August 18, 2023 • 41 mins
There's a figure that countless people have seen across the world, usually during sleep paralysis, but not always. Today's listener tells Cristina and MJ about her shadow person encounter and MJ shares an encounter of her own.
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(00:06):
Hi everyone. This is Christina andthis is MJ. And this is another
episode of a Spooky Tells, thepodcast for all things a spooky and shadow
people's stories apparently, because that's whatwe're talking about today. We have a
I guess this this episode is goingto be a little bit different. We
have a much longer than normal listenersstory that we're going to listen to together,
(00:27):
and then I have two very shortshadow people's stories, and then you
have my personal one. Oh okay, yeah, and okay, I guess
I mean I don't have anything elseto add to the beginning of this episode.
Let me think, thanks thank youto everyone that has replied to our
(00:48):
book club discussion questions. We've We'vehad like three so far, which is
more than last time, so that'scool. And more people signed up for
the book club newsletter. That's alsocool. Yeah, I guess that's really
like the more the newest thing withus. So yeah, are you ready
to press play on this listeners story? Oh wait, okay, I guess
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before I say that, if youhave a story that you want to send
in, you could email at SpookyTools at gmail dot com. You can
submit it on our discord. Youcan DM it to me. There's a
lot of options. Any of thosework. If you have like a very
very long story and you really wantus to hear it, just email me.
We'll set something up because there's waysto you know, collect that story
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from you, which is what Idid with this listener because she was like,
my story is too long to writedown or to like just record,
So that's another option. Just yeah, just email me or us, I
say me, because I'm like theone that answers all the emails. Yes,
but yeah, that's at spooky atgmail dot com. All right,
let's count to three and then we'llpress kay and listen to this story together.
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Okay, one, two, three, plate believables go wrong. Probably
first grade when I first had myexperience, we were living a little village
here in Chicago, and I wasgetting ready for the last day of school.
(02:14):
When I saw like little sugars stilllook it reminded me of like the
beast from building. The beast likeon the walls, running and the wall
was like white brick, and Ijust remember seeing like that big beast chumping
like literally biting heads off of littlehumans or other creatures. And I stared
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at that while like a good thirtyminutes and I saw that and I was
like, I don't know if Iwas dreaming or what, but I know
that block where I used to livethere. I know the last house used
to be a bar, and apparentlythere was some shooting. People die,
like a processed tod. You usedto work there. They got some murder.
(02:57):
Some actually had abortion there, soout of probably because I was close
to the area, it might haveattractive stuff. I still remember that like
to this day, like I can. It was. It was kind of
scary from there. It's just likeseeing shadows hearing steps, and it kind
of like stopped for a while,but just hearing shadows, I mean seeing
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shadows are hearing steps back and probablytwo thousand and four, we my father
bought a house in a little billee, like another area from Little Village.
I remember we used to live thefirst floor. We just used to hear
steps from the second floor, andnobody used to rent there, and then
(03:46):
we ended up moving to the secondfloor and my dad ran to the first
floor. I used to always hearfootsteps in the attic. But the thing
I said, the attic wasn't stable, like for you to be there for
a long time. I used totell my Yeah, my dad used to
be like, oh, it's ajoke. I was like, yeah,
that's a joke. Yeah, soand then my Dad's like no. And
(04:10):
it wasn't until when we got older. We moved to the first floor,
and my older sister she stayed onsecond floor because she got married, and
that's when she started hearing those stories, and she never believed me or anything.
And then she's not like, oh, I heard like you guys weren't
home or her foots is upstairs.And I was like, no, but
(04:30):
they can be. And then mysister like, remember like we both blocked
it at our neighbors that we hadtold us that supposedly an old lady committed
suicide in the bathroom because her husbanddied. So we don't know whether that
was sure not, but we're like, do you think it's like we used
to say that, And I waslike, I don't know. That was
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just like scary. So then atsome point I kind of got used to
it, but I was always scaredto in the night, like in the
morning, like since it was bright, I could going get the stuff,
but when they stand had to sendme to go get something or check because
the electricity we used to go out. I was so scared, like my
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body will get chills and everything.And for some reason I will always think
that that you don't know was likeon the other side of the little door
thing, and I was like,she's she's here to come and get me.
I'm like, oh, I don'tlike that as all. Then we
ended up moving. We moved toNew York shortly, probably from two thousands
(05:34):
May of twenty seventeen to probably theend of December twenty seventeen. Because it
was expensive over there. We couldn'twe couldn't manage. But I remember one
day we were at the apartment thatwe found two rents, and the neighbor
from like across from us, hepassed away in his sleep in that home.
(05:56):
So I remember that the next bythe night I was sleeping, but
I was like paralyzed, like comeon, like you know how to say
no. I was sleeping and mysister was on the other side of the
couch and I remember clearly I couldn'tmove. My hands were kind of like
for the like about to grass something, and I couldn't move. I saw
(06:19):
my eyes like my younger sister waslike because my nickname is China, so
she was like China touching me everything. I couldn't move, and then I
remember my mom, I was tellingme, you're supposed to pray so bald
and moister, like three times untilthe fourth time was like I was able
(06:39):
to move, and then I leta scream out and I was like,
I saw you trying to wake meup and move me, but I couldn't
say anything. And I think that'sI think I was like the third time
I had experience because it because asa teenager in my passle like two times
in that same old house that mydad used to own. It was just
(07:00):
like I guess it was only meand my mom who used to had the
experience of sens mortal. And Iremember now that I'm talking about that,
I remember that. And my momat one point was afraid to sleep in
the in the room like the firstroom when you enter to the house that
my dad had to like take upthe bed to the living room. Like
(07:23):
she said it as soon as mydad had to work, that she would
feel a presence, a negative presencekind of like go near the bed and
like she would feel the bed kindof get like pushed down when somebody takes
a seat. No, she wouldlike cry and everything. And and it's
funny because in that same room Ihad experienced two times. I guess I
(07:47):
only slept there and then I wasmoved to the end of the room towards
like the back. And that's whenmy parents had that room. That's when
my mom had an experience in theroom. And she said she had a
dream where she saw a witch lookingabove her. Oh my god, Oh
hell, no me, oh mygod. I know she said she looked
(08:13):
like really scary scarily that I waslike, oh my god. So like
me and her, we had sleptin that room separate times, but we
both had that same experience there.And then we came back from New York.
I remember clearly it was December seven, and by a we stayed a
(08:37):
couple of days at my sister's housewhere she was sprinting, and then we
moved in that We lived shortly inthat home, but like I think,
spears anything there. It wasn't untilthe second apartment we moved to, which
was the area is called back ofthe Yards slash Englewood, and I used
(09:01):
to see a lot of shadows thereand it was a tall man. I
remember I was sitting down doing workand I see like someone like a male
figure run across and I was like, I was like, oh, I
guess my dad has to go tothe bathroom. Then picture her dad just
like bucketing from the bathroom. Igo check. My dad is to sleep
(09:26):
on the couch. I was like, then what was that? So then
I keep saying this shadow everything.I got to a point where my dad
and my older sister I actually sawthe shadow too, and he didn't even
say anything. Probably a couple ofyears after then, we moved out from
there, but my sister said thatthe house used to be a branded so
(09:50):
the owner bought it. He wasfixing it. He fixed the first floor
only, and he was finishing thesecond floor. And we were trying to
come then to my older sister tomove in to the second floor because it
would have been closer if she neededto work. She could have just dropped
my niece and nephew downstairs. Youcould have helped everything. But she would
(10:11):
kept saying no, no, AndI was like, what's going on,
And she's like, it's because whenone time I went to Busyu at the
top of the search to the secondfloor. She said, like, I
saw a tall shadow man it.Oh my god. I was like,
what do you mean you saw ashadow She's like, and I described it
(10:31):
and she's like yes. I'm like, okay, so I'm not the only
one I've seen it, Like Iwould have dreams of that shadow person as
well in my dreams. But itnever did anything negative to me, Like
it didn't scare me. So itwas just like following me around. That
year in twenty nineteen, I dida girl trip to New Orleans and I
(10:56):
think I kind of made it worsethere because we did the whole cemetery trip
we did. We want to seelike cemeteries and everything and throw out there.
I heard a lot of chains.Okay, what are you doing?
Who you're looking for? I'm like, don't you hear that? And they're
(11:18):
like no. Oh. So Ifeel like after that vacation trip with the
girls, it kind of what that'sstronger because I will see like different shadows,
but I will see that shadowman someone little to be dressistic like PATRICKO
style. Wait, let's pause,hold on, let's pause, it's play.
(11:39):
But the Zus thing they had thesame when she's when she said that
I was like, oh my god, this is like the shadow person that
you saw. Yeah, but before, before your story, I had never
heard of someone saying it was likea Patrick, Yeah, she's like the
only other person I've ever heard thesame same Yeah, So that was wild.
(12:03):
When she said that, I waslike, it's we know, is
there anything like Latino people? Wedon't see the hat man, we see
the man. That is crazy.I never heard that before, like another
person having listen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm telling you when she's
(12:24):
When she told me that, Iwas mind blown, Like stop it.
I immediately yelled out and I waslike, oh, she's not here,
I'm doing this phone call. ButI told her. I was like,
oh my god, that's exactly whatMJ was sing. She's like, I
know because she listens to the episodes. And I was like, of course,
I don't know why he had torepeat it. Oh, we need
the what's it called the like somethingthat says we don't get the hat man
(12:48):
seriously, like a bumper sticker.My shadow man is a bunch. Oh
that's crazy. Okay, press play, okays, are you at eleven forty
nine? Is that where you pause? Yeah? Okay, all right,
let's press play after three one twothree, play with the hell like that.
So I ended up buying a housein twenty nineteen. We moved in.
(13:13):
Everything's relaxed, I kind of seeingtheir few with the shadow. My
paternal grandmother passes away the next year, twenty twenty. My mom said that
she went downstairs to watch the todo the laundry when her no, she
said she knew and she felt likea touch on her back, so she
(13:37):
said she knew it was her motherin lawn. She was like, don't
worry. That's a nice one.Now everything's gonna be all right. I'm
gonna be here for your son,for your grandma, for your grandkids,
your great grandkids and everything. Andthen from there she said she didn't fall
anything. But wow, this iswhy I wanted to do a whole episode
on just this because I was like, this is too similar to MJ's.
(14:01):
It really is. That's insane,Like like I yeah, another Butchugo hat
Man what? But because like Ithought, like I was like, oh
my god, am I the onlyone? But now that we like,
I feel like it's like almost likesomething that only Latinos will see because it's
like so engraved in our like theyou know, the outfit. Yeah,
(14:24):
yeah, that's crazy. Yeah,if you've seen the butchgo hat Man,
please email dot com. I wantto know more. We need to know.
Yeah, if this is like ifyeah, you know what's funny though,
like coming back like to like thewhole theory that like hat Man is
somewhat like dressed similar to the Menin Black. I'm like, what if
(14:46):
our like Latinos get the alien.That's just like you know, it's like
I'm gonna, like, you know, just just wear a zoot soon blend
in right. Yeah, our littlealien has style or whatever it is,
the entity or whatever the being haveI've noticed whenever I do tiktoks and I'm
(15:07):
like saying that there's a being,I accidentally say the word bean, like
it sounds like bean. I'm likethis bean, and I'm like when I'm
editing that whatever the captions and itsays bean, and I'm like I replay
it and I'm like, wow,I do say the word being like bean,
and then like it's not just you, because I every time someone says
(15:30):
being, I hear the same thing. And like when I'm watching like this
extra extraterrestrial being, I'm like andthen I think of a little alien bean,
a little extra love it. Actually, that sounds really cute. Get
a little alien eyes, it willbe adorable. Yeah yeah it actually,
(15:50):
yeah, that sounds like a likea cute sticker. It's only I could
draw. I can't. I usedto be able to, not anymore.
I think I've already said this,but like sometime last year I had like
suddenly I was like, I'm gonnalearn to draw. Yeah, you painted
that little alien I still have it. Yeah, So those are my practice
(16:14):
cannabsies. I'm like and then I'mlike midway, I'm like I'm done.
Yeah, I drew one thing onmy surface pro like a little boo ghost
from Super Mario. And then Iwas like, I'm not doing this again.
I'm bored with this terrible but yeah, if I could dry, would
make a little freehold alien looking thing. Yeah, but wow, what I
(16:38):
mean, like, what a creepystory? Yes? Yeah, but should
we hear yours next? I'm jay, you have hear mine? Okay,
So this like happened like within likethe last I want to say, like
months, maybe two months, becauseit's all like a timeline. There's just
(16:59):
like crazy shit that happened. SoI usually don't see much around this time,
but I've been like sick, likecrazy, and I don't know of
like me being sick and being likejust overall this negativity when it comes with
when you're sick, like you justfeel like shit. That was like drawing
things to me or whatever. Idon't know, but to give a little
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layout of my apartment. When youenter the door, it's straight into the
living room, and then in frontof you is the kitchen, and then
to the left hand side there's alittle hallway that you go into and it
leads to the rooms. So Iremember I was like, I think I
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had just gotten done making dinner,and I was having my kids like you
know, like after dinner, brushtheir teeth, you know, get ready
for bed, all that fun stuff. And I was I went into the
hallway and to the left is myson's room, and I see like this
(18:07):
figure of a person there right,and but wait, I still haven't I
hadn't realized it was what it was. And I was like, oh,
my son is just you know,he's chilling out, he's relaxing, he
had dinner, he's you know,he's getting the sleepies. Okay, awesome.
(18:29):
Cool, don't have to struggle thatmuch tonight. And then I walk
into my room and he's there,Oh no, oh no, And I
was like and I was like,you know, like double take. I
was like, what the hell justhappened? And I was like, I
thought you were like in the roomright now. He was like, mom,
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I've been in here the entire time. I was like, stop it.
And then and then I go backand they're just like nobody laying on
the bed, Like I go.It was just freaky. So I was
like gaslighting myself whatever. I like, I'm hallucinating. It's fine, it's
fine, it's fine. And thenlike a few uh, like I want
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to say, like a week goesby, and then my husband gets home
from work and I don't know whatcompelled him to do this, but we
have a little play area that's likeright after the kitchen and he walks into
that area. I think to turnon the like Zoe was already night,
and he freaks the fuck out.Like I'm talking about. He jumps and
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he's like, somebody just grabbed mylegs. Oh my fucking god, no
no, and like yeah, likesomething like just grabbed his calf and like
try to like yank him. Hewas freaking out, and I was like
stop it. And then oh mygod, and then no, I guess
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like it was this week gets worsemy mom and my kids where I think
she was like, you know,like Grandma's like, let me fix you
up something, even though you justhad dinner, and she's in the kitchen
with the kids, and her andmy kids hear something in the playroom and
(20:22):
they hear like a grunt, likea man going like h or something like
that, and it was just themthree and my mom's like freaking out.
My son's freaking out. And thatentire week, you would hear someone in
the playroom like trying to play withthe toys. Oh no, and this
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is is this the same playroom thatyou've heard like things before, Yes,
the same playroom, but like forsome reason, whatever was in this playroom
was like this time being vocal aboutit and also grabbed my husband's legs.
And that is always in the spanof that I saw that like shadow person.
Wow, that was that looked likemy son, but wasn't my son.
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And and throughout this entire time,we're also hearing or I should say
I'm hearing people like my kids callme and I'd be like, like,
what's up, what's up? Whatdo you want? I was like,
Mom, nobody's talking to you likeouch, but I heard you and they
was like, no, we didn'tcall you like and I was like,
no, no, I heard momwith your voice, and then I would
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also hear my uh my name andit was like my husband's voice or my
parents. It was just the weirdestthing, and it wasn't feeling very good.
So my best friend was like,I am sending yukopa and you're gonna
burn and stage your entire apartment.And I did and it worked like whatever.
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It was, It just yeah.But it was so crazy because we've
never had like anything physically like touchus. But that day it just grabbed.
My husband's liked and was like Idon't like you. I'm gonna grabb
You're like, but when I tellyou he jumped, it was funny.
It was funny at the time,but I tell you, he jumped so
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high. I was like, man, I've never seen you move that fast.
But it was scary, like youknow if we're so scary. But
then I was like cracking up becauseI was like, man, I never
moved that fast. But yeah,we did a cleansing. It was crazy.
And then my mom had told methat and that's where I saw my
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son. She had one time likeslept there, and she said, and
one night she wasn't shrift. Shewas lucid, dreaming or not, but
like she remembers one night opening hereyes and seeing like a very handsome man
over her. But then this man'sface turns horrendously ugly. Oh my god,
(22:57):
it was like like shifting from thisLike she was like he was a
very handsome, very beautiful man,and then all of a sudden he wasn't.
I was like, oh, thatis not good. But me and
my kids say that we have amimic because it like that's terrifying. Yeah,
because it like mimics the kids andlike, yeah, and this is
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the same playroom, same kitchen whereyou always hear steps and you always hear
like something trying to play with thetoys. It was weird. It wasn't.
I don't even know what's the worstpart of all of that, the
grabbing or I don't know, it'sjust all horrible. It's just I was
not happy I cleansed because I waslike I don't know what the hell's in
here, but I don't have timefor this. I'm sick. I ain't
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nobody got time for this. You'regetting like a cleanse the hell out.
But yeah, I bought some copaland I learned how to work with it
because it is resin, very sticky. It's not fun, but I managed
good good. It was the crazyand it's a it's been good. Since
it's been good. I'm after thisrecording, I am probably gonna stage again,
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like I just yeah, understandable,Yeah, yeah, wow, wow.
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Well, I have two very shortstories that they lovely don found for us.
So the first one is out ofChihuahua, Mexico, and here it
goes. One night a man namedCarlos Jesus who woke up with sleep paralysis.
(26:03):
He wasn't able to move much,but he was able to tilt his
head and look towards the window.That's when he was surprised to find out
that he wasn't alone in the room. Oh, I just remembered right now,
when you said that, I completelyforgot. So my daughter was having
trouble sleeping. So she came intomy room and you know, she was
like sleeping on the bed and shelooked out of my window and she like
(26:27):
woke me up, and she's like, mom, and this is all within
the timespan. Also, okay,this is all happening around the same time.
And she's like, there's some menoutside the window. I live on
the second floor. Oh my god, Oh my god. I'm grasping at
my chest right now. I'm horrified. I was like, I was like,
(26:51):
Terri, no, I was soscared. And I woke up and
Andrew was like, hey, canyou close the blinds? I didn't tell
him. I was like, yeah, you didn't tell him. Forgets him
against him, but it's not gonnaget me, yea. But anyways,
you did that, I was like, I just know. Yeah, it
was crazy. I was so scared, but you know what I tell you,
(27:11):
Like, I don't think I tryto close, but it was a
hot day and I had to letthe breeze come in. I was like,
no, no, we're gonna I'mgonna sleep sweating. I don't care.
Yes, close. So I wassleeping with my blind clothes. But
she was like, she was like, she woke me up. I don't
know what time it was. Itwas very early in the morning, very
(27:33):
late at night whatever. And she'slike, there's some twilight, like it
was just it was dark. Itwas like twelve or one, two,
three, I don't know, inthe morning something like that. Yeah,
And she was like, there's aman outside the window. I did not
get sleep. Yeah. I wouldhave been like, and you think I
want to see that ship. I'mlike I was just like, okay,
(27:56):
let's just turn around and put herbacks towards on window. If we can't
see it, it's not happening.Start pulling a like that lady on the
plane that move a buck around there. Someone sent me. Was it you
who sent it to me? Orwas a krmen? Someone sent me a
reel where someone is like pretending toreact like that when their kid comes and
(28:18):
says like there's something in the closet. I think it must have been KRMINGI
and I have not Okay, Ishould I not send it to you?
I think you did, but Ididn't say okay, okay, but you
didn't see. Yes, yeah Iwould. I would have started doing that,
actually, man. Yeah, soI've been cleansing as often as yeah.
(28:38):
Wow, okay, let's go backto the story. Then I'm gonna
start it over. Let's see you. When I amanded Carlos sus book up
with sleep paralysis, he wasn't ableto move much, but he was able
to tilt his head and look towardsthe window. That's when he was surprised
to find out he wasn't alone inthe room. Staring back at him.
(28:59):
Was there reflect action of a blackfigure. Unable to move, Carlossus was
stuck in fear when a few secondslater he began to hear a voice in
his head that faintly said come oh, no, sorry me, come with
me. Us is worse, itsaid, my bad, It said,
come with me, O, gessme. This only made matters worse,
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and the impending sense of doom accompaniedthe voice, almost like death was near
and coming. For him. Soon, his breathing got shallow and his heart
rate began to slow down. Eventhough Caro his Sus was completely scared and
was sure the end for him wasnear, he knew that he had to
do something, so he mustered upall his strength and forced his body to
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sit up. That's when suddenly theshadow figure disappeared. Cardlos Jesus was relieved,
and when he turned around to checkif anything else was in the room,
he noticed the clock. It readthree fifteen egg end. Of course,
this became the first of many timesthat Carlos has Sus sung the Shadow
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Figure that month, but eventually thefigure stopped showing up. During their last
encounter before the figure disappeared, Cardossusonce again fell dread and an impending sense
of doom, but this time hewasn't as scared. Instead, he felt
excitement and an urge to follow theshadow figure. M No, I've never
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had that urge. What what urge? What urge are you talking about?
WEIRDO? Is the ur right?This last encounter felt like reaching the top
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of a roller coaster before the ridedrops. That's not excitement either, that's
like exciting I want to throw up. Yeah, anxiety Luckily catrole sisters did
fied the urge and never followed theshadow figure. Oh good, good,
Okay, let's see. He movedout of the apartment and then moved a
few more times, hoping that bymoving the figure would never catch up to
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him. And yeah, I agree. He didn't see it again after that,
so it worked. That's good.Yeah. Wow mmmmmm. This other
story is from Sonora and it wassubmitted by Kevin. According to Kevin,
he caught his mother and sister talkingabout strange activity happening in the house a
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few months before his mother passed away. During the conversation, Kevin overheard his
mother had confessed to his sister thatshe had seen a dark figure more than
once in her closet. You.She also added that the figure was always
wearing some type of hoodie. He'scomfy. Kevin's sister also confessed that she
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had seen a shadow figure standing overher candle when she was a child.
Oh my god, Sammy, whenshe was a child. At that point,
both of them called Kevin into theroom and asked if he's ever experienced
anything strange in the house. Kevinwas shocked to find out he wasn't the
only one that had seen a shadowfigure in the house. He told them
he'd seen it standing over the endof his bed a few times, and
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that usually he was overwhelmed with asense of fear when it happened he would
sleep. He would only sleep withthe covers over his head to hide from
the figure. But no matter howmuch he tried to ignore the feeling of
dread, he always felt like ifhe took the covers off his head,
the figure would be right there atthe edge of the bed, staring.
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It seemed like the shadow figure wasattached to the entire family because his brother
also saw it. He called itthe little man that would come out of
his closet every night. But unlikehis mother's, Kevin's brothers swore the shadow
figure was wearing a strange beret insteadof a hoodie. That's weird but gross.
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Nonetheless, yes, I don't likeit. I feel like my shadow
people are less they're the one thattouched Yeah, yeah, better him.
Actually that is very true. Soin a sense they are nice because they
didn't do it to you. They'relike, I'll spare her. I don't
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get this, uh huh, yeah, oh my gosh, no, I'm
I'm glad I've never seen anything.I'm so thankful I didn't see whatever the
hell my daughter was saying outside theone like, I feel bad for her,
but I'm also thinking I didn't seeI would have died of a heart
attack of fear, like right onthe spot. Like my poor kids that
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come to me for help and Ijust pass out and they both need help.
Children, get your father, Yeah, yeah, don't get mobbed.
Yeah, don't call me. Leaveme out of this. Well, I
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guess this was a bit of ashorter episode because I forgot to write down
the other story that I was gonnado. So yes, but before we
go, do you have any spookyrecommendations? No, I've like been I
finished X Files a while ago,and I'm like trying to find something that's
similar, but I have not.I know there's that show Fringe, but
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I don't know if it's anny good. I've never I've never watched it.
Yeah, well, do you watchwhat We Do in the Shadows? Yes?
Okay, have you been keeping upwith the newest season? No?
Oh, well do that because theirepisodes are out and they're great. That's
one of my recommendations. And myother one is not spooky. But this
Food season two came out, Ohmy god, I'm so excited, and
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there actually is a paranormal ish episodein it, so you know what it
counts is recommendation it does? Yeah, yeah, I watched that ship in
like a day. They're so funny. I love this Food. I just
it's such a good show. Yeah, one of my favorites. So yeah,
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those are my two recommendations. Andanyone if anyone watched the other recommendation
that I had, I need toknow if anyone else thought it was like
as good as I did the onethat I mentioned, like, I think
it was like three episodes ago.I think it's the any moment the Agentina
movie. I told our friends overat Shake and Not Scared podcast, but
I don't know if if they've watchedit yet, because I'm like, I
(35:45):
need someone to talk about this moviewith. I still have not watched it.
I need I know if you dowatch it, then we should talk
about it. But only if youwatch it. I already spoiled the first
like five minutes though that's fine.It's only five minutes. So yeah,
but I thought it was good.I guess some people are not happy with
like the ending. But I'm like, I don't know. If a story
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doesn't conclude, if it's not clear, I don't care. It's like my
art story. Yeah exactly, wasI entertained? Was I scared? Okay,
that's good enough for me. Butas we have said this many times,
I have low standards. We have, like I like, you know,
I like it when it leaves offon a cliffhanger or everything's not fully
explained because I'm like, oh,more content for them to do, right.
(36:30):
Yeah. Yeah, So it's nota big deal to me, but
I guess that bothered a lot ofpeople that there's just some things that were
not explained in the movie. Soyeah, if you watch it, I
don't know, and you don't likethings like that, then you're probably not
gonna like this movie. But Ithought it was great. Let's see other
than that, Should we announce thebook Club book now or should we wait
(36:51):
till the book Club episode? Idon't know what's up to you, I
guess, I think, but let'sjust say it. Wait what was it?
Oh, Silver Night Trade? Yes? Yes, Sylvia Marina Garcia mm
hmmm, we're almost like an onlyshe she comes out with so many books
(37:15):
like I just I mean, Ijust got this one. My best friend
got her for me, and thenshe's like popping out like two more and
I'm like, girl, let mecatch up first, Like, yeah,
let us catch up. I stillneed to read the Monroe one too,
doctor. Yeah, I haven't readthat one. Yeah, yeah, but
I absolutely cannot. It's coming outvery very soon now the oh yes,
(37:38):
it's a tomorrow tomorrow. Yes,okay, so that should be your next
one. Yes, But I alsowant to see too many books, so
a little time because I also wantto I've been wanting to read Tender as
the Flesh. My husband's boss slashfriend gave him her copy for me,
(37:59):
so I have it, and soI was like, I want to do
this one too. There's just somany books. I feel like we need
to try and beat as much aswe can, because so many books I
want to cover, like they're you'reright, I'm gonna try better because I
took way too lost with the shortAss. So we're gonna talk about it.
Because it's like you're you have,you do a lot of editing,
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you you work, and then likeon top of that word it's so hard,
like there's not This is why it'sthe book Cleft for Busy People Away.
Yeah. Yeah, but I justwish we had more time because there's
so many books that I just wantto read and talking about there's not enough
time. Yeah, there never isenough time. We're always like finding more
(38:42):
time, and then my perception oftime already stuck. So it's like worse.
Yeah, and like I try toread and then by the time I'm
like it's the end of the day, I'm like, it's already what time?
Iden? I fuck, I haveto sleep. I'm not gonna be
if I don't get enough sleep.I'm my day's right. I don't function
until afternoon. Then next day,and then I'm like, wow, is
it already five? Where has theday gone? So I need It's like
(39:06):
a spiral of like, yeah,one thing after the next affects the next
thing, and yeah, it's terrible. I hate it life. Yes,
not that I hate life. Ijust hate when like one thing ruins everything
else, and that happens a lot. Oh, anyway, I guess before
we go off off the rails,we should end it. Y. Yeah,
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thank you everyone for listening, anddon't uh, don't sleep with your
feet uncovered, and don't if youget the urge to like, turn and
look at something at three in themorning, Just just just turned towards the
wall and close your eyes. That'sthe best thing. Yeah, or sleep
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under the covers. I don't knowsomething, but turn to the cover yourself
and just pretend. Don't leave yourfeet out and uh yeah, stay a
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Hi everyone. This is Christina andthis is MJ. And this is another
episode of a Spooky Tells, thepodcast for all things a spooky and shadow
people's stories apparently, because that's whatwe're talking about today. We have a
I guess this this episode is goingto be a little bit different. We
have a much longer than normal listenersstory that we're going to listen to together,
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and then I have two very shortshadow people's stories, and then you
have my personal one. Oh okay, yeah, and okay, I guess
I mean I don't have anything elseto add to the beginning of this episode.
Let me think, thanks thank youto everyone that has replied to our
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book club discussion questions. We've We'vehad like three so far, which is
more than last time, so that'scool. And more people signed up for
the book club newsletter. That's alsocool. Yeah, I guess that's really
like the more the newest thing withus. So yeah, are you ready
to press play on this listeners story? Oh wait, okay, I guess
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before I say that, if youhave a story that you want to send
in, you could email at SpookyTools at gmail dot com. You can
submit it on our discord. Youcan DM it to me. There's a
lot of options. Any of thosework. If you have like a very
very long story and you really wantus to hear it, just email me.
We'll set something up because there's waysto you know, collect that story
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from you, which is what Idid with this listener because she was like,
my story is too long to writedown or to like just record,
So that's another option. Just yeah, just email me or us, I
say me, because I'm like theone that answers all the emails. Yes,
but yeah, that's at spooky atgmail dot com. All right,
let's count to three and then we'llpress kay and listen to this story together.
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Okay, one, two, three, plate believables go wrong. Probably
first grade when I first had myexperience, we were living a little village
here in Chicago, and I wasgetting ready for the last day of school.
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When I saw like little sugars stilllook it reminded me of like the
beast from building. The beast likeon the walls, running and the wall
was like white brick, and Ijust remember seeing like that big beast chumping
like literally biting heads off of littlehumans or other creatures. And I stared
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at that while like a good thirtyminutes and I saw that and I was
like, I don't know if Iwas dreaming or what, but I know
that block where I used to livethere. I know the last house used
to be a bar, and apparentlythere was some shooting. People die,
like a processed tod. You usedto work there. They got some murder.
(02:57):
Some actually had abortion there, soout of probably because I was close
to the area, it might haveattractive stuff. I still remember that like
to this day, like I can. It was. It was kind of
scary from there. It's just likeseeing shadows hearing steps, and it kind
of like stopped for a while,but just hearing shadows, I mean seeing
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shadows are hearing steps back and probablytwo thousand and four, we my father
bought a house in a little billee, like another area from Little Village.
I remember we used to live thefirst floor. We just used to hear
steps from the second floor, andnobody used to rent there, and then
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we ended up moving to the secondfloor and my dad ran to the first
floor. I used to always hearfootsteps in the attic. But the thing
I said, the attic wasn't stable, like for you to be there for
a long time. I used totell my Yeah, my dad used to
be like, oh, it's ajoke. I was like, yeah,
that's a joke. Yeah, soand then my Dad's like no. And
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it wasn't until when we got older. We moved to the first floor,
and my older sister she stayed onsecond floor because she got married, and
that's when she started hearing those stories, and she never believed me or anything.
And then she's not like, oh, I heard like you guys weren't
home or her foots is upstairs.And I was like, no, but
(04:30):
they can be. And then mysister like, remember like we both blocked
it at our neighbors that we hadtold us that supposedly an old lady committed
suicide in the bathroom because her husbanddied. So we don't know whether that
was sure not, but we're like, do you think it's like we used
to say that, And I waslike, I don't know. That was
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just like scary. So then atsome point I kind of got used to
it, but I was always scaredto in the night, like in the
morning, like since it was bright, I could going get the stuff,
but when they stand had to sendme to go get something or check because
the electricity we used to go out. I was so scared, like my
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body will get chills and everything.And for some reason I will always think
that that you don't know was likeon the other side of the little door
thing, and I was like,she's she's here to come and get me.
I'm like, oh, I don'tlike that as all. Then we
ended up moving. We moved toNew York shortly, probably from two thousands
(05:34):
May of twenty seventeen to probably theend of December twenty seventeen. Because it
was expensive over there. We couldn'twe couldn't manage. But I remember one
day we were at the apartment thatwe found two rents, and the neighbor
from like across from us, hepassed away in his sleep in that home.
(05:56):
So I remember that the next bythe night I was sleeping, but
I was like paralyzed, like comeon, like you know how to say
no. I was sleeping and mysister was on the other side of the
couch and I remember clearly I couldn'tmove. My hands were kind of like
for the like about to grass something, and I couldn't move. I saw
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my eyes like my younger sister waslike because my nickname is China, so
she was like China touching me everything. I couldn't move, and then I
remember my mom, I was tellingme, you're supposed to pray so bald
and moister, like three times untilthe fourth time was like I was able
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to move, and then I leta scream out and I was like,
I saw you trying to wake meup and move me, but I couldn't
say anything. And I think that'sI think I was like the third time
I had experience because it because asa teenager in my passle like two times
in that same old house that mydad used to own. It was just
(07:00):
like I guess it was only meand my mom who used to had the
experience of sens mortal. And Iremember now that I'm talking about that,
I remember that. And my momat one point was afraid to sleep in
the in the room like the firstroom when you enter to the house that
my dad had to like take upthe bed to the living room. Like
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she said it as soon as mydad had to work, that she would
feel a presence, a negative presencekind of like go near the bed and
like she would feel the bed kindof get like pushed down when somebody takes
a seat. No, she wouldlike cry and everything. And and it's
funny because in that same room Ihad experienced two times. I guess I
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only slept there and then I wasmoved to the end of the room towards
like the back. And that's whenmy parents had that room. That's when
my mom had an experience in theroom. And she said she had a
dream where she saw a witch lookingabove her. Oh my god, Oh
hell, no me, oh mygod. I know she said she looked
(08:13):
like really scary scarily that I waslike, oh my god. So like
me and her, we had sleptin that room separate times, but we
both had that same experience there.And then we came back from New York.
I remember clearly it was December seven, and by a we stayed a
(08:37):
couple of days at my sister's housewhere she was sprinting, and then we
moved in that We lived shortly inthat home, but like I think,
spears anything there. It wasn't untilthe second apartment we moved to, which
was the area is called back ofthe Yards slash Englewood, and I used
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to see a lot of shadows thereand it was a tall man. I
remember I was sitting down doing workand I see like someone like a male
figure run across and I was like, I was like, oh, I
guess my dad has to go tothe bathroom. Then picture her dad just
like bucketing from the bathroom. Igo check. My dad is to sleep
(09:26):
on the couch. I was like, then what was that? So then
I keep saying this shadow everything.I got to a point where my dad
and my older sister I actually sawthe shadow too, and he didn't even
say anything. Probably a couple ofyears after then, we moved out from
there, but my sister said thatthe house used to be a branded so
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the owner bought it. He wasfixing it. He fixed the first floor
only, and he was finishing thesecond floor. And we were trying to
come then to my older sister tomove in to the second floor because it
would have been closer if she neededto work. She could have just dropped
my niece and nephew downstairs. Youcould have helped everything. But she would
(10:11):
kept saying no, no, AndI was like, what's going on,
And she's like, it's because whenone time I went to Busyu at the
top of the search to the secondfloor. She said, like, I
saw a tall shadow man it.Oh my god. I was like,
what do you mean you saw ashadow She's like, and I described it
(10:31):
and she's like yes. I'm like, okay, so I'm not the only
one I've seen it, Like Iwould have dreams of that shadow person as
well in my dreams. But itnever did anything negative to me, Like
it didn't scare me. So itwas just like following me around. That
year in twenty nineteen, I dida girl trip to New Orleans and I
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think I kind of made it worsethere because we did the whole cemetery trip
we did. We want to seelike cemeteries and everything and throw out there.
I heard a lot of chains.Okay, what are you doing?
Who you're looking for? I'm like, don't you hear that? And they're
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like no. Oh. So Ifeel like after that vacation trip with the
girls, it kind of what that'sstronger because I will see like different shadows,
but I will see that shadowman someone little to be dressistic like PATRICKO
style. Wait, let's pause,hold on, let's pause, it's play.
(11:39):
But the Zus thing they had thesame when she's when she said that
I was like, oh my god, this is like the shadow person that
you saw. Yeah, but before, before your story, I had never
heard of someone saying it was likea Patrick, Yeah, she's like the
only other person I've ever heard thesame same Yeah, So that was wild.
(12:03):
When she said that, I waslike, it's we know, is
there anything like Latino people? Wedon't see the hat man, we see
the man. That is crazy.I never heard that before, like another
person having listen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm telling you when she's
(12:24):
When she told me that, Iwas mind blown, Like stop it.
I immediately yelled out and I waslike, oh, she's not here,
I'm doing this phone call. ButI told her. I was like,
oh my god, that's exactly whatMJ was sing. She's like, I
know because she listens to the episodes. And I was like, of course,
I don't know why he had torepeat it. Oh, we need
the what's it called the like somethingthat says we don't get the hat man
(12:48):
seriously, like a bumper sticker.My shadow man is a bunch. Oh
that's crazy. Okay, press play, okays, are you at eleven forty
nine? Is that where you pause? Yeah? Okay, all right,
let's press play after three one twothree, play with the hell like that.
So I ended up buying a housein twenty nineteen. We moved in.
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Everything's relaxed, I kind of seeingtheir few with the shadow. My
paternal grandmother passes away the next year, twenty twenty. My mom said that
she went downstairs to watch the todo the laundry when her no, she
said she knew and she felt likea touch on her back, so she
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said she knew it was her motherin lawn. She was like, don't
worry. That's a nice one.Now everything's gonna be all right. I'm
gonna be here for your son,for your grandma, for your grandkids,
your great grandkids and everything. Andthen from there she said she didn't fall
anything. But wow, this iswhy I wanted to do a whole episode
on just this because I was like, this is too similar to MJ's.
(14:01):
It really is. That's insane,Like like I yeah, another Butchugo hat
Man what? But because like Ithought, like I was like, oh
my god, am I the onlyone? But now that we like,
I feel like it's like almost likesomething that only Latinos will see because it's
like so engraved in our like theyou know, the outfit. Yeah,
(14:24):
yeah, that's crazy. Yeah,if you've seen the butchgo hat Man,
please email dot com. I wantto know more. We need to know.
Yeah, if this is like ifyeah, you know what's funny though,
like coming back like to like thewhole theory that like hat Man is
somewhat like dressed similar to the Menin Black. I'm like, what if
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our like Latinos get the alien.That's just like you know, it's like
I'm gonna, like, you know, just just wear a zoot soon blend
in right. Yeah, our littlealien has style or whatever it is,
the entity or whatever the being haveI've noticed whenever I do tiktoks and I'm
(15:07):
like saying that there's a being,I accidentally say the word bean, like
it sounds like bean. I'm likethis bean, and I'm like when I'm
editing that whatever the captions and itsays bean, and I'm like I replay
it and I'm like, wow,I do say the word being like bean,
and then like it's not just you, because I every time someone says
(15:30):
being, I hear the same thing. And like when I'm watching like this
extra extraterrestrial being, I'm like andthen I think of a little alien bean,
a little extra love it. Actually, that sounds really cute. Get
a little alien eyes, it willbe adorable. Yeah yeah it actually,
(15:50):
yeah, that sounds like a likea cute sticker. It's only I could
draw. I can't. I usedto be able to, not anymore.
I think I've already said this,but like sometime last year I had like
suddenly I was like, I'm gonnalearn to draw. Yeah, you painted
that little alien I still have it. Yeah, So those are my practice
(16:14):
cannabsies. I'm like and then I'mlike midway, I'm like I'm done.
Yeah, I drew one thing onmy surface pro like a little boo ghost
from Super Mario. And then Iwas like, I'm not doing this again.
I'm bored with this terrible but yeah, if I could dry, would
make a little freehold alien looking thing. Yeah, but wow, what I
(16:38):
mean, like, what a creepystory? Yes? Yeah, but should
we hear yours next? I'm jay, you have hear mine? Okay,
So this like happened like within likethe last I want to say, like
months, maybe two months, becauseit's all like a timeline. There's just
(16:59):
like crazy shit that happened. SoI usually don't see much around this time,
but I've been like sick, likecrazy, and I don't know of
like me being sick and being likejust overall this negativity when it comes with
when you're sick, like you justfeel like shit. That was like drawing
things to me or whatever. Idon't know, but to give a little
(17:22):
layout of my apartment. When youenter the door, it's straight into the
living room, and then in frontof you is the kitchen, and then
to the left hand side there's alittle hallway that you go into and it
leads to the rooms. So Iremember I was like, I think I
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had just gotten done making dinner,and I was having my kids like you
know, like after dinner, brushtheir teeth, you know, get ready
for bed, all that fun stuff. And I was I went into the
hallway and to the left is myson's room, and I see like this
(18:07):
figure of a person there right,and but wait, I still haven't I
hadn't realized it was what it was. And I was like, oh,
my son is just you know,he's chilling out, he's relaxing, he
had dinner, he's you know,he's getting the sleepies. Okay, awesome.
(18:29):
Cool, don't have to struggle thatmuch tonight. And then I walk
into my room and he's there,Oh no, oh no, And I
was like and I was like,you know, like double take. I
was like, what the hell justhappened? And I was like, I
thought you were like in the roomright now. He was like, mom,
(18:52):
I've been in here the entire time. I was like, stop it.
And then and then I go backand they're just like nobody laying on
the bed, Like I go.It was just freaky. So I was
like gaslighting myself whatever. I like, I'm hallucinating. It's fine, it's
fine, it's fine. And thenlike a few uh, like I want
(19:17):
to say, like a week goesby, and then my husband gets home
from work and I don't know whatcompelled him to do this, but we
have a little play area that's likeright after the kitchen and he walks into
that area. I think to turnon the like Zoe was already night,
and he freaks the fuck out.Like I'm talking about. He jumps and
(19:38):
he's like, somebody just grabbed mylegs. Oh my fucking god, no
no, and like yeah, likesomething like just grabbed his calf and like
try to like yank him. Hewas freaking out, and I was like
stop it. And then oh mygod, and then no, I guess
(19:59):
like it was this week gets worsemy mom and my kids where I think
she was like, you know,like Grandma's like, let me fix you
up something, even though you justhad dinner, and she's in the kitchen
with the kids, and her andmy kids hear something in the playroom and
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they hear like a grunt, likea man going like h or something like
that, and it was just themthree and my mom's like freaking out.
My son's freaking out. And thatentire week, you would hear someone in
the playroom like trying to play withthe toys. Oh no, and this
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is is this the same playroom thatyou've heard like things before, Yes,
the same playroom, but like forsome reason, whatever was in this playroom
was like this time being vocal aboutit and also grabbed my husband's legs.
And that is always in the spanof that I saw that like shadow person.
Wow, that was that looked likemy son, but wasn't my son.
(21:06):
And and throughout this entire time,we're also hearing or I should say
I'm hearing people like my kids callme and I'd be like, like,
what's up, what's up? Whatdo you want? I was like,
Mom, nobody's talking to you likeouch, but I heard you and they
was like, no, we didn'tcall you like and I was like,
no, no, I heard momwith your voice, and then I would
(21:29):
also hear my uh my name andit was like my husband's voice or my
parents. It was just the weirdestthing, and it wasn't feeling very good.
So my best friend was like,I am sending yukopa and you're gonna
burn and stage your entire apartment.And I did and it worked like whatever.
(21:52):
It was, It just yeah.But it was so crazy because we've
never had like anything physically like touchus. But that day it just grabbed.
My husband's liked and was like Idon't like you. I'm gonna grabb
You're like, but when I tellyou he jumped, it was funny.
It was funny at the time,but I tell you, he jumped so
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high. I was like, man, I've never seen you move that fast.
But it was scary, like youknow if we're so scary. But
then I was like cracking up becauseI was like, man, I never
moved that fast. But yeah,we did a cleansing. It was crazy.
And then my mom had told methat and that's where I saw my
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son. She had one time likeslept there, and she said, and
one night she wasn't shrift. Shewas lucid, dreaming or not, but
like she remembers one night opening hereyes and seeing like a very handsome man
over her. But then this man'sface turns horrendously ugly. Oh my god,
(22:57):
it was like like shifting from thisLike she was like he was a
very handsome, very beautiful man,and then all of a sudden he wasn't.
I was like, oh, thatis not good. But me and
my kids say that we have amimic because it like that's terrifying. Yeah,
because it like mimics the kids andlike, yeah, and this is
(23:18):
the same playroom, same kitchen whereyou always hear steps and you always hear
like something trying to play with thetoys. It was weird. It wasn't.
I don't even know what's the worstpart of all of that, the
grabbing or I don't know, it'sjust all horrible. It's just I was
not happy I cleansed because I waslike I don't know what the hell's in
here, but I don't have timefor this. I'm sick. I ain't
(23:41):
nobody got time for this. You'regetting like a cleanse the hell out.
But yeah, I bought some copaland I learned how to work with it
because it is resin, very sticky. It's not fun, but I managed
good good. It was the crazyand it's a it's been good. Since
it's been good. I'm after thisrecording, I am probably gonna stage again,
(24:03):
like I just yeah, understandable,Yeah, yeah, wow, wow.
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Well, I have two very shortstories that they lovely don found for us.
So the first one is out ofChihuahua, Mexico, and here it
goes. One night a man namedCarlos Jesus who woke up with sleep paralysis.
(26:03):
He wasn't able to move much,but he was able to tilt his
head and look towards the window.That's when he was surprised to find out
that he wasn't alone in the room. Oh, I just remembered right now,
when you said that, I completelyforgot. So my daughter was having
trouble sleeping. So she came intomy room and you know, she was
like sleeping on the bed and shelooked out of my window and she like
(26:27):
woke me up, and she's like, mom, and this is all within
the timespan. Also, okay,this is all happening around the same time.
And she's like, there's some menoutside the window. I live on
the second floor. Oh my god, Oh my god. I'm grasping at
my chest right now. I'm horrified. I was like, I was like,
(26:51):
Terri, no, I was soscared. And I woke up and
Andrew was like, hey, canyou close the blinds? I didn't tell
him. I was like, yeah, you didn't tell him. Forgets him
against him, but it's not gonnaget me, yea. But anyways,
you did that, I was like, I just know. Yeah, it
was crazy. I was so scared, but you know what I tell you,
(27:11):
Like, I don't think I tryto close, but it was a
hot day and I had to letthe breeze come in. I was like,
no, no, we're gonna I'mgonna sleep sweating. I don't care.
Yes, close. So I wassleeping with my blind clothes. But
she was like, she was like, she woke me up. I don't
know what time it was. Itwas very early in the morning, very
(27:33):
late at night whatever. And she'slike, there's some twilight, like it
was just it was dark. Itwas like twelve or one, two,
three, I don't know, inthe morning something like that. Yeah,
And she was like, there's aman outside the window. I did not
get sleep. Yeah. I wouldhave been like, and you think I
want to see that ship. I'mlike I was just like, okay,
(27:56):
let's just turn around and put herbacks towards on window. If we can't
see it, it's not happening.Start pulling a like that lady on the
plane that move a buck around there. Someone sent me. Was it you
who sent it to me? Orwas a krmen? Someone sent me a
reel where someone is like pretending toreact like that when their kid comes and
(28:18):
says like there's something in the closet. I think it must have been KRMINGI
and I have not Okay, Ishould I not send it to you?
I think you did, but Ididn't say okay, okay, but you
didn't see. Yes, yeah Iwould. I would have started doing that,
actually, man. Yeah, soI've been cleansing as often as yeah.
(28:38):
Wow, okay, let's go backto the story. Then I'm gonna
start it over. Let's see you. When I amanded Carlos sus book up
with sleep paralysis, he wasn't ableto move much, but he was able
to tilt his head and look towardsthe window. That's when he was surprised
to find out he wasn't alone inthe room. Staring back at him.
(28:59):
Was there reflect action of a blackfigure. Unable to move, Carlossus was
stuck in fear when a few secondslater he began to hear a voice in
his head that faintly said come oh, no, sorry me, come with
me. Us is worse, itsaid, my bad, It said,
come with me, O, gessme. This only made matters worse,
(29:23):
and the impending sense of doom accompaniedthe voice, almost like death was near
and coming. For him. Soon, his breathing got shallow and his heart
rate began to slow down. Eventhough Caro his Sus was completely scared and
was sure the end for him wasnear, he knew that he had to
do something, so he mustered upall his strength and forced his body to
(29:45):
sit up. That's when suddenly theshadow figure disappeared. Cardlos Jesus was relieved,
and when he turned around to checkif anything else was in the room,
he noticed the clock. It readthree fifteen egg end. Of course,
this became the first of many timesthat Carlos has Sus sung the Shadow
(30:08):
Figure that month, but eventually thefigure stopped showing up. During their last
encounter before the figure disappeared, Cardossusonce again fell dread and an impending sense
of doom, but this time hewasn't as scared. Instead, he felt
excitement and an urge to follow theshadow figure. M No, I've never
(30:30):
had that urge. What what urge? What urge are you talking about?
WEIRDO? Is the ur right?This last encounter felt like reaching the top
(30:52):
of a roller coaster before the ridedrops. That's not excitement either, that's
like exciting I want to throw up. Yeah, anxiety Luckily catrole sisters did
fied the urge and never followed theshadow figure. Oh good, good,
Okay, let's see. He movedout of the apartment and then moved a
few more times, hoping that bymoving the figure would never catch up to
(31:15):
him. And yeah, I agree. He didn't see it again after that,
so it worked. That's good.Yeah. Wow mmmmmm. This other
story is from Sonora and it wassubmitted by Kevin. According to Kevin,
he caught his mother and sister talkingabout strange activity happening in the house a
(31:36):
few months before his mother passed away. During the conversation, Kevin overheard his
mother had confessed to his sister thatshe had seen a dark figure more than
once in her closet. You.She also added that the figure was always
wearing some type of hoodie. He'scomfy. Kevin's sister also confessed that she
(31:57):
had seen a shadow figure standing overher candle when she was a child.
Oh my god, Sammy, whenshe was a child. At that point,
both of them called Kevin into theroom and asked if he's ever experienced
anything strange in the house. Kevinwas shocked to find out he wasn't the
only one that had seen a shadowfigure in the house. He told them
he'd seen it standing over the endof his bed a few times, and
(32:22):
that usually he was overwhelmed with asense of fear when it happened he would
sleep. He would only sleep withthe covers over his head to hide from
the figure. But no matter howmuch he tried to ignore the feeling of
dread, he always felt like ifhe took the covers off his head,
the figure would be right there atthe edge of the bed, staring.
(32:44):
It seemed like the shadow figure wasattached to the entire family because his brother
also saw it. He called itthe little man that would come out of
his closet every night. But unlikehis mother's, Kevin's brothers swore the shadow
figure was wearing a strange beret insteadof a hoodie. That's weird but gross.
(33:10):
Nonetheless, yes, I don't likeit. I feel like my shadow
people are less they're the one thattouched Yeah, yeah, better him.
Actually that is very true. Soin a sense they are nice because they
didn't do it to you. They'relike, I'll spare her. I don't
(33:34):
get this, uh huh, yeah, oh my gosh, no, I'm
I'm glad I've never seen anything.I'm so thankful I didn't see whatever the
hell my daughter was saying outside theone like, I feel bad for her,
but I'm also thinking I didn't seeI would have died of a heart
attack of fear, like right onthe spot. Like my poor kids that
(33:55):
come to me for help and Ijust pass out and they both need help.
Children, get your father, Yeah, yeah, don't get mobbed.
Yeah, don't call me. Leaveme out of this. Well, I
(34:15):
guess this was a bit of ashorter episode because I forgot to write down
the other story that I was gonnado. So yes, but before we
go, do you have any spookyrecommendations? No, I've like been I
finished X Files a while ago,and I'm like trying to find something that's
similar, but I have not.I know there's that show Fringe, but
(34:37):
I don't know if it's anny good. I've never I've never watched it.
Yeah, well, do you watchwhat We Do in the Shadows? Yes?
Okay, have you been keeping upwith the newest season? No?
Oh, well do that because theirepisodes are out and they're great. That's
one of my recommendations. And myother one is not spooky. But this
Food season two came out, Ohmy god, I'm so excited, and
(35:00):
there actually is a paranormal ish episodein it, so you know what it
counts is recommendation it does? Yeah, yeah, I watched that ship in
like a day. They're so funny. I love this Food. I just
it's such a good show. Yeah, one of my favorites. So yeah,
(35:22):
those are my two recommendations. Andanyone if anyone watched the other recommendation
that I had, I need toknow if anyone else thought it was like
as good as I did the onethat I mentioned, like, I think
it was like three episodes ago.I think it's the any moment the Agentina
movie. I told our friends overat Shake and Not Scared podcast, but
I don't know if if they've watchedit yet, because I'm like, I
(35:45):
need someone to talk about this moviewith. I still have not watched it.
I need I know if you dowatch it, then we should talk
about it. But only if youwatch it. I already spoiled the first
like five minutes though that's fine.It's only five minutes. So yeah,
but I thought it was good.I guess some people are not happy with
like the ending. But I'm like, I don't know. If a story
(36:06):
doesn't conclude, if it's not clear, I don't care. It's like my
art story. Yeah exactly, wasI entertained? Was I scared? Okay,
that's good enough for me. Butas we have said this many times,
I have low standards. We have, like I like, you know,
I like it when it leaves offon a cliffhanger or everything's not fully
explained because I'm like, oh,more content for them to do, right.
(36:30):
Yeah. Yeah, So it's nota big deal to me, but
I guess that bothered a lot ofpeople that there's just some things that were
not explained in the movie. Soyeah, if you watch it, I
don't know, and you don't likethings like that, then you're probably not
gonna like this movie. But Ithought it was great. Let's see other
than that, Should we announce thebook Club book now or should we wait
(36:51):
till the book Club episode? Idon't know what's up to you, I
guess, I think, but let'sjust say it. Wait what was it?
Oh, Silver Night Trade? Yes? Yes, Sylvia Marina Garcia mm
hmmm, we're almost like an onlyshe she comes out with so many books
(37:15):
like I just I mean, Ijust got this one. My best friend
got her for me, and thenshe's like popping out like two more and
I'm like, girl, let mecatch up first, Like, yeah,
let us catch up. I stillneed to read the Monroe one too,
doctor. Yeah, I haven't readthat one. Yeah, yeah, but
I absolutely cannot. It's coming outvery very soon now the oh yes,
(37:38):
it's a tomorrow tomorrow. Yes,okay, so that should be your next
one. Yes, But I alsowant to see too many books, so
a little time because I also wantto I've been wanting to read Tender as
the Flesh. My husband's boss slashfriend gave him her copy for me,
(37:59):
so I have it, and soI was like, I want to do
this one too. There's just somany books. I feel like we need
to try and beat as much aswe can, because so many books I
want to cover, like they're you'reright, I'm gonna try better because I
took way too lost with the shortAss. So we're gonna talk about it.
Because it's like you're you have,you do a lot of editing,
(38:21):
you you work, and then likeon top of that word it's so hard,
like there's not This is why it'sthe book Cleft for Busy People Away.
Yeah. Yeah, but I justwish we had more time because there's
so many books that I just wantto read and talking about there's not enough
time. Yeah, there never isenough time. We're always like finding more
(38:42):
time, and then my perception oftime already stuck. So it's like worse.
Yeah, and like I try toread and then by the time I'm
like it's the end of the day, I'm like, it's already what time?
Iden? I fuck, I haveto sleep. I'm not gonna be
if I don't get enough sleep.I'm my day's right. I don't function
until afternoon. Then next day,and then I'm like, wow, is
it already five? Where has theday gone? So I need It's like
(39:06):
a spiral of like, yeah,one thing after the next affects the next
thing, and yeah, it's terrible. I hate it life. Yes,
not that I hate life. Ijust hate when like one thing ruins everything
else, and that happens a lot. Oh, anyway, I guess before
we go off off the rails,we should end it. Y. Yeah,
(39:31):
thank you everyone for listening, anddon't uh, don't sleep with your
feet uncovered, and don't if youget the urge to like, turn and
look at something at three in themorning, Just just just turned towards the
wall and close your eyes. That'sthe best thing. Yeah, or sleep
(39:52):
under the covers. I don't knowsomething, but turn to the cover yourself
and just pretend. Don't leave yourfeet out and uh yeah, stay a
spooky We'll catch everyone next time.Bye. Spooky Tails is hosted by Christina
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