Jim Harold's Campfire - Ghostly Playmates - Jim Harold's Campfire 760

Episode Date: May 7, 2026

Late-night conversations with unseen ghostly children. A mysterious figure covered in glowing crystal-like colors on a rooftop in Pakistan. A haunted house where footsteps, jingling keys, and shadowy faces became part of everyday life. In this chilling edition of Jim Harold’s Campfire, listeners share encounters that blur the line between imagination and something far stranger. From whispers in the dark to unexplained visitors that seem to linger just beyond sight, these stories unfold with the kind of eerie authenticity that sticks with you long after the episode ends. You’ll also hear tales of impossible object disappearances, unsettling attachments, vivid messages from departed loved ones, and a deeply personal account of strange visions tied to a life-changing medical diagnosis. Some stories offer comfort and hope, while others raise unsettling questions with no clear answers. Whether it’s a spirit trying to make contact, something following a traveler home, or a presence quietly watching from the shadows, this episode is packed with unforgettable moments that remind us why real stories are often the most terrifying of all. VIRTUAL CAMPFIRE GROUPJoin our FREE online community at ⁠https://virtualcampfiregroup.com⁠EVENTSHope to see you soon at one of Jim’s live events: https://jimharold.com/eventsYOUTUBE CHANNELBe sure to subscribe to Jim’s YouTube channel at: ⁠https://youtube.com/jimharold⁠ JOIN JIM’S SPOOKY STUDIO PLUS CLUBYou can get access to Jim’s entire back catalog of Campfire and a TON of exclusive content with the Spooky Studio Plus Club. Go to https://⁠jimharold.com/plus⁠ and signup to support the show and get access to our MASSIVE library of content!MERCHGo to ⁠https://jimharold.com/merch⁠ to get your Jim Harold T’s, sweatshirts, mugs, hats and more! BOOKSGet all SIX of Jim’s Campfire books here: https://jimharold.com/campfirebooks/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Luxury sales claim based on S&P Global Mobility Canadian New Vehicle Total Registrations for Calendar year 2025 for the Cadillac definition of luxury. Ghostly playmates and much more on this edition of Jim Harold's Campfire. Sit back, relax, and warm yourself by Jim Harold's Campfire. Next up on the Campfire is Emily and she's been listening for a decade. My goodness and we're so glad that she's here from Missouri, the Show Me State and she's going to tell us a story about her son. I'm so happy to be here.

Thank you for having me. My story is Start 10 years ago When my now 13 year old was three My husband and I had two boys at the time We have three now, but they were three and five And we lived in a little Suburban neighborhood

Our house at that time would have been about 50 years old There were two owners prior to us But nothing remarkable about the area My son, I still had a baby monitor in his room because he was upstairs and we were down and he was three. So I would hear him talking to someone on the monitor and it just started, you know, kids babble and whatnot, but started to sound like a conversation, like a back and forth. I couldn't really make out exactly what he was saying, but I was picking up on that and that had been happening for a little

while and then he started becoming scared at night. So he either when I was putting him to bed, he would say he was scared or he would wake up and come out of bed and tell me and my husband that he was hearing weird noises, which older house, I get it. They make noises. But he started to say that he was hearing scratching, which I thought was weird. And between that and the conversations, I was starting to get concerned. And then one day I heard him having one of these little conversations while he was in the bathroom. And I heard him say, no, you cannot come to school with me. And I was like, oh, boy. All right. You know, it was time to like try to get to the bottom of it. I didn't want to make a big deal of it because little kids, he was already scared. And I didn't

want to like pay too much to, you know, make him more scared. So I just would ask him little questions. And in his three-year-old little way, I kind of asked him, who are you talking to? And you were in the bathroom. And he would sometimes kind of dismiss it. But at the end of the day, I was able to get from him that it was two kids. It was a girl and a boy. And they were bad.

And I asked him what they were wearing. You know, I was just trying to figure out more about these kids. And he said they were wearing brown clothes. So I'm like, okay. So he was going to preschool at the time. So right after that, the next day when he was at school, I went into his bedroom and I just kind of said, I don't know who you are or why you're here, but you're scaring my son. And you must leave. You are not welcome here. You're not allowed in our house. You're not allowed anywhere on our property. I just kind of laid down the law. And I said, you are not. allowed here or on our property. So then the very next day I was on my way home with my son

and we were getting ready to pull into our driveway and he pointed to the house across the street and he said, there they are. And I said who, the bad kids. They're mad because they can't come to our house or, you know, something to that effect. And I'm like, I was always told

that, you know, or I've heard stories that ghost spirits would need permission to you know come near you or whatever so i just really felt that whatever i did the day before it worked and they were just literally across the street so they weren't on our property anymore but they were still hanging around so much so that he saw them wow and you know i have heard before people say you know i had something happening I kind of like in a firm way, firm but polite way, laid down the law, and they left pretty much. Now, here's the question. Any theories as to who these bad kids are?

Not really. I did as much research as I can. So the neighborhood was built in the 50s. My house would have been built in the early 60s. There were two families that lived there before us. But it is, it was farmland. since like the mid-1800s to the early 1900s, and I know that child mortality was high back then.

People would bury people on their properties. Although, that being said, I don't think if someone buried their child on their land, they would be bad, you know, that kind of, you know, I don't think of any kids is bad, but I just thought about that, that maybe it's a floodplain, kind of where that neighborhood is. There were floods in the area.

But I did have, we had all kinds of stuff going on at that house, but never really until I had babies. I did have a phone call with kind of a prominent medium, I would say. And she told me, she kind of described what it looked like if you were looking out my front window. There's kind of, it's just a normal suburban neighborhood of houses are in a row, but kind of catty corner from me across the street. There's an open lot. I was told by neighbors that there used to be a house there. There's a creek that runs behind those houses across the street from me. And the way they described it to me was kind of the house kind of was falling toward the creek.

So they had to tear it off. She described this open area across the street for me. I'm like, yeah, there is one. And she said it was a portal. So I'm like, that's just a sidebar, make of it what you will. But I'm very sensitive. I used to see spirit since I was a kid kind of scared me, so I kind of

asked that that stop. But I am very intuitive and it just seemed like an active house. I would feel a spirit when I was just kind of felt like you were being watched sometimes in the house. That's the best thing that ever happened, like the best story I have to come out of it.

So does your son, he's 13 now, does he remember any of this? He doesn't remember it. No. And I have another story with him in this newer house that I'm in that also involves him that he's not like into spooky at all, really. Right. And I always give the option. You don't have to do it because I understand some people for privacy reasons don't want to do it. Do you want to give him a shout out by first name that is up to you? Sure. Chase, Cooper, and Parker. This is the story is about Cooper. My middle one.

But yeah, shout out to them. shout out to them stay spooky guys and emily stay spooky what a great story thank you for joining you and please sign back up to tell that please sign up to tell another one i absolutely will it's long overdue thank you so much i love all your podcasts you and are amazing thank you stay spooky i will thank you welcome to the campfire i am jim harold and so glad to be with you once again and we've got another great show for you we just keep showing up and you keep showing up and our storytellers keep showing up it works out well that way so thank you so much for being here whether you're brand new or you've been listening for what is it now

17 years to this program uh this is the show if you're not familiar at campfires where real people come on and jim harold's campfire were real people come on and they tell their real stories there's no sound effects we don't tell them hey make it spookier we just say tell us your story very authentically and that's exactly what they do. And I recently said, man, I am so sorry that I didn't find this show years before because it's right up my alley. It's what I love hearing real people telling real experiences from the heart. And that's what we're all about.

And another thing we're all about is the paranormal and the paranormal news. I want you to check out a free show that we have. And you can find it on YouTube. You can find it on Spotify. You can find it on Apple Podcast. all the places. It is called the paranormal report. And I do it every week and release it every week. And we hosted along with Dar Harold, my wife. And I think she does a great job. And we cover all kinds of stories. This week we talked about the conjuring house. We talked about, you know, the scientist

controversy. Is there something going on with the government? We talked about, what else did we talk about? oh, curses put on a basketball player after him supposedly cheating on a popular musical artist. Let's see, what else? There's a bunch of stuff. You're going to have to tune in. That's all I have to say is you're going to tune in to the paranormal report. You can find it. Again, Apple Podcast, Spotify.

And we've also started a new YouTube channel for it, specifically different than this YouTube channel if you're watching YouTube. and it is at Jim Dar-TPR. At Jim Dar-T-P-R. It's the paranormal report, but if you want the actual URL for that show, it's YouTube.com slash at Jim-Dar-T-R. If you want to find it easily,

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So please check out the paranormal report wherever you get your podcasts. And now let's get on to the Campfire podcast and this week's storytellers. And here they are. Next up, we have Fahad from Michigan. We're so glad to have him. He's been listening to us since COVID times. And he has a fascinating story going back to his childhood in Pakistan. and he's going to tell us about it. Fahad, welcome to the show. Thank you for joining us,

and please tell us what happened. Yeah, I live in Michigan, America now. My parents moved, I think, when I was eight. So this happened, I would say, 1993. I'm aging myself. Seven, six, seven, eight. Believe me, you're young compared to me. So you're a young man. You're still a young man. Go ahead. Thank you. But yeah, this happened. And it's like I was old enough to start remembering memories? Like, you know, when you hit that in your age where you don't remember anything and suddenly

you start remembering stuff for some reason? It was like, so I have a pretty vivid situation there. So during the summertime, my mom and dad, what they used to do, so we lived in Karachi Pakistan. I don't know if yours

would even know. Yeah, I've certainly heard of Karachi. Don't know a lot about it, but I've heard of it. Yeah, we were, so what they would do during summer because our grandparents on my mom's side, they had a house by the beach. And if you've ever been to India, Pakistan, even maybe like South America, Asia, the houses there are a little bit different, meaning like the roofs are completely flat, if that makes sense.

Like they are like, you know, you can put a shed up there. You can put a garden up there, things like that. And it was right by the beach, like the ocean. I could see the ocean from the rooftop. Like, oh, wow. It was less than a way. Yeah. So the night sky would just be absolutely magical at the time.

So half of the roof was open to just run around, play games for me and my cousin, my sister. And the other half was kind of like their, like my grandparents, my aunt-uncle's like, you know, how you have an attic or a shed where you put stuff. So they were like, don't go in that area. It could be rusty nails or something to hurt you. You know, don't, don't pass that. So on this one evening, summer night, probably after, I would say, 10, 11 p.m., our grandparents would let us stay up pretty late when we were staying over the summer to like sometimes even past midnight.

So I would say this was probably much later, like close to midnight or after 11 p.m. Doing the same thing we do, goofing around, telling stories, watching the sky, looking at the ocean. If there's a moon, see how the waves are doing because we would come in at night. things like that. And my cousin was like, hey, like, let's play hide and seek. And all the cousins were like, well, okay, but like it's dark. It's going to be hard to see. And it's like, yeah, but there's no moonlight tonight. And it's cloudy. So like we can actually hide like in the open. And unless you're like right next to the person, you're probably not going to see them. Right. So, you know, so we're like, oh, that actually doesn't make sense. So how to explain this, how to get on the roof, there was a ladder. from the bottom of the house. And then you had to climb the ladder up to the roof and then sit up there. So there was no staircase or anything like that. This is important later.

So that's why I'm explaining this. You're like, why are you telling me about stairs? But on those stairs. So I'm trying to remember. Okay. So, you know, everybody took their turns. And then it was finally my turn. And as a kid, I always was more scared of the dark than my cousins and my sister.

So they decided, let's play a prank on Little Fahad. We're going to let's go. Yeah. So I know, fun times when that happens, right? So I was counting down, like count down from 30, 20, 10, whatever it was. And then when I opened my eyes, what they decided to do was go down the ladder and go inside the house and leave me all alone up there. So my little brain's like, okay, why am I really terrible and hide and seek all of us? Why can't I figure out where anybody is?

Like my little brain did not realize, oh, they must have gone downstairs down the ladder and actually downstairs. No, my brain went, oh, the only explanation must be. They must be on the other half side of the roof where we're not supposed to go. Obviously, that makes sense. There was a small shed back there, if I remember correctly. I don't really know what it looked like. I think it was brownish, light brownish, something like that. It had a creaky door.

You had to kind of like maneuver around the roof to get to it. So like I'm like, okay, just take your time. Don't run into anything. And like, I don't know why. But the closer and closer I got to the shed, the more I just had this feeling like this is dangerous. I couldn't figure out why I was feeling this way. Don't touch that door. Don't go near it.

but I'm like, what? I'm just, my imagination is running wild like that. Like, there's nothing to be scared of. I'm just over-analyzing it. So as I kept getting slowly, slowly, closer,

not running into anything or nail or wood or whatever, anything that's up there, I heard a noise to like, I think to the, I'm trying to remember, like, left side of like, if the shed is in front of me,

I heard a noise to the left side of it or my hands were right, but, and I heard something just move like skitter like like like like go by and I was like I found them right like I finally found one of my cousins or something um so I did the thing where I started walking a little bit faster and following this thing and it was like this weird glow that was coming off um like off the off the stuff and I'm like to something like a flash or a candle like what is going on and finally like it it ended at the shed for some reason. And then I got, uh-huh, I see it go in. I heard the door open and close. So I'm going for the door.

I'm about to open the handle. And right before I opened it, I heard a voice in mind, I said, don't do it. And I'm like, too late, I'm opening it. So now I see this thing. I don't even know how to describe it. It's in the shape of a human, so it has two arms, two legs,

the back of a head. but its entire body was covered with these like rock crystal gems. I don't know. It was just like all over him. And honestly, looking back on it, it was kind of beautiful, if that makes sense. Like they were glowing like rainbow colors. Right. Like rock on the back of its back was like red, green, you know, yellow, whatever.

And I'm like, I'm just like, I don't, my brain is just like, I'm still terrified, by the way. I'm looking at this thing. This thing is frozen in front of the, like facing the shed. And it finally slowly like turned around. I'm so frozen in fear and I can't keep looking. But slowly turned its head and looks at me. And I just see these red glowing eyes that are looking right back at me. I can't tell if this thing is 12 or 15 tall or I'm so tiny at the time that it feels like it's that tall when it's actually just six, six, seven feet.

And I'm just like, nope. And I slam the door. And I'm now looking at it. it, right? Like, I am just running as fast as I can. I don't care if I step on a nail or ran into something. I just need to get the heck out of there. I swear, I kind of blanked out how, like, what happened after that. I remember just being on the ladder. I don't even think I took steps down the ladder, maybe one or two, and I just went straight down on a jump that far, slammed onto the ground, like, quined my head off. My aunt, uncle, grandparents, friends, like my cousin, sorry,

all wake up. They came rushing. And then I'm like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm, unconsolable. And they're like, oh my God, what happened? What happened? Are you? Okay, they thought I got hurt. Like, I stepped on a nail. Right. Right. Like, no, I, I just, I couldn't even breathe. I couldn't even say anything. I was just like, get me inside. I'm so scared. Like, get me inside. And, you know, my aunt picked me up, brought me and gave me like a glass of water. Everyone's just like kind of around me. And they're like, what happened? And finally, like, after a few minutes of breathing, feeling like I'm safe again, like, okay, my aunts are here. My cousins. Everyone's here. I'm safe. And then I explained to them what I saw and described it.

My aunt and uncle looked at each other. Like, you know that look you give somebody? Like when you're scared, but you don't say anything? Right. It was like that. They like, somebody came over one time, like maybe a friend or something. And they saw something like glowing, like a creature. They also said they've been hearing noises at night for years,

but couldn't get to the bottom of what it could be. So they actually believed what I was saying. I don't really know what happened after that. To this day, my only explanation is to be a gin or a demon. I don't know what, thank God. So, yeah, I only told my wife and a few of my friends. And some, like, my family is still, my mom's out of the family, at least, is still in Pakistan.

and like they moved to England and Australia so I don't get to see them as often. But yeah, I just, to this day, I don't, well, you have a lot of stories. I was like, has anybody ever told a similar story with the gin maybe? I did have a story from the Middle East. I don't know if it was Pakistan

of someone who saw a man that was smoking, but he only had half of a body or something. Or I can't remember exactly, but it was in that part of the world, and it was very gin-like. So we did have, a story from it, but I can't remember the specifics. And it was about someone's grandma or someone, and they just kind of told it to go away. And it went away. I can't remember, I can't remember,

I'm blanking on the specifics of it because it's been several years ago. So we have had some gin-related stories. And I always wonder about things like black-eyed kids and doppelgangers and things, and that might be kind of a gin-like thing, you know, because I've always heard that the gin can be a great imposter and that it can almost get everything right except for maybe one or two things that they can't get when it's trying to pose as something else. So I'm very interested in the gin, got to say a little bit leery of it. Don't want to talk about it too much, but definitely I'm interested in that kind of tradition. Now let me ask you this.

Go ahead. I'm sorry. You go ahead, then I have a question. Yeah, it's interesting that you only hear Jin stories. The ones that I've looked up, you only ever hear about it, like you said, like Middle East, Pakistan, India, maybe even Asia. But you never hear it like in Europe or America. But we have stories here that are like Mothman, Bigfoot. Right. Is it the same thing? Is it the same thing by a different name? Skin color. Oh, skin collar ranch. What are they? Skinwalker. Skinwalker. Skinwalker. Skin walker. And like maybe that's what it's like and there may be a distinct, I don't know, these are just things. Well, I was I'm interested about things cross-culturally that a lot of times we might be observing the same things, but we just have a different name for it, right? Yeah.

The one thing I was going to ask you was you said at one point there were like these beautiful colors, right? You talked about these attractive colors, right? Crystals all over its body. Do you think it was to attract you? and kind of lure you in possibly? Oh, God. I never even thought about that. Oh, man.

Sorry. Wow. Yeah, sorry. Just, uh, huh. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I never know. That's fascinating.

I'm glad I did this because I don't know what to think. But yeah, since it was so beautiful and, um, yeah. Yeah, maybe I thought it was, maybe what could have happened if I thought it was beautiful and not scared and wanted to go touch it. And who would have, what would have happened then, right? Right. Good thing you didn't. Good thing you didn't.

Fahad, thank you so much. I appreciate you being on the show. I appreciate you sharing your story. And we really appreciate it. Yeah, I also have another story I should send up. Yes, please do. Please do. Sign up again.

We'll have you back on. And thanks again and stay spooky. Thank you. Say it's spooky, Jim. Take care. Bye. He's been listening since 2018. Michael is on the line from Oregon. We're so glad to have him. And he's going to tell us, well, he's got a number of stories, but today we're going to focus on growing up in a haunted house. Growing up in a haunted house. That had to be an interesting experience. Tell us a little bit about it, Michael, and welcome to the show. Thank you. Well, we moved into this house in 1990. And it was a house of my grandfather had bought in.

And it was just me and I had two older sisters and I'm a single mom. It started with the night that we had the day before we had moved in there. My sisters had wanted to camp out in the backyard and right before I moved out. So we let them do that. And I remember when we had come the next day, they had asked, why we were at the house the night before. And then when we asked them why, they were saying that, um,

there was somebody inside the house and there's lights going on on every single floor. There was, oh my lord. Yeah, it was like a two-story house. And they said it was like somebody was walking through the house. So we just brushed that off like it was nothing. Um,

moved into the house. And then it was shortly after that, you'd be sitting on the second floor and you'd be the only one in the house. And you could hear, footsteps of people running up the stairs and then you could hear them going through the rooms upstairs just like somebody was there and you would be the only one in their house yeah um i remember there was one time that really sticks out with me um at this point i was in high school both my sisters had moved out of the house um and i was um upstairs and i had the hole upstairs to myself and there's

two bedrooms up there and one bathroom. The bathroom up there was kind of weird. It was just like a hallway. And then at the end of the hallway, it was just a toilet, but it was the only thing that was up there. Now, the rooms faced each other. They were just across the hall from each other.

I would always close my door because I would constantly hear what I would assume was just, I always thought it was some guy that was checking in on the rooms. but you would hear him walk down the bathroom hallway, and you would just hear it sounded like a set of keys that he had attached to his, like, hip or something like that. Yeah. And it always freaked me out because I was younger,

so I didn't have the guts to look to see if it was really there. But he would come down the hallway, check in the room, stand there for a minute, walk across the hall, and check into the other room. But if you had your door closed, he wouldn't come in. So one night I decided I'm going to leave my door open because I want to see where this goes. So sure enough, every night, same time he comes through.

And he stops at the door, it's open. And he comes in at this point, I can't do it. I go under the covers. I can't handle it. But he walks right next to my bet the whole time I hear these keys jingling, and he walks into my closet, and then it's just gone. Oh, my. Wow. Yeah.

Yeah, so then I wake up from that. I haul her down at my mom, turn on the light. I'm going to sleep in the other room. I can't handle this. So she's at the bottom of the stairs, controlling the light. And I tell her, wait until I'm in bed before you turn off the light, please. And so I get halfway through the hallway to the other room, and she turns off the light. And at that point, I'm staring in the other room, and I'm looking and in like the reflection of the window.

And this is on the second story. So it wasn't anybody that was outside of the window. There was just this face that turned around and smiled and looked at me. Oh, Lord. And I lost it. Yeah. Oh, I don't blame you. I would have lost it, too.

I was like, turn on the light. Turn on the light. So my mom turns on light and the thing's gone. And she goes, he told me to turn off the light. I heard you say it. I'm like, I didn't tell you turned off the light. I'm freaking out up here. I wanted to leave the light on.

And then it's just, I stayed up pretty much the whole night. I didn't go back to bed. Wow. Wow. So, I mean, in terms of the different things that happened, was that the most dramatic? Or were there other things that happened in the house? That was probably the most traumatic. It was definitely a very active house.

There was a time that my grandma had come over. And she had always, we'd always told her something going on with that house that it was haunted. And she's trying to dismiss everything, trying to calm us down. And it's me and my two sisters that are telling her this. And as soon as she starts denying it, the faucet and the kitchen turns on. So we go in there to see what's going on, you know. And we're thinking it's an old house. There's air in the line or something like that.

But the knob for the hot water was turned on. Like they had physically turned it. Wow. So, yeah. Do you think this was like a sinister ghost? Do you think it was a friendly ghost who was just kind of playing around? What do you think? I always shocked it up to that there was two spirits in there.

The one that would visit the rooms, it always seemed to me like it was like a dad or something that just got off work and was just checking on his kids. Because that's all it was, was him walk into each room and he would never enter the room if the door was closed. And so he would just like, it seemed like he was just checking in on you. And then it was always only on the second floor. he'd never be on any other floor. And then the one that I saw in the reflection or in the window, I think he was the one that liked to start stuff. Because anytime I, when I saw that one or any time I ever sensed that one,

I just was fear. And it was just, I was scared out of nowhere. And he seems like the one that was like the jokester that would move throughout the house turning stuff. on my mom would get locked in the bathroom all the time and there was it was all skeleton keys each room yeah i remember that there's no way to lock the bathrooms so she'd get locked out of the locked into the bathroom and there's yeah all sorts of stuff like that did that pretty much go through the whole time i'm assuming you guys don't have the house now maybe you do but i was assuming you don't

did that happen the whole time you had the house um i always joke with people and tell them if you're not a believer you need a step foot in this house because when my dad bought or grandpa had bought it, he had told the person that was renting it before that they had to move out. And so we always had this guy that would drive by the house and really slow and stare at the house. So my sisters ran out there and flagged him down one time. It was the renter from before. And I tried to get a hold of her before this to see exactly what he said. But it was essentially, do you guys ever notice anything weird in that house? you know because it was haunted um and then once we were all out of the house it was just my mom

for a while um it had gotten sold to another family member and uh so my cousin had moved in the house and it was always like they're just crazy ghosts aren't real it's just you know make believe it's what the whole family thought well then my cousin moves into the house month into her moving there she's telling the same exact stories i'm telling you right now Yeah, there's haunted houses. There's other haunted houses. There's no question about it. Now, I know you have other experiences. Unfortunately, we don't have time for them on this call, but I hope you'll come back and share those because those sound just as interesting, too. Michael, thank you for being on the campfire. I really appreciate it. And I don't think I have to tell you this, but stay spooky. Stay spooky.

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very much. And, you know, we've been doing this show since 2009, and I don't know that I've ever heard a story like this. I can't wait to hear it. Rick, welcome to the program. I hope you like it when you get a chance to listen. But first of all, tell us your story. This sounds fascinating. Well, it was about two years ago on Memorial Day weekend. There's a gem show I go to once a year on Memorial Day weekend. And I always get there early, like two and a half hours early. Right. So I'm the first one in line.

And so I always bring food with so I can have breakfast and a little bit of lunch. That makes sense. Well, I never had ribs from our local store before, and the barbecue ribs were a half a rack that I bought, and that I bought a two-piece chicken dinner to take with. And so I had them down in the man cave, and before I put them in the fridge for the next morning, because I bought these on Friday, and Saturday morning was the gem show to go to. well, I thought, I'm going to try the ribs because I've never had them before. And so I cut off two ribs off the end, and they were very good. So then I put the dinners in the fridge, and I went to the Man Cave to get ready to go to the show. And I took the food out of the fridge, had them on the table, and I thought, I'm just going to warm up.

the ribs in the microwave just take the coolness off, you know, so it's not cold when I get there. It'll be cold, but, you know, it'll be kind of pre-needed. Anyway, I was in a hurry to go, and I was about 10 miles down the road, and I forgot my food. And I thought, I can't go back now. Yeah. And I says, I won't be able to go back because I won't be the first one in line. Right. So I did the show and everything, and I came back, and on the table was the two-piece chicken dinner, but the ribs were gone.

And so I looked in the microwave like three times, looked in the fridge three times, went to the Jeep like two or three times. I could not find the ribs any. Well, so now it's a Sunday morning I was going to go. to my nephews for breakfast. And I said, okay, I'm halfway there. I said, I'm going to stop at the store and get cheese in a jar so I can dip my french fries in the cheese. I got to the store, and as I'm walking to the aisle with the chips and the cheese,

there's a container sitting on top of the cheese that I wanted to get. I pulled the container out from on top of the cheese. It was my ribs that I had bought on Friday. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. And so I pulled it, looked at it, and I could see where I cut the ribs off the end. Was this at a store? So this was at a store the ribs were?

Where were the ribs again? At the store. Wow. Where I had bought the ribs. And so I, I got the chills down my back, and I just put the ribs back where I found them, and I left. I didn't even buy the cheese. And so pretty much, you know, I couldn't tell any, you know, the boss at the store, whatever, what happened, because he'll think, you know, I cut the ribs off and ate them and not purchased them.

And so I kept thinking, what would happen if I didn't go get the cheese? would the ribs end up somewhere else where I would have found? Yeah. And so I still couldn't bring myself to buy ribs now since then. So how it got there, I don't know, but they disappeared off my table and ended up at the store. So I want to make sure I got this right, because it's amazing, is you bought these ribs, you had them at your house,

you cut off two ribs, you ate the ribs, And as far as you remember, you had put them in the microwave. You were going to take them with you to this event, but you forgot them. You went to the event, you came back home, you couldn't find them. Then the next day, I think it is, the next day, you go to the store where you originally bought the ribs to get some cheese to go with your French fries. and then the same ribs with the two ribs cut off end up on top of the cheese. That's amazing.

Yeah. Wow. So, but the chicken dinner, the two-piece chicken dinner was still on the table, but the ribs were missing. Yeah, that's a man, wow. That is amazing to me. That's just amazing. You know, we have stories like this.

I don't know if Josiah told you. I assume Josiah is a listener to the show. because he helped you with this. But we have stories like this where people, things just turn up in the weirdest place. We had a woman recently who was in this busy place. I think it was over in Germany. She was visiting Germany or something.

And she had this cross on her neck. And then, you know, she totally lost the cross. And then she's walking down this busy street maybe hours later. And the cross is on the ground right in front of her. these weird things where stuff comes up missing I mean you might think Rick you're the only one that's happened to and this is one of the more dramatic examples

but it does happen I'll give you another example another story we had I just talked about this on another call recently so listeners if I'm repeating myself we had a man grown man who when he was a kid took a class picture I think it was when he was like in fourth grade or something And you probably remember. I certainly had it when he used to come and take pictures and they'd take individual pictures and your parents could buy them. And then they'd have the class picture.

You know, I have some from the 70s. They're funny to look at now. Well, basically what happened to this guy, if I'm remembering right, I think it was his class picture. Maybe it was his individual picture. I'm not sure which one. But one of these school pictures from like third or fourth grade. He works in, you know, he works and lives in one city. and then he was on business travel a few hundred miles away, right?

And he's walking down the city street and there's a trash container. You know how they have trash barrels out. And he looks down the container to throw something out or for some reason. And you know what's sitting right on top of everything in a trash container? His school picture from like third or fourth grade. So I'm just saying this so you don't feel like you're alone. I mean, people might say, ha, ha, that's funny. but I believe it happens because I believe the world is very strange,

and there's a lot of stuff that just doesn't make sense, and we don't know why. And I think that that's a perfect example. Well, Rick, thank you for telling your stories. Any final thoughts on it? Well, like I say, I'm afraid to buy the ribs because what might happen if I did buy them, you know, would something else? If I ate only eight half, would they disappear again?

or it's like, yeah, I can't explain it, but it did happen. I understand the concern, but I mean, in my book, Rips are so delicious that you got to have the ribs, you got to have the ribs. I think it'll be okay. It's probably just a one-time thing, but go ahead. So what would happen if I didn't go to the store, would they have shown up somewhere else that I would have found them, you know? It's a good question. Rick, what we say around here, a lot of the best campfire stories end with a question mark,

not with a period like this one. I call it a head scratcher. Thanks for being a part of the campfire, and I hope you get a chance to listen and stay spooky. All right. Thanks for hearing my story. She's a brand new listener I'm talking about Anna from Oregon, and we're so glad to have her. I believe Jody was who told you about the show.

So Jody, thank you so much. and stay spooky. And by the way, folks, be like Jody. Tell your friends. Tell your family. Tell everybody who loves spooky stuff about the campfire. That's how we get great stories like the one we're about to hear from Anna. And Anna, I understand you visited your dad and then the strangeness ensued, correct?

Yes, that is right, Jim. Tell us what happened. So, yeah, little backstory is my parents were separated when I was born. And so I live with my mom primarily in Oregon, but would visit my dad during the summer. So on this particular visit, I took the train by myself to Montana. And I think I was about 14 when this took place. I got into his house pretty late at night. I don't know the exact time, but everybody was asleep.

I told my dad, good night and just went straight to the bedroom. where I was staying. And so this pretty much started immediately. I lay down in bed, was ready to go to sleep, and something whispered my name clear as day right next to my ear. It was a masculine voice. And it felt almost like someone like breathed on my neck when they said my name. name. And immediately, I shoot out of bed. That's not normal. Um, was pretty freaked out right off the bat. Um, and then as if that wasn't scary enough, something grabbed my arm. And, yeah, yeah. So it's just immediate, you know, someone saying my name, something, grab my arm. So I'm out of the room. And, you know, I don't stay. I only stay with my dad once a year. So,

and I never experienced anything like this in his house before or after. And so I start walking through the house. I'm not sure what I'm doing, but I'm not going back to that room. And as I walk through the house, things start happening. The ceiling fans started to move in the dining room. Well, that's not normal. My dad plays the drums. He's a musician. And he had a drum set in that same room. And the symbols started moving.

Oh, man. Yeah. So just a lot of activity all at once right off the bat. You know, I was pretty freaked out. So I went to the living room. Well, there was a light on in the living room, basically from the large fish tank that they had in the corner of the room. room. Now, I sat on the couch and I just was kind of frozen and I glanced over to the fish

tank and there's a shadow. There's a big shadow figure, kind of in the shape of a tall man and it's just staring at me and I'm petrified. I'm 14 years old. I just got to my dad's house. Everybody's asleep. I don't know what to do. And all I could think is I want my mom. And I didn't have a cell phone. You know, this is, you know, cell phones existed, but I didn't have one back then. And my dad didn't have a house phone. And so I eventually worked up the courage to knock on my dad's bedroom door. And I asked him for his phone. And he thought that was. Kind of weird, but, you know, gave me the phone. I mean, I'm guessing it was around three, four in the morning.

It was late. And I called my mom. Now, my mom's back in Oregon, right? And this is where it gets kind of cool in a way is that she was already awake. She knew I was going to call. She knew something was wrong. She was waiting next to the phone. And so she answers the phone.

I tell her what's going on. and she, you know, she told me to say the Lord's prayer and that, you know, just hopefully this is, will go away. And that's what I did. That's the night I memorized that prayer. And I don't remember it going away. I just remember eventually I fell asleep. And the next morning, you know, my dad and stepmom are kind of like, hey, what happened last

night. That was kind of weird you, you know, wanted the phone. So I told them what happened. My dad doesn't really believe in the paranormal. At least he hasn't experienced anything himself. So he, you know, he's kind of if he can see it, then he believes that kind of guy, which is fair. But my stepmom, she thought, you know, I've never experienced anything, but she was willing to believe me. And she called up her aunt, who apparently is clairvoyant, and her aunt came over and kind of did a walk through the house, talked to me about what happened, you know, did a little sage routine. And she told me, this is what really creeped me out. She said, whatever this was, Anna, it's attached to you and you brought it with you. Oh, man, because I was going to ask you, did you think it was a reaction to you, but it was actually a hitchhiker?

That's what, yep, that's what she thought. And so then I was extra creeped out because I don't want anything attached to me. But, you know, I didn't experience anything else after that, at least, you know, not at that point at my dad's house. So yeah, that's, that's my story. Do you have any theories as to, let's say that you buy into that theory that something attached itself? And we've had stories like that before where people believe that they have had attachment. One woman we had very early in the show this gosh, just had to be like 2010, 2011. She talked about something that followed her for a year and a half,

I think clear across one kind of end of the country to the next. Do you think, was there any precipitating event or anything you think where something attached itself onto you at that time, anything you can think of? not a specific event but I will say you know I was a teenager and I had a lot of different experiences from probably 12 to 18 on and off um you know and so maybe I was just kind of uh sensitive to that at that time in my life I know that sometimes when you're you know a kid or a teenager sometimes

you can be more receptive to, you know, other things. Or maybe, I don't know, I took the train. Maybe there was something on the train. I don't really know, Jim, but I didn't like the idea of something being attached to me, that's for sure. Wow. Well, that's pretty wild. I got to say, that's pretty wild. And so, but when you bad, you may have said this, I may have missed it.

when you went back, nothing happened when you went back. Like it just like, it like maybe it got off the train at your dad's house. Is that, does that sound right? Right. Yeah. I mean, it's kind of weird. I don't know if, you know, me saying the Lord's Prayer got rid of it or if my, you know, that, you know, maybe that worked. But my stepmom's aunt, you know, she did do a little.

sage, you know, clearing out of the house the next morning after I told my story. So maybe that helps. But, you know, either way, I did sleep in the living room the next night, too, because I was like, yeah. You know. The thing is, is that and people say, ah, Jim, you're getting religious again. But I got to tell you, there's a lot of people I've talked to. And this has to do when you get kind of the more nasty spirits or the ones that are trying to scare you or oppress. see where those things people have said they've said prayers and all of a sudden whatever it is doesn't seem to like it and it seems to go away so just saying just saying I respect everybody's beliefs but I think there's something to that Anna thank you so much

I appreciate it thank you for being a part of the campfire thank you Jody for telling Anna about that show and again be like Jody and be like Anna too and sign up to tell your stories at jimheral.com slash campfire thank you Anna and stay spooky Stay spooky, Jim. Thank you. We have a repeat caller. Brandy is back from the great state of Kentucky, and we're so glad to have her with us. And she lived in a haunted house, a very old haunted house, and a lot of things happen.

She's going to tell us about some of those things. Brandy, welcome back to the show. I know you're a repeat caller. We always appreciate any time someone calls in, but repeat callers, it's like we didn't scare them away. So thank you so much for that. So please tell us what happened, Brandy. So I want to preface this by saying or preface this by saying that I've always been sensitive to things. Ever since I was a little kid, I've experienced things, but I've never really been able to see the things that I'm experiencing. It's more of just like energy or like something not tangible that I can see, but I can feel it.

And I moved into this really old Victorian home in 2020. And it was built in 1860s. I want to, there's some discrepancy on the year, but it was built in the early 1860s. And it was a beautiful Victorian Greystone. And it was everything that my husband and I at the time had been looking for. And we moved into it. And immediately upon moving into it, it felt different. The energy felt really off and not in a bad way.

It was just in a way that I could feel something about this home was different. And I even wrote in my diary that I have here, I said on June 24th, 2022, I said, I feel a shift coming. I feel a shift coming, a pull to something unknown but familiar at the same time. Something in this house is off. Like there's a veil that I can't reach through, but it's trying to get me to. Yeah. So after living there for a few months, I would be sitting in the house. And I would look at my husband and I would say, oh my God, it feels like, it feels like the 1800s.

And he's just thinking that I'm crazy. And he's like, what are you talking about? And I said, the energy in the house, it just feels really old. It feels really like I'm in a totally different time period. And I could kind of feel my body shift whenever those things happened. It was like, kind of like the feeling that you get whenever you take off in an airplane. And anyway, that fall upon moving into the house, I had an. experience where I was at a party with some people, and I was going through a lot in my life at that time. My dad had been murdered. You know, I was running a really, really successful but stressful business, and things in my marriage were starting to fall apart around that time.

So I went to this party, came home, sat down on the couch, and had my first ever massive seizure. And during that, yeah, during that seizure, I was the universe, and the universe was I had this, you know, I could see my soul. I could see everyone's soul. It was very, very profound experience, but since I didn't have, since I never had a seizure before, I didn't understand what was happening. You know, I luckily survived it. But three days later, I woke up in my bed, you know, everything's normal. Like, I feel normal. And I'm sitting up. I've been on my phone for 10 or 15 minutes. You know, I've petted the cats and I sit up in my bed and I look over to my closet and I see a man and a woman walking through the closet,

like they're trying to catch a train. And they were carrying old suitcases. I was like, that's really strange. And then more sightings started happening. I saw a man in my home dressed in what I would assume was a butler's style outfit. And several other people ended up seeing that as well. Wow. But yeah, so I had to go to New Orleans for some work. So I was staying in the fridge quarter on Dauphine Street, and I was in this little apartment. And I was just sitting there, you know, like washing my dishes because I had finished up my work. And it's evening. I'm washing my dishes. And I look up and there's a woman in front of me. And she has on a quilted, like cotton nightgown. And she starts telling me, not with words, this was all coming through my mind, that she had lived there before. It used to be.

it used to be like some sort of apartment and it was a factory back in the day, but then they converted it into apartments and that was it. And then she just disappeared. And I thought, okay, something's off like I'm going crazy because I'm seeing these things that don't exist or that aren't really there. So I walked into, I was just kind of strolling through the streets of New Orleans and there was a tarot reading, you know, a shop where you could go and get tarot readings. And I walked in and I asked if I could speak with one of the mediums or with one of the tarot readers. And the lady at the, the lady at the front desk, she said, well, everyone's busy right now. Would you like to schedule a reading? And I said, no, I don't really need to talk about the reading.

You know, I don't need a reading. I need to try to figure out, like, what's going on with me. And she said, okay, so why don't you give me a little rundown of what it is? So I explained to her what's happening. And I'm like, I'm starting to think that I have a tumor because I'm seeing these people that I shouldn't be seeing. And she said, oh, she said, I could tell you were a medium the moment you walked in. Oh, wow. Yeah, and I was like, well, I said, you know, I was like the information just kind of comes to me, like it's in a teleprompter, like it's being downloaded into my brain. I don't physically hear it. I know the people aren't physically there. It's like I'm seeing them in my mind's eye, and then there's this download of information about their entire lives. And that happened to me when I went to D.C. D.C. was overwhelming. I had to leave because I had just people coming, not, you know, people, spirits coming out of the woodwork. And I don't like the term medium because for myself because it's not something that I feel is mine. I know, it's like a really weird

acceptance, but I, you know, I kept seeing these people. I ended up having another seizure, and I had an MRI with the dye, and I didn't have any tumors. And I was like, okay, maybe there's really something to this. Maybe I'm actually seeing things. And what brought it all together for me was in this really old historical town that we lived in, there was another couple there. I'll call them Jamie and Matt. So Jamie and Matt, we had been friends for about a year. And I knew that Jamie's mother had passed away when she was a little girl. But I didn't know really anything about her family. I went to their house for dinner one night, and they had just moved into this home. And we're cooking dinner, you know, we're just talking and having fun. And I see, through my mind's eye, a lady in what

looked like a 1960s dress, and she had brown hair that, you know, was curled but kind of quite like tucked in around her head. And she was stirring something on the stove. And she just looked very pretty, very young, you know, maybe like 28 years old. And I asked my friends because, you know, like I said, we weren't great friends. So I just said, do you know anything about when this house was built or the previous owners? And they said, no, you know, we don't really know anything. The people we rent it from, they're just an older couple. And, you know, I was like, okay. So I go back to their house another time and I started asking them again. And Matt, he said, why are you asking all of these questions about our house? Did you see a ghost or something?

And then I was like, well, I wouldn't say that I saw a ghost. I said, but I did see a woman in your kitchen. And, you know, I described her. She was wearing this. You know, she had this style hair. And I said, and I got the vibe that she was half Italian, half Polish. And when I said this, Jamie's mouth dropped open and she was like, oh, sorry, let me back up. Jamie is actually Korean. So when I'm picturing Jamie's late mother, I'm picturing a Korean woman because I had met her dad and he was a Caucasian man. So in my mind, you know, I'm just thinking her mom was a Korean lady. And she said, oh my God, you just described my mom. My mom was half Italian. and half Polish.

She said, that's exactly what she looked like. And she had passed away, and she had been adopted by this family when she was a little girl. And she showed me a picture of her mother. She didn't have any pictures when her mom was young. But I said, yeah, that's what that woman would have looked like in her, you know, like 40s. And so that just kind of solidified everything for me. That continued to happen to me where I would see people and their stories would be

downloaded to me for about two years after that experience. And then I had a third seizure last year, and then I was diagnosed with epilepsy. So, yeah, it's just, it's been a really strange experience, but it was beautiful. I wasn't afraid of them at all. It was just kind of, you know, my mind accepting that this is real and this is happening. And I, when I was a kid, I had two seizures. And it was a frightening experience. So I empathize, you know, with epilepsy and so forth. Luckily, knock on what it's not happened since this is many years ago, probably. Right.

Born. But almost certainly before you were born. But I empathize with that. But do you think that the seizures opened you up more or were in any way connected to the vibrancy of all this? I think my first seizure and having that near-death experience, it just made me be able to reach beyond that veil. So, because it would happen even whenever I didn't have a seizure. You know, I would come downstairs and then I would get that feeling like I was lifting off in a plane, you know, whatever it takes off. And I just knew it was going to happen.

And I continued to see people. I saw the man in my house several more times. I ended up seeing a woman in my house. And my mother actually saw her as well. My mother was like, I just saw a woman with a yellow dress. And I was like, yes, fine. You know, she's, but it's made me more open to the idea that there are people, like, spirits out there. And that we are able to communicate with them.

But I don't know how to turn it off and on. That's exactly what I was going to ask you. Right there, you must have read my, no, pun intended, you must have read my mind. I was just about to ask you because that's the thing. And I've asked psychics like Jody Levon and Carol Obley and different psychics we've had on what is that like? Are you able to turn it on and turn it off? Because on one hand, I could see it being very cool,

but sometimes it might be a little challenging if you can't turn it off, if you know what I mean. Right. And I'm guessing you know what I mean, because you've experienced it. But I thought that was an interesting question. So going forward, I mean, I'm assuming, it sounds like you've got a very positive attitude about.

So do you kind of see this ability to see these things as kind of a gift? I do. Yeah. I think it's been really, it has changed the way that I look at life. It's changed the way that I look at death. And it's changed the way that I look at relationships with people that are here and that aren't here. It completely has changed my life. Well, something that I forget who said it, but somebody said just because somebody dies does not mean a relationship ends. And I do believe that. Now, I don't think they necessarily meant it because of the afterlife. But I do. Because I think they're still around. I think they're still around. I think they're still. still out there. I think we all still go on. Brandy, thank you so much for being a repeat caller, being on the show, and stay spooky. Absolutely, Jim. I love staying spooky with you. Thanks. Before we get back to the next great story, I want to ask you to join my Plus Club. And basically, the Plus Club is the thing that powers what we do. But more importantly for you, as a Campfire fan,

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Adrian, thank you for joining us. And thank you for sharing this story, because this can be a very difficult thing to do, I would think. So I thank you for sharing it. Yeah. Yeah. But I think that you're going to create a lot of hope for a lot of people through your experiences. Tell us what happened. Okay.

My husband passed. It'll be two years last week. And actually two weeks ago, it was unexpected. Wasn't supposed to happen, but it did. and I have three children, all adults, and three grandchildren. We've always been kind of a spiritual family. That's really where I'll leave that. But anyway, after he passed, my daughter, who was very, very close with my husband,

started getting signs. And she specifically started asking for them. And I was amazed at the things that she was getting. And I got a couple too, but we'll start with hers because I think they're the most amazing ones. The first one that she got was like about two weeks after he passed. She was in her house and working in another room. And she kept hearing the kitchen sink water going on and off. And she just assumed her husband was doing the dishes.

So she kept working and then she comes out and she looks into the kitchen, no sign of her husband. Now they have one of those faucets that you touch to make. them flow. Right. And she stood there looking at it and it was flowing and then it turned off. So she took a chance and said, Dad, if that's you, could you do that again? It turned on and it turned off. Wow.

Then she pulled out her phone and said, okay, Dad, I'm going to record this for Mom. So could you please do it one more time? It turned on and it turned off. Wow. And she said, thank you. That's direct communication. That's direct communication. And, you know, it hasn't, did ever did that before, hasn't done that since, and they've been in that house for like five years.

And so that just got us going on these signs. We started looking for all sorts of things. And the next thing that happened was she has, the granddaughter, she has a four-year-old granddaughter, very, very young. And within a week or two after my husband passed, She came out one morning and said, hey, mom, I had a dream with grandpa in it. And she said, really? Yes. He goes, yeah, he took my hand and walked me out into his backyard, which is my house. We have a great backyard for star watching. And my husband loved to watch the stars. We had a telescope and everything. So he goes, yeah, he took my hand, walked me out in the yard,

and he pointed out Mars, the red planet. And then he also pointed out another star, but I can't remember what the name was. So then Ali's telling me that she goes, I've never told her about Mars. She's never been stargazing with Grandpa. Wow. She didn't even knows Mars was the red planet. So she has no idea where that came from, but I think we figured out it was him. Wow. Wow. And then the same daughter, a couple weeks later, Ali started, well, my daughter, Ali, started asking for signs. She specifically asked for a green feather. So she didn't tell anybody. She just, you know, said to herself, this is what I wanted as a green feather. And a night or two goes by and then the same four-year-old granddaughter

comes and goes, hey, I had a dream last night where all of us were in the living room and we had a green parrot and he dropped a feather right in the middle of the room. Oh, wow. Wow. I know. Isn't that nuts? It's crazy. Now the next thing, thing that happened, these just keep going. The next thing that happened is my daughter was in her car. The two grandkids were in the back seat strapped into their, you know, car seats. Allie's car seatbelt was buckled. And they have a three row seat in that car, but they weren't using the third row. The third row was empty. So she throws a car in reverse, and the seatbelt light comes on, and it's dinging and flashing for the third row. And there's nobody back.

there. There's nothing back there. So she kind of jokingly said, oh, that must be grandpa. So the other granddaughter who's seven at this point yells, grandpa, buckle your seatbelt. And as soon as she said that, all turned off. I thought that one was cute. But that would be so typical of my husband. About a week after he passed, I, well, my habit in the morning is to go sit on my back patio. out in my sunroom area and overlooked the backyard and read the paper and stuff. And about a week after he passed, a gigantic red dragonfly would land on the sliding screen and would just sit there right next to me, would just sit there. And it did that every day for at least a month.

And we hadn't seen a dragonfly in years, years. and when I would go out in the backyard, it would follow me around. And then just after a month or a month and a half, it stopped coming. But I was convinced that was him, and I would talk to it. Wow. That was a nice sign for me. I catch my dog, or our dog, sitting in the, when I sit in the living room, I catch her sitting and staring in the kitchen, tracking somebody walking back and forth.

My husband was like a chef. He loved cook. That was his favorite hobby. He was always in the kitchen. So she would watch something walking back and forth and I was convinced Steve was there. And then about six months after he passed, I decided to talk to a medium. And I just told her who I was, and that's all I told her who I was. And she said, yeah, he says the dog sees him. Do you have a dog? And I went, yeah, yeah, I do. And to this day, I catch her tracking him in the kitchen or over by the bar and just sit there and look and watch him walking back and forth.

And actually, it's kind of a comfort to me. So that's kind of cool. I was about to say, I mean, as difficult as a lot of this is to recount and thank you for doing it, and I'm very sorry for your loss. Very sorry. Thanks. But it has to be, I mean, if you said you could not have these experiences or have them, I'm sensing that you would say, I definitely am glad that we've had these experiences.

Oh, most definitely. Yeah. It's been a big comfort. It really has. So we look, my daughter asked for signs all the time, and she gets them within three or four days. I mean, all sorts of them. This is just a short list of hers. Mine are not as many. I had, the dragonfly was my best and my other one was sitting in the spa late at night which is what he liked to do also before he went to bed he'd always hit the spa and so I was sitting in the spa looking at the stars and I was leaning back and I looked at the stars I said I love you and I miss you and as soon as I said that shooting star right where I was looking so that was not a coincidence to me it sounds like you know Well, we hear a lot of times how difficult it is to get a sign from the other side.

It sounds like your husband mastered it. And that doesn't surprise me. He's that way. If there's a way he's going to figure it out because he's going to think it's fun. So it actually doesn't surprise me. The two biggest things that happen, I was sitting in the living room, and I'm here by myself, and all the kids have moved out, sitting in the living room one night, watching TV and I'm sitting in my chair leaning back and the front door is behind me and

kind of to my left and behind me. I keep by shortly after he died, I think it was about a week after he died and I bought a pair of cowboy boots that were a specialty pair of cowboy boots that had the had the theme of John Denver's Country Road song because he was from West Virginia. Yeah, he was from West Virginia. Oh my family. My family. My family. family was from West Virginia. I may I ask you, just out of curiosity, if you can, don't mind saying, what part are West Virginia? He was in Parkersburg. Oh, my gosh, I've driven through Parkersburg so many times to go visit my parents when they lived down there.

They lived about 60 miles from Parkersburg. And his mom was from Morgantown. Yeah, Morgan Town, the home of West Virginia University, of course. And then his dad eventually moved to Point Pleasant. home of the mothman. Yeah, of course, yes, absolutely. Absolutely. And that whole mothman incident happened right down the street from where he lived.

So it was kind of fun visiting him and playing with that for a while. So anyway, so I had this pair of cowboy boots, and on the, it's country roads theme. On the heels on the bottom, this company is known for putting things, pictures and stuff on the souls. It says, take me home country roads. And I just bought them. They're beautiful. and they sit by the front door. That's where they sit all the time.

That's like a decoration for me. They just sit there. Cool. So I'd have them about a month, and I was in the living room watching TV, and all of a sudden I hear this gigantic thump in the kitchen. I come walking out, those boots had moved eight feet to the middle of the kitchen, and were standing upright by each other.

I was the only one in the house. Wow. Wow. That's a sign. Yeah. That was a biggie. That was a biggie. And then this is the last one, but I find it kind of touching.

A friend of mine's, well, we used to have a dinner group, and one of the husbands in that group died almost a year to the day, a year later after my husband. And his name was Mike. And I was talking to a medium, you know, again. And she said, your husband stepped forward. And there's a tall guy named Mike with him. And that was him. He was tall and his name was Mike. And the whole experience has just been so uplifting for me and knowing he's keeping tabs.

And he's probably laughing his rear end off for me talking to you about these things actually because he has that kind of sense of humor. Well, I think it's awesome. And I'm so glad that he's keeping in touch and letting you know that. And he's still around and he's watching over you and your family and I think that's awesome. And I think it's awesome. Thank you for sharing this because I do believe that when other people hear these stories and they've lost someone and most of us have lost someone, but, you know, a spouse, that's very, very difficult. But I do think it gives people some amount of comfort. So thank you for sharing this because I know it can't be easy.

Yeah, it has for me. No, it hasn't been easy and it's been really tough. This has been an amazing trip. This whole thing has just been amazing. So thank you for letting me share. Adrian, thank you for being on the show. Appreciate it very much. You're very welcome.

Stay spooky. Stay spooky. Valerie has returned to the campfire, and we're so glad that she has to become a storyteller once again. And, you know, I believe that small children can see things that we can't spiritually sometimes. and I also believe that animals can sometimes perhaps see things that we cannot perceive as humans. I think Valerie may have just such a case. Valerie, welcome to the show.

Thank you for joining us and tell us what happened. Well, thank you for having me again, Jim. I really appreciate it. It's such an honor to be on the show again. I love sharing my experiences, so I'm sure I'll call in again at some point as well. but this was about seven years ago. I had just moved into a house in East Orlando and Seminole County. And I was home one night.

It happened to be a full moon that night, which was, I get a little creeped out with that. But it was a full moon and I was home watching TV downstairs with my roommate's dog. And I'm also a full believer that dogs sense things. that we don't always know that are there. Yeah. And I happened to look over at her at one point for, I don't know what prompted me to, but she was fixated on the like top left corner of our living room.

And she was darting her head around. Like she almost, she was definitely looking at something. I thought, okay, she kept going like this all just all over. And I thought, okay,

maybe she sees a bug or something. I couldn't see it, but I thought, okay, that's kind of weird, but whatever. She probably just sees a bug. So I went back to watching TV. A little while later, I thought to look over at her again, and she was doing the same thing. And then this time, she got up off the couch and started chasing her tail, which that's normal dog behavior, but it was kind of abnormal for her. She didn't really do that too often. So I thought, okay, something is kind of up.

but something must be bugging her. And again, getting a little creeped out at this point, but I said whatever, and I just, I went back to watching TV. And then for this next part of the story, I should explain kind of the layout of our house, Elisa downstairs. When you walked in directly ahead of you was a staircase. And then to the right was our living room. and, you know, with the TV and the couch and all that, and then the kitchen all the way in the back.

And so when you're watching TV, your back is facing the staircase and the door is to your right. And I happened to look over at her again later on. And this time she was perched on the back of the couch, her paws up on the back of the couch, staring at the staircase behind me. Oh my. And at this point, I am totally freaked out. And then she also fixated her stare on the door that would have been behind me as well. And she was just staring right above my head, basically, at the doorway.

And I, she was in one of those situations where no matter what you did, she would not, she would not look away. So she was definitely fixated on something. And it was at that point that I decided to just put her in her crate and go upstairs because I was so creeped out. And she was just barking nonstop after that. And I heard at one point like dishes sort of clinging in the dish drainer. And I thought, okay, something probably just fell over. But that was really weird. This house was about, a mile and a half from a cemetery. And I mentioned earlier that it was in Seminole County. And so there's a really deep, rich history in that part of Orlando. And so I thought maybe there was presences that from the cemetery that could have gone, been in the house for some reason. My roommate and I had talked about it briefly after, and we both also thought there were maybe like family members or something that were hanging around because she's noticed some weird things going on in the house as well. Just real quickly, there seemed to be some kind of activity that would happen in our laundry room of all places, which was the garage as well. The dog's crates were right in like the sitting room sort of right outside of the garage.

And they would constantly bark at the garage doorway when nobody was in there. They'd constantly bark there. And then every time you walked into that room, at least for me personally, I always felt like that heavy feeling that I'm kind of sad, kind of lethargic. And I thought it would be nice to know the history of that. It would be, I tried looking into it a little bit and I didn't find a whole lot. But years after I moved out of that house, a friend mentioned to me that she always got a weird feeling in there as well. I hadn't even brought it up and we were just talking about the house. And she said, I always felt weird in your laundry room for some reason.

And I said, oh, my God, that's so crazy. I did, too. It's the same feeling that I just described that she got. So there was definitely something off about the house. But then the full moon, I think, just kind of brought everything out into the open then. Right. Well, that is amazing to me. You know, it's one of those things where these animals, I've seen it with our dogs.

I've seen them kind of, you know, look and it's like, well, what do you look at it? And you think, well, maybe it's a little gnat or it's a little fly. And then you look and there's nothing there. And it's like, they are seeing something. I believe it. I believe it. Because she was just, again, nothing you did or said broke her stare at all. She was fixated on something. And it was definitely on the staircase behind me. So it felt like something was trying to hide from me or something like that. I don't know. It was really weird. But can I share just one quick, like 30 seconds story?

Sure. Please do. Please do. So in that same house, I woke up probably three in the morning, one morning. And I was awake enough to know where I was and all that. But I didn't have sleep paralysis at that point. But I felt as soon as I woke up, I felt that feeling that you get when somebody, when you're sitting on a couch or on a bed with somebody and they get up and you can feel the cushion come up, I felt, I felt that on my mattress, like at the foot of my bed. As soon as I woke up, I felt somebody get up. And it was, I was too tired to really be super scared, but I did comfort

myself later and just tell myself, it was probably a loved one watching over me or something like that. But I've had several experiences in that house that definitely made me believe. that there were presences there. Yeah. Yeah. It's real. I believe it's real. And we get evidence of it every single week on the campfire.

Valerie, thanks for sharing your story once again. And do you know the rest? Yes. Stay's boogie. I'm sure you'll be hearing from me again. Excellent. Just the way we want it. Thank you.

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