The Confessionals - 210: The Haunted Family of Orlando

Episode Date: February 25, 2020

On Episode 210: The Haunted Family of Orlando, Nick joins us to share his childhood experiences living in an area haunted by Civil War soldiers. And even though his paranormal experiences as a child were enough to last a lifetime, Nick’s ghostly encounters don’t end there. As an adult living in Orlando, Florida, Nick’s family seems to be haunted by an entity that has firmly attached itself to them, no matter how many times they move to avoid it. Where ever they go – it finds them.  BECOME A MEMBER AND GET ADDITIONAL SHOWS: https://www.theconfessionalspodcast.com/join Subscribe to our YouTube: https://bit.ly/2TlREaI Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://www.theconfessionalspodcast.com/the-newsletter Website: www.theconfessionalspodcast.com Email: [e-mail] Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheConfessionalsPodcast Twitter: @TConfessionals Tony's Twitter: @tony_merkel Show Intro INSTRUMENTAL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyub39AXxUw Show Intro FREE DOWNLOAD: https://bit.ly/2HxNcw3

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meet the speakers, and buy a bunch of cool Bigfoot stuff, that is free entry. All you have to do is show up to Salt Fork State Park Lodge and hang out and meet us and take pictures and all that fun stuff. So hopefully I'll see you there at the Ohio Bigfoot Conference on May 2nd, 2020. Now, today we got a great show planned for you. We have Nick coming on the show, and Nick's going to share some of his paranormal experiences that he's been through throughout his whole life. But we actually kind of connected some dots for Nick at one point when we were talking about the experience he had as a kid where he saw these soldiers in his home. But also later on in his life, he had some paranormal experiences that were kind of, well, really nerve-wracking. And so we're going

to get into it right now with Nick. Let's go. All right, today we have Nick on the show. And a little bit later, we're going to be having Nick's wife come on the show with Nick to talk about some things that they've been experiencing together. But things kind of for Nick, at least, all started in his childhood. Nick, when I was reading your email, it sounded like you lived in a haunted home of some kind when you were a kid. Before we get going on that, Nick, how you doing? Doing great, Tony. I'm really excited that, you know, I get a lot. You know, I get the opportunity to...

Yeah, man, I'm excited to have you on and stuff. And it's always nice to be able to have, you know, a couple come on and tell their story together sometimes because sometimes some people remember certain details than others, and you get different perspectives and vantage points. And so it should be a good time. So why don't you just kind of get us going here a little bit with the start of your childhood, really, and having these experiences in your parents' home? They had a nightlight in the bathroom.

Military clothes. Remember the images. She comes into the room, and she's like, what's wrong? Like, yeah, I see people in the bathroom. And she's like, baby, there's nobody in the bathroom. She turned the light on. Sure enough, nobody in there. A little boy and a girl, and they're in like a rocker,

and one of them sitting on the ground reading. Once again, at the pictures, and it looked like, not melting, but, you know, like, screamed again. And she's like, there's nothing. You're going to be okay. I could hear it was almost like it was. At this time, my mom's probably thinking, something's wrong with me.

Okay, baby, no problem. that goes to my sleeping and dreaming. Eventually, I guess about a week later, and again, stress it, don't worry about it. Every situation, it just kind of like a shadow person or something on the sofa, how old I was. Oh, wait, there was another incident, I'm sorry. I was looking out, shadow people,

and they were all like probably eight and a half, maybe nine years old. People on the sofa. In my dream, I was dreaming that there was a stealing, I guess, but from the teaching and lunging and coming toward me. and then it's like it. And when I open my eyes, I remember you of details. So before we get onto those topics and stuff, I wanted to ask you a few questions here. I guess, first of all, in Orlando, the shadow figure that you saw, did it have a face or anything?

Was there any details other than it being just an outline of a shadow? Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's funny you say that because I was just thinking about that because I just had a guy on the show not too long ago who said that he had this entity coming out of a wall and it had a smile on its face as it was coming towards him. And I was picturing the same thing as you were telling the story. And I can't believe you just said that because it sounds like a mirror image of what this guy experienced. It was just, the show was called Say It With a Smile. And I have to check that out for sure.

I think if I recall correctly, the reason why we titled it that was because he either heard it or and it said something or he heard it in his head, but I think he, he was trying to say, like, rebuke in the name of Jesus, and it was like, say it, say it. Oh, wow. Yeah. And so, but he couldn't. I don't think he could say it. I might be remembering it wrong, but I do remember that's why we named it that,

because it was coming out of the wall and it had a big smile on his face. Now, when you saw this thing coming out of the wall, right? Am I remember that? Right, right. It came from the wall. Right. Not the ceiling so much, but more of like the wall. But higher up the wall. Almost like it would be, okay, imagine and you're looking at a cathedral.

That's incredible. I think he said the same exact thing. I really do. I think he was saying that it was high up on the wall towards the corner of the wall, and it was coming out of the wall and towards him. And I don't think he, I think he described it as he didn't see the bottom half. The bottom half is like almost still in the wall. It was just like, like stretching out at him. but that's incredible that you say that because it sounds almost identical to what he told me. Wow. I know the granddad, like I said, though, I mean... Yeah, so, I mean, your mom, nobody else recalls at least having these types of experiences is just you? We never had any.

Yeah, I can understand how that would bother you. And I think we'll revisit that in a little bit here. But I want to kind of go back to newer or not. New Orleans, but Louisiana. And where in Louisiana was this? Do you remember the town or anything? Yeah, it's called Richard. I'm a research guru type look.

And that's very... Well, I think it's interesting that you saw the soldier types. And I think you said your first encounter was these soldier types in the bathroom. And then your last was soldier types, right? So there was a Civil War battle, and it's called Vermillion. The Vermilion. Yeah, the Vermilion Bayou, there was a battle there in the Civil War. And I just looked up Richard, Tex, or whatever you said.

Richard. Richard. Richard. And it's not that far. It's really not that far. And it makes you wonder if there was some kind of attachment there. That's interesting. Because, I mean, where you're talking about, it's not far from Lafayette, right?

Okay. I think it would be really interesting for you to look into this battle because I'm looking at the maps, and I'm looking at a map of all the battles in Louisiana from the Civil War, and I'm looking at a map on Google Maps where you told me you were from. And it's, I'm not even kidding you, it's right there. It's exact. Exactly. I mean, I dropped my pin right around the Richard Elementary School.

and yeah that's yeah i mean this battle uh that's on this map that i'm looking at is about five miles away from the elementary school oh my gosh yeah yeah is it if you're looking at the elementary school east south or east or yeah see i live school wow oh my gosh i swear dude i am not kidding i i am not kidding i lived on a gravel road i was a wow that's Incredible, right? You just... That's amazing. I definitely got to look into this.

Yeah. And I have a... That would be a great idea. I was always scared to even speak of it because of ghosts or spirit. Yeah. So... Yeah, I can understand that. That's really interesting.

Now, do you think that these were different entities you were seeing? Like, I mean, between the soldiers and the shadow figures in Louisiana? Yeah. There was a difference. I don't know how much I trust mediums or psychics, but who else? Yeah, I can understand that. I mean, I think... think when it comes to medium and psychics, I think there are a lot of phonies out there,

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Why don't we bring your wife on now and start, you know, talking to her? I might not be able to, if he wants to talk with you as well as me. Yeah, might not be able to do it with my daughter. No, that's fine. It's fine. Yeah, I'm sorry, man. I can go through it. I'm pretty much on point on details of what I...

Yeah, I can understand that. Well, then why don't we just move in with you and have you share these experiences you guys had together in... I think, Orlando, right? Yeah, it happened in Orlando. This started every picture you can imagine. She's like, maybe you've seen the picture, so agitated because we get along,

but maybe there's resentment or something. I don't know. Right here on the nightstand. And they both kind of looked at in shock like, no. And me being me, I was like, look, I give you $20 right now if you can show me where that me and they were like, my God, I don't know. So we grabbed the picture. All this funeral.

You know how you get that eerie feeling? Yeah. Well, for the pedals. And I was like, you know, I know we're going to get breakfast. Let's just go. And she's like, all right, so we go to walk out. Our dresser, like I said, she loves pictures. There was probably about things like that, you know, ready to get out the room into the living

room, the door closes. But now a little bit. and I was like, I want to see what's going on. So I opened the door. And when I opened the door, Valentine's Day, isn't right. She calls her mother, you know, freaking out, telling her what's going on. She was like, it sounds like you'll have an issue. And I'm like, yeah.

So we go from there, calls her dad, which used to be your site. We wake up. You know, it was a Sunday. We had to, I think it was, yeah, Sunday we're going at Disney. Like I told you earlier, my wife worked at Disney. so we were going to go to Disney and kind of get our mind off of everything. We go to Disney,

hung out, did our thing, come back. Well, when we come back, creaking it, like someone's hard to get some sleep that I can come up with. Went to the house. Now, Tony, when you walk into that, in Orlando, you know about the heat,

walk into the room, and she opens the closet. She's just saying this or what's going on? And she's like, it's a little girl, but she's harmless about the thing that's moving. I'm going to try this again, and she's trying to communicate.

she said with this thing. It was it again, and when she opened it, she turned the light on, started trying to talk. Since it's a younger person, you're both sitting there and just kind of all right now. We don't know what's going on. And I don't know. It's not easy to just grab everything up. It goes from trying to communicate to it to now, well, she was getting a little louder. The light shut off the door slams, and we're in this room.

Now, the only light coming in is, you're standing, she starts talking. And I told you I have these pictures, and I do have a little. couple of them that I'll have been a few of them that was a picture of a then she showed it to us on a medium-sized and the third one and then right behind the big orb yeah outline of a face communicating said yeah we brought the doctor a couple days ago and she says okay when it's seen at it that it's when it started acting up because it's got a jealousy issue and it doesn't like me I was getting aggravated almost to the point because I'm you

know I'm a grown man you know I'm supposed to do so what it don't like me you tell it to leave. And she's like, no, she's like, he won't leave until after the baby said, well, I'm going to, we're going to move. We're going to do. So we went to bed that night again, anything that day. I mean, just, boom, it off my back. And it looked like multiple times, but not fingernails, almost like hands. We get, we're leaving. Some food, you know, we had our size, macaroni cheese, and so she gets in one car, and I'm getting in the other car. He had, this kind of jump subject real quick. Like, what is it? I said anything like, She never believed in and never would have thought of.

Specifics in that zone. I told my wife, I said, I'd rather just go, let's just get an apartment. You know, she's like, I wrote, and it was nicer than the house we lived in. So, man, I forgot to tell you the last thing. We had to move all our stuff. Even mentioned that, that's why I told you my wife's better. I couldn't miss work that day. So, shacking kind of foolishness that happened.

We load the U-Haul. If you're not real, if you're real, show me what you got or who you are. And I'm sitting there, and I'm sitting there, in awe walking in on this, and my wife said, I just told him, she's like, and let me and my wife and him. And she's like, I try to tell him, he's an idiot. I was like, all right, we got to go. And he's like, man, screw this thing. This thing ain't real. It ain't real. Look, it ain't got nothing. All of a sudden out of nowhere. This, I mean, I can't even recreate it. A screeching yell, almost like if you were to, a dog yelping almost, but like I was saying we decided we're going to

move into this house, about 10 houses down from the old house. We even spoke to the thing comes up. Can we be months to month? And she agreed. This new house worries. You can almost like, you could feel the relief. And when you're sitting in nastiness that it had, Tablet goes to our old sign for, but we don't have that kind of money, right?

Sign for this thing, that kind of takes me off as much as it does right there. Somebody could be like, yeah, I signed for this. I thought it was for my mom. I just signed for it. Has you noticed anything? She's pregnant. She opened it. She looks at us like, whoa, what just happened? And we were like, my wife knew it. She might stand, six feet from it, gets slid. He screams, jumps out of her shoes almost and screams, says, what in the heck was that? And I'm like, oh, my gosh. So we get out, my wife gets some sage. We go back in, we do the prayers. I decided I'm angry. I'm ready to fight. I can't physically, I can't shoot it. I'm going to find a way to beat this thing. and as a man of the family, that's my job. So that's what I got to do because it's nothing more in the world

than being a man of the family that you physically can't do anything to be able to make things with the medium. We went through a lot of people that she knew from work that had been knowing about these guys. I feel something right here. I think touching,

and I'm like, dude, I don't, there's nothing unless I said, this energy that's doing this. I said, look, dude, I'm telling you, this thing is crazy. And he's like, All right, send the kids to stuff.

Oh, in the hell. I was like, dude, I'm telling you. Well, he goes to set up a little mic things. It's like it just move things to mess with him. He turns around and he's like, all right, let's go. And his guys got there. So they go and they said, we go and we're sitting down. We're watching these monitors.

Well, the monitors start kicking, like in and out. In the back that we would see, but nothing extreme to the point where sitting there and he, like, handheld machines, and he would go through the rooms. Well, he goes into the master bedroom with the master bath. Oh, he turns and he says, well, my son, this kind of jumps off subject, but it brings you back when I tell you. My son had found a rabbit, okay? This is a little white rabbit at the part.

Nice rabbit. Well, we'd always put this rabbit in the bathroom at night because if we didn't, all that. But he asked that question, and it said rabbit. The rabbit was. Said it again, rabbit. But then it said, now, it got Angel, basically just said that kind of rumbling and mumbling, that there's nothing

else he could do. Cool or something they can do, and that's when I drew the lawn. I said, okay, I set my lawn or anything like that. I was like, this is crazy. Moved again, far away from that area. Nothing like contact, but she's like, you know, you're going to end up pissing it. I'm tired of dealing with it.

And it was like, to the, like, look, something just happened. She's like, I told you. I was like, yeah. Then after that, we went to, We have a community pool, so we took the kids. This was another day. The other day we took the kids to the community pool.

I'll start talking about it, about the situation, kind of going over everything that had happened because, like I said, this is over a four-year period that this is happening, all the things and examples of what had happened. The picture, she hasn't, the pictures that it started with, upside down, there you go. And then, like I said, on the way home from work today, she'd be giving me a call.

I don't, I'm kind of a sports junkie, so I listen to a lot of sports channels is always on my work. Sitting there, and I was talking to my life, and I was like, yeah, last thing I told her, I was like, yeah, Tony will be calling around, and then her phone, it just went out, my phone, her phone, whatever. I mean, it has been in a long time. Yeah, absolutely. Man, I tell you, that story is just, I mean, the way it all unfolds and stuff. I mean, it happens so fast. It happens so fast.

I mean, it's like out of nowhere, all of us. sudden this activity happened. I mean, especially in the beginning, it was like one thing after another the same day, right? It was over of crazy or something. What do you know about this house, man? Come and gone, it's a rental home. And he said, dude, he says, it's funny you ask. You know, like, why's that? He left here. And he got arrested. He said for, he's like, yeah, he said the time before that, I almost think something to do with that house, you know, it becomes. So do you think that this was a completely separate entity? that was that you guys are dealing with or were dealing with from the one that kind of was

bothering you in Orlando when you moved to Orlando got bulls I mean she's big I know who you're I know I know who you're talking about oh do you really okay Heidi Jaff right yeah yeah yeah I know her she is is she reputable as far as I know I mean I I haven't dealt into medians and psychics a whole lot but as far as I know yeah that's nice I hear a lot about people yeah with what I do is stuff, I kind of get around. I got you, man. I can tell you my true belief. Yeah.

And I believe it's, like, right now, I can tell you it's not here. Like, literally, if I would go around there or my wife, it's like crazy, you would know. You could fill it, like the hair on your necklestone. I'm playing for it because of all the stuff that's happened. And that's after the baby's been born, right? Yeah. Oh, geez. So that's where I actually was scared, you know.

because the last time she had mentioned, the median mentioned that it was something dealing with the five months pregnant now. But it hasn't. Yeah, I can understand that, man. Well, you got a lot of crap that you've had happened in your life, man. I tell you some of the things that you experienced. I mean, the Civil War entities that you saw are, you know, child's play compared to what you've been experiencing. When I was talking to you earlier, I was saying that earlier, I said, dude, I can explain to you my my idea with mixing the tool thing that triggered me do with the shadow hat or the hat the top hat with your wife you said i guess at the beginning yeah when you talked about that and you start talking about should be a connection but then when like man that's

a lot to take in you know even for some people i just sound too far out there i actually even told my supervisor at work which me and i'm a friend you said that's almost i was like it's just It's nothing I'm really excited about anymore. I don't want to... I don't want it to come back. That's all I know. It's a very scary fault. Yeah, I can understand.

You don't want it to come back. Now, do you feel like it's going to come back? I mean, throughout the patterns of your life, really, you have more... Majority of your life where you've had experiences like this. Do you think it's going to come back? I think so. Traumatic or I was weak. Those are anybody that falls into that another tragedy, you know, or something else

that might trigger me down to that point. where it would come back. Yeah, I can understand, obviously, the hoping not, but, you know, I guess the thing is to prepare yourself, at least mentally, for the, you know, I hate to say this way, but the inevitable, you know, because it seems like it's inevitable. And then what's kind of crazy is that I look at it like, well, another round. I think, the only way I can think. Yeah. Go from, like, normal day for me to a magic game or a Saints game and playing, you know, playing sports with the kids coaching basketball, coaching football, you know, having... Yeah, so do you think, I mean, I'm assuming you get the feeling that this entity was with

your wife before you were in the picture, right? She's like, not nothing, that's not normal. Not my daughter. Some sense of that, you were, it was pretty... Yeah, well, it does. No, and I was over with one answer, so... Yeah. Well, I'll tell you what, Nick.

I appreciate you coming on and sharing the story with us. and talk with us a little bit about your experiences. It's definitely fascinating. And to me, to me, it's, I mean, one, in the beginning of the show, when we were talking about Louisiana and the Civil War battles and how we were able to kind of match those things up a little bit, which is, I thought was pretty cool. Right.

But then the immediate roller coaster that you went on, like, seemingly right away. It's fascinating. It's just fascinating how that all unfolded for you. And obviously, it's not something that's, welcomed, but it's something that, you know, for me, in my perspective, it's fascinating to hear. It's just like, holy crap. I can't imagine. And if there's type of similar incidences, man, you know of ideas. Yeah, well, I would highly suggest that you check out the episode. I think it's episode 126, say it with a smile. That episode, what he describes in that show sounded awfully similar to what you were

describing. All right. Did he have any other incidents that happened with that? I don't remember all the details. I just remember that sticking out in my head because of what you said. So check it out and stuff. I published it a few weeks ago. So you should, I think you'll enjoy it at least, or at least find some similarities

like I did. Yeah, on a lighter note, man, I just want to. Oh, I absolutely appreciate it, man. And that's what we're here for. We're here to just share people's stories and let them get it off their chest. And I'm glad you were able to do that. It definitely happened. And if I come up with anything else on that, the war and the battle...

Sounds good to me, man. Talk to you soon. All right, Tony. Thank you. Well, that's the show, everybody. I really hope you enjoyed it. And if you did enjoy, go ahead and share the show with your friends. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, TikTok, email, water cooler. I don't care how you share the show. But if you enjoyed it, please share it with your friends so they can enjoy it too,

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