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Hey weirdos. I'm Ash. And I'm Elena. And this is [Music] Morbid. See, and this is why I wouldn't
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do that. I'm sick and I committed. But also, like I said, I don't know if it'll it's already on camera, but I think I'm
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scarier than any voice I could conjure. She is. So, well, welcome to episode 666.
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Yay. In case you couldn't tell, we're the devil. Yeah, it's the satanic episode.
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Yeah, it's the episode of the beast. Yeah. And that's exciting. I really like the difference between our renditions of
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devils. I also love that we didn't really like talk about it. Yeah. We didn't uh con confer with each other
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about what we were going to do. We just said like dress up like the devil and then Ash walked into the room and said
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Yep. I walked into the room and I said the devil is alive. She did can confirm. And then she walked in the room with
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blood dripping down her face and I said that's about right. We said this works. I said that's my sister. Yeah. We were
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going to do a hot priest but we thought this would be more fun. Yeah. So cuz I saw some people be like come on do hot
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priest. Sunday. We thought this would be more fun. Uh, don't worry, we have something else for the next one, though.
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That's going to be fun, too. I already have all my stuff for that, too. Me, too. Yeah, we have the same rosary. It's
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true. This is part of that next costume. That's a hint. Just saying. Well, it's Listener Tales episode 666, and it's
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brought to you by you, for you, from you, and all about you. And we're going to be doing uh like
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demonic tales, diamonds, diamonds, diamonds. We're going to be doing diamonds. Let's do it. Um, are you going
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first or am I? Uh, I'll go first. All right, I'll close my computer. Actually, you know what? I'm going to leave it
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open because gloves. Cuz gloves. And then I have to like type. And I didn't put on my gloves. Put on your stupid
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gloves. I need to put on my [Music] gloves. And we're back. I love my gloves. Alina has her gloves. I have my
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gloves. I like those. Right. Are you just going to wear those in life now? Yeah. Most of this I'm just going to
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wear again. I feel like um that could be like very aesthetic as a noun. Um aesthetic for the ghost concert. Oh,
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with your jacket that I got you. Oh, I should wear these for the ghost concert. You should. Good call. You're welcome.
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Um All right. You're welcome. You're welcome. Let's see. Okay. So, where am I starting? At the beginning. At the
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beginning is a great place to start. Let's go with demon, sleep paralysis, mimic. It's
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crazy out here. It is crazy out here. Hey ladies, I've attached a 14 points double space pedify for your reading
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pleasure. I have three stories. Two about sleep paralysis. Maybe one is a demon and one about a mimic. Enjoy.
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Mimics scare the [ __ ] out of me. Mimics actually scare the [ __ ] out of me as
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well. Oh, yeah. Cuz you have one. Yeah. Oh, I do. You're right. Mhm. [ __ ] I know. [ __ ]
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All right. Hi y'all. My name is Cody. Feel free to use it. Hi Cody. Hi Cody. I was about to say fricka freicka slim
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shady. There you go. I like that. But fre I love you guys so much. I love you Cody. Love. I love you. I love you. Uh I
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started listening at the beginning of 2024 and have since caught up and I'm relisting to old episodes. That's
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actually incredibly impressive. That is impressive. That's wild. Yeah. It's currently April 2025 for reference. I
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broke my arm last March and was on leave for three months, so I had plenty of free time to listen to you guys. So,
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thanks for keeping me company during that incredibly long recovery period. You betcha. I also listen to you all
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during uh all day during work, on my way to and from work, and most times while I'm making dinner. It never fails
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whenever my husband comes into the kitchen, you happen to be talking about something wildly disturbing, and he
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questions my sanity for listening to such things with enjoyment. That happens a lot. I've even gotten my 13-year-old
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stepson and 10-year-old nephew into you guys. Mostly, they love listener tales and request it whenever we get in the
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vehicle. Keep being your awesome selves. Thank you. Love you. We will. Uh P. Selena, I read The Butcher and the Ren
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in two days. It was so good. Thank you. That's amazing game. I'm currently waiting for the second one to be
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delivered so I can read that one. Boom. Ash, you in the earlier episodes remind me so much of myself when I was also in
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my early 20s. I think we're close to the same age. I just turned 30 on St. Patty's Day, 2025. You ladies are the
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best. Never change. You're [ __ ] the best. You're really nice. Okay, on to the story now. I have a couple of
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stories to tell. The first one being the time I had sleep paralysis or maybe a bad nightmare or maybe a real diamond.
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You decide. My husband's sleep paralysis story and my sister-in-law's mimic story. So, hold on to your butts because
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these are crazy. I currently live in my childhood home in North Dakota with my husband and two
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children. It is a 121-year-old schoolhouse in the country. Oh, that's cool and creepy. I'm already for this. I
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like it. Now, I've lived here almost my entire 30 years of being alive. And while I've had some spooky dreams and
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felt uncomfortable in certain rooms, mainly in the finished attic, nothing real crazy has happened here paranormal
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wise. My friends always told me in high school they were sure it was haunted, but I think they just thought that due
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to the age and the fact that it was an old school. Fun fact, my piano teacher from middle/h high school actually
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taught here when it was a school. My personal feeling is I have lived here this long and nothing bad has happened.
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So if there are ghosts here, they must be nice. Yeah, there you go. The primary bedroom is currently in the basement.
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While basements often get a bad rep, I've never felt uncomfortable down there. Unless I just finished watching a
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scary movie in bed and have to get up to pee. I feel uncomfortable everywhere if
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I just watched a scary movie and I have to get up and pee. Same. Now, even though the house is 121 years old, it's
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very modern appearing as far as decor and whatnot. Anyway, let me set the scene. I slept with my side of the bed
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closest to the door. And typically, I slept on my stomach with my head facing away from the door. How do people do
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that? Do you sleep on your stomach? No, I'm I'm a side sleeper, sometimes a back
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sleeper. Me, too. Mhm. Uh, at this time roughly 2 years ago, we had my almost three-year-old daughter in
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our room in her own bed, probably about 20 ft from our bed. It's a very spacious
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room. As most children do, they often scared the [ __ ] out of me in the middle of the night by tapping me lightly. I
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think we just had a demon, by the way. I heard that. Um, we're talking about tapping and something tapped on the
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door. Or is it John? It's a demon. I think it's Well, it's John or it's a demon. Okay.
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It's a Jamon. It's a Jamon. It's a Dawn or a Jamon. I like Jam. I like J. Jam. All right. That's what it
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is. It's a It's a Jamon. All right. So, as most children do, she often scared the [ __ ] out of me in the middle of the
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night by tapping me lightly or just staring at me until I turned over and saw her because she wanted to crawl into
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bed with us. Your kids love to do that when they sleep over my house. They don't wake me up. Actually, no. They
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used to. So when it was the two oldest that would come sleep over, they'd be like, "Ty titty." Now they send the
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youngest in and she just stares at me until I wake up. Yep. She the youngest will come up to me in the middle of the
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night if she has like a bad dream or something and she always comes to my side of the bed no matter what. They
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come to mama's side of the bed. It's just always and like John is the first line of defense, but somehow they just
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go right around. Same with Drew. Yeah. Always. So, and she just gets right in my face and goes,
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"Mama, mama." Until I wake up and I'm like, she's like right there. It's so scary. Like, hi. Yeah. Last time they
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slept over, I woke up and they were just like, "Boom." Yeah. They are little diamonds. Hey, girl. They also when they
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come downstairs, they come they creep downstairs like if they come down to like tell us they need water or
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something like that or a bad dream and they'll creep around the corner and always just pop their head a little bit
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out so we don't hear them coming and then I just hear mama. mama. And it's like like every single time I'm like,
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you have taken years off of my life, girl. That's what they're here for. But damn. All right. So that's what that's
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what this child's doing. Um so she wanted to crawl in bed with us. This particular night was no different. I
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could hear the little footsteps walking towards me like they did most nights, but then I realized she was already in
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my bed, so those footsteps couldn't be her. That's upsetting. I don't like that. I don't like that at all. I don't
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like that. I got an overwhelming sense of dread and chose not to turn my head as I was not about to face whatever the
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[ __ ] just shuffled its spooky ass over to me. Yeah, I can't say I blame you. As
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I lay there in fear, this thing started petting my [ __ ] head. No, all I have to say is blinks. No, you
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read that right. This thing was running its hand down my hair like one would do to their child if they were resting
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their head on you. Did you feel calm or really upset? I don't like this at all. Then it started talking. Then it started
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talking but in a childlike voice that sounded just like my daughter. Oh, [ __ ] that. Good morning, Cody. Turn your
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head, Cody. Look at me, Cody. [ __ ] My ass said, "Hell [ __ ] no, buddy. These eyes may as well not even
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be in here because I will not be looking at that shit." I then felt it tighten its hand around my head. Not hard, but
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just grabbing it instead of touching like before. And I swear to God, this thing tried to get me to turn my head
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towards it. I would have fist. So, it literally was like grabbed the head to like turn it crucifix to the eye. I
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would have literally fist fought this thing. I hate this. So like the the visual of this is just nothing I want to
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experience. That's always my biggest fear when we go to haunted houses because I walk through like this when
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I'm scared. Oh, me too. And then I'm like, "Oh no." And you do the same thing. I think that would h like I'd be
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scared and I would just pummel this thing. No. 100%. I'm constantly like this in a haunted house and I'm like
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like every time something happens like I'm just like Luckily, we've never been kicked out. No. Never hit a haunt
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worker. Never. Never. We I've never done it. No. Neither have I. I will I and I never will. I just always I'm like, uh,
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don't don't even touch haunt workers. Don't do that. They're great because you'll have to leave. We love haunt
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workers. They don't touch you. Yeah, they don't touch you. These are good people. Supposed to be really No. Uh,
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so, and that's an aside on haunt workers. Be nice to your haunt workers. It's like halfway to Halloween a little
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bit. So, I think it's like actually halfway to Halloween, which is a holiday in my mind. Is it? Yeah. Tik Tok told me
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it was. Um I've been So I've been getting all these um Tik Toks of Halfway to Halloween or Summerween. Yeah, it was
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a long night. Longer than it seems. Every single one. I love it. It's the best. And I'm just
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like, "Oh, I am aching for haunted houses again." Or the one that's like aching.
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Yes. Oh my god. Yes. I love that one. I love it. I can't Sorry. I can't wait for
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the cookies. Oh, the cookies. The little cookies. Pumpkin cookies. Pumpkin and ghost cookies. [ __ ] yeah. Yeah. [ __ ]
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you. In my mugs. I have so many good Halloween mugs. I just need haunted and I need more haunted houses this year.
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It's just it's a Every year we got to up it. Every year we got to get more. Uh so
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yeah. So she she's having her head turned by this uh Damon. No thanks. Um thank God for good neck muscles because
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my head stayed right where it was at that point. It felt like whatever this was got on my back and my entire body
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cuz she's on her stomach. My entire body felt like it was being held down and I was unable to move
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anything, not even my fingers. And then bam, I woke up drenched in sweat and breathing harder than I was when I gave
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birth. Room was silent, void of creepy unknown beings, and my husband and daughter were sleeping peacefully next
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to me. When I say I didn't sleep for weeks after this, I mean it. Yeah, I would not sleep for forever. I I'd still
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never sleep. I had never experienced anything like this in my 28 years at the time of living. And thank God I haven't
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experienced it since. I read that if you're touching someone while you you're asleep, you're less likely to have sleep
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paralysis. I didn't know that. I didn't know that either. So every night since I'm sure to be touching my husband, even
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if it's just his my toe on his leg. We also have a cat who is 12 who sleeps on me every night. So I like to think that
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is also saving me from happening again. What do you guys think? crazy sleep paralysis or demon who just wanted to
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[ __ ] with me one time before descending into the depths of hell. Maybe it was just a wild nightmare. Whatever it was,
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I sure hope it's one it's a oneanddone situation. I feel like sleep paralysis is real to an extent. I feel like
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there's a different there. I agree. I feel like there's like a different I can't describe what's what I think sleep
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paralysis actually is, but there's more to it to me. I think it's almost like not necessarily but almost like a
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parallel parallel universe because the things I see when I have sleep paralysis and the things I feel are not they they
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feel like something's wrong. They are not okay. They're not all right. Yeah. No, I get that. I've only had it like
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once or twice maybe. I had it once and I remember it so vividly. Do you remember
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how old I was when me and my mom drove to North Carolina with that guy? Oh yeah, you were young. Like six. Five or
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six. Five or six. I remember that so distinctly. I got it in the car and I like felt like there was like a face in
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the window and then um somebody like lifted me up by like my armpits and that's like a weird fear that I have
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which is very funny. Oh, it's Well, it's it's unsettling. I hate it. Um that was
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one and then I had another one when me and Drew were camping with his parents but like glamping in like a camper. I
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woke up and I saw a woman standing at the end of the bed and I like literally could not move. Like when they say
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paralysis Oh, it's legit paralysis. Straight up. And you want to scream. That shit's scary. It's really scary. It
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like sets your like that room. Yeah. Like the room is the room. You're not in some weird dream version of your room.
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Like it is your room. However set up before you went to bed, that is what it looks like. which makes me feel like
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it's not a dream because whenever I dream like will you have a dream and you're like oh I'm in my house but like
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it's not like in the dream you know you're in your house but it's not your actual house like there's different
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things or it's warped somehow or but when you have sleep paralysis it is to a tea uh so the next story is about oh so
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what do we think do we think this is sleep paralysis a demon a nightmare I think sleep paralysis plus demon equals
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scary yeah I agree I think it's a little mix of the two yeah but I again like sleep paralysis. I think you went to
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like another place. I think something happened in your room, but I don't know why. That's a good takeaway. You think
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something happened? I think it a situation occurred. I think things went on. I think uh something went down. The
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next story is about my husband and his couple episodes of sleep paralysis in this house. This was earlier in our
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relationship, probably around 2016, and our room was upstairs in the room that was previously mine in high school and
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is currently my stepson's room. Anyway, this room was one of those small rectangular openings or had one of those
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small rectangular openings in the ceiling that would lead to the attic. We never used this as my parents built
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stairs leading up to the attic when they finished it years prior. This creepy little door always freaked me the [ __ ]
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out as a child and honestly still does as an adult, but that probably has something to do with the fact that it
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leads to the attic, which again is the one room in the house that makes me mad uncomfortable. Oh no. Anywh who, after I
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told my husband my little story from above, he told me that years ago he thinks maybe he had sleep paralysis.
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Apparently, there were a few different nights where he would wake up and he would see a creepy black figure just
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floating right under that creepy ass attic access. Oh, no. And he couldn't move. Then he would wake up. I'm sorry,
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sir. You didn't think to mention this when it happened? Why the [ __ ] are you so nonchalant about a black figure
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hanging out in the room paralyzing you? Although crazy, it's probably good he didn't tell me at the time as it would
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have freaked me the [ __ ] out. Maybe it's due to the fact that the house he grew
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up in with his mother and siblings was deaf haunted and he often saw the hatman in his closet at night. Not the hatman.
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Not the hatman. No thank you. He gets a bad rap, but he should. But like he kind
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of earns it. Scary. He does nothing to dispel that bad rap. No. Lastly, I wanted to add the story of the time my
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sister-in-law had a mimic in her house and how she got rid of it. She gave me permission to share this story. She and
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her husband recently closed on the fir on their first home at the end of 2024. Congratulations. So exciting for them
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and their kids. Not to not too long after they moved in, weird [ __ ] started happening. First, she thought she heard
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her husband say something from the other room. When she responded with what, he didn't respond back. So, she went to the
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room where she thought he was and he was gaming with his headset on. When she asked what he said, he replied that he
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didn't say anything. Then the same thing happened but with her daughter. She heard her daughter, 5 years old, call
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for mommy on the stairs. Oh, [ __ ] the [ __ ] No. No. And so the kid's um room is in the basement. When my
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sister-in-law peeked her head downstairs, no one was there. No. So she went down to her daughter's room and her
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daughter was still passed out asleep snoring. I You got to burn the whole [ __ ] me up. You have to burn the entire
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thing. I'm sorry if I hear the kids say my name and there's no kid to be found. No kid voices saying anything that
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aren't related to actual kids. Get out of here. And a mimic or a demon mimicking a child's voice to me is so
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[ __ ] chilling. That is just demonic and diabolical in a way I can't describe. It's like echoing in my head
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now. Yeah, I don't like it at all. I hate it. The third incident was when she was laying in bed and heard her daughter
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crying downstairs. She turned to her husband and asked what she was crying about, but he didn't hear anything. And
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again, she checked and her daughter was sleeping. The last one she said she could likely chalk up to waking up from
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a dream of her daughter crying since her husband didn't hear anything. The final
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incident is the creepiest, though. The job my sister-in-law had at the time was open on Saturdays, so they had to rotate
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working. This particular Saturday, she was the one scheduled to work until like noon, I believe. So, her husband and
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kids were at home. Dad was in the living room. Kids were at the dining room table
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eating. It was around 10:30, 11:00 a.m. At this point, my sister-in-law got a call from her husband asking why she
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stopped by the house. She responded with, "I'm at work for another hour and a half. What are you talking about?" He
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said the side door next to the kitchen slammed shut randomly. When he asked the kids who did that, her daughter said it
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was mommy. She saw her mom leaving the house, but it was not her mother. I hate that. I have goosey goosey
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bumpies. Lore. That was the final straw. My sister-in-law decided to sage the house. She has a friend who was able to
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give her instructions and tell her exactly what to say as she saged. Her and her husband attempted to sage that
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night, but every time she tried to light the sage, it wouldn't stay lit. She tried them multiple times to no
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pro no avail. Let me add, she is no stranger to a lighter, so she knew what she was doing.
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the way you just read your sister-in-law. Her husband decided to give it a try and he had no issues. They
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saged the entire house and she said she instantly felt lighter and like whatever
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she was following her that whatever was following her was gone. Now she had never heard of a mimic before, but
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because I'm one spooky [ __ ] I immediately knew what it was and was like, "Fuck that girl. Please make sure
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that [ __ ] is gone before I come over to you or send your daughter over to my house." Things have been quiet ever
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since. Thank goodness. Also, let me insert her cute little side hustle. Oh, it's called prettylates.com where she
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sells super cute glass cups. Check her out if you feel so inclined. I do feel so inclined. Feel inclined. I would
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literally die if you read this on the pod. Listener tales are my absolute favorite episodes, especially to relist
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to once I c once I catch up every week. My family and I are going on a cruise leaving from New Jersey in June 2025 and
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are roadtpping our way back um way there and back from North Dakota. We plan to stay in Boston one of the nights and the
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following day my stepson and I will be doing the Lizzy Bordon house tour. Oh, [ __ ] Oh, it's so good. It's so much
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fun. We are so excited. I'm so glad my stepson 13 is a spooky weirdo like me since my husband is kind of eh when it
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comes to these things. Anywh who, thanks for listening and keep it weird, but not
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so weird that Take it away, Ash. Not so weird that that last tail periods happens. Yeah, not so weird that that
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happens to me. Not so weird that that happens. Wait, before I forget, ask see if you can get Amber as your tour guide
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if she still works. Yes, she's so good. She was our last tour guide and she was really funny and like took so much time
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in each room with us telling us like way more than like we learned a lot the first time too, but we learned even more
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with Amber as the She like hung out. She was so funny. She's hilarious. I loved Amber. Loved her. We were literally
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like, "Do you just want to stay with us all night?" And like she stayed She stayed with us longer than she was going
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to initially. Yeah, she was great on her. I love it. Love her. Thank you, Cody. That was a Those were crazy tales.
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All right, my next one is Listener Tales. An EVP from Dad and a ghost with a shadow. Hey, weirdos. My name is
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Bergen. That's a pretty name. And I've got two true tales for you. One that will make you cry in a goodish way. And
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one that will make you delete your camera roll and save your house. Let's get into it. So, story number one. When
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uh story number one, my dad's EVP recorder and the spookiest high ever. When I was 16, my dad passed away. I'm
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sorry. Sorry. He was the sweetest, funniest dude, and he loved watching Ghost Hunters. But here's the kicker.
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Me, too. He refused to watch Paranormal Activity because he was convinced it would get him possessed. Like, hard
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pass. Absolutely not. I don't want demons in my house. Bergen kind of fear. I love that he will watch Ghost Hunters,
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which is like actually hunt like going to connect with real ghosts in real haunted locations. But Paranormal
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Activity, which is fictionalized. Nope. That's a no for me. Actually, no. I've never seen any of those movies and I
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don't care to. Well, now we're going to make you watch. Yeah, I know you were going to, but that's the next Scream
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series we're going to do. So, I'll watch Ghost Hunters like all day every day. Paranormal Activity actually scares me.
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First and second Paranormal Activity are going to [ __ ] your world up. Yeah. I don't want them to because I enjoy
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sleeping like so much. That's the next screen. Um, no, it's not. You already picked it. No, we're doing it after this
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one. I'll kill you. Yeah. All right. Well, a few months before he died, he bought himself an EVP recorder. He was
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so excited to try it out. And in true spooky timing fashion, the recorder didn't arrive until the day after he
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passed away. Yeah, let that one marinate. Awful. That sucks. I'm sorry. That reminds me, what we should do while
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we're doing this is turn on Ghost Tube. Oh yes, it's episode 666. We might as well see. We also have ghosties come.
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Well, we only did that like once in this room with Sabrina. Yeah. And I feel like
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this room is was Saburn. This room has some vibes. Let's see. My mom's sisters and I were all like, "Okay, universe.
00:23:30
What does it mean?" But grief hits hard and none of us could bring ourselves to mess with it. Two years later, I was 18
00:23:36
and living in a tiny little bungalow behind my parents house, vibing with the ghosts and pretending to be an adult.
00:23:41
One night, I thought, "Screw it. Let's do this." I busted out the EVP recorder and tried to contact my dad. I sat in
00:23:47
the dark talking to into this thing for like 30 minutes asking questions, begging for signs. Crickets, nothing.
00:23:54
Zip. I was about to give up, but then something in my gut said, "Try one more time and record it on your phone just in
00:24:00
case." So, I hit record and I said, "Can you say hello, Dad?" And then the most beautiful moment of my life. I heard a
00:24:07
clear, calm, totally not from this plane of existence. Hi. I froze. Full body goosebumps. Instant
00:24:15
tears. My soul left the chat. I just felt full body. I think she sent us the audio. She did. I'm going to play it. To
00:24:22
this day, every time I listen to that clip, I know it was him. It wasn't scary. It felt peaceful, comforting,
00:24:27
like he was saying, "Still here, kiddo." But also, what in the actual paranormal?
00:24:31
I've attached the the recording for you guys to listen to. Oh, we got to listen.
00:24:35
Oh my god. Yes. I didn't hear this. I didn't. I haven't heard it yet either. I'm turning my computer up like all the
00:24:40
way, so it might be very loud. Nicholas, what did that just say? Nicholas. What was your dad's name? Dude, if your
00:24:49
dad's name was Nicholas, I Oh, [ __ ] My I have straight up chills. Do you have it set to that voice?
00:24:56
I don't. Is that Is that like a choice you made? I'm not laughing at you, Spirit. I think it was. That was
00:25:02
genuinely terrifying. Scary. All right, I'm going to play this audio recording. Palette cleanser. That was
00:25:09
horrifying. Sorry, my gloves. Say hello, Dad. Oh my god. Oh, that was such a dad way of I don't
00:25:34
know why, but that was dad. No, it was it was that was just I was like, "Hi." Oh my god. I'm like covered. Can you see
00:25:43
my goosebumps in the Oh, I'm so happy that you have that. Oh my god. Wow. My chills are not going away right
00:25:52
now. I didn't think that was going to be as like I believed you, but I did not. They're not that clear. That's crazy.
00:25:59
And that like comforting. Yeah. Yeah, it was. It was so sweet. Hi. Oh, and you like I wonder if if it
00:26:06
sounded like his voice to you because it took like a little while for the energy
00:26:10
to kind of ramp up and then it was so clear. That Wow, Bergen. [ __ ] Bergen. That was crazy. That is incredible.
00:26:19
That's one of the clearest EVPs I've ever heard. That gave me a lot. All right, story number two. Damn [ __ ] Top
00:26:26
that. Now top that. Waverly Hills, murdery vibes and a literal ghost shadow. Oh [ __ ] Fast forward to another
00:26:33
great idea I had. Taking a sister's trip to Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky. That sounds
00:26:40
amazing. That's fantastic. I'd like to take Let's go. Yeah, because nothing says family bonding like haunted
00:26:45
hallways and possible demonic attachments. I think we actually have mentioned with um Karen and Sabrina, we
00:26:51
we might want to do that together. A brother's trip. A ghost brother's cult and coven trip. Yeah. Well, we booked
00:26:57
the night tour because obviously it was several hours long and they only let you
00:27:01
use flashlights. at specific times. The rest of your time complete and utter darkness. Like I'm not shut me up. This
00:27:10
is great. Like I'm not even sure I have feet anymore. Kind of dark. Holy [ __ ] We made it to the top floor where they
00:27:16
kept the sick kids and where a nurse allegedly quote unquote committed suicide. But the tea is that she may
00:27:21
have been murdered by a doctor she was hooking up with. Very American horror story, minus the musical numbers. 100%.
00:27:28
Here's where it gets freaky. Before the god said anything, I started feeling super weird. My heart was racing, my
00:27:34
head was pounding, and I got this wave of anxiety, like I was about to go run a ghost marathon I didn't sign up for. I
00:27:40
leaned over to my sister, Bailey. Shout out to her because she's also a huge fan. Hi, Bailey. I love your name. Great
00:27:45
name. And whispered, "I don't like this. I want to leave." And then, like a bad punchline, the guide goes, "A lot of
00:27:52
people report feeling panic, nausea, dizziness, and chest pressure right here under where the nurse was found hanging.
00:27:58
Guess where I was standing? Yep. Directly underneath. I'd poop my pants. After that, we got to
00:28:07
wander around on our own. And there's a spot with a ball left out for a little ghost boy who's known to play. So,
00:28:12
naturally, my sisters and I tried to summon our inner spooky babysitters. Hell yeah. And gently kicked the ball
00:28:17
around the circle. At first, nothing. No creepy giggles, no phantom penalty kicks. But then we stopped, let the ball
00:28:23
settle in the middle of the circle, and watched it start to move on its own like
00:28:28
nobody touched it. No breeze, no explanation. That's the dream. Yes. Truly paranormal. What did it say?
00:28:36
Charming. Charming. That is charming. Oh, you you're taking it. I'm taking that. You really You said that was like
00:28:42
a blanched de like Oh, stop it. I'm taking that one. I'm dead. I I claim it. You said she said it's me. I'm charming.
00:28:50
That was so scary. I love how you're like, "Oh, the kid is charming." I'm like, you're like, "It's me, baby." Uh,
00:28:57
can you change the voice? Can you please change that so that I don't [ __ ] my pants? I'm going to cry. I kind of love
00:29:03
it. Of course you do. We're going to keep it for now. That was so charming of you. That's so scary. I jump. Did you
00:29:10
see the jump I did? I think we all did. God, this is fun. All right, it is. I know. I love a vibe like this. It's also
00:29:18
a perfect day for that. It's kind of spooky. a little spooky. So, uh, LA, no explanation. It just slowly rolled
00:29:24
across the floor like it had somewhere to be. We all looked at each other and said, "Did you see that?" No. Did you
00:29:28
actually see that? We were Did you hear that? Did you hear that? We were officially shook. After I got the bright
00:29:34
idea to pull out my phone, switch it to night mode, and take a billion rapid fire photos. Oh, hell yeah. I started
00:29:40
scrolling through the photos, and holy hell, y'all. In one of them, there's a clear little figure. You could see legs,
00:29:47
a small shadowy body, and the wildest part, it has a shadow. What the [ __ ] We were all
00:29:54
freaking out, but in the best way. It's probably one of the coolest and creepiest things I've ever captured.
00:29:58
I've attached a photo so you can see it for yourselves. If you don't mind, email us
00:30:04
and let us know if we can share the photo. Uh, let me let me know if you see what I saw or if I need to sage my
00:30:10
entire existence. Ash and Alolina, thank you for making this hilarious, spooky, and slightly unhinged community. You've
00:30:16
gotten me through grief, anxiety, and many late night cleaning sprees where I was 90% sure that something was watching
00:30:21
me. P.S. You can share the recording in the ghost picture. A real one. Creep it weird Bergen. I've also attached some
00:30:29
extra pictures, one with my sisters, my mom, myself, and my niece, and a spooky ghost tattoos that I adore. Uh, one of
00:30:35
her ghost tattoos is absolutely iconic. Her ghost tattoo has titties. Yes. It's hilarious. It's really good. Uh, let's
00:30:44
see. Oh, yep. That's clear as day. Oh, [ __ ] You can literally see. And look right there. It does have a shadow.
00:30:52
Shadow. Oh my god. That's one of the most unsettling things I've ever seen. Oh, what the
00:30:59
[ __ ] Ew. Damn. I'm going to put this away now. Um, yeah, we're going to share it. Don't worry. Yeah, we'll share that.
00:31:06
Um, so check out like the Instagram obviously. Bergen. Oh, Bergen. That is one of the clearest EVPs I've ever heard
00:31:13
and one of the clearest photos I've ever seen of spirit. Yeah, you really did. You really came through with that.
00:31:18
Bergen. Bergen. Bergen. Damn, that was crazy. That was wild. Let's see. Um, so there's Let's see. Should I
00:31:31
do those couple times my soul left my body at church camp? Yeah, it feels right. I would say so. Feels right. Uh,
00:31:39
hello my two favorite absolutely beautiful badass witchy girl bosses. Hi. I got you. Thank you. Your name is
00:31:47
Zana. I love that name. That's really pretty. And we can use the name party. Um, I've been listening to you two for
00:31:54
about a year courtesy of my amazing father for putting me on to y'all's podcast. Thanks, Santa's dad. I love
00:32:00
that. Some of my favorite memories are the two of us going on hikes together while listening to your podcast and me
00:32:05
being seriously freaked the [ __ ] out because he somehow always chooses the murder in the woods episodes.
00:32:10
Questionable choice, but hey, it's part of the fun of being hella paranoid and enjoying nature. Fresh air is for dead
00:32:16
people. It is. I will absolutely freak the [ __ ] out if you use my story for your listener tales episode. Here's a
00:32:22
double space. I've gone to a church camp on the Grand Ma Is it the Grand Mesa? Messa,
00:32:30
I'm not great culture. Michael, amazing. Really good. Nailed it. Uh, we have our
00:32:39
own special demon named Mikey. Uh, so I've gone to a church camp on the Grand Mesa almost every year for the past four
00:32:46
or five years. It's truly a beautiful place in the summer. The lake is such a beautiful pristine teal color and it's
00:32:52
always the perfect temperature. The only thing that gives you a slight sense of foroding is how dark it gets at night.
00:32:58
And that tends to remind you how you're in the middle of [ __ ] nowhere. And if there just happens to be some random ass
00:33:03
axe murder, your chances of survival are slim to none. Yeah. I mean, like the axe
00:33:09
murder situation probably won't happen. But if it did, again, slim to none. Maybe not for the other people, but I
00:33:15
don't [ __ ] I don't [ __ ] with the dark or the woods at night, so I could probably
00:33:18
get away. But when I say it gets dark in the middle of nowhere in Colorado, I mean it gets dark. It does. You see, you
00:33:26
know, keep that in mind because in the next stories that is crucial to know. Anyway, moving on. This particular year,
00:33:32
there wasn't very many people signed up for that camp. So, we all ended up staying in the same room on the second
00:33:37
floor of the lodge, which was typically used by the camp staff. Normally, the campers would stay in one of the many
00:33:42
cabins on the 5-ish acres of land that the cab camp was on. this lodge that we stayed in. Creepy as [ __ ] [ __ ]
00:33:49
sinister vibe. You had to climb this I love that you said that. You had to climb the little spiral staircase to the
00:33:55
attic to use the bathroom. Whereas if we stayed in the cabins, we would have to go outside to walk the however many
00:34:01
yards to the bathroom hall, which isn't really much better. But the bathroom in the attic was not for me. I still used
00:34:07
it, but like the entire lodge was just [ __ ] creepy. The room on the second floor that we stayed in wasn't that
00:34:13
creepy. There was bunk beds, but we all just slept on the floor like it was one big sleepover. And honestly, that was
00:34:18
fun. I wasn't ever really invited to sleepovers as a kid, so it felt like I made up for that. I'll fight whoever
00:34:23
didn't take you to a sleepover. It's true. I don't believe in sleepovers anymore, but I will [ __ ] fight people
00:34:28
for not inviting you to I also don't believe in sleepovers, but like not happening for me, my kids, but like I
00:34:35
wish it happened for you. Yeah. Back in the day, cuz I went to sleepovers. Like we all did. And I loved sleepovers, but
00:34:41
you didn't. And I'll [ __ ] fight whoever didn't invite you to a sleepover, Zena. [ __ ] them up, Zena.
00:34:45
Maybe we'll have, you know,' be so fun. We should do a live show someday that's sleepover themed. Oh my god. Yeah, we
00:34:52
should do one that's like literally in the middle of the night. That would be fun. Like sleepover. We'll
00:34:59
talk to our people. We'll do a late one so it's like we can all like watch a scary movie late. You could do like a
00:35:04
10:00 show. Yeah, that would actually be a lot of fun. We're going to workshop this. Mikey's like, "Wait a minute."
00:35:10
Well, you could also go on to uh what is it called? Um there's like an online platform where you can sit there and
00:35:17
watch a movie together and you can all sit there. Oh, yeah. You're right. We used to do it with Caleb. Let's do that.
00:35:22
And we can all watch a scary movie together and we can all just like react together. That sounds like a lot of fun.
00:35:28
We got to do that. I want to do that. Please. That'd be so fun. Would you guys be down for that? Would you do that with
00:35:32
us? And everyone has to wear pajamas. You must. Yeah. I am really ding about pajama party rules. Yeah. She doesn't
00:35:38
[ __ ] around. need to come to my pajama party in pajamas in regular clothes. Don't. And I agree. Yeah. Yeah. We're
00:35:44
going to do that. Yeah. Thank you, Zena, for letting us get here. Yeah. So, we're
00:35:49
going to give you the slumber party you never had, babe. Hell yeah. Zena's invited to this one. Now, there was this
00:35:55
one girl, super sweet, super kind. We're just going to call her Molly. I love that name. And we learned I do. I love
00:36:01
that name. It's a great name. My kid's favorite American Girl doll right now is Molly. Mine was always Molly. I liked
00:36:07
Kit, too. Uh, Kit was a after my time. I thought you were gonna say Kit was a [ __ ] because you you like Kit was a
00:36:14
I'm not sure. Did he say I'm not sure? Honestly, me neither. That was that was distasteful.
00:36:21
Yeah, he said I'm not sure about that. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Yes, I made a distasteful joke and our our spirit
00:36:28
demon friend let us know. I'm not sure. He said don't leave that in. Not sure about that. He said legal. And when the
00:36:37
when the Damon is saying, "I'm not sure about that." You got to listen. Yeah. So, sometimes I do that. Um,
00:36:46
that was great. So, yeah, the original five didn't include Kit. It didn't. Uh, but Felicity was my girl and Molly. And
00:36:54
we learned on night one that Molly happened to talk in her sleep. So, every morning we would joke about it and
00:37:00
whoever uh whoever she woke up with her late night sleeptalking kind of weird ramblings would tell us about it. It was
00:37:06
always just kind of funny things like Molly singing or something weird. So, of course, I thought nothing of it. On
00:37:12
night three, I just couldn't sleep for some reason. So, I stayed up well past midnight reading. Now, around 300 a.m.
00:37:20
The devil's hour. Oh, no. My hour. Oh, no. My my hour. I desperately had to pee, like so [ __ ] bad. For hours, I'd
00:37:28
been putting it off, which was majorly dumb on my part. So 3:00 a.m. comes and I'm sitting there contemplating whether
00:37:34
or not Attic of Doom was worth it or not. I'm still a firm believer that it would not have been worth it. Anyways,
00:37:41
I'm just sitting there trying not to pee myself when Molly sits up and I'm like,
00:37:44
"Oh, hey girl. Want to go to the demon bathroom with me?" Because yes, I'm a scaredy-cat. Molly did not respond. And
00:37:50
low key, it was kind of terrifying because she's sitting there head down kind of limp looking and I'm just
00:37:56
sitting there feeling my heart drop because what the actual [ __ ] is going on? And then I [ __ ] you not, she looks
00:38:02
up at the door which was closed and just whispers, "You can let them in now." No. Why did she do that? No. What a
00:38:14
[ __ ] Why did she do that, Molly? That's [ __ ] made. And then she whispered it again. No, you can let them
00:38:21
in now. Stop, Molly. You think she was [ __ ] with you? Then someone knocked on the door super quietly. No, no, no,
00:38:28
no, no, no, no. And Molly just laid back down like nothing ever happened. No. Did
00:38:33
you ever go back to that campus? Impressed. I thought it said undressed. Maybe. I thought it said impressed.
00:38:44
Impressed. It went away. It sounded like impressed. No, you're right. Um, wow. That was a good story. It was a good
00:38:52
story. Not even done. Oh my. Wait, what was I going to say? Ghosty, you interrupted me. Did you go back to that
00:38:59
camp again? I think is what I was going to say. We'll have to see when I tell you the way I almost [ __ ] my pants.
00:39:04
Like, I don't [ __ ] with ghosts at all. And someone knocked on the door literal
00:39:08
literal milliseconds after Molly said, "You can let them in now. Stop doing that. I can tell you didn't tell you I
00:39:14
didn't have to pee anymore because there was no way I was leaving that room. I'm
00:39:17
surprised you didn't piss yourself right there. I thought you were going to say because I evacuated my my bladder. Yeah.
00:39:23
Uh the entire situation was just giving the nun. And let's just say I was not a fan. I was not going to be the human
00:39:29
soul sacrifice. So there was no [ __ ] way in hell I was leaving that room. So I just accepted my fate and lay there
00:39:34
until morning. You said UTI it is. Yep. I'll go with that. Just waiting for the bathroom demon to come and get me. I can
00:39:41
also tell you that I didn't share that story the next morning. I value my life. So, already being a little freaked out,
00:39:47
I did not go anywhere alone the next day. Which leads us to the next story that involves playing hideand seek but
00:39:52
in the dark. No, I used to love playing that game. I never played that all the time. Yeah. Now, I already explained
00:40:00
that it gets [ __ ] dark and at night there's one street light that comes on and it's a useless [ __ ] piece of [ __ ]
00:40:06
for a life. It's right next to the one goddamn building that gives light. I love that we're talking about a church
00:40:11
camp and I love that Zay is just like this [ __ ] goddamn building. I know. I know. So good. Uh that building being
00:40:18
the messaul and the messaul lights are always on. They should have put the damn street light anywhere else. Literally
00:40:24
anywhere else. But anyways, on the night on the last night they always do a night
00:40:28
game that involves running around and looking for something. Oh, that's fun. And this night they chose a game called
00:40:33
sardines. It's basically hide-and-seek, but at the beginning, two people hide together, and everyone has to split up
00:40:39
and find them. And when you find them, you hide with them. Oh, so you keep squishing in with them to the hiding
00:40:44
spot. Oh, that's cool. That's kind of fun. Yeah. Now, me and this girl, we'll call her Nicole, were the original two
00:40:49
people who had to hide together. One thing to know about Nicole is that she has the most beautiful singing voice I
00:40:55
have ever heard. Like, it's a voice that got her a full ride scholarship to Giuliard, AMDA, and an internship for
00:41:01
singing in Italy. So like she's hella good at singing to say the least. She had the most brilliant idea of where to
00:41:07
hide. Now for context on the girls side of camp there's there's 12 cabins. Cabins G1 to G12. There's this one cabin
00:41:16
though that absolutely no one has has no one wants to stay in. And that would be
00:41:20
G4. G4 is the boondocks of this camp. Pathetic. Nobody wants to stay there. I don't want
00:41:27
to say pathetic. He's like please just stay there. Damn. He's like in this with us. He is. I like having a ghost as like
00:41:34
our color commentary commentator here. Yeah. Like we're already in the middle of nowhere, but G4 is on the border of
00:41:41
the camp. It's about a hundred yards away from all the other girls cabins. Not only not only was that royally
00:41:47
[ __ ] but also it was just giving, you know, possibly Ted Bundy's shack. It was
00:41:52
a cabin with a long with a long path down to it, and the trees around it just blocked any light. This is where Nicole
00:41:58
wanted to hide. I mean, smart. It is smart. Like [ __ ] to the no. But what could I do but go with her? Like I
00:42:05
didn't want to die but I also didn't want to let her die alone. So I followed her. Good friend. That is good friend.
00:42:10
Once we got to Satan good friend. That is good friend. That is good friend. Good job. Uh you did friend. Well once
00:42:18
we got to Satan's lair which is slightly iron Satan's lair which is slightly ironic because we were at a literal
00:42:24
church camp. We just waited. At one point, a branch snapped to our far left, and I lost my [ __ ] and basically started
00:42:31
crying. But that was just the beginning of the fun. Nicole, being the brave, witchy badass that she was, went to
00:42:37
investigate. So, I stood there for upwards of 5 minutes by myself, just praying that God wouldn't let me die
00:42:43
like this, and that my parents knew I loved them if I happened to die like this. And then I heard someone singing
00:42:49
close by. I couldn't see anything, and I didn't know where it was coming from. It
00:42:53
sounded like it was one voice coming from all around me. [ __ ] that. And it was that song, that one super [ __ ]
00:43:00
creepy song that goes, "Ding dong, I know you can hear me. Open up the door. I only want to play a little."
00:43:10
Ew. I know that song. Obviously, evidently. Obviously. It's like It's got a very creepy It sure
00:43:20
does. And you just keep singing it. So, I began I think it's like a Tik Tok sound. Is it? I'm pretty sure. I'm
00:43:27
pretty sure it's cuz it's like an old song. Um, and so I began turning in circles, desperately trying to find out
00:43:33
what the [ __ ] who the [ __ ] why the [ __ ] Needless to say, I'm on the verge of a panic attack when someone puts
00:43:38
their hand on my shoulder. No. I have never screamed louder in my entire life. Do you think it was God? I turn around
00:43:44
and it's Molly. Close. Molly. And Nicole starts laughing somewhere and she walks
00:43:48
out of the goddamn c down the goddamn cabin saying that I should have seen my face. A, it's honestly super funny now
00:43:56
because I'm a scaredy-cat, lol. And I still have no [ __ ] clue how Nicole pulled off getting into the cabin
00:44:01
without me seeing or hearing her. But anyways, those are my stories about how my souls left my body twice at a
00:44:07
Christian summer camp. I love you guys so incredibly much and I hope you enjoyed my whack ass story. Keep it
00:44:13
weird and take it away, Ash. But not so weird that you lose your soul twice at a
00:44:17
church camp. But I mean, I guess you could find it there if you lost it. That's true. So I think that's part of
00:44:22
the deal, right? I don't know, Zena. Those were awesome. I loved those. I loved them. I'm sorry that our Damon
00:44:29
thinks that you're pathetic for not wanting to stay in G4. I know. I think I meant all of the campers, not just Yeah,
00:44:33
he definitely thought we speak for him. Yeah, we're friends. Or or are right. We're friends.
00:44:41
Hey, demon. Um or ghost or spirit. Are we friends? He said, I'll let you know later. He
00:44:50
said TBD. Undecided. All right. This is called Black Betty. Listener tale submission. Please read this wild [ __ ]
00:44:58
Okay. Okay. Okay. Sure thing. A haunting experience in our basement. Hey yo. Hey.
00:45:06
Hey. My name is Tara. Yes, you can share. Just going to hop right down to What is your name? What is your name?
00:45:12
Hi. Uh, I'm Elena. I'm Ash. And this is Morbid. He wants They want to be friends. What is your name?
00:45:22
We'll give you some time to answer. Is your name Nicholas or is it something else? If it's something else, let us
00:45:26
know. That's a lot of asking. I know it you said it Nicholas before and I like that. It's nice. That's a nice name. If
00:45:33
it's your name, if your name is Nicholas, love that. Let us know. If it's something else, let us know.
00:45:41
So fun. Okay, I'm I'm just going to tell the story while you while you answer. While you caught the point. I'm
00:45:47
compelled to share a chilling experience that has lingered in my memory for years. And I would love to compel you to
00:45:52
read it. Well, consider me compelled. I am compelled as [ __ ] This started after
00:45:56
my parents purchased a house of sorts to renovate. To renovate, honey. After renovations were done, the layout of the
00:46:03
house was standard. Walk through the front door into the living room. Off to the side is one bedroom. Past the living
00:46:08
room is the kitchen and tucked into the corner of said kitchen is the door to hell. It didn't used to be. Pretty
00:46:13
standard. Yeah, pretty standard. It didn't used to be, but I digress. Usually, when you go down the steps into
00:46:18
the basement, you're met with an abundance of light. The base of the steps leads into a common room, and to
00:46:23
the right is a hallway with a bedroom door, a doorway opposite that leads to the laundry room, and then the bathroom.
00:46:28
When standing in the common room, straight ahead is a bedroom with another bedroom connected by a door on the
00:46:34
right. Each room has four smaller sized windows lining the upper wall. And during the day, it was lit lit up in an
00:46:40
old bookstore kind of way. Ungodly. Ungodly. Do you feel like the basement is ungodly
00:46:47
or do like are you not a fan of this layout? He's like, "That sounds terrible. Sorry
00:46:53
about your layout." You know, maybe he doesn't like all the light that extremes in. It's pretty un like that much light
00:46:58
either. I get it. But what's your name? So, um, my parents, without our consent,
00:47:08
bought this house when it was just a basement. The whole house in the ground where the dead live. Yeah, they thought
00:47:14
that would be a great idea. Not only was it a basement house, it was often frequented throughout the years by local
00:47:20
townies who engaged in various satanic rituals. The [ __ ] You said that, not me, but I also second it. We were a
00:47:27
Pentecostal family who couldn't even watch Disney movies. Oh my. So, imagine my confusion as a '90s kid when my
00:47:33
Pentecostal parents decided to buy and [ __ ] up the house of Lucifer J. Satan himself. What's the J stands for?
00:47:41
Oh, it stands for Jamon. Jamon. Lucifer Jam. My parents, with the intent uh to restore and renovate, added an upper
00:47:51
level to the house. Good choice. Yeah. And we lived there for several years. Despite the fresh new look, the house
00:47:56
carried an eerie atmosphere, and we encountered various inexplicable incidents over the years. From hearing
00:48:02
our names being called by my mom, who turned out to never be in the home, to furniture moving. I'm talking literal
00:48:08
poltergeist [ __ ] like chairs stacking, cabinets opening, etc. For the longest time, my brothers and I blamed each
00:48:15
other and were sure one of us was trying to scare the others to waking me up one
00:48:18
night crying cuz I couldn't see. It was like somebody shut off my eyeballs. Out of service, no connection available. I
00:48:25
was blind. Please come back. We're still here. Yeah, we're here. We're here. Don't worry. We're going to
00:48:34
stay like here. Would love to know your name though. Still would love it. What's
00:48:39
your name? You're Nicholas. I feel is Yeah. But but but let us know if we're wrong. Yeah. We're here though. We're
00:48:45
here. Yeah. So scary. I know. Um I was like, I actually so fun. Actually, this is this
00:48:57
is She's like, this is so fun. This is the best. This is really fun. I'm just This is really fun. I'm really having a
00:49:04
great time. I screamed for my parents to come and well that was useless because when they
00:49:10
did rush in the only said the only thing my mom said was quit hollering and put on your glasses. Insert. I love my
00:49:18
parents dearly but what in the entire [ __ ] mom? It's blacked out completely. Can't see and not blind as a bat. Blurry
00:49:24
can't see. Yeah, that's scary. Yeah, if your child says they can't see, she's like well put your damn glasses on. Put
00:49:30
your holler in. I'm tired of your [ __ ] I never called for her again because clearly the Lord didn't bless her with
00:49:36
the wisdom I needed in that moment and I would figure that [ __ ] out for me. I understand. I understand. You
00:49:43
understand? Was your mom not listening when you were blind once? Oh no. That's a bummer. Didn't bless your mom with
00:49:50
that? Uh eventually and out of nowhere my sight just popped back on and I was able to see my parents standing in the
00:49:57
doorway looking at me like I'm That's cool. That's fine. That's good. We were down for that. We can We
00:50:04
can hear you. We're trying to chat. Yeah. Mikey's [ __ ] his pants like I don't like it. Mikey literally just
00:50:10
goes, "I don't like it. I I'm good. Is it cool if I refer to you as Nicholas from here on out? Let me
00:50:17
know." Um, so her parents were looking at her like she may need a shrink. Thanks, guys. A1 protection there. One
00:50:24
incident stands out as the heaviest and the strangest. One day, my mom and I were home doing laundry together and
00:50:30
took a trip into the depths of hell to go put away my brother's clothes, as one does. As we stepped into the finished
00:50:35
basement common room, we immediately stopped and froze. Directly in front of us, where the doorway where the doorway
00:50:41
to the boy's room, uh, the boys bedroom was usually transparent and filled up by
00:50:45
sunlight, but now it was pitch black. It was like somebody had hung a blackout curtain in the doorway, preventing our
00:50:51
view. This [ __ ] was so dark, you just could not see into the room. You could not see the windows, the beds, and the
00:50:57
other doorway. You could see absolutely nothing. What the [ __ ] I immediately was like, "Nope, the [ __ ] not." Looked
00:51:04
at my mom who not only dropped the laundry and got the [ __ ] out of there, but also left me standing there alone.
00:51:10
Wow. Not A1. Did did not bless with something. That was the heaviest, most absorbing presence I've ever felt
00:51:18
in my life to this day. Damn. The unsettling feeling of a presence overwhelmed us. And to this day, my mom
00:51:24
swears it was demonic. No [ __ ] lady. You tried to evict Satan from his home. That's right. Lucifer J. Satan. Lucifer
00:51:30
Jim. Satan. I thought it was Jeffrey. But Jeffrey? I thought it was Jeffrey. I thought we decided Jim. No, we did. I
00:51:35
thought I thought it was Jeffrey. Oh, that's fair. I like the name Jeffrey. I like Lucifer Jeffrey. Jeffrey Satan.
00:51:41
Yeah, that's good. I like it. We We can workshop them. I like it. This experience was the culmination of unease
00:51:46
we'd felt over the years, and it remains the most vivid and horrifying event in my recollection of living in that house.
00:51:52
Despite my parents effort to restore and renew the home, the basement's dark history seemed to stick around. No m
00:51:57
amount of doorway an ointments, prayers, banishing ever got rid of that energy and weight. I guess you really can't
00:52:03
evict Satan himself from where he resides. Who knew? Hint, not my mom. Sharing this with you is not just about
00:52:09
recounting a haunting experience, but also about the inexplicable connection to the past that somea places carry and
00:52:16
why you should never try to renovate a basement house in a hillbilly town where who knows what took place because you'll
00:52:21
have wasted thousands and thousands of dollars and end up moving out shortly after completing all of that work. Thank
00:52:26
you for reading. Thank you for taking the time to read my letter. Tara, that was very ambo. Sincerely, former
00:52:33
Pentecostal '90s kid. Tara, former Pentecostal '90s kid. That was great. What a moniker. Horrifying. I love it.
00:52:39
Terra, that was so scary. I don't like your house at all. Your old house. No. I'm glad you don't live there anymore.
00:52:45
Should we do one more? We should probably do one more. Maybe. Did he say more or [ __ ] More. He wants
00:52:53
another one. Oh, he said do more. We were literally saying, should we do one more? And he said more. He said more.
00:52:59
All right, Nicholas. Okay, Nicholas. I think his name is Nicholas because he didn't say another name. He's not saying
00:53:03
no. I love the name Nicholas. So, shout out to you. Nice. All right. So, let's do one that is called
00:53:10
uh my mom sees auras and oh, a demon came for my older brother. Oh. Uh, the whole tail, including the intro, are
00:53:18
included in the pifa. Thank you. Pifa pifa. Pifer. Um, I don't know if I can use your name, so I'm not going to use
00:53:25
it yet. Hello, Ash, Elena, Dave, Debb, Mikey, and all other weirdos. Pathetic next to you.
00:53:34
That's for you. I think the charming for me. I know. I don't think it was. I don't think so. I
00:53:42
think we just got called pathetic next to you. I uh Damn. I don't know. I don't know, Nicholas. I don't think that was
00:53:49
her. At first, I thought it said pathetic next tale. I was like, "What about I was like, whoa, that was spot
00:53:55
on, Nicholas. And we haven't even started this tail." Nicholas, I don't think you were referring to me there. I
00:54:01
think we have a I don't think you're referring to me. Nicholas. Nicholas. Who's pathetic? Let us know. Ash or
00:54:07
Elena. If it says Mikey, I'm going to [ __ ] myself. Imagine if it says Mike. I would die. I'd die. All right. If this
00:54:14
gets read on the pod, I will simply pass away. Rest in peace. A dear friend introduced me to your podcast in 2021,
00:54:21
and I listened periodically until September of 2023. I was doing my last field trip fieldwork internship at a
00:54:28
children's clinic for occupational therapy school and was driving about an hour and a half to and from the clinic.
00:54:34
I worked for the same clinic that clinic that I did that field work for over a year and had almost a 2hour daily
00:54:40
commute. Oh, [ __ ] that. I was able to catch up on the backlog. Yes, even the underwater days to keep me sane. I now
00:54:46
work at another pediatric clinic only 30 minutes from my house and happily listen
00:54:50
to the pod on Monday and Thursdays while I drive or do paperwork. I'm also an amateur quilter and have listened to
00:54:56
your wonderful voices for hours as I've as I have pinned, pressed, and cussed out my life choices when I've made
00:55:01
mistakes. I cannot thank you enough for providing victims the opportunity to get
00:55:06
their stories told and the people that ended their lives the proper roasting they deserve. You wonderful humans, Ash
00:55:12
and Elena, for bringing the stories to life in the most enga- engaging way possible. Thank you, Mikey, for helping
00:55:17
everything run so smooth. Deb for reading all the stories and choosing some bangers. and Dave, oh magical
00:55:23
research wizard Dave, enough says. I are creating a spooky in the best way possible space for advocacy and a
00:55:31
friendship for those of all ages, orientations, spirituality, religious views, etc. Hell yeah. Thank you for
00:55:36
creating this sensational place for us weirdos. That was really sweet. Thank you. I didn't even know that that was
00:55:42
what a perfect one to end on. I know. Before I start, please don't use my name. I did it. Oh, look at that. I knew
00:55:48
it. It's like I knew. Yeah. Uh, but you gave me your name. Uh, I had to send a revised one of these with changed names
00:55:56
to make it easier to read. Thank you for doing that. I've included pictures at the bottom of my family, the zoo of pets
00:56:01
that live with my parents, and a reference picture. It'll make sense when you read a little further. These tales
00:56:06
are about my mama and her gift of reading people's auras. Her gift is not a party trick, and I don't want to have
00:56:11
people ask her to read their auras unprovoked. She's given me permission to share these stories. I um and it says I
00:56:19
had to revise the sec this a second time because my mother informed me that I had
00:56:22
told the first story wrong and she wanted the details correct. Iconic. I will also include a link to a news
00:56:28
article about an 85year-old woman from the small farming area that I live in who saved herself from a home intruder
00:56:34
because it was a wild tale. I didn't think I could write it better than the news. If you need a pallet cleanser or
00:56:38
just to be amazed, check it out. Share that story. I've included a 14 point double space pifa. I hope that's how
00:56:45
it's Satanic. Satanic. Nicholas. Wow. Nicholas gets it. Nicholas. He's on theme. He's like I
00:56:54
feel like he did like a he went when he did that. He did do that. I wrote this on a break from work, so unfortunately I
00:57:01
did not time it. Insert quote from DW Reed from the classic TV show Arthur. I'm a failure. Oh my god, I love her. I
00:57:08
also apologize for rambling to begin. Anyway, on to the tales. My mom is the epitome of the Shakespeare quote. Though
00:57:16
she be but little, she is fierce. At her tallest, she was 4 feet 10, 10 in if she
00:57:21
stretched. She is now about 4 foot n and a quarter. As a kid, we would always hear my mom say things about auras. It
00:57:29
was normal for us. She will tell strangers what their aura means sometimes, especially if it's unusual or
00:57:34
particularly special. We, my dad and my siblings, sometimes get embarrassed by this, but my mom persists with it
00:57:40
nonetheless. The auras that she sees tend to be the core of who someone is. The auras can get brighter or dimmer
00:57:46
depending on if someone is feeling well, uplifted, down or ill, etc. My sister Wyn has a double aura, a core of yellow
00:57:54
and an outer pink layer representing her energy levels. Pretty. My mom has seen Win around people that make her yellow
00:58:00
dim because they talk down to her or treat her badly. [ __ ] those people. Her pink ranges in color based on how well
00:58:06
she slept or how she's managing her medical conditions. Oh, that's cool. My older brother, Cletus, was performing
00:58:12
with a choir when he was in college. A student, Jill, was conducting the choir for several numbers, and she came on
00:58:18
stage appearing timid. Jill got to the middle of the stage and raised her arms to begin the number. Jill's confidence
00:58:24
was palpable. As soon as she raised her arms, my mom gasped and said, "Oh, I wish you could see that." After that
00:58:30
concert was done and we found Cletus, my mom said he had to tell her what my mom
00:58:35
saw. The moment that Jill raised her arms, my mom said that there was a silvery pink explosion across the stage.
00:58:41
Oh, that just gave me a chill. Me, too. I imagine it looks like the parting of the Red Sea in the Prince of Egypt. Now,
00:58:47
not all of my mom's experiences are positive. She's been a nurse longer than I've been alive and worked in the ER for
00:58:53
many years. Oh, man. Yes, my mom is a badass, will always be a hero in my eyes, and has crazy stories. She was
00:58:59
working the night shift when a man and his girlfriend/wife, I'm not positive if they were married or not, came in. His
00:59:05
most distinguishable feature to my mom was his black aura. Black is one of the rarest. It's not if not the rarest she
00:59:13
has ever seen. I think she's seen maybe two or three in her 60 plus years of life. Wow. Black shows her that the
00:59:19
person is evil at their core. Oo, my stomach just growled. Your core is evil. My stomach just
00:59:26
growled. My mom warned the female ER doctor not to close doors or be in the room alone with this man. The doctor
00:59:33
asked why, and my mom said that the man was abusing his partner, who I will call
00:59:37
Jane Doe. The doctor assessed him and he needed an X-ray. While the man was out of earshot, my mom asked Jane if she
00:59:44
needed help. Jane looked terrified, shook her head, and said, paraphrased, "There would be consequences from the
00:59:50
man if she knew if he knew my f mother was talking to her about what was going on." Oh, he was 100% harming this woman
00:59:56
behind closed doors. And I can't imagine the fear Jane must have felt when my mom
01:00:00
was able to clock it. My mom said, "If Jane changed her mind before they left, my mom would get the hospital police
01:00:06
officer involved." Jane smiled and thanked my mom. They finished all the tests and things they needed and left
01:00:11
the hospital. Sometime during the night, the ER staff looked up this man. He had
01:00:16
gotten out of jail after killing a young woman. Holy [ __ ] Holy [ __ ] I can't remember if it was because it was
01:00:23
manslaughter or technicality or some other [ __ ] We all know he had gotten away with murder and is probably
01:00:28
continuing to terrorize women/g good people like the small dick weasel he is. Yeah, there are other experiences she
01:00:34
has, but I don't want to take up too much time. I'll get into the second story about a demon coming for my
01:00:39
brother. Please do. Thank you. Cletus was my parents fourth pregnancy and the first one that made it past the first
01:00:45
trimester. After so many miscarriages, my parents were stoked for the idea of a little of the little pitterpatter of
01:00:52
feet. A my mom woke up in the middle of the night, I've never known when, but let's be real, probably about 3:00 a.m.
01:00:58
to see a black figure standing in front of her bathroom door. She could clearly see the outline of a humanoid figure in
01:01:04
the whites of eyes, but everything was black. Oh, I don't like the whites of eyes. Nicholas, what do you think? I
01:01:10
know you've been quiet. Nicholas, are you still there? She You're just listening to the to the tale. She asked,
01:01:15
"Why are you here?" And the figure simply stated, "I'm here for your baby." No, I'm Chili's. No. My mom literally
01:01:26
screamed my dad out of bed and demanded that he join her in praying for whatever
01:01:30
there this was to go away and stay away. I'm pretty sure that this happened at least one more time, but I'm not
01:01:36
positive. For that to happen once alone is I'm here for the baby and then for it
01:01:41
to happen again. Jesus Christ. Um, so she has told me quote there was no way in hell I would let that thing by by my
01:01:49
kids. My mom is a huge mama bear and gets quite scary despite her smaller stature. It's the small ones always too.
01:01:56
It's true. Cletus arrived not so long after, followed by me, my sister, and my younger brother. A thank you for all the
01:02:03
time you put into the podcast and for taking the time to read my rambling tale. Keep it weird, but not so weird
01:02:08
that I can't think of anything. So, please take it away, Ash. Only if you want to. Oh my god, Queen. That was so
01:02:14
kind. Not so weird that a a demon shows up to drag your baby to hell. No, over you. Over here. Over here. I said,
01:02:24
"Where are you?" He said, "Where are you?" And he was like, "I'm right over here." Oh, Nicholas, I love you.
01:02:29
Nicholas for life. Oh my gosh, you guys. These are really And this is signed a fellow weirdo. A fellow weirdo. Wow,
01:02:36
those were really good. You guys have some [ __ ] going on and your parents have
01:02:40
some [ __ ] going on. The aura one was so cool. Yes. and like the black ore, but
01:02:45
that one that the when she raised her arms and it was like an explosion of silvery light across. I love that.
01:02:51
That's really cool. And I love that your mom was like, "She's got to know." She was like, "I wish you could see that."
01:02:56
That's cool, guys. Damn. You made this satanic episode. So much fun. Happy 666. What? How did I die? Oh,
01:03:09
it was like It was a little dull. Damn. Okay, Nicholas. You know what? Nicholas has high standards being from the spirit
01:03:16
realm. And he he was like, "That was dull. Let's get into some crazy shit." Like, "How did I die?" How did I die?
01:03:20
Nicholas, do you know how you died? We'll update you guys. And damn. In the meantime, we hope you keep listening and
01:03:28
we hope you keep it weird, but not so weird that you don't tune in to find out how Nicholas died.
01:03:35
Nicholas, how did you die? How did you die? I mean, that's not really that creepy.
01:03:42
Oh my god. He will touch you. He will. He will touch you. [Music] What? Bye. Who will touch you? Who will touch
01:03:56
who? Dad. Ready. He did. He touched me. He fell like this. He's still Wait, Nicholas, did you
01:04:05
make that happen? In the shadow. That's really metal and I like it. Yeah. Do you like ghosts, Nicholas?
01:04:16
[Music]