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October 1, 2025 39 mins
In today's true scary story, Kay shares a lifetime of chilling encounters passed down through generations. Her experiences range from haunted childhood homes in rural Mexico to a terrifying series of events sparked by a forgotten Ouija board in California. Through faith, fear, and the unexplained, she tells her family’s most haunting memories.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
We all kind of just like didn't pay it any attention.
But then after a moment, I was like, why is
no one coming inside.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
One family's faith is put to the ultimate test, from
unexplained footsteps and flying bibles to a mysterious object above
a California lake. Here are a lifetime of experiences with
the paranormal. My name is Edwin, and here is Kay's
true scary story.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
My name is Kay. I grew up in California. I
was born and raised in the Monterey Bay area. My
family is Mexican American. We grew up going back and
forth between the US and Mexico pretty frequently, especially when
I was a child. We were pretty close with our

(00:57):
extended family back then, so Grandma's still so we'd frequently
go and convene at her house. It's a small pueblo
close to Guadalajara. It was one of those summers that
we went to go visit my extended family in Jalisco,

(01:22):
and so we were staying at my aunt's house. My
aunt has this big, three story house with a flat rooftop.
It's close to the edge of town, so there's a
bunch of fields beyond it. I always thought it was
a beautiful house, but you know, there's something about Mexico where,

(01:44):
you know, the second the sun goes down, there's a
little bit of an energy shift and it just feels
a little spookier. I was about six or seven years
old at the time, so this was, you know, in
the early two thousands. I was in the big master

(02:06):
room on the second floor, sleeping in you know, the
same room with all my cousins. So it was a
big family gathering, and so we were all kind of
together there. As one of the eldest of the younger cousins,
I got to sleep on the actual bed. So I
was really excited because there was a TV in that room,

(02:29):
and growing up my parents didn't really let us watch
much TV at home. I knew that they had Disney Channel.
I was really excited to get to watch a movie
or something. Once everyone fell asleep, but knowing me, my
mom decided that she was gonna, you know, kind of
sneak the remote away, and she actually tucked it under

(02:50):
her own pillow in the room that was adjacent to ours.
So I just kind of waited until, you know, it
was nice and dark. Everyone went to bed, and I
snuck out of bed and went over to my mom's
room real quietly, and I managed to somehow sneak the
remote from under her pillow. And you know, me being
a sneaky seven year old, I was pretty content with

(03:11):
myself as I walked back to the masterroom. I got
into bed, I turned on the TV, turned it to
Disney channel, made sure the volume was real low so
no one would wake up. And I remember being so excited.
I wasn't scared at all, you know, I wasn't you know,
thinking about, you know, anything spooky that was about to happen.

(03:34):
I finished the movie and I was like, all right,
you know, time I go to bed. I went. I
put the remote back under my mom's pillow so she
wouldn't suspect a thing in the morning, and I come
back into the room. I explicitly remember closing the door
and locking it. I walk over to the bed. I

(03:55):
was on the side of the bed that was closest
to the door. There's no ic so the fan was
on and I was just trying to get some breeze.
It was kind of warm in there. There's a lot
of bodies in there, a lot of cousins. I remember
just like thinking about you know how much fun I
had watching the movie. All of a sudden, the door

(04:18):
just slowly creaks open, and the thing is like, I
don't really hear it open, but I just kind of
see the darkness of the hallway start to appear. That's
when like it catches my peripheral vision. I was pretty
confused because it was how fuck I thought i'd lock
that door. So I get that up and I close

(04:40):
it and I lock it and I make sure that
it's locked and it's closed right, and that it's not
going to open again, because that hallway it's pretty spooky.
It's pretty dark in there. There's a skylight that goes
up to the roof of the house, which is another
kind of spooky place at night. I get back in bed.

(05:04):
A few seconds later, the door just starts to open again.
I am, at this point starting to get a little scared.
No one else is awake. I'm the only one that's up,
and I look up at the fan. I'm like, it
has to be the fan, you know. I'm trying to
rationalize this so I don't scare myself too much. It's
not to be the fan. The fan is what, you know,
blew the door opens, and how even though I'd been

(05:26):
sure that I locked it, I kind of have to
like get the courage to get out of bed this time,
and I force myself. I run over to the door,
I close it, I lock it. I run over to
the bed, and I was sharing the bed with my sister.
I was like, you know what, she's asleep, She's not

(05:46):
going to be scared, just setting closer to the door.
So I pushed her to the eat side of the
bed that was closest to the door, and I laid
down on the opposite side, threw the blanket over my
head and just turned over and closed eyes. Eventually I
fell asleep. The next day, I had talked to my

(06:09):
aunt about it. We were in the kitchen, we were cooking.
She just kind of giggles a little bit. She goes, Oh, yeah,
stuff like that happens in this house all the time.
She told me a little bit about how, you know,
sometimes they would hear different dishes clattering downstairs, or like
someone was making a meal in the middle of the
night and there was nothing going on down there. That

(06:32):
was kind of my first kind of priming of like, oh,
sometimes things are a little scary. Sometimes things are a
little weird and we can't really explain it. Later that week,
we were all sitting outside of my grandma's house, which
is a town over. It's about like a ten minute

(06:53):
drive between the town, so it's very close, and it's
a row of houses, but they're all connected. Sometimes there's
kind of like a big corral between some sections of
the house. It's a little bit difficult to explain, but
we were sitting right outside of my grandma's house. We

(07:14):
were sitting on these nice leather chairs that my grandpa
had woven earlier on in his ears. We were just
like a lot of people just like to sit in
the street and talk in the evenings, just kind of
how Mexico is. It kind of comes alive in the evenings.
Everyone's eating, everyone's socializing, chatting. It was my family, my grandparents,

(07:36):
my uncle, and a bunch of my aunts and cousins,
and we were just sitting in a circle around a
bonfire in front of my grandma's door. My aunt mentioned
that they scared your daughter at my house or she
experienced something scary, and so everyone kind of started laughing because,
you know, we just we joke about it to make
it feel a little less, you know, threatening, I guess

(08:00):
that kind of broke out, like, oh, yeah, your mother's
experienced a lot of stuff. And that was my first
time hearing about my mom's experiences in my grandma's house.
She used to experience quite a few things when she
was younger. When she was in her early teens, she

(08:23):
shared one of the rooms towards the front of the
house that faces the street, that shares a wall with
a neighbor. In this house, it's like tile floors, its
cement walls. If there's like people moving furniture stuff around,
it can echo a lot, can be kind of loud.

(08:46):
My mom said that like clockwork, sometimes the neighbors at
a specific hour of night, would you just start dragging
furniture or like a crib or something heavy, some piece
of furniture that was heavy, and it would wake her up.
One day, she got so upset because you know, she
was trying to sleep. She had school the next day.

(09:07):
She went over and she asked the neighbor, Hey, why
are you guys doing so much work in the middle
of the night. The neighbors looked at her weird and
they're like, what are you what are you talking about?
She goes like, I hear people like moving heavy furniture
around at night, and I can't sleep, and I need
to sleep so I can do good in school. And

(09:28):
the neighbor said, no, why wouldn't we be moving furniture
at night. And at that point, my mom got real quiet,
and she's just like, oh, well, I must have been dreaming.
And she went back to my grandma's house. But it
had happened so many times that she was like, it
can't be a dream. I'm waking up and I'm hearing
these things, and so that kind of spooked her. She

(09:51):
talked to my grandma and she kind of just just
bugged my grandma and told my grandma let her switch rooms.
The way my grandma's house's format is, you know, there's
those two rooms towards the front of the house. Then
there's a big central courtyard, so that's open space. There's
like trees and plants growing there, and then you know,

(10:12):
around to one of the sides there's one of the
sides of the courtyard there's another bedroom. So my mom
switched over to that bedroom. At this point, she was
actually a young mom, so she and my brother when
she was sixteen almost seventeen years old. He was a baby,
and so you know, it kind of made sense for
her to finally get that room anyway, since she needed

(10:34):
a little bit more space, so the crib and stuff.
So her and my brother were sleeping in that room.
One night, my mom, you know, woke up again because
she could hear a parade of what she thinks is
like horses or donkeys or you know, some big animal
like she could hear hooks and a lot of foot

(10:56):
hook just galloping for a second, and she, you know,
woke up and she thought she was still in her
previous bedroom where that window faces the street. She looks
out the window and then she remembers, oh, no, I
switched rooms. This is the window that faces the courtyard.
There's nothing out there. There's no horses, no donkeys, nothing.

(11:20):
Her blood ran cold because it was like, if it's
not one room hearing you know, furniture being dragged about,
it's a different room where now I'm hearing you know,
preid of ghost animals that aren't there. She had already
begged for this room, so she wasn't about to complain
about it. So she just decided that she was going
to turn on the radio and put it as high

(11:42):
a volume as she could without waking up my older brother.
She just would turn over and pretend she wasn't hearing
the house. But this was a consistent thing that would
happen regularly, and no one else would hear these things.
My brother, you know, they got a little old. My
mom decided that she was going to move to wad

(12:02):
Arahata proper, the city proper. She moved out to this
Victorian house. She was renting a room at her younger brother,
my uncle, decided to move there with her. She would
sleep in one room with my older brother, and then
my uncle had his own room. This was an older

(12:24):
Victorian style kind of town home where you know, like
a lot of the rooms in Mexico, they're they're flat,
but they're typically fenced in so that you can kind
of divide the roofs with the different neighbors, and you know,
you people typically like hang their laundry. My mom said
that at this place, she said that she would go

(12:46):
to sleep, she would get in bed, you know, do
her routine, and as soon as she would close her eyes,
she said, like it would get real quiet, and then
she would hear like a dog running around on the roof,
like she would hear the pitter patter of the the steps,
like four legged creature. And then she says, she would
hear the dog kind of come closer until it was

(13:08):
what felt like standing on the roof right above her head.
She said she would hear the like the panting, you know,
the panting that a dog makes when it's been running around,
and it was quite wow. It was very distinguishable. The
second she heard that dog, it reminded her of the
hoofs that she would hear at my grandma's house. And

(13:29):
she's like, I know it's not there. I know it's
not there. Her blood just runs cold. But you know,
eventually it happens, you know, two or three times. She
tells my uncle about it. My uncle says, you know, well,
the next time that you hear it, you tell me
and I will run up there and you know, grab
whatever's running up up there. A few days later, it

(13:53):
happens again. My mom gets up, runs to my uncle's
room and she said, the dog is there. The dog
is there. I hear the dog like lightning. He jumps
out of bed. He grabs a little spear that he had.
He runs up to the roof. He opens the door
and just like my mom's suspected, there was nothing there.

(14:16):
My uncle checked the entire parimeter of the fence to
make sure that there was like no holes, that there was,
you know, nothing for like a dog to be running
around up there, so there was really no possibility of
you know, a dog ever having been on the roof.

(14:46):
It was like at this point in time where my mom,
I think, started to become a little bit more religious.
She was like, I need to find a way to
keep these experiences away, like I don't like this. It
kind of worked for her for a while while. She
ended up moving to the States, California. Specifically, she met
my dad at a dance in Watsonville, California, and they

(15:11):
got married and we moved to this beautiful seventy eight
acre state up in the Redwoods in the Los Gatos Mountains.
It was a property of a very wealthy Silicon Valley
tech millionaire. My dad was the groundskeeper, so we actually

(15:31):
lived on site, which was really nice, again beautiful. We
lived in the workers' home, which was it was a
manufactured home and it was a pretty long house. We
were kind of in this little beautiful clearing just surrounded
by those wonderful redwood trees. I loved it. I had

(15:51):
so much fun there. But you know, sometimes we would
have a little bit too much fun, just running around
the forest barefoot, just being kids that you know, my
mom would have to kind of scare us to get
back into the house at the end of the day,
you know, when it was getting dark. So what she
would say to get us to come back inside was Imo.

(16:17):
Like she she had all these different like names for
scary things, like Akukui is supposed to be like a
demon or the devil, and Memo was this old man
that she was scared of in her youth, and she
just kind of brought that construct into our lives. So
we were always scared of Memo, even though we had
no idea who this man was. We would hear that

(16:41):
and it's like we were just innocent kids. So like
we were just having fun until she would say that,
and like split second, we would be like, oh my god, no,
the woods just turned scary. So we we'd run back
to the house and we'd come inside. One day, she
was getting ready for bed, she turned off all the lights.

(17:05):
You know, me and my siblings were all put to bed,
At this point in time, me and my sister shared
a bed in one of the rooms, and her and
my dad shared their own room. She had just given
birth to my two brothers, who were twins, so she
had them sleeping in the bed with her as well.

(17:27):
As I mentioned, the house is like kind of long,
so the kitchen is on one end of the house,
and then my parents' bedroom is on the other end
of the house, like at the very back, there's this
very long hallway that connects everything. Her door was open
because if you know, my sister and I had nightmares,
we had run over to her room. Her door was

(17:49):
always open. That's how she always preferred it. My dad,
I think, was actually probably still asleep because he would
put me and my sister to sleep, and sometimes you'd
fall asleep in the bed next to us. So she
was just you know, in bed with my two baby
brothers at that point they and they had to be
like less than a year old probably. She said that

(18:11):
she gets this weird feeling like there's something in the house.
She said, she feels like this almost like an energy.
She's already a little bit afraid because this hasn't happened
to her for a long time where she's had a
weird experience. So she looks out into the hallway. It's
just dark out there. There's nothing out there. If anything,

(18:34):
there's like a dim orange glow. We had this detached
garage that had this like orange light bulb, and there
was really nothing else because again we're in the middle
of the redwoods between a bunch of really tall trees,
so there is no other source of light besides that
orange glow. She feels like like there's just something in
that darkness that's making her uncomfortable, and she doesn't know

(18:56):
quite what. Out of nowhere, she feels almost like a presence,
she says. She feels it just kind of like getting
closer and closer was it was coming fast. She feels
this heavy dark pressure that jumps into the bed and
it kind of envelops her body. It's almost like a

(19:19):
sleep process, but she's fully awake. She's fully awake in
that moment. She's like, you know what, I already know
how to deal with this. This is the devil, Like
I am crying out to God. So she says, you know,
like I know who you are, and you're not welcome here.
Just get out of my house. And she has to
repeat it a few times. She says she finally like

(19:41):
feels like she can exhale, and so she exhales, and
whatever that heaviness was, that darkness was, it jumps kind
of out the window that's parallel to her bed. She
said that after that point, finally she's breathing and she's
like sweating a little. She's terrified, and she's just like

(20:03):
looking at my two baby brothers next to her, and
she's like, I can't, I can't do this. She at
that point was when she started really looking to get
more heavily involved with Christianity or the church, or just
become a little bit more religious, because she'd had enough
of these experiences. She wanted to find some kind of protection.

(20:26):
After that, she never mentioned Akukui or Memo or La
Mano Pelula. Ever. She said that she thinks she like
almost manifested it by trying to scare us so often,
and she said she was never going to do that
to us again because she didn't want to go through
that again. Things are pretty quiet for a while after that.

(20:50):
We end up moving out of that worker's home and
we moved to the city of Salinas. California. It was
a bunch of new constructions and it was towards the
newer edge of town. There was a lot of like
agricultural fields around. It's just like a very newly developed
area at the time. We never really experienced anything in

(21:16):
that house up until the point that I had to
be around eight or nine years old, so this is
probably in like twenty ten. A few of our neighbors
down the street they moved out and they did like
this big clean out. My parents were very much so

(21:37):
like nature is your playground. You don't need any anything else.
So we never really had a bunch of like TV
or video games or board games or anything like that.
So when we saw a bunch of board games on
the curb, we were all super excited. We ran over
and we picked up all the board games. It's like
Monopoly or sorry, and so we brought all of the

(21:57):
boxes into the house. I'm like looking at the different
board games, and I look at one and I'm like, outijya,
what is that word? I don't know what that word is.
I'd heard the word wiji, but I'd never seen it
spelled out. But it takes me a moment and I

(22:18):
was like oh, oh, oh, I think this is a
wija board. At this point, we'd started going to church
pretty consistently. We knew that we don't mess with this
kind of stuff like that. That was something that was
very explicit, So we didn't even open the board game
at all. We just grabbed it once I figured out
what it was, and I ran back outside and I

(22:40):
threw it in the trash. That was that. We played
with some of the other board games, and then after
that that was kind of when the first family experience happened.

(23:00):
The entrance to our house, there's kind of like this
little alcove right next to it. There's like a little
dip where if we're sitting in the living room we
can't see the actual door itself. It was the evening,
you know, it was dark out. I'd already locked the
door for the evening because you know, something about Selina's

(23:21):
California is you don't leave your door is unlocked. So
we immediately closed and locked that door. We're sitting and
we my mom had finally bought a TV and we
were watching you know, like a nature documentary as a
family in the living room. You know, I'm sitting kind
of with my back to where the door is. All

(23:41):
of a sudden, the door flies open and it hits
this little desk that we had in that little alcove
next to it. My older brother he didn't live with
us at the time anymore, so I thought, well, it's
just my brother, you know, he's coming in. We probably
threw the door open because you stuff in his hands.

(24:03):
The family was distracted, we were watching the show, and
so we all kind of just like didn't pay it
any attention. But then after a moment, I was like,
why is no one coming inside? So I look at
everybody else, and so I get up and I turned
the corner right there to look at the door itself.
There's no one there. Honestly, like I didn't think too

(24:29):
much of it at the time. I was just pretty confused.
I go and I shut it and I locked the door,
and I was like, well, that's weird. We're now pretty
relicious at this point. We're sitting upstairs in my mom's
room because at the end of the day we would
all go to my parents' room, socialize a little bit,

(24:50):
get our sillies out by the end of the night,
and then we would read the Bible, you know, pray,
do stuff like that, and it was like a nightly
ritual for us. We would do that every night. Two
or three weeks goes by and we're all sitting on
my parents' bed, just chit chatting. We're reading a Bible verse.

(25:12):
I don't recall what that for pivol verse was at all.
It was one that I'd been rehearsing for church, but
I still to this day can't remember it because that,
you know, that was the first like real experience where
we all just kind of froze as a family. You know,
We're sitting there downstairs, is empty, it's lonely, it's dark,
it's quiet, and then out of nowhere, we hear loud static.

(25:36):
We all kind of jump a little bit because it's
it's loud. We all kind of look at each other.
It's like, what's going on. And so my baby sister,
the youngest of the crew, she's the only one who's
like not really heard any of the family scary stories.
She's still till innocent, so she doesn't really think much

(25:57):
of it. She gets up and she goes look over
or the little banister that's kind of guarding the upstairs
hallway from the downstairs because it's a high vaulted ceiling,
so we can look over into the living room into
the dining room. And so she goes, oh, the TV
turned on, and I was already like no, please, My

(26:22):
mom says, okay, go go turn and go turn off
the TV. I you're the oldest, go turn it off.
You know. I took my baby sister with me. I
made her go with me, because you know, there's something
about her innocence and her calmness that just gave me
the tranquility to go down there just long enough, like
could turned the TV back off. Now, the issue with

(26:45):
this TV, it's it's a very old TV. So all
of the little buttons to like turn the TV on,
to turn it off, to change the channels, they're all
busted in. What I had to do was I had
to get this pencil and poke around in that little
like punched in hole on the TV until I found

(27:09):
the little clicker to turn the TV back off. And
the entire time, the TV is just on static blaring
like that static noise, super loudly, and it's terrifying, right
because the rest of the living room is just dark
and quiet. We finally get the TV to turn off,
we run back upstairs because yeah, it's scary. We get

(27:33):
back in bed and we just kind of sit there
in silence for a moment, and then we just kind
of continue on like it didn't happen. Unfortunately, it would
become a regular occurrence. Every time that TV would turn
onto static at full volume. For some reason, we were

(27:54):
always at my parents' bed either praying or reading a
Bible verse or just you know, have a good time
chatting as a family. You know, it kind of became
a joke where, you know, it's like, oh, like we
paused every time we were about to start reading the
Bible or praying because they're like, just in case the
TV decides to turn on again. It was a little

(28:16):
scary for us as kids, but you know, we kind
of learned to laugh about it a little bit, and
then they started to escalate a little bit. There was

(28:41):
this one time we were all kind of sitting downstairs
the afternoon, you know, watching another one of those nature
documentaries on PBS. It's like the one thing my parents
let us watch upstairs. There's like this little hallway between
my parents' master bedroom and in our two bedrooms is
that we all shared there's this little shelving area where

(29:06):
we always put the bibles. Out of nowhere, the bibles
fly off the shelves. We all look up and we
look at each other again confused, like we all heard that, right,
And so Mom say go upstairs. It's always me. I'm
the oldest of that group. So I go, and I'm like, well,

(29:29):
it's clear, what's what's happened? Like the bibles are all
off the shelf, so I have to go and put
them back on the shelf. After that, it was just
like a slow trickles of just things that were weird.
My baby sister, the youngest, the one who you know

(29:50):
previously had never really you know, shared any fears or
anything like that. She wasn't, you know, like super scared
of anything. So you would start having nightmares. The girl
shared one bedroom, the boys shared their own bedroom. I'd
be sleep in my bed as the eldest one. Always

(30:13):
fell asleep a little bit later than everybody else. Every
time I would hear my baby sister, she would start
to whimper in her sleep. She would start to cry
in her sleep. It's a little girl crying, you know.
She's probably about four or five at the time. It's scary,

(30:35):
and she starts at one point like wailing. I remember,
this would get so scary that me and my other sister,
we would be frozen in our beds, like we would
be too scared to poker to wake her up, because
the sounds she would make are just so blood curdling that,
you know, eventually my mom would hear her and then

(30:58):
come into the room and wake her up. She also
started to sleep walk. Sometimes she would go downstairs. Sometimes
she would, you know, you just like stand in the
middle of the room. There's one time that I woke
up from a nightmare and I see her silhouette, just

(31:21):
like the shadow of her, standing staring at me in
my sleep. I had just opened my eyes from a nightmare, so,
you know, like my instinct, unfortunately, was to you know,
I swung on her because I was so scared. I
didn't know what was going on. I just see a
figure standing in front of my bed, and I punch
her in the face. Unfortunately, she stumbles back, she doesn't fall,

(31:45):
but she stays quiet the whole time. She doesn't make
a sound. When I hit her, my heart was beating
out of my chest, and so I'm just staring at her,
like not knowing what she's gonna do. I realized it
was my sister, and she just turns around and she
goes into the bathroom. So we had this adjoining bathroom.

(32:05):
It was kind of like a Jack and Joel bathroom
where my brothers had a door that went to the bathroom.
We had a door that went to the bathroom and
that led to the seating area, and then there's another
door pass there that led to the toilet in the shower.
What she ended up doing was she went into that
little middle section with all the doors closed around her.

(32:26):
So the toilet and shower door was closed, my brother's
room door was closed, and then our room door was closed,
and she just started crying in there, and it eventually
got so loud that my mom came into the room
and eventually put her back to bed. But I just
remember like being so scared every night that she was
going to do that again. I started having trouble sleeping.

(32:52):
I would get really anxious at night, and I sometimes
would have to stay up until I could see the
sun coming up, you know, like the sky would start
to lighten, and then I would finally feel safe enough
to close my eyes. That lasted from the age of
I think I was twelve until I was like fifteen,
and then it kind of dissipated. I remember one night

(33:18):
I was again up a little later than in most
of my other siblings. I here in my brother's room
a giant thought, and then I hear running, and I
was just like, huh, I wonder what that was about.
But I just, you know, I assume maybe like my
brother had a bad dream or something ran to my

(33:39):
parents room. So I go to sleep, and the next day,
my mom actually calls like a family meeting, so we're
all sitting at her bed again. My brother he's terrified.
He looks terrified. My mom tells us that the previous night,
my brother had been having a nightmare and then he

(34:02):
opened his eyes, and when he opened his eyes, you know,
he woke up. He realized that the scary voice that
he was hearing in his dream was still talking. They
had bunk beds and he was sleeping on the top bunk,
and so he said that he could feel like there
was almost something standing next to him where the ladder

(34:25):
is to go up to the bed, and he was
so scared to look that he was like frozen solid
and he said he felt his face just get so hot.
He was probably six or seven at this time, and
you couldn't really understand what the voice was saying because
he was too scared to really process any of the words.

(34:45):
He said. Eventually, like the voice just stopped and the
feeling of someone being there went away. The second he
felt that ability to like finally move his body, he
didn't even take the ladder down. He just threw himself
over the side of the top bunk fell on the floor.
And that's what I had, the thud that I had

(35:07):
heard that night, and he ran to my parents room.
He told my mom about it. My mom, yeah, you know,
She's like, oh, he just had hairs, it's fine. So
she just let him sleep with her. She didn't really
believe him. She just thought it was a bad dream.

(35:28):
And she said that she was like asleep herself. It
was probably around four or five in the morning. She
was about to like, you know, get up out of bed.
Her eyes were still closed, and she was like, Okay,
I gotta get ready for the day. Right as she's

(35:49):
about to like really shake herself awake to get up
out of bed, she says she hears a deep kind
of a buttteral voice in her ear. She said that
the voice only said like two words, and she didn't
understand them either, But she just like jomped awake at

(36:09):
that point and she looked over to her side and
there was nothing there. That's when she believed my brother
that he'd heard something. But she didn't tell us about
her kind of hearing. She just like was like the
next day, she was like, you know, I didn't believe him.
I heard it too. Whatever it was was really tormenting

(36:36):
my brother the most, and so she, you know, brought
in people to bless the house. She brought in people
to pray over my brother, to bless my brother, to
just make sure that he was doing okay, because he
had a hard time sleeping after that, and I think
he started kind of having some emotional problems after that,
just you know, he was pretty young when it started. Eventually,

(37:01):
we did move out of that house. We moved from
California to Oregon. Moving to Oregon, things got a lot better,
at least for the rest of the family. Sisters, my parents,
and I. We didn't experience anything in the new houses.
You know, we were you know, we didn't have any
of that scary like TV turning on stuff at all.

(37:22):
But I think my brother to like this day sometimes
he just like he struggles a little bit. I wish
we could talk about a little bit more, but my
parents are like, no, let's not trigger that, let's just
keep it at bay. When whenever we talk about it,
it's kind of like we try to laugh at it
again as per usual. I think that's like a common

(37:42):
thing with Latino families, like we try to laugh it
off and just make it, you know, a funny story
to tell so we can kind of process that trauma
a little bit. I think being a Christian like it
definitely was a lot more of like a taboo, like
we don't want to encour achieve these things, but we
do want to acknowledge that they're there. So my family

(38:04):
was always in this like interesting balance of like we
talk about it in the sense that like we want
to acknowledge that, you know, the devil exists and there's
bad things in the world, and you know God is
the one who could save you from all that, so
stay close to God's kind of how we would talk
about it, but we tried not to talk about it
too much, Like I guess in the sense we kind

(38:25):
of felt as a family if we talk about it more,
if we give it too much attention, like it'll keep
going or it'll get worse. Is it psychological? Is it
like a manifestation thing? Is it, you know, like energies
that just you know, compound and build on each other
to create something negative. Because of the experiences that we

(38:49):
had as a family, and I've had myself, like, I
feel like there is kind of a supernatural side of things.
You know. I don't necessarily know what it is. I just,
you know, based on my experiences, feel like there is
some kind of different level to our world that we
don't really understand at all.

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