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Hi, this is Christina and Carmen, and this is another
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episode of as Spooky Tales, the podcast for all things
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as Spoogy true crime in dat in America. But today
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today's a special episode. Today's the most special episode of
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a mom. Yes, because we had the most amazing guests ever.
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We were sonorous before recording. But let's let's say who
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the guest is before we go on about how we
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were growing up and crying. That's wedding like a my
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Dame and a song. Yes, Mom, spaghetti. Yeah, our guest
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today Rodriguez. Yes, the author of two books that we
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adore so much, for brown Girls with sharp edges and
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tender love and and Primas unknowing and loving the woman
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who raised us. And let me just say, these books
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I've never felt so seen. They must read, Yes, truly, truly, Yeah,
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for anyone. But not only is she the author of
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these bugs, but she has been a long time important
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Latina voice in my life. And then mine answer you
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told me after you sent me countless posts from Latina
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Rebels on Instagram. Yeah, I mean, I can't even remember
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how I came across Latina Rebels Apisca, but I have
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been following Pisca since I was a baby in my twenties,
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a younger baby, because you're still a baby course of course. Yeah.
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And I mean I could go on and on about
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how much I have learned, how amazing she is, on
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and on. We could. We could write a book about
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how much we left Prisca. I even she had a
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podcast for a bit and I listened to that. I
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didn't even know that, Oh that's a fan, that's a
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deep cut, that's a deep I was like tea or
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something like. I forgot what it was called, but in it, okay,
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I had no idea. Wow, but yeah, she came on.
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We have to say. So I was listening to and
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Prettymas and Carmen had already read it before me, but
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there was a section of Pretty Mass talking about the
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spookya who's his ghosts? And then I was like, well,
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Prisca obviously has ghost stories then, and so I was
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listening to it, and I was like, because we followed
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each other already, I just messaged her and I was
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dying inside because look, I know, I know Carmen and
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I are both like Leo's but we don't we promote ourselves,
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so we don't We're introvert leos if you will are Yeah,
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And isn't like you have to know us for us
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to really come out of our shell. Yeah, that's what
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I was just gonna say, Like, we have to already
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know each other like comfortably for us to appear like extroverts.
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You're not. We're most definitely not. No, if we're standing
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in line somewhere, I'm not going to make a conversation.
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Oh no, No, I don't think I've ever started a coment.
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People only start conversations with me. Yeah, we very much
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don't fit into that stereotype. But so I was dying
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a Messagingskay. I was like, I'm listening to this right now,
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and I think you have ghost stories? Can you come
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on the podcast and talk about ghost stories? And then
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she was like, oh my god, I'm dying. I'm so nervous. Yes,
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And I was like, no, pe Scott, we're dying, and
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it just we're just like her. Yes, yes, and now
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we're planning a trip to go to Nashville to go
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goat hunting. Yes, yes, but let me do a professional
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bio in case people don't know right right who Priscuy is.
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For some reason, for some goddamn reason. If you don't know,
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then you better get acquainted, Okay. Soguez was born in Manawanikarawa,
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but she calls Nashville, Tennessee home, which is why I
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said we're going to go there. She's a feminist, a theologian, storyteller,
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and an advocate. She got her Masters of Divinity from
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Vanderbilt University's Divinity School in the spring of twenty fifteen.
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She's a respective storyteller who has traveled across the USA
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telling stories to countless college and university students. She merges
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storytelling with pedic like I'm not aild degree. Thank you,
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pedagog Yes, thank you, I did read that book pedagogy.
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Oh what's called? I know what we we're talking about now,
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to help folks understand the larger forces at play aka
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systemic oppression as a first generation student and immigrant, and
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her passion is in naming the experiences of first generation
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students samgane systems not built for them. And literally, if
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you read like any of her books, it's that's what
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That's what I'm saying. I never felt so seen truly, truly.
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She's the oldest immigrant daughter and again not an eldest
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daughter in God oldest daughter. You and me and Christine
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are collectively the eldest daughters. That's twins together. And yeah, yeah,
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although I will say like spiritually I am the eldest daughter,
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I feel like in some way actually I think it
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splits between us and right, Yeah, sometimes I am and
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sometimes you are. We have different eldest daughter responsibilities within
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our family dynamic. Wow, this is crazy because they're twins.
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It's because we also have the one brains. Also that
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we do have one brain zone. Yeah, and this last
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part here, she is unapologetic, angry, and uncompromising about protecting
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and upholding the stories of LATINX communities. Oh my god. Yeah, yes,
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and that how was our guest today? And let's, I
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guess get into the episode unless you have anything else
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to say, no other than it was the best thing ever.
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It was. It was the best thing ever. Okay, let's yeah,
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let's get into it. Hi, this is Christina. That wasn't me,
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That was a kermis. But I'm also here, and we're
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here with Prisca. We're so excited. You already heard our intro.
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We are fangirling and sweating a little bit on all accounts.
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Yeah, yeah, this is like one of my favorite podcasts.
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I've been reading and looking forward to it at the
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same time.
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That's exactly what we've been feeling. Wow wow yeah, yeah, yeah,
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be the same. And yeah, we have a listener story
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like always, If anyone wants to send us your stories,
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please do because we're running out. You can email Spooky
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at gmail dot com. You can DM us on any
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of our socials. You can call it a Spooky hotline.
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There's so many ways to get us your stories. So also,
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I hope I haven't read this one. I Usually the
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way I can tell if I read it already is
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because there's like a thing that I forwarded it to
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Carmen and this one didn't have that. So people will
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let us know if I read it already. But I
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don't recognize it. So, so have you read one before
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or like twice? I've done it like three times. Probably
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I never noticed. Yeah, the listeners noticed, though, some of them.
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They're like, hey, you read this already, And I'm like, oops,
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my bad. Do I need a better system? Yes, well
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I get one, No, all right, so yeah again, let
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me know if it's a repeat. All right. The first
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time I saw the hat Man, I was about eight
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years old. We lived in a haunted house in the
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country in a small town in Idaho. Each of my
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family members has a story, including the non believers, but
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this is the main one that affected me and some
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of my nieces. I used to sleep in the living
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room because I was the youngest of ten and we
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only had three bedrooms. My brother even had to sleep
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in a trailer out back because there was no room me.
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Mammy used to keep night lights on so no one
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would trip going to the bathroom, but they used to
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create shadows on the walls. One of the shadows was
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the hat Man. He was tall and thin and had
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a fedora hat with a long cloak with the collar
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turned up, not a fedora and the collar up. Okay
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that I had not heard a description of the hat
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man with this. This is the hat man from the
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two thousands, I think so. Yeah, he graduated high school
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in twenty ten. Wait were people still doing that the
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pop collar? Yeah? I think so. I don't remember. I
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think it was a little bit before to whatever going.
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My era. Okay, that's when this hat man was in school,
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all right. He was more of a shadow. I could
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see through him, and he would stretch himself to an
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impossible height and had really long fingers and sharp teeth.
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I remember in the first years, I wouldn't get sleep paralysis,
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and I could move. I would usually cover my head
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with my blanket and say the me that prayer. This
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is in parentheses. I'm no longer religious, but I still
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say this. I'm scared same. Eventually I would fall asleep
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and wake up safe. One day I saw him in
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the daytime. It was April and I was eleven, so
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this would have been in two thousand and one. I
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saw the hat man off and on, but this was
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the first time I would see him in the light.
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Since we lived in the country, the bus had to
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pick us up, and it was always too early, like
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six forty five am. By now, all my siblings had
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moved out and I was the only one left. I
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would usually go out to wait for the bus ten
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minutes or ten minutes early, because if I missed it,
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no one would be home to take me. I should
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also mention we had no close neighbors. The nearest ones
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were half a mile away, and we were surrounded by
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fields and a patch of sagebrush the desert. I was
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gonna say, dessert desert across the street. Welcome to Idaho. Lol.
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It sounds terrible, but there was a river nearby. Often
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in the early mornings there would be a thick, heavy
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fog that would settle over the area, and that day
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the fog was thick. I remember looking to my right
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to try and see if I could see the bus's
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fog lights blinking in the distance. Instead, I saw him,
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the tall hat man, looking extremely tall and thin that day.
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Even though he was at the stop sign that was
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about a block away, I could tell he was smiling,
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and he was starting to run towards me. Oh my god,
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I panicked. But then I saw the lights of the
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bus like a beacon in the fog. I started to
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pray the bus would get here before him, and watched
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with hopeful eyes as the bus passed through him. But
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he was not far behind. I had to cross the
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street to get on the bus, and normally the bus
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driver puts on the stop sign and motions for me
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to pass, but I was now waiting that day. By
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the time the bus stopped, I was already across the
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street trying to open the damn bus doors myself. The
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hat man was so close I could see his coat
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was tattered and his mouth was wide open, showing his
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sharp white teeth. I jumped in the bus and yelled
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at the driver to close the door. She was shocked
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and asked if I was okay. I turned around and
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the hat man was gone. Embarrassed, I said I was
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just cold, sorry, and I sat in my seat. That
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was the one and only time I saw him in
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the daylight. Incidentally, I recently found out my nieces also
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saw him when they stayed over at my parents' house,
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but they never told me until we had all grown up.
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As a teen, I started to have sleep prolysses, and
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he would often make an appearance. Usually he'd be at
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the foot of my bed or in my doorway watching me.
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This usually happened if I was stressed or anxious over something,
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which was all the time. Then in my early twenties,
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I started to get new sleep prelessis demons appearing. The
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next one I can only describe as being smooth and gray,
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almost alien like. Instead of eyes and a mouth, it
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had empty sockets that seemed to go on forever. This
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one was cruel, as it would have mimicked the voice
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of my husband would hold me while I was on
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my side, like we were spooning. The third one was
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almost funny, like it was a fuzzy puffball and it
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made grumlin noises at the foot of my bed. By
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the time I was twenty nine, I've had enough. I
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asked my mom to do a Lympia on me, as
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I hadn't been sleeping for three weeks, and each time
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I did, I saw one of those pincha lemonios. She did,
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and after that I could finally sleep. I'm now thirty
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two and I no longer see any sleep demons. I
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so get sleep prolyssis, but it's mostly me saying no
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as I started to come out of it. Hopefully I
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never see them again, Yes, hopefully, because wow, that's that's terrifying.
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I can't wait. They held out on Olympia for twenty
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nine years, right, yeah, that would have been me on
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day one. What is that thing?
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I feel like I've heard of the hat man. There's
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like a lore about it. What are they? They're like
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certain type of things that people A lot of people
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see them?
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And my wrong?
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Or am I just two? In the spooky podcast.
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Real No No, yeah, it's a very very common thing
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that people see. There's also there was a TikTok challenge
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where people were like chugging benadryl to see if they
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would And I don't I don't recommend this at all,
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Like I don't know, I didn't know about that. Yeah,
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they were chugging benadru and then at some point this
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would make you see the hat Man. But some people
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don't need benadrul to see them. Some people just see
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them all over the world. Yeah, there's even a website
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like hat Man stories dot com or something like that.
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That's not the name but of it. Okay, okay, that's fine. Yeah,
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it's like he's a shadow, a specific type of shadow people.
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But people see shadow people all the time, and some
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people think they're like demonic other people think they're angels.
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Other people think they're like omens that come to warn you.