Don’t Look Out Toward the Fields: A Paranormal Encounter

<v Speaker 1>Welcome to True Scary Story. Today's account comes from Aiden, who,
<v Speaker 1>due to the experiences we're about to hear, was changed
<v Speaker 1>and even started his own podcast called Susto. My name
<v Speaker 1>is Edwin and here is Aiden's true Scary story.
<v Speaker 2>Hi everyone, my name is Aiden Castianos. I am originally
<v Speaker 2>from the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. It's right on
<v Speaker 2>the Texas Mexico border. The experience that I had that
<v Speaker 2>really got me into the paranormal was an evening at
<v Speaker 2>an aunt and uncle's house. It's built on top of
<v Speaker 2>these cinder blocks. It's a lifted wooden house. I grew
<v Speaker 2>up in a house like that too, and we would
<v Speaker 2>always joke when it's cold outside, it's colder inside. When
<v Speaker 2>it's hot outside, it's hotter inside. You can hear everything
<v Speaker 2>that's happening. Just the way that those houses were built,
<v Speaker 2>everything echoed, even noise. Growing up, we had barbecues all
<v Speaker 2>the time. There was always a got aness out of happening.
<v Speaker 2>It seemed to rotate whose family was going to stay
<v Speaker 2>when the barbecue ended. One evening, that was my family,
<v Speaker 2>because my parents and myself the barbecues ended, everybody's gone
<v Speaker 2>except for my aunt and my uncle, my parents, and
<v Speaker 2>myself I was very young, maybe sixth grade or junior high.
<v Speaker 2>We were sitting in their kitchen to paint that for you.
<v Speaker 2>If you can imagine it. The back of their house,
<v Speaker 2>there was a door to the backyard. Above the sink,
<v Speaker 2>there was a window where you could see what we
<v Speaker 2>call monte you could say. It was like just trees
<v Speaker 2>and bushes and stuff. That's how the whole Rio Grande
<v Speaker 2>Valley is. It's a very agricultural area in the state.
<v Speaker 2>Imagine this house sitting in the middle of all this
<v Speaker 2>empty land with just fields and monte is surrounding it.
<v Speaker 2>It was at night. My aunt starts telling my parents
<v Speaker 2>how she's worried because her sons are out. She's worried
<v Speaker 2>for their safety, just general mother things. My parents try
<v Speaker 2>to calm her down, and they try to tell her,
<v Speaker 2>you've raised good kids. Your sons have good heads on
<v Speaker 2>their shoulders. They have cell phones now, not to age myself,
<v Speaker 2>people were just starting to get their own cell phones.
<v Speaker 2>My mom said, they'll be fine. They're not going to
<v Speaker 2>drink and drive, and if they need help, they have
<v Speaker 2>our numbers. We can go pick them up or something.
<v Speaker 2>Mytha says I'm not worried about what they're doing out there.
<v Speaker 2>I know that they're fine, I know they're responsible. Worried
<v Speaker 2>about what happens when they tried to come home. We're
<v Speaker 2>all very confused by this, because what does that mean.
<v Speaker 2>My parents ask her what's going on when they're trying
<v Speaker 2>to get home. My Thea starts telling us the last
<v Speaker 2>couple times that her boys have gone out. When they
<v Speaker 2>get home, they will either tell their parents or their
<v Speaker 2>parents would be awake. They would all experience it together.
<v Speaker 2>Just strange things would happen. They would hear voices or
<v Speaker 2>noises when my Thea she would stay up washing dishes late,
<v Speaker 2>looking out that back window into the monte. She could
<v Speaker 2>see shadows at night. When they'd go to check, there
<v Speaker 2>would be nobody there. Nobody would have reason to be
<v Speaker 2>out there. Again, it's in the middle of all this
<v Speaker 2>field land and stuff. There's no roads that go into
<v Speaker 2>that neighborhood. Just weird things started happening at night. As
<v Speaker 2>they're telling us this, we're sitting in their kitchen. It's
<v Speaker 2>a long take. My parents are on one side, my
<v Speaker 2>aunt and my uncle on the other side. I'm at
<v Speaker 2>the head of the table, opposite of me is their
<v Speaker 2>back door. She's telling us this, and in the middle
<v Speaker 2>of her explaining these strange occurrences, that back door that
<v Speaker 2>I have a direct line of sight too, starts shaking violently.
<v Speaker 2>The handle is metal, and it's jiggling like someone's trying
<v Speaker 2>to open it, and the door is being pulled back
<v Speaker 2>and forth. In this wooden house, you could feel the
<v Speaker 2>whole room shaking. Everybody froze and was staring at the door.
<v Speaker 2>There was this three liter of soda next to me
<v Speaker 2>on the table, and I slowly pushed it in front
<v Speaker 2>of my face to guide myself from this door. I
<v Speaker 2>was scared. I didn't know what to do. I had
<v Speaker 2>never really seen anything like that before. I don't know
<v Speaker 2>why I thought this would protect me. Rock rose in
<v Speaker 2>for a minute, and my uncle he gets up. He's
<v Speaker 2>grumbling something under his breath. He goes to the door
<v Speaker 2>and he rips it open. There's nothing there. We're all
<v Speaker 2>even more silent if that could happen. I'm petrified. At
<v Speaker 2>this point, he says it was a dog. It was
<v Speaker 2>probably a dog just messing with the door. I saw
<v Speaker 2>when you open the door, I couldn't look away, even
<v Speaker 2>though I wanted to, and there was nothing there. I
<v Speaker 2>saw that there was nothing there. He closes the door
<v Speaker 2>and he sits back down. My aunt she starts getting
<v Speaker 2>scared again. She says, you see, that's what I'm talking about.
<v Speaker 2>I feel like there's something on this land. There's something
<v Speaker 2>out there, and I'm worried that something's going to happen
<v Speaker 2>to the boys when they try to get home later. Again,
<v Speaker 2>as she's trying to explain this to us, the door
<v Speaker 2>starts shaking again, even harder this time. This entire time,
<v Speaker 2>I couldn't move. I was frozen. I wanted to run
<v Speaker 2>to a different part of the house, but I was
<v Speaker 2>just scared to move. Again, this door is shaking violently
<v Speaker 2>back and forth. The handle. You could hear the metal jingling.
<v Speaker 2>My uncle gets up again, opens the door. This time
<v Speaker 2>we see a dog. But the dog is running up
<v Speaker 2>to the door. It wasn't already there. He said, it's
<v Speaker 2>the dog. It's the dog. Throws the dog a scrap
<v Speaker 2>of leftover meat, closes the door. But I'm thinking no again,
<v Speaker 2>I can see this all happening. The dog was running
<v Speaker 2>up to the door. It closes, the door, sits down.
<v Speaker 2>My uncle chimes in and he's just trying to brush
<v Speaker 2>it off, like it's just you know, there's straight dogs
<v Speaker 2>out here or out here in the monday, there's animals
<v Speaker 2>and stuff. It's probably coyotes or just trying to explain
<v Speaker 2>it away. He's a big skeptic. Okay, sure, animals, even
<v Speaker 2>though we're not buying it. As he's talking about that,
<v Speaker 2>we hear the dog at the door whimpered, like when
<v Speaker 2>a dog gets hit, it starts to cry. We hear
<v Speaker 2>the cry getting fainter and fainter. The dog is running away.
<v Speaker 2>We can hear it running away again. The door starts
<v Speaker 2>to shake. My uncle was right there, ready for it.
<v Speaker 2>He was waiting for it. He knew it was going
<v Speaker 2>to happen again. So he gets up, throws the door
<v Speaker 2>open again. There's nothing. Nothing. By that third time, we
<v Speaker 2>had enough. The first time was enough for me, but
<v Speaker 2>I was at their mercy. My parents they drove us.
<v Speaker 2>I had to wait for them. By that third time,
<v Speaker 2>my parents were like, Okay, we're gonna go. We'll pray
<v Speaker 2>for your kids. I don't know if they came up
<v Speaker 2>with the game plan or what the conversation was, but
<v Speaker 2>I was in escape mode. I was ready to get
<v Speaker 2>out of there. But also that meant that I had
<v Speaker 2>to walk outside to the car, which I didn't want
<v Speaker 2>to do because I don't know what's out there. Something's
<v Speaker 2>out there terrorizing us, and I think I just remember
<v Speaker 2>running to my parents' van and just jumping in and
<v Speaker 2>like ready to go. And I've never been back to
<v Speaker 2>that house since that happened. That is definitely one of
<v Speaker 2>the biggest contributions to my interest in the paranormal. I
<v Speaker 2>think it's one of the biggest reasons why I started
<v Speaker 2>my own podcast about the paranormal on my show. It's
<v Speaker 2>called Susto, and I tell scary stories from the folklore
<v Speaker 2>of Latin American and Hispanic cultures, because aside from that
<v Speaker 2>one experience, I heard so many stories about le chusas
<v Speaker 2>and lay Chupacabra's lukukui, and so you can imagine when
<v Speaker 2>this was happening that night, all these kind of legends,
<v Speaker 2>these monsters, They're running through my head and I'm just
<v Speaker 2>going through this rolodex of Okay, which one is it,
<v Speaker 2>which one is it? Which one's coming after us?
<v Speaker 1>Right now?
<v Speaker 2>That moment in my life was a big, I think,
<v Speaker 2>contributing factor to starting susto. You know what, I really
<v Speaker 2>I haven't told this story too much on my own show.
<v Speaker 2>I think I've mentioned it a couple times, but I
<v Speaker 2>haven't gone into such great detail. You're retelling it now
<v Speaker 2>I'm thinking about I don't think I've ever had a
<v Speaker 2>real conversation with my parents about it. It was one
<v Speaker 2>of those things where it happened and we just didn't
<v Speaker 2>really talk about it. I don't think any of us
<v Speaker 2>wanted to remember it. That's why I'm like this now.
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