast, and hopefully I will be able to hear this

[00:02:27] on there. Our next story comes to us from Shane, and Shane's story is called, Glitch in the Matrix. Shane says, Hi Nick, still very much enjoying the podcast. It's been a while since I wrote to you last, and I thank you for including my story about a possible

[00:02:47] time slip in episode 110. Now just the day before I wrote this, I experienced what can only be described as a glitch in the matrix. Myself and my family were driving home from running some errands, when my wife took notice of a uniquely labeled plumbing truck traveling

[00:03:04] in the lane to our right. After a few seconds, we passed the truck and it wasn't far behind us when we approached an intersection. As we were traveling eastbound through the intersection,

[00:03:15] I notice waiting at the red light to our right going northbound is the exact same truck we saw not a minute earlier, and when I look in my rearview mirror, that truck is now gone.

[00:03:26] It was only a car length behind us, but in seconds it somehow turned off and flipped a u-turn to sit at the light. I said to my wife, uh, that plumbing truck we just passed

[00:03:36] is over there now. Did you see that? In total disbelief she said, uh, yeah. How'd that happen? To have someone else actually witness was great because I thought that I was losing

[00:03:48] it. There's no way the truck could have moved to where it was in such a short amount of time since there were no easy ways to turn off and cut across traffic to end up at the

[00:03:57] light. And here's a weird twist to the story. Where this occurred is just a short distance from where the time slip in my other story happened. Keep the bizarre stories coming, and thank you for the podcast. Sincerely, Shane

[00:04:16] Our next story of the night comes to us from Kelly, and Kelly's story is called, UFO, Ocala, Florida, 1978. Kelly says, In the summer of 1978, my family lived on Southeast 25th Avenue, just south of Ocala, Florida, between Ocala and Bellevue, off of Highway 441, in a sparsely populated neighborhood

[00:04:39] that is still there today. I was seven years old, and my neighbor was also seven or eight, and her name was Christy. I'm not sure of her last name, as we went to different schools.

[00:04:50] We would play together and ride our bikes on the paved road between her house and mine, and there was a house in between our houses. We were not allowed to go past her house or

[00:05:00] mine at night, and there were streetlights paced out between the houses. We could stay out until 9pm, and then we both had to be home. It was a warm summer's night, and we'd been playing and riding our bikes back and forth

[00:05:13] between the two houses on the street, and we stopped under the streetlight in front of her house. I had turned my bike around and was facing south, back toward my house, and she had stopped beside me and was facing the opposite way. We were both getting ready

[00:05:27] to go home. There was about a city block of distance between our house and Highway 441, with a snapper lawnmower business on Highway 441, and some woods that were between the business and our street.

[00:05:40] It was dark and approximately 9pm as we were saying our goodbyes for the night, when I looked up in the sky behind her, and just above the treetops. The trees were not very tall, maybe 20 feet or so, because the lot had been cleared and then grown back with

[00:05:55] sparse trees scattered among the open area where wildflowers grew every year. There was a very large stationary object with lights circling it on the side that was visible to us. It was so close that we could see underneath and on one side of the craft. It was slightly

[00:06:12] hovering just off the side of the road over the vacant lot. It was very close to us, approximately 25 to 35 feet away. I said, oh my god, what is that? And I pointed up at it. I saw her

[00:06:25] turning her head to look at it, and then I don't remember anything after that moment. After that I was standing in the backyard on the side of my house, and my bike was on the

[00:06:35] ground at my feet in the black dark. I was facing the road, and I could see the streetlight we had been standing under. It was 200 to 250 yards away from me, and Kristi wasn't

[00:06:48] there. I left my bike on the ground and went inside, and I remember I was really calm at that moment, almost in a daze I guess. I told my mother what we had seen, but she was not

[00:06:59] impressed one bit with my story, because I was late getting home. Honestly, I don't even know how late I was now that I think about it. I must not have been too late, because

[00:07:08] she didn't go looking for me. What happened during all of this, I have no clue. Kristi's parents were very strict, and I didn't get to see her for several days, because she was on restriction for getting home too late. When we were able to see each other again

[00:07:23] later that following week, she said that she thought that it was all a dream, but when I told her no it wasn't, and I told her about what I remembered, she started crying and

[00:07:32] ran home. Other than that initial sight of the UFO, I have no idea what happened until I was back in my yard, and it's still as fresh in my mind as if it happened yesterday. Kristi

[00:07:43] would not talk about it period, and I had some serious issues with being there at that house after dark, if my dad wasn't home, for several years. They even took me to counseling for it. For whatever reason I didn't connect this incident with my sudden fear of being

[00:07:59] home after dark until just recently. I can't be positive about the date, but May 14th, 1978 is the documented Ocala, Florida sighting. This is the right time period for what happened to us. I was born in 1970, so the year is definitely right. I started to listen to

[00:08:17] your podcast recently, and so I wanted to share my story with you. Thank you. Our next story of the evening comes to us from Isabelle, and Isabelle's story is called Prophetic Dreams Running in the Family. Isabelle says,

[00:08:37] Hi Nick, my girlfriend who has listened to every episode multiple times and is a big fan introduced me to your podcast a few months ago, and we listened to it nightly. I told her about a few of unexplained situations that myself and my family have experienced,

[00:08:52] and she recommended that I write in. On my mother's side of the family, all the women have experienced dreams that eventually would come to fruition. Sometimes they served as warnings and a few were letting us know that good was coming soon. I was told many of

[00:09:08] these stories as a child, but due to my mother's side of the family being French speaking, I've only heard second hand translations of them. I don't feel comfortable sharing a story that isn't mine or I don't have permission to share, but I do have a couple

[00:09:22] that I would like to share with the podcast, in the hopes of someone hearing this and understanding how or why the women on my maternal side have been granted this odd gift.

[00:09:33] The first dream I will share is one that my mom had about ten years ago. Three years prior to this dream, my brother and I had a friend who died very unexpectedly at the age of thirteen.

[00:09:45] In my mother's dream, she saw our friend, Scotty, sitting next to a figure. My mother assumed it to be God or some sort of omnipotent being. He was trying to get the other man's

[00:09:55] attention and excitedly repeating over and over, Can I tell her? Can I tell her? Can I please tell her? The god-like figure just looked at Scotty and said, Wait. Afterwards, my mother woke up. She didn't think much of the dream until about a week later when

[00:10:12] she felt something was off and decided to take a pregnancy test. This is when she found out that she was pregnant with my younger sister, who is the sweetest kid you will ever meet and carries the same kindness that Scotty did in life.

[00:10:26] I have a few experiences similar in my own life, but one stands out that I would like to also share. Last winter, I was in a deep depression. I felt lonely, and the feeling

[00:10:37] was nearly driving me insane. I am not someone who dreams often, or for whatever reason, when I do dream, it's usually nightmares. However, around January of this year, I started to have nearly nightly dreams. All good dreams about going to the beach, seeing shows, just

[00:10:54] being on fun outings. There was always someone accompanying me in these dreams, but I could never make out their face. The only thing I could ever remember was their black hair that was cut into a bob. Late April of this year, I went on my first

[00:11:09] date with who would eventually become my girlfriend of six months now, Sutton. We connected so quickly and there was an instant trust between the two of us. I had an odd

[00:11:18] feeling that I had known her for a long time, but I knew that that couldn't be true, as she lived two hours away from me, and there was no way that we could have met. That's

[00:11:27] when I realized that she had the same black bob as the girl in my dreams. This could all be just an odd coincidence, but seeing how this has happened to all the women on my mom's side of the family, there has to be some connection. If anyone listening

[00:11:42] has any information or ideas on what could cause something like this, I would love to hear it. Thank you for listening to my stories, and thank you for providing a platform to share. Isabel Our next listener story comes to us from Lily, and Lily's story is called,

[00:12:03] My Angel Cat Protector Lily says, Hi Nick. I recently started listening to your podcast and I love it. Thank you for creating an outlet where us empathic and or sensitive people can share our stories and experiences. My story is short but sweet.

[00:12:22] I am 19 and my kitty that I have had since I was 6, Woo, just passed in July. She was very sick and in pain and we had to put her down. It was one of the saddest days of my

[00:12:33] life as me and her were so close. Her favorite thing to do was cuddle with me and she'd always lay her head on my arm. As she passed I held her in my arms in her favorite spot

[00:12:43] with her head on my forearm where she always put it, and I watched her peacefully go to heaven. It's hard to write this because it makes me so emotional. I loved her so much, but I know that she is still here with me.

[00:12:58] A few days ago I was sleeping at my boyfriend's house just to be woken up halfway to what I thought was a dream. It was my cat. She was thin and healthy and her fur looked so perfect

[00:13:09] and soft. She looked the most beautiful she ever had. She was walking on top of the blankets to get to me and cuddle as she always did at night. When I realized it was her, I reached out for her. And just then, she disappeared.

[00:13:23] I got so emotional because I knew it was her telling me that she was in heaven, restored back to perfect health and happiness once again. That gave me chills and I immediately told my mom who was also very close to my Woo kitty, and she instantly got emotional.

[00:13:39] I have a light that borders my bed that Woo would always turn on when she was here. She would just tap it with her paw. That light now turns on by itself every so often, and

[00:13:50] I know it's her. I miss her so much, and I know that she's protecting me. I hope you enjoyed my story. I'm sorry that it's sad, but at the same time it's so reassuring,

[00:14:02] and I hope those of you who have lost your furry loved ones know that they are happy, healthy, and with you still. Thank you Nick. I hope you and all your listeners have a blessed day. Lily

[00:14:15] Our next story of the night comes to us from Concie, and Concie's story is called Premonitions. Concie says, Hello Nick. I have had many paranormal things happen to me, and my mom's side of the family

[00:14:31] are very in tune with the paranormal. She's had visions while laying down in her bed at night, awake, sometimes even during the day doing the usual taking care of the house or

[00:14:42] just relaxing. I would be laying down with her when I was a young lady and she would say, You see? I'm awake, right? I see this beautiful landscape. There is a deer grazing. It is a nice sunny day. That is how she would see her visions.

[00:14:58] One night on September 17th or 18th of 1985, she had a vision of a beautiful vase that she was seeing from the top, and it had a nice plant. All of a sudden the plant was

[00:15:10] no longer there, and she saw the soil, then hands trying to get out of the soil, many, many hands desperately trying to come out. She felt horrified, and she knew something terrible was going to happen. That is when we saw the news on September 19th that an

[00:15:26] earthquake with a magnitude of 8.0 struck Mexico City, killing at least 5,000 people. My whole family was shocked. She had other visions, but nothing that terrible again. I had more experiences myself, and I would love to write those to you next time. Thank

[00:15:44] you for your great podcast. I listen to you when driving and going to work. Greetings. Concie. Our next experience comes to us from Andrew, and Andrew's story is called Dark Looming Presence and Psychedelic Telepathy. Andrew's second story involves drug use and adult situations, and may be inappropriate

[00:16:09] for some listeners. Andrew says, Hi Nick. I love the show and get a secret kick out of you reading every sentence in the letters that are sent to you, even if it is an apology for being too long or a preface

[00:16:22] for being a couple of stories. Anyway, here's a couple stories that might be a little long. The more I think of it, there have been plenty of potentially paranormal aspects to my life.

[00:16:34] The house I grew up in had a very distinct energy that made me and my siblings afraid to be alone downstairs in the dark, even as young adults. There was some kind of looming

[00:16:43] presence that didn't seem to follow any of us once we all moved away, but for years chills would compel us to run up the stairs as fast as we could, or wait for each other so no

[00:16:53] one would be caught downstairs in the dark alone. We never talked about why we did or what exactly was making us afraid. I don't think it was a case of being afraid of the dark, as there were almost shifts in pressure or quick changes in temperature that passed

[00:17:09] by and gave you the chills. The dark never bothered us anywhere else, and I wish I could be more specific, but part of what was so creepy about this hovering presence was its vagueness. Second, and this is less typically paranormal, but at my college there were co-ops,

[00:17:27] low-cost housing for students, plastered with obscene and psychedelic murals, bathrooms littered with syringes, nudists cooking dinner for sometimes up to 300 residents, and just about everyone was on drugs. I visited one night and entered a room of close to 60 people,

[00:17:43] all of whom had been smoking large quantities of marijuana. There were clusters of conversations, so it almost sounded like the chatter of a cafeteria, but I started noticing patterns in the chatter. There was a laugh at one end of the room, and about three seconds later

[00:18:00] someone in the next cluster laughed the same way, and then the next cluster, and the next. It was like the same quick, high-pitched laugh was being passed around the room from group to group. I decided to test the system by clapping in the middle of a sentence to

[00:18:14] my cluster. Someone across the room in another cluster clapped, and then another, and another as if we were unconsciously playing a game of telephone. One last test with the same results, I shouted, oh, very playfully, and I heard it echo throughout the clusters from

[00:18:30] different people's mouths. To this day, I don't know if this is pure college student insecurity, if somehow we were communicating telepathically and sending subliminal cues to each other, or if a room full of stoned people forms some kind of superconsciousness,

[00:18:46] but I've never seen anything like it before or since. I have a few more stories, but I think that'll do it for now. Thanks for this podcast. It's perfect. Andrew Our next experience of the night comes to us from Richard, and Richard's story is called

[00:19:07] Sleep Paralysis and The Little Girl. Richard says, Hey Nick, I enjoy listening to your podcast. I listen to it every day on my way to and from work. This story is from the first and last time that I experienced sleep paralysis.

[00:19:24] This happened in 2013, toward the end of my freshman year in high school. My parents had just moved us out of town, but we still had a month left of school to finish, so we were

[00:19:34] staying at a family friend's house until then. I was sleeping on the couch, my brother on an air mattress on the floor next to me, and my parents were in the guest bedroom nearby.

[00:19:45] One night that I was sleeping on the couch, I had a dream that my other two younger brothers were in the backyard playing with a ball. The ball bounced over a short wooden barrier

[00:19:53] and toward the side of the house. On the side of the house was a narrow walkway between the house and a brick wall. So I climbed over the wooden barrier and made my way to retrieve

[00:20:03] the ball from my little brothers. But once over the barrier, I noticed something eerie. That's where, in my dream, I began to feel fear. At the end of that narrow walkway was a little girl, crouched down with her face buried in her knees, facing the opposite direction.

[00:20:21] Right behind the girl was the ball I went to retrieve. I remember slowly making my way and slowly and quietly picking up the ball. Once I grabbed the ball, I looked up at the

[00:20:31] house and noticed the window. On the other side of that exact window is the couch that I sleep on. I then looked down at the little girl, and I remember slowly reaching my hand towards her to ask if she was okay. At the exact moment

[00:20:45] that I touched her shoulder, she turned very quickly and aggressively, and before I could even recognize her face, I woke up from that dream paralyzed. I remember laying there, and I could feel my eyes wide open because of what was happening

[00:20:59] to me. I laid there staring at the ceiling trying to move something, but no matter how hard I tried, I could feel my body stay frozen in place. At the time, I had never heard of

[00:21:09] sleep paralysis, so this was new to me, and given the dream I was having right before this happened, I assumed I was being possessed. I tried screaming for my mom in the other

[00:21:19] room, but I had that same frozen in place feeling with my lips. I could feel my breath come from my chest trying to call for my mom, but I absolutely could not separate my lips or even make a sound. That was the scariest feeling.

[00:21:35] At that point, I told myself, okay, I just need to calm down, so I slowed my breathing and talked myself down and back to sleep. When I finally calmed down and went back to

[00:21:45] sleep, I was right back in that dream at the beginning of that walkway, slowly making my way to the ball and the girl. I thought, what the hell? Why this again? And even though

[00:21:56] I knew what was about to happen in my dream, I continued to walk towards the little girl. I had no control over my actions, but complete consciousness of why I shouldn't be doing that again. So, same thing. I grab the ball, reach for

[00:22:11] the little girl, she turns and I wake up. I lay there again staring at the ceiling and wondering why this is happening to me and how I'm supposed to get out of it. Again,

[00:22:22] I tried calling for my mom, but I still couldn't let out a sound. I felt the armrest of the couch on the bottom of my feet, so I thought, maybe I can push myself off the couch and

[00:22:31] someone will hear me fall and come to help. But that idea never worked. Just because I felt the couch under my feet doesn't mean that I could move my legs. Finally, I calmed myself down and snapped out of that paralysis. And at that point,

[00:22:46] I was scared of what just happened. And it was happening again, so I crawled into the air mattress with my brother for the night. He looked over at me with his sleepy face and I just said, something happened right now and I'm going to sleep right here. He

[00:23:00] just nodded his head and went back to sleep. After that night, I stayed at my grandparents' house for the remainder of my school year. If you get a chance to see this, thank you for taking the time to read my story. Richard

[00:23:17] 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 John, Shane, Kelly, Isabel, Lily, Concie, Andrew, and Richard for sharing their experiences. And if you've had a paranormal experience and

[00:23:35] would like to share your story with me, you may contact me through email, voice message, or on our website, via the links in the show notes. Until next time, I hope you all have a great weekend and I look forward to seeing you back

[00:23:49] here on Monday with our next episode. From everyone at Paranormal Mysteries, thank you for listening and please remember, don't wait for the unknown to come to you. Get out there and find it.