WEBVTT - S1: EP 17 — "Suddenly, I Can’t Breathe” 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:23.439 Good morning undead-heads. Or maybe it's not morning, as you know, 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:25.680 I have no idea what's what in here. But I 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:28.320 just got back from the most relaxing long weekend in 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:31.800 the Elysian Fields. I can already hear the AP English 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:35.080 nerds in the comments: "The Elysian Fields are where heroes 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:38.360 of Greek mythology go when they die!" First of all, 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:42.200 I'm a hero to many, and secondly, it's open to tourists. 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:46.040 I lounged in the sun, explored the groves, and did 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.320 a booze cruise around the Isle of the Blessed, where 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:50.880 I met some really fun orbs on a bachelor party, 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:55.120 I'm pretty sure we saw John Lennon eating a pear. 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.960 People always say they come back from vacation feeling refreshed 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.960 and ready to get back to the grind. Well, I 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:07.240 couldn't disagree more. Coming back from vacation just reminds me 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:10.640 how much I'd rather still be on vacation. No, not 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:12.640 that I don't love talking to you guys. Sometimes it 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.560 just feels good to rot, you know? In the metaphorical sense. 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:20.520 In the literal sense, I can't recommend. Today's stories have 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:24.959 something in common. They're both from very supernaturally sensitive women. 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:29.160 Of course, everyone we have on the show is somewhat 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:32.120 open to the other side, but these two have what 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:35.839 my old psychic Monica would call "the gift." We'll start 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:39.640 with Elizabeth, whose demonic experience on frat row had nothing 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:42.880 to do with gravity bongs or holes punched in the drywall. 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.960 We have a prayer that's been passed down in our 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:52.520 family for a few generations. My mom taught it to 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:54.800 me when I was little. She was like, if you 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:58.800 get scared, you just need to say this prayer. It's 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:04.440 basically just praying for white light. But generally speaking, the 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:08.880 thing about demonic entities is that the shinier something is, 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:14.760 the more they want it. My name's Elizabeth, and I 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:17.360 learned that you don't fuck with the demon in the basement. 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:24.280 I've always had a sixth sense, if you will, or intuition. 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:29.400 The way that I can tell if maybe there's some 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:34.400 sort of spiritual energy going on is my ears will 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:38.720 pop like I'm on an airplane and typically don't unpop 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:43.840 for at least ten minutes. It's a genetic thing. People 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:46.760 in my mom's side of the family always tend to 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:50.160 have extra senses is the way I would describe it, 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:54.840 which is why my mom taught me this prayer. Put 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:59.760 me in a white light and protect me. Halloween weekend 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:02.919 is a very big deal in the town I went 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:09.040 to college, and there's decorations everywhere. They actually block off 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:13.079 the whole downtown and you just get to walk around 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:16.959 bar hop, do whatever. And there's also a lot 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:20.680 of parties in the neighborhood where all the students lived, 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.880 so you can just walk from party to party. That night, 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:31.760 the air it's crisp, it's a little cool. I chose 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:37.480 to wear black off the shoulder crop top, darker wash, highwaisted, 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:43.240 wide leg jeans, and then this new pair of platform heels. 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:48.200 Me and a group of my girlfriends decided to go 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:53.560 to a fraternity party off campus, and when we got there, 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:57.520 we noticed it was like weirdly quiet. People were just 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:02.560 sort of standing around with their beers talking. It was 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:05.880 supposed to be a big rager, but one of our 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:11.520 friends in the fraternity had fallen into the speaker and 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:15.800 broke it, so there was no music and everyone was 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:19.520 just kind of standing around brainstorming what to do next. 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:23.040 A group of our girlfriends wanted to go to the bars. 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.520 Another group wanted to go to another house party, but 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:29.720 me and my friend Stacy wanted to have a chilled night. 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:34.200 And that was when our friend Scott invited me and 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.080 Stacy back to his house to watch movies, hang out, 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:42.440 and just have a chilled nigh in. We go back 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:47.800 to Scott's house, which is an older home. I think 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:49.640 he told us one time it was built in the 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:53.479 thirties or something. When we got to the house, every 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:55.800 light was on, which I thought was strange because no 0:04:55.839 --> 0:05:00.000 one was home, and I just noticed that the vibe 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.279 in the house fell off. It felt like a wave 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:07.280 of something came over me that was heavy. My ears 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:14.599 had popped and I couldn't hear. I remember asking for 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:17.719 gum hoping that if I chewed gum that that would 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.080 help it unpop and I'd be able to hear better. 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.719 I just kind of wrote it off, so I ignored 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:29.760 it and just figured I was in my head. We're 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:33.320 hanging out. We hadn't had anything to drink at that 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:38.080 point really. I had had a corona. We were like 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:45.800 mildly sipping on beer. The night winds down and Stacey 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:50.280 decides to meet up with one of her other guy friends. 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.720 She leaves and it's just me and Scott in the 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:59.640 living room hanging out talking. It got to be around 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:06.679 two thirty three in the morning. The college town where 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:10.760 we went to school is smaller. Once the bars close 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:14.320 at two, there's a very limited window to get an 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.400 uber or a lyft back to wherever you're staying for 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:22.680 the night, so there weren't any ubers or lyfts. I 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:24.800 was either going to have to walk home in the 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:30.080 dark by myself, which I didn't like. So Scott offered 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:34.360 that I could stay upstairs in his room and he 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:37.000 would sleep on the couch and I could go home 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:44.080 in the morning. He walked me to his room. It 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:48.080 was at the very right end of the hallway. I 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.720 took my shoes off, I put them at the foot 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:55.200 of the bed. I turned on the lamp, and he 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:58.760 just kind of made sure I was good and said 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:02.120 if I needed anything, I could come downstairs and get 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:05.279 him and he would just be on the couch. We 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:10.280 said good night, and he shut the door and I 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:14.640 laid down in the bed and I didn't feel sleepy 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:21.320 at all. I remember immediately feeling like something was really wrong. 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.480 My ears were popping number one and I was just 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:29.239 starting to get a sense that I wasn't alone up there. 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:31.720 I couldn't quite place my finger on it, but I 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:39.520 felt strange and watched. So I chose to sleep with 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:43.080 the lamp on. I just felt like I didn't want 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:48.360 to turn it off. The next thing that I remember, 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:56.200 I was conscious, but I was standing at the opposite 0:07:56.360 --> 0:08:02.520 end of the hallway. I was looking into Scott's room. 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:06.680 The door was open, and I could see myself laying 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:11.240 on the bed. I could see my hair splayed out 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:14.520 behind me. I could see the crop top I was wearing. 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.840 I could see the jeans. I could even see, like 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:20.920 at the foot of the bed where I had sat down, 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:27.440 my shoes. It's jarring to feel conscious and you're not 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:35.000 in your body. It's the weirdest sensation I could ever imagine. 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:42.360 And then I realized there's something in the hallway watching 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:48.199 my body laying on the bed. It just looked evil 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:53.040 and dark. I mean it was literally as tall as 0:08:53.080 --> 0:09:00.000 the door, with huge, broad shoulders that looked bumpy, lumpy, 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:07.480 bulky. It had what looked like ram's horns, and 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:10.280 it was so tall it looked like it couldn't fit 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:16.079 through the doorway without crouching its legs looked so muscular, 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:19.520 they looked like ropes that had been twisted together, or 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:23.920 tree roots. It had its hands just hanging by its sides, 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:29.520 and it was the deepest shade of black that I've 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:37.079 ever seen in my life. I knew this was not 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:41.520 just a dream. I felt like a sheep that had 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:47.199 broken off from the pack and a wolf was circling it. 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:50.160 It likes the fact that I wasn't aware that it 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:58.040 was watching me. That terrified me. Whatever it was wanted me, 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.920 is this thing trying to get into my body? What's 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:08.160 going on? I start freaking out and praying, put me in 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:10.600 a white light and protect me. Put me in a 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:14.600 white light and protect me. When I started praying p, 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:18.040 whatever this thing was in the doorway started to turn around. 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.320 Put me in a white light and protect me. But 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:27.360 once it started to turn around, I'm back in my body, 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:32.959 in bed, right where I was before, drenched in sweat, 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:42.120 and I'm just freezing cold, shivering, teeth chattering. I look 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:46.640 over to my right. The door to the bedroom that 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:50.719 Scott had shut was now wide open, and I could 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:54.080 see directly down the hallway to where I had just 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:59.319 been watching this all happen. I knew Scott had shut 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:04.440 the door before he went downstairs. At this point, it 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:09.000 must have been around four in the morning. I just 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:13.280 instinctively know I have to get away from here. My 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.640 fight or flight kicks in, so I thought I'll just 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:25.040 take my chances and run. I grabbed my shoes, grabbed 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:30.120 my purse, ran outside, and sprinted back to my dorm. 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:34.080 I ran home barefoot, holding my shoes and my purse. 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:41.720 I cut through people's yards, over uneven sidewalks. It's probably 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:47.040 a good four miles. I was terrified. My feet were bleeding. 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.439 I ran as fast as I could, but I didn't 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:53.480 even pay attention to how my feet felt. I was 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.800 just more scared than in pain. I ran home to 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:01.560 my dorm. I remember being terrified to get in the elevator. 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:04.680 I was so scared that it followed me and that 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:06.600 it was gonna mess with me. 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:13.120 The dorm was dark. My roommate was there with her 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:17.880 boyfriend he was visiting for the weekend. They were completely asleep. 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:22.800 I ran and I jumped into my bed, fully in 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:28.040 my clothes, covered in sweat. I just laid there with 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:31.679 the covers pulled up over my head, and I just 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:34.079 prayed put me in a white light and protect me. 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:36.480 I didn't look out from under the covers. I just 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:40.680 laid there and I repeated the prayer that my family 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:46.680 has passed down until the sun came up. The next day, 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:52.080 I didn't tell anybody what happened because I didn't really 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:55.280 want to talk about it or like give it any 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:59.199 more power. So I just went on about my life. 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.560 I never went back to the house, even when they 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:04.800 still lived there for the rest of the school year, 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:06.400 I never went back to that house. 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:10.880 I just refused. I would actually have to walk by 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:15.240 that house to go to work. I'd walk by it 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:18.800 on the way to other friends' houses. I would always 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:21.920 make it a point to keep my head down. I 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:26.600 wouldn't even look at it because I was terrified. I 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:29.760 could sense that something was like in the window watching me. 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.360 I didn't want to look up and see it, connect 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.640 with it and let it know that I knew it 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:39.439 was there, and then just shy of A year later, 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:44.360 Scott came over to our dorm and my friend Stacy 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:48.280 casually asks do you still live in that same house? 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:55.920 His face changed really suddenly. He said no, very abruptly. 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.920 He told us how he would be home alone and 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:08.800 hear something call his name from somewhere else in the house. 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:14.160 It would sound like one of his roommates, and then 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.240 he would go look around and would realize he was 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.760 the only one in the house. They would wake up 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:26.360 to all their kitchen cabinet doors being open. There would 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:33.200 be unexplained slamming and loud footsteps. This was also how 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:35.960 I found out that Scott never slept in his room 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:41.720 because he was convinced that something in his room was 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:48.600 messing was him. One of the roommates who slept down 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:52.000 the hall from Scott actually had drilled a dead bolt 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:58.160 lock into his door and then a chain lock. The 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:03.200 last thing he said was During Alumni weekend, they were 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:08.120 on their back porch grilling, and a group of older 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:13.080 men were walking down the street and one of the 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:16.000 men in this group introduced himself and he told them 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:21.000 how he used to live in that house. They invited 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.680 him in and offered him to go in and see 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:27.160 his old room, and he said, no, I don't want 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:30.120 to go in, and he wouldn't step on the porch either. 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:35.320 As the guy turns to leave, he says, it was 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:40.600 nice meeting you and by the way, don't fuck with 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:50.280 the demon in the basement. After living in that house, 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:54.560 Scott actually wound up leaving school and had to go 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:57.880 to therapy because of whatever it was that had been 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:02.200 taunting them and messing with them all that time. As 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.560 scary as it was, seeing that, I do feel like 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.800 I was deliberately shown that so that I knew to 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:12.080 get out of the situation. I'm very grateful for that. 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:16.320 It's my hope and prayer that whoever lives there now 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:20.920 has some sort of strong positive force in their life 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:27.240 and no interest or curiosity in the paranormal, and they 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.440 don't give it any power by trying to contact it. 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:38.560 Didn't love the sound of that! There's a saying we 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:42.800 have here, "soft white light. You're all right. Hoof or 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:46.600 horn is spirit scorned." Of course, it's not just hoof 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.400 or horn you need to watch out for. There's tall 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:55.560 and slender, glowing red eyes, bodies of shadow, what else? Smelly, chilly, shrieky, ceiling, leaky. 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:56.440 I'm missing some 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:57.240 [MUMBLES] 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.920 oh right, door slamming as you a bad sign. There's others. 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:04.200 I'll keep thinking on it. In the meantime. We've got 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:04.800 ads for you. 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.520 [MUMBLES] 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:20.240 Right, footsteps can be bad. Well, any kind of low growl, 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:23.720 I guess sounds in general. Eerie singing seems to be 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:25.320 a big pass-time for spirits. 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:29.080 [MUMBLES] 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:33.600 Len, you said "purgatory!" Back in the Elysian Fields. Anytime 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:38.679 someone says "purgatory" everyone responds, "Did someone say limbo?" and 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:42.720 they break out the limbo stick and pomegranate Bellinis. Pomegranates, 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:43.880 you know, "fruit of the dead". 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:47.320 [MUMBLES] 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:48.880 I guess you had to be there. You really should 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:52.280 go sometime, Len. They do Zumba classes every afternoon on 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:54.360 the Divine Plain. You would love it. 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:55.330 [MUMBLES] 0:17:56.160 --> 0:18:01.280 Well, anyway, our next story comes to us from Ashley, 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:04.800 who's something of a spiritual Empath. You know, I'm sort 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:08.560 of empathic myself. I could always tell when someone felt 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:12.000 intimidated by me. It happened a lot, honestly. I just 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:16.160 have that effect on people. You know what, someone right 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:20.520 now is shrinking in my presence, Probably a listener maybe, Len 0:18:22.290 --> 0:18:22.840 [MUMBLES] 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:26.520 Whoever you are, never let anyone dull your shine, not 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:29.960 even a perfect undead influencer with awesome skin if you 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:36.480 ignore the patches of decay. Okay? good. 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:42.920 I never really talk about what happened to me. Psychic 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:46.919 mediums were like, you're a clairsentient. You can't hear, you 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:50.120 can't see things, but you can feel things in places 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:55.520 that have had immense trauma or very strong emotions. But 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:57.760 this is the only two times in my life it 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:01.000 has ever happened. And they were in the span of 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:05.919 like a year. My name is Ashley, and I was 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:09.040 haunted while on a historical prison tour. 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:16.119 The first time it happened, we went to visit my 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:20.760 aunt in eastern Europe. We were there for two weeks total. 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:25.240 My parents are huge history buffs, so it was really 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:27.439 important to my mom that we go do a couple 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:31.080 of museum type stuff while we travel. We went to 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:33.320 a bunch of different places. Like we went to a 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:35.960 couple of the castles that are over there. She took 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:38.400 us to a bunch of different towns just to kind 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:42.840 of explore and broaden our horizons. While we were over there, 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:47.119 my aunt planned for us to check out one of 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:49.760 the prisons that they have there, and they've turned it 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:58.800 into a museum as well. We pull up, we park, 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:01.919 we go up to the gate and my aunt and 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:06.320 my mom and my brother they're all going inside, and 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:09.840 I'm only at the entrance, but my body will not 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:15.280 move past this point. I felt like my feet were 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:20.359 cemented to the ground. I could not go in, and 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:23.760 my mom thought I was being like a typical teenager 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:26.679 of like I don't want to do this, and I 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:31.440 was like, no, you don't understand, like I physically cannot 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:38.480 bring myself to go inside. I physically felt like I 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:40.960 could not breathe, like I could not get air in 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:45.640 my lungs while I was on the premise. The tour 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:47.840 guide comes over and she's like, are you okay? And 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:53.679 I said, I feel like this overwhelming sense of dread 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:58.520 and I can't physically bring my body past this gate, 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:01.560 But just give me a couple of minutes. I gotta 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:09.480 calm myself down. Finally, we go into the actual prison. 0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:14.080 The tour guide walks me over to my aunt and 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:17.240 she goes, you can walk all the way through, and 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:18.919 then at the end it's going to lead you to 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:21.879 the museum. And like my mom had already gone in, 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:30.159 I wasn't even fully inside, and suddenly I just feel 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:36.639 like I can't breathe. The tour guide she's staring at me. 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:39.840 Her eyes are huge, and she's like, are you okay? 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:43.600 And I said, I can't explain it to you. I 0:21:43.600 --> 0:21:50.320 feel like I'm choking. And she's like, there's nothing happening 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:52.600 to you so she kind of like walks me over 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:55.520 to the side, and my mom's like, what is going 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:57.160 on with you today? Are you sick? 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:02.439 I said, no, it's this place like I feel like 0:22:02.520 --> 0:22:09.480 I'm suffocating. I still had the feeling all throughout the 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:12.400 time that I was on the grounds, and then when 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:14.800 we left and we got in the car, I felt 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:16.919 one hundred percent normal again. 0:22:20.040 --> 0:22:24.240 The second time it happened to me, I was in 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:28.407 high school. I went to Shawnee High School in Medford, 0:22:28.407 --> 0:22:32.359 New Jersey, and I took a photography class from my 0:22:32.480 --> 0:22:35.480 sophomore year to my senior year, and in my junior year, 0:22:36.400 --> 0:22:38.600 the teacher decided that we were going to start doing 0:22:38.600 --> 0:22:41.400 field trips to different places in the area, and one 0:22:41.440 --> 0:22:44.199 of the places that they decided to pick was Eastern 0:22:44.200 --> 0:22:51.720 State Penitentiary. Eastern State Penitentiary is a very old prison 0:22:51.960 --> 0:22:55.760 in the heart of Philadelphia. It hasn't been used in 0:22:55.800 --> 0:23:02.680 many decades. That place is one hundred percent haunted. It's spooky, 0:23:02.920 --> 0:23:07.359 but it is very cool. A lot of the prison 0:23:07.640 --> 0:23:11.760 is kind of disheveled and broken, so it's got a 0:23:11.840 --> 0:23:17.680 lot of very interesting areas to explore, not only like landscapes, 0:23:17.720 --> 0:23:21.640 but also to focus on like the lighting aspect of it. 0:23:22.359 --> 0:23:24.639 I was super excited and I was like one of 0:23:24.640 --> 0:23:30.320 the first ones to sign up. The day of the trip, 0:23:30.760 --> 0:23:33.360 we got on the buses, we got there. I think 0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:36.760 there was like fifteen students. When we pulled up on 0:23:36.800 --> 0:23:41.080 the buses, it kind of looked like a dungeon with 0:23:41.240 --> 0:23:47.000 the old stone and the ivy and just very run down. 0:23:49.480 --> 0:23:52.560 We were dropped off at the gates. We had about 0:23:52.560 --> 0:23:58.040 three hours and they basically said, listen, you can explore 0:23:58.119 --> 0:24:01.480 a little bit. Just obviously stay within the walls of 0:24:01.520 --> 0:24:05.480 the penitentiary. You can do a guided tour, but it's 0:24:05.520 --> 0:24:07.800 really up to everybody. Just meet back where the bus 0:24:07.880 --> 0:24:14.440 is to go home. So me and my girlfriend Chelsea, 0:24:14.840 --> 0:24:17.640 we are exploring, We're taking pictures. We got to see 0:24:17.640 --> 0:24:21.640 all the cool spots like Al Capone's Cell. Al Capone's 0:24:21.760 --> 0:24:25.320 Cell is very interesting, to say the least. It has 0:24:25.960 --> 0:24:28.320 everything exactly the way that he left it on the 0:24:28.400 --> 0:24:33.960 day that he was released. His furniture, there's rugs, there's lamps. 0:24:34.040 --> 0:24:40.359 There's a radio, which, according to the Eastern State Penitentiary 0:24:40.440 --> 0:24:45.000 tour guides, tends to go off out of nowhere and 0:24:45.040 --> 0:24:48.840 it's not connected to anything. It doesn't have any type 0:24:48.840 --> 0:24:53.920 of batteries, so shouldn't be doing that. I was really 0:24:53.920 --> 0:24:55.960 hoping that the radio would go off while we were there, 0:24:56.040 --> 0:25:02.879 but it didn't. It was Chelsea's idea to sign up 0:25:02.920 --> 0:25:05.960 for a guided tour. She was like, the only way 0:25:05.960 --> 0:25:08.680 we're going to be able to see certain areas of 0:25:08.720 --> 0:25:12.080 the penitentiary is if we sign up, because like, Death 0:25:12.160 --> 0:25:14.240 Row is not open to the public. You can't just 0:25:14.320 --> 0:25:17.919 walk through it. It's like gated off. We were the 0:25:17.960 --> 0:25:21.879 only two that were from the field trip on this 0:25:22.000 --> 0:25:27.119 guided tour. There was maybe ten of us total. The 0:25:27.200 --> 0:25:31.639 tour guide was a woman in her mid forties, and 0:25:31.720 --> 0:25:34.160 of course, back when I was seventeen, I was like, ah, 0:25:34.240 --> 0:25:37.479 this old lady. But no, she was very nice, very 0:25:37.480 --> 0:25:41.440 put together, very soft spoken. She had been doing this 0:25:42.040 --> 0:25:46.560 for about ten years, so she was very knowledgeable of 0:25:46.600 --> 0:25:50.320 the entire penitentiary. 0:25:51.280 --> 0:25:54.160 We start the tour. She's taking us towards Death Row, 0:25:54.240 --> 0:25:58.679 which is very narrow when you first walk in. She explains, 0:25:58.720 --> 0:26:02.320 there's two areas that you can explore in here. The 0:26:02.400 --> 0:26:06.600 guard's side, which is the path that most guards took 0:26:06.800 --> 0:26:09.320 to get into where death Row is, and then the 0:26:09.359 --> 0:26:12.040 inmate side, which is the showers. So you have to 0:26:12.080 --> 0:26:16.359 go through the showers to get to the cells. Chelsea 0:26:16.400 --> 0:26:19.040 and I wanted to get some pictures of the showers 0:26:19.080 --> 0:26:22.400 and then hopefully down towards where the cells were, so 0:26:22.560 --> 0:26:26.879 we separated from our little group and we're going through the showers. 0:26:27.760 --> 0:26:31.840 Chelsea was like setting up to take a picture. But 0:26:31.920 --> 0:26:37.560 when I step into the showers, I felt this really intense, 0:26:38.000 --> 0:26:42.800 sharp pain on the right side of my back. It 0:26:42.880 --> 0:26:47.400 was like this burning, stabbing sensation, and it knocks the 0:26:47.400 --> 0:26:53.760 wind out of me. I dropped to my knees. I 0:26:53.840 --> 0:26:57.000 can't breathe, I can't stand up, I can barely move. 0:26:58.040 --> 0:27:02.960 It hit me so hard and so fast out of nowhere. 0:27:05.880 --> 0:27:10.639 I was maybe three feet into the shower. I was 0:27:11.080 --> 0:27:17.600 in shock on top of being in excruciating pain. I 0:27:17.640 --> 0:27:21.080 can't even compare it to anything. I never felt something 0:27:21.320 --> 0:27:25.919 so sharp and so sudden come over me like that. 0:27:27.640 --> 0:27:32.280 I was sweaty, clammy and like a chill came over 0:27:32.320 --> 0:27:36.760 my body. Chelsea came rushing over and she's like, are 0:27:36.800 --> 0:27:41.800 you okay? She could instantly tell something was seriously wrong. 0:27:43.280 --> 0:27:47.960 She was scared. She thought I really got hurt. She 0:27:48.040 --> 0:27:50.479 was like, stand up, Come on, you can do it. 0:27:50.600 --> 0:27:52.280 I'm gonna help you. Get up. You gotta get up 0:27:52.280 --> 0:27:56.000 off your knees right now. Get up. Like yelling at 0:27:56.000 --> 0:28:00.719 me and the tour guide noticed that we hadn't caught up 0:28:00.760 --> 0:28:04.119 with in the group. She peeks her head around the 0:28:04.160 --> 0:28:10.879 corner and said, just keep walking. At seventeen, I was like, 0:28:11.240 --> 0:28:13.399 what is this lady's problem? Like I thought she was 0:28:13.480 --> 0:28:17.040 yelling at me, thinking I was goofing off, and I 0:28:17.160 --> 0:28:19.720 just remember looking at her and being like, I can't 0:28:19.760 --> 0:28:22.639 stand up. I can't catch my breath. You've got to 0:28:22.680 --> 0:28:25.679 be kidding me. And I was like I can't, and 0:28:25.720 --> 0:28:34.119 she was like, no, trust me, just keep walking. I 0:28:34.160 --> 0:28:38.240 could see that she was also panicked. Between the look 0:28:38.280 --> 0:28:40.600 on her face and the way that she said it, 0:28:41.560 --> 0:28:44.240 I knew I have to like get to her. She 0:28:44.400 --> 0:28:46.240 knows something that I don't know, and that if I 0:28:46.560 --> 0:28:49.280 just walked to her and I got myself out of 0:28:49.320 --> 0:28:51.920 the spot that I was in, I was gonna be fine. 0:28:54.840 --> 0:28:58.640 At that point, Chelsea basically lifts me to get me 0:28:58.720 --> 0:29:02.120