251: Shadow People, Lights In The Sky, Trickster Spirits & A Very Haunted House

[00:00:00] Thanks to all of you for joining me and welcome to Paranormal Mysteries. I'm your host, Nic Ryan. On tonight's episode I'll be taking a look at strange lights in the sky, shadow people, a spirit that likes to play tricks, and much more.

[00:00:26] But before we start tonight's show, I want to thank everyone for their support and generosity. Whether following and sharing the podcast, or donating through Patreon, Buy Me A Coffee, or PayPal. Every type of support that you give is greatly appreciated.

[00:00:42] And if you have a paranormal experience that you'd like to share with me and the show, you may contact me through email or voicemail at paranormalmysteriespodcast.com. You can also find all of our support and contact information in the show notes.

[00:00:57] I also want to let everyone know that over the next couple of weeks I'll be helping family move across the country, so there won't be any new episodes during this time. However, I will be re-uploading some of our most popular episodes from over the past six years.

[00:01:11] So if you're new to the podcast, this could be an opportunity to hear an episode that you haven't had a chance to listen to yet. And for all of my long-time listeners, just think of it as a trip down memory lane.

[00:01:23] I know that it's nowhere near the same as new episodes, but I didn't want to leave you without any new content for the next couple of weeks. However, I will be posting pictures and updates to Instagram and Facebook throughout my trip.

[00:01:35] So if you haven't already, feel free to follow me at paranormalmysteriespodcast on both of these sites. And now, let's start the show with our first listener story of the night, which comes to us from Grace. And Grace's story is called, No One Believed Me.

[00:01:55] Grace says, Hi Nick, I'm a long-time listener, first-time sharer. A lot of listeners say that they love the long stories. Well, I have one. The home I grew up in was built in the late 70s and sat on 10 acres of property.

[00:02:10] I don't know much about the history of the property. However, I do know that as a child, my brother and I unearthed many arrowheads around our property. Also, the large field across the street was previously owned and farmed by black tomato farmers. This will become relevant later.

[00:02:27] Our house was a typical 70s oversized ranch with a long hallway for the bedrooms. This long, extended hallway and bedrooms is where a majority of the hauntings would take place. My bedroom was at the very end of our long hallway of bedrooms and directly across from

[00:02:42] my parents' room. I had a Jack and Jill bathroom that connected with the hallway. And this is where our main ghost stayed and watched. He watched constantly. I would see him lurking behind the bathroom door as I went about my teenage daily routine.

[00:02:59] He would watch me sleep at night, and I'd cry myself to sleep out of fear. My parents, of course, would blow this off. My mother, who isn't a big believer in the paranormal, would even admit to seeing someone

[00:03:10] sitting in our living room chair, only for her to take a double look and whatever it was would be gone. One night around 11pm, I was watching TV in the living room and I heard my father stand up behind me from the computer to head to bed.

[00:03:25] From my peripheral, I saw his large form slowly walk through the dining room and towards the bedroom hallway. At that moment, I realized that I needed to ask him a question. The hallway was dark, only illuminated by the bathroom light.

[00:03:38] I could clearly see his silhouette slowly walking down the hall. Dad! Dad! I loudly whispered, but he didn't respond. Typical tired dad stuff, right? Dad! Dad! I was frustrated, frustrated at this point, and I continued to follow him.

[00:03:55] My father then walked into my bathroom to turn off the lights, as most dads like to do. I followed him into my bathroom, determined to get his attention, but there was nothing, and no one. No one was in my bathroom.

[00:04:09] I stood alone in fear and confusion as to what I had just witnessed. I then checked on my parents, only to find my father snoring in bed. After that night, the activity increased and toward the end, became demonic.

[00:04:23] The activity in the house was escalated to large thuds, bangs on the outside of the house, cabinet doors being opened, books dropping, items disappearing and reappearing, random apparitions, the sound of people constantly circling the house, voices, the whole nine yards.

[00:04:42] My parents began blaming my brother and me for most of this phenomena. Soon after the hallway figure, my dad and brother went out of town to visit family, leaving me and my mother. We rented the original Blair Witch Project since it was the Halloween season.

[00:04:57] We watched it and later went to bed. That night, I began to hear small movements in the hallway. My cat and dog were with me and they too heard the noise. Soon I heard what sounded like small thuds in the hallway.

[00:05:11] My mind started to drift back to the Blair Witch Project. No way, I thought. And then crack went the sound of a twig. Enough. I grabbed my dog and my cat and ran into bed with my mother. Do you hear that? My skeptical mother whispered to me.

[00:05:28] Deep into the night, the snapping of twigs and throwing of stones could be heard. My dog practically slept on top of me and the cat occasionally growled. When we woke in the morning and decided to open the bedroom door to face whatever this

[00:05:40] was in the daylight, we were horrified. The hall was covered in dirt, rocks, and sticks. We hadn't been wrong with what we had heard. It was as if the spirits had brought the Blair Witch Project into the house to show us what they were capable of.

[00:05:57] One morning I opened my eyes somewhere between half asleep and half awake. I have always been told this is the easiest time for spirits to speak to you, in the in-between. I saw two young girls around ten years old in old blue prairie dresses looking very nervous.

[00:06:13] The first girl then spoke, saying, Don't make the Indian man mad. At that point, the second girl quickly turned her head, looked back to me with fear, and said, He's coming. At that moment a gray apparition quickly charged me in bed and then quickly shot back into

[00:06:29] the bathroom, slamming the bathroom door behind it. I never saw the girls again, but not long after that my parents started clear-cutting our property to make new pastures for our horses. More arrowheads were then discovered.

[00:06:44] Soon I noticed shadow people in the house, red eyes at night, and the presence of the man in the bathroom became more noticeable. Some nights I woke up to my bed violently shaking and the feeling of snakes slithering around my ankles.

[00:06:59] When my brother and I would have friends over, they too would notice the strange things. It was nothing for everyone to sit around the bonfire at night and see figures move between trees and through the house.

[00:07:11] Strangely enough, my house was the hangout house and my parents made sure that it was a safe place for everyone from our high school to come and stay a few nights or hang out, and there was always plenty of food and love for hungry teenagers.

[00:07:24] So it wasn't uncommon to go to bed and wake up with multiple people from our school on our couches. One late night I got home from work and unbeknownst to me, but not my parents, two of our friends from high school were at the house.

[00:07:38] I laid down for bed and before falling asleep, someone came falling out of my bathroom. It was our buddies and they looked panicked. We were pushed, we were pushed! they cried. The next thing we hear is both water faucets in the bathroom coming on simultaneously.

[00:07:54] This happened within five seconds and they ran out of my room. I caught up with them in the kitchen and they were both pale and clammy. Neither one could put a sentence together for about five minutes until one of them finally

[00:08:06] said that they felt someone come up behind them, push them into the other friend, and that's how they fell into the room. They were planning on scaring me until something pushed them. After that I always felt as though the bathroom ghost was keeping an eye out for me.

[00:08:23] Fast forward to me getting ready to graduate college. I'm still with my parents and at this point there is now a portal in my bedroom wall adjacent to my bed. It is very hard to explain how I know this, but for those listeners who are sensitive

[00:08:36] and have a well-trained third eye, they'll know what I mean. Everyone in the house is now suffering from health issues, chronic migraines, back pain, depression, and suicidal thoughts. My parents and brothers still aren't listening to me about what's going on inside, but it

[00:08:52] finally came to a head when my husband, then boyfriend at the time, stayed the night a few times and was attacked. I had warned my husband in advance in a watered down sort of way that we had a ghost or two

[00:09:04] in the house, but that it wasn't anything to be worried about. But he didn't believe me. We had a nice evening and then went to sleep. At exactly 3am he wakes up, almost in convulsions and gasping for air.

[00:09:17] I turn the bedside lamp on and he shakily tells me everything. He had woken up on his back, only to see an old black man standing over him in farmer's clothing, casually observing him. However, the heaviness of the farmer alone was causing my husband to suffer sleep paralysis.

[00:09:35] At this point I had never told my husband about the black tomato farmers who used to own the property across the street. My husband noted that the man never felt menacing, more just aware of one another.

[00:09:48] One of the final times that my husband spent the night in that house was the last straw for both of us. This time I woke up to him actually screaming at 3am. He was begging me to turn the bedside lamp on.

[00:09:59] Quickly I turned the lamp on to see him hyperventilating. He said that something woke him up and he looked over, only to see the upper body of a woman standing next to me at my bedside.

[00:10:10] He could make out the woman's face in the moonlight, under the wild nest of dark hair. Shortly after that incident we moved in together and got married. During the move-in and wedding, my parents sold the house.

[00:10:24] All of our ailments almost immediately stopped and my mother still swears to this day, six years after selling that house, that the house was trying to kill us. We have a family friend who is friends with the current owner of the house, who would

[00:10:37] watch the current owner's horses when they were out of town. Our family friend had to go into the house for something and then step back out to continue the chores. When she went back in to lock up, she noticed that every single one of the kitchen cabinet

[00:10:50] doors and drawers were completely open. There are over 30 cabinet doors and drawers if memory serves me right. It isn't like a cat could sneak into the house and open all of them.

[00:11:02] When she told my mother this, she apologized for all of those years of yelling at me and my brother to close the kitchen cabinets after we insisted that we hadn't opened them.

[00:11:13] Now that I'm in my late twenties, a part of me is curious to go back to that house and confront the demons and spirits, but deep down I know that I can never go back if I want to stay hidden from them.

[00:11:24] I feel as if whatever evil was in that house is searching for me. It comes to me occasionally in my dreams, and puts me back in my old bedroom, and tries to drag me under the bed, to who knows where.

[00:11:38] Or it puts me in a state of dream paralysis in the house, and I know that it's searching for me. I try to wake up from the dream, but I'm stuck until my cat hears me and lays on my chest.

[00:11:50] The dreams of the old house just started a few months ago, and I believe that whatever wanted me in that house is getting closer to finding me. I've studied and learned to use my energy to keep the negative energy away from myself and from following me.

[00:12:06] And this has served me well. Our next story of the evening comes to us from Jonathan. And Jonathan's story is called More Than Just A Joke. Jonathan says, Hello Nick. I just discovered your podcast today and am currently listening to and loving every minute

[00:12:27] of it as I write this. It's been awesome to hear the stories and how similar they are to mine. It is an inspiration to see what you do for people to be able to explain their stories. I want to say thank you as well for what you do.

[00:12:40] I want to apologize in advance as this is a long story because I didn't want to leave anything major out. I have always experienced paranormal things, but never quite as surreal or definite as these.

[00:12:52] I should preface this with the fact that I never feel any sort of anger or danger from this spirit. So, I live in a quadruplex in a small town with a very small population where everybody knows one another to a certain degree.

[00:13:06] There has always been stories of a small child ghost who roams our quadruplex named Michael that jokingly floats around my small town. Me and my family, my mom especially, have always jokingly believed in it. It began with us jokingly saying, Oh hey Michael!

[00:13:22] Or Michael is acting up whenever we heard something creaking or an item falling off a counter or wall. But it quickly became surreal when we began to experience more in-depth paranormal happenings.

[00:13:36] For instance, I have a poor sleep pattern and tend to stay up far too late most nights. One night around 1 o'clock in the morning, I had ventured downstairs to get myself a snack.

[00:13:46] As I began heading back upstairs, the bowl I had just used moments before fell off the counter. I was a little spooked but thought perhaps I had left it on the edge by mistake. Habitually I said, Oh hey Michael! But this time, however, was different.

[00:14:02] Seconds after saying this, the light upstairs shut off and then quickly back on. No one in the house was awake at this time since it was very late. I was very startled and quickly went upstairs and did my best to go back to sleep.

[00:14:15] I soon forgot about this encounter and moved on. A few weeks later, it was around 3 in the afternoon and I was home alone in the downstairs living room. I have two younger siblings who had those interactive toys which say various things and play music.

[00:14:31] My mom, however, recently took the batteries out as they were often going off randomly. It was today that I realized it wasn't random at all. These toys with no batteries began going off at the same time that I heard a strange noise from upstairs.

[00:14:46] They began singing the children's songs and doing what they do when played with. I was extremely freaked out and quickly left to go to our neighbor's house. Around four hours later, my mom came home and I told her about the experience and she went

[00:15:00] to look at the toys only to find them gone. She thought that I was screwing around and sort of laughed it off. But I swore up and down then, and still do to this day, that I never touch them.

[00:15:12] We still to this day are finding small pieces of toys hidden in impossible places. Shaped blocks under our mattresses or in light fixtures, as well as action figures. My mom began believing my stories more when one evening she was the only one awake as

[00:15:29] I had fallen asleep quite early and so did my siblings. She claimed to have seen a small boy peering around at her from between the stair railing into the living room.

[00:15:40] It was dark and she has poor vision as it is, but she said that she figured it was me messing with her. And she said, hey Jonathan, but she received no response. And the figure then left and went up the stairs.

[00:15:53] She told me about it in the morning and when I told her that I was asleep, she became nervous. Since then we have continuously experienced similar instances where things fly off of counters and lights turning on and off.

[00:16:07] We never feel any sort of danger and truly feel as though the being is playful at heart and almost that it feels lonely. To this day we still see small figures in the shadows or out of the corner of our eyes. And we always remember to say hello.

[00:16:23] Thank you for listening to my story, and I hope I can hear it on your amazing podcast. Keep up the good work, and I think it is amazing what you are doing. Have a blessed evening. Our next experience comes to us from Callie.

[00:16:41] And Callie's story is called, A Reminder From A Friend. Callie says, Hi Nick, I wanted to write in response to Heaven's Story in episode 233. They mentioned seeing a red cardinal after their friend passed away, and their story brought to mind my own story involving spirits and cardinals.

[00:17:02] My grandma passed away in 2018 due to health complications. My grandpa unfortunately followed a year later, and neither of them wished to have a funeral. Due to lifelong conflict on that side of the family, I've had difficulty receiving ashes,

[00:17:19] notebooks, or anything else that would help me memorialize them even though I was their oldest grandchild. When I tried to organize a gravestone site, I was ignored. It was during this time that I realized there was a lot of resentment from my aunt and her

[00:17:34] brother because my dad, who was the oldest of the three, moved my family out of state when I was very young. This contention drove a wedge between my family. This difficulty along with all of the trouble from 2020 significantly slowed my grieving process.

[00:17:50] I felt like I couldn't say goodbye or put them to rest for two to three years. One day my parents, my little brother, and I were talking about reincarnations. We said that my grandpa would come back as a crow since they are intelligent but raucous birds.

[00:18:06] My grandma would come back as a red cardinal. Even though red cardinals are males, she loved to watch them through the window, and we could easily see her spirit becoming one. When I was finally able to retrieve some items from my grandparents' house, I knocked on

[00:18:20] the front door and waited on the porch, fighting back tears. At that moment a red cardinal landed on the storm drain above me. It was less than a foot away from the top of my head. It hopped and looked down at me for a moment before flying away.

[00:18:35] The whole interaction lasted 30 seconds, but it's something that I'm never going to forget. It's like my grandma was saying, I'm still here, and I love you. In February of 2021, I decided to get a tattoo of a crow and a cardinal to memorialize my grandparents.

[00:18:52] I have attached a picture of it. The tattoo helped me to accept their passing, and it keeps them near me at all times. Whenever I see a crow or a cardinal, I always say in my head, Hi Grandma, or Hi Grandpa.

[00:19:07] It keeps me connected to their memory, and I miss them both very much. I wanted to thank Heaven for sharing their story, and also to thank Younik for this wonderful podcast. If any listeners are wondering, I'm also the same Callie who submitted Shadow in episode 43.

[00:19:25] It's crazy to think that that was almost 200 episodes ago. Thanks again. Callie Our next story of the night comes to us from Nemo. And Nemo says, Hello! I just found your podcast recently, and I thought I might as well jump on in and

[00:19:45] tell you one of my stories. Although I'm still young, there are many things that I have to say. For today, I'm going to tell you one of my longest running experiences. Here is a description of the creature that I call... My Shadow.

[00:20:00] Ever since I can remember, I've seen shadow people, but not in the usual way. Never in my room. In fact, I've never had sleep paralysis before. It's only in public, but no one else ever sees him besides me.

[00:20:13] Most of the encounters I have with them, they tend to run from me. Usually they duck around corners or just fade away. Please note that when I have chased the figures, most of their escape routes are dead ends.

[00:20:25] I highly doubt that he is a real or living person. My Shadow has never scared me per se, mostly just a sense of confusion. I don't take him to be evil, but mischievous. I think he's connected to the many things that have gone missing from our house.

[00:20:42] If anyone knows or has any ideas on what he's telling me, or what his intentions are, please do tell. Thank you again for the podcast. It's been a blast hearing everyone's stories. Have a good night. Nemo. Our next experience comes to us from Cassandra.

[00:21:03] And Cassandra's story is called... Night Visitor. Cassandra says... Hey Nick. I was at my daughter's house this weekend, and while waiting outside for a friend to stop by, I happened to catch this. I'm sorry for the poor video quality as my phone's camera isn't the best.

[00:21:21] The lights that are barely discernible were red, green, yellow, and blue, and the shape of the craft was definitely triangular. I've been checking the local news, but there's no other reports that I can find about this.

[00:21:34] It was also at 3am, so not many people in that neighborhood were awake. It drew my attention by the large bright white light that was briefly, and I mean like half a second or less, shining on the ground.

[00:21:46] It almost looked like the searchlights haunted houses use to attract visitors. This though, it clearly was not from around this galaxy. Let me know if you have a problem viewing the video, and I'll try to send it from my phone.

[00:22:00] Also, I will always support you as I feel you are doing incredible work by letting people out there know what's really out there. The listener stories are awesome, as I love hearing about other people's experiences. Take care my friend. Cass

[00:22:17] After talking with Cass regarding her sighting, she had this to say... This craft was so cool to see in person, even if it wasn't what I'd seen in the past. The citizen hearings did say that there were at least 57 different species, which makes

[00:22:31] me wonder which one this belongs to. It was so breathtaking, even if a little frightening. My own personal experiences aside, it was pretty sweet to see this thing moving in the night sky that night.

[00:22:43] I was in Kaysville, Utah when I saw this, literally outside my daughter's front door. I show the video to as many people as I can, and as often as I can, because it's just so incredible. Again, thank you for all you do. It's greatly appreciated. Much love, Cass

[00:23:04] If you're interested in seeing the video mentioned in Cass' story, you can find it in our forum, along with Callie's picture of her tattoo. As we come to the end of tonight's episode, I appreciate each and every one of you for being here.

[00:23:19] And a special thank you goes out to Grace, Jonathan, Callie, Nemo, and Cass for sharing their experiences. And if you've had a paranormal experience and would like to share your story, you may

[00:23:31] contact me through email or voicemail on our website, or via the links in the show notes. Until next time, I hope you all have a great weekend, and I'll see you back here on Monday with our next episode.

[00:23:46] From everyone at Paranormal Mysteries, thank you for listening, and remember, don't wait for the unknown to come to you. Get out there and find it.