Episode 130: The Moving Picture

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[00:00:17] Just trust. Believe. This happened when I was in Delhi, India.

[00:01:01] I'm an Indian girl, and I was 14 years old at the time. I came to Delhi with my parents because my

[00:01:08] father had some work stuff going on there. We happened to stay in a hotel which was really

[00:01:14] beautiful, with white marble covering the whole building. I can't remember too many details,

[00:01:20] but it was beautiful. We went to the reception and asked for a room. The receptionist said

[00:01:27] that there was a room available on the second floor, and the room's number was 66.

[00:01:33] Just when we were about to leave, the receptionist called out to us and said,

[00:01:38] there's a room beside yours, and it's vacant, but do not look through the keyhole of that particular

[00:01:44] room. My father and mother nodded and continued to walk, but found what the receptionist said

[00:01:52] to be very strange. I looked at the receptionist, and he noticed me, and shook his head then mouthed

[00:01:59] the word don't. A rush of curiosity ran through my body. Also a bit of fear. I wanted to look

[00:02:09] through the keyhole, but I was so scared at the time. I talked to my parents about it,

[00:02:15] and they just looked at me with a bored expression and said that I was getting afraid and worked up

[00:02:20] over nothing. They told me that the receptionist probably just said that for security purposes.

[00:02:27] Two days passed, and nothing happened at all. My father went out for work while my mom and I

[00:02:34] stayed at the hotel and went for a very long walk every evening. The third day, it wasn't the same.

[00:02:42] My mother got a call from my friend's mom who said that she won't be able to meet up and walk

[00:02:48] with us. I decided to go alone, and I felt that I was aware enough of the surroundings of the hotel

[00:02:55] by this point. I went outside and passed the door of the vacant room. I don't know what came into my

[00:03:02] mind, but there I was looking through the keyhole of the room beside us. The keyhole belonging to

[00:03:09] this room was very big when compared to the other doors, which was odd. I saw a woman sitting on the

[00:03:18] bed. She was sitting in a way that her back was facing me. It sent chills down my spine. I don't

[00:03:26] know why. I figured, I guess it's normal for someone to be sitting on a bed like that, so I brushed my

[00:03:33] fearful thoughts away and started walking towards the hotel's walking path, or whatever you want to

[00:03:39] call it. I came back after walking for around 15 minutes, and I looked through the keyhole again,

[00:03:46] but this time it was different. It was all red. A solid crimson-red color was all that I could see.

[00:03:56] I was confused and angry at the same time. I was angry because I thought that the receptionist had

[00:04:03] totally lied. I thought he just wanted to scare me. The next day, I woke up and went to the reception

[00:04:10] and saw that same man at the desk from when we checked in. I marched towards him and said,

[00:04:16] nearly shouting, look, I don't know what your intentions were or why you said looking through

[00:04:22] the keyhole of the room next to 66 will cause us problems, but scaring people is not a good thing.

[00:04:29] He seemed shocked by my words. He sighed and asked, did you look through the keyhole?

[00:04:36] I replied with a simple yes, and then he replied, did you see her twice? Did you see her red eyes?

[00:04:46] Suddenly the workers were present at the receptionist area, and they began to stare

[00:04:51] at us. It was as if what he was saying made sense to everybody. I mean, we were being pretty loud,

[00:04:57] but they seemed to know exactly what we were talking about. The receptionist then said,

[00:05:03] the woman that you've seen died a long time ago. I was frozen. I wanted to scream, but

[00:05:12] words weren't coming out of my mouth. It was then that I realized that the color I saw the second

[00:05:17] time was nothing but the color of her eyes. The ghost or creature or whatever the heck it was,

[00:05:25] was staring directly into my eyes.

[00:05:53] Some of my experiences

[00:05:55] By the Sammy Knight

[00:05:58] I want to take you back to 2009. Our family had been looking for a new house for a while now,

[00:06:06] and near a busy highway stood this beautiful house. Two stories, a big front and backyard,

[00:06:14] three spacious bedrooms, and so on. Some strange stuff did occur relatively early on,

[00:06:21] like computers booting up out of nowhere or water starting to run by itself.

[00:06:28] The real horror began when my oldest sister decided to make a Ouija board.

[00:06:33] She essentially just drew one on a piece of paper and used a glass to communicate.

[00:06:39] My younger sister got scared when she found out what was happening,

[00:06:44] and she kicked the Ouija paper away. Well, soon after, everything got a lot worse.

[00:06:52] My sister shared the biggest bedroom. At the end of their room was a very small closet

[00:06:58] where they placed boxes and such. The door was always closed, but it refused to stay shut after

[00:07:06] that. No matter what, it kept opening. My dad eventually grew annoyed and put something in

[00:07:14] between the door and the wall so it would stay closed. One night I heard the chairs downstairs

[00:07:21] sliding across the floor, and I'm positive that everyone was in bed. Later that night,

[00:07:29] I heard this awful sound, as if something was inside the walls and flooring,

[00:07:36] just tearing it all apart. It was so loud, I remember hiding underneath my blankets because

[00:07:43] I was so scared. Another time we were all in the living room, and my mom had some figurines on the

[00:07:51] table. We were watching TV with the dog on the couch when suddenly one of the figures went flying

[00:07:59] across the room, as if someone threw it. My mom jokingly said, hey, hey, no need to get aggressive.

[00:08:09] She and my dad always believed in the paranormal.

[00:08:13] One morning, my sister hysterically ran to my parents' room.

[00:08:18] She swore that the eating utensils started moving by themselves.

[00:08:23] Our dog started becoming more wary and aggressive, not towards us but directed to our furniture in

[00:08:31] the doors, and especially the basement. One night I heard my parents screaming,

[00:08:38] and I ran to check on them. By the time I got there, they were sitting there in shock,

[00:08:45] and I asked them what was wrong. They claimed a black figure was standing in the corner of their

[00:08:51] room. Things kept happening. We heard piano and violin sounds in the attic, even though we didn't

[00:09:00] own any instruments. My parents at one point saw a black shadow move across the wall towards the

[00:09:08] window and disappear. My posters were ripped off the wall on multiple occasions. My sister would

[00:09:16] find the plushies in her room lying in a circle, which at one point caused my mom to call my dad

[00:09:23] in hysterics. My dad recently told me that he once woke up with my mom's hand around his neck,

[00:09:31] as she stared at him with a smile, laughing silently. My mom said she often saw that dark

[00:09:39] figure, a black humanoid with a veil. She often had scratches and bite marks.

[00:09:47] In the winter of 2010, the boiler in the house broke and we simply moved.

[00:09:54] Everything kept going wrong. When we moved I started experiencing what I can only describe as

[00:10:01] attacks. I would often notice scratches on my body, which I at first brushed off as scratching

[00:10:09] myself in my sleep. One time I came home and hugged my mom and made a hissing sound from the

[00:10:16] pain I felt. I lifted my jacket and clear as day there were three scratch marks on my hips.

[00:10:25] I remember at one point I put some coins on my bed, though I don't remember why. I started

[00:10:32] walking out to the living room and as soon as I turned around, I heard a clang. One of the

[00:10:38] coins somehow got thrown at me. I will stop here as I don't want this to get too long.

[00:10:46] Stuff still happens at times, but unfortunately in 2012 my sister passed away. When she died

[00:10:54] everything calmed down a bit. Maybe she's protecting us. I hope so.

[00:11:27] The Footsteps by Ella

[00:11:30] When this story took place, my family and I had lived in our current house for almost three years.

[00:11:37] I had never seen or heard anything strange until this. My stepdad and I had to go drop

[00:11:45] off my 8 month old sibling at daycare while my mom was at work. Since it was so early I decided

[00:11:52] to stay home even though I was awake. At the time, my walk-in closet was a disaster, so I decided

[00:12:00] to clean it. I have anxiety and when this event occurred, it skyrocketed. While cleaning,

[00:12:08] I heard the floor creaking as if it were underweight. I just sighed assuming it was my

[00:12:14] stepdad, but he wasn't home. I continued hearing these noises for about 5 minutes until another

[00:12:23] noise joined in with the creaking footsteps. A banging. It sounded like it was on the other side

[00:12:30] of my closet. There's a guest room there with a closet that shares the wall. After a few minutes,

[00:12:38] sound of footsteps in the hall was still audible as well as this knocking or banging.

[00:12:44] Ironically, I was listening to the Let's Not Meet podcast at the time.

[00:12:49] At this point, I was terrified that somebody was in my house, but then again, it could have been

[00:12:55] my bad anxiety blowing things out of proportion. I even thought that it could have been the pipes

[00:13:01] and I managed to convince myself that was the case. Until I really had to take a leak,

[00:13:08] badly. I took a deep breath and prayed to renew my confidence, but I tried to go back to cleaning

[00:13:16] and my anxiety took over. I decided that it would be better to just sit on my bed and draw,

[00:13:23] keeping myself occupied. I still needed to go to the bathroom though. So I did. I didn't even

[00:13:30] bother to flush. I just ran to my room. I sat on my bed for about 10 more minutes, but it only

[00:13:37] felt like five since I really enjoyed my art. My fear dissipated until the door swung open.

[00:13:45] It didn't swing open in an, oh no, a draft kind of way. No, it was like somebody had kicked the

[00:13:51] door open. For some strange reason, laughter filled the air and the temperature dropped

[00:13:59] drastically. I was now close to tears. Suddenly my floor began to shake. My room was above the

[00:14:08] garage, so I felt the shaking from the door opening. My stepdad had returned home. I was

[00:14:15] overjoyed. The room went back to normal and the laughter stopped.

[00:14:23] Unexplained Encounter When I Was a Teen By BestYesterday3000

[00:14:45] I've only told a few people about this incident. I'm not looking for an explanation, nor can I

[00:14:52] offer any proof. I just want to share what my friend and I experienced in the autumn of 1987.

[00:15:00] I grew up in one of the northernmost states in New England, about two hours away from the

[00:15:05] White Mountains and 45 minutes from our state's meager coastline, in a small working-class city.

[00:15:14] I think it was early October. Leaves were starting to change, local fairs were underway,

[00:15:21] and it was cool enough to rock my high school varsity jacket. I worked full time and was saving

[00:15:28] up for my first car, a 76 two-door Chevy Nova. The stooned with a pink Floyd tapestry had covered

[00:15:36] the huge tear in the back seat. My friend Joe and I worked in the same restaurant,

[00:15:43] and an older cook would buy us hard-earned libations and give us a ride home. But actually,

[00:15:49] he would drop us off at a cemetery that was the midway point between our two houses,

[00:15:55] and a great place for underage drinking. We were dropped off there with a four-pack of some

[00:16:01] wine coolers to split between us. It's an old, large cemetery, with rolling hills, moss-covered

[00:16:09] headstones, and large maple trees. I grew up playing hide-and-seek and having BB gun wars there.

[00:16:16] I even taught my army buddy how to drive stick in that cemetery.

[00:16:20] It was never a scary or haunted place to me, even after the weirdest experience of my young life

[00:16:28] took place there. There was a gazebo where we would sit and drink alcohol.

[00:16:34] It was open air with half-walls and benches to sit on while we chatted and drank. All we had

[00:16:41] between us was that one four-pack, so we weren't drunk or under the influence of anything else.

[00:16:47] We began hearing footsteps coming in our direction. They sounded like someone walking on leaves.

[00:16:55] It later occurred to me that that was the first odd thing to happen,

[00:17:00] as the leaves were still on the trees and the cemetery was well-maintained.

[00:17:06] Cops, Joe hissed. Nah, probably kids, I said. The footsteps became closer.

[00:17:14] We crouched below the half-wall, facing each other, the smiles on our faces growing more and more nervous

[00:17:25] until they disappeared altogether. The footsteps came at a measured pace.

[00:17:32] No other sound accompanied them, no jingling of keys, no fabric brushing against each other,

[00:17:39] and there was no beam of a flashlight flitting about.

[00:17:44] The footsteps kept coming. I could see my mounting fear echoed in Joe's face.

[00:17:52] Before we crouched down, we tried to see who was walking towards us and couldn't,

[00:17:58] but that was to be expected. It was a moonless night with little ambient light available.

[00:18:04] With our eyes wide and mouths agape, the footsteps came all the way up to the other side of that

[00:18:11] half-wall and stopped. Joe visibly sagged and I began to shake, as neither one of us had the

[00:18:20] courage to look up at what had to be surely peering down on us. The footsteps began to recede

[00:18:30] and we popped up to immediately see who it was. It was nobody, literally nobody.

[00:18:39] We could see where the footsteps were coming from, but there wasn't anybody making them.

[00:18:45] It was dark, but it wasn't pitch black. We would have seen something.

[00:18:51] Ducking behind tombstones, we followed the steps a little ways downhill until they stopped.

[00:18:57] We took that as our cue to leave and we sprinted home.

[00:19:02] The next day at school, we just said that it was weird and that was that. We didn't tell anyone

[00:19:09] and went on with our lives. We weren't drunk or stoned, diagnosed with any mental conditions,

[00:19:16] or even exposed to carbon monoxide. I have no explanation.

[00:19:21] The 80s were a magical time and some days contained a little more magic than others.

[00:19:28] The Moving Picture by Mariana

[00:19:51] My name is Mariana. I was born in a small city in Brazil. When I was a child, I used to have these

[00:19:58] strange feelings. I was forced to go to church and sing in the choir. Once, in May, I even had

[00:20:07] to dress as an angel as it was the month for Mary, the mother of Jesus. I grew up very superstitious,

[00:20:15] believing in anything and everything, even horoscopes. When I was around 9 or 10 years old,

[00:20:22] I had something happen to me that really made an impact in my life.

[00:20:27] I was sick with a very bad cold, and I would feel hot and then cold. I was feeling cold and

[00:20:34] I remember going outside since it was a hot day. I thought that the sun would warm me up and make

[00:20:39] me feel better. At the time, I was reading a copy of a book written by a very famous Brazilian medium

[00:20:47] named Chico Xavier. He published a lot of books, so I can't remember exactly which book I was

[00:20:54] reading at the time. In the book, he described an encounter with a dark entity that appeared to him

[00:21:00] on a night when he was very tired and had to go to bed and wake up early the next day.

[00:21:06] The dark entity asked him, Chico, did you call me? Reading this made my stomach drop.

[00:21:13] I wanted to stop reading but I just couldn't. Chico had a guarding entity that told him not to say yes,

[00:21:21] but Chico replied, yes, I called you. This bad entity said something along the lines of,

[00:21:29] oh well, I can't mess with you, Chico, and it disappeared. I remembered getting up from where

[00:21:36] I was sitting, entering the garage and passing the kitchen. In the small corridor, the first

[00:21:43] bedroom on the right, it was my mother's. She had a picture of herself as a child on top of

[00:21:49] the wardrobe. I looked in the bedroom and the girl in the picture moved her mouth and eyes

[00:21:57] as if they were saying something to me. I looked at it in disbelief and I was then thrown back

[00:22:04] against the wall. I screamed for my mother, she came in and I told her what happened.

[00:22:10] I know it scared her because from that day forward, she made sure to keep that picture out

[00:22:15] of sight. Now I know I can't exactly prove that any of this is true but I know what I felt and I know

[00:22:23] what I saw. Grandpa, I see Grandma by New Noise 8141

[00:22:51] I've been mulling over this the past couple weeks. I was just talking to my late wife,

[00:22:57] wondering if I should share her story or stay silent when I saw a tiny shooting star.

[00:23:04] I haven't seen one of those in years. Yes, ma'am. Here we go.

[00:23:11] I'm 50 and I'm raising my granddaughter alone. I do have a couple of adult children living here

[00:23:19] but they're busy with their own lives. I was having a moment of PTSD one late evening

[00:23:26] and decided to step out and avoid everyone altogether. Get away, figure it out, rejoin

[00:23:33] the world. I was sitting in the outdoor love chair my late wife and I often shared.

[00:23:41] I was alone for maybe 15 minutes when my granddaughter came out to talk to me.

[00:23:47] She addressed me and I asked her what she needed. I saw Grandma, she told me.

[00:23:54] My mind didn't jump to anything paranormal. I just quickly replied, where, sweetie?

[00:24:02] She told me she looked out the window and saw Grandma leaning over my back, hugging me.

[00:24:09] I almost broke into tears but my logical mind kicked in. My granddaughter is older now,

[00:24:18] she's also very intelligent. She's probably just telling me something my mind wants to hear

[00:24:25] and she knows it. But I said I don't doubt what she saw.

[00:24:30] I explained that I was just sad and needed a few minutes alone, then went inside with her.

[00:24:37] A couple of days later, my daughter who was temporarily housing here

[00:24:43] mentioned that she woke up and saw her infant swing bassinet rocking gently from side to side.

[00:24:50] Even she said she thought Mom was there.

[00:24:55] My daughter and granddaughter's rooms are directly across from each other.

[00:24:59] When both doors are open, you can easily see into one room from the other.

[00:25:05] That morning my granddaughter told my daughter that when she woke up,

[00:25:09] she saw Grandma standing over the swing bassinet, rocking the baby and smiling.

[00:25:17] When she blinked, Grandma was gone.

[00:25:22] Fast forward two weeks and I have a virtual appointment with her teachers and child

[00:25:26] psychologist about her learning progress. Near the end of the meeting, the psychologist

[00:25:33] mentioned my granddaughter often talks about how she keeps seeing her Grandma.

[00:26:03] Blue-Eyed Me by Kenny

[00:26:07] My friend and I recently rented an Airbnb in Ocean Shores, Washington. We visited to meet up with

[00:26:14] friends and family. We stayed in a small beach shack, one bedroom up in a loft, and then a

[00:26:21] kitchenette couch and TV with a small dining table downstairs. There were small slatted,

[00:26:28] folding doors in the loft area. The doors opened up into a cubby where the floor met the roof,

[00:26:35] creating a dark triangular storage space big enough for a person to enter if they were crouching.

[00:26:42] In this space, scattered on the floor, was a piece of old linoleum, part of perhaps an old

[00:26:49] wooden bed frame or a metal hanger. The rest of the space was dark and dusty.

[00:26:55] My friend did not like that space. They refused to share the bed with me and instead opted to

[00:27:01] sleep on the couch. Now, the very steep stairs leading up to the loft and the railing to

[00:27:08] overlook the space below, they were constructed in a typical wooden baluster style, painted

[00:27:14] white to match the beach decor. If I were to lean against the railing in the loft space,

[00:27:21] the couch was directly below me. One morning, my friend woke me up and immediately asked,

[00:27:29] why were you looking at me last night? I was a bit confused and curious. I told them I had not,

[00:27:35] to my recollection, woken up in the middle of the night at all. I asked them to elaborate.

[00:27:42] Yeah, I rolled over and briefly looked up. I then saw you looking over the railing,

[00:27:49] eyes wide open, staring at me. I wasn't in the mood for conversation, so I rolled over and went

[00:27:55] back to sleep. I prompted that although I didn't have a history of doing so, I could have been

[00:28:02] sleepwalking. I apologized for my creepy behavior. But your eyes were blue, they said. Now,

[00:28:11] my eyes are not blue. This left me wondering if someone took my form to watch my friend

[00:28:19] without scaring them too much, would it be easy enough for them to mimic the appearance of my

[00:28:24] sleeping body? Then again, if my body was sleeping, how would one possibly get the color of

[00:28:31] my eyes correct? Well, they wouldn't. It was a guess, but not a lucky one.

[00:28:56] So can consuming a book or some other kind of media affect the real world?

[00:29:02] I'm assuming you're referring to the story with the photograph?

[00:29:06] Yeah, exactly. Kind of like the Tulpa Theory, a presence manifesting itself because of our belief

[00:29:13] or our fears. I did this interview for a new podcast I'm working on with this guy, Rich West.

[00:29:20] One thing that he said to me that really stuck with me, and I believe we didn't even get this

[00:29:26] recorded, this was like post episode, but he said, we become what we fear. And in a way,

[00:29:33] that could apply here, I guess. I've really just been pondering on that sentence.

[00:29:38] Well, I think we could put a more optimistic spin on that and just equate it with

[00:29:42] Thiel saying thoughts manifest reality. I've gotten a lot better over the year or so, but

[00:29:48] as somebody who overthinks and used to put way too much energy into fearing the worst,

[00:29:53] I can't say the worst actually happens all that much. And that's not to say Rich is wrong.

[00:29:58] I can completely understand and agree with the sentiment. He's basically referring to

[00:30:03] a self-fulfilling prophecy. Hard to say though, a lot of that stuff is anecdotal and subjective,

[00:30:09] but it definitely doesn't hurt if you at least frame your thoughts in positive ways,

[00:30:14] kind of like a good placebo effect, which we've talked about.

[00:30:18] Yeah. I would like to become a bit more skeptical, but I've just seen and experienced so much stuff

[00:30:25] that it's hard to. I know it's healthy to have a certain level of skepticism, but I still think I

[00:30:32] have a pretty good bullshit detector. I just believe that life is way more interesting and

[00:30:38] mysterious than we all think it is. And yeah, in that same vein, another thing that he brought up

[00:30:45] was belief system territories. I've also been thinking about a lot.

[00:30:49] Oh yeah. Yeah. I've read a lot of near death experiences where the person

[00:30:54] basically experiences their preconceived idea of the afterlife. Like if you're Christian,

[00:31:00] you might meet Saint Peter at the pearly gates, or if you believe in reincarnation in some way,

[00:31:06] you go through whatever that process looks like.

[00:31:09] Yeah, exactly. I brought up the cheating the ferryman theory from Anthony Peake that we talked

[00:31:15] about a while back on this podcast where you reincarnate, but it's like a loop where you live

[00:31:19] the same life over and over and just retain memories each time. And then that explains

[00:31:24] away things like clairvoyance and deja vu. He believes that that's the truth for Anthony,

[00:31:32] but not for everybody. And that's what got me thinking about how malleable life is. And it

[00:31:39] really does feel like a kind of simulation at times. We're able to affect so many aspects of

[00:31:46] our lives and our health and things that happen just by the power of belief or thought.

[00:31:53] Right. It makes life feel like a bit of a playground that we just choose to come back to.

[00:31:58] Yeah.

[00:31:58] Like with the near death stuff, people have medically died and came back and said that

[00:32:03] they were able to choose to come back to, I don't know, finish out their mission on earth or

[00:32:08] however you want to put it. Yeah, exactly. It really does feel like a simulation though.

[00:32:13] I think that's why I like the matrix so much. As a kid, it really opened up my mind to the idea that

[00:32:19] there is so much more beneath the surface. There are certain truths and mechanisms behind the

[00:32:24] curtain that we just can't see or measure. Even just the whole concept of intelligent life blows

[00:32:30] my mind. I think about it all day and the complexity of DNA. I just know that we are

[00:32:37] so much more than our physical bodies, as cliche as it sounds.

[00:32:41] Totally. I'm actually speaking with someone who experienced exactly that.

[00:32:46] By all means, remind everybody to check out your other podcasts. I'm going to have to do my own too

[00:32:52] someday. I always say it, but just you wait. It's going to be like that bit from I Think You Should

[00:32:56] Leave where that guy is in a play and somebody else talks over him to finish his lines.

[00:33:02] We're going to be fighting to advertise our side projects on here.

[00:33:05] I swear I'm not trying to. It's just been so interesting, almost life changing to be able to

[00:33:10] talk to so many different people personally with different supernatural experiences. I'm sure

[00:33:16] there will definitely be some kind of Odd Trails crossover.

[00:33:20] Yeah, I'm just fooling around, tricking your chain. We'll have this for you.

[00:33:24] It's okay, I can take it.

[00:33:26] Well, we're kind of doing things last minute again,

[00:33:28] so I don't have a whole lot to add about the stories I narrated. Sorry.

[00:33:33] Eh, we'll keep it moving regardless.

[00:33:35] Yeah, true. We always do. But I did want to offer my condolences to the man who lost his wife.

[00:33:41] Yeah.

[00:33:41] I'll admit that I sometimes often disassociate when I read these stories,

[00:33:47] probably a defense mechanism to not absorb too much trauma. But his story was one of the few

[00:33:54] that broke down my shield and it really hit me in the gut.

[00:33:58] Oh yeah. For a lot of these stories, you just can't help it. I hope that he's doing better.

[00:34:02] I want to hear more about his granddaughter seeing his wife.

[00:34:06] Same. I hope he'll keep us posted and most importantly, continues to heal.

[00:34:11] Yep.

[00:34:12] Well, one more thing before we sign off. In that cemetery story, the author mentioned

[00:34:17] carbon monoxide.

[00:34:18] Yeah.

[00:34:19] I figure it'd be a good PSA opportunity and just kind of foot stomp on that real quick.

[00:34:25] Make sure your carbon monoxide detectors are in good working order.

[00:34:29] Yeah, that's solid advice. I remember a Reddit thread a while back. I think the person

[00:34:34] noticed handwritten notes in their apartment that they didn't write and they were freaking

[00:34:39] out and thinking that somebody was breaking in, but there was never any sign of entry.

[00:34:44] Something like that.

[00:34:45] Yeah, I remember that. And somebody suggested in the comment thread that they could have been

[00:34:50] exposed to carbon monoxide and that actually ended up being the case and they saved their life.

[00:34:55] That's funny because that's probably like the same Redditor on all of the threads in paranormal

[00:35:01] or the truth is out there. Those subreddits because anytime somebody posts anything weird

[00:35:06] that happens to them, they're like, check your carbon monoxide detectors.

[00:35:09] Right. There's something to it. I mean, even if there's only like a

[00:35:13] one in a hundred chance, that's what explains it. It's still, you know, it's worth to check

[00:35:17] your boxes.

[00:35:18] Yeah. Keep an eye out people. A lot of the early symptoms are things like headaches and dizziness.

[00:35:25] They could be from anything, but if you're also finding yourself confused and just kind of not

[00:35:30] all there, definitely worth looking into the possibility.

[00:35:34] Took the words out of my mouth.

[00:35:36] Shortness of breath is one of the symptoms.

[00:35:40] Clever guy, clever guy. I guess we're even after I said all that stuff about the woods

[00:35:46] still being dangerous during the day, crushed your hopes and dreams to go on those walks.

[00:35:50] Sure.

[00:35:51] I'm actually going out on a night walk by myself through the park.

[00:35:55] Dangerous. Bring your pepper spray.

[00:35:59] I actually found my pepper spray recently when I was going through cleaning the house.

[00:36:02] Maybe I will.

[00:36:03] Yummy.

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