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My Paranormal Stories (All Parts) · Mystery Archives Episodes

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  I've waited a long time to tell my personal paranormal stories
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  or experiences, but by doing so now I want to convey to people
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  that these things exist and they really do affect people of all
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  walks of life. Following stories took place
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  between 2002 and 2007. I have several experiences that
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  occurred after these, but I'll share those in a different video
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  and at another time. I consider these to be my
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  formative experiences and these events helped shape my views on
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  the paranormal in the world. I've also asked my family
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  members for their perspectives as well to coincide with what I
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  remember. So with that all being said, I
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  started life out in a city called Derby here in Kansas.
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  I was about nine years old when the first happenings began.
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  My family consisted of my mom and dad, myself, my younger
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  sister and brother moving from Meadowlark Place to another
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  neighborhood. We had moved across town from
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  one house to another. This one was a duplex style
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  house on Willow Street not too far from my grandparents house,
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  about two blocks over or so, which was really nice to be able
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  to ride my bike back and forth and play with my cousin and see
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  them all. And you know that good stuff.
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  Things up until this point had been semi normal.
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  Life ebbs and flows and my parents relationship certainly
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  had its share of ups and downs, but we all looked forward to
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  this new chapter in our lives once we were finally moved in.
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  From the first night we stayed overnight at the house, I began
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  to experience things that I still can't explain.
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  That first night as I laid in my room asleep, all of a sudden
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  something poked or pushed my arm.
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  Now my sister had her own room across the hall from me and my
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  brother was small enough to still be sleeping with my
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  parents the majority of the time.
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  So initially thinking it was one of them I opened my eyes.
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  But when I did this, I saw a little boy, but it wasn't anyone
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  that I recognized. And aside from this, the child
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  looked very strange. He was like a pale glowing blue
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  color and didn't move when I noticed him.
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  He just kept staring at me with these fully white, blank,
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  lifeless eyes. When I finally came to my senses
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  that this wasn't a normal experience, I began to get
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  scared. So terrified out of my mind and
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  not sure of what else to do, I got up and out of my bed and ran
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  past this entity as fast as I could.
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  The noise would wake my parents up, They would then talk to me
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  and follow me back to my bedroom, but upon arriving it
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  would see no one. Thinking that I was just having
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  a nightmare or my imagination was running wild in a new
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  environment, they'd let me sleep on the couch in the living room.
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  I would proceed to sleep there for the next couple weeks until
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  they would ultimately force me back into my bedroom.
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  Following seeing the child about four months or so into living at
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  the house, things took a darker turn and whatever presence that
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  was within the house seemed to be making things worse.
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  The activity had been becoming more noticeable.
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  Drip by drip we would occasionally hear knocking on
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  the walls what sounded like items breaking with there only
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  to be no one there and no items broken.
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  We had all also began to notice. That we felt as if we were.
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  Being watched at all times. I for one distinctly remember my
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  anxiety becoming extremely bad at this time, making it
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  difficult for me to sleep and when I did manage to go
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  unconscious I would have horrible dreams and in these
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  dreams I was being chased by some abhorrent creature and
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  usually in the basement I would always be too scared to look
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  back and I would be in fight or flight.
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  I would often times wake up dripping in sweat just as the
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  creature was about to catch me on the stairs.
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  My mom who had a tendency to hoard things and this had always
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  been an issue even at our previous homes, but living here
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  she seemed to have this behavior greatly intensified.
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  It had been bad before, but it began to reach an entirely new
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  level and in a short period of time.
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  What I mean by this is cluttering to the point of
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  almost non movement in our basement, our rooms and our
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  garage and it became a major problem.
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  Boxes, trash and junk of all kinds was what it was mostly.
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  And on top of this she began to impulse buy multiple animals in
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  rapid secession either buy or acquire from someone who was
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  giving them away. The trash, hoarding and animals
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  weren't always being let out when they should have been.
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  Definitely began to strain an already strained and
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  dysfunctional marriage, but it seemed like every aspect of our
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  lives was rapidly being magnified and getting worse all
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  the time with the hoarding, both material and animal, and the
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  daily fighting. The air became even thicker with
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  anxiety. And the thicker the air became,
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  the more activity we seem to experience.
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  The sounds, flickers of things out of the corner of our eyes,
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  the persistent nightmares and the negative environment took
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  its toll on all of us. With my memory not being the
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  greatest and with trauma also involved, I do my best to tell
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  this as chronologically as I can.
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  One day, shortly after these behaviors had been exacerbated,
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  I remember heading to the basement to get a drink from the
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  fridge that we had down in our laundry room.
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  Funnily enough it was an St. cool and a can if any of you
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  guys remember those and I I miss those.
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  Actually those were great. Descending the stairs, getting
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  about halfway down, I saw yet another manifestation that shook
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  me to my core. The view as you were headed down
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  the stairs gave a decent view of the basement, like you could see
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  a good chunk of it. And it was here that I witnessed
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  a large wardrobe box being hurled by something that I
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  couldn't see, an invisible force, and it flew from one end
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  of the basement to the other. The bigger boxes tended to be on
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  the left hand side of our basement near the extra bedroom
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  that we had down there. And in total it had been thrown
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  about 20 to 25 feet. And mind you, this is was a
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  large wardrobe box so it was full of clothes and God knows
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  what else. So it would have.
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  Been quite the feat to to throw even if you were a person, let
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  alone you know something out of my scope of understanding.
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  So unable to make rational sense of what I just witnessed.
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  This had scared me so bad that I ran upstairs and I would refuse
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  to ever go back down there without company ever again.
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  In time I would find out that I wasn't the only one to have
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  witnessed something strange originating from there.
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  My father and cousin believed that there was something there
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  too, that there was some kind of presence within the house.
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  I don't know all the details of my dad's story, but I do know
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  while he was sleeping in the spare bedroom down there, while
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  him and my mom were particularly on the rocks, that he began to
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  hear voices. Like distant whispers that grew
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  louder night after night. These voices seem to originate
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  from nowhere, but yet they were everywhere.
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  They Wood Forest him to question his own sanity, and it's
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  important to note here that my dad isn't schizophrenic or
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  anything of the sort, and he hasn't experienced anything even
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  similar before this or after this.
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  Not too long after this occurred, my dad had another
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  experience and I'll let him explain it in his own words.
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  Also as a side note here, you know my my dad's not a
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  professional storyteller, Neither is my cousin.
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  So definitely take it easy on them because they're just
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  recounting their experiences. Thanks.
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  We moved into a new home in 2002 and I was on the other side of
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  town. So you kids had to change school
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  and all that. And this is like basically a
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  last ish effort for your mother and I to try to save our
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  marriage. And so it was just some, you
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  know, you know, the whole story on that part.
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  And we moved in inside the house.
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  I had started to experience a, a dark presence inside the home,
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  something I didn't understand what was going on.
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  It made me angry. I was starting to fill it with
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  this rage. I was just mad.
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  And the, the situation, your mother and I was deteriorating
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  to the point where, you know, I just didn't want to be around
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  her. I think that it caused an
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  adversarial problem within the home.
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  I remember one night, early morning, I'm trying to remember
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  the details get a bit fuzzy now about when I was in the
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  bathroom. That one was right off the
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  hallway, right across down from your room.
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  There's a coat closet right? Directly across Cross.
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  You remember Kelly's room was at the end And I was looking in the
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  mirror, right? Rinsed off my face.
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  Your mother and I had quite the argument earlier.
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  And I was so full of anger. I went to wash my face and I see
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  something that flashes in my face I can still remember to
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  this day is like it lit up, like the mirror lit up from behind,
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  which is impossible because you know, the lights were off in the
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  bathrooms that were in night light.
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  And I saw a demonic face and it roared at me and just scared the
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  living bejesus out of me. I just seen things that slowly
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  deteriorate within the home. I know that I've slept
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  downstairs and your mother was sleeping upstairs in your room.
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  And I was just mad all the time. Remember being really nice to
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  you kids. Of course, I never took it out
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  on you necessarily. I just, you know, wasn't happy.
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  And I felt like a dark, malevolent presence was there in
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  the home. And as time went on, you know,
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  your mother moved out and Roy moved in and even him and I were
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  experiencing some issues with the darkness.
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  It just, it was, there's something about the house just
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  felt evil. Something was not right about
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  it. It just, you know, that weird
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  smell that we'd smelled would disappear for no reason.
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  That smelled like rotten eggs. He had to be gone.
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  The odd things in the garage, you know, the random noises
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  after we cleaned that garage out, the odd things that would
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  happen all the time. My cousin as well recalled a
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  strange happening that. I had forgot.
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  About to be honest and also had his own experience in the
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  basement, which I'll let him tell in his own words as well.
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  My first impressions of the house were some of what one
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  would usually expect. It was a new house so it was
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  unfamiliar, but at the same time that made it cool.
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  Over the next few years, me and my cousin would spend plenty of
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  days and nights having adventures within and around the
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  confines of that suburban home. But over time, something strange
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  began to emerge behind the wooden panels and carpet,
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  something that I can only describe as evil.
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  I wasn't exactly the bravest sort.
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  My imagination could run wild and would often find a better
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  way of scaring me than anything else ever could.
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  That being said, things within that house happened which went
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  well beyond the machinations of my fearful mind.
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  The first incident occurred during the daytime.
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  We had been playing a game in the living room when we heard
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  Cody's sister scream from the other room.
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  When we ran in to inspect, we found that a snow globe of hers
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  had broken open without an explanation.
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  I remember this clearly because I had always wondered what kind
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  of liquid was inside a snow globe.
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  I smelled a chemical smell in the air that made me think of
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  nail Polish. We set about cleaning up the
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  glass but never really gave it much thought at the time.
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  It is only later that we realized that we never really
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  asked ourselves how exactly did the snow globe break?
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  I would recall sleeping on the living room floor, and in the
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  early hours of the morning I could hear running water and I
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  would catch a glimpse of the shadowy figure of a man
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  wandering in the kitchen near the entrance to the basement.
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  Sometimes I would barely remember these moments, like
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  they were just dreams. Other times I would be
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  completely awake and conscious, but would be just too scared to
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  move. At times I would try to make
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  myself believe that it was just my uncle, and it would make it
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  all the more chilling. But Cody's dad would finally
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  come in and turn the lights on, and I'd know for certain that
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  the figure was not, in fact, him at all.
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  The worst and most sinister of the activity, however, was
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  definitely within the basement of the house.
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  Whether during day or night, I felt like even the corners of
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  the rooms hid watchful eyes. I couldn't stand the dark open
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  doorways leading to my uncle's bedroom and the bathroom.
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  The thought of something lurking in the shadows was impossible to
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  banish from my mind. At times this was so bad that
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  I'd have to cancel sleepovers and call my mom to Take Me Home.
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  The worst of this came during a nightmare I had when I was
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  sleeping in the basement. I found myself alone, the only
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  light coming from ATV in the far corner flickering with static
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  and white noise. I felt called to walk into my
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  uncle's bedroom and rounded the corner to face the sliding doors
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  to his closet. The closet itself was right
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  beneath the stairs. Trembling, I reached to open the
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  mirrored door panel, only for it to slam open of its own will.
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  In the shadows of the room, I saw a hole in the wall which had
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  mysteriously appeared. A hole that, I might add, did
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  not exist. A terrible being emerged from
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  that hole, one which haunts me to this day.
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  It's skin was charred black like carbon.
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  It was large and bulky like a man, but upon its head were two
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  large and vicious horns which were dark as midnight.
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  It's teeth were sharp as knives and yellow with rot.
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  But it's eyes, it's eyes were amber like a predator.
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  It snarled at me and I awoke again in a cold sweat.
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  After that, I don't believe I ever chose to sleep in that
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  basement again. Things would only get worse from
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  here, day after day and night after night.
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  As I had previously mentioned, my mom had purchased a lot of
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  animals. This included cats and dogs.
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  This further added to the filth of the house and the negative
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  atmosphere due to my parents often being depressed and not
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  taking the animals outside as they should have.
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  Long story short, it definitely wasn't an environment that I
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  would ever want my kids to grow up in and that that is something
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  for sure on top of the paranormal that's deeply
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  affected me to this day. So with having dogs and cats as
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  pets, soon out of nowhere we began to have an insane amount
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  of animal deaths occur. We ended up losing a total of 7
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  animals all together within less than two months.
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  What we're perfectly normal, relatively healthy animals would
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  just pass. And I didn't want to put a
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  warning here because I'm going to mention a few details about
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  the animal deaths and I don't want to upset anyone who's
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  sensitive to these kinds of things.
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  So I'll mark the time stamps down in the OR down in the
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  description of the video if you prefer to Fast forward pass
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  this. Again, I don't remember all of
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  the details, but when the animals would pass I I would
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  usually assist my dad in burying them.
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  We tended to bury them out back behind my grandparents house a
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  couple blocks over because they lived next to like a woodland
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  area, like a Creek, and we had an area where we tended to bury
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  our family animals back there. And with that being said, these
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  are some of the deaths that really bothered me.
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  We had one, a younger puppy who was a pit bull who had died in
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  our garage. She'd had a seizure and she had
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  no prior history of issues as far as we knew.
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  We also checked if she could have gotten into something or
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  ate something that she shouldn't have but we couldn't find
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  anything. My cat Kara, who actually would
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  go on to live for another 16 years or so after these events.
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  She was an amazing cat, but during this time she was
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  pregnant and had to have ended up with some kind of an
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  infection and she prematurely lost her kittens.
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  One night after sleeping in the living room, I actually woke up
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  by rolling over and having my face touch one of them and it's
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  tiny body was ice cold. And that alone was super
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  traumatic. And I don't want to necessarily
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  shade my mom but my dad was at work when this happened and I
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  remember her telling me to get rid of them basically.
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  So I had to clean them up. And Long story short, you know,
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  I didn't really know what to do. Obviously, I was a kid, you
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  know, I didn't have the capabilities really to be able
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  to take them over to my grandparents house.
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  So I ended up just putting them in the trash can and I always
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  regretted doing that. There were multiple others, but
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  those in particular always got to me.
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  My parents would end up getting divorced and while this was
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  starting to get underway, I was living with my siblings and my
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  dad. Still at the Willow House.
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  As I previously said, we lived in a duplex and our next door
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  neighbors were a family, a husband, wife, and their three
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  kids. During this turbulent time, the
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  dad of the family next door seemed to have lost his mind.
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  One afternoon, the dad that was our neighbor was sitting with my
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  dad and they were having a few drinks on our shared porch with
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  me sitting with them. I distinctly remember him
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  telling my dad that he needed to talk to him about something
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  serious, so my dad asked me to go inside, to which I obliged so
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  he could talk to him. And what he talked to him about
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  was absolutely insane. He had become extremely
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  paranoid. He believed that his wife was
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  cheating on him. And he asked my dad if he would
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  assist him in helping to kill her and dispose of her body for
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  a sum of money. Even described where he would
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  take her, how it would work. But I don't want to share all
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  those gritty details since you know, YouTube.
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  But it it was shocking. My dad not only was shocked, but
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  he didn't want to add to his paranoia further or risk
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  angering him since he was obviously unhinged.
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  So he calmly refused his offer and I'll let my dad explain some
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  details here. We got to know Mike next door a
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  little bit and he seemed to be an OK guy.
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  And then him and his wife had a brief separation for about a
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  month or three weeks. And I saw her at Target.
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  Her name was Lori. That was her name.
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  She was at Target and she was talking to said hi and all that.
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  And she goes, I said, well, are you going to come up?
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  You might get back together. She's I don't know.
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  I just have no idea. So then later on that night, I
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  was off on a used to be off on Thursdays and Fridays and it was
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  off. It was a Thursday night and I
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  was hanging out with Mike. He's drinking.
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  And then he told me how he was going to kill his wife and he
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  was going to, he gave it in grave detail of how he's going
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  to kill her. And he looked as like he was
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  literally seriously possessed. He looked, it was, it was like
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  full black rage. He was so angry.
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  He's like, I'm going to kill her.
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  I'm going to do it in front of her mother and you know, she's
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  going to watch and then blah, blah, blah.
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  And I was like, my, that's really dark.
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  Why would you want to do something like that?
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  You know, I wanted to fill out a police report, but I didn't
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  think maybe that, you know, people would actually take my
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  word on it. I honestly don't know the whole
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  thing there. She did come back or he did come
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  back for briefed. I did talk to her one day.
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  And by then Mike is just just angry all the time.
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  Except he seemed to be nice to her for a few minutes and I'm
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  outside talking to her and she thought, I just don't know.
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  I'm exhausted. I want, you know, this is a
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  honeymoon period before all the abuse and the and the physical
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  abuse starts again. And I was like, he physically
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  abuses you. And she's like, yeah, I said why
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  are you? Why did you come back?
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  She said she did it for the boys.
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  He pulled up in his car when his side he come out starts
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  screaming at her saying, you know, how dare you sit out here
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  with this guy, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  And by then he knew we were we were, you know, running out of a
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  couple and he started screaming at her and telling, you know,
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  how dare you talk to other man, you know, And then I he dragged
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  her inside to slam the door. And then she did permanently
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  move out right before we moved and he would hide in his garage.
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  You could hear him in there and banging around and it was just,
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  it was just a real weird situation.
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  We'd see him for a few seconds, he'd come inside, slam this door
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  real hard and you could hear him yelling inside the house and
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  there was nobody in there. It was just like is crazy.
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  I don't know what happened. We moved.
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  When we moved out, things got considerably, much better.
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  It took a little bit for the darkness to completely get out
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  of me, but it was a lot of things.
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  You kids saw a lot of things, scary things, bad dreams.
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  It was a lot. After this happened, roughly,
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  I'd say a month or so after he actually got arrested for
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  attempting to hire a hitman to kill his wife.
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  So whether all of that was related to the dark presence in
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  the house or not, I can't quite say, but it very much could have
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  been. I mean prior to that
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  conversation he seemed totally normal and hadn't acted that way
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  before so it's hard telling. The paranormal activity by this
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  time on on our side had become so violent that we all began to
• 23:53
  sleep together in the living room.
• 23:55
  Unknown to me at the time, I wasn't the only one that would
• 23:58
  have this happen, but it seemed like for whatever reason I would
• 24:03
  always be woke up around 3:00 AM in an absolute state of terror.
• 24:08
  Things would often be knocking or moving around us.
• 24:12
  And I remember the time because we had a cable box that
• 24:14
  displayed the time in our living room next to our TV.
• 24:18
  And to kind of help counteract the scariness, I guess of the
• 24:22
  environment of the situation. We would usually play like the
• 24:27
  Boomerang Network, the for cartoons.
• 24:30
  I think we had like dish TV at the time or something, but it
• 24:34
  was usually on at that time. After waking up, I would be so
• 24:39
  scared that I'd be afraid to breathe because it felt like
• 24:43
  hell itself was descending upon me.
• 24:46
  I would lay my head to the floor and could hear additional bangs
• 24:50
  and often times what sounded like glass breaking in the
• 24:53
  basement. Below are things being thrown or
• 24:56
  destroyed or mangled. If I managed to gather myself I
• 25:01
  would try to wake up anybody that I could, either my dad or
• 25:05
  my brother or my sister, but I could never manage to do so was
• 25:10
  if they were in some kind of a coma state.
• 25:14
  I also knew I wasn't dreaming because I would often times stay
• 25:17
  awake until the sun came up, way too scared to try and rest.
• 25:22
  And most of the time the majority of the banging and the
• 25:25
  overall noise would cease at dawn.
• 25:29
  And after talking to my family, I would later find out that this
• 25:32
  for sure happened to my brother, my sister, and my dad at random
• 25:35
  times during our our lives there during this particular era.
• 25:42
  Given all the things we had experienced and been through, it
• 25:46
  seemed as if whatever presence that dwelled within the house
• 25:50
  fed off of death and sorrow when the divorce was finalized as
• 25:56
  kids ended up moving out of the house to live with our mom.
• 26:00
  Thus closing a very disturbing chapter in our lives.
• 26:04
  But little did I know, it would just be the beginning of
• 26:07
  another. Whatever evil that originated
• 26:11
  from this house seemed to follow or affect us even after we left.
• 26:17
  What follows is a series of incredibly terrifying and
• 26:20
  disturbing events as well, and I'll be sharing those in the
• 26:24
  next video. I did have a couple of questions
• 26:27
  having dug up the past in regards to what me and my family
• 26:31
  have experienced and this has led me to seek answers.
• 26:35
  I've tried going through the past of the area, having lived
• 26:38
  there near there the majority of my life and I couldn't really
• 26:42
  find anything that could have directly caused the haunting as
• 26:47
  far as tragic events or what have you historic events.
• 26:52
  The area does contain old Indian burial grounds, but it's nearly
• 26:56
  impossible to figure out where exactly those would be.
• 27:00
  The home, or rather the duplex if I were to guess from the
• 27:04
  dated wood paneling and the carpet at the time, was probably
• 27:07
  built in the 1960s or 70s. It was a rental, so it's also
• 27:13
  impossible to find out who the past tenants were or the
• 27:17
  previous owners. I don't know exactly who owns
• 27:20
  the property now and I think it's transferred hands or
• 27:23
  companies multiple times. I am just curious who has lived
• 27:27
  there in the past and what they maybe could have been into.
• 27:31
  Whether it was some kind of occultism or luciferianism if it
• 27:36
  could have contributed to what was there.
• 27:39
  Now let's say that no one was involved in anything dark or
• 27:42
  magic related that could have conjured something up.
• 27:46
  These entities, in my opinion, lurk around us and are attracted
• 27:50
  to negativity. Like moths to a flame, they seem
• 27:55
  to feed off of our emotions like spiritual ticks or vampires.
• 28:02
  I also have heard and can somewhat confirm given my life
• 28:05
  that hoarding and overall not taking care of your environment
• 28:09
  or self by extension your family can potentially be a breeding
• 28:14
  ground for these things as well. This is just speculation on my
• 28:18
  part to try and make sense of what we endured over the couple
• 28:21
  years that we lived there. At the house.
• 28:24
  I do often times end up driving past it, especially headed back
• 28:28
  home from the gym at night because I live in a town that's
• 28:32
  relatively close to to where this all took place and it still
• 28:36
  has a very eerie vibe to me. But there are people who
• 28:40
  currently live there, and over the years there's been a
• 28:43
  revolving door of people who have lived there.
• 28:46
  And I'm just curious if the past or current residents have
• 28:49
  experienced anything paranormal like we did, or if we were
• 28:54
  haunted instead of the house, or by having lived in the house and
• 28:58
  have had been followed as a result, that maybe the house
• 29:02
  wasn't haunted anymore. Lots of questions that perhaps
• 29:06
  I'll never have answers to. But these things did happen.
• 29:10
  They did fundamentally change me, and they helped shape my
• 29:14
  interest in the paranormal and the spiritual world as a whole.
• 29:19
  I'll be diving more so into why I started Mystery Archives on
• 29:23
  Part 2, and in Part 2 I'll be telling what took place after we
• 29:28
  left the Willow House. I have a few.
• 29:31
  Experiences post what I'll talk about in Part 2, so maybe
• 29:35
  they'll be a part three. I'm honestly not sure yet.
• 29:39
  I did also speak with my mom and my sister and they didn't want
• 29:43
  to be included in this video for their own reasons and I totally
• 29:46
  respect that. My little brother has some
• 29:49
  experiences but those will be relayed in Part 2 at the next
• 29:54
  home that we ended up at because although he may have had some
• 29:57
  experiences, he doesn't recall because he was like a between
• 30:02
  ages two and four when all this took place at the Willow House.
• 30:07
  I know I tease the stories a lot and overall I hope you guys
• 30:10
  enjoyed hearing about what I've experienced.
• 30:14
  If you have any questions, I'd love to read and answer them in
• 30:17
  the comments below. There are definitely a lot of
• 30:19
  details that I don't remember, whether I've blocked them out or
• 30:23
  it's just too fuzzy with time, and for that I apologize, but I
• 30:28
  will do my best to answer your questions and respond to your
• 30:30
  comments. Another interesting fact about
• 30:33
  this story of mine in particular this era as I like to call them,
• 30:39
  I kind of categorized them in that way.
• 30:41
  I guess in my own mind is that it was going to be on the first
• 30:44
  season of a popular paranormal Netflix series, but they pulled
• 30:49
  my opportunity last minute because I apparently wasn't
• 30:53
  diverse enough, whatever that means.
• 30:56
  Then they called me for season 2 and then just stopped responding
• 31:00
  to me after I said I wanted to mention Mystery Archives and
• 31:04
  apparently they weren't cool with that.
• 31:06
  But it is what it is. It's a good show, but it just,
• 31:10
  I've come to this conviction quite some time ago, having
• 31:13
  dealt with a lot of really good and a lot of really bad people
• 31:16
  just kind of in the paranormal sphere.
• 31:18
  And you can't always trust people, unfortunately.
• 31:23
  Sometimes they're just in it for themselves or the money or what
• 31:28
  have you, especially these days. So that unfortunately was one of
• 31:33
  those experiences that kind of negatively reinforced how I
• 31:36
  felt. But with that being said, please
• 31:40
  leave the video a like if you liked it, subscribe with
• 31:42
  notifications if you haven't already.
• 31:45
  And please share this video around to help us reach as many
• 31:48
  people as we possibly can. Maybe we can not only help reach
• 31:51
  someone who's had a similar experience, who maybe wants to
• 31:54
  also share their story, but it also helps keep me going since
• 31:59
  for whatever reason views have been down, they've been at like
• 32:02
  an all time low really. But regardless of that, you
• 32:06
  know, regardless of how well the video does, it's been very
• 32:09
  cathartic for me to talk about these things and to tell my
• 32:12
  stories to such an incredible group of people.
• 32:15
  That is the Mystery Archives community.
• 32:18
  Also, if I think for my own sake to be able to kind of, I guess,
• 32:22
  more or less come to terms with digging up the past and kind of
• 32:26
  trying to categorize everything chronologically and remember
• 32:30
  everything that took place. It's kind of why I'm breaking it
• 32:34
  up into parts and to try to do my own stories justice.
• 32:39
  So I hope you guys understand. Anyways, I love you guys.
• 32:43
  Thank you for not only showing interest in my experiences, but
• 32:46
  supporting me and all of the cases that I've covered thus
• 32:50
  far. I did want to let you guys know
• 32:52
  that especially towards the end of this video, I do kind of go
• 32:57
  on a bit of a long explanation that is pretty much just going
• 33:02
  to be entirely raw. And it's it involves a lot of
• 33:06
  personal details and things from my life that I just kind of
• 33:10
  wanted to get out there. And I hope overall you enjoy the
• 33:14
  video and the stories and just the content as a whole.
• 33:17
  Thank you guys. Around age 10, after my parents
• 33:26
  got divorced, I moved to the small town of Sedgwick, Kansas,
• 33:30
  about 40 minutes or so away from Derby, going from roughly a
• 33:34
  population of 20,000 people to about 1800.
• 33:39
  Me, my mom, brother and sister moved in with my newlywed aunt
• 33:45
  and her husband Bill, my uncle. We lived in a large farm style
• 33:51
  house that was over 100 years old and time would tell that
• 33:55
  perhaps we weren't the only inhabitants that dwelled within
• 33:59
  its walls. Within a matter of weeks,
• 34:02
  strange things began to happen. My first experience that I can
• 34:06
  recall at this location was when one night I was headed up the
• 34:11
  stairs to use the restroom. And for context, here was the
• 34:15
  layout of the house. The stairs leading up to the
• 34:18
  upstairs was basically AT shape and when reaching the top of the
• 34:22
  stairs there was my aunt and uncle's room on the far left, an
• 34:27
  office room, and the bathroom on the right hand side closest to
• 34:31
  the stairs. I was heading up and got about
• 34:34
  halfway up the stairs when I saw a glowing bluish figure of a man
• 34:40
  run from the bedroom, straight into the bathroom and then
• 34:44
  disappear. Seeing this happen so fast, I
• 34:47
  fell backwards and down the stairs.
• 34:51
  This frightened the hell out of me, and as embarrassing as it is
• 34:54
  to say now, I refused to use the bathroom for about a week,
• 34:59
  opting to use a friend's house or go outside instead, not
• 35:04
  wanting to go anywhere near where I'd seen this person.
• 35:08
  The following day after seeing the man, I told my mom and my
• 35:12
  aunt what I had seen and to their credit they're fairly open
• 35:16
  minded when it comes to the paranormal.
• 35:18
  My aunt, especially my mom as much as I love her, tends to try
• 35:24
  and rationalize almost to the point of denial with a lot of
• 35:27
  things explaining what this man looked like.
• 35:31
  I remembered him having dusty looking hair and that he was
• 35:34
  wearing overalls. My aunt then decided to show me
• 35:38
  some of my uncle's old family photos.
• 35:41
  Several photos in she showed me what appeared to be one of a
• 35:44
  family reunion with probably 20 or so people in it.
• 35:49
  There towards the back, standing in the middle, was the same
• 35:53
  exact man that I had seen just the night before.
• 35:57
  What makes this stranger is that when I pointed this out, she
• 36:01
  went and talked to my uncle, and it turns out that the person I
• 36:05
  identified was his father. And even weirder, his father had
• 36:10
  died of brain cancer in the very same room that they now called
• 36:15
  their bedroom. The same room directly across
• 36:18
  from the bathroom. It's important to note that I
• 36:21
  didn't know this man. I didn't even really know my
• 36:24
  uncle, to be honest, and definitely not his family.
• 36:29
  And I hadn't seen any family photos prior to this of his
• 36:33
  family. As strange as this event was, it
• 36:36
  would only progress from here. My grandmother, who had been
• 36:40
  living with us in the last days of her life, had passed away
• 36:44
  just a few months before all of these strange things started
• 36:47
  happening. The paranormal happenings would
• 36:50
  greatly intensify after she passed.
• 36:54
  My aunt, uncle, and mom were usually gone.
• 36:58
  Typically they were either at work or running errands or both,
• 37:03
  leaving us kids to ourselves for a good chunk of the time.
• 37:07
  I did also want to mention here that if you hear a dog panting,
• 37:11
  it's storming outside right now. And Luna, my half Husky, half
• 37:16
  Great Pyrenees does not do very good with storms.
• 37:20
  So she's actually right at my side and I'm giving her some
• 37:23
  lovies while I inherit rate to you guys.
• 37:25
  So with us usually being alone we would rely on each other,
• 37:30
  especially in the evenings. It was mostly up to me being the
• 37:34
  oldest to make sure that everyone had had dinner, they
• 37:37
  had showered, and we were all ready to go to bed.
• 37:41
  Showering was unnerving because the basement, like the house,
• 37:46
  was just so creepy. The only working shower we had
• 37:51
  was in the basement laundry room and the shower was made of
• 37:55
  cracked concrete and had an old spigot style shower head.
• 38:00
  Looking up you could see the cobwebs and the planks overhead.
• 38:04
  The kitchen would have been directly above where the shower
• 38:07
  was. Her context.
• 38:09
  My aunt, similar to my mom, was also a hoarder.
• 38:13
  So the basement, aside from a small cleared path, was packed
• 38:17
  with junk and boxes adjacent to where the shower was located, or
• 38:22
  rather the room. There was an old cannery in the
• 38:26
  back of the basement that had long since been abandoned, still
• 38:30
  having piles of old cans stored within the walls of the small
• 38:33
  room in the back of the basement.
• 38:36
  So already being scary to us kids on its own, it would become
• 38:40
  even more terrifying in the coming months following my
• 38:43
  grandma's passing. We would often go in pairs with
• 38:47
  the odd person out staying upstairs.
• 38:50
  One of us would shower and the other would stand outside the
• 38:53
  door to talk to the other. To make each other less scared.
• 38:58
  We also often played an old boombox stereo with whatever C
• 39:02
  DS we had. This usually would help keep us
• 39:05
  calm while we did what we needed to do.
• 39:08
  We would often talk about what had happened that day at school
• 39:11
  and what was going on with our lives at the time.
• 39:14
  One night though, that's burned into my memory with my little
• 39:19
  brother upstairs watching something, I kept watch outside
• 39:23
  the door while my sister showered.
• 39:25
  Keely had only been in the shower a few minutes when
• 39:28
  suddenly the power went out. What made it worse was that the
• 39:32
  stereo that had been playing faded into this eerie low octave
• 39:38
  as it shut down from the lack of power.
• 39:41
  My sister, who was already terrified due to the sheer pitch
• 39:44
  blackness of the room, began to freak out, trying to be the
• 39:49
  older brother and trying to keep the peace.
• 39:52
  As I heard my sister and my brother scream, I tried to talk
• 39:56
  them through the situation. I told Kate and my brother to
• 40:00
  sit still, and I told my sister to quickly rinse off the soap
• 40:04
  that she had lathered with and to grab her towel and we could
• 40:08
  both go back upstairs where I'd try to find some candles or
• 40:11
  something. About the time the words left my
• 40:14
  mouth, there was a loud scratching noise that came from
• 40:17
  the wall that separated the laundry.
• 40:19
  Room. And the basement space where all
• 40:22
  the boxes were. Not knowing what this was, I
• 40:26
  began to get incredibly scared as well, because I knew that
• 40:29
  that wall was concrete, so there couldn't have been an animal in
• 40:33
  there. Suddenly, the scratching turned
• 40:36
  into something else. Over the shrill screams of my
• 40:40
  sister, I heard what I can only describe as a horrible snarling
• 40:45
  noise. It was something unearthly, as
• 40:50
  if the vocal cords of a pig and a person had been intertwined
• 40:56
  while they both screamed. It was downright disturbing.
• 41:02
  With this, I quickly began to scream as well.
• 41:05
  My poor sister, in a panic, had ran into me trying to exit.
• 41:10
  Headed. Towards the stairs out of the
• 41:12
  laundry room and began clinging to me in pure terror.
• 41:17
  In the chaos, she would accidentally scratch my back as
• 41:20
  we both scrambled to get to the stairs.
• 41:23
  In the darkness or the surge of adrenaline, I tossed her in
• 41:27
  front of me and both of us ran upstairs as fast as we possibly
• 41:31
  could. As we got into the living room,
• 41:34
  my little brother was scared and crying as well.
• 41:38
  As we approached him, the power came back on, but the lights
• 41:42
  began to flicker with all three of us still hearing the sounds
• 41:46
  coming from the basement. It sounded as if whatever it was
• 41:50
  was coming up from the basement wall and up into the floor below
• 41:54
  us. It began hitting the floor below
• 41:58
  us, what would have been the basement ceiling.
• 42:02
  With all of us scared out of our minds, I grabbed my siblings and
• 42:06
  took us all out onto the back porch and then into our
• 42:10
  backyard. We would stay back there for I'd
• 42:13
  say probably about two hours or so until my mom got back home.
• 42:18
  And the whole time the lights were flickering inside of the
• 42:22
  house. There was no storm.
• 42:25
  Although the house was old, the wiring was not.
• 42:29
  And although this was traumatic, no doubt this would be far from
• 42:33
  the end of the experiences for all of us.
• 42:36
  Our doorbell began to malfunction, so to speak.
• 42:40
  Growing up in a small town, as kids a lot of us would do what
• 42:43
  was called Ding Dong ditching when we were bored, where you'd
• 42:47
  essentially roam around town, run up and knock on someone's
• 42:52
  door, or ring their doorbell and run off and hide before they
• 42:55
  answered the door. At first we thought this might
• 42:58
  have been the case with our doorbell.
• 43:00
  It would always happen at night and upon opening the door no one
• 43:03
  would be there, and it's possible that maybe it happened
• 43:06
  a time or two, but with how many times it began happening pretty
• 43:11
  much every single night and multiple times a night and us
• 43:14
  never seeing anyone there or in the bushes or anything, it
• 43:18
  became really unnerving. My uncle who worked early in the
• 43:22
  morning finally got tired of dealing with whatever was going
• 43:26
  on and decided to disconnect the doorbell.
• 43:29
  And under normal circumstances. This would have worked to be
• 43:32
  honest, but of course this wasn't a normal situation.
• 43:38
  Things were silent the first night after he disconnected the
• 43:41
  doorbell. And then something peculiar
• 43:43
  happened. Began to ring again.
• 43:47
  This should have been impossible because it had no power source,
• 43:51
  the wiring was severed, and it wasn't battery powered.
• 43:56
  And even if there was some kind of residual power left in it, it
• 44:00
  would have dissipated in the coming days.
• 44:02
  I'd think it would continue to ring for months and it seemed to
• 44:07
  get later and later because before, let's say when the sun
• 44:11
  would go down, let's say 8:00 or 9:00 PM, maybe even 10:00 PM, it
• 44:15
  would ring. And as time went on over those
• 44:19
  few months, began to go off a lot later or earlier in the
• 44:23
  morning, however you want to look at it, usually around 3:00
• 44:27
  to 4:00 AM. So I mean when we're all
• 44:30
  sleeping or trying to sleep if we could.
• 44:33
  Manage to get to sleep. Then it would essentially
• 44:36
  disturb that rest and maybe that was part of the motivation of
• 44:41
  whatever was causing it. I highly doubt that it was kids
• 44:45
  around this time. Me as well as my siblings, we we
• 44:49
  weren't really picked on a. Whole lot at this school.
• 44:52
  I mean, maybe at first, but we weren't like targeted by
• 44:56
  anybody. And I don't know, it just where
• 44:59
  we lived was kind of out of the way as well.
• 45:02
  Like there wasn't a lot of kids that lived around us.
• 45:05
  So I would be pretty surprised. Like Cedric's not that big of a
• 45:08
  town, but I would be really surprised if if that somehow
• 45:12
  played a factor in it. And that's if you take severing
• 45:16
  the power to it completely out of the equation as well, because
• 45:19
  it was always the doorbell going off.
• 45:21
  It wasn't anyone knocking on the door.
• 45:23
  And yeah, I don't know, Overall, the whole thing is just weird
• 45:27
  and it was certainly worth mentioning.
• 45:30
  My mom, similar to how my dad said he felt later following our
• 45:35
  experiences at the Willow Street house, began to change.
• 45:40
  She began to become more disconnected and more angry.
• 45:45
  Less recognizable is the best way that I could put in.
• 45:49
  There's a lot to this, and I'm certain that not all of it is
• 45:53
  paranormal by any means, but I do think it was similar enough
• 45:59
  to how our previous experiences were.
• 46:02
  To mention any negative behavior in all of us or behaviors, but
• 46:08
  especially in my mom and my aunt, seemed to be magnified
• 46:11
  substantially. We would all fight, we'd have
• 46:15
  outbursts, and generally we all contributed.
• 46:18
  You know, granted, we were kids, but we all contributed to a
• 46:22
  negative atmosphere while we lived there, which, you know,
• 46:26
  although we had been through a lot, wasn't really like us.
• 46:30
  So for some more context here before I continue to try and
• 46:34
  make things make as much sense as possible.
• 46:38
  So my sister was the only one that had a room next to my aunt
• 46:43
  and uncle, my mom and me, and my younger brother Kaden.
• 46:49
  We didn't have our own rooms we slept on either.
• 46:54
  We took turns basically sleeping in a chair or on a couch or on
• 46:59
  the floor and to try and I guess like carve out my, I mean with
• 47:05
  me being the oldest, I tried to kind of like carve out my own
• 47:08
  space. And I also wanted to try and get
• 47:12
  over my fears. And with that, I began sleeping
• 47:16
  down in the basement there. I just had this like small
• 47:20
  little lamp. There were overhead lights, but
• 47:23
  they, the bulbs were long burned out and I didn't know how to
• 47:26
  change them and no one else was going to do it for me.
• 47:29
  So I had essentially tried to clear, clear out the path a
• 47:33
  little bit more than what was already there.
• 47:35
  And basically I had a, a small TV down there.
• 47:40
  I had some blankets I would make what was called what I would
• 47:44
  call lasagna pallets, where I would just lay a bunch of
• 47:48
  different blankets down on the floor and just try to make it as
• 47:52
  comfortable as I could for myself.
• 47:55
  And eventually also my little brother, like hang out with me
• 47:58
  down there sometimes and sleep down there with me sometimes.
• 48:03
  So with this next story, there's definitely two perspectives,
• 48:08
  right? There's what my brother
• 48:11
  experienced and there's what I experienced.
• 48:14
  I'm going to let my brother tell you what his experiences were
• 48:18
  like and this particular event, and then I'm going to tell my
• 48:23
  perspective. So I've had many spiritual
• 48:26
  experiences, many of which I would say are from God, and many
• 48:30
  of which I would say are literally just from demons.
• 48:33
  And there is one of those experiences though, from what I
• 48:36
  would consider to be from the demonic, that has stuck with me
• 48:40
  more than any other throughout the years.
• 48:43
  I remember being a kid in our small town house and my brother
• 48:47
  and I had to share the unfinished basement, which was
• 48:51
  very creepy. Everyone else had their their
• 48:54
  rooms, but we just sort of made the most of ours.
• 48:57
  I would often wake up in the night being very afraid and
• 49:00
  freaking out because I was afraid of the dark, as a lot of
• 49:03
  kids are. But there was one night where I
• 49:06
  woke up in pitch darkness and this experience was not the
• 49:12
  same. I didn't just feel afraid of the
• 49:14
  dark, I felt afraid of something in particular.
• 49:17
  So I bolted out of the blanket for it we'd made, and I peeked
• 49:20
  my little head over the containers that were stacked on
• 49:23
  top of one another, and at the back of the basement I saw
• 49:28
  something that chilled me to the core.
• 49:31
  My blood just ran cold, and I froze in fear for what felt like
• 49:36
  forever, but was probably only a few seconds.
• 49:39
  I saw this beastial, almost translucent yet glowing thing,
• 49:47
  but what I remember to this day is it's glowing red eyes.
• 49:52
  And I don't mean glowing as in light, I mean glowing with
• 49:54
  hatred. It felt like it looked into my
• 49:57
  soul and it just hated me. It had rage at me, and it
• 50:03
  instilled in that little kid who was me a great, great sense of
• 50:10
  fear for entities that are frankly evil and negative.
• 50:16
  I remember just bolting upstairs and curling up next to my mom
• 50:20
  like I normally did, but this time I was hoping and praying
• 50:22
  nothing would come and destroy me.
• 50:25
  And I know it wasn't just me, because later that night, my
• 50:29
  brother also had a very harrowing experience.
• 50:34
  So me and my brother, obviously we as a family didn't have a lot
• 50:39
  of money and we were trying to entertain ourselves, you know,
• 50:44
  as best we could. And I thought it would be cool
• 50:47
  to make a blanket Fort down where, you know, our makeshift
• 50:53
  room was. So I went ahead and took a bunch
• 50:57
  of pillows and blankets, all the ones that we had at our disposal
• 51:02
  and built a Fort out of it. Well, we decided to essentially
• 51:07
  snuggle up in the the Fort and watch the movie Cars, which was
• 51:13
  kind of like one of our comfort movies, I guess at that time.
• 51:17
  So I, what I remember is essentially getting into the
• 51:22
  Ford, you know, getting out of the blankets, getting comfy, and
• 51:25
  then we started watching Cars and I fell asleep.
• 51:30
  I remember waking up and my brother was gone and I was like,
• 51:34
  oh, you know, maybe he got scared or prefer to sleep with
• 51:40
  my mom or whatever. You know, I didn't think of it
• 51:42
  much of it at first, where the way that I'd had it designed was
• 51:48
  I had draped blankets across various boxes that kind of led
• 51:53
  down the path that was like towards where the.
• 51:56
  Cannery was at. Where you could like kind of
• 51:59
  like crawl in and out of basically, it's kind of hard to
• 52:02
  explain without having like a picture, but I don't have a
• 52:05
  picture of it. Anyways, Long story short,
• 52:09
  towards the end of that, what would have been the entrance,
• 52:12
  but with me being up by the TVI was like all the way into the
• 52:16
  Fort, I began to hear like a rustling sound and I was like,
• 52:19
  huh? So I remember my eyes darting
• 52:23
  kind of towards that general direction.
• 52:26
  And then I watched as essentially each blanket that
• 52:31
  created this like hallway or tunnel, however you want to put
• 52:35
  it to where I was at, began to collapse.
• 52:39
  As if something had like hit it from the top or had been
• 52:44
  underneath it and pulled it down.
• 52:46
  And it kept doing it until it got to me.
• 52:49
  And obviously my heart was thumping pretty much out of my
• 52:54
  chest at that point. And I remember being thrown
• 52:57
  backwards and my eyes rolled back into my head.
• 53:04
  And I don't have epilepsy, my sister actually does, but I
• 53:09
  have, I've never had any types of seizures or anything like
• 53:13
  that. But I remember being so
• 53:17
  terrified I was completely. Aware of what was going on and.
• 53:23
  At that time I, I was still pretty Catholic, I would say.
• 53:28
  And I remember just crying out to God to help me, to free me
• 53:33
  from whatever this thing was because I was my body, although
• 53:39
  I was present, I was not in control of.
• 53:43
  And it, it scared me so, so bad. And whenever this thing finally
• 53:50
  released its grip on me, I remember running, obviously
• 53:55
  running up and out of the basement and to where my mom
• 53:59
  was. And I was hysterical.
• 54:04
  I didn't really stay down there. I can't even recall ever really
• 54:08
  going back down there after that point, unless it was to shower,
• 54:13
  of course. But like I, I stopped spending
• 54:15
  time down there. It wasn't my little like space
• 54:19
  where I could just feel like it was my own anymore.
• 54:23
  It had essentially been violated.
• 54:26
  Those are definitely the major paranormal things that I'd say I
• 54:31
  experienced at the Sedgwick House.
• 54:35
  Sedgwick, like a lot of places I visited as an adult.
• 54:39
  Point Pleasant, WV, where the majority of the Mothman activity
• 54:45
  was said to have taken place. It's kind of like one of those
• 54:49
  places where it almost feels like you're in a dreamlike state
• 54:53
  when you're there. Cedric felt a lot like that to
• 54:56
  me. And the way that I have come to
• 55:01
  kind of categorize these places is it's a place where the veil
• 55:07
  between our world and the next, or however you want to put it,
• 55:13
  seems to be thinner than in other places.
• 55:17
  And I think that there is a lot of different places where this
• 55:22
  is the case. And perhaps this is what leads
• 55:25
  to intensified paranormal or spiritual or even Cryptid
• 55:31
  activity, just points of high strangeness in general.
• 55:37
  In due time, we would finally get our own place to live.
• 55:42
  That was in 2007. We ended up moving into a
• 55:47
  Section 8 neighborhood in a neighboring city.
• 55:51
  We were there for not quite two years.
• 55:55
  Thankfully nothing took place there as far as the paranormal
• 55:59
  from what I can recall. There was a lot of other stuff
• 56:02
  that happened, like my mom had an abusive boyfriend that broke
• 56:07
  back into our house after being kicked out and I had to
• 56:12
  essentially fight him off at the age of 11, 11, borderline going
• 56:17
  on 12. And I remember holding a knife
• 56:20
  to him in our kitchen. Obviously, I'm, I'm a big guy.
• 56:24
  I was a big kid and this, this dude couldn't have been any
• 56:27
  bigger from what I remember them like 5-5 or five, six.
• 56:31
  But yeah, just a lot of a lot of crazy stuff.
• 56:35
  My mom then had another boyfriend.
• 56:37
  And this is kind of what ended our time there in the Section 8
• 56:41
  housing was even though my mom paid a prorated rate for rent,
• 56:46
  we ended up eventually getting evicted because this dude
• 56:51
  essentially stole our rent money and stole my camera, which was
• 56:57
  actually the last thing that my grandma Agnes had got me.
• 57:02
  And actually, sorry, this is all super out of pocket and just me
• 57:07
  being raw and just real with you guys.
• 57:10
  It was with that camera that I really started to get interested
• 57:14
  and not only filming, but just like producing content in
• 57:17
  general. I used to be really into like
• 57:20
  claymation and storytelling, even concocting my own movies I
• 57:25
  guess with like video games like Soul Calibur was a was one that
• 57:30
  I would write whole storylines to.
• 57:32
  And Long story short, it was a very important item to me for a
• 57:37
  variety of reasons, but also because it was the last thing my
• 57:40
  grandma got me before she passed away and this dude ended up
• 57:43
  stealing it. He also stole our rent money
• 57:47
  which got us evicted and we ended up being homeless in a van
• 57:52
  for several months during the summer.
• 57:55
  This would have been summer of 2008, so I would have been about
• 58:00
  12 at this time, if not pretty close to 12, like I said, at 11,
• 58:04
  going on 12. And ultimately, my dad would get
• 58:09
  custody of me and I would end up living with him and moving on
• 58:14
  with my life. I'm on good terms.
• 58:16
  I'd say probably Gray terms with my parents now.
• 58:20
  And no one's perfect, you know, let's be honest.
• 58:23
  We make mistakes. You know, no one necessarily
• 58:26
  wants their kids to grow up in a dysfunctional house, let alone
• 58:30
  dysfunctional house or houses that are afflicted with the
• 58:34
  paranormal. And I oftentimes wonder if
• 58:38
  trauma can attract the paranormal, can attract
• 58:42
  darkness. I certainly know that it can be
• 58:45
  exacerbated by the paranormal, but I wonder if it also
• 58:50
  essentially attracts beings that feed on that fear and that
• 58:55
  sadness. I mentioned that my grandma
• 58:58
  passed away in the house she had been living with us for several
• 59:03
  months. I want to say like. 4:00 to
• 59:06
  6:00. Months where we lived, there is
• 59:09
  an old folks home that's like, I mean not even a block away.
• 59:13
  Like you, we used to be able to cut through this little field
• 59:16
  through our backyard and you would be at the old folks home.
• 59:19
  Well my grandma was living there for a time and then like her
• 59:24
  main care person was there and she had to get AI think it was a
• 59:28
  triple or a quadruple bypass. It was something crazy and she
• 59:32
  ended up staying with us while she recovered.
• 59:35
  And I'll never forget the day actually.
• 59:38
  So the day was January 25th of 2005 when she passed away.
• 59:45
  And I remember this because I was homesick with I think I had
• 59:50
  strep throat at that time. Not a fun time.
• 59:53
  This is also weird and just really personal, but the movie
• 59:56
  Alien versus Predator had come out at that time, so I remember.
• 1:00:02
  That was the release date of that movie on DVD.
• 1:00:05
  I had gone to Walgreens with my mom to pick up my prescription
• 1:00:09
  to treat my strep throat. You know, I was like, hey, mom,
• 1:00:12
  you know, can I get this? Yeah, sure.
• 1:00:13
  So she gets me the DVD. I was starting to watch the
• 1:00:17
  movie in our living room, You know, just.
• 1:00:20
  I couldn't really do anything. And a.
• 1:00:22
  Rule A rule. Of us being sick was that you
• 1:00:24
  know, like we couldn't really play like video games or be on
• 1:00:27
  the computer or anything like that.
• 1:00:29
  So I was just trying to make the best of it.
• 1:00:31
  You know, I taking my medicine and I was starting to watch this
• 1:00:33
  movie. Essentially, my grandma started
• 1:00:36
  going into because she had diabetes as well as other health
• 1:00:40
  ailments. She started going into diabetic
• 1:00:43
  shock. So I remember being with my aunt
• 1:00:47
  and my mom. They asked me to please go try
• 1:00:51
  and get her care provider over at the old folks home.
• 1:00:55
  So I ran over there, couldn't find the person there paging her
• 1:00:59
  so I ran back to tell them what was going on and that basically
• 1:01:03
  she would be there as soon as she could.
• 1:01:06
  And I remember my grandma. I'll say I'll save a lot of the,
• 1:01:11
  the really gritty details, but basically I ended up holding her
• 1:01:16
  hand while she passed away. Also not really relevant, I
• 1:01:20
  guess to to the stories themselves, but more more so
• 1:01:23
  relevant to my life. I had also seen her husband, my
• 1:01:28
  mom's dad, pass away in 2002. Yeah, I held her hand while she
• 1:01:33
  passed away. And I really think that that
• 1:01:35
  fundamentally changes someone when they actually watch someone
• 1:01:39
  like in their eyes die. I with that being said, that
• 1:01:44
  really made me question a lot. That really made me question God
• 1:01:48
  and why I would be put in a position where that where I'd
• 1:01:52
  have to witness that a lot of things.
• 1:01:55
  I was really angry about it for a long, long time and I had a
• 1:01:59
  lot of dreams about her. And it definitely even now is
• 1:02:04
  still some major trauma that I think I've mostly processed, but
• 1:02:09
  with not only dealing with all of the dysfunction and filth.
• 1:02:15
  And then you stack the paranormal on top of that, as
• 1:02:19
  well as the trauma not only of my parents getting divorced, but
• 1:02:23
  also literally watching my my grandma die.
• 1:02:28
  I mean, from the time she passed just to kind of again for
• 1:02:31
  context, when we knew for sure she was passed or she had passed
• 1:02:37
  rather. I mean, I was there even when
• 1:02:40
  they came and like loaded her up like in a body bag.
• 1:02:44
  Like it, it was really messed up for sure.
• 1:02:48
  When you couple all those things together, I think that it really
• 1:02:54
  made me not only question everything, but question why
• 1:02:58
  these things happen and just what is the paranormal, why
• 1:03:03
  these things exist. I wanted to know more about
• 1:03:06
  whatever these things were. And in a sense, I don't know if
• 1:03:13
  I noticed it at the time as a kid, but throughout high school
• 1:03:17
  and then as I became an adult, I had always maintained an
• 1:03:21
  interest in the paranormal. And I believe that it became
• 1:03:26
  kind of a calling for me. Another thing to mention too,
• 1:03:29
  since I'm just offloading everything here, I had grown up,
• 1:03:33
  my mom's dad actually, Paul, he had introduced me to like
• 1:03:38
  Unsolved Mysteries and The X-Files.
• 1:03:42
  And he actually had worked at Area 51 as an aerospace engineer
• 1:03:49
  in the Air Force. Long story short, there's we've
• 1:03:53
  got family stories from that too.
• 1:03:55
  It's it's a whole thing, but I always gravitated more towards
• 1:04:01
  like the mysterious and the supernatural type entertainment.
• 1:04:06
  And I don't know, I just one thing led to another.
• 1:04:11
  You know, I had a couple experiences in the house that I
• 1:04:14
  moved into with my dad, which he actually ended up moving out.
• 1:04:19
  And as an adult, I lived there for I want to say another couple
• 1:04:23
  years, like two years or so after he moved out, two or three
• 1:04:27
  years. And I can get into those as
• 1:04:30
  well. But I figured I would try and
• 1:04:33
  explain kind of what it inspired, Mystery archives, so
• 1:04:36
  to speak. So I remember it being 2016 and
• 1:04:42
  I was kind of still trying to find myself.
• 1:04:46
  I've been involved in music and things like that.
• 1:04:48
  And when those things don't work out, you kind of try to find
• 1:04:51
  something to do on your own. You know, I want to say into
• 1:04:56
  2017, this was kind of back when YouTube was still, they still
• 1:05:01
  allowed like a lot of like conspiratorial and that type of
• 1:05:04
  content on the platform. And I remember kind of stumbling
• 1:05:08
  across that. And I was like, you know, I've,
• 1:05:10
  it's not that I necessarily believe a bunch of conspiracies
• 1:05:14
  per SE, but I was like, you know, I could really see myself
• 1:05:18
  getting into something like this and just kind of like getting
• 1:05:20
  into like mysteries, you know, because I really enjoyed
• 1:05:24
  learning about different topics and deep diving and, and all of
• 1:05:27
  that. I didn't really know how to edit
• 1:05:30
  a whole lot. Like I taught myself how to use
• 1:05:32
  Sony Vegas and that's all I had at the time.
• 1:05:35
  This was long before I discovered Adobe Premiere and
• 1:05:38
  where I'm at today, and I made the account mystery archives.
• 1:05:44
  The name just kind of came to me.
• 1:05:46
  I remember I was like trying to come up with a name that hadn't
• 1:05:49
  been taken, and at that time it hadn't been taken.
• 1:05:53
  So I was like, OK, yeah, no, that sounds pretty cool.
• 1:05:57
  I ended up making it and then I made, I didn't have a microphone
• 1:06:02
  or anything at that time. My computer could barely handle
• 1:06:05
  me editing anything. And I didn't have any money
• 1:06:10
  really to speak of. And I ended up making one of
• 1:06:14
  those text overlay conspiracy videos that's private and
• 1:06:19
  that'll never see the light of day.
• 1:06:22
  But after that, I didn't really do anything with it.
• 1:06:27
  I think I might have, yeah, now that I think about it.
• 1:06:30
  And it's also privated. I recorded a really intense
• 1:06:36
  thunderstorm from my upstairs where my computer was at the
• 1:06:39
  time and was like, you know, I've always loved nature and
• 1:06:43
  soundscapes and those types of things, which actually goes back
• 1:06:47
  to my mom when I was quite a bit younger.
• 1:06:50
  She would play those and they would just relax me and I'd go
• 1:06:53
  to sleep. I had the had recorded that.
• 1:06:55
  But other than those two things, I don't think I really took it
• 1:07:00
  seriously or really developed a concept of what I wanted to do
• 1:07:04
  with it realistically. Fast forward to 2020 and I got
• 1:07:12
  first furloughed from my job, which I was at that time I was
• 1:07:17
  in paint prep for aircraft. So like surfacing, sanding,
• 1:07:23
  priming, that type of stuff, getting it ready for the final
• 1:07:26
  coats of paint here in Wichita. And I got furloughed and then
• 1:07:33
  laid off, obviously with everything that happened, you
• 1:07:36
  know, with the pandemic and what have you.
• 1:07:38
  And I remember I was sitting at home and I was so used to just
• 1:07:42
  working constantly. I mean, like 40 to 60 hour weeks
• 1:07:48
  all the time. I mean, I tried to basically
• 1:07:50
  work as hard as I could to try and get ahead for me and Meg,
• 1:07:54
  you know, I just wanted to forge my own way and be as successful
• 1:07:58
  as I, I could be, at least in that field.
• 1:08:02
  So I remember sitting here actually in the same general
• 1:08:06
  area I'm sitting right now, totally different computer and
• 1:08:09
  all of that and being like, you know, I have this YouTube
• 1:08:15
  account and I've never really like done anything with it.
• 1:08:19
  And I've always really been into these types of shows.
• 1:08:23
  I've always loved shows like a haunting and unsolved Mysteries
• 1:08:25
  and all of that. I was like, what if I tried to
• 1:08:31
  do something like that, but just in my own way.
• 1:08:33
  I'd always been fascinated by a particular story, which is Stole
• 1:08:38
  Kansas, which was my first video, which I think I'm going
• 1:08:43
  to revisit in a later video and just give it an updated version,
• 1:08:48
  I guess, so to speak. But that was it.
• 1:08:51
  That was my first video. Editing wise, I didn't really
• 1:08:56
  know what I was doing, but I was like what is the software all
• 1:08:59
  the main Youtubers are using? And it was Adobe Premiere and I
• 1:09:04
  just tried to adapt and learn as fast as I could on the fly.
• 1:09:09
  I had my cousin draw the church that used to exist there and use
• 1:09:16
  that as the thumbnail as well as in the video.
• 1:09:19
  And really from there it was kind of, it was kind of off to
• 1:09:22
  the races. I think it was either a little
• 1:09:24
  later in 2020 or 2021, I can't remember exactly.
• 1:09:27
  But I got my job back. I think it was like 3 or 4, four
• 1:09:31
  months after I'd gotten laid off.
• 1:09:34
  I got my job back and went back to paint prep.
• 1:09:38
  Ended up busting my butt there and becoming what's known as a
• 1:09:42
  painter one, which is where you paint the final coats of paint
• 1:09:46
  as well as the stripes on aircraft.
• 1:09:48
  A whole different process use like instead of like a pot gun
• 1:09:53
  or a gravity fed paint gun, you use an Electro, still use a
• 1:09:56
  gravity feed gun, but to paint the coats of paint you would use
• 1:09:59
  an electrostatic gun. But none of that has anything to
• 1:10:02
  do with the paranormal or anything like that.
• 1:10:06
  But basically, I began to work my butt off with with that, what
• 1:10:11
  with what was my career at the time, and kept doing mystery
• 1:10:15
  archives and really always hoped that something would take off
• 1:10:22
  eventually. Not too long after I became a
• 1:10:25
  painter. I don't know if I want to
• 1:10:26
  mention it because I don't know what YouTube's terms are or if
• 1:10:31
  they're still censoring those kinds of things.
• 1:10:34
  But basically, I got really sick with, you know, what was causing
• 1:10:39
  the pandemic. And I could have died, to be
• 1:10:44
  honest. I was in that rare bracket of
• 1:10:46
  people where I was really, really, really sick.
• 1:10:52
  Long story short, I ended up getting an infusion and getting
• 1:10:56
  over being sick. My grandfather, who had always
• 1:11:00
  taken amazing care of himself, my dad's dad, he ended up
• 1:11:04
  passing away from the same thing.
• 1:11:08
  Like we hadn't seen each other or anything in quite some time.
• 1:11:11
  So had, you know, basically one of us didn't give it to the
• 1:11:14
  other. It just was around at that time.
• 1:11:17
  And that was a whole family shake up and a whole entire
• 1:11:23
  series of life changes that I just didn't see coming.
• 1:11:29
  And I dealt with all of that. I remember I had almost given up
• 1:11:34
  several times on making content because it just wasn't really
• 1:11:38
  going anywhere. I didn't really seem to have an
• 1:11:42
  audience really, or I wasn't really able to cultivate an
• 1:11:46
  audience. And I knew that eventually, if I
• 1:11:49
  got good enough, that if YouTube just saw fit to serve my content
• 1:11:53
  to people, that eventually, you know, I would go somewhere.
• 1:11:58
  And I worked another, I want to say, let's see 21, another two
• 1:12:04
  years or so. And one day my video on
• 1:12:09
  Helltown, Ohio popped off and then it went viral.
• 1:12:14
  And, you know, obviously I'm like, wow, you know, maybe, you
• 1:12:18
  know, this could be it. I didn't want to, you know,
• 1:12:21
  count my blessings or put all my eggs in one basket, so to speak.
• 1:12:25
  So I allowed, I basically kept making content and it kept doing
• 1:12:30
  really, really well. At that time, the algorithm was
• 1:12:32
  shining upon us. I guess not not as much these
• 1:12:36
  days, but you know, coming out of nothing to exponential growth
• 1:12:41
  is it was life changing for sure.
• 1:12:44
  I eventually got to the point to where I was like, you know, I
• 1:12:48
  think I'm going to take the leap of faith and for all the right
• 1:12:53
  tax reasons. I founded my media company,
• 1:12:56
  which is Cracking Media LLC to handle all the tax stuff of the
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  insurance and outs of the Youtubes.
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  And I left that job that I'd worked so, so hard to to get to
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  where I was at. And obviously, I left on the
• 1:13:10
  best terms possible, but it's allowed me to live the life that
• 1:13:17
  I've essentially always dreamed of.
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  You know, it's just, I'm so thankful to be able to do this
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  for a living. And it's allowed me to be able
• 1:13:28
  to go and explore places and have experiences that I probably
• 1:13:34
  wouldn't have been able to have otherwise.
• 1:13:37
  And especially with views being low and all of that, I am really
• 1:13:41
  scared of losing that. That's why I try, I guess, to
• 1:13:44
  market as much as I, I do. And I encourage people obviously
• 1:13:49
  to, to watch and to share and all of that.
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  Because I mean, at the end of the day, it's a gamble.
• 1:13:55
  You know, like I've worked really hard, I've earned what I
• 1:13:58
  have, but you know, it's a huge gamble to, you know, make
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  content full time. So if you do appreciate what I
• 1:14:07
  do, you know, definitely just keep, keep coming back.
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  That's all I can really say. Obviously everyone who supports
• 1:14:14
  me via Patreon or YouTube members, you know, I really
• 1:14:17
  appreciate that as well. At the end of the day, it's,
• 1:14:20
  it's really just about people wanting to support me and my
• 1:14:24
  work. With that being said, that's
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  it's kind of the back story, I guess so to speak, of how
• 1:14:30
  Mystery Archives came to be. And it was going to be me and my
• 1:14:34
  cousin because we've always just worked really, really well
• 1:14:38
  creatively together. But you know, in the end it just
• 1:14:42
  ended up being being me. He just got busy with life, you
• 1:14:45
  know, he got married, he had a kid and he's doing great.
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  And I love him to death. I still definitely want to do
• 1:14:50
  something together with him. Same with my brother, you know,
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  now it's just a pretty much a one man project in a sense.
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  It is a reflection of me and just kind of my vision of what I
• 1:15:04
  initially wanted to build. I just didn't know how to build
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  it all those years ago. But now we're here and I don't
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  know, man. I'm just, I'm thankful to be in
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  this position and I'm thankful to have such an incredible
• 1:15:17
  community. And I'm beyond thankful to have
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  people who even care to sit and listen to me ramble and tell my
• 1:15:25
  stories and just be interested in anything that I do, let
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  alone, you know, pay my bills because of it.
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  It's, it's incredible. I don't think I want to make a
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  Part 3 to my paranormal experiences.
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  I think I had mentioned it in in the live a few times or in some
• 1:15:45
  of the lives I've done a few times where we had some really
• 1:15:49
  crazy experiences at an Airbnb in Kentucky beginning of this
• 1:15:53
  year. And I am still planning on doing
• 1:15:56
  a full board video with that with everyone who was involved.
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  It's just kind of been on the back burner for a little bit.
• 1:16:03
  But before before we go, I would like to mention essentially the
• 1:16:09
  additional experiences that I had following moving into what
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  we call the Millwood House. It was a house on Millwood St.
• 1:16:17
  here in Wichita, KS. Things with my dad when we lived
• 1:16:21
  there. My, my dad, I will say, in
• 1:16:23
  general had a lot of anger issues.
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  I think he's doing a lot better now.
• 1:16:29
  But those didn't necessarily just go away.
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  You know, life obviously got better.
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  I got my own room. I met a girl that I fell in love
• 1:16:38
  with at that time, You know, I was in high school.
• 1:16:41
  Lots of changes were happening at that time.
• 1:16:44
  But to get into the paranormal experiences, because there's
• 1:16:48
  really just a couple, thankfully, and they weren't
• 1:16:51
  nearly as catastrophic or terrifying, I guess, as some of
• 1:16:56
  the other ones that I've lived through have been.
• 1:16:58
  So I want to say in 2000, mid 2009 or so, we had a really bad
• 1:17:07
  thunderstorm. A bunch of people got hail
• 1:17:09
  damage not only on their cars, but like their houses.
• 1:17:13
  Our house was a little over 100 years old, had been remodeled,
• 1:17:17
  but the roof was was older. And we got significant hail
• 1:17:22
  damage on our roof and had to have our roof replaced.
• 1:17:27
  So I want to say for like, I want to say like a week or two,
• 1:17:32
  you know, bunch of my room was upstairs so I could hear
• 1:17:34
  everything, of course. But a bunch of construction work
• 1:17:37
  was going on, you know, them repairing and replacing the
• 1:17:40
  roof. And once that was done, I
• 1:17:43
  remember actually it was the night that they finished, I was
• 1:17:48
  asleep on my bed. I remember having basically a
• 1:17:52
  night terror, which is really, really rare for me.
• 1:17:56
  And by night terror, I, or maybe that's not the correct
• 1:17:59
  terminology. I'm not so sure.
• 1:18:01
  But basically where I woke up and I couldn't move and I
• 1:18:06
  couldn't breathe. And it, it obviously that's
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  terrifying enough and enough itself.
• 1:18:12
  But then I heard what sounded like, God, it had to have been
• 1:18:16
  like a chorus of people whispering in my ears, both
• 1:18:21
  sides, like coming from nowhere and yet everywhere.
• 1:18:25
  And, you know, I was a bit older at this point.
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  I was, you know, 15 going on 16. And I remember it scared me so
• 1:18:33
  bad that I, I wouldn't sleep in my room for the next like,
• 1:18:39
  probably like two weeks pretty much until I got sick of
• 1:18:42
  sleeping on the couch. And I finally kind of like
• 1:18:44
  convinced myself to go back up there.
• 1:18:48
  So that that was one of them. As an adult, the girl that I
• 1:18:53
  dated at that time, that I had been dating since high school
• 1:18:56
  and then into early adulthood, I believe she developed
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  schizophrenia. It ran in her family, but she
• 1:19:05
  began to develop into a person that I couldn't recognize.
• 1:19:10
  It wasn't the person that I had been in love with.
• 1:19:13
  I mean, I remember looking into her eyes and I, I wasn't able to
• 1:19:15
  recognize her anymore. It got that bad.
• 1:19:19
  Whether that was related to anything that could have been in
• 1:19:21
  the house or not, I'm not totally sure.
• 1:19:24
  But the what I would consider the genuine paranormal
• 1:19:27
  experiences that followed us breaking up and her moving out,
• 1:19:33
  you know, I was all of a sudden by myself in this big house.
• 1:19:36
  And with that, I do think there comes a little bit of a level of
• 1:19:41
  anxiety, and I have anxiety problems ANYWAYS, so I will
• 1:19:47
  admit that. But I would hear essentially
• 1:19:52
  what sounded like someone breaking in, you know, a lot of
• 1:19:56
  nights. And it started to freak me out
• 1:20:00
  to the points where, and I didn't have AI, didn't have a
• 1:20:03
  gun at the time. All I had was this, I call it a
• 1:20:06
  Rambo knife. It's just like a big military
• 1:20:08
  knife to where I was sleeping upstairs.
• 1:20:12
  And sleeping with that knife in case, you know, if someone
• 1:20:15
  really was breaking in, they would have to deal with me when
• 1:20:19
  they got upstairs if they chose to come upstairs.
• 1:20:22
  There was one night where it was storming really, really hard.
• 1:20:26
  And I remember kind of having that feeling and it was freaking
• 1:20:30
  me out. You know, the power went out for
• 1:20:34
  a short while and I remember going downstairs and, you know,
• 1:20:39
  like knife in hand, anxieties through the roof.
• 1:20:43
  I'd heard like banging. I'd heard what sounded like
• 1:20:46
  someone was like pulling on the door.
• 1:20:48
  This time the back door was pulled all the way open, like it
• 1:20:54
  was completely flung open. There's lightning lighting up
• 1:20:57
  the backyard. It's it's pouring rain.
• 1:21:01
  And I remember, I mean a, being freaked out, but B, trying to
• 1:21:06
  find whoever had caused that. And there was nothing, there was
• 1:21:12
  no footsteps in the mud. Obviously there wasn't anyone
• 1:21:15
  there. There was no evidence that there
• 1:21:17
  was anyone there. And I had dead, I always
• 1:21:21
  deadbolt at that door because there was it was a shotgun style
• 1:21:24
  house. The front door and the back
• 1:21:27
  door. Those are the only entrances,
• 1:21:30
  entrances aside from, you know, obviously the the windows and
• 1:21:33
  that type of thing. That was strange.
• 1:21:36
  Whether it was truly paranormal or not, I'm not sure, but it
• 1:21:39
  definitely was worth mentioning. And then there was one other
• 1:21:44
  time where it was just me. And at this point I had kind of
• 1:21:49
  gotten a little more comfortable with living by myself.
• 1:21:53
  My room, I had moved it downstairs and kind of like in
• 1:22:00
  the master bedroom that was if you'd walked in the front door
• 1:22:03
  would have been on the right hand side of the house.
• 1:22:06
  But I remember feeling some dark feelings in that room as well
• 1:22:09
  just in the house in general. And one night when I was
• 1:22:13
  sleeping I remember being woken up to what felt like something
• 1:22:18
  biting my neck. I still to this day, I don't
• 1:22:21
  fully know if it was like 1/2 dream state or what have you
• 1:22:26
  because it was just me and my cat care that lived there at the
• 1:22:29
  time. But I remember this was like
• 1:22:34
  midwinter and I remember kind of waking up or being in that dream
• 1:22:40
  state and going outside of my front door and just standing
• 1:22:46
  there and then eventually making my way back inside.
• 1:22:50
  Which if that was a dream, that would have been extremely
• 1:22:53
  strange. You know, obviously I can't
• 1:22:56
  prove that it did or didn't happen, but upon waking up to
• 1:23:02
  feeling like I was being bit in the neck, I remember feeling
• 1:23:06
  around my neck. And in there there to the right
• 1:23:09
  of the bed, there was a big closet that had mirror doors.
• 1:23:13
  So I remember looking into the mirror doors and there was just
• 1:23:17
  enough light coming from the Internet box to where you could
• 1:23:20
  kind of make things out. And I remember seeing this like
• 1:23:24
  little. I don't even know how to
• 1:23:26
  describe it it. Was like a it was like a little
• 1:23:28
  like gargoyle creature that was on my neck and I remember
• 1:23:32
  pulling it off of my neck and then all of a sudden it wasn't
• 1:23:35
  there that I was like, I didn't even know like I thought I I had
• 1:23:40
  to have been dreaming or something.
• 1:23:42
  And I very well could have been to tell you the.
• 1:23:45
  Truth. But those are the only parent.
• 1:23:49
  What I would consider paranormal esque things that happened
• 1:23:52
  living in the Millwood house, aside from some hypnagogic
• 1:23:57
  hallucinations with Megan after she moved in quite some time
• 1:24:03
  later. So with that being said, I have
• 1:24:06
  had other experiences as an adult.
• 1:24:09
  Some pretty recent. Ones actually like this year and
• 1:24:13
  even last year, but I'll I'll cover those in due time.
• 1:24:17
  I hope all around you guys have enjoyed my storytelling and just
• 1:24:22
  my rambling and just kind of how mystery are tribes came to be as
• 1:24:26
  well as getting into my experiences.
• 1:24:29
  It's been really therapeutic and really cathartic, as I
• 1:24:33
  previously said in the last video, to be able to kind of
• 1:24:38
  talk about this stuff and come to terms with it as an adult.
• 1:24:44
  And that's everything from the dysfunction to, you know, the
• 1:24:48
  spiritual aspects to explaining kind of how I started mystery
• 1:24:54
  archives and all of the above. And again, I just want to thank
• 1:24:57
  you guys for being interested and being willing to listen.
• 1:25:02
  The fact that I even have anyone supporting me at all, this is
• 1:25:05
  truly mind blowing. So I do think that's enough of
• 1:25:09
  me rambling. I've probably repeated myself
• 1:25:11
  several times, but I love you guys.
• 1:25:14
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• 1:25:35
  got a bunch of new content planned.
• 1:25:38
  I am working on starting a new podcast, which I will announce
• 1:25:41
  soon. That'll just coincide with the
• 1:25:44
  content that I already make here on the channel.
• 1:25:47
  And yeah, again, just thank you guys so much for everything and
• 1:25:52
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  Archives. Definitely stay safe out there
• 1:25:58
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