Whistling in the Appalachian Mountains – Ep. 147

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[00:00:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Weird Whistling in the Appalachian Mountains by Itachi Uchiha 11388

[00:01:06] [SPEAKER_00]: To start this off, I need to give some context. I'm 23 and I currently live in New York City,

[00:01:13] [SPEAKER_00]: but I have grandparents who live down the road in rural West Virginia.

[00:01:17] [SPEAKER_00]: When I say rural, I mean the literal boonies. Their closest neighbors are over an hour away,

[00:01:24] [SPEAKER_00]: in a small town with a few houses and a Walmart.

[00:01:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Last summer, my grandfather, who I'll just call Robert for privacy reasons, had hip surgery.

[00:01:35] [SPEAKER_00]: The majority of my family lives on the West Coast, and my grandmother, who I'll refer to as Muriel,

[00:01:42] [SPEAKER_00]: is very old and she wouldn't have been able to take care of Robert herself.

[00:01:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Because I was the closest family member, I was the one they asked to go down and help my

[00:01:53] [SPEAKER_00]: grandfather. Being the good grandson I am, I agreed to go down there for a few weeks

[00:01:59] [SPEAKER_00]: while he recovered from his surgery. Fast forward a week, everything was going fine,

[00:02:06] [SPEAKER_00]: all I really had to do was help my grandfather up and down the stairs and walk his dog,

[00:02:11] [SPEAKER_00]: a blue heeler named Rocky. Normally my grandfather would walk Rocky once in the morning and once at

[00:02:20] [SPEAKER_00]: night through the woods behind their property, but because of his surgery that responsibility

[00:02:25] [SPEAKER_00]: fell onto me. This was the part that I hated about helping him, because ever since I was a little kid

[00:02:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I never liked those woods behind the property. Whenever I'd go down there as a kid, me and my

[00:02:39] [SPEAKER_00]: cousins would always get creeped out going into that forest. It always felt just off for some

[00:02:46] [SPEAKER_00]: reason. Anyways, for the first week walking Rocky in the forest at night was fine, even if a bit

[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_00]: creepy. That is until one night, a week into my stay, I was walking him through the forest,

[00:03:03] [SPEAKER_00]: it was about 8.30 and the sun was setting over the Appalachian mountains. Everything was going

[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_00]: normal until I heard a strange whistle that sounded like it was only about 20 yards away.

[00:03:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Both me and the dog stopped dead in our tracks and looked towards the direction the whistling

[00:03:23] [SPEAKER_00]: came from. I shined my flashlight in the direction, but I didn't see anything so I had just assumed

[00:03:31] [SPEAKER_00]: it was a bird. Looking back it definitely wasn't a bird, there's no nocturnal birds that chirp and

[00:03:38] [SPEAKER_00]: whistle out there, and it sounded more musical than anything even a bird could whistle.

[00:03:43] [SPEAKER_00]: But the dog was spooked, he wouldn't stop growling and staring at whatever was back there.

[00:03:51] [SPEAKER_00]: He kept trying to back up until whatever or whoever this thing was whistled again,

[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_00]: to which the dog started barking and going crazy. At this point I decided that I definitely didn't

[00:04:06] [SPEAKER_00]: want to stay there, so I yanked the dog's leash and we both bolted out of the woods and went

[00:04:12] [SPEAKER_00]: straight back home. When we got back and I told my grandparents what happened, they both seemed

[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_00]: spooked and my grandmother immediately asked if I whistled back. I told her that I hadn't

[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_00]: and she seemed relieved but told me that I didn't hear anything and to just ignore it.

[00:04:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I asked her why and she wouldn't tell me, instead she just told me I didn't hear anything.

[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_00]: I decided not to press it any further and I went off to bed,

[00:04:45] [SPEAKER_00]: terrified and wondering what she seemed so freaked out about.

[00:04:50] [SPEAKER_00]: The next morning she told me that instead of walking Rocky through the woods,

[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_00]: I could just take him on laps around the house, so that's what I started doing.

[00:05:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Every night I would take Rocky for around 50 laps around the house before going back inside.

[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_00]: On Friday, the third to last day I would be there, at night I was taking Rocky for laps as usual

[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_00]: until I heard the same creepy whistle behind the attached garage which was only around 10 yards

[00:05:23] [SPEAKER_00]: from the house. This time I immediately took Rocky back inside and locked the doors. The rest of the

[00:05:32] [SPEAKER_00]: night I put my earbuds in and I ignored any more whistling like my grandmother told me to do.

[00:05:39] [SPEAKER_00]: To this day I still don't know what was whistling in those woods, some of my friends suggested that

[00:05:45] [SPEAKER_00]: it might be a skinwalker but that wouldn't make sense in West Virginia. My girlfriend who stayed

[00:05:52] [SPEAKER_00]: back in New York City asked her Muslim parents who are from Yemen and they said whistling at night

[00:05:59] [SPEAKER_00]: is a sign that a djinn is nearby. I don't know what it was but whatever it was had my grandparents

[00:06:07] [SPEAKER_00]: legitimately scared. Does anyone have any idea what this could have been?

[00:06:38] [SPEAKER_02]: New Orleans Experience by Muchcredit3936

[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_02]: This is an account of some events that happened to me two years ago in New Orleans.

[00:06:50] [SPEAKER_02]: I haven't spoken about this to anyone. Like me, my friends and family are not believers

[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_02]: in the paranormal. I just don't have any explanation for what happened to me.

[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_02]: A few years ago I took a series of jobs in hospitality as a way to travel to different

[00:07:08] [SPEAKER_02]: parts of the US. In 2022, I took a position at a small hostel in New Orleans. The hostel is a

[00:07:17] [SPEAKER_02]: beautiful Victorian house just on the edge of the French Quarter and I was really excited about

[00:07:23] [SPEAKER_02]: using it as my base to explore the city and the state of Louisiana. Like most old houses,

[00:07:30] [SPEAKER_02]: the building had some quirks. You know how wood settles in old houses? Sometimes it would sound

[00:07:37] [SPEAKER_02]: like there were footsteps upstairs. Guests in room 3 would always come down to reception to check if

[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_02]: there was a problem with the air conditioning. That room was always cold. I remember the Yale

[00:07:49] [SPEAKER_02]: lock on the front door would start making noise for no reason despite changing the batteries and

[00:07:55] [SPEAKER_02]: lock itself. It was a few weeks into my stay there that things began to get strange. It started

[00:08:02] [SPEAKER_02]: with the candlestick. It was autumn and since the peak season was now done, we decided to deep clean

[00:08:10] [SPEAKER_02]: the house, including the top floor which is not open to guests. I remember reaching up to dust

[00:08:16] [SPEAKER_02]: the top of the bookshelf when my hand hit something. There was a sudden crash that made me

[00:08:22] [SPEAKER_02]: freak out, thinking that I had broken something. I had knocked something heavy sounding off of the

[00:08:29] [SPEAKER_02]: top of the bookshelf and it had fallen, luckily, into an open cardboard box instead of denting

[00:08:35] [SPEAKER_02]: the wooden floors. I looked at it, turning it around in my hand. It was covered in cobwebs and

[00:08:42] [SPEAKER_02]: what looked like rust, but I could see that underneath all of that was a beautiful ornate

[00:08:50] [SPEAKER_02]: candlestick. I put my hand up on top of the shelf again, feeling around for its pair, but I couldn't

[00:08:56] [SPEAKER_02]: find it there or anywhere else in the room. I'm pretty sure that I went to look for other staff

[00:09:02] [SPEAKER_02]: right then, wanting to show them this beautiful candlestick and to ask if they had seen the other

[00:09:08] [SPEAKER_02]: one. I thought that it would be good to put them out on display. The first person I came across was

[00:09:15] [SPEAKER_02]: a girl that I'll call Megan. I showed it to her excitedly, asking if she had seen the other one,

[00:09:21] [SPEAKER_02]: but she just raised her eyebrows and said that it was creepy and to chuck it out. I argued that it

[00:09:29] [SPEAKER_02]: just needed some cleaning up and I ended up taking it to the restroom, washing off all of the cobwebs

[00:09:35] [SPEAKER_02]: and the rusty stuff, which luckily washed off without any difficulties. I never did find the

[00:09:43] [SPEAKER_02]: other one, but I found a candle for it and I put it on display on the dining room table. Around this

[00:09:50] [SPEAKER_02]: time, I started sleeping poorly. It wasn't nightmares exactly. I just never woke up feeling

[00:09:57] [SPEAKER_02]: rested. It was like that feeling you get right when you wake up, just before your dog passes away or

[00:10:03] [SPEAKER_02]: you've had a broken heart, a sinking feeling of dread in your stomach just for a second, knowing

[00:10:10] [SPEAKER_02]: that something is wrong, waiting for the memory to hit again. But it never did and I never knew why

[00:10:17] [SPEAKER_02]: I felt that way. It was just something I went through every morning. I don't remember now if

[00:10:24] [SPEAKER_02]: it was the next morning or a few days later, but I went to put out the breakfast and the candlestick

[00:10:29] [SPEAKER_02]: wasn't on the table anymore. I really didn't think anything of it. People get drunk on Bourbon Street,

[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_02]: come back late and do weird things. I found it under the table and I put it back where it was.

[00:10:42] [SPEAKER_02]: The next day though, it had moved again and this time I found it on the other side of the room.

[00:10:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Strangely, the rusty substance was there again, creeping slowly back up the base of the candlestick.

[00:10:57] [SPEAKER_02]: A few days later, it had moved again and I had to spend a good amount of time searching for it.

[00:11:03] [SPEAKER_02]: I was already in a bad mood that morning because of something that had happened the night before.

[00:11:09] [SPEAKER_02]: I had really wanted to go and see a friend's jazz band that evening and I asked if someone would

[00:11:15] [SPEAKER_02]: change shifts with me. I had changed shifts as a favor for them more times than I could count.

[00:11:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Most people like to go out on the evenings in New Orleans to enjoy the nightlife,

[00:11:27] [SPEAKER_02]: but I was studying on the side and enjoyed the quieter night time shifts where I could sometimes

[00:11:33] [SPEAKER_02]: read a little. I often stayed at the desk after the end of my shift to study in peace and quiet,

[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_02]: but I didn't understand why the one time I asked to go out in the evening, everyone avoided eye

[00:11:47] [SPEAKER_02]: contact and just shuffled awkwardly. Why were they so selfish when I asked them to switch with me?

[00:11:54] [SPEAKER_02]: After what happened to me later, I have an idea of why they didn't want to be alone there

[00:12:00] [SPEAKER_02]: after dark. Anyway, on this morning, I was looking for the candlestick.

[00:12:07] [SPEAKER_02]: I didn't blame the partygoers anymore and I had a good idea of who kept moving it.

[00:12:13] [SPEAKER_02]: A few nights ago, I had come up from the evening shift to the kitchen. It was dark,

[00:12:19] [SPEAKER_02]: all the lights were off, and I had come into the dining room. I glimpsed Megan standing there

[00:12:26] [SPEAKER_02]: looking at it. Even though I only saw her from behind, I knew that it was her. She was the only

[00:12:33] [SPEAKER_02]: girl here with dark hair. She told me that the candlestick was creepy the very first time she

[00:12:39] [SPEAKER_02]: had seen it. Well, I found it again, this time shoved in the bottom of the storage closet,

[00:12:45] [SPEAKER_02]: and when I saw Megan, I confronted her, telling her to stop moving the candlestick.

[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_02]: She said that she didn't. I was holding it in my hand and felt this consuming rage flow through me,

[00:12:57] [SPEAKER_02]: honestly a kind of anger way out of proportion to what was happening. It was just for a second,

[00:13:05] [SPEAKER_02]: and I came to my senses. She was looking at me with wide eyes. I put the candlestick back on

[00:13:11] [SPEAKER_02]: the table. After that, I kept seeing the candlestick in the dining room, and I felt a

[00:13:16] [SPEAKER_02]: little embarrassed about almost losing my temper with Megan. I don't know why she lied about moving

[00:13:21] [SPEAKER_02]: it, but I pride myself on being professional, and I didn't feel good about what had happened.

[00:13:28] [SPEAKER_02]: I felt guilty every time I looked at it. One day while cleaning, I randomly moved it to room 4,

[00:13:35] [SPEAKER_02]: where I wouldn't walk past it several times a day. I didn't plan on keeping it there,

[00:13:41] [SPEAKER_02]: but that room wasn't going to be occupied for a few days. A little while after this,

[00:13:47] [SPEAKER_02]: something else happened. One night, I finished the evening shift and began studying at the front

[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_02]: desk. It was just after 1am when I heard footsteps in the corridor behind me.

[00:14:00] [SPEAKER_02]: I recognized the woman who came into the lobby. She was staying upstairs in one of the dormitories.

[00:14:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Due to a missed flight, a party of four people who were due to stay in the dormitory

[00:14:12] [SPEAKER_02]: had not arrived. They had phoned earlier telling me that they decided to stay in Fort Lauderdale

[00:14:19] [SPEAKER_02]: another week and wanted to reschedule their whole stay. So this lady was staying alone in what was

[00:14:26] [SPEAKER_02]: supposed to be a five-bed dormitory. When I saw her, her hair was messed up and she looked really

[00:14:33] [SPEAKER_02]: tired. So I was immediately concerned. I think I asked her if everything was alright, and she

[00:14:38] [SPEAKER_02]: asked me if I could check on the person in the room next to hers because it seemed like they

[00:14:44] [SPEAKER_02]: had been crying for hours. She hadn't been able to sleep because of the noise and was pretty worried

[00:14:50] [SPEAKER_02]: that the person in there wasn't doing okay. So I followed her upstairs to knock on the door

[00:14:56] [SPEAKER_02]: where she heard the crying. I took the keys with me in case I needed to let myself into the room.

[00:15:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Next to hers was one of the dormitories. It had eight or so beds, but tonight there were only a

[00:15:11] [SPEAKER_02]: couple of girls staying there. I stopped outside and raised my hand to knock on the door when she

[00:15:16] [SPEAKER_02]: stopped me. She said that the crying had been coming from the room opposite hers, room four.

[00:15:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Now I had assumed that she meant the dormitory because that room was occupied. Room four was not.

[00:15:32] [SPEAKER_02]: I told her this, but she seemed certain that the crying had been coming from that room.

[00:15:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Right then, there was nothing other than silence and the creaking of an old house.

[00:15:44] [SPEAKER_02]: I tried to reassure her that the noise she heard was probably one of the hostel's cats

[00:15:50] [SPEAKER_02]: or another animal. I heard that there's a kind of swamp rat in Louisiana that can sound like

[00:15:57] [SPEAKER_02]: a crying baby, and I've heard foxes in the woods before that sound like a woman being murdered.

[00:16:05] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm no stranger to the unsettling sounds of wild animals, but to put her mind at ease,

[00:16:10] [SPEAKER_02]: I checked room four. I opened the door and I switched on the light.

[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Nobody was there. I gave her my reassurance, and she went back to her room. Something else had

[00:16:22] [SPEAKER_02]: caught my eye though. The lampshade on the far side of the bed was torn, and something was on

[00:16:28] [SPEAKER_02]: the pillow. I walked around the bed and I saw what had happened. On the pillow, there were some

[00:16:35] [SPEAKER_02]: small shards of broken glass, and on the floor was the candlestick. It was as if it had been

[00:16:43] [SPEAKER_02]: thrown across the room at the lamp, torn through the fabric of the lampshade, and smashed the

[00:16:49] [SPEAKER_02]: light bulb. Now, something I probably should have mentioned. Megan had returned to her home country

[00:16:55] [SPEAKER_02]: before I took the candlestick into this room. I got a bad feeling that it had never been her moving it.

[00:17:03] [SPEAKER_02]: I didn't see much of that woman over the next couple of days, up until one morning when I was

[00:17:09] [SPEAKER_02]: working reception. I heard the sound of suitcase wheels and quick footsteps coming down the corridor.

[00:17:15] [SPEAKER_02]: It was her, the woman who had heard the crying, saying that she wanted to check out. She still

[00:17:21] [SPEAKER_02]: had three nights left on the reservation, so I asked lightly if there had been any changes of plans.

[00:17:28] [SPEAKER_02]: She just shook her head, and when I looked at her face, she looked pale, with dark circles under her

[00:17:34] [SPEAKER_02]: eyes as if she hadn't slept. I tried asking if there was a problem with the room or anything

[00:17:40] [SPEAKER_02]: that we could do to help her enjoy her stay, but she shoved the keys at me and was gone.

[00:17:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Once she left, I went up to her room. I wondered what had made her act so weird. I checked the

[00:17:54] [SPEAKER_02]: all over, but I didn't find out. A few days later, room four was booked, and I meant to take the

[00:18:01] [SPEAKER_02]: candlestick back to the dining room. Instead, I put it in the cleaning caddy, forgot about it,

[00:18:08] [SPEAKER_02]: and it made its way downstairs with me. Rather than take it back upstairs, I decided to take

[00:18:13] [SPEAKER_02]: it to my room and return it to its spot tomorrow. Something happened that night that almost made me

[00:18:19] [SPEAKER_02]: leave the hostel. Even writing about it now makes me feel uncomfortable. I woke up that night to the

[00:18:26] [SPEAKER_02]: sounds of someone moving around in my room. I was still half asleep and thought that I was dreaming,

[00:18:32] [SPEAKER_02]: but in a way that I can't describe, I knew somehow that those noises weren't coming

[00:18:37] [SPEAKER_02]: from inside my mind. They were coming from somewhere in the room. I heard footsteps rustling,

[00:18:44] [SPEAKER_02]: and then, finally the feeling of someone or something sitting down on the bed. I remember

[00:18:50] [SPEAKER_02]: the weight of it, the way that it depressed the mattress, and somehow I just knew that whatever

[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_02]: it was was not human. I kept as still as I could, but my heart was beating so hard I was sure that

[00:19:05] [SPEAKER_02]: whatever it was would hear it. It seemed to sit there for a long time while I just lay there,

[00:19:11] [SPEAKER_02]: too afraid to move. My every nerve attuned to it. After a time, I felt the bed move again and it was

[00:19:20] [SPEAKER_02]: gone. I never heard the door open or close. I remember lying there for a long time, the covers

[00:19:26] [SPEAKER_02]: pulled up over my head, hearing my heart beating against the mattress sounding like footsteps,

[00:19:31] [SPEAKER_02]: too terrified to move. It was after this that I started looking into leaving New Orleans.

[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_02]: I slept with the lights on and only got a kind of twitching, nervous half-sleep at that.

[00:19:45] [SPEAKER_02]: My heart was always beating too fast and too hard in my chest. The lack of sleep wasn't helping,

[00:19:51] [SPEAKER_02]: but I was afraid to sleep. I felt like there was constantly someone behind me.

[00:19:56] [SPEAKER_02]: I kept imagining footsteps coming down the corridor. One morning, another staff member

[00:20:01] [SPEAKER_02]: went to start their shift and the keys were gone. This irritated me because there were three sets

[00:20:07] [SPEAKER_02]: when I had finished my shift the night before. I can't explain why this angered me as much as it

[00:20:13] [SPEAKER_02]: did. I'm not usually quick to anger, but I just felt a rage that was building inside of me again

[00:20:20] [SPEAKER_02]: and a sense of being so deeply wronged. Looking back, I'm pretty sure that no one made any

[00:20:27] [SPEAKER_02]: accusations against me or anyone else, but I felt that everyone was accusing me of having lost them

[00:20:34] [SPEAKER_02]: because I was on shift the previous night. I started demanding to view the cameras to see

[00:20:40] [SPEAKER_02]: who had taken the keys. I think everyone just wanted to calm me down, so the manager went and

[00:20:46] [SPEAKER_02]: got the laptop and brought up the video feed. We found the footage from the night before.

[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_02]: The video was of me getting everything done, turning off the lights, and leaving with all

[00:20:56] [SPEAKER_02]: three sets of keys hanging up. We started skipping through the footage until we saw the door open

[00:21:01] [SPEAKER_02]: again at 1 33 a.m. That's when I saw the worst thing I had ever seen myself. I saw me enter the

[00:21:10] [SPEAKER_02]: lobby, take the keys off the wall, and head down the corridor. There's a sick horror that I can't

[00:21:16] [SPEAKER_02]: describe in seeing yourself doing something you have no memory of, realizing your own body isn't

[00:21:22] [SPEAKER_02]: something you are in control of. I think I apologized, or at least I hope I did. I left that same day.

[00:21:31] [SPEAKER_02]: I had never sleepwalked before and I have no explanation for what happened.

[00:21:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Thankfully, since I left, I haven't had anything weird happen. I've been able to move on with my

[00:21:43] [SPEAKER_02]: life and think about it less and less, but sometimes I can still see that video in my mind's eye and

[00:21:50] [SPEAKER_02]: feel the sensation of the mattress sinking as whatever it was sat there watching me.

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[00:24:29] [SPEAKER_00]: The voice I heard that night by pastelpunk2077. I worked security in 2019 through 2021.

[00:24:40] [SPEAKER_00]: One place I was working was at a call center. There were guards on site 24-7, two in the morning,

[00:24:48] [SPEAKER_00]: two in the afternoon and one overnight. On the overnight shift, there was no one else in the

[00:24:54] [SPEAKER_00]: building. All doors were locked and all ID scanners were locked as well. I need you to understand that

[00:25:02] [SPEAKER_00]: there was no one else in the building. There was no way anyone else could have been in the building

[00:25:07] [SPEAKER_00]: with me. This happened in 2020 when everyone was working from home and the security team were the

[00:25:14] [SPEAKER_00]: only people that were even in there. At every odd hour, I would do a patrol around the building,

[00:25:21] [SPEAKER_00]: check into all the rooms I had to and return back to the desk.

[00:25:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Other than that, I'd sit there and watch the cameras and plan my switch.

[00:25:31] [SPEAKER_00]: One night while I was there for the overnight shift and the other two guards had already left,

[00:25:37] [SPEAKER_00]: I had to go on a patrol. All the lights in the building were out. It didn't really matter that

[00:25:44] [SPEAKER_00]: much because I could see enough with the lights from the parking lot and I'd never been afraid

[00:25:49] [SPEAKER_00]: to walk around alone there because I enjoyed the job. I walked through the downstairs,

[00:25:56] [SPEAKER_00]: checked all the exits to make sure they were locked and all the staircases to make sure

[00:26:01] [SPEAKER_00]: they were empty. When I moved to the second floor, I heard one of the phones ringing.

[00:26:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Not unheard of and because of the sensitivity of it all, we aren't allowed to touch the phones

[00:26:14] [SPEAKER_00]: except for the ones on the front desk. I usually played loud music to walk around

[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_00]: but this time I'd left my phone to charge at the desk. There was no device on me that could

[00:26:26] [SPEAKER_00]: make a sound. The phone had since stopped ringing and I was still alone.

[00:26:32] [SPEAKER_00]: As I moved to the final part of the building for my patrol,

[00:26:36] [SPEAKER_00]: I hear a small thud by the stairway at the back. That didn't bother me but when I heard a woman's

[00:26:44] [SPEAKER_00]: voice call out, help me, I froze. I stayed silent and didn't move for nearly 15 minutes.

[00:26:56] [SPEAKER_00]: It took me a while but I eventually called out and asked if someone was there

[00:27:02] [SPEAKER_00]: but I didn't dare go over there. I would have heard something or seen someone moving

[00:27:08] [SPEAKER_00]: if there had been anyone. I did not finish my patrol that hour and immediately returned to

[00:27:15] [SPEAKER_00]: the desk downstairs where the lights were on in the lobby. My boss even asked me what was up

[00:27:23] [SPEAKER_00]: and when I told him about it he just nodded and said, yeah that happens sometimes.

[00:27:30] [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't hear anything else for the rest of my time working there.

[00:27:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I even checked the cameras that were in that area and there was no one there.

[00:27:40] [SPEAKER_00]: I always used to figure ghosts were real or at least I wanted to believe they were

[00:27:46] [SPEAKER_00]: but that night completely proved to me that ghosts are real and when one asks for help

[00:27:53] [SPEAKER_00]: you probably shouldn't put yourself at risk.

[00:28:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Creepy Experiences by Nosteponsnake117

[00:28:23] [SPEAKER_02]: First off, I'm going to start with some information about myself. I'm an avid catfisher.

[00:28:28] [SPEAKER_02]: I love to fish at night when it's peaceful and quiet and I tend to stay out extremely

[00:28:33] [SPEAKER_02]: late on non-work nights so that leads to why I was at this lake experiencing what I did.

[00:28:40] [SPEAKER_02]: I forget what day it was but I was alone. My girlfriend at the time didn't want to come with

[00:28:45] [SPEAKER_02]: me and I couldn't convince anyone else to join me so I thought, fuck it I'll go by myself.

[00:28:50] [SPEAKER_02]: I grabbed my gear and gun then fished for a few hours until I caught a few.

[00:28:56] [SPEAKER_02]: While I was fishing I kept hearing talking but I couldn't see anyone. I figured maybe they were

[00:29:02] [SPEAKER_02]: just walking down the road so I didn't pay it any mind. Fast forward a few hours and I hear

[00:29:08] [SPEAKER_02]: a whistle. This is a city lake so it's decently lit up in most areas. I look around and I don't see

[00:29:15] [SPEAKER_02]: or hear anything further so I resume fishing. Another whistle, this time to my right.

[00:29:22] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm thinking to myself it's probably some kids but the whistle felt like someone wanted my

[00:29:27] [SPEAKER_02]: attention. Again I see and hear nothing. I turn around and now I see a cat. I don't think anything

[00:29:37] [SPEAKER_02]: of it and go right back to fishing. I hear another whistle, this time behind me. The cat's gone so

[00:29:44] [SPEAKER_02]: I reel in my line. Catfish are pretty strong, I don't want to lose a $200 pole. I put my hand

[00:29:51] [SPEAKER_02]: on my gun and quietly walked around the building. Nothing. I see and hear nothing which seems

[00:29:57] [SPEAKER_02]: impossible since gravel is everywhere. I turn around, walk back and directly behind me I hear

[00:30:04] [SPEAKER_02]: a very loud shrill whistle. Loud enough to make me flip around and draw my gun. My heart is pounding

[00:30:13] [SPEAKER_02]: so I grab my stuff and book it to the car. Fast forward a week later. Last Friday or Saturday

[00:30:20] [SPEAKER_02]: night a friend and I go to the same place. I had forgotten about the whistling. We go fishing and

[00:30:26] [SPEAKER_02]: have a decent time. As I was looking around I kept noticing shadows in the trees across the lake.

[00:30:32] [SPEAKER_02]: It almost looked like someone was running near the lights and jumping around. I didn't think

[00:30:38] [SPEAKER_02]: anything of it, figuring that it was the night playing tricks on me. My friend who didn't tell

[00:30:44] [SPEAKER_02]: me later had also observed the same exact thing. Now it's close to 3am, I hear some people chatting.

[00:30:52] [SPEAKER_02]: I didn't see anyone which was odd. The lake is kind of like a pit with roads all around so it

[00:30:59] [SPEAKER_02]: would be impossible not to see someone walking by. I'm feeling a bit sketched out but I keep fishing.

[00:31:07] [SPEAKER_02]: At around 3.15am I begin to hear birds tweeting. This is in the dead of night. I turn to my friend

[00:31:15] [SPEAKER_02]: and say, do you hear birds chirping? Kind of odd for 3am right? He looks around, kind of paranoid.

[00:31:24] [SPEAKER_02]: 5-10 minutes later he says, those aren't birds. Someone's mimicking them.

[00:31:32] [SPEAKER_02]: I look at him and say, what are you on about? He replies, remember that story your co-worker told

[00:31:39] [SPEAKER_02]: you? I nod. Yeah, about the incidents and why they don't let anyone swim here anymore? He then asked,

[00:31:48] [SPEAKER_02]: how many people have died? As soon as he asks that, the crickets stop, the wind dies immediately and

[00:31:56] [SPEAKER_02]: the fish stop biting. My pole was being pulled in as I said that and it just slipped off. You could

[00:32:05] [SPEAKER_02]: hear a pin drop. He asks, do you feel that? I nod, my chest feeling heavy, it's hard to breathe,

[00:32:14] [SPEAKER_02]: a horrible feeling of dread. He looks around and says, let's pack our shit and get out of here.

[00:32:21] [SPEAKER_02]: I agree and we grab half of the stuff and pack it up. The tweeting starts back up. We go back for

[00:32:28] [SPEAKER_02]: the rest and then rush to the car. He suddenly flips around with his knife drawn and I pull my

[00:32:34] [SPEAKER_02]: gun. Then he says, we need to go now. We get in and drive off and I ask, what the fuck did you

[00:32:41] [SPEAKER_02]: pull your knife out for? And dead serious he says, something was running behind me like it

[00:32:49] [SPEAKER_02]: was charging at us. I don't know what happened but even typing this out gives me chills.

[00:32:56] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't believe in anything supernatural or paranormal, ghosts, werewolves, whatever is

[00:33:01] [SPEAKER_02]: considered paranormal or spooky but this scared the shit out of me. Something wasn't right and

[00:33:08] [SPEAKER_02]: I knew it. I can't explain it. I guess I'm asking in case someone might know what I experienced.

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[00:35:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Emily and the Black Figure by Maria

[00:35:53] [SPEAKER_00]: About 24 years ago when I was 2 years old, my parents bought an abandoned farm.

[00:35:59] [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't in the middle of nowhere but still very private.

[00:36:04] [SPEAKER_00]: It had been a while since people lived there so it needed a lot of love.

[00:36:09] [SPEAKER_00]: My dad took me to see the hayloft and told me not to move as I could fall through the ceiling.

[00:36:16] [SPEAKER_00]: He went further in the loft and I stood still.

[00:36:19] [SPEAKER_00]: When he came back 5 or so minutes later, I was talking and laughing with something.

[00:36:25] [SPEAKER_00]: He asked me about it and I just said,

[00:36:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh it's Emily, she lives here, can I play with her?

[00:36:33] [SPEAKER_00]: My dad got a bit spooked but brushed it off since I was just a child.

[00:36:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Fast forward a couple of years and I have always been scared of the chimney

[00:36:44] [SPEAKER_00]: and got a weird feeling getting near our fireplace like something wanted to hurt me.

[00:36:51] [SPEAKER_00]: As I got older, I kept telling my parents I didn't like the bad man in the chimney.

[00:36:58] [SPEAKER_00]: There's always been weird activity in the house, especially the loft where me and my brother lived

[00:37:03] [SPEAKER_00]: so we had our own floor kind of thing.

[00:37:07] [SPEAKER_00]: One time, my dad called me and asked me to stop moving my furniture around upstairs

[00:37:13] [SPEAKER_00]: since he was trying to take a nap.

[00:37:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Except I was at school and so was my brother.

[00:37:20] [SPEAKER_00]: This happened a couple of times.

[00:37:24] [SPEAKER_00]: There's one night in particular I can never forget.

[00:37:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Everything just came together.

[00:37:31] [SPEAKER_00]: I woke up in bed and there was a small girl, probably around 7 or 8 years old,

[00:37:38] [SPEAKER_00]: just screaming in my face.

[00:37:41] [SPEAKER_00]: I couldn't hear anything but she was clearly screaming.

[00:37:45] [SPEAKER_00]: She appeared to be scared rather than trying to scare me.

[00:37:50] [SPEAKER_00]: I somehow knew this was Emily.

[00:37:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I turned around and did my best to calm down until I fell back asleep.

[00:38:00] [SPEAKER_00]: She eventually woke me up again.

[00:38:03] [SPEAKER_00]: This time though, I saw a black figure by the top of the stairs.

[00:38:08] [SPEAKER_00]: He didn't have a face or any features.

[00:38:12] [SPEAKER_00]: It was just a black figure with a top hat on.

[00:38:17] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how but I could feel him staring at me with hatred.

[00:38:22] [SPEAKER_00]: I knew he wanted to hurt me.

[00:38:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Emily looked back at him and then back to me.

[00:38:29] [SPEAKER_00]: And this time I heard her say,

[00:38:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Please help me. He won't let me go.

[00:38:36] [SPEAKER_00]: I stayed home the next day, trying to figure all this out.

[00:38:40] [SPEAKER_00]: When my dad asked me what happened last night,

[00:38:43] [SPEAKER_00]: I just stared at him.

[00:38:46] [SPEAKER_00]: How could he know?

[00:38:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Turns out, my aunt has a friend who's a medium.

[00:38:51] [SPEAKER_00]: She called my aunt in a panic and told her to make sure I was okay.

[00:38:57] [SPEAKER_00]: I have never met this friend or ever even heard of her before,

[00:39:01] [SPEAKER_00]: but she knew what happened.

[00:39:04] [SPEAKER_00]: After this, I dived into the whole paranormal universe

[00:39:07] [SPEAKER_00]: and found out I'm kind of sensitive to it.

[00:39:11] [SPEAKER_00]: That explains what happened.

[00:39:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Fast forward to me moving out on my own.

[00:39:17] [SPEAKER_00]: I had this feeling that a small boy was attached to me.

[00:39:21] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why or how, but he was.

[00:39:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I got the idea to ask my brother to please sit down with me

[00:39:29] [SPEAKER_00]: while I tried to figure out who the child was.

[00:39:33] [SPEAKER_00]: As I was trying to communicate with this child,

[00:39:36] [SPEAKER_00]: I saw an adult hand reach out from down the hallway.

[00:39:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Then, I saw a small boy take this hand,

[00:39:45] [SPEAKER_00]: look back and smile at me as he disappeared.

[00:39:50] [SPEAKER_00]: I told my brother all of this as it was happening.

[00:39:53] [SPEAKER_00]: You better not be messing with me right now, he said.

[00:39:58] [SPEAKER_00]: When I asked why, he said he felt his hand become extremely cold

[00:40:03] [SPEAKER_00]: before I said the child took the hand in the hallway.

[00:40:07] [SPEAKER_00]: He said he couldn't even move it.

[00:40:10] [SPEAKER_00]: It's been a while since I've had any spooky encounters.

[00:40:14] [SPEAKER_00]: I see shadows, but they're harmless.

[00:40:18] [SPEAKER_00]: For now.

[00:40:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Seeing yourself on video is weird enough,

[00:40:47] [SPEAKER_02]: but imagine seeing yourself doing something that you don't even remember doing.

[00:40:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's not so weird to film yourself because it's

[00:40:54] [SPEAKER_00]: so similar to seeing yourself in the mirror.

[00:40:57] [SPEAKER_00]: It's familiar, but when someone films you from the side, from behind or far away,

[00:41:01] [SPEAKER_00]: it's like looking into an alternate reality.

[00:41:04] [SPEAKER_00]: At this point, I hate seeing the back of my head more than hearing my own voice.

[00:41:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, me too.

[00:41:09] [SPEAKER_02]: And it kind of is an alternate reality when you think about it.

[00:41:13] [SPEAKER_02]: It's, I guess this is abstract, but you're seeing yourself from someone else's point of view.

[00:41:19] [SPEAKER_02]: It is technically their reality, not yours.

[00:41:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah.

[00:41:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's just visually.

[00:41:25] [SPEAKER_00]: If you really want to freak yourself out,

[00:41:27] [SPEAKER_00]: just really think about how every single person you've ever met has their own perception of you.

[00:41:34] [SPEAKER_00]: And nobody fully perceives you how you perceive yourself.

[00:41:37] [SPEAKER_00]: So whatever version of you thinks exists only actually exists in your mind.

[00:41:43] [SPEAKER_00]: And even that's probably not accurate.

[00:41:45] [SPEAKER_02]: I've been thinking about this a lot lately, just because, you know,

[00:41:48] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm always reading about, especially lately, like manifestation and how reality is bendable

[00:41:55] [SPEAKER_02]: and you can kind of mold your own reality in your own future.

[00:41:59] [SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, it all kind of fits into a simulation.

[00:42:02] [SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, you're right.

[00:42:05] [SPEAKER_02]: It's freaking me out.

[00:42:07] [SPEAKER_02]: I'd rather talk about how I found out that my hair was thinning in the back.

[00:42:11] [SPEAKER_02]: I saw a video of myself that someone took.

[00:42:14] [SPEAKER_02]: And when I saw the back of my head, my heart basically just dropped.

[00:42:17] [SPEAKER_02]: And that's when I decided to buzz it all off.

[00:42:20] [SPEAKER_00]: You know what?

[00:42:21] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a bold look because you at least have the head for it and the facial hair

[00:42:25] [SPEAKER_00]: and glasses go with it all.

[00:42:26] [SPEAKER_00]: I think it all ties together nicely.

[00:42:28] [SPEAKER_02]: That's actually a very nice compliment.

[00:42:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.

[00:42:31] [SPEAKER_00]: You're quite welcome.

[00:42:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I definitely do some questionable acts for a head of hair like yours.

[00:42:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, thank you.

[00:42:41] [SPEAKER_00]: But as they say, the greys are coming and not the alien type.

[00:42:45] [SPEAKER_00]: I like that.

[00:42:47] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm working with it, though.

[00:42:48] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to keep it.

[00:42:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah.

[00:42:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Just be a salt and pepper silver daddy.

[00:42:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's the plan.

[00:42:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Wait, no, it's not silver daddy.

[00:42:56] [SPEAKER_01]: It's silver fox.

[00:42:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Silver fox.

[00:42:57] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, daddy's OK.

[00:42:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Call me daddy if you want to.

[00:43:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Anyways, it was a great story for much credit.

[00:43:05] [SPEAKER_02]: They were from New Orleans.

[00:43:06] [SPEAKER_02]: I just found that camera part to be the creepiest.

[00:43:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I just like the blue camcorder with the disembodied hands from whatever episode

[00:43:14] [SPEAKER_00]: that was in the double digits, I'm sure.

[00:43:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I know.

[00:43:17] [SPEAKER_02]: Don't remind me.

[00:43:18] [SPEAKER_01]: I have dreams about that story.

[00:43:20] [SPEAKER_00]: I always still associate it with David Lynch's Lost Highway because of the creepy camcorder

[00:43:25] [SPEAKER_00]: association.

[00:43:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's exactly what I thought of when I first read this story.

[00:43:29] [SPEAKER_02]: So Snek, the author of The Lake Story, stated later that this thing their friend saw running

[00:43:36] [SPEAKER_02]: after them actually followed them home.

[00:43:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, have they gotten a look at it?

[00:43:41] [SPEAKER_02]: No, but they have been hearing it at the windows and it's particularly interested in one of

[00:43:46] [SPEAKER_02]: their roommate's girlfriends.

[00:43:49] [SPEAKER_00]: That's kind of specific and scary.

[00:43:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I know.

[00:43:53] [SPEAKER_02]: It kind of takes the supernatural out of the equation and sounds a bit more like a creepy

[00:43:56] [SPEAKER_02]: stalker.

[00:43:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:43:58] [SPEAKER_02]: However, the girlfriend did say that they saw a figure at the window and when they saw

[00:44:03] [SPEAKER_02]: it moved to a blind spot, basically between two windows.

[00:44:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Nope, nope.

[00:44:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Hell no.

[00:44:09] [SPEAKER_02]: I know.

[00:44:09] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't like that.

[00:44:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Just the thought of that really creeps me out.

[00:44:12] [SPEAKER_02]: It's kind of like another David Lynch reference at the diner in Mulholland Drive when.

[00:44:17] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, mm-hmm.

[00:44:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the creepy weird faced thing comes from the...

[00:44:22] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't want to ruin it for people and then it just kind of goes back.

[00:44:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Yep.

[00:44:26] [SPEAKER_02]: It just pops in and out almost like it's a haunted house ride with a cardboard cutout

[00:44:30] [SPEAKER_02]: coming into view and then leaving.

[00:44:31] [SPEAKER_02]: There's something very creepy about that.

[00:44:33] [SPEAKER_02]: They also said that the girlfriend is Wiccan and sprinkled some salt and used sage to try

[00:44:39] [SPEAKER_02]: and ward it off.

[00:44:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, there you go.

[00:44:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully we'll get some updates soon, but that all sounds more like a let's not meet

[00:44:45] [SPEAKER_00]: stalker.

[00:44:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I was borderline planning on including it in let's not meet, but it had just enough

[00:44:52] [SPEAKER_02]: mystery and supernatural touch to it that I added it to odd trails.

[00:44:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Plus there are more updates to share that qualify it for odd trails.

[00:45:01] [SPEAKER_02]: The author said that they found some footprints outside of their window and the author states

[00:45:06] [SPEAKER_02]: that they have a size 11 and these were about two to three inches larger than theirs.

[00:45:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Are we talking like barefoot or shoe prints?

[00:45:15] [SPEAKER_01]: That's the thing, barefoot.

[00:45:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, got a BFG creep on our hands.

[00:45:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah.

[00:45:22] [SPEAKER_02]: And the terrain is really rough with rocks and sticks and other sharp stuff.

[00:45:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Here's a direct quote from them and their update.

[00:45:29] [SPEAKER_02]: They said, I felt like I wasn't out there long.

[00:45:33] [SPEAKER_02]: They had been sitting out there with a shotgun waiting for it.

[00:45:36] [SPEAKER_02]: And I began to hear leaves shuffle.

[00:45:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Sounded like a rabbit maybe, so I ignored it and kept listening.

[00:45:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Thud.

[00:45:45] [SPEAKER_02]: I hear something hit the roof above me and then creaking sounds.

[00:45:49] [SPEAKER_02]: On the other side of the fence, I hear more leaves and then the most inhuman sound I've

[00:45:55] [SPEAKER_02]: ever heard.

[00:45:55] [SPEAKER_02]: It sounded almost like the Predator from the Predator series.

[00:45:59] [SPEAKER_02]: I pointed my shotgun and flashlight towards the fence and slowly backed away.

[00:46:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Then I proceeded to shuffle backward to the house, then back inside.

[00:46:09] [SPEAKER_02]: I know now that I'm not dealing with a human or my imagination.

[00:46:15] [SPEAKER_01]: You know what?

[00:46:15] [SPEAKER_00]: I am inclined to agree.

[00:46:17] [SPEAKER_02]: Me too.

[00:46:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Anyways, I'm going to follow this one closely and update you guys with any more info that

[00:46:22] [SPEAKER_02]: comes out.

[00:46:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I really wonder what it could have been.

[00:46:24] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to say it's a fun coincidence, but that's two stories this episode with

[00:46:29] [SPEAKER_00]: some weird whistling out in nature.

[00:46:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's right.

[00:46:32] [SPEAKER_02]: You read the one from Appalachia, a place that's very near and dear to our hearts on

[00:46:36] [SPEAKER_02]: the show.

[00:46:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah.

[00:46:39] [SPEAKER_00]: They both could just be some sort of mimic.

[00:46:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Your favorite?

[00:46:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Yep.

[00:46:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Whistling seems human enough.

[00:46:45] [SPEAKER_00]: And in at least the story I read, they specifically said it didn't sound like it came from a bird,

[00:46:50] [SPEAKER_00]: which was my first thought.

[00:46:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's just wonderful.

[00:46:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Good for them.

[00:46:56] [SPEAKER_00]: All I know is that apparently whistling is common in Appalachian folklore, which would

[00:47:00] [SPEAKER_00]: explain how their grandma knew that you're not supposed to whistle back.

[00:47:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Super creepy stuff.

[00:47:04] [SPEAKER_00]: I still want to go there, though.

[00:47:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, me too.

[00:47:07] [SPEAKER_02]: And not only that, you're apparently not supposed to be looking into the woods at night

[00:47:11] [SPEAKER_02]: because you'll either see something or something will definitely be looking back at you that

[00:47:16] [SPEAKER_02]: you won't want looking back at you.

[00:47:19] [SPEAKER_00]: That's just too many rules for me to follow.

[00:47:21] [SPEAKER_00]: I know they're there for a reason, but no promises.

[00:47:23] [SPEAKER_00]: We'll see what happens.

[00:47:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, you won't be able to peace out if you don't stay safe first.

[00:47:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Clever, clever.

[00:47:31] [SPEAKER_02]: We really do need to make some shirts and some merchandise.

[00:47:34] [SPEAKER_02]: I know we talk about it and it's been years since we started the podcast, but that would

[00:47:38] [SPEAKER_02]: be a perfect shirt.

[00:47:39] [SPEAKER_01]: This just stay safe and peace out.

[00:47:41] [SPEAKER_01]: With Odd Trails on the shirt pocket.

[00:47:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Done.

[00:47:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's perfect.

[00:47:45] [SPEAKER_01]: We got to figure out how to do that.

[00:47:46] [SPEAKER_01]: We'll figure it out.

[00:47:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we got it.

[00:47:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Thanks everybody so much for listening.

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[00:48:08] [SPEAKER_02]: We'll see you all next week, everyone.

[00:48:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Stay safe.

[00:48:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Peace out.