Speaker 1: Apoche Production.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Chills, the ghost Story podcast that
Speaker 2: you won't believe unless, of course, it happened to you.
Speaker 3: So my name is Luke. I am thirty six years old.
Speaker 3: I was born in Adelaide. Grew up initially in a
Speaker 3: country town outside of Adelaide, two and a half hours
Speaker 3: north of Adelaide, and then went up to North Queensland,
Speaker 3: far North Queensland Townsville. And it was in those places
Speaker 3: that you know, a few little spooky things happened along
Speaker 3: the way.
Speaker 2: You don't have one story, You've got a shitload of stories, right.
Speaker 3: I got lots of little creepy things that happen. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know if i'd call myself a believer, okay, right,
Speaker 2: so until something happened to me and then I was
Speaker 2: a believer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right.
Speaker 2: Have you always sort of believed in, you know, the
Speaker 2: occult and stuff?
Speaker 3: It's weird, It's not that Even now, even now I'm
Speaker 3: not necessarily a believer. I still questioned to go, what
Speaker 3: am I experiencing? What is it that I'm seeing? How
Speaker 3: that into play with this reality? Like I really I
Speaker 3: go a little bit deep on these ones. So I
Speaker 3: would look at it and kind of think I kind
Speaker 3: of look at this reality when I looked we were
Speaker 3: at one time, I looked at a pond and you know,
Speaker 3: and I saw the fish underneath it, and I was like,
Speaker 3: it's such a great concept of this life. Right, we're
Speaker 3: at the fish, and we're in the water, and we're
Speaker 3: swimming around. Some of them are higher up at the
Speaker 3: top of the water and they can kind of see
Speaker 3: glimmers from this like shiny thing that's above them, but
Speaker 3: they don't know what it is because the water stops there, right.
Speaker 3: And then other people, like other fish. So you're swimming down,
Speaker 3: Laura and there in the darker parts, and everyone's gonna
Speaker 3: kind of got their layers. I sometimes think that maybe
Speaker 3: I'm one of the lucky fish who just happened to
Speaker 3: be closer to the top of the surface. And then
Speaker 3: every now and again, this like random hand will come
Speaker 3: in or I don't know, something will zoom past, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, what the hell is that? But I can't
Speaker 3: make sense.
Speaker 2: Okay, so Luke just went very deep, very quick. But
Speaker 2: that's okay. We're not here to judge. We just want
Speaker 2: to hear the stories that give us the chills. This
Speaker 2: one starts when Luke was about ten years old, so ten.
Speaker 3: Years old in Townsville. We are in a new estate
Speaker 3: in Townsville, so it's I don't know how to describe
Speaker 3: the house as there. It's just your classic suburban household,
Speaker 3: brick household far north Queensland, so it's built for cyclones
Speaker 3: and lots of wet weather and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 3: In hot weather. We were my mom and dad were
Speaker 3: still together at that time, so we were living in
Speaker 3: a house where it was my mom, dad, my sister
Speaker 3: and I. I don't think one of my older brothers
Speaker 3: was with us. It was a Sunday morning. I had
Speaker 3: nothing major was happening over that weekend. I went to bed,
Speaker 3: everything fine, woke up in the morning, but woke up
Speaker 3: as if someone had come into my room during the
Speaker 3: night and turned the light on. So even when you
Speaker 3: shut your eyes and you're asleep and it's a dark
Speaker 3: room and then the light turns on and it's like like,
Speaker 3: what's that light? That was how I woke up. But
Speaker 3: when I opened my eyes, I realized that my mom
Speaker 3: had come in. She had opened the curtains and left
Speaker 3: and shut the door. Now I don't know when she
Speaker 3: did that, but when I suddenly registered that's how it
Speaker 3: felt when I was waking up, and it was one
Speaker 3: of those mornings where I and I specifically remember the
Speaker 3: feeling because I remember looking out and so my room
Speaker 3: went to the side of the house where there's kind
Speaker 3: of like a pathway that goes past my door, and
Speaker 3: then there's just like a wooden fence, right, so you
Speaker 3: just look out to the fence, and then you can
Speaker 3: kind of see next door neighbor's roof in the sky.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: It's just and townsvill. You know, it's generally just hot
Speaker 3: and sunny, so it was sunny outside. And I laid
Speaker 3: there and I thought, like, oh, so lovely Sunday morning, right,
Speaker 3: just like stretched out in bed and I'm laying there
Speaker 3: and I'm on the side, like I'm laying on my side,
Speaker 3: and my bed is in kind of the corner of
Speaker 3: the room, and then I look out across and I'm
Speaker 3: laying there for a couple of minutes, I guess, and
Speaker 3: then as I'm laying there, I like see the only
Speaker 3: way to describe it almost like when you know when
Speaker 3: you look through water, like if you have water running,
Speaker 3: and it kind of it's that reflected.
Speaker 1: A little bit distorted.
Speaker 3: Distorted. Yeah, it's distorted. So I see this distorted almost
Speaker 3: stream across the other side of the room, right in
Speaker 3: the room, and I thought, like, you know how you
Speaker 3: think like it maybe it's my eye.
Speaker 1: Have you ever had a like eye sleep in your eyes? Yeah?
Speaker 3: And like it gets that weird, and so I'm like
Speaker 3: looking as a kid, like what the hell is that? Anyway,
Speaker 3: it starts moving across the room now it's broad daylight,
Speaker 3: I'm not dreaming. Moves across the room and then I
Speaker 3: watch it and then all of a sudden, my bed
Speaker 3: I see it sink in, so as if someone sat
Speaker 3: on the bed.
Speaker 1: I just got the chills.
Speaker 3: Oh, I swear to God, sits there, sinks in and
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden.
Speaker 1: I so it's it's like an impression, like an.
Speaker 3: Impression into the bed, I swear to God. And then
Speaker 3: I feel like the weight against like my legs moving
Speaker 3: up onto my body, as if someone's laying down over
Speaker 3: the top of me, and then they lean and it
Speaker 3: lays down over my face that it makes my left
Speaker 3: eye shut like because I you know, like if someone
Speaker 3: was laying on you almost blocks that vision. And I
Speaker 3: was like, and I panic. I'm like, like, I remember
Speaker 3: I couldn't breathe properly, and then trying to scream to mum,
Speaker 3: but I couldn't get my voice out. I was like, Mom, Mom, Am,
Speaker 3: I trying to yell, and it was this like weird
Speaker 3: broken sound trying to come out, and I was like,
Speaker 3: get off me, get off me, get off me, like
Speaker 3: I don't know what this is, get off me, mo, Mom, Mum,
Speaker 3: And I'm trying to yell anyway, last four gosh, I
Speaker 3: don't even know twenty seconds, thirty seconds, whatever it might be,
Speaker 3: like long enough that I'm laying there panicking, going I
Speaker 3: don't know how I'm going to get out of this.
Speaker 3: And then I feel it lifts up off me because
Speaker 3: I feel the weight to move from my body. I
Speaker 3: see the imprint raise up, so the bed goes back
Speaker 3: to normal, and then I see it just disappear. I
Speaker 3: then whip myself out of that bed so far fly
Speaker 3: out my room. I smashed the door open, come running
Speaker 3: up Mom, Mom, Mom, and I'm crying and she was like,
Speaker 3: what is wrong with you? And she says, I come
Speaker 3: running out to the table, and I remember in my head,
Speaker 3: I remember running out and running up to her and
Speaker 3: like grabbing her, crying, going, you won't believe what just happened.
Speaker 3: And she grabbed, you know, like a mum, grab your face,
Speaker 3: like what do you talk? What's happened? What's happened? And
Speaker 3: she said my face was pale white and just had
Speaker 3: these big red rings around my eyes. That is just nuts, yeah,
Speaker 3: wild yeah. And then so I was obviously rattled for
Speaker 3: the rest of the day. I was really quite tired,
Speaker 3: Like I just felt a bit put a bit out
Speaker 3: of it as it goes. So my mom was not
Speaker 3: this well, this is definitely unusual for her. The whole
Speaker 3: ghost spirit, spirituality, whatever you want to whatever you want
Speaker 3: to lump it. She was very much into anything kind
Speaker 3: of alternative in that in that way, so as it
Speaker 3: just so happened, the woman who lived next door to us, Michelle,
Speaker 3: she was right into that. So she used to do
Speaker 3: like readings, and she was clairvoyant and she could kind
Speaker 3: of pick up ghosts and energies and all that so
Speaker 3: perfectly aligned right, who your neighbors are. So later that
Speaker 3: day or that morning, my mum goes over to see
Speaker 3: Michelle and says to her about the situation that happened,
Speaker 3: and so Michelle taps in and does her thing, and
Speaker 3: as it turns out, based on whatever Michelle read there,
Speaker 3: she was like, oh no, it was to do with
Speaker 3: it was quite a number of years ago when that
Speaker 3: whole area because it was a new development area, right,
Speaker 3: So when that whole area was just countryside. There was
Speaker 3: a young kid, I can't remember it was a boy
Speaker 3: or a girl, young kid when out horse riding fell off,
Speaker 3: the horse died, happened to be around that thing was
Speaker 3: just attracted to my energy and had kind of made
Speaker 3: its way over. And that was the experience that I had,
Speaker 3: based on how she perceives and reads things, had done it.
Speaker 3: So she kind of went in and went, oh, yeah, no,
Speaker 3: this is who it is. And I've told them, you know,
Speaker 3: you can go now. But that was I can't say
Speaker 3: that was the beginning. I'd always had it as a kid.
Speaker 3: I'd have like moments, I'd feel things and see things,
Speaker 3: but that was the most in my face. I'm wide
Speaker 3: awake first thing in the morning and see something come over.
Speaker 2: And did that experience, that that feeling of someone laying
Speaker 2: on you, an entity lying on you without seeing anything,
Speaker 2: did that ever happen again?
Speaker 1: Yes, that's so matter of fact, yes, yeah, no it.
Speaker 3: Did because when I was so I always had it.
Speaker 3: As a kid, I would always see these things. Then, stupidly,
Speaker 3: when I was fifteen, so by that point mum and
Speaker 3: dad had broken up, I went to live in Adelaide
Speaker 3: with my dad. It was fine. I was fifteen. So
Speaker 3: you're all over the place, right, You're going out with
Speaker 3: your friends and like underage drinking and doing all that
Speaker 3: sort of silly behavior. And I went to a friend's
Speaker 3: place and we decided one night, we're going to do
Speaker 3: a seance.
Speaker 1: Dumb, dumb, So.
Speaker 3: Like anyone, like, I know, we're all intrigued, but don't
Speaker 3: do a seance. No, just don't know. There's no point.
Speaker 2: Now, if you've heard episode one, you would have heard
Speaker 2: my own family's experience with a seance. My advice is
Speaker 2: don't do it. Nothing good comes from it. It won't
Speaker 2: be like Jimungi. You're just going to drag up stuff
Speaker 2: that doesn't need to be dragged.
Speaker 3: A post seance, I had a week of wild, wild
Speaker 3: interactions of things coming into my room during the night,
Speaker 3: me waking up like being held down, like horrible, horrible, horrible.
Speaker 3: I don't know what it was I would never wish
Speaker 3: it on anyone. It was a really crappy week afterwards.
Speaker 3: And when I told my mom, she was like, what,
Speaker 3: so I agree with me about it? Understandably, yah, wild
Speaker 3: because I would have people visit all the time right
Speaker 3: after this, like continuing on.
Speaker 1: People visit, not like someone coming out for coffee. You're
Speaker 1: talking about like.
Speaker 3: I would see things, which is why I like, I
Speaker 3: am open to it, and I believe it because I
Speaker 3: know what I saw. Like I remember, you know, my
Speaker 3: mum and dad had broken up for the age of eleven,
Speaker 3: ten or eleven, we moved with mum and so you're
Speaker 3: you're young, but you're kind of getting to an age,
Speaker 3: but you're still young at heart, right, So we were
Speaker 3: very like and you're feeling quite uncertain with things whatever.
Speaker 3: So we're in this new house. Every now and again,
Speaker 3: you'd like, my sister and I would kind of fight
Speaker 3: for who's going to sleep in Mum's bed, right, we'd
Speaker 3: go and sleep down there. I remember one night I
Speaker 3: was sleeping in Mum's room and rolled over in the
Speaker 3: middle of the night awake. And you know the difference
Speaker 3: between being awaken and a dream, because I've had plenty
Speaker 3: of dreams that I could tell you about those, but
Speaker 3: this was definitely wait rolled over looked at the ground
Speaker 3: next to me, and then next to my bed, a
Speaker 3: little boy and little girl in this like nineteen twenties
Speaker 3: school uniform sat there with their legs crossed looking at me.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh nope.
Speaker 1: Roll back over, shove my head into the pillow, and was.
Speaker 3: Like please get wait, please got away.
Speaker 1: Please yeah. World.
Speaker 3: But after that, I don't know, I think I really
Speaker 3: shut it down, like I really made a concerted effort,
Speaker 3: like I don't want to see phil any, like I
Speaker 3: don't want anything. And then interestingly, you know, ten years
Speaker 3: later or a little bit longer than that, it all
Speaker 3: starts to open back up again. And actually only recently
Speaker 3: it's really ramped up again. So wow, I see I
Speaker 3: see a lot more of them now, I see tad people.
Speaker 1: They're sitting on your fucking floor.
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Speaker 1: See you next time.
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