1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,220 You have been led to believe that everything you have experienced isn't real, that there's 2 00:00:10,220 --> 00:00:11,220 an explanation. 3 00:00:11,220 --> 00:00:14,220 But what if they're wrong? 4 00:00:14,220 --> 00:00:18,920 What if something reached out to you from beyond? 5 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:21,560 Let me tell your true stories. 6 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:31,320 Let me tell them until they all believe. 7 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:39,880 Hi guys, welcome back to Paranormal and Supernatural True Stories, 8 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:43,840 have titled Haunted Neighbors. 9 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:46,880 This is quite a different story today. 10 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:51,760 I really enjoyed this one, and I know you will too. 11 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:58,480 Let's not waste any time getting into the true experience sent in by Mason. 12 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:05,600 Hi, my name is Mason, and I'm from a southern state in the United States. 13 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:10,480 First of all, I love your podcasts and the way you bring stories to life. 14 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:15,320 I'm hoping you tell my story, and I hope that others who may have experienced something 15 00:01:15,320 --> 00:01:18,040 like this would comment. 16 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:19,920 A little background first. 17 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:25,000 I have worked from home since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. 18 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:30,160 After a year, my company had decided that working from home had people calling off less 19 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:34,440 and boosted productivity, so here I am. 20 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:39,760 Also, this works so much better for me as I tend to be a little reclusive. 21 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:42,160 I am not married, nor do I want to be. 22 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:43,920 I like being alone. 23 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:50,360 I guess I never really was very interested in interacting with other people very much. 24 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:52,400 So I live in a decent neighborhood. 25 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:58,600 There are a lot of retirees around me, which makes it even better for me as it's very quiet. 26 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:02,760 I've developed a sort of a friendship with my one neighbor, Hank. 27 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:07,800 He's retired, and he and his wife Sheila have lived here for about 20 years now. 28 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:11,120 I have lived here close to 12 years. 29 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:16,080 Over this time, we have helped each other with different projects around our homes. 30 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:21,560 He likes to jokingly complain about his wife, and I actually enjoy our banter. 31 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:25,480 About once a week, usually on a Friday evening, he will call. 32 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:29,600 He'll let the phone ring two times, and then hang up. 33 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:33,440 This is our code for meat at the fence. 34 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:35,480 He's quite the character. 35 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:42,160 He's usually waiting there with a six pack of beer, and we talk away the evening sun. 36 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:45,880 We made the beers last too, if we were in a mood to. 37 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:48,360 We talked about nearly everything. 38 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:52,520 Though I enjoyed our time together, I was always glad to get home and have my silent 39 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:53,840 time. 40 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:58,280 Being around other people seemed to exhaust me sometimes. 41 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:04,520 My work desk is positioned at a window so that I could work with natural light. 42 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:08,920 I can see Hank's front and side porch from where I sit. 43 00:03:08,920 --> 00:03:14,960 I always see the comings and goings of the mailman, the delivery men, and visitors. 44 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,000 There wasn't much that I missed. 45 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:23,480 And let me say, I am not intentionally staring at their house, but I can peripherally see 46 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:29,500 movement from where I sit, and naturally, I look to see what is happening. 47 00:03:29,500 --> 00:03:35,660 One day I saw such a movement and looked over towards their house, and there was a man standing 48 00:03:35,660 --> 00:03:37,640 on the side porch. 49 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:43,040 Just standing there, as if he had knocked and was waiting for them to answer. 50 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:45,040 I went back to work. 51 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:48,920 Next time I looked over there, the man was gone. 52 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,720 And I went on with my work day. 53 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:56,320 Friday came around, and my phone rang twice. 54 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:59,620 So I headed out to the fence. 55 00:03:59,620 --> 00:04:04,000 We decided to sit in the lawn chairs on his side of the fence tonight, and we began our 56 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:10,240 weekly routine of guy talk, and yes, that included gossip. 57 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:16,080 Somehow the subject came up of delivery men, and I mentioned the guy I saw waiting on his 58 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:17,080 side porch. 59 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:19,720 The side porch, Hank said. 60 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:22,120 Why would a delivery guy be there? 61 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:23,760 They always go to the front porch. 62 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:29,720 Well, I don't know, I said, but he waited, and I assumed you got your package. 63 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:33,320 Well, what delivery service was it, he asked. 64 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:37,040 Honestly, Hank, I didn't pay close enough attention. 65 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:42,040 If I recall right, he was wearing all blue, I believe. 66 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:44,120 Hmm, Hank muttered. 67 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:45,120 Strange. 68 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:46,600 Well, no mind. 69 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:49,760 He'll be back because he never left the package. 70 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:51,000 Right, I said. 71 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:52,000 No worries there. 72 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,400 They'll always come back. 73 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:58,820 The Monday workday went as usual, nothing different. 74 00:04:58,820 --> 00:05:05,000 But that Tuesday, I noticed that guy in blue again standing on the side porch at Hank's. 75 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:09,620 Again, just standing still, waiting. 76 00:05:09,620 --> 00:05:14,960 I seen Hank and Sheila's cars were there, and that meant they were definitely home. 77 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:19,640 I reached for my landline phone and gave them a call. 78 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:21,440 Hello, Hank said. 79 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:26,600 Hey, buddy, that delivery guy is standing on your... and then I could see that the guy 80 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:28,120 was gone. 81 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:30,200 Uh, never mind. 82 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:34,240 But that delivery guy was just there a second ago, Hank. 83 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,240 Can you guys hear if someone knocks at that door? 84 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:40,640 Well, of course we can hear Mason. 85 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:43,440 We aren't feeble yet for crying out loud. 86 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:50,800 Hey, Hank, why don't you put up a sign on that door telling him to go to the front door? 87 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:54,080 Oh, yeah, okay. 88 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:56,040 That's a fine idea, Hank said. 89 00:05:56,040 --> 00:06:03,120 A little while later, I saw Hank out there taping it up to the window part of the door. 90 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:07,720 So another Friday came around, and we met at the fence and parked ourselves in my yard 91 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:08,720 this time. 92 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:11,680 Hey, Hank, you ever get that delivery? 93 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:15,840 No, no, we never got any delivery yet. 94 00:06:15,840 --> 00:06:20,920 The wife says she hasn't ordered anything, and I know that I haven't either, so this 95 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:23,880 guy... he must have the wrong house. 96 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:26,000 That's likely why he hasn't come back. 97 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,720 Yeah, I said, that makes sense. 98 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:33,320 And we finished the night off early. 99 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:40,280 That night, as I settled in for sleep, I heard a scraping sound in my kitchen. 100 00:06:40,280 --> 00:06:49,640 I did not have any pets, nor do I have rodents as far as I knew. 101 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:51,440 That was my first thought, though. 102 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:55,160 A mouse, or even worse, rats. 103 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:58,760 Damn it, I had to get up to investigate. 104 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:01,840 I could still hear it. 105 00:07:01,840 --> 00:07:02,840 What the hell? 106 00:07:02,840 --> 00:07:06,480 I turned the light on, and it stopped. 107 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:11,040 Damn it, I thought, that's definitely some kind of rodent. 108 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:13,920 And then I just went back to bed. 109 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:20,880 The next day, Saturday, I went and bought the hardware and the poison treats for rats 110 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:26,480 and mice, set it all up throughout my home, and figured the problem would be solved within 111 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:29,040 a week or so. 112 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:36,720 I was sadly mistaken about it being rodents, and what happened next. 113 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:39,680 I can tell you, it just blew my mind. 114 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:44,640 Sunday night, that same week, I heard the scraping sounds again. 115 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:50,840 I lay still and tried to determine exactly where it was coming from, as it seemed closer 116 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:53,440 than the other night. 117 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:56,160 It seemed to be in the bathroom area. 118 00:07:56,160 --> 00:08:02,960 I sat up, and in the dim light of my hallway, I saw something shadowy, and it ran past my 119 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:04,320 room. 120 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:12,280 The figure I saw, very briefly, was small, like maybe a 20 pound dog size, and there's 121 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:17,040 no way that's a rodent, at least not from where I live. 122 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:22,520 And it scrambled out of sight when I raced to the hallway and hit the lights. 123 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:25,080 It went into the bathroom. 124 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:26,680 Got you now. 125 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:33,480 I walked ever so slowly down the hall, creeping up to the bathroom door. 126 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:38,400 I put my hand at the edge of the door frame, at the height of the light switch on the other 127 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:46,360 side of the wall, and then, as fast as I could, I switched on the light, and I see nothing 128 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:47,360 in there. 129 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:49,680 No way, I thought. 130 00:08:49,680 --> 00:08:52,560 Actually, I said it out loud. 131 00:08:52,560 --> 00:08:54,640 No fucking way. 132 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:58,360 That thing was too big to not be in here. 133 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:01,400 There's nowhere to go in here. 134 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:03,760 Okay, I thought. 135 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:07,360 I could chalk it up to maybe I was dreaming. 136 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:11,480 I must have fallen asleep and thought I had seen the figure in the hall. 137 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:15,040 Yeah, that kinda made sense. 138 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:20,960 The next week, during my lunch break, I caught a glimpse of that man on Hank's side porch 139 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:22,320 again. 140 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:27,760 I ran to the door to yell over to him, and by the time I got to the doorway, the man 141 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:29,120 was gone. 142 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:30,200 Now. 143 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:31,320 Nope. 144 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:34,560 Not possible, I thought. 145 00:09:34,560 --> 00:09:39,680 Now I started to wonder if he wasn't a delivery guy. 146 00:09:39,680 --> 00:09:42,520 Possibly another neighbor? 147 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:48,000 I would let Hank know that I saw him again, and apparently the guy had no interest in 148 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,980 Hank's sign to go to the front door. 149 00:09:51,980 --> 00:09:58,040 During this week, I experienced little shadow figures again, only this time, it sat itself 150 00:09:58,040 --> 00:09:59,800 in the kitchen. 151 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:02,560 Like in the archway to the kitchen. 152 00:10:02,560 --> 00:10:05,640 I could see it by the corner of my eye. 153 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:09,800 It was evening, and I could only tell that it was there. 154 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:15,920 Try as I might to see it better, without turning my head, I could see no details. 155 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:21,640 Then I quickly turned my head, and just as quickly, it ran down the hall. 156 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:24,600 For long, it was back. 157 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:26,600 Just sitting there. 158 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:32,280 I am not the kind of person to be scared easily, and I was definitely not afraid, however 159 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:36,600 my curiosity was what was killing me. 160 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:40,080 I needed to see this thing. 161 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:44,040 And I did not even think this was any kind of paranormal thing. 162 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:49,080 I had never in my life given that sort of thought to anything like that. 163 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:55,320 It kind of crossed my mind now a little, but not quite yet. 164 00:10:55,320 --> 00:11:00,320 It played the whole hide and seek sequence over and over again during that week, and 165 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:06,360 finally I had decided to put up a camera in the exact area it was appearing. 166 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:07,560 I had it now. 167 00:11:07,560 --> 00:11:10,320 I would finally see it. 168 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:15,000 In the meantime, Hank and I took a trip to the hardware store near town. 169 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,960 Guy shopping, that's what Hank called it. 170 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:23,560 So we guy shopped, and Hank asked if I could lend a hand on a small project at his house, 171 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:25,840 and of course I said yes. 172 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:32,760 Keep in mind this store is a small town store, not super wide, brightly lit aisles like the 173 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:34,880 big chain stores. 174 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:40,280 As we walked down the aisle, with the shovels in it, I saw one of the little black figures 175 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:42,680 dart across the aisle in front of us. 176 00:11:42,680 --> 00:11:46,280 I jumped and yelled, did you see that? 177 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:47,280 Did you? 178 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:51,840 Hank startled and yelled, what the hell's wrong with you? 179 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:55,640 You're like to give an old man a heart attack acting a fool like that. 180 00:11:55,640 --> 00:12:01,280 But Hank, listen, remember I told you about the thing I saw in my house? 181 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:04,480 Oh yeah, yeah, your little shadow rat. 182 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:10,800 No, but yes, well, I just saw it here, right there. 183 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:11,800 And I pointed. 184 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:16,200 Boy, he said, you done lost your mind. 185 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:18,040 You spend too much time alone. 186 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:20,520 A woman, that's what you need. 187 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:25,720 They keep you on your toes with no time for such foolishness. 188 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:27,720 You know that's a rat, right? 189 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:29,760 They come up from the creek now and then. 190 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:31,200 That's all it is, Mason. 191 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:32,560 You'll see on your camera. 192 00:12:32,560 --> 00:12:34,560 You'll see. 193 00:12:34,560 --> 00:12:36,960 Hank was wrong. 194 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:43,640 The next time I saw one, I was on my couch, and I could peripherally see it sitting near 195 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:48,240 the kitchen again in perfect view of my camera. 196 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:49,720 Got you now, you bastard. 197 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:52,720 I jumped up and it ran off. 198 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:55,200 I reviewed the footage. 199 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:58,080 My heart nearly stopped beating. 200 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:02,080 There was the exact spot it was sitting a moment ago. 201 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:05,360 And there on the video was nothing. 202 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:07,520 Nothing but the kitchen floor. 203 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:09,960 No critters of any kind. 204 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:13,880 Hmm, now what I thought. 205 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:17,720 As I turned and shut off my desk lamp, I noticed something at Hank's. 206 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:18,720 Was that? 207 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:23,800 Was that someone standing on his side porch? 208 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:27,800 I peered into the darkness, straining my eyes. 209 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:36,720 And holy shit, it was that guy dressed in blue, just standing there, in the dark, facing Hank's 210 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:38,840 side door. 211 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:44,200 I reached for my landline phone to call Hank, and suddenly the side porch light came on. 212 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:47,600 The guy in blue never moved when Hank came out. 213 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:51,800 Hank stood there, and then reached for something on his chair. 214 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:58,000 When he did that, the guy in blue looked directly over at me. 215 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:02,560 I knew he couldn't see me, but I swear he did see me. 216 00:14:02,560 --> 00:14:03,880 He saw me. 217 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:07,320 And it gave me chills. 218 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:12,000 I could be feeling guilty for spying, but it was bothersome. 219 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:17,120 Damn it, I would love to hear what this was all about. 220 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:22,120 And then Hank went back in the house, leaving the guy out there, and then turned off the 221 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:23,880 porch light. 222 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:30,400 I went to call Hank, but then remembered, Sheila doesn't like phone calls after dark. 223 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:32,440 She thinks it's rude. 224 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:38,600 The guy in blue was gone, and I was left with a flood of curiosity that I would have to 225 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:40,920 live with until tomorrow. 226 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:44,920 And perfect enough, tomorrow was Friday. 227 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:47,920 It was fence talk day. 228 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:54,480 I went to bed, and when I rolled over, I glanced at the door to my hallway, and peering in 229 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:57,920 at me, I saw a figure. 230 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:07,680 At this time, it was taller, man-sized, and only peeking in at me, I could make out a 231 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:15,560 head and one shoulder, and when I gasped at the sight, it was gone, and it didn't pull 232 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:17,240 back behind the wall. 233 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:21,880 I mean, it was simply not there. 234 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:24,400 Another dream? 235 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:26,000 I thought not. 236 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:32,120 I jumped up and searched my entire house, checked every window, all my doors. 237 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:36,480 No possible way that was an intruder. 238 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:43,080 And what I hated to think of was that, if it wasn't a human intruder, then what was 239 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:45,400 it? 240 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:50,680 The next night, at our fence ritual, we had some light talk about the weather, and then 241 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:56,600 I said, how long you gonna keep me in suspense about the guy in blue? 242 00:15:56,600 --> 00:16:00,280 Hank caulked his head at me, genuinely confused. 243 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:02,160 Say what now, Mason? 244 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:03,640 What do you mean? 245 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:08,960 Hank, last night, I saw you talking to him on the side porch. 246 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:10,760 Hank still looked confused. 247 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:15,320 Hank, I saw you turn on the light and come out. 248 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:21,600 Yeah, yeah, I know what you're saying, Mason, but there wasn't no man in blue on my porch. 249 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:28,560 I left my reading glasses out there on the chair, and wasn't anyone there but me. 250 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:35,200 I stared in his eyes for the truth, and I could see he was not fooling me. 251 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:36,800 He was serious. 252 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:39,360 Hank, I said. 253 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:49,640 Hank, I saw you outside last night, and standing directly in front of you was that man. 254 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:52,240 That man I have seen for weeks now. 255 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:58,280 Now, I'm not trying to argue with you, but you know me, and you know I'm dead serious 256 00:16:58,280 --> 00:16:59,760 right now. 257 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:06,600 I saw the man, and I know for a fact that man saw me too. 258 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:13,040 Hank just sat there, sipped his beer, had a good stretch, and said, 259 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:14,840 So what do you suppose then, Mason? 260 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:17,960 You think it's a ghostie or something? 261 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:23,560 Well, I told him about the tall figure I had seen last night in my hallway. 262 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:26,000 Hank did not seem convinced. 263 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:29,320 Hank seemed very doubtful about the whole thing. 264 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:33,360 Hank, I need you to believe me. 265 00:17:33,360 --> 00:17:36,240 Your opinion has always been valued by me. 266 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:37,240 You know that. 267 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:39,720 You do know that. 268 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:46,440 Hank kept sipping his beer, raising his eyebrows, taking deep breaths. 269 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:50,120 I don't think he knew what to say, and finally he said, 270 00:17:50,120 --> 00:17:56,640 Well, Mason, if you say you saw it, then I suppose I have to give some thought toward 271 00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:57,640 it. 272 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:01,840 But you know, I don't go for all that spooky creepy shit. 273 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:07,760 I lived my whole life without any ghosts, and I would prefer not to start now. 274 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:10,720 I started to interject, but he held up his hand. 275 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:12,480 Hold up, Mason. 276 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:14,280 Let me finish. 277 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:20,000 I'm not an unreasonable man, and I have lived through a shit ton of scientific breakthroughs 278 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:22,400 in all my years. 279 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:27,920 Things we have now, we never even dreamed of as kids, not even in our science fiction 280 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:28,920 books. 281 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:36,400 Now, I do suppose it's possible there are things we don't fully understand, what they're 282 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:38,760 calling the supernatural. 283 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:43,480 I can see that I suppose I can understand that. 284 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:49,680 I mean, I heard tales when I was a child of my grandmother haunting her old house, but 285 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:52,760 you see, I had never seen her. 286 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:56,680 So I don't know that I really ever believed in it. 287 00:18:56,680 --> 00:19:02,640 All this, including your strange visitor, is just a bit too much all at once for my 288 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:03,640 brain. 289 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:05,640 I need a couple days. 290 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:09,920 He finished his beer and bid me good night. 291 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:14,040 The next week, I kept seeing the tall figure. 292 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:17,040 Once at the end of the hallway. 293 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:18,840 Once in the kitchen. 294 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:21,080 Again, no details. 295 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:28,720 And again, it never ran like the little shadow figures, the tall one just disintegrated, 296 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:29,720 like at will. 297 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:34,840 I didn't feel anything ominous from these visits. 298 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:39,600 If anything, my curiosity is what was killing me. 299 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:41,220 What did it want? 300 00:19:41,220 --> 00:19:42,840 And why now? 301 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:48,960 I had lived here a long time, with no crazy activities before. 302 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:53,480 I was in my side yard, pulling weeds from my flowers one evening, and I happened to 303 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:58,640 glance over at Hank's, and that man was on his porch. 304 00:19:58,640 --> 00:19:59,640 Shit. 305 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:03,120 I did not have my cell phone with me. 306 00:20:03,120 --> 00:20:04,120 I yelled. 307 00:20:04,120 --> 00:20:05,120 Over. 308 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:08,200 Hey, hey buddy, what are you doing over there? 309 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:12,160 Hey, hey, I'm talking to you, hey, hey you. 310 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:13,800 Just then Hank came out. 311 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:16,040 He probably heard my shouting. 312 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:20,760 Man in blue took advantage of the open door as Hank stood midway between the door and 313 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:22,080 his house. 314 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:26,400 The man in blue walked right into Hank's house. 315 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:30,260 Hank, Hank, he's in your house. 316 00:20:30,260 --> 00:20:31,400 He went in. 317 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:37,960 I yelled it as I was running towards his house, screaming and pointing like a lunatic. 318 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:41,000 Hank looked a little unnerved and said, are you sure? 319 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,200 Are you sure you saw him go inside? 320 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:44,680 Yes, yes, I saw. 321 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:46,760 I saw it. 322 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:50,240 We went in the house, searched every room. 323 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:52,640 We didn't find anything. 324 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:54,800 We sat at the kitchen table. 325 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:57,720 Hank said it was a good thing Sheila was at Bingo. 326 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:01,720 She would not take kindly to any of this nonsense. 327 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:04,680 We sat there throwing ideas around. 328 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:06,320 Nothing made sense though. 329 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:08,840 I decided to call it a night. 330 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:12,000 Hank said he would be fine being alone tonight. 331 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,800 He didn't feel there was anything crazy in his house. 332 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:22,400 I wondered though, did he really believe me or was he placating someone who might be losing 333 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:24,480 his mind? 334 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:28,540 Someone who was seeing dark figures in his house at night? 335 00:21:28,540 --> 00:21:33,400 Someone who lived alone with little human contact? 336 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:38,880 No matter I thought, time to get home and start the nightly ritual of shadow watching 337 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:41,540 and strange noises. 338 00:21:41,540 --> 00:21:48,800 As Hank was walking me across his yard toward my house, we both just stopped. 339 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:53,800 Hank muttered, what in the holy hell? 340 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:55,880 His voice trailed off. 341 00:21:55,880 --> 00:22:01,880 My house was like a choreographed light show. 342 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:07,440 Every light in my house was turning off and on and not all at once. 343 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:11,880 It seemed too perfect a pattern to be an electrical issue. 344 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:17,320 Some lights would be on and then others off, all through the house. 345 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:21,320 I don't know how long we stood there watching. 346 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:25,240 Before long a patrol car pulled in front of my house. 347 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:26,720 I met them at the curb. 348 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:28,400 Is this your house? 349 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:29,400 Yes, officer. 350 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:30,400 I'm Mason. 351 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:35,560 I'm officer Reynolds and we received a call about a possible emergency at this address. 352 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:37,880 Yes, sir, I understand, I said. 353 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:39,720 I see why someone would call. 354 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,160 Are you having electrical issues here? 355 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:43,160 No, sir. 356 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:44,840 No, none that I know of. 357 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,520 Is there anyone else inside, Mason? 358 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:48,520 He asked. 359 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:50,560 No, sir, I live alone. 360 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:54,960 Hmm, okay, well, this is a first for me, he said. 361 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:57,480 I would suggest we hit the main breaker. 362 00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:02,120 Just shut it all down and maybe you can stay somewhere else tonight, just for safety's 363 00:23:02,120 --> 00:23:03,120 sake. 364 00:23:03,120 --> 00:23:06,160 Maybe you can call, maybe get an inspection. 365 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:08,280 Yes, sir, I said. 366 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:12,000 The cop and I went inside the house and shut it all down. 367 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:20,880 There was a strange, terrible sound inside as we were leaving. 368 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:22,120 We both stopped moving. 369 00:23:22,120 --> 00:23:25,840 The officer had his hand on his gun. 370 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:29,280 What the hell was that, he asked. 371 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:31,840 I'm sure I don't know, sir. 372 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:33,600 Can we just get out of here? 373 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,160 My pleasure, he said. 374 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:40,360 Before the officer left, he leaned in close to me and said, 375 00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:45,440 You might want to call your clergyman along with the electrical inspector. 376 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:47,440 Good luck. 377 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:49,760 Hank was waving me over to his house. 378 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,960 He said, You aren't staying in there tonight. 379 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:58,480 Come on, let's go to my study and you can bunk in there on the godforsaken daybed my 380 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:02,640 wife insisted on putting in there for crying out loud. 381 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:08,840 I realized as we walked inside the study that I had never really been in this room. 382 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:10,880 The door was usually shut. 383 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:15,120 I may have caught a glimpse of it here and there over the years, but I never actually 384 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:18,280 had been inside. 385 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:23,000 Hank sat at his desk and I couldn't sit quite yet. 386 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:29,360 I was pacing as we were talking back and forth and then I noticed that on every wall in this 387 00:24:29,360 --> 00:24:36,680 study there were pictures of Hank's life, the cars he once drove, the landmarks he had 388 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:45,040 visited, the dogs he had loved, pictures of him and Sheila in their younger years in various 389 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:48,400 places, vacations. 390 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:55,080 I was barely listening to Hank rattle on about how Sheila spends a fortune at bingo and how 391 00:24:55,080 --> 00:25:00,200 tomorrow he would just definitely go over and check out my house for any electrical 392 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:01,200 issues. 393 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,560 He was quite skilled with electrical issues. 394 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:12,600 I was focused on a picture on the wall, a man standing nearly sideways looking at the 395 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:14,260 camera. 396 00:25:14,260 --> 00:25:20,200 I plucked a picture from the wall and set it on his desk and said, Hank, who's this 397 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:21,200 man? 398 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:29,480 And if that picture were in color, Hank, would his clothes be blue? 399 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:30,480 Hank stared. 400 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:39,800 Yes, yes, they would be blue and that's my brother Carl, my long dead brother Carl. 401 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:43,880 I didn't know you had a brother. 402 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:49,600 Hank explained how he and his brother had been really close as kids and then complete 403 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:52,120 opposites as adults. 404 00:25:52,120 --> 00:25:56,560 They didn't even speak anymore by the time they were in their late 20s. 405 00:25:56,560 --> 00:26:00,160 This picture was the last time he had seen his brother. 406 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:02,880 Hank, this is the man. 407 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:10,700 This is the man on your side porch, the very same man I saw come into this house. 408 00:26:10,700 --> 00:26:13,800 Hank was too upset to talk anymore. 409 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:17,800 After a long silence, he said good night. 410 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:21,400 It was a restless night, to say the least. 411 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:26,400 The next day after Hank said it was safe to turn on the breaker, all seemed well at my 412 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:29,520 house, even peaceful, I might add. 413 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:33,200 The next few nights passed without incident. 414 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:37,440 No shadows, no noises. 415 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:44,440 The absence of it all kind of worried me, but never again did I have anything happen 416 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:46,440 in my home. 417 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:53,560 Even stranger, at least to me, was I never seen the man in blue again, or rather Carl, 418 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:55,140 I should say. 419 00:26:55,140 --> 00:26:59,980 It all stopped as suddenly as it all began. 420 00:26:59,980 --> 00:27:06,800 During our many fence times since then, we have had lengthy discussions on these happenings. 421 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:14,440 The only thing we could come up with was that the incidents at my house seemed to be driving 422 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:23,440 me to go to Hank's house, especially that last night, so that I would see the picture 423 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:25,100 of Carl. 424 00:27:25,100 --> 00:27:30,880 Since Hank could not see him on the porch, we figured that Carl wanted Hank to know that 425 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,480 he had been there. 426 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:39,480 And as it turned out, it seemed that Hank thinks he knows the reason. 427 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:46,840 Hank said that when Carl died, the only people that would go to Klingon's house was himself 428 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:51,400 and an old friend of Carl's, and they found a note. 429 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:57,560 It was in their mother's handwriting, and you could tell it had been handled a lot, 430 00:27:57,560 --> 00:27:59,200 worried over. 431 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:03,440 And it said, You have to go to Hank's house. 432 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,320 You have to tell him you are sorry. 433 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,340 You have to be family again. 434 00:28:08,340 --> 00:28:10,720 Do this, Carl. 435 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:14,000 Do this before it's too late. 436 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:19,320 She was pleading with her son to make things better. 437 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:23,360 When Hank told me about the note, it kind of wrapped it up for me. 438 00:28:23,360 --> 00:28:28,760 I think the whole experience changed Hank, changed him in a way that was good though, 439 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:30,840 good for his soul. 440 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,960 Thanks for considering my story for your show. 441 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:40,840 Oh man, this story gave me all the feels, scary and heartfelt. 442 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:43,480 I do agree though with you Mason. 443 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:48,720 I definitely think the activity at your house was meant to scare you into going to Hank's 444 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:52,260 so that you could see the picture and identify Carl. 445 00:28:52,260 --> 00:28:57,240 I wish we knew more about Carl and Hank's relationship, but from the gist of the story, 446 00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:01,520 I am assuming Carl died and left unfinished business with Hank. 447 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:07,160 And the note from their mother practically begging him to go to his brother. 448 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:13,800 It would seem Carl was going to honor his mother's wishes, even after death. 449 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:18,800 It is touching to think he came back as a gesture of peace between them. 450 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,280 Great, great story Mason. 451 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:22,800 Thanks so much for sending it. 452 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:27,560 And I have to say, if I was seeing the things in my house you saw in your house, I don't 453 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:29,600 know that it would have drove me to my neighbors. 454 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:33,560 It probably would have drove me to put a for sale sign in my yard. 455 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,800 But way to go with the bravery there. 456 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:42,680 So okay guys, don't forget tier 2 is now open over at Patreon so that you can subscribe 457 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,000 to all my shows and not miss a beat. 458 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:50,240 There's a lot of great stories over there that's going to be available to subscribers 459 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,240 in the shadow files. 460 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:56,960 Once you subscribe to tier 2 you will have full access to every show I produce here at 461 00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:00,480 Paranormal and Supernatural True Stories. 462 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:07,000 Also if you have an experience you would like to share, send it to My True Story at MyYahoo.com. 463 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:11,920 Thanks, thanks so much for spending your time with me today. 464 00:30:11,920 --> 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