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Your Paranormal Encounters - Episode 1 (Subscriber Ghost Stories) · Mystery Archives Episodes

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Over the years, I've covered a wide array of mysteries, from
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the Mothman to UFO's, conspiracies to cold cases.
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And one topic that seemed to resonate more with all of you,
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and one that I've always found fascinating, is hauntings,
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whether that's haunted places, haunted people, or experiences
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that people have had that they would consider paranormal in
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nature. So in between those episodes,
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I'd really like to share stories from you guys, the community, to
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bring awareness that these kinds of experiences really do happen.
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And having grown up in a haunted home, myself.
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I know that often times people are hesitant to share their
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stories for fear of ridicule or for fear of whatever they've
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experienced flaring up again and reigniting
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young family encounters the devil and the flesh, told from
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the perspective of a young girl, this terrifying tale will have
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you questioning just what could be happening across the street
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from you next door, or even in your very own home.
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I was almost seven when these events took place, and I'll be
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40 later this year. I lived in the Glendale
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Apartments in Rock Hill, SC. My baby brother at the time
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wasn't quite even a year old now.
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My mom was young when she had me at 17, and my stepdad, Keith,
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was exactly 2 months to the day older than her.
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My mom has been gone for 14 years now, but I still remember
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this day like it was yesterday. We had left to get dinner that
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night and by the time we had gotten back.
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Keith was passed out in the front seat of his little
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hatchback Mustang in the parking lot.
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This was the first of two that would find themselves wrapped
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around trees in my town. Keith was suffering from what
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would later be diagnosed as schizophrenia with bipolar
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tendencies and had seemingly been self medicating to
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alleviate his symptoms since he was asleep.
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My mom urged me not to waken. As I helped her get my infant
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brother at the time out of the car and into our apartment, as
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we began to wind down for the evening, our phone began to
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ring, shattering the calm peace that was our lives.
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It was Keith's mom, Mary. She lived on the other side of
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the complex, which mostly housed old people and people with
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disabilities. She sounded panicked.
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Screaming that something was happening in her apartment, that
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she needed help. Immediately, my mom rushed to go
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wake Keith up out in the parking lot, but upon running up to the
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car, he was nowhere to be found. She rushed back into our
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apartment saying that she couldn't find Keith.
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When he suddenly appeared in the hallway and neither of us had
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seen him come into the apartment, he seemed completely
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out of it and was terrified. Saying that something was taking
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him over and that he couldn't control himself.
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I saw his eyes. They were black.
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My mother didn't have time to deal with or process his antics
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and gathered us to walk to his mother's apartment.
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In the meantime, as we rushed over there as fast as we could,
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I remember getting a skin crawling feeling every time
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Keith looked at me like it was something completely foreign to
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this world. Peering into my soul, we arrived
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and were quickly let into Mary's apartment.
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Her lights were flickering and her pictures were swaying back
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and forth on the walls. A heavy presence could be felt
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by all of us. Mary was deeply religious and
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couldn't understand just what was taking place, but she
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believed it to be evil. Keith was now standing in the
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living room and began to sway back and forth.
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As the activity seemed to intensify as my mother
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approached him to ask what he was doing, he began to laugh.
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This was the deepest, most maniacal laugh I have ever
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heard, and I still get chills thinking about it.
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This voice was not his own. My mother quickly backed up,
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unsure of what to do, and he then began to point at me
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saying, I'm going to sacrifice that child tonight.
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His eyes were now blood red. Mary by this time had grabbed
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some of her belongings from her room and happened to have some
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blessed oil along with her Bible.
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She threw the oil on Keith's face and it began to boil.
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The sound of sizzling and screaming was horrific.
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My mother's love for Keith quickly overpowered her fear and
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she pulled him into the bathroom to examine his face.
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She was freaking out to say the least, partially because of how
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unbelievable the circumstances were and just how badly he was
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burnt on his face. His eyes at this point were
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rolled into the back of his head.
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Then suddenly, without warning, he rushed my mom and pinned her
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against the wall. His younger sister Nikki and his
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mother quickly rushed in to help free her.
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With Mary dumping more oil on him each time, his skin
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literally sizzled where it landed.
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This fortunately worked. Keith now lay catatonic on the
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bathroom floor, so altogether us girls moved him into a nearby
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bedroom and restrained him to the bed using anything we could
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find for our own safety. Shortly after we did this, his
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mother called the nearby oratory.
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And asked for a priest to assist us immediately.
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Nikki, who was a teenager at the time, was trying to comfort me,
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telling me that Keith was just really sick and not to be
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scared. She encouraged me to try and get
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some sleep and I of course couldn't and wouldn't.
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I didn't dare close my eyes for fear of that thing hurting my
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mom. And this room with Keith was a
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picture of Jesus kneeling on top of a mountain.
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I heard Keith laughing in that otherworldly voice.
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He called out to me. He said, You know, little girl,
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I used to be an Angel with the most beautiful wings until that
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bastard was born. Then I was cast from atop that
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mountain and banished. I asked, Who are you, the devil?
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He perked up, looked me dead in my eyes, and said.
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I am Lucifer, the light bringer here in the flesh.
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I'm not only taking Keith with me, but all of you as well.
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Now untie me. I ran hysterically to my mother
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who was having a cigarette to calm her nerves.
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She ran into the room to comfort him when he said do you want to
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see proof and against her will. My mother then extinguished the
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cigarette into his arm with Keith exclaiming.
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It feels so good you'll have to adjust to the searing flames,
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but in due time you too will call it home.
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She then rushed out of the room and closed the door.
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We waited with bated breath for the priest to arrive when
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shortly after 3:00 AM, there was a knock on the door.
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Thank God it was him. For the next several hours they
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attempted to cast this thing out of Keith.
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Probably for the best. They kept me in the living room,
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away from the demonic terror that was inhabiting his body.
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But my God, the smells that wafted throughout the complex
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like putrid meat and sulfur. I soon also heard moaning and
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growling from dogs that didn't exist.
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There was a strange fog that had enveloped the apartment itself
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and a strange flickering light. That now emanated from the room
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or the exorcism was taking place.
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I began to close my eyes and pray to God harder than I'd ever
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prayed before, wanting and wishing for all of it to end
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when suddenly it did. Keith had seemingly been freed
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of these spiritual shackles, and although I was terrified, I was
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more than wanting to finally get some sleep.
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So after the priest departed and all seemed fine, we slowly made
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our way back home to the damp, misty morning that was now upon
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us. Upon arriving home and heading
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inside, we all began to make our way to our bedrooms to try and
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sleep. I found myself in my bed, comfy
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and finally about to rest when I felt my bed shake.
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I quickly opened my eyes to find my bed off the floor and my
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bedpost balls screwed off, each one in the corner of each post.
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Floating there, I screamed harder than I've ever screamed
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before, alerting my mother, who rushed to save me upon her
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running in my bed suddenly slammed to the ground and my
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bedpost balls all fell to the floor.
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The events of that night and the following morning can never be
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forgotten by me and my family. For the next year and a half, we
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dealt with similar smells wafting throughout our
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apartment, unseen snarls and growls and a feeling of anxiety
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as if our every move was being watched.
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But thank God it all eventually faded.
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I had since asked Keith how he came to be in that state, but I
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could never really get a clear answer.
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He often drank moonshine and was in a bad state mentally and
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spiritually at the time. Perhaps this weakened him enough
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to let something in somehow. I've since moved on from that
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place, but heard something very interesting that I'd also like
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to share in regards to it. This was the apartment we lived
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in, and a young boy mysteriously passed away within it not too
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long ago. The details of the case are hard
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to find. But I believe he was about as
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old as I was when everything had taken place to us.
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There has also been multiple shootings, stabbings, and
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murders that have taken place near and in the complex itself.
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It seems like whatever possessed Keith and stalked us maybe never
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truly left. I'm glad to share my story with
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all of you, and I just want you to know that these things are
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very real. The paranormal.
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Is real and please do not meddle with it because you just don't
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know what you could be inviting in this energy.
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This evil wanted my soul, and it seems like it may have taken
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multiple lives and pursuit of whatever nefarious things it
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wanted. Leia.
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I would like to thank Leia for submitting this chilling story
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of an exorcism. That took place to her
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stepfather when she was a child. The entire situation must have
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been terrifying to endure, to say the least, and I commend her
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for being willing to share this with us and warn others that
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these things are very real indeed.
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I also believe it's important to bring awareness to these kinds
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of topics for a number of reasons.
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Upon laying her head down to sleep, a young woman is
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seemingly transported to another time or place where she
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interacts with malevolent spirits.
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This one may just make you wonder if the very same has ever
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happened to you. One hot Saturday morning in
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2001, my exhusband, Dean, and I went to the grocery store.
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By the time we returned home and put everything away, it was
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almost noon. I prepared some lunch for us,
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and by 2:00 PM I announced that the heat had made me feel so
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very tired and that I would need to lie down.
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Dean would go on to watch TV with the volume on low, and I
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closed the bedroom door. As soon as my head hit the
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pillow I went out like a light. Then in what seemed like only 5
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minutes later, I was woken up by a lady speaking beside my bed.
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It was if she was addressing another person.
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But yet, in a crystal clear voice across the room, she said
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something along the lines of don't disturb her, let her
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sleep. This startled me.
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I immediately sat up in my bed and I looked around.
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But saw nothing. I knew I wasn't dreaming as the
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voice was real and yet spoke at an audible enough level even to
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wake me up, regardless whether a dream or real.
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I was too exhausted and quickly fell asleep again.
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Now this is where things took a stranger turn.
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I felt my soul leave my body. It rose up to where the wall met
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the ceiling. I crossed through the wall and
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into another place in time. I was no longer within my home,
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but found myself in a scene from the 18th century.
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It was similar to watching a black and white film, but in
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varying shades of Gray. I saw a few people who were
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extravagantly dressed and wore coiffed and powdered wigs,
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sitting on a plush Steven and some armchairs.
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They sat almost motionless by a small low lying table.
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Only the woman slowly looked about, but nobody seemed to
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notice me. I looked to my left and saw a
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couple standing still, arms held in an arch above in the air,
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hands touching, poised, as if waiting for music to start for
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their dance. I looked past them and saw a few
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men, one at each small table, just sitting quietly and
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motionless. Then I looked to my right, past
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the few people I initially saw and looked in awe at the site
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before me. I realized I was in a vast hall
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as far as the eye could see. I saw no other people and the
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next thing I knew I was back in my body, seemingly asleep yet
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aware of my surroundings. I was made aware of the large
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crowd of people outside of my bedroom door.
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The sound was similar to what you would hear in a crowded bar,
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many people talking amongst themselves.
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However, there was one woman's voice that could be heard
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slightly above the rest of the crowd.
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I didn't paid any special attention as I wasn't focusing
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on anyone in particular nor catch what she had said and what
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was only a moment later. That same voice was louder and
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closer, this time just on the other side of my bedroom door.
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Although I paid a little more attention now, what she said was
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still indiscernible, and the voice was yet to be one that I
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recognized. A voice belonging to a stranger.
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And what seemed just another moment again.
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She opened the door, stepped into my room, and then shut the
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door behind her. I laid frozen in my bed, unable
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to move. Yet I felt real terror at this
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point, although I couldn't move at all.
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My eyes were fixed atop of the wall.
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Somehow, with my mind's eye, I saw her.
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It was my mother who had passed away 21 years earlier.
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She wore a long white shroud which I never got to see her in,
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but I knew that she had been buried in one by now.
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I was totally terrified. I wanted to scream out for help,
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better still to get out of there, but I wasn't able to move
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a muscle. I watched my mother pace to and
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fro past the foot of my bed in absolute rage.
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She was so angry with me, she was literally spitting mad while
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she was scolding me. Never had I seen her this angry.
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The one thing I did notice once my mother's spirit had entered
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the room was that while my eyes were fixed near the ceiling, it
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was within my range of sight that I'd seen a soft white.
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The Ashes ball of light appeared to my right at the corner of the
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ceiling. It was about the size of a
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basketball, though not quite as spherical.
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It was so very slow, moving like a swirl of white smoke within
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itself. Somehow I felt like it was
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protecting me from this evil, like a guardian Angel.
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Once my mother was done raging at me, she faced the door and
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held the door slightly open. She paused and told me.
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That I'd be dead by midnight tonight.
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She then shut the door behind her and left.
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As soon as she was out the door, the ball of light had dissipated
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too, and I felt instant relief. I looked at the clock and it was
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now 3:00 PM. All of this strangeness took
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place in the space of 1 terrifying hour.
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I still don't know if that was the spirit of my mother or
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something evil imitating her. All I know is that I jumped out
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of bed and rushed to the lounge room, telling Dean what I have
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seen. Though I didn't mention my
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mother's parting words, Dean wasn't remotely interested.
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He only mumbled as I interrupted him watching his program.
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Well, that was the end of the nap I wasn't quite able to get.
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As evening approached, I constantly glanced in my watch.
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Although we retired for the day at about 10:00 PM, that night I
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was fearful. Yet resigned in my fate, I
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hadn't told the soul about my mother's message, in case it
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tempted fate. On waking the next morning, I
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couldn't have felt more relieved and thrilled to still be alive.
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Now that it felt safe to do so, I told Dean and later my
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neighbor, about it all. They showed me the goosebumps on
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their arms and expressed fear as I recounted my experience.
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This was 22 years ago. And I still think of that day
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and the sheer terror that it brought me.
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It's a day that I can never forget Johanna.
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That story was chilling. Johanna.
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I too am curious if it was some kind of spirit impersonating
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your mother, or if it was somehow her.
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The detail of what she was wearing also happened to be what
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she was A young man seemingly interacts
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with his grandmother, who has long since passed away, but he
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isn't the only one that sees and feels her presence.
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This was in reference to watching one of my videos.
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Watching this video reminded me of something that's been going
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on in my house. My wife's grandmother died
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before we got together. And her son was the last person
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in the hospital room with her when she passed.
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Now, my work schedule varies, but generally I'm up between
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3:00 and 4:00 AM every day. Sometimes I feel a presence or I
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thought I saw what was a shadow and my peripheral vision.
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I finally told my wife about this a while back, and she
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proceeded to tell me that her autistic son regularly speaks to
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his deceased grandmother. We've both spoken to him
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multiple times and apparently she visits him constantly.
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My wife admitted that she's seen her in our house a couple of
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times as well. I've offered to have the house
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cleansed, but my wife said no. Apparently his grandmother
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visits him all the time and watches over him, and he's
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admitted that he still sees her. He's autistic, so he's very
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honest with everything. I'd like your guys's input about
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this, thank you caveman. Well, Caveman, especially since
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he's autistic, that really does convince me of his sincerity and
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honesty. The young man clearly doesn't
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have a motivation to gain anything by saying this.
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And when you have felt this presence, is it as she was in
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life? Is it more of a benevolent
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energy or something else? It's also very interesting that
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your wife has seen her on multiple occasions as well.
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Perhaps she is watching over her grandson.
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Children often have an extra sense, it seems like, to be able
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to interact with the spirit world.
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Reading your story reminded me of when my brother was younger
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and we had a very similar situation.
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My mom's father, Paul, had passed away in their family home
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in 2002, but my brother was just two years old.
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Prior to his passing, Paul seemed to be motioning for
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things to go away, things that we couldn't see, perhaps trying
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to state that he wasn't ready to go yet.
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Several months after his passing, with my grandmother
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Agnes still in happening, the very same house my brother Kaden
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had started to interact with, something that we couldn't see.
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He would often play around the living room, which was the same
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room my grandfather passed away in.
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One day when he was in a full conversation with this person,
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my mother asked him who he was talking to and he said Grandpa
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Paul. It took the very breath out of
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her lungs. These interactions were fairly
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frequent until he was about four or five years old.
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Then they suddenly went away one day.
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It truly makes one beg the question, just how often do our
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loved ones truly watch over us? Thanks for sharing this one
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caveman. Thank you all for watching.
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of this video, I think it's very important to bring awareness to
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the paranormal question. It, in a sense, is the ultimate
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question, in my opinion, What truly happens when we pass
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through the veil of this reality and into the afterlife?
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I appreciate all of you as always.
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I hope all of you are doing well mentally, physically and
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spiritually, and I hope your year is heading in a vibrant and
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positive direction. And I wish you all nothing but
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the best. Until next time, this has been
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Cody here at Mystery Archives. Stay safe out there and take
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care.