S2. Ep.3: 3 True Night Terrors

The night isn’t quiet—it’s just selective. We open with a childhood moment that still hums years later: a grandmother seen at the crib after her passing. That memory sets the stage for a striking dream encounter at a lakeside, complete with a name—Pete—and a tattoo that later checks out in a photo. Are dreams simply memory’s echo, or can sleep thin the veil enough to let something true walk through? We don’t force an answer, but we do follow the evidence where it leads.

From bedrooms to back roads, the mood shifts fast. A late-night drive in rural Louisiana turns primal when a small, crouched figure with red eyes rises to towering height and blasts away on bat-black wings. The description evokes classic Mothman reports, but we probe the details: flight speed, posture changes, and why nocturnal behavior might keep sightings rare. Then we step into a yard by a stream, where a dog won’t back down, an apple hammers the ground, and several large shapes move with purpose while hooting to each other. Rock throwing, vocals, group travel—these signposts fit Bigfoot lore, but the moment that matters most is restraint: a shotgun held and not fired, because mystery isn’t a license to shoot.

Threaded through every story is a simple practice—attention. We compare symbols and sleep science with mediumship claims, weigh cryptid ecology against folklore, and lean into the field ethic that good witnesses share: observe clearly, act safely, and document with care. If you’ve ever woken from a dream certain it meant more, or stood in the dark feeling watched and couldn’t say by what, this conversation gives language to that edge-of-knowledge feeling and offers a way to carry it without panic.

Got a story that still keeps you up? Share it with us—call 412-533-3483 or email somethingswatchingfromthedark@outlook.com. If this episode sparked a theory, hit subscribe, leave a review, and tell a friend who loves the strange as much as you do.

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Transcript

Cold Open And Tease

SPEAKER_05 0:01

What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to another episode of Somethings Watching from the Dark. What's going on, buddy? How are you? I'm doing good. I'm doing good. Today, this episode, we got some pretty interesting stories. Uh, I must say. We got uh Bigfoot. Wait, do we wanna do we want to give too much away? I don't know what I'm doing. This is a this is a new structure for me. So like I'm I feel like I'm fumbling around. Like I want to introduce it, but I don't want to give too much away.

SPEAKER_03 0:40

Just say we got Big Foot mouth thing and some sleep stories.

Childhood Visitation Story

SPEAKER_05 0:45

Some paranormal some sleepy paranormal stories. Okay, well yeah, I guess we'll just dive into it then.

Dreams As Messages

SPEAKER_01 0:55

I don't even so my story um started when I was probably about three years old. I was laying in my crib of at my house, and about two months prior to this, my grandma lived with us, and she actually was in the room that I was staying in. It was her bedroom, and she passed away. And my parents put me in that bedroom. And I was laying in my crib and I looked up and she was standing over top my crib, looking at me. And it scared me at the time. I remember crying and feeling for my mom and feeling she feels she feels she feels. And my mom said, Here I said, grand, grandgram, and um at the time I didn't know you know that I had I didn't know what it meant to see someone that really wasn't there. So it kind of scared me at the time, but now looking back, I think it's kind of cool. I didn't know at the time that me and my fiance we bought a house back in May of last year. And it was I want to say October of last year. I was taking the half out to the curve and I saw like a shot figure. Um this guy had a probably half on, and you could like see the outline of the person, and it looked identical to his father. And I said, Hey, um it like the the figure from him and it it looked just like his dad. And then there was a time that when me and my fiancee first started dating, we went on vacation together, and we were uh actually up the dream on the lake. We stayed in a cottage, and I never met his pat actually a few years before me and him got together, and we were f we were sleeping while I was sleeping, and I had a dream that there was a man standing by a lake and and I was talking in my sleep and I said Pete said hi. Um my my fiance woke me up and he was like who's who's Pete and I said I don't know, he said hi. Um I said he has a tattoo on his arm and I finally look away and he showed me a picture of him, and that was exactly the person I saw in my dreams. So yeah, it's pretty cool that I can like communicate with people in my dreams, but I can't like I can't communicate with them when I'm awake, it's mainly in my dreams that I see them and like can communicate with them. But yeah, that's about all for my stories. Okay. So my story started when I was sorry, it started over.

SPEAKER_05 4:22

Okay, so there was there was more than just the the ghost in the dream. I I should have screened the call a little bit more before I gave any kind of information away. But what's your thoughts on that?

SPEAKER_03 4:34

It's um very interesting. I believe people can see people in a dream because they're less vulnerable. Or they're more vulnerable for something to come in and talk to them in that sense. So um I don't remember ever having any dreams like that. And um, I might if I just don't remember. But um, I think it's very possible for people to communicate in their sleep.

Pirate Dream And Meaning

SPEAKER_05 5:07

Yeah. The okay, so dreaming is something that does kind of fascinate me in a way because I feel like that's probably like the closest that we're going to get understanding, you know. Because they say that you we we are connected to the spirit world somehow whenever we dream. Whenever we go to sleep, we go back to the spirit world. I don't know. I would like that to be the thing. I don't dream. Do you dream?

SPEAKER_03 5:39

People say you dream every night, you just don't remember.

SPEAKER_05 5:42

That's crap. I feel like I will say there are some times that I'll remember something about the dream that I had. Or maybe I there are moments, it's like very, very rare that I'll be like aware that I'm dreaming. Like I had a dream recently. I had to reach out to my cousin about this, and I don't know if she watches or listens to the podcast, but I'm telling it anyways. I had this dream about my cousin the other day. We were I was at her house. She just recently moved, and I don't know, I don't even know what her house looks like, but uh we were at her house, and there is these pirates that just like showed up outside, and I immediately knew we gotta hide, we gotta get away, we gotta escape, we gotta go. So we like tried to hide and get away. But for some reason we decided that we were gonna try to sneak past them, and we like were sneaking by them, and it felt like they didn't even care that we were there, like they had no idea. But I bumped into one of them, and it was somebody else that I knew that I went to school with, but it was completely irrelevant. All of a sudden, the house turned into a boat. The house is now on water, we're in the middle of the ocean, and we can feel the house like starting to roll in the water. And I look at her and I'm like, we gotta get to the roof. And that was pretty much the dream. I don't know what it means, I don't know if it means anything, but that's the last dream that I remembered.

SPEAKER_03 7:22

Yeah, they say dream makes us supposed to mean something, but nobody really knows what it means.

Listener Call-In Invite

SPEAKER_05 7:28

Yeah, yeah, I don't know what it means. I would like to know what it means. There's people out there that'll like look into it further, or I maybe there's like things about the dream that are like relevant to like symbols or something, like the water means something, the house means something. Yeah, thank you for calling in. If you've had an encounter, you can actually leave us a voice number. I'll put the number up here on the screen. There it is. It is 412-533-3483. If you've had a paranormal encounter or have witnessed decrypted um or something like that, give us a call and tell us your story and we'll play it on the podcast. But speaking of stories, we have more. I don't know how I would handle this. I did a scene either.

The Winged Creature Encounter

SPEAKER_00 8:46

Hey, so I've never really told anyone this except the people with me that night and my best friend who actually claims to have seen it on a different date. I didn't even know until I described my experience to him. So I was living in Louisiana with my cousin and his wife. Which you know, we've done thousands of times. But anyway, one night in 2015, we were leaving a church we used to clean around 2 a.m. or so. We were in my cousin's 1990 GMCC era single cab 4x4, just riding the back roads. Me and him were talking, listening to Nirvana. His wife was asleep in the middle seat. We turned onto a paved road about five miles out of town and around a curve, and there it was. I have hunted all my life, been in the army, I spent hours in the woods at night, but I've never been freaked out like that. Something was dead in the road, and something was eating it. When the headlights hit, it looked up. It was it was kneeling, maybe it was like it was like two and a half feet to three feet tall with red eyes. Then in a in literally a millisecond, it stood up seven or eight feet tall. It was pitch black, its skin like like a you know, like a bat, but darker, and then it leapt. It it's its wings snapped open and it flew into the woods at what had to be over 50 miles per hour. I've always been skeptical about the about paranormal stuff, but I know what I saw that night, you know, my cousin does too, and it was without a question the weirdest thing that I've ever experienced. But yeah, that's my story. Bye.

Debating Mothman And Mobility

SPEAKER_05 10:40

Hey, so I I gotta get better at clicking the stop button, or else it's just gonna look it sounds like a like a bat, like a big bat.

SPEAKER_03 10:54

Mothman.

SPEAKER_05 10:57

But Mothman doesn't have like well, I don't know why. He never said leathery, did he? I don't know why I'm like a big, but he said like a bat, so like I'm imagining this bat-like creature.

SPEAKER_03 11:12

Yeah, but a lot of people say Mothman looks like a bat-like creature, too.

SPEAKER_04 11:16

Did he say where it happened?

SPEAKER_03 11:18

Louisiana. Louisiana.

SPEAKER_04 11:23

Has there been Mothman sightings in Louisiana?

SPEAKER_03 11:26

There's Mothman sightings always up there. Yeah, I guess.

SPEAKER_05 11:32

I don't know. My advice to you, dude, is probably stay away from that area. I wouldn't go back there.

SPEAKER_03 11:41

I would. I like to go see that creature again.

SPEAKER_05 11:46

I would go, but I wouldn't go by myself. And if I went by myself, I wouldn't be, I wouldn't be going without something to, you know, protect myself with.

SPEAKER_03 11:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 11:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:56

No, if it is Mothman, it's weird how Mothman keeps showing up in different areas of like the United States. We had that one lady on who saw Mothman, I forget where it was. She was driving to work. And the other lady we had Mothman appeared to her as like a paranormal entity. So it's weird, like the whole Mothman thing. Is it like one creature or is there multiple different creatures? Like a species. Yeah, like Bigfoot. How there's multiple Bigfoot. That's I don't know. Maybe. And that could be the reason why all of them look a little bit different, because it's all a different species of Mothman.

SPEAKER_04 12:56

But where is it staying at?

SPEAKER_03 12:58

Is my question. How is it not being seen by more people? I mean, how expected to be not seen by more people, too. Yeah, I get it. But this thing's in the sky, you would think. Yeah, but how often do you really look up into the sky?

Bigfoot At The Apple Tree

SPEAKER_05 13:15

True. I I guess. And if it's a nocturnal thing, then maybe it's it's you know flying by undetected in some way. But definitely, dude, if you were going back air, yeah, it sounds like you should probably take something with you. Like a pew pew pew pew. Anyways, this next story, this guy did exactly that, and I don't blame him. I would have done the same. So here it is.

SPEAKER_06 13:50

I've never really told anyone.

SPEAKER_05 14:23

I don't have great internet. If you want to donate to the Help Dustin's internet fund, that would be that would be amazing. Let me try this again.

SPEAKER_02 14:36

Something isn't right. My dad grabbed a flashlight and he went outside to see what was going on, and Blazer he seen him was standing next to the apple tree by the stream at the back of the property. He was barking non-stop and he was refusing to back away. But as my dad got closer, something suddenly flew out of the tree and it struck the dog hard enough to knock him over. When he shined the light toward the ground, he realized it was an apple that had been thrown. Now, that's when my dad decided he wasn't comfortable staying outside, you know, at least unarmed, so he went inside and grabbed his shotgun. When he came back out, he said that the yard felt different. He said that he could see several large figures moving down the stream heading away from the house. He said that they weren't running, but it seemed like they were moving with purpose. You know, as they as they went, they were hooting to each other, almost like they were communicating back and forth. The dog never stopped barking. He was clearly shaken, but he wasn't back and down. And my dad could hear both the dog and the hooting at the same time. He said he stood there watching as these figures disappeared farther down the stream, but he never fired his shotgun, and he just let them go. But that was all he ever said about it. No drama, no theories, just what he saw. And that was that was it. That was my story. Hi, so this is the story that my my dad told me a while back. I never had.

SPEAKER_05 16:14

I will learn this eventually and then we'll be good to go. I will I will be tech savvy. Give me a whole not give me a whole season and we'll be good.

SPEAKER_03 16:23

Right.

SPEAKER_05 16:26

To me, that sounds like dang, my elbows all jacked up. I don't know. Uh sounds like Bigfoot to me. Bigfoot throws rocks and stuff.

SPEAKER_03 16:35

I'd probably say Bigfoot. I've had Bigfoot throwing rocks and stuff, but I never had, I mean, I personally never heard any stories about him throwing apples, which I mean I don't see why it matters what he's throwing.

SPEAKER_05 16:50

I think that that's like an instinct or like it's it's like a warning kind of like get out of here, leave me alone. Yeah. I would have probably would you, I probably would have gone back inside. I if I if I seen if there was more than one of them, especially, I would have gone back inside.

SPEAKER_03 17:09

Yeah, no doubt. Sorry, I'm gonna leave you out there.

SPEAKER_07 17:16

You're gonna stay outside.

SPEAKER_03 17:20

And um he said I which I liked that he didn't take a shot because he didn't know what they were. So he didn't take the shot, which most people might take a shot at them. Which I wouldn't take a shot. As a hunter, you don't take a shot at something you can't pinpoint on bug, I guess. Right.

SPEAKER_05 17:50

Right. I mean, I don't think that I don't think he really said anything other than it was just dark figures, dull dark figures. That could be, you know, it could be drunk people walking through the backyard.

SPEAKER_03 18:06

Yeah, you just I you just don't know you don't want to risk hitting something, killing somebody. Yeah. Which I respect that.

SPEAKER_05 18:18

Go ahead. Explain that one. That one's that one's on the news. Man murders somebody because he thought they were Bigfoot.

SPEAKER_03 18:26

That's a story.

SPEAKER_05 18:28

Golly.

SPEAKER_03 18:29

That's definitely a story right there. It's not as bad as that guy during hunting season.

SPEAKER_05 18:38

What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_03 18:39

Are you gonna hear that story?

SPEAKER_05 18:42

What no?

SPEAKER_03 18:43

Oh god. So during hunting season, this guy dressed up as a deer looking like a full deer and went out into the middle of the woods going way for season and got shot. What was his reasoning?

SPEAKER_05 19:07

I don't know. Like, was he trying to just be done with it? I I don't know. I feel like that was intentional. He was like, uh, I'm I don't want to do it myself, but I also don't want to be here anymore. Let me put on these antlers and trot through the woods and hope for the best.

SPEAKER_03 19:34

If not, then if you're just going out for a stroll in the woods, fucking like a deer.

SPEAKER_05 19:41

I'm already out there worried that I'm gonna get shot because somebody might mistake me for something. Right. I that's like have you ever seen some hunters, they'll like kill a turkey, but then they'll like fling it over their back and carry it out the woods.

SPEAKER_03 19:56

Yeah, no, I'm just dragging that shit.

Wrap-Up And How To Submit Stories

SPEAKER_05 19:59

I'm not putting it over my back. I feel like somebody might mistaken me for the turkey. Right. That'd be a big turkey. But I don't have any more. That's it. That's all that we got for this episode. Again, guys, if you've had an encounter, please reach out to us. Let us hear your story, let us share your story. You can text it, you can call in, leave us voicemail, 412-533-3483, or you can email us. We have we have a new email address. It is now, what is it now, Luke? Something's watching from the dark, I believe. Something's watching from the dark at outlook.com. I think is what it is.

SPEAKER_03 20:44

And if you call with your story and longer than four megax, just call back. It was a three minute.

SPEAKER_05 20:53

Yeah, three minutes to cut off.

SPEAKER_03 20:54

FX longer than three mega or cut you off, just call back and well play it.

SPEAKER_05 21:00

Just pick up where you left off. Yep. But that's it, man. Thank you guys for listening. That was a fun episode. I like that one. I enjoy doing these types of episodes. I do too. But I feel like it's still not quite there yet. Yeah, we'll gotta go there. The beginning of this one was rough. And the end of it, uh, we're kind of coming on to the end of it, and I can feel it's a little rough. It's a little rough ending. We need to figure out we need to figure it out. How many episodes did it take us before we had the exploring the unknown dialed in?

SPEAKER_03 21:42

It took a little bit, but that's what you did when you start something there.

SPEAKER_05 21:48

So yep, if you don't start, you'll never start at all. Right? Exactly. All right. Bye guys.

SPEAKER_03 22:00

Yeah.