August 15, 2024 • 44 mins
Join us for a fascinating conversation with guest Cyn Schrader Hill, paranormal investigator and author, as we delve into the world of the unknown. Cyn shares her journey into the paranormal field, including the moment she discovered her own sensitivity to the spirit realm. She recounts spine-tingling experiences and spooky occurrences that have shaped her work. We also dive into her literary endeavors, exploring the inspiration behind her books and the stories they tell. Get ready for a captivating discussion that will leave you questioning the veil between worlds.
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Speaker 1 (00:36):
Ladies and gentlemen. This is Life Beyond six Feets. I'm
your host, Damien Christie from Spooky South five zero seven,
and today I have a first time guest of the show,
paranormal investigator and author, Miss Sin Schrader Hill Sin, Welcome
to Life Beyond six Feet.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Thank you so much for having me on.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
It is an absolute honor to have you on the show.
And I've been wanting to get you on for a while.
I even wanted to get you on before I ever
took a haatus last year. So it's finally come full circle.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
So yay, we're here.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
We're exactly exactly. So, like I always like to do,
I just want to just jump right into this thing.
So let's kind of backtrack a little bit and just
kind of tell me how you got into this paranormal
journey you've been on.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
You know, I got started late, so I've only been
in the paranormal world since twenty thirteen. Before that, I
was just a weird kid. Yeah, I've not been doing
it long. I've not been doing it long, but I've
always been weird growing up. I was weird. Panic attacks
really bad, and it wasn't until twenty thirteen when I
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was training with the first group that took me in
to train me that I was sensitive and I was
taking on other people's energy around me, and that's what
was given me to all the panic attacks. And I
mean some of them were crazy, horrible, like emergency room
panic attacks. You think you're dying, you know, heart attack
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symptoms and everything, and that was I had my first
one when I was ten years old, and I mean,
I'll never forget it. It was Halloween evening, Halloween night,
and it was my first time away from my family
on Halloween, and it was a big slumber party. One
of the girls it was her birthday and there were
ten plus ten year olds running around, sugared up on
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Krispy Kreme donuts, Coca Cola, sundrop, you know, all that
kind of and pizza and all this running rampant through
this poor lady and gentleman's house. And I had my
first panic attack and ended up on the floor. And
the thing I remember, my best friend leaned over me
and said, as this ever happened before? And I said no,
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and she said, oh no, but just the oh no
sounded like dunk, dunk, dumb.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
No.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I think am dying I'm dying, but uh, you know,
fast forward to twenty thirteen, and it's because I was
taking on not only had all that energy inside me,
but I had all that sugar inside me, and then
if everybody excited around me, I was taking that in.
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It was just too much.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Wow, that's uh, that's quite a thing to experience. But
then eventually find out the reason and behind it. And
luckily is it anything just to do with you, like
some kind of medical issues. So I guess that's a
plus side to it.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So as being as you say, a weird kid, I
was a weird kid too. I'm still kind of weird.
So uh, while were some like personal experiences, I kind
of kind of drew you towards the paranormal.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I have always loved scary stuff. I've always loved being scared.
I've always liked to have, you know, go to hornted houses,
something jumped out at you. You go, okay, right, you know,
I've always liked the jump scares and movies and you
know all that stuff. Was reading Edgar Allan Poe in
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the third grade. So my bedtime story when I was
eight years old and before my grandmother we were living
in her house, and I slept with her, so every
night she had to tell me a bedtime story to
get me to shut up and go to sleep. And
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it was it was about my great uncle that was
coming home corseback riding in the rain, and it was like,
I think it was only like twenty minutes from where
I live now, not very far at all, but it
was a very stormy night he was riding home and
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it was such a torrential downpour that he ducked into
this little church and back then nothing was locked, so
he just tied his horse up outside and went into
the dark church and sat down into the pew. The
only thing that would light it up would be the
lightning strikes right, and he was a scaredy cat. So
this is another reason I love this story. And actually
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this is in my first book. This was the very
first story I put in my first book, my bedtime story.
So he's sitting in the church waiting for the rain
to stop, and he hears a shuffle behind him and
footsteps and he's like, nah, that's the rain, and then
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he hears it again and it's closer, and whenever the
dark lights up, he looks around, he can't see anything,
there's nothing in the church. But then he hears a
shuffle again, and it gets closer and closer and closer
until this woman grabs him from around the back to
scared him to death, you know, just about. But it
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was this lady that had escaped from the local poor farm,
and she was mentally unstable and was out in the
rain and ducked into the church just like he did.
But he had no idea, and he, being a scaredy cat,
scared him to dead. But my grandmother always ended this
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story with now boom, okay, go ahead, go to sleep,
and I could sleep after that.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Wow, so right, so kind of so, so being scared
helped you sleep? I think. I don't think a lot
of people like to be scared in order to go
to bed, so don't a different way?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, I mean, I love watching horror movies before I
go to sleep. I love them watching one last night,
so I have to have to queue one up for
to too. But yeah, that's how I relaxed.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Well there you go. So before you actually started investigating,
did you have any personal paranormal experiences that just kind
of stand out to you or do they really just
start happening when you started investigating.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I was not as open to everything as I am now,
so anything that I saw or experienced, I didn't recognize
it as paranormal. I've been to so many different haunted
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places Alcatraz, Birdcage, Theater, Alamo, overseas, been to some over there,
But because I wasn't wrapped up in investigating, I wasn't
looking for anything. And so, you know, you would walk
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into these places and the atmosphere was different, obviously different,
but I wasn't looking for anything, any haunting, So I
I guess it's you know, I guess The first things
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that started happening to me before I got involved in
this was seeing things out of the corner of my eye.
You know, something moves and you turn and it's not there. Okay,
that was in my head, right, Something else that was
in my head too, you know. So it just played
it off until I realized that there were things going
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on around me. When I was a little girl, we
lived in a house that was built in the eighteen hundreds,
late eighteen hundreds, and it was actually moved on logs
rolled down the hill to resituate and to set up
a new resident. And that house my mom still lives
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in it, but where my bedroom was something something about it.
I don't, I don't. I still don't know. I still
have the feeling when I go in that room that
something is in there. It's not anything antagonistic, nothing dangerous,
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nothing like that, but it's just that you're being watched,
you know. Growing up as a kid and then and
then up into teenage years, I couldn't get dressed in
that room. It's just something about it. Yeah, I'm gonna
I'm gonna get dressed in the closet. I had a
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big walking closet. I could get dressed in there or
in the bathroom next door. But little, when I was little,
I would turn all my stuffed animals around and all
of my dolls because I had a big dog. So
since then, I don't have those dolls anymore, except for
two that my grandmother gave me. But something I feel
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like was attached to one of those things I had,
And I don't know which one it was. It's not
the two I had, right, It's not the two I have.
But yeah, it's just something about that house is just
a little bit weird like me.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
But there you go. It goes hand in hand. I guess.
And I've lived in a lot of not really weird places,
but I've pretty much experienced something pretty much everywhere I've
ever lived, and never really thought much of it until
I got into my adult years and actually started doing
this a few years ago. And when you mentioned a
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minute ago seeing stuff out of the corner of your
eyes that reminded me of something that had happened to
me at work last night. I'm sitting there, I'm getting
ready to roll something to the back room, and I
get about halfway turned towards the backroom door, and I
swear to you, it looks like I see somebody's head
poking out of the back room, and like as soon
as they get fully turned around, like it darts back.
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But I seed enough of it that I could tell
it was a white guy with like shaggy, dirty blonde hair.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
So I kind of stood there for a second and
went on back in there. And as soon as I
walk through the doors, like instant cold hills, the hair
on my arm stood up, and I'm looking around like
our back room right now was like packed, So I'm like,
there's nowhere anybody could have ran and hit. And what
makes it a little bit more interesting is before I
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started there, a former employee that worked there. She had
told me that she swore that she's seen somebody on
camera and we're in all black, go into our back
room and she reround the camera and she's like, there
was nobody there.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
What was the backgroom before?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I don't know, it may have just been trees. I mean,
so it was just so my friends on the other
podcast I do beer Boos and Boogie ban they kind
of called me a ghost magnet because I have stuff
happened to me pretty much everywhere I live, everywhere I work,
I've had some kind of experience there. So it just yeah,
(12:24):
so you kind of answered my next question a few
minutes ago when he started investigating in twenty thirteen, So
what made you decide you wanted to start doing this?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
All of the shows on TV? I was hard of
having to watch all the shows and wait until the
next week for the next one to come out, and
I was like, you know what, I should have my team.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I should have my.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Own team, and I just didn't know how to do that.
So my cousin actually had her art studio investigated down here,
and I found out after the fact and I was like, what,
you didn't invite me, You didn't invite me. I wanted
to be there. So I got the same group that
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she had asked to come down and it was Ghost
Hunters of Southern Tennessee up in Mcmanville, James Jones, and
Wayne Baker. And we've lost Wayne. We lost Wayne this
past year. But Wayne is actually the one that told
me the first, the very first person that ever told
me that I was sensitive. Oh, and I could feel
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what was going on. And he would he would take
me on these on the investigations and walk with me
and he'd go, Okay, where should we go next? And
you know, let's go over here. Let's something so over
here and he goes, okay, Okay, what are you feeling?
And that kind of thing, and just kind of picking
up on different ideas with him learning how to use
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that sensitivity. I was with them for a few months
as case manager, and I would find places for us
to go investigate and got involved in that. But the
whole time I knew I wanted my own team. And
while I was with them, they got two EVPs at
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when they came to investigate my mom and dad's old store.
We lost Dad in two thousand and one, so mom
and my sister tried to keep it open a little
bit longer, but a autopart store southern state, you know,
O'Reilly's advanced Walmart, everybody selling auto parts, and they didn't
want to come to two women, even though Susan knew
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her crap with cars and small engines and stuff. She
still does. But they ended up having to close after
a couple of years, two to three years, and kept
the utilities on for a little while. But when I
had this team down in twenty thirteen, the utilities had
been off for a couple of years, if not more
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than that, and my husband had actually cleaned everything out everything.
This big building before my mom and dad had it
was a furniture building, and then before that there was
a Red Cross building in it and an ice cream factory.
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The basement was a Turkey slaughter house in the eighteen hundreds,
so there were still two big concrete vats in the
basement of this place which used to be street levels.
So that's how much the road built up over the years.
So when they came in, they only got two EVPs.
One was this weird, really weird Holy mackerel, which nobody
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in my family said, but you know, it kind of
sounds like maybe nineteen fifties before, right, you know, something
like that. So you know, whoever said that was probably
it was probably residual. The only other one they caught
was the turkey's clucking in the basement.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
So we had turkey ghosts gobbling wow. And if you
can imagine, you know, it wasn't a good day for them, right,
it was like their worst day on Earth. Right, So
I don't know what all they were saying, but it
wasn't good, I'm sure. So I got so involved with that.
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I wanted to find those voices, and I started. Really
my first piece of equipment was a digital recorder, and
then the spirit Box got me a PSB seven and
I was glued to that stuff, glued, and I could
hear things easier than other people could for some reason,
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you know how some people can see things better and
some people get things well. I could hear the spirit
Box voices coming through better, and so that was my thing.
And when I separated from them, I already had the
name in my head the Elk Valley Paranormal e VP.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
It was just perfect for me. And so VP came
came about.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
And so when did you start your actual team?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
That was in the late No, it was twenty fourteen
and still going strong. Huh yeah, I mean twenty twenty
kind of hit everybody, And yeah I did. I did
a lot of teaching people how to smudge their own
homes and a couple of zoom chats to get them
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through some things. But other than that, we got started
up again. And then I was training my nephew to
be the videographer. We had changed videographers, and Wyatt was
my baby. It's my sister's son, the only only one.
He's the only grandson, the only nephew, you know, So
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he was he was spoiled, just like but he was
my many me, and he did everything with me and
liked all the stuff I did. So he was going
to be the videographer. And in April twenty twenty two,
we lost him an accident, and so you know, we're
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still not over that. But I was writing the fourth book.
It was It's not Goodbye, Signs from Beyond. I'd started
it in twenty twenty and then hadn't gotten it done.
By twenty twenty two, I had started writing it again
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when he was training with us, and then he died
and it kind of went on hiatus again, you know.
So it wasn't until two or three weeks after that
that I realized the reason I lost motivation those first
two years is because his story is supposed to be
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in that book. So the book's dedicated to him, and
the first story in the book after the intro is
why ITTs? And God, you know, it's just it's just
something that you never get over. You you expect to
these older people, but young ones, it's just it just
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doesn't seem right to know. You know, there's got to
be a reason for everything. There's got to be I
don't know what that reason is, and I don't.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
It always makes it much worse when it's extremely unexpected.
At least, you know, at least when they're sick, you
kind of have a time to get time to kind
of get ready and kind of prepare. But like when
it's unexpected like that, like I lost a cousin about
four years ago, just completely unexpected, and you know, she
was younger than I was, and it's just like, what
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the hell was that about? You know, Yeah, just it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
So you know, you just you don't get over that,
and you don't get over hurting.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
So let's talk about your books. You were just talking about,
you know, your your book. You're writing your fourth book.
You've wrote four, You've written three in the process of
writing four. So how did you begin writing books? And
why did you just start? Why did you decide start
writing books.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna correct you. I've written
I've written five.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Oh, you've written five. See that's why I don't research,
because I don't know everything.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
It's all good, it's all good. And I'm working on
number six, seven, and eight right now, all at the
same time because it's all different. But I can't do
my six, seven or eight until I get this, my
friend's cookbook done. So what happens is in twenty eighteen,
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I'm editing my one of my very best friends in
the whole wide world's book mark Elliott Folks. And he
is the one that actually does the covers of mine
and the illustrations in them, And so I was working
on his. I helped him with one. He sent me
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another one to do. I was editing that, and on
the second or third one I was working on, he goes,
what are you going to get yours out? And I said,
I I don't really know how to go about that,
and he said, you've got stories and you need to
get them out. Now it's time. Go ahead and just
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do it, Just jump in. And so twenty eighteen, I
wanted to get there speaking are you listening? My most
compelling EVPs. I wanted that one to be my first book,
but I couldn't figure out how to do it, so
I had to wait on that one, and instead I
brought out Whispers in the Dark, True Goot Stories and
Eerie Tales. That's the one that's got my bedtime story
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in it for the first one, and there's twenty three
short stories in it. Most of them are in here
in here in Lincoln County, and they've either happened to me,
my team, or friends of mine around this area. And
then there's two that are in Lynchburg where Jack Daniels
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has made at the old haunted home they bought.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
The place is crazy.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Oh yeah, yeah, I've got a two stories in there
about it, and it was it's they're just wicked. And
then when I was on vacation once. Another one was
when I lived in Arizona, and then a girl that
was on my team had a couple of stories in there.
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So the Lynchburg one is actually in one chapter the
two stories about it. But the second book, I brought
out Mark and I just wanted to see if we
could write some fiction. So we did. We did a
fiction book. It's the only fiction book I have and
he wrote four of the stories. I wrote eight, and
we put it out that next year. I finally figured
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out how to do the third book, so it's about
my investigations, the ones that got the most evidence and
were the ones that stuck out the most. And you
can go on Elk Valleyparanormal dot com to the evidence
section and the drop down menu and pull down their
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speaking and listen to all of the EVPs in that
third book.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
So finally got that done. And then God put in
my lap that I just needed to do a signs
book and I didn't have enough to do signs, And
like I told you, it was put off for a while,
but I got stories from all over the US and
one even from England about signs from our loved ones,
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even cats and dogs coming back and visiting after they die.
You know. Coins that we find, feathers, songs that come
on the radio, cologne, even dreams and visions and things
like that, near death experiences. So I got so many
of those that when that one came out, I had
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more people reaching out and saying, I got a story
for you. So my second Signs book will be out
whenever I can get the cookbook finished. The fifth book
I wrote was some of the darker things I've seen
in investigations and a lot of my friends that have
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had some really really odd, odd things happen on investigations.
So that one is Realm of Shadows, true ghost stories
and eerie tales. But I've got coming out next is
Death's Door, Death Experiences, Angel angel warnings and or angel
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visitations or rescues. And I can't I can't think. What
I wrote down anyway is Death Store and the second
science book and then a third dark dark Stories.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Now the second Signs book. Is that what I submitted
some stories to.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Yes, okay, okay, I think I remember like the name
of the book, and I was like, well, I have
a couple of stories that would probably fit this profile.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
So and so I look forward to that coming out,
and I need to get into more reading because I
have a ton of people that I'm friends with I
write books. I'm just saying, non, I just don't have
the time to sit down and read like I used to.
And I've tried sitting down and putting all my personal
experiences from age like three, the very first thing I
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can remember up until you know now, trying to put
it all a paper, and I get so sidetracked, like
I'll get I'll just I'll just be banging stuff out
and then all right, I'm done for the night, and
then something the next day happens while work on it tomorrow,
and that tomorrow comes while work on it tomorrow, and
like the last time I done it, I probably wrote
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probably five or six pages, and I have no clue
what even happened to it. I thought I put it
on a flash drive, and then we moved and I
can't find the flask drive. And yeah, so I'm like,
that's awesome. So now I got to try to remember
how I worded all this stuff again, and right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
So when I first started writing, I had no idea
how to start, had none. I knew how to edit things,
I knew how to correct grammar and things like that, Right,
but you know, getting your thoughts out on paper. So
I learned that. I took a crash course on how
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to write your first book. It was like a virtual
thing and I listened to yos and I was like, oh, okay,
I like that idea and I can do that. But
one thing that I learned from this guy is that
you give yourself maybe thirty minutes, and you sit down
and just start writing. And I use just an old
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school notebook, you know, just and start writing, writing, writing, right.
And the thing is, you don't correct yourself as you go.
You don't, you know, worry about things being disjointed, because
you've got something called copy and paste that you do
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things around later on. But I wrote everything out and
went through all kinds of I'd lose ink and have
to get another pen and start. And now you can
read it back instead of typing it, and your computer
will transcribe it for you.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Right.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I love technology when it works, right, Yeah, And then
you can copy paste all that kind of stuff. So yeah,
I get writing again.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
But see, I've always been really I've always really enjoyed writing,
and like, all through high school I wrote a ton
of poetry, like kind of I wouldn't call it like
dark poetry, but it's kind of on the darker side,
like a lot of the was down that I look
back on. It kind of paranormally themed. And like I
wrote one it was called Deer Ghost and it was
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it was I don't even remember what it was about.
And I wrote another one called Earth is Dying pretty
much it was about like the apocalypse. And actually I
think I got that one published in a book that
I've lost along the way throughout the years. And so
I found myself easier to write that because I took
creative writing like the senior year of high school ACE
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that class, and like writing stuff like that, I guess
for me it is easier than writing my own personal
stuff down. And uh, like even tried to start writing
my own book. I had came up with a name
for it, and I came up with the backstory and
got about ten pages into that, and I actually found
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that on my old laptop, and uh, it was gonna
be called when Hell Howe's and it was gonna be
about this dude who is being like tortured by this
witch and all this other stuff, and I just got
I started doing that probably ten years ago and I
just stopped.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
It's still there, and it's still there, so you could
bring it all out.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yeah, So maybe one day I'll have when I actually
take vacation from work, and I actually take a vacation,
I don't stay busy my entire vacation, like doing errands
and chores and everything. So so I'm going to talk
about something that's kind of right above my head. You've
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actually been to the Nighthouse, correct?
Speaker 2 (30:08):
I have, And I'm going this weekend as well.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
See Hen invited me to that, and I'm like, well,
you know I can't go. This episode seven of Beer
Busy and Boogeyman is Saturday. So and once I told
him that, I told Erica, I think, you know, the
house is only like an hour or less than an
hour and a half from where I lived. I think
I might just come up randomly one day and check
it out. I was like, or I may just wait
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and keep the anticipation until September. So, now when you went,
did you just go just just to check it out
because you know you're friends with Eric, or did you
like actually help investigate it or like how what was
your thoughts there? Like what happened?
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yeah? He set a time for us to come up
to do the inaugural investigation. And so it was I
don't know if you know Regina Blatt and Lee.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Pig Yep, I'm a good friends with both of them.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
So well, Regina got to become Lee was bussy, could
not get away from work. But Regina was there and
another girl from her team, me and my husband and Eric.
I think yeah, because Roger was there for a little
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while but didn't stay for the investigation. And then we
actually had Mark, my friend, the writer and medium. He
did a remote for us, or then we had him
on camera taking him through the house after he did
the remote, and he would say, what stop, stop, all right,
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turn to your left, okay, go up two steps, turn
and you know this kind of thing. You go, okay,
there's your energy spot. So that was interesting. That was interesting.
I didn't hear a lot, but others that were there
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heard footsteps and mumbling. I was waiting for the big stuff.
I even went in the bathroom with the lights all off,
you know, hoping something would touch or you know, you
know what. I just know it didn't happen, but it's
not to say that it can't.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Right, And I told uh, I told Eric Uh in
the last episode I did with him that you know,
this this is new to all the spirits there, so
I'm like, they're probably still a little bit shy, and
you know, of course him, him and his husband and
is involved and stuff renovating, and of course it's probably
(32:47):
stirred a little bit of stuff up, and they've been
unearthing all these different artifacts and everything, and I'm like, like,
by the time we get there, like, I think it's
going to be a pretty good night, at least I'm hoping.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
For it anyway, But I hope, I hope to and
you know, just like you know.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
You said mentioned the TV shows, as you know, doing this,
it's nothing like the TV shows, no, And so I'm like,
I really hope it's not like a completely dead night,
because I.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Don't think it will be. I think it was for us,
because he even talked to the spirit saying, I know
you're not used to our equipment. I know you're not
used to this, but this is what this is for,
you know, and just kind of talk like they were
right there going okay, what's this for? You know, that
kind of thing. So I think they were more standoffish,
(33:41):
but watching because you could feel, you could feel eyes right,
and you knew something was around you even though you
couldn't see. I think Cassie that was on Regina's team,
believe she saw After we went to bed, Regina left
(34:05):
and Cassie stayed in the parlor. Greg and I were
in one of the bedrooms and Eric was in the
master and Cassie said she saw a man in the
par sitting there. Didn't do anything, just she saw the
(34:26):
shadow of someone. So I think what's going to happen
is they're going to show themselves more to individuals than
a big group of people. However, I wait until everybody
was outside. It was still daylight. But I went all
(34:47):
the way around the house because he's he's actually happened,
had things happen during the day there, because he would
he would go into the bathroom and have a knock
on the door and all everybody else is outside, things
like that. But I went all over the house from
the attic all the way down to the cellar and
(35:08):
taking pictures all everything, and I weeded them out. And
I do have the album on El Valley Paranormal on
Facebook the Nighthouse. So if if you and any any
of your listeners want to look through that, just go
to the albums there. But nothing I had, nothing happen
(35:33):
except you could tell you were not alone. Right, So
hopefully by the time you get there, they'll be more
used to people coming in and out and right.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Because because I know we've mentioned they're not going to
be doing it every weekend. I think it's going to
be like every other weekend. So by the time we
hit there, you Elisha hopefully have maybe eight ten or
investigations or so probably run through there.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
So hopefully because yours is on the twenty eighth of September, right.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Yeah, so this will be uh Gill and Joey's very
first investigation because they're not an investigators. They're just you know,
paragamble geeks like you and me, but they're you know,
they have their own podcasts and so this is gonna
be their first investigation. And I think it's gonna be
Kristen's I think sixth investigation. So she's you know, she's
(36:27):
getting on up there and uh, I know she's really
looking forward to it and for her to'll be fine
clear across the country for this, I think it's amazing
hor to do so it's gonna I really like her.
She's she's pretty awesome. And other than Gill and Joey,
you know, who live like practically next door each other,
none of us have ever met like in person, so
that's awesome. It's gonna be a fun time. And so
(36:50):
I am gonna do a quick little plug so anybody listening.
September twenty eighth, Beer Booths and Boogeyman will be investigating
the Nighthouse in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. We're be doing actually our
show before the investigation, so well, we're gonna be doing
our normal show and then right after we wrap, we're
gonna have everything set up and ready to go. Eric's
(37:10):
gonna be letting us come in pretty early to get
everything set up because we find on having cameras and
Mike's pretty much everywhere in the house. And and it's
gonna be a little bit different than most investigations, Like
people that contribute to our Indie Go Go campaign are
gonna be the ones investigating. We're just there. They're telling
(37:33):
us what.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
To do, so that'll be fun.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
It'll be different for me, and I'm sure it'll be
different for Christen since he's been on a few her selfs.
So you know, anybody that contributes at least twenty five dollars,
they get to actually participate in the investigation. You can
donate any amounts you want, but anybody that donates at
least twenty five will be able to tell us, Hey,
go in this room for thirty minutes without a flashlight
(37:59):
and just sit in the dark, can see what happens.
Or hey, Kristen, go to the attic and take a
rim pod and see what goes on. And so they
kind of get to tell us what to do. They
ask the questions like they're the investigators.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
That's going to be different.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
That's going to be not like I said, We'll have
cameras stood up everywhere. So if we're all in this
room over here and somebody's tuned in watching this room
over here, and something crazy has happened, and they can
tap in and say, hey, something's going on and broom
b somebody might want to go check it out. So,
and we plan to keep some of the cameras rolling
even after we go to bed. Yeah, Like so even
(38:37):
at five o'clock in the morning, when we're all hopefully asleep,
somebody could somebody could jump in and be watching these
certain rooms and message, hey, you guys may want to
check this out, you know, daring review because this is
some crazy shit happen to this room at five o
two in the morning. So, and we have a ton
of perks and and and stuff. People that are able
(39:01):
to contribute, even the people that only donate like five dollars,
we have, you know, stuff we're going to be able
to do for them. We do have one that it'd
be awesome if somebody did it, But we have one perk,
one tier that as long as you know, they would
have to pay their way, but they would get to
come be there in person with us. So anybody listen,
(39:25):
if that's in Tennessee or Kentucky, if you want to
come be part of an investigation, jump on our indie
go go and go ahead and purchase that uh that
tier because it's only one available, because I know it's
only going to be a limited amount of space there.
So I just wanted to toss that out there. So
what uh, what do you have upcoming here anytime soon
(39:47):
other than to release them with some of your books,
Are any events or conventions anything?
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Yeah, I other than going to the night House this weekend,
that you can't go to. Yeah, looking forward to that.
And I've got a public hunt Belwich Cave going to
that the Eric and Regina and where you're going to be,
So that's on the seventeenth. I can't wait. I've not
(40:14):
been there, so you've never been to the cave? No,
lived here all my life? I crazy? Isn't that crazy?
And then in September, on the twenty six I'll be
at Athens State in Alabama storytelling, so that's going to
be fun, well nice. Then the fifth of October I'll
(40:34):
be at the Greeneyes Festival in Chickamauga, Georgia. And on
the twelfth that Haunted Graves per Con in Mayfield, Kentucky.
Nice selling books there you.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Go, well hopefully on September twenty eighth, you can you can,
you can dive in and tell me where to go
and tell Kristen what to do. So right, yeah, So
if anybody wants to buy any of your books, how
can they do that?
Speaker 2 (40:59):
I am on Amazon self published, so you can look
for cent Trader Hill and I'm on Facebook cent Trader
Hill author. You can find Elk Valley Pairanormal on Facebook
or also go to our website. Elk Value paranormal dot com.
And if you need to reach out to me and
have a story that you would love for me to
hear possibly put in a book, then reach me at
(41:23):
Centrader Hill author at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Awesome, awesome, awesome stuff. So to wrap this up, I
want you to tell me the one thing that stands
out to you that's probably scared you the most, or
startled you the most, or just left you but like
kind of one of those what the fuck type moments?
Speaker 2 (41:47):
Ooh got two of those actually, so so one one
thing that's happened to me three times is the feeling
of being rushed and I can't see what's there, but
something is all of a sudden on me and it's
like they're screaming at the top of their lungs, but
(42:10):
I can't hear a thing. It's just you feel the vibration.
It is so so, so much, so much anger in
it that you can feel it. So I've had that
twice at the old hospital, and once on vacation that
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was weird. Made my husband go with me to find
some sage the next day, and now I don't go
anywhere without a smuchtick ever, bit the only other thing
that weirded me out was seeing something that wasn't human
and it was in reflection, so I didn't when I
(42:57):
turned to look at it, you know, it wasn't there,
but it was in this really shiny desk. I was
sitting at at an old business and this black cloud
with eyes floated over me and I had never seen
anything like that. I haven't seen it since. But it
(43:21):
was a little bit of a trickster that was causing
all kinds of havoc at this hometown business and he
shows up on camera and just terrorizes customers sometimes. Wow,
but that was seeing that thing was shocking. That was
(43:45):
that was pretty shocking.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
I bet that's That's a that's pretty wild, and I
think that I think that ends on a good note.
So so, uh, I just went blank. Happens quite often
when I'm doing the show because I'm like, I'm trying
to read what I've typed out and I'm trying to
talk at the same time. So anyway, Sin, thank you
(44:09):
so much. Everybody, go check out her books, buy her books.
If you have a really interesting story, hit her up
because it may make it into one of her books
that you may be putting out soon, so again, everybody sins.
Trader Hill, author, paranormal investigator, thank you for joining the show.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
All right, well cast everybody next time, and stay spooky.
Ladies and gentlemen. This is Life Beyond six Feets. I'm
your host, Damien Christie from Spooky South five zero seven,
and today I have a first time guest of the show,
paranormal investigator and author, Miss Sin Schrader Hill Sin, Welcome
to Life Beyond six Feet.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Thank you so much for having me on.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
It is an absolute honor to have you on the show.
And I've been wanting to get you on for a while.
I even wanted to get you on before I ever
took a haatus last year. So it's finally come full circle.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
So yay, we're here.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
We're exactly exactly. So, like I always like to do,
I just want to just jump right into this thing.
So let's kind of backtrack a little bit and just
kind of tell me how you got into this paranormal
journey you've been on.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
You know, I got started late, so I've only been
in the paranormal world since twenty thirteen. Before that, I
was just a weird kid. Yeah, I've not been doing
it long. I've not been doing it long, but I've
always been weird growing up. I was weird. Panic attacks
really bad, and it wasn't until twenty thirteen when I
(01:44):
was training with the first group that took me in
to train me that I was sensitive and I was
taking on other people's energy around me, and that's what
was given me to all the panic attacks. And I
mean some of them were crazy, horrible, like emergency room
panic attacks. You think you're dying, you know, heart attack
(02:05):
symptoms and everything, and that was I had my first
one when I was ten years old, and I mean,
I'll never forget it. It was Halloween evening, Halloween night,
and it was my first time away from my family
on Halloween, and it was a big slumber party. One
of the girls it was her birthday and there were
ten plus ten year olds running around, sugared up on
(02:29):
Krispy Kreme donuts, Coca Cola, sundrop, you know, all that
kind of and pizza and all this running rampant through
this poor lady and gentleman's house. And I had my
first panic attack and ended up on the floor. And
the thing I remember, my best friend leaned over me
and said, as this ever happened before? And I said no,
(02:52):
and she said, oh no, but just the oh no
sounded like dunk, dunk, dumb.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
No.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I think am dying I'm dying, but uh, you know,
fast forward to twenty thirteen, and it's because I was
taking on not only had all that energy inside me,
but I had all that sugar inside me, and then
if everybody excited around me, I was taking that in.
(03:21):
It was just too much.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Wow, that's uh, that's quite a thing to experience. But
then eventually find out the reason and behind it. And
luckily is it anything just to do with you, like
some kind of medical issues. So I guess that's a
plus side to it.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So as being as you say, a weird kid, I
was a weird kid too. I'm still kind of weird.
So uh, while were some like personal experiences, I kind
of kind of drew you towards the paranormal.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I have always loved scary stuff. I've always loved being scared.
I've always liked to have, you know, go to hornted houses,
something jumped out at you. You go, okay, right, you know,
I've always liked the jump scares and movies and you
know all that stuff. Was reading Edgar Allan Poe in
(04:13):
the third grade. So my bedtime story when I was
eight years old and before my grandmother we were living
in her house, and I slept with her, so every
night she had to tell me a bedtime story to
get me to shut up and go to sleep. And
(04:35):
it was it was about my great uncle that was
coming home corseback riding in the rain, and it was like,
I think it was only like twenty minutes from where
I live now, not very far at all, but it
was a very stormy night he was riding home and
(04:57):
it was such a torrential downpour that he ducked into
this little church and back then nothing was locked, so
he just tied his horse up outside and went into
the dark church and sat down into the pew. The
only thing that would light it up would be the
lightning strikes right, and he was a scaredy cat. So
this is another reason I love this story. And actually
(05:20):
this is in my first book. This was the very
first story I put in my first book, my bedtime story.
So he's sitting in the church waiting for the rain
to stop, and he hears a shuffle behind him and
footsteps and he's like, nah, that's the rain, and then
(05:40):
he hears it again and it's closer, and whenever the
dark lights up, he looks around, he can't see anything,
there's nothing in the church. But then he hears a
shuffle again, and it gets closer and closer and closer
until this woman grabs him from around the back to
scared him to death, you know, just about. But it
(06:06):
was this lady that had escaped from the local poor farm,
and she was mentally unstable and was out in the
rain and ducked into the church just like he did.
But he had no idea, and he, being a scaredy cat,
scared him to dead. But my grandmother always ended this
(06:26):
story with now boom, okay, go ahead, go to sleep,
and I could sleep after that.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Wow, so right, so kind of so, so being scared
helped you sleep? I think. I don't think a lot
of people like to be scared in order to go
to bed, so don't a different way?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, I mean, I love watching horror movies before I
go to sleep. I love them watching one last night,
so I have to have to queue one up for
to too. But yeah, that's how I relaxed.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Well there you go. So before you actually started investigating,
did you have any personal paranormal experiences that just kind
of stand out to you or do they really just
start happening when you started investigating.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I was not as open to everything as I am now,
so anything that I saw or experienced, I didn't recognize
it as paranormal. I've been to so many different haunted
(07:38):
places Alcatraz, Birdcage, Theater, Alamo, overseas, been to some over there,
But because I wasn't wrapped up in investigating, I wasn't
looking for anything. And so, you know, you would walk
(07:58):
into these places and the atmosphere was different, obviously different,
but I wasn't looking for anything, any haunting, So I
I guess it's you know, I guess The first things
(08:18):
that started happening to me before I got involved in
this was seeing things out of the corner of my eye.
You know, something moves and you turn and it's not there. Okay,
that was in my head, right, Something else that was
in my head too, you know. So it just played
it off until I realized that there were things going
(08:41):
on around me. When I was a little girl, we
lived in a house that was built in the eighteen hundreds,
late eighteen hundreds, and it was actually moved on logs
rolled down the hill to resituate and to set up
a new resident. And that house my mom still lives
(09:05):
in it, but where my bedroom was something something about it.
I don't, I don't. I still don't know. I still
have the feeling when I go in that room that
something is in there. It's not anything antagonistic, nothing dangerous,
(09:27):
nothing like that, but it's just that you're being watched,
you know. Growing up as a kid and then and
then up into teenage years, I couldn't get dressed in
that room. It's just something about it. Yeah, I'm gonna
I'm gonna get dressed in the closet. I had a
(09:47):
big walking closet. I could get dressed in there or
in the bathroom next door. But little, when I was little,
I would turn all my stuffed animals around and all
of my dolls because I had a big dog. So
since then, I don't have those dolls anymore, except for
two that my grandmother gave me. But something I feel
(10:10):
like was attached to one of those things I had,
And I don't know which one it was. It's not
the two I had, right, It's not the two I have.
But yeah, it's just something about that house is just
a little bit weird like me.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
But there you go. It goes hand in hand. I guess.
And I've lived in a lot of not really weird places,
but I've pretty much experienced something pretty much everywhere I've
ever lived, and never really thought much of it until
I got into my adult years and actually started doing
this a few years ago. And when you mentioned a
(10:52):
minute ago seeing stuff out of the corner of your
eyes that reminded me of something that had happened to
me at work last night. I'm sitting there, I'm getting
ready to roll something to the back room, and I
get about halfway turned towards the backroom door, and I
swear to you, it looks like I see somebody's head
poking out of the back room, and like as soon
as they get fully turned around, like it darts back.
(11:14):
But I seed enough of it that I could tell
it was a white guy with like shaggy, dirty blonde hair.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
So I kind of stood there for a second and
went on back in there. And as soon as I
walk through the doors, like instant cold hills, the hair
on my arm stood up, and I'm looking around like
our back room right now was like packed, So I'm like,
there's nowhere anybody could have ran and hit. And what
makes it a little bit more interesting is before I
(11:44):
started there, a former employee that worked there. She had
told me that she swore that she's seen somebody on
camera and we're in all black, go into our back
room and she reround the camera and she's like, there
was nobody there.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
What was the backgroom before?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I don't know, it may have just been trees. I mean,
so it was just so my friends on the other
podcast I do beer Boos and Boogie ban they kind
of called me a ghost magnet because I have stuff
happened to me pretty much everywhere I live, everywhere I work,
I've had some kind of experience there. So it just yeah,
(12:24):
so you kind of answered my next question a few
minutes ago when he started investigating in twenty thirteen, So
what made you decide you wanted to start doing this?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
All of the shows on TV? I was hard of
having to watch all the shows and wait until the
next week for the next one to come out, and
I was like, you know what, I should have my team.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I should have my.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Own team, and I just didn't know how to do that.
So my cousin actually had her art studio investigated down here,
and I found out after the fact and I was like, what,
you didn't invite me, You didn't invite me. I wanted
to be there. So I got the same group that
(13:06):
she had asked to come down and it was Ghost
Hunters of Southern Tennessee up in Mcmanville, James Jones, and
Wayne Baker. And we've lost Wayne. We lost Wayne this
past year. But Wayne is actually the one that told
me the first, the very first person that ever told
me that I was sensitive. Oh, and I could feel
(13:28):
what was going on. And he would he would take
me on these on the investigations and walk with me
and he'd go, Okay, where should we go next? And
you know, let's go over here. Let's something so over
here and he goes, okay, Okay, what are you feeling?
And that kind of thing, and just kind of picking
up on different ideas with him learning how to use
(13:52):
that sensitivity. I was with them for a few months
as case manager, and I would find places for us
to go investigate and got involved in that. But the
whole time I knew I wanted my own team. And
while I was with them, they got two EVPs at
(14:15):
when they came to investigate my mom and dad's old store.
We lost Dad in two thousand and one, so mom
and my sister tried to keep it open a little
bit longer, but a autopart store southern state, you know,
O'Reilly's advanced Walmart, everybody selling auto parts, and they didn't
want to come to two women, even though Susan knew
(14:37):
her crap with cars and small engines and stuff. She
still does. But they ended up having to close after
a couple of years, two to three years, and kept
the utilities on for a little while. But when I
had this team down in twenty thirteen, the utilities had
been off for a couple of years, if not more
(14:57):
than that, and my husband had actually cleaned everything out everything.
This big building before my mom and dad had it
was a furniture building, and then before that there was
a Red Cross building in it and an ice cream factory.
(15:18):
The basement was a Turkey slaughter house in the eighteen hundreds,
so there were still two big concrete vats in the
basement of this place which used to be street levels.
So that's how much the road built up over the years.
So when they came in, they only got two EVPs.
One was this weird, really weird Holy mackerel, which nobody
(15:41):
in my family said, but you know, it kind of
sounds like maybe nineteen fifties before, right, you know, something
like that. So you know, whoever said that was probably
it was probably residual. The only other one they caught
was the turkey's clucking in the basement.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
So we had turkey ghosts gobbling wow. And if you
can imagine, you know, it wasn't a good day for them, right,
it was like their worst day on Earth. Right, So
I don't know what all they were saying, but it
wasn't good, I'm sure. So I got so involved with that.
(16:23):
I wanted to find those voices, and I started. Really
my first piece of equipment was a digital recorder, and
then the spirit Box got me a PSB seven and
I was glued to that stuff, glued, and I could
hear things easier than other people could for some reason,
(16:45):
you know how some people can see things better and
some people get things well. I could hear the spirit
Box voices coming through better, and so that was my thing.
And when I separated from them, I already had the
name in my head the Elk Valley Paranormal e VP.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
It was just perfect for me. And so VP came
came about.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
And so when did you start your actual team?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
That was in the late No, it was twenty fourteen
and still going strong. Huh yeah, I mean twenty twenty
kind of hit everybody, And yeah I did. I did
a lot of teaching people how to smudge their own
homes and a couple of zoom chats to get them
(17:34):
through some things. But other than that, we got started
up again. And then I was training my nephew to
be the videographer. We had changed videographers, and Wyatt was
my baby. It's my sister's son, the only only one.
He's the only grandson, the only nephew, you know, So
(17:57):
he was he was spoiled, just like but he was
my many me, and he did everything with me and
liked all the stuff I did. So he was going
to be the videographer. And in April twenty twenty two,
we lost him an accident, and so you know, we're
(18:20):
still not over that. But I was writing the fourth book.
It was It's not Goodbye, Signs from Beyond. I'd started
it in twenty twenty and then hadn't gotten it done.
By twenty twenty two, I had started writing it again
(18:40):
when he was training with us, and then he died
and it kind of went on hiatus again, you know.
So it wasn't until two or three weeks after that
that I realized the reason I lost motivation those first
two years is because his story is supposed to be
(19:02):
in that book. So the book's dedicated to him, and
the first story in the book after the intro is
why ITTs? And God, you know, it's just it's just
something that you never get over. You you expect to
these older people, but young ones, it's just it just
(19:24):
doesn't seem right to know. You know, there's got to
be a reason for everything. There's got to be I
don't know what that reason is, and I don't.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
It always makes it much worse when it's extremely unexpected.
At least, you know, at least when they're sick, you
kind of have a time to get time to kind
of get ready and kind of prepare. But like when
it's unexpected like that, like I lost a cousin about
four years ago, just completely unexpected, and you know, she
was younger than I was, and it's just like, what
(19:56):
the hell was that about? You know, Yeah, just it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
So you know, you just you don't get over that,
and you don't get over hurting.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
So let's talk about your books. You were just talking about,
you know, your your book. You're writing your fourth book.
You've wrote four, You've written three in the process of
writing four. So how did you begin writing books? And
why did you just start? Why did you decide start
writing books.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna correct you. I've written
I've written five.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Oh, you've written five. See that's why I don't research,
because I don't know everything.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
It's all good, it's all good. And I'm working on
number six, seven, and eight right now, all at the
same time because it's all different. But I can't do
my six, seven or eight until I get this, my
friend's cookbook done. So what happens is in twenty eighteen,
(20:52):
I'm editing my one of my very best friends in
the whole wide world's book mark Elliott Folks. And he
is the one that actually does the covers of mine
and the illustrations in them, And so I was working
on his. I helped him with one. He sent me
(21:13):
another one to do. I was editing that, and on
the second or third one I was working on, he goes,
what are you going to get yours out? And I said,
I I don't really know how to go about that,
and he said, you've got stories and you need to
get them out. Now it's time. Go ahead and just
(21:33):
do it, Just jump in. And so twenty eighteen, I
wanted to get there speaking are you listening? My most
compelling EVPs. I wanted that one to be my first book,
but I couldn't figure out how to do it, so
I had to wait on that one, and instead I
brought out Whispers in the Dark, True Goot Stories and
Eerie Tales. That's the one that's got my bedtime story
(21:56):
in it for the first one, and there's twenty three
short stories in it. Most of them are in here
in here in Lincoln County, and they've either happened to me,
my team, or friends of mine around this area. And
then there's two that are in Lynchburg where Jack Daniels
(22:17):
has made at the old haunted home they bought.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
The place is crazy.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Oh yeah, yeah, I've got a two stories in there
about it, and it was it's they're just wicked. And
then when I was on vacation once. Another one was
when I lived in Arizona, and then a girl that
was on my team had a couple of stories in there.
(22:42):
So the Lynchburg one is actually in one chapter the
two stories about it. But the second book, I brought
out Mark and I just wanted to see if we
could write some fiction. So we did. We did a
fiction book. It's the only fiction book I have and
he wrote four of the stories. I wrote eight, and
we put it out that next year. I finally figured
(23:07):
out how to do the third book, so it's about
my investigations, the ones that got the most evidence and
were the ones that stuck out the most. And you
can go on Elk Valleyparanormal dot com to the evidence
section and the drop down menu and pull down their
(23:28):
speaking and listen to all of the EVPs in that
third book.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
So finally got that done. And then God put in
my lap that I just needed to do a signs
book and I didn't have enough to do signs, And
like I told you, it was put off for a while,
but I got stories from all over the US and
one even from England about signs from our loved ones,
(23:58):
even cats and dogs coming back and visiting after they die.
You know. Coins that we find, feathers, songs that come
on the radio, cologne, even dreams and visions and things
like that, near death experiences. So I got so many
of those that when that one came out, I had
(24:20):
more people reaching out and saying, I got a story
for you. So my second Signs book will be out
whenever I can get the cookbook finished. The fifth book
I wrote was some of the darker things I've seen
in investigations and a lot of my friends that have
(24:43):
had some really really odd, odd things happen on investigations.
So that one is Realm of Shadows, true ghost stories
and eerie tales. But I've got coming out next is
Death's Door, Death Experiences, Angel angel warnings and or angel
(25:06):
visitations or rescues. And I can't I can't think. What
I wrote down anyway is Death Store and the second
science book and then a third dark dark Stories.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Now the second Signs book. Is that what I submitted
some stories to.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Yes, okay, okay, I think I remember like the name
of the book, and I was like, well, I have
a couple of stories that would probably fit this profile.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
So and so I look forward to that coming out,
and I need to get into more reading because I
have a ton of people that I'm friends with I
write books. I'm just saying, non, I just don't have
the time to sit down and read like I used to.
And I've tried sitting down and putting all my personal
experiences from age like three, the very first thing I
(26:02):
can remember up until you know now, trying to put
it all a paper, and I get so sidetracked, like
I'll get I'll just I'll just be banging stuff out
and then all right, I'm done for the night, and
then something the next day happens while work on it tomorrow,
and that tomorrow comes while work on it tomorrow, and
like the last time I done it, I probably wrote
(26:26):
probably five or six pages, and I have no clue
what even happened to it. I thought I put it
on a flash drive, and then we moved and I
can't find the flask drive. And yeah, so I'm like,
that's awesome. So now I got to try to remember
how I worded all this stuff again, and right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
So when I first started writing, I had no idea
how to start, had none. I knew how to edit things,
I knew how to correct grammar and things like that, Right,
but you know, getting your thoughts out on paper. So
I learned that. I took a crash course on how
(27:05):
to write your first book. It was like a virtual
thing and I listened to yos and I was like, oh, okay,
I like that idea and I can do that. But
one thing that I learned from this guy is that
you give yourself maybe thirty minutes, and you sit down
and just start writing. And I use just an old
(27:27):
school notebook, you know, just and start writing, writing, writing, right.
And the thing is, you don't correct yourself as you go.
You don't, you know, worry about things being disjointed, because
you've got something called copy and paste that you do
(27:48):
things around later on. But I wrote everything out and
went through all kinds of I'd lose ink and have
to get another pen and start. And now you can
read it back instead of typing it, and your computer
will transcribe it for you.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Right.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I love technology when it works, right, Yeah, And then
you can copy paste all that kind of stuff. So yeah,
I get writing again.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
But see, I've always been really I've always really enjoyed writing,
and like, all through high school I wrote a ton
of poetry, like kind of I wouldn't call it like
dark poetry, but it's kind of on the darker side,
like a lot of the was down that I look
back on. It kind of paranormally themed. And like I
wrote one it was called Deer Ghost and it was
(28:40):
it was I don't even remember what it was about.
And I wrote another one called Earth is Dying pretty
much it was about like the apocalypse. And actually I
think I got that one published in a book that
I've lost along the way throughout the years. And so
I found myself easier to write that because I took
creative writing like the senior year of high school ACE
(29:01):
that class, and like writing stuff like that, I guess
for me it is easier than writing my own personal
stuff down. And uh, like even tried to start writing
my own book. I had came up with a name
for it, and I came up with the backstory and
got about ten pages into that, and I actually found
(29:21):
that on my old laptop, and uh, it was gonna
be called when Hell Howe's and it was gonna be
about this dude who is being like tortured by this
witch and all this other stuff, and I just got
I started doing that probably ten years ago and I
just stopped.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
It's still there, and it's still there, so you could
bring it all out.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yeah, So maybe one day I'll have when I actually
take vacation from work, and I actually take a vacation,
I don't stay busy my entire vacation, like doing errands
and chores and everything. So so I'm going to talk
about something that's kind of right above my head. You've
(30:05):
actually been to the Nighthouse, correct?
Speaker 2 (30:08):
I have, And I'm going this weekend as well.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
See Hen invited me to that, and I'm like, well,
you know I can't go. This episode seven of Beer
Busy and Boogeyman is Saturday. So and once I told
him that, I told Erica, I think, you know, the
house is only like an hour or less than an
hour and a half from where I lived. I think
I might just come up randomly one day and check
it out. I was like, or I may just wait
(30:32):
and keep the anticipation until September. So, now when you went,
did you just go just just to check it out
because you know you're friends with Eric, or did you
like actually help investigate it or like how what was
your thoughts there? Like what happened?
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yeah? He set a time for us to come up
to do the inaugural investigation. And so it was I
don't know if you know Regina Blatt and Lee.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Pig Yep, I'm a good friends with both of them.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
So well, Regina got to become Lee was bussy, could
not get away from work. But Regina was there and
another girl from her team, me and my husband and Eric.
I think yeah, because Roger was there for a little
(31:23):
while but didn't stay for the investigation. And then we
actually had Mark, my friend, the writer and medium. He
did a remote for us, or then we had him
on camera taking him through the house after he did
the remote, and he would say, what stop, stop, all right,
(31:44):
turn to your left, okay, go up two steps, turn
and you know this kind of thing. You go, okay,
there's your energy spot. So that was interesting. That was interesting.
I didn't hear a lot, but others that were there
(32:08):
heard footsteps and mumbling. I was waiting for the big stuff.
I even went in the bathroom with the lights all off,
you know, hoping something would touch or you know, you
know what. I just know it didn't happen, but it's
not to say that it can't.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Right, And I told uh, I told Eric Uh in
the last episode I did with him that you know,
this this is new to all the spirits there, so
I'm like, they're probably still a little bit shy, and
you know, of course him, him and his husband and
is involved and stuff renovating, and of course it's probably
(32:47):
stirred a little bit of stuff up, and they've been
unearthing all these different artifacts and everything, and I'm like, like,
by the time we get there, like, I think it's
going to be a pretty good night, at least I'm hoping.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
For it anyway, But I hope, I hope to and
you know, just like you know.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
You said mentioned the TV shows, as you know, doing this,
it's nothing like the TV shows, no, And so I'm like,
I really hope it's not like a completely dead night,
because I.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Don't think it will be. I think it was for us,
because he even talked to the spirit saying, I know
you're not used to our equipment. I know you're not
used to this, but this is what this is for,
you know, and just kind of talk like they were
right there going okay, what's this for? You know, that
kind of thing. So I think they were more standoffish,
(33:41):
but watching because you could feel, you could feel eyes right,
and you knew something was around you even though you
couldn't see. I think Cassie that was on Regina's team,
believe she saw After we went to bed, Regina left
(34:05):
and Cassie stayed in the parlor. Greg and I were
in one of the bedrooms and Eric was in the
master and Cassie said she saw a man in the
par sitting there. Didn't do anything, just she saw the
(34:26):
shadow of someone. So I think what's going to happen
is they're going to show themselves more to individuals than
a big group of people. However, I wait until everybody
was outside. It was still daylight. But I went all
(34:47):
the way around the house because he's he's actually happened,
had things happen during the day there, because he would
he would go into the bathroom and have a knock
on the door and all everybody else is outside, things
like that. But I went all over the house from
the attic all the way down to the cellar and
(35:08):
taking pictures all everything, and I weeded them out. And
I do have the album on El Valley Paranormal on
Facebook the Nighthouse. So if if you and any any
of your listeners want to look through that, just go
to the albums there. But nothing I had, nothing happen
(35:33):
except you could tell you were not alone. Right, So
hopefully by the time you get there, they'll be more
used to people coming in and out and right.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Because because I know we've mentioned they're not going to
be doing it every weekend. I think it's going to
be like every other weekend. So by the time we
hit there, you Elisha hopefully have maybe eight ten or
investigations or so probably run through there.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
So hopefully because yours is on the twenty eighth of September, right.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Yeah, so this will be uh Gill and Joey's very
first investigation because they're not an investigators. They're just you know,
paragamble geeks like you and me, but they're you know,
they have their own podcasts and so this is gonna
be their first investigation. And I think it's gonna be
Kristen's I think sixth investigation. So she's you know, she's
(36:27):
getting on up there and uh, I know she's really
looking forward to it and for her to'll be fine
clear across the country for this, I think it's amazing
hor to do so it's gonna I really like her.
She's she's pretty awesome. And other than Gill and Joey,
you know, who live like practically next door each other,
none of us have ever met like in person, so
that's awesome. It's gonna be a fun time. And so
(36:50):
I am gonna do a quick little plug so anybody listening.
September twenty eighth, Beer Booths and Boogeyman will be investigating
the Nighthouse in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. We're be doing actually our
show before the investigation, so well, we're gonna be doing
our normal show and then right after we wrap, we're
gonna have everything set up and ready to go. Eric's
(37:10):
gonna be letting us come in pretty early to get
everything set up because we find on having cameras and
Mike's pretty much everywhere in the house. And and it's
gonna be a little bit different than most investigations, Like
people that contribute to our Indie Go Go campaign are
gonna be the ones investigating. We're just there. They're telling
(37:33):
us what.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
To do, so that'll be fun.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
It'll be different for me, and I'm sure it'll be
different for Christen since he's been on a few her selfs.
So you know, anybody that contributes at least twenty five dollars,
they get to actually participate in the investigation. You can
donate any amounts you want, but anybody that donates at
least twenty five will be able to tell us, Hey,
go in this room for thirty minutes without a flashlight
(37:59):
and just sit in the dark, can see what happens.
Or hey, Kristen, go to the attic and take a
rim pod and see what goes on. And so they
kind of get to tell us what to do. They
ask the questions like they're the investigators.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
That's going to be different.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
That's going to be not like I said, We'll have
cameras stood up everywhere. So if we're all in this
room over here and somebody's tuned in watching this room
over here, and something crazy has happened, and they can
tap in and say, hey, something's going on and broom
b somebody might want to go check it out. So,
and we plan to keep some of the cameras rolling
even after we go to bed. Yeah, Like so even
(38:37):
at five o'clock in the morning, when we're all hopefully asleep,
somebody could somebody could jump in and be watching these
certain rooms and message, hey, you guys may want to
check this out, you know, daring review because this is
some crazy shit happen to this room at five o
two in the morning. So, and we have a ton
of perks and and and stuff. People that are able
(39:01):
to contribute, even the people that only donate like five dollars,
we have, you know, stuff we're going to be able
to do for them. We do have one that it'd
be awesome if somebody did it, But we have one perk,
one tier that as long as you know, they would
have to pay their way, but they would get to
come be there in person with us. So anybody listen,
(39:25):
if that's in Tennessee or Kentucky, if you want to
come be part of an investigation, jump on our indie
go go and go ahead and purchase that uh that
tier because it's only one available, because I know it's
only going to be a limited amount of space there.
So I just wanted to toss that out there. So
what uh, what do you have upcoming here anytime soon
(39:47):
other than to release them with some of your books,
Are any events or conventions anything?
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Yeah, I other than going to the night House this weekend,
that you can't go to. Yeah, looking forward to that.
And I've got a public hunt Belwich Cave going to
that the Eric and Regina and where you're going to be,
So that's on the seventeenth. I can't wait. I've not
(40:14):
been there, so you've never been to the cave? No,
lived here all my life? I crazy? Isn't that crazy?
And then in September, on the twenty six I'll be
at Athens State in Alabama storytelling, so that's going to
be fun, well nice. Then the fifth of October I'll
(40:34):
be at the Greeneyes Festival in Chickamauga, Georgia. And on
the twelfth that Haunted Graves per Con in Mayfield, Kentucky.
Nice selling books there you.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Go, well hopefully on September twenty eighth, you can you can,
you can dive in and tell me where to go
and tell Kristen what to do. So right, yeah, So
if anybody wants to buy any of your books, how
can they do that?
Speaker 2 (40:59):
I am on Amazon self published, so you can look
for cent Trader Hill and I'm on Facebook cent Trader
Hill author. You can find Elk Valley Pairanormal on Facebook
or also go to our website. Elk Value paranormal dot com.
And if you need to reach out to me and
have a story that you would love for me to
hear possibly put in a book, then reach me at
(41:23):
Centrader Hill author at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Awesome, awesome, awesome stuff. So to wrap this up, I
want you to tell me the one thing that stands
out to you that's probably scared you the most, or
startled you the most, or just left you but like
kind of one of those what the fuck type moments?
Speaker 2 (41:47):
Ooh got two of those actually, so so one one
thing that's happened to me three times is the feeling
of being rushed and I can't see what's there, but
something is all of a sudden on me and it's
like they're screaming at the top of their lungs, but
(42:10):
I can't hear a thing. It's just you feel the vibration.
It is so so, so much, so much anger in
it that you can feel it. So I've had that
twice at the old hospital, and once on vacation that
(42:32):
was weird. Made my husband go with me to find
some sage the next day, and now I don't go
anywhere without a smuchtick ever, bit the only other thing
that weirded me out was seeing something that wasn't human
and it was in reflection, so I didn't when I
(42:57):
turned to look at it, you know, it wasn't there,
but it was in this really shiny desk. I was
sitting at at an old business and this black cloud
with eyes floated over me and I had never seen
anything like that. I haven't seen it since. But it
(43:21):
was a little bit of a trickster that was causing
all kinds of havoc at this hometown business and he
shows up on camera and just terrorizes customers sometimes. Wow,
but that was seeing that thing was shocking. That was
(43:45):
that was pretty shocking.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
I bet that's That's a that's pretty wild, and I
think that I think that ends on a good note.
So so, uh, I just went blank. Happens quite often
when I'm doing the show because I'm like, I'm trying
to read what I've typed out and I'm trying to
talk at the same time. So anyway, Sin, thank you
(44:09):
so much. Everybody, go check out her books, buy her books.
If you have a really interesting story, hit her up
because it may make it into one of her books
that you may be putting out soon, so again, everybody sins.
Trader Hill, author, paranormal investigator, thank you for joining the show.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
All right, well cast everybody next time, and stay spooky.
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