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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Welcome to Midweek Mysteries, and thank you all for being here.
I am your host, Nick Ryan. Today's first midwek mystery
comes to us from Candace. Candace's story is called Dream Invader.
Candace says, hello, Nick, I was recommended to listen to
your podcast from my friend Amanda, as we share a

(00:37):
love for paranormal mysteries. I have many experiences, but the
one I'm about to tell you freaks me out the most.
I had just married my high school sweetheart John when
he joined the military, and shortly after he was deployed.
We lived on base at Fort Hood and he thankfully
adopted a dog from a shelter for me as I

(01:00):
do not like being alone, and our blue heeler Tod,
who he adopted was a blessing. When I was alone
one night, as I was crocheting a blanket in the
living room late at night, I saw an eight foot
tall white shadow person. I have never seen a white
shadow person and could not find out anything about them.
I got the feeling that it was a man and

(01:21):
his name was Edgar. I think it was about two
a m. And he walked very slowly from the hallway
across the living room and around the couch where I
was sitting. He looked at me and then vanished. Our dog, Tod,
was outside at the time, so I turned off the
TV and went to go get him, and then went
to bed as I was very freaked out. Later that night,

(01:44):
I was in a deep sleep, and I remember each
of the three dreams that I had that week, but
this night was the first day that it started. I
dreamt I was in our bedroom, but my dog, who
slept with me every night, was not there, and the
room was dark, but I see the room clearly. I
saw the closet door open in my dream, and something

(02:05):
dark and demonic came out. I do not know how
I knew it was dark, but I just did. I
immediately started praying, in the name of Jesus Christ, you
must leave, over and over again. I then started to
be strangled in my sleep. I then woke up, and
after a few minutes I felt better and could move.

(02:25):
The next night, I had the same dream, but in
this dream, I got up and shut the closet door.
I was also stabbed in my side in this dream,
but when I woke up, I was okay and I
could move. The third night, I had the same dream,
but after I shut the door, I ran out of
the home and I looked back and saw the shadow
person with red eyes in the window. I woke up

(02:48):
and couldn't breathe. My dog was standing on the end
of our bed staring at the closet. I was too
scared to get up and turn the light on, so
I turned the flashlight on my phone on and looked
to where my dog was staring. He then started growling
and then went ballistic. So I went to the living
room to sleep with our dog. I saged our home

(03:08):
the next day, insulted our closet. We moved two years later.
I have many more experiences that are just as freaky,
and if you'd like to hear more, just let me know.
This story still freaks me out and brings tears to
my eyes. Thank you for reading, and keep up the
fantastic work. Our next listener story comes to us from Michelle.

(03:34):
Michelle's story is called Ghost in the Apartment. Michelle says,
I really love your podcast, even if I can't listen
to it in my home because of my little sister.
The women in my family are very sensitive to spiritual things,
some more than others. As my sister is more sensitive
than I am. I have more stories, but today I

(03:55):
will be talking about my little sister r. Back when
I was about twelve or thirteen and my sister was
around five or six, we lived in a small city
in the Netherlands in a twelve floor building with small apartments.
Most of the people living there were older people, and
our town was known for its strange population, as there
were a lot of elderly and student residence. It was

(04:17):
not strange to hear almost every week an ambulance ride by,
so it wouldn't surprise me if there were ghosts in
our building. Even in our own apartment. My mother, sister
and I agreed that there was something heavy in the
living room. It was not aggressive, but you could feel
that the ambiance there was different. Even if we put
plants in there, they would die. One day, my grandparents

(04:41):
stayed in my in my sister's room, so we needed
to sleep in the living room for a week. The
first day sleeping there, I could feel something watching me,
but even if I looked around, I couldn't find anything.
Then the next day we were sleeping until I woke
up from the loud crying of my sister, who was
sleeping right next to me. She called for my dad

(05:02):
and he came a couple of seconds after. She explained
that she had seen a black shadow of a man
looking straight down at us. He tried to talk to her,
but he didn't have a voice. He was too near
by to be a shadow from outside, and even if
it was, we lived on the twelfth floor. We then
moved to our parents room. Even though it was three

(05:24):
years ago, my sister still has problems sleeping alone and
she has constant nightmares. That's why we try to avoid
telling scary stories around her. Thank you for reading this.
Our next story of the night comes from Wanjan's story
is called Haunted House. Wan says, I've always had paranormal

(05:48):
experiences as a kid. At one point, I almost thought
it was normal. It wasn't until I got out of
that house that I realized that the house we lived
in was very strange and haunted. One particular story that
I want to share with you and the listeners was
in high school. It was March and it was Monday.
At six a m. My alarm went off, and like

(06:09):
a lot of people, I hit snooze. When I was
little and I didn't want to get out of bed.
My mom used to pull my socks and leave them
half way on, and it would irritate me, so I
would sit up and fix them. After I hit the
snooze button, I tried to squeeze in a few more
minutes of sleep, but all of a sudden, I felt
something hit my feet, and it reminded me of what

(06:29):
my mom used to do to get me to wake up,
so I thought it was my mom. After a few minutes, though,
I remembered that my door was locked and I was
the only one in my room, so I ignored it.
I laid there on my stomach and I felt as
if the bed vibrated. I turned on my right side
and heard my computer chair roll just a little. And

(06:50):
we had a wood tile floor, so trust me, I
heard it, and I was also a light sleeper, but
again I just ignored it. Then I felt a spot
in my bed sink in as if someone sat on
the bed. I quickly rolled on my back, which was
a bad idea. I felt something pushed me into the
bed and heard the springs in my mattress compress. I

(07:11):
got scared, and with all my strength I pushed up
as if I were bench pressing, which pulled the covers
off of my face, revealing a black shadow over me.
It then quickly vanished. I got dressed super fast, and
I was the first person at the bus stop that morning.
I told my mom, but she brushed it off and
we told nobody. I slept in the spare bedroom for

(07:33):
a month until my sister came to stay with us.
I didn't say anything to her and just acted as normal.
One day, I got home from school and my mom
was waiting outside for me. The bus dropped me off
about two houses down, so she could see me from
the porch. As I got off the bus, she asked me,
why did you skip school today? I told her I didn't.

(07:54):
You just saw me get off the bus. She said yes,
But then she told me that in the morning, my
my sister was going to work. That she got in
her car but forgot something in the house, so she
went back inside. When she went into the house and
turned the corner into the hallway, she saw me or
something go into my room and close the door. This
really tripped me out. My parents worked from two pm

(08:18):
to ten pm, and sometimes until midnight, so I was
alone ninety five percent of the time. I had a
few friends that came over and they would tell me
that they would see shadows move, but didn't want to
say anything to me. It was normal for my computer
chair to roll around at night and pencils to roll
off of my desk and smack the wooden tile floor
at night. I had a friend who was a heavy

(08:39):
skeptic in the paranormal, but visiting my house made him
a believer. If you're interested in hearing that story, do
let me know. Thank you respectfully, yours one. Before I continue,
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(09:01):
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best support of all, and I'm grateful to have you here. Now.

(09:24):
Please stay tuned and I'll be right back. After these
brief messages, our next story comes to us from Shane.
Shane's story is called Reality Shift or Ghost. Shane says, Hey, Nick,
love your show. It's by far my favorite of all

(09:44):
the podcasts I listen to. This story is a bit strange,
and I'm still trying to figure out if this actually
happened or if I'm going crazy. I do believe in
the paranormal, but haven't ever experienced it myself, and to
a few days ago. First off, I live in Edmonton, Canada,
and we have a lot of jay walking here. On
this day, I was driving with my kids to pick

(10:07):
up my wife from the train station. Where I'm driving,
there is a two lane road heading one way, a
grassy median and another two lane road in the other direction.
On my left, I notice a man standing on the
median looking like he's preparing to cut across the road.
As I pass him, I look in my rear view
mirror to see if he is in fact jay walking
across the road, only to see that the man has vanished.

(10:31):
He was wearing bright clothing and was hard to miss.
He was neither on the median still, nor was he
on the other side of the street. He was just gone.
I haven't even told anyone about this yet, as I'm
still racking my brain trying to find an explanation for
what I saw. I've been very interested in time slips
and reality shifts lately, and I can hardly believe that

(10:53):
I may have experienced it firsthand. It could have also
been a spirit, but I couldn't say. I have great
interest in the para normal, but it rarely manifests for me.
Thanks for listening to my story. Keep up the great
work and keep those strange stories coming. Sincerely, Shane. Our

(11:14):
last Midweek mystery comes to us from anonymous. Anonymous story
is called Painful Numb Feeling. Anonymous says, hello, I hope
you're doing well and taking care. I shared this story
before in a different area, but never heard it come up.
I believe this information below might help other people. For

(11:35):
my story and memories, they start from when I was
very young up till now. I will cut some details
out to make this as short as possible. I want
to apologize to you and the listeners if this is
a long story, but please kindly understand that everything is important.
When I was younger, we lived in a mobile home
and we then moved into an actual home. The landlord

(11:57):
asked us to move into this other home as the
people living there had just disappeared. Here is a little
background of why they might have disappeared. I remember after
coming back from trigger treating, maybe around three a m.
With my parents and siblings, we passed this house and
I saw this strange object on top of the house.
This object looked like a sunnyside egg, but everything was

(12:20):
gray and had soft, even curves, kind of like what
people say a UFO looks like. I did see this
bright led light coming down from it towards the house.
When I saw it, I screamed with excitement to my parents,
that's a UFO. Both my mom and my dad said
no and told me to shut up and go inside
our house. I asked them the next morning, and they

(12:42):
kept saying it was just a Halloween decoration, a fancy balloon,
and I let it be. We were settling into this new,
abandoned house, so my father was making changes. One of
those changes was the burnt backyard wooden green porch. I
remember looking up and there was this perfect round circle
on the ceiling of this porch. My father was removing

(13:02):
it as there was no more use for it due
to the damages. Time went on and I also remember
seeing these skinny short beings throughout our hallways. While using
the bathroom. My mother had a rule though we couldn't
close the bathroom door, as my sister once got stuck
in the bathroom. Anyway, one of these nights, I woke
up needing to use the bathroom. I left the door

(13:25):
open and started my business. As I was looking at
my toes, I could hear something running from my parents
room towards the bathroom door. As I looked up, I
saw this skinny gray being sprint through the hallway. I
got up and didn't even flush due to the fear
of what I saw, and I peeked towards the way
that it ran. I saw these bright led lights coming

(13:46):
from the outside, and I ran to my room. I
do not remember much after that. Now that I'm older,
I connected those damages to the green wooden porch. They
were from where I saw the bright led lights from
the balloon hitting the house as well. Those short, skinny
gray beings might have been aliens. So now to present time,

(14:09):
I started hearing a lot of scary stories, which can
depend on the topic. I never understood why alien stories
made me so uncomfortable so I would skip them. Maybe
it was because of what I saw that night. I
finally decided that I could not skip them, as this
information given by others could help me, and it did.
As I heard these stories, for some reason, memories that

(14:31):
I had blocked out started to come back. Things they
said for some reason, I was starting to remember. I
then decided I couldn't be scared and I looked into this.
I decided to really think about it at night, and
for it to be the last thought of the night,
in a way helping my subconscious remember that I needed
to get this information. The one thing that I have

(14:53):
so far is the feeling of how it feels to
be under those led lights. Our body produce u is
its own electrical currents by chemical and other reactions. Some
of this electricity is used by our nerves well. The
way those things bring you up to their ship or
paralyze you is by controlling those electrical currents within you.

(15:14):
It's like if they had this strong magnetic field object
or energy that helps them control those nerve endings or
electricity within you. It is painful, though. Imagine every point
in your body location or area feeling as though you
are being pulled. This is why you become paralyzed and
you cannot move or control your own flow. Of electrical

(15:34):
current to make your muscles move or react, especially if
you are panicking, are in shock, or in fear, and
I sadly have felt this again. I was sleeping at
my boyfriend's and I then woke up to this sudden
bright light and that numb, painful feeling again. I then
remembered from hearing in a podcast that if you move

(15:55):
just one finger or concentrate on whatever area and then
move it, you act actually come out of this trance
and of their control, and it does work. Before I did, though,
I heard a voice tell me you are coming with us,
and in my mind I said no, I'm not. And
when I said not, that is when I was able
to move my pointing finger. I was scared to look

(16:17):
out of the window, but I could still see the
bright led lights outside. After they left, I woke up
my boyfriend. I don't know why I hadn't before. I
was so scared and explained everything to him. He just
hugged me and let me sleep in his arms. Many
people want to see these beings and experience this, but
it is not fun. It is horrible. I hope someone

(16:40):
who is going through this here's my story and finds
the information helpful. We need to share more so we
can get more information on how to protect ourselves. I
ask all listeners, even if you think your story is
lame or short, to please share Those things are just
here to experiment on us. As we come to the

(17:03):
end of this edition of Midweek Mysteries, I'd like to
say thank you to all of you for tuning in
and supporting the podcast, and a special thing you goes
out to Candice, Michelle, Juan Shane and Anonymous for writing
in and sharing their experience with all of us. Until
next time, thank you for listening, and please remember, don't

(17:25):
wait for the unknown to come to you, get out
there and find it s
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