WEBVTT - S1: EP 6 — “They Were Messing with Some Dark Stuff” 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:23.280 Hey, Hantos, I'm back. The meeting with my caseworker Sharon 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:26.560 didn't go as planned. I haven't crossed over, and I'm 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:31.320 still here, at least for now, or I guess possibly forever. 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:37.120 You know, I'm starting to wonder if my unfinished business 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:40.680 maybe isn't my follower count. I also found out Sharon's 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:42.680 taking on Jimmy Buffett as a client now too, and 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:44.400 I'm just worried I'm not gonna get as much attention. 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:48.560 You know what, whatever, I don't need Sharon. Okay, I've 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:53.239 eaten at the Margaritaville in the Fort Lauderdale Airport, so I've 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:57.760 already been to hell. Screw you, Jimmy Buffett. 0:00:58.680 --> 0:00:58.880 (MUMBLES) 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:05.000 Oh sick Glenn. If I ever meet him, I'll be 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:09.080 sure to mention what a fan you are. Yeah. Sorry, 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.280 I'm not really feeling like myself today. Normally, when I 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:14.720 felt off in the real world, i'd get super high 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:20.240 and binge One Tree Hill. Anyway, if any of the 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:22.600 ghouls listening want to share the ways they cheer themselves up, 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:31.640 I'm all ears boy smells huh oh boys souls. Yeah, 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:34.000 that's not a bad idea, all Right before we get 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.440 into today's episode, we have got a quick message from 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.960 one of our sponsors as a beauty and wellness influencer 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.039 and leveled to Matt Palate's instructor. Taking care of my 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:46.399 body is my top priority. That's why I love Total Greens. 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:50.520 Are you kidding me for the millionth time? I'm a formless, 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:54.320 non caportal entity. Do this, I can't today, 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:55.920 (MUMBLES) 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:05.640 Great you forgot the promo code. 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:06.720 (MUMBLES) 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:14.480 No. I don't want to oversell, but this next story 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:18.040 even had me on edge. Ronnie and Amanda thought they'd 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:21.040 found their dream home, but they couldn't escape the evil 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:21.840 in the basement. 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:26.440 I started seeing a shadow figure around the house. Over time, 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:29.520 it kind of felt like when you walked inside of 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:33.240 the home, you were walking into this thick fog. It 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.359 was just unsettling, uncomfortable. 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.680 And I was kind of getting worried, thinking that we've 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.720 moved into a house that was haunted. I'm Ronnie 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:44.280 and this is his wife, Amanda. 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:50.280 And there was something evil in our basement. We were 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:54.000 in the process of putting our house on the market, 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:57.320 so we were looking for houses within the general area 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:00.440 of where we were living at in Tennessee and we 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:04.839 came across an auction, so we decided to go check 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:05.200 it out. 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:09.040 The house was located in a very rural area. 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:12.640 Had a long driveway. The front yard was opened up 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:13.200 pretty good. 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.519 It had some big, tall trees, but then the rest 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:20.240 of it was surrounded by woods on twelve acres. Peaceful, 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:24.480 no neighbors, no noise. It was all original. It had 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:29.480 the dark wood paneling, really old wallpaper and shag carpet, 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:33.160 had a full sized basement unfinished. We'd like the idea 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:35.520 could gradually fix it up, and we had the time 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.240 and the money, and immediately we kind of fell in 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.560 love with it. We put an offer in ended up 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:46.600 getting it. It was mid September when we finally started 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:50.840 moving in. As we moved in, it was just something 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:54.960 about the basement. It was just this weird, eerie feeling. 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:01.800 You go down old wooden stairs. The ceiling height was 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:05.000 maybe six feet. I'm six foot three, so I'm having 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:09.200 to duck my head through there. But it's something about 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:13.800 the back corner of that basement. It had a darkness 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:18.240 to it, almost as if you could see it. It 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:22.280 was very uncomfortable, but as time grew on, it became 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:24.560 stronger and more noticeable. 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.240 The basement was all open, and then off to the 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:31.799 side there was a little door in the wall. 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.760 I've never seen anything like it. It was very strange, 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:38.520 kind of like who ever lived there before made it themselves. 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:42.880 Ronnie crawled through. There was a wall on the side 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.000 with another door, so he went through the doorway and 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:47.559 he disappeared. 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:48.440 And I turned the corner. 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:53.919 I started stepping down these makeshift stairs, and then it 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:57.360 just stepped down to nothing, and then there was ashes. 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:00.840 It was so bizarre, super creepy. 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:04.800 It could have been a red flag. But then we 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:08.720 didn't know what to make of it. My brother and 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:11.040 sister were over helping us get some of the heavy 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.200 stuff moved in, and we were found in the basement 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:17.400 putting all these boxes away. I just glance up and 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:21.560 I happened to see this really slim box on top 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:24.040 of the duckwork. I'd go to pull it down and 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:27.920 see what it is, and there was an old nineteen 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:32.440 seventies Ouija board still in the box and everything. Of course, 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:34.200 the box looks like it's been used quite a bit, 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.400 you know, it was barely hanging together. But I bring 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.840 it upstairs and show Amanda. I'm like, check this out. 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:44.280 Look what I found. We can decorate for Halloween. So 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:48.280 we put it in the dining room hutch with all 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:53.080 the other Fall decor. It was getting late in the evening, 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.760 so instead of my brother and sister just going home, 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:57.240 they were like, well we could stay at the night. 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:01.360 All the bedrooms are upstairs. My wife and I take 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:05.039 the master bedroom, and then across the hall was the 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.400 other bedrooms that they decided to take. 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:09.400 As soon as we went to bed and we were 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:14.039 starting to get comfortable, we started hearing someone running back 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:20.000 and forth in the hall. We had those sliding doors 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:24.720 on the closets. We heard them sliding back and forth, 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:27.520 back and forth, back and forth, running down the hall 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:31.040 to the next room, sliding those closet doors back and forth, 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:35.160 back and forth, over and over and over again. I 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.360 was so tired. It was like aggravating that they were 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.360 doing that. I was like, Ronnie, get up and tell 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:47.160 them to stop. And then he came back and said, 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.160 it's not them. They thought it was us. 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.760 When I saw a look on their face and the 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:58.080 fear that they had, I could tell that it wasn't 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:01.520 something that they're messing with us with. So I'm like, 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.760 maybe somebody broke into the house and they're trying to 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.400 freak us out or something. I don't know, because I 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:10.680 mean it was so loud, obviously somebody was doing it. 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.120 So we walked through the house. We're going room by 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:18.600 room like really slowly, and we didn't see anyone. 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:21.480 Which I all the closets anywhere we can. 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:25.280 And then his sister was like, the Ouija board. It's 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:27.320 the Ouija board. You got to put that back where 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:32.480 you found it. So Ronnie runs to that hutch, grabs it, 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.720 runs down to the basement, runs back upstairs, and like 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:40.600 slams the door shut. We're so scared we didn't want 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.600 to go back to our rooms ourselves, so we all 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:48.880 ended up sleeping in one room. Since all that happened 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.800 the first night, I was thinking, is this something that 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:54.240 we were going to continue having problems with? 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:58.840 I'm thinking, okay, well, maybe we disturbed something paranormal. 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.520 We ended up getting the Ouija board out. We give 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.400 it to a lady that was looking for one, and 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:07.960 then later on we were thinking about it, so I 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:12.040 decided to message her, asking her if she ever used it. 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:17.600 She replied they had used it, and she regretted ever 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:21.480 picking that Ouija board up because she would see this 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.840 older man all the time, and her boyfriend would see 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:28.080 a little boy all the time, and they would hear things, 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:32.080 they'd see things, So I think that Ouija board was 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:33.320 pretty bad. 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:38.760 As time went on, things just started getting stronger and stronger, 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:44.240 and we started noticing more and more. Down in the basement. 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:48.040 There was this big chest freezer. 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:53.079 The things we found in the freezer were just very 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:54.920 very unusual. 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:59.480 There were birds, like crows were in there, and then 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:01.959 there was weird animal bones. 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.199 There was like a deer leg that had some fur. 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:08.240 On it but no meat, and then at the very 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:12.880 bottom was this gallon sized bucket of frozen blood. At 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.840 that time, I was thinking the previous owners were just 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:19.480 into some kind of dark satanic stuff in that basement, 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:23.319 and I thought, if I move anything, are we going 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:24.840 to wake something up? 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.200 So I just left everything in that freezer. 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:33.320 We just thought they were messing with some dark stuff here, 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:37.319 and that's why we experienced what we experienced. 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:44.280 We're starting to hear what sounds like walking going up 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:48.679 the stairs, walking around the hallway up there, and then 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:54.000 into the bedrooms. Of course, nobody's upstairs. And then other 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:57.240 times we would notice the basement door would constantly be 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:01.439 open and there was no explanation. We'd randomly get up 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:04.440 in the morning basement door would be open. Throughout the day, 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:07.440 basement door would be open, couldn't figure out why. 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:11.480 And it always felt like someone was watching you when 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:14.840 you were down there. It's like they did not want 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.800 you in there at all. They just wanted you out. 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.439 It got to the point where I wasn't really sleeping 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:25.480 at all. I try to go to bed, and I'd 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:27.640 wake up between two or three o'clock in the morning. 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.920 I keep seeing this shadow figure. Three o'clock in the 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:36.800 morning is like the Devil's hours, where demonic spirits have 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:42.440 more power. I would be upright staring at our bedroom door, 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:44.160 waiting for somebody to come in. 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.360 It's like I was expecting them to come in. 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.439 It became hell. You weren't sure what was going to 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:57.040 happen next. You were terrified. There was a time where 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.920 I'm walking past the basement door. I notice that it's open, 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.360 so I'm going to go close it, and I hear 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:08.880 Amanda call my name from the basement. It's all pitch black. 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:13.360 There's no lights on down there. I quickly go down there. 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:18.400 I look, I don't see her. I felt that dread 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:23.040 and that wave of darkness hit me. I felt like 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.800 if I didn't get out of that basement right away, 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:28.720 something bad was going to happen, and I wasn't exactly 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.360 sure what. So I run up to the second floor and 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:36.439 I find Amanda in our bedroom. 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:43.760 He was like "did you call me?" No, what are you talking about? 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:48.560 If it was mimicking Amanda's voice, why was it wanting 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:49.559 me down in the basement. 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:55.040 It really creeped me out. They say, if a demonic 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:59.040 spirit will call you with someone else's name to lure 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:00.360 you on your own. 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:03.560 We were just constantly stressed out. We were thinking, okay, well, 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:04.520 what's coming next. 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:09.920 We got some chicken coops, and I've always wanted to 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:13.000 raise chickens, so I was super excited about that. We 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:17.800 had about fifty chickens. One day we went to the store. 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.480 We were gone for maybe an hour. We got back. 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:24.920 I happened to glance out the window and I could 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:29.200 see the chicken coops. I thought I saw something. I 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:34.600 went out there. Ronnie followed behind me. As we were 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:40.240 walking down we could see the chickens scattered around the 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:42.280 whole backyard, all dead. 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:46.120 We couldn't explain it. 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.400 There was no markings on them where it looked like 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:53.079 something attacked them. It kind of seemed like maybe they 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:54.959 died from fear. I don't know. 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:58.760 When you watch a movie about a haunted house and 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:02.720 you question, well, why they're just leaving, there's nowhere to go. 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.880 That's your house, and until you sell it, where could 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:08.160 you go? 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:13.079 We could feel the darkness, so we knew we had 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:13.640 to get out. 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.080 We're just like, enough is enough. We're going crazy. 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:21.319 The day we finally got the call that somebody is 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:24.520 buying the house, it was just instant relief. 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:26.840 It felt like a blessing. 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:32.480 And then we're moving into our new house. The owners 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:36.199 left a bunch of stuff in the attic. Ronnie was 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.880 digging stuff out of it and he pulled out a 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:39.600 ouija board. 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:43.640 I freaked out. I keep waiting to hear a sound 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:47.480 or see a shadow or something. I'm hoping that it's 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:50.079 behind us, but I don't know. 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:08.080 Len remind me to look into Ouija boards. Seems like 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:12.040 the door's always wide open with those things. Okay, next 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:16.360 order of business. So apparently I've deeply offended a large 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.520 group of Jimmy Buffett fans who call themselves parrot heads. 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:21.200 I don't even know what that means. 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:24.240 (MUMBLES) 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:29.520 It's gotta be more than just a tropical state of mind. 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:33.080 Len people are raging in the comments. You guys think 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.640 I'm coming for Jimmy in the afterlife. But just to 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:38.960 be clear, Jimmy is coming for me and my spot 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.280 on the other side. And if you're really that upset 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:45.320 about it, then just unfollow me. It's fine. I couldn't 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:49.440 care less. Actually I don't care at all. You really 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:53.080 think he just wasted away in Margeritaville? Grow up! 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:54.560 (MUMBLES) 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.600 We really lost that many in the last eleven minutes. Just 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:02.640 give me the next ad. 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:05.360 (MUMBLES) 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:09.840 kumquat mattresses pulling out too, you're joking me. Okay, this 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:14.400 is not my day. Dear Lord, Today is really not 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:19.160 my day. Crusty tropical rock boomer ruining my eternal slumber. 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:20.560 Jesus Christ. 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:22.160 I would kill that guy. 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:29.320 When I think of my days as an EMT, most 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:33.800 of the calls that we had were just regular standard 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:34.800 medical calls. 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:38.840 Someone has stomach pain, chest pain, someone thinks they're having 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:43.040 a heart attack, but there's one that scared the living 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:46.080 crap out of me. My name is Brandon, and I 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:47.720 saw what it was like to be scared to death. 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:54.200 I signed up for EMT school when I was still 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:56.960 in high school. It was just something that I'd always 0:15:57.040 --> 0:16:00.560 wanted to do. I've been a diabetic since I was eight, 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:02.400 so I was in and out of hospitals quite a 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.440 bit when I was a kid. Growing up, I figured 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:08.520 EMT would be a good route to go down. Got 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:11.800 my certification in two thousand and two. Everyone thinks that, 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:14.920 you know, being on an ambulance, working for an ambulance service, 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:18.920 it's constant adrenaline, and I guess it would be in 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:22.480 cities like Dallas or Houston, but in rural East Texas 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:26.240 not so much. You know, every one interesting call where 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.600 you're crawling into a smashed up vehicle to hold someone's 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:31.680 head up while they, you know, fire department rips the 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:35.840 car apart around you. You'd have thirty to forty standard 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:38.800 medical calls. So, hey, grandma's stomach hurts, can you come 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:41.200 pick her up? Can you come to the nursing home 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.320 and take this person to the hospital? Can you come 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:45.360 here to do this? Go here to do that? Just 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:50.440 standard patient transports. 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:56.200 Kind of a funny story. I was working for a 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.400 BLS basic life support service and it was very cold 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.720 that night. We got a call to the middle of nowhere. 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:07.320 The neighbors had noticed an elderly man that lived in 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:09.160 the house was sitting on his porch and he wasn't 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:12.360 moving and it didn't appear to be breathing.He was unresponsive 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.520 We get out there and there are three sheriff deputies 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:23.040 standing around a porch. They'd been there for twenty thirty minutes, 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.520 and no one had assessed the guy. No one had 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:27.399 walked up, no one had checked to see if he 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:28.800 had a pulse, see if he was breathing. 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:30.520 We all just assumed he was dead. 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:34.320 I walk up on the porch and I'm doing the assessment, 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:38.000 and I touch his wrists and he just goes. I 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:41.640 had never seen so many East Texas sheriff deputies move 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:46.000 so fast in my life. That scared everybody. We were 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:48.320 over the rail, off the porch, and halfway back to 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:49.880 the ambulance before we all kind of came to our 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:53.040 senses and like, oh shit, we got to help this guy. 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:55.520 You know, occasionally you'd have something like that that you 0:17:55.560 --> 0:18:00.399 remember just because it brings a smile to your face. Phrase 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:03.560 that I had heard whenever I first got into EMS. 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:07.679 Nurses would talk about it, Doctors wouldn't mention it. You 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:13.160 can smell death. Anytime a patient is either recently deceased 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:16.119 or in the process of dying, you start to notice 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:19.159 this weird smell. It's very hard to describe, kind of 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:23.679 like pungent, musty smell. It's just something that gets in 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:26.119 your nostrils and you only smell it for a second 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:30.000 and then it's gone. It's always shortly after the person's 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:32.760 passed away. I've seen quite a few dead bodies, but 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:37.200 occasionally you will have a patient that just very quietly 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:41.199 tells you I'm gonna die, and then they die. I 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:49.720 had that happened a couple of times. We had a 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:52.159 call out in the middle of the night and we 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:54.680 picked this elderly guy up and he thought he was 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:58.760 having a heart attack, and sure enough he was. We're in the 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:00.800 back of the ambulance and he's calm you know, he's 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:04.160 asking me about, you know, my favorite fishing holes, and 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:07.760 that was just kind of a common topic. I'm writing 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:09.040 down his assessment report. 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:11.840 Blood pressure that type Of thing, and he's just very 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:15.600 very softly says son, I'm about to die. 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:16.200 I'm like, no, no 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:18.199 You're all right, pat him on the shoulder, and I 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:20.320 told my partner up in the front to speed it up. 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:33.040 When I looked back, he was unresponsive. He passed away. 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:35.080 That really bothered me. 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:39.720 That was more give you goosebumps. But there was one 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:43.200 in particular that scared the crap out of me. Still 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:47.679 bothers me to this day. It was dark when we 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:50.560 got to the nursing home. The sun was just coming up. 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:57.000 It was a standard patient transport from a nursing home 0:19:57.080 --> 0:20:04.840 to a wound treatment center. We had done this several 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:06.680 times with this same patient. 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:10.639 He wasn't a pleasant guy. Again. 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:14.199 We transported this same gentleman several times. It wasn't a 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:18.040 fun trip. Anytime I was in the back with him, 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:18.640 I was creeped out. 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:22.840 He always looked mad, never spoke to us, to me, 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:26.119 to my partner. Anytime you'd ask him a question, he 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:29.560 would either growl or grunt. He was probably eighty years old, 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:33.280 six three six four. You could tell at one point 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:35.919 he was a big guy. He had the frame of 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:38.280 a big guy, but he was very light. He was 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:41.959 maybe one hundred and fifty pounds. I'd never seen him mobile. 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:44.800 He was always on a cot. Rarely did I ever 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:47.000 see him move his arms or his legs or even 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:53.119 lift his head. A sad story all around. It was 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:55.240 twice a week that we went and got him for treatment. 0:20:56.800 --> 0:20:59.200 On this particular trip, I was stuck in the back 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:01.720 and I saw that he was looking to the back 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:05.840 left hand side of the ambulance. About ten minutes into 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:11.400 the ride, he asked me, what is that? It shot 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:14.960 me because he'd never spoken to me before, and I 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:19.159 saw where he was looking. There's nothing there, and no, no. 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:20.560 No, what is that? What is that? What is that? 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:24.719 He just kept saying, what is that? What is that? 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:27.199 He probably said what is that? Probably twelve times. 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:33.399 He started to get louder and kind of violent. He's 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:36.000 losing his mind. He's looking at the back left corner 0:21:36.000 --> 0:21:39.119 of the ambulance. At this point, he's screaming, what is that? 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:39.720 What is that? 0:21:40.840 --> 0:21:47.399 No? Get it away, get it away. He managed to 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:52.600 get one of his legs loose from the strap. We 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:54.720 had him wrapped in a sheet too, so he managed 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:56.240 to get his leg out from under the sheet and 0:21:56.640 --> 0:21:59.120 the buckle and he's kicking it whatever he's looking at. 0:22:00.880 --> 0:22:04.160 He got his arms out and grabbing my shirt. I'm 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:05.760 trying to push his leg back down and get him 0:22:05.800 --> 0:22:08.120 back onto the strap, and he was flinging me all 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:18.040 over the place, one arm flung me across his body. 0:22:19.080 --> 0:22:23.960 I was in fairly good shape and pretty strong. This 0:22:24.040 --> 0:22:27.520 was just insane. This guy was strong, like out of 0:22:27.600 --> 0:22:31.200 nowhere strong. This is a guy that hadn't moved in god 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:34.679 knows how long when he grabbed me and flung me 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:37.719 across him. I remember thinking, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, 0:22:37.800 --> 0:22:40.800 shit,I yell for my partner to pull over and come help. 0:22:41.359 --> 0:22:43.520 She got in the back and she's trying to hold 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:45.440 his leg down. I'm trying to get him to lay back. 0:22:45.280 --> 0:22:48.480 And he won't. He won't lay back. He was pushing 0:22:48.520 --> 0:22:49.240 both of us around. 0:22:50.040 --> 0:22:52.440 He's just screaming no, no, no, no, no, get it away, 0:22:52.440 --> 0:22:54.960 get it away. 0:22:56.359 --> 0:22:59.000 He wasn't fighting us in a way of get off me. 0:22:59.480 --> 0:23:01.800 He was waving his arms and his legs around like 0:23:01.840 --> 0:23:04.040 he was trying to get something off of him. And 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:07.520 then he starts slapping at his stomach at his chest and 0:23:07.680 --> 0:23:09.200 he's fell back. 0:23:12.359 --> 0:23:17.760 He was unresponsive. My partner. She was freaked out. 0:23:18.200 --> 0:23:19.800 She got back in the front and turned on the 0:23:19.840 --> 0:23:24.360 lights and sirens and took off again. I started CPR 0:23:24.400 --> 0:23:31.280 on him. He never became responsive again. Sometimes when you're 0:23:31.280 --> 0:23:35.119 doing CPR on a patient, they will kind of stir moan, 0:23:35.320 --> 0:23:37.800 move around, they'll take a breath, might open their eyes, 0:23:37.840 --> 0:23:41.960 and then kind of go back out a couple of times. No, 0:23:42.240 --> 0:23:44.000 nothing with this guy. 0:23:44.240 --> 0:23:45.680 he was just gone. 0:23:46.440 --> 0:23:48.600 I don't know his personal history. He may have been 0:23:48.600 --> 0:23:51.240 a horrible person and in his mind he was going 0:23:51.240 --> 0:23:53.000 to a horrible place and this was the thing that 0:23:53.119 --> 0:23:53.920 was going to take him there. 0:23:54.600 --> 0:23:55.080 I don't know. 0:23:56.520 --> 0:23:59.440 I hope it was just his imagination, but it may 0:23:59.480 --> 0:24:03.680 not have been. I really don't know. I just got 0:24:03.760 --> 0:24:07.760 creeped out afterwards. I had nightmares about for a while. 0:24:08.680 --> 0:24:10.520 I still have a dream about it every now and then. 0:24:11.960 --> 0:24:14.359 I'll be sitting in that seat and he's asking what 0:24:14.560 --> 0:24:19.480 is that, and then then I'll wake up. I don't 0:24:19.560 --> 0:24:22.760 chalk it up to you know the paranormal. I also don't say, oh, 0:24:22.800 --> 0:24:25.679