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What's up, you guys? I'm Hailey. And I'm

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back, everybody. Welcome to Listener Stories, volume 26. Crazy that we're

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good start to spring and March. And yeah,

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episode. Yeah. And

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we're still making like, we have tons. I

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don't, I just like randomly pick them when

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I pick them. So we're still making our

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way through. So if you haven't heard yours

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yet, and you've sent one in, don't be

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discouraged or upset. Like we are

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still working through them. So yeah,

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we're gonna keep doing these listener

1:26

stories. So you

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know, well, like Andrea said, like don't, don't

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be discouraged if you haven't heard yours yet, because it

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might be coming. Alright, so

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let's just get into this week's

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listener stories or this month's listener stories.

1:42

Our first story is from Valentina.

1:44

Hi, Valentina. Also, I love your

1:46

name. That is such a gorgeous

1:48

name. Pretty. I know. All right.

1:53

Hey, I love your guys style and the fact

1:55

that you are so empathetic and tell people's stories

1:57

to get them the justice they deserve. know

2:00

your audio isn't as bad as you say it is

2:02

it sounds great to me. Well thank

2:04

you. I mean if you listen to some

2:07

of our earlier episodes maybe it wasn't so

2:09

great but yeah now we

2:11

we have mics we have like proper

2:13

setups and stuff but we're in a

2:15

better groove. Yeah a

2:19

little backstory but I grew up

2:21

in a somewhat typical Colombian household.

2:23

We're very superstitious. One example

2:25

is that we think that the soul of

2:27

a dead person can roam the earth for

2:29

three months but mainly to visit a relative

2:31

to say goodbye one last time. My

2:34

older sister is very convinced that spirits

2:36

are everywhere both good and bad. Some

2:39

of us in the family have even

2:41

had sleep paralysis with a sleep paralysis

2:43

demon. Oh my

2:45

god sleep paralysis terrifies

2:47

me. Same same. Just

2:50

anytime I hear stories about sleep paralysis I'm

2:52

like now I'm afraid it's gonna happen tonight.

2:54

I am too and

2:56

sometimes like I'll think I'm having it and then

2:59

I'll be like okay I

3:01

can get like all freaked out. Yeah

3:03

that's so scary. It

3:05

is terrifying. Okay

3:07

so some of us in my family

3:09

even have even had sleep paralysis with

3:11

a sleep paralysis demon or dreams with

3:13

what we think are the dead souls of

3:15

relative or both which would be me. So

3:18

you could say we might be a tiny

3:20

bit in touch with that side I guess.

3:22

Yeah I'd definitely say so. Which

3:25

I actually love that you're like in touch with

3:27

that side and it's kind of like part of

3:29

that culture that you're like you know they their

3:31

souls roam the earth for three months and you

3:33

can kind of be in touch with them and

3:36

they can like you embrace it. Yeah have whatever

3:38

closure they need and say proper goodbyes and all

3:40

that like I actually really love that. Yeah but

3:43

as a toddler my older sister used

3:45

to say I talked to Phil. I

3:48

was really convinced he was real but it

3:50

looked like I honestly was talking to nobody.

3:53

Fast forward to when I was about five years old I

3:55

woke up from a bad dream and happened to look in

3:57

the corner of my room to see a scrawny

4:00

bony creature that was being crushed by the

4:02

ceiling. The ceiling was like 9 or 10 feet

4:05

or something. It

4:08

was hiding its arms from me and

4:10

kept moving it in some sort of

4:12

nervous way. Its skin

4:15

was also pitch black and had

4:17

two tiny white eyes and no

4:19

mouth, just skin over it. Oh

4:23

my god. Its head

4:26

was disfigured in a way that

4:28

looked kind of like Slender Man

4:30

but with an extremely thin neck,

4:32

sharp chin, and jaw. Okay

4:35

I can like totally picture this thing. That

4:37

is so scary. Fast

4:40

forward to when I was 14, just two years

4:43

ago, when we moved from that house to

4:45

Texas. I was very anxious about moving

4:47

from my home in California and my sleep was

4:49

awful for the last two weeks I

4:51

lived there. One night I

4:53

had a dream with that same skinny

4:55

black tall creature where it was digging

4:57

up bodies in a cemetery and cutting

4:59

off the wrists of the bodies. Then

5:02

it turned to me and another figure that

5:04

was kind of built like the big bloated

5:06

morgho- morgho-

5:08

ghost from the third Conjuring

5:11

movie appeared. Oh my god.

5:14

I haven't seen that movie because like the Hose

5:16

movies actually freaked me out at the point where

5:18

I was like, I watched like the

5:20

first two and I was like no more. I'm

5:22

not welcoming this into my home. Goodbye. Not watching

5:24

any more of that shit. And

5:27

you guys know that I have not watched

5:29

those movies because- no thank you- but I

5:31

do know what that looks like because

5:33

I've seen like clips and stuff and- you

5:35

know- oh my god. The

5:39

giant ghost thing ran to me

5:41

and started scraping the skin off

5:43

my arms and hands. What?

5:47

After that I woke up and in the

5:50

same corner years before was the skinny black

5:52

thing except with its ribs now poking out

5:54

of its body. Its right arm had no

5:56

hand and instead flesh seemed to be ripped

5:59

off and. The left arm had a

6:01

sort of half car have hand looking thing.

6:05

As. Just for reference, when I'm nervous, I

6:07

play with my fingernails and hold my hand

6:10

and it started to mock me and do

6:12

the same thing with it's disfigured limbs and

6:14

after that it's started snapping the bones in

6:16

one hand it had in the one hand

6:18

it had making it more and more disfigured.

6:23

Why is this thing doing

6:25

is? Only. My un is

6:27

obviously taunting her for whatever reason.

6:32

Then I blew and it left. I'll

6:35

never know is that is it was the

6:37

spirit that lived in the house sale or

6:39

just my sleep paralysis. The men. Aboard.

6:41

The ladder? Yeah, I think it was

6:44

definitely a sleep paralysis. The man. That's.

6:47

Really scary and hopefully it didn't follow

6:49

you to Texas. Yeah,

6:51

dies terrify. All of that is

6:53

so like and seven. And yeah,

6:56

can I didn't really like of.

6:58

Horror. Movie yeah and you are really

7:00

good writer because I had like foley

7:02

pics or every single thing you were

7:04

saying but that also. Tells.

7:06

Me: how. Like. A Real and

7:09

terrifying this was you that you're able

7:11

to describe it in such detail because clearly

7:13

Like unified so clearly. Wow Valentina that it's

7:15

terrifying on. I hope you are okay

7:17

and I hope it did not follow You

7:20

Admit this doesn't happen again because I don't

7:22

know if I'd ever be able to

7:24

go to sleep again if I was. I

7:26

know if I was. You. One.

7:30

That happens Like people that. Suffer.

7:32

From sleep paralysis like they get a

7:34

flex they have a fear of going

7:36

to bed with I totally. I mean

7:38

I totally understand even I've never experienced

7:40

and up on the word guy I

7:43

was like him is not here No

7:45

I mean I would to like Eileen.

7:47

I am when I'm like nervous or anxious about

7:49

something I have dreams about. Fires could fire is

7:52

my biggest fear and so I ever. He doesn't

7:54

really happen as much anymore, but like when I

7:56

was a kid I would always have it like

7:58

the night before a new school. There or

8:00

like the night before a big day

8:02

or something and I would always be

8:04

scared to go to sleep because I

8:06

was like I normally do a lot.

8:08

I mean I am stop at nothing.

8:10

That's nothing compared to this. Ah yes

8:12

and. Wow.

8:15

Creepy. Very. Okay,

8:30

our next solicitor story. As such,

8:32

as many. Hey

8:34

ladies, I love the podcast. You

8:36

remind me so much at me and my work.

8:39

Best he saw. I love that. Have

8:41

a story that I would like to share.

8:44

It's not really true crime, not really paranormal.

8:46

And kind of a tear jerker. Oh,

8:49

are you have any issues and. It's

8:54

a big part of why I believe everything happens

8:56

for a reason. Be. On

8:58

April sixteenth, Twenty Twenty three

9:00

My dad passed away after

9:03

super short cancer cancer battle.

9:05

He was my hero and

9:07

lived for his grandkids. I'm

9:09

so sorry for your loss.

9:12

We were not even over the shock of

9:14

his passing out when on May fourth, twenty

9:16

twenty three I received a call that know

9:19

mother wants to hear. Mom.

9:21

I was in a car accident of. My

9:25

six year old daughter was on her

9:27

way to work and was less than two

9:30

miles from our house when a vehicle

9:32

coming at her hit a deer and

9:34

sent it airborne directly through her driver's

9:36

side windshield. Oh. My. God.

9:38

She took a direct hit to

9:40

the face by a pregnant female

9:43

deer. Oh. My.

9:45

God. Lake everything that

9:48

had to a line for that to

9:50

happen that it hit her right in

9:52

the days that is so and is

9:54

insane. Wow. Her

9:57

car continue down the road at road speed for.

10:00

75 feet and went into a ditch,

10:02

at which point it managed to find

10:04

the only opening in a row of

10:06

pine trees and continued 100 yards into

10:09

a field before stopping. Oh

10:11

my god. Luckily

10:13

my daughter was able to get out of

10:15

the car and was met immediately by a

10:17

good Samaritan that held her hands while another

10:19

passerby called 911. Wow.

10:23

The call I received was while my daughter was

10:25

in the ambulance on her way to a level

10:27

1 trauma facility. I was reassured

10:29

that she was fine, just a little banged up.

10:32

My mom drove me to the hospital

10:34

and upon arrival I was greeted by

10:36

a chaplain and a social worker. That

10:38

would be terrifying for me. Have a

10:40

chaplain meet me? Oh my gosh. I

10:42

would be like gutted. Yeah. They

10:45

explained to me that my daughter was on

10:47

a ventilator to protect her airway and in

10:49

a medically induced coma. Wow.

10:54

After about 2 hours I was able to finally

10:56

see her. I will never get that

10:58

image out of my head. Had

11:01

it not been for her long curly black hair

11:03

I would have thought I was in the wrong

11:05

room. She was unrecognizable.

11:07

Wow. She

11:11

was lucky and suffered no head, neck,

11:13

or brain trauma. She did however need

11:15

a full facial reconstruction to repair all

11:18

the damage she sustained.

11:21

She remained in a coma for 4 days. On

11:23

day 5 she woke up. She

11:27

explained where she was and why she

11:29

was there and after a few minutes

11:31

she looked at my mom and I

11:33

matter-of-factly and said, I saw Papa. After

11:38

the shock wore off of my mom and

11:41

I, my daughter explained that after the deer

11:43

hit her everything went white. She

11:45

heard a voice and looked over to the passenger

11:47

side of her vehicle where she saw

11:49

my dad holding the steering wheel.

11:52

That gave me full body chills.

11:54

Oh my gosh. He

11:57

told her you're going to be okay. When

12:00

her car stopped, he told her

12:02

she needed to get out and run towards the road

12:05

because she wouldn't be seen where her car stopped. I

12:09

fully believe my dad couldn't stay longer

12:13

here with us because he needed to keep her safe

12:15

and he couldn't do that here. We

12:18

took my daughter home after only 6 days in

12:21

the trauma unit. She is truly a badass.

12:26

Just 10 days after getting out of

12:28

the hospital, she attended her senior prom,

12:30

two black eyes, stitches and a hell

12:32

of a story. Wow, I love your

12:35

daughter. Good for her. Good

12:37

for her though. She really is a badass. Don't

12:39

miss out on those big things, girl. Oh yeah.

12:41

And like that's a, I mean, not a

12:43

great memory of how it happened, but I

12:46

love that she like went to prom and

12:48

in the future she'll be like, yeah, I

12:50

went to prom with two black eyes after

12:52

I was hit a deer in a major

12:54

car accident. Like I'm a badass. Wow. Yeah,

12:58

exactly. She

13:00

was on the mend and just had her

13:02

second and final facial surgery. Wow. That's

13:05

amazing. She will be

13:07

graduating in March of 2024, two months early. Wow.

13:14

She's a walking miracle that took a deer to the

13:16

face, had a 3% chance of ever leaving the

13:19

hospital, stayed for six days and

13:21

attended her prom just 10 days later. Wow.

13:25

That is amazing. She

13:27

is so freaking like

13:30

just the strength that that takes and

13:32

also shout out to you

13:35

for raising such a badass,

13:37

strong, determined daughter. Like that is

13:39

a testament to your parenting. Absolutely.

13:44

Keep up the awesome work. A forever

13:46

listener, Tiffany. Thank you so much

13:48

for sharing that story. First of all, that was

13:51

definitely a tearjerker and just a

13:54

remarkable story of survival

13:56

and perseverance and yeah, like

13:59

Haley said, you're Daughter is a bad ass

14:01

and that is a. Proves.

14:03

That what a. Good mom that you

14:05

are tail Yeah! And had you not

14:07

said on, she attended her senior prom

14:10

and with that I would have been

14:12

in forty years behind your dad being

14:14

there for her in, you know, you

14:17

guys believing like I needed to keep

14:19

her safe and that's why he couldn't

14:21

stay. I. Mean, I'm a

14:23

firm believer and like everything happens

14:25

for a reason and yeah, And

14:28

of oh wow. Okay, I'm knock

14:30

us anymore before I started sobbing of

14:33

Nasa Thank you so much for sharing

14:35

that sorry Tiffany! I absolutely love that.

14:37

I love that she had her grandpa

14:39

there to protect her. Yeah.

14:43

Ok Er next story is

14:45

from Tracy hi Tracey. Happy

14:49

New Year Ladies, Happy New Year! I think you

14:51

can still say Happy New Year like I mean

14:53

obviously. Hell yeah. I. Sent this story and like.

14:56

In January probably by and I think this

14:58

has a happy New year when you see

15:00

somebody that you haven't seen since. The

15:02

last year. So yeah, absolutely.

15:05

I really enjoy listening to your podcast. I have

15:07

a couple of ghost stories for you. The.

15:10

First one happened maybe seventeen years. Ago

15:12

or so my. Sister was down visiting with

15:14

my two nephews, the youngest in the process

15:16

of being potty trained so he was around

15:18

two. Or three years old. We

15:20

were all visiting. My. Mother in law

15:23

when both of my nephews needed to use

15:25

the bathroom at the same time. The.

15:27

Oldest use the upstairs wine and

15:29

my husband. Took the youngest to the bathroom

15:31

in the basement. There is no door,

15:33

only a shower curtain for privacy. My.

15:36

Nephew was still able to see the rest of the

15:38

basement while he was going party. He

15:40

looks up and asked my husband who the

15:42

police officer was standing in the other room.

15:46

My. Husband and nephew were the only

15:48

ones down there. The. House has

15:51

been a my husband family for several

15:53

generations. We. Believe my nephew was

15:55

seeing my husband's grandfather because of the

15:58

mention. Of the Uniform. his

16:00

grandfather at one time was a prison

16:03

guard. And like a

16:05

little toddler isn't gonna know the difference between like

16:07

a prison uniform, like prison guard uniform and a

16:09

police uniform. Right. Okay, also

16:11

that is so scary because we've talked about

16:13

this before, but like kids 100% can see

16:15

everything. And

16:18

so the fact that like he was just

16:21

sitting there and he was like, oh, who's

16:23

that police officer? I would have shit my

16:25

pants and sprinted up the stairs. Like that

16:27

is so scary. Grab the baby

16:29

and run. Yeah, literally. Oh

16:31

my God. Okay.

16:34

Oh, that's freaked me out. A

16:37

few years later at the same house, my husband

16:39

and I were locking things up one night, getting

16:41

ready to head home. His mother was in a

16:43

nursing home at the time. So we were just

16:45

there making sure all was in order. As

16:47

we were leaving, I realized I had left my purse on

16:49

the couch. My husband went

16:52

on out to the car and I ran

16:54

back in. No sooner than I

16:56

had the door open to the living room, I heard

16:58

a woman scream, help. I shot out

17:00

of the house as fast as I can, as

17:03

I could to see if my husband heard the scream. Surely

17:06

it was someone outside, right? Nope,

17:08

he didn't hear a thing. I never

17:10

went back in that house in the dark by

17:12

myself ever again. Somebody

17:14

was in the house shouting help, like, wait,

17:17

don't leave, like help me. Oh

17:19

my God. Yeah, trying to get you to

17:21

come down there to do something. I

17:23

would never go back in that house, period. Yeah,

17:26

I would just be like, RIP to

17:28

my purse. Yeah,

17:31

I'll get, I can replace everything there. I'll get another

17:33

one. I'll come back tomorrow when it's light out. Oh

17:36

my God. Thank

17:38

you for taking time to read my

17:40

stories. Keep up the awesome work, ladies.

17:42

Wow, thank you, Tracy. That's, whoo,

17:45

that's scary. All

17:49

right, our next story is from an

17:51

anonymous listener. Hi, Haley and

17:53

Andrea, I love your podcast. Thank

17:56

you. My friend

17:58

told me about it when we were discussing the watch.

18:00

your show on Netflix. I told

18:02

her I found the case fascinating and she

18:04

mentioned you did an episode on it. I

18:06

listened and became hooked." Awesome. Hailey

18:08

did a great

18:10

job covering that case. Yeah,

18:13

that was a scary case. And I

18:16

covered that like before the show came out. And

18:18

then when the show came out, I like got

18:20

reinvigorated like looking into the case again. And it

18:22

still freaks me out if I think too hard

18:24

about it. So also a really good show. Highly

18:27

recommend. And one of

18:29

the characters also is

18:32

referencing another case

18:36

that we covered John List. And

18:38

one of the characters in the Watcher is like basically

18:40

like John List.

18:42

So very, very creepy.

18:45

And shout out to your friend for recommending our podcast. And I'm

18:47

glad you're here. Yeah, always share

18:49

with your friends. Thank you. I

18:53

live in Chicago and unfortunately many neighborhoods

18:56

that were once considered safe are now

18:58

not safe. My neighborhood is one of

19:00

them. Unfortunately, multiple

19:02

kidnappings had taken place in the

19:04

neighborhood. All witnesses could say,

19:08

all witnesses could say was that they saw

19:10

a white van lurking around the time of

19:12

the kidnapping. I was

19:14

in college at the time and took the bus to school

19:16

every day. So I had to do some walking in the

19:18

early and evening hours. When

19:21

it's like dusk, dawn, kind

19:23

of dark. Yeah. Yeah.

19:27

I would sometimes stop by a grocery store or

19:29

pharmacy in the neighborhood. So that was more walking.

19:32

Before I went somewhere, my mom always reminded me to

19:34

be careful. If I went to

19:36

throw out the garbage, she would tell me to

19:38

check the alley before stepping out and to go

19:40

back inside the house if I noticed any vans.

19:44

One Saturday morning, I had a dentist appointment

19:46

and I had to take the bus. I

19:48

didn't need anything. So I just wore my

19:50

jacket, had my ID in the inside pocket

19:52

and had my phone in my outer pocket.

19:55

But Most importantly, I carried

19:57

my Kubaton, a self-defense keychain.

20:00

They'd weapon. Oh very smart.

20:02

Yeah. As I

20:04

approached the bus thought I notice a man standing

20:06

nearby am. I. Am very on edge

20:08

with others, especially this Manson. Something told

20:10

me he was shady. Trust.

20:13

Your gut, man. That's. right?

20:15

That's right. I

20:17

kept looking opposite direction as the man

20:19

would start wouldn't stop staring at me

20:21

who I prayed I would keep me

20:24

safe and clung to my cuba time

20:26

as I. In case I had to

20:28

use it. I fucking hate that shit. Like

20:30

when you but you know what I do.

20:32

I just stare at them back in their

20:34

fucking eyes. I use more. I used to

20:36

get nervous and might look away and dark

20:38

my way, but now I just stare right

20:40

back at them because chances are they'll be

20:42

like what the fuck and stop staring at

20:44

you yeah usually and they might be like.

20:46

Oh they are. Bill know what I

20:48

look like or whatever so that's that's

20:50

Marianna. Not you down to do but

20:52

it's not easy Know it. It takes

20:54

a lot of like nervous nurse to

20:56

like a woman home but he's not

20:59

a it. Nine times out of hand

21:01

has worked for me. The.

21:04

Man as me which direction of us going.

21:06

That was weird considering the bus stop we

21:08

were at. I told him I was going

21:10

north as that was the direction the bus

21:12

was going which is yeah that the alley

21:14

makes of and super close and yet. I.

21:18

Kept myself but after a few man he

21:20

asked do you drive. For. Medical reasons

21:22

I cannot drive but I told the

21:24

man yes but I prefer to take

21:26

the bus smart. Again, don't like

21:28

give away too much. Because

21:32

if he's like, oh, medical, I. They.

21:34

Don't an advantage? Yeah, he might try

21:36

to. Use that. Night.

21:41

He then asked me if I wanted

21:43

to ride i knew something was off

21:45

and politely said no thank you to

21:47

jail. After see minutes he asked me

21:49

how old I was. I was nineteen

21:51

at the time, but my gut told

21:53

me to say seventeen. After

21:56

I told him he seemed upset. Wow

21:59

That. I would not have thought

22:01

that. So that is really smart.

22:04

Like, I would have thought that

22:06

you're a minor, like 25 or

22:08

something, but that actually is really

22:11

smart to make yourself. Yeah. Yeah.

22:13

A minor. I looked

22:15

away again and kept a firm hold

22:17

on my kubaton. After a few minutes,

22:19

I heard what sounded like a car

22:22

door closing. By reflex, I looked in

22:24

the direction of the sound and saw

22:26

a white van driving off. And

22:29

the man was no longer standing there. Oh

22:31

my God. I was

22:33

in complete shock. Before I could do

22:36

anything, my bus pulled up. I immediately hopped on

22:38

and headed to my appointment. Every

22:41

time I think back to that day, I think,

22:43

did I almost get kidnapped? I

22:46

think it's very possible that that's exactly what

22:48

that man was trying to do. Yeah.

22:51

He was definitely trying to get you in his

22:53

van for one reason or another, if that was

22:55

his van. Yeah. I think

22:57

God, nothing happened to me. And my mom

22:59

and I are always praying for protection over

23:01

us. Thank you, ladies, for

23:03

doing this podcast. I enjoy listening. Keep up

23:05

the great work. Whoa.

23:08

Shout out to you and your mom for being

23:11

so aware and

23:13

knowing, yeah, you

23:15

thinking, like, I'm not going to give

23:17

away information. You had everything

23:20

like your wits about you. Because,

23:23

yeah, I definitely- Predators are persistent. They are

23:26

fucking persistent. They will keep on and keep

23:28

on and keep on until they wear you

23:30

down to where you just cave because you

23:32

run out of things, excuses.

23:34

Yeah. Or you feel bad about, say,

23:38

like being, quote unquote, rude or

23:40

something like that. Yeah. Fuck

23:42

that. Yeah. Wow.

23:44

Wow. Thank you for sending that in because that

23:46

is a good reminder for all of us to

23:48

be vigilant, be aware of our surroundings, and

23:51

don't be afraid to lie to a complete stranger

23:53

because you don't owe them shit. Yeah,

23:55

truly. And it's okay to be rude. Like,

23:59

it is okay. to be rude. It cannot

24:01

be polite to people, especially when they're making you

24:03

feel uncomfortable. Yeah, obviously

24:05

don't just be rude for no apparently

24:07

reason, but if you're uncomfortable, like absolutely be

24:09

rude. Yeah. Wow. Okay.

24:13

Thank you for sharing that. Good reminder to always be aware

24:15

of your surroundings. All

24:18

right. Our next story is from Rebecca. Hi, Rebecca.

24:21

Hi, Rebecca. Hi, guys. Writing

24:24

to you from Ontario, Canada. I

24:27

want to go to Canada so bad. I've

24:29

never been to Canada except for when

24:31

my flight got

24:34

delayed and there was a whole issue with my

24:36

life from Italy to the US and we had

24:38

to stay in Canada overnight. But I don't count

24:40

that because we literally went straight from the airport to the

24:42

hotel and then back to the airport. So I want

24:45

to go to Canada so bad. Yeah, it doesn't

24:47

count. Love

25:01

the podcast. I binge listen daily so I

25:03

can catch up and listener stories are one

25:05

of my favorite episodes. Yay. That

25:07

makes me so happy. I

25:10

have two stories for you, one dream based and

25:12

one paranormal, I think. Oh,

25:15

okay. Story one happened when I

25:17

was in university in 2013. Let

25:20

me start this by saying I've always and still

25:22

do have very vivid dreams, but they never seem

25:25

to be anything until this story. I

25:27

used to work part time in the computer labs

25:29

on campus. Great laid back job

25:31

where I could study and do assignments, especially

25:33

on slow nights. So

25:35

one night I had a dream. It was

25:37

a very vivid dream where my boss called

25:39

us all into a meeting and told us

25:41

she was shutting down the computer lab to

25:43

open a fried chicken joint. Funny, I know.

25:46

So random. I

25:48

don't want to do that anymore. Let's make chicken. Hey,

25:52

the chick fil a don't blame her. Yeah,

25:54

true. So we all

25:56

converted the giant Xerox printers into deep

25:59

fry machines. we could make this

26:01

fried chicken. So the dream

26:03

continued and we successfully opened this fried chicken

26:05

joint and then I woke up. I

26:07

got ready for my shift and walked to the

26:09

campus. I was living off campus at the time.

26:12

When I got there, I was told to go home

26:14

because the computer lab was closed down. Turns

26:18

out the entire printer system had fried

26:20

and all the printers needed to be

26:22

replaced. So there would be no

26:24

work until it got fixed. That's

26:27

funny. That's like a little coinky dink.

26:31

When I left the night before, everything was

26:33

working fine. Not sure why I dreamed that

26:35

the printer is becoming deep fryers, but I

26:38

find it weird that the next day the

26:40

entire system was fried. Some sort of thick

26:42

sense. Sense or what? I don't know. I

26:45

definitely think you had some sort of

26:47

like- That's funny. Something. That is really

26:49

funny. Yeah. And I love-

26:51

Play on words. Yeah, I love how

26:53

it turned from like fried printers and

26:55

electronics to fried chicken. That's

26:58

so funny. My

27:01

second story happened two years later in 2015, the

27:04

spooky paranormal one. I

27:06

was driving home around 1.30 AM from

27:08

my then boyfriend, now ex's house. It

27:12

was only a five minute drive, 10

27:14

minutes at the most from my parents' house. I

27:17

was driving down the main road right beside the

27:19

bay and noticed there was not a single other

27:21

car. I didn't think much of it

27:23

because it was late and a weekday. As

27:26

I was driving, I noticed what looked like a

27:28

homeless man standing in the middle of the road

27:30

under a street light pointing into the bay. This

27:33

is a little creepy, like just standing under a street light,

27:35

but okay. Yeah. I

27:37

swerved to avoid him, and when I looked in

27:40

my rear view mirror, he was gone. When

27:42

I looked forward again, there he was, standing

27:44

again in the middle of the road under

27:46

another street light pointing out to the bay.

27:50

Oh my God. Again, I

27:52

swerved around him, and when I looked back,

27:54

he was again gone. The

27:57

first time I thought maybe I was tired and I

27:59

was seeing things, The second time I started getting

28:01

a little freaked out. It

28:03

happened one more time and I started getting

28:05

a really bad feeling. Yeah,

28:08

that's creepy. I

28:11

drove well over the speed limit to get back to my

28:13

parents' house. Due to them living in a

28:15

townhouse complex, I had to park on the street. I

28:18

had to park a bit of a walk, but

28:20

being spooked by this man, I parked and then

28:22

sprinted to my parents' house, locking the door and

28:25

booking it up to my room. I'm

28:27

not sure what I saw, the reason why I

28:29

saw him three times, or if he

28:31

was trying to tell me something, but it freaked

28:33

me out and I avoided driving down that road

28:35

at night for a good while after. Yeah,

28:39

I would too. I think there

28:41

was definitely some sort of like

28:43

spirit or something following

28:45

you, trying to freak you

28:48

out if nothing else, but

28:50

yeah. So, I have

28:52

the stories were all over the place and hopefully

28:55

they made sense. My ADHD has

28:57

made storytelling hard. We

28:59

relate. We relate. Can't

29:02

wait to hear more episodes. Keep it human,

29:04

Rebecca. Thank you for

29:06

sharing, Rebecca. That

29:08

yeah, I would never

29:11

drive down that road again because there was

29:13

definitely something there. Yeah, I

29:15

would literally avoid that road like the

29:17

plague. That wow, very scary. And

29:19

I'm glad that you were able to like swerve

29:21

to avoid and it didn't,

29:23

the man or whatever this spirit

29:26

thing was didn't like follow you home.

29:29

And yeah, like what was I trying to tell you though?

29:31

That's what I'm wondering. Am I? I wonder

29:34

if it was just like, I wonder if it was just like, you

29:37

know, trying to play tricks or like

29:39

trying to get you to crash or something like,

29:41

true. Like you hit the spirit,

29:44

you would have actually hit like something

29:46

else. Yeah. This

29:49

is creepy. All

29:51

right. Our final, finer. Our

29:53

final listener story is from

29:55

Kate. Hi, Kate. Hi,

29:58

y'all. I just became a

30:00

listener to the podcast and I love it. I

30:03

love a good binge worthy podcast. So thank you.

30:05

You are so welcome. And thank you for

30:07

listening. Thank you for listening. My

30:10

name is Kate and I am born and

30:12

raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. That's so cool.

30:14

I want to go to New Orleans so

30:16

badly. Let's go, man. I want

30:18

to go. I've been, I went, but I was

30:20

like too young to do anything really. So

30:23

I want to go as an adult and enjoy

30:25

like all the food and the spirits and all

30:28

that. And yeah, spirits, drinks and spirits. This

30:33

story takes place just about 12 years ago. I

30:35

was a senior in high school and it was

30:37

the end of the year. So I was studying

30:40

for finals. I was home alone

30:42

on a Saturday night studying. My dad was

30:44

out of my dad was out and about

30:46

running errands. The house that

30:48

we were living in at the time was a

30:50

townhouse weird. That last story has to do. Now,

30:54

the thing about the townhouses is that they are all connected.

30:57

There was about 20 of them connected in

30:59

a row, but the walls weren't very thin, so

31:01

we rarely heard our neighbors. Okay. I

31:05

was studying in our dining room and my downstairs

31:07

was an open floor plan. So the living room

31:09

and dining room were basically combined. My

31:12

dad's room was directly above the living room. And

31:14

when someone walked around upstairs, you could hear it

31:16

loud and clear. Well,

31:21

as I'm studying, I was studying. I

31:23

hear loud, prevalent footsteps.

31:26

Okay. Cause that

31:28

one's home. Remember, I

31:30

ignored it at first because I figured maybe it was

31:33

the neighbor, but it kept

31:35

getting louder and the footsteps sounded like they

31:37

were exiting the room heading towards the

31:39

staircase. Uh-uh. Nope.

31:42

So naturally I freak out. I

31:46

immediately called my dad panicking and he tells me

31:48

to calm down and that he is on the

31:51

way. So in the meantime, I kept hearing the

31:53

footsteps and I refused to go to even go

31:56

near the bottom of the steps to see if

31:58

I could see anyone upstairs. Yeah, I'd

32:00

be like, I'm not gonna

32:03

be here. Thank you. No.

32:08

Even though when I hear noises in my house, I

32:10

do actually go and investigate them, but See,

32:14

I don't and I just pretend I don't

32:16

hear them. Um, we just moved and so

32:18

now we're like hearing all the new noises

32:20

in the new house and like that we're

32:22

not used to and we're just like That's

32:25

just a house noise. We're gonna ignore it Yeah.

32:29

And your kid your child is in your room. Whereas

32:31

my kids are in their own room So I feel

32:33

like I as a parent my duty is

32:35

to go investigate. So that's fair. That's

32:37

fair. Yeah My

32:40

dad happened to be across town and it was going to take him

32:42

about 45 minutes to get home.

32:44

Oh my god I

32:47

was terrified. So I ended up calling the

32:49

police. I mean that's smart, you know Because

32:51

you never know there could be somebody bringing me

32:53

into something. Yeah Yeah, the police

32:56

got to my house and searched the entire

32:58

house and found nothing So

33:01

a little backstory Oh,

33:03

so a little backstory. My dad was dating

33:05

a lady for many many years in 2010

33:08

She was involved in a deadly train

33:10

crash and at the time she had

33:12

been living with us. Oh my god

33:15

That is so i'm so sorry. That's

33:17

awful. Wow. I am so sorry After

33:21

she died I always felt this strange energy

33:23

I would pass by the room where all

33:25

her stuff was Oh

33:28

Interestingly, we ended up moving

33:30

shortly after this incident. Luckily.

33:32

Nothing like this has ever happened to me again Thank

33:35

you for listening and I hope my story makes it on

33:37

this show Xoxo Kate

33:40

Wow, okay. I took a turn. I was not

33:42

expecting it to take but I mean It

33:46

definitely could have been your dad's, you

33:48

know, your dad's girlfriend Wanting

33:50

her stuff back. I don't know like maybe

33:52

she was just connected to her belongings, you

33:54

know, wow Well,

33:57

thank you so much. And thank you guys so much for sending

33:59

all those tails in they were really good

34:01

we wow we had a

34:03

little bit of everything the spooky

34:07

the scary the

34:09

tearjerker good reminders yeah

34:12

definitely that was a great

34:15

batch of stories and yeah if you want

34:17

to send in your story please do so

34:19

we will continue to do these we love

34:21

doing them and thank you for

34:24

being awesome listeners yeah we love

34:26

you guys so much and we will have a

34:28

brand new listener stories for you guys next month

34:30

but until then keep it

34:32

human bye bye

34:35

guys