The Confessionals - 99: When Angels and Demons Visit

Episode Date: November 25, 2018

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Fantastic. You're going to love it. But today, we're bringing on Adrio, and Adriel is going to share experiences that he's had throughout his life, but particularly speaking of when he was visited by demons and angels. So let's get to Adriel right now. All right, tonight I have a great guest coming on. I have Adrielle, how you doing, man? I'm doing good, man. Good, good, good. So you have had some interesting things happen throughout your life. And let me first say that your wife emailed me your story. And I thought it was really good. But she didn't ask to be on the show. So I was like, well, you know, do you want to be on the blog? And I posted, and you guys said yes. So I posted your stories on our blog on the website. And it got a lot of traction.

A lot of people really liked reading your stories and commenting on, you know, what you experience and stuff. It really got a lot of reviews. So I thought, you know what, why don't I ask them to have you on the show? And fortunately, you guys said yes. So here you are. But you have throughout your entire life, have had these experiences where you've seen things that most people don't see.

So the first time it happened to you, you saw a demon. And then you saw an angel interacting with that demon. So let's just start there. and what happened, where were you, and just give us the details of where you were, what was going on when that happened to you? Right. So, first of all, thank you for letting me for being your show.

Big fan. My wife is a bigger fan than I. So, yeah, so when I was about nine or ten years old, I didn't really like sleeping in my room that much. So I would always go to my parents' room or one of my older brother's rooms. So in this case, I asked my second oldest brother, hey, can I just go to sleep with you in the room or not?

And I wasn't going to go to sleep on the bed with him because I was like, you know what, I'm not going to be with that. I'm just going to go sleep on the floor, set up a blanket and a pillow. I'm good. So while I'm sleeping, I feel myself get out of my body. but it felt like real. So while I feel that I'm looking around in the room and seeing everything,

but I feel my body on my pillow, but I can feel myself also looking around. So then while I'm in this state, I look behind me and I see the demon hands on his knees, crouched down about maybe three, five foot away, for me in the, in front of the closet door, staring at me and just smiling. And for some reason, I wasn't scared. I was calm, but I was just staring at him back for like a solid 20 seconds.

And I grew up in church and, like, people always say, oh, when you see those things, you know, rebuke, you know, tell him to go away. But for some reason, as a kid in that moment, I don't feel like doing that. I was just staring at it because I was like, what? is going on here. So I don't know where I feel to look at the window in the room. And when I'm looking at the window in the room, I see this angel just going through the window, landing inside the room. And while I'm looking at him, the demon is still staring at me and smiling at me. like this demon was scary looking and I don't understand why I wasn't like that scared like

he had like a menacing face he looked like a monster um I'm going to explain a little bit how the demon looked like and he had sharp teeth um his skin texture was kind of like burned and rotten at the same time um in the blog, my wife put that he had a shirt on, but later on I remember that he did not have a shirt on. So I can see his skin color, which was like, it was kind of like a, like in between the cracks of the burn and the, and like the rotten skin. I can see yellow greenish with red streaks going through there. I couldn't see too much of his actual skin color because it was dark and, you know, he had like these kind of capri pants rolled up to his knees,

pointy like nails, pointy ears. He had like spiky hair. This is like a fashionable demon or something. I don't know. And I was just like not scared. I was just staring at him and he was just staring at me back. So when I'm looking at this angel, when it comes through the window, he kind of stands there for like two seconds, run towards the door where the closet door was as well in that same wall. And the demon kind of like looks and then does like a triple take and looks at the angel.

And this angel, I'm going to spend a little bit of the angel because his angel was, it was crazy because he was so tall. I couldn't see his face He was kind of like translucent His like white was like Wider than the wall It was just it was so beautiful And I was like Oh my goodness what am I watching right now

So then the demon does a triple take And the angel just bolts Towards the Towards the demon And the demons like trying to fight back But the angel is like pushing him so hard they go through the wall, and as soon as they go through the wall, I immediately go back to sleep. Like my soul or whatever it was immediately just comes back into my body, and I stay asleep for the rest of the night.

Until the next morning, when I wake up to go to school, get ready. I go, my parents have a two-story house, so I went downstairs. my dad made me a bowl of cereal that down at the table and right when I'm eating my cereal my dad goes into the shower to take a shower so that he can take me to school

so he can go to work I kind of look up and I see this female demon walking and I can see it from the kitchen because the kitchen had like a little like cranny the way I

best way I can explain it. And I see her walking through there with her hands, like, on her sides. Kind of like in an Egyptian. Okay. I don't know if that makes sense. Yeah, kind of like just like straight down their side. Yeah, yeah. Like, you know, in the Egyptian depictions, they have like one hand up and the other hand down.

Yeah. Type kind of thing. Yep. Well, she was like that walking through and then walking through. and then walks through the wall. And I have a bowl of cereal in front of me, and I have a spoonful of cereal in my mouth, and I can feel the milk dripping down my face

because I was like, what am I seeing again? Like, what's going on? And so then, again, this time I was a little more like, whoa, that, like, frightened, but a little, like, at a loss, kind of. And this demon looked almost like the other one I saw the night before. except she was bald. I can tell she was a woman because I can see that she had, she didn't have a shirt on.

She had breasts, but, I'm not trying to be silly here, but she had, like, no nipples either. Okay. And she also had the capri pants with the same burned skin, the same kind of crackly burnt skin with red, yellow, greenish stuff through her cracks, straight through her cracks. This time I could see her actual skin.

like this blue, greenish tent, kind of like a reptile type. That's how the texture also looked like a little bit as well. And I'm just staring at her while she's walking past the couch, walking in front of me, and walks through the wall. So then as soon as I see that, I'm like, okay, let me go keep beating my cereal. Whatever, it's fine. I don't know where I see her appear. in front of me. It's like we had a rectangle table and I was sitting at the end of the of the

table looking towards the living room. So she appears in the other side of the table and the share in front of me right then there and I was like what the heck. And the way she was sitting was so weird. It was like when a little kid sits on a chair and they have their feet up. So she was like kneeling on the chair instead of sitting on the chair instead of sitting on. on the chair. And she has her hands on the table, like her elbows on the table, staring at me, head tilted, smiling.

And I can see her teeth. I see the, I saw the same pointy ears. And that freaked me out. And then she disappears again. And when she disappears, I was like, I'm Spanish. I was like, Bobby, where are you? Like, what are you doing?

Get out the shower right now. He was like, yeah, I'm getting out. I'm getting out right now. I'm like, okay. Yeah, so that's the more detailed demons I have seen throughout my life. Basically, throughout my whole life, I've seen shadows, a lot of shadows. Well, let me ask you real quick before we get away from that whole story, because that really is very fascinating what you just shared. Um, so you're a kid and how old were you again? I can't remember. Were you seven? I was like from seven to maybe nine or ten. Okay. So seven to nine or ten. All right. So let's just say

a seven year old kid. You know, you're in your room and what you just described, you had an out of body experience. And yeah, you had no idea. And I'm assuming still to this day, you don't have any idea how that happened. It just happened accidentally, right? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Okay. So you're having an adabotic experience, which is crazy in itself. It's like, wow, this is new. And then you see this demon. Now, when you saw the demon, did you think it was a demon when you first saw it? Or was it the equation of seeing the demon along with the angel coming at the demon that made you realize what you were looking at was a demon? Well, when I first looked at it, I really didn't know. what it was. But while I kept staring at it, I was like, oh, so this is a demon. Because I grew up in church on my life, I'm a Christian, and I've heard a whole lot of stories of my mom talking about things that she has seen, seeing people liberated from demons, from people being possessed by demons and stuff like that. So I'm used to it. So when I saw it, I was like, oh, this is a demon.

This is how they look like. So at first I didn't, but then after a while I was like, oh, okay, I know what this is. And I saw the angel. And I was like, oh, I definitely know what this is. How old are you now? I'm 25 years old. Okay. So this happened, let's just say, 15 to 20 years ago, roughly.

All right. So for the last 15 to 20 years, you've had this experience in the back of your mind. You've had other things happening to you. Now, if I recall correctly, both entities that you saw, one in your bedroom, one in your kitchen, you described them that their skin looked like it was burned? Yeah, like they were burned. Yeah. Yeah, burned crackly type skin.

Okay. The texture. And so that texture that you saw, do you think that really was a burn, or do you think that was more just the way they were formed? Um, well, growing up, I thought that that was just the way they were. Like, when, you know, when, when the Bible was about, you know, the demons or the angels going out of heaven, God took them out. And, um, well, I thought that they just, like, were in hell and they were burning in hell. And that's why they looked like that. But it could be that that's just the way they manifested themselves to look like. Okay. When I, yeah, when I kept growing up, I was like, oh, maybe that could be it too. Yeah. This is just a side track. But I just thought of something. You just said about how the angels were kicked out of heaven. And I've been watching all these flat earth videos recently.

And they're talking about how we can't get through the Van Allen belt because it would burn you up. Maybe that's how they got burned down when they were kicked out of heaven. Maybe when they were kicked out of heaven, they were falling to earth and they fell through the Van Allen belt. sorry, I couldn't help myself. I had it. I'm sorry, man. This is so unprofessional. No, you're fine, man. You're good, man. I like laughing. Oh, my Lord. Oh, my God. Okay. That's good. So let's do this. Let's talk about our sponsor for this show, Hunt a Killer. They are sponsoring this extra episode for you. And you know what? You can have some fun with friends and family and have fun and laugh. and stuff like that, playing this game together, or you could do it solo and take it super

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now you said you didn't see the face, right? Like, was it that it had a face or was it blurred out or just didn't, it had a cloak over its face? What do you mean you couldn't see the face? Well, the weird thing is that I couldn't tell that it had a face, and I knew that it had a face, but for some reason I wasn't being let to see it. Like, it was tall, but it wasn't that it was that tall that I couldn't see the face. It was just that I, for some reason, I couldn't see it.

I couldn't, my eyes couldn't go past its shoulders. Gotcha. I don't know. Yeah, that's, I mean, my grandfather was in the presence of angels. He didn't see them, but the people who were coming to hurt him did see them. And one of the things that you said about the features of the angel is the same thing my grandfather said. And a lot of people say, which is that they were very tall, very tall.

And how tall would you say the ceilings were in that room? they're about eight feet tall okay yeah see and i feel like because i've heard them even being up to like 12 feet tall but you know it makes sense that if it's in a bedroom they would change their body to be you know the the height of the bedroom but nevertheless they are very big very tall and very intimidating and so it's just it's very it's very interesting now one of the things that you mentioned i think in the email i'm not sure if you mentioned it here uh but Let me ask you again, the angel, what was it wearing? Could you describe what it was wearing again?

Well, it was wearing a robe. It was wearing a long robe and sandals, like the kind of sandals that you like wrap up to your calves. That's like the best detail I have of the angel. So kind of like the old school stuff. You know, it's funny you say that because in the beginning of you speaking and talking about the angel, I had a patron, because my patrons are listening while we record, and one of the patrons said that he had seen an angel once, and this before you even described it, and he said that it was wearing a robe. And so I've heard that before. Like, it's a common thing where angels tend to have these

robes on, but not always, because sometimes angels are in our presence, and we don't even know it, because they look just like us. Yeah. It's very interesting. It's a very interesting thing. But, you know, it's these demons that you saw and stuff were interesting too because of their, first of all, their attire. And it's something that I thought of and my patrons commented on when you said it. It sounds like a hipster demon with the rolled up pants and everything. Yeah. It's like, it's just, it's interesting. But the fact that I think you said both of them didn't have shirts on, but the one you could tell was a woman because or a female because of the breast, but no nipples.

And so it kind of makes me think of kind of like an avatar almost. Is that kind of how you think of it? Yeah. Yeah. I never thought about that way, but yeah. Yeah, it's just, it's very interesting and stuff. Now, when you're in your bedroom and this thing's smiling at you, how far distance-wise was it from you before the angel had arrived? Shoot.

So it was about two to three feet away for me, maybe a little bit. further than that. All right. So it was pretty darn close to you. You got all these good looks at it and stuff. Yeah, yeah. And how long were you staring at this thing before the angel showed up? About 20 seconds.

About 20 seconds I was staring at him. We were just having a certain concept. I don't know. But it was weird that I couldn't keep my eyes off. Well, it's a very interesting story you have there, man. And the fact that this female demon creeps in. And I'm assuming you were by yourself, the kitchen or were you with other people, but you were the only one that saw this demon?

I was by myself. Yeah, all alone, you get my cereal, my dad in the shower, so you get ready for work. Do you think that if somebody else was there that they would have saw it too, or is this something that you think that you're the only one seeing? If somebody was there, maybe, depending on the person that will be with me. It was my mom. She would have definitely seen it. Because And it's interesting about the interesting thing about this female demon is that my mom saw the same exact one a few years later. Yeah, why don't you go into that? Yeah. So right when I did the blog, you know, you put the blog out, I told my parents, I was like, hey, mom, dad.

My story, whatever is on the Confessionals podcast blog. You know, my wife sent him an email and it's on there. And I killed my brother and everything. So my brother read it and he read the female demon. He was like, yo, you know mom has seen the same exact demon. And I was like, shut up. Like, no, no, she didn't. Like, really?

Are you serious right now? And he was like, yeah. So I went to my parents' house and I'm waiting for mom to come home from her job. So as soon as she comes in, I'm like, mom, tell me. This, I've seen this type of demon. and I explained the demon. And then she was like, uh-huh, I'm like, my brother, my daughter, he told me that you seen the same one. And she was like, yeah, exactly.

The same one you explained is the same one that I have seen. And I was like, that's crazy. Because, like, she told me that she was sleeping on the couch one day and that she kind of woke up and she saw this demon just hovering over her, like, just like staring at her going back and forth with her head, just like staring her from head to toe. And I was like, mom, that's crazy. Yeah, that is crazy. I mean, so she sees the same exact thing. Was it in the same house? It wasn't the same house, yeah.

So what are your opinions on that? I mean, do you think that this thing might be haunting your house, or is it haunting you guys? Or do you and your mom have an ability that most people don't have? And so you guys see these things and you'd be able to see it somewhere else, too. I mean, have you ever seen it? anything outside of the house? Yes, I have. I haven't seen it in like detail, detail, but I have seen shadows, um, corner my eye,

sometimes just there. I see the shadow walking by or the shadow just standing there. And yeah, I know what it is now. Well, at least I think I, I know, um, but yeah, that's, that's what I see now. And I've seen it in the house I am in right now. I've seen it, um, writing my, car, just driving my car to work, or this one time I was in school and I'm walking, I used to walk to my school. And one day I was just walking on my sidewalk and I see this, the shadow

thing in the median. And as soon as I saw me, it just started walking towards me. And right then and then I was like, God, just please protect me. Like I started praying. I was like, please don't want the thing like near me. But yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, you're seeing these things and It's obviously very real to you. At what point did you tell your parents what you saw? I mean, was it something that you told them right away when you were a kid or did it take years to tell us some people? Oddly, the only person I told when I happened out of way was my second oldest brother. Other than that, I never really told my parents anything until I got older, like 20s older.

That's when I like I told them. And yeah, I don't know why I never really told them, but I just, I just didn't. So this is something that you recently told your family since you're 25 now. I mean, within the last five years is when you told your family what you saw. Yeah. Yeah. Wow.

Was it something for me, I'm more of a vocal person and it wouldn't be hard, but was it something that's hard for you to talk to your family about? Were you scared to tell them? I wasn't really scared. It wasn't hard for me to tell them. It's just one of those things where, you know, it happened to me and I just like, I just kind of never talked about it again. Well, I mean, I guess everybody reacts to things differently and stuff. So, you know, that's how the cookie crumbles per se.

So you have these experiences. You see these demons in your house. You see the angels in your house. Your mom has seen these things. But I also know that your mom has seen something else as well. And the way it was described to me, that could have been a possible hat man. What do you think about that? And could you share that story?

Right. So this happened maybe five years ago. My mom is a deacon, deacon in our church. And other deacons were having kind of a visual. That's what they call it. A visual. So they were in church there, like late at night, praying, praising God.

And I was in the youth group. So right when the youth ended, I was like, you know what? I'm going to go on the other side. I want to pray and I want to, you know, join in. Why not? I don't wait for her anyway. So I was like, let's go.

So we're there. We're praying. We're worshiping God. And then I see my mom sitting in the one of the pews. I'm chilling there. And it looked like she, excuse me. It looked like she was just sleeping in the pew sitting down there. But as soon as she woke up,

She kind of woke up abruptly. And I was like, Mom, are you okay? She was like, yeah, I just, I saw something. I was like, what? What did you see? She was like, so I saw this guy, right? And I'm there and I'm like sleeping, but in the same time I'm not like sleeping. I'm like praying.

And then I see this thing coming from the back of the church from the front, coming in, opening the doors. and she says she saw this tall guy with a hat on and a trench coat walking towards the group but then like at one point he couldn't get to the group like he would go to the group but then he backed away and just sat down in one of the pews and as soon as she said that as soon as she looked at him he like looked at her and smiled at her and when he smiled at her and when he smiled at her she said that she saw him with a smile from ear to ear, pointy teeth,

and that when she did that, she started rebuking him and telling him, like, got to go away. And he just got up and walked away. So I don't know if she saw that, man. I'd be kind of cool. I don't know. Yeah, I mean, there's so many people that have seen this thing out there.

And it's just a common thing now. whether it's, I mean, I have my, my suspicions that the topic of hat man isn't necessarily the same entity, but just a very similar entity that people are seeing, which is, for whatever reason, some kind of entity with a top hat or a fedora and a trench coat. Well, you definitely said the trench coat. We're not sure. I think you said in the email that you guys aren't sure what kind of hat it was, right? She said it was a fedora.

Really? Yeah, a fedora type hat. it's just interesting. Like, I don't know if this Hatman thing is the same entity visiting all these people all over the world, or if it's just this idea of a similar entity that kind of maneuvers itself throughout our existence. I don't know. It's very odd, though, because a lot of people, a lot of people see this thing. And now you just presented another story of somebody being in a church when it happened.

Like, that happens a lot, man. Like a lot of people experience a lot of crap that goes down supernaturally and abnormally in churches. It's like a very common thing. It's something that I didn't know about until I started this show. And I had all these people messaging me telling me that they've had these experiences where they were in a church. Wow.

And they had, they literally looked at a demon or they, the doors were closing and like hauntings of churches. And it's just something I never really thought about before. But it's apparently something that's very real. Yeah, I didn't know what happened either until my wife's turned me on to your show. And I've heard a couple of interviews that you have done with people seeing demons in a church. I was surprised too. I was like, whoa, okay.

Yeah, I mean, I've had definitely, I think two or three episodes where we focused on that alone. And then we had other episodes where people mention it. It's just, it's very interesting to me. I mean, it's one of those things where you don't hear people talk about, lot. But until you put yourself in a situation like I'm in now where people actually do tell you these kind of stories, you're not going to hear people coming around. Nobody walks around saying, oh, yeah, my church is haunted. You know, I saw this, that, and the other, like, nobody talks about it. You know what I mean? It's like, uh, yeah, nobody's going to talk, you know, because the same,

the same reason why you don't walk around telling people what you saw all the time, because you don't people thinking you're crazy. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, how many people have you told? How many people have you told what you saw? I've told, let's see, here's my wife, my two older brothers, all my family. So that's five plus my wife, that's six. My brother-in-law, seven. The ones that I can remember right now, seven.

It could be possibly maybe 10. Okay. So it sounds like people that are actually, you know, close to you. You're not just telling, you know, anybody. what you're seeing. Yeah, exactly, yeah. And I'm sure there's a reason for that, you know, I mean, so. Yeah, it's not like I want to walk someone and be like, hey, you know, I saw DeNus this one time. Yeah, exactly, exactly. So, I mean, you had these experiences, your mom's had these experiences.

Do you think that this is something that's hereditary and that's why you can do this because your mom sees these things as well? Or do you think this is just something that maybe it's something to do with your family? Or do you think it's just, you know, by pure chance that your mom and you saw the same thing? I don't believe it's by pure chance. Also, I'm not sure if it's hereditary, it wouldn't surprise me that it is. I believe God works in mysterious ways. If God's like, hey, I want to give you something the same gift or something like that. Yeah, what was the other questions you were?

Well, I just wasn't sure how you view this. I mean, was it something that you picked up along the way and your mom did too? Or, you know, it's just like, what is your opinion on this? Do you think that this is something that you're able to do because of your mom? Or do you think this is something that is separate from your mom, but your mom has the same ability? So I mean, like, how do you rationalize the fact that you and your mom saw the same exact thing? Is it something that is haunting your house or is it haunting you guys individually? I mean, how do you broad prospectively view these experiences?

I don't know. I was just thinking that's a loaded question. No, I'm glad to ask that, though, because it gets me thinking because it could be hereditary like you asked me. I think it's a good possibility that it is. The way that I rationalize it, like, I don't think that it's a haunting per se. I think it's just things that the enemy throws at us to get us out the way to put things over us. um yeah like we have a family member that's into like like witchcraft and he's not very liked by us so i don't know if he's like throwing things to us or like making things up so that my parents

get divorced or something i don't know how these things work but that's that's the way i think about it um yeah basically i think maybe okay yeah i mean no that that you know that that makes perfect sense. I mean, I don't know. I mean, do you have any kind of relationship with that person and your family? And when, I don't know, like, was there ever a time where you guys had a falling out and does that time line up at all with the things that you've experienced? Well, he's, he's my half-brother. So, all my life, he's been very, very jealous of my mother and us that his dad, my dad, didn't get a chance to, like, grow up with him as much.

And in Puerto Rico, there's a lot of people that do witchcraft. And his, his, they call it Santeria. And his side of the family, not my dad's, but I have brothers' mom's side of the family. They are really heavily into that. And he's always told the story that, you know, he's 15 years old and that, He joined them and that they gave him a necklace and he was very happy walking around the street with that necklace because the amount meant that he can do things. And he would tell us all the time that he would do different type of witchcraft stuff and talk to what they call Los Santos, which are the saints, that they say it's dead people that talk to them. And that they go up to him and he goes up to them and says, hey, you know, I want this person to be divorced or I want this thing to happen.

people I want you to give this person love because at one point he did live with us he lived with us in a couple occasions every occasion ended up badly and the last time he did we were much older where I was almost turning 20 and my other brothers were already you know 20 years old so yeah at that time he said that you know he converted and and he got with with God and he was with Jesus and things were fine and he wanted to move in Puerto Rico back to Orlando so he couldn't have a peace of mind. But I guess, you know, I didn't work out and I guess his past, you know, started troubling him and he, you know, did a relapse. And he like had a big fight with my dad and my mom at that time. and like everything he would do

he would like at that time of my life things were chaotic especially when he was there like my brothers and I don't hate him we love him to death he's still our brother and it's just like that things happened the way it did and like at that time my dad will fight with me

all the time he would fight with my mom all the time like in a like very bad like you wouldn't like punches or anything like that but like the way he like portrayed himself and the way he like talked and screamed and stuff we're just like this is not normal and we know that it stands from my half brother because at that time he's like yeah I'm going to church but then he soon as he got here he didn't go to church he went to church a couple times but he didn't well he wasn't there full fully you know to later to find out that before he came from before he came to Orlando from Puerto Rico he had a big big relapse and he started doing

santeria again so I'm like why why did he come here then was it for a piece of mind or was it to the struteman family I don't I don't know I just put it in God's hands so I don't know if it's that. That's why, you know, I've seen the demons and God was like, hey, you know, there's these things around here, pray or, or it's just something that I, that I just saw to see or something that God wanted me to see. I'm not sure on that. Well, I understand that. I mean, there's a lot of deep, deep issues there when it comes to, you know, the whole idea of clashing between the actual family itself. I mean, between you and him and things like that. But, you know, before we roll out of here, I was wondering if you would share the idea. I'm not sure if there's

actual specific stories, but I know you've been experiencing sleep paralysis. Have you experienced that recently, or is this something that's been going on for a while? Yeah, I've had a lot of occasions of sleep paralysis. It's happened to me since I was a kid. And yeah, something that I that I always went through. Sorry, it has happened to me recently, not like in, you know, days or months, but like in the beginning of the year type recent. But I don't really see anything. Sometimes I go through it and I can't move and I'm trying to speak. I'm trying to yell.

And sometimes the only thing that comes that I think of is just to say Jesus a lot. Like I said, I grew up in church. That's all I know. As the family comes to my mind when I get to sleep paralysis, and a lot of the times when I do do that, I just snap out of it. Sometimes I'm in the sleep paralysis state, and I can hear things. Sometimes sees like some little shadows. Sometimes I'm dreaming during sleep paralysis.

I don't know that happens to anybody, but sometimes that happens to me. I know that some sleep paralysis stories are a little different than others. I don't know if that's just unique to me or other people do the same thing. I don't know. But yeah, usually now when my wife hears me in sleep paralysis, because when I'm in that state, I start breathing in heavily. I'm like, and then she's like, wake up, man, wake up. And she's like pushing me, like shaking me.

Like, wake up, man. I'm like, oh, oh, thank you, babe. I don't want to go to that again. but yeah that's interesting stuff man i know there's a lot of people that you know experienced sleep paralysis and it's just um i don't know i find it interesting i've never experienced i don't think i've experienced it and uh you know everybody has their own little different twist to uh you know what their experience was so uh i just find it interesting man i do find it interesting uh and i think you said you know your wife has seen you experiencing it so that's that's another little

twist to it and stuff. But I don't know, man. You got some stuff going on in your life. Get yourself figured out, man. I'm just kidding. Yeah. Definitely, man. But I'll tell you what, man, I wouldn't trade shoes with you in a heart. I mean, seriously, I, as a kid and stuff, dealing with that and seeing what you saw, I don't know. It would scar me. So maybe there's a reason why I haven't seen a whole lot thing so I can host a show without being scared. You know? But yeah, man, I appreciate you being on here tonight with me, man. And I'll definitely look forward to any emails that I get from you guys with new experiences.

Always. Always. Thank you for having me on the show. All right, brother. Take care. Well, that's the show, everybody. I really hope you enjoyed it. And if you did enjoy it, there are three things you can do to help support the show.

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but first it will piss you off. Bye. You want to know how I got these scars? My father kicked me out of heaven, actually. And as I was falling through space and time, I fell through the Van Allen belt. And it burned me.

It burned me very good. I barely survived. But here I am. Alive. With scars. Do you have scars? Would you like so?