Terrifying True Possession Stories | Demons, Exorcisms & Sleepwalking Horrors (x333)

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She would be getting possessed around once a month. Like her eyes would turn black. She would start hissing and growling until someone from our group would purge her of the evil.

We decided to pick stories that are specifically centered around exorcisms, possessions, and demons.

Yay. Yeah.

Yeah.

Very spooky.

Hello. Be warned. This is a spooky scary episode.

This is a very spooky scary episode.

This is two girls, one ghost.

Two girls, one ghost. And we are your ghostesses. That's Karen.

I'm Sabrina. And this is an encounters episode.

Can you guess our topic? And we went scary this week. Um, we decided to pick

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stories.

It's already coming for me.

Oh my gosh. Are you okay? [laughter]

Yeah. We decided to pick stories that were submitted by you, our listeners, our very haunted listeners, that are specifically centered around exorcisms, possessions, and demons. Yay. Woo. Why do I like picture that? I like I literally in my head heard that like really cheesy kids cheering sound effect

like laugh track for Nickelodeon

and then it like weirdly skips out and starts going. [clears throat]

Yeah. Anyway.

All right, Sabrina, why don't you start? You're the creepier of

Thank you. Thank you. So, honestly, such an honor to be

It's been your badge, your claim to fame.

I wear it proudly.

Mhm.

And creepily. If you're not scared of me, I'm not doing my job right. [laughter]

mirror, mirror on the wall who'se the scariest of them all

Oh, I like the subject line of this one.

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So, I'll start with this one. Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who's the scariest of them all? This is from our listener, Melissa.

Melissa,

hello, Karen and Sabrina. First off, I love the podcast. You ladies truly are the best ghostesses and balance the scariest with the just the right amount of humor. I'm a relatively new listener and I'm pretty stoked to have a couple hundred episodes to catch up on while I'm working the night shift. Second, before jumping into my story, I should establish that I am a magnet for terrifying inexplicable. Please get an exorcist immediately experiences.

Oh. Oh, okay.

And it's been this way since I was 6 years old. Also, this is encounters 333,

which we did not intentionally plan, but that is creepy.

It is creepy. Double that number. Six, six, six. So, this paranormal sensitivity runs through the women in my family. My mom has premonitions and even has vivid dreams that predict tragic events like my cousin dying in a car accident. My grandmother, her mom, is

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the same way, although she prefers not to talk about it. And then there's me, uh, blessed/cursed with that same family gift. You know, just a girl out here trying to survive. Interesting side note about the three of us. We have each had a childhood near-death experience. My grandma almost drowned as a teenager while water skiing. My mom almost died in a bad car accident when she was 19. And I almost drowned in a rip tide when I was five. Connected? I don't know. That's for another email. This is the situation of me as a 9-year-old when my aunt passed away very suddenly. So after her death, my parents decided to buy her house and all of us moved in. So naturally, the ghosts that lived there were like, "Yes, fresh meat."

Delicious.

Born up.

Fingerl looking good. [laughter]

I honestly have wanted to say finger looking good for a really long time, and

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that was [laughter] like the perfect time.

It's just always been right there at the tip of your tongue, waiting for the moment.

Yeah. There's like an entity that's been in my head being like, "Give me my opportunity."

Fingerl looking good.

You're welcome. Okay. At first, things were unsettling, but not outright terrifying. But I think I was the most affected. Like, I never felt alone in that house ever. I always felt like I was being watched, and I would constantly look over my shoulder to see if there was someone behind me. And hey, would you know, no one ever was. My dog at the time was just a little 9-lb guy. and he would growl and shake like a leaf at empty doorways. Lights flickered unpredictably. Small items would get moved. And then there was the bathroom. See, my aunt had died in the downstairs bathroom. And we all avoided this bathroom for obvious reasons. But then there were some less obvious reasons, too. Ones that none of us ever talked about. This bathroom was always freezing cold, no matter the season. The walls and floors were weirdly slick, constantly with condensation,

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even though no one used that bathroom. It was as if the house itself was sweating. And beyond that, there was something very off in there, like a presence and a heaviness of sorts. Still, we could brush this off cuz, you know, grief is weird. Moving is unsettling, and maybe it was just our minds playing tricks on us until the first night that we actually slept at the house. I was camping out on my new bedroom floor in a sleeping bag when I woke up so fast and so violently that I was already sitting up straight before I could even tell I was awake. My heart was racing and I had no idea until I saw the glowing red numbers on my alarm clock. 3:33 a.m. And that is when I heard it. A woman's blood curdling scream from inside that house. Oh my god.

Specifically coming from down the hall in the direction of the bathroom where my aunt had died. Q. full body shutdown. I buried myself in my sleeping bag like a little burrito and prayed to every deity that I had ever imagined. But then came the footsteps down the hall closer

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toward my room. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. I panicked. I prayed harder. These footsteps kept coming. And then in my doorway appeared my mother, pale as a ghost. Did you hear that? She whispered. I nodded, barely breathing. So they had both heard the scream. That makes it worse when your mom is scared. [laughter]

Yeah. Comes to you. Are you scared?

Can I sleep with you?

My mom hesitated and was like, it was probably just a fox. Our new house was in a much more rural area, so you know, we weren't used to living in places like this. It must have been some wild animal, right? We both went back to bed, but truthfully, neither of us slept. Weeks passed and nothing else happened. We settled in. My mom and I never spoke about that scream again. and I just started to convince myself that maybe it was really just some outside wildlife. [clears throat]

Then came the night when I woke up in my hallway. Don't know how I got there. One moment I was asleep, the next I was conscious, not in my bed, standing barefoot on the cold hardwood floor. The house was silent. Too silent. The kind

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of stillness that feels unnatural, like the air itself was holding its breath. I was confused, disoriented. But before I could process anything, my feet start moving. Not by choice or not by conscious choice. I was being compelled forward by something or someone else.

Ew. I'm picturing them not even walking and just kind of like floating, levitating, being picked up and drifting towards this thing.

Something else is controlling her body. I was moving as if in a trance. I walked down the hall through the dining room, past the stairs that led down to the basement and the bathroom where my aunt had died. finally into the living room where I stopped or whatever was controlling me stopped. To the left was this large picture window that overlooked the yard outside and to my right was a piano. Above the piano was an antique mirror flanked by two wall sconces that we had inherited from my aunt. That mirror had never been moved like it was in its original place still. And it had always filled me with a deep

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instinctual dread. So I always avoided looking into it. And I remember feeling very strange in that moment, like my conscious mind and my body were disconnected. Yes, I was still inside my body, but I was not in control. And I remember thinking as if from far away, "This is so strange. What time is it? Why am I up? Why am I just standing here?" And then, as if to answering my questions, my head turned towards the picture window. Karen and Sabrina, I need to emphasize only my head turned. My shoulders and feet stayed frozen, unnaturally perpendicular to the direction I was looking.

Ew. [laughter] The sky outside was breathtaking. A sunrise bathed in shades of lavender and pink so impossibly vivid it didn't feel real. And then a coaxing whisper slid through my mind. See, it's morning. It's time to be awake.

Oh, why is this the creepiest thing ever?

I relaxed. Because despite it being

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creepy, there was a reassurance.

This No, this feels like a scene in a Mike Flanigan show. I'm sorry. This is disturbing.

But just as I relaxed, something was wrong. There was a different voice. My voice this time, screaming from far away to look closer, to look closer. It's wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong. And that's when I noticed these colors were too bright. The air was too still. Time felt suspended, stretched, like the world outside the glass was only pretending to be real. And my inner voice came back confidently, saying, "This is fake." Then my body turned sharp and immediate to face the piano, to face the camera. I was screaming internally not to look at that mirror. But I had no choice cuz I was not in control. I looked and I saw myself pale, scared. But when I really looked, I realized this wasn't me. I was staring at my own face, but I didn't recognize myself. And then my reflection was gone.

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And something else was there. Thin, wiry, stretched over sickly gray skin modeled with age spots. Long, sparse strands of stringy hair clinging to a mostly bald scalp. I could only see it from the shoulders up, but I could tell that even though it wasn't massive, it was physically incredibly strong. Eyes like black liquid stared at me. And then it lunged. I saw its jaw unhinge from its mouth with an animalistic scream and jagged yellow teeth, monstrously sharp teeth, gray, vicious saliva stretching and dripping between them. This entity slammed itself towards me. But just as it felt like it was about to reach me, it was held back by thick iron chains. It thrashed angry. I could feel its rage, its hatred, like it wanted to tear me apart and it wanted to be free. Panicking, I finally gained consciousness of my body and was able to

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control it. I stumbled backwards. I crashed into the piano and I fell to the floor and everything went black. I woke up the next morning. I was in my bed, tucked snugly under my comforter. I was like, "Okay, that must have been a dream, a bad dream." But I felt drained, hollowed out, and withdrawn. And then I saw a massive bruise on my thigh. And when I went downstairs for breakfast, my mom frowned at me. Do you know who knocked the piano bench over last night? I am now an adult, years removed from that house. I've lived in many places since, but to this day, I refuse to have antique mirrors in my home. And if I ever hear a fox screaming in the night, I will simply pass away. [sighs]

Although we know it wasn't a fox.

Oh my gosh. That's the worst to like think that you might be dreaming still and then realize

it was real.

It is certainly real. Whatever you experienced. Yeah, thanks for reading and giving me and the rest of us more paranormally inclined a space to share our trauma. Stay spooky but not possessed, Melissa. P.S. That experience

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with the mirror haunted my adolescence and I never told anyone well until I was in high school.

Wow.

While I was still a child, I dealt with night terrors following the incident. And I would imagine a sphere of white or golden light cascading over our house and angels wielding massive golden swords protecting us. This was just an instinctual practice, which is wild that that's instinct, but it's something that when you are in this world, like people teach you. Now that I've dabbled in more witchy and metaphysical things, I've learned that this is a ritual protection of magic and is practed by witches and meditation experts. Like, wow, the fact that I knew. So cool. Anyway, from Melissa.

Dang. I mean, this is terrifying. the the picture of that entity the being whispered like see it's it's morning out time to wake up and just like I literally am picturing haunting of Hill House where like they do in spirit form kind of like glide through the house

and just the neck being oh just everything the imagery is horrifying

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horrifying

and to know that this is just a small piece of the terrible things paranormally that she has experienced throughout her life

it's horrifying

it is horrifying and like what the heck is happening in this house? Cuz I agree like when you first move into someone's house, especially like the history of the aunt having passed away in the home. It's in a rural area. You don't really know it. It It's so new

and especially if they're keeping like a lot of the aunt's like belongings. Like it doesn't feel like your home at first.

Yeah.

That you would be like, "Oh, this is just us getting used to it,

right?"

But it also makes me wonder if the aunt was experiencing a lot of hauntings.

Yeah. Ooh, I have chills. No, this is so creepy.

You sick, sick spirits.

It's not going to get better.

Yeah. No, there's going to be very little reprieve, if any. I don't know your stories, but we'll see.

Well, I don't think they're as bad as that. [laughter]

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I was a teenage exorcist

This one's called I was a teenage exorcist and I'm still a medium.

Wait, that's cool.

Yeah.

Okay.

Hello, my name is T they them. I'm a [clears throat] new listener and I found you through Heart Starts Pounding podcast. Shout out to their episode in Salem. I'm an Episcopalian medium and I was a Catholic lay exorcist in high school.

What does that mean? Like why am I thinking that's um you know when you go to church and you're like going through communion and stuff and you volunteer to be the little assistant paulbears. Yeah. Paul bears whatever.

Who knows?

It's like a volunteer exorcism for your high school church program,

right?

That wasn't that was not a position offered at my church. No, me neither. Did you do the one like one of the ones

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that involved being at mass?

I think I had to before my first communion.

Before first communion, they put you to work when you were like five.

Yeah.

Damn. I don't have memories from that. I don't really know.

I don't either.

What I did?

I remember an image of the outfit sitting on my stairs in like the house that I grew up in.

But that's all of the memory.

Oh yeah. My position for like before confirmation because you had to do like a year worth of contributing was on Sunday nights at like 6 pm they would have a meeting the priest and like all the people involved at the church and they would talk about like what's going on and I would go for 15 minutes

and let them know what was going on in our confirmation class. I was like people are still religious. Thanks.

Yay.

Bye. And that was it. I never I didn't go to church.

Wow. Anyway, if we had known we could have done exorcisms, maybe we would have.

I don't know if I would have, but we're

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about to find out. We'll live vicariously through tea.

Okay, so Episcopalian but was Catholic in high school.

Mhm.

My parents were a part of a super weird new wave Catholic religious movement called charismatic prayer or charismatic renewal. And the concept was that God empowered all of his faithful with the power to cleanse the world from evil sin and haunting. This sounds like a cult. Since I was a kid.

Was he doing spanking or

just kind of like winking? But I can't make him actually wink. [laughter]

Since I was a kid, my family seemed followed by curses.

My birth mom, who I don't speak to now, and that's a whole other thing, was a very negative force who constantly seemed to be followed. She would be getting possessed around once a month. Like her eyes would turn black. Her hair would just float. She would start hissing and growling until someone from our group would purge her of the evil and then she'd go back to normal. Not great, but like at least she wasn't demonic.

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What else is this? That's crazy. [sighs and gasps]

I would frequently keep watch over her because out of the corner of my eye, I swear I would always see claws or this like demonic gargoyle like creature on her shoulders.

Oh my god, I'm so sorry. Every home I lived in growing up had the same problems. Our family photos, posters, artwork would fly off the wall of the staircase or the living room all at once. Damn. What in the paranormal activity? This is wild. And only the family photos would be shattered. We ended up needing

That reminds me of the Hinsdale haunting. I'm pretty sure like the entity there was like a knife in a picture of like the family.

Very creepy. We ended up needing plastic in our frames instead of glass. If you left half empty cups, they would always spill. Sometimes they would slide totally off the counter and onto the floor. I would see pioneer men and women, strange half men, halfgoat demonic figures. Oh my goodness. And these things were like as tall as the ceiling. I also saw a weeping woman with

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stringy hair. She like literally looked like she's from the garage or the ring. And blackeyed [clears throat] children appearing randomly at the ends of the hallways.

T had no choice but to become an exorcist in high school. What is happening?

I'd see them in the corner of my bedroom, in the backyard at night, and like I said, it was every house. Every house had these problems. I had to cover my mirrors at night so that I wouldn't see all of these weird entities in my room. And I'm a medium, so I did see them in their full glory. And my family was always fighting. We were getting sick, having horrible nightmares. And to be honest, I have complex PTSD from my parents raising me. But, uh, I'm sure a lot of that definitely fed from the energy of the homes.

Yeah. This level of activity actually stopped once my parents got a divorce. And they completely stopped talking when I was 18 years old. Once I got to high school though, I started getting really good at calling upon Jesus, Mary, and God to take away the demons and the ghosts, at least for the night. So, I was asked to join a prayer group that my parents were in. I ended up assisting my

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dad and our 25-year-old tenant at the time, who was also in the group, in purging haunted houses and possessed people of demonic and poltergeist activity.

I mean, it's kind of fun. [clears throat]

And I had to exercise my mom a few times. And the only way to describe what an exorcism feels like is it's like hot fire from God runs through my body as I pray. And I feel myself pulling on darkness. I see the darkness pull out of a person and this darkness is often hissing. Sometimes I even see claws detaching from a person and I'll know that the exorcism is done when I see a person fill with light again and they start to look human.

The amount of power and like healing energy that tea has.

Yeah. It's also like sad because it's like I feel like this is a parallel specifically to the like CPTTSD that te has where it's like you almost had to grow up so much earlier in life and take care of the other people in your life and it's being reflected in a literal

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way where te at a young age is like coming to the aid of so many other people.

Yeah. And it's like not even taking care of someone in a normal sense. No,

it is literally fighting demonic entities while also getting no moments of reprieve because your own home, your bedroom, your backyard, everywhere.

So scary.

There's other things.

I hope you have really fun like hobbies that fill your cup. [laughter]

Yeah. Like I don't even know what to suggest.

Why did I My brain went to stickering? [laughter]

Like making them or just putting them

like putting them. We'll send you some stickers. [laughter] The worst exorcism I ever did was on my own, and this was with a 25-year-old tenant, who we will call L. We were supposed to be visiting a retirement home to sing worship music and pray with the tenants. But there was one person that L had been visiting for a while, and my heart sank when I entered their room. Her pupils filled her irises, her

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hair stuck out like static, and she would speak in this thick, strange language, French. According to her nurses, the nurses said she was from San Diego, California, and she had never spoken French before, nor did she know anyone that was speaking French. So, how she was saying it, we did not know.

She's just watching a lot of Mulan Rouge.

L and I wanted to help her, so we decided to pray. As we prayed, she started chanting louder and louder. Her face started to contort into the snarl and the furniture and small items in her room started to levitate. [gasps]

What the actual I know. I don't know why I said that this wasn't [laughter] scary.

I think it's a combination of like feeling sore from my workout last night and being hungry right now, but I feel so weak.

Yeah. Actually, I moments before this was cut out of the episode, but I texted

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Brian to be quiet because I thought he was on a work call right out here and I I was like, "Can you turn that work call down?" And he goes, "That was your delivery driver with your lunch." [laughter] So, our lunch is here. It was him talking.

Okay. Well,

so at least you'll be refuelled.

I'll be refueled soon if something else doesn't take over me cuz I am weak right now.

Oh, man. [sighs and gasps] The air got so thick it felt like I could barely breathe. But I kept praying. I felt myself levitating and then I got shoved a foot back. But I didn't stop because I saw the darkness pulling away from her body. Light and energy flooding in the room. And in that moment, everything that had been levitated just thunked back down. The woman fell back and we completed the exorcism. Holy. A week later, surrounded by her family, she passed away peacefully. That exorcism made me vow that I was never going to do one again. And I switched to being a witch and a druid for a while. And then eventually I converted to an Episcopalian last year because it allows me the closeness to

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God, but I'm also allowed to read tarot, sage, do medium and divination work, comfort spirits who come to me, and pray to God all at once. My future husband is a medium as well, and together we are a very powerful couple. That is awesome. [laughter] Thank you for reading this kind of insane story. I have so many and I may email them later. Please do

from t

they them. It's wild because like sometimes when we read some of these stories I'm like wow these are perfect examples of like you really don't know what people are doing in their homes like the fact that that's just existing and that's just happening and we don't get to experience it but te is and has experienced that is like just blows my mind like someone somewhere in the world right now like te is dealing with something like that

right like an exorcism could be happening at this very moment

at this very moment if we lived in an apartment building I do but we right now in this moment like literally someone in the room right next to me could be having an exorcism performed and we

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wouldn't know.

No, it does kind of make you wonder though about

it's like when they get expelled where do they go just into the next person and then another exorcism does it never end?

I mean energy can't be destroyed nor created no and that's science [laughter]

and therefore demons are real. Brian texted me and said that the guy was telling him that I have no fries because the restaurant put them on just a bare plastic plate and someone cut him off and he jammed on the brakes and they went flying onto the ground.

He stole our fries.

He ate the fries

for sure. I feel like we have a demon on our hands right now.

Our delivery driver ate our fries

and that's pretty evil.

They don't just hand you a bare plastic plate and say, "Here you go." And if they did, you would say, "Hey, can you please put this in a container?"

Well, you know what? Enjoy your fries.

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the demon with yellow eyes tried to kill me

Okay, this is Hey, another demonic story. It is from our listener Amy and that's a fake name, but it is called the demon with yellow eyes tried to kill me. Hope you guys are doing well and taking good care of yourselves. I absolutely love your podcast and think you guys are truly doing such amazing work enlightening everyone but also captivating everyone with your mer with your amazing storytelling skills like you know fumbling over our words. Yeah, thank you. [laughter] My name, if you read this on the podcast, is Amy. I live in Cape Town, South Africa, and I thought I would share my paranormal experience with you. As a note, I am a Christian, a child of God, but not the kind that judges others for their beliefs. I was taught to respect others, but please do know that I do pray that no demons or anything like that ever harms you, your families, or anyone of your fans and listeners. Thank you.

That's very nice.

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Now, on to my experience. In the early 2000s, we moved into a new house. I was about 5 or 6 years old, and I remember immediately feeling like something was off, and that remained. Like always, there was something that just felt off. Of course, I was too young to realize that there was darkness that dwelled in our walls. I remember there was always something watching us, like it was this incredibly dark and evil presence, but my parents could never feel it. Only my sister and I. And my sister's 5 years older than I, so she was probably 10 or 11 at this point. It got to the point where I literally couldn't go to the bathroom, take a shower, take a bath, or even go to sleep without one of my parents near me. And this went on for years. When I was about 10 or 11, that is when I started to see things. My sister and I shared a room and I could always see these dark shadows that would move over my sister while she was sleeping. And the thing with yellow eyes, yeah, that would sit by our closet and just stare at us and watch us. Hell no. That is so terrifying. At the same time, I'm so glad they had their sister.

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It's like the two of them together.

I know. But night after night, this thing would try to creep closer to us. And I don't know if this has anything to do with the spirit or demon, but I did start sleepalking and sleepwalking to the point where I would unlock our security gate and walk down the street while sleepwalking.

Oh, that's so scary.

I kind of like picked a theme of sleepwalking here cuz the first one had that, too. My parents always luckily got me before I wandered too far. But it's still so creepy. Yeah. Going outside, going through the security, being in the road.

I know.

And my sister said that every time I would sleepwalk, I would like dart up out of bed. I would stare at her, mumble something odd, and then either go outside or climb back into bed and fall asleep.

This is like I [laughter] want her to have the little like chime thing on the outside of her door so her parents can be alerted. or does the bells on her ankles,

right? Although she seems so high functioning that she probably would have removed the bells.

I know that's true. Is it even her doing

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this? Okay. So, eventually my sister and I had to tell our parents how scared we were. And my dad called over one of his good friends. I'll call him John. But John was a pastor that had experience with exorcisms and spirit cleanings. So, he had a history. He also used to go to prisons and would help lost inmates find their way back to God. So, John came over and blessed the house. And for about a year, all seemed well and good until our grandparents moved in the house and I started to feel it again. So my sister and I were watching The Messengers, which came out in 2007 one afternoon while everyone was out. And the TV room had a weird layout because we had to move everything to accommodate for our grandparents moving in. So basically the way we were sitting and watching TV was our backs were facing our grandparents room. The room had double doors with glass in them so you could see in and out. My grandparents had put some tiny curtains up so you couldn't see into their room. But here's where the activity started. As we're watching this horror movie, I could feel

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something watching us. Eventually, I turned to look at the doors behind us just in time to see the curtains move as if someone was watching us and quickly closed the curtains. Freaked out, but remaining calm, I mentioned it to my sister. She turned to look as well, and it happened again. Luckily, 5 minutes after that, our parents returned home and all was well again for a moment, and life went on. Then my grandfather died and I caught my grandmother talking to his ghost in the living room. And shortly after that, my grandmother passed away literally from a broken heart. Oh. I started hearing someone call my name just to find no one else was in the house but me. My sister and I got our own rooms and I no longer had that dark feeling in my new bedroom, but the darkness continued in hers, which I imagine she kept their original room. So, it's the room. One weekend, my sister went away with her friends and I thought everything was fine until I could literally feel its anger. Like whatever was in the house was so angry my sister left. That night I had sleep paralysis for the first time and I was about 13 or 14 years old at this time. And it is the worst thing I have ever

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experienced. My eyes were wide open. I could not move. But I just watched as this yelloweyed man entered my room, walked straight through my closed door, and I watched as my school book started flying everywhere, but I couldn't make a single sound. My Spongebob poster that was behind my door got ripped and looked as if three sharp fingernails had been dragged through it. Wo, that's bad. Next thing I know, this entity turned its attention to me. I felt it on top of me, choking me. I could not breathe. And the next thing I know, my nose started bleeding and I was being choked while drowning on my own blood because it was running down my throat. Holy [sighs and gasps] crap. Suddenly in my head, I start shouting. She was saying it in Africans, but it meant appear before the feet of God. I am the child of the Lord, and you are not welcome here. Within an instant, I see this light grab the yelloweyed entity thing

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by the throat, shoot it up into the air, and they both disappeared.

What in the world? This is like a superhero battle,

right? The moment that weight came off me, I screamed as loud as I could, and my parents came barging in just to find me coughing while lying in a [clears throat] massive pool of my own blood. My room was a mess because this entity had scratched the posters and thrown books around. My dad is looking at the mess and is like, "What the hell just happened?" Luckily, I was fine. I told my parents everything that had happened. And my dad continuously started blessing the house again and again and again. And that thing never returned. My dad has now passed, but I still live in that house with my mom. And whenever anything starts to feel off or I feel like something's watching me, I just repeat that same phrase. Appear before the feet of God. I am a child of the Lord and you are not welcome here. I actually used that same phrase last night. And within an instant, that darkness always lifts. Yeah, this was a pretty traumatic experience for me. I hope you guys enjoyed my story. Have a blessed day, year, and lifetime. Much

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love and respect from Amy. I mean, kind of a horrible thing to experience, but also super cool to witness those final moments. The literally just like power of that entity grabbing the yellow demon

and ripping them up.

Yeah.

Makes me feel like they had a backstory.

Oh,

those two knew each other. There's some serious beef.

I started watching

they were siblings

a while back. I started watching Good Omens. Is it Charlie Sheen? Michael Sheen. Who's the not problematic one?

Michael.

Michael Sheen. So I think it's Michael Sheen.

Who was [laughter] the not problematic?

Definitely not Charlie.

Yeah. But uh

um

that's half your reputation.

But it's really good. And it's like a devil and angel like kind of comedy.

Uhhuh.

But they like have such a background between each other and then they start to like help each other out.

Oh.

I mean I didn't I didn't finish it. I think I watched like the first season, but I I liked the idea of it. And it

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makes me think that

because this kind of reminded me of like Thor and Loki sort of vibe.

Yeah. Like get back here.

You are in such deep [ __ ] now that I found you.

Yeah. Right.

We're going home.

Yeah. [laughter] Yeah. But I'm glad that you were able to like conjure this protective spirit to

to say, "Hey, demon, it's not not today.

Not today, Satan. Not today.

Not today. Not tomorrow. Not yesterday. Not ever."

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and you didn't think to tell me?!

And you didn't think to tell me. Hello spooky ladies. I absolutely love the podcast and I'm glad I finally found a group of people who love all things spooky, paranormal, occult, macob, etc.

Yes,

I've been weird [laughter]

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since the day I was born,

basically, and a spooky kid all my life. I'd be reading Alvin Schwarz's scary stories, Goosebumps, and eventually graduating to the Fear Street Saga. Unsolved Mysteries was my jam, especially the ghost segments. And I loved to have my mom retell the stories of her Ouija board experience that led to finding a mysterious grave at summer camp.

What? Well, can you retell that to us?

Yeah, we want to know.

Yeah.

And ones about my great grandma reading tarot cards and she once held a seance in her childhood village in Ukraine where plates flew off the shelves. You come from a spooky lineage.

Yeah, that's amazing. Oh, and there may or may not have been a time that I convinced the majority of my fifth grade class that the unused room across the hall was haunted. Yep, I'm that kid. But was it haunted [laughter] or did you just make it up and you convinced everyone? Either way, love it.

I had a friend in middle school. I think her name was Alexa. Shout out to you. I hope you're doing well. Um, and I think we were just making this up entirely,

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but she would go to the bathroom and she'd be like, "There was a ghost in the bathroom." So then I So then I would be like, "Can I use the bathroom?" And I would go to the bathroom and I'd like just like sit in there

ghost hunting. The first ghost hunting

and then I would come back to class and I'd be like I saw it too.

But I didn't. [laughter] That's what bonded you guys.

Okay. Anyway, let's get into the reason I started this email in the first place. I'm starting off with some background details. And I do promise these are important. I'm the youngest of three kids, the only girl, and was raised by, let's say, more traditional type parents. Part of their traditionalness involves not telling me a damn thing because they don't want me to worry. Oh, my brother's in the hospital. We don't want to bother you. Dad had surgery. Didn't want to bother. Oh my god, this is my parents.

Unless I directly ask like I have to like just conjure things up like is there any chance that there was a test result that has anything to do with this? And it's like, oh yeah, that did happen a couple months ago. It's like they don't tell me anything.

It's like the fine line cuz like I feel like I was told way too much where it's like how do you walk that line? But

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yeah, it's confusing cuz you're a kid and you you don't understand, but you know that something's weird. Like if your brother's in the hospital,

you would want to know

where's brother bring me back to my 5:00 a.m. checked my mom's location. I found my friends freaking in the emergency room.

Wild.

Tell your kids these things.

Yes.

Okay. Anyway, dad had surgery. Didn't want to bother you. It's gotten worse, actually now that I live across the country. Gosh,

I guess I'm out of sight, out of mind. I'm in Colorado and they're in Connecticut, which may as well just be different planets. It's trickled down to my oldest brother as well. And for context, my siblings are 10 and 12 years older than I am. And my oldest niece is 20. During my last visit home, my brother, my older brother niece and I were standing at my parents' kitchen just hanging out. And at some point, the conversation started to shift towards talking about some ghost show or another. My brother says, "Yeah, like the exorcism we had at the old house." Excuse me. What?

Literally. Excuse me. What? [laughter]

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Now, let's jump back a little bit. My brother and his family used to live in a house that was next door to a very old colonial home. Think traditional and old Connecticut.

Connecticut.

Haunting in Connecticut. Like one of the worst cases. It's a few hundred years old. It's set back in the woods. A house that I would absolutely love. It's old. It's historic. Maybe a little creepy in the vibes. Anyway, my brother's dog absolutely refused to walk past this house.

Trust your pets. Just a 120 lb pile of fluff parking his butt on the side of the road and holding his ground to not get anywhere closer to this house.

On one of these frustrating walks, my brother glanced over at the property where he saw someone hanging from the property's barn.

Oh my gosh.

He looked back again and it was gone. So, [clears throat] he didn't really think anything of it. But around this time, he did start having dreams about this house. And the dreams were vivid. He saw soldiers battling in the field. And he started having these dreams so

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often that he was convinced that maybe this was a past life of his that he was a soldier.

This reminds me so much of the Conjuring House which is

on the border there.

Right there in Rhode Island

and like all the like battles that island. Yeah.

King Phillips War. Like there's so much

Jeez. That's right there. He's thinking maybe something in this house triggered memories from a past life. Maybe there was a battle near this house. In the one instance where my brother did get to meet the homeowners, he did admit that cups would randomly break and that they believe that the house was haunted. I can confirm. Never been there, but based on these stories alone.

Yeah, sure. It's I would love to go into that house and ask these people so many questions. Why not lead with that? Hi, I live in a haunted house right next door. Okay, maybe not everyone does the things that I want to do. The next part of this involves my niece. My niece lived next door to the old house and pretty much lived there the majority of her life. And I can't help but wonder if everything that was about to unfold somehow involved the energy around this

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house.

In the first story anyone ever told me, my niece was maybe three or four and she was playing in her room. My brother went over to check in on her and asked her what she was doing, thinking that she'd respond something like having a tea party with my stuffed animals or coloring a pretty picture. He was shocked when she said, "I'm playing with a lady." He responded,

"What lady?" To which she said, "The lady that comes and plays with me, and sometimes she touches me, but it's not mama." Uh, say what now? So freaked out, my brother backed out of the room and patiently waited for my sister-in-law to come home. He just abandons his child.

Also, like the touching me gives me like, "Ugh, that's like icky. What's What do you mean?"

Yeah. Like is she like braiding your hair? Cuz like if she's just like, "Oh, you wouldn't necessarily think to bring that up, right? Is it maybe the spirit of our murdered aunt coming to play? Or maybe is it something darker? Things like this continued to happen, and they happened even when my niece wasn't home. On one occasion, my mom was taking my

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niece upstairs at their house to go to bed. My niece stopped and wouldn't go any further up the dark staircase. My mom said, "Come on, there's nothing up there." "Oh, contr, mom." "Then who is standing behind you?" she asked. My niece at this point is having trouble sleeping. She's refusing to sleep by herself and everyone grew more and more frustrated with her. But looking back, maybe she had good reason. Now, let's jump back to present day where my brother told me about the time that his wife started sprinkling holy water on my niece and she said, "Get that crap off of me." It was somewhere around this time that a priest was called in to help. And of course, someone else walked into the room and the conversation quickly changed. And then we flew back home to Colorado without any other details. And so then I tried texting my brother and his wife about all of this. And they were being really vague about the details. And not like they're trying to hide something. More just like, "Oh yeah, it was just this random thing that happened." People, this isn't like

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telling me about a sandwich you made. This is a goddamn exorcism. Like what the

We need every single detail, please. Sure. I'm going to have to get more details out of them. The next time my niece visits, I'll definitely write back once I get more.

See you on the other side with love, M.

I mean, I'm not surprised that this place is haunted considering like everything that her brother was like visioning and seeing, but it is the the get that

get that off of me. I don't like that.

Very disturbing.

Yeah. I'm so curious who this woman is. I hope she's not touching her inappropriately. There's like there's something about that that made me feel icky. Like sometimes she touches me.

Yeah, like that's such a weird statement to

but it's not mom. [clears throat]

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the demon that had an obsession with me

This is from our listener, Maria, the demon that took an obsession with me. Why are you so obsessed with me? [laughter]

Demons books.

Yeah. Hello. My name is Maria. I live in California and I've been listening to your podcast for about a year and a half. I love hearing you guys when I'm at work or just bored at home. Anyway, this story is 100% real. These events happened to me. It has taken everything in me to start open up about my experiences due to the trauma and the anxiety that I get from reliving it.

Dang, I'm sorry.

Started when I was 13 years old. I lived with my mom and my brother who at the time was an infant and my sister who was nine at the time. I remember as a child my grandmother would say to me, "When you go to sleep at night, make sure not to wander off too far. You don't want to do that because you won't wake up." [clears throat]

Creepy grandma.

Very. But also, I feel like that's like

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grandma's way of saying you have a gift and it's like passed on but without like being too creepy about it, you know?

Yeah. It almost sounds like it's astral projection where it's like don't go too far from your body cuz you might not make it back in time.

I never really understood what she meant by this so I kind of brushed her off like okay, yeah, sure. But yeah, at night I would dream about going places that I had never seen before but did somehow feel familiar. I would talk to people that felt familiar as well. But the crazy part would be when they would say, "It's been a while. I'm so glad you're back."

Oh, wow.

We've missed you. And I swear I felt a longing every time I saw them. Like I would cry in my sleep. And I know this because I'd wake up with eyes wet. Yeah. So it's like another life or just Yeah. I don't know.

Or is there a whole other life in the astral world that people can just experience like over lifetimes? It's just your soul going back,

right? We're so glad you're back. In another instance, I remember seeing my body as I sat up and I literally floated away like astral projection.

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[clears throat] It reminded me of like how in Peter Pan the kids would float away onto the stars. It was like that only I didn't know where I was going and I could see my body and I was disconnected from it. So one night in this world I came across a door. And at this point I was naive and I assumed that ooh a door. Where does it lead? It's probably somewhere really cool. I'm like hey you guys it didn't. I remember feeling so afraid the moment I opened that door. Unexplainably, I knew I was in danger. Damn. So, I turned back and as I woke up, that feeling remained. It was still there. Like, I was in danger. Something else was there. Energy was heavy. Time went on and my sister started talking in her sleep. Like, she was arguing with someone. But I could never make out what she was saying. She would mumble and groan and needless to say, it scared the crap out of me. She also seemed like she was really scared cuz she started sleeping with the lights on and she would freak out if anyone had touched them or turned them off. She began to wake up with scratches and bruises, so she started staying up almost all night afraid of actually sleeping. At one point, she refused to

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sleep alone, so she would sleep with me or my mom. One day, she was in the shower and as I walked by the bathroom, I heard her scream. And it wasn't just like a small scream. No, this was a she was terrified scream.

It makes me feel so sorry for her. My mom and I ran and opened the door. And as we approached, there was blood going down the drain. And I could see my sister had three long scratches on her back.

Wa. The same day, I asked her what was happening, and she told me she was being physically and mentally harmed by something that she could only see in the dark. Typically, I would be scared shitless, although I too had been experiencing something like that. Every time I'd go to sleep, I would have nightmares. Which before all of this and before opening the door, nightmares were rare for me. And I would dream about an entity that every time I fell asleep would say to me, "I will be there the day that you die. I will come for you when you take your very last breath." In like a comforting way or a creepy way.

A creepy way. I mean, these are

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nightmares,

right? I wasn't sure if there's just like a little shining glittery thing being like, "Don't worry, don't get scared. Death isn't that scary. I'll help you. Do you remember what the topic for this episode was? [laughter]

I'm trying I'm trying to find something.

This thing never harmed me physically, but it would tell me that my sister was having nightmares. It would describe the nightmare my sister was having and say it was responsible for that nightmare.

Ah, he would mock my sister and say that he would hurt her all to get to me. One night

again, why are you so obsessed with me?

Literally, like, get over me. Pour that energy back into yourself.

[laughter]

This is a codependent demon.

Have you ever tried talk therapy?

Yeah. What's your attachment style? Because it's a little bit obsessive.

She just starts reading every night before bed out loud.

Attached.

Attached to the book. Attached.

One night, I asked this entity for a name and it answered me. And I won't say the name because I very much believe it is a real demon's name and I don't want

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to speak it.

Oh, interesting.

Still, I couldn't make sense of it. Everything was fine until it wasn't. And I mean, am I making this up? I don't like I just was trying to write it off in my head.

But all that changed when I was watching a documentary about a priest that was in charge of exorcisms. And he was talking about a demon that was known for its high rank in hell. This entity was the biggest demon out there. And this priest was saying it was the keeper of souls. Can you guess the name? The same name the entity had given me.

Well, you know, at least you're getting some answers.

Yeah. Prior to this, in my dream, I had never heard that name before. So, like, it's not like I made it up. It was in another language. Like, I hadn't heard of it. I didn't know of it. I was beyond scared. And then I was even more scared when I was able to see this entity clear as day. He would peek out of my closet and look at me. And he would have these smaller beings that looked horrific. They all had smug smiles on their faces, and they would appear when I was home alone or with my sister. I began having

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things thrown in my direction, never actually hitting me. And I was so scared to sleep that I even began to force myself to stay awake during the night. And I would take naps after school while it was still sunny out.

I feel like that makes it worse.

Yeah. Sleep deprived.

Right. Cuz then you're already like your brain's already trying to hallucinate from sleep deprivation.

Also, based on that documentary, like this entity is a keeper of souls and he's like surrounded by these like little gremlins.

Yeah. And then also sent like she's getting the messages, I'm coming for you when you die. Like your soul's spoken for. I'm coming to collect you.

So this was going on for 2 to 3 months. I was just being tormented, harassed, and scared non-stop. My sister to this day still has some scars from the scratches she received. Wo. One night, I couldn't fight off my sleep. I was so tired and I dozed off. Only this time, the room was so white that it almost burned my eyes. Like the air was light. something that I forgot was possible. And for once, I finally felt safe. As I walked in into this room, I saw two

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people sitting on chairs and they called to me. They asked me to sit, so I did. I wasn't able to see their faces. I just saw like a bright reflection every time I tried to focus in on their faces.

They wore white clothing and they had these beautiful soothing voices. They started by saying, "Everything is going to be okay." They knew that something not holy had taken a liking to me and that they knew it was doing these things and was hurting my sister and me. They said that I didn't have to worry about anything because they would not allow it to keep harming us. That they will take care of it. They also told me no matter where you go, what you do, I will always be with you. And I woke up with tears in my eyes. I felt like everything was so much lighter and brighter. And I actually felt safe for the first time in years. You know what, Sabrina? Although that this is a really dark episode and you're you like choosing dark stories, you also chose stories that like there's a savior.

There's a resolve.

Yeah. There's some sort of figure or guardian or something coming in to battle the darkness.

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It gives you I leave you with a little hope in the darkness. There is like

your usual MMO.

Who is she? [laughter] Fast forward to now. My sister. It doesn't say this at all, but my brain like autocorrected, I think, just cuz we were talking about us me being like light. I thought it said my sister committed murder, but it's [laughter] not. Doesn't say that at all. She's not a slander. Fast forward to now. My sister is now a committed member of her church and she is no longer afraid of the dark. She told me not long ago that when angels appear, they are known to appear in twos. And so she believes what I saw that night in my

sleep state were two angels helping us.

I've never heard that.

After my encounter with them, I have not been able to astro project at all, which is fine with me because I do not need another freaking demon.

Yeah.

However, I sometimes do feel scared or uneasy at random times in the day, but I refuse to give it power over me. And yeah, I've had things thrown at me, but I just ignore it and I go on with my day. Stop being so obsessed with me. The

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living ones are the ones that I think we should all really be afraid of. So that's what I say to myself all the time and it keeps me at bay. I have not been able to see these two angels that appear to my dream, but I feel them around me. And if I ever feel scared, I just close my eyes. I call on their presence. I remember their warmth and their strength. And I feel that fear melt away. Thank you for your time. Sending my spooky regards. Love, Maria.

Damn, what a grandma now. Like it makes me so curious about grandma's upbringing and like how much astral projecting she must have done. It sounds like she understands the world and somehow knew that that world that she lived was passed on to.

That's okay. That's the part that like blows my mind is how does she know that Maria was going to have that gift? Like is it every woman in the family line, but it doesn't sound like Maria's sister does it? Or is it like Maria's grandmother spoke to Maria's spirit in the astral plane before Maria was born and that spirit was like, "You won't see me for some time in this world because

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I'm joining you in the real world as someone close to you."

Yeah.

And one day I'll find my way back here. Cuz when Maria went like, everyone had familiarity and knew her like we've missed you. But it's also not like her grandma knew that there was going to be a dark entity either. It's not like

cuz at first when you were saying that I was like oh cuz she could grandma have encountered this dark energy that's like I'm coming for one of your

relatives or something or like I'm coming for someone that's close to you. But grandma's warning wasn't necessarily about like don't trust people that you meet at night.

Just don't go too far,

right?

And don't open doors. You don't know where they go. Did you see there's a back rooms movie coming out?

Mhm. with uh Tatel Edgeor. Is that his name?

I don't know.

Let's see.

All I know is A24 is making it.

Yeah.

Right.

I think it comes out in May, which might be around the time of this. May 29th. Yeah. Got Tell Edor. Mark Dupllo.

It looks based on the trailer. It looks really good, which I'm excited about

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because I feel like the back rooms has such a rich lore that I feel like it's important that it like represents basically what is like said on Reddit.

Like you got to do it right. like you have to do it right. And like from the trailer, it does look like it's going to

Yeah.

depict the back rooms in more of like a internet lore appropriate way.

Mhm. I agree. Okay. Well, this comes out the week before it comes out. Oh, no. Actually, it comes out same day. That's creepy.

This comes out May 28th. The movie comes out May 29th.

Everyone watch tomorrow. People should pay us for these promos,

right? Seriously,

it just comes out.

We just like to talk about it. Pay us to do it. We'll do it anyway.

Send us a screener so we can watch it before.

They're like, they don't. They're like, we don't have to pay them. They're going to do it for free no matter what. Talk about it anyway.

Yeah. Anyway, I'm excited for that. And I loved the story and I'm also excited for my food. Uh but apparently no fries.

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[laughter]

No fries.

I can't believe that story. Crazy.

Well, but so I texted Brian. I was like, "So, did the guy eat it?" like it's not just on a they don't hand them over on a bare plastic plate.

Brian should have been like, "Let me see your car."

Right.

Let me see.

Let me see the evidence. And Brian's like, "No, I think he was trying to describe like a plastic container." I don't know. All I know is one of us is going to have to share fries with the other.

And that's okay.

And that's okay. Sharing is caring. [laughter]

And you don't let the evil ruin your day.

No. No. There's still goodness out there. [gasps] If you have

the memory of what a fry tastes like is still within you.

Close your eyes. Just imagine it. Everyone who's listening is so hungry and we're sorry.

Potato.

Potato.

Okay. Well, if you have ghost stories, please email us at two girls onego podcastmail.com. If we influenced you to watch back rooms or eat French fries, let the people know that we are influencers.

There's no way to monetize that, but we're glad to have influenced [laughter] you.

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Just sponsored by French fries.

French fries. There you go.

Grow your own potato. [laughter]

Makes zero sense.

Finger looking good.

Finger looking good.

Okay. Anyway, possess. We're going to wrap it up. Thank you, Jamie Ryan, for editing and producing this podcast. We appreciate you and love the rest of you.

To all of you for joining. We love you. Yeah.

And we will see you on the other side.

Very spooky.