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Speaker 2: Now, this is in Kentucky. This is where I grew
Speaker 2: up too. I had a haunted house. I grew up
Speaker 2: in a haunted house. And it's always interesting, Diane, that
Speaker 2: there's always people in the house that have Nope, I've
Speaker 2: never noticed anything. I've never heard anything. I've never seen anything.
Speaker 2: And there's other people in the house. Oh yeah, lots
Speaker 2: of stuff. You know, you hear things, you see things.
Speaker 2: So I totally understand that. And do you have any
Speaker 2: conclusions of why that might be.
Speaker 3: Well, the first thing is I realized there are monsters
Speaker 3: in the closet and under the bed. Yes, to my core.
Speaker 3: It took the naivety of you know, ghosts don't exist,
Speaker 3: you know they don't and they can't scare anyone. And
Speaker 3: then you know, we had other ones. I had other
Speaker 3: haunted houses I worked in and lived in. And so
Speaker 3: after writing my book and I had to examine a
Speaker 3: lot of things about who were we and we went
Speaker 3: through a pretty dysfunctional life. My children had to and
Speaker 3: I did, and my husband had to. He really really
Speaker 3: couldn't help that. But after everything happened because of that
Speaker 3: then I feel like God did hear my prayers. And
Speaker 3: I had several angelic encounters and I thought, Okay, maybe
Speaker 3: there are bad things in the world, but there are
Speaker 3: also angels. And I thought, of there are angels and
Speaker 3: there's a God. And so it took years to come
Speaker 3: to grips with Okay, even the horrible things make us
Speaker 3: who we are, and it shows that we are important.
Speaker 3: We matter no matter you know what your state of
Speaker 3: life is. And so that's what I came to the conclusion.
Speaker 3: In my family, we are important, we matter, and no
Speaker 3: one is unreachable. And sometimes you don't want certain things
Speaker 3: to reach you, but the good things can outweighs the bad.
Speaker 2: And there were some of those angelic encounters well.
Speaker 3: In nineteen seventy eight we had when we left that house,
Speaker 3: we went to a little apartment and I just said, well,
Speaker 3: nothing never liked that happens, that doesn't exist, and I
Speaker 3: pushed all that on my mind and it was we
Speaker 3: were free. And then we moved one more time, rented
Speaker 3: a little house and everything seemi going real well, and
Speaker 3: my husband got another job that he liked and he
Speaker 3: was starting a night work and he I was waiting
Speaker 3: for him to come in. One morning, I kind of
Speaker 3: woke up and I was thinking, it's about time, and
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, the foot of the bed shook.
Speaker 3: It shook, and I started crying because it was back.
Speaker 3: It had followed us, and I couldn't believe it. Connie,
Speaker 3: I couldn't believe this couldn't exist in a normal world.
Speaker 3: But it did. And then one night we were lying
Speaker 3: in bed and my husband was home and something hit
Speaker 3: the wall really hard in the living room, and Chris,
Speaker 3: from his room the room he said, Molly, something hit
Speaker 3: the wall. And I got up and I looked in
Speaker 3: on them and they were all in their bed and
Speaker 3: asleep except for Chris. And I walked in the living
Speaker 3: room and my zipple lighter I smoke at that time,
Speaker 3: a heavy zipple lighter was on the floor, and I
Speaker 3: knew it had following something had thrown that with such
Speaker 3: a force it sort of just vibrated through the whole house.
Speaker 3: And I just told him it's okay, my lighter just fell.
Speaker 3: And I really don't think he believed that. He, you know,
Speaker 3: he was pretty scared looking, but I warned him to sing.
Speaker 3: Things like that don't exist. And so that started with
Speaker 3: the bed shaking, and I was under that. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm not scared. I walked in the dark to go
Speaker 3: get my landlord, and I've done things before, but under
Speaker 3: that threat of that invisible thing, I was just vulnerable
Speaker 3: and weak, and it knew it. And I hated it.
Speaker 3: I hated myself and I hated it because I was
Speaker 3: so vulnerable and scared and I just I thought, you
Speaker 3: can't live like this, This can't be happening. And about
Speaker 3: that time, we joined the little church and I was
Speaker 3: singing some and we were going out one night's church
Speaker 3: and my friend and my husband and my daughter stood
Speaker 3: around the kitchen table kind of talking. We were getting
Speaker 3: ready to leave, so I picked up my youngest daughter
Speaker 3: in my right arm. I picked up my person, my guitar,
Speaker 3: and my left hand, and I put some hills on
Speaker 3: and we were going out to the car because we
Speaker 3: were getting ready to go. And the porch had three
Speaker 3: high concrete steps and it had an asphalt driveway. And
Speaker 3: as soon as I took that first step, I realized
Speaker 3: I was unbalanced and I was gonna fall, and I
Speaker 3: had my little daughter in my arm, and I in
Speaker 3: those seconds, I thought, hell, am I going to get
Speaker 3: rid of the other things to help her, because we
Speaker 3: were going to fall on these steps. And right then
Speaker 3: a strong hand caught my right shoulder and pressed on
Speaker 3: it and it stayed there until I caught my balance
Speaker 3: and everything my balance. I couldn't believe it, and I
Speaker 3: went on down the steps, and I, you know, was
Speaker 3: kind of giggling and relief. And I turned around to
Speaker 3: see who had come out, and Keith or my husband,
Speaker 3: and nobody was there. And I said, out loud to
Speaker 3: my little daughter, just out loud, I said, how did
Speaker 3: they get back in the house so fast? I couldn't
Speaker 3: believe this whirl wind saved from this high porch, you know,
Speaker 3: And I put everything down to her and I came
Speaker 3: back in the house and they were still standing around
Speaker 3: the table, and I said, who came out just now?
Speaker 3: And they said nobody. And I said, no, who came
Speaker 3: out of the house right now? And they're kind of
Speaker 3: wondering and they said nobody. Why And I said, because
Speaker 3: I was falling and somebody caught me. And they said, really,
Speaker 3: you know, they just I diadn't know what say. They
Speaker 3: knew I was serious, and so we went on the church.
Speaker 3: But that's funny Connie. I didn't tell really. I think
Speaker 3: I told them my cousin because I knew she would
Speaker 3: believe me. But I didn't tell hnybody. I just I
Speaker 3: didn't talk about the bad things. And then this, because
Speaker 3: that was so beautiful, I kind of I didn't know
Speaker 3: what to think about that.
Speaker 2: Did you actually feel the hand?
Speaker 3: Yet? It stopped me from falling as I was standing
Speaker 3: there losing my balance, It just right on my shoulder,
Speaker 3: just a strong hand. And that's what I couldn't believe.
Speaker 3: How did you know my husband or my friend come
Speaker 3: out and catch me like that? So that's what I
Speaker 3: was amazed at at first. And then I couldn't believe.
Speaker 3: How did they get back in the house And they
Speaker 3: came out and saved me and they ran back in
Speaker 3: the house. I couldn't believe it, and no one came out.
Speaker 3: And yes, it saved me from falling with my little daughter.
Speaker 3: Maybe it would have given me a head injury, maybe
Speaker 3: it could have killed her. You know, we were it
Speaker 3: was a very dangerous situation. And yes, and I'll never
Speaker 3: forget that, and I'll never you know, I believe it
Speaker 3: was a guardian angel, although that's hard to believe. Sometimes
Speaker 3: you know, I think could it could have guardian angel
Speaker 3: actually touched me, you know, saved me, but there aren't
Speaker 3: many other explanations for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what they're there for, right, guardian angels. Now,
Speaker 2: was it like a big hand? Was it warm or
Speaker 2: did you notice anything else?
Speaker 3: I thought I just thought it was my husband or
Speaker 3: our friend Keith. It was just seemed like a big hand.
Speaker 3: I thought it was one of them, that it had
Speaker 3: to be one of them, just you know, their actually
Speaker 3: caught me. But it wasn't.
Speaker 2: That's nice. That's a nice one.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, And I have several others around at the
Speaker 3: same time. And may I think maybe because we needed prayers,
Speaker 3: we needed help because something was following us and we
Speaker 3: had enough problem in our life, sadnesses with the marriage.
Speaker 3: You know, it's still still hanging on, but not good.
Speaker 3: And I went to bed one night, we both went
Speaker 3: to sleep. The children were asleep, and he always fell
Speaker 3: asleep quickly, and I'm a night out and I closed
Speaker 3: my eyes and I thought, you know, I needed to
Speaker 3: go to sleep. And I opened my eyes and there
Speaker 3: was an angel floating probably three or four feet off
Speaker 3: the ground, and it was a blonde haired angel, a
Speaker 3: child and you know, I always hear how in each
Speaker 3: culture they usually see if they see an angel, it
Speaker 3: fits their culture, and that makes sense. You could say, well,
Speaker 3: you're just you saw a picture, but I think it
Speaker 3: makes more sense that you see things in your culture
Speaker 3: that's familiar to you. And so this little angel had
Speaker 3: the wings pulled back, it had blonde here had a
Speaker 3: like a glowing halo. I could see that on its hair,
Speaker 3: and its gam seemed to be electrified. And when I
Speaker 3: was growing up, I thought of Guardian angels as kind
Speaker 3: of a white robe, but just kind of plain. And
Speaker 3: this little angel had a blue band around its waist
Speaker 3: that kind of waved in the air in the back,
Speaker 3: and it had a pink sash over and I couldn't
Speaker 3: I could not believe it. I couldn't fathom it. And
Speaker 3: its legs were tucked under and its hands were together.
Speaker 3: And so I did what they say to do. I
Speaker 3: sat up and I pinched myself. I thought, that's I'm
Speaker 3: just gonna pinch myself. And it stayed. It stayed, and
Speaker 3: it was so to put it in words, I couldn't
Speaker 3: believe it. And I thought about just reaching over and
Speaker 3: trying to wake my husband up. But I thought, I
Speaker 3: don't wanted anything to make the school away ever, I
Speaker 3: could sit there forever there it's this little angel. And
Speaker 3: as it stayed there, you know, I took it all in.
Speaker 3: I took it all in, and then it was gone.
Speaker 3: And it didn't fade away, it didn't blink away. It
Speaker 3: was just gone. And I set up all night. I couldn't.
Speaker 3: I could barely comprehend it, and and it just seemed
Speaker 3: too too wonderful, too wonderful, And so that was kind
Speaker 3: of like, why are the the evil things coming? And
Speaker 3: then how are we so blessed to have these guardian angels?
Speaker 3: And I'm very naive tone it sounds so funny. I
Speaker 3: was thinking of what was it doing. It's eyes were
Speaker 3: closed and had its hands up. And then finally it
Speaker 3: hit me. I had been asking people for prayer, pray
Speaker 3: for us. Oh, it was praying, that's why. Oh, but
Speaker 3: it didn't occur to me, you know, And I thought
Speaker 3: it was praying. And you know, I'll never forget that.
Speaker 3: It was beautiful, it was sweet, but it was It's
Speaker 3: hard to comprehend that something so wonderful could happen to me,
Speaker 3: or to happen to anyone and that's also what I
Speaker 3: put in my book. If these things can't happen to me,
Speaker 3: it didn't happen to anyone, because I'm not even money special.
Speaker 2: You are, though, Look at all these things happening to you.
Speaker 2: You are, you are special.
Speaker 3: You are well. I thank you, but I think.
Speaker 2: Maybe, but no, you are you are? You are?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: I mean here you are on coast telling your story.
Speaker 2: That's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: It is It's very good.
Speaker 2: It is very cool. I know it's so cool. I
Speaker 2: think it's cool that I'm on here. I love it.
Speaker 2: I think it's great. Did you ever see the angel again?
Speaker 3: No, I didn't see an angel again. I had some
Speaker 3: well let me say, I didn't see that angel, but
Speaker 3: I did see what I believed to be another angel.
Speaker 3: And the angel that I saw later I said that
Speaker 3: was like nineteen eighty I read he showed up when
Speaker 3: some friends from a school gave me a ride home,
Speaker 3: and it turned out they were kind of into drug dealing.
Speaker 3: I just thought they were nice guys. They followed me
Speaker 3: home because I was having car trouble, and when we
Speaker 3: lived out in Prestwood at the time, when we got
Speaker 3: pat Anchorage very dark in the eighties, Mike. All my
Speaker 3: accessories went out and I had to partner my car,
Speaker 3: and they said, well, we'll give you a ride the
Speaker 3: rest of the way home. And it turned out though
Speaker 3: as they were talking they weren't very nice young men.
Speaker 3: And the one, the other, the man that was in
Speaker 3: my class, he really had to distance himself. The other
Speaker 3: guy was so bad, but he was bad too. Had
Speaker 3: ended up and we had stopped because of course the
Speaker 3: driver has a flat tire. So we're out in the
Speaker 3: middle of nowhere. Everything is shut down, and I'm getting
Speaker 3: scared of them. And out of nowhere comes a white Cadillac,
Speaker 3: a white convertible Cadillac with the long horns on the
Speaker 3: front on the hood beautiful and a tall, dark black man,
Speaker 3: very handsome. And I called that story tall, dark and angelic,
Speaker 3: because I believe he was an angel. He got out
Speaker 3: of the car. He had some white cowboy hat, he's
Speaker 3: got a white suit. He's god to look like white
Speaker 3: boots underneath him. And he just rolls over to me.
Speaker 3: He walks bessoms, strows over to me and he asked
Speaker 3: me how I'm doing. We're just all just kind of
Speaker 3: staring at him. It was so unreal and I said, oh, fine,
Speaker 3: thank you, and I was the shy and he said, well,
Speaker 3: I just thought maybe you needed some help. And kind
Speaker 3: of like I said in my book, kind of like
Speaker 3: as if he already had help, you know, just by coming.
Speaker 3: And the one man, it was such a horrible thing
Speaker 3: in the nineteen eighties. The young man had a jack
Speaker 3: Inese hand who was changing the car the car, and
Speaker 3: he said, oh, I think this white boy can handle this.
Speaker 3: And I was so humiliate angry to be associated with him.
Speaker 3: And I looked over to see if the man had heard,
Speaker 3: and I thought, yeah, he heard, but he was smiling
Speaker 3: at that boy. The man who said that, he was
Speaker 3: smiling at this just incomprehensible smile of love and everything,
Speaker 3: you know. I couldn't believe it. He wasn't taking act.
Speaker 3: And so then they were just kind of quiet. We
Speaker 3: I didn't know what to say, and then they didn't
Speaker 3: know what to say, and I said, it was just
Speaker 3: so we couldn't comprehend him. And then he said, well,
Speaker 3: you all have a good night, and he looked at
Speaker 3: me and he got back in his car and he
Speaker 3: drove off toward Labrange, which back then there was nothing
Speaker 3: that way, and you just went out further. He just
Speaker 3: disappeared in the night, you know, down the road. And
Speaker 3: so after that they changed the tire and then they
Speaker 3: didn't talk anymore. I think it just they couldn't comprehend
Speaker 3: what happened, and they dropped me off at home and
Speaker 3: just left. And I think about that. I think they
Speaker 3: were planning something. I think I was probably in big
Speaker 3: trouble that night.
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