WEBVTT - S1: EP 13 — "I Didn't Know if I wanted to Scream, or Just Run” 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:20.599 Hi, Hello, Howdy Haunting fam. No, your ears don't deceive you. 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:23.680 We're back. We had to take a hiatus while Len 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:25.720 was out of the office. He has a timeshare on 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:27.800 the River Styx and I guess the dates are pretty 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:30.639 set on those things. Although again, time seems kind of 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:31.720 hard To track down here. 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:33.560 [MUMBLES] 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:37.120 That's okay, Len, No need to explain how time shares work. 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:40.839 I'll be haunting my family's Malibu house this season. That 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:44.479 is if my brother isn't already "haunting" it himself. And 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:46.560 by that, I mean rotting in the living room working 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:50.400 on the investor pitch for his Pokemon themed nightclub aka 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:51.720 a Virgin meetup. 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:54.840 He says the ocean air clears his head, but I've 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:56.640 been checking up and so far all he's doing is 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:58.440 smoking weed and mining doge coin. 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:01.280 [MUMBLES] 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.160 Yes, you're right, I'm getting off topic. I said, less 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:09.240 personal stuff. Anyway, Welcome back, listeners. For those of you 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:11.840 tuning in for the first time, I'm your host, Therésa 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:15.200 Dead influencer doomed to host this podcast in Purgatory for 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:18.200 all eternity, and I'm joined in the studio by the 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:20.440 Haunting team, our producer Len 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:21.199 [MUMBLES] 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:28.640 and our former UCLA student turned succubus turned intern, Naomi. Nay, 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:29.400 say hello 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:32.520 Naomi. 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:38.119 So that's why there's no coffee today. Len, you need 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.160 to talk to her. She can't just not show up 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:43.160 to work. I don't care if it's unpaid or indefinite. 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:45.920 It's an internship, and I may have fan mail that 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:47.633 needs sorting. Find her 0:01:47.633 --> 0:01:48.520 [MUMBLES] 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:51.760 While Len figures that out. Let's get into it. Our 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:58.280 first story today comes to us from one second Naomi 0:01:58.360 --> 0:01:59.320 prepares my intros. 0:01:59.320 --> 0:01:59.680 [MUMBLES] 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:05.560 Just forget it! Our first story comes from our good 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:10.200 friend [unintelligible mumble] who's supernatural encounter left them totally spooked. Do 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.200 I have to do everything around here? Find her notes, Len! 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:25.960 They had a conference center. They would do different exhibits 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.720 and stuff, and you'd have to check all the doors 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:33.360 and everything. It was just always this feeling of somebody's 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:37.840 watching you, and I knew there's nobody there, so it 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:42.360 was always weird walking around. But that wasn't the worst. 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:50.320 The worst was in the actual hospital. I'm JJ. While 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.960 working the graveyard shift as a security guard, I saw 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:59.000 and heard things that I still cannot explain. Back a 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:01.600 few winters ago, the world was shut down due to 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:06.600 COVID and I needed work. I was looking for different 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:10.079 things that I could do, and I saw security officer. 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:15.800 It's at a hospital nearby, I can do that. It 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:19.400 was the graveyard shift, which was fine because I've always 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:24.799 been a night owl. It's the hospital, Right? how much could happen? 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:31.200 The job basically consisted of doing rounds. You would patrol 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:34.800 the building. Once an hour, you're walking around, checking on 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:38.880 the hospital, making sure nothing's out of place. It's a 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:43.160 very boring job. On a normal night really you're just 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:49.760 sitting around waiting for something to happen. There's different areas 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:53.720 of the hospital that are restricted, such as lobby E. 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:01.200 It was laid out kind of like a square. If 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:04.200 you looked up, you could see the glass railings of 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:09.680 each level and it echoed, so if you yelled something down, HI, 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:15.600 how you doing? It was, you know, like a big chamber. 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:19.120 I would hear it down where I am, especially in 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.640 the middle of the night. It was actually a really 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:26.200 quiet night, and I was sitting at the desk and 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:31.599 the lobby was always boring until something happens. And then 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:38.440 something happens. All of a sudden, I started hearing things. 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:44.360 I heard footsteps, but there's nobody else in that building, 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:49.159 so how can I be hearing footsteps. I try to 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:53.880 figure out where it's coming from. I got up. I looked, 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:59.200 there's nobody down the hallway. It's coming from upstairs. And 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:03.760 then I looked at the monitor. If you've ever seen 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:08.120 a hospital security setup, there's about sixty cameras on this screen. 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:13.400 You can see every angle. I'm leaning into the monitor 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:15.520 and I'm going through each camera, clicking on it and 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:19.719 enlarging it, making it bigger, and there's nothing, nothing there, 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:28.719 But there's still footsteps. You know, I had the full 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.000 view of, are any of these cameras out? Am I 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:36.599 missing anything? Nope. Everything is in order. It doesn't seem believable, 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:41.120 but you're hearing it. Obviously there's something there, but I 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.560 have every camera angle up and I can't see it. 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:49.000 So it's making no sense to me. And all of 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:54.440 a sudden, they're just gone, just vanished. What the hell 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:59.920 is this and what's gonna happen next. I was actually 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:04.640 very scared at that point, is whatever it is going 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:11.559 to come down and appear in front of me? About 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:15.839 five minutes later, my relief gets there, but it really 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:19.400 felt like it was about an hour. There's usually about 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:21.680 a five minute changeover, so we brief each other of 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.800 anything unusual, anything like that. I said, yeah, all the 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:29.400 checks are good. Everything's great. By the way, I heard 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:33.920 some footsteps upstairs. Have fun with that, and just down 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.719 the hallway. I was out of there. I got home, 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:40.160 but I could not go to sleep. I'm tossing, I'm turning. 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:43.080 I think I slept two or three hours. I got 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:45.400 called in for day shift because I was a per 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:48.160 diem so if somebody called out, there were a lot 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.880 of times where I would have to go and cover. 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:55.480 so I went back. I started with a shift at 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.000 the wellness center, which is where you'll go in for 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:03.119 different doctors appointments, and in there you had a bunch 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:06.919 of different areas, one of which was where all of 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:12.760 the pediatric patients would be, so all your kids. One of 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:16.760 my responsibilities was to check on this very important machine. It 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:20.920 was down a long hallway and we were the only 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:24.120 hospital in the area to have it, so we had 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.360 to check it at least once an hour to make 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:29.280 sure it was online and ready to go, because if 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:32.840 it went down, it took hours to come back online. 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:35.960 But you had to walk a decent ways to get there. 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:41.320 So I decided I'm gonna go check that first, I 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.480 started walking down this long hallway and there's multiple doors 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:47.400 you have to get through. It was like a high 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:55.120 priority area, restricted posted everywhere. It would be dark in 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:59.040 all these places. You'd be carrying flashlights around. It's just 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:04.080 me alone, and it's really quiet, definitely creepy, and the 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:07.200 doors would close because you're going through multiple doors, it 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.840 would echo. You know, you could hear a pin drop, 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:18.560 that's how quiet it is. So I'm going down and 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:24.080 it starts getting colder. As I'm going down the hallway, 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:28.720 I'm like, something don't feel right here, but I have 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.720 to go check this machine. So I get to the 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:38.240 last door. I swiped my badge and it would not open. 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:44.920 What the heck? I kept trying. I kept trying. I 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:51.520 kept trying nothing. That's weird, and it's really cold. So 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.200 I'm looking around. I'm looking around, like what the hell 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:59.640 do I do now? Eventually, I was able to open 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:03.640 that door, and as I'm walking in probably no more 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:08.520 than three steps, I heard something in my left ear. 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:15.040 It was just like a voice and it just went, "Don't!" 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:21.920 Almost like I had an ear piece in. That's how 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:25.000 close in my ear I heard it. It was definitely 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:27.840 a male voice, and it was really soft. It was 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:30.560 so quiet. If you were standing next to me, I 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:35.800 don't think you'd hear it. Okay, footsteps one thing, But 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:41.960 now I've actually heard something go "don't." That's chilling. Sticks 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.240 the hair up on your back. You don't know if 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:47.160 you want to scream or if you want to just run. 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:51.120 I go back. 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:57.440 I play the camera back. There's nothing there. It wasn't 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:02.160 even a question. Did I just hear that? I know 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:08.319 for a fact that I heard it. Apparently, I wasn't 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:13.000 the only one that happened to. One of the security 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:17.880 officers told me that he had also heard a voice. 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:20.520 He wasn't able to make out exactly what it said, 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:24.440 but he had an encounter down that hallway in that same section. 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:29.720 Another one said, that's not uncommon to hear stuff in 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:35.440 that area. He remembers walking around the same building, going 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:40.760 upstairs and hearing like a little kid go "mama", And 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:42.680 he said he did the same thing. He ran away. 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:46.160 He's like, I ain't dealing with this. They said that part 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:50.520 of the building is the most haunted, and that's where 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.960 the most activity is. Putting all the puzzle pieces and 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:57.800 thinking about it. Now, I think that it might have 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:01.760 been a dead patient. You know, somebody passed away there 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:06.760 and now they're looking around at where they passed. I 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:10.280 do wonder, were they trying to warn me of something? 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:16.480 What did they not want me to do? I guess 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:17.600 I'll never know for sure. 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:27.199 If I was working the graveyard shift, I wouldn't need 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.920 to be told "don't." Of course, it doesn't matter when 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:32.600 you're working, in a hospital you're bound to cross paths 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:35.839 with a wandering spirit trapped between realms at some point. 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:38.079 We might be recording this from a hospital right now, 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:38.760 for all I know. 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:42.120 No, I'm fairly certain our studio is in an old 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:44.680 Hot Topic at an abandoned mall. Hard to know for 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.720 sure though, the astral plane is tricky. What counts is 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:51.040 that when the ghosts said "don't", JJ listened. It's more 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.360 than can be said for my brother and the family 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:57.800 court's very specific instructions regarding use of the Malibu house. 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:02.120 I know you can hear me, Neil! Hopefully he gets 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:04.520 the message. Now, let's take a quick ad break and 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:10.439 we'll be back in just a minute. 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.080 Hey, Len, where are we on that Naomi situation? 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:19.880 [MUMBLES] 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:22.760 What do you mean crossed over? Crossed over what? 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.760 Crossed over like "over the pond" in the cheeky British sense? 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:29.760 Or like a "crossover episode" like she's guest appearing on 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:32.920 Call Her Daddy? Are you saying she's successfully gone from 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:35.960 pop to country? Is a "crossover" some kind of sports term? 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:37.600 What do you mean crossed over? 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:45.280 [MUMBLES] 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:49.440 I'm fine. I'm fine. Hey take over for a moment, 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:51.080 will you? I need some air. 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:58.839 When Sharon? When? I've been stuck in this hell hole 0:12:58.920 --> 0:12:59.000 for eons 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:04.320 Okay, fine, Not literal hell because that would imply there's 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:07.560 been any movement in my case at all. If you 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:08.960 do not get me out of here, I will rip 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.880 that fugly appliqué vest right off your undead body and 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:13.320 shove up your little supernatural. 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:27.840 I heard a loud crash, like something falling down. Maybe 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:33.600 someone was downstairs and knocked over something. I thought that 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:36.600 person might need help, And then when I came down 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:40.199 the stairs, my gut told me to run, just run. 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:48.560 My name is Priyanka, and I thought I saw Santa, 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:52.360 but it was something else and it was much more frightening. 0:13:56.840 --> 0:14:02.440 I don't really tell people about my paranormal experiences. People 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:06.520 tend to be skeptical. You know, oh, you're just tired, 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.840 You're just hallucinating. Maybe that shadow is your own shadow. 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:18.040 So I don't really tell people. I am a night owl. 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:22.440 I tend to work better in the nighttime. It's just 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:27.520 more peaceful, it's more silent at night. My ideas just 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:35.000 flow better. It was very late at night. I was 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:41.400 seventeen years old. I was studying in my room. That's 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:46.560 when I heard a knock on my window. I thought 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:49.680 I was just tired, so I try to ignore it, 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:56.680 but then I heard the knock again. The first knocks 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.320 were very soft, and then the next were like louder 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:07.320 and louder. It came in threes, always in threes. The 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:11.720 curtain is always closed and thank god because my room 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:15.240 is on the second floor. If something is knocking on 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:19.680 the window. Birds don't fly at night, so it's got 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:24.840 to be something else definitely. The knocks were just the 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:31.360 first stage. The second stage was whispers. It's as if 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.320 it's beside me in the room with me, right near 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:40.120 my ears. I know it's words, but I cannot make 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:46.880 out because it sounds like many people. My heart beat 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:53.760 really fast. I definitely have goosebumps. I couldn't move. I'm 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:57.920 just too afraid I wouldn't dare turn and look whether, you know, 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:01.240 it's really there or what. I just close my eyes 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:06.320 and say my prayers. The whole week I experienced this 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:11.360 paranormal thing. At that time, I didn't know that one 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:14.360 of my neighbors passed away the very night it started. 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.440 I am from Hindu culture. I'm an Indian. We do 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:25.520 believe that there is afterlife, and if they die from 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:29.440 natural causes like you know, health issues, they go straight 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:33.800 to God. The ones who, you know, suicide, like forced death, 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:36.560 they are the ones who roam around and haunt people. 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:41.800 We believe in that. In my culture, if you talk 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:46.520 about the spirits, it will attract them. They can be anything. 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:50.840 Let's say you are afraid of snakes, it'll come in 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:54.200 a form of a snake. If you're afraid of clowns, 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:58.160 it will come as clowns. It can take the form 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:03.160 of your fear. I'm very afraid of the dark, so 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:08.000 it can come as anything. When I was twenty years old, 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:14.200 I was doing my foundation in science. I was staying 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:17.399 in the hostel and I wanted to, you know, go 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:21.479 to my friend's room. You have to pass by an 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:30.919 open study area with a huge tree. I saw this 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:36.119 thing sitting under this tree. This thing had red eyes, 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:41.840 long black hair, and it was wearing a white gown, but 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:48.480 it has blood on it. This creature was smiling at me. 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:54.359 That scared me. That smile wasn't a good energy smile. 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:55.480 It was something else. 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.879 The week after that, I was at my aunt's house. 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:06.800 My aunt is a Christian, so we have celebrated Christmas 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:10.840 since I was a baby. It was a few days 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:14.240 before Christmas, so we were at my aunt's place for 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:20.760 this Christmas celebration. My aunt would decorate the house with 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:26.840 lights and the Christmas tree. I was really excited because 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:31.320 of the bonding, the activities, the cookies. I see my cousins, 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:36.440 my nephew, my nieces. It's a joyful moment. We spent 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:41.560 hours telling each other stories. I think it was around 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:46.679 nine thirty when my nephew, nieces, they, one by one, they 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:50.439 started to, you know, go to bed. So we thought, okay, 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:55.960 it's time to go to bed. I went to the 0:18:56.000 --> 0:19:04.160 bathroom and when I came out, I heard a loud crash. 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:07.440 You know if a Christmas tree falls down. That sound? 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:12.120 I thought that someone was downstairs and maybe someone accidentally 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:15.639 knocked over something because it was really loud, but no 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:21.000 one woke up, surprisingly. My mind automatically was like, is 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:24.760 that Santa? I don't know why I said that. Don't 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:30.000 be crazy, you know it cannot be Santa Claus. I 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:34.680 decided to check out what was the noise about. My 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:38.960 gut didn't have this good feeling. I tried to be brave. 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:42.679 I must be brave to go down and check. I 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:48.080 kind of walk down the stairs slowly. It was really dark. 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:53.800 Who would be doing anything in the dark? They can't 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:58.160 even see their own hand. When I came down the stairs, 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:02.439 the decorations were still on the tree, the lights were 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:04.919 still on the tree. It was just like how we 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:09.040 left it. And then I saw this figure standing right 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:11.399 in front of the Christmas tree, just looking at me. 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:18.920 It was really huge. I couldn't see his face properly 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:22.600 because it was dark, but I could see his eyes glowing. 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:30.439 It was yellowish color. He was just standing there, and 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:35.280 then with a really really deep and harsh voice said "stop!" 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:43.399 It wasn't human at all. I was so afraid. I 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:48.040 just wanted to run away. I felt goose bumps rising 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:54.879 up and I had the chills. I just froze. My 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:58.000 hands are shivering, like leaves, and I couldn't get my 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:02.360 voice out. I couldn't bring myself to scream. My gut 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:06.720 told me to run, just run. My legs were really wobbly, 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:10.080 but I pull myself up and I said, I have 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:16.879 to get out of this place. I ran up the stairs. 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:21.840 Everyone was sleeping peacefully like nothing happened 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:25.960 At that moment, I just curl up on my bed 0:21:26.240 --> 0:21:30.720 and I tried not to think about it. I was thinking, 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:33.800 you know, what did I hear? What did I see? 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:38.280 I know very well it's not human, it's not someone, 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:47.280 It's something. The next morning, the decorations on the tree 0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:52.240 were all on the floor broken. There's one shelf where 0:21:52.800 --> 0:21:56.399 my aunt placed the cross and her bible there. The 0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:59.879 whole shelf was just on the floor, broken with the cross 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:06.480 and the Bible on one side. I told my whole 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:08.840 family that I saw something in the middle of the night. 0:22:10.080 --> 0:22:13.320 My aunt told me they've been having reports that the 0:22:13.359 --> 0:22:17.600 paranormal activities are going on in that area. She was like, 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:21.120 I'm going to pray. So the whole family gathered and 0:22:21.160 --> 0:22:24.840 they started praying very loudly, and they started singing songs 0:22:25.040 --> 0:22:28.240 to remove the negative energy from there. I do not 0:22:28.440 --> 0:22:31.240 know whether it worked or not, but after this incident, 0:22:31.359 --> 0:22:34.120 I did not see anything after that or hear anything. 0:22:34.320 --> 0:22:38.320 No one talked about it after that it was normal again. 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:46.360 Oh yikes. I haven't had a Christmas that brutal since 0:22:46.359 --> 0:22:48.439 the year the Fed seized our assets and we had 0:22:48.440 --> 0:22:52.760 to stay to Marriott Residence Inn. We also never talked 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:55.600 about it again. We're going to take a quick break, 0:22:55.680 --> 0:22:57.000 but we will be right back. 0:23:06.920 --> 0:23:10.720 It's not all disembodied footsteps and demonic Santas here on Haunting. 0:23:11.119 --> 0:23:16.800 We actually have some good news today. It seems our 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:22.680 beloved intern has left purgatory and crossed over to the other side. We're, 0:23:22.720 --> 0:23:25.720 of course, all very thrilled for her. Such a deserving soul. 0:23:26.480 --> 0:23:28.879 And we thank her for her contributions to the podcast. 0:23:30.640 --> 0:23:32.880 We're now in need of a new intern. If you're 0:23:32.880 --> 0:23:36.119 a self-starting spirit with incredible attention to detail who thrives 0:23:36.119 --> 0:23:38.439 in a fast paced environment and is looking for a 0:23:38.480 --> 0:23:47.000 way to spend eternity, email Len at HauntingThePodcast@gmail.com. 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