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for your patience. Saturday.

2:10

A paranormal ice. Submitted:

2:13

By Natty. Processor.

2:16

I found out about your podcast from

2:18

thirty more been minutes and have been

2:21

been senior episodes ever since. I now

2:23

finally dare. To tell you my story. I

2:26

have been a magnet for the

2:28

paranormal since before I was born.

2:31

When my mom was late into

2:33

her pregnancy with me, she had

2:35

her first real paranormal experience. She

2:38

was lying on the couch dozing

2:40

and suddenly celts and intense heat

2:42

in her face and an evil

2:45

negative presence entered the room. She

2:47

quickly and instinctively tell the blanket

2:49

above her head and salt someone's

2:52

face, press into the blanket and

2:54

scream. She immediately

2:56

started praying the Lord's prayer, and

2:58

once she finished the answers, he

3:01

went away. Once

3:03

I was born, things got

3:05

more intense. One. Night, we

3:07

were sitting together in our family room

3:10

when I was only a few months

3:12

old and one by one. The.

3:14

Light up toys lined along

3:16

the wall started slowly turning

3:18

on one by one. When

3:22

I was old enough to speak. I.

3:24

Started seeing things. One.

3:26

Night when I was about six or seven,

3:28

I was sitting at our dinner table. I

3:31

saw a young boy that looks

3:33

like an older version of my baby

3:35

brother run from our living room, around

3:38

our kitchen table and into a corner

3:40

of the room, knocking my dinner

3:42

off the table. I told

3:44

my parents about him but they thought I

3:46

was just lying to get out of eating

3:48

my dinner. I remember

3:51

him so clearly to this day.

3:53

He wore a red shirt and

3:55

bread blue, yellow and green stripes

3:57

pajama pants. Yeah.

4:00

Years later when. My mom was

4:02

working as an interior decorator for our

4:04

local country club. I saw a woman

4:06

in the dining area walking away. say

4:09

me, I asked my mom

4:11

who else was there, but other than the

4:13

two of us and our security guard. The.

4:15

Large building was empty. When.

4:18

I described to the lady to the card.

4:20

He froze. I

4:22

had just described his recently

4:25

deceased. Wife. I

4:28

grew up in the house my

4:30

dad also grew up in and

4:32

I believe once in a the

4:34

spirits of made Great Aunts and

4:37

uncles and grandparents visit, Things fall

4:39

off my shelves in the middle

4:41

of the night, my guitar randomly

4:43

strums, or things disappear and reappear

4:45

in strange places. He. Was

4:47

much worse when I was little Dell

4:50

because it scared me. I'd wake up

4:52

to voices calling my name from down

4:54

the long hallway leading to my room.

4:57

The electric toys I had in my

4:59

room would go off randomly, and for

5:01

years and years. I. Had a

5:03

vision that wouldn't go away which

5:06

I believe predicted part of my

5:08

future. In the

5:10

far corner of my room.

5:12

From my bad, I would

5:14

have visions of three ceaseless

5:16

doctors standing there taking notes

5:18

and watching me while I

5:20

slept. Sometimes. They'd.

5:22

Be in my dreams. It.

5:24

Always felt like a

5:27

very dark, foreboding corner.

5:30

When. I was old enough. a deep cleans

5:32

the corner and smudged at. The

5:35

doctor's went away, but years

5:37

later I was diagnosed with

5:39

a life altering chronic illness.

5:42

I'm worried there are two we haven't

5:44

discovered yet, because when I see the

5:47

doctors in my head, two of them

5:49

are more in shadow. And one.

5:51

Looks. Very prevalent. When.

5:55

i got to college i lived on

5:57

a very active floor in my dorm

5:59

and are A dorm ghost would

6:01

hide things or make electronic

6:03

devices malfunction or turn on

6:05

at odd moments. Looking

6:08

into the history of the dorm, I

6:10

discovered in the 80s, a young woman

6:12

was kidnapped from our floor and

6:15

murdered off campus. The

6:17

sorority I joined had a protective spirit

6:19

in our dormers as well, and

6:22

I'd often feel her sit on the

6:24

corner of my bed, and

6:26

if I asked her to, she would leave. One

6:29

of my sorority siblings once astral

6:32

projected fell out of bed and

6:34

saw an inhuman entity under the

6:36

bed of the girl next to

6:39

her. The next morning,

6:41

she found out the girl whose bed

6:43

it was under had become incredibly

6:45

sick during the night and had

6:48

to leave. In

6:50

the past few years, I got into tarot

6:52

readings for my friends. They

6:55

are terrifyingly accurate. My

6:58

friends tell others who come to me not

7:00

to ask questions they don't want to know the

7:02

truth of. I've predicted

7:05

breakups. I know when people leave

7:07

a job and they hadn't told anyone yet. I

7:10

know what the future wife of one of my

7:12

friends looks like, having seen it in the cards.

7:16

Once in a while, I still see some spirits,

7:18

but almost like they're just out of

7:21

sight. I can't look right at them.

7:24

I'm an actor, and I once saw

7:26

my deceased grandfather sitting in the

7:28

audience of my first major performance.

7:31

I saw a cast member's deceased friend

7:33

in the lobby as well. I

7:36

still have little moments here and there where

7:38

I see things or get premonitions. I

7:41

wish I had some way to control

7:43

it, though, because I'd like to see

7:45

and experience more of the paranormal sort.

7:48

I believe it's part of my purpose

7:50

to help people by communicating with their

7:53

deceased loved ones, and I'm

7:55

working on opening myself up to the

7:57

possibilities. Thank

7:59

you. reading, listening, and creating a

8:01

safe place for people like me

8:04

to share my experience and

8:06

not feel mocked or silly. I

8:08

love your work and I'd love to take you

8:10

to some haunted places if you're ever in

8:12

Chicago. Best, Maddie.

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Chapter 2. Beal.

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Submitted by Kamas. Hey,

8:40

I'm a really big fan of your channel

8:42

and wanted to share something my dad told

8:44

me when I was younger. My

8:47

dad was around 16 years old

8:49

working on a ranch in Idaho. His

8:52

job was to wrangle the horses that

8:54

would run off deep into the mountains.

8:57

He would always use his own horse, Angel, to

8:59

go and catch them. My

9:01

dad said Angel was a funny horse because

9:03

she acted like a dog and was very

9:06

playful. Every so often

9:08

when the horses ran off even

9:10

deeper than usual, my dad said

9:12

he would pass by this old,

9:14

abandoned shack that looked like it

9:16

had been run down for years. Whenever

9:19

he passed by it, the hair on the back

9:21

of his neck would stand up and

9:23

he would get creeped out. So

9:25

would Angel. His normally

9:27

playful horse would start bucking

9:30

and snorting upon seeing the

9:32

house too. This

9:34

really freaked my dad out. He

9:36

said one time while he was in town,

9:39

he saw another man that had been working

9:41

at the ranch for a few years and

9:43

started up a conversation with him over lunch.

9:46

Eventually, since the guy knew the

9:48

area pretty well, my dad asked,

9:51

what's the deal with that creepy run down house?

9:54

As soon as he said that, the

9:56

man's face went from smiling to

9:58

a creepy grin. You

10:01

really want to know, kid? The man

10:03

asked. My dad said, yes. This

10:06

is what the man told him. Back

10:09

in the mid-1900s, there was a

10:11

man who lived in that house

10:14

named Frederick Beal. Everyone

10:16

called him Beal. The man

10:18

didn't want to live near civilization, so he

10:20

built the house in the mountains with his

10:23

own two hands and lived there for

10:25

many years. Every year

10:27

during the summer, Beal would head into

10:29

town. He'd come stock up on

10:31

food and then make his way back into

10:33

the mountains. He wasn't a

10:35

mean old man. He was actually quite

10:38

nice, which is why the townspeople always

10:40

looked forward to his yearly return into

10:42

town. During the

10:44

summer, he'd get his food from the

10:46

town, and during the winter, since there

10:48

was too much snow to head back

10:50

into town, he would hunt animals by

10:52

himself in the nearby area for food.

10:56

One summer day, the townspeople noticed

10:58

Beal hadn't come for his yearly

11:00

trip into town. Everyone

11:02

was starting to worry that something had happened

11:05

to him. So when he

11:07

still hadn't shown up after a few more weeks, they

11:09

sent the sheriffs and a few deputies on

11:11

their horses to go check on him. When

11:15

the officers arrived, they immediately

11:17

knew something was wrong. The

11:19

forest was quiet, too quiet. At

11:23

Beal's house, everything was boarded

11:25

up and there was a foul

11:27

stench in the air. They

11:30

managed to kick down the boarded up door

11:32

and made their way into the living room.

11:35

Their faces dropped. The

11:38

rotting corpse of Beal was laying on

11:40

the ground with a bullet hole in

11:43

his head and a gun

11:45

in his hand. It

11:47

was obvious he had taken his own

11:49

life, but why? They

11:52

searched around his house a bit more to see

11:54

if there was any note, and

11:56

eventually they found one crumpled up

11:58

in his coat pocket. The

12:01

handwriting was messy and out of place, but

12:03

they were able to read it after taking a

12:06

closer look. The note read, Help

12:09

me God, I've gone blind.

12:15

After hearing the news, everyone was

12:17

shocked. The old man had

12:20

lost his eyesight and knew there was

12:22

no hope of him finding the town

12:24

on his own or hunting for himself.

12:27

So rather than starving to death, he

12:30

took his own life. After

12:32

hearing this story, my dad swore that

12:34

every time he passed the house again,

12:37

it felt like someone

12:39

was watching him. Thanks

12:48

for joining me today. The podcast

12:51

is still on a short break and

12:53

regular episodes will be returning the week

12:55

of June 3rd, but I'll still be

12:58

releasing mini-sodes like this until then. Have

13:00

you ever encountered anything similar to what

13:02

you've heard on the show? Send

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me an email at

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storieswithsapphireatgmail.com. Did you

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13:12

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session at storieswithsapphire.com. I

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also post original animations to my YouTube

13:18

channel at

13:21

youtube.com/sapphiresyndalo. Slum it

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and good night. Stories

13:26

with Sapphire is created and produced

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by me, Sapphire Sondalo. Music

13:30

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