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May 29, 2025 • 57 mins
"Whispers in the Dark" presents firsthand accounts of paranormal phenomena, cryptid sightings, and unexplained aerial encounters submitted by our listeners. These are not campfire stories; these are the terrifying experiences shared by ordinary people who have brushed against the extraordinary. Prepare for genuine fear, unsettling truths, and the haunting realization that the darkness holds secrets far beyond our understanding. Listener discretion is advised.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:47):
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Speaker 3 (00:51):
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Speaker 2 (00:53):
Everybody got a good show tonight.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
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Speaker 2 (01:00):
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Speaker 3 (01:07):
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saying you have to, but did that automatically? Yes, it did.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Well, that's very strange.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
This is so tonight we have some listener encounter stories
to tell.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yes, this is this is something what we always wanted
to do with Thursday show. Anyway. We just it's taking
us a while of getting enough people to actually give
us their stories, I guess, yeah. But it's thankful, we think, right, Yeah,

(01:55):
I mean we're thankful for the people who send us,
who believe us, believe in us enough that we won't
tell their names and stuff like that, like they ask
and and well just tell their stories. No judgments here.
So we've heard it all. You yeah, heard it at all.

(02:19):
There's not much we haven't heard. How's that?

Speaker 3 (02:22):
So I hope everybody's doing okay. Tonight it's raining.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, it's still in our rainy season.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
I'm gonna rain tomorrow, rain, rain, gonna rain. Maybe not Saturday, yeah,
probably will though. I'm off. Yeah, So you ready to
get started?

Speaker 2 (02:47):
I'm ready.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
So our first story comes out of the Appalachian foothills, uh,
on the North Carolina side. Now we're just gonna say
first name, yes, so, and I'm gonna read you what
she wrote. She said, Hi, guys, my name is Sarah

(03:13):
and this happened to me about five years ago when
I was visiting my grandparents. So it's pretty isolated out there.
And she was in the foothills of the Appalachians, North Carolina.
There's deep woods, no cell service, you know, the works,
and her grandparents always told them stories about critters in

(03:36):
the woods, but you know, she never really elaborated. So
one evening I was out walking my grandparents dog Buster,
and just before dusk. Now he's a big, brave golden retriever. Brave.

(03:57):
Remember that word.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Remember that word.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Brave, not easily spooked. So we were. Yeah, we were
on a narrow deer trail about a mile from the
cabin or the house, when Buster suddenly froze. Every hair
on his back stood up, and he let out this low,

(04:19):
guttural growl that I'd never heard from him before. He
was staring intensely into a thick patch of rhodundrons. Rhododendrons.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
You know. It's funny about that. A lot of people
that talk about big foot sightings, it's always in a
patch of rhododendrons or a.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Thicket. No, I thought it was rhododundrons. Road run Rodo didn't.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, so what I said, But it is what you
said that though.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
So it wasn't an animal. I recognized. It was tall,
maybe seven feet tall, incredibly slender and almost skeletal. That's weird.
It's like slender Man.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
You know. I was thinking the same thing when you
just said that.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
Yeah, and perfectly black, like a hole in the Twilight
z on. You know. Uh, it's funny.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
About that is that that's what people say about when
they see shadow people, Yeah, is that it's darker than
the dark itself.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
That's exactly what I thought about it was a shadow person. Yeah,
it didn't seem to have any features, just a dark
silhouette against the trees. It wasn't moving, standing there watching us.
It felt like it was predatory, not like a bear

(06:07):
or a coyote, but something ancient and wrong. Hey, Michelle, Hey, Michelle.
So Buster suddenly yanked free of his leash and bolted
back towards the cabin, whimpering and crying and screaming, and
I still craved. I stood there frozen for a moment

(06:30):
too long, feeling like an icy dread was crawling up
my spine. Then the shadow shifted. It wasn't a walker
to run, It was more like just it flowed or rippled,
and it went deep into the woods, and it disappeared

(06:51):
as silently as it at at as it appeared, she says,
I don't think I've ever run so fast in my life.
I didn't stop until I ran through the house door, grasping.
My grandparents were confused, but when I told them, my
grandma just got this grim look on her face and said,

(07:13):
some things are better left alone in the woods. I
wouldn't want to hear that, so it says. I never
went for another walk by myself after that, and I
still get chills thinking about that shapeless thing that And
she asked what we think it was. I think it was.

(07:35):
It seems like a shadow shadow person.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah, yes, shadow person for sure. Shadow well, I can't
say for sure, but the way that it what it did,
what it was doing. Shadow people, that's what they do.
They they just stay in the shadows. They just look
for observers. Not not much. Do they interfere or do

(07:59):
other things. If I had stories that they do, but
it's rare. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
Some stories are like when you're asleep and they're like
on your chest or something like that.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, well then you have Mike rick Secker his arms
over like this right here, so you know, thinking he
thought that maybe he thought he was dead or something. So,
but most of the time, shadow people stay in the
corner and just look, what do you do? You don't

(08:38):
see me, but I'm over here.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
So we want to thank you Sarah for that story.
That was a great story. Yeah, it really was.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
When we was reading them last night when we was
putting this show together. Those those a few of these
stories that are like pretty dang good.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
So this next one, they lived in rural eastern Oregon,
rural rural. Yep, And this happened to his wife, and
Michael is the one that wrote to us, so it says, hey, gentlemen,

(09:17):
my name is Michael. I live out in rural eastern Oregon.
This happened to my wife, Emily and me about ten
years ago, but it still haunts us. We have a
small farm, pretty isolated, and on clear nights, the stars
are just unbelievable. Now, it was a late summer night.

(09:39):
It was incredibly dark. It was about two am. We
were both asleep when our dogs, which are usually quiet
at nighttime, started absolutely losing their minds. They were barking, howling,
scratching at the back door. So I got up, figuring
maybe it's a coyote or something, and went out to

(10:00):
look out the window. That's when I saw it. It
was not a coyote, but it was hovering silently over
our back pasture. Hovering, yeah, maybe about fifty feet off
the ground was a massive triangular craft. It was perfectly black.

(10:21):
It seemed to absorb all the light, with no visible
seams or rivets. Now at each corner there was a
single dim pulsating red light. It made no sound, which
was probably one of the most unnerving parts. So I

(10:42):
shook my wife Emily awake, pointing she was just stunned.
She watched it for what felt like an eternity, maybe
ten minutes or so. Now it didn't move an inch,
just set there, dominating the sky in one of the

(11:02):
One of the red lights on a corner brightened slightly,
and a thin beam of pure white light shot down
to the ground. It hit a spot in our pasture
where our horses usually graze. Now the horses, which had
been agitated before were now completely steel, almost frozen. Then

(11:26):
I swear Emily and I both felt this strange pressure
in our heads, like a silent, intrusive thought, not a voice,
but a feeling of being observed, scrutinized in a way
that felt alien cold. It wasn't malicious, just indifferent, like

(11:49):
we were ants under a microscope. Now, suddenly the light
being retracted, the red lights dimmed, and the entire craft silent,
just slid sideways. It didn't accelerate or fly off, It
just simply moved horizontally across the sky, maintaining the same

(12:11):
altitude until it was out of sight behind some distant trees.
It was so smooth and effortless. It defied anything I
understand about physics. The dogs immediately stopped barking, fell silent,
and went back to their beds, as if nothing had happened.

(12:33):
Emily and I just stood there staring at the empty sky.
Now we've never spoken about it to anyone until now,
because who would really believe us. We get that a lot,
don't we. But we both saw it and we both
felt that cold, silent watch. That's kind of creepy. I

(12:53):
mean to see a UFO because obviously that's what it was.
Right to see a UFO in your back pasture, see
it illuminate onto the ground, and then the feels like
something was intruding into your bind when that started happening.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
Uh to me, I'd like to ask, do you have
missing time? M hmm, yeah, that would be could you
could you have been abducted? Maybe?

Speaker 3 (13:33):
Maybe? Maybe?

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Now this next one is pretty goodn.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
Uh. This is from David, Yes, but not me.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Soon.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
It says, greeting Jason and David. My name is David
and this story comes from my childhood. Back in the
early nineties. My family used to rent a cabin on
a private lake in northern Minnesota. It wasn't a big
mini it wasn't a big tourist lake, just a quiet

(14:15):
lake surrounded by forest. And one summer night when I
was about twelve, my older brother Mark and I decided
to go fishing off the dock, you know, after dark
they had We had flashlights, and the air was still humid,
and the only sounds I could hear were the crickets

(14:37):
and the occasional you know, splash of splash of a fish.
So he says, we'd been out there for about an hour,
not catching much when we started hearing this strange sound
coming from across the lake. It was like a rhythmic slapping,
like something large hitting the water, but it was too

(14:59):
heavy for maybe a beaver and too slow for a fish.
It sounded deliberate, like something was moving through the water
slapping it purposefully. Then the sound got closer and we
started to hear a low, wet, gurgling noise. Claw we

(15:24):
flicked off our flashlights just listened, and the slapping and
gurgling got louder, and then we heard a distinct thump
on the shore just right across from the dock. A
moment later, something moved into the trees across the lake,

(15:44):
and we couldn't see it clearly, but it was massive
and it was moving on two legs. It wasn't walking
like a human, It was more like it was more
of a lumber, you know, and over with a heavy gait.
And we could hear branches snapping as it moved through

(16:06):
the underbrush. So what happened next gives me nightmares. There
was a high pitched, wet shriek echoed across the lake.
Didn't sound like any animal, or like a coyodie or
a bear. It sounded like something in pain and it

(16:29):
was It sent a jolt of pure terror through me
and my brother. So the sound was so full of agony,
it felt like it was tearing, you know, through the
darkness of the night. Now my brother was usually fearless.

(16:51):
He grabbed my arm and whispered, we're going inside now.
So we scrambled off the dock and even pick up
our fishing rods and ran back to the cabin. We
slammed the door shut it locked it and stood there
and just listened. So the horrible shriek didn't repeat, but

(17:14):
for the rest of the night we heard a faint,
persistent scratching sound on the wall of the cabin. It's
playing with them, So it was like like something was
trying to find a way in. My parents woke up.
They heard it too, and my dad went out with

(17:35):
a flashlight and he didn't find anything. So we left
the next morning. We cut our vacation short. And my
dad always said it was a bear, but I've heard
bear noises and it didn't sound like a bear. Whatever
is in that lake, And then when it came up

(17:56):
on the shore, it felt like it was you know,
he says, it felt deeply disturbed. I've never gone back
to that lake.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Well, it sounds like his parents never went back to
that lake either, because he was twelve at that time.
So he's like, that's it. I'm done. Yeah, that's funny.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
Yeah, I think it might have been a big foot.
I think so minnesolda bigfoot?

Speaker 2 (18:36):
Many sold a big foot?

Speaker 3 (18:37):
Bigfoot from any sortie?

Speaker 2 (18:39):
Hey, many sworder.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
So hello everybody. We got a couple of people watching. Michelle.
I knows one she's watching on Facebook. I my wife's watching.
Maybe she hadn't chimed in yet, so maybe maybe she is.

(19:06):
Maybe she ain't never know.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
So this next one is in West Tennessee, Oh, Western Tennessee. Yeah,
bring it home. So this one, this one, everybody, it's
a little spooky.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
Yeah, I read this one too, and it's kind of
kind of scary.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
A little spooky. So turn off the lights.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
The party's over.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
And really settled into this one because this one is
pretty spooky. So she says, hello, she says, my name
is Clara. Uh huh, she's watching on her computer.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
Hi, Christina, thank you for watching.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Thanks everybody for watching. Says my name is Clara. This
happened to my family when we moved to an old
Victorian house in West Tennessee about five years ago. Now,
the house was beautiful, built in the late eighteen hundreds,
with a lot of character. We knew it was old,

(20:16):
but we didn't know it was angry.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
Most old houses like that are could.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
Being Sometimes they're angry at the new owners because they're
not taking care of them.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
So, she says that things started pretty subtly. Doors would
open and close on their own. They'd hear footsteps creaking
on the stairs when no one was there. She says
her youngest son, Limb, who was six at the time,
would often talk about the lady in the long dress
who watched him from the hallway. Now, we dismissed it

(20:53):
as an active imagination.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
What a lot of people do.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Then things started to escalate. Objects would be thrown. One night,
a heavy ceramic vase flew off the mantelpiece and shattered
against the wall, missing my husband's head by inches. We'd
find strange, often disturbing messages written in condensation on bathroom
mirrors or foggy windows, things like leave or get out,

(21:23):
get out.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
Actually written on the mirror.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yeah, like when you take a hot shower, you know, yeah,
written on the mirror.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
That would be pretty weird. Yeah, that's horror fly.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
The worst was what happened to my daughter Emily. She
was fourteen and had her room on the third floor.
One evening, I heard her scream bloody murder, so I
ran up the stairs to find her huddled in the
corner of her room, sobbing. Her face was pale. She
was pointing to her bed. Her comforter, which had been

(22:01):
neatly made, was torn to shreds, and underneath it, pressed
into the mattress, was a deep scorched indentation shaped like
a large clawed hand. Yeah, she says, it smelled faintly
of ozone. Ozone smell like, oh, yeah, it's a distinct smell.
You could buy those leggs. No, it's a it's not

(22:25):
a bad smell. After that, the temperature in the house
dropped dramatically. Even in summer. We'd walk into the rooms
that felt like a freezer. Our breath would fog. We
constantly felt watched, and not in a benevolent way. It

(22:45):
felt like an oppressive, hateful presence.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
It's ub Jeff, it's up, Jeff, Hey doing brother.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
We constantly felt watched, and not in a benevolent way.
It felt like an oppressive, hateful presence. My husband, a
total skeptic, finally admitted he was terrified when he woke
up one night to find something breathing heavily just inches
from his face, an icy breath that smelt like decay.
He swore he saw two pinpricks of red light in

(23:16):
the darkness before it vanished. We moved out within weeks,
lost money on the house, she says, but frankly, our
sanity and safety were worth a lot more. We later
found out from a local historian that a woman had
been brutally murdered in that house in the nineteen twenties
by her jealous husband, and her body was never found.

(23:39):
She says, we believe she never left and she didn't
want us there either. We often wonder if anyone lives
in that house now and what they might be experiencing.
What do you think about that.

Speaker 3 (23:51):
That's a good haunting house story.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
I would like to go there. And that's yeah, do
an investigation, Tason.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
So the lady, Yeah, he died there in the twenties
or got murdered there by her jealous husband, and.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
They never found the body may be in a wall.

Speaker 3 (24:11):
Her body was never found. Yeah, maybe maybe in a wall.
Mm hmmm.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Where do you think I think we should all go
and do a ghost unt there?

Speaker 3 (24:20):
Yeah, it's just western Tennis, West Tennessee probably what it's them?

Speaker 2 (24:26):
We're how far west.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
But it's got to be it's Memphis.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Is five and a half hours away to Memphis.

Speaker 3 (24:33):
Yeah. So so this next story is from Ethan, and
this is a good story too. It's a I think
it it's you know, a good bigfoot story because it
does a lot of things a bigfoot has been known
to do. So it says, hey, guys, I'm Ethan, and

(24:59):
this hap to me and my buddies during a backpacking
trip in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near the
Tennessee North Carolina border. Now that is close.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah, we're not far from there.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
About three years ago. We're experienced hikers, always stick to
the trails and we respect nature. So we were camped
pretty deep in miles from many roads. It was a clear,
moonlit night, and we were sitting around, you know, a

(25:37):
sadly dimming fire, and it says we were just talking
and suddenly we heard it. It sounded like a woman screaming,
a high pitched and full of terror, coming from you know,
the woods. So our first thought was someone's in trouble.
But then the screen changed. It morphed into the sound

(25:59):
of a baby crying. Uh, then a child laughing at
this may not be the story I was thinking about, right,
may not be a sasquatch. I was thinking of another
story that we're going to be doing. So then a
child laughing, then a dog whimpering. It wasn't distinct individual sounds.

(26:26):
It was like they were blending and shifting one into
the other, mimicking sounds you know that they we would
all recognize, but with an underlying unnatural quality. So we
huddled closer. One of my friends, Mark whispered, what the

(26:47):
hell is that? The sound kept coming and circling our camp.
Always it was out of sight in the forest. It
would mimic our voices, sometimes to repeating snippets of our
conversations back to us, but a little distorted, like a

(27:10):
warp tape recording.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
It's spare finger. I was thinking of something else. What
comes from outer space and it hunts men, predator, predator,
that's what he does.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
It back, Yeah, he says. It felt like something was
playing with us, trying to lure us out into the woods.
So then we heard a sound that chilled us to
the bone. It was a sound of my girlfriend's voice.
My girlfriend now is one hundred miles away, calling my name.

(27:49):
It was perfectly clear, perfectly her, but with you know,
that same inhuman resonance. So we immediately threw more wood
on the fire, trying to make it bigger, and the
sounds continued for another hour or so, never coming too close,
never revealing itself, just constantly mimicking and surrounding us. So

(28:14):
we all felt this overwhelming sense of dread, like something
you know was observing us and testing us. It's come
out into the so guess what we did. We packed
up at first light, breaking camp faster than I've ever seen.
We hiked out in silence, checking over our shoulders constantly.
We've talked about it since, but none of us have

(28:37):
an explanation. We don't think it was an animal. It
wasn't human. It felt like something specifically wanted to mess
with our minds. And to this day, I can't hear
a sound in the woods without wondering if it's truly
what it is. They had left a mark on him,

(28:59):
didn't it.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, that's crazy, though, That's just absolutely nuts. Mhm. I
could even begin to think of what that would be,
because parts of it, I could say, would possibly be Bigfoot,
because sometimes they do. They do mimic birds and some
of the other animals that they that you know, they're

(29:21):
thought of to mimic. I won't say it like it's known,
but what they're they think that they mimic. But at
the same time, uh, I don't.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
Know spear fingers. When I was thinking spear.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
Finger you've got.

Speaker 3 (29:41):
Shape shifting skin walker.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
You've got some pretty mean things that are up in
those mountains at the Cherokee talked about for a long time.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
Yeah, so.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Yeah, that's crazy. So this next one comes from a
listener about a small rural town in Kentucky.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
Now, well, when you get done, I'll say something. Oh
I'll wait, you get done. I don't want to mess
it up for you, for them, for them, for the listener,
for the lessen as, for all two of them.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
That's all right. M hmm. So he writes in, My
name is Kevin, And this happened to me about fifteen
years ago when I was a teenager. I grew up
on a farm outside of a small rural town in Kentucky. Now,
our land was mostly fields and woods, and we were
miles from any major light pollution. So one summer night

(30:47):
I snuck out of the house around midnight to go
meet some friends. So I was walking across one of
our large hayfields. The stars were absolutely brilliant above me.
I remember looking up and thinking how clear the milky
Way was. Then a light appeared in the sky. It

(31:07):
wasn't a plane and it wasn't a star. It was
a dull orange glow, maybe about half a mile away.
It hovered silently over the far end of our field.
Right above the tree line. Now it was perfectly still,
there was no blinking, no sound now as I watched,

(31:33):
and the light began to descend slowly and steadily until
it was just above the tops of the trees. Then
it started to change. The orange glow intensified in the shape,
which I hadn't been able to discern before, became clear.
It was a massive, perfectly round disk, maybe one hundred

(31:55):
feet across, completely silent and surrounded in this soft, pulsating
orange light. Then a single, incredibly bright white beam shot
down from the center of this disk, illuminating a perfect

(32:16):
circle on the ground in the field. It was so
intense it looked like daylight in that spot. And then
something started to happen in that light beam. Now it's
hard to describe, but what it looked like was kind
of a distortion, like the air itself was rippling and stretching.

(32:39):
And then something started to form within the beam right
there on the ground. It kind of looked like shapes,
tall and slender, but they were blurry, indistinct, like looking
through heat haze. There were maybe three or four of them.

(33:02):
Now I was absolutely frozen, terrified, hiding behind a large
haybell I couldn't move, couldn't breathe. The figure seemed to
be doing something moving around in the light, but I
couldn't make out any details. They were just there, and
the silence was absolute, despite this massive object hovering above. Now,

(33:30):
after about five minutes, the shape slowly dissipated, melting back
into the distortion. Then the bright white beam retracted back
into the disk. The orange glow of the disk itself
began to dim very slowly until it was just a
faint flicker, then just simply vanished. Didn't fly away, It

(33:52):
didn't zoom off one second, it was there the next.
It wasn't like someone had turned off a light switch.
I ran home, burst through the door, and didn't tell
my parents until years later. They just laughed and said
it was a drone or a plane. But I know
what I saw, and I know the absolute silence, the

(34:15):
perfectly round light, and those strange shifting figures in the
beam were not from this world. I've never looked at
the night sky the same again.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
So is that a close Encounters of the third time? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Yeah, hey woo writers, how you doing?

Speaker 3 (34:37):
Hello? God bless you too. So if you're just joining us,
we're doing some listener encounters.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
Listener encounters, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
Some emails that we've collected, and.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
If you look at the bottom of the page there,
it'll tell you if you have any listener if you
have any stories you want to tell or send to us,
we could do it at that email address info at
paranormafore one one dot org. Yeah, that was definitely a
crazy one.

Speaker 3 (35:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
I didn't read that one last night when I was
reading through all the other ones, I think I skimmed
through it, but I don't think I've really read it,
you know.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
Yeah, so this happened. This next one happened on Fort
loudon Lake.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
Whoo, that might be a little close.

Speaker 3 (35:39):
Yeah, it says my family Jessica, And she says, my
family has a house near the lake, and I've spent
a lot of summers there. I know that lake like
the back of my hand. So last July, I decided
to go for a late night paddle board paddle boarding's inn,
ain't it m Uh? It was beautiful, calm nut the

(36:03):
moon was out and the water, you know, it was
perfect like glass. I paddled out to a quiet cove that's,
you know, pretty secluded, and it's always given me a
bit of an eerie vibe, but I usually just brush
it off. So I was just floating, enjoying the quiet

(36:24):
when I started to hear it. At first, it was faint,
like a distant breeze rustling through the leaves, but there
was no breeze. Then it got closer and it sounded
like whispers, but there wasn't any words I could understand,
just a low murmur, as if it was a dozen voices.

(36:46):
We're talking just out of earshot. It seemed to be
coming from the direction of the lake bank, so I
felt as sudden chill despite the warm air, the warm
night air, and the whispers got louder, and I swear

(37:06):
I could almost make out individual words, though they were
garbled and indistinct. It felt like they were talking about me.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
That would be weird.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
So then the water around my paddle board started rippling.
It wasn't a fish, it was it says. It wasn't
a fish. It was an unsettling disturbance, and I felt
a cold touch to my ankle. Wow, I've been a snake,

(37:43):
she said, like a hand briefly brushing against brushing against
my ankle under the water. So I yelled and nearly
fell off the board. I scrambled to my feet on
the board. My heart was pounding, and these whispers, you know,
kept intensifying. And then I saw a dark shape just

(38:06):
beneath the surface. Dude, saw a dark shape just beneath
the surface, moving towards me. It was long and shadowy,
almost like the current, but it moved with a purpose.

(38:28):
So I didn't wait around. I paddled back to shore
faster than I've ever paddled in my life. Never looked back.
And when I got to the house, I was shaking.
And my grandmother said that a lot of people say
the water takes things and keeps them talking.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
That's weird.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
Yeah, that is weird. I don't know what it was.
But I've never gone paddleboarding alone in that lake at
night again, so that's crazy. So that happened on Fort
loudon Lake.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
Christina says we should go there.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
There's a graveyard on that lake. Yeah, my father is
buried in the graveyard. So it's a.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
Rainy evening in northeast Florida. It's been really rainy here
here lately too. Oh yeah, hey, Schelle, you're.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
On Rumble Rumble, Get ready to rumble? Let's see how
many more we got.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
I think we've only got like two more, the one
I'm about to read, the one more for you. Yeah, man,
I think this might be a short show tonight.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
Maybe this is the one I thought was Bigfoot.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
Now I don't know, because.

Speaker 3 (39:54):
This happened in Loudon too or right outside of Louden, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
Highway seventy. The problem is is that it making a
howking noise and it keeping up with a car. Yeah, well,
maybe too fast in the woods. I don't know what
would do that. That's kind of a weird. It's kind

(40:21):
of a weird thing, says Hi. My name is Ben.
This happened to me about two years ago while I
was driving home late one night on a stretch of
Highway seventy, just outside of loud And heading towards Knoxville.
It was past midnight. There are no other cars on
the road, just me and the dark. I was driving

(40:44):
past a particularly wooded area and I have my windows
down because it was a mild night. Suddenly I heard
a sound from the woods to my right. Now. It
sounded exactly like my car horn, which was a quick,
sharp honk, which is weird. It's just it's just weird

(41:05):
to me. I frowned, thinking maybe a tree had fallen
on a power line or something, or it would be
some weird echo or something. But then it did it again,
Hong Kong, perfectly mimicking my horn, Hong Kong. Hold on,

(41:25):
I'm sure it's gonna be on here again. But coming
from the deep in the forest, moving parallel to my car.
So I sped up a bit, feeling kind of a
strange unease. Now this was no echo. It was too precise.
Then the sounds started to change. It would mimic other

(41:49):
car noises, a screech of tires, the grinding of gears,
always following me through the trees. It was trying to
keep up in its car and kept grinding gears.

Speaker 3 (42:02):
Yeah, it's kind of weird.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
It's weird. See, it was like something was learning or
playing with the sounds of my vehicle. Then it did
something that made my blood run cold. Now I have
a custom exhaust on my truck and it makes very

(42:24):
distinctive low rumble when I accelerate. As I tried to
outrun whatever it was, I heard that exact rumble just
a few yards into the woods, keeping pace with me.
It was too accurate to be a coincidence, so I
decided to slam on the gas, going way too fast

(42:45):
for that road. The mimicking stopped abruptly. For a few seconds,
there was absolute silence, then a horrifying, guttural shriek tour
through the night. It sounded like a human scream, but
it was distorted. It was filled with a rage that

(43:06):
made every hair on my body stand on end. It
was a sound of something furious that I had gotten away,
so it didn't want him to get away. The wife
and I watched a movie not too long ago, anyway,
it says I didn't look back until I was practically
in Knoxville. Didn't know what was in those woods that night.

(43:28):
But it wasn't an animal I'd ever heard of. It
was intelligent. It was a mimic, and it wanted something.
I still get nervous driving that stretch of road after dark,
and I always keep my windows up. Michelle and I
watched a movie. I forgot the name of it, but

(43:49):
that's where these people get stuck in the woods, in
the shelter, and they can only go out in the daytime.
They cannot come out, go out at night, come to
find out the woods were full of the faye, but
they were wanting them in there so they could mimic them,
so they could try to become human. And and but

(44:13):
if you try to leave, they'd kill you if you
was out at night time. And so maybe it's a fae.

Speaker 3 (44:23):
Maybe now, back in my Project Blue Book days, I
would you know, I investigated stuff like that. Yeah, and
I wouldn't give a perfectly scientific explanation.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
Yeah, what would you say?

Speaker 3 (44:35):
The echo of the car against maybe the trees and
the hill. You know, when you like, when you go
across a bridge, you can hear it, you can hear
your car. I don't know, I'm just being funny.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
I agree. It may be.

Speaker 3 (44:53):
Maybe, but it may be something else.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
Yeah, Uh, what.

Speaker 3 (45:04):
Do you think about that? When you like? I liked it.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
Oh, I liked it. I think it was a good story.

Speaker 3 (45:08):
I've just never heard of anything keeping up with a
car like you said, keeping up.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
With car even when he accelerated, and making car noises
like I'm sorry, but that's weird and it sounds like
a three year old you know. I don't know that
part's weird for me, but uh, the guttural growl and howl.
I mean, I see why you said that you thought

(45:36):
maybe it was a because that part of it definitely
seems more like it could be a bigfoot.

Speaker 3 (45:48):
For sure. So we have one more for you guys.
So this comes from Daniel. So my name is Daniel,
and this happened to me when I was stationed at
Fort Campbell, Kentucky, back in two thousand and eight. But

(46:10):
the incident actually occurred in Tennessee, where I was visiting
my family on leave. My cousins, or my cousin Sarah
and I had decided to go camping on some private
land owned by her uncle. And we set up our
tent in a clearing and it was a clear, calm night,

(46:32):
and we had a small campfire going, and around one
am we were just about to head into the tent
when the entire clearing suddenly lit up. It wasn't a
sudden flash, it was gradual, a white light like a
stadium floodlight, but it was coming from directly above us.

(46:55):
We looked up and hovering above us, maybe one hundred
feet in the tree, was a massive, perfectly black object.
It was a V shaped almost like a boomerang.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
That would be crazy.

Speaker 3 (47:13):
Easily the size of a football field.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
That would really be crazy, something that big.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
At one hundred feet. Yeah, yeah, I'd be.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
Like, oh no, it had to really be thinking, you know, yeah,
we're about to get abducted. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:32):
So it had no visible lights, no scenes, no discernible
features except for the pure white light coming from its underside,
so we couldn't hear no crickets, no wind, no nothing.
It was just quietness and the light. They said they

(47:55):
could feel the light. You know, I could physically feel it.

Speaker 2 (47:59):
Shell say that was the name of the movie, The Watchers.

Speaker 3 (48:02):
The Watchers.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
It was pretty good.

Speaker 3 (48:06):
So we were both just standing there staring up. Then
the object started to descend, very slowly, still silent, right
into the clearing. We could feel the ground faintly vibrating
under our feet, as if it was getting As it
got closer. The light was so bright it was almost

(48:28):
painful to look at, but we couldn't tear our eyes
away from it. It was going They thought it was
going to land right on top of the tent. Wow.
But just as it seemed it would touch down, maybe
twenty feet above the ground, the light flickered and went away,

(48:49):
and the V shaped object was instantly gone.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
That's weird.

Speaker 3 (48:54):
One moment it was there and the next absolutely it
was absolute darkly us and the crickets came back as
if nothing ever happened.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
I bet you that white light that they couldn't heart
tear their eyes away from there was on the slab
getting messed with.

Speaker 3 (49:14):
I bet they had some missing time, missing time, and
they're gonna need some regressive regressive therapy.

Speaker 2 (49:21):
Yes, Jason, you'll be able to do that at some point,
won't you.

Speaker 3 (49:26):
I think maybe hypnotists. Oh yeah, So we grabbed our
gear through it end of the car and drove back
to her uncle's house. We left the tent there, and
we thought that no one would ever believe us, so
we kept quiet, especially me being in the military at

(49:49):
the time. So there you go.

Speaker 2 (49:56):
That's crazy. I don't know. I don't know what I
would do for something that close like that. That would be,
like you said, they'd be crazy. I'd be like, holy.

Speaker 3 (50:11):
Smokes, Yeah, I wish I could have an experience like that. Yeah, yeah, Oh,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
Have you heard of dog Man Bigfoot?

Speaker 3 (50:27):
You don't want to do? Aliens?

Speaker 2 (50:28):
Aliens? I don't know, man, they Hey, Mike, Hey done, buddy.
Aliens they seem to be able to like and just
pull you in and do all kinds of crazy stuff
to you. You know, Bigfoot's either gonna kill you or
just throw things at you. Dog Man's gonna do the
same thing. At least you know what you get. Yeah,

(50:52):
I don't know. I think I would rather deal with
about anything else other than aliens.

Speaker 3 (50:58):
Reptilians.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
Yeah, that eat you too. They're the mean ones. Liver
with five beans.

Speaker 3 (51:07):
So you can see at the bottom of the screen
it says like sharing subscribe to the YouTube channel.

Speaker 2 (51:13):
Please, we've got Now this Saturday we'll be doing a show.
But next Saturday we have a guest, Yes, Micah Dank
will be on and who will be talking to us
about the Bible and esoteric stuff. Right, yeah, there's esoteric

(51:35):
stuff on the Bible and stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (51:37):
He says he's got a whole presentation. Was it eighty minutes? Yeah,
so we get to see that.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
It'll be good.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
Think it'll be fun.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
Yep, it's gonna be fun. Then we've got who the
week after do you remember.

Speaker 3 (51:57):
Let's see, don't remember.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
Hold one second, I'll help you with that because I'll
just pull up the calendar. So we've got Michael Dank.
Then we've got Elena on the fourteenth, Elena Ellen and
Lena Ellen whatever. Yeah, then Paranormal Paul on the twenty first.

(52:30):
We don't have anything on the twenty eighth yet. Then
the fifth we're gonna be on Paranormal Paul's show, and
then the twelfth we're gonna have Artemis on Artemis. Then
the nineteenth Greg Ogle that one is going to be

(52:53):
a great one too. Yeah, I really look forward to
that one. Then the twenty sixth we will not have
a show because the twenty sixth we'll be at the
big Foot Conference. It's definitely coming to check us out.
If you're going to be at the Smoky Mountain Bigfoot
Conference this year.

Speaker 3 (53:08):
It's in Gallenburg.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
Yes, on the twenty sixth of July. Then on the
second of August, we've got Harley Owens. Another great one.

Speaker 3 (53:20):
Yeah, we need to get you all back on.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
Hey, anytime you guys want to come back on y'all
let us know and and we'll we'll schedule it for one. Sure,
we'll schedule it. The ninth of August. We've got Chris
and Chrissy. Chris and Chrissy done them Yeah, the twenty third,

(53:47):
we've got Fisher of Spam coming.

Speaker 3 (53:49):
On, James Powell.

Speaker 2 (53:52):
Then on the thirtieth we got John Russell, John Russell,
world renowned psychic and he's got a new book out,
so yes, that'll be great. And then the next one
after that will be the thirteenth of September, we have
Lori Wade coming on Ory Copeland.

Speaker 3 (54:12):
Wade, I want to talk to us about something.

Speaker 2 (54:17):
Then the eleventh of October we've got the Knoxville Library
we're gonna be doing another talk.

Speaker 3 (54:23):
Oh yeah, so.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
Definitely don't miss any of that. And we're gonna let
everybody know every week when we talk to you about
all these things coming up. But you could always check
them out on our Facebook page, right Jason.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
Yes, so they're always up there on the Facebook page.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
Yeah, not all of us. All of it is though,
because like our stuff that we're not doing all the shows. Yeah,
all the shows are, but stuff like the Big Book
conference and things like that are not. Let me put
those on them on the website. Maybe stay tuned. But hey, Mike, definitely, uh,

(55:08):
y'all get ahold of us, and and we'll definitely do
another show. Oh right, everybody have a good night. We
will see you on Saturday for another great show. And
remember you can find us at Paranormal four one one

(55:29):
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and Rumble. Tune in live every Thursday from seven to
eight pm Eastern Time and Saturdays from eight to ten
pm Eastern Time. Remember Saturday night at ten pm to
eleven pm. If you're in the metro Atlanta area, you can
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(55:50):
one FM. Now for listeners outside of Atlanta, you can
visit us at wdjy fm dot com. You click the
link on our website. We're also on Subspace radio on
all major podcast platforms. We have a book out, East
Tennessee Hauntings and Lore Edition two. That's East Tennessee Hauntings
and Laura Edition two. It is available on Amazon or

(56:13):
a parnelmifull world one dot org.

Speaker 3 (56:17):
Join us, Join us, We'll see you guys Saturday.

Speaker 2 (56:22):
Yes, be safe.

Speaker 3 (56:30):
Have you ever wondered what lurks in the shadows, what
secrets the night hides, what strange phenomena might be happening
just beyond your perception? Join us as we journey into
the world of the paranormal, exploring everything from ghosts and
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