When Coincidences Aren’t Coincidences | Dreams, Possessions & Paranormal Encounters (x167)

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very spooky it's a simulation it's not me whoever is in charge of me it's growing up today it's always someone else's fault hi simulations two girls and we are your ghostesses that is Corinne hello and I'm Sabrina and this is an encounters episode and it's an extra special encounters episode because we're gonna get to reading your stories but before we do that we have the OG paranormal podcaster Jim Harold of Jim Harold campfire stories

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of Jim Harold's up of everything he has so many different podcasts and I mean Jim was podcasting before probably everyone here even knew what a podcast was like yes oh gee oh gee he's like the Art Bell of of podcasting he is he is so we were so excited we got to sit down with him we shared a couple stories that he is posting on his podcast uh Jim Harold's campfire stories and we collected a ghost story from him which we're gonna play as the first encounter in this episode yes so without further ado Jim Harold

Jim Harold's paranormal story

Jim we're happy to have you and we're obsessed with your background well thank you thank you Corinne Sabrina thank you for joining me uh or joining asking me to be on your show and vice versa and all that stuff you know what I mean but thank you it's good to be here and uh just love meeting other

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podcasters on the Paranormal and the Supernatural and just talking spooky stuff yeah caramel Pals paranormal palsy I do have to ask you is that an alien mask or is it a actually actually one of my listeners a gentleman from uh you can follow him on Instagram Infinity masks he made the Frankenstein mask behind me and the alien mask he's over in the UK he is so good I mean it's like that's talent level stuff yeah a lot of talent wow so those guys I I like having him on set that I do so alone yeah we did tell you episodes with them on we did tell you this when we first met before recording that we aspire to have a background just like yours one day it is so so cool while other than the masks just go buy a bunch of junk yeah you'll have it but uh no I like I I tell people it's not a green screen

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it's not a green screen and said no we didn't think uh it was a green screen because who would come up with such a background but anyway and I switch it up from time to time I promise I got too much stuff and so so I rotate stuff in and out and stuff and that's a lot of fun oh we love it so you said that you had a few experiences with the Paranormal as well yeah but you know the thing is is that my experiences with the Paranormal are more reaffirming and they're kind of subtle um you know I've never seen like uh Corinne we were talking on your show uh or my show and uh Sabrina we were talking as well about your experience with the orbs the evil orb and the good orb and and Korean knew with the forefoot team yeah I've never had anything I've never had anything like that either it's been positive or it's like I think saved me from something oh wait but those are the best experiences people always want a paranormal experience and to have those signs and

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to have the divine intervention like yeah that's just as incredible well one of my favorite stories and it's not scary so I'm sorry everybody you don't want to hear scary uh but one of them was I was on a paranormal Cruise about what now gosh six years ago doing another one this spring which is gonna apparently Cruise yeah yeah yeah like uh speakers and stuff and all that stuff I was a speaker on it and uh anyway what happened was is I was going to speak that day and I had a cold you know my luck I got just go on this cruise and I have a cold so I went to the cafe and the boat to get um get some coffee and um I was coming back and I had to walk through the the casino on the boat because they put it right next to the conference room so you have to walk through it yeah and there was this one guy who was attending in our group not a speaker but one of the attendees who was playing like this crane game it was a crane like a claw that came down and grabbed money

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and I I had a big thought of my late Uncle who was like a second dad to me and very very close to me and he had passed a few years earlier and because my uncle used to love to go when he went to like a big box store or something he'd love to play that thing with the stuffed toys and the cream you know where the crane goes down he like spent ten dollars on it and just you know and he didn't care about he wanted to beat the machine so he didn't care about having the toy just give it to some kid or something yeah but anyway point being I'm like oh gosh I wish you were here because he loved playing that stupid crane game not only that he liked he was kind of person casual Gambler not anything serious but he liked to buy the lotto tickets or do a scratch off or play the football pool or wherever it was nothing big but you know a little stuff and I'm like this would be great it's gambling and it's the crane game it would be so nice if he were here no sooner I had that thought this woman walks over by the machine she cups her

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hand to her mouth and says John John name of my uncle yeah that's I I just got it again when I told it and um you know and then somebody walked over I guess it was her husband or significant other or whatever walked over and they were they were back together but what are the chances I was walking through this thing I see this guy playing this game I think of my uncle and then somebody comes up to the machine and like yells out his name yeah I mean yeah I know the Skeptics are gonna say oh that's a bunch of BS that's just you know whatever um but um I gotta tell you it struck a chord with me yeah and we try to do this on the campfire show I mean there are plenty of scary stories there are plenty of scary stories but there's also a lot of ones that are reaffirming whether it's a communication uh from a loved one or maybe somebody is saved from some Tragedy by something that happened uh

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and they're scary ones too we have our demons too so we try to cover a wide uh kind of swath of it yeah definitely and I also feel like with your story it's and I we say this a lot on our show there there's no such thing as coincidences like there that is too many coincidences for it to be too much yeah I think it was Yogi the famous baseball player like even before I was born if you can believe that Yogi Berra who said it's too much of a coincidence to be a coincidence and I think that that's what you're dealing with here it's just like come on come on that wasn't it yeah no yeah I think that's what your loved ones hope that you'll recognize too right like to give you those signs in the in a way that you'll be receptive to them and not spooked bingo bingo I think that they find things you know to somebody else that would have meant nothing yeah but to me specifically it meant something because of the significance of this silly claw machine I mean it could have been anything but it was something

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that was very much him in fact one Christmas I got him a little toy one so it was like really it was really like a thing it was really a thing yeah it was the symbol of his life of his presence yeah the claw machine kind of a weird thing but it is so yeah very nice wow oh that's amazing and to experience it on a spooky Cruise which I feel like that's true too which I feel like crin you and I need to look into paranormal cruises that sounds so cool I know Jim next time you speak on one let us know well we might be buying tickets yeah there you go there you go excellent well do you want to tell everyone where to find campfire yeah absolutely absolutely if you like real people explaining their stories telling their stories and there's some scary ones too it's Jim Harold's campfire Jim Harold's campfire you can find it on all the pie catchers and everything out there been doing this show since 2009 and that wasn't even my

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first paranormal podcast I started back in 1905 almost it feels like 2000 two time traveler vampires yeah well uh I'm old enough to be one but uh 2005 it was the Paranormal podcast and keep doing that show they can check that out too but Jim Harold's campfire is the one I think your listeners will love the most if they like to hear real people telling their real stories we do about 90 minutes of that every week it's uh at jimherald.com and also on all your podcasters I have a podcast Spotify I heart Stitcher pretty much all of those guys it's amazing great yeah thank you so much for sharing your story with us and everyone go check out Jim Harold campfire okay I have

Dream-themed listener stories

a few that I picked out because I feel like we've been talking a lot about dreams but not giving enough attention to the emails that we get about dreams oh so it's a little bit of

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a dream themed encounters episode for me dream theme I like dream theme yes okay this is from zanga and it's called so I can tell the future oh cool I know I'm a very new listener to your podcast but I really love having a One-Stop shop for all spooky stories this story isn't scary or creepy so much as it's eerie and very coincidental my mom has always said I am quote a bit witchy I have frequent Deja Vu and dreams that come true a few months ago I had a dream that I was driving my family's car and the brakes weren't working I was panicked and I was trying to think through what I should do so I decided that I should put the car into park just so I can stop the car I reach towards the gear shift and I'm immediately woken up by a loud knock at my door I bolt upright and I run to the top of the stairs that Overlook the front door my mom has got there first and has opened up the door to a police

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officer he tells her that someone has hit our car and called the police so my mom goes to sort this all out and luckily there weren't any major damages to either vehicle I live on a dead end Street and there's only one way to get in there's one alley that runs through it apparently while dispatchers were arriving one of the police cars were driving down the wrong direction of this one-way Street and was hit by a second police car now this is weird but later in the day I learned that that exact night my dad had a dream that he was running alongside a car that I was driving in his dream the brakes weren't working and he was telling me to put the car in park I'm not sure if it's a giant coincidence or not but my dad has also had some really weird predictive dreams I've also found a few pictures of someone who looks exactly like him in places that he's never been or ever seen since he's been alive well I'm not sure if that counts for anything but I thought it was a bit strange another weird dream car situation this

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past weekend I had a dream about an acquaintance of mine that no longer goes to school with me and we'll call them Robin I don't remember much from the dream but we were painting their bedroom and then we drove around for a while typically when people appear in my dreams that I don't normally see in my dreams this means that something terrible is about to or has recently happened in their lives oh no I have a friend at school who knows Robin and so the other day I asked if they were all right and she explained and then I explained the dream situation my other friend told me that Robin recently got into a car accident and is okay but obviously a bit traumatized story two I was at Camp I was a camp counselor this summer and my last night at Camp my cabin me had a very strange experience she told me that she woke up in the middle of the night and looked at the clock and it was 3 A.M she woke up to a giggling sound right by her ear

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there was no one there then she heard whatever it was walk around to the cavern several times before heading to sit on the bunk right by her head no then she heard scribbling for the rest of the night like someone was writing very excitedly needless to say she did not go back to sleep she was in the bunk bed beneath me and so I'm so glad I didn't experience anything see you on the other side zanka Vega I don't even know where to start um okay it seems like Vega is not only connected to like some premonition world but also to cars specifically cars yes and I'm glad that the first experience it wasn't a premonition that zaga was going to be driving and that happened to zaga like I'm glad it was just a version of understanding that there was going to be a yeah their car was going to hit well it's really interesting too because zangas

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dad had the same dream but from a different perspective like Zango was in the car car's not stopping has to put the car in park to stop the car like breaks brakes aren't working and then zenga's Dad has a dream of him being outside of the car the car is not stopping the brakes aren't working instrux is then going to put the car in park yeah I have no idea I mean clearly they are connected in some way and I also need to see these photos of zenga's dad or his doppelganger oh I know I know that's so creepy and it's also weird because it's like these dreams obviously dreams have meaning and dreams can be predictive and sort of like yeah but it's it's interesting to me that Zenga and her dad and her dad having like basically a known doppelganger around had the same dream that wasn't exactly what had happened in that moment so it's weird that there was like either dream

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meaning that they had to dissect that was the same dream but like not an actual example of what truly happened or is this a predictive dream that they don't realize is actually gonna happen in the future I really hope not don't put that out there or maybe maybe it's happening to her to zenga's to their job you're trying you're trying to walk it back are you trying to walk it back I'm gonna put the put it all on the doppelganger maybe it's happening to the doppelganger of their dad okay or it's it truly is just the connection because the coincidence or the coincidental nature of them both having that dream that night and then waking up to their car getting hit like that to me is too coincidental that can't be a coincidence um so I hope that that's all it was and then I'm glad Robin's okay and that they were not I mean a car accidents are terrifying

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but that they were okay afterwards and then what the heck was scribbling and giggling angry journaling just what happened at camp tonight gossip gossip gossip which could that be I mean the giggling and the scribbling like the journaling drawing or whatever it is like could that could that be a residual haunting that's just at the camp sure yeah that's possible I I prefer that over an entity yeah I mean it's totally scary and for it to sit down and to feel the pressure the weight of the spirit that's what's scary about the residual hauntings too it's like it's one thing to see and to hear it but to to feel the actual like pressure of of the space around you being changed and manipulating manipulated that is what freaks me out of it like that you know what we should

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do but we should ask people to send us video recording or it's not video audio recordings of them doing the creepiest laugh that they can do [Laughter] and compile them together we should wait Sabrina let's do that for yes I was thinking October but I don't know if I can wait till October but we should have like a special like the giggly episode where we cover some creepy like circus clown stories and then we just have like a laugh track of everybody's creepiest laughs in the background okay start sending us your creepiest laughs and title it creepy laughs and title it creepy laugh and actually do this please because if we if we get a bunch of laughs we'll be able to actually we'll do it because we can just do we can tell stories of like creepy kids laughing like we we can find stories where there is creepy laughter I'm sure plenty oh

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I'm sure oh a cacophony of creepy laughs so

Family spirits and a viewing

I did not go with dreams it wasn't intended to be a themed and then we got there I'm gonna tell you the subject line but I will caveat with this is actually a kind of good story so this is from our listener Rachel and the subject line is my husband got possessed at his grandmother's viewing hello spooky gals I know I like how you're like how could this be good it makes your grandma possess him I don't know well we're about to find out hello spooky gals I adore your podcast and feel like you're my soul sisters I'm an only child and I've been listening for about a month now this was back in December so this happened in 2014 when my

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husband's Grandma passed and we were having her viewing the night before her funeral a little bit of a backstory Grandma Mirna had three kids our Aunt Susan Uncle Don and my sweet mother-in-law Sheila Dawn had been cut out of Grandma's will a long time ago because he was stealing money from her and in general was a pretty bad person so it was around 9pm and people were thinning out and we had stepped out for my husband to have a to have a cigarette and all of a sudden we heard a commotion inside the building so we run in and Uncle Don and his wife are screaming at his sisters and at Grandma's body the wife says that when she found out that Grandma had passed away she's saying ding dong the witch is dead because grandma was mean to her Donnie this woman is a and has always been nasty to Grandma Mirna oh it's awful so while they're screaming at

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the family my husband stands up and I look over to him and his eyes were completely different like a different color his face was not his and he kind of puffed his chest and yelled at the uncle and Aunt in his bellowing inhuman voice saying get the out of here over and over again until my husband his brother and cousin made a human line and basically pushed Dawn and his wife out of the room when they finally left my husband collapsed into his brother's arms and has zero recollection of what had just happened oh my God we talk about it time and time again and we're sure that it was possibly his grandfather protecting us but honestly who knows that's I kind of had that thought too yeah because someone else coming in to defend the honor of Grandma yeah

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another little story from August of 2020 my family went camping in the Wasatch I think that's my science mountains near Huntsville Utah and we had a fantastic spot near a creek my son is obsessed with Bigfoot and the second morning we were there he starts yelling for my husband and I to come look at something he found he found clumps of fur red brown black and a turkey feather so apparently Bigfoot was hungry and sheds a lot I have so many stories and we'll be sending more in soon sending lots of spooky love and see you on the other side Rachel I love I love that there are little little Bigfoot Hunters out there right that's so cool the next generation of Bigfoot Hunters the Next Generation wow I mean okay well this story I understand because I've had relatives too where

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like not everybody gets along and there are some people who probably would have other relatives yell out ding dong the witch is dead if they died you know but it's so tough and like inappropriate to have that type of energy at a funeral and at a service and so I understand that like someone some sort of protective Spirit did come through and channel through him to basically defend grandma and to be like yeah no like what the f is happening like this is a family event like put some respect on her name get the F out of here you're not welcome here and the fact that they were yelling at the Grandma's body like oh how vile and ill-spirited do you have to be to go yeah it's very gross yell at your mother I mean if you're acting so

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inappropriately that a spirit has to possess someone's body to reprimand you you were wrong you were in the wrong I also think it's like I I'm imagining this like beautiful little scene happening on the other side between Grandma Mirna and the grandfather her husband like he's finally so thrilled to have her join him on the other side it's I don't know how long it had been where they were not together but he's blessed and happy to have her they're reunited again and they're watching their family gather at this viewing and all of a sudden Don and his wife walk in and Grandpa's like I got this and comes down to fight for her honor because how upsetting she must have been too UPS upset she must have been in that situation too like watching from Beyond you know like something about to happen

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something happening that's rude and mean-spirited I would have I don't want little grandmas to cry in in the sky no no wait I don't know why but that makes me think of a children's book like Grandma's crying in the sky oh so you do everything to make sure that you live your life in a way that Grandma won't cry in the sky yeah depends on your grandma you know just thinking maybe not the best maybe not the best words to live by for everybody and we learn a lot Generation by generation people like that's very true yeah

Fluff and food talk

okay I have is story that is called what the fluff does this mean oh oh speaking we're gonna did you ever have fluff growing up yes I did and in fact I live only a mile

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away from where fluff was founded and they have a Fluff Festival every year in Somerville Massachusetts I want to go what does it entail uh there's a lot of different vendors who come and they incorporate fluff as an ingredient in their dishes so like if you were to go get empanadas you might get like a chocolate and fluff Empanada or like a fluff-filled cupcake at the cupcake spot or you know stuff like that they just incorporate it in a few of their dishes sometimes usually like decor and so fluffer Nutter sort of my feet mouth is watering I loved when I opened my lunch box and I had a Fluff a Nutter fluff and peanut butter sandwich waiting for me it was a good day when that happened a good day a special day very yes fluff let's not forget it's

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pretty sticky and so when you put it with peanut butter although delicious like that was that was like a choking hazard I feel like I could never open my mouth it was glued together I don't know why but I really now want to do a patreon like special where you and I take a bite of a Fluff another sandwich and then try to talk mukbang that's gonna be our mukbang episode [Laughter]

Dream visitation and closure

okay hey there ghosts this is I am a new listener after listening to the collab with The morphod Morbid girls hey shout out Lena and Ash I decided to give your podcast a shot my name is Liliana and my story is about dreams that I have no idea what they mean why I had them so a little back story now Once Upon a Time a girl was dumb young and in love and hoping to marry her high school sweetheart oh she ended up

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leaving that annoying bad boy Liam and thought that she was done with him they may have had a connection but probably not meant to be in this reality we had been living lives for a few years now he had stayed on this path of cheating and lying to every girl that he'd met and I found real love a passion for teaching and I was ready to start a family I remember it was close to being Easter when finding out from an old friend from high school that Liam had unexpected unexpectedly passed away I honestly I honestly believe it was more like vehicular manslaughter my husband had told me so sad so sad my husband had told me the whole story of what had happened to Liam and he never liked the guy or was close to him but he was close with his mom who he worked with my best friend and I were talking about how many people had expected more of a reaction from me after hearing about his death because of how strong of a connection that he and I had had fast forward two years I had a vivid

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dream about Liam in this dream we were at a party it was a pretty chill party it was like being at Coachella but smaller I feel like that's not a chill party that's like a wild party yeah um but it was like we were back in high school which felt weird but so real we were in this big tent with a big area with rugs all over the floor and pillows and lots of alcohol not sure what was going on but I'm here with my hubby and we've been enjoying our time I was Tipsy in the dream but at some point I see Liam staring back at me and he's smiling he's sitting with a few friends in the distance sitting on a big beanbag chair his his belly downed with his fingers crossed together and his head was sitting up on top of his hands we had locked Eyes For What felt like forever I told my hubby that I'd be right back and I walked over to Liam and I remember starting to say I'm sorry but he cut me

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off and said don't be sorry I am and I'm so proud of you you are happy and you are in love oh with a big smile he had this smile that was just so contagious and it would make anyone smile too so I smiled back at him and I said I am then I asked him what he was doing smiling at me still he looks at my husband and points saying something but I can never really hear what he said and then I woke up this dream felt like ours and I'm still grocky I had teared up my heart felt warm and it sort of felt peaceful and around this time I had been diagnosed with postpartum depression and anxiety I had been between medications and different birth controls I was in a really bad place a dark place and I'm tearing up recalling all of this because I survived those terrible thoughts with the support of my husband and with my few family members who knew I was able to really get to a better place in my life I have many more dreams that I can send in and I also have a couple

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spooky stories of my bestie who's my sister from another mister thank you for your time reading I appreciate your time you are amazing ladies best your scaredy cat fan hey I'm stuck here I'm so curious if Liam at the same time was visiting liliana's husband like Liam pointed at him so I wonder if there was like a message that Liam was giving her husband yeah yeah it's all yeah right and have hap um I have so many thoughts I have so many thoughts right now but I also feel like it's a really hard thing when you have such a strong connection with someone and I feel like the energy that you have for someone doesn't go away it just changes right so like if you are super in love and then you have this horrible

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breakup it could change to hatred or it could change to friendship or it could change to something like but it molds and so I understand from Liliana it just kind of always feeling weird about Liam's place in life because they had such a strong sweetheart connection her heart was obviously broken she cared a lot for him but she moved on she matured and it takes time for people not everyone's on the same path not everyone everyone's going through something different and you never know what people are going through and so from her perspective Liam was still kind of in this party boy stage having a lot of girlfriends kind of prioritizing only himself and I imagine that was pretty hard for her to like recognize that those were her thoughts and her views with him especially someone she cared about that now died and that probably was a confusing thing and the reason why people were like why didn't she have more of a strong reaction when he did die right but how

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special is it for him and speak in spirit form now to come to her when she's having a really hard time too like now she's in the place that Liam probably was in in like a mindset perspective and saying essentially like look at you you've done you've done such a good job like you are living the life that that everyone hopes to eventually get to like you are loved you are yeah peace you have support surrounding you right you know what it reminds me of a little bit is there was one time where I was dreaming like a regular dream and everything paused and our friend Olivia who had passed away kind of like walked in and was like oh hey like I just I'm stopping by it was almost like I saw you were in the dream plane and she didn't say that but like that's kind of how I talked about it yeah and she was like just wanted to say hi like send love to everyone and then she like went on her Merry way because

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it kind of makes me think like the way that Liliana was explaining the dream like it was this like party sequence and then all of a sudden she looked and he there he was hmm right she wasn't the initial part of the dream and then he popped in was like hey and I love that he was just kind of like laying down on his stomach hands on his head just from afar his head he popped into that dream sequence just to to see everyone and just to like really watch her and enjoy seeing her happy in this social setting back in high school that reminded him I'm sure of the time that they'd spent together and put her in a in a place where she would probably be more receptive to speaking to him as well yeah wow visits from loved ones and visits in the dream it is very beautiful and I feel like that's really lovely closure too to know that your high school sweetheart although

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you guys didn't work out but you have a lot of love and a lot of yeah you learn a lot from people feelings for each other yeah yeah that there hasn't been your Mentor where you are yeah yeah well thank you all for joining us for this encounters episode we love love love hearing all of your stories and thank you to our our editing team over at fire digital thank you for editing our audio and our video and our tick tocks thank you thank you and we will see you on the other side [Laughter]