September 18, 2025 • 33 mins
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Sleep paralysis/La Pisadeira episode
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Speaker 1 (00:24):
Big cool friends, It's me Adrian or Aiden. Either way,
I am still your host and you are still listening
to Sustole, the podcast of paranormal folklore from Latin American cultures.
Speaking of this week, the fifteenth specifically, so Monday a
few days ago kicked off the beginning of Latina Heritage Month. Listen,
you know that if you're here, we celebrate that pretty
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much every episode all year long, but I encourage you
this month especially to really go full force and support
Latina creators. As a matter of fact, I want you
all to do me a big favor and tag some
of your favorite Latina podcast below bonus points if they
are also a spooky then I mean generally spooky now
just my sister's over at espooky teals. But leave your
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favorite podcasters your favorite let the nip podcasters in the
comments below for everybody to check out, and I'll of
course find a way to share those and also on
the social media post everywhere, tag everybody, everywhere, all at
once during this month so that we can get that
momentum and that train going, Because what a very exciting time,
am I right? I'm going to go ahead and jump
into the quick updates that we've been going over these
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last few times. I've already mentioned that before, but I
do not want y'all to forget. I want you to
save the date. So coming up in October, October tenth
is the Hollow Weird event at the Wist branch of
the Austin Public Library, and that is from six to
nine pm. At six pm, I will kick off the
event with my storytelling session, which was really fun last time.
It was such a good crowd. Everybody was so engaged
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and had really good questions, so I'm so excited for
that to happen again this time. But tonight it's going
to be a whole evening. So after my storytelling session
and my discussion and all that, at around seven fifteen,
they're doing a horror trivia, so we will put our
spooky knowledge to the test. And then after that and
throughout the rest of the evening, they're going to be
doing some fun spooky crafts. I'm calling it witchcrafting, you know,
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that's just what I like to say, what I do.
You all have seen my peg boards up here before
and all the stuff that I do, so that's gonna
be a lot of fun, of course, and that is
a free event. It's an adult event as well. I
already made the post about it on social media, so again,
make sure to check out Sustal podcast on every platform
for any updates on the show, including live events. And
the next one that we have scheduled is Halloween Night,
October thirty. First, it is the night owls Spirit Social
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that starts at five pm and it goes all the
way to midnight at the Ballroom again here in Austin.
I will be speaking on a panel and the panel
is called when the veil is thinnest, and I will
be tabling all night. They always have a ton of
cool things to do. They are sold out of their
VIP tickets. They do still have the general admission tickets available,
so go visit the night Owl podcast dot com and
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get your tickets before they sell out, because I guarantee
you they will. They did last year and they will
again and it's a great event. You do not want
to miss it. Halloween Night, so you know it's going
to be super lit. Everyone's going to be in their costumes.
I honestly, listen, I'm starting to panic because I do
not know what I'm going to be for Halloween. So
I need to do some serious thinking and figure it
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out because time is running out. The clock is a ticken,
So we'll see. I'll do a costume reveal that night,
and if you happen to be there, please please stop
by my table say hi. Let's get a cute selfie
of our costumes. At either of these events, please come
by say hi. As always, y'all know I'm not shy. Hello,
That's why I'm doing this. But again, you can follow
at social podcast on every social media platform for any
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and all updates on the show. Before we get into
today's episode, I do want to continue with reading Spotify comments.
This has been really fun for me because it's kind
of like I feel like it's making me stay up
to date with the comments, where before I would kind
of let them sit there for a long while and
then respond to them eventually. And this is good because
now there's a clear schedule I'm going in and I'm
checking them as we prepare for the episode. So for
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these comments, we're gonna get started on the dance the
double episode. Amy said, just got into your podcast and
I love it. Thank you, Amy, so do I. Amy says,
I love that you state your sources. Listen. As always,
direct links are in these schust to Google docs on Patreon,
but I do vocalize those for you all so you
can check them out because they're just really cool. Amy
continues this episode again. The Dancing with the Double episode
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reminds me of Beyonce's song Church Girl. She's not trying
to hurt nobody, lol. Listen. And I responded to Amy
on Spotify and I said, I will take any comparison
to Miss Sasha Fierce that I can get. That's an
amazing compliment. Thank you so much that it just made
you It made your brain go there. The next comment
is on the UFOs over at the Otia walk on episode,
which is the most recent episode. You can check that
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one out. And Andrew wrote, saying the word ufologist, and
then in parentheses, Andrew wrote, ohoh dashfologist so oofologists. I'm
not sure, but I ended up landing on ufologists when
I was running through the pronunciations of that episode. And again,
Andrew said, saying the word ufologist the first time and
landing on the correct pronunciation is two thumbs up. Andrew,
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Thank you so much. I'm glad that somebody confirmed that
I eventually got it right because I said, I'm just
gonna throw this out there and see what happens. Hopefully
it lands, hopefully it sticks. And also on that episode,
we got a comment from Alejandro, and Alejandro said, yeah,
so about that Susto TM field trip, my mom wants
to talk to your mom before she can sign my
permission slip. Listen, all we need are signatures from your
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parent or guardian and three dollars so that we can
get pizza after the after the field trip. Do y'all
remember that I loved that. I loved just like three
dollars could get us a trip to Peter Pepper Pizza
and we were set and it was so much fun. Also,
I'm an adult now, so I can literally just go
out and do that if I want. But the pizza's
not three dollars anymore. That's the only thing. Oh well,
all right, we're gonna go ahead and move on. And
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once again, this is a Letters from the Beyond episode,
So thank you so much to everybody who wrote in
for that. If you want to hear your story on
one of these episodes, please visit my website it's Susto
podcast dot com or the link tree in my social
media bios. It's link tr dot ee slash sustal and
you can submit your stories on there. And remember you
can also send in photo, video, or audio recordings. It
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doesn't have to be solely a written story. It could
be one or the other or both. I'll take it all.
It's also fun to see. So without further ado, we
will go ahead and get into this collection of letters
from the beyond. This first letter is from Izzy on Discord.
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Hello is the exclusive access on the Discord channel for
best school Friends on patreon dot com slash Sustal podcast
and Izzy wrote, O MG, y'all, I just remembered something, lol,
and we can figure out if my brother was crazy
or if I was in denial. Just for the record,
while I am a cautious skeptic, my brother was a full,
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NonStop believer in the supernatural and love of horror. There
was one day we were driving back home in the
dark and it was mildly foggy. My brother was driving
that night because I didn't have a license even though
I was two years older. We were on a long
dark highway in rural Idaho, singing along to Lucero's Electricidad
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when we suddenly hit a thick patch of fog. It
felt like we had driven right into a cloud. Everything
went hazy and we couldn't see any lights or other
cars around. At first, we were just having fun, but
I could tell my brother was getting nervous. He was
struggling to see the road. Then I noticed something strange
out of the corner of my eye. In the fog.
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There was this weird blob that looked like smoke or
heat coming up from the side of the road. It
reminded me of the way steam rises off a hot grill,
all wavy and squiggly, but taller and more disorienting. And again,
the fog was thick, so we really shouldn't have seen anything.
My brother suddenly shouted, what is that? That's a man.
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He swerved the car and I could feel the panic rising.
Calm down, it's just a vent or something. I tried
to reassure him, but he wasn't having it. We were
on a stretch of highway surrounded by fields, so he
wasn't buying the vent idea I know what I saw.
He insisted we drove a little further and he saw
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the shape again, Still hazy in the fog, I could
see how freaked out. He was getting and at this
point I instinctively knew he was driving in the other
lane in his panic. I was trying to keep him
calm while my heart raced. I know what I saw,
he kept saying, his voice full of worry. I didn't
think it looked like a person, but at that moment,
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it felt like a scene from a scary movie. Just then,
we were leaving the fog patch into an area that
was completely clear, and I saw headlights and I realized
we were heading straight for another car. With a rush
of adrenaline, I grabbed the wheel and yelled get back
in the lane. We jerked back into our lane just
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in time to avoid a crash. After that close call,
we pulled over to the side of the road, both
of us shaking and trying to catch our breath. What
had we just experienced? The eerie blob still lingered in
our minds as we tried to calm down. Now I
was actually less concerned about the eerie blob and more
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about the fact my brother almost killed us over nothing.
I was so mad. To me again, I saw it
as just this weird smoke or heat from a vent
or two. I don't know if I've told this to
you all, or if I gave the abridged version. But yeah,
the fog reminded me of it. He swore up and
down it was a ghost. He actually passed on that highway.
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So when he first passed away, I thought about that
moment and wondered if that was like some sign. I'm
a skeptic, but lost can get you thinking about those things.
It's a funny story in hindsight. At the time, I
was so angry I refused to go anywhere with him
for weeks, But now I laugh at just the absurdity
of it. Is he thank you so much for sharing that,
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especially such a really intense moment with your brother before
his passing, and it is it's kind of like it
gives me chills to think that he passed away on
that same highway where he was seeing this thing or
this vision or shape or whatever it was in the fog.
So it Yeah, I can see how you would wonder.
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It's very easy to think is there a connection between
those things where before he passed he saw something in
that area that scared him and it worried him. Yeah,
it makes you think, like I was talking about in
the most recent episode, the UFO's episode, I mentioned about
how sometimes the spiritual I feel it can feel very
sci fi because it starts to go into this area
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of timelines crossing or overlapping or folding in on each other,
and it's like, how do you explain these kinds of
thing things? Right, It's just one of those things that
maybe we will never understand, or at least not for
a long time. But it's really intense to think about,
and especially through grief and through loss. You know you
really have I don't want to say nothing, but it's
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almost like the only thing you have are your thoughts.
Is you just have to, like you keep thinking about
this person and the moments that you shared, whether they
were scary at the time and fun now or they're
puzzling or confusing. I don't know. I just I don't
know how to how to verbalize that. I just hope
that I'm doing your story some justice, and I thank
you for sharing that with us. Okay. This next story
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is from SNM eighty one, and this was in a
TikTok comment section. I posted a video and I got
some responses on there. They gave me permission to share
this story. Of course, and they commented on this video.
When we were younger, my sister would have bizarre dreams
of being surrounded by black candles and would wake up
to hearing three knocks at her bedroom window around the
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three am witching hour. I got to hear it as
well when she made me sleep in her room, but
I noticed that she would be an active sleep, paralysis
and struggling to wake up. My mom took her to
a gurandera because she sensed that someone in our family
had done work on her. She cleansed her and sent
her home with some herbs to make a tea. It
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made her throw up black liquid. After that, all of
this went away. Come to find out, it was a
thea that did the work on her. The three knocks
is because someone sent you something an entity, negative vibes
or a muerto. My sister later told us that during
her nightmares with the candles, she would see my aunt
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in these dreams as well, but never said anything. So
after the Guanderda did her thing that same thea encounter
entered a lot of misfortune. She married into the family,
so she wasn't blood related. My uncle divorced her and
one of our cousins her son was murdered. He was
a federl in Mexico, and eventually her small business went under.
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My mom thinks whatever she did came back to her threefold.
All this went down with my sister after she brought
up that my cousin was actively involved in cartel bribes
and misusing his position as a federral. It was a lot,
but also so scary that someone could pay to do
work on someone else like that. That is really creepy. Yeah,
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it's really unsettling, and I feel like that's usually how
it happens, like the most intense workings. And when I
say work, if you all are unfamiliar, that's what they
call I'm going to use really vague terms here. That's
what some people will call bruhetia or witchcraft or like
specifically when someone is doing a hex or a curse
or a spell on someone else, it's like they did
work on this person. But yeah, I was saying, it
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can be really unsettling because sometimes the most intense workings,
they're coming from someone that you know, that you know
personally and that you would probably trust, but because they
can get close enough to you to do a more
intense kind of thing so yeah, it's really in settling.
I've heard about people finding jars of dirt in their
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homes that they had never seen before. They don't know
where it came from, and then they they take it
to somebody else to help them because it looks, you know,
pretty witchy in nature. And then whoever they take it to,
like another like a bruha or someone, they'll say, yeah,
this is this is graveyard dirt. That is a real
That's actually an example from someone that I know, and
I'm not gonna say who, but that's an example that
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they found the jar and they they took it to
someone and they said, oh, this is this is a
working This is like someone's trying to do ruhiia like
bad bruhidia on you. And so they had to undo
it and all that. But but again you have to think,
this is someone that was close enough to get into
that person's house and do that to them unknowingly because
you just trust them in there. This is why you
got to put your wards up, your protections. You gotta
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do your your uncrossings and all that stuff. Listen. I'm
not a pro, I'm just saying you gotta protect yourself.
This also makes me think of the sleep paralysis episode
that I did, which was I think the Lapisaveda, which
is the Brazilian nighthag, and she's the creature that they
say causes sleep paralysis because she's like on their chest.
But I know that in that episode, and I'll put
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the link in the description below. But in the episode,
I talk about a study that was done. Was it
somewhere like Norway or Sweden, I don't know, somewhere like that.
They did this like sleep study where they found that
people who were under more stress or experience something traumatic,
but like generally stressed, they suffered more sleep paralysis than
somebody who was under less amounts of stress. I think
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it is a factor of sleep paralysis. I also do
think that sleep paralysis can be spiritual in nature, but
it can be both. Sometimes that maybe if you're under stressed,
it leaves you more vulnerable to a spiritual attack of
some sort or a spiritual encounter, if you will. And
I even talk about in the episode an encounter that
I had when I was I was sleeping over at
a friend's place and it was just her and I
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in her apartment, and this was at a really really
really stressful point in my life, like I was going
through it. It was really bad, and I had a
really intense slee paralysis and I just remember waking up
and I could hear I think, what did you say,
did you say chanting? Okay? Surrounded by black candles and
hearing the three knocks okay. So in mine, I could
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see like fire, So it could have been a candle light.
It could have been like a like a catfire bonfire
style kind of fire, but just that like kind of
like flickering glowing. And I could hear chanting, like multiple voices,
like a group of voices. I hear chanting like circling. Oh.
I just got chill so bad. Oh, I got really
scared to scared myself chills like the voices like as
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if they were moving around me and they were chanting,
and I could not move. You guys, I can't stop
getting chills. I hate this so bad. And I couldn't move.
And I finally when I was able to like snap
out of it, I literally like I'd never moved so fast.
It was like I like flew. You know when a
cartoon when the cloud the shape of that person is
left behind like a cloud. It was that I flew
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because I was sleeping in her living room and I
jumped out of the couch that I was on, or
the mattress, whatever it was. I jumped out of it
and I ran to her room and I literally just
ran and I jumped in her bed with her, like
literally like as she was my mom and I was
a little kid, and I just got in there and
she was just like half was like, what's going on?
And I was like, I had a nightmare. I had
a nightmare. And she was like, Okay, yay, y go
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to sleep here, Go sleep here. And I told her
about it the next morning because I didn't want to
wake her up in the middle of the night. And
I wish I had checked the time, but I'm also
glad I didn't, because had I seen that it was
three in the morning, I would have just I would
have gone straight to a church. I would have been like,
we have to go take me to a church now.
But yeah, I didn't tell her about it until the
next day because I don't want to wake her up
and tell her, hey, this, I just heard this in
your living room and freak her out. But yeah, that
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was a really, really scary experience and I've had sleep
paralysis several times before, but that is like the real
notable one. And again I feel like in coincides with
that stress sleep study or theory or what have you,
because again, that was a really tumultuous point in my life.
I think that's a good word to use. There. Again,
you can check out that episode. I'll put the link
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in the description notes below. All right, we're moving on
to our final letter for this episode, and this comes
from Asha. And Asha actually did use that Google form
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that I have, so those other ones, I had been
collecting them from other spaces, and I finally went through
and I checked the letters from the beyond Google form.
Because hey, I'm not a Google doctor, I'm not a
Google scientist. I didn't know that you would not get
notifications when people sent their responses. I thought I would
get them, so I wasn't checking it, but I just
checked and I had a couple in there. So those
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of you that have submitted one, thank you. If you're
not in this episode, you will be in the next
one for sure. But I'm checking it now regularly, so
please again. You can visit sustopodcast dot com or my
linktree that's linkedr dot ee slash sustal. It's in my
social media bios and there is a submit a story,
tell me a story button and you can send it here.
So Asha, thank you for using the Google form. This
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one's been sitting it there for a while, so thank
you so much for your patience. But Asha wrote, I
have a couple stories, some creepy and one heartwarming slash
tear jerking for me. So I'll start at my youngest.
When we were little, we lived in a house where
a murder happened on the corner of the property, but
as kids we didn't know. We would always leave toys
on the floor in our toy room, and at Nike
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you could hear shuffling like someone not picking up their feet,
just kind of dragging them. This happened a couple times,
but the real chill down the back of your spine
literally came later. I told my mom about it, and
she said, if it happens again, say scaring me, please stop,
which I'm gonna interrupt there. I've heard this before, and
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I've done this before. This is something that my mom
used to tell me growing up. Is basically, you can
take control. If you're scared, you can essentially set a boundary.
You can draw a line and say stop, leave me alone.
And I had to do this at one point when
I was younger, because I could feel something around me.
When I was in like high school, and I remember
being I think I've told this story before, but I
remember walking down the hallway at night. I think I
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had gotten a drink of water, used the rush from something.
But I was walking back to my room and I
could feel something behind me, and I stopped what I
was doing. I stopped walking, like stood my ground, and
I said, you need to leave me alone. I just
felt like I meant it. You know, when you know
when you say something, you're like, oh, like I meant that.
I I as Justin Bieber would say I stood on
business and I said it and I meant it, and
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it like I didn't feel it anymore. So sometimes it's
as simple as setting a boundary, but that should be
the first thing you try, and then you know. Unfortunately,
other times you may have to escalate into some more
intense solutions, if you will. But anyway, we'll continue. Asha continues.
We share a wall with our parents, but we went
to sleep one night, and of course here goes the shuffling,
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but it left the toy room and entered into our room.
Upon entering the room, I could hear the steps getting
closer and closer and closer, until something began to slowly
touch me. It went from the top of my back
to the middle of my back. I sure as heck,
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stayed still and said, Mom, is that you? She responded, no,
go back to sleep. I calmly said, please stop, you're
scaring me. It never came back in my room or
our toy room. Talk about chills. Not only did it respond,
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but it said I'm not your mom. Go to sleep. No, bitch,
get out, leave me alone. What do you mean You're
not my mom and you're touching my back? Get at
get out right now. It's the end of you and me.
It's the end of you, ghost. Really. I tried to
take my pillow my back support away because I'm getting
hot and sweaty, because that freaked me out. You okay,
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We're moving on to the next one. This says another time,
we just moved into an apartment and we were sleeping
when I felt my husband kind of jolt awake. As
he did, I looked up and saw this big man
shadow standing in front of us. I screamed, sat up
and started swinging my pillow. It backed off and went
into a corner, in which time I stood up and
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turned on the light to see nothing. You know, Asha,
you were my kind of ghoul because you said, I
mean talk about standing on business. You said, no, we're
fighting now. Now we're fighting because you're in my house
and you interrupted my sleep. Asha continues. My husband said, oh,
I mentioned this in the recent episode. My husband said,
you saw that too, Sure did. We were telling our
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neighbor and he told us a man had there but
he was a sweet but big guy. Ah, poor guy.
He was probably just like, okay, so this is who
lives here now, and then he got attacked and ran
to the corner. But for reeky and like I was saying,
I mentioned in a recent episode, That's one of the
scariest things I think that can happen is when you
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see or you hear something and you're with someone and
before you can even bring it up to them, they
tell you did you see that or did you hear that? Ah? Okay,
Asta continues. Next is probably the creepiest spine tingling. My
husband needs a Limpia story around. We had two things happen.
The first was one time we were fooling around in
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the room while our son was in the living room
playing PlayStation, and we heard at our door in a whisper,
Mommy Daddy. We stopped and I walked out to look
at my son, still in the same position playing PlayStation.
I asked, did you need something? He was so into
his game and said, no, ma'am. Why so you didn't
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just call me? No? I went back into the room
and was officially frightened. The next thing was the worst ever.
I was asleep and I just opened my eyes and
saw this hairy, ape looking thing caressing my husband. I
was so scared. I think it felt me open my
eyes because it glanced up and looked at me with
a scowl on its face. I acted asleep and closed
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my eyes and eventually fell asleep. I thought it was
a horrible dream until the next day my hubby said, man,
I couldn't sleep. I kept feeling like hair or something.
Needless to say, I nearly died inside. I didn't tell
him because I was so scared to acknowledge it and
make him scared. He has always said he feels like
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something evil is around him. And will wake him up
at night or just send him into anxiety attacks. I
tried looking into it, but there really wasn't much that
I could find. Maybe the masterful Aidan can find something related. Asha,
thank you. First of all, I don't know if I
am a master and expert at this stuff. I certainly try,
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but I mean, like we said earlier, and like your
mom told you, maybe he can start at that level.
Next time he feels something or he feels that onset
of there's something around me, something lurking that's making me
not feel good, he can try and set that boundary
and say, hey, leave me alone. This relationship is done.
It's over, and cut it off and and you know,
and if that doesn't work, then you may have to
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elevate it, you know, to the next thing. But it's
always okay. And I think it's kind of like an
underrated or an under what's the word under explored, underappreciated,
Like people maybe just don't say it enough that sometimes
you can just say something and if you think of
it like this, at their very base, at the very core,
spells will take it there. Spells are their words. They're
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made of words. Right, most times you say things you
say what you want to happen, you say what you're
trying to manifest or what have you. So you can
think of it that way and say this boundary. Not
only is this a boundary that I'm saying, it is
a working so to speak, to call back to earlier.
Maybe he can try that right, or he can try
and go get Olympia with somebody, or get like a
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Barida with an egg to see if there's some sort
of like malo on him, or if he's suffering from
susto perhaps, and that's what's you know, causing those feelings
as well. There's options for sure, but I would say
start with the small ones. There's no needs to go
super intense. Don't try and take them to get like
an exorcism or something. It doesn't sound like that's necessary.
No need to go that intense, is what I'm saying.
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So we'll continue here. Enough of the spooky and scary,
onto my beautiful story. I hold dear to my heart.
I had the most wonderful dad who was in the
delivery room behind a curtain ola weel when I delivered
my first born. He was in my life since I
was six months old. And you couldn't tell him or
I anything about step anything like stepdad. He was my
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dad and I was his daughter. My dad was ill
and was going to pass any day, so I was
there all the time I could be. It had been
a long day, and the hospice nurse had come and
said he would be fine for the night since he
was still breathing. Okay, we left for home, which was
about twenty minutes away. I write this with tears in
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my eyes. Once we get there, we are getting ready
for bed and about to turn out the light, and
a big bang hits our front window and then hits
the side back window about fifteen feet away, like it
ran through the room. We were kind of weirded out,
but hey, it was a long day. Just get in bed,
I swear. Twenty minutes later, my cousin knocks on my
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door and says, Asha, I'm sorry, your dad just passed away.
I was so heartbroken. But then the sound came back
in my mind and I knew then it was my
dad saying goodbye. My son, two years old, would come
out of his room days later saying, Papa's so funny.
Another story about my dad was when I was giving
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birth to my other son, and I was alone in
the room with a nurse who couldn't hit my vein
for the IV. The nurse called someone else who hid
it but forgot to cap it, and needless to say,
blood was spewing everywhere. Okay, first off, I need to
interrupt here. That is crazy, and I hope, I hope
that you were somehow like compensated or at the very
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least a huge apology from this hospital, because that is crazy. Okay,
this says blood was spewing everywhere. I guess I fainted,
but I went to a beach, and of course there
was my dad in the distance. I could feel the
air and sprinkles of water in my face, and then
I heard the nurse saying, come on, Vanessa, come back
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to me. And I woke up and passed out again,
and my dad was closer, reaching out. Just as I
was about to embrace him, I woke up for good.
Some might say it was just a dream, but the
thing I take from that is my dad just wanted
me to know he was there in spirit. Usha. Y'all
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know I'm a big cry baby. Why would you do
this to me? Thank you so much for sharing that.
That really really is a beautiful story and you truly
should keep that close to your heart because that is
really beautiful. Asha finishes this up and says, well, that
is it for now on the roller coaster of my
experiences lol, but I hope you enjoyed them. Thanks for
always being a badass storyteller and open to hearing other
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stories as well. You know, thank you for telling me
that I'm a badass storyteller. It's truly something that I
put work into and so I'm glad that you enjoy it.
And yes, I do love hearing other stories like yours, Asha,
and everybody else who wrote in today and everybody who
will write in in the future. Again, thank each of
you so much for sharing your stories today. Welcome back,
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well friends, Thank you so much again for listening to
this entry of Letters from the Beyond. One more time.
Remember that you can visit my website sustopodcast dot com
or the linktree in my social media bios. One more
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to send in your stories to be featured on the
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Little Burrito wrote, amazing storytelling, great content. Anyone into the
paranormal would love this podcast. There is a focus on
folklore from Latin cultures and a lot of them remind
me of stories told when I was a kid, and
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it's so fun to hear where they originated. From Little Burrito,
thank you so much. I also think that this is
great content and I also love this podcast. That is
one of the most rewarding things to hear, by the way.
I've had several people tell me this that it reminds
them of the stories that they told when they were
a kid, or it makes them feel like they're at
home sharing stories with their family with their friends. That
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truly like, Ugh, if I had nothing else and I
had just that from you all that I'm able to
bring you that feeling, it means the world to me.
And I'm going to stop before I get emotional because
I'm already emotional from Asha's beautiful story. So I'm gonna
put a cap on that there. But thank you so
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to Sustole, the podcast of paranormal folklore from Latin American cultures.
Speaking of this week, the fifteenth specifically, so Monday a
few days ago kicked off the beginning of Latina Heritage Month. Listen,
you know that if you're here, we celebrate that pretty
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much every episode all year long, but I encourage you
this month especially to really go full force and support
Latina creators. As a matter of fact, I want you
all to do me a big favor and tag some
of your favorite Latina podcast below bonus points if they
are also a spooky then I mean generally spooky now
just my sister's over at espooky teals. But leave your
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favorite podcasters your favorite let the nip podcasters in the
comments below for everybody to check out, and I'll of
course find a way to share those and also on
the social media post everywhere, tag everybody, everywhere, all at
once during this month so that we can get that
momentum and that train going, Because what a very exciting time,
am I right? I'm going to go ahead and jump
into the quick updates that we've been going over these
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last few times. I've already mentioned that before, but I
do not want y'all to forget. I want you to
save the date. So coming up in October, October tenth
is the Hollow Weird event at the Wist branch of
the Austin Public Library, and that is from six to
nine pm. At six pm, I will kick off the
event with my storytelling session, which was really fun last time.
It was such a good crowd. Everybody was so engaged
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and had really good questions, so I'm so excited for
that to happen again this time. But tonight it's going
to be a whole evening. So after my storytelling session
and my discussion and all that, at around seven fifteen,
they're doing a horror trivia, so we will put our
spooky knowledge to the test. And then after that and
throughout the rest of the evening, they're going to be
doing some fun spooky crafts. I'm calling it witchcrafting, you know,
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that's just what I like to say, what I do.
You all have seen my peg boards up here before
and all the stuff that I do, so that's gonna
be a lot of fun, of course, and that is
a free event. It's an adult event as well. I
already made the post about it on social media, so again,
make sure to check out Sustal podcast on every platform
for any updates on the show, including live events. And
the next one that we have scheduled is Halloween Night,
October thirty. First, it is the night owls Spirit Social
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that starts at five pm and it goes all the
way to midnight at the Ballroom again here in Austin.
I will be speaking on a panel and the panel
is called when the veil is thinnest, and I will
be tabling all night. They always have a ton of
cool things to do. They are sold out of their
VIP tickets. They do still have the general admission tickets available,
so go visit the night Owl podcast dot com and
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get your tickets before they sell out, because I guarantee
you they will. They did last year and they will
again and it's a great event. You do not want
to miss it. Halloween Night, so you know it's going
to be super lit. Everyone's going to be in their costumes.
I honestly, listen, I'm starting to panic because I do
not know what I'm going to be for Halloween. So
I need to do some serious thinking and figure it
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out because time is running out. The clock is a ticken,
So we'll see. I'll do a costume reveal that night,
and if you happen to be there, please please stop
by my table say hi. Let's get a cute selfie
of our costumes. At either of these events, please come
by say hi. As always, y'all know I'm not shy. Hello,
That's why I'm doing this. But again, you can follow
at social podcast on every social media platform for any
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and all updates on the show. Before we get into
today's episode, I do want to continue with reading Spotify comments.
This has been really fun for me because it's kind
of like I feel like it's making me stay up
to date with the comments, where before I would kind
of let them sit there for a long while and
then respond to them eventually. And this is good because
now there's a clear schedule I'm going in and I'm
checking them as we prepare for the episode. So for
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these comments, we're gonna get started on the dance the
double episode. Amy said, just got into your podcast and
I love it. Thank you, Amy, so do I. Amy says,
I love that you state your sources. Listen. As always,
direct links are in these schust to Google docs on Patreon,
but I do vocalize those for you all so you
can check them out because they're just really cool. Amy
continues this episode again. The Dancing with the Double episode
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reminds me of Beyonce's song Church Girl. She's not trying
to hurt nobody, lol. Listen. And I responded to Amy
on Spotify and I said, I will take any comparison
to Miss Sasha Fierce that I can get. That's an
amazing compliment. Thank you so much that it just made
you It made your brain go there. The next comment
is on the UFOs over at the Otia walk on episode,
which is the most recent episode. You can check that
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one out. And Andrew wrote, saying the word ufologist, and
then in parentheses, Andrew wrote, ohoh dashfologist so oofologists. I'm
not sure, but I ended up landing on ufologists when
I was running through the pronunciations of that episode. And again,
Andrew said, saying the word ufologist the first time and
landing on the correct pronunciation is two thumbs up. Andrew,
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Thank you so much. I'm glad that somebody confirmed that
I eventually got it right because I said, I'm just
gonna throw this out there and see what happens. Hopefully
it lands, hopefully it sticks. And also on that episode,
we got a comment from Alejandro, and Alejandro said, yeah,
so about that Susto TM field trip, my mom wants
to talk to your mom before she can sign my
permission slip. Listen, all we need are signatures from your
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parent or guardian and three dollars so that we can
get pizza after the after the field trip. Do y'all
remember that I loved that. I loved just like three
dollars could get us a trip to Peter Pepper Pizza
and we were set and it was so much fun. Also,
I'm an adult now, so I can literally just go
out and do that if I want. But the pizza's
not three dollars anymore. That's the only thing. Oh well,
all right, we're gonna go ahead and move on. And
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once again, this is a Letters from the Beyond episode,
So thank you so much to everybody who wrote in
for that. If you want to hear your story on
one of these episodes, please visit my website it's Susto
podcast dot com or the link tree in my social
media bios. It's link tr dot ee slash sustal and
you can submit your stories on there. And remember you
can also send in photo, video, or audio recordings. It
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doesn't have to be solely a written story. It could
be one or the other or both. I'll take it all.
It's also fun to see. So without further ado, we
will go ahead and get into this collection of letters
from the beyond. This first letter is from Izzy on Discord.
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Hello is the exclusive access on the Discord channel for
best school Friends on patreon dot com slash Sustal podcast
and Izzy wrote, O MG, y'all, I just remembered something, lol,
and we can figure out if my brother was crazy
or if I was in denial. Just for the record,
while I am a cautious skeptic, my brother was a full,
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NonStop believer in the supernatural and love of horror. There
was one day we were driving back home in the
dark and it was mildly foggy. My brother was driving
that night because I didn't have a license even though
I was two years older. We were on a long
dark highway in rural Idaho, singing along to Lucero's Electricidad
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when we suddenly hit a thick patch of fog. It
felt like we had driven right into a cloud. Everything
went hazy and we couldn't see any lights or other
cars around. At first, we were just having fun, but
I could tell my brother was getting nervous. He was
struggling to see the road. Then I noticed something strange
out of the corner of my eye. In the fog.
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There was this weird blob that looked like smoke or
heat coming up from the side of the road. It
reminded me of the way steam rises off a hot grill,
all wavy and squiggly, but taller and more disorienting. And again,
the fog was thick, so we really shouldn't have seen anything.
My brother suddenly shouted, what is that? That's a man.
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He swerved the car and I could feel the panic rising.
Calm down, it's just a vent or something. I tried
to reassure him, but he wasn't having it. We were
on a stretch of highway surrounded by fields, so he
wasn't buying the vent idea I know what I saw.
He insisted we drove a little further and he saw
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the shape again, Still hazy in the fog, I could
see how freaked out. He was getting and at this
point I instinctively knew he was driving in the other
lane in his panic. I was trying to keep him
calm while my heart raced. I know what I saw,
he kept saying, his voice full of worry. I didn't
think it looked like a person, but at that moment,
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it felt like a scene from a scary movie. Just then,
we were leaving the fog patch into an area that
was completely clear, and I saw headlights and I realized
we were heading straight for another car. With a rush
of adrenaline, I grabbed the wheel and yelled get back
in the lane. We jerked back into our lane just
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in time to avoid a crash. After that close call,
we pulled over to the side of the road, both
of us shaking and trying to catch our breath. What
had we just experienced? The eerie blob still lingered in
our minds as we tried to calm down. Now I
was actually less concerned about the eerie blob and more
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about the fact my brother almost killed us over nothing.
I was so mad. To me again, I saw it
as just this weird smoke or heat from a vent
or two. I don't know if I've told this to
you all, or if I gave the abridged version. But yeah,
the fog reminded me of it. He swore up and
down it was a ghost. He actually passed on that highway.
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So when he first passed away, I thought about that
moment and wondered if that was like some sign. I'm
a skeptic, but lost can get you thinking about those things.
It's a funny story in hindsight. At the time, I
was so angry I refused to go anywhere with him
for weeks, But now I laugh at just the absurdity
of it. Is he thank you so much for sharing that,
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especially such a really intense moment with your brother before
his passing, and it is it's kind of like it
gives me chills to think that he passed away on
that same highway where he was seeing this thing or
this vision or shape or whatever it was in the fog.
So it Yeah, I can see how you would wonder.
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It's very easy to think is there a connection between
those things where before he passed he saw something in
that area that scared him and it worried him. Yeah,
it makes you think, like I was talking about in
the most recent episode, the UFO's episode, I mentioned about
how sometimes the spiritual I feel it can feel very
sci fi because it starts to go into this area
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of timelines crossing or overlapping or folding in on each other,
and it's like, how do you explain these kinds of
thing things? Right, It's just one of those things that
maybe we will never understand, or at least not for
a long time. But it's really intense to think about,
and especially through grief and through loss. You know you
really have I don't want to say nothing, but it's
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almost like the only thing you have are your thoughts.
Is you just have to, like you keep thinking about
this person and the moments that you shared, whether they
were scary at the time and fun now or they're
puzzling or confusing. I don't know. I just I don't
know how to how to verbalize that. I just hope
that I'm doing your story some justice, and I thank
you for sharing that with us. Okay. This next story
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is from SNM eighty one, and this was in a
TikTok comment section. I posted a video and I got
some responses on there. They gave me permission to share
this story. Of course, and they commented on this video.
When we were younger, my sister would have bizarre dreams
of being surrounded by black candles and would wake up
to hearing three knocks at her bedroom window around the
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three am witching hour. I got to hear it as
well when she made me sleep in her room, but
I noticed that she would be an active sleep, paralysis
and struggling to wake up. My mom took her to
a gurandera because she sensed that someone in our family
had done work on her. She cleansed her and sent
her home with some herbs to make a tea. It
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made her throw up black liquid. After that, all of
this went away. Come to find out, it was a
thea that did the work on her. The three knocks
is because someone sent you something an entity, negative vibes
or a muerto. My sister later told us that during
her nightmares with the candles, she would see my aunt
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in these dreams as well, but never said anything. So
after the Guanderda did her thing that same thea encounter
entered a lot of misfortune. She married into the family,
so she wasn't blood related. My uncle divorced her and
one of our cousins her son was murdered. He was
a federl in Mexico, and eventually her small business went under.
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My mom thinks whatever she did came back to her threefold.
All this went down with my sister after she brought
up that my cousin was actively involved in cartel bribes
and misusing his position as a federral. It was a lot,
but also so scary that someone could pay to do
work on someone else like that. That is really creepy. Yeah,
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it's really unsettling, and I feel like that's usually how
it happens, like the most intense workings. And when I
say work, if you all are unfamiliar, that's what they
call I'm going to use really vague terms here. That's
what some people will call bruhetia or witchcraft or like
specifically when someone is doing a hex or a curse
or a spell on someone else, it's like they did
work on this person. But yeah, I was saying, it
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can be really unsettling because sometimes the most intense workings,
they're coming from someone that you know, that you know
personally and that you would probably trust, but because they
can get close enough to you to do a more
intense kind of thing so yeah, it's really in settling.
I've heard about people finding jars of dirt in their
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homes that they had never seen before. They don't know
where it came from, and then they they take it
to somebody else to help them because it looks, you know,
pretty witchy in nature. And then whoever they take it to,
like another like a bruha or someone, they'll say, yeah,
this is this is graveyard dirt. That is a real
That's actually an example from someone that I know, and
I'm not gonna say who, but that's an example that
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they found the jar and they they took it to
someone and they said, oh, this is this is a
working This is like someone's trying to do ruhiia like
bad bruhidia on you. And so they had to undo
it and all that. But but again you have to think,
this is someone that was close enough to get into
that person's house and do that to them unknowingly because
you just trust them in there. This is why you
got to put your wards up, your protections. You gotta
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do your your uncrossings and all that stuff. Listen. I'm
not a pro, I'm just saying you gotta protect yourself.
This also makes me think of the sleep paralysis episode
that I did, which was I think the Lapisaveda, which
is the Brazilian nighthag, and she's the creature that they
say causes sleep paralysis because she's like on their chest.
But I know that in that episode, and I'll put
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the link in the description below. But in the episode,
I talk about a study that was done. Was it
somewhere like Norway or Sweden, I don't know, somewhere like that.
They did this like sleep study where they found that
people who were under more stress or experience something traumatic,
but like generally stressed, they suffered more sleep paralysis than
somebody who was under less amounts of stress. I think
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it is a factor of sleep paralysis. I also do
think that sleep paralysis can be spiritual in nature, but
it can be both. Sometimes that maybe if you're under stressed,
it leaves you more vulnerable to a spiritual attack of
some sort or a spiritual encounter, if you will. And
I even talk about in the episode an encounter that
I had when I was I was sleeping over at
a friend's place and it was just her and I
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in her apartment, and this was at a really really
really stressful point in my life, like I was going
through it. It was really bad, and I had a
really intense slee paralysis and I just remember waking up
and I could hear I think, what did you say,
did you say chanting? Okay? Surrounded by black candles and
hearing the three knocks okay. So in mine, I could
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see like fire, So it could have been a candle light.
It could have been like a like a catfire bonfire
style kind of fire, but just that like kind of
like flickering glowing. And I could hear chanting, like multiple voices,
like a group of voices. I hear chanting like circling. Oh.
I just got chill so bad. Oh, I got really
scared to scared myself chills like the voices like as
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if they were moving around me and they were chanting,
and I could not move. You guys, I can't stop
getting chills. I hate this so bad. And I couldn't move.
And I finally when I was able to like snap
out of it, I literally like I'd never moved so fast.
It was like I like flew. You know when a
cartoon when the cloud the shape of that person is
left behind like a cloud. It was that I flew
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because I was sleeping in her living room and I
jumped out of the couch that I was on, or
the mattress, whatever it was. I jumped out of it
and I ran to her room and I literally just
ran and I jumped in her bed with her, like
literally like as she was my mom and I was
a little kid, and I just got in there and
she was just like half was like, what's going on?
And I was like, I had a nightmare. I had
a nightmare. And she was like, Okay, yay, y go
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to sleep here, Go sleep here. And I told her
about it the next morning because I didn't want to
wake her up in the middle of the night. And
I wish I had checked the time, but I'm also
glad I didn't, because had I seen that it was
three in the morning, I would have just I would
have gone straight to a church. I would have been like,
we have to go take me to a church now.
But yeah, I didn't tell her about it until the
next day because I don't want to wake her up
and tell her, hey, this, I just heard this in
your living room and freak her out. But yeah, that
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was a really, really scary experience and I've had sleep
paralysis several times before, but that is like the real
notable one. And again I feel like in coincides with
that stress sleep study or theory or what have you,
because again, that was a really tumultuous point in my life.
I think that's a good word to use. There. Again,
you can check out that episode. I'll put the link
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in the description notes below. All right, we're moving on
to our final letter for this episode, and this comes
from Asha. And Asha actually did use that Google form
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that I have, so those other ones, I had been
collecting them from other spaces, and I finally went through
and I checked the letters from the beyond Google form.
Because hey, I'm not a Google doctor, I'm not a
Google scientist. I didn't know that you would not get
notifications when people sent their responses. I thought I would
get them, so I wasn't checking it, but I just
checked and I had a couple in there. So those
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of you that have submitted one, thank you. If you're
not in this episode, you will be in the next
one for sure. But I'm checking it now regularly, so
please again. You can visit sustopodcast dot com or my
linktree that's linkedr dot ee slash sustal. It's in my
social media bios and there is a submit a story,
tell me a story button and you can send it here.
So Asha, thank you for using the Google form. This
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one's been sitting it there for a while, so thank
you so much for your patience. But Asha wrote, I
have a couple stories, some creepy and one heartwarming slash
tear jerking for me. So I'll start at my youngest.
When we were little, we lived in a house where
a murder happened on the corner of the property, but
as kids we didn't know. We would always leave toys
on the floor in our toy room, and at Nike
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you could hear shuffling like someone not picking up their feet,
just kind of dragging them. This happened a couple times,
but the real chill down the back of your spine
literally came later. I told my mom about it, and
she said, if it happens again, say scaring me, please stop,
which I'm gonna interrupt there. I've heard this before, and
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I've done this before. This is something that my mom
used to tell me growing up. Is basically, you can
take control. If you're scared, you can essentially set a boundary.
You can draw a line and say stop, leave me alone.
And I had to do this at one point when
I was younger, because I could feel something around me.
When I was in like high school, and I remember
being I think I've told this story before, but I
remember walking down the hallway at night. I think I
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had gotten a drink of water, used the rush from something.
But I was walking back to my room and I
could feel something behind me, and I stopped what I
was doing. I stopped walking, like stood my ground, and
I said, you need to leave me alone. I just
felt like I meant it. You know, when you know
when you say something, you're like, oh, like I meant that.
I I as Justin Bieber would say I stood on
business and I said it and I meant it, and
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it like I didn't feel it anymore. So sometimes it's
as simple as setting a boundary, but that should be
the first thing you try, and then you know. Unfortunately,
other times you may have to escalate into some more
intense solutions, if you will. But anyway, we'll continue. Asha continues.
We share a wall with our parents, but we went
to sleep one night, and of course here goes the shuffling,
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but it left the toy room and entered into our room.
Upon entering the room, I could hear the steps getting
closer and closer and closer, until something began to slowly
touch me. It went from the top of my back
to the middle of my back. I sure as heck,
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stayed still and said, Mom, is that you? She responded, no,
go back to sleep. I calmly said, please stop, you're
scaring me. It never came back in my room or
our toy room. Talk about chills. Not only did it respond,
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but it said I'm not your mom. Go to sleep. No, bitch,
get out, leave me alone. What do you mean You're
not my mom and you're touching my back? Get at
get out right now. It's the end of you and me.
It's the end of you, ghost. Really. I tried to
take my pillow my back support away because I'm getting
hot and sweaty, because that freaked me out. You okay,
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We're moving on to the next one. This says another time,
we just moved into an apartment and we were sleeping
when I felt my husband kind of jolt awake. As
he did, I looked up and saw this big man
shadow standing in front of us. I screamed, sat up
and started swinging my pillow. It backed off and went
into a corner, in which time I stood up and
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turned on the light to see nothing. You know, Asha,
you were my kind of ghoul because you said, I
mean talk about standing on business. You said, no, we're
fighting now. Now we're fighting because you're in my house
and you interrupted my sleep. Asha continues. My husband said, oh,
I mentioned this in the recent episode. My husband said,
you saw that too, Sure did. We were telling our
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neighbor and he told us a man had there but
he was a sweet but big guy. Ah, poor guy.
He was probably just like, okay, so this is who
lives here now, and then he got attacked and ran
to the corner. But for reeky and like I was saying,
I mentioned in a recent episode, That's one of the
scariest things I think that can happen is when you
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see or you hear something and you're with someone and
before you can even bring it up to them, they
tell you did you see that or did you hear that? Ah? Okay,
Asta continues. Next is probably the creepiest spine tingling. My
husband needs a Limpia story around. We had two things happen.
The first was one time we were fooling around in
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the room while our son was in the living room
playing PlayStation, and we heard at our door in a whisper,
Mommy Daddy. We stopped and I walked out to look
at my son, still in the same position playing PlayStation.
I asked, did you need something? He was so into
his game and said, no, ma'am. Why so you didn't
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just call me? No? I went back into the room
and was officially frightened. The next thing was the worst ever.
I was asleep and I just opened my eyes and
saw this hairy, ape looking thing caressing my husband. I
was so scared. I think it felt me open my
eyes because it glanced up and looked at me with
a scowl on its face. I acted asleep and closed
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my eyes and eventually fell asleep. I thought it was
a horrible dream until the next day my hubby said, man,
I couldn't sleep. I kept feeling like hair or something.
Needless to say, I nearly died inside. I didn't tell
him because I was so scared to acknowledge it and
make him scared. He has always said he feels like
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something evil is around him. And will wake him up
at night or just send him into anxiety attacks. I
tried looking into it, but there really wasn't much that
I could find. Maybe the masterful Aidan can find something related. Asha,
thank you. First of all, I don't know if I
am a master and expert at this stuff. I certainly try,
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but I mean, like we said earlier, and like your
mom told you, maybe he can start at that level.
Next time he feels something or he feels that onset
of there's something around me, something lurking that's making me
not feel good, he can try and set that boundary
and say, hey, leave me alone. This relationship is done.
It's over, and cut it off and and you know,
and if that doesn't work, then you may have to
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elevate it, you know, to the next thing. But it's
always okay. And I think it's kind of like an
underrated or an under what's the word under explored, underappreciated,
Like people maybe just don't say it enough that sometimes
you can just say something and if you think of
it like this, at their very base, at the very core,
spells will take it there. Spells are their words. They're
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made of words. Right, most times you say things you
say what you want to happen, you say what you're
trying to manifest or what have you. So you can
think of it that way and say this boundary. Not
only is this a boundary that I'm saying, it is
a working so to speak, to call back to earlier.
Maybe he can try that right, or he can try
and go get Olympia with somebody, or get like a
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Barida with an egg to see if there's some sort
of like malo on him, or if he's suffering from
susto perhaps, and that's what's you know, causing those feelings
as well. There's options for sure, but I would say
start with the small ones. There's no needs to go
super intense. Don't try and take them to get like
an exorcism or something. It doesn't sound like that's necessary.
No need to go that intense, is what I'm saying.
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So we'll continue here. Enough of the spooky and scary,
onto my beautiful story. I hold dear to my heart.
I had the most wonderful dad who was in the
delivery room behind a curtain ola weel when I delivered
my first born. He was in my life since I
was six months old. And you couldn't tell him or
I anything about step anything like stepdad. He was my
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dad and I was his daughter. My dad was ill
and was going to pass any day, so I was
there all the time I could be. It had been
a long day, and the hospice nurse had come and
said he would be fine for the night since he
was still breathing. Okay, we left for home, which was
about twenty minutes away. I write this with tears in
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my eyes. Once we get there, we are getting ready
for bed and about to turn out the light, and
a big bang hits our front window and then hits
the side back window about fifteen feet away, like it
ran through the room. We were kind of weirded out,
but hey, it was a long day. Just get in bed,
I swear. Twenty minutes later, my cousin knocks on my
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door and says, Asha, I'm sorry, your dad just passed away.
I was so heartbroken. But then the sound came back
in my mind and I knew then it was my
dad saying goodbye. My son, two years old, would come
out of his room days later saying, Papa's so funny.
Another story about my dad was when I was giving
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birth to my other son, and I was alone in
the room with a nurse who couldn't hit my vein
for the IV. The nurse called someone else who hid
it but forgot to cap it, and needless to say,
blood was spewing everywhere. Okay, first off, I need to
interrupt here. That is crazy, and I hope, I hope
that you were somehow like compensated or at the very
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least a huge apology from this hospital, because that is crazy. Okay,
this says blood was spewing everywhere. I guess I fainted,
but I went to a beach, and of course there
was my dad in the distance. I could feel the
air and sprinkles of water in my face, and then
I heard the nurse saying, come on, Vanessa, come back
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to me. And I woke up and passed out again,
and my dad was closer, reaching out. Just as I
was about to embrace him, I woke up for good.
Some might say it was just a dream, but the
thing I take from that is my dad just wanted
me to know he was there in spirit. Usha. Y'all
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know I'm a big cry baby. Why would you do
this to me? Thank you so much for sharing that.
That really really is a beautiful story and you truly
should keep that close to your heart because that is
really beautiful. Asha finishes this up and says, well, that
is it for now on the roller coaster of my
experiences lol, but I hope you enjoyed them. Thanks for
always being a badass storyteller and open to hearing other
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stories as well. You know, thank you for telling me
that I'm a badass storyteller. It's truly something that I
put work into and so I'm glad that you enjoy it.
And yes, I do love hearing other stories like yours, Asha,
and everybody else who wrote in today and everybody who
will write in in the future. Again, thank each of
you so much for sharing your stories today. Welcome back,
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well friends, Thank you so much again for listening to
this entry of Letters from the Beyond. One more time.
Remember that you can visit my website sustopodcast dot com
or the linktree in my social media bios. One more
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to send in your stories to be featured on the
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ratings and reviews reviews like this one from Little Burrito.
Little Burrito wrote, amazing storytelling, great content. Anyone into the
paranormal would love this podcast. There is a focus on
folklore from Latin cultures and a lot of them remind
me of stories told when I was a kid, and
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it's so fun to hear where they originated. From Little Burrito,
thank you so much. I also think that this is
great content and I also love this podcast. That is
one of the most rewarding things to hear, by the way.
I've had several people tell me this that it reminds
them of the stories that they told when they were
a kid, or it makes them feel like they're at
home sharing stories with their family with their friends. That
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truly like, Ugh, if I had nothing else and I
had just that from you all that I'm able to
bring you that feeling, it means the world to me.
And I'm going to stop before I get emotional because
I'm already emotional from Asha's beautiful story. So I'm gonna
put a cap on that there. But thank you so
much for that review, Little Burrito. Once again, so make
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