Sept. 18, 2025

Letters From the Beyond 8

Letters From the Beyond 8
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Time warping spirits! Sleep paralysis curses! Visits from loved ones, hairy creatures, and sneaky ghouls! In this episode, Ayden shares listener submitted stories.

Sleep paralysis/La Pisadeira episode

Want to hear your story on Susto? Fill out the Letters From the Beyond form or visit SustoPodcast.com to be shared on the show!

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Big cool friends, It's me Adrian or Aiden. Either way,

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I am still your host and you are still listening

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to Sustole, the podcast of paranormal folklore from Latin American cultures.

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Speaking of this week, the fifteenth specifically, so Monday a

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few days ago kicked off the beginning of Latina Heritage Month. Listen,

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you know that if you're here, we celebrate that pretty

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much every episode all year long, but I encourage you

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this month especially to really go full force and support

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Latina creators. As a matter of fact, I want you

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all to do me a big favor and tag some

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of your favorite Latina podcast below bonus points if they

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are also a spooky then I mean generally spooky now

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just my sister's over at espooky teals. But leave your

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favorite podcasters your favorite let the nip podcasters in the

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comments below for everybody to check out, and I'll of

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course find a way to share those and also on

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the social media post everywhere, tag everybody, everywhere, all at

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once during this month so that we can get that

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momentum and that train going, Because what a very exciting time,

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am I right? I'm going to go ahead and jump

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into the quick updates that we've been going over these

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last few times. I've already mentioned that before, but I

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do not want y'all to forget. I want you to

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save the date. So coming up in October, October tenth

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is the Hollow Weird event at the Wist branch of

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the Austin Public Library, and that is from six to

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nine pm. At six pm, I will kick off the

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event with my storytelling session, which was really fun last time.

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It was such a good crowd. Everybody was so engaged

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and had really good questions, so I'm so excited for

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that to happen again this time. But tonight it's going

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to be a whole evening. So after my storytelling session

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and my discussion and all that, at around seven fifteen,

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they're doing a horror trivia, so we will put our

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spooky knowledge to the test. And then after that and

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throughout the rest of the evening, they're going to be

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doing some fun spooky crafts. I'm calling it witchcrafting, you know,

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that's just what I like to say, what I do.

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You all have seen my peg boards up here before

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and all the stuff that I do, so that's gonna

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be a lot of fun, of course, and that is

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a free event. It's an adult event as well. I

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already made the post about it on social media, so again,

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make sure to check out Sustal podcast on every platform

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for any updates on the show, including live events. And

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the next one that we have scheduled is Halloween Night,

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October thirty. First, it is the night owls Spirit Social

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that starts at five pm and it goes all the

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way to midnight at the Ballroom again here in Austin.

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I will be speaking on a panel and the panel

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is called when the veil is thinnest, and I will

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be tabling all night. They always have a ton of

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cool things to do. They are sold out of their

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VIP tickets. They do still have the general admission tickets available,

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so go visit the night Owl podcast dot com and

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get your tickets before they sell out, because I guarantee

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you they will. They did last year and they will

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again and it's a great event. You do not want

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to miss it. Halloween Night, so you know it's going

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to be super lit. Everyone's going to be in their costumes.

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I honestly, listen, I'm starting to panic because I do

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not know what I'm going to be for Halloween. So

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I need to do some serious thinking and figure it

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out because time is running out. The clock is a ticken,

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So we'll see. I'll do a costume reveal that night,

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and if you happen to be there, please please stop

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by my table say hi. Let's get a cute selfie

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of our costumes. At either of these events, please come

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by say hi. As always, y'all know I'm not shy. Hello,

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That's why I'm doing this. But again, you can follow

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at social podcast on every social media platform for any

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and all updates on the show. Before we get into

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today's episode, I do want to continue with reading Spotify comments.

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This has been really fun for me because it's kind

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of like I feel like it's making me stay up

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to date with the comments, where before I would kind

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of let them sit there for a long while and

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then respond to them eventually. And this is good because

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now there's a clear schedule I'm going in and I'm

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checking them as we prepare for the episode. So for

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these comments, we're gonna get started on the dance the

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double episode. Amy said, just got into your podcast and

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I love it. Thank you, Amy, so do I. Amy says,

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I love that you state your sources. Listen. As always,

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direct links are in these schust to Google docs on Patreon,

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but I do vocalize those for you all so you

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can check them out because they're just really cool. Amy

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continues this episode again. The Dancing with the Double episode

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reminds me of Beyonce's song Church Girl. She's not trying

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to hurt nobody, lol. Listen. And I responded to Amy

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on Spotify and I said, I will take any comparison

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to Miss Sasha Fierce that I can get. That's an

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amazing compliment. Thank you so much that it just made

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you It made your brain go there. The next comment

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is on the UFOs over at the Otia walk on episode,

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which is the most recent episode. You can check that

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one out. And Andrew wrote, saying the word ufologist, and

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then in parentheses, Andrew wrote, ohoh dashfologist so oofologists. I'm

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not sure, but I ended up landing on ufologists when

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I was running through the pronunciations of that episode. And again,

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Andrew said, saying the word ufologist the first time and

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landing on the correct pronunciation is two thumbs up. Andrew,

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Thank you so much. I'm glad that somebody confirmed that

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I eventually got it right because I said, I'm just

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gonna throw this out there and see what happens. Hopefully

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it lands, hopefully it sticks. And also on that episode,

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we got a comment from Alejandro, and Alejandro said, yeah,

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so about that Susto TM field trip, my mom wants

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to talk to your mom before she can sign my

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permission slip. Listen, all we need are signatures from your

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parent or guardian and three dollars so that we can

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get pizza after the after the field trip. Do y'all

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remember that I loved that. I loved just like three

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dollars could get us a trip to Peter Pepper Pizza

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and we were set and it was so much fun. Also,

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I'm an adult now, so I can literally just go

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out and do that if I want. But the pizza's

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not three dollars anymore. That's the only thing. Oh well,

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all right, we're gonna go ahead and move on. And

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once again, this is a Letters from the Beyond episode,

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So thank you so much to everybody who wrote in

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for that. If you want to hear your story on

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one of these episodes, please visit my website it's Susto

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podcast dot com or the link tree in my social

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media bios. It's link tr dot ee slash sustal and

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you can submit your stories on there. And remember you

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can also send in photo, video, or audio recordings. It

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doesn't have to be solely a written story. It could

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be one or the other or both. I'll take it all.

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It's also fun to see. So without further ado, we

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will go ahead and get into this collection of letters

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from the beyond. This first letter is from Izzy on Discord.

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Hello is the exclusive access on the Discord channel for

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best school Friends on patreon dot com slash Sustal podcast

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and Izzy wrote, O MG, y'all, I just remembered something, lol,

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and we can figure out if my brother was crazy

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or if I was in denial. Just for the record,

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while I am a cautious skeptic, my brother was a full,

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NonStop believer in the supernatural and love of horror. There

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was one day we were driving back home in the

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dark and it was mildly foggy. My brother was driving

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that night because I didn't have a license even though

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I was two years older. We were on a long

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dark highway in rural Idaho, singing along to Lucero's Electricidad

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when we suddenly hit a thick patch of fog. It

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felt like we had driven right into a cloud. Everything

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went hazy and we couldn't see any lights or other

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cars around. At first, we were just having fun, but

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I could tell my brother was getting nervous. He was

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struggling to see the road. Then I noticed something strange

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out of the corner of my eye. In the fog.

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There was this weird blob that looked like smoke or

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heat coming up from the side of the road. It

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reminded me of the way steam rises off a hot grill,

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all wavy and squiggly, but taller and more disorienting. And again,

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the fog was thick, so we really shouldn't have seen anything.

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My brother suddenly shouted, what is that? That's a man.

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He swerved the car and I could feel the panic rising.

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Calm down, it's just a vent or something. I tried

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to reassure him, but he wasn't having it. We were

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on a stretch of highway surrounded by fields, so he

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wasn't buying the vent idea I know what I saw.

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He insisted we drove a little further and he saw

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the shape again, Still hazy in the fog, I could

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see how freaked out. He was getting and at this

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point I instinctively knew he was driving in the other

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lane in his panic. I was trying to keep him

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calm while my heart raced. I know what I saw,

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he kept saying, his voice full of worry. I didn't

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think it looked like a person, but at that moment,

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it felt like a scene from a scary movie. Just then,

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we were leaving the fog patch into an area that

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was completely clear, and I saw headlights and I realized

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we were heading straight for another car. With a rush

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of adrenaline, I grabbed the wheel and yelled get back

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in the lane. We jerked back into our lane just

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in time to avoid a crash. After that close call,

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we pulled over to the side of the road, both

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of us shaking and trying to catch our breath. What

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had we just experienced? The eerie blob still lingered in

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our minds as we tried to calm down. Now I

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was actually less concerned about the eerie blob and more

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about the fact my brother almost killed us over nothing.

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I was so mad. To me again, I saw it

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as just this weird smoke or heat from a vent

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or two. I don't know if I've told this to

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you all, or if I gave the abridged version. But yeah,

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the fog reminded me of it. He swore up and

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down it was a ghost. He actually passed on that highway.

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So when he first passed away, I thought about that

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moment and wondered if that was like some sign. I'm

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a skeptic, but lost can get you thinking about those things.

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It's a funny story in hindsight. At the time, I

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was so angry I refused to go anywhere with him

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for weeks, But now I laugh at just the absurdity

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of it. Is he thank you so much for sharing that,

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especially such a really intense moment with your brother before

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his passing, and it is it's kind of like it

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gives me chills to think that he passed away on

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that same highway where he was seeing this thing or

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this vision or shape or whatever it was in the fog.

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So it Yeah, I can see how you would wonder.

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It's very easy to think is there a connection between

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those things where before he passed he saw something in

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that area that scared him and it worried him. Yeah,

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it makes you think, like I was talking about in

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the most recent episode, the UFO's episode, I mentioned about

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how sometimes the spiritual I feel it can feel very

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sci fi because it starts to go into this area

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of timelines crossing or overlapping or folding in on each other,

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and it's like, how do you explain these kinds of

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thing things? Right, It's just one of those things that

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maybe we will never understand, or at least not for

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a long time. But it's really intense to think about,

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and especially through grief and through loss. You know you

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really have I don't want to say nothing, but it's

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almost like the only thing you have are your thoughts.

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Is you just have to, like you keep thinking about

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this person and the moments that you shared, whether they

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were scary at the time and fun now or they're

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puzzling or confusing. I don't know. I just I don't

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know how to how to verbalize that. I just hope

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that I'm doing your story some justice, and I thank

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you for sharing that with us. Okay. This next story

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is from SNM eighty one, and this was in a

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TikTok comment section. I posted a video and I got

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some responses on there. They gave me permission to share

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this story. Of course, and they commented on this video.

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When we were younger, my sister would have bizarre dreams

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of being surrounded by black candles and would wake up

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to hearing three knocks at her bedroom window around the

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three am witching hour. I got to hear it as

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well when she made me sleep in her room, but

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I noticed that she would be an active sleep, paralysis

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and struggling to wake up. My mom took her to

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a gurandera because she sensed that someone in our family

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had done work on her. She cleansed her and sent

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her home with some herbs to make a tea. It

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made her throw up black liquid. After that, all of

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this went away. Come to find out, it was a

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thea that did the work on her. The three knocks

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is because someone sent you something an entity, negative vibes

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or a muerto. My sister later told us that during

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her nightmares with the candles, she would see my aunt

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in these dreams as well, but never said anything. So

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after the Guanderda did her thing that same thea encounter

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entered a lot of misfortune. She married into the family,

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so she wasn't blood related. My uncle divorced her and

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one of our cousins her son was murdered. He was

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a federl in Mexico, and eventually her small business went under.

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My mom thinks whatever she did came back to her threefold.

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All this went down with my sister after she brought

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up that my cousin was actively involved in cartel bribes

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and misusing his position as a federral. It was a lot,

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but also so scary that someone could pay to do

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work on someone else like that. That is really creepy. Yeah,

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it's really unsettling, and I feel like that's usually how

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it happens, like the most intense workings. And when I

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say work, if you all are unfamiliar, that's what they

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call I'm going to use really vague terms here. That's

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what some people will call bruhetia or witchcraft or like

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specifically when someone is doing a hex or a curse

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or a spell on someone else, it's like they did

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work on this person. But yeah, I was saying, it

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can be really unsettling because sometimes the most intense workings,

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they're coming from someone that you know, that you know

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personally and that you would probably trust, but because they

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can get close enough to you to do a more

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intense kind of thing so yeah, it's really in settling.

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I've heard about people finding jars of dirt in their

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homes that they had never seen before. They don't know

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where it came from, and then they they take it

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to somebody else to help them because it looks, you know,

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pretty witchy in nature. And then whoever they take it to,

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like another like a bruha or someone, they'll say, yeah,

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this is this is graveyard dirt. That is a real

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I'm not gonna say who, but that's an example that

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they found the jar and they they took it to

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someone and they said, oh, this is this is a

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working This is like someone's trying to do ruhiia like

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bad bruhidia on you. And so they had to undo

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it and all that. But but again you have to think,

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this is someone that was close enough to get into

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that person's house and do that to them unknowingly because

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you just trust them in there. This is why you

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got to put your wards up, your protections. You gotta

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do your your uncrossings and all that stuff. Listen. I'm

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not a pro, I'm just saying you gotta protect yourself.

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This also makes me think of the sleep paralysis episode

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that I did, which was I think the Lapisaveda, which

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is the Brazilian nighthag, and she's the creature that they

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say causes sleep paralysis because she's like on their chest.

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But I know that in that episode, and I'll put

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the link in the description below. But in the episode,

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I talk about a study that was done. Was it

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somewhere like Norway or Sweden, I don't know, somewhere like that.

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They did this like sleep study where they found that

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people who were under more stress or experience something traumatic,

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but like generally stressed, they suffered more sleep paralysis than

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somebody who was under less amounts of stress. I think

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it is a factor of sleep paralysis. I also do

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think that sleep paralysis can be spiritual in nature, but

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it can be both. Sometimes that maybe if you're under stressed,

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it leaves you more vulnerable to a spiritual attack of

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some sort or a spiritual encounter, if you will. And

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I even talk about in the episode an encounter that

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I had when I was I was sleeping over at

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a friend's place and it was just her and I

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in her apartment, and this was at a really really

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really stressful point in my life, like I was going

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through it. It was really bad, and I had a

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really intense slee paralysis and I just remember waking up

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and I could hear I think, what did you say,

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did you say chanting? Okay? Surrounded by black candles and

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hearing the three knocks okay. So in mine, I could

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see like fire, So it could have been a candle light.

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It could have been like a like a catfire bonfire

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style kind of fire, but just that like kind of

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like flickering glowing. And I could hear chanting, like multiple voices,

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like a group of voices. I hear chanting like circling. Oh.

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I just got chill so bad. Oh, I got really

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scared to scared myself chills like the voices like as

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if they were moving around me and they were chanting,

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and I could not move. You guys, I can't stop

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getting chills. I hate this so bad. And I couldn't move.

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And I finally when I was able to like snap

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out of it, I literally like I'd never moved so fast.

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It was like I like flew. You know when a

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cartoon when the cloud the shape of that person is

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left behind like a cloud. It was that I flew

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because I was sleeping in her living room and I

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jumped out of the couch that I was on, or

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the mattress, whatever it was. I jumped out of it

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and I ran to her room and I literally just

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ran and I jumped in her bed with her, like

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literally like as she was my mom and I was

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a little kid, and I just got in there and

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she was just like half was like, what's going on?

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And I was like, I had a nightmare. I had

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a nightmare. And she was like, Okay, yay, y go

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to sleep here, Go sleep here. And I told her

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about it the next morning because I didn't want to

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wake her up in the middle of the night. And

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I wish I had checked the time, but I'm also

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glad I didn't, because had I seen that it was

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three in the morning, I would have just I would

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have gone straight to a church. I would have been like,

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we have to go take me to a church now.

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But yeah, I didn't tell her about it until the

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next day because I don't want to wake her up

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and tell her, hey, this, I just heard this in

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your living room and freak her out. But yeah, that

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was a really, really scary experience and I've had sleep

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paralysis several times before, but that is like the real

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notable one. And again I feel like in coincides with

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that stress sleep study or theory or what have you,

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because again, that was a really tumultuous point in my life.

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I think that's a good word to use. There. Again,

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you can check out that episode. I'll put the link

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in the description notes below. All right, we're moving on

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to our final letter for this episode, and this comes

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from Asha. And Asha actually did use that Google form

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that I have, so those other ones, I had been

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collecting them from other spaces, and I finally went through

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and I checked the letters from the beyond Google form.

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Because hey, I'm not a Google doctor, I'm not a

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Google scientist. I didn't know that you would not get

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notifications when people sent their responses. I thought I would

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get them, so I wasn't checking it, but I just

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checked and I had a couple in there. So those

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of you that have submitted one, thank you. If you're

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not in this episode, you will be in the next

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one for sure. But I'm checking it now regularly, so

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please again. You can visit sustopodcast dot com or my

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linktree that's linkedr dot ee slash sustal. It's in my

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social media bios and there is a submit a story,

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tell me a story button and you can send it here.

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So Asha, thank you for using the Google form. This

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one's been sitting it there for a while, so thank

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you so much for your patience. But Asha wrote, I

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have a couple stories, some creepy and one heartwarming slash

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tear jerking for me. So I'll start at my youngest.

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When we were little, we lived in a house where

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a murder happened on the corner of the property, but

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as kids we didn't know. We would always leave toys

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on the floor in our toy room, and at Nike

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you could hear shuffling like someone not picking up their feet,

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just kind of dragging them. This happened a couple times,

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but the real chill down the back of your spine

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literally came later. I told my mom about it, and

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she said, if it happens again, say scaring me, please stop,

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which I'm gonna interrupt there. I've heard this before, and

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I've done this before. This is something that my mom

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used to tell me growing up. Is basically, you can

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take control. If you're scared, you can essentially set a boundary.

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You can draw a line and say stop, leave me alone.

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And I had to do this at one point when

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I was younger, because I could feel something around me.

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When I was in like high school, and I remember

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being I think I've told this story before, but I

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remember walking down the hallway at night. I think I

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had gotten a drink of water, used the rush from something.

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But I was walking back to my room and I

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could feel something behind me, and I stopped what I

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was doing. I stopped walking, like stood my ground, and

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I said, you need to leave me alone. I just

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felt like I meant it. You know, when you know

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when you say something, you're like, oh, like I meant that.

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I I as Justin Bieber would say I stood on

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business and I said it and I meant it, and

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it like I didn't feel it anymore. So sometimes it's

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as simple as setting a boundary, but that should be

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the first thing you try, and then you know. Unfortunately,

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other times you may have to escalate into some more

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intense solutions, if you will. But anyway, we'll continue. Asha continues.

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We share a wall with our parents, but we went

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to sleep one night, and of course here goes the shuffling,

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but it left the toy room and entered into our room.

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Upon entering the room, I could hear the steps getting

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closer and closer and closer, until something began to slowly

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touch me. It went from the top of my back

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to the middle of my back. I sure as heck,

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stayed still and said, Mom, is that you? She responded, no,

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go back to sleep. I calmly said, please stop, you're

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scaring me. It never came back in my room or

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our toy room. Talk about chills. Not only did it respond,

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but it said I'm not your mom. Go to sleep. No, bitch,

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get out, leave me alone. What do you mean You're

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not my mom and you're touching my back? Get at

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get out right now. It's the end of you and me.

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It's the end of you, ghost. Really. I tried to

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take my pillow my back support away because I'm getting

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hot and sweaty, because that freaked me out. You okay,

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We're moving on to the next one. This says another time,

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we just moved into an apartment and we were sleeping

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when I felt my husband kind of jolt awake. As

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he did, I looked up and saw this big man

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shadow standing in front of us. I screamed, sat up

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and started swinging my pillow. It backed off and went

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into a corner, in which time I stood up and

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turned on the light to see nothing. You know, Asha,

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you were my kind of ghoul because you said, I

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mean talk about standing on business. You said, no, we're

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fighting now. Now we're fighting because you're in my house

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and you interrupted my sleep. Asha continues. My husband said, oh,

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I mentioned this in the recent episode. My husband said,

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you saw that too, Sure did. We were telling our

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neighbor and he told us a man had there but

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he was a sweet but big guy. Ah, poor guy.

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He was probably just like, okay, so this is who

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lives here now, and then he got attacked and ran

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to the corner. But for reeky and like I was saying,

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I mentioned in a recent episode, That's one of the

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scariest things I think that can happen is when you

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see or you hear something and you're with someone and

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before you can even bring it up to them, they

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tell you did you see that or did you hear that? Ah? Okay,

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Asta continues. Next is probably the creepiest spine tingling. My

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husband needs a Limpia story around. We had two things happen.

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The first was one time we were fooling around in

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the room while our son was in the living room

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playing PlayStation, and we heard at our door in a whisper,

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Mommy Daddy. We stopped and I walked out to look

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at my son, still in the same position playing PlayStation.

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I asked, did you need something? He was so into

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his game and said, no, ma'am. Why so you didn't

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just call me? No? I went back into the room

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and was officially frightened. The next thing was the worst ever.

470
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I was asleep and I just opened my eyes and

471
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saw this hairy, ape looking thing caressing my husband. I

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was so scared. I think it felt me open my

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eyes because it glanced up and looked at me with

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a scowl on its face. I acted asleep and closed

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my eyes and eventually fell asleep. I thought it was

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a horrible dream until the next day my hubby said, man,

477
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I couldn't sleep. I kept feeling like hair or something.

478
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Needless to say, I nearly died inside. I didn't tell

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him because I was so scared to acknowledge it and

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make him scared. He has always said he feels like

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something evil is around him. And will wake him up

482
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at night or just send him into anxiety attacks. I

483
00:24:50.279 --> 00:24:52.920
tried looking into it, but there really wasn't much that

484
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I could find. Maybe the masterful Aidan can find something related. Asha,

485
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thank you. First of all, I don't know if I

486
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am a master and expert at this stuff. I certainly try,

487
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but I mean, like we said earlier, and like your

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mom told you, maybe he can start at that level.

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Next time he feels something or he feels that onset

490
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of there's something around me, something lurking that's making me

491
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not feel good, he can try and set that boundary

492
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and say, hey, leave me alone. This relationship is done.

493
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It's over, and cut it off and and you know,

494
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and if that doesn't work, then you may have to

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elevate it, you know, to the next thing. But it's

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always okay. And I think it's kind of like an

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underrated or an under what's the word under explored, underappreciated,

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Like people maybe just don't say it enough that sometimes

499
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you can just say something and if you think of

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it like this, at their very base, at the very core,

501
00:25:46.039 --> 00:25:49.119
spells will take it there. Spells are their words. They're

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made of words. Right, most times you say things you

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00:25:51.839 --> 00:25:54.200
say what you want to happen, you say what you're

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trying to manifest or what have you. So you can

505
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think of it that way and say this boundary. Not

506
00:25:58.960 --> 00:26:00.799
only is this a boundary that I'm saying, it is

507
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a working so to speak, to call back to earlier.

508
00:26:03.559 --> 00:26:06.240
Maybe he can try that right, or he can try

509
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and go get Olympia with somebody, or get like a

510
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Barida with an egg to see if there's some sort

511
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of like malo on him, or if he's suffering from

512
00:26:17.160 --> 00:26:20.319
susto perhaps, and that's what's you know, causing those feelings

513
00:26:20.359 --> 00:26:22.759
as well. There's options for sure, but I would say

514
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start with the small ones. There's no needs to go

515
00:26:24.839 --> 00:26:26.640
super intense. Don't try and take them to get like

516
00:26:26.720 --> 00:26:30.119
an exorcism or something. It doesn't sound like that's necessary.

517
00:26:30.440 --> 00:26:32.319
No need to go that intense, is what I'm saying.

518
00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:35.799
So we'll continue here. Enough of the spooky and scary,

519
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onto my beautiful story. I hold dear to my heart.

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I had the most wonderful dad who was in the

521
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delivery room behind a curtain ola weel when I delivered

522
00:26:44.839 --> 00:26:47.359
my first born. He was in my life since I

523
00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:50.000
was six months old. And you couldn't tell him or

524
00:26:50.039 --> 00:26:54.279
I anything about step anything like stepdad. He was my

525
00:26:54.440 --> 00:26:57.480
dad and I was his daughter. My dad was ill

526
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and was going to pass any day, so I was

527
00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:02.680
there all the time I could be. It had been

528
00:27:02.720 --> 00:27:05.559
a long day, and the hospice nurse had come and

529
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said he would be fine for the night since he

530
00:27:08.039 --> 00:27:11.279
was still breathing. Okay, we left for home, which was

531
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about twenty minutes away. I write this with tears in

532
00:27:14.480 --> 00:27:17.480
my eyes. Once we get there, we are getting ready

533
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for bed and about to turn out the light, and

534
00:27:19.720 --> 00:27:22.680
a big bang hits our front window and then hits

535
00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:26.000
the side back window about fifteen feet away, like it

536
00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:28.960
ran through the room. We were kind of weirded out,

537
00:27:29.160 --> 00:27:31.839
but hey, it was a long day. Just get in bed,

538
00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:34.799
I swear. Twenty minutes later, my cousin knocks on my

539
00:27:34.839 --> 00:27:39.359
door and says, Asha, I'm sorry, your dad just passed away.

540
00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:43.519
I was so heartbroken. But then the sound came back

541
00:27:43.519 --> 00:27:45.839
in my mind and I knew then it was my

542
00:27:45.960 --> 00:27:50.039
dad saying goodbye. My son, two years old, would come

543
00:27:50.079 --> 00:27:53.000
out of his room days later saying, Papa's so funny.

544
00:27:53.799 --> 00:27:55.880
Another story about my dad was when I was giving

545
00:27:55.880 --> 00:27:57.960
birth to my other son, and I was alone in

546
00:27:58.000 --> 00:27:59.920
the room with a nurse who couldn't hit my vein

547
00:28:00.160 --> 00:28:03.000
for the IV. The nurse called someone else who hid

548
00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:05.359
it but forgot to cap it, and needless to say,

549
00:28:05.720 --> 00:28:10.200
blood was spewing everywhere. Okay, first off, I need to

550
00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:13.720
interrupt here. That is crazy, and I hope, I hope

551
00:28:14.079 --> 00:28:17.799
that you were somehow like compensated or at the very

552
00:28:17.880 --> 00:28:23.839
least a huge apology from this hospital, because that is crazy. Okay,

553
00:28:23.960 --> 00:28:27.000
this says blood was spewing everywhere. I guess I fainted,

554
00:28:27.160 --> 00:28:29.720
but I went to a beach, and of course there

555
00:28:29.839 --> 00:28:32.440
was my dad in the distance. I could feel the

556
00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:35.319
air and sprinkles of water in my face, and then

557
00:28:35.359 --> 00:28:38.160
I heard the nurse saying, come on, Vanessa, come back

558
00:28:38.200 --> 00:28:41.319
to me. And I woke up and passed out again,

559
00:28:41.799 --> 00:28:45.519
and my dad was closer, reaching out. Just as I

560
00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:48.160
was about to embrace him, I woke up for good.

561
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Some might say it was just a dream, but the

562
00:28:51.720 --> 00:28:54.200
thing I take from that is my dad just wanted

563
00:28:54.240 --> 00:28:58.880
me to know he was there in spirit. Usha. Y'all

564
00:28:58.960 --> 00:29:00.920
know I'm a big cry baby. Why would you do

565
00:29:01.000 --> 00:29:03.960
this to me? Thank you so much for sharing that.

566
00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:06.240
That really really is a beautiful story and you truly

567
00:29:06.240 --> 00:29:08.240
should keep that close to your heart because that is

568
00:29:08.279 --> 00:29:10.960
really beautiful. Asha finishes this up and says, well, that

569
00:29:11.079 --> 00:29:13.079
is it for now on the roller coaster of my

570
00:29:13.200 --> 00:29:16.279
experiences lol, but I hope you enjoyed them. Thanks for

571
00:29:16.279 --> 00:29:19.240
always being a badass storyteller and open to hearing other

572
00:29:19.359 --> 00:29:22.119
stories as well. You know, thank you for telling me

573
00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:24.720
that I'm a badass storyteller. It's truly something that I

574
00:29:24.839 --> 00:29:27.400
put work into and so I'm glad that you enjoy it.

575
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And yes, I do love hearing other stories like yours, Asha,

576
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and everybody else who wrote in today and everybody who

577
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will write in in the future. Again, thank each of

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00:29:35.839 --> 00:29:51.839
you so much for sharing your stories today. Welcome back,

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well friends, Thank you so much again for listening to

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this entry of Letters from the Beyond. One more time.

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Remember that you can visit my website sustopodcast dot com

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or the linktree in my social media bios. One more

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Little Burrito wrote, amazing storytelling, great content. Anyone into the

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paranormal would love this podcast. There is a focus on

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folklore from Latin cultures and a lot of them remind

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me of stories told when I was a kid, and

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it's so fun to hear where they originated. From Little Burrito,

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thank you so much. I also think that this is

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great content and I also love this podcast. That is

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one of the most rewarding things to hear, by the way.

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I've had several people tell me this that it reminds

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them of the stories that they told when they were

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a kid, or it makes them feel like they're at

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home sharing stories with their family with their friends. That

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truly like, Ugh, if I had nothing else and I

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had just that from you all that I'm able to

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bring you that feeling, it means the world to me.

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And I'm going to stop before I get emotional because

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I'm already emotional from Asha's beautiful story. So I'm gonna

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put a cap on that there. But thank you so

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much for that review, Little Burrito. Once again, so make

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