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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
And welcome back George Norie along with author and experiencer
of Dark Happenings. Diane Centerfield, was born in Louisville, Kentucky,
from a combination of Appalachian, Tennessee and Kentucky coal mining
families dating back a century plus and from rural Indiana
farmers as well. Her book is called Para Abnormal in Kentucky,
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a collection of true stories. She was last on about
a year and a half ago with our own Connie Wallace. Diane,
welcome back. How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Oh? Thank you, George. I'm doing good, doing okay.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
That's good. When we say dark happenings, what does that mean?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Well? To me, it meant living a basically normal life
with just some struggles, typical struggles, and then moving into
a house that had demonic activity and it was unbelievable
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and terrifying. And so that's when I realized there were
truly dark things in this world that seemingly God wasn't stopping.
But then later on, uh, it came around, and then
God did stop.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
It was your entire family terrified by this, or just you.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
In the house, the first haunted house. The the spirit
in their attacked me and my uh oldest daughter, which
was she was only three at the time. The other
two children weren't attacked, although my son he would throw
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a little ball at night and he would tell me, Mommy,
the ball stops and comes back to me. And I
knew that didn't sound right, you know, it scared me,
but I didn't tell him that, so he didn't have
the experience that my daughter and I had.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
And then you wrote a book about eight years ago
called Pera Abnormal in Kentucky. Tell us about that title.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Well, we had so many things happened, and then my
grandchildren wanted me to write everything down, uh, And as
I started writing the things down, I realized that we
were pretty abnormal. We live in Kentucky. We love Kentucky,
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and we had coal miners from Kentucky and Tennessee. And
it kind of ran through our family a little a
little bit, but we didn't realize that at first. We
didn't talk about that thing. We didn't particularly believe one
way or another until it really invaded our life.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
And it invaded it in a big way, didn't it.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
It did. It went from kind of normal to very terrifying,
and it followed us for a while and places that
I worked it ended up some of the homes were
haunted in terrifying stories, and then we had good things
and angelic things, and that's when I felt like God
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stepped in and put an end to that.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Are the good and bad experiences, Diane's still happening for you.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Smaller now, George. You know, it's dreams, premonitions. Sometimes it
helps people save people, give them a little warning, and
the other things. Sometimes you get information that you can't
do any thing about. You know, you get just enough
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to know something's probably gonna happen, but you can't stop it,
and so you kind of learn to live with that.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
What what is it about Kentucky that makes some of
these things happen as much?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Well, that's interesting, you know. I've I've read books through
the years just interested in Kentucky stories, and it's kind
of all through apolection. I don't know if because of
the distance in the rural areas, if more activity comes there,
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I'm not I'm not sure. But there are a lot
of books about Kentucky, particularly ghost stories, and I guess
all over the United States. But it seems I don't know.
There's there's a lot of faith from these rural areas
in a very strong faith, and I don't know, maybe
that is a ground for demonic activity that maybe they
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want to invade. I don't know, George, it just seems
to be that way.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Did you ever figure out who these entities were haunting
these houses?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
In the first half? The house was very old, and
it turns out there was a little cemetery that we
didn't know about it at the time. You know, the
stones were basically in the ground, but I don't know
if it came from that. It was a very ugly
entity that was in the home, and I think perhaps
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several And the one night I was attacked with my
little daughter woke up and I fixed her a bottle
and she was kind of standing in the crib and
we both heard a noise, a heavy noise across the floor,
like something had been thrown down and dragged across the floor.
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And we both looked and I couldn't see anything, but
my daughter she pointed and said look, and her face
it was in terror. And that really scared me for her,
and it also made me angry. And about that time
water started splashing all over me, cold water. And I
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ran into the bedroom and told my husband he was asleep,
and he said, well, maybe the roost leaking. So I thought, well,
you know, I ran back into the room and was
talking with her, and then all of a sudden, I
was bombarded. Cold water was being thrown all over me,
and I was aware if I was the target and
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there was water all over was were And this time
I ran in and basically pull him up and I said,
water has been thrown at me. And when he set up,
a large drop of water just materialized and landed on
my arm. Of course, he jumped up then went in
and uh, that's when the activity really started of the
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bed shaking. Uh. And it was basically on my side.
There were things hitting it, pushing on the mattress. Uh.
You could feel things rubing across the side of the mattress.
It was it was unbelievable, but yet it was happening.
And we prayed a lot that night, and we prayed
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a lot of the other houses. And that was that
was very scary because I felt God really wasn't listening,
He wasn't answering our prayers, and it was it was
a terrible time for that activity.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
At what point in your life, Tianne, did you say
to yourself, I'm going to do this as a career.
I'm going to get involved in this in a big way.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Uh. You know, I really didn't UH for years, I Uh.
I wouldn't allow my husband to talk about it. I
didn't want to think about it. I didn't want it
in our life, and I was done with it. I
was done with it. But it kept coming back, and
then things kept happening, and I had some angelic visitors, premonitions,
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and then finally I thought, I think when I started
writing the book for my just my grandchildren, I thought,
maybe there's there's a rhyme and reason to this and
and this is a story that I needs to be told,
and maybe it could help other people. We were pretty dysfunctional.
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We were going through a hard time with my husband.
Was had some months mental illness, and so life was
really hard. And then we had these horrible things invading
our life find us. And so that when I wrote
my book for the children, I thought this might help
other people to know that maybe they don't feel like
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their life's going very well, maybe they've had it harder
than we did, and that God does exist. He cares
about us, and he sent us all kinds of angels
good things to let us know this is part of
a strange part of life, just another story to tell
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people we're connected. We are connected, and that He's there.
And that was what I came to. I realized that
there is a God and he's very active in our life.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Did the angels come to protect you?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yes? Yes, in the second house that we moved in,
when the beds started shaking again, and yeah, my lighter.
We were lying in bed one night and I heard
something hit the wall and my son, who was about seven,
then said, Mommy, something hit the wall, and I knew
I heard it, and I went in the living room
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and I had a zipple lighter back then I smoked,
and it was on the floor, but it had been
thrown with what I said, a vengeance. And I just
told him my lighter fell, that's okay, But you know,
he looked scared. He knew it was more than falling.
And we were going to a little church one night
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and I picked up my youngest daughter, Heather, and my
guitar and I was going to sing at the church.
And I went outside we had a high porch with
three steps in a conqueror asphalt driveway, and as soon
as I took my first step, I lost my balance
and I knew I was going to fall, and I'm
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trying to think, how can I get rid of everything
in my hands to protect my baby because we were
following this hard driveway down the steps and that at
that time a large hand uh caught my shoulder and
steadied me until you regained my balance. And I went
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down the steps kind of giggling, relieved, and I turned
around to see who it was. Our friend and my
husband were still in the house with the other two children,
and no one was there. And I said, kind of
out loud, how did they get back in the house
so fast? And I went back in and put everything
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down with my daughter, and we came back into the
house and I said, who came out just now? And
they said nobody. And I said, no, who came outside
just now? And they said no, nobody. Why And I said,
because I was falling and somebody caught me, and they just,
you know, like really, you know, they didn't know what
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to say. And we went on to church at night,
but I didn't tell anyone until I told my cousin
because I knew she would believe me, and it was
so beautiful. I didn't want anyone to think I had
made it up or that it didn't happen, So I
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kept that to myself because there's no other explanation for that.
I believe it was the Guardian Angel, but it was
hard to believe. It was hard to believe. We had
horrible demonic activity and homes and then to have an angel,
and that was kind of hard to believe as well,
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But it was wonderful.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
What do you think happened in these homes, Diane? To
have a demonic Do you think somebody died tragically? What happened?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Well? This home, particular home was built about eighteen fifties,
they say, and it's out in a aeric called Prospect.
And when I looked at that history later, it's a
real history of people cheating each other. There was a
lot of bloodshed, there were some massacres that took place
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out there, in some murders. It just seemed to have
a really dark history all around. And one day I
met the lady who was living in the mansion. She
was not the lady that lived in the mansion. At
the time, this was little caretakers home. But I met
her and she asked me, could she help me. I
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was looking at that house not closed. I still didn't
trust it, and I asked her if she knew anything
about it. I said, we used to live there, and
she said, I know it's haunted. And she said, my
house is haunted too, and I think probably that land
around there is haunted. And evidently it's kind of the
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dark history of prospect that you can find them books
and whatever happened in the house, you know, I don't know.
I don't know why that activity started. It was We
also had heavy footsteps that came up when we first
moved in, and you know, I kind of pushed that aside.
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We had problems in our life, and so it was
something in there. But it was very dark and it
uh it. There were other people who were caretakers in.
The electrician that came one day said, you know, people
don't tend to stay here, and I know why, now, huh.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Have you ever been physically hurt by one of these entities?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Well, not physically, but emotionally. It it shook me to
the core. You know, It's like I said, I realized
now there really are monsters in the closets and under
the bed. Uh, and there are things in the dark.
And I mean it hit me with such a regality.
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It it shook me, you know. Uh. That was like
life can't be like this, It can't really exist, you know,
but they do. And I you know, I listened to
your previous guest and I had to me if I
sound nervous.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
It was.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
It was a hard thing to hear. It's very scary,
and uh, I know it, and I read prophecy in
her thing. It's just sometimes it's just very scary. So
I'm I'm a little undert George. I've got a little
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breaking up. But you know what I might say about that,
I don't know. I guess if we all knew that
tomorrow we were going to be in a terrible wreck,
or five years from now this what's going to happen,
we would all be frozen in terror. We would just
be like, well, I don't want to have that happen
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in two years or and so I think the bottom
line for me is God is in control and we
can go to him for comfort, and we don't know
what what each day brings, and certainly we know that
we know what's going on in the world, but I
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think we can't let it, let it paralyze us. We
have to live today, and he is our only shelter.
I mean we could be hiding in a bunker or whatever.
I just think for people who can't move, who don't
have the money, that he is our shelter and that's
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our safest place we can go. Is I guess what
I want to say to people and to myself too,
that that's he's a shelter he said he would be,
and leave it at that and try to just look
for the good age day. I think these demons and
all the sort of people who act like demons in
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the sursay steal everything away from us and the bad
things to happen. And I think we can't let them
still our faith, our hope and our joy because I
think God loves us and he doesn't want that for
us to be robbed every day of our life and
maury and sorrow. So I would just tell people run
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to him for shelter and let it let it be.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
You know, you think our previous guests could be wrong.
I hope he is.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I do too. I think you know, when you read
different people's perspectives through the years, they say even prophecy
is not set in stone. That sometimes people, you know,
it's like it was that the little town I can't
think where. He said, Well, if I can find ten
good men or five good men, and I think you
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just felled one you know that has space, will you
not destroy it? And so I think that is really
in God's hands and that it may not be set
in stone. I know men's hearts on this earth seems infathomable,
full of hate sometimes, but general God you can take
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care of that too. It is in his hands, and
I think that's who we should just put our eyes
on and pray for the best.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
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