October 9, 2025 • 28 mins
Creepy Cemeteries, Unidentified Lights & Haunted Houses
Archive Episode 53
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
In today's episode, we're continuing our streak of listener stories,
and they cover a wide range of phenomena, including lucid
and prophetic dreams to downright Cribpyan counters with unidentified flying
objects and everything in between. So with that in mind,
let's settle in and see what these eight listeners have
to say. Our first story of this evening comes from Carmen.
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Their story is called UFO Experience. Carmen says, Hi, Nick,
I had a strange experience that happened about ten years
ago that I'd like to share. A friend and I
had just got done eating a late dinner in town
at a local restaurant and decided we wanted to go
for a walk since it was nice out and we
weren't ready to call it a night. We decided on
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the Lake Murray Walkway we called the Dam, which was
only about ten minutes away from where we were. During
our walk, we stopped about midway across and decided to
take a quick break to catch our breath. As we
were talking and looking out on the water, I noticed
something very quick go by in the sky above us.
I looked up and noticed what I thought was a
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very bright star, in the sky. I then noticed a
red light that came off or behind it and from
off to the left side. As this was happening, my
friend noticed that I was looking up and saw what
I was staring at and said, what is that? About
that same time, a yellow light came off of the
red light and moved above it, forming a large triangle.
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About a second or two later, it sped off towards
the city. We decided to head back to the car,
a little freaked out and confused as to what the
hell we just experienced. We first thought that what we
had seen had to be a plane because there was
a small airport close by, but I've never seen a
plane hover like that in mid air and take off
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at such a high speed. The next day, I decided
to look and see if there was anything documented about
nearby comets going by, and I didn't come across anything.
To this day, I still can't figure out what we
saw that night, and I have yet to see anything
else like it. But I have come across a few
news articles about seeing strange lights at night in that
same area, and I can't help but wonder if that's
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the same thing that we saw. Thanks for reading my story,
and I love listening to your podcast while I am
at work. It makes my day go by. I'll write
in about a paranormal experience I had about the same time.
Take care, Carmen. Our next story comes from Myra. Myra's
story is called Haunted House. Myra says, Hi, Nick, I
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came across your podcast one Saturday while I was working
some overtime. I have had multiple experiences with the paranormal
due to my gift, but I'll share my first memorable experiences.
When I was in second grade, my mom and dad
moved us to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where a lot of paranormal
things happen. In general, there was a lot of history
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there because the Union Pacific Railroad goes through our town
and the train tracks are down the street three blocks
from my mom's house. When I was maybe fifteen or sixteen,
I slept in the basement, and so did my two
younger brothers and two younger sisters. For a long time,
I slept with my door open, but after my tired
eyes played a trick on me and I saw a
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figure in my doorway, I slept with my door closed.
This also helped because it kept the cats out. My
little sister was eight or nine at the time this happened,
and she is the smallest out of our mom's six kids.
At first glance, my sister at the time maybe looked
like she was five or six. She had a tendency
to sneak into my room or my mom's room to
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sleep in our beds because she had horrible separation anxiety.
This particular night, I want to say it was maybe
May or June. I know I was still in school.
It hadn't been let out yet for the summer. I
slept with a fan on. The sound was soothing and
I enjoyed sleeping in the cool air. On this night.
I can't remember what woke me up, but I woke
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up and looked at the end of my bed where
I could see my bedroom door, my dresser, where my
fan was, and a little girl. I didn't recognize the
little girl, but I still thought it could be my sister.
I asked her what she wanted. I was annoyed that
she was in my room while I was sleeping. My
sister said, I'm going to turn this off because it
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makes me cold, and I don't like being cold. It
was odd because, as far as I knew my sister
wasn't affected by my fan because she was either in
her own room or in our mom's room. When I
woke up the next morning, my fan was off. I
asked my sister about it the next day, and she
swore that she was not in my room at all
last night. My brother's legos would be messed with as well.
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On occasion, pieces would go missing or they would be moved.
My younger sister came to my mom one night crying
that she had seen a man in the hallway through
her vanity mirror. My mom asked what kind of feeling
my sister got when she saw the man, and my
sister said a bad one. I believed it was just
her imagination and that the feeling she got was just
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her own fear. One night, I had a friend staying
the night and she had to be up early to
take a med. The light from her phone woke me
up at the time. I slept with my door open,
and she said, there is a man in your doorway.
I looked at the doorway and there was nothing there.
I shrugged it off and went back to sleep. A
few months after these two occurrences, I had forgotten about
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the man in the doorways. I got up one night
to go to the bathroom, something I never do. I
woke up out of a dead sleep to do it.
I went to my bedroom door, opened it up, turned
my lamp on, and watched a tall shadow man walk
from my brother's bedroom door into the lawn slash office
area near where our downster's bathroom is Panicked. I said, nope,
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and use the upstairs bathroom. I definitely believed that my
sisters saw a man, but I didn't get the negative
feeling that she got, which to me meant that it
was just her fear. We found out later that where
my mom lives is where the old railroad camps used
to be when they were building the Union Pacific Railroad.
The people we had been seeing were people who we
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believed to be one of the conductors of the trains
and his daughter. We still have experiences to this day.
My mom's window ac will turn off randomly, even if
there is nothing wrong with the power cord, nor is
there a flipped breaker. Doors will open or shut on
their own, people will be seen running from the bathroom
upstairs into the kitchen, et cetera. My mom does believe
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in ghosts now and she embraces them as they are
friendly and have not presented any harm to her or
any of us, even after almost twenty years of being there.
Not a very scary story, but one that I quite
enjoy telling. I have many more, but this is one
of my favorites because it is my first experience. Thanks
for reading. I truly enjoy your podcast and listening to
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others stories. Sincerely, Myra. Our next story of the night
comes from Michael. Michael's story is called first ever shadow
figure Encounter. Michael says, Dear Nick, I hope this finds
you doing well and hanging in there during these uncertain times.
My girlfriend and I have been listeners to your podcast
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since April twenty nineteen. I appreciate your dedication to creating
a program that shares research and listener stories regarding paranormal
or unexplained experiences. This story covers what I consider to
be my first ever overtly paranormal experience as an adult.
While I'm not suspicious by nature and have never up
until recently, had any paranormal experiences of my own, I
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don't presuppose that science and logic can tell us everything
about existence, and I have no ne ever overruled the
existence of a spiritual or supernatural facet of reality. I
should preface by saying that I've always been a very
vivid dreamer, and have also experienced fully lucid dreams in
varying frequency since I was young. In the early morning
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hours of Sunday, April nineteenth, I experienced a deeply vivid
dream in which I was living with my parents in
an old, unfamiliar house. The back garden of this house
had a stone pathway, and as I walked the path,
I noticed at one point a large raised stone with
an engraving of a skull on it. Later in the dream,
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my mom asked me what I thought happens after death.
My answer to her went along the lines of this,
While I don't presuppose the existence of life or consciousness
beyond death, I don't rule out the possibility, as we
don't have irrefutable evidence that consciousness begins or ends in
the human brain. In retrospect, I was struck by my
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ability to provide such a conscious and lucie to answer
within a dream, as if my own subconscious was trying
to make me articulate something I've always felt. What followed
this dream was my first ever experience with sleep paralysis
and encounter with a shadow figure. I became aware of
myself lying in my bed, although I could not move
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save my eyes. At this very moment of realization, I
perceived a dark figure pass out of my own body,
turn itself over, and pin me down on my bed
with its hands around my throat. While the figure appeared
as an immaterial shadow, it felt solid with its weight
pressing down on my chest and neck. I remember asking
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in my mind, what do you want? And the entity
responded by leaning down and speaking loudly into my ear
in a deep, gravelly voice that sounded like stones being
dragged across one another. It simply said a problem and
then evaporated in an instant, shaking me from my paralysis.
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I am aware of the neurological effects of sleep paralysis
and how the brain creates the perception of figures or
entities to account for the body's immobility. However, in that
moment it was a profoundly spiritual experience. I was also
struck by the shadow figure's intelligent response to my question,
and I will never forget the sound of its voice.
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I should note that in the days and weeks leading
up to this experience, I had been reading excerpts from
Karl Jung's writings, namely his writings on the identification and
incorporation of the shadow, which Young believed was the embodiment
of human's capacity for mayhem and evil, something that our
conscious minds often suppress and reject. Young believed that unless
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you acknowledge and incorporate the existence of your own shadow personality,
you cannot develop a mature self concept and morality and
risk unconsciously allowing your shadow traits to wreak havoc in
the world. Considering that I perceived this shadow figure as
coming from out of my own body, and considering its
answer to my question, I believe that what I experienced
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was a conscious embodiment of my own shadow personality. I'm
also not ignorant of the fact that this experience occurred
after weeks of self quarantine and isolation that forced me
to take refuge in introspection and creative pursuits. I have
been working on self recording and album, one of the
songs on which is called Carl Jung. Far from feeling
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threatened or disturbed in the aftermath of this encounter, I
feel as if I now know more intimately a hidden
part of my own psyche and spirit, and by allowing
this darkness to manifest in productive and creative ways, I
prevent it from festering and becoming capable of more malevolent acts.
I apologize for the long windedness, and I appreciate your
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reading if you're able to find the time. Peace and
well wishes, Michael. Our next story of the night comes
from Chris. Chris says, the night of my UFO experience
was just normal night. I cannot remember the exact time
of year, but I know it was in the winter
in the mid nineteen nineties. At this time, I was
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living at home, but staying the night with my seventy
year old grandmother so she wouldn't be alone and scared.
Although she lived just around the corner from my family,
I would leave and drive through the neighborhood, music loud
before getting to her house. It was an overcast sky
that night. As I turned off the road I lived on,
something in the sky caught my eye. This dark thing
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is all I can call it. It was moving southeast
over the homes. It looked like it was barely missing
the tops of the pine trees around it. I would
say it was one hundred meters long. It was cigar shaped,
but instead of it moving like a blimp and to end,
it was moving sideways. And by moving, I mean it
was drifting like anyone with a walker could outwalk it.
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It had amber lights on it, but they were spaced out.
It was moving toward the airport. I pulled over to
the side of the road, rolled my window down and
stuck my head out. It made no sound, no motor,
no exhaust, nothing, as if it was just gliding through
the air. Since it was drifting so slowly. I got
back on the road and drove around the big block
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and I ended up on the other side of the neighborhood.
It was about a mile drive. There was a copse
of trees blocking my sight from where this thing was
coming from. I sat there for about twenty minutes, but
it was gone. It never came over the trees. When
I drove to my grandmother's it was the same road
where I first saw the thing hovering. I drove slowly,
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still looking out the window to see if it was
still in the air. I ended up back at square
one and no sight of it. It just vanished. Now
with a skeptical eye. I could say that I'm thirty
miles south of the largest army installation in the world.
Maybe they were test flying some new technology. I don't know.
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be right back after these brief messages. Our next story
of the night comes from Holly. Holly says Heinich. I
wanted to share something that's never happened to me before,
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and I almost want to call it a prophetic dream
with a happy ending. A little back story. My family
lost our dog back in November, and since I moved
to a different state, I wasn't able to come home
to say good bye. My parents were absolutely gutted losing him,
but I only ready to bring a puppy into their
lives again, and I've been doing some searching around my
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area about eight hours from their house for the right
little guy. I found an available puppy. Sent a message
and a picture to my mom and she said she'd
talk about it with my dad. Last night, I had
a dream that I brought the puppy to their house
back home and heard barking and whining outside. Our dog
was there. He was so excited to meet his new
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little brother and show him the ropes. He was barking
and wagging his tail like crazy, licking us and the puppy.
Right before I inevitably woke up, he jumped into my arms,
absolutely weightless. He was about seventy pounds in real life,
and he licked the tears from my cheeks. I woke
up in tears, but I knew he was happy for
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us to bring another dog into their lives. He wanted
them to have this particular puppy. I can't think of
any other reason that this would be so clear. Then
I get a text later in the day from my mom.
My dad agreed to the puppy and they are so
very excited. I get to meet up with them this weekend.
To bring them the puppy. I think Boogs was trying
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to tell me that this puppy will be so loved
and looked after by his brother over the Rainbow Bridge.
I just wanted to share since I've never had such
a real, almost tangible dream, it had to be prophetic
or something close. Thank you for reading. Wishing you all
the best safety and health. Thanks Holly. Our next story
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of the night comes from Sloane. Sloane's story is called Ghost.
Sloane says Heinik, I've been into paranormal and supernatural things
since I was a kid and came across your podcast
and practically binged it all. My favorite episodes are the
personal stories, so I finally decided I wanted to share
one of my many stories having to do with the paranormal.
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So this encounter happened around six or seven years ago
at my friend's house when we were around sixteen years old.
For just some background, my friend's house was known to
be haunted because she and I both have witnessed little
things like hearing footsteps when no one was home, or
finding things in places that they would never be So
when little weird things happened, no one would really freak
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out that much, Okay, moving on to set the scene.
She was about to leave for Colorado for a family
trip the next day, so I was over helping her
pack and get everything together. She lived in a giant,
two story house with her parents and two older sisters.
We were home alone and downstairs in her sister's room
because that's where all their cold weather clothes were. We
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were just talking and packing while listening to music off
a portable bluetooth speaker that was sitting on her sister's dresser.
All of a sudden, she was getting a phone call,
and I knew this because the speaker stopped playing music
and started ringing like a telephone. My friend looks at
me and goes, it must be your phone, because I'm
not getting a call on mine, and I looked at
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my phone and I told her I'm not getting a
call either. What help? And then all of a sudden,
the speaker stops ringing and makes that noise when you
answer a call, and all we heard was whispering, but
we couldn't make out what was being said. Then we
hear a whisper saying get out, and then a louder
voice saying get out. And then screaming in the creepiest
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voice you can imagine coming out of the speaker, get out.
My friend and I bolted out of the house, screaming
and freaking out. We didn't want to be alone in
the house anymore, so we decided to just drive around
until we could calm down. I want to say probably
an hour or two later. We came back to the
house and still no one was home, and we knew
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this because there were no cars in the driveway except ours.
We grew the strength to go back inside, but we
didn't want to go into that room anymore. We decided
to go into my friend's room, which is upstairs on
the other side of the house, in order to just
relax until someone got home so we could tell them
what had happened to us. As we walked upstairs and
opened her door, the blue tooth speaker from downstairs had
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somehow gotten upstairs and was now sitting completely straight up
in the middle of her bed, which there is no
way it should have balanced like that. We ran downstairs
and called her whole family and asked if any of
them had been home or moved the speaker, and every
one of them said no, and that they weren't going
to be home until later. We both just looked at
each other and I told her, you're sleeping at my
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house tonight. Get your stuff, and we're leaving right now.
Our next story comes from James. James says, I think
it was maybe nineteen ninety six and my girlfriend and
I had decided that we wanted to go on a
ghost tour, so we called and tried to book a reservation,
but because it was so close to Halloween, all the
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tours were already booked. We knew a couple of the
hot spots around Chicago, like Resurrection Cemetery with Resurrection Mary
and the Blue Light over Maple Lake, so we headed
out to do our own tour. We got to Resurrection
Cemetery and saw Richard Crow's tour bus the one we
tried to get on, and decided to follow it. We
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were only able to go to a few places when
my girlfriend had to use a washroom, so we lost
the bus. But it was still early and I thought
we could go to a couple more cemeteries, which we did.
We snuck into a couple on Chicago's South Side and
took some pictures. Driving back toward home, we passed another
cemetery where the front gates were wide open, and I said, cool,
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let's go. As soon as we passed those gates, my
girlfriend started physically shaking, saying, get out of here, Get
out of here. I don't like it. Get out of here.
Most cemeteries have a big lot inside the gate by
the office building or whatever, but this one wasn't like that,
and I couldn't just turn around without driving over tombstones,
so I had to keep following the path. By this time,
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she had tears streaming down her face and she's yelling
at me to get out. Finally we get back through
the gate and she grabbed her head and said, I
have a headache. We went home and laid in the
bed when my kitchen light goes on by itself, and
we both sat up and looked at each other and said,
let's go watch some cartoons. I went to go turn
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that light off. It was a pul chain type light,
but it wouldn't go off. She went home and I
eventually got the light off and eventually got some sleep.
The next morning, I got up and turned on the
news like every other morning, and a report came on
that two gang members were shot to death and the
cemetery we were in at about the same time we
were in there. Our next story of the night comes
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from Ashley. Ashley's story is called family Visit. Ashley says, Hi,
I live in Texas and I grew up, specifically in
a small town in East Texas. I grew up very religious,
so my belief in the spirit world made me very
curious to other unconventional things, such as ghosts, UFOs, et cetera.
On three occasions I experienced other worldly experiences. The first time,
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I was about ten years old. I was sleeping in
my bed and I suddenly felt uneasy, like something was
watching me. I had fallen asleep with my light on,
so when I opened my eyes to see a man
who was towering over my bed, I freaked out. He
was opaque from the waist up, but waist down he
was misty. He had on grayish brown looking slacks, a white,
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short sleeved dress shirt, and a wide brimmed hat. He
was looking at me as if he was trying to
figure out who I was. I panicked and put my
head under the cover. I stayed like that for what
seemed like an eternity, and I finally picked out to
not see anything. Years later, when I was about sixteen,
my grandmother was sorting through some old photos and that's
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when I saw him again. It was the man with
the wide brimmed hat. I asked her, who is that.
She said that it was her father, my great grandfather,
whom I was named after. I was in disbelief, but
I shared with her my experience that happened just years before.
I asked her why he would be in our home
and looking at me the way he did. She stated
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that before my mom bought our house and land, that
it was a commonplace my grandfather would be. He used
to farm the whole entire area where my childhood home. Was.
Still shocked and confused, my grandmother continued to say how
he and my mom were very close and maybe he
was just paying us a visit. The second time, I
was about eleven or twelve, and it was about Christmas time.
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I remember sleeping and feeling a strong urge to go outside.
I got up and went to our front door and
opened it. With the screen door still closed, I saw
a red light through the trees in the front yard.
I was curious but tired, so I laid down on
my back and watched the light seemingly bounce around. Suddenly
it stopped. It started shining like a spotlight that was
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looking for something, and soon it shone through the glass door.
Getting an overwhelming feeling of fear, I stood up to
close the main door, but upon standing, I froze. Next thing,
I know, it's the next morning and I am back
in my bed. Now I know what you're thinking. I
had to be dreaming right well. As I woke up,
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like clockwork, I heard my mom open my bedroom door
and ask why the front door was open and if
I was okay. I sat up quickly, and all I
can remember is last night when I was panicking to
close the front door. I told her what had happened,
and she fussed at me for even opening the door
in the middle of the night and refused to believe
me about the light. But still, all these years later,
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I know what I saw, not necessarily the source of it.
But what I can't figure out is what happened after
I got up to close the door and waking up
the next morning. Lastly, fast forward about three years, I
had gotten two of my wisdom teeth removed and had
taken pain medicine early that morning, I laid on the
couch when I got home and allowed the medicine to
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work its magic. When I woke up that evening, I
laid there on the couch with my eyes closed, listening
to the TV. Suddenly I felt heavy breathing right over
my face. Before I could open up my eyes good,
I got up and ran full speed to my mother's room.
I never saw what would have been there, but it
wasn't a person because the amount of air couldn't have
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come out of one individual. Also, only my mother and
I lived there, and she was in her bed napping
as well, so that definitely made the options scarce. To
this day, I don't know what the last two things were,
but I can say they definitely scared me and I
learned how real other worldly things are. Sorry for the length,
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I appreciate you reading this. Keep up the great work.
Thanks Ashley. As we come to the end of yet
another episode, i'd like to say thank you to all
of you for listening and supporting the podcast until next time.
I hope that all of you have a safe and
healthy week, and i'd like to say thank you to
Carmen Myra, Michael, Chris, Holly, Sloane, James, and Ashley for
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writing in and sharing their experiences with all of us.
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Get out there and find its
In today's episode, we're continuing our streak of listener stories,
and they cover a wide range of phenomena, including lucid
and prophetic dreams to downright Cribpyan counters with unidentified flying
objects and everything in between. So with that in mind,
let's settle in and see what these eight listeners have
to say. Our first story of this evening comes from Carmen.
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Their story is called UFO Experience. Carmen says, Hi, Nick,
I had a strange experience that happened about ten years
ago that I'd like to share. A friend and I
had just got done eating a late dinner in town
at a local restaurant and decided we wanted to go
for a walk since it was nice out and we
weren't ready to call it a night. We decided on
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the Lake Murray Walkway we called the Dam, which was
only about ten minutes away from where we were. During
our walk, we stopped about midway across and decided to
take a quick break to catch our breath. As we
were talking and looking out on the water, I noticed
something very quick go by in the sky above us.
I looked up and noticed what I thought was a
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very bright star, in the sky. I then noticed a
red light that came off or behind it and from
off to the left side. As this was happening, my
friend noticed that I was looking up and saw what
I was staring at and said, what is that? About
that same time, a yellow light came off of the
red light and moved above it, forming a large triangle.
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About a second or two later, it sped off towards
the city. We decided to head back to the car,
a little freaked out and confused as to what the
hell we just experienced. We first thought that what we
had seen had to be a plane because there was
a small airport close by, but I've never seen a
plane hover like that in mid air and take off
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at such a high speed. The next day, I decided
to look and see if there was anything documented about
nearby comets going by, and I didn't come across anything.
To this day, I still can't figure out what we
saw that night, and I have yet to see anything
else like it. But I have come across a few
news articles about seeing strange lights at night in that
same area, and I can't help but wonder if that's
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the same thing that we saw. Thanks for reading my story,
and I love listening to your podcast while I am
at work. It makes my day go by. I'll write
in about a paranormal experience I had about the same time.
Take care, Carmen. Our next story comes from Myra. Myra's
story is called Haunted House. Myra says, Hi, Nick, I
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came across your podcast one Saturday while I was working
some overtime. I have had multiple experiences with the paranormal
due to my gift, but I'll share my first memorable experiences.
When I was in second grade, my mom and dad
moved us to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where a lot of paranormal
things happen. In general, there was a lot of history
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there because the Union Pacific Railroad goes through our town
and the train tracks are down the street three blocks
from my mom's house. When I was maybe fifteen or sixteen,
I slept in the basement, and so did my two
younger brothers and two younger sisters. For a long time,
I slept with my door open, but after my tired
eyes played a trick on me and I saw a
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figure in my doorway, I slept with my door closed.
This also helped because it kept the cats out. My
little sister was eight or nine at the time this happened,
and she is the smallest out of our mom's six kids.
At first glance, my sister at the time maybe looked
like she was five or six. She had a tendency
to sneak into my room or my mom's room to
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sleep in our beds because she had horrible separation anxiety.
This particular night, I want to say it was maybe
May or June. I know I was still in school.
It hadn't been let out yet for the summer. I
slept with a fan on. The sound was soothing and
I enjoyed sleeping in the cool air. On this night.
I can't remember what woke me up, but I woke
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up and looked at the end of my bed where
I could see my bedroom door, my dresser, where my
fan was, and a little girl. I didn't recognize the
little girl, but I still thought it could be my sister.
I asked her what she wanted. I was annoyed that
she was in my room while I was sleeping. My
sister said, I'm going to turn this off because it
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makes me cold, and I don't like being cold. It
was odd because, as far as I knew my sister
wasn't affected by my fan because she was either in
her own room or in our mom's room. When I
woke up the next morning, my fan was off. I
asked my sister about it the next day, and she
swore that she was not in my room at all
last night. My brother's legos would be messed with as well.
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On occasion, pieces would go missing or they would be moved.
My younger sister came to my mom one night crying
that she had seen a man in the hallway through
her vanity mirror. My mom asked what kind of feeling
my sister got when she saw the man, and my
sister said a bad one. I believed it was just
her imagination and that the feeling she got was just
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her own fear. One night, I had a friend staying
the night and she had to be up early to
take a med. The light from her phone woke me
up at the time. I slept with my door open,
and she said, there is a man in your doorway.
I looked at the doorway and there was nothing there.
I shrugged it off and went back to sleep. A
few months after these two occurrences, I had forgotten about
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the man in the doorways. I got up one night
to go to the bathroom, something I never do. I
woke up out of a dead sleep to do it.
I went to my bedroom door, opened it up, turned
my lamp on, and watched a tall shadow man walk
from my brother's bedroom door into the lawn slash office
area near where our downster's bathroom is Panicked. I said, nope,
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and use the upstairs bathroom. I definitely believed that my
sisters saw a man, but I didn't get the negative
feeling that she got, which to me meant that it
was just her fear. We found out later that where
my mom lives is where the old railroad camps used
to be when they were building the Union Pacific Railroad.
The people we had been seeing were people who we
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believed to be one of the conductors of the trains
and his daughter. We still have experiences to this day.
My mom's window ac will turn off randomly, even if
there is nothing wrong with the power cord, nor is
there a flipped breaker. Doors will open or shut on
their own, people will be seen running from the bathroom
upstairs into the kitchen, et cetera. My mom does believe
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in ghosts now and she embraces them as they are
friendly and have not presented any harm to her or
any of us, even after almost twenty years of being there.
Not a very scary story, but one that I quite
enjoy telling. I have many more, but this is one
of my favorites because it is my first experience. Thanks
for reading. I truly enjoy your podcast and listening to
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others stories. Sincerely, Myra. Our next story of the night
comes from Michael. Michael's story is called first ever shadow
figure Encounter. Michael says, Dear Nick, I hope this finds
you doing well and hanging in there during these uncertain times.
My girlfriend and I have been listeners to your podcast
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since April twenty nineteen. I appreciate your dedication to creating
a program that shares research and listener stories regarding paranormal
or unexplained experiences. This story covers what I consider to
be my first ever overtly paranormal experience as an adult.
While I'm not suspicious by nature and have never up
until recently, had any paranormal experiences of my own, I
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don't presuppose that science and logic can tell us everything
about existence, and I have no ne ever overruled the
existence of a spiritual or supernatural facet of reality. I
should preface by saying that I've always been a very
vivid dreamer, and have also experienced fully lucid dreams in
varying frequency since I was young. In the early morning
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hours of Sunday, April nineteenth, I experienced a deeply vivid
dream in which I was living with my parents in
an old, unfamiliar house. The back garden of this house
had a stone pathway, and as I walked the path,
I noticed at one point a large raised stone with
an engraving of a skull on it. Later in the dream,
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my mom asked me what I thought happens after death.
My answer to her went along the lines of this,
While I don't presuppose the existence of life or consciousness
beyond death, I don't rule out the possibility, as we
don't have irrefutable evidence that consciousness begins or ends in
the human brain. In retrospect, I was struck by my
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ability to provide such a conscious and lucie to answer
within a dream, as if my own subconscious was trying
to make me articulate something I've always felt. What followed
this dream was my first ever experience with sleep paralysis
and encounter with a shadow figure. I became aware of
myself lying in my bed, although I could not move
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save my eyes. At this very moment of realization, I
perceived a dark figure pass out of my own body,
turn itself over, and pin me down on my bed
with its hands around my throat. While the figure appeared
as an immaterial shadow, it felt solid with its weight
pressing down on my chest and neck. I remember asking
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in my mind, what do you want? And the entity
responded by leaning down and speaking loudly into my ear
in a deep, gravelly voice that sounded like stones being
dragged across one another. It simply said a problem and
then evaporated in an instant, shaking me from my paralysis.
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I am aware of the neurological effects of sleep paralysis
and how the brain creates the perception of figures or
entities to account for the body's immobility. However, in that
moment it was a profoundly spiritual experience. I was also
struck by the shadow figure's intelligent response to my question,
and I will never forget the sound of its voice.
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I should note that in the days and weeks leading
up to this experience, I had been reading excerpts from
Karl Jung's writings, namely his writings on the identification and
incorporation of the shadow, which Young believed was the embodiment
of human's capacity for mayhem and evil, something that our
conscious minds often suppress and reject. Young believed that unless
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you acknowledge and incorporate the existence of your own shadow personality,
you cannot develop a mature self concept and morality and
risk unconsciously allowing your shadow traits to wreak havoc in
the world. Considering that I perceived this shadow figure as
coming from out of my own body, and considering its
answer to my question, I believe that what I experienced
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was a conscious embodiment of my own shadow personality. I'm
also not ignorant of the fact that this experience occurred
after weeks of self quarantine and isolation that forced me
to take refuge in introspection and creative pursuits. I have
been working on self recording and album, one of the
songs on which is called Carl Jung. Far from feeling
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threatened or disturbed in the aftermath of this encounter, I
feel as if I now know more intimately a hidden
part of my own psyche and spirit, and by allowing
this darkness to manifest in productive and creative ways, I
prevent it from festering and becoming capable of more malevolent acts.
I apologize for the long windedness, and I appreciate your
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reading if you're able to find the time. Peace and
well wishes, Michael. Our next story of the night comes
from Chris. Chris says, the night of my UFO experience
was just normal night. I cannot remember the exact time
of year, but I know it was in the winter
in the mid nineteen nineties. At this time, I was
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living at home, but staying the night with my seventy
year old grandmother so she wouldn't be alone and scared.
Although she lived just around the corner from my family,
I would leave and drive through the neighborhood, music loud
before getting to her house. It was an overcast sky
that night. As I turned off the road I lived on,
something in the sky caught my eye. This dark thing
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is all I can call it. It was moving southeast
over the homes. It looked like it was barely missing
the tops of the pine trees around it. I would
say it was one hundred meters long. It was cigar shaped,
but instead of it moving like a blimp and to end,
it was moving sideways. And by moving, I mean it
was drifting like anyone with a walker could outwalk it.
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It had amber lights on it, but they were spaced out.
It was moving toward the airport. I pulled over to
the side of the road, rolled my window down and
stuck my head out. It made no sound, no motor,
no exhaust, nothing, as if it was just gliding through
the air. Since it was drifting so slowly. I got
back on the road and drove around the big block
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and I ended up on the other side of the neighborhood.
It was about a mile drive. There was a copse
of trees blocking my sight from where this thing was
coming from. I sat there for about twenty minutes, but
it was gone. It never came over the trees. When
I drove to my grandmother's it was the same road
where I first saw the thing hovering. I drove slowly,
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still looking out the window to see if it was
still in the air. I ended up back at square
one and no sight of it. It just vanished. Now
with a skeptical eye. I could say that I'm thirty
miles south of the largest army installation in the world.
Maybe they were test flying some new technology. I don't know.
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be right back after these brief messages. Our next story
of the night comes from Holly. Holly says Heinich. I
wanted to share something that's never happened to me before,
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and I almost want to call it a prophetic dream
with a happy ending. A little back story. My family
lost our dog back in November, and since I moved
to a different state, I wasn't able to come home
to say good bye. My parents were absolutely gutted losing him,
but I only ready to bring a puppy into their
lives again, and I've been doing some searching around my
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area about eight hours from their house for the right
little guy. I found an available puppy. Sent a message
and a picture to my mom and she said she'd
talk about it with my dad. Last night, I had
a dream that I brought the puppy to their house
back home and heard barking and whining outside. Our dog
was there. He was so excited to meet his new
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little brother and show him the ropes. He was barking
and wagging his tail like crazy, licking us and the puppy.
Right before I inevitably woke up, he jumped into my arms,
absolutely weightless. He was about seventy pounds in real life,
and he licked the tears from my cheeks. I woke
up in tears, but I knew he was happy for
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us to bring another dog into their lives. He wanted
them to have this particular puppy. I can't think of
any other reason that this would be so clear. Then
I get a text later in the day from my mom.
My dad agreed to the puppy and they are so
very excited. I get to meet up with them this weekend.
To bring them the puppy. I think Boogs was trying
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to tell me that this puppy will be so loved
and looked after by his brother over the Rainbow Bridge.
I just wanted to share since I've never had such
a real, almost tangible dream, it had to be prophetic
or something close. Thank you for reading. Wishing you all
the best safety and health. Thanks Holly. Our next story
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of the night comes from Sloane. Sloane's story is called Ghost.
Sloane says Heinik, I've been into paranormal and supernatural things
since I was a kid and came across your podcast
and practically binged it all. My favorite episodes are the
personal stories, so I finally decided I wanted to share
one of my many stories having to do with the paranormal.
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So this encounter happened around six or seven years ago
at my friend's house when we were around sixteen years old.
For just some background, my friend's house was known to
be haunted because she and I both have witnessed little
things like hearing footsteps when no one was home, or
finding things in places that they would never be So
when little weird things happened, no one would really freak
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out that much, Okay, moving on to set the scene.
She was about to leave for Colorado for a family
trip the next day, so I was over helping her
pack and get everything together. She lived in a giant,
two story house with her parents and two older sisters.
We were home alone and downstairs in her sister's room
because that's where all their cold weather clothes were. We
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were just talking and packing while listening to music off
a portable bluetooth speaker that was sitting on her sister's dresser.
All of a sudden, she was getting a phone call,
and I knew this because the speaker stopped playing music
and started ringing like a telephone. My friend looks at
me and goes, it must be your phone, because I'm
not getting a call on mine, and I looked at
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my phone and I told her I'm not getting a
call either. What help? And then all of a sudden,
the speaker stops ringing and makes that noise when you
answer a call, and all we heard was whispering, but
we couldn't make out what was being said. Then we
hear a whisper saying get out, and then a louder
voice saying get out. And then screaming in the creepiest
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voice you can imagine coming out of the speaker, get out.
My friend and I bolted out of the house, screaming
and freaking out. We didn't want to be alone in
the house anymore, so we decided to just drive around
until we could calm down. I want to say probably
an hour or two later. We came back to the
house and still no one was home, and we knew
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this because there were no cars in the driveway except ours.
We grew the strength to go back inside, but we
didn't want to go into that room anymore. We decided
to go into my friend's room, which is upstairs on
the other side of the house, in order to just
relax until someone got home so we could tell them
what had happened to us. As we walked upstairs and
opened her door, the blue tooth speaker from downstairs had
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somehow gotten upstairs and was now sitting completely straight up
in the middle of her bed, which there is no
way it should have balanced like that. We ran downstairs
and called her whole family and asked if any of
them had been home or moved the speaker, and every
one of them said no, and that they weren't going
to be home until later. We both just looked at
each other and I told her, you're sleeping at my
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house tonight. Get your stuff, and we're leaving right now.
Our next story comes from James. James says, I think
it was maybe nineteen ninety six and my girlfriend and
I had decided that we wanted to go on a
ghost tour, so we called and tried to book a reservation,
but because it was so close to Halloween, all the
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tours were already booked. We knew a couple of the
hot spots around Chicago, like Resurrection Cemetery with Resurrection Mary
and the Blue Light over Maple Lake, so we headed
out to do our own tour. We got to Resurrection
Cemetery and saw Richard Crow's tour bus the one we
tried to get on, and decided to follow it. We
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were only able to go to a few places when
my girlfriend had to use a washroom, so we lost
the bus. But it was still early and I thought
we could go to a couple more cemeteries, which we did.
We snuck into a couple on Chicago's South Side and
took some pictures. Driving back toward home, we passed another
cemetery where the front gates were wide open, and I said, cool,
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let's go. As soon as we passed those gates, my
girlfriend started physically shaking, saying, get out of here, Get
out of here. I don't like it. Get out of here.
Most cemeteries have a big lot inside the gate by
the office building or whatever, but this one wasn't like that,
and I couldn't just turn around without driving over tombstones,
so I had to keep following the path. By this time,
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she had tears streaming down her face and she's yelling
at me to get out. Finally we get back through
the gate and she grabbed her head and said, I
have a headache. We went home and laid in the
bed when my kitchen light goes on by itself, and
we both sat up and looked at each other and said,
let's go watch some cartoons. I went to go turn
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that light off. It was a pul chain type light,
but it wouldn't go off. She went home and I
eventually got the light off and eventually got some sleep.
The next morning, I got up and turned on the
news like every other morning, and a report came on
that two gang members were shot to death and the
cemetery we were in at about the same time we
were in there. Our next story of the night comes
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from Ashley. Ashley's story is called family Visit. Ashley says, Hi,
I live in Texas and I grew up, specifically in
a small town in East Texas. I grew up very religious,
so my belief in the spirit world made me very
curious to other unconventional things, such as ghosts, UFOs, et cetera.
On three occasions I experienced other worldly experiences. The first time,
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I was about ten years old. I was sleeping in
my bed and I suddenly felt uneasy, like something was
watching me. I had fallen asleep with my light on,
so when I opened my eyes to see a man
who was towering over my bed, I freaked out. He
was opaque from the waist up, but waist down he
was misty. He had on grayish brown looking slacks, a white,
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short sleeved dress shirt, and a wide brimmed hat. He
was looking at me as if he was trying to
figure out who I was. I panicked and put my
head under the cover. I stayed like that for what
seemed like an eternity, and I finally picked out to
not see anything. Years later, when I was about sixteen,
my grandmother was sorting through some old photos and that's
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when I saw him again. It was the man with
the wide brimmed hat. I asked her, who is that.
She said that it was her father, my great grandfather,
whom I was named after. I was in disbelief, but
I shared with her my experience that happened just years before.
I asked her why he would be in our home
and looking at me the way he did. She stated
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that before my mom bought our house and land, that
it was a commonplace my grandfather would be. He used
to farm the whole entire area where my childhood home. Was.
Still shocked and confused, my grandmother continued to say how
he and my mom were very close and maybe he
was just paying us a visit. The second time, I
was about eleven or twelve, and it was about Christmas time.
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I remember sleeping and feeling a strong urge to go outside.
I got up and went to our front door and
opened it. With the screen door still closed, I saw
a red light through the trees in the front yard.
I was curious but tired, so I laid down on
my back and watched the light seemingly bounce around. Suddenly
it stopped. It started shining like a spotlight that was
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looking for something, and soon it shone through the glass door.
Getting an overwhelming feeling of fear, I stood up to
close the main door, but upon standing, I froze. Next thing,
I know, it's the next morning and I am back
in my bed. Now I know what you're thinking. I
had to be dreaming right well. As I woke up,
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like clockwork, I heard my mom open my bedroom door
and ask why the front door was open and if
I was okay. I sat up quickly, and all I
can remember is last night when I was panicking to
close the front door. I told her what had happened,
and she fussed at me for even opening the door
in the middle of the night and refused to believe
me about the light. But still, all these years later,
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I know what I saw, not necessarily the source of it.
But what I can't figure out is what happened after
I got up to close the door and waking up
the next morning. Lastly, fast forward about three years, I
had gotten two of my wisdom teeth removed and had
taken pain medicine early that morning, I laid on the
couch when I got home and allowed the medicine to
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work its magic. When I woke up that evening, I
laid there on the couch with my eyes closed, listening
to the TV. Suddenly I felt heavy breathing right over
my face. Before I could open up my eyes good,
I got up and ran full speed to my mother's room.
I never saw what would have been there, but it
wasn't a person because the amount of air couldn't have
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come out of one individual. Also, only my mother and
I lived there, and she was in her bed napping
as well, so that definitely made the options scarce. To
this day, I don't know what the last two things were,
but I can say they definitely scared me and I
learned how real other worldly things are. Sorry for the length,
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I appreciate you reading this. Keep up the great work.
Thanks Ashley. As we come to the end of yet
another episode, i'd like to say thank you to all
of you for listening and supporting the podcast until next time.
I hope that all of you have a safe and
healthy week, and i'd like to say thank you to
Carmen Myra, Michael, Chris, Holly, Sloane, James, and Ashley for
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writing in and sharing their experiences with all of us.
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