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October 21, 2025 40 mins
For over 30 years people have been encountering children with entirely black eyes. They almost always show up after dark and when the person is entirely alone. They scare the hell out of witnesses, often without even speaking a word. They just want to come in. This won't take long they say. But what is it they really want? And who, or what are the Black Eyed Kids? Join us as we try and unravel this complicated mystery. 





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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, everybody, join us as we delve into our favorite
dark tales and paranormal mysteries.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Venture with us beyond the safe places that exist in daylight.
As we go Beyond the Shadows, true crime, paranormal hauntings, UFOs,
cryptids and unsolved mysteries, conspiracy theories, past lives, reincarnation and
all the like are.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Just a few of the topics that we will tackle.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
If it haunts your fucking dreams, then it will be
on our show.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Do you know what the most in the world is?

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Beyond the shuttles where you found me?

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Yet you can't see me in the deepest blacks when
your heart starbusts and then you see their cracks, all
these creepy things that you wind the track for the
defense be where the actions act. So this enough you
want it, UFOs, all them ghosts. We got everything that
you want.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
It won't do you know what the thing in the
world is?

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Hey, guys, Welcome back to episode one sixty three of
Beyond the Shadows.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Welcome back Shadow Army to bonus bonus episode.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Ryan has got the second part to his stories from
last week, So we got some more black eyed kids.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
There's so many of them. Man, it's hard to choose.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
And I remember one time you're saying, I'm having a
hard time finding these black eyed and apparently you hit
the jacks.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
I was. It takes a lot of digging, but they're
out there.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
And for everyone I make, there's two that I skip.
I mean, if it reads to me fake, I generally
skip it. And I'm not saying everyone I did was real,
but I filled throughout the ones that.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Are all you try to do. The better one you
could tell.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Sometimes they're just made it up. The person will write
it out in a way where they're almost making it
up as they go. And then this happened. No, that
wasn't good enough. No, this is what really happened. Scratch
that twelve.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Of them all right, pal? So what are we got
in the news?

Speaker 2 (01:57):
So the people in the village of Klunky in he Is,
bhar State were shocked to learn about the death of
seventy four year old Mohan Law. He was a retired
Air Force veteran and it always seemed in good health.
Most who saw the funeral procession didn't even know that
the man had died, but they joined into the procession
anyway to mourn him. Everyone wasn't shocked, but they were

(02:18):
more shocked when he sat up in his coffin. Jack
turns out his death was completely faked, all for the
purpose of just seeing how many people showed up at
his funeral and how sad they were.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Basically, you know, this is an episode of Friends. Chandler
put out that he was dead, and then Ross is like, well.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Now, eventually, when this guy does actually died, nobody's gonna fuck.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Come now, They're not gonna believe him.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
The boy cried dead, yeah, or are they gonna be
up there like poking him in the coffin?

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Right?

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Come on, come on, fucker.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
He does this all the time, just sticking. Apparently afterwards though,
he had a big old feast for everybody.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Oh I did see that.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah yeah, so at least a thick move.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah, let's have some turkey.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, don't worry, I catered my own funeral, got it covered.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
The l Cortes Hotel and Casino, located on the Old
Strip in Las Vegas, is offering five thousand in cash
to someone who can spend the weekend there and scare
up all of the hotel's ghosts. The hotel is eighty
four years old and has spent decades storing the remains
of former employees who died without family in its basement. Supposedly,
it's quite hanted.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
It ought to be. That's fucked up. That's very fucked
very fucked up. Oh no, when you signed for a
job here, we get your course.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah, my family's gonna take my course. No or not.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
No, No, you didn't read the fine print.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Your corner's over there in the basement. Whoever the lucky
winner is that's chosen will be given not only the money,
but provided with all the top of the line equipment.
So they're gonna get like the EMF censors, EVP recorders
normal sense.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
We should definitely go in.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
We should apply for that. Doesn't it doesn't say when
the winner gets chosen, but that would be bad to
do this. It's a so I think it's I think
it runs through the new year. The actual winner does
it sometime in the new year. But it's the l
Cortes Hotel Casino. It's on the old Strip in Vegas.
But I would definitely do that.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, for sure, we're gonna have to find that and
have you guys recommend them.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
We're gonna have to have you guys all vote for
us at.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Least get to go to Vegas anyways, Always a good
excuse to go to Vegas.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
In boxes jammed with these two clowns who the fucking.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
All their friends rode in four of them.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
They pronounced el Cortes wrong. Lastly, we get a French
TikTok er name a mean jodo that's probably wrong. It's
been sentenced to prison for repeating the same stupid stunt
dozens of times. He would film himself walking up to
people with a syringe and pretending to inject them. In reality,

(05:00):
the syringe was empty, but the victims didn't know that,
and many of them ended up in the hospital to
be checked out for god knows what might have been
injected him. And I don't blame him. That's fucking creepy.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
If he had done that to me, someone definitely be
going to the hospital without a doubt for sure, broke
his neck.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
That dude should have had his ass kicking times or shot.
I could see someone shooting for the somebody's carrying a
gun was probably not legal in France. I don't know,
but uh, it's not legal all places here and doesn't
stop people from But if you pull that kind of ship.
That's like a justifiable Yeah, stab me with a fucking syringe,
we're gonna have a problem, big problem. Uh So, anyway,

(05:36):
he was charged with violence with a weapon not resulting
in work incapacity.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
He always looking through that article. It didn't he didn't
actually poke them, no, right, I mean I think he'd
walk up and like poke their clothing so they'd feel
the poke. But I'm sure you're in your mind you're wondering,
did he actually break the fuck out? A lot of
times when you get it, when you get a shot,
you don't feel it.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Oh, I always feel it's gonna hurt like balls, and
it never does. I don't do needles any They just
grossed me out. It ain't the pain. They just grossed
me out of them.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
I don't bother me any of course, I'm around them
all the time. I get to stab people myself.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
So so he ended up being sentenced to six months
in prison. So good he's gone for a bit. Oh
fuck is TikTok channel right? Sounds like an idiot?

Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah, not too bright. So that wraps it for the news.
We're gonna finish this up, huh, Yeah, let's do it.
We'll catch you over there.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Do you know what.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Is in the early two thousands, we have a young
woman camping alone in late August, right here in Maine.
She picnicked by the side of a lake and then
walked for about fifteen minutes to the nearest ranger station
to pay and get her pass for the week. She

(06:56):
intended to spend the whole week hiking and camping in
that same general area of the park. After she was
done in the ranger station, she hiked back to her
car to gather her gear for the week. There were
two young kids seated on the bench right in front
of her car when she got back, but it was
a state park parking lot, so that didn't seem unusual.
It was still a few hours until dark, so she

(07:18):
assumed the parents were just someone nearby. As she drew closer,
she could only see their backs, but she guessed that
one was maybe ten and the other was maybe eight.
They were engaged in an intense, albeit whispered conversation she
couldn't quite make out, but they went absolutely silent when
they noticed her. She smiled at them as she began
to gather her gear, but they didn't smile back. They

(07:40):
just stared at her. They almost, she almost said, they
felt like they were staring through her. She couldn't get
a good look at them due to the sun being
right in her face, but she found their stairs to
be very unnerving. She put it out of her mind
and went on her way to find a suitable camp site.
She picked a secluded location, and after setting up her
tent and cooking her meal, she fell asleep in her

(08:02):
chair by the side of the lake, facing up towards
the sky. She woke up with a start a few
hours later to a very strange feeling. It was now
pitch dark. This is when she noticed those same two
kids from earlier in the day were standing directly over
her and staring at her. It was now that she

(08:22):
noticed their soulless black eyes. Those are her words.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
That's not creepy, No, not at all.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
The kid scared the hell out of her, and she
realized how incredibly alone and isolated she was out here
in the woods. Picking up on her fear, the older
child said, relax, lady, we're just a couple of harmless kids.
We need your help. She tried to appear calm as
she asked them what they wanted. The younger boy stared
at his feet as the older one explained that he

(08:48):
and his brother were lost in the woods and they
needed to call their mom so she could come and
get them. Their mom wasn't in the park, she was
at home. When the woman asked how they'd possibly getten
that fireto the middle of nowhere on their own, the
boy appeared to be pissed off, but his tone never changed.
He ignored her valid questions and again said he and

(09:09):
his brother were lost and needed her help. She was
terrified and realized there was no one nearby who could help.
Since leaving the parking lot and hiking out to her camp,
she had not seen another soul until now. If these
kids even have souls, yeah, she told the boy she
couldn't help them, as she had left her phone in
the car and they wouldn't be service all the way

(09:30):
out here anyway. She said they could wait at her
camp and she'd hike back to the ranger station for help,
but she was not walking anywhere with them. The boy
answered her back in a very matter of fact manner
that she wasn't going anywhere at all without them. They
were all walking back to her car together, and she
would then be driving them home. She told them that

(09:51):
was absolutely not going to happen, and he smirked at
her before turning to look at the younger one. The
two kids then stared at each other for a minute
or two without changing expressions and never speaking a word.
Now that shit is creepy. All that's creepy. But that's creepy.
So they're clearly communicating, but they're not talking.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yeah, it's it's telepathy. Yeah, and it goes against my
whole vampire thing. If they're outside during the day, I
never really paid attention to a lot of the time.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yeah they are. Sometimes they are outside during the day.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah, so, but I mean, it all depends on which
type of vampire you want them to be. They could
be the sparkly twilight vampires.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Well, in Vampire Lord, there are ways that vampires can
become day day walkers. Yeah, it's possible, I guess if
you believe in vampires. So when they finally break the spell,
the older when older one goes back to his childlike
pleading while the younger one began the obligatory cry. We've

(10:45):
covered that they on cue it starts crying. She get
angry and screamed at them to get the hell out
of her camp and get away from her. He told
her they weren't going anywhere. She was going to be
quote a good human and help out a couple of
harmless and lost little kids. He smirked at her all
the while he said this. She knew they weren't little kids,
and she believed that he knew that. She knew this too.

(11:09):
She took off, sprinting into the dark woods for about
ten minutes before falling down and twisting her ankle. She
screamed at the top of her lungs for help, and
after some time she heard crashing coming in through the
woods up to her. She was terrified that the kids
had found her, but it ended up being a park
ranger who had been called by reports of a woman
screaming in the woods. When she told him the story

(11:31):
of meeting the kids in the parking lot and them
showing up at her sight in the middle of the
night and scaring the shit out of her, he did
not believe her. She sounded drunk, and he had been
in the parking lot nearby when she had grabbed her
gear earlier in the day. There were no kids on
the kids on the bench near her. There were no
kids at all. She had been the only other person
he had seen in the lot. She left the park

(11:51):
the next morning, never to return.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
Nothing like seeing something terrifying and then the park ranger
not believing you.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
And that's got to piss you off so bad.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
You know what you saw, and it's you said, this
is a main right, It wasn't, dude. I've never seen
a park ranger ever. Have you in the bigger parks?
You do?

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, for sure. If you go to a kadie there everywhere.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
I guess I don't go back. I go to the
woods all the time. But and Maine's woods are fucking creepy.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
Very dense, dense. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
Then more north you go, they're dense as hell. Yeah,
they're creepy for sure. I mean, you can get a
nice walk in the woods. This the other day, I
was walking Jacks. There's a trail around here, and I'm
walking him and it's a circle and as we go by,
Jax's a little wiener dog. Something scared the shit out
of him. He was like crazy spook. But there was
nothing there and he was like crazy spook. So now
all of a sudden, I'm spooked like, was it an animal?

(12:39):
Is it a bear? What the fuck?

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Chipmunk?

Speaker 1 (12:41):
And it's all it takes to spook Jackson. But so
the trail I'm on is actually a circle. It goes
all the way around. He doesn't even know, Jax don't
know what's a circle. Yeah, so we go all the
way around and it's like probably a half mile around.
You come back right by the same spot, and he
fucking did it again, and he kept looking over a
show like something was coming after us. So here we

(13:02):
both are in the woods, fucking ready to piss. He
scared the piss out of me.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
It's like the woods when we went to Rice for
the first time when we didn't actually get there. Those
woods were creepy as both. They were very creepy there,
always put your finger on it. But the woods of
woods around where we were close were almost scarier than
the woods I.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
Was going to say, I think those woods were actually
scarier And.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Was not a fucking sound in those woods. It was
a heavy feeling. There was something I felt like I
was being watched. I don't know. Those woods were creepy
as hell. Yeah, he'll put my finger on it. But
we all agreed you, Me and Troy all agreed that
those woods were creepy.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah they were. They were definitely creepy. And it didn't
help later on we were being surrounded by freaking coyotes.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
It closed in. Uh so the story does not tell
you the state park doesn't give you your name. Mean
has a lot of state parks or national parks both.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
We had a lot of game wardens. I haven't seen
very many park rangers.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah, Katie, like I said, is loaded with them. But
that's one of the most famous state national parks.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
I think I drove up Cadillac Mountain.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
But Katie is real nice. I like it. We go
there every year, oh, pretty much. So this is one
of those times where the Beeks make it a point
to tell someone they're just harmless kids. Not always kind
of bugs me because no kid ever says I'm just
a little kid. They just don't.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
They don't.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
They want to appear older, They want to be given
credit for being able to do things. They never say, oh,
I'm just a little kid, don't worry about me. Uh
that's so that makes me just believe that the kid
body is just camouflage. Right, And if you're if you're
still scared off. I'm they're gonna use them like, oh
my kid, what am I gonna do?

Speaker 1 (14:26):
Alien? Is it? I mean there's so many different things. Yeah,
they could be their own thing too. I suppose they're
always trying to put them in that group. Yeah, something else, couldn't.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
There highly be that a black eyed kid is just
a black eyed kid?

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah, exactly. But they seem to have rules they do.
They follow the same thing.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
Uh So next up, Fortunately for me at school, we're
staying right here in me boy. I didn't know I'd
never heard of the black eyed kid's case around it,
So it seems like these creepy little basterds are here
for re you.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
So the scenery mostly.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
We have a woman with her toddler's son at a
park in Andover Main where she frequently met with her neighbor,
who also had a child the same age as her own.
Park was usually busy during the mornings, where the older
kids were in school, and with it being such a
small town, all the parents and caregivers generally knew one another.
The woman saw a woman she was unfamiliar with walking
towards the park using a stroller, headed towards the only

(15:22):
unoccupied bench in the park. The witness said she immediately
got a vibe that something was off with this woman,
but she couldn't quite put her finger on it. She
also found it odd that none of the other parents
seemed to take notice of the newcomer at all. It
was a warm spring day, but the new woman wore
a heavy winter coat and had a scar wrapped all
the way around her neck, which definitely made her stand out.

(15:44):
She also wore glasses that seemed way oversized, and she
had very thin, little lips that almost looked to be
painted on. When the woman got near her location, the
witness was alone, as all the other kids and parents
were occupied elsewhere. She smiled at the new arrival and
said hello, but the woman didn't respond. She just smiled
a creepy little smile that was way too wide and

(16:06):
almost demonic looking. Our witness said hello again and asked
the woman how new she was to the area. The
woman responded that she wasn't new to the area at all.
She lived just up the road her entire life. It's
a small town. In the likelihood that she had never
seen this neighbor her entire life seemed extremely unlikely. You
know what that's like in a small town in Maine.
It's possible, but not likely.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
Not likely right.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
The park was part of a small gated community, and
the witness was debating on telling the woman the park
was only open to residents of the community. The woman
seemed to realize what she was about to say and
corrected herself to say that she had lived in the
town her whole life, but she had just recently moved
into the gated community. This was her first time being
in the park. The witness kept looking around to hope

(16:50):
her friend would return as the woman was giving her
the creeps. She was staring at her non stop. Even
when the woman would look away, she'd look back, and
the woman was still staring through her, not talking. She
was just about to call it a day and leave
the park when the woman responded to a comment she
hadn't even yet made. Can't leave yet. We haven't even
properly gotten to know one another. The witness had also

(17:11):
been wondering why the woman was wearing the sunglasses on
a day that was dreary and overcast, and the woman
seemed to pick up on this as well. She immediately
put them up on her head. The woman did not
have black eyes, but the greenest the witness had ever seen.
Unnaturally green is what she felt. She then pulled the
blanket off the stroller so the witness got her first

(17:32):
look at the strange woman's baby. The baby was tiny
and unhealthy, looking hasty, pale to the point of being
completely white, and his eyes were completely black. The woman
gasped and took a few steps back. The mother, No,
it's like it's like a Seinfeld episode. That's an ugly baby, huh.

(17:57):
So she gasped and take a few steps back. The
mother smirked and asked her what was wrong. The baby
laughed smirked as well. Jesus Christ, the baby was staring
a hole into her very soul, she felt. The woman
was terrified. Finally, her friend came back, and she said
hello to the strange woman and then leaned in for
some baby talk with a little one. The friend didn't

(18:19):
seem to notice anything off with either of them. The
baby went back to normal behavior when the friend came over,
just cooing and I'm doing what babies do. But when
she was looking at it, the baby wasn't displaying normal
baby behavior at all.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
See, that's weird. That's something completely near to you.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yes, it is. The witness's son came walking over to
join his mom, and he too recoiled when he saw
the baby. What's wrong with its eyes? Mom? It looks weird.
The green eyed stranger snapped her glance over to the
young boy with a look of furiousness on her face.
The witness decided it would be best to pack up
her son and get the hell out of there. As
they were leaving, the strange woman called out to her

(18:55):
son by name to say goodbye to him. She hadn't
told the woman her son's name, of that she was
positive the woman continued to smirk as they quickly departed.
She would later ask others that were in the park
that day if they had noticed anything strange about the
new woman or her child, but no one had. They
had both appeared perfectly normal to everyone else except the

(19:15):
witness in our son, no black eyes, no demonic smiles,
no strange laughter. The witness never saw the woman or
the devil's spawn again, but she remains positive to this
day that what she saw was not only a baby,
not only wasn't a baby, but that it was the
baby itself that was in charge and not the mom,
I don't know where she gets that in that.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
That's so weird, though, I'm not saying.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
She's wrong, but you know, there's nothing of that story
that indicates that. But that's some creepy shit that.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
Was supposed to be here in Maine too.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
And over well, the other thing that surprised me, didn't
you say gated community?

Speaker 2 (19:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (19:49):
I didn't know we had any of those either.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
We can't afford those.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
I can't afford things like gates or communities.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, wouldn't either. All right, It's like you were saying
a little bit ago, these things can be a lot
of things. I'm gonna do a couple stories that kind
of illustrate what I think they most likely are.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Oh okay, so.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
This encounter is on the website Beasts of Legend. The
author is not mentioned. I'm gonna give them credit for
posting the story. I do not know who wrote it,
so I'm just reading this as is written. It started
on cold November night in the outskirts of town, where
the woods grew too thick and the street lights flicker
like the dying of a dozen butterfly. But excuse me fireflies.
I was house sitting for my uncle, who owned an

(20:32):
old ranch style house half swallowed by the trees, the
kind of place where you hear the wind like a
whisper and swear it saying something. It was at about
nine thirty PM when they first knocked. They didn't ring
the bell. They knocked three slow, deliberate raps on the door.
I paused the movie I was watching and stood up, confused.
Uncle Jim had no neighbors for at least a mile

(20:54):
in either direction, and no one just drops by out here.
I opened the front door just enough to through the screen.
Two kids stood on the porch. They looked to be
about ten or eleven years old, A boy and a girl, pale,
too pale. They wore out dated clothes, like something from
the nineteen eighties. The boy had a bowl cut and
the girl's hair was in tight pigtails. Neither one smiled,

(21:18):
but that wasn't the worst part. Their eyes were completely black,
no whites, no pupils, just smooth, bottomless voiads where the
ice should have been. I felt my stomach drop. Can
we come in? The girl asked, Her voice was calm.
I'm motionless. We need to use the phone, no, I
said more bluntly than I meant to. My hand was

(21:39):
already on the door, starting to close it. Sorry, I
can't help you. The boy stepped forward. Please, our parents
will be worried. The air changed. Everything felt heavy, like
the house was filled with weighted emotion, sadness and dread.
It was terrifying. You need to let us in, the
girl said, not asked, commanded, but their expressions never changed.

(22:02):
I slammed the door and locked every bolt. For a moment,
there was silence. Then I heard them still there. Knock, knock, knock,
not just at the door anymore, the windows, the back door,
the glass pane above the sink. Knock, knock, knock, always
three knocks, always slow, always deliberate. I turned off every

(22:24):
light and crouched behind the couch, phone clutched in my
shaking hands. I called nine one one, but the line
was dead, no signal. I tried texting nothing. My phone
showed no service and the screen flickered like it was glitching.
Then the girl spoke again, louder this time. Her voice
carried like it was coming from every corner of the house.

(22:44):
Let us in. We can't come in unless you invite us.
That's when I realized they had never even tried the
door knob, never jiggled the handle, never pushed, They just knocked.
I stayed hidden. Hours passed, the knocking never stopped. Were
around four am, it finally did. I peeked out the
front window. They were gone. The sun came up like

(23:06):
nothing had happened. My phone started working again. I called
the sheriff, but when they came out, there were no
footprints in the frost, no sign of anyone, nothing on
the porch, but the faint smell of sulfur and something else,
rotting meat. I never stayed in that house again.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
I've heard the sulfur thing before, right, was that your
first time around? I think you may have told that.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Well, that's so. The way she describes that is two
different things. Sulfur often smelled on a lot of UFO
cases after the fact. The rotting meat is one hundred
percent demonic, always demonic, and sulfur can be demonic too.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
I read this one as purely demonic from start to finish.
Everything they do, the heavy shift in the atmosphere right
as the kids arrive on the porch, the failure of
her cell phone could be alien or demonic, but the
electronic failure, the incessant knocking in threes demons like to
mock the holy trendy. Yeah, they do that all the time.
In three yeah, the in fact they were all around

(24:06):
the house without leaving footprints anywhere. And the smell of
rotting meat. That one reads demonic to me. From the
gig go. This one also reads demonic to me. That's
gonna include another one. This comes again. I mentioned in
the last episode Jemmy Jade's book Danger at Your Door.
It was sent to her by a young man who
called himself Guss from a rest area somewhere along the

(24:26):
interstate in the Midwest. It was late at night and
the rest area was extremely dark, so he was already unnerved,
but he really had to use the restroom. As he
exited from the bathroom, he was looking down and walked
directly into a woman. He was about to apologize, but
noticed the woman did not look up, nor did she move.
She stared at the ground. He said he felt like

(24:47):
a current, not unlike electricity, coming from her during their
brief moment of contact. She remained motionless, and he would
later say she smelled like death, a rotting corpse. He
was terrified. Her skin was pasty white, and she had
disheveled red hair that he thought looked like a bad wig.
She was dressed in all black, including what looked like

(25:08):
a cape. He excused himself and went to step around her,
but she moved to block his path, and that's when
she looked up. She smirked as as she stared into
his soul with her cold black eyes. He gasped and
thought to himself, my God, to which he answered, God
doesn't exist. You know this right? Ooh. He sprinted over

(25:29):
to his car, got in, locked the doors, and fumbled
around in the dark for his keys. Within a split second,
there was a knock at the driver's side window. The
woman was already at the car, staring in at him,
never moving. When he put his keys into the ignition
and looked up again, her face had changed. She no
longer looked even remotely human, as her face had taken
on a very demonic form. She screamed that he couldn't

(25:51):
leave with utter. He squealed out of the parking lot
and raced away. When he looked back a second later
to the spot she had just been, there was no
one there, but her voice still boom through the air,
demanding to be led into his car.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
That's creepy.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
That's a very creepy story.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
Did you mention she had black guys?

Speaker 2 (26:10):
Yes? I don't know if I did.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
She did, she did, but so far from all the
stories that we've done. If there's if there's an adult there,
it's always a woman. Yes, it's never been a guy.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
There was another, uh episode, the first or the second
one I did, the ones we did a year ago.
It was also a rest area encounter, not the same one,
but similar.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yeah, and yeah, that sounds demonic for sure.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
Oh yeah, I did. She smirked as she stared into
his soul with her cold black eyes. Okay again, this one,
to me points demonic. Seems demonic for shit. Sure, yeah,
what else can the black eyed kids be? Let's take
a look at this next case. And I hope Lala's
listening because she requested something along these lines as a ways, big,

(27:00):
I hope her pronounced her name right.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
We're pretty sure that's right. Yeah, it's la La.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
Right, Well, you think it could be Leila. I would
think it's Lala, but yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
I guess it could be Leila. And she's been commonly
on a lot of stuff on Spotify. We want to
thank her.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
Absolutely. She's a anticipation, very vocal, which we love to
chat with us. We like hearing that. So she made
a request a while ago. This isn't exactly the episode
she requested, we'll get to it, but this is along
those lines. We've got a woman whose name is being withheld,
living on the East coast of the US. She's home
alone and here's a knock on her door after one
in the morning when she's in bed. Needless to say,

(27:35):
she's pissed off. She doesn't get along well with her
neighbors at all, and they often use their kids just
to get under her skin. They like to ring her
doorbell and run away, steal her newspaper, egg her house,
and shit like that. So she assumed it was them
yet again, and she was prepared to scream at them
when she flung open the door, but there were two
little kids standing there that she had never seen before.

(27:58):
She didn't recognize these two little girls from around the neighborhood.
They were not looking at her, but staring down at
her feet. She guessed them to be about thirteen and eleven.
She asked what it was that they needed, and the
older one said her little sister was cold and scared,
and that they needed to come in and call their
mother to come and get them. She said this all
without ever looking up. The kids terrified her, and she

(28:21):
had no idea why they hadn't said or done anything intimidating,
how they haven't even looked at her. But nonetheless something
felt off, and even though she hadn't made eye contact yet,
the older girl spoke with a confidence, almost arrogance that
didn't sit right with her. She still somehow thought that

(28:41):
the neighbors might be involved setting her up for something,
so she told them she couldn't help them and went
to close the door, but without looking up, the older
girl seemed to know what she was about to do,
and she stuck her foot into the doorway so she
couldn't close it. The woman was furious, and just then,
at the exact same time, both kids looked up and
stared at her with those lifeless black eyes. The woman

(29:03):
broke into a prayer at the sight of these two
devil kids, and at that moment, a thick fog began
to roll in, seemingly out of nowhere. It settled directly
onto the kids and for a second or two, they
were no longer visible to her. The fog broke just
as quickly as it had arrived, and she went When
she looked down now where the kids had been, there
were two reptilians standing where the kids had just been,

(29:25):
two child size reptilian humanoids, the exact same size as
the two black eyed kids had been. She gasped and
slammed the door shut and bolted it. She immediately looked
out the peep hole to see what they were up to,
but in that split second, they had disappeared and her
porch was empty.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
Okay, now that goes right to the aliens.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
Absolutely, the aliens.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Yeah, and we I don't think we've done the story
about reptilian.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
No, and she requested one. That's why I wanted to
show you.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
And I forget about that because I'm the one that
usually does the UFO s done. Yeah, we've mentioned I
think I've mentioned a few abduction stories where there may
have been a reptilian on board with us. Yeah, mostly
the insectoid. I don't know that they're done one specifically
about reptilia.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
No, you definitely have them, but you've mentioned them once
or twice.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Yeah, sure, I know I did one, and I went
through all the definitions that broke down everything. Yeah, that's crazy,
and that really makes you think, oh, well, maybe that's
what they're all like. And they don't see them just
don't see him changed.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
But I mean so obviously in the story they are aliens.
But what bugs me most about the alien theory is
over the years, we have dozens and dozens of alien
encounters or reductions or whatever. Uh huh, and I can't
find it or think of a single time with the
aliens and ask permission to do jack shit. No, no,
they're not asking if they want to come in, take
a sample, probe your ass, whatever. They don't ask, they

(30:47):
just do it.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
No, the old gang probe in.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
These kids don't.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
No consent necessary.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
These kids always ask for permission, and if it isn't granted,
they don't come in. Not Ever, I can't find a
single case where they don't come in do come in
without permission being granted. So I definitely lean much more
towards demonic entities, possibly ghosts. I've always said vampires checked
the most boxes.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
Vampires check the most boxes. I don't That's the one
thing I don't.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
I don't believe in vampires either, but I mean they
would check every box on the thing.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
So I think there's really people out there that classify
themselves as vampires that drink blood. We know those are real,
but not with any of the immortal. No, it's superpowers.
It's funny that we believe in so much stuff that
one Wow, I.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
Lean towards a demonic entity.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Possibly, Yeah, I mean, if it's it totally fits.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
We'd love to hear from you. Guys. What do you
think the black Head kids are? I mean, it's possible
more than one thing is going on. The one thing
I could say with certain is they're not fucking kids.
They're the kid form is a camouflage whatever reason, whatever's
being hidden.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
I don't know. But you can write this stuff off like, oh,
that's somebody's crazy story. But there's so many of these stories.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
Well yeah, but when I start to dig it into this,
I was pretty sure that it was bullshit before I
started the first one, and by this point in time,
I've come to around I'm abought a sixth that they
do exist. Truthfully, at this point, I think it's quite
plausible something. It's very plausible.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
A lot of people are seeing the same thing, so.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
I didn't. I'm not going to get into it too
much here, but when you dig there's also now something
considered white eyed kids, similar but not the same. The
White eyed kids are always alone. They do not need
your permission enter the house. They'll just come in if
they want to. Can't find a single case where there's
more than one, and generally what people have encountered them,
there's way less of those encounters, but they seem to
be a precursor of death. The person they visit doesn't die,

(32:41):
but someone near them always dies after a white eye
kid it arrives. I never even heard of them, and
that might be bullshit too. There's always a variation of something. Yeah,
black eyed kids have been done. Let's change it up
a bit.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
We tried the blue eye kids not scary enough.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
So I may do an episode on them in the future.
Who knows. Just wanted to mention them. So that's that's
it for now for the black eyed kids. Great job
with that, man, those are interesting stories. They're always good.
I said, I'd love to hear from you guys, and
what you think the black eyed kids might be. Always
like to hear you guys's opinions.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
Yep, we want them. You can write them on Spotify,
you can send them in you know. However, just let
us know what you think, and that's gonna wrap this.
But normally we don't do a fire pit on a
bonus episode like this, but we do have a fire
pit for you, and it's because it relates so much
to this story.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
I can't skip this opportunity.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
Nope. So we're gonna head over to the fire pit.
We'll catch you over there.

Speaker 5 (33:39):
I get to know what's homm it is. You can
get try to the violent.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
All right.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Before we get started, guys, remember we are desperate for
fire pits. We need them. We don't want to have
to wrap the show anyways. This one comes to us
from kay.

Speaker 5 (34:01):
H shut a feeble. This is my story.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
I was twelve years old when I had my first
sleepover at a friend's house of all night.

Speaker 5 (34:13):
It was Halloween. Her home was all the kind.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
With long hallways, spreaming floors, and then lights.

Speaker 5 (34:23):
It was very scary.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
We thought we were too grown up to go trigger treating,
so instead we decided to scare ourselves on purpose. We
made some popcorn, turn off almost all lights in her
in her home, and put the Exorcist movie. As the
movie played, the windows were kind of like with a

(34:51):
lot of noise ab outside. There were a lot of
trigger treaters knocking on the door even so often, so
each knock we will jump from our feet, but we
tried to love it off. Of course, it wasn't cool
to be scared. Not long after the movie ended, uh,

(35:12):
there was another knob, a little bit louder this time,
so my friend got up to hand out candy and
disappeared down the hole. So we waited and waited and waited,
and she took longer than other times, so her mom
eventually went to check on her. She was very annoyed

(35:35):
because she was taking too long, so when she came back,
she was pale and trembling with tears on her eyes,
so she couldn't speak at first, But then she told
us in a very shaky voice that there were two
children at the door. They were dressed with all fashion clothes. First,

(36:00):
she didn't care because it was Halloween, so she thought
it was costumes. But the rare thing is that both
of them had their eyes were completely black, with no whites,
no pupils, just black. They were asking her to come
inside the house. She felt like their voices were flat,

(36:24):
kind of emotionless. My friend had been standing frozen in
the doorway when her mom approached it, and she was
just staring at them and couldn't even move or speak. So,
according to her mom, she had physically pushed the door shut,

(36:45):
snapping my friend out of whatever trend she was. She
didn't get a clear look at the faces of the kids,
but she said she felt like they weren't really there.
But my friend was absolutely terrified. When she finally came

(37:08):
back to tell us that that what happened, she was
really shaking and very scared. So what she mentioned and
what I remember, is that she told us that she
hadn't heard them speaking with their mouths, their lips were

(37:30):
never moved, and she just hurt them inside her ship,
repeating one thing, which was let us in. She said
she couldn't she couldn't look away from their eyes. It
felt like they were pulling her forward and she had
to obey. That's why she was frozen when her mom

(37:52):
funded her. So at that time I just brushed it
off off. We were kids, and we had just watched
one of the scariest boover movies ever made, and her
house was so scary and felt like hunted. But something
about the way even her mom told us the story

(38:15):
and the way my friend couldn't stop staring at the
door after so scared, made it feel very real to
be just imagination. So that United States buried in my
memory for for many, many, many years. But when I
heard your story in the podcast about the black Eyed kids,

(38:42):
it that memory just rushed back to my to my
head and now I can help but wonder if it
really happened.

Speaker 5 (38:54):
So this happened back in per room.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
I'm from Peru, and I still don't have an explanation.

Speaker 5 (39:03):
So that's nice story. You like it?

Speaker 1 (39:13):
Ryan did this shit did that this time? So it
got messed up? It wasn't me. And first off, what
that was a great story, very good story and that
accent home.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
Yeah, we love that action guys. Great. I love it,
absolutely love So that's that's awesome that we have. It's
very rare that we have a fire pit that right
up to the story. Well that does exactly the episodes about.
I don't ever think that's ever happened actually, but yeah,
it's good to hear a story from somebody who's actually
encountered the black egg.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
We've had another person tell us about black eyed kids
and we did that, but it wasn't on the black
eyed cats and I don't believe, no, no, But yeah,
great story. We appreciate that. That was that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
Absolutely, very terrifying little fuckers. Yeah, really hard. They don't
really a lot of times they don't do anything terrifying.
They don't make threat, whether it's a vibing, the vibe,
the whole creepy fact, or there's just something terrifying about
those fucking kids. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
Absolutely, well, thank you for sending in that story. We
really appreciate it. The rest of you, guys, we really
need your stories beyond the Shadows two o seven at
gmail dot com or on any of our socials. And
that's gonna wrap it for this one. We will catch
you and the next one later, guys,
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