The Confessionals - 319: The Monster Outside My Window

Episode Date: March 9, 2021

In Episode 319: The Monster Outside My Window, we are joined by Derrick and Tayler. Derrick begins the show by describing his experience with a creature that approached his window one night while he w...as sleeping. After researching what he witnessed outside, Derrick concluded that he had seen a Rake. When he told his stepbrother about the encounter, his stepbrother revealed he had seen the same creature, but called it “the monkey man." After Derrick’s story, we talk with Tayler, who reached out to The Confessionals as a new listener. Through tuning in to the program, she started connecting dots between topics she never usually paid much mind. But then she started seeing things in her home, and she wasn't the only one - her husband saw them too. She describes the activity they both experienced, and how they made it stop.BECOME A MEMBER AND GET ADDITIONAL SHOWS: https://www.theconfessionalspodcast.com/joinSPONSORS:GET FEALS: https://feals.com/tonyGET SIMPLISAFE TODAY: https://simplisafe.com/confessionalsGet Emergency Food Supplies: http://www.preparewiththeconfessionals.comGet Beard Oil: https://bit.ly/2FbOhN5CONNECT WITH US:Website: www.theconfessionalspodcast.comEmail: theconfessionalspodcast@gmail.comText Community: Text "YUP" to 844-215-0819 Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://www.theconfessionalspodcast.com/the-newsletter SOCIAL MEDIA:Subscribe to our YouTube: https://bit.ly/2TlREaI Show Instagram: theconfessionalspodcastTony's NEW Instagram: rage_against_dystopiaMeWe: https://mewe.com/i/tonymerkel5Gab.com: https://gab.com/TonyMerkelFacebook: www.facebook.com/TheConfessionalsPodcast Twitter: @TConfessionals Tony's Twitter: @tony_merkelSHOW INTRO: Show Intro INSTRUMENTAL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyub39AXxUw Show Intro FREE DOWNLOAD: https://bit.ly/2HxNcw3

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Starting point is 00:00:03 This was all circulating around the base that a giant had to kill, but no one was supposed to talk about it. I saw three long, bony fingers, reach up underneath the door, curl up to grab it, and then disappear. When he came over to me, dude, he slithered over to me. And this giant comes out of the cave and they're all frozen. And he starts running and firing up this giant. With a giant move, he's got a spear in one hand, and he's running really fast. It spears, Dan, holds him up like this. Somebody else, shoot him in the face, shoot him in the face.
Starting point is 00:00:48 They basically decapitated. And I look over, and there are two small gray entities, and they're literally, I'm getting pulled off the bed. I reached my hand into this bush, and I touch air. Couldn't breathe, and it couldn't move, because I know I'm seeing a monster. Welcome to the show. Everybody you're listening to The Confessionals. I am your host, Tony Merkle. Thank you for being here. If you've had an encounter or a story you'd like to share with me on the show, go ahead and shoot me an email. My email address is The Confessionals at the Confessionalspodcast.com. That's The Confessionals at the Confessionalspodcast.com. Or go to the website, the Confessionalspodcast.com. Hit the contact section and you can reach me that way as well.
Starting point is 00:02:09 Either it works for me, just get a hold of me. If you want more shows every week on Thursdays, we release a bonus show to members only on the website. if you want to hear more of the confessionals on a weekly basis, go to the confessionalspodcast.com, hit the join button and become a member today. And never underestimate the times that we live in. And if you want to make sure you and your family are prepared for any emergency when it comes to food and emergency supplies, go to prepare with the confessionals.com. That's prepare with the confessionals.com. And there you can get yourself emergency food that will last up to 25 years shelf life. And that's a great deal in my book. Now this week we have Derek and Taylor coming on. on the show today. We're going to start off with Derek who actually saw a rake creature at his window at night that was trying to get into his room. He did reach for the gun and he didn't shoot it,
Starting point is 00:02:58 but he thought about it. And it's a very interesting story. And then we're going to bring on Taylor, who found this show and started having experiences after she started listening to this show. But don't worry. There's a happy ending when it comes to Taylor and her husband and their experiences in their home. Very interesting conversation I had with both these people. so let's get to it right now. All right, today we got Derek on the show. Derek, how you doing, brother? Good.
Starting point is 00:03:39 How you doing, Tony? Doing good, man, doing good. So, Derek, you and your stepbrother both have some interesting experiences, I say, that probably relate to each other, but you didn't know about your stepbrother's experiences until you had yours. You told to him, and he said, yeah, he saw that too. So why don't you start us off with your stepbrother and what he saw and then walk us into what you saw.
Starting point is 00:04:05 All right. So, yeah, the, really what it was is I, after what I saw, I mentioned it to him. And he said, oh, yeah, I saw something that was just like that. He said, he called it the monkey man. He said, oh, yeah, the monkey man. And I was like, well, what are you talking about? You see the monkey man. He said, well, it was just looking at me through my window.
Starting point is 00:04:22 And then it just took off. And that was all that he really had to say about it. He's not one of those guys that really likes to get into the story too much or or even mention it to a lot of people. he probably wouldn't have said anything if I wouldn't have mentioned what I saw the one night. So he had seen something that was like it. I assume it was probably very similar or the exact same thing. But that's where he comes into play on it.
Starting point is 00:04:46 Okay. So you see something. You go to your stepbrother and you tell him about it. And he's like, oh, yeah, I saw that too. He calls it the monkey man. Now, I know you're calling it something different. We'll get into that after you tell us what you experienced now. Yeah, so what it was, I was just sleeping in my bed at my parents' house.
Starting point is 00:05:08 They have, to give you an idea of the location of it, it would be, it's got a valley on each side of the property. And the area that my parents' house was in, this is back in, I think it was about 2012 is where, or 2012 is when we, I kind of worked out the timeline, too. Honestly, I hadn't really talked about it a whole lot for so long that I had to work it back and figure out when exactly I lived with them. But they have two little valleys on each side of their hill or a house on their property there. And they're about 50 yards across and about 50 feet deep. Basically small streams on each side of the property kind of run and make a triangle. And the bedroom window, where my bedroom is, is on the same. side of one of those. So it's just too out my window, basically. There's a little bit of yard.
Starting point is 00:06:02 And then it goes to that little valley. We have fires down there and things like that. The night that it happened or the night that I saw this thing, it was a clear night. There was a bright moon out like it was just a few nights ago here. I mean, it's so bright out. You don't even need a light to see anything. You can just see perfectly, perfectly clear. It's just really, really bright. And the weird thing or something that's different probably about my parents' house is the window that my bedroom was at is it's ground it's ground level there's a hill that goes from the front down to the back and this window's in the middle of the house so when you're standing by it's only about six inches off of the mulch or the ground that's right there so you can walk
Starting point is 00:06:42 right up to the window and if you're standing by the window it's probably uh you know a little bit above your belly button or in the middle of your chest or not not quite your chest but that's about how tall the window is when you're walking up to it and their house doesn't have screens on it either. I mean, it's a newer home from that house. They just don't have screens on it. Um, normally you don't have your window open because you're going to be eaten by mosquitoes, but I have a friend that works for the Minnesota mosquito squad. It's a, um, 10 up in County, the county from Minneapolis, they actually pay for the service. So if you have a lot of mosquitoes like they do because they have the small
Starting point is 00:07:19 creek that runs by, um, by the, in the little valleys that are right next to the house there. You can call them and they call them. out. My buddy worked for them and he would come out there and just slay all the mosquitoes. They basically put down a big fog and it kills all the mosquitoes. So when you get it like that and it's a decent night out, you can crack your window open and sleep. You know, you just get a nice breeze going. And that's nice to mean it. It's heavily wooded all the way around the property all the way around the house. It's kind of just a nice neighborhood. It's a nice neighborhood. I mean, the houses and the properties are, they're spread out more. So our neighbors are there, but they're
Starting point is 00:07:55 about 150 yards away, I would say. So everyone's got at least probably eight or nine acres to each home that's in that, uh, in that development there. So I was sleeping. I have my window open about six inches or so. Um, and I was just sleeping on my back. Like I said, it was a bright, it was a different moment nights where it was just very bright. And I woke up, I was sleeping on my back.
Starting point is 00:08:23 I woke up in the middle of the night and I, I looked over at the window, and there was this thing just crouched down. It was just crouched, like, punched down like, I really don't know. I was kind of describe it. It wasn't on all fours. It was just squatted down. But I was looking at the crack in the window. It was looking at that gap opening.
Starting point is 00:08:41 It wasn't really looking at me. And when I first looked over and saw it, I'm like, mm-hmm, when you were still sleeping. So I just grabbed my leg. I pinch my leg. I pinch the side of my leg. I pinch as hard as I possibly could. And I was like, well, definitely not sleeping. So I pinched myself again one more time.
Starting point is 00:08:59 And I'm like, yep, we're definitely not sleeping. And this is just me thinking to myself. And this thing still crouched down. It's looking. It's like studying the window for some reason. And I start looking at it. And I'm like, yeah, that's definitely not any type of animal. They've been hunting all my life.
Starting point is 00:09:16 And I mean, a duck hunt. A goose hunt. We've got a nice deer that I just got the other year. It's on the wall. So I can identify animals. I've been hunting all my life. And, yeah, it definitely wasn't anything that I've ever seen before. So as I was saying there, I just kind of started to squint my eyes a little bit
Starting point is 00:09:35 because I didn't want to see that. I was just wide awake staring at it. So I squinted my eyes, so I just kept on watching it. And I watched this thing, and I'm like, what's it even going for? What's it looking for? What's it? What's it want? There was no big fear set in where I was so afraid of it.
Starting point is 00:09:50 It wasn't that big. wasn't very big at all. I'm like, it's not really a danger to me. It can't get in. It wasn't like grabbing at the window or anything like that. It was just looking at it. And as I watched it,
Starting point is 00:10:02 I'm thinking to myself, what are they even looking for? And that's when it occurred to me that it was looking for, it was looking for a way in or trying to get in. The windows that we have, they're crank windows, but the crank actually folds out and then you crank it and then you fold it back in
Starting point is 00:10:19 and it folds into, itself. So there's nothing for you to just reach in and grab. I mean, you could if you knew it was there, but they're kind of like hidden. Not like the regular window crinklets is always out and grab it. So as I watched it, I noticed that it was trying to get in or looking for a way in. And then again, I wasn't driving on the window or anything. But once I noticed that, I'm like, well, this thing's definitely not coming in here. And I just slowly started sliding my right leg off of the bed. And until I set it down on the ground. And then I slowly started flatting my left leg with it,
Starting point is 00:10:57 like trying to leave my torso in place as much as I could. So I was getting it really slowly. And mind you, I had a good 30 seconds to sit and stare at this thing and definitely identify that it's not something I've ever seen before. So once I got both feet on the ground, I just kind of slid my torso over and I stood up quickly. I opened up the door that is in the, uh, that's my closet door right there.
Starting point is 00:11:22 So that's where I have my 10 gauge at and it probably loaded. So I grabbed the 10 gauge. I turned and I didn't flip on any light. I turned, went to shoulder it, and right when I was going to shoulder it, we made eye contact. It turned and just darted off straight into the wood. And I just remember when I got it up to my shoulder, I had like a shot that I could have taken at its back,
Starting point is 00:11:41 but it just, it wasn't feasible at the time. I mean, if I had a shot and we'll just say I missed it, that would have been an interesting thing to try and explain to my parents. I just shot a 10-gauge round straight through the window. So I didn't pull the trigger on it. And right when it ran off, I was just like, holy cow, that thing was fast. I mean, it was unbelievably fast. It was so quick when it ran off in the woods.
Starting point is 00:12:05 And that was, it just, I just didn't have enough time. I mean, I trap-shootshoot and everything like that. So I know when I can get a shot on something. And this thing, it just moved away so fast that I just really didn't have time to pull the trigger. and get it. If it still would have been squatted there, I would have definitely blasted it. That would have been nice,
Starting point is 00:12:22 but I just remember saying, oh, my gosh, it's going to be so fast, and then I was kind of upset because I figured it would have been worth some good chunk of change if I would have downed it, but it didn't happen.
Starting point is 00:12:34 That's what it was. I was able to sit there and look at it, and I'd never heard of this thing that people called the Rake at this time. Never heard of it a single time in my life. But then probably, You know, I told a few friends about it, and they're like, oh, you're crazy, blah, blah, blah. And, I mean, I'm stone sober 100%.
Starting point is 00:12:53 And so there's no drugs or alcohol involved with it. And I just didn't really think much of it for quite some time. And then one of the days, I'm like, oh, yeah, I saw that thing. Maybe I'll look around and try and figure out what it is. And then I saw some stuff that people had saying, oh, the rake this. But that really wasn't what it was, though, like the pictures that people put up saying with the rake, that's not really what it was. It was something else.
Starting point is 00:13:20 And I shot you a photo, Tony, that had not a photo or drawing that somebody did. I think they put some, someone put some comment in there, something like that on the drawing. It felt like, yeah, right. And I was like, I don't know who did the drawing. It was something that I found. I think there was someone that was in Canada, I found on Facebook that said that they had seen something like that. So, yeah, that was. And once I saw that photo, I was like, that's exactly what it was.
Starting point is 00:13:46 That was it to a tee. That's the thing that was sitting there, squatted by the window. It had the whole legs bent back, like, I don't know, like the old werewolf legs, if you will. But the thing wasn't hairy at all. I mean, it was gray. It was small as in, if it was standing straight up and down, it's probably like five and a half feet tall. It wasn't very heavy. It was a thinner looking thing.
Starting point is 00:14:11 Had longer arms on it. I didn't see big claws on it or anything like that. And I mean, I've looked at the window still sense and looked around to see, you know, are there any marks on it from it grabbing it or anything like that? I didn't see any marks on it. But yeah, it was just that, I mean, it's got the big black eyes, like people say. So obviously it's got really good night vision. I don't know how that all comes into it or where this thing comes from or is.
Starting point is 00:14:41 I mean, I've got a trail camera out there that I run all the time. and then I just check it just to see who knows. Maybe it'll pop up. But the weird thing is, is I've never heard one of these sightings of this kind of like rake-like thing. I've never heard of one occurring in the winter, which is kind of interesting. And I have heard another story about someone saying that it was kind of by a valley
Starting point is 00:15:00 or, you know, in between two hills, I'd deal. But, yeah, it was something else. I don't know. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:15:08 it definitely sounds like a crazy experience. And, yeah, when you sent me the pictures over, or not the pictures, but the picture of the drawings of this creature, it's like to describe the audience, and if you want, go ahead and head on over to the website, and I'll post it in the description on the website.
Starting point is 00:15:26 The drawings that you have here, it's like it shows the anatomy of this creature. And just by looking at a first glance, I mean, it looks like a rake creature to me as to what I'm looking at here. and if this is what you what you saw at least as close as to what you saw uh that's terrifying man that's like i mean i i don't dude i don't you know if i would have had the the guts to get out of bed to get the gun yeah it was something else i mean like i said at first it wasn't when i saw it was just trying to figure out well am i awake or am i not and then i was as i watched it like I said, I was just trying to figure out like, well, what's it doing? But yeah, once I knew that
Starting point is 00:16:12 it was, or once I figured it was looking for a way in, because of the way it looked at the window cell, I mean, it was scanning it like up and down the edge. And as it was doing that, it was paying no attention to me at all. And it was just scanning all around the edge of the thing, kind of like moving a little bit back and forth, up and down, staring at it, kind of like an owl. And that's one, yeah, that's when I'm like, well, I'm not going to let it in, whatever it is. But like I said, it couldn't have got in. It would have had to break the window to get in. But, yeah, it was definitely, it was interesting.
Starting point is 00:16:43 I don't know. I don't know why I wasn't really fearful of it. I mean, now if I saw it and it was the same situation, I might be a little bit more fearful of it just because of watching stuff online. But, you know, at the moment I hadn't heard of anything like that or seen anything like that. So I just had no idea what it was.
Starting point is 00:16:59 I just knew that it wasn't coming in. Yeah. And it makes you wonder if this creature, has done something like that before where it goes into somebody's house through a window and that's why I was doing it to begin with. That's an unsettling thought too, you know, to think that it might have done this before to somebody else's house and just couldn't figure out why I couldn't get into your house, especially with the windows cracked. Now, I interviewed a guy a while back and I don't even, I don't remember what episode this was. But he has...
Starting point is 00:17:35 had seen a rake, he pulls into his driveway and he and his wife saw this creature sitting in the, or yeah, I believe it was sitting in the backyard of their house or I think maybe in between him and his house and his neighbor's house. It was something like that. And the way he described it, I got a mental image in my head. And when I look at this picture, I'm like, that's exactly what I pictured in my head of that guy and his. description of what he saw that night. Now, your stepbrother, if I remember correctly, you really don't know
Starting point is 00:18:12 a whole lot of details as to what he experienced. He just called, when you told him what you experienced, like, oh, yeah, I've seen that. I call it the monkey man, but he didn't tell you the situation around his sighting, right? No, no, like I said, he wasn't going to get into much detail about it. He was kind of skeptical or
Starting point is 00:18:30 whatever you want to call it, even though it was there. He just called it. He said, oh, yeah, the monkey man. I was asking him, but he's like, no, it's just it. That was it. That's really all I could get out of him. So he didn't really give me a whole, a whole lot to go on with it, you know, when it was or what exactly it looked like. I didn't really pry him too much for it. Yeah, that's understandable. I understand. It makes me wonder, do you, at being somebody who saw this creature, when he said Monkey Man, did that make sense in your mind that, you know, somebody would call it a Monkey Man? Yeah, I mean, at a glance, you know, when you first look at it, I could see someone doing that, you know, we're calling it monkey man. I mean, if you took a monkey and maybe took all the tear off of it, maybe it would look, you know, somewhat like it, but you think he was just kind of assimilating it to something.
Starting point is 00:19:23 Do you think that this is a one and only creature kind of thing, or do you think there is more out there in the area that you live? No idea. tell you the truth, no idea. What do I think? I don't know. I just saw that. I just saw it that one time and I don't really go a whole lot past that on it. I mean, of course, there's a million stories you could think up or make up of it. But, you know, in this thing, I just happened to see it that one time. And it was really interesting that I was able to look around on Facebook and find someone that had a drawing that was just like it. I was just like someone else was seeing this thing or something. Maybe there's more of them. I don't know. May I don't know. May I don't know.
Starting point is 00:20:02 I'll tell you true. Man, incredible. I don't think you mentioned it on the interview. And if you don't feel comfortable saying it, that's fine. But can you at least tell us a general area of where this happened in the country? Yeah, it happened in Greenfield, Minnesota. There's a road called Whisper Creek Trail. And if you look up Greenfield, Minnesota and find Whisper Creek Trail,
Starting point is 00:20:23 there'll be houses off of that. And it was one of those homes is where it happened at. I mean, it's, yeah. so you can see how it's heavily wooded. I mean, my parents' place is basically hidden in the woods. And yeah, that's where it was. Well, you had mentioned that it was interesting about it coming to the window. And I know there are some other stories that I read after I kind of saw that drawing
Starting point is 00:20:52 when I started actually looking into it a little bit. Just curiosity's sake, there were people that had mentioned, and it's, It's actually quite a few. There's like a handful of stories where people mentioned that they didn't have their screen on their window, and that it came through their window. I mean, some of the stories are pretty crazy. I mean, I don't know. They have some pretty interesting ones out there, but I know that that was one thing that stuck out was that people had mentioned how they didn't have a screen on their window. So I thought that was kind of an interesting, you know, similarity from my story to,
Starting point is 00:21:31 with some of the other people's stories that I heard. Did they mention, like, when they were talking about the screen, did they mention as in, like, their windows don't have screens? Or did they mention it as in, like, after this experience, they looked at their window and there was no screen there? No, that they, that just, they didn't have a screen on their window. Like, in their area or wherever they live, they just didn't, they didn't have a screen on it,
Starting point is 00:21:51 so their window's wide open. Gotcha. Okay. Now, you mentioned about how you have trail cams out and you would love to catch it on trail camera. obviously you're a hunter. You mentioned that, and you're using your trail cams for, you know, spotting game as well. Has it ever crossed your mind or have you ever had a desire to go out there specifically looking for this thing? No, not so much.
Starting point is 00:22:16 I mean, I don't really want to sit in the woods for it just because I think I'd be at too much of a disadvantage for it and tell you the truth. I mean, I did. I talked to my parents. I'm like, I want to bear trap this thing so I can catch it. And they're like, yeah, that's not happening because we have dogs. or they have dogs. I mean, I have one too, but they have dogs as well. And that wasn't going to happen.
Starting point is 00:22:36 So as far as going out and trying to find it, I just think it's so much of a one-off. I think when we met eyes, he knew I was just about to plow him in the face. So he decided he wasn't going to come back. I don't know. But maybe I can get them. Maybe I can get it on camera. That'd be a nice thing.
Starting point is 00:22:52 They've got these new trail cams that will send you your photos. You know, they have not Wi-Fi, but they're hooked up with satellites. so it'll take a photo and then it'll alert you saying, hey, it took a photo and it'll send it to you. So maybe I can do something to try and catch it on a camera and I think that would be pretty cool. That would be enough for me. I mean, that would be incredible. So if that ever happens, man, please share it with me so I can share with other people because that would be awesome. Last question here, you talked about how when it ran away, it was extremely fast.
Starting point is 00:23:27 do you looking back at it think that the speed of it was almost unnaturally fast or do you think that it was just you know fast a just a fast creature do you think there was maybe something more to it because I mean these creatures I mean what you described and what we hear about the rate creature they have characteristics that seem like it shouldn't exist you know and I'm just curious as to how fast if this was something that you felt in the moment that maybe it was uh ungodly fast kind of thing, you know, like supernaturally fast. It was, I would say it was, it was faster than anything that I've seen from zero to however fast it ran away. I mean, when I hunt Peel, Peel can fly up to 55 to 60 miles an hour
Starting point is 00:24:13 and you have to be ready for them. So the moment they fly by, you only have an instant to react and pull up and shoot at them. And I mean, that, that same reflex is what I used when I was going to take a shot at that thing, but it was, it was gone by the time that I could even really, I mean, get it shouldered and I was like ready for it. So was it supernatural? Like it was like Superman? No, but was it so, was it fast enough to be believable as in that it was like it was something. Yeah. I mean, I just think it was really fast for whatever it was. I mean, it kind of just took it really, right when we met eyes and I went to pull up the gun, I mean, it turned and basically pushed off and grabbed the ground with his front little hands, whatever.
Starting point is 00:24:58 It did that twice. And then right when I hit the little bottom of the hill, it just kind of transitioned a little bit. It took a few steps when it was not straight up and down. It was still angled, but he was gaining speed. And he blew right into the woods. It was, I don't know, sorry, if I got off topic or whatever. It was believable fast.
Starting point is 00:25:16 So it wasn't like so fast that I would never believe that something can move like that, you know. I got you. I know I said last question, but this is the last question. And this is more, I think you might have touched in this, but I just, I'm having a hard time remembering what you exactly said. Did you go outside at any point after that, like the next day and look for any kind of tracks and stuff from where it took off from your window? No, I didn't really, it wasn't, uh, no, no, it was winter. Things were I went hunting for it.
Starting point is 00:25:45 Yeah, it was wintertime, wasn't it? No, no, it was summertime. Oh, it was summertime. Okay. Yep, it was summertime. That's how I had the summertime. full at moon type deal. And yeah, yeah, it was still summertime.
Starting point is 00:25:58 Nice enough for you to have a nice kind of cool breeze. But, yeah, definitely summertime. I think it would have been like, I mean, my guess it was in August or something like that. Yeah. All right, man. Well, listen, I appreciate you coming on the show and sharing this story, man. It's been interesting. And I always like hearing a good old rake story.
Starting point is 00:26:20 Yeah, well, thanks for having me on the show. anyone else see something? I mean, maybe bring it up, you know, hop on to any shows and let them know what you saw. And they'll be the first person I, I don't know if I get any clothes of this thing. All right. Well, after hearing that experience, I think our today's sponsor is absolutely quite fitting because it is Fields, which is a CBD product. It's not marijuana.
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Starting point is 00:29:40 It's a new day. It's a new life. Taylor, how you doing? Good. How are you? Doing well. So, Taylor, where are you from, by the way? What part of the country?
Starting point is 00:30:09 We're in Oregon. Okay, Oregon. That's right. That's right. I remember that now. So you're a relatively new listener. You started listening about what, six, seven months ago. Is that right? Yeah. Okay. And you reached out to me to ask basically if anybody ever started having experiences after they started hearing my show. So why don't you just kind of walk us into, you know, how did you stumble across the confessionals to begin with? I was honestly looking for like kind of creepy pasta type stuff because I was a house cleaner at the time and I was tired of all the music on repeat. So I was looking for something different and I stumbled on the confessionals and after I played the first episode I was hooked and like that was the only thing I listened to for like three months.
Starting point is 00:31:01 Yeah, I know about the whole binging thing. When you find a podcast you enjoy and stuff, you just binge it. But so you started listening to the show and you were going through all the episodes. I imagine, you know, in a day's work, you can kind of get through a few episodes. Yeah. What made you start realizing that you started having experiences? How did this all start for you? The first experience I had was a shadow going through my home.
Starting point is 00:31:34 And it was a pretty dark shadow. And when we first noticed it, it was me and my daughter and I have a little cat. and we were in our living room, and then all of a sudden I see the shadow dart around the corner into the kitchen. And I didn't say anything, but my cat and my daughter saw it too, and they like chased after it. And I was like, oh, okay, that's a little weird. And I was like, why did you guys just leave? And my daughter was like, well, there was a shadow. And my cat's all fluffed up, and I was like, okay, that's a little weird.
Starting point is 00:32:04 and then a couple weeks later, I was taking a shower with my daughter, and then all of a sudden all of the smoke alarms in my home just went off, like, all of them. And I'm in the shower, so I fly out of the shower. I almost slide and bust my head open, but I'm looking for a fire at this point because I'm like, these never go off. They haven't gone off the entire time. We've been there. So they all go off.
Starting point is 00:32:33 It's like way deep into my daughter's room, and they're not all wired to the house. They're just kind of like the battery ones. My landlord just kind of put up some cheap ones. So I thought that was really weird. And it never happened again, except for the second time that happened, it ended up happening to my husband. And he was, again, in the shower, door closed. There's no steam going everywhere. And everything, all of the fire alarms went off again.
Starting point is 00:33:00 And we were like, okay, that's a little... a little weird. But then it started to get to the point to where every night at 3 a.m. I would wake up instantly. Just boom right out of bed, straight up, not tired. And I'm like, okay, what the heck? At this point, we're not getting any sleep. And it's been like a good three or four weeks after the fire alarms and stuff happening. And it's just dragging me down. I can barely think about anything. And I'm trying to do my job. And my job ended up, my job ended up you know, slipping a little bit because I could not sleep at all. And at this point, I was like, okay, this is a little weird, some weird stuff happening. And then, you know, we're hearing,
Starting point is 00:33:45 like, knocks on the, on the wall and, like, increments of, like, three. And, you know, just kind of the typical, you kind of hear stuff of when you have hauntings is basically happening in my home. And, um, and then things kind of started to amp up a little bit more. We started, I started, I started to get kind of weird, weird feelings in the home and, you know, a shiver up my spine where I'm home alone. And, you know, you just kind of feel like you're in a crowded room. And it's just, you can just feel everybody. And at that point, I was like, okay, this is getting a little creepy.
Starting point is 00:34:20 So I started to, like, sage my home and, you know, do all that kind of type of stuff. You know, at this point, I'm not bringing in crosses or my pastor or anything like that at this point. So I'm trying to do all of like the natural remedies to like get bad juju out of the house. And that just made it worse. And then you start hearing, you know, things being thrown in the home and stuff like that when we're asleep. So I was like, okay, well, this is getting a little bit more severe than I wanted to. And it was affecting mine and my husband's mood. We were fighting a lot more than we normally would have, which I thought was really weird.
Starting point is 00:34:59 and it just started to get more and more intense. The more I've tried to cleanse the home and stuff like that, it just seemed like I was pissing whatever was there off. And so at this point, I'm like, okay, that's kind of bad. And so one morning, another 3 a.m. morning, I end up getting up and going to get a drink of water and I'm pissed that I'm awake. And I go back into the room, and my husband's like sitting up. in bed. And I'm like, are you okay? And he's just staring. And I have this like vanity at the end of our
Starting point is 00:35:37 bed that has a mirror. He's just staring into the mirror. And I'm like, how are you looking at? I'm looking and I don't see anything at first. And then I just had this odd feeling that I needed to get my daughter in my bed with us. And she like never sleeps with us. So this is really weird that I had this like deep gut feeling. I'm like, oh, I should pull her in bed. So I get her up and get her in bed. My husband's still kind of staring at the mirror. I'm not getting any response out of them. So I'm like, okay, weirdo.
Starting point is 00:36:09 And at this point, I'm getting Sasha in bed. And then I look at the mirror and I see what he's seeing. And at this point, it's like as if the mirror kind of lost its like reflectiveness is like it was like deep. Like you could like reach into it and it's like really deep. then all of a sudden I see this figure in the mirror. It was like if it was really, really, really far away. And then all of a sudden it's getting closer. And then this weird cutrid smell came in the whole bedroom.
Starting point is 00:36:44 It just smelled like death and sulfur and just like decay and just nasty. And at this point, me and my husband aren't speaking because they're seeing the same thing and we're so shocked. And we don't even know what it is. And then it comes closer and closer. And what I see is nothing but what I could describe is a demon. And it just had these nasty horns. And it's like it had like a red base, but like this weird red, oily slick thing. It was just gross.
Starting point is 00:37:19 And it had this horrible smile, just ear to ear, just a nasty grin where it just was just pure evil. and the stink was just there. And at this point, I don't even remember falling asleep, but we ended up falling asleep as, like, we're staring at this thing. And one thing I remember is, like, it felt like its gaze was looking towards my daughter. And then we end up falling asleep. And then the next day, you know, I take my daughter to school and, you know, I try and push it out of my head.
Starting point is 00:37:54 I was like, well, maybe that was just a weird, weird dream. And then I talked to my husband after we wake up and do our morning thing. I finally am like, did you see what I saw last night? And I never described what I saw to him. And he described everything that I saw to a T. And then I was like, we're not insane, right? Like, we can't be crazy. Like, that actually happened.
Starting point is 00:38:21 And so after we saw that, putrid nasty, just so, vial of a thing. Steph started to get a lot more violent in the home. One day my husband was going to get into a shower and he ended up getting these horrible, like three horribly deep scratches
Starting point is 00:38:45 on his shoulder. I was like, honey, what'd you do? What did you run into? He's in construction. I felt like, oh, he scraped up against the board or he got cut by a piece of metal. But he's insanely safe, and he's like, I honestly didn't even know that those were there. I just started feeling a burning and then looked, and there's three, like, majorly deep scratches. And I was like, oh, that's not good. And then after a couple weeks after the main scratch and, like, that thing that was just there,
Starting point is 00:39:13 the mood in the house and, like, it was just a dark house. You could open up all the windows and have all the blinds open, and it was just, it just felt dark. And, you know, you're always excited to come home after a long day of work. We were excited to come home anymore. And it was getting to the point to where it was affecting mine and my husband's marriage to the point to where we were fighting every night after we got home. But after we got out of the house, we fought fine. And so at this point, I'm like, okay, whatever I'm doing is pissing it off even more,
Starting point is 00:39:49 and we can't seem to get rid of this thing. So I am like, well, who do we tell to, like, help us? Like, if we tell anybody, we're just going to end up seeming, like, crazy people. You know, and a lot of people that we're around aren't necessarily receptive to the, you know, the possibility of things outside of our natural realm on earth right now. So I was like, oh, I don't know. And so we tell my husband's grandmother and she gets us in contact with now my current pastor and his wife. And they've supposedly dealt with this kind of stuff.
Starting point is 00:40:23 So they come over and they bless the home and everything's great for like a day. And then it got seven times worse after that. Like things started flying off the shelves and I got scratched and bruised a couple more times. And then it gets to the point where we're like, I don't know what we're doing. Like we just keep pissing it off and our life falling apart. And like I can barely keep up with work. And he can't, you know, go to work. and say, sorry, I'm dealing with the demon in my house. I'm sorry I can't come into work today.
Starting point is 00:40:58 They're not going to accept that. And so it got to the point to where I almost off my job. And my husband's, you know, not sleeping very well, and he's working construction and it's getting very unsafe for him as well. And so we're like, this isn't working. We should have them come and bless the house again because it felt really good that one day. So we had them come over and try and bless the house again. And, you know, for me, I didn't necessarily believe in any of that. And so I felt like it kind of attached to my disbelief in what we were trying to do to get it out of the home.
Starting point is 00:41:35 And then at this point, you know, they come over a second time. It's okay for a day. And then it's just way, way worse. And it gets getting to the point where it's really, really affecting our moods. And at this point, I'm really struggling with my faith because I'm like, well, I don't really know what to believe. And I've come up from kind of a shady, not a shady background, but kind of a really messed up background. So I've always was, you know, like, well, if there is a God, why would all this bad stuff happen to me? He's not real scrum type attitude, which was not the right attitude to have at this point.
Starting point is 00:42:19 And so I'm really struggling. I'm wanting to believe. And I'm my questioning everything. And at this point, I'm just, we're so defeated. We don't know what to do because our whole home life is just, it's crumbled. It's deteriorated. Everyone's fighting. Everyone's pissed off.
Starting point is 00:42:39 No one's getting any sleep at this point. And I have a six-year-old and she's with all of us with this. And it was just sad to see. And so then the pastor that we had contacted, he had told us about the bondage breaker. Do you know what that is? Like, are you familiar with that? No, I'm not. Please tell me.
Starting point is 00:43:01 So what is, it's like a book where it breaks, like it breaks ties with generational sin, with any type of sin that you could have possibly gotten into. and it breaks all of that barriers and ties with that. And it supposedly works for people. And my husband's grandmother had tried to do the Bondage Breaker book and read through it. And it's like a proclamation of like, you know, I denounce, you know, every sin that I've ever done. And I don't know, it gets more in depth with it. but she had tried to do it at one point, and she had gotten so choked out that she wasn't able to finish the bondage breaker.
Starting point is 00:43:47 So she was still kind of messed up and had things fall in her and stuff like that. So me and my husband were like, okay, well, that would be cool to do it with you guys. And then my husband's like, nope, we're doing it now. We printed off like a seven-page prayer on how to break all ties with everything, you know, bad and generational and any type of thing like that. So I was like, okay, are you sure? we're like, we sure you we don't need a pastor and his wife here? And he's like, we're doing it. I'm so tired of this.
Starting point is 00:44:16 We need to do it. And so I was kind of like, I don't think this is going to work. Like, this is probably not going to work. We're probably going to have to deal with this forever type feeling. And so I'm like, well, maybe let's just wait. And there's a different part in my past where I have had, I've been trying to like get past different traumas that happened in my life, but every time that I would try and do that, I would suffer from stress-induced grandma seizures, which is like the worst type of seizure you can get
Starting point is 00:44:52 where you fall down and you siffen up and you seize really bad and you convulse. And every time I tried to like kind of get past this stuff, I would end up having these horrible, horrible seizures. I went to a neurologist. I went to like a brain doctor. I went to everyone to try and figure out exactly why I was having these horrible seizures. And no one could explain anything to me. They just diagnosed it as stress-induced. And so at this point, it had been a good like seven years since I had one. And then all of a sudden, I dropped down and I seize out really, really bad.
Starting point is 00:45:30 And normally when I seize out, I go black. I don't even know that it happened. And I come to it. And I'm like, oh, man, what happened? But this time I drop and I sees, but I see this, that demon thing that we saw, sorry, that we saw in the mirror. And I can feel it's like it's hand or it's grab like on my shoulder just like deep down in the bone. I can feel it grabbing me. And this is completely like completely out of the norm for all my seizures that I have ever had.
Starting point is 00:46:06 Because I'm completely aware in the seizure. I can feel my body going into its contortions and stuff like that, but I'm seeing this thing, and it's sitting there and it's smiling while I'm like convulsing, sorry. And it's just sitting there kind of looking at you like, I got you. And then after that, I come out of my seizure and I tell my husband about what happened, and he's like, do you think that's why you've had these seizures for so long? It's because of that thing. Like it's been following us forever.
Starting point is 00:46:43 And, you know, things start to fall in place more and more. You know, that we've had things happen in our past that would be able to open us up to that type of attachment. And so at this point, I'm freaking out. I'm like having a major panic attack and I don't know what's happening because I'm seeing this thing during my seizures. and it's just when we're trying to figure out a way to, like, get rid of it. So at this point, I'm like, yes, let's do the bondage breaker. That was the worst thing I've ever experienced. We needed to get this thing out of our home.
Starting point is 00:47:24 And so we end up doing the bondage breaker. And I kid you not, there was, like, this light, this big, bright light. Go through our home from the front all the way to the back, kind of like a scanner. and then all of a sudden the house gets light. You can feel, you can breathe, like you don't feel that dark oppressive, just gross that it accompanied with it, you know, that smell that would kind of wander around the house was gone.
Starting point is 00:48:00 And at that point, I'm like, I believe in God. Right there, right then, seeing that light move through our home and passed through us, I was like, there's no way that that's not real. I'm like, if this demon thing is real, there's got to be a light to it. And we physically felt and saw that light. And at this point, my faith is affirmed. I'm like, I believe it. We start going to church on a regular basis and end up getting married, like,
Starting point is 00:48:32 because we had been together forever and, you know, living, you know, unmarried with a child and a home together, which wasn't necessarily what a lot of the, the family, you know, thought was a good idea. So we're like, well, let's do this right. Let's go about this the right way. And then we attended church ever since the corona thing started happening. And then things have been better. But it got so severe and so scary during that seizure that after that seizure,
Starting point is 00:49:01 I could see in different places where I'd go clean if there was a dark something there or people would come up and I would just get that bone chills. Like I felt when that thing was basically inside of me what it felt like. And I can start seeing these dark things around people if they end up having something weird attached to them. Like it's hard for me to go to different places now. If there's like some really dark, heavy stuff, I have to end up canceling my job because I just can't handle it.
Starting point is 00:49:35 So, and so after that light, it just, things have gotten better, but every now and then, you know, I'll wake up exactly at like three o'clock and I'll look outside my window and I'll see like three dark beings like in my yard or like by my truck and stuff like that. So things have gotten insanely weirder, but they have calms down a lot since we did that bonnage breaker, which was insane. So you see three dark beings out in your yard from time to time? Yeah. It's like they're just like hanging out, but they never come in the home after we did that.
Starting point is 00:50:20 So, yeah. Did you ever see those three dark beings in the home together? Yeah. You did. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, there's a couple times where, you know, it'd be that shadow and it'd be like a cluster of them. It'd be like, like, foo, foo, foo, foo.
Starting point is 00:50:35 and, you know, my cat would go chase them or my daughter would see them and go look and stuff like that. And there was never a time where, like, they were just boom there. But when I look outside after I wake up at 3 a.m., they're like right at my property line. And they're like looking in. That's what it feels like. So you can feel someone staring holes in like the back of your head. So when you see these shadow figures out in the yard, are they standing next to each other, single file line? Did it look identical?
Starting point is 00:51:06 There is like one big one in the middle and then like two on the side. So you get the sense that they're not the same thing, but it's three separate entities. Yeah. Yeah. And then I don't know what that demon thing that we saw in that mirror and then with my seizures, I'd never, ever had experience. Well, I wonder if that demon thing in the mirror has something to do with those shadow figures. Now, the demon thing that was in the mirror, you said that's what you saw when you were having a seizure, right?
Starting point is 00:51:41 Yeah. It was the same thing, the same nasty, ear-to-ear grin, just kind of like a, I got-you type of look. It's not something I ever want to see again, for sure. Wow. Yeah. So you mentioned about that and how you went through the seizure and you saw this face, you come out of it. And I forget how you worded it, but I think is either you. you or your husband mentioned about how, you know, do you think that this is the thing that's been
Starting point is 00:52:11 causing the seizures and it's been, you know, having for a while? You kind of mentioned about how, you know, you had some stuff in your past and stuff that might have caused this. Are you comfortable sharing any of that? Yeah, yeah. A horrible father. And he sexually abused me from ages like four to 11. It was just consistent. And so just kind of like that dark stuff. I'd never really worked through it in my adult life. And once I started to go to counseling and stuff and try and work through that, my seizures would kick in, like, instantly. When I'm, like, at one point, it happened while I was, like, in a counselor session,
Starting point is 00:53:00 and I had it right there in front of my counselor. And so every time I try and bring that up and try and work through that trauma, these seizures would happen. And I was like, yep, I'm good. I'm not going to work through this. I'll just shove it back down, fine, live my life, and I'll continue. And, you know, my husband was like, no, we need to figure out what's going on with your brain, because your brain's shortened out.
Starting point is 00:53:23 But every time I went to the neurologist or a brain doctor or anybody, they could not tell me what was going on with my brain. I don't have epilepsy. I don't have anything yet. They just said, stress-induced grandma seizures. And I'm like, sweet, I guess you still don't know what the heck's going on. but that's fine. And, you know, and then I started doing some more research in, I know back, like way back
Starting point is 00:53:51 in like ancient or times or like old times, you know, when someone would have a seizure, they would think that a demon was seething their soul. This is a little bit too close to home. I'm not going to look up this stuff anymore. I'm just going to try and forget it. You know, and at this point, I had also been working. with my pastor's wife in counseling to try and get through these things that ended up happening really horrible stuff that happened in my life. And I hadn't had any seizure, so I was thinking,
Starting point is 00:54:25 okay, well, I'm in a good place. I'm in the church doing counseling. You know, this is really good. And then all of a sudden that last one happened, and it just, it floored me. It really did. Oh, yeah. You know, have you ever thought about this entity that was, you know, tormenting you during that seizure and that you saw in the mirror? The idea of it being around for a long time, do you think that this thing could have been something that was attached to your dad? Oh, yeah. Because I definitely feel that. Yeah. I mean, it sounds like to me almost that, like, it was attached to you. to your dad and and, uh, therefore it was attached to you. And, uh, it's, it's very, this stuff is very complicated. It's very complicated. It is. It's one thing I've learned is that, you know,
Starting point is 00:55:25 don't ever think that you have the right answer to the quick fix answer because, uh, you know, it just as soon as you think you got figured out, it, it, it, it throws curveballs. Um, man, I'm sorry that you went through that as a kid. I know there's a lot of, I know there's a lot of people that go through that kind of stuff and they deal with, they deal with stuff later in life that, you know, sometimes have the paranormal edge to it. And do you ever think that maybe, um, if it wasn't for this entity being attached to your dad, that your dad wouldn't have been like that? Or do you think he would have been like that either way. He kind of had a checkered past as well.
Starting point is 00:56:15 He was adopted out of Guatemala and brought into a very nasty family or the warlord to that ended up taking him after kind of a weird thing. My mom's family adopted him originally, and then he got separated from the family. And then they got with my mom. I don't know. It's kind of a weird thing. But he had a very kind of messed up childhood as well. So I feel like if anything like that.
Starting point is 00:56:40 happened to him, so he didn't quite know how to do it. So he just kind of did it. It opened me up quite a bit. And then in my young adult life and kind of like my teen years, I wasn't handling whatever happened really well. So I turned to like drugs and drinking and ended up getting involved with like heroin and stuff like that. And it ended up really bad. And then, you know, doing my research after this thing's happening and I've got cleaned up from all of that. Everything that I did in my past basically opened up for, you know, for people things to attach as well. And I just was like, oh, man, this is just kind of like a hot bed of crap, isn't it? So, yeah.
Starting point is 00:57:25 And it's been, I, it's been a lot of, you know, trying to find myself and trying to fix myself to, not necessarily fix myself, but, you know, process to where I'm not seasoned out or having things happen. I have been able to do counseling and stuff since that last seizure happened. and that light came through our home in ourselves. And we haven't really had, I haven't had a seizure since then. So it's been awesome for me. That's great. That's really great.
Starting point is 00:57:58 And, you know, it makes me feel like maybe this was something that had been in the generational family kind of thing. I do too. You mentioned about, you know, generational curses. Well, this can be an aspect of that, I believe. and, you know, you pursuing a different spiritual path seems like it put a barrier between you and it or those things. Do you think that what you saw in the mirror and what you saw, you know, choking you out kind of thing, do you think that that entity is related or the same thing as the ones you see out in the yard?
Starting point is 00:58:37 Or do you think there are two different categories, two different things going on there? Um, me personally, I think the thing that we saw is it's own self, like, its own thing. And I think whatever is outside is just kind of poking at us and being like, you guys messed up yet? Do you guys not believe in God anymore type thing to see if they can get away in? Um, weird thing is, is that with my husband's family as well, um, I definitely believe that there's generational sin. Um, my husband's grandma, or my husband's grandmother. Yeah, there it is. Um, She dabbled in the occult. She was telling me about how they used to make, like, tables levitate and stuff in, like, grade school. And she kind of gotten into some really shady stuff, too. So there's a lot of stuff following my husband as well. And the weird thing is that we saw this thing. And, like, I know this feeling of this thing.
Starting point is 00:59:32 I feel it in my bones whenever I'm, like, out. It's honestly affecting more parts of our family than just us. It seems like it's like hopping from us to like his grandma to to his mom and all types of stuff. It's been really, really weird to now have that, I don't know, I guess the ability to be able to feel those really dark nasty things a lot more sensitively than I ever could before. You know, and it kind of shows up to where my husband's grandmother was telling me how she was, this lady is like 73 years old, but she was talking. me about how she was taking shots with this one guy who's severely kind of mentally not there and it's kind of bad about how his face, while they were taking shots, turned into that demon thing, like it morphed into this demon thing that we had seen. And God knows why she still
Starting point is 01:00:30 hangs out with a man, but she, her life's kind of taken a really crazy turn and it's kind of fall apart after she said that she saw this thing. So it's really weird to see. It's weird to see how many fingers it actually has in everything. And it's everywhere. Dark shadows are in almost every apartment building I've ever been in. Like, it's weird. It's definitely weird to see.
Starting point is 01:00:59 It's really, really, it kind of opens up your eyes. It's weird. Oh, yeah. I mean, so with what you just said here, that dark shadows seem to be everywhere. Is that like dark shadows seem to be following you everywhere? Are you kind of sensing them everywhere? I'm kind of sensing them everywhere.
Starting point is 01:01:15 But they're like, you know, I could be, da-da-da, having a good day, you know, whatever. And I go into a certain apartment building and you just kind of feel the dark and the ick in there. It's certain places. It's like in the druggy, really bad druggy areas in our town. And, you know, actually the other day, I was at a really nice part of town. and I was in this really, really nice apartment, but like the one unit I went into, like I said, with my house, it was just like dark,
Starting point is 01:01:45 no matter how much light you turned on or how much, you know, how open the windows you got, it's just kind of dark. So it's just there. I personally don't feel anything attached to me anymore. It's just out there. It's everywhere. It's freaky to think about.
Starting point is 01:02:05 Yeah, I mean, I guess it can't. can be a little freaky to think about when you first start, you know, realizing the reality of what you live in. Right. Because, I mean, it sounds like for the majority of your life, you really didn't consider the fact that this kind of stuff could be so frequently real in somebody's life. Is that, is that correct? Right.
Starting point is 01:02:25 That's exactly right. And, you know, I believe in ghosts and stuff. I was always into, like, the ghost shows and stuff when I was little, and I always tried to, like, freak myself out. but not to the extent that we had dealt with before. It was just kind of crazy. I see. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:02:41 I don't know. So you mentioned about grandma. Was that your grandma or his grandma? It's my husband's grandmother. Okay. And so she dabbled in the occult, and how long ago was that? Oh, that's what I want to say. She was, like, in her mid-teenths to early 20s.
Starting point is 01:03:02 And then I honestly don't know what that woman does while I closed doors. To this day? She's a little crazy. Grandma be crazy. Grandma be crazy. She is. I was like, what, you know, a 73-year-old lady, you know, is just taking shots in the backyard and smoking pot and stuff like that? It's just she's out there for sure.
Starting point is 01:03:26 That's funny. That's really funny. Yeah. You know, it sounds like there's a lot of different angles to go with this. It sounds like there's a lot. There is. We have racked our brains so many times of where it could have stemmed from. And I was like, I felt like I had my dark stuff from when I was little.
Starting point is 01:03:42 My husband's had his dark stuff since he was little because he's had a not-so-great childhood either. You know, his parents were into drugs really severely and wouldn't take care of them to the way they should be. And my husband would end up acting out as a kid and they'd just send him to Juby and send him to jail and stuff like that. It's just horrible. on their end too. So he was like, well, it could have came from grandma. It could have came from your dad. It was like, it could have just came from us because we've done a lot to where we've opened
Starting point is 01:04:11 ourselves up for that type of attachment too. We've wrecked our brains so many times on what angle it could have came from. All we just know that it happened. And my husband doesn't like to think about it. And he doesn't like bringing it up. And me, I'm like, hey, I just saw this crazy dark thing at this apartment. And he's like, I don't want to hear about it. And I'm like, yeah, but I need to talk about it.
Starting point is 01:04:31 And he's like, we're good. And I'm like, okay, well, still, it's happening. And he's like, I just don't want to think about it. Okay. Well, you experienced it too. So these experiences all started popping up after you started listening to this show. Am I correct in saying that? Yes, you are.
Starting point is 01:04:54 But really, it's where I was shifting my ideas of whether God, and the whole Jesus thing could be real because on your show there were so many accountable people say, you know, they were being Jesus' name and everything stops from, you know, from entities to UFOs. And I was like, really thinking, I'm like,
Starting point is 01:05:14 there's got to be some freaking validity to that. How is there not? There's over, like, he had over 200 episodes plus of all these people saying that this worked. And I'm like, how can this not be real? And I was really questioning everything. And then that's when everything really started
Starting point is 01:05:30 to pop off. Yeah, it seems like... It wasn't your show exactly, but it was the content on your show that was making me think, dang, this is different. This must be real. How can this not be real? You know? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:05:42 It seems like when people start pursuing different lines of thought on a spiritual level and start considering things that they maybe never considered before, it seems like that can be a trigger for paranormal activity to start kicking up because it just shows the validity to the idea that this is a little bit. that this is a supernatural realm that we live in, and we are supernatural beings, and there are other dimensions with other supernatural entities within them. And not all the entities in these other realms are on our side. And so when you start switching teams, somebody's going to have a problem with that. Exactly. You're more towards this side. And, you know, honestly, my whole growing up and my whole
Starting point is 01:06:27 teen years, up until I had my daughter, I was just a bad kid doing every bad. that thing you could possibly think of, like, stealing and doing drugs and, you know, writing around without a license and just being kind of like a little shithead, honestly. And, you know, I do believe a lot of that was influenced by whatever was kind of just tailing around us, you know, like putting these little thoughts, you know, stay in the area type thing. And the moment I started rethinking things, it's just that's when everything popped off and they didn't like it. They're like, no, no, no, we got you.
Starting point is 01:07:02 You're not going to God. And I'm like, no, I'm going. And it just started going crazy. So, yeah, it's nice to be able to laugh about it now, but it was definitely intense. And my husband tends to forget about it every now and then. But I just can't. It's so burned into my brain that that happened and that was real. And that actually happened.
Starting point is 01:07:25 My husband is like, oh, sometimes I forget that that actually happened. And I'm like, how can you forget? Like, are you serious? Like, how can you forget that this was a thing? He was like, oh, I want to just push it out of my mind. But, you know, after physically feeling like the grab and just the insideness that it had when I was having my seizures, yeah, I felt like it was just, I can feel things to the bone now and I just can't forget that, which is weird.
Starting point is 01:07:55 Yeah, well, I think it's more weird that he forgets of that kind of stuff happened at some point. You know, it's like, how can you forget that? Yeah, I know. He's a, he's a good pusher. He likes to push bad steps out and just focus on the good. So I value him for that because sometimes I get caught up in the, in the baddest stuff. And he's more of an optimist than I am. So it's a good balance. Oh, for sure. For sure. You need that balance in life, for sure. So, Taylor, I really appreciate you sharing this experience and stuff. And, you know, I think it's kind of cool how it kind of all turned out for you. I mean, you stumble across the comfort. You start considering different ideas and thoughts on life and life paths,
Starting point is 01:08:35 kicks up paranormal activity in your life, you get attacked, you retreat to God, you find a peace there, and in the process, you wind up getting married. So is it safe to say the confessionals caused its first marriage? Yes, actually, yes, I will definitely attribute that to that, because my husband had been together for like 10 years, we'd never gotten married. I'm like, what's the deal? Why haven't we? And then, you know, after everything kind of came to light, my husband's like, I don't
Starting point is 01:09:08 know what I'm doing. I don't know why I haven't married you. Let's go get married. And we had this amazing little ceremony at our church now. And it was an elopement. We did it on Christmas Eve. And it was just, it was perfect. So, yes, the confessionals is definitely responsible for my marriage.
Starting point is 01:09:25 That's so funny. That's so funny. Mark the tape on this one because this is a historic moment. Yes, it is. In fact, shoot me your mailing address and we'll have a couple of T-shirts sent out to you guys as a wedding gift. Awesome. Yes, I will definitely email you. That's awesome.
Starting point is 01:09:44 Thank you. Certainly. Thank you for sharing that story. I think that's pretty cool. In fact, you're number one, and we're going to start a tally now, how many people can contact us saying because of the confessions, they got married. Now, if you get divorced, if somebody out there, yeah, if you listen to the show and you want to getting divorced, don't tell me that. I don't want to hear that. Yeah, I don't want to know that. That doesn't count on the tally. That does not count on the tally. No, definitely not. But for whatever reason, you're listening to this show and you think it's a good idea to get married now and you get married, we're going to send you a wedding gift and we'll put you on the tally for a number of people who get married because of the confessions. Yes. Well, that's the show, everybody. I really hope you enjoyed it. And if you did enjoy it, please share the show with your friends. I don't care how you share the show. Just share the show with your friends if you enjoyed it because that's the best thing you can do to help this show grow. And if you're interested, there is a website with merchandise on it. So if you go to the professionals podcast.com and hit the store page, you'll see that we do have merch in there. I'm not very good at promoting it. But I'm trying to do more of that stuff recently because people say, I didn't know you had t-shirts. Yeah, we have t-shirts. I just don't talk about it.
Starting point is 01:11:01 So there you go. Go ahead and check it out. And until next week, friends, stay safe. Take care and remember the truth was such a free. But first, they'll piss you off. Bye. There's a monster under my bed and at my window there's a dragon. I accepted the challenge and turn me into a savage.
Starting point is 01:11:19 I broke a promise to myself again. I don't know why I am so vulnerable. They try to help it out. I guess rock bottoms wear it scarier than the one that's within. There's a creature in my closet I can hear him rumbling around In the distance creates such a humbling sound I say this no
Starting point is 01:12:21 But I'm hated so My religious freaks say I'm the biggest beast And that I made it grow When I spray this flow I created moat creatures are like when I heat up the mic I'm a breed of the night but I'm saying it though Like the dark mark didn't shine it they find it But that they label me a demon seed
Starting point is 01:12:43 One that is able need to see him bleed Handing me fatally and see them grieve No You would not believe the creature inside me If you deceive Khalifa's alively We disagree when people defy me Or try to take his Whatever the f***um you don't want to wake this
Starting point is 01:12:57 You forsake his with a sacred Then it's over no matter what your weight is I'm a creature There's a creature in my closet I can hear him rummed around The demon screaming in the distance create such a humbling sound The monster that I managed to get myself in trouble all of this pain
Starting point is 01:13:31 Yeah, I'm damning the double dose of liquor's always the blame If I could keep myself sober I keep my hands to myself I take a shot in this over and that's how I end up in hell I hope I don't pass it down to my offspring They get everything from their daddy feel like I'm addicted to all there There's no reason to change going too far now But I'm stuck in my ways back at the bar now They say I'm infertiny right
Starting point is 01:13:58 I hursting and purging And purposely searching for something That's hurting me soul I just can pack up and go I just back out of my soul That's how I got back out of the hole What next like I'm gonna be laughing at me Hands me grabbing at me
Starting point is 01:14:12 Feel like I let it have until we dabby blashing me And these be a tabby dash really okay That or I gotta let it know And I can't do that There's a creature in my closet I can hear him rumble around the demon screaming in the distance creates such a humbling sound

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