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Hi, this is Christina and this is As Booky tell Us,
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the podcast for all things as Booky Hunted places true
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crime in Latin America. But today's not a normal episode
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you might know by now, but Carmen and I were
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invited to leave the La Latino International Film Festival and
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that took up some time for us, and because of that,
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we were not able to have an episode out, and
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we realized that we need a couple of weeks to
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catch up and actually get episodes on time. Not be rushing,
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but we're not going to leave you hanging in these
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two weeks because we were never or maybe we have,
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but we would never now. So instead of one of
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our episodes, I got one of our podcast besties to
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send us an episode of that you can all hear,
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because we should all be listening to Lady. Lady hosts
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a bunch of podcasts, but the spooky one is It's
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Haunted What Now. It's one of my favorites. First of all,
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Leady has the best voice ever in podcasting, So you
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need to be listening to all of our podcasts, of course,
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but because you like a spooky things, then this is
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the one. This is the one that you need to
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listen to and It's Haunted What Now? It's their one
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hundredth episode. That's where we're going to listen to. And
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then next week we're going to have another bestie setting
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us a different episode, and after that we'll be back
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and it's just going to be back to normal, Me
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and Carmen, sometimes the guests whatever. Back to normal. I
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hope you don't hear the sirens passed about my house
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right now. Anyway, enjoy this episode of It's Haunted What Now?
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But maybe don't listen at night.
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Welcome back to It's Haunted What Now? I'm your host, Laney.
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When the lights go out and the world is quiet,
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that's when they make themselves known. Strange whispers at home
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to footsteps echoing where no one should be at work.
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These chilling stories of hauntings that follow you from home
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to the workplace will make you question what's real and
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maybe make you wish you had an AUDI to your
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any Okay, ready to get spooked? Fall Mega zero one
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gives us a couple stories about something sinister boldly making
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itself known. Story one. As a Brazilian, I grew up
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in a country where African rooted religion are common. These
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religions often deal directly with the spiritual world, spirits, entities,
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and everything in between. Because of my exposure to these
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beliefs and practices, I've become somewhat accustomed to these kinds
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of experiences. While they can be unsettling, I usually know
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how to handle myself in such situations. However, on this
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particular night, I encountered something that truly terrified me. It
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was late at night and I was walking home from
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the gym alone. I was in a bad place in
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life emotionally and mentally, and I had my headphones on
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listening to music. This song playing was slow chemical. I
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remember this detail vividly because even now, that song brings
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me back to that night. As I approached the cemetery
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near my house, I started to feel like I was
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being followed. At first, I brushed it off, thinking it
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was just paranoia or the usual fear of being mugged.
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But the closer I got to the cemetery, the more
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certain I became that I wasn't alone. It was an
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overwhelming feeling, as if something heavy was pressing down on me.
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When I reached the street directly in front of the cemetery, gates.
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My whole body went into survival mode. It was like
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my instincts knew I was in danger. The sensation of
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being followed turned into something far worse. It wasn't a
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subtle following anymore. Whatever it was felt like it was
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running toward me, getting closer. The pressure was suffocating. In
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sheer panic, I started running. I wasn't far from home,
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but in hindsight, running was a terrible idea. Whatever was
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following me knew that I knew it was there, and
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it began chasing me with even more intensity. I was
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praying desperately as I ran, hoping to encounter another person
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on the street, anything to break this overwhelming terror. When
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I finally got home, I immediately lit candles and prayed
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for whatever it was to leave me alone. That's when
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I realized it was a female spirit, a disembodied soul
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that had followed me. I have no idea what she
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wanted from me, but the pressure she exerted on me
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was unlike anything I've ever experienced. Story two. Because of
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the religious influences I grew up with, experiences with spirits
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became somewhat routine for me. One day, I was talking
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with a friend about protective guides. Think of them as
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guardian angels. My friend said he felt a strong connection
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to his guide and shared some personal experiences. I cautioned
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him to be careful. Sometimes malevolent spirits pretend to be
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benevolent to drain your energy. The moment I said that,
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I regretted it, immediately, the light bulb in my room exploded.
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I got up to go into my room, but when
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I reached the door, I froze. I couldn't step inside.
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My body was paralyzed, gripped by fear. It was as
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if my survival instincts were screaming at me to stay out.
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I tried again, but I couldn't do it. I stood there,
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panicked and unable to enter my own room. Eventually, I
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lit candles and prayed, asking whatever presence was there to leave.
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The atmosphere became icy cold, and my room felt even
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colder than the rest of the house. I had chewels, fear,
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and an overwhelming sense of dread. For a while after that,
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I couldn't bring myself to enter my room. My final
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thoughts my advice. Don't underestimate them, don't challenge or provoke them.
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Always ask respectfully to be left in peace. I will
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always advocate for leaving the spirits alone, and of course
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asking to be left alone. I'm curious how you knew
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the entity from your first story was a female. Was
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it the energy you felt or something else. I'm also
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wondering if it was the same one in your second story,
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what could have been listening to you say what you
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said to your friend. Heck, I'm even wondering if it
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was your friend's so called guide reacting to you, because
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maybe what you said was true and you just like
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showed their cards. I have no idea, but hopefully everything
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is okay now. The next story is told by Winter
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Links nine zero one nine, who also has multiple experiences
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and a house from the late nineteen hundreds. In the nineties,
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my parents bought a beautiful colonial house with a white
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picket fence in rural New England. They probably should have
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known from the low price and time and had been
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on the market that something was wrong, but unfortunately we
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didn't realize that the house was haunted af until after
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we moved in. Things started off pretty mundane. We'd occasionally
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smell cigarette smoke really strongly at the kitchen table. Me
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and my dad are asthmatic, and no one in our
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family smokes. My mom got sick of it after a
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while and asked the ghost to stop smoking, and it
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never happened again. Also, the heat would randomly get turned
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up to ninety on its own from time to time.
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These were the old style thermostats that you actually had
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to physically turn, and we sure as hell weren't turning
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the heat up to ninety, although I got blamed for
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it a few times. Then we started to hear heavy,
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slow footsteps in the house, but only if one of
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us was home alone. This actually terrified me, as I
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was a young teenage girl and thought an intruder had
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broken into the house. Times I ended up hiding under
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my bed or in a closet for hours until someone
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came home, only to realize that I had been home
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alone the whole time. My brother started to hear the
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footsteps in our unfinished attic and sometimes coming down the
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hallway and stopping outside his door. The dogs also started
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to react to something and would bark, growl, and snarl
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at something that we couldn't see. Eventually, it got so
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bad that one of the dogs would whimper and cower
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as if someone was attacking it. My brother, a marine,
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got sick of this and cussed out whatever demonic entity
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was in the house, and it left the dog alone.
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After that, we also started to feel very uneasy in
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some parts of the house. It always felt like something
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very angry was glaring at me and didn't want me
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there whenever I was in the basement, dining room, or
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central hallway. One day, my brother noticed that I was
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avoiding these parts of the house and he asked me
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if I also felt the angry spirit that was there.
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We had sleepovers with friends in high school and college,
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and some of my friends had upsetting and settling experiences
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of the entity messing with them, scaring them while they
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were sleeping in the basement. Once I saw a middle
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aged man walk up the front steps, open the door,
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and then vanish into thin air, literally five feet in
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front of me. My brother and his math tutor were
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home alone once and heard a woman screaming upstairs. The
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lights would go crazy sometimes too, which I'd blame on
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electric problems, except that you could ask the ghosts if
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it was them, and the lights would flicker on demand.
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I could go on and on, because this place was
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so haunted that things happened pretty much on a daily occurrence.
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Although there were a lot of negative entities in the house,
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there were also positive ones that I interacted with. My
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room was the most protected place, and the negative entities
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mostly left me and my space alone. A few times
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I saw angels and orbs of light, which was an
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extremely positive experience that really affected me. My brother, on
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the other hand, got the worst of it and was
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constantly physically attacked and dealt with a lot of sleep
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paralysis and other problems. My parents finally sold the house
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after owning it for about twenty years. Since then, the
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house has had multiple owners, but no one ever stays
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in the house long, and they end up selling it
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for a lot less than what they could get. Although
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it was not always enjoyable living in such a haunted house,
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it taught me a lot about how to deal with
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spirits and different types of entities. My mother and brother
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both have some psychic abilities, and I'm a psychic channeller
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and medium. Growing up in this house kind of desensitized
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me to dealing with scary things of a spiritual nature
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and taught me a lot about psychic self defense. It's
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been a very long time since I lived in the house,
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but I still dream that I'm back there about once
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a week. I believe that this house has some kind
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of portal that allowed both positive and negative entities to cross. Anyways,
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I don't want to make this too long, but just
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wanted to share my experience. We also had a friendly
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dog ghost in the house for a while, which I
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can go into more detail about if anyone wants to hear.
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So believe it or not, I can definitely agree with
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your thought that this house may have been a portal
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of some sort. Being that there were so many entities,
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it seems like there were different types. I wouldn't chalk
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that up to just any old regular hauntings. Always feel
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free to tell us more, and if your brother wants
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in on the action, we'd be glad to hear more
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from him. And of course I want to hear about
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the ghost dog, even though I personally would never want
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to be haunted by an animal, because I don't want
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to be haunted by anything period. Our final story is
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told by imaginary breadth two two one, who learned to
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fear the early morning shift. I have been working in
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a supermarket since I was sixteen years old. This job
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started as a way to support myself as a student.
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Over the years, I've worked in multiple teams and completed
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countless shifts. For the past four years, I've regularly worked
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a specific early morning shift that runs from four to
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fifteen am to eight am. The shift involves unloading truck
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deliveries and organizing goods onto the carts correctly for inventory.
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On October third, twenty twenty three, something unusual happened during
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one of these ships. I live in the Netherlands, and
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at that time of year, the climate is typically mild.
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On this particular night, it was warm, about fifteen degrees
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celsius or fifty nine degrees fahrenheit. However, as I approached
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the store's entrance, I felt a sudden, icy chill, as
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if it were freezing outside. It felt strange, but I
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didn't think much of it. Shortly after, my colleague arrived
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and mentioned that he also felt as though it was freezing.
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I told him I had experienced the same thing. When
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I reached into my pocket for the keys, they felt
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unusually heavy, almost as if something was pulling them from
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my hand. I dropped them, picked them up and unlock
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the door. As we walked toward the back of the building,
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we heard footsteps behind us, as if someone were running
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through the supermarket. I turned to my colleague and asked,
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is it just me or did you hear that too?
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He nodded, confirming that he had also heard the sound.
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At this point, I began to feel uneasy and slightly frightened,
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but I told myself we were probably imagining things. We
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headed upstairs to retrieve a handheld terminal and an internal phone,
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which is used for internal calls, customer inquiries, or to
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stay reachable for truck drivers. By this time, I had
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been working at the store for over six years and
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was familiar with its systems. I decided to check the
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security cameras for any movement or signs that someone might
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have stayed in the store overnight. The footage revealed nothing unusual,
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which reassured me for the time being. As we waited
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for the truck to arrive, we were asked to stalk
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some leftover goods from the previous day. We went to
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the stock room to grab a rollcage. Upon entering this
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part of the store, I noticed the air felt unusually heavy,
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and once again we heard footsteps. I started to feel