The Confessionals - RELOADED | 450: Hauntings In The Bronx

Episode Date: March 4, 2024

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Of the past People are time traveling within themselves Time travel Is possible This was all circulating around the base that a giant had to kill but no one was supposed to talk about it. Reach up underneath the door,

curl up to grab it, and then... 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. It spears, Dan, holds him up like this. Somebody else, shoot him in the face. Shoot them in the face. They basically decapitated. I look over and there are two. Because I know I'm seeing a monster.

Okay, I reload it. Welcome to the show. Everybody are listening to The Confessionals. I'm your host, Tony Merkel. Thanks for being here. If you have a crazy wild experience, you want to share with me on the show, go ahead and shoot me an email or go to the website, theconfessionalspodcast.com. Hit the contact section, and you can reach me that way as well.

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is he shares a lot of stories today, and you're going to hear it right here. So let's get to Steve right now. Also, I'm going to say, oh, go ahead. What's up? What's up? Go ahead. I'm going to say, I like your background. I meant to say that earlier.

I'm just going to let it keep rolling here. That's a great way to interview. We literally sat here for almost 50 minutes talking, and we're about to start the interview. I'm literally about to say, okay. And he's like, also, by the way, I like your background. Oh, man. Well, anybody listening right now can tune in and watch a YouTube video. You can see what he's talking about.

But not this video because we're not doing it on a video right now. Because Steve, man, it's all right. If I call you Steve or do you want to call Stephen? Yeah, that's fine. Just don't call me out my name. Steve is beautiful. I got you, man. Stephen, man, listen, you are at work right now in your work, man.

and you emailed us a while ago about some of these experiences you had as a kid. Now, you shared the first one you're going to share with us today in the email. Everything else you said you didn't feel like writing a book. So let's start off with this first experience where you had, you called it like a shadow figure in the email, but it sounded almost like a hat man because it was wearing a hat. But then things happened and your dad and then your brother. So tell us this whole story, man, about what's going on. Okay, so the thinking back on my time,

my paranormal experience actually really started as an infant. I have to hearing stories from my parents, mainly my mother. I had a family member. I don't want to disclose, but he tried to kill me as a baby, saying that the voices were telling him that I wasn't worthy enough. And I needed to be destroyed before, I became, you know, a man. And through that time, the circumstances, I had to stay with that family member and my other family member that married.

So it's a, I was just saying, my grandparents. So they had to really watch because at the time my mom and my dad had to work. So they couldn't really be there to watch me during the week. So they had to constantly check in on me with my grandmother to make sure my grandfather wouldn't harm me. Time went on and everything got better. But since a kid, I remember I always had an imaginary friend that actually would like talk to me in my head. I would play with, I don't remember what it looked like. I would play with it and he would talk to me or it would talk to me or it would talk.

to me. And then when I was four years old, I never forget this at the supermarket with my grandmother in Brooklyn, New York. We're done. She leaves me at the cash register because she forgot something in the produce aisle. So she says, I'll be right back. Do not move. Mind you, I'm in the shopping cart. I can't move. So when she walks away, I'm watching her this man in like a black could he, all black. Couldn't really see his face because he had like a mask on, but I couldn't see his eyes neither. He walks up on me, he goes,

you want to go for a ride? I go, huh? He goes, you want to go for a ride? I said, yeah, sure. A voice in my head said, hold on. Talk to your grandmother first. So I said, grandma, he wants to take me for a ride. He said, no, no, no, no, no, no.

And as he's saying, he's pulling me out, she turns around, sees, runs over to me. the guy runs out the supermarket and disappears. And my grandmother's holding me. And I never forget, the voice telling me, no, talk to your grandmother first. And after that, it's just been just, you know, as a kid, you know, you think, you know, you have imaginary friend because I was the baby. I had two older brothers. One is really my cousin, but he was raised like my brother.

And I have my actual biological brother. But I was the baby. They're six and five years older to me, so I was always by myself. So the imaginary friend, in a sense, was my comfort and my actual friend, other than when I got older and I got closer with my cousins, but that's besides the point. So now leading up until the more like physical of seeing the spiritual side, I met my mom and dad's house in the Bronx. and in that house I always

even like after speaking with my brother after this experience like he told me straight up like I've always seen and heard things in the house because he was older like I said he stayed home he come home from school he home by himself until we get home around 6 o'clock in the evening

so he's home from 2 to 6 and he's saying you know he hears things all the time so long story short we um I'm home on a Friday by myself Typically, my mom usually She likes me watch TV Until I fall asleep

Roughly around like 12, 12, 30 in the morning And you know, sometimes when you're being in your sleep You can hear what's going on But you be asleep So I never forget She went in the room Close the door, turn the TV off I'm asleep

I want to say roughly around I don't know what time it was Because it was still dark But it had to be like Anywhere between 2 o'clock to four o'clock in the morning because it wasn't, I didn't see no sunlight yet. I just,

I had this crazy dream where these people were chasing me in this, like this house type. And it was flames everywhere. And the, this voice just kept saying, I'm going to get you. I'm going to get you.

And I could, I could just feel the presence getting closer and closer. So when I felt like it was about to reach and grab me, I just jumped up out my sleep and I'm sweating. but I'm facing the wall. So I jump up, get out my sleep and panting. I happen to turn and I see the TV on, see the light from the TV when I finally like am up.

Never forget this. This is why Yogi Bear scars me to this day. Turn over. I see the TV. Yogi Bear is on. To the right of the TV is my bedroom door. That's wide open. Now my mom keeps, until this day,

she keeps nightlights in her house. So she has to walk through the house. She doesn't need to turn the light on. The nightlights light up enough where you can see. So through the nightlights, I see a full body figure standing next to the refrigerator, right smack dab in the middle of my doorway. So the way the apartment was set up is when you walk through the front door, straight ahead with the bathroom, you make a left. It's the kitchen. You go through the kitchen.

It's our room, me and my brother's room. You go to the right is the living room. You go through the living room is my mom and dad's room. So I'm all on the far end of the house all the way to the left. And I see this figure. I immediately say, mom, dad, no response to this figure. I just scream out, dad, there's a man in my room. He finally wakes up.

And my mom is like, what? I was like, there's a man in my room. He's just standing here. And my mom was like, Michael, go get him. Go get him. And my dad's like, there's no man in your room. I'm like, dad, I'm watching him. He's just standing here.

He's like, come to me. As soon as he said, come to me, like, me and my dad was tight. So if he told me to do something, I'm going to do it. So soon as he said, come to me, it was say no more. I jumped up out of bed, took a deep breath, all in that one motion, like all in that one motion and just ran. And my mom, she kept the washing machines, which was stayed in our room behind the bedroom door. That night, she was washing laundry. She always does laundry on a Friday night.

Kept the washing machines in the kitchen. I run through the silhouette and hit the dryer hard. Boom, because I'm expecting to hit somebody. So if I hit him, my dad hit a commotion, my dad come running after me. Run through it, hit the washing machine. Soon as I hit the washing machine, I just shook it off, booked it around the, I mean, the dryer booked around the wash machine. But as I'm going through the doorway to go through the hallway to get to the,

living room, I turn and I see the silhouette still standing there. I run in through the living room, getting my mom and dad's room. I'm telling my mom, I'm telling my dad, I'm shaking. My dad's like, there was nobody in there in your room. You just had a nightmare. You just had a nightmare. I'm like, just go check, please, please, please, please. So he goes, he goes, check.

My mom's asking me what's going on. I'm telling her, I had a nightmare. I woke up. I seen this man in my room. And I didn't know what to do. So my dad comes back. He's like, I ain't seen nothing. He was like, you just had a nightmare.

So they asked me, what were you seeing in your nightmare? So me as a kid, I don't know why I said this to this day. But I said the alphabet people were chasing me. Don't know where this came from, but I'm like, that's what I blurted out. I was just so shook. I was so scared. My dad laughing. You're like, the alphabet people?

I'm like, I'm telling you, I'm telling you. My mom just held me. She was like, I believe you. Because I was shaking. So she laid me down. My dad lays down. They go back to sleep. I'm wide awake now.

So as I'm laying there, an hour goes by, and I'm looking around the bedroom in this dark. I happen to look over at my mom and dad's bed. I mean, look over at my mom and dad's door. The silhouette is standing there in their doorway. I just lay back down and throw the blanket over my head. Wake up the next day. I wake up to my mom on the phone with my aunt. My dad is already gone.

My aunt tells me, no, next time you see something, like you see a ghost, ask them what you want. I mean, ask them what they want. You know, they're there for a reason. So ask them as a kid, I'm like, eight years old. I'm like, I'm not about to ask no ghost what he wants. Like, what? Like, he's clearly here to hurt me or something.

Like, otherwise, you know, I'm not asking him what he wants. So throughout that whole day, I'm nervous around the house. house. I didn't want to stay in my room. I kind of felt a presence. Like, anytime I was, like, in a living room, like, my mom was in the kitchen and I was in a living room watching TV. I couldn't have my back to, like, to the doorway. And, like, your back is to the wall, but, like, went, like, to the side is the doorway to come through. So it was like, I had to, like, sit, like, towards my mom and dad's room. No, I'm lying. I had to sit, like, in the, in the, in the, a club chair that was in the middle of the wall.

So when you walk in through the walkway, there's a little club chair and then there's the longer chair off to the left of that. So I sat in that chair because my back is to the wall. So now I can see my mom and dad's room. I can see the hallway, but I can also still watch TV. So whatever, long story short, my dad, my brother comes home. He's making fun of me. Oh, the alphabet people, you've seen the goals, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, laughing at me.

Whatever. I'm like, all right, whatever. You don't believe me. It's fine. I know what I saw. So we go to bed that night. Now, I slept in a pullout bed, which slept, was moved closer to the door. I did not want to lay in that bed. I wanted to sleep in my brother's bed. And I'm like, please, please, please let me sleep in your bed. He's like, no, you're not sleeping in my bed. I don't care. So I slept in between his bed and my bed. So I was like, I slept like somewhere where. I'm not sleeping in my bed. I'm like, I slept like somewhere where. The bed wouldn't get slid out and I fall in between them. So now I want to say this had to be around like 5 o'clock in the morning because it was a little bit of daylight coming through the kitchen window. I wake up, same situation, except the TV's off, door wide open, figures just standing there. I jump out my bed over my brother, wake him up, he looks dead at it. Like I told you, I told you. he's like, calm down, calm down. He's like, mom, no response.

Dad, no response. Those are blanket over us. He's like, we can't stay under here. We can't stay under here. Takes it off maybe like 10 seconds later, not even. Figure gone. Like completely gone. Then, fast forward time, maybe I want to say like a few days later,

that's what my brother started telling me, oh, I did see, I do feel like there's a presence in here. I've seen things like not move, but I've seen things. Like I put something down on the coffee table and it'll be moved to the other side of the coffee table. Or I'm walking in the hallway to come to our bedroom or the kitchen. I feel like there's somebody walking behind me. So once he starts breaking this down to me, so I'm like, okay, so I'm not crazy. And you've seen it.

I've never figured this other time. We're in our bedroom on a Saturday morning. we had Sega Genesis at the time and he was up before me and he was actually playing it so I finally wake up and he's like yeah I had a crazy dream last night I'm like what happened he's like I had a dream about it

I'm like for real he's like yeah and it tried to get me and you know he cursed because he was older than me and he's like yeah I whooped his ass I was like what as he said that he turned back to look at the TV, I never forget, he jumped out his chair, like the chair

fell back, the folding metal chairs fell back, he jumped over my bed and jumped in his bed and just started going crazy. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what? He goes, yo, a white face just ran to the door, looked at me, and ran. I'm like,

you're lying. He's like, no, I'm not lying. And the way he acted, it wasn't no joke. Like, normally my brother's playing a joke, he'll jump and act frantic, but then he'll turn and laugh when he sees him scared. He was completely shook. We was stuck in that room until our parents got out,

woke up and went in the kitchen. And my mom cooked breakfast. That's when we got up out of our room. And then after that, you know, there was this, there was this abandoned house up on the top of our block. So we lived on Matthews Avenue in the Bronx.

And this abandoned house was all boarded up. Um, remember it was like, uh, it had to be a Friday night. Everyone was outside. It was all playing Manhunt. And, um, I happened to look over at the house. And there was a, it was a figure in the window with a white face watching all of us playing. And I never forget, I made eye contact with it. And it was just watching.

It looked at me and it just kept watching. Like it was, it, it kind of looked like my mom wears those facial masks where it's all white. It kind of looked like that. And then the way it was just watching all the kids, it was like it was observing all of us running up and down the block. And then I looked the way and I looked back and all in a split second, it was gone. No, like the window was just like it was just like, like boarded up. But it was like a kind of like an opening where you can see inside, just nothing there. And as far as that whole experience in the Bronx, we eventually moved.

When we moved upstate, I want to say maybe within the first, like the first week, everything was good. And then after that, I experienced only two things in that house. one it was like I felt like a presence near my room it was kind of in between like my room and my mom's room so like in our house in suffer New York when you come up the steps you make a left my room is right there you go straight when you come up to step you go straight as my brother's room you make a left as my room and then you go around the banister and go down the hallway as my mom and dad's room so in that area in my room towards my mom mom's room, I always felt like a, not a malicious presence, but a presence nevertheless.

So I never really seen anything, but one time in that house, and then I told my mom, and then after that, that's when she started getting it into the church, and she prayed over the house, and that never happened again. But I remember she told me to go upstairs and go grab something out of the bathroom. Now, when I went upstairs, her door was wide open. daytime too. My mom is very into privacy. So she always keeps blinds, clothes and everything. But her bedroom, when I tell

you, it was so dark in there. It was like, it was like midnight. And the blinds having it closed, that's how dark it was in there. It was crazy. Like, my blinds was closed in my room, but you can still see light coming out. We had a skylight over above the steps.

So it was light in the hallway. It's light coming out of my room. My brother has his blinds closed, but his door is open. You can still, it's a little dark, but you can still see light coming in. But my mom's room, my mom's room, it was just pitch black. I go in the bathroom. When I go in the bathroom, I hear something. But I don't pay it no mind because, you know, the pipes, they make noise.

Sometimes the house creek, whatever, just normal, you hear normal typical stuff. So I'm coming out the bathroom, I hear it. I'm like, so I walk away from the room. and as I'm standing and I get to the steps and I'm standing there and I hear I said nope, ran down the steps. So as I ran down the steps,

I gave my mom when she wanted, she gave me a look. She's like, what's wrong with you? I said nothing, nothing. And then eventually I end up telling her, I'm like, I heard something call my name. And then she gave me that look like, but eventually she actually went to church

when she actually got the church, the same church that she's been in, she talked with a couple of people and I remember they came over and blessed the house and then ever since then I didn't hear or see anything in that house but I did see things

outside the house at like family members house so it was a situation where I was at my cousin's house and we in his basement and we're watching Bruce Lee return into the dragon never forget we're watching it and you know we're doing the kung fu moves

all of a sudden the power goes out boom power goes out I'll push them to the floor because I figured let me get up the steps before he do so I get upstairs so we all upstairs his mom and dad's in the living room they got his dad got a flashlight so he's like what's going on we look at the window Everybody's powers out. So we're like, oh, so we run back downstairs. And when we go back downstairs, we go towards the back of his basement where the sliding doors, and we go to look outside to see, like, what's going on outside. I'd never forget. We had a flashlight.

It was as weird. I don't even know what, it looked like a dog, but it wasn't a dog. You know those dogs that look like a shag dog, like a shag dog, like a shaggy dog, but it's skinny? Um. Like, I don't know the sheep dog. Kind of like a sheep dog, but a skinny dog. Okay. But his feet were like backwards.

And I never forget it. I still to this day, I even asked my cousin, like, you remember that? He's like, yeah, the thing was coming down because he used to live in Pete Skill. So, Peaskill, New York. So where he lived, he lived, like, on the hill. So the dog-looking thing was coming down the hill and walked like past the door. the sliding door and looked directly at us and just kept it moving. And there was no other way of us seeing it on the side of house unless we ran upstairs to check.

We run upstairs, look out the window. Now it can go, but so many places it can either go down the little hill to his neighbor's house off to the right or it can go towards the driveway and go down the driveway and go towards his neighbor's house across the street or somewhere within the area, within the street area. We would be able to see it unless it. it ran off. And we didn't see nothing at all. Put the flashlight out. We didn't see nothing. And the pace that the animal or the thing was walking at, it was a very like a, like a very calm,

slow pace. Like it was like trotting. Kind of. So it was like for it to run in that short amount of time, we would still be able to see something. Never seen nothing after that. After seeing it walk down the hill, never seen it. Then going towards Camp Eureka Day. So there's an abandoned mansion

at this old camp that we used to go to. The camp we used to go to is called Camp Eureka. It's in upstate New York. I forget what part of upstate New York. I can ask my dad, but that's for another time. But there's an abandoned mansion where supposedly this woman who lived there, her husband, well, fiancé, went off to the war

and ended up dying. And then shortly after, her daughter died and then her son died. So with her dealing with all this, you know, death, she ended up taking her life. So the story is, the lady in white, roams the property crying, looking for her deceased fiance and her kids. So we go to this place when they used to go to Camp Eureka a lot. We used to go there at night, and my cousin used to run the camp. She used to take all the campers out there and, you know, play tricks. So we go up there.

oh, you see a lady in white and we all run back towards the cabins, but me and a couple kids, we went up there by ourselves and it was towards the evening time. And we actually went in the house. When we went in the house, everything was pretty much like it was. But, you know, garbage everywhere,

you know, dirt, whatever. I never forget. It's funny because my grandmother still has this picture in our house to this day. When I get a hold of it, I'm going to send you the picture. I felt the presence in this area and I said, oh, the lady in white's over here. Let me go, let me, let me, let me, let me, uh, say what's up to my boo. And my cousin took a picture and I have

like my arm, like I, like I have my arm around her. And you see me in the picture. My grandmother said, I don't know why she has this picture. And I put my arm like around her, but I swear I felt the presence around that area. So that's the only reason. why I did it. So in the picture, you're saying it looks like you have your arm around the lady and white. If you look close into it, like if you look towards the bottom, you can see like a, I want to say like a miss, but like a kind of like a smoky looking thing. Like you'll see like, in the picture, you'll see like a bright flash towards my left side. And then underneath my right side, you'll see like a smoky.

And that's why I have my arm up like this. And, yeah, my grandmother's side of that picture to this day in her, in her apartment. See, you play around and you, you still have kids, these kids these days. That's what your grandma's speaking, you know? That's why she has the picture. These kids, these days are crazy. Okay, let's talk to you about our sponsor for today, which is Hello Fresh. Hello, good food.

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the presence, like, I don't, you know, most people, you know, you feel that presence of being watched, like you your hair stick up on your back of your neck like me if I feel like there's a presence around me I know it's there but I don't want to show it no fear or no emotion so I like I just like do certain things I'll act silly or I'll just act like I don't care but I can feel the presence whichever side it is on me I can feel it

even though I physically can't see nothing since I was a kid I can feel it but I just just paid no mind. So as recently, as far as paranormal goes, my son, he's eight now, but I never forget when we lived in Lakewood, New Jersey. He was a only child up until 2019, but he was in his room.

And he, when I tell you, he let out this, blood-curdling scream. Like, I've never heard my sunscreen like this ever. We jump up out of bed. We run in his room. And it's pitch black in there because we don't leave the TV on.

He's shaking. And, like, we can't get him to tell us what is going on. So my fiance, she's just like, he's not sleeping in there. He's sleeping with us. I don't know what happened.

He won't say nothing. But he's just screaming and shaking. And that all brought back memories about, what I seen as a kid. And it was like, like, ever since then, I, like, I'm, I like, more on top of my son. So, like, when he tells me certain things, because he, he's into paranormal at eight years old, he's into paranormal. He loves watching paranormal adventures.

Not paranormal. What was the show? I can't think of the name of the show now. Ghost Adventures? No, not Ghost Adventures. There's another show, paranormal, corn on camera. That's it. caught on cameras. He loves that show. And he's always watching like scary things. I mean,

I guess it's the Scorpio. He was born three days before Halloween, but. Oh, okay. I'm the 23rd. Oh, okay. Hey, you're the same day as my niece. Okay. And there we go. Yeah. So, so I guess it's, I guess it's like the Scorpio thing, but he loves the scary things. But like sometimes, like, you know, I don't want him to feel like he's the weirdo or whatever. So he'll like, he'll say things. Like, I never forget. He said to me three weeks ago, which really scared me, which had my mind racing. He said, because he was outside. We told him to go throw the garbage out.

And he was just taking so long. I'm like, what are you taking this long for? So I go outside. I'm like, what do you? He goes, this kid was in my face. I'm like, what do you mean? this kid was in your face, he goes, this kid was in my face. I'm like,

what was he doing? He was like, he was just wearing like this black shirt. And like, he kept walking up to me in my face. And he got like really close. And then he just said, someone's going to die. I'm like, what? I'm like, stop playing. He's like, no, no, no, I'm serious. I'm serious. I swear,

I swear. I'm like, you didn't see nothing. He's like, I did. I did. I'm like, well, my neighbor was outside. And if you had seen somebody walking up on you like that, he would one say something or you know call me he would have just let somebody some random person he's never seen just walk up on you like that he's like

but but he couldn't see him no nobody can see him only I can see him and I'm like so his mom hears it and she goes she goes you cap'n I'm like

and I'm like like come on now like stop playing he's like no I'm serious dad I'm serious. I'm like, don't lie like that. Like, that's nothing to joke around like that. Like, if you're, if you're really seeing things like that, like, let me know. Like, we can, we can get you help. Like, I don't want you to be seeing these things.

He goes, well, it's all right. No, I'm good. But it makes me think back because then he's even saying, he said something to me a few months ago, I asked him how school was. He goes, school was good. And then he just stopped. He goes, but I've seen this ballheaded, creature in the bathroom

when I was in the bathroom. I'm like, what? He goes, yeah, it was looking at me through the stall. I'm like, stop playing. And he's like, no, no, no, I did. And then he stopped. And he goes, there, it goes right there. So I turn around because we're in the house. Like, weird. He goes, it just ran.

So I'm like, Stephen, you can't be playing like that. I'm like, you know what? You're not going to be watching paranormal calling camera. Like, because if you see anything like this, like, no. He goes, no, no, no. He goes, okay, I didn't really see it because he don't want to not watch paranormal camera. Right.

Right. So it's just like, when it comes to him, like now, it's like, it makes me a little nervous because I don't know what he's seeing. I don't know what's happening. You know, he's a really outgoing kid, like real fun loving. Like, he'll give you the shirt off his back if he could. You know, he's always tries to help even smaller. kids. He always, like, he's a real

loving good. So I know his intention, he means well, like, and like it just, like, it just makes me nervous when when things like that happen. But, um,

but then now fast forward, um, my, my fiance so our daughter was in her crib sleeping. And, uh, my fiance goes outside.

throw something in the garbage and our neighbor was outside and my neighbor started talking to her so she was like, hold on one second. So she took my niece's phone, put it on the crib because our baby camera, baby monitor,

my youngest son, he broke it. So she put my niece's phone on the side of the crib to watch her and she called the phone on FaceTime and had the phone and had her phone in her hand. So as she's outside talking, whatever, whatever.

She heard motion, like movement in the house. So she thought it was the dog. But the dog was outside with her. So she's like, what the, she looks at the phone. She sees my daughter now is up. But she's up and looking off to the right. As if, let me not right to the left. No, hold up.

So she's sitting to the right, yeah, to the right. She's looking off to the right. As if she's looking at somebody, you know, like as if one of, like me or her was standing there. She's just looking up. And then all of a sudden my fiancee says, she saw a shadow as if somebody walked over and you can see like a shadow go over the blanket

and then move away. As if someone stepped forward to her and then backed up and walked away. But this isn't the first time that my fiancé said that she felt a presence in the house that we live in now. And it's not like a malicious presence because I feel like it's actually a helpful presence.

So now rewind. One Sunday, we was watching Paranormal Court on camera and my son passed out on the couch. So we wake him up I'm like Stephen Go to bed He goes okay No he goes no no no I'm not sleep

I'm not sleep I'm watching I'm like no go to bed You got school tomorrow It's already 930 Let's go So I get him up Put him in his room His brother's already sleep

So he goes in the room He turns the TV on Because he doesn't be in the room in the dark I'm like okay I'll give you that I sit back down on the couch I want to say A minute later my youngest son's play remote control

which is literally at the bottom of the toy chest goes off now the songs and the things that it does it'll say like change the channel or go gather around with your friends to enjoy some TV shows blah blah blah blah

yeah it sounds like you and I have the same toys in our house so the toy literally said change the channel change the channel change the channel mind you no one's in the hallway

both boys are asleep and my daughter she's in the grave she can't touch the toy and it just kept no I'm lying my daughter wasn't even around now she was still in the womb so my son's asleep we don't have a dog at this moment

the toy just going up change the channel changed the channel so me and my my fiance, we look at each other. We like, what the, so I get up, I go inspect the toy, that's what I'm saying, the toy, that's what I'm saying, the toy was literally at the bottom of the toy chest, nothing was on it. I get it, turn it off, I go on my son's room now, because now my antenna's on.

When I go in his room, he's watching some murder documentary that's in Spanish, and the murderer that smugshot is on TV, look, cool. crazy. Like his eyes, like, you ever look at somebody and they just look dead inside? Yeah. That's how... Just happened yesterday. That's how that mugshot look. So I just put two and two together. I'm like, what, like, what's the eyes of the remote going off by itself saying change the channel of all the other functions that it does? And then he has that on TV. Like, to me, that's not a coincidence. That's just too ironic. So that's why I say it's not a like a malicious presence.

So because when I'm home by myself, I don't really feel the sense of being on edge. But sometimes my little dog diggy, he will bark in the direction of like the front door. Or he'll bark in the direction of the kitchen. And it won't be like a growl. It'll just be like a roo. Because he hears something that he doesn't expect because he knows that,

okay, I'm in the room, the boy's in their room. who the heck is out in the living room? That type of thing. And then there's other situations where my fiance was sitting on the couch when everybody's in the couch. And all of a sudden the attic door just starts lowering slowly. Slowly, slowly, and then

opens up. But mind you, granted, the attic door is broke because the spring on it broke. But the way I have it wedged up, it shouldn't be coming down. unless you're like really like banging around. It shouldn't be dropping down like that. As if somebody's pulling on it slowly.

And then other things that's happened in the more recent, we were talking about, we was talking about the whole situation at the house. And we go in the shop right. And then now it's just us. our family and ShopRite in the International Isle and there was two other people

I'll never forget was further down the aisle This happened like This had to happen like in September August or September One of the two I want to say early September But we was walking down The International Isle

And three packets of noodles Flew off the shelf Like Like as if somebody was messing one of them And they just fell forward But there was nobody in there And it was like no way that from us

walking down the aisle that it could be moving forward slowly like you know sometimes you leave something and it can lean forward slowly slowly because the momentum and then all of a sudden it just fall but the way they fell it wasn't like it was thrown but it was just like picked and dropped off

and we just looked at each other and we was like we looked down the aisle to other people and they weren't even paying attention and we just walked out the aisle like casual. Like we didn't get frantic green. We just walked out the aisle.

My son didn't even notice. Like he turned around after it hit the floor and he thought we was going to blame him. But it was just like, it was like it was just like that was crazy. That in my earlier, like my, as an adulthood, that's like

since I was a kid seen something like moved. So it was like back down here. Yeah, that's and And like I said, like, as far as like the presidents go, like, I, I, like, if I, like, if I, like, if I, like, if I'm ever working at somebody's home, especially if certain homes or, like, nobody's home, or, if I am in their house and I, I, I'll feel like, like, unease, but I know I got to go in the house. I'll do the same thing. I'll just, uh, pretty much put on my tough guy act and just pay no mind.

or whatever. But this one house I went to, it was up for sale. This was like two weeks ago. It was up for sale. And normally when people have the for sale sign up, they're still living in the house. This house was vacant.

Like, nobody's in the house at all. And it's like, and the outside of the house looked like it was haunted. Like I even call my cousin. because he's into the paranormal podcast. Like he actually put me on to your podcast. Shout out to your cousin. So Apollo, shout out to you.

So, but yeah, I even called him. Like, yo, tell me this house don't look haunted. Like, everything, like the house is empty. The curtains is like, certain curtains is closed completely. And other curtains is like kind of open. Other curtains is wide open. I couldn't look at house. I look in it to be brave,

like not to show no fear, but to like constantly look at the house, I couldn't do it. Like I just had to like go to the side of the house, work on the equipment, go to my truck, go to the side of the house, work on my equipment,

and just get up out of there. Because it just like, it just looked like I was even like saying to him, like, there's no way like somebody would just like sell their home and just like just dip. This looked like like some hard. movie like they couldn't take it and they're like you know what i'm done i'm out of here and just sell the house that's what looked like so yeah as far as that goes um and then my other experience is um

when uh going to his wedding actually in 2018 after the wedding's over it was over around like 9 30-ish so we got back to the hotel around 10 o'clock he's like, yo, cousin, just stay, just stay at the hotel, get some sleep instead of just driving back to New York. I'm in New Jersey right now. And I'm like, I'm like, no. He's like, come on, man, just stay. And then, you know, at least sleep until like 4 o'clock, 5 o'clock in the morning. And then you can be rested up.

And then you could take that eight and a half, nine hour ride. I'm like, you know what? All right, I'll do that. Because I'll still can get back and then go to work the next day. So when we get back to the hotel around 10, a little after 10, there's fire departments, police, and everything out there. Come to find out it was a bomb scare. Yep. And you can look it up in North Carolina.

I forgot the part, it might be Fairville, but one of those parts in North Carolina, on November 11th, 2018, there was a pipe bomb scare, which they actually found a pipe bomb in the hotel. So I told them, I said, listen, by the time they get this all figured out, it's already going to be like 3 o'clock in the morning, I'm not going to get no rest. I'm like, I'm just going to go to Walmart, grab a couple of energy drinks and just get on the road. I'll be all right. So that's what I did. Jump on the road after listening to music for, I want to say, like two hours or so. I got tired of it.

Turn it off. Put the radio on. Didn't know what radio stations was out there. So I just hit scan. But when I hit scan, I accidentally hit A&. So the first radio station that popped on was these two gentlemen, and they was talking about aliens. And the one guy supposedly worked for the government,

and he was telling him about intel, about aliens, and, you know, whatever, whatever. As he's talking, I happen to look up in the sky because, you know, in North Carolina, certain sky and certain nights, clear sky, you can see the moon and the stars. I see what looks like two shooting stars just zip past. So I'm like, hmm, I keep driving. As they still talking, I want to say,

maybe I got down the road, maybe like a quarter of a mile. So this truck pulls off the ramp and gets on the highway with me, what he has on the back of his trailer what looks to me like a spaceship. Now, I thought it could be like a, like a plane

but there was no wings there wasn't even no wings on the side it was just like it looked like a rocket ship it was silver it looked like it was smooth it was pointy and then like I said

it had the cabin where you will see someone sitting in it maybe it could fit like one or two people in there where they had no wings it just had like this weird looking dorsal fin looking thing as a back wing but it had no side wings and if they had the wings off

It didn't look like there was slots or parts to put the wings on there to attach it. You know, as I'm driving, I try to look over. I'm looking over at it, but I don't want to look over at the guy driving the truck. So I'm like behind them a little bit. And I snap pictures of it, but I can't even find it in my drop box. But I'm going to keep looking because I'm going to send them over to you once I find those. So I pull up Now I get up towards the side of the truck

So now I'm looking I'm kind of looking over in the cabin At the guy driving it just to see I can't even see the guy Because he's like sitting far back Where like the door hinge is like blocking his face So only thing I can see is like a hat And like a little bit of his chest

I can't really see a face And he's just like driving And I don't even really see his hands Because his hands are like down holding this stairwell. So, like, you can, you can see, like, a hand there, but that's all. The hat, a little bit of the chest, and a little bit of his left hand. But I can't see nothing else.

So I just keep it moving. I see now, I just peeled off because it's just literally me and him on the highway. And now I'm listening to his radio station. He pulled on the highway. It's like, it's just too much going on. So I just, I just bet off. That sounds like the opening of a bad movie, you know? Like, some dude, driving home late at night.

listening to some weird alien conversation he looks over he's like oh snap it's right here with me yeah yeah it's like hold up like what's going on but i never forget that i even woke my fiance hey babe look at this look at this she look over she's like oh wow and then just turns over and goes asleep she wasn't listening to what you were listening to so she wasn't already in that that frame of mind yeah because she was pregnant at the time she was pregnant with our second son so she had other thing she had brewing Yeah, so she was, I let her rest. So, but after that, I listen to the radio station maybe for the next, like, 45 minutes.

Because now I'm interesting because now I'm like, what else is going to happen? Now, now I'm intrigued. I don't want to, I don't want no, no problems because I, you know, it was just me and my pregnant fiancee. But now I'm just listening to it because that's what I'm into. So once I got to up to a point where the radio signal kicked out, I just, just found like regular music and then that was it. But as far as that goes, that's it.

But another thing that has to do with like a craft, a few months ago, my fiancee, she was driving our kids to the doctor's appointment. Now, their doctor is in Jackson, New Jersey. So that's like near six flags. So there's a lot of back rows, a lot of wooded back rows over there. So she's driving over there. and she calls me

she goes no no we're on the phone already and she goes whoa I'm like what she's like no babe this is helicopter really really low

I'm like it's probably about to land I'm like what color is it she's like it's like black but green I'm like yeah it's probably about to land over there somewhere I don't know

that's why it's low she's like but it shouldn't be this low like it's really really low It's only like maybe like 70 maybe like 80 feet above these trees like it's really really low I'm like all right well you know just keep it moving and she she went up a little bit made a left at the light turned her head she said the helicopter was gone like gone and there's an opening there's not that many trees it's an opening so the helicopter was over there if it was

landed it still takes some time to land you would still hear it it was still hear it It was, she said it was just gone. I'm like, what, what do you mean? It's just gone. It's like, it's just gone. So I'm like, are you sure? She's like, I'm 100% positive. It's gone.

Where was this again? What part of Jersey? Jackson, New Jersey. Jackson, okay. I've actually seen that too where helicopters seem to just disappear. And it happened a lot last, was this 2021? Yeah, last year during the whole COVID stuff. I was driving truck and we had a lot of military helicopters flying around here during the early stages of this whole lockdown stuff.

When everybody was when everybody was talking about the military moving tanks and all that stuff last year, around here we had a lot of helicopters. I was seeing helicopters almost every day. Military helicopters moving in groups. And a couple times I would look and they were just gone. I'm driving a truck down a highway. I'm like, what the freak was that? Like, yeah, like, so, but hearing that from you now is just like,

now that that makes her, like, her statement more credible. Because it's like, because at the time, like, how did a big old helicopter just disappear? Like, it literally threw me for a loop. And I'm driving and I'm at work and I'm driving. I'm like, like, I don't even know what to make of it. But now that you're saying that, it's just like, it makes you think like, what,

what is really going on? Like, where are they going? I think we have, I think we have technology that we just don't understand as civilians, but they have. I think we've talked about it on the show before. I forget what episode. It was probably in hundreds,

like 100 something. But I think helicopter, I think the military has helicopters that can do things that traditional helicopters don't do. I do think that there is cloaking capabilities, but I also do believe that there is more of even stranger stuff when it comes to paranormal and technology combining when it comes to opening portals because I have heard of helicopters flying through portals, people witnessing helicopters flying into portals. And why? I don't know.

How? I don't know. But it seems like our military has technology and uses it in tandem with what we would want to call the paranormal. I don't know. I don't know where the portal's going. I don't know what's on the other side. Is it another world or is it just teleporting to another place in this country or in the world? I don't know. But I have heard of that. And so it's why it stuck out to me when I saw it because I was like, where did a

freak did that go? And then you think about the things you hear and you're like, oh, man. Is that I saw? I don't know. Yeah, it's just, it's crazy. I believe in all that. Like, I listen into your podcast, like the one gentleman who said, they had this technology back in the 60s of the 70s, I believe he said.

I'm not sure if I had multiple people, but I know when I was doing a delivery once, I was delivering to a casket shop and this guy owned the casket shop. And he used to be an engineer in the military back in the 60s. And he said the technology we have today is what they were developing back then. That's insane. Yeah. Yeah. Tell me that.

So, I mean, if you think of it that way, there's, there's a lot of possibility of our military having technology today that is 50, 60 years away from us having any concept of it being even in existence. And if we did see it today, would we look at it as a paranormal thing over just advanced technology? Would we, would we see something and say, oh my God, that was paranormal when in reality it was just advanced technology? That's the way I feel about the whole quantum physics stuff. when people talk about, like for instance, randomatica app,

there's hot debate over it, whether, you know, it's paranormal, if it's scientific, but they use a quantum level computer in Australia that generates numbers to give people a truly quantum level of a random location to go visit. And people, there are people who believe that it's paranormal.

It's evil. It's on the level of a Ouija board. and I don't know. Like for me, I can see the argument for that, but I can also see the argument of it's just, it's technology that, that we're not, it's science that we don't know.

We don't understand yet. Like, the people who are studying quantum physics don't totally understand it yet. So if the people who are studying it don't totally understand it yet, then people like us, we could look at something like that and be like, oh, that seems really paranormal. But maybe it's just a science we don't understand yet.

I mean, If you think about back to, like, if you think about take, if we took you right now, you mentioned about the iPhone, so I'm assuming you have an iPhone, the clarity of your video is amazing. So I'm assuming it's an iPhone. But the, say we take you in a time machine back to 1750, okay, back to 1750 right now in your clothes with your iPhone, bro, by the end of the day, you are hung for being a witch. straight up. Yep.

Because there's no way to fathom what you're able to do with that iPhone. You know what I mean? Just the mere existence of it in the palm of your hand would get you labeled as a witch. Not to mention all the things you understand that they didn't understand back then, that your intellect is so far advanced than theirs from back then. They'd be like, how could you possibly know that? You know what I mean? So like, that's crazy if you say that because then it goes back to what we

talked about earlier, it's just like, people are afraid of change and they, if they can't grasp it or understand it, they just, they try to deem it as crazy or they try to deem it as a paranormal and they just try to cast it away or cast you away. So like you said, like with this technology, the technology was brought upon most of us. I feel like a large majority of us would be like, oh, you know, this is, you know, like we're letting know, oh, this is the devil or this is This is, this is crazy. Like, that's not what we're looking at. You know, they wouldn't, they wouldn't try to really try to grasp and understand, like you said, like this is advanced technology.

Yeah, I mean, it's like, you could say this is advanced technology. And they would be like, we can't fathom that, you know, because our technology is a horse and buggy, like straight up. I mean, you know, like, like, we can't fathom indoor plumbing. We can't fathom, uh, uh, uh, refrigerators that you can keep your meat in year round. Are you kidding me? This is witchcraft. This is witchcraft. You know what I mean? And so like indoor electricity, what? You know, like, all that. And so when it comes to like quantum computers and things like that, like, I do think there is an argument made on the other side of it where it's like it's just such advanced technology that we, we, we, we're having a hard time, but wrapping our minds around it. And if, and because like Randonatica is utilizing a, a new, a new, understanding of physics with quantum physics, I can see how people would say that it's evil, but like maybe it's not. Maybe it is just science that we don't totally grasp and understand, but 20, 30 years from now, we'll have more handle of it and our kids were like,

giggle at the idea that we thought it was bad, you know what I mean? So I don't know. Or maybe, maybe it is bad. Maybe it's the further we get into advanced sciences, is the closer we get to, alchemy, witchcraft, the paranormal, and they start merging. And maybe it is bad. I don't know. You know,

but as the host of the show, my job is to explore thought and conversation with people from all walks of life. So anybody who, you know, doesn't like that, I would highly suggest they just tune into a different show

because I'm not the guy that's going to pick people that I just want to talk to. I talk to anybody who wants to talk to me. And it doesn't mean I have to agree with them. So that's the way I look at it. Listen, man, it's been fun talking to you. It's been fun hearing these stories. And you are in your work truck. And I appreciate you taking the time to talk to me. No, there's no problem. I appreciate you giving me this time to talk. And I really appreciate this conversation that we had. Well, that's the show. Everybody, I really hope you enjoyed it. And if you

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