Frightening Hotel & Indiana Haunted House – Ep. 235

[00:00:00] [SPEAKER_02] Odd Trails is a true paranormal podcast. If you have a story to share, send it to stories at oddtrails.com. Enjoy the show.

[00:00:10] [SPEAKER_03] Forget facts. Forget logic. Forget everything that seems real. You just trust. Believe.

[00:00:58] [SPEAKER_01] Frightening Hotel Encounter by River Rabbit

[00:01:03] [SPEAKER_01] I'm a single woman who was recently traveling alone between Kentucky and New Jersey. It's a trip and route that I do fairly often. After driving about seven hours, I arrived at a hotel I stay at fairly frequently, located at the halfway point in West Virginia. I checked in and promptly climbed into bed, completely exhausted. The room was dark except for some light coming under the hallway door.

[00:01:32] [SPEAKER_01] Like a nightlight. I fell asleep pretty easily. At some point, I felt someone slide into bed beside me. I could feel the mattress shift with the person's movement and weight. I was confused, as I realized there shouldn't be anyone else in the room with me. Was this even real? I was in the same position I'd fallen asleep in, on my side facing the door. I tried to

[00:02:02] [SPEAKER_01] process what I was in the same position. Then I felt an arm slide over my body. I turned my head to look at who was next to me, and saw a man propped up on his elbow, looking down at me, while his other arm was draped over my body.

[00:02:20] [SPEAKER_01] His face was partially illuminated by the small amount of light coming from under the door. Everything else was dark. I didn't recognize him. He looked to be in his thirties. I'm certain I've never seen this man before. Obviously, I was terrified. I tried to stay calm and asked, Why are you doing this?

[00:02:45] [SPEAKER_01] He seemed amused. He tilted his head and gave a little smile before answering, Because you're human. At that point, I felt like, if this is real, I must be having an encounter with a total psychopath, and I have just one chance to act.

[00:03:06] [SPEAKER_01] I started screaming for help, and instantly, I was alone in a silent room. I was still in the same spot, with my heart pounding, confused, scared, and wondering what had just happened. Did I really scream? My throat felt like I had. How loud did I scream? Should I call the front desk to explain? Has someone already notified security?

[00:03:34] [SPEAKER_01] Everything was silent. My heart didn't stop pounding. Despite being about 4am, there was no way I was going back to sleep. I waited till the morning, and listened for the sounds of people in neighboring rooms leaving. Then I hurried out, so no one would connect me to the incident in this room, and I left the hotel. The man I saw that night felt old-fashioned for some reason.

[00:04:04] [SPEAKER_01] This seemed curious because I only saw his face. Everything else was in the shadows. I realized later, it was his hair. Thick and wavy, parted on the side, and kind of flattened on top. The way men would look when their hair was matted down, from wearing a hat all the time. He also had a mustache, and a sparse beard. When I got home two weeks later, I did some research.

[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_01] The hotel is part of a national chain, and I believed this location was fairly new. I looked for any history or stories related to the spot. Was it built on an old cemetery? Was it the site of a disaster or a battle? It turned out, the hotel was located 5 miles from the worst mining disaster in the history of the United States.

[00:05:00] [SPEAKER_01] In 1907, in Monongah, West Virginia, almost 400 men were killed in an explosion and collapse of two mines. Many people believed the death toll was much higher. Miners would often bring their young sons with them to help increase their production, and most of these boys worked off the record. There were unrecorded day workers, too.

[00:05:27] [SPEAKER_01] I've heard of lucid dreams, where a person has what feels like a very real experience, but they're aware that they're dreaming. What would this scenario be considered? It felt totally real. And I existed in that space before and after, exactly as I did in the dream. That's what made it so disturbing. Other than the man and his odd comment, there was none of the surrealism that usually happens in a dream.

[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_01] Any thoughts or suggestions you may have are welcomed. I don't know what to think about this experience. What I do know is this. I will never step foot in that hotel again.

[00:06:26] [SPEAKER_02] Weirdest Interaction by Low Sight 3317 This happened when I went to grab some coffee one morning at Tim Hortons. The line for the drive-thru was extremely long, so I decided to go inside. It was empty inside, aside from two men who appeared to be about 50 to 60 years old. They were sitting at a corner table. The men locked onto me as soon as I walked in, but this didn't strike me as too unusual.

[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_02] I just minded my business and ordered my coffee. While I was waiting, one of the men came up to me. He stood near me, so I moved out of the way and said, Oh, sorry, am I in your way? He replied, No, no, sorry. But can I show you something? I was obviously cautious about this, but I responded, Well, that depends on what it is. He then proceeded to show me the wallpaper on his phone,

[00:07:25] [SPEAKER_02] and it was a picture of a young woman who looked identical to me. I mean, seriously, she was identical. If he put us side by side, we could be twins. He told me that it was his daughter, and he was majorly taken aback when I walked in. I laughed and told him I agreed that his daughter and I looked uncannily similar, and asked for her name. He told me it was Jade. This was another blip on my what-the-fuck-is-happening radar.

[00:07:54] [SPEAKER_02] When I was a kid, I wished my name was Jade. All my gamer tags were variations of Jade with numbers after it, and when I played make-believe with friends, I always asked to be called Jade. I even told strangers my name was Jade. It was a strange obsession that I think a lot of kids have when they wish they were named something else. I just smiled and said that it was a very pretty name. He explained that she was in Hong Kong.

[00:08:24] [SPEAKER_02] I told him that sounded like it was a fun trip, and he proceeded to tell me this crazy story of how she was scammed into taking a package to China and got arrested in Hong Kong. This exact story actually happened about three years ago in a town four hours away to a woman that my family was loosely tied to. I looked at him and I said, You know, I want to be sympathetic, but are you fucking with me right now?

[00:08:53] [SPEAKER_02] He swore on the Bible and said that he wasn't trying to make me uncomfortable. He just had a hard time not talking about it. Now, I work inside the court system, specifically with mentally ill offenders and many struggling with addiction. I started to do my regular checks for signs of intoxication or mental health symptoms. The man seemed completely lucid. So I then assumed he must have been trying to distract me to pickpocket me or something.

[00:09:23] [SPEAKER_02] But we were in a good area and my belongings were still on me, so that theory quickly dissipated. This was when he started to tell me that his daughter wanted to get into law enforcement and he said that she was enrolled in the same school and discipline I recently graduated from. I'm not necessarily someone who looks like I work in the field that I do, and I definitely don't advertise it on my person. After that, he said that he wouldn't keep me any longer. He just shook my hand

[00:09:52] [SPEAKER_02] and said his name was Gary. He introduced his friend, who was sitting nearby, as Cameron, but explained that everyone calls him Taco Man because when he drinks, he likes to make tacos for everyone. I thought we were out of strange coincidences. But as it were, I also knew a quote-unquote Taco Man. My ex-boyfriend, whom I was with for a very long time, also liked to drink and make everyone tacos.

[00:10:21] [SPEAKER_02] Gary and Taco Man ended up leaving at the same time that I did. They held the door for me as I left, and I watched them get into a pretty nice, newer truck. I have never had so many coincidences with a complete stranger. It was extremely eerie and very unsettling.

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[00:12:20] [SPEAKER_01] Wrong number by James. My uncle passed away last month. I found out through a voicemail from my mom that I didn't listen to until almost midnight. Because I had my phone on silent during a work thing. By then, I'd already been out with some coworkers and had three beers on a mostly empty stomach. Which I mention only because it matters to how I processed the next 20 minutes. I took an Uber home and then went inside

[00:12:49] [SPEAKER_01] and started looking for this photograph. I don't even know why it felt urgent. It was just a picture of my uncle and my dad from sometime in the 80s standing in front of my grandpa's old truck. I hadn't thought about that photo in probably 15 years. It just surfaced in my mind, fully formed, the way random things do when someone dies and your brain starts indexing all the files it has on that person.

[00:13:19] [SPEAKER_01] I couldn't find the photo. I went through a box of stuff I'd moved from my last apartment and never unpacked. And it wasn't there. I checked a folder I keep some documents in. Nothing. At some point, I gave up and started making a sandwich since I hadn't had a real meal. Around 1am, I get this text from a number I didn't recognize. It said, Hey, it's Marcus.

[00:13:48] [SPEAKER_01] I think you left your sunglasses in my car. I can drop them off tomorrow if you give me your address. I didn't leave my sunglasses in anybody's car. So I started to text back. Sorry, wrong number. But, my uncle's name was Marcus. So something about the text hit me in a specific way. It's not a common or rare name, but not the name you expect to see at 1am, the same night you find out

[00:14:17] [SPEAKER_01] your uncle Marcus died. I don't know if that's proof of anything. Probably not. But still. I sat staring at the text for probably a full minute. Then I just wrote back, Sorry, wrong number. And the person replied, Oh, damn. I hope you're doing alright. That's the thing. Not, oops, sorry, and then nothing. Not just

[00:14:46] [SPEAKER_01] a thumbs up. Hope you're doing alright. from a stranger who texted me by accident at 1am on the night my uncle died and happened to share his name. None of my friends or co-workers knew about my uncle, and there aren't any pranksters in my family who would have sent me that message. I'm not someone who goes looking for signs or meanings in things. I like things that have actual explanations. But that night

[00:15:16] [SPEAKER_01] I sat with my phone in my hand for a long time and felt very clearly like something had reached toward me. Not in a comforting way, necessarily. More like the feeling when someone makes eye contact with you from across the room and you're not sure if they meant to or if they're looking at something behind you. That's the best way I can describe it. A few days later, I found the photograph. Out of all places,

[00:15:46] [SPEAKER_01] it was in the Bible my grandma got me when I was a teenager. I'm not very religious and I don't remember putting it in there, but I guess receiving that text and feeling a little gloomy about death led me to opening it. I've since told this story to the co-workers I went out with that night. One of them said it was grief making me see patterns, which is probably partially right. The other one said the universe

[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_01] was sending me a message, which felt like too much. I'm not even sure how it could be answered. Logically, it probably was just a coincidence, but it still feels like something more. I kept the number in my phone. I saved it as Marcus Wrong Number, which is accurate. I never sent a second text, and I probably won't, but I can't bring myself

[00:16:45] [SPEAKER_01] to delete it.

[00:17:02] [SPEAKER_02] An Odd Encounter by Ilanek This happened when my best friend and I were out running errands. We went into one store and the cashier said, Oh my god, are you guys sisters? You look alike. We told the cashier that we used to get that a lot when we were younger, but we hadn't heard it in years. We then went to the next store and the cashier at that store asked us if we were sisters and remarked that we looked a lot alike. We told the cashier again we hadn't

[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_02] heard that in years, but thought that it was interesting that we heard it twice in one day. Well, after that, we got in the car and started driving through town. We were just chatting. We were both saying how funny it was that we were told we looked alike twice after not hearing that in about ten years. Now, when we're together, conversations can get silly. We just talk about anything, and for some reason we started talking about the dentist and asked each other if we still had our wisdom teeth and tonsils.

[00:18:02] [SPEAKER_02] This will come up again later. We then got back to the house and parked on the street. To get to my house, you have to go down the whole street and then turn around to park on the right side of the road. So we went down the whole street and turned around, which meant that we saw the entire street. At this time, we didn't see anybody except for ourselves. It was cold outside, and it wasn't common for people to be walking around like this. So we got out of the car and we walked up my driveway,

[00:18:32] [SPEAKER_02] which was a long driveway to the left of the house, and we were about three-quarters of the way there when we heard someone call out to us saying, Hey, girls! We turned around and there was a boy. He looked to be maybe 15 or 16. He was walking up the driveway with us. Not in the street, not at the end of the driveway, but just a couple of feet away from us. I was immediately sketched out because I knew there was no one on the street, yet suddenly this kid

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_02] was standing right next to us in my driveway. I was instantly in protective mode and very confused. We began saying hi, and then he asked, Can we be friends? How old are you? Initially, we didn't respond because we didn't know what to say. We had no clue who he was or where he came from. He then proceeded to say, You girls look alike. Are you sisters?

[00:19:30] [SPEAKER_02] This sent us into fight-or-flight mode. I noticed my friend was kind of baffled. We then told him we were just best friends. I was very confused because, This was now the third time we got this comment today. The kid then asked, Do you know what I want to be when I grow up? Without even waiting for us to guess, he continued, I want to be a dentist. Then he asked, Do you girls have your wisdom teeth? How about your tonsils?

[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_02] For some odd reason, we both answered these questions, and then he asked, Can I see? Open your mouths. I was not opening my mouth, but my best friend decided to open hers. I grabbed her though and told her we had to go and we ran inside. We were then sitting on the couch in complete shock, not even able to speak. My boyfriend was just as thoroughly confused because he watched all of this from the window

[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_02] and asked who the kid was. We told him we had no idea. We didn't even know where he came from. Fast forward a few days later, I came home from work and my boyfriend said that the kid came back looking for us. When my boyfriend said that we weren't there, he said he was going to come back another day. Well, I never saw him again. To this day, we don't know where he came from, why he asked us those questions, and why he also talked about dental stuff

[00:20:58] [SPEAKER_02] like we did earlier that day.

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[00:23:13] [SPEAKER_01] My girlfriend and I moved into a rental house in March of this year. It was cheap for the area, which we knew should have been a red flag. But we looked into it. The previous owner had just died there. Old age, in the bedroom. And the family wanted it gone fast. That's not the kind of thing that bothers me. People die in houses. It's a normal thing that happens. The first few months were fine. We painted, got furniture,

[00:23:42] [SPEAKER_01] all the usual stuff. The only thing I noticed early on was that the hallway outside the bedroom always felt colder than the rest of the house. I figured it was an insulation issue. Airflow from somewhere. I didn't think about it much. The first real thing happened in early May. I was home alone on a Saturday afternoon, reading on the couch. Not half asleep, not in that suggestible state

[00:24:11] [SPEAKER_01] where you talk yourself into things. Just sitting there in normal daylight. And I heard, clearly from the kitchen, the sound of a cabinet closing. The specific sound of a cabinet being pushed shut by a hand. I went in and checked. Nothing was open, and nothing was out of place. I went back to the couch, and after a while, talked myself into settling. My girlfriend heard footsteps in the hallway.

[00:24:41] [SPEAKER_01] She texted me while I was at work. Is it normal that this house makes a lot of noise? I said old houses settle in Creek. She said it was footsteps, and she knew what footsteps sounded like. I didn't have anything useful to say to that. What's hard to explain is that neither of us have ever felt threatened. This doesn't end with us calling it haunted and moving out. The feeling in the house is more like someone else

[00:25:11] [SPEAKER_01] also lives here, and mostly keeps to themselves. Not a comfortable feeling exactly, but not too scary either. I started noticing other things. The TV in the living room would sometimes be on a different input than what we left it, tuned to the local antenna channels instead of the streaming input we always use. That's happened maybe five or six times. The small lamp in the hallway,

[00:25:39] [SPEAKER_01] that same cold hallway, would occasionally be on in the morning when we were sure we'd turned it off. It was the kind where you have to push the switch from the left to the right, and it clicked into place, so I don't think it was an electrical malfunction. It happened so much that we ended up leaving it unplugged. The daughter of the woman who died here introduced herself while we were touring the house. She mentioned that her mother had loved that house and did not want

[00:26:09] [SPEAKER_01] to go into assisted living. She fought it until she couldn't live alone safely anymore. She said it matter-of-factly, but there was something underneath it. I think about that sometimes. Dying somewhere else when the place you wanted to be was still standing and had other people in it. As I mentioned, we still live here. My girlfriend and I both hear the cabinet closing pretty periodically. We've also had the doorbell ring

[00:26:39] [SPEAKER_01] a few times, and nobody was there, and our doorbell camera didn't pick anybody up. Could this place actually be haunted, or are there explanations for all of it?

[00:27:07] [SPEAKER_02] I moved into an extremely haunted house in Indiana by Big Analyst 8704. I moved into a house in Indiana a few months ago. It seemed perfect at the time, not too big, not too small, decent price, quiet neighborhood. The moment I walked in and shut the door, though, I felt something was wrong. It was this heavy, uneasy feeling in my chest, like the house

[00:27:36] [SPEAKER_02] didn't want me there. I chalked it up to stress from moving and just started unpacking. The very first full day, I went into the kitchen and I found one of the upper cabinets wide open. I distinctly remembered closing it earlier. I shut it again and thought that maybe the latch was loose. The next day, I was in the living room when I heard the cabinet creak open and then shut by itself.

[00:28:06] [SPEAKER_02] I walked in and it was open again. I kept telling myself it was just an old house thing. That night, things got real. I was lying in bed when I heard slow footsteps in the hallway. Not normal walking, slow, dragging steps, like somebody sneaking around. They would stop right outside my bedroom door for what felt like minutes. Now,

[00:28:36] [SPEAKER_02] I live completely alone. I don't have pets or roommates. I just lay there, frozen, listening. This happened almost every night after that. Then, the nightmare started and that's when I knew something was seriously wrong. The first bad one, I woke up from screaming. In the dream, I was in my bed but the room was freezing. I looked up and a man

[00:29:05] [SPEAKER_02] was hanging from the ceiling right above me. Rope around his neck, body swaying. His face was purple and swollen, eyes bulging open, staring straight down at me. His head slowly turned even though his neck was clearly broken and he opened his mouth like he was trying to say my name. I woke up gasping, covered in sweat. After that, the hanging man was in nearly every nightmare.

[00:29:35] [SPEAKER_02] Sometimes he would be hanging in the hallway when I tried to run, sometimes in the kitchen, dripping something dark. One of the worst ones. He was hanging inches above my face, the rope was creaking, there was black liquid dropping from his mouth onto me. His cold, dead fingers brushed my cheek right before I jolted awake. That morning, I had three fresh scratches across my chest

[00:30:05] [SPEAKER_02] that weren't there when I went to sleep. I got scared enough that I bought a bunch of wooden crosses and I hung them up all over the house. One right above my bed, one above the front door, one in the hallway, one in the kitchen. Listen, I'm not even super religious, I just figured it couldn't hurt. However, it made things worse. A couple of nights later, I woke up to a loud thump. The cross above my bed was on the floor,

[00:30:36] [SPEAKER_02] turned completely upside down. The nail was still sticking in the wall. I hung it back up straight. The next day, the hallway cross was upside down. Then the kitchen one. No matter how many times I fixed them, they were inverted again. One afternoon, I came home from the store and every single cross in the house was flipped upside down at the same time. That really shook me.

[00:31:04] [SPEAKER_02] The activity kept escalating. Cabinets would slam so loud it sounded like they were going to break. Footsteps followed me from room to room, even during the day. I would feel ice-cold hands grab my shoulder or brush the back of my neck. The whispers turned into clitest clear voices saying my name and telling me to stay. Sometimes I'd hear laughing, low and nasty, coming from inside the walls.

[00:31:32] [SPEAKER_02] The final straw came one night when I woke up at around 3 a.m. to find every cabinet in the kitchen slamming open and shut at the same time, fast, like something was raging. When I got up to check, the hanging man was standing in the hallway, fully visible. He wasn't in a dream this time. He took a dragging step forward. I ran back to my room, locked the door,

[00:32:02] [SPEAKER_02] and didn't come out until daylight. That same morning, I found new scratches all over my arms. I couldn't take it anymore. The fear was constant. I was barely sleeping, jumping at every sound, and I felt like I was losing my mind. Two days later, I packed up whatever I could as fast as possible, loaded up the car, and got out of there. I didn't even clean the place or give proper notice. I just left the keys on the counter and drove away.

[00:32:47] [SPEAKER_02] Alright, jumping right into the feedback again, this week we've got Spawn Princess referencing last week's episode. I hope this is not a strange request, but would you guys say hi to my pups, Anna and Shadow?

[00:33:00] [SPEAKER_01] Aww.

[00:33:01] [SPEAKER_02] One day I was listening to the show, and when they heard your voices, they completely calmed down and just laid there listening. Now they love falling asleep to your podcast so much that I signed up for Patreon so that they can listen at bedtime love your podcast.

[00:33:16] [SPEAKER_01] Well, hello, Anna and Shadow. Hope you're being good pups. I'm sure you are.

[00:33:21] [SPEAKER_02] Yeah, good puppies, good babies, Anna and Shadow. I'll talk to you guys like I talk to my dogs. Aww, good babies.

[00:33:28] [SPEAKER_01] Little sweeties. M-m-m-m-m-m-m-m. That's me nibbling at their necks.

[00:33:38] [SPEAKER_02] Our dogs are babies, like we've babied them since they were puppies, especially Gadget, the youngest one. We do that now just to make her act like a baby. We'll go, it's okay, and she'll start acting all bashful and stuff. It's so cute.

[00:33:49] [SPEAKER_01] Man, I love dogs. Yeah, they really are the best. I wish I had more patience for them, so I think that's probably why I default to being a cat man. What else do we have

[00:33:59] [SPEAKER_02] for comments? Little Red Spark, referencing 233. I hate to be that person, but it's more likely that the plane had cloaking technology. Making things invisible to varying degrees isn't as far-fetched as you might think. No, not at all. I wasn't aware that making things invisible or cloaked was actually a technology. Yeah,

[00:34:22] [SPEAKER_01] active camouflage is a real thing in principle. Like, cameras can read the background, then LEDs or adaptive panels can shift the surface to blend in. But for aircraft specifically, it'd be more useful to stay off of a radar, being able to fly high enough to do some recon or drop some bombs outside of view. I thought that was just a movie thing. Yeah, I mean, both things can be true. Hm. Let's see. Frightening Hotel Encounter by River Rabbit. When it said,

[00:34:51] [SPEAKER_01] because you're human, I'm thinking maybe he wasn't human. Obviously, it goes without saying, but he could have been previously a human and just wants to stir up chaos now because he gets in bed, gets all cozy and creepy. So maybe he or it just wanted to give her like a false sense of comfort before completely freaking her out for whatever reason, no matter what, it was a bad spirit, human or not. Oh yeah, bad spirit for sure. Yep. And as for whether or not it was actually sleep related

[00:35:20] [SPEAKER_01] or something actually paranormal, I think the sensations and all the visual aspects that she felt, it was completely real, obviously. And even with things like she had mentioned how lucid dreaming can feel more than real, same with OBEs, we're aware of those things well after the fact that it was an out-of-body experience, it was a lucid dream.

[00:35:40] [SPEAKER_02] Right.

[00:35:41] [SPEAKER_01] So maybe this thing tapped into her dream realm or whatever dimension that we kind of coexist with, you know what I mean?

[00:35:49] [SPEAKER_02] Yeah, my brain automatically goes to that in most of these stories just because I'm more familiar with astral projection, out-of-body experiences, lucid dreaming, obviously, than I am anything else that we talk about on this show. So I always relate it to that type of stuff and it definitely

[00:36:07] [SPEAKER_01] seems like that. similar to that, I'd highly recommend anybody check out the Soft White Underbelly channel on the guys' near-death experience. It's a, yeah, it gave me chills when we find out who Drake is and you'll know what I mean when you get to that part. Really, really good. Probably my favorite one I've heard so far.

[00:36:26] [SPEAKER_02] I find those to be really interesting and really entertaining. We talked about this. The only people that get possessed by like demons are those that either believe in Catholicism or God or something like that or at least they're aware of the dogma. They are more predisposed to that so they're the ones that end up being quote-unquote possessed and it seems like a lot of people that have these near-death experiences, a lot of their experiences are kind of closely tied to their previous beliefs in their life

[00:36:54] [SPEAKER_02] or at least their familiar culture and I'm not saying that that doesn't mean near-death experiences are real but your brain does produce a ton of DMT during these near-death experiences and it could very well all just be hallucinations based on people's past experiences. However, there are a lot that seem to line up with each other. There's always like the life review that people talk about.

[00:37:23] [SPEAKER_01] And how you feel the emotions of other people, how you've impacted them. Like what you said, even if they're not part of that belief system, they're at least aware but regardless of that, you can have an atheist, a Christian, a Muslim, all have a near-death experience that's pretty much 90% completely aligned with each other which is pretty substantial.

[00:37:43] [SPEAKER_02] Yeah. And then you have people that don't have any experience. I'm more convinced that it could be just like a dump of DMT and a bunch of familiar ideals that are kind of forming in your brain as you're dying. However, I mean, it's impossible to say no, these people are not having real experiences. These are just hallucinations based on DMT. You know, I'm not saying that. I'm more skeptical of NDEs but that's just me. That's new Andy. That's 2026 Andy.

[00:38:13] [SPEAKER_02] He's skeptical and cynical.

[00:38:15] [SPEAKER_01] Yeah. I would imagine that the DMT trips would correlate more with NDEs but they really don't. They're more like geometric things and meeting specific entities and it's more how you would imagine a psychedelic trip being rather than a life review too.

[00:38:30] [SPEAKER_02] Yeah, the life the life review scares me. I don't want a life review, man.

[00:38:34] [SPEAKER_01] Yeah, hope that goes by quick. Can we just yeah, fast forward and do like the warm peaceful hugging kumbaya and yeah,

[00:38:42] [SPEAKER_02] I don't think there's a single person on this earth that wants to have a life review and see all the bad things that they did. It's a coming. So my two stories that I want to talk about, they were both being considered for let's not meet but they were just there were just too many coincidences and high strangeness that it had to go to odd trails. There was no way that like people and let's not meet would probably complain because they're like this should be on odd trails

[00:39:12] [SPEAKER_02] and I want to talk about that weirdest interaction story by low sight three three one seven.

[00:39:19] [SPEAKER_01] Yeah, I liked it a lot too. Just don't ask to look inside of my mouth. That's all I'll say.

[00:39:23] [SPEAKER_02] Yeah, yeah. Unless this was some kind of elaborate prank involving multiple strangers and bugging their car or phones which is very unlikely because nothing really happened. Something very strange is happening here. It's not just a bunch of coincidences. This is way too many coincidences for this to not be high strangeness. Plus the boyfriend saw what happened through the window

[00:39:53] [SPEAKER_02] kid. So it wasn't like something that only the girls experienced. There was a third party that could corroborate everything and that kid scares the shit out of me because he actually comes back like some mafia to like collect their tonsils, you know.

[00:40:09] [SPEAKER_01] And who's to say that it really was a kid? It could have been some weird entity thing trying to present as a kid.

[00:40:15] [SPEAKER_02] Yeah, it kind of makes me think of the black eyed kids that are like can I come inside and use your phone?

[00:40:20] [SPEAKER_01] Yeah, selling candy bars door to door or something.

[00:40:23] [SPEAKER_02] Wow, yeah, I hadn't thought of that until just now. That could totally be a black eyed kid experience. I'm going to write to them and see if I can find out if there is anything physically odd about the kids because usually they're called black eyed kids because they have all black pupils.

[00:40:37] [SPEAKER_01] Yeah, like in Tyler the Creator's music video. And who or the other one, the South African band, they did the same thing.

[00:40:44] [SPEAKER_02] Oh yeah, Deant Ward. Yeah, yeah. That's so weird that you would bring that up because I hadn't thought of them in years and all of a sudden two days ago I started listening to one of their albums. Hey, same here, like two days

[00:40:57] [SPEAKER_01] ago, I'm not even kidding.

[00:40:58] [SPEAKER_02] Whoa, I don't even know what spurred it. It was so random, I don't know.

[00:41:02] [SPEAKER_01] Weird.

[00:41:03] [SPEAKER_02] Odd coincidence indeed. Yeah. And then the other one, the next story that was supposed to be a Let's Not Meet story, this one's from Ilanek, the Odd Encounter story. So if this happened to me, it would definitely push me over the edge. I don't know how I could hold on to reality if somebody presented all of these seemingly impossible coincidences, how they know all of these things about my life. They, you know, they've got the picture of the little girl. The name Jade is the most disturbingly accurate

[00:41:33] [SPEAKER_02] coincidence here. It's like a fairly uncommon name, too. I don't think I've ever met anyone named Jade. Me either. I just want to know who this Gary guy is. I can totally understand why the author didn't want to press more, too. It's like when something is that jarring, your body is telling you something isn't right. You just want to get out of that situation immediately. Your intuition always knows. But then you look back on your experience and you kick yourself for

[00:42:02] [SPEAKER_02] not trying to get to the bottom of it and get more information or at least talk to the person more. I can't tell you how many times I've been weirded out by somebody where I look back and I'm like, man, I wish I would have got more info because I have a lot of questions.

[00:42:14] [SPEAKER_01] Yeah, I really want to know who Gary is for sure. It reminds me of the whole lincidence thing from a couple episodes ago. Maybe it was even last episode. Yeah. It's one of those things, just too much synchronicity. This would have been some extreme psy-op gang-stalking thing to learn about the college that she graduated from and all this stuff. There's just too much.

[00:42:37] [SPEAKER_02] Yeah, and this is exactly like the sister's story. Why do they know these things? Why are they saying these things? Why did they know what they were talking about in the car? It's all just too weird. Those are the two that I wanted to talk about this week. Well,

[00:42:56] [SPEAKER_01] I'm glad. Those were good ones.

[00:42:58] [SPEAKER_02] Yeah. But we should probably wrap it up here, because you and I are both short on time, but I'm so glad you all stuck to the end. If you got any stories to share, you want to hear them on the show, make sure you send them to stories at oddtrails.com. Sign up for our Patreon at patreon.com forward slash oddtrails to get ad-free versions of all of the episodes at a higher bit rate, and check out the new episodes of my other podcasts, Let's Not Meet and the Old Time Radio Cast. We'll see you next week. Stay safe. Peace out.

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