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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Chills, the podcast where we tell
Speaker 2: you a story that's hard to believe, unless, of course,
Speaker 2: it happened to you. Let me introduce you to Rachel.
Speaker 2: She's like you and probably like me. She's a bit
Speaker 2: of a skeptic, but she has been surrounded for most
Speaker 2: of the life by people who do believe absolutely.
Speaker 3: I think the way that I've always taken this on
Speaker 3: is that as a family, we've sort of grown up
Speaker 3: with it. We've grown up around that sort of there's
Speaker 3: something more. Mum is very much into it. She's very intuitive.
Speaker 3: My youngest brother he is super intuitive as well, And
Speaker 3: I think that's where it's left me sort of in
Speaker 3: the middle.
Speaker 1: They always call me the fence sitter.
Speaker 2: Okay, but you're not WU right. I wouldn't call you
Speaker 2: wu No, I'd call you know, interested.
Speaker 1: In question marks? Yeah, question mark. Yeah, that's a good way, yeah, yeah, nar.
Speaker 2: Rachel used to be a long haul flight attendant. She
Speaker 2: was in the mid twenties and life was pretty good.
Speaker 2: She lived in the UAE and was flying all over
Speaker 2: the world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, mid twenties and flying all over the world for
Speaker 3: a living right, glamorous job, and where I was living.
Speaker 3: You were put into certain accommodation, so you were given
Speaker 3: units in buildings where you could live, and that that
Speaker 3: was just a part of the package.
Speaker 2: So you weren't based in Australia, you were based.
Speaker 1: I was in Apple Dubbe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so really interesting single girl living in the Middle East.
Speaker 3: To be honest, when I first remember first the very
Speaker 3: first morning, that call to prayer that came and it's
Speaker 3: sort of crawled across the air and you have your
Speaker 3: window open, and you think, oh my.
Speaker 1: Gosh, what have I done?
Speaker 3: And it is the most it's so powerful, and you think,
Speaker 3: oh my gosh, have I made the right decision. I'm
Speaker 3: in the middle I'm in the Middle East, I'm a female,
Speaker 3: I'm all alone. And the apartment that I had been given,
Speaker 3: you're usually housed with someone. But my particular person that
Speaker 3: I was housed with locked her door in her room
Speaker 3: and then just moved upstairs with her boyfriend because obviously
Speaker 3: it was not allowed. So I therefore had our apartment
Speaker 3: all to myself. But I had no idea what was
Speaker 3: past that door, never had seen in her room. And
Speaker 3: I mean, this is like two and a half three
Speaker 3: years worth of.
Speaker 1: Living by myself.
Speaker 3: But this particular building when we got given our locations
Speaker 3: and you'd gone through flight school seven weeks and this
Speaker 3: it was a big thing. I didn't understand it because
Speaker 3: I was only fresh. They were given and they sat
Speaker 3: us down, and this is where you're going to be living.
Speaker 3: And I was given this building that everyone went, Oh,
Speaker 3: my god, you're so lucky. It's called the Golden Tower.
Speaker 3: The Golden Tower, right in the middle of the city.
Speaker 3: It was the best place to be. I even could
Speaker 3: see the water from our like we were a couple
Speaker 3: of streets back from the water.
Speaker 1: It's luxury.
Speaker 3: And then the first day after we'd done our seven
Speaker 3: weeks in temporary accommodation for flight school and we'd passed,
Speaker 3: and then you graduate and then you get your flying wings,
Speaker 3: but you also get your own apartment. I get to
Speaker 3: my apartment, I can see this Golden Tower and underneath
Speaker 3: the first three levels of the Golden Tower is a hospital.
Speaker 1: A hospital, a hospital. I know, I was like Handy gossick.
Speaker 3: But then this is where the question marks pop up.
Speaker 3: This is where those moments with the likes of my
Speaker 3: mum and my brother and growing up around it goes oh, oh.
Speaker 2: This is just a normal general hospital. It's not like
Speaker 2: a psychiatric hospital or anything like that. It's a general
Speaker 2: hospital in the middle of Abadabbi.
Speaker 1: Let's fast forward.
Speaker 3: It would have been close to when I was sort
Speaker 3: of been there a year and a half, right, so
Speaker 3: I've seen some things. I'd experienced some things like what
Speaker 3: being out the front of the hospital. Okay, I'd experienced
Speaker 3: and seen suicide. I had experienced people literally getting thrown
Speaker 3: out of the car out in the front of the
Speaker 3: hospital and the car driving off. And we had security
Speaker 3: guards on every building that we had as flight attendance
Speaker 3: and flight crew because I don't know what actually security,
Speaker 3: so technically I had because of the way that we
Speaker 3: were situated. We had security on ground floor as you enter,
Speaker 3: because you had to sign in and sign out to
Speaker 3: get into your own building. And then because of the
Speaker 3: situation where I was living, I had my own security
Speaker 3: guard on level four practically at the front, twenty four
Speaker 3: hours a day, so that no one came through the
Speaker 3: hospital into the building. It was weird when I think
Speaker 3: about it, it's weird. This one night, in particular, I
Speaker 3: had been flying around the world.
Speaker 1: I had come back.
Speaker 3: I had on my particular you had to have a
Speaker 3: certain amount of hours between flights. Because I'd been away
Speaker 3: for nine days, I had to be on ground for two.
Speaker 3: I had not had any alcohol.
Speaker 1: I knew what was ahead of me.
Speaker 3: I had a big roster, and everything was well and good,
Speaker 3: but this one particular and I sort of landed about
Speaker 3: the eleven o'clock mark, and I thought, all right that, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm a bit sleepy, might go to bed.
Speaker 1: Then I go to bed.
Speaker 3: Everything was fine again, not under the influence of any alcohol,
Speaker 3: nothing like that. And I wake.
Speaker 1: To this.
Speaker 3: Person and I'm talking straight over the top of me.
Speaker 3: Have you ever had that sensation over your whole body
Speaker 3: where you're completely and utterly paralyzed, you cannot move head
Speaker 3: to toe. I'm awake and I'm going I need to
Speaker 3: get out of this bed. Two people in my room,
Speaker 3: one man, one woman, and traditional clothing wise, but he's
Speaker 3: in the corner and saying, yes, do it. And I've
Speaker 3: got the lady in the head jab straight over the
Speaker 3: top of me with hands firmly placed around my neck
Speaker 3: and full pressure. Jaye, I'm talking.
Speaker 1: I was paralyzed.
Speaker 3: I couldn't move, I couldn't I couldn't get anything out.
Speaker 3: I could hardly breathe and I could. I was going,
Speaker 3: what is that? Like this cannot be and I'm thinking,
Speaker 3: is this real?
Speaker 1: Is this?
Speaker 3: And I'm having this moment where I'm flicking, but i
Speaker 3: could see two figures in my room and I'm looking
Speaker 3: up and I still no word of a lie. Could
Speaker 3: not move and the pressure around my collar bones and
Speaker 3: that I just had to It was almost like you
Speaker 3: had to lay there. You had to try and breathe
Speaker 3: at the same time think no word of a lie.
Speaker 1: I couldn't. And it was like, all of a sudden, I.
Speaker 3: Had Mum in the back of my mind, in the
Speaker 3: back of my head saying tell them to leave, because
Speaker 3: she was you know, as a kid, she used to
Speaker 3: tell us that you have to ask them to leave
Speaker 3: three times or.
Speaker 1: Something like this.
Speaker 3: In it it's at this stage I'm going And so
Speaker 3: it just all started to dissipate. And then as you're
Speaker 3: doing this over and over of like just leave. This
Speaker 3: is not for you. This is just like just trying
Speaker 3: to do anything you can. I just literally could got
Speaker 3: this big gasp of air and then.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden it was.
Speaker 3: No word of a lie, had like full pressure marks
Speaker 3: around my collar bones.
Speaker 1: I had no one in my room. Like by the
Speaker 1: time I could.
Speaker 3: Move, I had full like I was, I was sweating.
Speaker 3: I got out of the bed. I flew out of
Speaker 3: the bed. I ran through the house like the apartment,
Speaker 3: looking to see.
Speaker 1: If nothing doors locked. Everything's locked.
Speaker 3: Even that bloody bedroom that I'd never seen in for
Speaker 3: two years was locked.
Speaker 1: No one was there and no word of a lie.
Speaker 3: I got up, made the whole My whole back was
Speaker 3: drenched with sweat up. I could barely catch my breath,
Speaker 3: like I'd run a marathon. I had like these pressure
Speaker 3: heavy round my collar blones like you name it I had.
Speaker 3: It was like I'd gone on the biggest and then
Speaker 3: it was just it like go.
Speaker 2: There's nothing more scary than feeling trapped and not being
Speaker 2: able to move. It's even scarier when the thing that's
Speaker 2: not letting you move you can't actually see. All you
Speaker 2: can feel is pressure. There is nothing in front of
Speaker 2: you apart from the two figures just saw before. So
Speaker 2: I guess if that happened to me, my first instinct
Speaker 2: would be to get the hell out of there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, stay, I rang, mum going, and obviously the time difference,
Speaker 3: She's going, what's wrong?
Speaker 1: Slow down? Stop.
Speaker 3: I didn't obviously sleep for the rest of that night.
Speaker 3: By the time the next day, I had another whole
Speaker 3: day and then I was flying that night, so it
Speaker 3: was I sort of felt like it was okay, I
Speaker 3: wasn't going to have to sleep again again in this
Speaker 3: apartment until you know, it's sort of worn off. But
Speaker 3: then she also had told me to go and get
Speaker 3: a black particular crystal you put underneath your mattress, underneath
Speaker 3: your bed, and that would be the protection barrier between
Speaker 3: whatever obviously is leaving the planet. What they were saying,
Speaker 3: because I spoke to a few people obviously, and they
Speaker 3: were saying that obviously from being the first floor above
Speaker 3: a hospital, when a spirit leaves their body, they have this.
Speaker 1: Moment where they sort of like passing.
Speaker 3: I don't know whether they want to pass through or
Speaker 3: they don't want to pass through, and not all of
Speaker 3: them passed through willingly or happy, and obviously I had
Speaker 3: got two of them.
Speaker 2: And then one night, right, do you know if on
Speaker 2: that night that you were in your room and there
Speaker 2: was a man and a woman in traditional garb that
Speaker 2: were in your room holding you down, the woman holding
Speaker 2: you down, do you know if two people that night
Speaker 2: in the hospital died.
Speaker 3: I never went I never went down to actually like
Speaker 3: explore that, and I never heard. I never invest to
Speaker 3: get to see who had passed that night. But I
Speaker 3: can tell you from this one hundred percent, two people
Speaker 3: left that night, and they came through my bedroom.
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