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My Personal PARANORMAL Experiences Part 2/2 · Mystery Archives Episodes

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If you haven't seen part one of my stories, I'd recommend
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checking it out either before you watch this video or after.
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They don't necessarily directly tie together, but the same
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entity or entities that plagued us at our Willow Street home
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certainly seemed to follow us in some way when we moved.
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I did want to let you guys know that especially towards the end
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of this video, I do kind of go on a bit of a long explanation
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that is pretty much just going to be entirely raw.
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And it's it involves a lot of personal details and things from
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my life that I just kind of wanted to get out there.
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And I hope overall you enjoy the video and the stories and just
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the content as a whole. Thank you guys.
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Around age 10, after my parents got divorced, I moved to the
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small town of Sedgwick, Kansas, about 40 minutes or so away from
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Derby, going from roughly a population of 20,000 people to
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about 1800. Me, my mom, brother and sister
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moved in with my newlywed aunt and her husband Bill, my uncle.
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We lived in a large farm style house that was over 100 years
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old and time would tell that perhaps we weren't the only
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inhabitants that dwelled within its walls.
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Within a matter of weeks strange things began to happen.
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My first experience that I can recall at this location was when
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one night I was headed up the stairs to use the restroom.
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And for context, here was the layout of the house.
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The stairs leading up to the upstairs was basically AT shape.
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When reaching the top of the stairs, there was my aunt and
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uncle's room on the far left, an office room, and the bathroom on
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the right hand side closest to the stairs.
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I was heading up and got about halfway up the stairs when I saw
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a glowing bluish figure of a man run from the bedroom straight
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into the bathroom and then disappear.
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Seeing this happened so fast I fell backwards and down the
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stairs. This frightened the hell out of
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me and as embarrassing as it is to say now, I refuse to use the
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bathroom for about a week, opting to use a friend's house
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or go outside instead, not wanting to go anywhere near
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where I'd seen this person. The following day after seeing
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the man, I told my mom and my aunt what I had seen and to
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their credit they are fairly open minded when it comes to the
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paranormal. My aunt, especially my mom, as
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much as I love her, tends to try and rationalize almost to the
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point of denial with a lot of things explaining what this man
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looked like. I remembered him having dusty
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looking hair and that he was wearing overalls.
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My aunt then decided to show me some of my uncle's old family
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photos. Several photos in she showed me
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what appeared to be one of a family reunion with probably 20
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or so people in it. There towards the back, standing
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in the middle, was the same exact man that I had seen just
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the night before. What makes this stranger is that
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when I pointed this out, she went and talked to my uncle and
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it turns out that the person I identified was his father.
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And even weirder, his father had died of brain cancer in the very
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same room that they now called their bedroom.
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The same room directly across from the bathroom.
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It's important to note that I didn't know this man.
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I didn't even really know my uncle, to be honest, and
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definitely not his family. And I hadn't seen any family
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photos prior to this of his family.
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As strange as this event was, it would only progress from here.
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My grandmother, who had been living with us in the last days
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of her life, had passed away just a few months before all of
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these strange things started happening.
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The paranormal happenings would greatly intensify after she
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passed. My aunt, uncle, and mom were
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usually gone. Typically they were either at
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work or running errands or both, leaving us kids to ourselves for
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a good chunk of the time. I did also want to mention here
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that if you hear a dog panting, it's storming outside right now.
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And Luna, my half Husky, half Great Pyrenees does not do very
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good with storms. So she's actually right at my
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side and I'm giving her some lovies while I inherit rate to
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you guys. So with us usually being alone
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we would rely on each other, especially in the evenings.
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It was mostly up to me being the oldest to make sure that
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everyone had had dinner, they had showered, and we were all
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ready to go to bed. Showering was unnerving because
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the basement, like the house, was just so creepy.
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The only working shower we had was in the basement laundry room
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and the shower was made of cracked concrete and had an old
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spigot style shower head. Looking up you could see the
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cobwebs and the planks overhead. The kitchen would have been
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directly above where the shower was.
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Her context. My aunt, similar to my mom, was
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also a hoarder. So the basement, aside from a
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small cleared path, was packed with junk and boxes adjacent to
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where the shower was located, or rather the room.
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There was an old cannery in the back of the basement that had
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long since been abandoned, still having piles of old cans stored
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within the walls of the small room in the back of the
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basement. So already being scary to us
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kids on its own, it would become even more terrifying in the
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coming months following my grandma's passing.
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We would often go in pairs with the odd person out staying
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upstairs. One of us would shower and the
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other would stand outside the door to talk to the other.
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To make each other less scared. We also often played an old
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boombox stereo with whatever C DS we had.
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This usually would help keep us calm while we did what we needed
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to do. We would often talk about what
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had happened that day at school and what was going on with our
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lives at the time. One night though, that's burned
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into my memory with my little brother upstairs watching
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something, I kept watch outside the door while my sister
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showered. Keely had only been in the
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shower a few minutes when suddenly the power went out.
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What made it worse was that the stereo that had been playing
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faded into this eerie low octave as it shut down from the lack of
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power. My sister, who was already
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terrified due to the sheer pitch blackness of the room, began to
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freak out, trying to be the older brother and trying to keep
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the peace. As I heard my sister and my
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brother scream, I tried to talk them through the situation.
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I told Kate and my brother to sit still, and I told my sister
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to quickly rinse off the soap that she had lathered with and
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to grab her towel and we could both go back upstairs where I'd
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try to find some candles or something.
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About the time the words left my mouth, there was a loud
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scratching noise that came from the wall that separated the
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laundry room and the basement space where all the boxes were.
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Not knowing what this was, I began to get incredibly scared
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as well because I knew that that wall was concrete, so there
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couldn't have been an animal in there.
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Suddenly, the scratching turned into something else.
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Over the shrill screams of my sister, I heard what I can only
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describe as a horrible snarling noise.
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It was something unearthly, as if the vocal cords of a pig and
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a person had been intertwined while they both screamed.
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It was downright disturbing. With this, I quickly began to
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scream as well. My poor sister, in a panic, had
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ran into me trying to exit, headed towards the stairs out of
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the laundry room and began clinging to me in pure terror.
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In the chaos, she would accidentally scratch my back as
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we both scrambled to get to the stairs.
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In the darkness or the surge of adrenaline, I tossed her in
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front of me and both of us ran upstairs as fast as we possibly
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could. As we got into the living room,
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my little brother was scared and crying as well.
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As we approached him, the power came back on, but the lights
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began to flicker with all three of us still hearing the sounds
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coming from the basement. It sounded as if whatever it was
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was coming up from the basement wall and up into the floor below
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us. It began hitting the floor below
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us, what would have been the basement ceiling.
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With all of us scared out of our minds, I grabbed my siblings and
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took us all out onto the back porch and then into our
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backyard. We would stay back there for I'd
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say probably about two hours or so until my mom got back home.
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And the whole time the lights were flickering inside of the
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house. There was no storm.
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Although the house was old, the wiring was not.
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And although this was traumatic, no doubt this would be far from
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the end of the experiences for all of us.
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Our doorbell began to malfunction, so to speak.
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Growing up in a small town, as kids, a lot of us would do what
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was called Ding Dong ditching. We were bored where you'd
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essentially roam around town, run up and knock on someone's
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door or ring their doorbell and run off and.
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Hide before they answered the door.
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At first we thought this might have been the case with our
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doorbell. It would always happen at night
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and upon opening the door, no one would be there and it's.
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Possible that maybe it happened a time or two, but with how many
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times it began happening pretty much every single night and
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multiple times a night and us never seeing anyone there or in
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the bushes or anything, it became really unnerving.
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My uncle, who worked early in the morning, finally got tired
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of dealing with whatever was going on and decided to
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disconnect the doorbell. And under normal circumstances
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this would have worked to be honest.
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But of course, this wasn't a normal situation.
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Things were silent the first night after he disconnected the
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doorbell. And then something peculiar
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happened. Began to ring again.
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This should have been impossible because it had no power source.
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The wiring was severed. And it wasn't battery powered.
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And even if there was some kind of residual power left in it, it
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would have dissipated in the coming days.
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I'd think it would continue to ring for months and it seemed to
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get later and later because before, let's say when the sun
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would go down, say 8:00 or 9:00 PM, maybe even 10:00 PM, it
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would ring. And as time went on over those
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few months, began to go off a lot later, earlier in the
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morning, however you want to look at it, usually around 3:00
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to 4:00 AM. So I mean, when we're all
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sleeping or trying to sleep, if we could manage to get to sleep,
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then it would essentially disturb that rest.
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And maybe that was part of the motivation of whatever was
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causing it. I highly doubt that it was kids
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around this time. Me as well as my siblings, we,
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we weren't really picked on a whole lot at this school.
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I mean, maybe at first, but we weren't like targeted by
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anybody. And I don't know, it just where
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we lived was kind of out of the way as well.
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Like there wasn't a lot of kids that lived around us.
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So I would be pretty surprised. Like Cedric's not that big of a
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town, but I would be really surprised if if that somehow
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played a factor in it. And that's if you take severing
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the power to it completely out of the equation as well, because
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it was always the doorbell going off.
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It wasn't anyone knocking on the door.
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And yeah, I don't know, overall, the whole thing is just weird.
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And it was certainly worth mentioning my mom, similar to
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how my dad said he felt later following our experiences at the
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Willow Street house, began to change.
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She began to become more disconnected and more angry.
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Less. Recognizable is the best way
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that I could put in. There is a lot to this, and I'm
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certain that not all of it is paranormal by any means.
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But I do think it was similar enough to how our previous
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experiences were to mention any negative behavior in all of us
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or behaviors, but especially in my mom and my aunt, seemed to be
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magnified substantially. We would all fight, we'd have
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outbursts and generally we all contributed, you know, granted
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we were kids, but we all contributed to a negative.
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Atmosphere while we lived there. Which, you know, although we had
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been through a lot, wasn't really like us.
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So for some more context here before I continue to try and
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make things make as much sense as possible.
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So my sister was the only one that had a room next to my aunt
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and uncle, my mom and me and my younger brother Kaden.
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We didn't have our own rooms we've slept on either.
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We took turns basically sleeping in a chair or on a couch or on
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the floor and to try and I guess like carve out my, I mean with
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me being the oldest, I tried to kind of like carve out my own
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space. And I also wanted to try and get
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over my fears. And with that, I began sleeping
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down in the basement There. I just had this like small
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little lamp. There were overhead lights, but
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they, the bulbs were long burned out and I didn't know how to
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change them and no one else was going to do it for me.
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So I had essentially tried to clear, clear out the path a
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little bit more than what was already there.
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And basically I had a, a small TV down there.
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I had some blankets I would make what was called what I would
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call lasagna pallets, where I would just lay a bunch of
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different blankets down on the floor and just try to make it as
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comfortable as I could for myself.
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And eventually also my little brother, like hang out with me
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down there sometimes and sleep down there with me sometimes.
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So with this next story, there's definitely two perspectives,
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right? There's what my brother
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experienced and there's what I experienced.
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I'm going to let my brother tell you what his experiences were
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like and this particular event, and then I'm going to tell my
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perspective. So I've had many spiritual
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experiences, many of which I would say are from God, and many
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of which I would say are literally just from demons.
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And there is one of those experiences, though, from what I
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would consider to be from the demonic, that has stuck with me
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more than any other throughout the years.
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I remember being a kid in our small townhouse and my brother
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and I had to share the unfinished basement, which was
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very creepy. Everyone else had their their
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rooms, but we just sort of made the most of ours.
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I would often wake up in the night being very afraid and
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freaking out because I was afraid of the dark, as a lot of
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kids are. But there was one night where I
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woke up in pitch darkness and this experience was not the
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same. I didn't just feel afraid of the
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dark, I felt afraid of something in particular.
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So I bolted out of the blanket for we'd made, and I peeked my
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little head over the containers that were stacked on top of one
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another, and at the back of the basement I saw something that
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chilled me to the core. My blood just ran cold and I
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froze in fear for what felt like forever but was probably only a
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few seconds. I saw this beastial, almost
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translucent yet glowing thing. But what I remember to this day
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is it's glowing red eyes. And I don't mean glowing as in
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light, I mean glowing with hatred.
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It felt like it looked into my soul and it just hated me.
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It had rage at me, and it instilled in that little kid who
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was me a great, great sense of fear for entities that are
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frankly evil and negative. I remember just bolting upstairs
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and curling up next to my mom like I normally did, but this
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time I was hoping and praying nothing would come and destroy
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me. And I know it wasn't just me,
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because later that night, my brother also had a very
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harrowing experience. So me and my brother, obviously
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we as a family didn't have a lot of money and we were trying to
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entertain ourselves, you know, as best we could.
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And I thought it would be cool to make a blanket Fort down
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where, you know, our makeshift room was.
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So I went ahead and took a bunch of pillows and blankets, all the
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ones that we had at our disposal and built a Fort out of it.
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Well, we decided to essentially snuggle up in the the Fort and
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watch the movie cars, which was kind of like one of our comfort
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movies, I guess at that time. So I what I remember is
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essentially getting into the Ford, you know, getting under
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the blankets, getting comfy. And then we started watching
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cars and I fell asleep. I remember waking up and my
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brother was gone and I was like, oh, you know, maybe he got
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scared or prefer to sleep with my mom or whatever.
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You know, I didn't think of it much of it at first where the
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way that I'd had it designed was I had draped blankets across
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various boxes that kind of led down the path that was like
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towards where the cannery was at and where you could like, kind
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of like crawl in and out of. Basically.
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It's kind of hard to explain without having like a picture,
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but I don't have a picture of it.
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Anyways, Long story short, towards the end of that, what
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would have been the entrance but with me being up by the TVI was
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like all the way into the Fort. I began to hear like a rustling
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sound and I was like huh? So I remember my eyes darting
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kind of towards that general direction.
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And then I watched as essentially each blanket that
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created this like hallway or tunnel, however you want to put
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it. To where I was at began to
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collapse as if something had like hit it from the top or had
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been underneath it and pulled it down and it kept doing it until
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it got to me. And obviously my heart was
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thumping pretty much out of my chest at that point.
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And I remember being thrown backwards and my eyes rolled
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back into my head. And I don't have epilepsy, My
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sister actually does, but I have, I've never had any types
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of seizures or anything like that.
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But I remember being so terrified.
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I was completely aware of what was going on.
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And at that time, I, I was still pretty Catholic, I would say.
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And I remember just crying out to God to help me, to free me
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from whatever this thing was because I was my body, although
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I was present, I was not in control of.
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And it, it scared me so, so bad. And whenever this thing finally
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released its grip on me, I remember running, obviously
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running up and out of the basement and to where my mom
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was. And I was hysterical.
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I didn't really stay down there. I can't even recall ever really
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going back down there after that point, unless it was to shower,
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of course. But like I, I stopped spending
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time down there. It wasn't my little like space
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where I could just feel like it was my own anymore.
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It had essentially been violated.
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Those are definitely the major paranormal things that I'd say I
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experienced at the Sedgwick House.
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Cedric, like a lot of places I visited as an adult, Point
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Pleasant, WV, where the majority of the Mothman activity was said
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to have taken place, is kind of like one of those places where
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it almost feels like you're in a dreamlike state when you're
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there. Cedric felt a lot like that to
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me. And the way that I have come to
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kind of categorize these places is it's a place where the veil
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between our world and the next or however you want to put it,
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seems to be thinner than in other places.
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And I think that there is a lot of different places where this
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is the case. And perhaps this is what leads
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to intensified paranormal. Or.
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Spiritual or even Cryptid activity.
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Just points of high strangeness in general.
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In due time, we would finally get our own place to live.
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That was in 2007. We ended up moving into Section
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8 neighborhood in a neighboring city.
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We were there for not quite two years.
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Thankfully nothing took place there as far as the paranormal
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from what I can recall. There was a lot of other stuff
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that happened, like my mom had an abusive boyfriend that broke
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back into our house after being kicked out and I had to
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essentially fight him off at the age of 11, 11, borderline going
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on 12. And I remember holding a knife
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to him in our kitchen. Obviously, I'm, I'm a big guy.
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I was a big kid and this, this dude couldn't have been any
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bigger from what I remember than like 5-5 or five, six.
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But yeah, just a lot of a lot of crazy stuff.
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My mom then had another boyfriend.
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And this is kind of what ended our time there in the Section 8
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housing was even though my mom paid a prorated rate for rent,
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we ended up eventually getting evicted because this dude
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essentially stole our rent money and stole my camera, which was
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actually the last thing that my grandma Agnes had got me.
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And actually, sorry, this is all super out of pocket and just me
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being raw and just real with you guys.
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It was with that camera that I really started to get interested
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and not only filming, but just like producing content in
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general. I used to be really into like
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claymation and storytelling, even concocting my own movies I
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guess with like video games like Soul Calibur was a was one that
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I would write whole storylines to.
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And Long story short, it was a very important item to me for a
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variety of reasons, but also because it was the last thing my
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grandma got me before she passed away and this dude ended up
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stealing it. He also stole our rent money
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which got us evicted and we ended up being homeless in a van
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for several months during the summer.
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This would have been summer of 2008, so I would have been about
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12 at this time, if not pretty close to 12, like I said, at 11,
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going on 12. And ultimately, my dad would get
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custody of me and I would end up living with him and moving on
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with my life. I'm on good terms.
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I'd say probably Gray terms with my parents now.
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And no one's perfect, you know, let's be honest.
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We make mistakes. You know, no one necessarily
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wants their kids to grow up in a dysfunctional house, let alone
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dysfunctional house or houses that are afflicted with the
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paranormal. And I oftentimes wonder if
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trauma can attract the paranormal, can attract
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darkness. I certainly know that it can be
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exacerbated by the paranormal, but I wonder if it also
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essentially attracts beings that feed on that fear and that
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sadness. I mentioned that my grandma
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passed away in the house. She had been living with us for
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several months. I want to say like four to six
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months. Where we lived.
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There is an old folks home that's like, I mean not even a
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block away. Like you, we used to be able to
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cut through this little field through our backyard and you
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would be at the old folks home. Well my grandma was living there
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for a time and then like her main care person was there and
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she had to get AI think it was a triple or quadruple bypass.
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It was something crazy and she ended up staying with us while
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she recovered. And I'll never forget the day
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actually. So the day was January 25th of
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2005 when she passed away, and I remember this because I was home
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sick with I think I had strep throat at that time.
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Not a fun time. This is also weird and just
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really personal, but the movie Alien versus Predator had come
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out at that time. So I remember that was the
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release date of that movie on DVD.
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I had gone to Walgreens with my mom to pick up my prescription
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to treat my strep throat. You know, I was like, hey, mom,
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you know, can I get this? Yeah, sure.
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So she gets me the DVD. I was starting to watch the
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movie in our living room. You know, just.
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I couldn't really do anything. And a rule.
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A. Rule of us being sick was that
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you know, like we couldn't really play like video games or
27:57
be on the computer or anything like that.
28:00
So I was just trying to make the best of it.
28:02
You know, I and taking my medicine and I was starting to
28:04
watch this movie. Essentially, my grandma started
28:06
going into because she had diabetes as well as other health
28:11
ailments. She started going into diabetic
28:14
shock. So I remember being with my aunt
28:18
and my mom. They asked me to please go try
28:22
and get her care provider over at the old folks home.
28:26
So I ran over there, couldn't find the person there paging her
28:30
so I ran back to tell them what was going on and that basically
28:34
she would be there as soon as she could.
28:36
And I remember my grandma. I'll say I'll save a lot of the,
28:42
the really gritty details, but basically I ended up holding her
28:46
hand while she passed away. Also not really relevant, I
28:51
guess to to the stories themselves, but more more so
28:54
relevant to my life. I had also seen her husband, my
28:58
mom's dad, pass away in 2002. Yeah, I held her hand while she
29:03
passed away. And I really think that that
29:06
fundamentally changes someone when they actually watch someone
29:10
like in their eyes die. I with that being said, that
29:14
really made me question a lot. That really made me question God
29:18
and why I would be put in a position where that where I'd
29:23
have to witness that a lot of things.
29:25
I was really angry about it for a long, long time and I had a
29:29
lot of dreams about her. And it definitely even now is
29:34
still some major trauma that I think I've mostly processed, but
29:40
with not only dealing with all of the dysfunction and filth.
29:46
And then you stack the paranormal on top of that, as
29:50
well as the trauma not only of my parents getting divorced, but
29:54
also literally watching my my grandma die.
29:58
I mean, from the time she passed just to kind of again for
30:02
context, when we knew for sure she was passed or she had passed
30:07
rather. I mean, I was there even when
30:10
they came and like loaded her up like in a body bag.
30:14
Like it, it was really messed up for sure.
30:19
When you couple all those things together, I think that it really
30:25
made me not only question everything, but question why
30:29
these things happen and just what is the paranormal, why
30:34
these things exist. I wanted to know more about
30:37
whatever these things were. And in a sense, I don't know if
30:43
I noticed it at the time as a kid, but throughout high school
30:48
and then as I became an adult, I had always maintained an
30:52
interest in the paranormal. And I believe that it became
30:56
kind of a calling for me. Another thing to mention too,
30:59
since I'm just offloading everything here, I had grown up
31:03
my mom's dad, actually, Paul, he had introduced me to like
31:09
Unsolved Mysteries and The X-Files and he actually had
31:15
worked at Area 51 as an aerospace engineer in the Air
31:20
Force. Long story short, there's we've
31:24
got family stories from that too.
31:26
It's it's a whole thing, but I always gravitated more towards
31:32
like the mysterious and the supernatural type entertainment.
31:37
And I don't know, I just one thing led to another.
31:41
You know, I had a couple experiences in the house that I
31:45
moved into with my dad, which he actually ended up moving out.
31:50
And as an adult I lived there for, I want to say another
31:54
couple years, like two years or so after he moved out, two or
31:57
three years and I can get into those as well.
32:01
But I figured I would try and explain kind of what it
32:05
inspired. Mystery archives, so to speak.
32:08
So I remember it being 2016 and I was kind of still trying to
32:14
find myself. I've been involved in music and
32:18
things like that. And when those things don't work
32:21
out, you kind of try to find something to do on your own.
32:25
You know, I want to say into 2017, this was kind of back when
32:29
YouTube was still, they still allowed like a lot of like
32:32
conspiratorial and that type of content on the platform.
32:37
And I remember kind of stumbling across that And I was like, you
32:40
know, I've, it's not that I necessarily believe a bunch of
32:44
conspiracies per SE, but I was like, you know, I could really
32:47
see myself getting into something like this and just
32:50
kind of like getting into like mysteries, you know, because I
32:54
really enjoyed learning about different topics and deep diving
32:57
and and all of that. I didn't really know how to edit
33:01
a whole a lot. Like, I taught myself how to use
33:03
Sony Vegas, and that's all I had at the time.
33:05
This is long before I discovered Adobe Premiere and you know
33:08
where I'm at today. And I made, you know, I made the
33:12
account mystery archives. The name just kind of came to
33:16
me. I remember I was like, you know,
33:18
trying to come up with a name that hadn't been taken.
33:21
And at that time it hadn't been taken.
33:24
So I was like, OK, yeah, no, that sounds pretty cool.
33:27
Ended up making it. And then I made, I didn't have a
33:32
microphone or anything at that time.
33:35
My computer could barely handle me editing anything.
33:39
And I didn't have any money really to speak of.
33:43
And I ended up making one of those text overlay conspiracy
33:47
videos that's private and that'll never see the light of
33:50
day. But after that, I didn't really
33:55
do anything with it. I think I might have, yeah.
33:59
Now that I think about it. And it's also privated.
34:03
I recorded a really intense thunderstorm from my upstairs
34:08
where my computer was at the time and was like, you know,
34:12
I've always loved nature and sound escapes and those types of
34:16
things, which actually goes back to my mom when I was quite a bit
34:20
younger. She would play those and they
34:22
would just relax me and I'd go to sleep.
34:25
I had the had recorded that. But other than those two things,
34:28
I don't think I really took it seriously or really developed a,
34:33
a concept of what I wanted to do with it realistically.
34:37
Fast forward to 2020 and I got first furloughed from my job,
34:45
which I was at that time, I was in paint prep for aircraft.
34:50
So like surfacing, sanding, priming, that type of stuff,
34:55
getting it ready for the final coats of paint here in Wichita.
35:00
And I got furloughed and then laid off, obviously with
35:05
everything that happened, you know, what the pandemic and what
35:08
have you. And I remember I was sitting at
35:10
home and I was so used to just working constantly.
35:15
I mean, like 40 to 60 hour weeks all the time.
35:19
I mean, I tried to basically work as hard as I could to try
35:22
and get ahead for me and Meg, you know, I just wanted to forge
35:27
my own way and be as successful as I, I could be, at least in
35:31
that field. So I remember sitting here
35:35
actually in the same general area I'm sitting right now,
35:38
totally different computer and all of that and being like, you
35:43
know, I have this YouTube account and I've never really
35:48
like done anything with it. And I've always really been into
35:51
these types of shows. I've always loved shows like a
35:54
Haunting and Unsolved Mysteries and all of that.
35:57
I was like, what if I tried to do something like that, but just
36:03
in my own way. I'd always been fascinated by a
36:07
particular story which is Stole Kansas, which was my first
36:11
video, which I think I'm going to revisit in a later video and
36:16
just give it an updated version I guess, so to speak.
36:21
But that was it. That was my first video editing
36:25
wise. I didn't really know what I was
36:27
doing, but I was like, what is the software all the main
36:30
Youtubers are using? And it was Adobe Premiere and I
36:35
just tried to adapt and learn as fast as I could on the fly.
36:40
I had my cousin draw the church that used to exist there and use
36:46
that as the thumbnail as well as in the video.
36:50
And really from there it was kind of, it was kind of off to
36:52
the races. I think it was either a little
36:55
later in 2020 or 2021, I can't remember exactly.
36:58
But I got my job back. I think it was like 3 or 4 four
37:02
months after I'd gotten laid off, I got my job back and went
37:07
back to paint prep. Ended up busting my butt there
37:11
and becoming what's known as a painter one, which is where you
37:14
paint the final coats of paint as well as the stripes on
37:17
aircraft. A whole different process use
37:21
like instead of like a pot gun or a gravity fed paint gun, you
37:25
use an Electro. Still use a gravity feed gun,
37:28
but to paint the coats of paint you would use an electrostatic
37:30
gun. But none of that has anything to
37:33
do with the paranormal or anything like that.
37:36
But basically, I began to work my butt off with with that, what
37:41
with what was my career at the time, and kept doing mystery
37:46
archives and really always hoped that something would take off
37:53
eventually. Not too long after I became a
37:55
painter. I don't know if I want to
37:57
mention it because I don't know what YouTube's terms are or if
38:02
they're still censoring those kinds of things.
38:05
But basically, I got really sick with, you know, what was causing
38:10
the pandemic, and I could have died, to be honest.
38:15
I was in that rare bracket of people where I was really,
38:19
really, really sick. Long story short, I ended up
38:25
getting an infusion and getting over being sick.
38:29
My grandfather, who had always taken amazing care of himself,
38:33
my dad's dad, he ended up passing away from the same
38:37
thing. Like we hadn't seen each other
38:40
or anything in quite some time. So had, you know, basically one
38:43
of us didn't give it to the other.
38:45
It just was around at that time. And that was a whole family
38:51
shake up and a whole entire series of life changes that I
38:58
just didn't see coming. And I dealt with all of that.
39:03
I remember I had almost given up several times on making content
39:07
because it just wasn't really going anywhere.
39:10
I didn't really seem to have an audience really, or I wasn't
39:15
really able to cultivate an audience.
39:18
And I knew that eventually, if I got good enough, that if YouTube
39:22
just saw fit to serve my content to people, that eventually, you
39:26
know, I would go somewhere. And I worked another, I want to
39:32
say, let's see 21, another two years or so.
39:36
And one day my video on Helltown, Ohio popped off and
39:43
then it went viral. And, you know, obviously I'm
39:47
like, wow, you know, maybe, you know, this could be it.
39:50
I didn't want to, you know, count my blessings or put all my
39:53
eggs in one basket, so to speak. So I allowed I basically it kept
39:59
making content and it kept doing really, really well.
40:01
At that time, the algorithm was shining upon us.
40:04
I guess not not as much these days, but you know, coming out
40:09
of nothing to exponential growth is it was life changing for
40:14
sure. I eventually got to the point to
40:16
where I was like, you know, I think I'm going to take the leap
40:20
of faith and. For all the right tax reasons, I
40:25
founded my media company, which is Cracking Media LLC to handle
40:30
all the tax stuff of the insurance and outs of the
40:33
Youtubes. And I left that job that I'd
40:36
worked so, so hard to, to get to where I was at.
40:40
And obviously I left on the best terms possible, but it's allowed
40:45
me to live the life that I've essentially always dreamed of.
40:50
You know, it's just, I'm so thankful to be able to do this
40:54
for a living. And it's allowed me to be able
40:58
to go and explore places and have experiences that I probably
41:04
wouldn't have been able to have otherwise.
41:08
And especially with views being low and all of that, I am really
41:12
scared of losing that. That's why I try, I guess, to
41:15
market as much as I I do, and I encourage people obviously to,
41:21
to watch and to share and all of that, because I mean, at the end
41:25
of the day, it's a gamble. You know, like I've worked
41:27
really hard, I've earned what I have, but you know, it's a huge
41:32
gamble to, you know, make content full time.
41:35
So if you do appreciate what I do, you know, definitely just
41:39
keep keep coming back. That's all I can really say.
41:43
Obviously everyone who supports me via Patreon or YouTube
41:46
members, you know, I really appreciate that as well.
41:49
At the end of the day, it's, it's really just about people
41:53
wanting to support me and my work.
41:55
With that being said, that's kind of the back story, I guess,
41:59
so to speak, of how Mystery Archives came to be.
42:03
And it was going to be me and my cousin because we've always just
42:07
worked really, really well creatively together.
42:10
But you know, in the end it just ended up being being me.
42:14
He just got busy with life, you know, he got married, he had a
42:17
kid and he's doing great. And I love him to death.
42:20
I still definitely want to do something together with him.
42:23
Same with my brother, you know, now it's just a pretty much a
42:27
one man project in a sense. It is a reflection of me and
42:32
just kind of my vision of what I initially wanted to build.
42:36
I just didn't know how to build it all those years ago.
42:39
But now we're here and I don't know, man.
42:43
I'm just, I'm thankful to be in this position and I'm thankful
42:46
to have such an incredible community.
42:49
And I'm beyond thankful to have people who even care to sit and
42:54
listen to me ramble and tell my stories and just be interested
42:59
in anything that I do, let alone, you know, pay my bills
43:03
because of it. It's, it's incredible.
43:06
I don't think I want to make a Part 3 to my paranormal
43:10
experiences. I think I had mentioned it in in
43:13
the live a few times and some of the lives I've done a few times
43:17
where we had some really crazy experiences at an Airbnb in
43:22
Kentucky beginning of this year. And I am still planning on doing
43:27
a full board video with that with everyone who was involved.
43:31
It's just kind of been on the back burner for a little bit.
43:34
But before before we go, I would like to mention essentially the
43:40
additional experiences that I had following moving into what
43:45
we call the Millwood House. It was a house on Millwood St.
43:47
here in Wichita, KS. Things with my dad when we lived
43:51
there. My, my dad, I will say, in
43:54
general had a lot of anger issues.
43:57
I think he's doing a lot better now.
44:00
But those didn't necessarily just go away.
44:03
You know, life obviously got better.
44:06
I got my own room. I met a girl that I fell in love
44:09
with at that time, You know, I was in high school.
44:12
Lots of changes were happening at that time.
44:15
But to get into the paranormal experiences, because there's
44:19
really just a couple, thankfully, and they weren't
44:22
nearly as catastrophic or terrifying, I guess, as some of
44:26
the other ones that I've lived through have been.
44:29
So I want to say in 2000, mid 2009 or so, we had a really bad
44:37
thunderstorm. A bunch of people got hail
44:40
damage not only on their cars, but like their houses.
44:44
Our house was a little over 100 years old, had been remodeled,
44:48
but the roof was was older and we got significant hail damage
44:54
on our roof and had to have our roof replaced.
44:57
So I want to say for like, I want to say like a week or two,
45:02
you know, bunch of my room was upstairs so I could hear
45:05
everything, of course, but a bunch of construction work was
45:08
going on, you know, them repairing and replacing the
45:11
roof. And once that was done, I
45:14
remember actually it was the night that they finished, I was
45:19
asleep on my bed. I remember having basically a
45:22
night terror, which is really, really rare for me.
45:26
And by night terror, I, or maybe that's not the correct
45:29
terminology, I'm not so sure. But basically where I woke up
45:35
and I couldn't move and I couldn't breathe.
45:38
And it obviously that's terrifying enough and enough
45:41
itself. But then I heard what sounded
45:44
like. God.
45:46
It had to have been like a chorus of people whispering in
45:50
my ears, both sides, like coming from nowhere and yet everywhere.
45:56
And you know, I was a bit older at this point.
45:58
I was, you know, 15 going on 16. And I remember it scared me so
46:04
bad that I didn't, I wouldn't sleep in my room for the next
46:08
like I'll be like 2 weeks pretty much until I got sick of
46:12
sleeping on the couch. And I finally kind of like
46:15
convinced myself to go back up there.
46:18
So that that was one of them. As an adult, the girl that I
46:24
dated at that time that I had been dating since high school
46:27
and then into early adulthood, I believe she developed
46:31
schizophrenia. It ran in her family, but she
46:36
began to develop into a person that I couldn't recognize.
46:41
It wasn't the person that I had been in love with.
46:43
I mean, I remember looking into her eyes and I, I wasn't able to
46:46
recognize her anymore. It got that bad.
46:49
Whether that was related to anything that could have been in
46:52
the house or not, I'm not totally sure.
46:55
But the what I would consider the genuine paranormal
46:58
experiences that followed us breaking up and her moving out,
47:03
you know, I was all of a sudden by myself in this big house.
47:07
And with that, I do think there comes a little bit of a level of
47:12
anxiety. And I have anxiety problems
47:15
ANYWAYS, so I will admit that. But I would hear essentially
47:22
what sounded like someone breaking in, you know, a lot of
47:27
nights. And it started to freak me out
47:31
to the points where, and I didn't have AI, didn't have a
47:33
gun at the time. All I had was this, I call it a
47:37
Rambo knife. It's just like a big military
47:39
knife to where I was sleeping upstairs and sleeping with that
47:44
knife in case, you know, if someone really was breaking in,
47:47
they would have to deal with me when they got upstairs if they
47:51
chose to come upstairs. There was one night where it was
47:54
storming really, really hard. And I remember kind of having
47:59
that feeling and that it was freaking me out.
48:02
You know, the power went out for a short while.
48:06
And I remember going downstairs and, you know, like, knife in
48:11
hand, anxieties through the roof.
48:14
I'd heard like, banging. I'd heard what sounded like
48:16
someone was like pulling on the door.
48:19
This time the back door was pulled all the way open.
48:24
Like it was completely flung open.
48:26
There's lightning lighting up the backyard.
48:28
It's it's pouring rain and I remember, I mean a, being
48:34
freaked out, but B, trying to find whoever had caused that.
48:40
And there was nothing, There was no footsteps in the mud.
48:45
Obviously there wasn't anyone there.
48:47
There was no evidence that there was anyone there.
48:49
And I had dead. I always deadbolt at that door
48:53
because there was, it was a shotgun style house, the front
48:56
door and the back door that those are the only interests
49:00
entrances aside from, you know, obviously the the windows and
49:04
that type of thing. That was strange.
49:07
Whether it was truly paranormal or not, I'm not sure, but it
49:10
definitely was worth mentioning. And then there was one other
49:14
time where it was just me. And at this point I had kind of
49:20
gotten a little more comfortable with living by myself.
49:24
My room, I had moved it downstairs and kind of like in
49:30
the master bedroom that was if you'd walked in the front door
49:34
would have been on the right hand side of the house.
49:37
But I remember feeling some dark feelings in that room as well.
49:40
Just in the house in general. And one night when I was
49:44
sleeping I remember being woken up to what felt like something
49:48
biting my neck. I still to this day I don't
49:52
fully know if it was like 1/2 dream state.
49:55
Or what have you. Because it was just me and my
49:58
cat care that lived there at the time.
50:01
But I remember this was like midwinter and I remember kind of
50:08
waking up or being in that dream state and going outside of my
50:14
front door and just standing there and then eventually making
50:19
my way back inside. Which if that was a dream, that
50:22
would have been extremely strange.
50:25
You know, obviously I can't prove that it did or didn't
50:28
happen. But upon waking up to feeling
50:33
like I was being bit in the neck, I remember feeling around
50:37
my neck. And in there, there to the right
50:40
of the bed, there was a big closet that had mirror doors.
50:44
So I remember looking into the mirror doors and there was just
50:48
enough light coming from the Internet box to where you could
50:51
kind of make things out. And I remember seeing this like
50:54
little, I don't even know how to describe it.
50:57
It was like a, it was like a little like gargoyle creature
51:01
that was on my neck. And I remember pulling it off of
51:04
my neck and then all of a sudden it wasn't there that I was like,
51:08
I didn't even know. Like I thought I, I had to have
51:10
been dreaming or something. And I very well could have been
51:15
to tell you the truth, but those are the only parent what I would
51:20
consider paranormal esque things that happened living in the
51:23
Millwood house aside from some hypnagogic hallucinations with
51:29
Megan after she moved in quite some time later.
51:35
So with that being said, I have had other experiences as an
51:39
adult, some pretty recent ones actually, like this year and
51:43
even last year. I'll I'll cover those in due
51:47
time. I hope all around you guys have
51:50
enjoyed my storytelling and just my rambling and just kind of how
51:55
Mystery Archives came to be, as well as getting into my
51:58
experiences. It's been really therapeutic and
52:02
really cathartic, as I previously said in the last
52:05
video, to be able to kind of talk about this stuff and come
52:11
to terms with it as an adult. And that's everything from the
52:16
dysfunction to, you know, the spiritual aspects to explaining
52:22
kind of how I started Mystery Archives and all of the above.
52:27
And again, I just want to thank you guys for being interested
52:30
and being willing to listen. The fact that I even have anyone
52:34
supporting me at all, this is truly mind blowing.
52:38
So I do think that's enough of me rambling.
52:40
I've probably repeated myself several times, but I love you
52:44
guys. I appreciate you guys and if
52:47
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53:00
letting me know what your thoughts are down below.
53:03
And other than that, guys, I've got a bunch of new content
53:07
planned. I am working on starting a new
53:10
podcast, which I will announce soon.
53:13
That'll just coincide with the content that I already make here
53:16
on the channel. And yeah, again, just thank you
53:19
guys so much for everything and I'll see you soon.
53:24
It's been coded here at Ministry Archives.
53:26
Definitely stay safe out there and take care.
53:29
I'll see you next time.