April 11, 2025 • 41 mins
Selina who lives in the Staffordshire area and she has been experiencing strange activity around her home and when she walks her dog in the woodland close by. There have been multiple occasions when the family have heard bangs, snapping twigs or taps on the walls, a huge thud on part of the flat roof and numerous feelings of being watched and she feels this very strongly in the garden of the property. One recent experience involving her daughter prompted Selina to reach out to me as her daughter was touched on the arm by something hairy as she went to close tthe bathroom window.
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Speaker 1 (00:35):
Today's case is Salina's experience yellow Eyes, dog men and
the Hitchhiker effect. The case I'm sharing today covers the
reality of what it's like to realize the thing's happening
around you and not the normal. They're unusual, confusing, and ongoing,
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and they are now to a level where you need help.
What a first feels like you're going crazy. Over time
becomes a normal life for some folk. Many people all
across the world report an attachment or say that something
has followed them home after a supernatural or cryptid encounter.
(01:17):
The case shows what it's like to live with not
only the hitchhiker effect, but also the question of are
they friends or foe? When I say they, who do
I mean? And what is the hitchhiker effect? Now all
cases are different, as we know, but there are certain
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situations that crop up over and over again. They give
us an insight into the habits of behaviors and the
cryptive creature, a paranormal being, an entity and spirit. Once encountered, they,
for reasons we don't know, follow up that person home.
(02:02):
Even a slight interaction can result in a lifetime of
unexplained activity. A quick dog walk can culminate in an
invisible something moving around your property and eventually inside your home.
Some people experience lucid dreams of a creature, even telepathic
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communication takes place. It's incredibly hard to deal with in
twenty twenty five, but ideal with cases like this constantly,
and they are becoming ever increasingly then army in my work.
They can play out over generations or in less than
a year, and to be honest, both of these scenarios
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can exist at the same time. The case I'm sharing
tonight has happened at a very fast pace and the
activity is amping up almost daily, and I admit I
need some help with this case, as it involves a
family home with other more confused inhabitants, and I don't
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think it started recently. I think it ties into our witness,
Selena's first experience with something so scary that it stayed
with her for life. Selena lives in the Statuture area
and she's been experiencing strange activity around her home and
when she walks her dogs in the woodland close by.
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There had been multiple occasions when the family of herd bangs,
snapping twigs or taps on the wall. There's been a
huge thud and part of the flat roof, and numerous
feelings of being watched, and she feels this very strongly
in the garden of the property. One recent experience involving
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a daughter prompted Selena to reach out to me after
she shared the experience of one of my friends and
follow investigators, Lee Solway from the Realms of the Supernatural podcast.
When Lee heard what was happening at the Horn currently,
he felt that it was something I could help with.
The contacted Selena back as quickly as I could, and
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we spoke to each other on the phone for several
hours as she told me what had been happening, and
in a moment you'll hear Selena explain the events in
a series of voice nots to me. Selena explained to
me that the first experience she remembers where she was
overwhelmingly scared as a child was when she was on
a family camping trip with her aunt, her uncle, and
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her cousin. They were staying in a caravan park on
one evening after they returned from seeing the entertainment at
the Holiday Club and was settling down for the night.
Selena's cousin out of the blue, asked if she wanted
to play a game to see if they could scare
each other. This wasn't something they'd done before, and Selena
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had no idea why her cousin suggested this, but both
girls counted slowly before popping their heads around the curtain
to peep out into the dark, and what they saw
out there was life changing, terrifying, as it was something
unseen that had bright yellow eyes, and Selena believes she's
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seen it since then and now it's coming a bit
closer to her home and her family members.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
When I was eight years old, my cousin and I,
who was also a we went on a caravan trip
with my aunt and my uncle. I can't remember where
we went, but we used to go to places like
Little Say, Whales, Paul Cornwall. We used to go all over,
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So unfortunately I can't remember the destination, but I remember
that it was a late evening. We'd been to the
club Hiuse, we'd been watching shows and you know, my
aunt and my uncle had you know, had a drink
and we'd gone into the kids club and so it
was late. It was around eleven thirty twelve am, and
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we'd walked back to the caravan in the dark. Our
caravan was quite far away from the clubhouse. I think
it was on the border of the caravan park, but
I can't really be too sure now, but I know
that we did back up against a field that had
I think they either had like sheep or cows. I
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think it was caws. We used to hear them sometimes
at night. When we got into the caravan. We were
sitting on the back bench, the bench that goes around
the window at the back of the caravan, and we were,
you know, just giggling, playing and my cousin said, let's
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play a game. Let's put our head behind the curtain
and look into the darkness to scare ourselves. And we've
never played this game before, and quite honestly, we never
played it again after this day night. So we did
and what we put our head behind the curtain and
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instantly two bright yellow eyes were looking back at us.
And all I kind of really remember about this moment
is that they were level with our eyes. They were
about maybe four ish feet away from the caravan, so
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they weren't right up against the window. All I remember
seeing was a set of eyes. I don't remember seeing
any face. I don't remember seeing any fur. I don't
remember seeing anything. It was completely blackout. But to describe
these eyes to you, they looked like it was almost
as if someone had taken some yellow card and cut
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out two eyes and put them against black card. They
were so bright, and they weren't reflective, so they weren't
like a fox eye or a cat eye. They were
just quite I'm going to say they were quite a
solid yellow color. But obviously there must have been some
luminescence from them, but I don't really remember. I remember
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that they were quite large. They were not round, they
were more of an almond shape, and that's all I
can really tell you. We quickly like came from behind
the curtain. We looked at each other. I said to
my cousin, did you see that? And she said yes,
And then I think we did try to tell and
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my uncle, but they kind of weren't really interested. They
were like, right, it's really late. You know, you've been
up late tonight. You need to go to bed. So
we went to bed, and that night we were so
stayed because of what we've seen that we sat in
our bedroom and we kind of made up little stories
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about fairies and we had these little music boxes that
you would turn the key and then the ballerina would
go around and there would be a little tune. And
we put those on and we basically did whatever you
can do as a child to sort of un scare yourself.
And I remember that night that my cousin fell asleep
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way before I did, and I remember listening out and
that night was completely silent. I couldn't hear any of
the animals in the field next to us, no wind niffing.
And going back to that moment at the window, it
must have been set a couple of seconds, really, and
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then obviously it felt more like half an hour. It was.
It was the longest few seconds ever. My cousin did
actually look out again, but I didn't. I was too frightened,
and she said that there was nothing there. And really,
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over the years, my cousin and I haven't really ever
spoken about this, So I think the next time we
ever really spoke about it was when we were about
ten years old, and I said to her, do you
remember that night? And she said yes, but I don't
want to talk about it, and we've never spoke again.
It's never come up in conversation. I feel like my
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cousin doesn't want to talk about it, but I do.
So we've just never ever had that conversation. I don't
know now if she even remembers that that happened, although
I would imagine that she does. Yes, there's never been
any conversation since. Over the years, I haven't really given
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it much thought. I think when I was in my
early twenties, I told a really good friend who thought
it was hilarious, and I thought, I think I told
my mom, and my mum just my mum's quite a
spiritual person, and she just said I think that you
have a sensitivity, and that she kind of did it
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acknowledge that I definitely did see something, but we didn't
really ever have a proper conversation about it. I never
really gave much thought to what it was. I had
absolutely no idea what it could be, and growing up
and through my adult years, i've kind of whenever it
pops into my head, I've always just thought, well, I
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know it wasn't a fox because it was level with
us and caravans. That back window on a caravan I
think I mentioned it too. They're about seven feet in
the air, so that would have been no fox, and
Also there was no eye shine. It wouldn't have been
a cow that had winded into the you know, into
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the caravan park from the neighboring field, because they wouldn't
have bright yellow eyes. So it wasn't a cow. It
wasn't an owl because it wasn't in flight, it wasn't moving,
It was stationary. And actually when we looked out of
the person, it was already there staring at the window.
Because Leadid asked me, do you think you looked out
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of the window and it was attracted to you, like
and it just looked as it was passing by or
and I said no, it was already there. It was
already looking at the window. So I don't know whether
it had heard us and it was watching the window.
I don't know whether I've heard accounts of telepathy, Whether
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my cousin was told to look out of the window
because she was the one who suggested that we play
the game, I don't know, And I think there'll be
questions that I'll never really have answers to.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
As most of us know, caravans except eye up on
blocks and douse steps to get into them. So the
eyes that the girl saw would have been around seven
feet in height. It must have been horrifying knowing the
possibility that that was out there in the dark while
trying to sleep in a caravan with paper thin walls.
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Like many of my witnesses and myself included, Selena didn't
put this event together with others that took places she
grew up. His humors tend to compartmental life dramatic events,
so they fractured, kind of just sitting there in your
subconscious waited to be awoken. Eventually we start to piece
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them together and realize far more has happened than we
originally thought. For Selena, there was a time when she
was playing at a friend's house when she saw a
human dark shape in the overgrown garden of the next
door neighbor's property.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
When I was about ten, I was playing in my
friend's garden and her next door neighbor was a hermit.
He never used to go out. His front garden was
really overgrown, his back garden was really overgrown. And at
the time with those like the old council houses that
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I don't know whether you remember this, but where I
used to live, they had a load fencing, but it
was like almost like wooden steaks with wire attached, so
it was more like a boundary line than an actual fence,
and you could just kind of like hop over them.
But because his garden was so overgrown, we used to
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go in there and we'd kind of like play games
in there, like hide and seek. We'd belly crawl through
the thicket. There was a lot of like overgrown bushes
and bracken, and we'd kind of like crawl through the
kind of tunnels that the foxes would make. So we
used to spend a lot of time messing around in there.
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And I remember one summer's day, me and my friend,
her name was Rose, and she was quite a few
years younger than me. We were playing in her back
garden and she had three brothers and they were playing
at the front of the house in the road. We
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had like this patch of grass that was circular and
the houses kind of went around it, and then at
the end there was like the road. They were all
on this patch of grass playing football, and we were
the only two girls, and we were in her back
garden and we were playing, and I remember looking into
her neighbor's garden and seeing this shape of figure all
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dressed in black, like kind of like jump out of
the thicket, like kind of like jumping up out of
the middle of the bush, but kind of like bringing
their arms up at the same time. I can't really
describe it, but in my head I can picture it.
And my friend Rose saw it too, and it looked
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like a person all dressed in black jumping out of bush,
which it very well could have been, although why they'd
just jump out of the bush bush and then go
back down again is weird. And we ran out of
that garden screaming, and we were screaming at her brothers
and she was saying, there's there's somebody in the I
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think the neighbor was called Michael, and she was screaming
and she was saying, there's someone in Michael's garden. You
need to come quick. And her brother's kind of like
just went, oh, you know, stop messing about like we're
playing football. And they didn't come to the garden and
they didn't investigate for us, and we were knowledge to
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each other that we'd seen it, and we didn't go
back into the back garden. And yeah, I mean, I
never have vocalized that encounter to anyone. I can't tell
you what it was. I can't tell you whether it
was a person or something else, but all I just
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remember is it was like a black figure.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
That must have been absolutely terrifying for the girls and
leased me to think, what's that figure in the bushes
the entire time, you know, because she was in a
certain position, she caught had contact with him and that's
why he jumped out. And how many times has it
been in that garden before, you know, watching the children play,
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It's absolutely terrifying. When Selena was younger and lived at
home with a month, there were times when she'd hear
strange noises in the house. She has a clear memory
of visiting her father for the dead, and when he
brought her home she was tucked in bed, she heard
the sound of scratching coming from inside the walls of
the home. This absolutely terrorized and she remembers being really
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upset about. Several years later, after they moved into a
new place and Selena was older, her mum did explain
that she always felt that their home was haunted and
that there definitely was a looming presence in the house.
Her mum would hear footsteps running down the long corridor
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even at the new home, as she grew up, scratching
on the door would be heard now. And then one
day the family had a bonfire party in the garden,
so the family dog was alone inside the house, and
when they went back inside to see why he was
barking so loudly, all the furniture in the room had
been pulled away from the wall. In recent lay activity
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is starting to happen at Selena's home, and she explained
that even though she has lived there for almost twenty years,
she has a great deal of anxiety she's in the
garden at night.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
We did our extension in oh when was it twenty
twenty twenty two, we moved back into the house. We
sit directly under the extended flat roof which is on
the back of the house, which is about I would
say four or five meters out about ten feet up.
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We used to get the occasional really loud bang that
would be a single good and we'd get one and
then maybe we'd get one like an hour later. We
put it down to wood contracting on the roof, because
new part of the house is there's a lot of
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wood that's been used on the roof particular. So we
just said, you know it was the wood contracting in
the hate and detracting in when the temperate to drops.
It hasn't happened for quite some time. We are going
into the summer months now, so we're waiting now to
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see whether the wood starts to expand whether we get
any more live bangs at all. So it'd be interesting
to kind of see if that theory carries through or not.
Experience with my daughter it was about two years ago,
so I would say she was about nine at the time,
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and we were at home. It was about eight o'clock
in the evening. It was dark, so it would have
been wintertime. I was upstairs with her and we were
both lying on her bed, and we were just having
a little chat before bed, and she got up to
go to the bathroom. So her bedroom is at the
far end of the house, and the bathroom is as
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you come up the staircase, so as she cook the staircase,
there's a window and then the bathroom door, so the
two rooms are completely opposite ends of the house. Behind
the toilet is a window that opens out from the bottom,
so when you want to close it, you have to
reach your arm out and pull it shut from the bottom.
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She doesn't really like sitting on the toilet with the
window open. So she had got toilet and had reached
out to pull the door shut, and she said that
something brushed against the bottom of her arm. So if
you imagine like your arms outstretched, palm down, something brushed
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against the underpart of her arm as she cloys the
bathroom window. She was quite unnerved by this. She came
straight back into the bedroom and said, something furry just
brushed against my arm. I just said, oh, you know,
it was probably the neighbor's cat or a probably a
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bird that flew by and it brushed against you, you know,
all things that you say. And I didn't want to
kind of like say anything because I didn't want to
make her feel scared. Quite insistent, no, no, no, it
felt furry, didn't feel like feathers. And then in less
than its kind of two minutes of her being back
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in the room, there were three distinct knocks on the
bedroom windows. I'm going to do the knocks for you
so you can just hear what they were like. So
it was like this, so three very deliberate knocks. We
both heard it at the same time. She said to me,
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oh my god, what was that, and I just said,
don't worry, it's nothing, you know, probably the wind. I
can't remember exactly what I said, but I just down
and played it in my head. Was thinking would make
three slow, deliberate knocks like that, and that was it.
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Now fast forward to now she's a little bit older,
she's twelve, bouck to turn thirteen. Now we've spoken about
it a little bit more, and we've kind of acknowledged
now that it wouldn't have been a bird or the
kind of usual excuses that you hear. We have acknowledged
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that it's unexplained, and then it's very very odd. I
don't think my husband one hundred percent really believes it,
but it definitely happened one hundred and ten percent. I
believe wasn't intended for my daughter. It was intended for me,
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based in that theory on the other things that have
happened that we've discussed. So I think when you speak
to her, you'll probably feet more from her side. It's
a shared experience, but she does have some other experiences
of her own.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
If to say, my heart goes out to Selina and
her family, but she's dealing with it in a really
proactive way. You know, she's realized that these things are happening.
She sat down and she's had a thought about them,
and she of course she has confusion and mixed thoughts.
That's absolutely natural, you know. But now she's in touch
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with people who kind of understand what's going on. She
doesn't have to explain herself so well. I'm hoping that
things will settle down all the time, but often when
I chat with people, the activity around them terms to
really ramp up, and I do explain this so people
are aware. I also explain I was setting some clear
boundaries in situations like this is they must and we
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must never invite them into our home, regardless of what
them we're dealing with, and that usually brings some kind
to the situation.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I think I said to you that we've had like
what sounds like a branch, a tree branch or something
being like twanged up against the house, and I felt
a little bit like heavy. I feel a little bit
uneasy when I'm walking the dog, and you know, there
are times when I feel a little bit uncomfortable. And
then I spoke to you on Wednesday, and it's almost
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like that is now completely gone. I wouldn't say I
feel lighter because I've had this conversation with you, because
I had it with Lee. But I feel like whatever
it is that's around me isn't here anymore. It's a
really unusual feeling, and I don't know whether any other
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people have ever said this. I actually don't feel like
it is negative. I feel unnerved by it, of course,
but I don't feel that anything negative here, and I
never have felt like that in this house when we
moved back in from the renovation. There are certain spots
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in the house where I feel uneasy. We've got a
corridor in our hallway that leads to the downstairs bathroom,
which was never there before we built that space, and
I just don't like going past that downstairs bathroom at
night if the door is open, because it's quite a
dark corridor and it's a dark bathroom at the end
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of it. But I think that that's just it's a
dark kind of part of the house that doesn't really
get used that often in the evenings. I don't know
if it's just maybe just thinking that it's creepy. Really,
I've never had any type of experience there at all.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Selina Messy me the next day and said she did
feel a little lighter than camera in herself, and she
didn't feel his presence at the whole, and she was
even more settled in the garden. It was less than
forty eight hours, Selina concepted me after that changed and
the TV in the whole turned itself on.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
I had a funny experience at the house last night.
I still have that light feeling. I still don't feel
like a heavy sense of anything. But last night I
was sat on the sofa with my husband. It was
about twelve am or thereabouts, it might have been a
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bit earlier, and we were watching TV. And how our
layout is in our house, and we've got two sofas
in our kitchen area that like face each other, and
then we've got a TV in the middle wall, if
that makes sense. I sit on the sofa closer to
the bifold, and then behind the other sofa we've got
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a dining table, and then behind the dining table we've
got a double glass door. All of the doors in
the downstairs of the house are glass, so you can
see from one room to the next. Glass door leads
into what was our original lounge, and there's a TV
on the far wall, which is toocked back, so when
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we're sitting on our sofas in the kitchen, we can't
see the TV in that room. But sometimes if you
walk past the double glass door, the TV in there
will pick up motion because it's a smart OV and
it will come on. But last night, we were sitting
in the kitchen and we just had two table lamps
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on and they k the back light in the kitchen on.
All the other lights downstairs were off, and the lights
in this lounge area went on, and I noticed that
there was like a flickering of light and I looked.
At first, I didn't think anything of it, because we
do get we're on an ambulance path here, so every
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now and again you'll see a blue light, and I
thought it was a blue light. But then I noticed
that the light was changing color and it was flicking
on and off. So I said to my husband, I
think the TV in the lounge is on, and you went,
we'll go and turn it off then, so I thought, no,
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I'm not going to get up and go look, it
will go off on it. So I did to feel
quite distracted because out of the corner of my ere
I could see that the room was illuminated with light,
so in the end, after about five or ten minutes,
I got irritated, so I decided to just get up
and go into the lounge and the TV was on,
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so I had to go and physically pick up the
remote and turn it off. Came back out of the room,
and I did feel a little bit unnerved because I
actually said to my husband, the TV is motion censored,
but there's nobody in there, and he just didn't really
like say anything, and he said, maybe it was your thing. Oh,
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don't say that. And then I went to bed last
night thinking could that be him or could that be
something different? There has been a paranormal experience in that
room about oh my god, we must be going back
about fifteen years now. My other German shepherd who's died now.
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I walked into the room one day and he was
barking at the corner of the room, but he was
barking up at the ceiling into like just dead's space,
and he was barking. So there has been something that's
happened in that room. I haven't really ever experienced any
paranormal activity in the house, but then when that TV
came on last night, It made me think is their
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paranormal activity here or is it him? But I don't
feel heavy. I don't feel that heaviness. But it was
interesting that that happened after I'd said to you, I
think his left man.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
It was the next night, after the TV had turned on,
that Selena had a very lucid dream. As we speak,
is only a matter of hours old. You can hear
the confusion in Selena and she tries to explain what happened,
and they're mounting to questions that she was left with
after this experience. I've had the same experience in questions
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and so many other people I've spoken to the dream
as we're supposed to, Carl, It's far too realistic to
be a simple dream. There's an intelligence to it. You
can feel, see, and hear it in real time as
it happens. We don't reason in dreams. We do when
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we're awake. Then it's as if you've slipped onto another
plane or another being has slipped into yours.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
I wasn't sure whether I was going to actually send
this to you, but this has kind of been playing
on my mind all day. I've been so busy today
that I haven't really given it much thought, and then
this evening it's really started to bother me. So last
night I had a really really vivid dream. I was
asleep in bed and I could hear footsteps coming up
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the landing towards my bedroom door. But I think I
was half awake, so I think I was in like
a half awake, half asleep kind of state, because I
vaguely remember turning over at one point to have a
glass of water. So I heard these footsteps. Then I
could hear so I sleep with my back to my
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bedroom door. Then I could hear breathing behind me, but
like quite close to me, but I couldn't feel breathing,
but I could hear it. And then I remember being
really really scared, and in my dream, I remember saying,
I told you not to come into my house. It
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wouldn't go and in my dream it was the dog man.
I woke up absolutely terrified. I sat up in bed,
and obviously I felt sort of like scared to sort
of like look out into the darkness of my room,
but obviously there was nothing there, and I went back
to sleep after about ten fifteen minutes. But I just
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felt really really unsettled, and I lay in bed, face
in the door, and I did manage to go back
to sleep, but I woke up this morning I felt
really unnerved by it because in my head, after we
spoke the first time and you said, oh, you need
to set your boundaries, I did actually sigh that I
didn't want the thing him to come into my home.
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So I don't know whether I was subconsciously just dreaming
of that, but it's the first time I've ever had
a dream, and I know it was one of the
first things that you asked me is do I have
any recurring dreams? Do I have any dreams that are lucid?
And that is the first and only one that I've
ever had. But as the dye has gone on, it's
really unsettled, maybe because in my dream it was behind me,
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but I could see it. But I've never had a
visual I've never had eyes on anything before, so I
just thought that I would share that with you. I
don't know whether it has any relevance, but it's the
first time that I've ever really been unnerved to the
point where I actually feel quite nervous. I haven't had
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any other instances at all at the house. It's been
quite calm, but that dream was something that I've never
experienced before.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
But what was the purpose of that dream? Was it
to show himself to Selena as just an introduction meeting
of beings? Or is it a scare? Oh as I'm fine.
You know, it's a complex puzzle of trying to understand
what's happening around you going on, you know, a pull
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between scared and curious. Is he my friend or is
he my fell Yeah?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
So in your opinion, because I didn't know whether because
this has been playing on my mind a lot recently,
because we've had the tapping on the house and we've
had the TV come on, and I didn't know whether
it was just a dream because it's been playing on
my mind a lot, or whether you actually felt like
because I know in our original chat you did say
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he will show himself to you, and you have to
kind of like navigate that whether that is how he
has come to me and shown himself to me, because
I haven't had any physical eyes on, you know, anything.
But I did conduct a little bit of an experiment
at home last night to kind of almost prove a
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point to my husband because he said, our smart TV
always comes on, but it doesn't, and so what I
did was I actually spent a good five minutes walking
and forth in front of the TV and even jumped
in front of it and waved my arms around, and
it would not come on. And it was almost as
though it was not coming on deliberately. But I don't
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know if that's a separate issue. But anyway I was.
I have had the whole thing playing out in my
mind a lot, and so I didn't know whether that
was just a dream, but it felt like a very
very real dream. And I was actually sleeping with my
back to the door as well, and I just thought,
what are the chances that I would wake up and
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my back is to the door and I've just had
a dream about something being in my room. I think
I said to you previously. I think I have been
like a bit mixed in how I feel about it.
So I think, on one hand, I think be him,
and then on another hand, I don't, And so I
think I'm sending out a mixed signal. So I don't
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know if that's why. But I did wake up, so
I don't know if maybe that was him like going,
because in my dream I was like go. So I
don't really know, I've never had a dream about it before.
It was, like I said, it was very lucid. I
woke up feeling like it was real, and I don't
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usually have dreams like that, so I didn't really know
what to think about it, which is why I decided
to just voice note you and tell you about it. Anyway.
I think because I've been talking about it, it's fired
something up. But interestingly, nothing really has been going on
at the house, and I still feel quite light and
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I still feel like quite fresh. I don't I don't
know if that's just my because I take a positive
approach with it. Whether I feel a little bit lighter
now or what, I don't know. But I don't mind
the activity around the home. But the dream that I had,
I would really not want to have another dream like that.
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That was not very pleasant at all, And then it
makes me kind of feel weird, like if something like
that was actually in my home. I just don't like
the idea of it. In terms of like the TV
and stuff. That kind of stuff doesn't really bother me,
but the dog man stuff, it does bother me because
my home is like my safe place, you know what
I mean. So but when I've been in the garden
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at night. Interestingly, I was out there at dusk yesterday.
I'm not getting that foreboding feeling that I have that
I have had a lot. So that's why I kind
of was saying to you, I think he might have gone.
I think he might have left, or he's not here
at the moment. But everything here feels quite calm.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Things have been quiet at the home for the last
couple of days. I've just been speaking to Selena and
a daughter on the telephone, and she said that she
has decided that, you know, safety first, and she said
that she doesn't want to see it, she doesn't want
an interaction with it. She might see it in the
future as far as she's concerned. That's bring it to
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her head and leave it at that. And I think
that's a really good idea today. Setting strong boundaries and
a strong will can often put an end, you know,
to this activity. But I'll keep you updated if anything
else happened. And as I say, I actually spoke to
her today and I spoke to a daughter and we
were talking about some of the experiences that a young
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daughter has had and she said when she was much younger,
she was playing in the garden of the home and
it's kind of like a gap in the thicket and
she'd sit in there and she always felt like something
was watching her. There was another occasion when she was
at a grandmother's house with two of her cousins and
they saw something with red eyes at the bottom of
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the garden, which must have been absolutely terrifying. She's also
had a number of dreams when she was young where
a wolf would be in the bedroom and just like myself,
there's a crack in the wall in her room, and
she said that this awful, terrifying being would come through.
And she had a dream where she was with a
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friend and they saw it. And she had a second
dream where she was a friend and a friend sore
one and she saw the other one. And she's had
other activity happening around her. So we've put a number
of things into place. We've explained that what's happening is,
you know, does happen to other people. There's nothing strange
or unusual about her seeing the wolf when she was younger,
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seeing the rake, and experiencing things happens to some people
and can happen for a lifetime, and we just don't
understand why it happens. In dealing with these really easy
if you can talk to mom and dad about it
and she's looking that she can do that. So as
things stand, there is a status quo now and everything's
gone quiet. They're going to decorate a room, put some
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things into place, and also change the bit in the
garden that neither Selena or a daughter alike. There some
new planting out there and see if they can change
the energy of the area. And I will of course
keep you updated on all of that.
Today's case is Salina's experience yellow Eyes, dog men and
the Hitchhiker effect. The case I'm sharing today covers the
reality of what it's like to realize the thing's happening
around you and not the normal. They're unusual, confusing, and ongoing,
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and they are now to a level where you need help.
What a first feels like you're going crazy. Over time
becomes a normal life for some folk. Many people all
across the world report an attachment or say that something
has followed them home after a supernatural or cryptid encounter.
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The case shows what it's like to live with not
only the hitchhiker effect, but also the question of are
they friends or foe? When I say they, who do
I mean? And what is the hitchhiker effect? Now all
cases are different, as we know, but there are certain
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situations that crop up over and over again. They give
us an insight into the habits of behaviors and the
cryptive creature, a paranormal being, an entity and spirit. Once encountered, they,
for reasons we don't know, follow up that person home.
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Even a slight interaction can result in a lifetime of
unexplained activity. A quick dog walk can culminate in an
invisible something moving around your property and eventually inside your home.
Some people experience lucid dreams of a creature, even telepathic
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communication takes place. It's incredibly hard to deal with in
twenty twenty five, but ideal with cases like this constantly,
and they are becoming ever increasingly then army in my work.
They can play out over generations or in less than
a year, and to be honest, both of these scenarios
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can exist at the same time. The case I'm sharing
tonight has happened at a very fast pace and the
activity is amping up almost daily, and I admit I
need some help with this case, as it involves a
family home with other more confused inhabitants, and I don't
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think it started recently. I think it ties into our witness,
Selena's first experience with something so scary that it stayed
with her for life. Selena lives in the Statuture area
and she's been experiencing strange activity around her home and
when she walks her dogs in the woodland close by.
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There had been multiple occasions when the family of herd bangs,
snapping twigs or taps on the wall. There's been a
huge thud and part of the flat roof, and numerous
feelings of being watched, and she feels this very strongly
in the garden of the property. One recent experience involving
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a daughter prompted Selena to reach out to me after
she shared the experience of one of my friends and
follow investigators, Lee Solway from the Realms of the Supernatural podcast.
When Lee heard what was happening at the Horn currently,
he felt that it was something I could help with.
The contacted Selena back as quickly as I could, and
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we spoke to each other on the phone for several
hours as she told me what had been happening, and
in a moment you'll hear Selena explain the events in
a series of voice nots to me. Selena explained to
me that the first experience she remembers where she was
overwhelmingly scared as a child was when she was on
a family camping trip with her aunt, her uncle, and
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her cousin. They were staying in a caravan park on
one evening after they returned from seeing the entertainment at
the Holiday Club and was settling down for the night.
Selena's cousin out of the blue, asked if she wanted
to play a game to see if they could scare
each other. This wasn't something they'd done before, and Selena
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had no idea why her cousin suggested this, but both
girls counted slowly before popping their heads around the curtain
to peep out into the dark, and what they saw
out there was life changing, terrifying, as it was something
unseen that had bright yellow eyes, and Selena believes she's
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seen it since then and now it's coming a bit
closer to her home and her family members.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
When I was eight years old, my cousin and I,
who was also a we went on a caravan trip
with my aunt and my uncle. I can't remember where
we went, but we used to go to places like
Little Say, Whales, Paul Cornwall. We used to go all over,
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So unfortunately I can't remember the destination, but I remember
that it was a late evening. We'd been to the
club Hiuse, we'd been watching shows and you know, my
aunt and my uncle had you know, had a drink
and we'd gone into the kids club and so it
was late. It was around eleven thirty twelve am, and
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we'd walked back to the caravan in the dark. Our
caravan was quite far away from the clubhouse. I think
it was on the border of the caravan park, but
I can't really be too sure now, but I know
that we did back up against a field that had
I think they either had like sheep or cows. I
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think it was caws. We used to hear them sometimes
at night. When we got into the caravan. We were
sitting on the back bench, the bench that goes around
the window at the back of the caravan, and we were,
you know, just giggling, playing and my cousin said, let's
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play a game. Let's put our head behind the curtain
and look into the darkness to scare ourselves. And we've
never played this game before, and quite honestly, we never
played it again after this day night. So we did
and what we put our head behind the curtain and
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instantly two bright yellow eyes were looking back at us.
And all I kind of really remember about this moment
is that they were level with our eyes. They were
about maybe four ish feet away from the caravan, so
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they weren't right up against the window. All I remember
seeing was a set of eyes. I don't remember seeing
any face. I don't remember seeing any fur. I don't
remember seeing anything. It was completely blackout. But to describe
these eyes to you, they looked like it was almost
as if someone had taken some yellow card and cut
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out two eyes and put them against black card. They
were so bright, and they weren't reflective, so they weren't
like a fox eye or a cat eye. They were
just quite I'm going to say they were quite a
solid yellow color. But obviously there must have been some
luminescence from them, but I don't really remember. I remember
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that they were quite large. They were not round, they
were more of an almond shape, and that's all I
can really tell you. We quickly like came from behind
the curtain. We looked at each other. I said to
my cousin, did you see that? And she said yes,
And then I think we did try to tell and
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my uncle, but they kind of weren't really interested. They
were like, right, it's really late. You know, you've been
up late tonight. You need to go to bed. So
we went to bed, and that night we were so
stayed because of what we've seen that we sat in
our bedroom and we kind of made up little stories
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about fairies and we had these little music boxes that
you would turn the key and then the ballerina would
go around and there would be a little tune. And
we put those on and we basically did whatever you
can do as a child to sort of un scare yourself.
And I remember that night that my cousin fell asleep
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way before I did, and I remember listening out and
that night was completely silent. I couldn't hear any of
the animals in the field next to us, no wind niffing.
And going back to that moment at the window, it
must have been set a couple of seconds, really, and
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then obviously it felt more like half an hour. It was.
It was the longest few seconds ever. My cousin did
actually look out again, but I didn't. I was too frightened,
and she said that there was nothing there. And really,
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over the years, my cousin and I haven't really ever
spoken about this, So I think the next time we
ever really spoke about it was when we were about
ten years old, and I said to her, do you
remember that night? And she said yes, but I don't
want to talk about it, and we've never spoke again.
It's never come up in conversation. I feel like my
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cousin doesn't want to talk about it, but I do.
So we've just never ever had that conversation. I don't
know now if she even remembers that that happened, although
I would imagine that she does. Yes, there's never been
any conversation since. Over the years, I haven't really given
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it much thought. I think when I was in my
early twenties, I told a really good friend who thought
it was hilarious, and I thought, I think I told
my mom, and my mum just my mum's quite a
spiritual person, and she just said I think that you
have a sensitivity, and that she kind of did it
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acknowledge that I definitely did see something, but we didn't
really ever have a proper conversation about it. I never
really gave much thought to what it was. I had
absolutely no idea what it could be, and growing up
and through my adult years, i've kind of whenever it
pops into my head, I've always just thought, well, I
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know it wasn't a fox because it was level with
us and caravans. That back window on a caravan I
think I mentioned it too. They're about seven feet in
the air, so that would have been no fox, and
Also there was no eye shine. It wouldn't have been
a cow that had winded into the you know, into
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the caravan park from the neighboring field, because they wouldn't
have bright yellow eyes. So it wasn't a cow. It
wasn't an owl because it wasn't in flight, it wasn't moving,
It was stationary. And actually when we looked out of
the person, it was already there staring at the window.
Because Leadid asked me, do you think you looked out
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of the window and it was attracted to you, like
and it just looked as it was passing by or
and I said no, it was already there. It was
already looking at the window. So I don't know whether
it had heard us and it was watching the window.
I don't know whether I've heard accounts of telepathy, Whether
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my cousin was told to look out of the window
because she was the one who suggested that we play
the game, I don't know, And I think there'll be
questions that I'll never really have answers to.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
As most of us know, caravans except eye up on
blocks and douse steps to get into them. So the
eyes that the girl saw would have been around seven
feet in height. It must have been horrifying knowing the
possibility that that was out there in the dark while
trying to sleep in a caravan with paper thin walls.
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Like many of my witnesses and myself included, Selena didn't
put this event together with others that took places she
grew up. His humors tend to compartmental life dramatic events,
so they fractured, kind of just sitting there in your
subconscious waited to be awoken. Eventually we start to piece
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them together and realize far more has happened than we
originally thought. For Selena, there was a time when she
was playing at a friend's house when she saw a
human dark shape in the overgrown garden of the next
door neighbor's property.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
When I was about ten, I was playing in my
friend's garden and her next door neighbor was a hermit.
He never used to go out. His front garden was
really overgrown, his back garden was really overgrown. And at
the time with those like the old council houses that
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I don't know whether you remember this, but where I
used to live, they had a load fencing, but it
was like almost like wooden steaks with wire attached, so
it was more like a boundary line than an actual fence,
and you could just kind of like hop over them.
But because his garden was so overgrown, we used to
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go in there and we'd kind of like play games
in there, like hide and seek. We'd belly crawl through
the thicket. There was a lot of like overgrown bushes
and bracken, and we'd kind of like crawl through the
kind of tunnels that the foxes would make. So we
used to spend a lot of time messing around in there.
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And I remember one summer's day, me and my friend,
her name was Rose, and she was quite a few
years younger than me. We were playing in her back
garden and she had three brothers and they were playing
at the front of the house in the road. We
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had like this patch of grass that was circular and
the houses kind of went around it, and then at
the end there was like the road. They were all
on this patch of grass playing football, and we were
the only two girls, and we were in her back
garden and we were playing, and I remember looking into
her neighbor's garden and seeing this shape of figure all
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dressed in black, like kind of like jump out of
the thicket, like kind of like jumping up out of
the middle of the bush, but kind of like bringing
their arms up at the same time. I can't really
describe it, but in my head I can picture it.
And my friend Rose saw it too, and it looked
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like a person all dressed in black jumping out of bush,
which it very well could have been, although why they'd
just jump out of the bush bush and then go
back down again is weird. And we ran out of
that garden screaming, and we were screaming at her brothers
and she was saying, there's there's somebody in the I
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think the neighbor was called Michael, and she was screaming
and she was saying, there's someone in Michael's garden. You
need to come quick. And her brother's kind of like
just went, oh, you know, stop messing about like we're
playing football. And they didn't come to the garden and
they didn't investigate for us, and we were knowledge to
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each other that we'd seen it, and we didn't go
back into the back garden. And yeah, I mean, I
never have vocalized that encounter to anyone. I can't tell
you what it was. I can't tell you whether it
was a person or something else, but all I just
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remember is it was like a black figure.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
That must have been absolutely terrifying for the girls and
leased me to think, what's that figure in the bushes
the entire time, you know, because she was in a
certain position, she caught had contact with him and that's
why he jumped out. And how many times has it
been in that garden before, you know, watching the children play,
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It's absolutely terrifying. When Selena was younger and lived at
home with a month, there were times when she'd hear
strange noises in the house. She has a clear memory
of visiting her father for the dead, and when he
brought her home she was tucked in bed, she heard
the sound of scratching coming from inside the walls of
the home. This absolutely terrorized and she remembers being really
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upset about. Several years later, after they moved into a
new place and Selena was older, her mum did explain
that she always felt that their home was haunted and
that there definitely was a looming presence in the house.
Her mum would hear footsteps running down the long corridor
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even at the new home, as she grew up, scratching
on the door would be heard now. And then one
day the family had a bonfire party in the garden,
so the family dog was alone inside the house, and
when they went back inside to see why he was
barking so loudly, all the furniture in the room had
been pulled away from the wall. In recent lay activity
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is starting to happen at Selena's home, and she explained
that even though she has lived there for almost twenty years,
she has a great deal of anxiety she's in the
garden at night.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
We did our extension in oh when was it twenty
twenty twenty two, we moved back into the house. We
sit directly under the extended flat roof which is on
the back of the house, which is about I would
say four or five meters out about ten feet up.
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We used to get the occasional really loud bang that
would be a single good and we'd get one and
then maybe we'd get one like an hour later. We
put it down to wood contracting on the roof, because
new part of the house is there's a lot of
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wood that's been used on the roof particular. So we
just said, you know it was the wood contracting in
the hate and detracting in when the temperate to drops.
It hasn't happened for quite some time. We are going
into the summer months now, so we're waiting now to
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see whether the wood starts to expand whether we get
any more live bangs at all. So it'd be interesting
to kind of see if that theory carries through or not.
Experience with my daughter it was about two years ago,
so I would say she was about nine at the time,
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and we were at home. It was about eight o'clock
in the evening. It was dark, so it would have
been wintertime. I was upstairs with her and we were
both lying on her bed, and we were just having
a little chat before bed, and she got up to
go to the bathroom. So her bedroom is at the
far end of the house, and the bathroom is as
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you come up the staircase, so as she cook the staircase,
there's a window and then the bathroom door, so the
two rooms are completely opposite ends of the house. Behind
the toilet is a window that opens out from the bottom,
so when you want to close it, you have to
reach your arm out and pull it shut from the bottom.
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She doesn't really like sitting on the toilet with the
window open. So she had got toilet and had reached
out to pull the door shut, and she said that
something brushed against the bottom of her arm. So if
you imagine like your arms outstretched, palm down, something brushed
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against the underpart of her arm as she cloys the
bathroom window. She was quite unnerved by this. She came
straight back into the bedroom and said, something furry just
brushed against my arm. I just said, oh, you know,
it was probably the neighbor's cat or a probably a
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bird that flew by and it brushed against you, you know,
all things that you say. And I didn't want to
kind of like say anything because I didn't want to
make her feel scared. Quite insistent, no, no, no, it
felt furry, didn't feel like feathers. And then in less
than its kind of two minutes of her being back
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in the room, there were three distinct knocks on the
bedroom windows. I'm going to do the knocks for you
so you can just hear what they were like. So
it was like this, so three very deliberate knocks. We
both heard it at the same time. She said to me,
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oh my god, what was that, and I just said,
don't worry, it's nothing, you know, probably the wind. I
can't remember exactly what I said, but I just down
and played it in my head. Was thinking would make
three slow, deliberate knocks like that, and that was it.
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Now fast forward to now she's a little bit older,
she's twelve, bouck to turn thirteen. Now we've spoken about
it a little bit more, and we've kind of acknowledged
now that it wouldn't have been a bird or the
kind of usual excuses that you hear. We have acknowledged
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that it's unexplained, and then it's very very odd. I
don't think my husband one hundred percent really believes it,
but it definitely happened one hundred and ten percent. I
believe wasn't intended for my daughter. It was intended for me,
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based in that theory on the other things that have
happened that we've discussed. So I think when you speak
to her, you'll probably feet more from her side. It's
a shared experience, but she does have some other experiences
of her own.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
If to say, my heart goes out to Selina and
her family, but she's dealing with it in a really
proactive way. You know, she's realized that these things are happening.
She sat down and she's had a thought about them,
and she of course she has confusion and mixed thoughts.
That's absolutely natural, you know. But now she's in touch
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with people who kind of understand what's going on. She
doesn't have to explain herself so well. I'm hoping that
things will settle down all the time, but often when
I chat with people, the activity around them terms to
really ramp up, and I do explain this so people
are aware. I also explain I was setting some clear
boundaries in situations like this is they must and we
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must never invite them into our home, regardless of what
them we're dealing with, and that usually brings some kind
to the situation.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I think I said to you that we've had like
what sounds like a branch, a tree branch or something
being like twanged up against the house, and I felt
a little bit like heavy. I feel a little bit
uneasy when I'm walking the dog, and you know, there
are times when I feel a little bit uncomfortable. And
then I spoke to you on Wednesday, and it's almost
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like that is now completely gone. I wouldn't say I
feel lighter because I've had this conversation with you, because
I had it with Lee. But I feel like whatever
it is that's around me isn't here anymore. It's a
really unusual feeling, and I don't know whether any other
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people have ever said this. I actually don't feel like
it is negative. I feel unnerved by it, of course,
but I don't feel that anything negative here, and I
never have felt like that in this house when we
moved back in from the renovation. There are certain spots
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in the house where I feel uneasy. We've got a
corridor in our hallway that leads to the downstairs bathroom,
which was never there before we built that space, and
I just don't like going past that downstairs bathroom at
night if the door is open, because it's quite a
dark corridor and it's a dark bathroom at the end
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of it. But I think that that's just it's a
dark kind of part of the house that doesn't really
get used that often in the evenings. I don't know
if it's just maybe just thinking that it's creepy. Really,
I've never had any type of experience there at all.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Selina Messy me the next day and said she did
feel a little lighter than camera in herself, and she
didn't feel his presence at the whole, and she was
even more settled in the garden. It was less than
forty eight hours, Selina concepted me after that changed and
the TV in the whole turned itself on.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
I had a funny experience at the house last night.
I still have that light feeling. I still don't feel
like a heavy sense of anything. But last night I
was sat on the sofa with my husband. It was
about twelve am or thereabouts, it might have been a
(27:33):
bit earlier, and we were watching TV. And how our
layout is in our house, and we've got two sofas
in our kitchen area that like face each other, and
then we've got a TV in the middle wall, if
that makes sense. I sit on the sofa closer to
the bifold, and then behind the other sofa we've got
(27:53):
a dining table, and then behind the dining table we've
got a double glass door. All of the doors in
the downstairs of the house are glass, so you can
see from one room to the next. Glass door leads
into what was our original lounge, and there's a TV
on the far wall, which is toocked back, so when
(28:16):
we're sitting on our sofas in the kitchen, we can't
see the TV in that room. But sometimes if you
walk past the double glass door, the TV in there
will pick up motion because it's a smart OV and
it will come on. But last night, we were sitting
in the kitchen and we just had two table lamps
(28:39):
on and they k the back light in the kitchen on.
All the other lights downstairs were off, and the lights
in this lounge area went on, and I noticed that
there was like a flickering of light and I looked.
At first, I didn't think anything of it, because we
do get we're on an ambulance path here, so every
(29:03):
now and again you'll see a blue light, and I
thought it was a blue light. But then I noticed
that the light was changing color and it was flicking
on and off. So I said to my husband, I
think the TV in the lounge is on, and you went,
we'll go and turn it off then, so I thought, no,
(29:24):
I'm not going to get up and go look, it
will go off on it. So I did to feel
quite distracted because out of the corner of my ere
I could see that the room was illuminated with light,
so in the end, after about five or ten minutes,
I got irritated, so I decided to just get up
and go into the lounge and the TV was on,
(29:45):
so I had to go and physically pick up the
remote and turn it off. Came back out of the room,
and I did feel a little bit unnerved because I
actually said to my husband, the TV is motion censored,
but there's nobody in there, and he just didn't really
like say anything, and he said, maybe it was your thing. Oh,
(30:06):
don't say that. And then I went to bed last
night thinking could that be him or could that be
something different? There has been a paranormal experience in that
room about oh my god, we must be going back
about fifteen years now. My other German shepherd who's died now.
(30:30):
I walked into the room one day and he was
barking at the corner of the room, but he was
barking up at the ceiling into like just dead's space,
and he was barking. So there has been something that's
happened in that room. I haven't really ever experienced any
paranormal activity in the house, but then when that TV
came on last night, It made me think is their
(30:51):
paranormal activity here or is it him? But I don't
feel heavy. I don't feel that heaviness. But it was
interesting that that happened after I'd said to you, I
think his left man.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
It was the next night, after the TV had turned on,
that Selena had a very lucid dream. As we speak,
is only a matter of hours old. You can hear
the confusion in Selena and she tries to explain what happened,
and they're mounting to questions that she was left with
after this experience. I've had the same experience in questions
(31:29):
and so many other people I've spoken to the dream
as we're supposed to, Carl, It's far too realistic to
be a simple dream. There's an intelligence to it. You
can feel, see, and hear it in real time as
it happens. We don't reason in dreams. We do when
(31:49):
we're awake. Then it's as if you've slipped onto another
plane or another being has slipped into yours.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
I wasn't sure whether I was going to actually send
this to you, but this has kind of been playing
on my mind all day. I've been so busy today
that I haven't really given it much thought, and then
this evening it's really started to bother me. So last
night I had a really really vivid dream. I was
asleep in bed and I could hear footsteps coming up
(32:23):
the landing towards my bedroom door. But I think I
was half awake, so I think I was in like
a half awake, half asleep kind of state, because I
vaguely remember turning over at one point to have a
glass of water. So I heard these footsteps. Then I
could hear so I sleep with my back to my
(32:44):
bedroom door. Then I could hear breathing behind me, but
like quite close to me, but I couldn't feel breathing,
but I could hear it. And then I remember being
really really scared, and in my dream, I remember saying,
I told you not to come into my house. It
(33:06):
wouldn't go and in my dream it was the dog man.
I woke up absolutely terrified. I sat up in bed,
and obviously I felt sort of like scared to sort
of like look out into the darkness of my room,
but obviously there was nothing there, and I went back
to sleep after about ten fifteen minutes. But I just
(33:28):
felt really really unsettled, and I lay in bed, face
in the door, and I did manage to go back
to sleep, but I woke up this morning I felt
really unnerved by it because in my head, after we
spoke the first time and you said, oh, you need
to set your boundaries, I did actually sigh that I
didn't want the thing him to come into my home.
(33:52):
So I don't know whether I was subconsciously just dreaming
of that, but it's the first time I've ever had
a dream, and I know it was one of the
first things that you asked me is do I have
any recurring dreams? Do I have any dreams that are lucid?
And that is the first and only one that I've
ever had. But as the dye has gone on, it's
really unsettled, maybe because in my dream it was behind me,
(34:16):
but I could see it. But I've never had a
visual I've never had eyes on anything before, so I
just thought that I would share that with you. I
don't know whether it has any relevance, but it's the
first time that I've ever really been unnerved to the
point where I actually feel quite nervous. I haven't had
(34:37):
any other instances at all at the house. It's been
quite calm, but that dream was something that I've never
experienced before.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
But what was the purpose of that dream? Was it
to show himself to Selena as just an introduction meeting
of beings? Or is it a scare? Oh as I'm fine.
You know, it's a complex puzzle of trying to understand
what's happening around you going on, you know, a pull
(35:12):
between scared and curious. Is he my friend or is
he my fell Yeah?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
So in your opinion, because I didn't know whether because
this has been playing on my mind a lot recently,
because we've had the tapping on the house and we've
had the TV come on, and I didn't know whether
it was just a dream because it's been playing on
my mind a lot, or whether you actually felt like
because I know in our original chat you did say
(35:41):
he will show himself to you, and you have to
kind of like navigate that whether that is how he
has come to me and shown himself to me, because
I haven't had any physical eyes on, you know, anything.
But I did conduct a little bit of an experiment
at home last night to kind of almost prove a
(36:01):
point to my husband because he said, our smart TV
always comes on, but it doesn't, and so what I
did was I actually spent a good five minutes walking
and forth in front of the TV and even jumped
in front of it and waved my arms around, and
it would not come on. And it was almost as
though it was not coming on deliberately. But I don't
(36:24):
know if that's a separate issue. But anyway I was.
I have had the whole thing playing out in my
mind a lot, and so I didn't know whether that
was just a dream, but it felt like a very
very real dream. And I was actually sleeping with my
back to the door as well, and I just thought,
what are the chances that I would wake up and
(36:44):
my back is to the door and I've just had
a dream about something being in my room. I think
I said to you previously. I think I have been
like a bit mixed in how I feel about it.
So I think, on one hand, I think be him,
and then on another hand, I don't, And so I
think I'm sending out a mixed signal. So I don't
(37:06):
know if that's why. But I did wake up, so
I don't know if maybe that was him like going,
because in my dream I was like go. So I
don't really know, I've never had a dream about it before.
It was, like I said, it was very lucid. I
woke up feeling like it was real, and I don't
(37:28):
usually have dreams like that, so I didn't really know
what to think about it, which is why I decided
to just voice note you and tell you about it. Anyway.
I think because I've been talking about it, it's fired
something up. But interestingly, nothing really has been going on
at the house, and I still feel quite light and
(37:51):
I still feel like quite fresh. I don't I don't
know if that's just my because I take a positive
approach with it. Whether I feel a little bit lighter
now or what, I don't know. But I don't mind
the activity around the home. But the dream that I had,
I would really not want to have another dream like that.
(38:14):
That was not very pleasant at all, And then it
makes me kind of feel weird, like if something like
that was actually in my home. I just don't like
the idea of it. In terms of like the TV
and stuff. That kind of stuff doesn't really bother me,
but the dog man stuff, it does bother me because
my home is like my safe place, you know what
I mean. So but when I've been in the garden
(38:37):
at night. Interestingly, I was out there at dusk yesterday.
I'm not getting that foreboding feeling that I have that
I have had a lot. So that's why I kind
of was saying to you, I think he might have gone.
I think he might have left, or he's not here
at the moment. But everything here feels quite calm.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Things have been quiet at the home for the last
couple of days. I've just been speaking to Selena and
a daughter on the telephone, and she said that she
has decided that, you know, safety first, and she said
that she doesn't want to see it, she doesn't want
an interaction with it. She might see it in the
future as far as she's concerned. That's bring it to
(39:20):
her head and leave it at that. And I think
that's a really good idea today. Setting strong boundaries and
a strong will can often put an end, you know,
to this activity. But I'll keep you updated if anything
else happened. And as I say, I actually spoke to
her today and I spoke to a daughter and we
were talking about some of the experiences that a young
(39:41):
daughter has had and she said when she was much younger,
she was playing in the garden of the home and
it's kind of like a gap in the thicket and
she'd sit in there and she always felt like something
was watching her. There was another occasion when she was
at a grandmother's house with two of her cousins and
they saw something with red eyes at the bottom of
(40:02):
the garden, which must have been absolutely terrifying. She's also
had a number of dreams when she was young where
a wolf would be in the bedroom and just like myself,
there's a crack in the wall in her room, and
she said that this awful, terrifying being would come through.
And she had a dream where she was with a
(40:24):
friend and they saw it. And she had a second
dream where she was a friend and a friend sore
one and she saw the other one. And she's had
other activity happening around her. So we've put a number
of things into place. We've explained that what's happening is,
you know, does happen to other people. There's nothing strange
or unusual about her seeing the wolf when she was younger,
(40:48):
seeing the rake, and experiencing things happens to some people
and can happen for a lifetime, and we just don't
understand why it happens. In dealing with these really easy
if you can talk to mom and dad about it
and she's looking that she can do that. So as
things stand, there is a status quo now and everything's
gone quiet. They're going to decorate a room, put some
(41:12):
things into place, and also change the bit in the
garden that neither Selena or a daughter alike. There some
new planting out there and see if they can change
the energy of the area. And I will of course
keep you updated on all of that.
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