Skinwalker Sightings by Jim Harold's Campfire

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[00:00:34] And when this thing stood up, it looked like if you've seen the Harry Potter movies when Remus is going through his transformation into the werewolf, that's what this thing looked like. That's Benny from Washington. Did he encounter a Skinwalker? Maybe multiple times?

[00:00:52] You'll find out on this edition of Campfire. Welcome to our gathering tonight. Here we share stories of ordinary people who have experienced extraordinary things. You're back. Relax and warm yourself by Jim Harolds Campfire. Welcome to the campfire.

[00:01:24] I am Jim Harold and so glad to be with you once again, albeit with a little bit of a cold and the tests say that's all that it is. Thank goodness. So welcome and I know some of you are very upset that Halloween is over but I

[00:01:40] have good news. I have good news. It's always Halloween here at the spooky studio. Sit back. Everybody else has kind of gone on to Christmas already probably but we are still here doling out the spooky stories 52 weeks a year and we've got some great ones.

[00:02:02] Make sure to tune in at the end of the show. We have some special spooky shout outs and other information for you. And now let's get to the first campfire story. Next up is Benny from Washington State. We're so glad to have him on the line.

[00:02:18] He says he and his friend is coworker art. They listen to both this in the paranormal podcast and they regularly talk about it almost daily at work different topics that we cover. So art thank you so much.

[00:02:31] Stay spooky and Benny, we thank you so much for listening since 2016 and for calling in today. And I was really excited when I saw your message because you're going to tell us about a possible skin walker sighting. Sounds fascinating.

[00:02:47] Thank you for joining us and please tell us what happened. Go ahead. I live and work. I live in rural southeastern Washington and I have to cross the border into northern Oregon for where I work.

[00:02:59] Well, I leave for work in what I call the vampire hours, which is I'm leaving the house at three o'clock in the morning. So it's still well dark. I like to take them back windy roads because I ride a motorcycle.

[00:03:11] Well, growing up here, I've seen every manner of critter that you can have running around the countryside. You know, we've got deer, elk, cougar, bear, etc. Right. On my way to work driving through this stretch in the back windy roads.

[00:03:26] I see a dead deer laying up on a couple hundred yards in the road. Didn't think too much of it. As soon as I got closer, I noticed there was something over the top of the deer eating on it. Oh, couldn't tell what it was.

[00:03:40] I got a little bit closer to it, about 70 feet, give or take. And it stood up on two legs. And when this thing stood up, it looked like if you've seen the Harry Potter movies, when Remus is going through his transformation into the werewolf.

[00:03:55] Yeah, that's what this thing looked like. Patchy skin, patchy fur. It was huge. Things stood up and walked across the road on two legs, got to the other side of the road, dropped back down on all four and took off across the cornfield. Wow.

[00:04:14] I stopped my motorcycle, shook my head. I was like, did I see something? And not only that, I've seen this thing four separate times since then, including yesterday morning. And the funniest part about it, there was this officer driving in front of me

[00:04:29] that ran right in front of his cruiser and he pulled off and burned a spotlight on it. I wonder what the report on that one had to be. Yeah. Wow. So you've seen this thing four or five times? Yes. Wow.

[00:04:44] And it's always the same quarter mile, the half mile stretcher road. And it's on a windy back road between Wala Wala, Washington and Milton Freewater, Oregon. Wow. Somebody needs to get on that some crypto cryptozoologist out there needs to get out there and do an investigation.

[00:05:01] So, Benny, can you explain to us exactly what it looks like as best you can tell from your sightings? The best thing, the only way I could really describe it, it kind of like in between what you would picture a werewolf to be

[00:05:15] and like a zombie because it's real gangly and gray looking, but yet has fur and muscle to it if that makes any sense. I mean, it's really as strange. It was weird looking. I mean, I had never seen anything like that the first time I saw it.

[00:05:30] And I was like, man, did I see something here? Am I just weird or what's going on here? No, you know, as I've seen it several times since then, I was like, man, there's something with this. And so I started looking into different cryptids around.

[00:05:44] And the closest thing that comes to it would be a skin walker. And now there are several different tribes around. And this area was even known for when Chief Joseph really led the Ness Pierce through here to go down to Wala Wala. Wow.

[00:05:58] So I mean, anything is possible, but man, this thing is something different. And it seemed did it seem like it sounds like it's equally adept, whether it's on all fours or it's standing up? Oh, yeah.

[00:06:11] There was no skipping it to be when it went from two legs back down to all four and took off across that cornfield. I mean, do you feel that it's I mean, do you think that it's I mean, it's one thing to eat

[00:06:25] a dead animal because lots of animals do that. That's very common. But do you think that it was threatening in any way or was it always trying to get away from humans? I didn't feel threatened by it even on my motorcycle,

[00:06:36] but I was just more curious as to what it really was, to be honest. But it didn't seem to pay me any mind whatsoever. I mean, it just went right about its business and gone. Have you heard any other reports in the area?

[00:06:49] There's been reports of several different mysterious things cited, including UFOs as recently as August and September of this year. And it's been all over even the news here. And for those of us not familiar, I assume this is a highly, highly forested area, a lot of wilderness.

[00:07:09] Right? Not very forested, but it is a very rural, more farm country than anything else in the world. I mean, about an hour's drive and you're in the woods. OK, OK. Interesting, interesting. And what time now, and you said it and I forgot

[00:07:27] was the first time in the morning. Every time it's been, it's been early in the morning because I leave for work and I'm writing to work at three o'clock in the morning. Wow. That is cool. Well, I tell you, I hope that you'll keep us updated.

[00:07:41] And if you see it again, please do sign up, get in touch with me. We would love to have you back on and get any further reports on this because a lot of times when we talk to people, it's not an active situation.

[00:07:55] We talk to people about things that happened five months, five years or five decades ago. But to have something like this, it seems like we're right in the middle of it. I would love to keep updated on this, Benny.

[00:08:07] And I would love to keep up on it because I've even mounted a GoPro on my motorcycle, so I'm going to start recording when I'm riding in the mornings just so I can get a chance. Yeah, that sounds like a great thing.

[00:08:20] You'll get the footage. That's for sure. Well, thank you so much, Benny. Please keep us updated and thank you so much for being a part of the campfire. We'll do, Jim. Next up on the Spooky Studio line is a return caller, Janine is back

[00:08:36] and she's going to tell us a very, very interesting story today. She's calling in from Louisiana. Janine, welcome back to the program and please tell us this story. Hi, Jim, thank you for having me back.

[00:08:49] So glad to be here and happy, happy time of the scary, spooky times. So happy October. Absolutely. This story was actually prompted by a caller on a show in August and this person had a premonition of someone's death.

[00:09:07] And I think you would ask the question, which is so incredibly profound. Like, should you say something to that person? Yeah. And so this experience was kind of that same thing. And I'm just really curious to hear what, you know, you and your,

[00:09:22] your colors and your, your campfire group thinks about it because like I was, I was, it was fall 1995 and I was in my car waiting for a chopper blade to change at a really busy intersection in Cincinnati.

[00:09:36] And I was the first in line to go and the light turned green and the car started to slowly drive by and in front of my eyes, literally turn the kind of shimmer that turned to, you know, recession

[00:09:50] with the first and cars with that feral, like little wading feral flags. Yeah. And they share like there was heat coming off them. But it was a cool afternoon. And I turned my head and watched as each of these feral cars drove by

[00:10:06] and I couldn't believe what I was seeing was very disorienting. And then suddenly the sea slowly snapped back to regular traffic. And I just kind of snapped back to reality and started and continued my drive home. And so I went 20 minutes away, but the entire drive

[00:10:22] home was shaking or clutching a steering wheel. I felt short of breath and I felt like I was breathing from under water. I couldn't breathe. Huh. And a loud voice just kept reverberating in my head. So long as I just died and I wondered, am I going crazy?

[00:10:38] Like why am I thinking that? Right. I mean, that would be, you know, it would be kind of a natural reaction to think, what in the world is going on? I saw this funeral, even if you consider yourself to have

[00:10:49] kind of psychic ability or be intuition to just out a broad day like to see a funeral procession. I mean, that's kind of disorienting. It's really very much so. And I'm not sure how I made a whole way.

[00:11:02] Like I don't know how many of them was not very safe driving, obviously. And I walked into my apartment and the light was flashing on the engine machine. So this is way before I've been since I remember. Right. And it was my ex-boyfriend's voice and it was not

[00:11:21] this amical breakup. So I can understand why we left a message and the message said his roommate, Rafael just died at work today. And I know Rafael worked at Patern Gambel in Cincinnati as a systems analyst and he was 26.

[00:11:38] He died at his desk of name of Florex, which is Kalaxlung. Oh, my Lord. No, he had severe asthma. It was horrible. So then I remembered the week before I was at a SoulSidance club. And this is when the Macarena was. Yeah, I remember. Yeah. Hey, Macabrena.

[00:12:00] Deep digi-degre. And I ran into him just a week before so I run into him and he had just broken with his corpus. So we commiserated about our breakups and he was really friendly and concerned, despite me breaking up with his best friend and roommate.

[00:12:14] And what I was talking to him, a great cloud surrounded him. And the club was a little atmospherically smoky, but the clouds surrounded him and he wasn't smoking due to his asthma then allowed voice to yell in my head again, that voice

[00:12:29] is yelling my head as I was talking to him. I am going to die soon. And it drowned out what I was saying and I thought I was going crazy. And again, I felt so disoriented. I looked at Raphael and he seemed to shimmer in front of me

[00:12:43] like those the funeral cars did. And I couldn't play focus on the surroundings. And even the crowd started to show where the light that could really see them and my head started to hurt. I felt so anxious and then I excuse myself to goodbye,

[00:12:58] left the club in one hole, but I slowly took him back into bed. And so that's that memory of that, just that instance of hearing that and then the week later he did pass. And he was quite a leader in the Latino community

[00:13:12] and Cincinnati and as of right now there is a scholarship honoring him to the University of Cincinnati. So he was quite a pretty young man. He'd taken away so quickly. So. Wow. And I mean, did you how did you feel about that?

[00:13:28] I mean, I guess I had to be tough because you kind of thought about I think people would tend to say, oh, I wish I would have been able to warn him or something like that. Did anything like that?

[00:13:38] I mean, I don't think you should have felt that way. But I could see some people feeling that way. Did you have that at all? It was more like I was told this information but it was his I guess his destiny to be fulfilled.

[00:13:54] For some reason, I was shown as a tool this. I don't know if it was someone telling me about it to prepare myself for it or to be ready for it. But and going back to like, I don't really think it's our place to say that to somebody.

[00:14:12] But for some reason, some of us just like your call or given information maybe from, you know, entity of spirit, it's hard to say where or this is coming from. But the fact that it's so clear and concise.

[00:14:28] And so then again, it's like you just turn that around. That I've heard this from a whole life just having that information about him, you know, the week before he passed. Yeah. And there's nothing that you could have done.

[00:14:41] I think that I really do believe that we kind of have a time. I believe that it's like there's a time there's a time that it's supposed to to happen for us. And that's why we see all these people who, you know, pass unexpectedly or spared unexpectedly.

[00:15:03] I think we do have a time, you know, and it's just such a tough thing because on one hand, you think about, for example, like when there's some tragedy, why people, for example, if there's a plane crash, why certain people at the last minute change their plans?

[00:15:18] And that's like, oh, wow, you were saved. But then you got to think about all the people that died on the plane. And then you think, why weren't they saved? And I just think it comes down to sometimes there is a time for us all.

[00:15:33] And I guess it was his time. But thank you for sharing that. That is a very, very powerful story. And I know you have another interesting one for us. I look forward to speaking with you about that one soon as well. Thank you, Jim.

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[00:17:21] Catherine is on the spooky studio line from the great state of Maine. She found out about us from astonishing legends, so check them out. And she's been listening for several years and she recently went to her childhood home

[00:17:36] and it sounds like it brought back a flood of memories of spookiness. Catherine, welcome to the show and tell us what happened. OK, so when I was a little kid, I lived in eastern Maine in pretty much the end of the world, a very, very rural place.

[00:17:56] And my house was extremely haunted. It. Let's see, the water faucets turned on by themselves. When I lived there, we heard noises when I would sleep in bed at night because it was the 80s. I had a waterbed, of course. And the ghost or whatever would live there

[00:18:21] would push on my waterbed and like make it ripple at night. It was really strange. And of course, I was about seven years old when I moved there. And my parents never believed me. And we lived there for about five years.

[00:18:37] And I experienced a lot of haunting there. I was left alone in the house a lot because it was the 80s. And my kids, my parents just left me there. And we would use regi boards when I was a kid and they would

[00:18:55] we'd like leave them in the room by themselves and the planchettes would slip over by themselves. So we come back in and check on them. And it was crazy. I mean, all this stuff, it sounds like, you know, something you'd see in a movie. But it really happened.

[00:19:12] And I saw my first apparition there ever when I was laying in the bathtub looking out into the hallway. The lights were on in the hallway and I always had the bathroom door open because I was scared to death of the hallway.

[00:19:28] And as I was laying there, I saw a man walk down the hallway. Like I saw him like just as like a you a traditional ghost, like silvery shadowy form. Oh my goodness.

[00:19:42] That had to be, I mean, that had to be terrifying because my first thought would be that's not a ghost. That's a person. Yeah. Yeah. It was crazy. And I sat there and watched him walk down the hallway past the door and I was like, this isn't real.

[00:19:59] This is not real. I've been watching too much on self mysteries that I'm going crazy, you know? And I was like, this isn't real. And then it turned around and it walked back down the hallway and I saw it again.

[00:20:15] And I just jumped out of the tub, wrapped myself up in a towel and just ran to my mom was like, Mom, I saw a ghost. You know, and she comforted me and, you know, and was like, it's OK. It's OK. So we lived there for a while.

[00:20:31] And when I was about 12 years old, we moved away and I hadn't been back to that house since. And I always wondered, you know, was it real? Was I just a silly kid? You know, what was haunting that house?

[00:20:46] I always had so many questions and I could never get back into that house because it was a state owned house and they had like shut it down. And it was you just couldn't get back into it. But recently I was able to get into it

[00:21:02] with a friend and we were just kind of walking around and exploring it. And I was just so overwhelmed and excited with this opportunity to get in there. And I'm a very psychic person when it comes to spirits and ghosts.

[00:21:19] And when I walked in there, I could just feel that it was still haunted. And I was said to myself, I was like, oh, crap. Yeah, here we go again. Yeah, I'm like, OK, Kat, you are not crazy. You were just you're not crazy.

[00:21:40] And I remember standing at the top of the hallway and looking down at my old childhood bedroom and psychically asking, you know, aren't you still here? And I just got this huge rush of like, oh, yes, I'm still here.

[00:21:57] You know, and I just felt this immense dark energy just like come at me. And, you know, we explored the house and I saved my bedroom for the last room because that was always the room that the most things would happen to me.

[00:22:14] And, you know, we went into my room and nothing really physically happened while we were there. It was mostly like psychic energy that I was feeling. And, you know, when we were coming out of the house,

[00:22:30] I was filming my way out of the house and I just kept feeling this immense pressure of like it's time to leave. You have to leave. Get out. Time to go. And I remember swinging my camera into one of the rooms as I was leaving

[00:22:48] and I started to feel like, you know, we need to leave or something is going to happen. And then I hear this like crackling sound in the closet. And I was like, OK, now it's it's time to go because it was, you know, completely silent there.

[00:23:05] Right. And it was just little crackling sound, just something so insignificant. But it was it was enough to make me go, OK, because a lot of physical things would happen in that house, you know, like the ghosts would bang on the bed.

[00:23:19] It would move stuff, you know, and I just started to feel like all kinds of pressure. And we eventually got outside of the house and were walking around. And when we were outside and looking at it, it was like,

[00:23:36] I could just feel how angry the house was that we had gone into it. Because I really feel like if a house is haunted and it's been sitting for a really long time, like whatever is inside of it is just able to possess

[00:23:52] like the space so much that it just fills it up. And like we just disturbed it so much. And it was really angry at us because, you know, we walked around the side and I was kind of looking at my bedroom window from a view of my neighbor's.

[00:24:12] Driveway. And I could feel like the ghost or whatever it was inside of there just like almost pressing itself against the window and like watching us. Oh, my. And it was terrifying. Like at the moment, it wasn't scary because I was just so excited

[00:24:34] that I had gotten that opportunity to go back and finally figure this out. But I could feel that ghost, I could feel it watching us and I could feel its immense anger of just how dare you disturb me.

[00:24:48] I can't believe that you came in here, go away, just leave. And I haven't had a paranormal experience as intense as that since about 2003 when I went to Salem. And it was just it was unbelievable. And we ended up leaving and driving away and going

[00:25:12] and parking somewhere and talking about what had happened. And I was like just full of adrenaline at what had just happened. And my friend was completely just psychically and mentally drained from the experience. And she just started to cry.

[00:25:30] Wow. Yeah, she was like, I don't know, I'm so drained. I don't know what happened to me there. And she's like, if I was alone, I would just start ugly crying right now. She's like, I'm just completely wiped out.

[00:25:46] Now, do you think the entity recognized you as you? Or were you just a random person coming in that they were teet off at? Because how dare you get on their psychic turf, as it were? Or do you say, hey, you're back.

[00:26:03] What are you doing here kind of thing? I think it knew who I was because it didn't affect me like it affected my friend. And I went in there and I was just like, in my mind, I'm like, you know who I am.

[00:26:19] I lived here for so long and you terrorized me for so long. I mean, from day one, the first night I moved into that house, I remember feeling that ghost walking around and watching me and like, because moving around the room.

[00:26:38] Because I remember I slept in the living room the first night we moved in there. Because I was afraid to sleep in my bedroom and I remember just being watched. And it was like one of the scariest houses I've ever lived in my entire life.

[00:26:56] And I mean, I just I cannot believe that I lived in that house as a child because as an adult feeling that kind of energy. And I'm like, how did I live there?

[00:27:10] How did I deal with this every single day and not lose my mind as a kid? It's unbelievable. Yeah, interesting, very interesting indeed. Well, thank you so much for being a part of the campfire today. A great story. And I'm glad you're out of there.

[00:27:31] Yes. Thank you for inviting me, Jim, and it was great to talk to you. Val is on the line from Houston, Texas. We're so glad to have her on the show. And she's going to talk to us about a subject that really

[00:27:45] fascinates me, this idea of prophetic dreams, these prophetic dreams that well, they make quite an impression. And Val has had them throughout her life and she's going to tell us all about it. Val, welcome to the show. Thank you for joining us and please tell us what happened.

[00:28:01] Thanks, Jim, for letting me share my story. I think my prophetic dreams started around five years old and five years old is really young to remember. But I have a pretty decent memory of my childhood. My first dream was really interesting. It was a shoe in the road,

[00:28:19] me being disappointed that I didn't get to eat and some colorful balls flying through the air. An odd dream to have. But just a couple of weeks into that, my dad took me on a secretive trip to McDonald's because my mother does not like unhealthy foods.

[00:28:38] And this was in Cleveland back where I'm from. Oh, me too. I don't know if you know that, but I'm from Cleveland. So I do. I do. I wondered if we were from the same area. But go ahead. But an F3 tornado actually

[00:28:56] touched down near the McDonald's that we were in. And we all ended up having to hide in the bathroom and I didn't get to finish my meal because the roof of the McDonald's was blown off. And my shoes actually were blown off as well.

[00:29:13] So you can imagine my mother's anger when I came home getting a shoe. But as we drove home, there were the McDonald's play pit balls all scattered miles down the road and I found that really interesting because I lost one shoe, one shoe in the road

[00:29:31] and the play pit balls, these colorful balls. And as a kid, you don't think much about it. But I think as I got older, I had more dreams kind of similar to this. When I was in fourth grade, I had a dream

[00:29:46] that I had moved to a new place and I was walking up a set of stairs and I walked into a classroom and a girl said, oh, you must be Valerie. I'm on your kickball team. Would you like to sit next to me?

[00:29:58] And it was an interesting dream, one that I didn't think I'd have. Well, years later down the road when I was in seventh grade, I moved from Texas back up to Indianapolis for some family reasons. And my first day of school,

[00:30:13] I walked up a very similar set of stairs and kind of started to say, you know, this place looked really familiar. Walked in to the classroom and the same girl, exact same girl said, hi, you must be Valerie. You're on my kickball team.

[00:30:29] Would you like to sit next to me? And I found like within that instant, it was almost like, wow, I know I dreamed this before, but it wasn't that sense of deja vu. It was I know I dreamed this before a long time ago, years ago. Wow. Prior.

[00:30:48] And that's when I really started to say, hey, this is a really interesting thing that happens. Unfortunately, this next dream is a little bit sensitive to share because it is such a personal and traumatic matter. The same year that I moved to Indianapolis,

[00:31:09] I had a dream one night, very horrible dream that I was fending in the middle of a dark highway. There was nothing else lit, but this one small piece of the highway underneath the lamp post and a car, very old, kind of dark blue

[00:31:32] and I couldn't see into the windows. So I tried to walk closer to get a closer look and I noticed that the windows were covered on the inside with red kind of looks like blood. And it was a very weird dream

[00:31:49] and something woke me up out of that dream. It was a loud noise in the kitchen of house that I was living in. And so kind of happy to be awake and from that dream, I walked out to see what had made the noise, what had fallen.

[00:32:04] And as I walked out of my room to the kitchen, I saw this really dark, shadowy figure coming straight at me and fly past me. And I thought that that was very odd. My mom kind of came out of her room to yell at me, tell me to,

[00:32:21] you know, go back to bed, stop making noise. And I did and the following couple of days, my sister called me down to the basement. She said, hey, do you do you know these people and named off names? And I said, well, yes, I recognize those names.

[00:32:38] And she said, well, they they passed away. And I said, what do you mean they passed away and read an article about a couple of my friends who were unfortunately struck by a drunk driver and killed. It was very upsetting and it was very far away from me.

[00:32:59] But a year later, I moved back to Texas and I found out a couple of the details. One of them being that the car that they were in was a small dark blue old style sedan. Very similar to the one in my dream.

[00:33:16] And of course, being in an accident such as that, there is unfortunately, you know, trauma. And I feel like it was almost a sense of closure. Somebody came to say goodbye. Whether that was one or the other, I don't know.

[00:33:35] But it was it was really interesting and and to feel afraid to dream things like that again. But I have had dreams of fights with people in college. I had a dream that I was with someone else other than the person I was with at the time.

[00:33:59] And I I was pregnant in this dream and I was having an argument about this relationship that I was in and it's very interesting. And so I said, OK, it became one of these things that I would do. Is this a prophetic dream?

[00:34:18] Is this dream have some basis in reality? Or does this dream just it's just that it's just a dream. And so I started doing these things when I had dreams where what is the feeling that comes out of it? You know, does my body reacts to like

[00:34:34] do I have a deeper emotional reaction to what I'm having? Because I find with those prophetic dreams, they're almost realistic. You know, the hyper realism. I almost like feel the emotions that I would feel in those moments instead of that kind of numb dream like,

[00:34:57] you know, state that you're in. It's almost like you're there in that space. And yeah, it's very interesting. And I have been able to continuously pick up on it to the point where I think is silly enough. I've had a dream over the past couple of years

[00:35:16] that a friend who has stationed overseas came home and he confessed feelings for me in this dream. And I woke up and I told my friend, you know, hey, I had this really weird dream. This person mess, you know, came home and confessed their feelings.

[00:35:34] And I thought that was funny, but I think this is one of those dreams. And sure enough, a couple of days later, we had been we, you know, we keep in touch online and he had messaged me and said, I'm coming home soon.

[00:35:50] I would like to restart a relationship with you, you know. And unfortunately at that time, I was already with my husband and I had a kid on the way. But it was interesting and I immediately, you know,

[00:36:03] jumped to my other friend and I said, look, I was right. This was this was a prophetic dream. And so now I've just taken to every dream that I find those feelings in. And I just wait for those moments.

[00:36:19] And when they start to happen, I'm like, you know, depending on what it is. So if it's a bad dream, I will, you know, I will say, OK, maybe I can try to steer it away from the bad things that are happening, of course,

[00:36:35] with as much control as one can have. And of course, when it's good things happening, you know, I love to share that with my close friends and my husband. And I'll tell him, hey, I dreamed this before I've had this. And here's what happens next kind of thing.

[00:36:52] Wow. That's that that's something. Now, do you see it as a blessing or a curse or a little bit of both? I guess a little bit of false, you know, because some of the things it's like, you know, again,

[00:37:06] you can maybe I can intercept that bad thing from happening. Maybe I can try to steer it away from being as bad as it could be and maybe, you know, try to face things head on that weren't. How do I explain that? It's hard to explain, you know.

[00:37:26] I think it's a blessing too, because, you know, it does help prepare me for things sometimes emotionally, as well as big life events, knowing and seeing those things. So it's just hard. It's hard to say whether it's one or the other,

[00:37:42] because sometimes it's just the little little dreams with little things that come to fruition. And sometimes it's big things, big life changing events, the death of friends, the beginning of a relationship, a baby, you know, and those are pretty big life events.

[00:38:01] And all of those things are definitely pivot points in my life for growing into the person that I was, changing course on maybe a bad path I was going down with my pregnancy. My daughter helped save me from myself.

[00:38:20] I was headed down a very dark path in college. Of self-destruction and not really caring for myself. And with her, she was like a very bright light in a dark room. And she led me into getting away from the people that didn't care for me and coming home

[00:38:41] and being really connected with those people that loved me and finding, you know, myself worse again and having something to live for. With the death of my friends, it was kind of the same thing. I was in a really dark place.

[00:38:57] And when I moved back here to be close to my old friends again, I mean, it was like coming back into something and growing, maturing into this person that I am today. Well, I'm glad that things have worked out for you, Val.

[00:39:12] And certainly these dreams are a part of your story, very compelling part. And we thank you for sharing it tonight on the campfire. Thank you so much for having me, Jim. Follow Jim on Twitter and Instagram at D. Jim Harold and join our virtual campfire Facebook group

[00:39:35] at virtual campfiregroup.com. Now back to the campfire. Next up on the campfire, someone from my stomping grounds, my area of the world, Laurie is on the line from the Cleveland area. And, you know, when you get something for free, they say there's no free lunch.

[00:39:54] Well, Laurie got something and it sounds really cool, but she may have gotten something else to go along with it. We're going to hear all about it. Laurie, welcome to the show and tell us about this quote gift. Hi, Jim. Thanks so much for having me.

[00:40:12] Yeah, I kind of a funny story. I never thought this would happen, but I started a cleaning company about 15 years ago and, you know, I have two boys and I thought, boy, I would love if they would have a piano.

[00:40:27] And I had this customer who had a piano and she said she was going to sell it. And I said, well, how much? And she said $500. And I said, well, my kids are really young. You know, I don't really need it. I'm going to keep looking.

[00:40:40] So months go by and she comes back to me about six months later and she says, you know, I've had three people that were supposed to buy this piano. And for one reason or another, they backed out

[00:40:52] or one of them, the last one actually picked up the piano, had a piano company come dismantle the piano and take it away only to bring it back and say they didn't want it anymore. Huh. Yeah, very strange. So she said, you know what?

[00:41:08] If you want it, you can have it for free. And I was like, oh, great. That's awesome. But I couldn't really remember exactly what it looked like. So I said, you know, do you have a picture or something you can send me so I can show my husband,

[00:41:22] make sure it fits our style? So she sent me the picture and I thought, oh, yeah, it looks good. So I had it delivered. Everything was fine. And about six months after having it, I'm in the kitchen. Just, you know, nobody's home except me and the cat.

[00:41:40] And I hear a single key play on the piano. Oh, boy. Yeah, but you know, I didn't think anything of it. I was like, oh, you know, the cat must have jumped off the piano. But I was like, it's kind of weird that he only hit one key,

[00:41:54] but whatever. So a little while later, I don't know, month or two, that same key gets pressed again. It's again me and the cat home alone. And I thought, oh, that's really weird. But I guess the cat could hit the same exact key

[00:42:10] and only hit one key jumping down. Maybe that's possible. I don't know. So one night, probably a year after having the piano, I'm sitting in the family or watching TV with my husband and I keep hearing this banging. And it's like, it's not just a single bang.

[00:42:30] It's like bang, bang. And then a pause. And then bang, bang. And it kept going on and on. And I said to my husband, do you hear that banging? And he's like, yeah, it's probably just the cat. And I'm thinking to myself, well, the cat's been outside

[00:42:45] all night, so it's not the cat. And the kids are in bed sleeping. So I'm not sure what that's about. So I go to bed and all night long, I hear this banging. I'm dozing in and out of sleep.

[00:42:58] And when I wake up, I can hear this banging. So I get up the next day for work. The banging has stopped. I go to work thinking about this banging all day. What could this possibly be? It didn't sound like knocking. It sounded like banging.

[00:43:12] So I come home from work and I decide I'm going to investigate this and figure out where this is coming from. So I'm walking all through the house, pressing on things, walking everywhere. And I walk through the threshold of my master bedroom.

[00:43:27] And I step down and I hear a bang. And when I pick my foot up, I hear another bang. So I'm like, oh, it's probably the ductwork under the floor from the furnace. And I'm like, oh, that totally explains it.

[00:43:40] But then my heart sunk because I was like, OK, well, who was making that sound all night long? Because it wasn't me and it was my husband and my kids were sleeping and the cat gets locked up. So I don't know where that banging's coming from.

[00:43:54] So that night, I'm proud of myself for finding out where the banging's coming from. But I'm still a little uneasy about why it was happening. I'm in the living room doing some work at the desk and the piano's behind me. And I'm sitting there and it's quiet.

[00:44:10] And I hear this, someone say mom. And it wasn't like a normal mom. It was like, mom, like drawn out like that. Yeah, every hair stood up on my neck. I paused and I thought, OK, does that sound like my older son?

[00:44:27] No, it's not like my younger son. No, maybe I should go check on them. And I think I'm going to look behind me. I don't really want to look behind me, but I'm going to look behind me. So I slowly turn around and of course there's nothing there.

[00:44:41] So I go, I check on my kids. They're both sleeping soundly. I go in the other room with my husband who was watching TV and I say, did you hear someone say mom? And he says, no, it's probably the TV. And I'm thinking, no, it's not the TV.

[00:44:54] So I decided to look at that picture that my customer had sent me way back when of the piano and thinking maybe there's an orb or something I could see. And long to hold, in the picture, there's a mirror in the picture and there's a little boy

[00:45:10] with period dress on, chubby little cheeks right there in the picture in the mirror. And I was like, oh my gosh, this little boy is looking for his mom. So about a week later, we had a job at this customer's house

[00:45:25] and she never is home when we're there, but she happened to be there that time. And so I said, Vicki, let me tell you this story about your piano you gave me. So I tell her the whole story. Her mouth is wide open, she's wide as a goat.

[00:45:40] She says, oh my God, I grew up with that piano and us kids used to make fun of my mother because she used to always say who's saying mom and none of us were. So obviously the little boy was looking for his mom. I felt bad.

[00:45:57] The night after it happened, I went in the room and I shut out the lights and I told the little boy to go to the light. I said, your mom's in the light, little boy. So I think he went because we haven't had

[00:46:11] any disturbances since, but I will never forget that story. So do you still have the piano? No, we got rid of the piano and funny thing is my husband hated that piano. He's like, I hate that piano, we should get rid of it.

[00:46:26] So recently we were talking about it and he said, you know, I used to get creeped out because one key was on the piano when nobody was home. And I was like, no way, I was like, that totally happened. But he's kind of the type,

[00:46:40] he kind of tries to avoid any paranormal, he's in denial type person. But yeah, we don't have the piano anymore. That's really interesting. That's very interesting. Well, thank you so much for sharing this story. I believe anything that you think about something that the people pour energy into

[00:47:01] and you certainly do that with an instrument like a piano that maybe there's something that comes along with it. Well, thank you so much for sharing this story and always glad to hear from a fellow Northeast Ohioan. Thank you for being on the show today.

[00:47:17] Thank you, Jim, so much. Claire is on the line from the great state of Texas. We're so glad to speak with her and she's gonna tell us about something. Well, we've had a lot of people call into the show and talk about and her and her husband

[00:47:30] have experienced this phenomenon as well. Claire, welcome to the show. Thanks for your support and please tell us what happened. Thank you, Jim. I'm glad to be here. So this is a very odd little story. It's not very scary, but it's definitely weird.

[00:47:50] So I thought maybe somebody else could relate to it. And it was kind of fun actually. So I had been out of town for a weekend. I went to visit my son at college. My husband couldn't go. He's a dining services director for an assisted living facility

[00:48:08] and that involves working weekends a lot. So he was home and I was out of town and when I got back, it was a Sunday afternoon, mid-afternoon and he was still at work. So I started unpacking my things from the weekend.

[00:48:26] I took my bag back into our bedroom and was pleased to see that he tidied up a little and he made the bed and he knows that's my one household chore that I like to do every day. So I was grateful to him for that

[00:48:44] and I noticed that in the middle of the bed was a pair of his socks, which kind of made me chuckle. But I didn't really think anything much of it. They were just socks. So as I accumulated a pile of laundry on the floor,

[00:49:00] I tossed the socks into the pile. They were kind of crumpled up and I figured maybe they needed to be washed. So I picked up the pile and threw it in the washing machine and I forgot about it. So later that night, I changed into my pajamas

[00:49:19] and we were gonna watch TV. And I was wearing this pair of white pants and I kind of put them on top of a laundry basket and then hurried into the living room to watch TV. And at that point, my husband said,

[00:49:34] "'Hey, you wanna hear this ghost story?' So I kind of thought he was teasing me because he knows I like ghost stories. And so of course I said yes and he said that earlier that morning when he'd made the decision to tidy up

[00:49:51] and he'd gone in and made the bed and got it all neat and smooth. And then he went on to the rest of the house to pick up some things and to finish getting ready for work. So he said maybe 15, 20 minutes later, he went back into the bedroom

[00:50:08] to get something before he left. And that's when he saw the pair of socks on the bed. So it kind of discombobulated him a little bit. I think he hadn't put the socks there and there was nobody else in our house. It was just him.

[00:50:24] And so I think he got a little weirded out. He said he'd just left them there because there was no way he was gonna touch them and he left the room. And so I said, oh, that's funny. I saw those socks. I threw them in the washing machine

[00:50:41] and that made me remember about the load of wash. And so I went to get it out of the dryer and while we watched TV, I folded it. But when I got done folding, there was only one sock. And so we were kind of laughing about that

[00:50:58] and I figured well, it probably just stuck to the side of the dryer like they do. So I went and checked and I didn't find it in the dryer and I didn't find it in the washing machine. So I don't know, socks are weird.

[00:51:14] Again, I wasn't thinking too much about it until a while later when we went back to get ready for bed and there sitting right on top of a laundry basket on top of that white pure pants was the other sock.

[00:51:29] So we didn't know what to make of it really. It was kind of weird. And it wasn't very scary. I mean, they're just socks but that, you know, it was just a little tiny mystery and I kind of tend to regard those things.

[00:51:47] They don't happen to me very often but I sort of try to see them as a friendly little greeting from some non-physical place. And we laugh about it now. We call up the story of the haunted socks which I don't really think they're haunted.

[00:52:08] And I did ask him some questions about it when he first mentioned it. I said, are you sure? You know, you weren't just going to wear them maybe and when you were getting ready for work and you put them on the bed and forgot about them.

[00:52:21] And he said no, those are his boot socks and he never wears his boots to work. And not only that but his closet is actually in a different room. So it's not like his socks are kind of laying around everywhere if they were in an entirely different room.

[00:52:42] But anyway, that's the mystery. Well, I kind of take it the same way as you take it that it is, you know, something saying wink wink nudge nudge and as we were talking off air we've talked about this quite a bit.

[00:52:56] The book Jot, just one of those things by Mary Rose Barrington who passed away a year or two ago unfortunately. I wish she had been around to see how many people have talked about this phenomenon on this show and I know you bought the book you said

[00:53:12] but I think it is, I think it really and so many people have mentioned this. You know, one or two people that could be well with me they just misplaced something and just forgot but I honestly believe that folks are really retelling

[00:53:29] just something very, very strange to happen to them. It's not, you know, it's a horrible terrifying thing but just something that seems to happen over and over and over to people. And I kind of take it the same way you do.

[00:53:42] It's kind of a wink and a nod from something in the universe, it's very interesting. Yeah, and there, you know, when I think about it there is a lot of, there's a lot of sort of things happening around us. My father-in-law is very ill.

[00:54:03] I recently lost a friend. Oh, I'm sorry. Thank you. Other people that I know have lost family members like they're, you know, in that way it's nice to have a little reassurance even if I don't know where it's coming from. Well, we wish you the best certainly, Claire.

[00:54:22] Thank you for being a part today of The Camp Fire. Thanks very much, Jim. It's been a pleasure. You're listening to Jim Harold's Camp Fire. Next up on The Camp Fire we've got Gavin from the UK, love to hear from our friends in the UK.

[00:54:40] There's always so supportive. And he's going to tell us a story about, well, a place where he lived and the strangeness that ensued. Gavin, thank you so much for taking time out of your busy day and please tell us what happened. Yeah, thanks for having me on, Jim.

[00:54:58] I really appreciate it. I've been listening for a long time so it's a bit of a dream come true to finally be on the show with you. Yeah, so this story takes place in about 2000, starts off in about 2007 and then jumps to about 2013.

[00:55:15] So it's sort of two stories that are connected. Some people have told me it's not really a ghost story but you could also say it's maybe a series of strange strange happenings. Anyway, so I'm from the south of England but my parents are from Scotland

[00:55:33] and from different towns near Glasgow and I decided to go and do my undergraduate degree in Glasgow to sort of be around family and stuff like that. So I moved to Glasgow in 2004 it was, yeah, not 2007, 2004. And first place that I moved into

[00:55:54] also happened to be the first place I lived outside of my home. I don't know if you know the way that most of Glasgow works but it's very old style tenement buildings. A lot like in New York or Chicago and there'll be about four levels high.

[00:56:13] We call them flats not apartments and large flat. We'd have about four or five rooms in them. So I moved into this place it wasn't actually for students except it wasn't student housing. It was so various sort of young people doing various in various kind of careers

[00:56:30] and things like that all kind of hodgepodge together with completely randomly. And things first started getting quite, there was a lot of strangeness in the flat to start off with but various strange things going on but what basically happened, it's quite hard to describe

[00:56:48] is that I started waking up in the evenings middle of the night with my sensation, my bed was shaking. The only way I could describe it was to be somewhere between those sort of motels sort of lady fingers, what electric fingers whatever you guys call them.

[00:57:04] A sort of mild sensation like that to up to sort of a mild earthquake. And now I've obviously been listening to your show for a long time and you know, I've heard similar accounts being told before and people always describe them

[00:57:17] as being like a mild earthquake or something. It's such a strange sensation it's really difficult to describe. You know what it isn't but you don't know exactly what it is and I mean, I've been interested in the paranormal particularly ghosts ever since I was old enough

[00:57:34] to watch Ghostbusters on video. So about you know, from the age of about four or five just absolutely obsessed with it but I've also been absolutely terrified of ghosts the whole time as well. So kind of weird combination of fascination and terror.

[00:57:51] And if anybody told me that I was moving into a haunted house I'd just be straight out the door and you know, I wouldn't even step foot in there. I wouldn't even be able to sleep the night. So anyway, but the strange thing was

[00:58:08] because at that time it wasn't a sensation that I remotely associated with the paranormal with ghosts or anything. So I'd wake up and because I was a student I was drinking a lot as well, you know, going out a lot.

[00:58:23] And I'd, you know, wake up in the middle of the night with this extremely strange sensation. So, and this happened an awful lot and I just didn't know what to make of it and often when it would happen I'd wake up very, very groggy

[00:58:37] and sort of barely even remember the next morning and at that time wouldn't really know what to make of it but it was like the entire bed was shaking not the room, just the bed like literally as if somebody was picking up the bed

[00:58:49] and just shaking it all their might but that would obviously have to be someone very strong. So anyway, a few months or weeks later a young couple moved in and I got very friendly with them. You know, after knowing them for a little bit

[00:59:04] we went through a drink at the local hub around the corner and getting to know each other a bit and just out of the blue I'm not sure whether it was, you know because of having a couple of pints or what kind of he instigated this.

[00:59:18] It's so long ago now like I can't remember a lot of the details quite fuzzy, but the guy suddenly piped up and just my memory thinks I'm a must have been talking about something he just suddenly said, oh, I wake up every single night

[00:59:32] and there's an old man sitting on the end of my bed and he's just sitting there and he doesn't say anything and it was at that point somehow I just associated the two things that suddenly slapped together in my mind suddenly knew that they were connected

[00:59:53] even though I hadn't thought of the bed shaking as being remotely paranormal in any way and no idea what it was suddenly somebody connected the dots in my brain I knew they were connected and at that point I was completely freaked out

[01:00:09] I mean, I stayed there for a good while longer and I don't remember as I say it's a long time ago and I don't really remember what I felt or thought about afterwards or if it must have continued but I don't remember being scared of that

[01:00:25] and anyway, I mean, I've told people about this over the years and a lot of people said oh, it's not how an old ghost could be anything you know, and of course, Glasgow has an underground train system, but it's nowhere near that part

[01:00:41] of the city where I was living we could explain in any way but as I said, something you just knew what it wasn't but that story then he told me you know, really shits and shivers up me and he was sort of dead, deadly serious

[01:00:57] he was quite a relaxed guy and he was deadly serious his partner sort of seemed to corroborate it in a strange way like she didn't want to talk about it right she said she hadn't seen her but there was something between the two of them

[01:01:12] as if she believed, she had believed him or she had seen it as well but she didn't want to have anything to do with it she was sitting there and she just didn't want to talk about it so my feeling is that she had seen it too

[01:01:25] but he said it was an old man sitting on the end of his bed anyway, fast forward for the sake of brevity many years later, I was living in London I've moved in with a friend of mine after a month of desperately looking for somewhere to live

[01:01:39] moved in with a friend of mine in the south of London to this very old, quite typically spooky Victorian house and the landlord lived in the flat underneath and as I was moving in literally as I was like moving boxes in he just turned to me and said

[01:01:57] oh, you know this place is haunted though which is the most ridiculously you know, I mean, he's chewing himself in the foot there just to say that as somebody's moving into his house and anyway, as I said earlier I mean, somebody said to me that to me

[01:02:17] and then my instinct was literally to turn and run I can remember the feeling but I was so desperate for somewhere to live at that point I just had to take it and I remember and again, you could say it's the power of suggestion

[01:02:29] and all that, but I found the place really, I've never lived in a creepier colder, more unwelcoming house than this one and for a variety of reasons and after a while I moved from one room because it was just so ridiculously big and I felt incredibly uncomfortable

[01:02:50] so I moved rooms into a smaller room and almost immediately as soon as I'd moved into the smaller room I had the same sensation as back in Glasgow of the bed I've lived in many, many, many flats and houses over the years

[01:03:10] and these are the only two places I've ever had it and I had the same sensation exactly, it's the second it started still remember lying there in bed and it started going, oh, this is just like Glasgow just knowing that it was connected to that

[01:03:25] in some way or another and it happened multiple times in that house and I heard a few stories about things in that house so as I said, it could be the power of suggestion you don't know but when it's happening to you

[01:03:39] I mean, I also remember that I was wide awake I mean, unlike in Glasgow I'd wake up with it happening and I'd be all groggy and I wasn't sure what was happening exactly but in London I remember being completely wide awake and it just happened

[01:03:54] and there had been no logical explanation for why it was happening so I just feel like the London story sort of validates the Glasgow story Yes Yes So that's it really and you seem like a very level-headed person you don't seem like someone given to flights of fancy

[01:04:15] would you agree with that? Well, my wife wouldn't say so I think I do think about these things a lot I think about what it is how it could work all sorts of things how it relates to history and things like that and difficult circumstances

[01:04:37] like people being murdered and things I think about it a lot in the supernatural a lot but I think I like to think I'm a yeah, a skeptic who believes if that makes any sense That makes perfect sense

[01:04:52] Gavin, thank you so much for joining us today on The Campfire Well, thank you for having me, Jim Lee is on The Campfire all the way from South Africa and I've got to tell you it really means a lot to me when anybody calls in

[01:05:07] however, it's doubly gratifying when we know people listen in other countries it really makes my day and Lee is going to share with us a story about some things that have been happening or have happened to his mom and we're so glad to have him on the shows

[01:05:26] Lee, welcome and please tell us what happened Hi, Jim, thank you so much Well, my mom, to put it into context my mom is a very devout religious person and unsceptical my mom told me a couple of times since she's lived in the house she's living in now

[01:05:46] she saw an image of my dad standing in the doorway through a bedroom as clear as I can see anything and he just stood there looking for it at her shaking his head as if he was apologizing for something and I first thought

[01:06:11] mom, I don't know what met you on are you sure it's not an hallucination and she said no not that at all she's a very grounded person she doesn't buy into any sort of weirdness and she just saw my dad standing there it wasn't, she wasn't fearful

[01:06:33] she wasn't worried about what this means but then a few days later after she saw my dad a cousin of hers passed away some far cousin I don't know how many times removed and that was the first instance then the second instance happened when

[01:06:55] the lady that used to own the house with her late husband she was a really despicable person and then used the second open bedroom as an office and then about 3 a.m. in the morning my mom could walk in my place by someone typing on the keyboard

[01:07:15] as loud as you would get anybody typing next to you in an office and then she heard people taking paper out of a print like almost out of a printer looking at it and then currently not throwing it away and this happened over a couple of nights

[01:07:33] until my mom is a very large sleep I get upset with this ghost or spirit or whatever it was and said I've had enough of you this is not your house anymore your wife has gone to wherever she's gone to

[01:07:50] leave me alone I'm sick and tired of it then that was the last of that but then another spirit came in who's a the mother the late mother of a friend of hers they've known each other for 47 years and then this lady actually spoke to her

[01:08:12] as clearly as I'm talking to you and then this lady said her daughter's name is Mona she says I'm so sorry for what she's doing to you how she's treating you it's not right and she was gone and I kept on talking to my mom

[01:08:33] oh yes sure it's not the medication you're on and she says no she went to the doctor she had a self-tested because she's a hard patient so she has to go for regular testing sure and the doctor said no there's no way that

[01:08:47] this medication specific medication you're on will cause any sort of hallucinations and my mom is always a very very lucid down to F person and I also found it weird because as I said my mom is a very devout religious person and normally things like this don't

[01:09:10] she doesn't buy into it but it's happened so often now and people that she's known past on after she's encountered these entities or whatever they are not worrying her but it's piqued her curiosity a bit so this is something that's relatively recent after your dad passed

[01:09:31] so she never had any history of seeing visions of people who have passed before this is relatively new this is relatively new within the last couple of months and my dad passed away about this year it was six years that he passed away

[01:09:48] and now all of a sudden he's he turned up she's been hearing these noises and people that she's known has turned up no reason why now all of a sudden and it's just as she can't explain it she's curious she's not fearful of it she just gets upset

[01:10:11] that people were waking her up telling her things that she said could wait until the morning right right interesting interesting well you know I do believe people have this ability and I think you're also smart to double check on the medical possibility

[01:10:28] that was really smart to check because as you know people age they get different afflictions and things so I think it's smart to keep an eye on that but I do believe that sometimes things are unveiled to us things that are of the other side

[01:10:44] and maybe your mother has gained you know with time some kind of gift like later in life I'm not sure because in South Africa we have this superstition where in the Afrikaans language it basically translates to when you basically when you're born if you're born with that membrane

[01:11:08] or whatever it is babies are born with and instead of splitting and you coming up it's still on you and then they have to wipe it away so now they basically believe if you've born with that I'm not sure what it's called

[01:11:22] then you will have the ability to encounter or feel or see something with the spirit well there's that superstition and my mom always said she was born like that with that way so she feels she's always had it to some extent yes definitely and she's only

[01:11:44] experienced it now because maybe she feels like as she's put it maybe God wants her to tell people I look you know you're doing this wrong or you need to change this or I have this message or don't offer people some comfort very very good

[01:12:05] Lee thank you so much for joining us all the way from South Africa really thank you so much I really appreciate it anytime it was really an honor for me thank you so much well next up on the show is Catherine from Salt Lake City

[01:12:20] and it's kind of cool because her and her sisters Trish and M are listeners so a spooky shout out and stay spooky to Trish and M and today Catherine is going to tell us a story or stories from her niece her niece was a little shy

[01:12:36] and didn't want to call in but Catherine wanted to share these great stories and I can't wait to hear them Catherine welcome to the show thank you for joining us and please tell us what happened okay so my niece was a CNA and a very nice assisted living

[01:12:54] center with an elderly population and she had some paranormal things happen there so the one story that she said was the creepiest happened in a particular residence room she said there were many CNAs who told her that they'd heard voices and had other creepy experience

[01:13:15] in this residence room but she didn't believe in that sort of thing so she tended to think because most of them happened working late at night that they were just kind of making it up because it was late at night and they were meant to be yeah so

[01:13:33] she did find out though that they were right there were things happening she said one night she put a certain resident to bed quite early and was supposed to check on her every couple of hours this night was super busy and a few hours had gone by

[01:13:47] she was nearing the end of her shift when she realized that it had been almost four hours since she'd last checked on her it was about 10 o'clock when she walked toward the room she listened outside the room to hear if anything was going on inside

[01:14:00] and didn't hear anything so she didn't knock not wanting to wake her up she opened the door slowly and listened again and she heard a man's voice she quickly ran down the hallway because she'd never been so scared in her life and when she got to the office

[01:14:16] she saw all of her co-workers were there so she knew it couldn't have been one of them and she told them what was going on and there was a certain older co-worker who didn't believe her and volunteer to return to the room to check it out

[01:14:32] they ran back down the hall together and slowly opened the door and her co-worker also heard the man's voice and freaked out a little this resident had dementia and wasn't usually able to formulate sentences very well but she was answering the man's voice in complete normal sentences

[01:14:48] oh wow bright so they closed the door for a minute and they knew they needed to go in the room to see what was going on so they quickly opened the door again turned out of the light and walked in nobody was in the room

[01:15:01] except for the residents she was wide awake sitting up in bed after being in bed for almost four hours they asked her were you talking to someone and she said yes then they begged her to tell them who she was talking to

[01:15:16] and she said wouldn't you like to know oh man she said this was the creepiest thing that's ever happened to her and um she knows for sure there was a voice with a man in the room at night the next day when she was talking to the resident

[01:15:32] she asked her again who was it you were talking to last night and the resident again said wouldn't you like to know oh that's weird wow that is strange now there's more though right yeah she has a few other experiences from there if you'd like to hear another

[01:15:49] yeah please give us another okay this this was another pretty creepy thing she said um this story happened between me a co-worker in the residence a few hours after I got off my shift she said we had a resident who was very particular about her bed time

[01:16:05] routine she only liked to go to bed when it was dark and needed her bedroom lights turned all the way off in order to fall asleep she also required full assistance and wasn't able to move on her own so we helped her get to bed every night

[01:16:18] and this particular night it got dark around 9 30 and that's when they put her to bed and then after she put the residents to bed at 10 o'clock she left when they and that's when they locked down the facility at 2 o'clock her friend was working the night shift

[01:16:36] and her friend said the resident pulled her alert button so at 2 a.m the friend went down to the room but the light was on and the resident was wide awake the resident asked my friend to turn off the light

[01:16:51] since she was unable to move about on her own and do it for herself and then she also she asked that resident the santa did so did the santa who put you to bed forget to turn out the light

[01:17:06] and the residents said no she did turn out the light which was my knees so she knew she had turned the light out so the residents said yeah the light was off but then I had a visitor that had come to talk to me

[01:17:18] in the middle of the night and she turned the light back on and that the visitor had just left so she needed to light off again so the cna said that's confusing because the building locks at 10 and we don't have visitors at night

[01:17:35] and the resident said well didn't you see her if you passed each other when you came into the room and she waved at you as she left so the co-worker ran out in the hall but there was no one there

[01:17:46] and they really believe it must have been a ghost because my niece knows the light was off and the only way that light could have turned on is if someone was in the room wow wow man and that's the thing I mean particularly now these people

[01:18:04] didn't sound like they were dying or anything but there's a lot of death bed visitations that are reported there was one story we had in campfire quite a while ago it was I in I may not get this 100% correct but this is the gist of it

[01:18:21] the gist was this family member went to see an elderly family member I think it may have been a grandparent I'm not sure he kept going on and on and they thought that he was gonna be fine he was coming home in a couple days

[01:18:35] he was in for a minor procedure and he kept going on about this person who visited him who was like an angel and he just kept going on and on about which I think was not like him and they couldn't figure out who he was talking about

[01:18:48] like it was a nurse or something but he just couldn't figure out what he was talking about so a day or two later the granddaughter goes to visit him I think on a day they thought he was gonna be discharged and again

[01:19:02] I'm remembering this off the top of my head so I may not have the details 100% correct and they go to his room and the bed's empty and she goes to a nurse and somehow it worked out he had passed and she didn't know about it

[01:19:18] and he had just passed a day or two after there was a visitor this strange beautiful woman this angel type figure who visited him and was talking to him at great length so I mean I really believe that older people it kind of reminds me of kids

[01:19:34] you know when you're closer to the veil on that side I think you see more things and I think maybe when you're closer on the other end you may see more things as well I really believe that to my grandma

[01:19:46] as she was nearing the end of her life she would say well I feel like it's not too far out because I'm not seeing anyone yet she said but she said in our family for sure people come to visit before right before your life ends

[01:20:04] so I feel like this kind of supports that my niece had so many experiences that were similar to this in that care center probably because it's kind of in the middle that between life and death yeah did you ever wonder about towel dispenser

[01:20:21] yes but you like to hear that one yes please tell us that one okay so she said one day they were there was a resident in the lobby so some of the residents needed full care and some could get around on their own and she was very uncomfortable

[01:20:36] and kind of yelling in the lobby so in trying to help her they brought her into the cna office to help make her feel better so they got her calmed down and they were talking to her for about 15 minutes but the whole time they were talking

[01:20:50] she kept looking behind them they they tried to ignore that and kept talking to her in a calm way and she said suddenly she pointed behind us and said what that the office was very small and there was nobody behind them while while they kept talking

[01:21:07] she continued looking and pointing near us to the back corner of the room where there was an odd motion activated paper towel dispenser and she just kept looking back there and then all of this and she pointed back to that back corner again and said who is he

[01:21:23] and just as she said that a paper towel came out of the dispenser there was nobody close to the paper towel dispenser at this point they were a little freaked out so and they continued to talk to her and she kept looking behind them

[01:21:36] and then she scanned the whole room and when she got back to that back corner another paper towel dispenser came out interesting interesting Catherine thanks to you thanks to Trish and M and thank your niece for sharing this story or these stories on the campfire tonight

[01:21:55] okay thanks for having me we've done it again we have completed another successful journey on the campfire keep your hands inside the vehicle until we come into a full stop please and thank you for joining us important business before we go a spooky shout out this one's belated

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