(A) Missing Time, Sleep Paralysis, Hat Man & a Haunted House | Archive Ep178

[00:00:06] [SPEAKER_00]: On today's episode, we'll be talking about haunted houses, sleep paralysis, and the hat

[00:00:12] [SPEAKER_00]: man.

[00:00:13] [SPEAKER_00]: These stories and more on this edition of Paranormal Mysteries.

[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for joining me and welcome.

[00:00:30] [SPEAKER_00]: I am your host, Nick Ryan.

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[00:01:17] [SPEAKER_00]: And with all that in mind, our first listener's story comes to us from Adam.

[00:01:23] [SPEAKER_00]: And Adam's story is called The Missing Hour.

[00:01:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Adam says, Hi Nick, thanks for the great podcast.

[00:01:31] [SPEAKER_00]: It is one of the few things that truly helps a lot of people to try and make

[00:01:35] [SPEAKER_00]: sense of the unaccountable.

[00:01:37] [SPEAKER_00]: I for one have had some truly bizarre experiences throughout my lifetime.

[00:01:42] [SPEAKER_00]: I am especially interested in the stories relating to missing time, as my own defining

[00:01:46] [SPEAKER_00]: brush with the preternatural is intertwined with this phenomenon.

[00:01:50] [SPEAKER_00]: I'll try to make my story as concise as I am able with as much background information

[00:01:55] [SPEAKER_00]: as possible regarding specific details related to the event.

[00:01:59] [SPEAKER_00]: I had a job teaching English in Nagoya, Japan to kindergarten children during 2014, and

[00:02:06] [SPEAKER_00]: I had a bit of a commute to get to work.

[00:02:08] [SPEAKER_00]: I had to take the subway several stops, transfer to a different line, and then take

[00:02:13] [SPEAKER_00]: a bus a short distance, and the last leg of the journey was a short 10 minute walk

[00:02:17] [SPEAKER_00]: or so.

[00:02:19] [SPEAKER_00]: My usual routine was to take the subway to Hoshigalka Station, where I would meet

[00:02:23] [SPEAKER_00]: a co-worker and we would ride the bus together.

[00:02:26] [SPEAKER_00]: And we would hop off the bus and swing by a 7-Eleven convenience store to grab lunch

[00:02:30] [SPEAKER_00]: or snacks for the day.

[00:02:32] [SPEAKER_00]: My co-worker and I needed to punch into work no later than 9.

[00:02:36] [SPEAKER_00]: We would board the bus at the station at 821, 15 minutes or so on the bus, then another

[00:02:41] [SPEAKER_00]: 5 minutes in the convenience store, less than 10 minutes or so walking, and we would

[00:02:46] [SPEAKER_00]: be at work.

[00:02:47] [SPEAKER_00]: We would arrive between 845 and 850 almost every time, like clockwork.

[00:02:53] [SPEAKER_00]: One day in the summer of 2014, this was not the case.

[00:02:57] [SPEAKER_00]: My co-worker and I met up at Hoshigalka Station and boarded the 821 like usual.

[00:03:03] [SPEAKER_00]: We rode the usual route and arrived at our stop.

[00:03:06] [SPEAKER_00]: We disembarked and made our way to the convenience store.

[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_00]: We picked up our usual items for the day and left for the school that we worked

[00:03:12] [SPEAKER_00]: at.

[00:03:13] [SPEAKER_00]: We walked down Senkoko Road and crossed over Iwata River.

[00:03:17] [SPEAKER_00]: We would always make small chit chat on the way and at no point did we notice

[00:03:21] [SPEAKER_00]: anything unusual.

[00:03:22] [SPEAKER_00]: And a short time later, we arrived at our school.

[00:03:26] [SPEAKER_00]: We came upstairs like nothing was out of the ordinary and we greeted our Japanese

[00:03:30] [SPEAKER_00]: co-teachers.

[00:03:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Morning, we each said, and I remember one of them looking up at me from the office

[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_00]: and saying, you're late.

[00:03:37] [SPEAKER_00]: My co-worker and I were confused what she was talking about, and so we were

[00:03:41] [SPEAKER_00]: casually coming in and going to put our lunches in the staff refrigerator when our

[00:03:45] [SPEAKER_00]: boss came around the corner.

[00:03:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Where have you two been?

[00:03:48] [SPEAKER_00]: It's almost 10 and the kids will be here any minute.

[00:03:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Again, we were really just unsure of what was happening.

[00:03:54] [SPEAKER_00]: My first thought was that they were pranking us.

[00:03:57] [SPEAKER_00]: I walked around the corner and into the office to look at the clock and it said

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_00]: 945.

[00:04:02] [SPEAKER_00]: I stepped into the adjacent classroom and it said 945 as well.

[00:04:07] [SPEAKER_00]: I remember heading upstairs to the third floor to get my work shirt on just feeling

[00:04:11] [SPEAKER_00]: so confused and honestly a little bit excited about this whole thing.

[00:04:15] [SPEAKER_00]: My co-worker was up there with me and I tried to talk with him a little bit and just kept

[00:04:20] [SPEAKER_00]: getting a lot of, I don't know man, and that's really weird.

[00:04:23] [SPEAKER_00]: He really didn't want to discuss it.

[00:04:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I think it kind of freaked him out.

[00:04:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Our boss was a bit angry with us and didn't really buy or understand our story.

[00:04:32] [SPEAKER_00]: We still were able to work that day and everything went off just fine without any

[00:04:37] [SPEAKER_00]: further issues or concerns.

[00:04:38] [SPEAKER_00]: We didn't get docked on our paychecks or anything because that was our first and

[00:04:42] [SPEAKER_00]: only time either of us had been late.

[00:04:45] [SPEAKER_00]: There are a couple more odds and ends to this story which makes it interesting.

[00:04:50] [SPEAKER_00]: One thing to note about Japan is that it is one of the most punctual countries in

[00:04:54] [SPEAKER_00]: the world.

[00:04:54] [SPEAKER_00]: The trains and buses leave exactly on time with no room for error.

[00:04:59] [SPEAKER_00]: You can set your watch by it.

[00:05:01] [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, if a train is late you can actually stop by the station's master's

[00:05:05] [SPEAKER_00]: kiosk as you exit the train.

[00:05:07] [SPEAKER_00]: He will give you a little ticket that basically apologizes for you being late

[00:05:10] [SPEAKER_00]: due to the train being slow.

[00:05:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Some people think that it could have been some sort of seizure.

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_00]: I am epileptic and take medicine to manage my condition, but at that time I had been

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_00]: seizure free for years.

[00:05:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Additionally there were two of us and my co-worker was not epileptic.

[00:05:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Plus we had left the station at exactly 8.21 and it is highly unlikely that it

[00:05:32] [SPEAKER_00]: would have happened on a bus full of people.

[00:05:34] [SPEAKER_00]: The next strange thing is that I would usually do a time check when at the convenience

[00:05:38] [SPEAKER_00]: store to make sure that we had enough time for the walk.

[00:05:41] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't recall exactly what time we left the convenience store that day, but my best

[00:05:45] [SPEAKER_00]: estimate would have been around 8.40.

[00:05:47] [SPEAKER_00]: This leaves the job taking place after leaving the convenience store and before arriving

[00:05:52] [SPEAKER_00]: at work.

[00:05:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Also Japan does not observe daylight savings time.

[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Oddly enough this issue went pretty much forgotten about shortly after this.

[00:06:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody discussed it or talked about it.

[00:06:04] [SPEAKER_00]: It just disappeared, much like the lost hour.

[00:06:08] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't have any explanation or even opinions regarding this.

[00:06:12] [SPEAKER_00]: It is something which is impossible to quantify.

[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_00]: The thing that I have learned from this is that there are a great number of forces

[00:06:18] [SPEAKER_00]: at play in the world, just beyond the range of our perceptual understanding.

[00:06:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Some of these are good, others bad, and some are just mischievous when they cause

[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_00]: you to be late for work.

[00:06:29] [SPEAKER_00]: I would love to learn the answer for what really happened during the lost hour,

[00:06:33] [SPEAKER_00]: but I am also at peace with knowing that as a result of this experience, I have been

[00:06:38] [SPEAKER_00]: fortunate enough to have the veil lifted for the briefest of moments and to have

[00:06:43] [SPEAKER_00]: stepped through something that few people even know exists.

[00:06:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Keep up the outstanding work, Adam.

[00:06:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Our next story of the night comes to us from Charlotte, and Charlotte's story is

[00:06:58] [SPEAKER_00]: called Weegee Board Experience and Death Anniversary.

[00:07:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Charlotte says,

[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Hey Nick, I live in Auckland, New Zealand.

[00:07:08] [SPEAKER_00]: I love your podcast and have been listening to your podcast for two years now.

[00:07:12] [SPEAKER_00]: My mother gave me permission to tell her two scariest experiences.

[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_00]: The first experience occurred when my mother was a teenager.

[00:07:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Herself and a group of friends were playing with the Weegee Board one night.

[00:07:23] [SPEAKER_00]: In the beginning, her friends were talking to their lost relatives.

[00:07:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Then they decided to try to contact a young girl who was announced missing recently

[00:07:30] [SPEAKER_00]: in the news.

[00:07:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Her name was Natasha.

[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_00]: They collectively asked Natasha to come forward, and sure enough she did.

[00:07:38] [SPEAKER_00]: The group then asked her where she was.

[00:07:41] [SPEAKER_00]: She replied that she was in water.

[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_00]: They were all shocked that the missing girl was dead and that they were speaking

[00:07:48] [SPEAKER_00]: to her.

[00:07:49] [SPEAKER_00]: My mother and her friends then decided that they were done playing, and as they

[00:07:53] [SPEAKER_00]: were about to say goodbye, the planchette started to spin in circles quickly.

[00:07:57] [SPEAKER_00]: It then flung across the room, hit the wall and smashed into pieces.

[00:08:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Fast forward one week, the news reported that they had found Natasha's body in a

[00:08:07] [SPEAKER_00]: nearby river.

[00:08:09] [SPEAKER_00]: My mother never touched another Weegee Board again.

[00:08:12] [SPEAKER_00]: The second experience happened only four years ago.

[00:08:15] [SPEAKER_00]: My family and I traveled to Wellington, and while we were down there,

[00:08:19] [SPEAKER_00]: we decided to visit a shopping center called Kirk Caldy and Staines.

[00:08:23] [SPEAKER_00]: We took the elevator to the top, and as we went to leave the shopping

[00:08:27] [SPEAKER_00]: center, we had to go down their grand staircase with over 50 steps.

[00:08:31] [SPEAKER_00]: My mother totally freaked out.

[00:08:33] [SPEAKER_00]: She screamed and grabbed my arm.

[00:08:35] [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't think much of it until we got home.

[00:08:37] [SPEAKER_00]: I asked her what had happened once we were all alone, and she said that for

[00:08:41] [SPEAKER_00]: a couple of months, every time she would go down a flight of stairs,

[00:08:44] [SPEAKER_00]: she would get a terrifying feeling, like she was going to fall down them.

[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Eventually, she got so terrified that she visited a psychic, and the

[00:08:52] [SPEAKER_00]: psychic told her that she was experiencing the anniversary of her death.

[00:08:55] [SPEAKER_00]: My mother had died in a past life by falling or being pushed down a flight of stairs.

[00:09:02] [SPEAKER_00]: She finally stopped having those feelings a few weeks later.

[00:09:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much for reading my story.

[00:09:08] [SPEAKER_00]: I would like to know if any of your listeners have experienced something similar.

[00:09:12] [SPEAKER_00]: I would love for them to get in contact with me if they have.

[00:09:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Keep up the amazing work.

[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Charlotte.

[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Our next story comes to us from Joanna, and Joanna's story is called

[00:09:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Man Behind the Curtain.

[00:09:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Joanna says,

[00:09:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Hello Nick.

[00:09:31] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm from Portugal and I love your podcast since I discovered it.

[00:09:35] [SPEAKER_00]: I love paranormal stories so I decided to share mine.

[00:09:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Keep up the good work.

[00:09:40] [SPEAKER_00]: I've been experiencing sleep paralysis since I was 17.

[00:09:44] [SPEAKER_00]: It's always scary since I can't move and I usually see shadows,

[00:09:47] [SPEAKER_00]: which is weird because most of the time it's pitch black.

[00:09:51] [SPEAKER_00]: But last year when we were in quarantine,

[00:09:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I had the most terrifying experience of my life.

[00:09:57] [SPEAKER_00]: I sleep on the side of the bed that's next to our window.

[00:10:00] [SPEAKER_00]: I woke up one night and I couldn't move.

[00:10:03] [SPEAKER_00]: I couldn't hear my husband playing PS4 next to me,

[00:10:05] [SPEAKER_00]: and I just thought,

[00:10:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh no, it's sleep paralysis.

[00:10:10] [SPEAKER_00]: When I looked to my left to the side of the window with a curtain,

[00:10:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I saw a silhouette of a tall man all in black peeking behind the curtain.

[00:10:17] [SPEAKER_00]: I could see the hand, straight, long, black sharp fingers holding the curtain

[00:10:22] [SPEAKER_00]: and glowing eyes.

[00:10:24] [SPEAKER_00]: I was so scared, I tried to scream and I tried to move.

[00:10:28] [SPEAKER_00]: I looked at my husband and finally closed my eyes in frustration.

[00:10:32] [SPEAKER_00]: I felt tears rolling down my face.

[00:10:34] [SPEAKER_00]: And when I opened my eyes again,

[00:10:36] [SPEAKER_00]: the man wasn't behind the curtain anymore.

[00:10:39] [SPEAKER_00]: He was close to my side of the bed

[00:10:41] [SPEAKER_00]: and his fingers were pointing at me, almost touching my chest.

[00:10:45] [SPEAKER_00]: I closed my eyes again and I tried to move my feet

[00:10:47] [SPEAKER_00]: and I finally moved my arms and opened my eyes.

[00:10:51] [SPEAKER_00]: And I screamed and cried.

[00:10:53] [SPEAKER_00]: My husband was worried, but I couldn't tell him what had happened

[00:10:55] [SPEAKER_00]: for like 30 minutes because I was panicking.

[00:10:59] [SPEAKER_00]: I slept with the lights on for the rest of that week.

[00:11:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Our next story of the night comes to us from Tara.

[00:11:08] [SPEAKER_00]: And Tara says, Hi Nick,

[00:11:10] [SPEAKER_00]: I've been listening to your show for a long time now

[00:11:12] [SPEAKER_00]: and have debated writing in.

[00:11:15] [SPEAKER_00]: I have several stories,

[00:11:16] [SPEAKER_00]: but I figured that I would start with this one.

[00:11:19] [SPEAKER_00]: This might be long, so I apologize in advance.

[00:11:23] [SPEAKER_00]: My mom passed away in late 2008 of a brain tumor

[00:11:26] [SPEAKER_00]: and I was 22 at the time,

[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_00]: struggling with accepting how much her death affected me.

[00:11:32] [SPEAKER_00]: From about the ages of 14 to 19,

[00:11:34] [SPEAKER_00]: our relationship was very strained because of my stepfather.

[00:11:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Without getting too much into detail,

[00:11:40] [SPEAKER_00]: he wasn't a good person

[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_00]: and he made my mom choose between me or the marriage.

[00:11:44] [SPEAKER_00]: So for those five years,

[00:11:45] [SPEAKER_00]: we didn't have a great relationship.

[00:11:48] [SPEAKER_00]: After we started to rebuild it,

[00:11:49] [SPEAKER_00]: my mom would start siding with me

[00:11:51] [SPEAKER_00]: whenever my stepdad and I got into arguments.

[00:11:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I wanted to start with this

[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_00]: to provide some context to my story.

[00:11:59] [SPEAKER_00]: My mom always put herself last.

[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_00]: She bent over backwards to take care of others around her

[00:12:04] [SPEAKER_00]: and my stepdad was no exception, unfortunately.

[00:12:08] [SPEAKER_00]: He barely worked

[00:12:09] [SPEAKER_00]: and my mom was the breadwinner their entire marriage.

[00:12:12] [SPEAKER_00]: There would be times when she'd struggle to pay bills.

[00:12:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Meanwhile, I was affording my first vehicle

[00:12:17] [SPEAKER_00]: that my mom helped me get.

[00:12:19] [SPEAKER_00]: As long as I covered the car payment,

[00:12:20] [SPEAKER_00]: insurance and gas,

[00:12:22] [SPEAKER_00]: my mom considered my responsibilities were met.

[00:12:25] [SPEAKER_00]: However, despite being in school full-time

[00:12:27] [SPEAKER_00]: and working two part-time jobs,

[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_00]: sometimes I couldn't afford the gas.

[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_00]: So despite her struggles,

[00:12:33] [SPEAKER_00]: she would help me out when I needed it.

[00:12:35] [SPEAKER_00]: She would throw me her debit card

[00:12:36] [SPEAKER_00]: and tell me to go fill my tank.

[00:12:38] [SPEAKER_00]: I would protest knowing she couldn't afford it,

[00:12:41] [SPEAKER_00]: but she would always say,

[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_00]: "'Don't worry about it.'"

[00:12:44] [SPEAKER_00]: This phrase is important to remember.

[00:12:47] [SPEAKER_00]: After my mom passed away and after the funeral,

[00:12:50] [SPEAKER_00]: I was an emotional zombie.

[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_00]: I would go through the motions of getting up every day,

[00:12:54] [SPEAKER_00]: going to work, coming home and going to bed.

[00:12:57] [SPEAKER_00]: I felt that that was all I could do at the time

[00:12:59] [SPEAKER_00]: because I felt numb.

[00:13:01] [SPEAKER_00]: It was made worse when my stepdad pulled another

[00:13:03] [SPEAKER_00]: pity me stunt

[00:13:05] [SPEAKER_00]: and I struggled with the idea

[00:13:06] [SPEAKER_00]: of if I had some responsibility to him.

[00:13:09] [SPEAKER_00]: I debated doing some paranormal investigating

[00:13:11] [SPEAKER_00]: to see if I could contact my mom,

[00:13:13] [SPEAKER_00]: but at the last minute, I decided against it.

[00:13:17] [SPEAKER_00]: In my emotional state,

[00:13:18] [SPEAKER_00]: I knew that I wouldn't be able to deal

[00:13:20] [SPEAKER_00]: if anything else had been contacted.

[00:13:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I was in no state to handle any entities

[00:13:25] [SPEAKER_00]: as my family has a few believers

[00:13:27] [SPEAKER_00]: and we also feel the women in the family

[00:13:29] [SPEAKER_00]: seem to have some extra senses.

[00:13:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Finally, I decided if my mom is willing to and able,

[00:13:36] [SPEAKER_00]: she will contact me.

[00:13:38] [SPEAKER_00]: That night, I had a dream

[00:13:40] [SPEAKER_00]: where I went back in time and found my mom alive.

[00:13:42] [SPEAKER_00]: I spent the dream trying to tell her

[00:13:44] [SPEAKER_00]: that she was going to die

[00:13:45] [SPEAKER_00]: and my mom wouldn't look at me.

[00:13:47] [SPEAKER_00]: She would put her hand up to me

[00:13:49] [SPEAKER_00]: like she was telling me to stop

[00:13:51] [SPEAKER_00]: and at one point, she turns to look at me and says,

[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_00]: from the way you're talking,

[00:13:55] [SPEAKER_00]: it sounds like it's already happened.

[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Baby, if that's how I go,

[00:14:00] [SPEAKER_00]: that's how I go.

[00:14:01] [SPEAKER_00]: After she said that,

[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_00]: I asked her if I could take a photo of us

[00:14:04] [SPEAKER_00]: and she agreed.

[00:14:06] [SPEAKER_00]: I leaned over her shoulder

[00:14:07] [SPEAKER_00]: and took a selfie of the two of us.

[00:14:09] [SPEAKER_00]: After I took the picture

[00:14:10] [SPEAKER_00]: and immediately before I woke up,

[00:14:12] [SPEAKER_00]: my mom told me,

[00:14:14] [SPEAKER_00]: don't worry about it.

[00:14:15] [SPEAKER_00]: When I recalled the dream later that day,

[00:14:18] [SPEAKER_00]: I knew that my mom had visited me.

[00:14:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for your show and all that you do.

[00:14:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Tara.

[00:14:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Our next story of the evening comes to us from Lydia

[00:14:32] [SPEAKER_00]: and Lydia's story is called

[00:14:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I Think My House Is Haunted.

[00:14:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Lydia says,

[00:14:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Hi Nick, thanks for the podcast.

[00:14:40] [SPEAKER_00]: I appreciate the respect you give in your storytelling

[00:14:43] [SPEAKER_00]: without going over the top.

[00:14:45] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm a bit of a rambling storyteller

[00:14:47] [SPEAKER_00]: so I appreciate you bearing with me.

[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_00]: There's been quite a few I can't explain.

[00:14:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Growing up, I had a few encounters,

[00:14:54] [SPEAKER_00]: usually with shadow people,

[00:14:56] [SPEAKER_00]: but for the past couple of years,

[00:14:57] [SPEAKER_00]: my encounters slowly stopped.

[00:15:00] [SPEAKER_00]: I've always listened to and watched stories

[00:15:02] [SPEAKER_00]: with a healthy amount of skepticism.

[00:15:04] [SPEAKER_00]: When you hear hoofbeats,

[00:15:06] [SPEAKER_00]: think horses, not zebras, right?

[00:15:08] [SPEAKER_00]: That's changed over this past year.

[00:15:11] [SPEAKER_00]: I moved into this house in July.

[00:15:14] [SPEAKER_00]: I cleansed it with blessed water

[00:15:15] [SPEAKER_00]: as I like to do a physical and spiritual cleansing

[00:15:18] [SPEAKER_00]: in any new home.

[00:15:20] [SPEAKER_00]: There's also a creepy basement.

[00:15:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Keep in mind, due to my job,

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_00]: that I go almost daily into basements

[00:15:25] [SPEAKER_00]: and crawl spaces without hesitation.

[00:15:28] [SPEAKER_00]: It was built in the 40s

[00:15:29] [SPEAKER_00]: and according to the graffiti in the basement,

[00:15:32] [SPEAKER_00]: it's been rented out to college students

[00:15:33] [SPEAKER_00]: for over 30 years.

[00:15:36] [SPEAKER_00]: As for the experiences,

[00:15:37] [SPEAKER_00]: it started with the cats.

[00:15:40] [SPEAKER_00]: There's an attic turned into a loft

[00:15:41] [SPEAKER_00]: and there's just one corner

[00:15:43] [SPEAKER_00]: our two cats have been obsessed with.

[00:15:45] [SPEAKER_00]: I'll catch them sitting or laying completely still,

[00:15:48] [SPEAKER_00]: with their faces just inches

[00:15:49] [SPEAKER_00]: from where the walls meet the floor.

[00:15:52] [SPEAKER_00]: I used to laugh and check it out with them

[00:15:54] [SPEAKER_00]: only to find no bugs or sounds of rodents.

[00:15:57] [SPEAKER_00]: I've never seen anything there actually,

[00:15:59] [SPEAKER_00]: even though we do get spiders

[00:16:01] [SPEAKER_00]: and carpenter ants from trees outside.

[00:16:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Next is my stuff going missing.

[00:16:06] [SPEAKER_00]: It's always stuff I use often.

[00:16:08] [SPEAKER_00]: At first, I thought it was my roommate

[00:16:10] [SPEAKER_00]: taking things like my hair gel

[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_00]: and not telling me,

[00:16:12] [SPEAKER_00]: or I just misplaced it.

[00:16:14] [SPEAKER_00]: But the weird thing is,

[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_00]: I would find these items days or weeks later

[00:16:17] [SPEAKER_00]: where I know I looked

[00:16:19] [SPEAKER_00]: and where I last used them.

[00:16:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Even things that my roommate wouldn't know that I use

[00:16:23] [SPEAKER_00]: or where a lot go missing and reappear.

[00:16:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Even the last few days,

[00:16:28] [SPEAKER_00]: stuff seems to move from where I last put it.

[00:16:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Next is a series of nightmares

[00:16:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I was having through March.

[00:16:35] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't normally wake up from nightmares

[00:16:37] [SPEAKER_00]: and when I do have nightmares,

[00:16:39] [SPEAKER_00]: it's one I've been really stressed.

[00:16:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Those nightmares also have a consistent theme

[00:16:43] [SPEAKER_00]: and imagery.

[00:16:45] [SPEAKER_00]: However, these new ones are all over the place

[00:16:47] [SPEAKER_00]: and I always woke up scared.

[00:16:49] [SPEAKER_00]: They ended after a very vivid dream

[00:16:51] [SPEAKER_00]: where I would encounter a large and furred,

[00:16:54] [SPEAKER_00]: four-legged, demon-like shadowy being

[00:16:56] [SPEAKER_00]: complete with antlers and red eyes.

[00:17:00] [SPEAKER_00]: A few days after that,

[00:17:01] [SPEAKER_00]: I woke up with sleep paralysis

[00:17:03] [SPEAKER_00]: for the first time in almost 10 years.

[00:17:05] [SPEAKER_00]: There was deep growling at the end of my bed

[00:17:08] [SPEAKER_00]: and my room was pitch black.

[00:17:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Since I had heard weird noises

[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_00]: and seen things during sleep paralysis in the past,

[00:17:15] [SPEAKER_00]: I told myself that my asleep brain was tricking me

[00:17:18] [SPEAKER_00]: and my tiny dog was just snoring.

[00:17:20] [SPEAKER_00]: But I can't shake the feeling that something was there

[00:17:23] [SPEAKER_00]: and it didn't sound like Buddy snoring at all.

[00:17:27] [SPEAKER_00]: But what really shook me was a few weeks ago

[00:17:29] [SPEAKER_00]: when I woke up around 2am

[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_00]: to what sounded like a small child crying,

[00:17:34] [SPEAKER_00]: kind of like a kid being over dramatic when hurt.

[00:17:37] [SPEAKER_00]: It sounded like it was next to me in bed

[00:17:39] [SPEAKER_00]: and it also woke my cat up who was looking around.

[00:17:42] [SPEAKER_00]: The street lamp didn't show anything

[00:17:44] [SPEAKER_00]: outside my window near my bed

[00:17:45] [SPEAKER_00]: and my neighbors don't have kids.

[00:17:48] [SPEAKER_00]: I went outside to try to find the source

[00:17:50] [SPEAKER_00]: and when I came inside, my cat was acting spooked.

[00:17:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't sleep well after that

[00:17:56] [SPEAKER_00]: and my cat did not want to stay in my room.

[00:17:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Lastly, a few days after my roommate moved out

[00:18:02] [SPEAKER_00]: last week, at about midnight,

[00:18:04] [SPEAKER_00]: I heard what sounded like someone trying

[00:18:06] [SPEAKER_00]: to open my basement door.

[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_00]: There's no way an animal big enough could have gotten in

[00:18:11] [SPEAKER_00]: or my cat would have found it

[00:18:12] [SPEAKER_00]: as he sneaks down there when I do laundry and he's naughty.

[00:18:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Both my dog and cat heard it

[00:18:18] [SPEAKER_00]: but neither of them would go into the kitchen

[00:18:20] [SPEAKER_00]: where the door is.

[00:18:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Keep in mind that my dog is the friendly type

[00:18:24] [SPEAKER_00]: that will greet whoever is at any door with tail wagging,

[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_00]: hoping for pets.

[00:18:28] [SPEAKER_00]: And my cat is the type who is curious and pretty fearless.

[00:18:32] [SPEAKER_00]: The shadow beings have been creeping

[00:18:34] [SPEAKER_00]: into my peripherals as well, but only when I'm home.

[00:18:38] [SPEAKER_00]: I only have a couple of months left here

[00:18:40] [SPEAKER_00]: so I'll leave the entities be.

[00:18:42] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't feel particularly creeped out

[00:18:44] [SPEAKER_00]: so I don't want to risk upsetting whatever is here.

[00:18:48] [SPEAKER_00]: I hope you and the rest of your listeners are well.

[00:18:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Lydia.

[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Our next listener story comes to us from Nick

[00:18:59] [SPEAKER_00]: and Nick's story is called Hat Man.

[00:19:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Nick says,

[00:19:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Hi Nick, I listen to the podcast regularly

[00:19:06] [SPEAKER_00]: and often lament,

[00:19:08] [SPEAKER_00]: why hasn't anything like that ever happened to me?

[00:19:11] [SPEAKER_00]: But then I realized that it has.

[00:19:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I think that I may have suppressed or tried to dismiss it

[00:19:15] [SPEAKER_00]: with all that has happened since.

[00:19:18] [SPEAKER_00]: I used to live in Melbourne, Australia

[00:19:20] [SPEAKER_00]: with my wife and her kids.

[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Initially we were happy

[00:19:23] [SPEAKER_00]: and we both worked in the same occupation.

[00:19:26] [SPEAKER_00]: However, after a few years, we began looking

[00:19:28] [SPEAKER_00]: at transferring to another city to get a fresh start.

[00:19:31] [SPEAKER_00]: And while the kids were still young enough

[00:19:32] [SPEAKER_00]: not to affect their schooling.

[00:19:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Eventually we decided on moving to Brisbane.

[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Everyone was excited

[00:19:38] [SPEAKER_00]: and we all looked forward to the move.

[00:19:40] [SPEAKER_00]: We found a small two story house to rent

[00:19:42] [SPEAKER_00]: and our things arrived soon after.

[00:19:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Everything seemed okay.

[00:19:47] [SPEAKER_00]: The kids loved their new school

[00:19:48] [SPEAKER_00]: and my wife and I started training at our new location.

[00:19:51] [SPEAKER_00]: But after a few months,

[00:19:52] [SPEAKER_00]: I was struggling with the new job that I'd been offered.

[00:19:55] [SPEAKER_00]: And it was suggested that I return to my old role

[00:19:57] [SPEAKER_00]: but still in Brisbane.

[00:19:59] [SPEAKER_00]: I wasn't very happy

[00:20:01] [SPEAKER_00]: and again started questioning why I was doing all of this.

[00:20:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Everyone else seemed happy

[00:20:05] [SPEAKER_00]: but I was just going to be doing the same old thing

[00:20:07] [SPEAKER_00]: just in a different location.

[00:20:09] [SPEAKER_00]: I started to have trouble sleeping

[00:20:11] [SPEAKER_00]: and I began making stupid decisions as I was stressed.

[00:20:15] [SPEAKER_00]: One evening I got up late at night

[00:20:16] [SPEAKER_00]: as I couldn't sleep

[00:20:17] [SPEAKER_00]: and I went downstairs to get a drink.

[00:20:20] [SPEAKER_00]: I wandered around a bit to try to relax

[00:20:22] [SPEAKER_00]: and went to the back of the house.

[00:20:24] [SPEAKER_00]: I looked out the window

[00:20:25] [SPEAKER_00]: and could see down into the neighbor's back room

[00:20:28] [SPEAKER_00]: which looked like a living area.

[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_00]: It was lit and I could see quite clearly into the room.

[00:20:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I then suddenly realized

[00:20:34] [SPEAKER_00]: that I could see a black figure in a hat

[00:20:36] [SPEAKER_00]: facing towards me near the edge of the neighbor's window.

[00:20:39] [SPEAKER_00]: I did a double take,

[00:20:41] [SPEAKER_00]: closed my eyes and looked again.

[00:20:43] [SPEAKER_00]: And sure enough, it was still there.

[00:20:45] [SPEAKER_00]: I freaked out a bit and quickly moved out of sight.

[00:20:48] [SPEAKER_00]: This is stupid, I said to myself.

[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_00]: I walked further across the room

[00:20:52] [SPEAKER_00]: to the back sliding glass door

[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_00]: and peeked around the edge.

[00:20:55] [SPEAKER_00]: I could still see it

[00:20:57] [SPEAKER_00]: and I was sure it was still looking directly at me

[00:20:59] [SPEAKER_00]: although how it could have known where I had gone

[00:21:02] [SPEAKER_00]: is anyone's guess.

[00:21:04] [SPEAKER_00]: I quickly shut the blinds and hurried back upstairs

[00:21:06] [SPEAKER_00]: avoiding looking out any other windows.

[00:21:09] [SPEAKER_00]: I must've eventually fallen asleep

[00:21:11] [SPEAKER_00]: and kinda forgot about the incident

[00:21:12] [SPEAKER_00]: but things in my life soon went from bad

[00:21:15] [SPEAKER_00]: to a lot, lot worse.

[00:21:18] [SPEAKER_00]: One of the bad decisions I made

[00:21:19] [SPEAKER_00]: ended up costing me my job, marriage and family.

[00:21:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I still haven't recovered and it's been four years.

[00:21:26] [SPEAKER_00]: I've read that the black hat man

[00:21:28] [SPEAKER_00]: can be a portent of evil or bad things to come.

[00:21:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Only later after all these things have occurred

[00:21:33] [SPEAKER_00]: did I make the connection and realize that in my case,

[00:21:37] [SPEAKER_00]: that's exactly what happened.

[00:21:39] [SPEAKER_00]: A few months ago I went to a psychic expo

[00:21:41] [SPEAKER_00]: and decided I would have a reading

[00:21:43] [SPEAKER_00]: as I've never done it before.

[00:21:45] [SPEAKER_00]: I ended up choosing a clair sentient

[00:21:47] [SPEAKER_00]: that I was drawn to.

[00:21:48] [SPEAKER_00]: We talked for around 20 minutes

[00:21:50] [SPEAKER_00]: and one of the things she said

[00:21:51] [SPEAKER_00]: was that I had two entities attached to me.

[00:21:54] [SPEAKER_00]: One was female and one was male

[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_00]: which she said was quite unusual.

[00:21:59] [SPEAKER_00]: But the male did not have my best interests at heart

[00:22:02] [SPEAKER_00]: and she suggested that I get my house smudged

[00:22:05] [SPEAKER_00]: to be rid of it.

[00:22:06] [SPEAKER_00]: So is the black hat entity still with me?

[00:22:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Who knows, I haven't seen anything

[00:22:11] [SPEAKER_00]: since the first encounter

[00:22:12] [SPEAKER_00]: but I also haven't gotten back

[00:22:14] [SPEAKER_00]: to my normal self yet either.

[00:22:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Take care and thanks for reading my encounter.

[00:22:21] [SPEAKER_00]: All the best, Nick.

[00:22:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Our next story of the night comes to us from Charles

[00:22:29] [SPEAKER_00]: and Charles says,

[00:22:31] [SPEAKER_00]: I've never had any ghost stories before

[00:22:33] [SPEAKER_00]: and never really believed many of the ones

[00:22:35] [SPEAKER_00]: that I've heard.

[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_00]: But this is mine.

[00:22:39] [SPEAKER_00]: My wife joined the Navy

[00:22:40] [SPEAKER_00]: and was stationed in Meridian, Mississippi.

[00:22:43] [SPEAKER_00]: When I went to visit her,

[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_00]: I found out that the famous country singer,

[00:22:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Jimmy Rogers was from there.

[00:22:48] [SPEAKER_00]: So we decided to visit his museum.

[00:22:50] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not much on visiting graveyards

[00:22:52] [SPEAKER_00]: so we skipped that part.

[00:22:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't own any of his music

[00:22:56] [SPEAKER_00]: so I bought a CD there

[00:22:57] [SPEAKER_00]: and was listening to it the whole time

[00:22:59] [SPEAKER_00]: that I was in town.

[00:23:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Since she was new there

[00:23:01] [SPEAKER_00]: and I've never been there,

[00:23:03] [SPEAKER_00]: we relied on one of the older models of GPS

[00:23:05] [SPEAKER_00]: to get around as this was before smartphones.

[00:23:08] [SPEAKER_00]: We found a Waffle House to eat at

[00:23:10] [SPEAKER_00]: so I saved the location.

[00:23:13] [SPEAKER_00]: A few days later,

[00:23:13] [SPEAKER_00]: we wanted to go back to the same Waffle House

[00:23:15] [SPEAKER_00]: and since I didn't know how to get there,

[00:23:17] [SPEAKER_00]: we used the GPS.

[00:23:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, I didn't recognize where we were going

[00:23:22] [SPEAKER_00]: but something didn't seem right

[00:23:24] [SPEAKER_00]: but I kept going.

[00:23:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Finally, the GPS said that we had reached our destination

[00:23:29] [SPEAKER_00]: as we were pulling up to a graveyard.

[00:23:32] [SPEAKER_00]: I thought, that's strange

[00:23:33] [SPEAKER_00]: and then I looked to the right

[00:23:34] [SPEAKER_00]: and there was the sign.

[00:23:37] [SPEAKER_00]: The sign read,

[00:23:38] [SPEAKER_00]: this is the burial place of Jimmy Rogers

[00:23:40] [SPEAKER_00]: and it was right at the exact spot

[00:23:42] [SPEAKER_00]: that our GPS had stopped us

[00:23:44] [SPEAKER_00]: and his grave was right there.

[00:23:47] [SPEAKER_00]: And yes, we were listening to his CD while driving

[00:23:50] [SPEAKER_00]: and yes, I left right away.

[00:23:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Not necessarily a scary story but 100% true

[00:23:57] [SPEAKER_00]: and since I don't really go to graveyards,

[00:24:00] [SPEAKER_00]: I know that I didn't accidentally type in the address

[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_00]: of said graveyard.

[00:24:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Our next story comes to us from Lynn

[00:24:09] [SPEAKER_00]: and Lynn's story is called,

[00:24:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Sleep Paralysis

[00:24:13] [SPEAKER_00]: and Lynn says this,

[00:24:16] [SPEAKER_00]: I've listened to only about 10 of your podcasts so far

[00:24:19] [SPEAKER_00]: but I'm hooked.

[00:24:20] [SPEAKER_00]: I can relate to a few of them already.

[00:24:22] [SPEAKER_00]: I've had several strange things happen to me

[00:24:24] [SPEAKER_00]: but the one that got my attention

[00:24:26] [SPEAKER_00]: was one of your first ones about sleep paralysis.

[00:24:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Here is my story.

[00:24:32] [SPEAKER_00]: I was probably 15 and I'm in my 50s now

[00:24:34] [SPEAKER_00]: so this was a long time ago.

[00:24:37] [SPEAKER_00]: I was asleep,

[00:24:38] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm assuming on my back because that's how I woke up.

[00:24:41] [SPEAKER_00]: I felt someone sit on the edge of my bed

[00:24:43] [SPEAKER_00]: and this is not the first time that it's ever happened

[00:24:46] [SPEAKER_00]: as I've felt that before.

[00:24:48] [SPEAKER_00]: It seems to me that I heard a whisper maybe.

[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what they said but I woke up.

[00:24:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I swear I was awake, wide awake.

[00:24:56] [SPEAKER_00]: My body was paralyzed and I was terrified.

[00:24:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I was trying to yell for my mom

[00:25:00] [SPEAKER_00]: but I couldn't get my voice to work.

[00:25:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Suddenly my arms raised upwards in front of me

[00:25:04] [SPEAKER_00]: like I was reaching for something

[00:25:06] [SPEAKER_00]: or maybe like someone was pulling me up.

[00:25:08] [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't do it, they did it on their own.

[00:25:11] [SPEAKER_00]: I had no control over my body at all.

[00:25:14] [SPEAKER_00]: At that point I found my scream.

[00:25:16] [SPEAKER_00]: I was screaming for my mom

[00:25:18] [SPEAKER_00]: and she came and slept with me the rest of the night.

[00:25:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Most people would say it was just a bad dream

[00:25:24] [SPEAKER_00]: but I know that I wasn't dreaming.

[00:25:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Lynn.

[00:25:30] [SPEAKER_00]: As tonight's edition of Paranormal Mysteries

[00:25:32] [SPEAKER_00]: comes to a close,

[00:25:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I'd like to thank all of you for tuning in

[00:25:35] [SPEAKER_00]: and a special thank you goes out to Adam,

[00:25:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Charlotte, Joanna, Tara, Lydia, Nick, Charles

[00:25:43] [SPEAKER_00]: and Lynn for sharing their experiences.

[00:25:46] [SPEAKER_00]: And if you've encountered something

[00:25:48] [SPEAKER_00]: that you can't explain,

[00:25:49] [SPEAKER_00]: you can contact me through email, voice message

[00:25:52] [SPEAKER_00]: or on our website.

[00:25:54] [SPEAKER_00]: And all of these links can be found in the show notes.

[00:25:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Until next time, I hope you all have a safe

[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_00]: and healthy rest of the week

[00:26:01] [SPEAKER_00]: as we uncover even more experiences

[00:26:03] [SPEAKER_00]: involving paranormal mysteries.