The Breathing: Ryan's Story

What does an unexplained encounter sound like from the outside looking in?

In this Close Encounter Club bonus episode, host Justin Gearheart sits down with Ryan, husband of Jennifer Jones, to hear his first-hand account of the chilling night his family experienced what they came to call “The Breathing.”

From his bedroom, Ryan was pulled into the experience when Jennifer and their son heard something outside the second-story window — a deep, metallic, labored breathing unlike anything he had ever encountered. He recalls the sound in vivid detail: slow, powerful, mechanical yet organic, and so close it felt pressed against the wall of their house. The moment he pulled back the curtains, the breathing stopped.

Ryan shares his honest, skeptical perspective: weighing possible rational explanations, ruling out machinery or neighbors, and grappling with the eerie fact that there were no vibrations despite the sheer volume of the sound. He also reflects on the connection between this strange event and Jennifer’s sudden, unexplained recovery from years of debilitating back pain — something he admits defies explanation.

This conversation offers a grounded, outsider’s view of an encounter that challenges logic and raises unsettling questions about what might be lurking just beyond our perception.

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