Episode 103 - Real Scary Stories 5

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Hello everyone.

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And welcome back to another episode of the lunatic radio hour podcast. I'm Abby Brer. I'm sitting here with Alan Codan. Hello?

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And I am so excited. Do you know what today's episode is? No.

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Today we have some excellent real life paranormal stories that people have submitted and I am just so, so excited about them. Oh, we like these. I love these episodes.

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I love paranormal stories.

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Please reach out to us with your personal paranormal experiences, your weird experiences. These episodes are just the most fun, but I'm thrilled with what we have today. Cool. What do we got?

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These stories come from a, a few different sources.

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It was actually I posted on Twitter and we got some really amazing responses from that. And then we had a few other people reach out to us as well.

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So really exciting. If again, please reach out with your paranormal stories.

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We wanna feature them. Wait, we got, we, we, we got these over Twitter.

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Half of them are from Twitter. Yes. We're gonna read scary tweets. Well, they, no, they they've reached out to me and then sent me longer stories via email's just be short enough. They're not, they're not that short. No, no <laugh> but we have, I think four stories for you. Again, these are all personal experiences, but they're not fiction.

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They're things that people have experienced and, um, you know, varying lengths and varying levels of scariness. So, you know, just buckle up because it's a paranormal episode today.

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I'm still hung up on this idea of horrific tweets. Well, there's a whole horror Twitter out there. If you, if you wanna join it, there's a horror Twitter. There's, there's a Twitter forever. I mean sure.

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But like lots of horror writers, lots of people who tweet about their favorite horror, actually I will say this one of my favorite Twitter accounts is this guy, I don't even know his name, but his whole premise is that every day until he forgets he, um, Photoshops Leatherface into like a famous historic photo and just every day and he forgets. Yeah. And like, just, and that's what he says, like, you know, days 35, I'm doing, you know, every day I'm doing this until I forget to do it or I miss a day. And it's, they're just so good. What, once he forgets a day, is I don't know. That's just what he says.

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He just hasn't forgotten yet. Yeah.

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He hasn't forgotten yet. That's incredible. Yeah. Yeah. Wow.

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So there's a lot of fun, uh, horror, Twitter accounts out there for you. Uh, I mean, I was trying to think like how scary can a tweet really be, but then I got thinking about the two sentence horror, so I brought it.

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Oh my gosh. Yeah, totally. And that's some of the most like chilling.

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Chilling. Yeah. That's the word?

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Absolutely. Like we so weird things.

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I think like the hardest to write that's like such a struggle for me is to evoke something so strong and such a short time. So with, with so few words.

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Uh, yes. I think the really, really great ones.

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Aren't like the, the, like the gotcha.

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With like a little twist. Mm-hmm,<affirmative> it? The, they're the ones that just kinda like sit with you and it feels like a bigger part of a hole. Sure. I don't have any examples.

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<Laugh> fair.

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Enough. But they're excellent. Writing prompts.

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Yeah, yeah. Yeah. One I did for a while.

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I would put like horror writing prompts on Twitter.

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Mm-hmm <affirmative> cause I, I think it is, you know, they're really good writing prompts, kind of the little short, just thought starters. Cool. You know, and I really do enjoy writing from prompts and I think it's such a it's it helps lower the barrier of people who feel like, oh, I, you know, it's like, well write this prompt. You can.

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Anyone can, so, okay. So here's a little outreach thing for everybody. Okay.

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If you have a cool idea for a story, but are two ways to write it.

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And I definitely can't resonate with that. Uh, send it in.

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Abby will write it. She's really good. You send.

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Us your prompts for sure.

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We'll see how, how that goes, but send us your prompts.

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So reach out to us, send us an email at films about lunatics, gmail.com.

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We want to feature your personal paranormal or just We, we, we would love to, we would.

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Love.

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To. They're usually pretty good. Yeah.

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<Laugh> okay. Shall we jump in please?

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I had a cat paranormal experience recently that I have not yet talked about publicly. So a few weeks ago, Alan and I were moving into this apartment. We, we moved and I was packing up my old apartment.

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I think it was my last night there or two. Like I, I think it was the last night that I lived there and my, like, I was like sleeping on the floor.

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Most of my furniture was like packed up or sold or gone.

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And I was, I had this like terrible back injury, actually.

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It was terrible timing. And I was kind of like immobile almost from it.

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It was like really, really bad.

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Quite hobbled.

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Yeah. And so my doctor had given me some muscle relaxers to try to sleep.

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And I'm telling you this, to be honest, right. To say, I don't know if this impacted my perception of anything, but that I had taken the, you know, the dosage that I was supposed to take.

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It was the middle of the night. And all of a sudden I heard this like really, really, really loud, like cat sounded like a cat growling or hissing from the living room.

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And my old apartment was a two bedroom. So, so I get up and I'm, I'm kind of stumbly because these muscle relaxers are strong, super.

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Stumbly.

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I like immediately turn the light on, I go to the living room because my first thought is that it's my cat. Right?

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It's James.

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That's a reasonable assumption.

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Yeah.

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James was sitting in the middle of the living room floor and he was kind of like blinking at the light that I had just turned on in his face, but he wasn't growling or hissing.

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He was just sitting there. But he, he clearly had heard something because he was up and he was like near where I was hearing the noise. Right.

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He was clearly reacting to it.

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And the thing was, I was looking at him and the growling and hissing continued and, but it wasn't coming from him.

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And so my next thought was like, my next fever dream thought was like, okay, I know there's cats in the unit above me. But like I have never, in the two years that I lived in that apartment heard voices, let alone cats making noises.

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So when I was like, okay, maybe it's a cat in the hallway, but I was, you know, the only person that lived on that floor that the other unit wasn't occupied.

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And I didn't hear any voices of anybody in the floor, like outside my door.

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It was also like right next to the entrance of the building.

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So it just doesn't really make sense. And it was like 3:00 AM.

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So like, I continued to hear the noise.

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I couldn't figure out where it was coming from. Because again, it sounded like it was coming from above me, but it doesn't make sense that it was because, I mean, maybe it does, but I had lived there for two years.

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I had never heard cats, hissing.

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I had never heard people talking like you could hear when someone walked around really heavy or jumped around, but you don't hear voices through the wall.

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So that's an unexplained cat story. And James clearly heard it.

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And I kind of like scooped up and brought'em back to the bedroom because I was kind of freaked out, but that I'll never know. And I was, you know, I had taken medication, so we'll never know, but that's, that's a recent unexplained experience that I had.

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I mean, he is a pretty spooky cat.

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He's a spooky cat. Yeah.

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This is the same cat where I was sleeping.

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And then all of a sudden I'm like woken up because he's like, you know, throwing blood at me and speaking in Latin mm-hmm <affirmative> you know, so he's, he's a weird guy.

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He's a weird guy. It's true. <laugh> shall we read the next story?

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All right. I'm up.

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Our next story comes to us also from Twitter.

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This one was submitted by Andy Weston.

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Okay. I'm again, I'm reading in the, the tense of Andy Weston.

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In the voice of yes.

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Hi guys. As promised, I thought I'd write in and tell you about a few of the experiences I had growing up at a haunted house between the ages of three and 11 though.

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I currently live in the Greek islands.

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I'm originally from Birmingham and the UK. And when I was just three years old, we moved into our first real home, an early Victorian terrorist house in a town called Bearwood.

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We moved from our previous apartment.

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After my mother lost a child who would have subsequently been my first sister a few days before she was due to be born.

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We still don't know if that in any way influenced what happened, but within a few weeks of moving in, we began to notice the sounds of a child crying up in one of the bedrooms.

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When we went to check, the crying would stop.

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As soon as we opened the door to go upstairs, as the house was a basic two, up two down setup with a kitchen and bathroom extension downstairs, it didn't take a lot of snooping around to determine something was odd.

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Our house boarded and open alley on one side, you see, and the house next door, the one where we actually were attached to was occupied by an elderly lady Gertrud who lived alone. So basically the sounds weren't coming from there.

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They were inside our house. After a few weeks, the crying started to center around me and would occur around my bedtime and on through the night, by the time another month had passed, I started getting pressed down into my bed. When I was alone.

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I didn't hear anything or smell anything, but I knew someone was there.

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And as soon as I had that feeling, I would be gently, but firmly pressed down.

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It was about a month later that I was pushed down the stairs for the first time.

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When the furniture started shifting about often moving to block my way, my parents called a priest into bless the house and get a dog to help protect us a young German shepherd Sheba.

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Initially it seemed to work and for a little while things weren't quiet, however, a building presence soon returned.

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And though it didn't manifest into anything tangible, we did still hear noises from above, especially the dog who would wind and be attracted to the doors leading upstairs.

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The dream started by the time I was about five or six repetitive dreams that I experienced each and every single night in them, I would be walking along a narrow tunnel beneath our house.

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The tunnel was completely dark and the only light came from the exit far in the distance.

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And from thousands upon thousands of eyes lining the tunnel walls.

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I also felt sharp fingers clawing at the back of my neck, but knew without a doubt that I would be safe as long as I didn't stop and turn around. This kept up until eventually after about a year, I decided I'd had enough and turned around to confront the eyes of my dream in my dreams.

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They fled winking out of existence as if they'd never even existed.

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And though I still kept having repetitive dreams.

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They became a lot of fun as I'd often end up flying in them and interacting with other ghostly creatures. My favorite dream by far was one.

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I called the chase dream in it.

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I'd be flying as fast as I could performing aerial of trees. Cetera, while being pursued by a warped representation of the aisle of man Tris Scalian instead of three legs, it had three hooked razor sharp blades.

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Now I know that sounds grotesque, but I absolutely loved it and found the thrill of being chased exhilarating.

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As I just knew, I'd never be caught. And remember, this became a feature of my dreams each and every night, without let up.

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Additionally, as time passed, I gradually got used to the constant presence of someone or something else so much so that it obviously colored my outlook.

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I never had actual nightmares like other kids.

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I could always remember my dreams, their content, and how vividly real they were.

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And I never got scared by the dark or by stuff like ghost stories.

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It was around this time that things adapted in the real world as well.

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Not only did I stop getting pushed down the stairs, but the presence would actually play along and press me down into the bed in front of my parents. Even if I was in their room, it would also move stuff. When friends came for a sleepover, freaking them out, oddly enough, not too many people ended up wanting to do that, but me, I wasn't all that bothered by what was happening. I looked on it as fun.

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My second sister had been born by this time and nothing ever hurt her.

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Although it was annoying to hear crying from upstairs.

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Only discover it wasn't her. It's fair to say that as time went on, word went out about the goings on inside our house.

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My parents didn't like that. So they called the priest out for a second time.

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Needless to say it didn't work again.

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And my spectral friend stayed with me until he moved out. However, living in such an environment must have had an effect on me in other ways, as highlighted by a weekend trip, we once took as a family. When I was eight, my father's family was originally from Finley in London.

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And while my grandparents, his mom and dad had moved to Birmingham in world war II.

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The rest of the family stayed in the London area, including my dad's brother, Lawrence or law, and his wife, Betty. We went to visit, as I say, and stayed the entire weekend.

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My mom and dad sleeping in the spare room while my sister Jane, who was coming up on two years old.

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And I slept in with my uncle's kids top tail, as they used to call it when they cramed the younger ones in together, long story short, we had a fantastic weekend. Lots of fun.

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The parks were safer then than they are now.

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So we were able to go out and play a lot, plenty of games and activities to keep us busy.

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And us kids all got along pretty well.

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The only downside was the final day.

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Not long after everyone got up, my little sister had Tod off into the back garden to play without anyone realizing it. Fortunately LS all just child.

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I can't for the life of me. Remember her name, but I'm sure it was Sarah who was a year older than me, came into the living room and warned me that my sister Jane was covered in spiders.

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I went to look and discovered she had disturbed an ants nest and was covered from head to toe in the afor imagine ants. I called my mom.

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She came and got my sister hosed her down, removed what she was wearing, gave her bath, et cetera, et cetera.

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Fortunately, apart from a few bites, Jane was okay.

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Obviously I thought nothing more about it and carried on as normal.

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Then later in the day we left for home. So what's spooky about this.

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Well, I'll tell you, we were about five minutes down the road.

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When my mom turned around and thanked me for saving my sister, they were sure that had Jane stayed in the ants nest much longer.

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She would've been bitten quite badly.

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I brushed it off and mentioned it wasn't really me who had done anything as Sarah had found Jane and warned me about it.

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I can remember my mom's face to this day. She frowned, stared at me and said what?

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So I repeated the simple fact that I didn't know Jane I was inside with everyone else.

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It wasn't until Sarah came to get me that I knew Jane might be in trouble.

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My mom glanced at my dad and continues staring at me. What do you mean?

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Sarah came and got you.

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Now I was starting to get a bit ticked off myself and replied Sarah uncle law's oldest daughter, the one I've been playing with and going out to the park with all weekend.

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She found Jane in the garden and came to get me. Then I told you, my dad slowed the car pulled over and then turned around to ask me the exact same question. As my mom, I replied in the same way, going as far as to describe Sarah and what she wore each day.

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When we played outside, I even described the favorite Teddy.

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She liked to cuddle. When we all went up to bed, then my parents did the strangest thing.

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They turned the car around and went back to uncle law's house. Once there, they had me repeat again, what I had already gone over in the car, uncle law and Anne, Betty asked additional questions about Sarah's appearance.

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What she liked to wear, how her hair was done, where she liked to go in the park. And what, what were her favorite rides?

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They even asked me what her favorite pajamas were in all sorts of stuff.

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Evidently I freaked them out with the accuracy of my answers.

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I don't know why as I'd made it clear, I'd been playing with Sarah all weekend.

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So I know what to say.

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Then I asked them why they didn't ask her to come downstairs and verify what I've been saying. That's when they told me my cousin, Sarah had died the year before from leukemia, something I later found out, ran in my dad's side of the family in which subsequently claimed the life of both my grandmother and like uncle law and aunt Betty, my eldest child, the reign. And yet I'd enjoyed Sarah's company for three days.

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The sixth sense or what now I know people are skeptical when they hear stories like this. I don't have a problem with that.

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They can believe whatever floats their collective boats.

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All I know is without a shadow or shred of doubt, these things, and many more have happened to me. It was all real, all tangible and tactile, repeated two-way communication and interaction took place.

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I don't suffer from paranoia or hallucinations, and I'm certainly not delusional.

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I've served my country in very specialized capacity within the military, the police and intelligence communities in roles that require a great deal of psychological and physiological conditioning and positive vetting.

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What I'm trying to stress to you is I'm a normal well balanced individual who isn't prone to flights of fancy, except when I'm writing my book, that is, these events happened, as I said, and since then, I've experienced other weird events that some would accept as paranormal while others would scoff until their throats ran dry, make of it, what you will and thank you for allowing me to share.

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So many things to unpack with that one, right?

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Yeah, go ahead.

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I mean, first of all, just the idea of playing for days with a cousin and then finding that they had died after, like, that's just gotta be one of those really jarring things.

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But I do think Andy kind of sets it up so well that first of all, a great writer, but also sets it up so well that he had kind of this exposure to the paranormal, his whole childhood and you know, otherwise like that sort of thing would really freak me out.

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But it sounds like he was kind of not like open to it, but kind of accepting of the paranormal.

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He's a magnet.

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<Laugh> yeah, he's a magnet, but I mean, so thank you so much, Andy, for sharing these experiences, I'm kind of blown away by them and I'm very grateful that we get to share them with everybody today.

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Yeah. There's not too much.

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We can dissect about this because Andy portray like gives you both sides.

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It's like, here's what happened and here's what you might think, but here's also the other thing, right? So it's like, great.

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Everyone just enjoyed the story. That was fun.

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Right. And you may or may not believe it, like he says, totally fine.

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No problem. I certainly do. And uh, can imagine how you would. I would, and I mean, even the dreams though, right?

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Like the tunnel of eyes, some just like beautiful imagery and how cool that this kid was like, cool.

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I love this dream and not terrified of it cuz I certainly would've been terrified of it.

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Of a tunnel of eyes. Yeah.

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That's I mean of anything.

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A tunnel of anything.

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A tunnel of anything. Yeah. Tunnel.

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Of bricks. Oh.

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Yeah. So scary. So the final two stories that we have for you guys today, they are both submitted by Ruthie and Hector of the reshoot podcast.

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And they're also, uh, Hector has written some stuff that's gonna be featured in an upcoming episode.

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Uh, another actually we, we found each other on Twitter.

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So another Twitter connection for this episode, but um, really honored that they both kind of shared their experiences.

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And it was so funny because it, they sent it over kind of randomly last night, which is super well timed right before we started to record.

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So I'm glad we were able to include them. Okay. So here is Ruthie's story.

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Okay.

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A relative of mine had died.

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It was pretty sudden no one in my family had expected it.

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His funeral was a week later in a town where he had grown up about four hours south of my hometown, my mom and I were staying in one room.

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And my grandmother, uncle and young cousin were in the other, in a cheap hotel after awake at his family's home, we were all emotionally and physically exhausted.

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We went back into our separate rooms and turned in for the night.

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At some point while we were on our phones and didn't quite turn off the lights.

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My mom went to the bathroom.

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I was fully engrossed in my phone until I saw something blue in the corner of my eye, out of the chair at the far side of the room, I looked up at the green chair, no blue thing in sight.

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I was freaked out to say the least, but the room around me felt at peace.

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I told my mom what happened, but she didn't see or hear anything.

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The next day we arrived at the funeral and at the front of the clearing where my relative's ashes in a photo of him in his dress blues, he'd been in the military for 12 years and I had never seen him wear the dark Navy blue outfit in my life.

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It was the same color I saw the night before getting out of the chair.

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I think he'd been keeping an eye on us though.

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I don't know how long if I had to guess it felt like he was saying goodbye.

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Aww.

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Yeah. That's a, a really lovely, I lo I really enjoy paranormal stories, especially around grief, you know, where we, where people feel like they have visits or goodbyes from their loved ones.

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I think it's a really peaceful thought.

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This sounds so familiar. I'm trying to think of a movie.

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It was from a movie or something where someone has like a great conversation with somebody. They like fi you know, like they finally, it feels like they're saying goodbye and they're kind of con they're kind of confused by this. Yeah. And then it, and then like they leave and then like moments later the police come right. To tell them that there's been an accident. Mm. You know? Yeah.

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I mean, it's sort of similar to what my mom's experience was when she found out her mother had died. Mm. Which she tells, um, on a podcast episode we have featuring her that's right. Yeah. And my friend, Charlotte, who we have on an episode of real scary stories as well, she shared some similar stories.

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So I do think it is sort of a theme in people when people who have, do have paranormal experiences, sometimes they do happen kind of right around loss or grief. Sure.

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Do you wanna read Hector story for us?

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Well, let's do it round us out here.

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I was camping with my family in California. I wanna say LA.

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And we were using a trailer.

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I was outside talking to my, at the time girlfriend now wife on the phone and pacing around in front of the trailer. It was night. And there were a few streetlights, about 200 feet to my right. As the campsite was right next to a neighborhood, I turned around, walked a few feet and then turned around to face the light.

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As I do. I see a child in front of me.

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This was many years ago. So I can't remember much just a few sparse details.

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I remember the child being blue, but not quite like, there was more color to them, but I just couldn't see clearly enough.

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Part of me almost feels like they were blonde, but I don't know if I imagine this.

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They were about chest height to me.

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And I wanna say 10 to 12 years old, they had their hands up in that stereotypical scare bent above their head.

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The kid shot forward at me and I screamed covering my eyes.

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I opened them a second later, man, the kid was gone.

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My girlfriend asked me what had happened.

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And I told her no one else heard anything.

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I thought I was starting to develop a mental illness, but I never had anything like that happen again.

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I wasn't even stressed as it was a good vacation day.

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How freaking terrifying is that you're pacing around on the phone in a location you're not used to. And suddenly a kid who's like blue, like charges at you and then disappears. Are you kidding me?

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Here comes the skeptic.

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What.

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Do you mean? Okay. So he felt like the child was monochromatic.

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The nearest light was 200 feet away.

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The darker something is the more monochromatic things get presumably. Yeah.

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It would be hard to identify the color of something you're seeing.

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And you're in a campground there's children everywhere. And it's night.

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They were literally just around a campfire telling scary stories.

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And they were probably looking forward to just scaring somebody, cuz kids love to scare people. He did the stereotypical scare child pose of the, ah, you know, like that, that that's kids scaring 1 0 1 and then he disappears. He's in the woods.

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The.

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Kid.

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Walked off into the woods.

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They're not in the woods.

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They're at like a campsite.

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Okay. Still a million places to hide. There's.

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There's streetlights.

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You. You've never. Okay.

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So this is still less well lit than a than suburbia. Right.

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And suburbia is very easy to hide. Think of all the times you played, you know, uh, man, man hunter hide and go seek or capture the flag at night.

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All those things so easy to hide.

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Sure. I mean, there's no way to know, but I, I do just trust people's experiences that they could tell the difference between like a kid walking away versus a kid disappearing into thin air.

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He closed his eyes for a moment.

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For a second.

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I will say this regardless of whether or not it was a paranormal kid.

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That's a freaky kid. Kids who look off like kids who look blue, who are lunging at you, screaming and then disappearing. Sure.

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It's a freaky experience.

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I'll give you that. You know, especially when you're in a place you don't know.

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Or I think it's even more terrifying if it's some place you do imagine you're in your own home and blue child comes running at you. Yeah, sure.

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Like how'd you get in here child?

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Yeah, sure. That's terrifying.

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I mean, absolutely. But I, yeah, I, I feel for Hector in that experience, because I also just think that we've talked about this before with, on these episodes, but the idea of somebody disappearing into thin air and how unnerving that is, you know, like a, an entity disappearing into thin air.

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Like it's just all very jarring, you know? And one of those things, obviously that sticks with you for a while.

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Okay. So what's the verdict supernatural or not.

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I vote that. I trust Hector that he, that it's supernatural.

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I will admit campgrounds are a grounds. Are prime real estate, not for the supernatural, but for getting scared.

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Well, I was also thinking like, I wonder what the local folklore is in that area. You know, to me it almost sounds like some sort of local.

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Indigenous burial ground.

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Or I don't know a burial ground, but just sort of, you know, I'm curious if there's some, some sort of history there.

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I've okay. I've, I've actually been in his shoes.

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Okay.

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When that I've been out in the wilderness, actually camping and just, I've worked myself up to be so scared, simply thinking about what I could possibly see.

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And so let alone, like, if even, even if he actually encounters say he encountered just a random child, right?

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Okay. Say this was a real child that okay. Not supernatural at all.

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Just the atmosphere and everything can work that up into being such a bigger experience that would stick with you forever.

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Totally. I mean, there's a why, you know, we called our, our, one of our recent episodes, campfire stories, right?

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Because there is something inherently spooky about the woods and camping and the exchange of ghost stories.

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It's true.

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So, I mean, first of all, thank you so much to everybody who submitted stories.

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Again, these episodes are so fun for me. I absolutely love them.

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If you have personal paranormal stories, weird things that have happened to you, bizarre things you can't, you can't explain. We would love UFO sightings. We would love, love, love to feature them. So reach out to us on social media at the Lunix project, or email us@filmsaboutlunixgmail.com.

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And we will, we would love to feature your story in the next episode.

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We're doing UFO sightings. Now.

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We've done it before. We'll do 'em again. Remember John Cook sent us a, a UFO sighting. Oh shit.

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That's right. Yeah. Okay. I, I mean, it.

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Doesn't doesn't have you, you don't wanna feature UFO.

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Stuff.

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It doesn't have to be UFO if you've seen Bigfoot or Nesti that's allowed too.

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Sure. Any kind of crypted. Absolutely.

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Or if, or maybe you've just met a serial killer.

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Sure. Yeah, exactly. The there's no limit.

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Or if you are a serial killer.

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No. Then we definitively don't want to get involved.

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If you're a convicted serial killer and you're behind bars. Yeah.

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Then yeah. Then you can write to us.

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Anonymously.

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Anonymously. Oh man. Well, thank you guys again so much for being here.

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We had a blast this time.

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Hope you guys did too.

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Everyone stay well happy spring and we'll be back next week with a continuation of our universal monster. Deep dive.

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