The Confessionals - RELOADED | 290: Giant Dog In Alaska

Episode Date: March 27, 2023

In Episode 290: Giant Dog In Alaska, we are joined by Jim, who is a military veteran. When Jim was in Afghanistan, he witnessed three men walk into a welding shop and then simply disappear in the middle of it. He also shares numerous stateside experiences, including a recurring event in his life: he seems to continually come across a bizarre dog at certain times, encountering it for the first time while he was in Alaska.Become a member for AD FREE listening and EXTRA shows: theconfessionalspodcast.com/joinWatch Expedition Dogman: https://amzn.to/3OVyUs6Tony's Studio Equipment: linktr.ee/mystudiogearSPONSORSGET SIMPLISAFE TODAY: simplisafe.com/confessionalsGET Hello Fresh: hellofresh.com/confessionals16 Promo Code: "65TONY" for 65% OFF PLUS FREE SHIPPING!!!CONNECT 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: @TConfessionalsAre you a military veteran struggling with thoughts of suicide?Contact Watchman Readiness Corps for REAL help. A veteran-run organization that is designed to help through hands-on survival training.Website: wrc.vetEmail: [e-mail]: [phone]Instagram: wrc_survivalFacebook: colbywrcvet

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. A giant comes out of the cave and they're all frozen. And he starts running and firing at this giant. With a giant moves, he's got a spear in one hand and he's running really fast.

It blows him up like this. Somebody else, Shoot them in the face. Shoot them in the face. They basically decapitated. And I look over and there are two small. Push and it couldn't move because I know I'm seeing a monster. Okay.

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a lot of different paranormal type experiences he's had, but it seems like it's been an underlying issue with this dog that's been popping up. You see, he talks about seeing this wild, big dog in Alaska, and it seemed a little bit off. And then as he talks about other experiences, you can kind of get the sense that there's this underlying issue here of this dog popping up that we kind of addressed throughout the interview. So let's get to Jim right now. All right, today we got Jim on the show. Jim, how are you doing, man? I'm doing pretty good. How are you doing? I'm doing fine, man, doing fine. So I want to let everybody know that Jim, you were already on not this podcast, but Hammer Lane Legends podcast where you came on and shared your experiences of driving overseas for the

military. Is that correct? Am I remember that correctly? Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's what I thought. And so that was a fun episode. I always enjoy talking to the guys who were in the military and stuff, whether it's, you know, in transportation or just in general hearing about their experiences and stuff because I find it fascinating. And to be honest with you, sometimes I feel like I missed out on the boat kind of thing because I didn't go into the military when I really thought I was gun on and I didn't. So I always enjoy hearing the stories from you guys. So I thank you for coming on the show for that one. Do you remember what episode that was, by the way? I believe it was episode six. I'd have to double check it and see. Well, for the audience, he says probably six. So why don't you just listen to all the shows episodes and you tell me. So, but, uh, it's somewhere between one and 13, right? There you go. Yeah. We just dropped 13. So it's got to be one of the two. So, um, all right, Jim. So you have some experiences that you want to share that are more of the paranormal angle. And, uh, last time we,

talked to you, we were overseas, and so I think we're going to pick up overseas. You had a very strange experience in Afghanistan where you saw some people disappear. What the heck happened? Right. Well, when I was in the Army, I was a, I was a machinist, a fabricator. So we had a lot of welders, a lot of generators. And everything that I've read, watched they say spirits, ghosts, whatever you want to call them, they draw off of

electromagnetic fields, whether it's batteries, equipment, stuff like that. Well, with all the generators and welders, my theory is that it created a bubble. You know,

just an overcharged bubble for these things to draw off of. Because it, uh, working in the shop, you know, you'd be sitting there, we'd be working on a job at night. And you could swear you saw somebody walk behind you and you could look and there's nobody there. There was one night that I was in there working and I just lifted up my welding hood and walking in the big overhead door for the shop.

There's three guys. You know, they're walking. they're in uniform, they're just walking in. They get a little bit past our part of the building. And they just kind of phase out, I guess you could say. They go from looking like solid to like if you're, if you watch somebody walk away in the fog, kind of like that.

Like they just go out of visibility. So do you think that they were just. you know, do you think it was a paranormal activity as in like the traditional, uh, ghosts that just appeared and disappeared kind of thing? Or do you think this was something that was more, um, parallel dimension type of thing? Uh, at the time, I've, I've looked at it more along the, the paranormal side, uh, just being where we were, you know, it's, it was a, you know, we were in Afghanistan. We were in Kandahar. Uh, so there's a, uh, so there's a, lot of stuff going on there.

They're, I don't remember if I had said in, in the Hammer Lane Legends episode, but if we needed a part for a vehicle, we would cannibalize it. So we'd go to a vehicle that was blown up or no longer working, and we'd take parts.

So, you know, I don't know if something, you know, if it was the paranormal side, if something was connected to something that was pulled off. because we were we shared a maintenance facility with all the mechanics so we had our corner of the of the shop that was set up for our fabrication shop and then the rest of it was where they worked on the humvees

and the other trucks so you know if it was you know because you hear about you hear about spirits being connected to objects you know like on the

the ghost hunter shows they talk about stuff like that and I guess there is a possibility that that could be what was going on yeah I guess there's no real answer as to what it was but it's definitely intriguing to hear about what you saw I think if I saw

something like that I would think that it was probably paranormal at first as well did these characters look anything like translucent or anything like that or did they look like just real dudes? When I saw them, I mean, I thought it was guys walking through our shop because, you know, where they're, you know, I'm trying to think of how to word this. With as many vehicles as we had coming in and out of the shops, people would come in and out,

it wasn't uncommon to see people walk through that you didn't recognize. So, you know, like if you're in a civilian shop and there are just three random people walking through, that you didn't recognize more than likely they didn't belong there. And, you know, you,

it would raise up some alarms and you'd ask them, hey, you know, why are you here? But over there, it was, you know, they may have had a truck in there that was being worked on that they needed to go

get some gear out of. Or, you know, needed to go talk to somebody that else in the shop. There was no office to these shops. You know, you'd go over and talk to the people that were working on your vehicle and that was it. So it wasn't uncommon to see people you didn't recognize. So when I saw them, but that's what I figured it was until they, you know, they got past our little area and they just kind of dissipated. Jeez. Well, I mean, when you see it, were you?

scared or were you just more confused? I don't want to say I was scared more. I'd say it was confused. Like, you know, what just, you know, what the heck was that type of thing? You know, there's when we were overseas, there's a lot of stuff going on. You know, with our jobs, a lot of our jobs were high priority, even the smaller jobs. So we didn't really have time to get hung up on stuff. Yeah.

It's a very much a go, go, go. go kind of situation. Right. You know, I totally get that. So that happens in Afghanistan. Now, you had a very unique experience in Alaska. And it's something that you didn't initially put in the email. And right before we started recording, you started talking about it.

I was like, no, no, no, no, I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it. Just wait until we start recording because I hate hearing people's experiences, you know, before we start recording stuff because I like sitting here and actually hearing it firsthand. And so why don't you talk to us about your experience out in the Alaskan

wilderness? Okay. So when I was in the Army, I was stationed in Alaska. That's where I met my wife. She grew up up there. And after I got out, we had moved up there to help her dad had poor health.

So we went up there to help him. And while we were up there, I figured I'd cash in my, my GI Bill and go take some college classes. And so when I was going to the college classes, you know, when I was going to the university there in Juneau, me and some of my friends, we'd go hiking, you know, we'd go see the area. It's beautiful country up there. It's just, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, close to being untouched. You know, it's, the whole city really is just set inside this amazing landscape.

So there's hiking trails all over. And so we go down this hiking trail at night. And about 200 yards in this trail off the, walking in the trail, it would be on your left-hand side. There's a clearing where there's no trees. It's just short grass. And coming in, you know, I'd taken notice of this, the clearing. And we go past it.

And about three quarters of a mile to a mile down this trail, we come up to a bridge. And when we're standing at this bridge and I just have, I have this gut feeling, it would not be good for us to go over this bridge. And I just, I could not bring myself to go over this bridge. And I'm looking, trying to figure out, you know,

see if there's something that I, you know, kind of saw out of the corner of my eye that would raise some bells, something like that. And I couldn't really see anything. So I tell my friends that, you know,

If they can keep going if they want, but I'm going back to the car from there. I'm going to, I'm going to go ahead and turn around. And I guess they've been having kind of the same feeling. So they turn around with me and we're walking back. Well, that clearing, when we get back up to it, you know, it's on the right hand side of us now. And as we're coming up on it, I can see this. mass in there. It's kind of the shape of

a dog kind of hunkered down like it's kind of trying to hide but not really like it's just you know you can see the silhouette of it you can't make out detail. It was very smooth and as we get closer to it I can start

to kind of make out detail you know make out where the head is as opposed to the body I can kind of see the eyes there was no like glowing eyes or anything like that but I could see where it's looking and the way we were walking it was my friend Christian on the left hand side of me then I was in the middle and then my friend Darcy she's on the right hand side of me

but this whatever it was it was watching her you know I was watching Darcy so I and I moved to the other side of her, just kind of out of instinct. I put myself on that side of the trail and keep them moving. And I asked them if they saw that. And they asked me if, you know, saw what? Well, to them, they just saw an empty clearing.

And the shape of the thing's head, it was very, the head was very dog shaped. You know, it had the pronounced snout, the point of the ears. But whatever it was, it was watching Darcy. And when I changed spots, it kept watching her. And it watched us walk past. We get back in the car. And we went back to the dorms from there. What do you think it was?

The only thing that I've, you know, the only just, you know, any, oh, man. Don't be shy. You're on the confessionals. about weird things here it's okay no I know when I was talking to them about it I had described it as a hellhound because it you know I would not for what for whatever reason I saw it they didn't I don't know why it was watching her and you know it was it's a it had a hundred percent attention focused it was not looking away it was it was locked on

so I'm not sure I don't know I had done some some looking up on stuff and going off of what it you know the shape of it the size is it it was big you know I'm not a big guy

I'm about 5 foot 5 and a half on a good day wearing shoes and oh at the time. I think I was weighing in about 2.30. And, you know,

I was pretty big into lifting weights. I mean, I wasn't small, but I'm, you know, I'm not a tall person, but I mean, it came up better part of three quarters of my height. And, you know, there's bears in the area. But if it was a bear, they would have seen it and its head was not shaped like a bear.

You know, the bears, their ears are more rounded. This had the very pronounced pointed ears. And its snout was, was not a bear snout. So, all right, you have this experience. And so from what it sounds like it was on all four, correct? It was more in a laying position than on all fours. It wasn't standing. So it was a laying position and it was that big? Yeah. Oh, yeah. So like, you know how when, like when an animal, whether it's a dog, cat, whatever, when they're stalking something, how they kind of hunker down. Yeah. Their back legs are cocked back.

Their front legs are bent and they're lower to the ground. That's about how it was standing. Jeez. Yeah, I, that actually draws a picture really well as to the experience right there. That's huge. So, because I'd think of myself, well, maybe it was a wolf and I was going to, ask you, you know, did it show any characteristics of being paranormal? Yeah, the massive size. The massive size was your key. Holy crap. And that's what, that was the main thing that bothered me

about it was the sheer size of it and that they didn't see it. They didn't react to it when I saw it. And when I asked them about it, you know, they remembered looking in the clearing and they didn't see anything there. So what do you think, what do you make of that? I mean, do you think this was an apparition or a very physical thing. I mean, people talk about the idea of dog man being more of a supernatural being. Do you think that's a possibility here or what? I don't know a lot about the whole dog man thing, but everything that I've heard is it's more upright. You know, it's a more bipedal. I mean, you may, I'm sure you've heard more about it than I have. To me, it seemed very physical.

There was no, like, it wasn't like, like, when I think of something not being very physical, it, I think of it being kind of

translucent, uh, almost having that like a shimmer to it. Like, like, how people, uh, describe the predator shimmer.

You know, I've seen some, you know, I've seen things kind of like that where there's something there, but at the same time, it's not there. but this didn't have that.

This was very, it looked very solid to me. Interesting, very interesting. And it never moved or anything. It just stayed hunkered down. Yeah, I mean, it stayed in the position that it was in. It just, it, it moved its head tracking our movement. You know, its head stayed with us through our pace.

And how far were you from it, roughly? Oh. I'd say between 30 and 40 feet. Oh, that's really close. That's really close. Yeah, it's closer than I cared to be. Yeah, I mean, in one leap, it probably is right there with you. Oh, yeah, yeah.

So, but I mean, I just kind of, you know, after I asked them and, you know, do y'all see that over there? And they said, no, I said, well, you know, let's pick up the pace. Let's get on back to the car. No, I think we need to get home. They say no, you say good, but let's get moving. Yeah, yeah. Holy cow. That's crazy. So do you think that that's something, is there a possibility that maybe you imagined it?

Or do you think it was something that was just on a paranormal level? I mean, clearly if they didn't see it, it was that big, there's something paranormal was going on. I mean, there's, I guess with any of this type of stuff, there's always the chance that it was in my head. You know, there's, there is that chance. But with things that I've seen in the past, uh, you know, I have a, I have a kind of an open mind about it. And it's, I don't know, it's, it's hard to, it's hard to articulate what I'm trying to say. I feel like it was that there was something to it. You know, whether it was physical or not physical, I feel like there's a reason that I was able to see it and they weren't.

You know, I'm sure if, if there was something there, I'm sure there's a reason why, they were not able to see it and I was. Does that make sense? Yeah, it does. And I mean, I lean towards the idea that, I mean, unless it was in your head, which only you would know maybe. But I mean, if it was, if it was really there, I mean, it seems like it's a paranormal thing because of the fact that nobody else saw it. So, I mean, and I don't know if you would take comfort in that or not. I mean, it's like, well, at least there wasn't a giant dog there to chomp my head off. But at the same time, there's a giant dog appearing that was just appearing. And to you, I should say, but it is interesting that, you know, I've said this before on the show, but, you know, I've noticed

a trend of these dogs popping up in paranormal situations where I wouldn't say it was your classic dog man situation where it's walking on two legs out in the woods. or something like that. But like a lot of times like these dogs are popping up in people's homes and just very paranormal type experiences, but with a dog. And maybe you had a similar experience as to some of these people and when it comes to this dog like entity popping up. Right. Well, and I don't know if you remember me talking about the friend of mine that was really tall when we were talking last time. Not offhand. Okay, well, in high school, he was around six, eight, give or take a little bit. Now he's significantly taller than that. I don't think he's hit

seven foot, but I mean, he's close to it. Well, right after I got out of high school, we spent a lot of time hanging out. And my mom and dad, they've got a decent chunk of land. well I had just taken a bunch of old food scraps out to the back of the field and you know just vegetable peels stuff like that you know we go dump it in the back of the field for the birds and the pigs you know whatever's out there and I had driven out there and I dumped out this this bowl of food scraps and the back it's a it's one mile all the way around the property. You know, from the gate, you go all the way around the property and back to the gate that's one, I think, 1.2 miles. So I'm on the back stretch of fence about halfway down it,

and I start getting this feeling in my stomach. It feels like somebody grabbed a hold of my stomach with their fist and they're just twisting it. And the further down I go, the worse it gets to the point where I can't, you know, I can't go any further. Well, the bowl that I had, It was one of my mom's nice Pyrex big bowls or a big Pyrex mixing bowl. And it's one of those dishes that if you break it or you lose it, something like that, you're going to be in some pretty serious trouble. I just take the whole thing. I toss it out the window in my truck.

I turn around and I take off back to the house with every intention of never going back for that bowl. As I'm getting back, I think my spadometer was. was right around 65 miles an hour coming down that side stretch of road down the property. And my buddy, he comes in, he comes driving in. He's coming to hang out. And he sees the dust cloud coming up behind me. And he asked, you know, what's going on? And I told him, well, he grabs his shotgun out of the out from behind his seat of his pickup.

And he jumps in the bed of my truck. And he said, well, go over there. Let's see what's, you know, let's see what's going on. So we go back up there and about the same spot right through the bowl. He starts banging on the roof of the truck saying, dude, you need to let me in. We need to get out of here.

And I don't know if he had seen something or if he was just getting the same feeling that I had gotten before. But he did not want to be there. So we take off and we get back to the house. I had some chores around the property to get done. you know, feeding animals, I think fixing some fence. Well, that night, another one of our friends comes over. And we're putting CB radios in, I think we were putting it in my truck. And the friend that had gotten there after, you know, the one that jumped in the bed of the truck,

we were putting CB radios in our trucks. And our other friend, he shows up. he's helping us out. Well, me and me and the friend that had already experienced this, we start getting this feeling like we're being watched. And we look in the back of the field, it's nighttime. Like it's right at the edge where there's almost no light left from the sun, but it's like the sun had just gone down below the horizon,

so you could still kind of see the silhouette of the fence line. and we could see something going back and forth down this fence line. And he told me, you know, hey, you know, this thing's over there. And I've always been kind of a scientific-minded person. So I told him, well, don't tell, don't tell Kritter, or the other friend, we call him Kruger. You know, don't tell him, and we'll see what he says. well as time progresses he starts getting more anxious a little bit agitated something's bothering him well finally he goes dude i i just something doesn't feel right and so we told you know at that

point we told him what's going on and we hop in my truck and i aimed the headlights at that back fence and the shape that was coming towards us was a very similar shape to what I saw in Alaska. So, as far as the size goes and the shape of it, it starts running towards my truck.

And whenever I would turn on the headlights, you know, when an animal stops, it kicks up that dust. So whenever I turn on my headlights, you'd see that dust kick up. So the headlights would scare it, it would stop.

I'd turn them back off, give it a second, and turn it back on. And it had covered a good amount of distance. But, yeah, I don't know how much distance maybe 20 yards or so. But I did that a few times until it was close enough where I didn't want to see what would happen if it got to the truck. So I left the headlights on and we run to the house. and you know we kind of let it calm down it I guess it went and did whatever it was going to do and then we went and started driving around town

messing with our radios and didn't really think much about it after that but having seen that that's what kind of makes me think it's more not in my head as far as the one in Alaska goes. Well, yeah. So that, I mean, at least, wow. Ah, I would have been terrified.

I would have been terrified. How big do you think this thing was when I was running towards you? Oh, man. The field, it had a lot of scrub brush. And the only time that I was really able to see it was when it was by the back field or by the back fence of the field. is that the whole property is if you're standing at the gate it's a complete incline like going uphill the whole way up to the up to the back fence of the property so if you're sitting at the workshop you could look and see the back fence but something that's like covering ground the brush was tall enough where you wouldn't be able to see me walking through the brush. I don't know if that makes sense. Okay. Well, it sounds terrifying and it sounds like you guys were terrified too. That's why you ran it ran away.

And you know, man, it really sounds interesting comparing it to your Alaskan experience because I mean, all right, so people, other people have saw it as well this time around. And so, you know, was the man it's so hard because you were in Alaska and nobody saw it except for you and this time a bunch of people saw it so do you think maybe it could be two different things that you experienced that just ironically or similar well and that I mean that's kind of what I'm leaning towards now like looking at a lot of the stuff that's happened I tried like in the past I've tried connecting all of this stuff. And a lot of it, I don't think there's any connection.

I think it's just isolated incidents. But I think I'm more sensitive to things than other people. So when I see, you know, I may, I don't know if it's not more open to it. Like maybe I pay more attention to seeing these things. But I'm leading more towards that. that I'm more open to seeing it. And that's why I see things in different places, not necessarily that these things are connected.

So, hmm, okay. So you're more open to seeing these things. I just don't understand why one group of people see it and the other don't. You know, it's just, it's just very interesting. Very, very interesting. I don't want to dwell on this, though. We have more stuff to get to. Oh, yeah.

I can spend the whole day just trying to. Something there is something like this, it doesn't fit our narrative. So when we see it, our brain filters it out. So like you could see something right there in front of you. Like it's like when you're looking for your car keys, you know, you look all over the house. But you end up finding them in a spot that you've looked at 15 times. You know, it's just for whatever reason. you didn't see it.

Yeah. So I'm trying to follow your line of thought there with that. So you're saying that it's just like more of a situational kind of thing as to whether people see it or not? More, I lean more along the lines of whether you're able to accept it psychologically or not. Okay. Because I think some of this stuff, if some people, if they were to acknowledge that some of this is real, I think it might break their psyche.

You know, they're really very narrow-minded. They're very focused on this is the way this world works. There's no chance that anything outside of this is even possible. But, you know, like with what the scientists are looking at now with the possibilities of parallel dimensions or, You know, they're saying there are parallel dimensions, I think, is where they're at right now. But they're trying to figure out ways to look into it five years ago. If you said that, you'd be a crackpot. Yeah.

So, but I think that's kind of what it is, is if it's outside of what you think is normal, a lot of people are not able to accept it because your brain operates on a delay as minimal as a delay as it is there's still a delay and your brain fills in gaps so like when you blink or when you look at

like when you look from one spot to another really fast your brain fills in these gaps with what it thinks should be there so I feel like if you see something that's not supposed to be there if you're not focused on it you're not going to see it like your brain just won't accept that it's there that doesn't make sense because I know there's a lot of

psychological things that go into this that you know are our precursor to the experience I mean so it really depends on you know what the person how the person is set up in this situation as what they experience. Right. So you and your wife and your oldest son lived in a house that had some pretty bizarre

experiences. You want to go into that? Yeah, I can go into that. So the house that you're talking about, we lived there, oh, shoot, maybe six months or so before my son was born. So we had time to set his room up. And, you know, get situated ready for, you know, you know how it is getting ready for a new baby.

Yep, doing it now. Yeah, there's a lot of prep work. Well, we get everything set up. When we initially looked at this house, the reason, you know, the main reason we picked it is because it was a three-bedroom. and the one of the bedrooms I was I had every intention of it being kind of a game room you know having it set up as kind of a second living room just somewhere I guess

kind of like a man cave just somewhere where you can go relax hang out stuff like that you know yeah that way if like if we had a get together you know my wife and her friends could be in the main living room and me and my buddies, we could go in there and us not bother each other type of thing. You know, so after we moved in, it got to a point where I couldn't go in that room. I would, like, I'd walk into that room and I'd start to get dizzy. And there were a couple times where I'd walk in and start to try to do something. And I would have to crawl out of the room.

because I would be so dizzy. Well, the way this house was, it was that, that bedroom was at the back of the house. Then there was a bathroom, and then it was the bedroom that we had set up for my son. Well, the floor in that bedroom for my son, it was a linoleum floor. And after he was born, you know, we had the baby monitor. And, you know, we had the whole, you know, all the new parents. stuff. You know, we were, we had it all set up. It was good to go. We'd be laying in our bed on the other side of the house. And you know the sound that it makes when you walk on a,

on a hard floor with a leather sold shoe? Sure. Like a pair of cowboy boots or something like that, where it's a very prominent heel toe, heel toe. But it's that, that kind of sharp click as you're walking, we would hear that noise over the baby monitor of somebody walking around in his room. So we'd go in there and we'd check and there would be nobody there. But it, you know, it happened several times. And at the time, I was an electrician's apprentice. and

I was working on one of the bases, the military bases here, we were putting up a, it was a dental hospital, it was a big facility just for dentistry. And our day started, like we had to be tools moving,

working at 7 a.m. Well, we lived about an hour away, so I'd leave the house about 5.30. so that I could get there, get to the area that I was going to be in. We do our pre-shift meeting, talk about what all needed to be done, and be ready to go as soon as 7 o'clock it, so we'd be able to be working. Well, I'm walking on to the job site. What was it, about 6.30-ish, a little bit after 6.30.

And my wife calls my cell phone asking if I came home for something. And I told her no and I asked her why. She said, well, somebody just yelled in the house, you know, is anybody home? And when she went and looked, the door was still locked. Everything was still, you know, everything was just like it was when I left. And our nearest neighbor was maybe a half mile away. I mean, it was a good distance. We lived in the middle of a field.

so it's not somewhere that you get to our house by accident but there was nobody there and so that that were you know that freaked her out a little bit well a little bit after that she went back up to Alaska she took she took Slade our son up to Alaska to go see her parents and go visit for a little bit and it was a Saturday morning and I was going to sleep in. Well, I hear somebody walk through the house from that back bedroom all the way through the house,

through the hallway, through the living room, through the kitchen, down the hallway to the bedroom door, to our bedroom door. The bedroom door kind of creaks open a little bit, not much, just enough to where you could hear it. And then you hear footsteps in the bedroom and then you can feel the weight of somebody sit down on the bed. And this is while you were in the bed. Yeah, I was in the bed. Yeah, I was playing. I had every intention of sleeping in that day. Not anymore. No, no, definitely. I was definitely awake at that point. Wow. You know, I've had friends and family say similar things to me where they felt something,

or someone sit at the bottom of the bed. And I've never had that experience, but I can't imagine how unnerving it is because when you're in your bed, it's like, that's your comfort zone. Yeah, that's your safe place. Yeah, it's like you're supposed to be all hide underneath the covers and everything's fine. And then you have something that you can't see sitting on the bed on top of the covers. It's like, uh, something doesn't belong here. Yeah.

Wow. at that same house, I think we kind of talked about it a little bit before we started recording. That's the same house that one of my friends, whenever he would come over, he did not like being outside after dark. There were oak trees that surrounded the house. Well, you'd be standing out there. You know, he smoked cigarettes, so he'd want to go outside. well, we had a motion sensor light on the front of the house, he would not go outside of that light.

And about every minute or so, he would wave his hands at that light to make sure that it stayed on. Because those trees that were right at the edge of the light, if you sat there and watched them, you could see a figure poke out behind the tree, like it's looking at you and just kind of watching you. and that was every time we were out there we'd see that every time every time so you're talking if i'm understanding correctly you're saying that like this

wasn't broad daylight right no no this was this was at night uh but the light on the front of the house it would light up our yard yeah because the the field that we lived in the yard around the house It had a barbed wire fence around it to keep the cattle out of the yard for the house. Outside of that fence were the big oak trees. I mean, if you went to put your arms around them, you wouldn't be able to touch fingers on the other side. They were big. But you could see, and it wasn't just one tree. It wasn't just one figure.

I mean, it was, you'd see one behind one tree. And while you're watching that one, you'd see another one on the other side of the yard. You know, down the fence line a little bit, poke its head over there. And, I mean, it was, it was a very prominent thing that we would see. Jeez. And so, I mean, do you think this was, again, do you think this was something paranormal or something physical?

Do you think this was a monster or a spirit or what? This one, that house, it was one mile away from this church that was at the end of the road. like it's uh it's black creek church and about a half mile away from that is black creek cemetery and ever since I can remember you know how you have your little hometown ghost stories

oh yeah one of ours in this area is that that church is a portal to help well that's not good no no now I don't know I don't you know I don't you know I don't necessarily believe that, but I do think that there's a lot of stuff that happens in that area that would lead people to think that.

There was a, we lived there right after I got out of the army, out of active duty. So we lived there, and so I was still running on a regular basis. Well, from our driveway to the corner where that church was, it was one mile exact. So I would run from our driveway. I'd walk down the driveway. Then I would start my run. I'd run down to the end, turn around, and come back. And by the time I got back, you know, I'd hit my two miles. One of the times that I was running, I had my iPod. You know, I had my earbuds from my iPod in and I'm running. And about waist height and the brush line on the on the left hand side of the road, I could see a head. kind of poke out of the brush and watch me as I go past it. And the first time I saw it, I didn't think anything of it,

but once it was out of my peripheral vision, I see it pop up about 100 yards in front of me, the same way it had the first time. It pokes out, and it would watch me run past it. As soon as it's out of my peripheral vision, it would pop up 100 yards in front of me. and the best description of that face. Have you ever seen a Damascus goat?

No, I have not. It's interesting. I was talking to a buddy of mine about these goats today. They're bred to be ugly. Oh, those really nasty-looking ones that have like a big giant forehead. Yeah, it looks like their face is melting off of their skull. Yeah, I didn't know what they were called. Yeah, its face was very similar to that, like the way it was shaped.

And like I said, if it had happened once, I wouldn't have thought anything of it. But for it to happen, you know, I run past it. And as soon as I'm not able to see it anymore, it pops up in front of me again. And it did that the whole way down this road. for, I'd say, the better part of three quarters of a mile. Well, that's a really ugly thing to be seeing while you're jogging. Well, needless to say, I never ran that route again. No, no, I would say not.

I mean, you know, if I were you, I'd just stop going outside, okay? So I would just stay inside and Netflix and chill for a while. Right, right. My Lord. I don't know Like I know y'all On your show you've talked about generational stuff before Yeah

My My oldest son The night that my My older brother he passed away Back in 2012 He was in a house fire And he wasn't able to get out He passed away

about a half hour I was living in Alaska when that happened my oldest son I think he was maybe two and a half years old if that I think he was going on two years old he was old enough to

to talk but like you could understand what he was trying to get across to you but it wasn't like real well So I was sitting there, I was playing Xbox, and I hear him get up out of his bed. And so I went and I went to check on him. And he's staring at the corner of his room. He's just standing there staring at the corner of his room.

And I asked him, you know, what's going on? And he said, he said, Uncle Matt said that everything is going to be okay. That's, uh, that would be disturbing if I heard. my kids say that. How'd you feel? Well, a half hour after that, I got the phone call. Oh, so you didn't even know yet? No, I didn't even know. Wow. I guess he came and visited your son? That's the way it seems to me. How does that make you feel? I think it makes me feel pretty good about it, you know, about that.

And the short amount of time that they had together, they were, you know, he, he was real close. You know, they, me and my brother, we had a really close relationship as it was. Even with me living in Alaska, we'd talk every day. You know, we'd talk on the phone every day. I had talked to him earlier that day and he was supposed to he was actually fixing the roof on my grandparents' house that day and he was going to call me back that evening

but he never got the chance but you know he everything he did was for other people he was all about helping his friends his family and anytime

we would take my son over there he would come over to our house you know you just see his face light up my brother's face and my son you know they were they were close you know they had a good relationship with each other so I feel I feel like there was a

you know he was coming over to to say you know everything is going to be good to go you know it's okay so yeah But then my youngest, I didn't see this myself, but my wife had said, he's sitting on the couch one day, staring down towards his chest laughing. And he's just saying, you know, it's coming up out of my chest. And she said it was like he was describing like a light coming up out of his chest. And, you know, he describes things like that not so much anymore.

but he used to say stuff about stuff like that pretty frequent. Jeez. That's, that's a little disturbing, doesn't you think? Yeah. I mean, if there's a light coming out of his chest, like, why? I don't. Hey, aye, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dude, you got some interesting stories, my man.

Holy cow. Holy cow. Listen, you are, you were talking, well, we were talking beforehand and we were going over some of the stuff that we were going to be talking about. And you said about your childhood and how you had shadow people experiences. Was that something that was a regular thing in your childhood? It was, it was regular enough for me to take notice of it. You know, the house, the house that we lived in, We lived in a two-story house. And any house that has stairs in it, you know, there's those, like, you get to where you know the sound of the stairs. Depending on what sound comes up, you can tell where somebody's at on the staircase.

My bedroom was right at the top of those stairs. And at night, you know, I'd hear the progression of the sounds. Like, I wouldn't hear the foot, like a foot making contact with the stair. but i'd hear those progressions of sounds that the stairs made when you put pressure on them like does that make sense like i wouldn't hear the impact of a foot with the stair but i'd hear the stair compress yeah okay so when i'd hear that i'd look out and i would see you know i could see a shadow of a person on the stairs but it you know that one it It never seemed, it was just more something that was just there.

It didn't seem like it was, there was a purpose to it. It was just something that was happening. I feel like when people are kids and stuff, they're more susceptible and they're more open to experiences and stuff. And I wonder sometimes if it's just the lack of life experience that allows us to consume things and retain it. Because like if, it's not like you were that old, you know, so you didn't have a whole lot of life experience. So like those kind of things stuck out to you. Right.

And as time goes on and stuff, life picks up and you just not really focused in as much as to the small details. Yeah. That would make sense to me. So, so I'm assuming there's more, there's more you experienced. Yeah, at that house, this particular incident, I was in, I was actually in middle school. I think I was in seventh grade. We had had a dog. It was a, he was a boxer.

And, oh, man, I was maybe five when we got him. Well, he had gotten sick and he died. And the night that he had died, I was downstairs watching TV. You know, it was a weekend or something. I was staying up late watching TV. well, for the past two days, the dog hadn't, we'd had to feed him with a turkey baster.

Like we'd have to blend up the food with water and basically force feed him because he didn't have the energy to get up and move. And I was getting ready to go upstairs to go to bed. And I look at the big sliding glass door in our dining room. And he's standing there at the door, you know, wanting to play. But it wasn't, it didn't look like him. It looked like, like, you know how when you're looking at a window and you see your reflection in the window?

Yeah. How it's, it's very translucent. Like it's, you can tell it's a reflection. It's not a physical person standing on the other side of that window that you're seeing. That's what this looked like. It didn't look like he was standing there. It looked like he was on the inside of the window facing out. and I was seeing his reflection.

Interesting. And then the next morning, we were getting ready to go to school. And my brother went out there to go check on him. And he had come in and told me, hey, you know, don't go back there. Don't go, you know. He told me not to go back there.

Me being a curious kid, you know, little brother, I'm not, you know, whatever. I went back there and sure enough, he had passed away that night before. I don't know what time, but I'm assuming it was before I saw him because it did not look like a physical dog on the other side of that window. So I'm noticing a trend of dogs here in your life. Yeah, I've always had a connection with animals. I've always loved animals.

I've always had them around. So I don't know if it's something to do with that. I don't know. I mean, a lot of people love animals. Well, growing up, one of the things about when I was growing up, if we wanted a pet, we were allowed to get it. It didn't matter what it was. I've had everything from snakes, tarantulas, scorpions, iguanas, geckos, sugar gliders, ferrets.

Pretty much any animal that doesn't cost an arm and a leg to get a hold of and is legal to have in the United States, we've had it as a pet. Jeez. but one of the stipulations that my parents would put on it was we have to know how to take care of it so we would have to do our research you know know what it's going to eat know how to take care of it know what it's you know if it takes an aquarium

we need to know what to have in the aquarium with it you know that type of thing you're reminding me of the Tiger King man I don't know about that anything and everything. If it's legal, we got it. Oh, man. Too funny, man. Listen, I think there's something, I'm obviously not connecting the dots, but it definitely feels like there is a trend with the animals, the dogs in your life, more so than most people. And so very interesting.

stuff. And I don't know what to make of some of it because sometimes it's physical and other people see it. Sometimes it seems physical, but nobody else sees it. But one thing's for sure, it's very interesting. And dude, thanks for sharing. Oh, yeah, definitely. Well, that's a show, everybody. I really hope you enjoyed it. And if you did enjoy it, please go ahead and share the show. I don't care where you share the show or how you share the show. Just share the show if you enjoyed it because that's the best thing you can do to help the show grow. If you feel so inclined, go to your podcast playing app, whichever one you listen to,

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