The Confessionals - RELOADED | 210: The Haunted Family of Orlando

Episode Date: October 10, 2022

In Episode 210: The Haunted Family of Orlando, Nick joins us to share his childhood experiences living in an area haunted by Civil War soldiers. And even though his paranormal experiences as a child were enough to last a lifetime, Nick’s ghostly encounters don’t end there. As an adult living in Orlando, Florida, Nick’s family seems to be haunted by an entity that has firmly attached itself to them, no matter how many times they move to avoid it. Where ever they go – it finds them.Become a member for AD FREE listening and EXTRA shows: theconfessionalspodcast.com/joinSPONSORSGET Cerebral: getcerebral.com/tonyGET SIMPLISAFE TODAY: simplisafe.com/confessionalsGET Hello Fresh: hellofresh.com/confessionals16 Promo Code: "confessionals16" for 16 FREE MEALS!!!Get Emergency Food Supplies: www.preparewiththeconfessionals.comGet Beard Oil: bit.ly/2FbOhN5GET ExpressVPN: www.expressvpn.com/confessCONNECT WITH USWebsite: www.theconfessionalspodcast.comEmail: [e-mail] to the Newsletter: https://www.theconfessionalspodcast.com/the-newsletterSOCIAL MEDIASubscribe to our YouTube: https://bit.ly/2TlREaITikTok: @theconfessionalsDiscord: https://discord.gg/KDn4D2uw7hShow Instagram: theconfessionalspodcastTony's Instagram: tonymerkelofficialFacebook: www.facebook.com/TheConfessionalsPodcasTwitter: @TConfessionalsTony's Twitter: @tony_merkel

Merkel Media I guess it's time To go back in time Are you telling me You built a time machine Kind of a Dolion Time is but a stubborn

illusion I have a lot of memories Of the past People are time traveling within themselves Time travel Is possible This was all circulating

Around the base that a giant had been killed but no one was supposed to talk about it. Boney 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 at this giant. With a giant move, he's got a spear in one hand, and he's running really fast. And spears, Dan,

holds them up like this. Somebody else. Shoot them in the face. Shoot them in the face. They basically decapitated. Feel something pulling at my leg. 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 I couldn't move because I know I'm seeing a monster.

Okay. I reload it. Yep. Welcome to the show, everybody. you're listening to The Confessionals, I am your host, Tony Merkel. 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, theconfessionalspodcast.com, hit the contact section, and you can reach me that way as well. Either way it works for me,

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I announced that me and my father were going to be launching a new podcast called Hammer Lane Legends, very similar format to the confessionals, where we're going to be talking to people who drive for a living, truck drivers, EMTs, police officers, firemen, bus drivers, anybody who has wild, crazy experiences that they've been through on the road, they're going to be coming on Hammer Lane Legends and telling their stories to the whole

world. Mark it on your calendars and go ahead and subscribe today. It's available on all your podcast playing apps. And there's a trailer sitting there waiting for you so you know what you're getting into on March 3, 2020. Now, today we got a great show planned for you. We have Nick coming on the show. And Nick's going to share some of his paranormal experiences that he's been through throughout

his whole life. But we actually kind of connected some dots for Nick at one point when we were talking about the experience he had as a kid where he saw these soldiers in his home. But also later on in his life, he had some paranormal experiences that were kind of, well, really nerve-wracking. And so we're going to get into it right now with Nick. Let's go. All right, today we have Nick on the show.

And a little bit later, we're going to be having Nick's wife come on the show with Nick to talk about some things that they've been experiencing together. But things kind of for Nick, at least, all started in his show. his childhood. Nick, when I was reading your email, uh, it sounded like you lived in a haunted home of some kind when you were a kid. Uh, before we get going on that, Nick, how you doing? Doing great, Tony. I'm really the opportunity to. Yeah, man, I'm excited to have you on and stuff. And, uh, it's always nice to be able to have, um, you know, a couple come on and tell their story together sometimes because, uh, sometimes some people remember certain details than others. And

you get different perspectives and vantage points. And so it should be a good time. So why don't you just kind of get us going here a little bit with the start of your childhood, really, and having these experiences in your parents' home? shadowy image. You know, like when they remember the images, you know, screaming from a mom. She comes into the room and she's like, what's wrong in the bathroom? And she's like, what?

I was like, yeah, I see people in the bathroom. And she's like, baby, there's nobody in the bathroom. if nobody in there. And they're in like a rock once again at the pictures. And I noticed when I'd go, I could hear time. My mom's probably thinking, something's wrong with me. It's going to be okay, baby, no problem. I eventually, I guess about a week trying to grab me. They're screaming and then wrong with my mom again. Well, needless to say, exactly how old I was. Oh, wait, there was another incident. I'm sorry. After the shadow reached sleeping, I fell asleep. And I was looking out. And I could see, it looked like almost like

more people and they were all like just going along casually you know in this bathroom this has happened and I fell asleep on the sofa and it was so different because in my dream I was dreaming that there was this reaching and lunging and coming toward me eyes I was like

and when I opened my eyes I couldn't breathe like the wind been knocked out of them so before we get onto those topics and stuff I wanted to ask you a few questions here I guess first of all, in Orlando, the shadow figure that you saw, did it have a face or anything? Was there any details other than it being just an outline of a shadow? Yeah. Yeah.

You know, it's funny you say that because I was just thinking about that because I just had a guy on the show not too long ago who said that he had this entity coming out of a wall and it had a smile on its face as it was coming towards him. And I was picturing the same thing as you were telling the story. I can't believe you just said that because it sounds like a mirror image of what this guy experienced. It was just the show was called Say It With a Smile. And I have to check that out for sure. I think if I recall correctly, the reason why we titled it that was because he either heard it or and it said something or he heard it in his head. But I think he was trying to say like rebuke in the name of Jesus. And it was like, say it. Say it.

Oh, wow. Yeah. And so, but he couldn't. I don't think he could say it. I might be remembering it wrong, but I do remember that's why we named it that because it was coming out of the wall and it had a big smile on his face. Now, when you saw this thing coming out of the wall, you saw it coming out of the wall, right? Am I remember that?

Right, right. It came out of the ceiling so much, but more of like the wall. But higher up the wall. Almost like it would be, okay, imagine if you're looking at a wall. That's incredible. I think he said the same exact thing. I really do. I think he was saying that it was,

high up on the wall towards the corner of the wall, and it was coming out of the wall and towards him. And I don't think he, I think he described it as he didn't see the bottom half. The bottom half is like almost still in the wall. It was just like like stretching out at him. But that's incredible that you say that because it sounds almost identical to what he told me. Wow. I know. Yeah. So I mean, your mom, nobody else recalls at least having these types of experiences is just you? Yeah, I can understand how that would bother you. And I think we'll revisit that in a little bit here. But I want to kind of go back to New Orleans, or not New Orleans, but Louisiana. And where in Louisiana was this? Do you remember the town or anything? Yeah, it's called Richard.

Well, I think it's interesting that you saw the soldier types. And I think you said your first encounter was the soldier types in the bathroom. And then your last was soldier types, right? So there was a Civil War battle. And it's called Vermillion. Yeah, the Vermilion Bayou. There was a battle there in the Civil War. And I just looked up Richard, Tex, or whatever you said. You said it was called, Richard. It is spelled Richard. And it's not that far. It's really not that far. And it makes you wonder, if there was some kind of attachment there. That's interesting. Because, I mean, where you're talking about, it's not far from Lafayette, right?

No. Okay. I think it would be really interesting for you to look into this battle because I'm looking at the maps, and I'm looking at a map of all the battles in Louisiana from the Civil War, and I'm looking at a map on Google Maps where you told me you were from. And it's, I'm not even kidding you, it's right there. It's exact. Exactly.

I mean, I dropped my pin right around the Richard Elementary School. Yeah, that's... Yeah, I mean, this battle that's on this map that I'm looking at is about five miles away from the elementary school. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Yeah. Is it... East.

South or East. To be east. Yeah, see, I live school. Wow. Oh, my gosh. I swear, dude. I am not kidding. I am not kidding.

I live on a gravel. road. Wow. That's incredible, right? That's amazing. I definitely got to look into this. Yeah. And I have a... I was always scared to even speak. Oh, yeah. Ghost or spirit. Yeah. So... Yeah, I can understand that. That's really interesting. Now, do you think that these were different entities you were seeing? Like, I mean, between the soldiers and the shadow figures in Louisiana? Yeah. There was a difference. The shadow... I don't know how much I trust

mediums or psychics, but who else? Yeah. I can understand. understand that. I mean, I think when it comes to medium and psychics, I think there are a lot of phonies out there, but I think there are people who actually are able to do what they're advertising. Hey, P, they said, I got to come off the bench. Yep. Why don't we bring your wife on now and start, you know, talking to her? I'm a four-year-old daughter. I might not be able to, he wants to talk with you as well as me. Yeah, might not be able to do it with my daughter. No, that's fine. It's fine. I'm sorry, man.

I can go through it. I'm pretty much on point, on details. Yeah, I can understand that. Well, then why don't we just move in with you and have you share these experiences you guys had together in, I think, in Orlando, right? Yeah, it happened in Orlando. Getting ready, every picture you can imagine,

she cherishes them. That's her thing. So there was a picture in a frame on the side of our bed. Of me and her, my birthday September, and her together. Well, the picture was missing. I mean, she's like, baby, you've seen the picture? And I was like, no.

So I haven't seen that picture. So right here in the nightstand. And they both kind of looked in shock like, no. And me being me, I was like, look, I give you $20 right now. And they both looked at me and they were like, well, thank you the 20 bucks. So we didn't know where to picture. So we walk over. And sure enough, I cannot even do if I try to know.

So we grab the picture. Well, she had some rose petals from her grandfather's funeral. You know how you get that eerie feeling? Yeah. Well, I'm down for the pedals. And I didn't put him here, Nick. And I was like, you know, I know. Like I said, she loves pictures.

There was probably about 12 pictures of her, the boys, and things like that, you know. And I was ready to get out the room into the living room. Walk out, the door closes. Oh, my God. We started kind of freaking out a little bit. And we, like, yeah, like Archangel Michael. The next day we wake up. and it was a Sunday

we had to I think it was yeah Sunday we're going at Disney like I worked at Disney so we were going to go to Disney and kind of get our mind off of everything we go to Disney hung out, did our thing come back

well when we come back it's hard to get some sleep you know when I can come up with in Orlando you know about the heat I was like whatever this thing you're looking to the room the closet and she opens the closet just saying this or what's going like

it's a little girl but she's harmless She turned the light on, and she walked into the room, and she started trying to talk to it. I can sense it's a younger person. I was like, okay, she says it's like a 22-year-old. My wife and me are both sitting there and just kind of all right now. We don't know what's going on. Freaking out. Just we're about ready to move out of this house, and I don't know.

It's not easy to just grab everything up with kids and just move to another house, so we're trying to get this thing out here. So she goes from trying to communicate to it. A couple of them that I'll send to you. And the big orb, it's seen that, that's when it started acting up. She says it's got a jealousy issue, and it doesn't like me. I was getting aggravated almost to the point, because I'm a grown man. You know, I got a, what am I supposed to do? So what I don't like me until it's a week?

And she's like, no, she's like, he won't leave until after the baby's born. The next day, so we went to bed that night again. probably shouldn't have done, but I kind of want to take a shower. Tell your mom somewhere we're going to get out of here. This is bull. We can't live like this.

What's going on? And I stood up, and when I stood up, it felt like I've been on the gravel to the bathroom. That picture. It went across my back. And it looked like multiple times. Rice, all that. And I'm getting in the other car.

Now, we had this kind of jump subject real quick. I have a straight cat, and you wouldn't, the friendly guy would have never believed in. I never would have thought of a dream or anything like that. So I'm like, we're both kind of get the middle school and the elementary school, and I didn't want to pull them out in that zone.

And I told my wife, I said, I'd rather just go, man, I forgot to tell you the last thing. We had to move all our stuff. I mentioned that. That's why I told you my wife's better. So she was going to go with her brother. Acting kind of foolish, but nothing bad. There was a couple incidents that happened. They get everything packed.

We load the U-Haul, door slam. There's nothing in the house but a few boxes. Coming in through the door, the front door of the house, and I can hear them, you know, F you're not real. If you're real, show me what you got or who you are. I'm sitting there and aw, walking in on this, and my wife said, I just told him, she's like, and she's like, I try to tell him he's an idiot. I was like, all right, look, it ain't got nothing. All of a sudden out of nowhere. I can't even recreate it.

Most like guide to, oh, my God. That happened. All you hear now, the bathroom, the master bathroom, this house, like a house, like a little. was saying we decided we were going to move into this house skeptical about it we even spoke to the landlord about it something comes up can we be month to month and she agreed dude every you you can almost like you could feel the relief and when you're sitting in the nastiness at the beginning of a tablet right so we ordered it for this tablet goes to our old house here's we never put that address in everything was for this new house that we were staying at called you uh you to find out

because it had been like have you noticed anything she didn't know really any looks at it That's like, whoa, what just happened? You could hear it's a nightstand by now. I can't believe this is happening. He screams, jumps out of her shoes almost and screams, says, what in the heck was that? And I'm like, oh, my gosh. So it's all again. So we get out.

My wife gets some sage. We go back in. We do the prayers. I decided I'm angry. I'm ready to fight. I can't physically. I'm going to find a way to beat this thing. And as a man of the family, that's my job.

So that's what I got to do, because it's nothing more in the world than being a man of the family that you physically can't do anything to be able to place out of Kissimme. Something right now I'll grab him. I said, energy that's doing this. I said, look, dude, I'm telling you, this thing is crazy. And he's like, all right, he moves his leg. He says, I have the guys over. Send the kids to guys come over. First, it was just him.

He comes to start doing the setup. And he's talking about, you know, what he's going to be going to do. He's going to set up monitors, you know, night vision or whatever, those cameras. And this, I'm very ignorant, dude. I don't know a lot about this is ghost investigation stuff. Yeah. For Valentine's looking at it right now, sure. On the table, what does it do with it?

Kitchen cabinet is sitting way up where you almost need a ladder to get up there and put a couple little mic things that we're missing. He turns around and he's like, all right, let's go. These monitors are back that we would see, but nothing extreme to the point where he's like, look, it doesn't want to be recorded. There's nothing we're going to get on the recording. He says, I would like to go in. He went with some other type of machines, like handheld machines.

I'm not sure what you call those things, but basically you can, they're real detailed or whatever. And he would go through the rooms. Well, and he's like, he asked, my son, this kind of jumps off subject, but brings you back when I tell you, my son had found a rabbit, okay? This is a little white rabbit at a nice rabbit. Well, we'd always put this rabbit in the bathroom at night because he asked that question, and it said rabbit. And it said, no, 34 o'clock in the morning, going back and forth. Now, he was picking up some readings on the other machine, but you really couldn't hear.

It just sounded like, like, follows like that. There's nothing else. I was like, this is crazy. You want to do this? Probably. I'm tired of that I told you. And got out and started talking about it. about the, you know, situation, kind of going over everything that had happened because, like I said,

this is examples of what had happened. It hasn't touched the picture. She hasn't ended upside down. Like I said, about doing this interview and told her, of course, you'd be giving me a call. I don't, I'm kind of a sports junkie, so I listen to a lot of sports channels is always on my work. Sitting there, and I was talking to my wife, and I was like, yeah, last thing I told her, I was like, yeah, Tony will be calling around, and then her phone, her phone, whatever. And I look at my phone and the radio comes on full blast song by Zach Brown.

I mean, it's been more normal now than it has been in a long time. Yeah, absolutely. Man, I'll tell you that, that story is just, I mean, the way it all unfolds and stuff. I mean, it happens so fast. It happens so fast. I mean, it's like out of nowhere, all of a sudden this activity happened. I mean, especially in the beginning, it was like one thing after another the same day, right? Well, it was over a weekend period.

What do you know about this house, man? You know, like, well, he got arrested. And the guy before that, okay, and almost saying something to do with that house, you know, it becomes. So do you think that this was a completely separate entity that you guys were dealing with or were dealing with from the one that kind of was bothering you in Orlando when you moved to Orlando? They have no idea. I mean, if you take that boy. I mean, she's big. I know who you're talking about.

Oh, do you really? Okay. Heidi Jaff, right? You know her? Okay. Yeah, I know who she is. Is she reputable? As far as I know.

I mean, I haven't dealt into medians and psychics a whole lot, but as far as I know, yeah. That's amazing. I hear a lot about people. Yeah. With what I do and stuff, I kind of get around. I got you. I got you. My true belief.

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

So I actually was scared, you know, because the last time she had mentioned, the median mentioned that it was something dealing with the, uh, and she's, my wife is five months. I was pregnant now with another little girl. I just got a little nervous thinking, dude. Yeah, I can understand that, man. Well, you got a lot of crap that you've had happened in your life, man. I tell you some of the things that you experienced, I mean, the Civil War entities that you saw are, you know, child's play compared to what you've been experiencing.

Saying that earlier, as I did, I can explain to you my, my audition with mixing the two stories. because I really truly believe from what had happened to me now with the shadow. The actual thing that triggered me do with the shadow hat, the top hat, with your wife, you said, I guess at the beginning. About that, and you start talking about it would be a connection. But I was like, man, that's a lot to take in, you know, even for some people. I just sound too far out there. I actually even told my supervisor at work, which, me and him are friends. And he's like, holy crap, dude.

He said, that's the most amazing story. Yeah, bro, I'm fine. I was like, it's just excited about it. I don't want to, I don't want it to come back. That's all I know. It's a very scary fault. Yeah, I can understand you don't want it to come back. Now, do you feel like it's going to come back?

I mean, throughout the patterns of your life, really you have more, majority of your life where you've had experiences like this. Do you think it's going to come back? I don't know, Tony, you know, I believe it's a lot to do. It's a weak moment for me. That's weak. I think it, now I say have another tragedy, you know, or something else that might trigger me down to that point to where it would come back.

Yeah, I can understand, obviously. the hoping not, but, you know, I guess the thing is to prepare yourself, at least mentally, for the, you know, I hate to say this way, but the inevitable, you know, because it seems like it's inevitable, you know, and then what's kind of crazy is that when you have certain things, there would be spiritual. So, I mean, that's why I look at it like, well, I think it's the only way I can think. Yeah. You know, it go from like normal in a magic game or a Saints game and playing, you know, playing sports with the kids, coaching basketball. Yeah, so do you think, I mean, I'm assuming you get the feeling that this entity was with your wife before you were in the picture, right?

I said, baby, I said, like, not nothing. Yeah, well, it does. I know. And I was over at the time I'd been out of questions that I could actually spend myself in circles for and not come up with one answer. Yeah. Well, I'll tell you what, Nick, I appreciate you coming on and sharing the story with us and talking with us a little bit about your experiences. It's definitely fascinating. And to me, to me, it's, I mean, one, in the beginning of the show, when we were talking about Louisiana and the Civil War battles and how we were able to kind of match those things up a little bit, which is, I thought was pretty cool. Right.

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

I don't remember all the details. I just remember that sticking out in my head because of what you said. So check it out and stuff. I published it a few weeks ago. So you should, I think you'll enjoy it at least, or at least find some similarities like I did. Yeah, on a lighter note, man, I just want to tell you thank you. Oh, I absolutely appreciate it, man. And that's what we're here for. We're here to just share people's stories and let them get off their chest. And I'm glad you're able to do that. It definitely happened. And if I come up with anything else on that, the war and the battle... Sounds good to me, man. Talk to you soon. All right, Tony. Thank you. Well, that's the show, everybody. I really hope you enjoyed it. And if you did enjoy it, go ahead and share the show with your friends. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat,

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