Strange Happenings Next Door | with Monica Brennan

In this episode, I talk with my sister, Monica, about some unexpected, crazy, and sad occurrences that happened next door to her. This conversation is a great example of how we really don't know what someone else is going through behind closed doors. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:17

Welcome back to the Dissatisfied Podcast. I am Rochelle. And I'm Monica. We're sisters. We are. So today's podcast is going to be very interesting. I think you're going to like it. Monica is going to talk about some strange happenings next door in the duplex she lives in. And these stories happened in 2024, so not too long ago. But I'm just going to hand you the reins, Monica, and you can start giving us the lowdown. All right, sounds good.

SPEAKER_00 0:45

So just cut into the chase, unit came available. I do the interviews. Had to be springtime. All through the interviews, I'm like, ah, you know, in my head, don't like this person, don't like that person. Came across this young man who brought his mom. And I was like, in my head, I knew, well, I think I'm, I think I'd like him to be my neighbor. And because they would have been my neighbor, we share a laundry room. So ended up calling them. They accepted the offer. You know, moving in. I talked to him. I was like, yeah, good choice. You know, good kid. Parents are there, really nice people. He was like 20 something. 24. Yeah. So cut to, I don't know, late spring now. Still cool outside. I'm in my apartment watching TV. It's around eight o'clock at night. And I'm hearing voices outside. Like a guy, a girl, and a dog. And then my neighbor's voice. I'm like, oh, that's so it's good. Finally. So you heard like a total of three people and then a dog. Yeah. I was like, oh, he's having people over. That's great. Oh, he was courteous enough not to let them in the house with the dog, since we're a no-pets kind of living situation. So unmute the TV, watching again, still hearing them chit-chatting. And again, I didn't want to be the old lady neighbor who comes out, you little whippersnapper, what are you doing? It's eight o'clock at night. You're being too loud. So I'm just sitting there. I can still hear them, got my TV up. I get a text from there are two neighbors across the way who've been there for like four to five years. And I, of course, have everybody's number. And she texts and she's like, Hey, um, just wanting to know if you know what's wrong with your neighbor. I was like, I reread it and like, what is she talking about? I'm like, I literally texted back. I'm not sure. I think he's had he has people over. And she goes, uh no. He's kind of leaning out his screen door, just chit-chatting. And I texted back, there's no one there but him. And she said, Yes. So I got it like pit in my stomach, weird feeling. I was like, okay, what is going on? So I completely turn the TV off. And I go up to my front door and I'm just listening, and I'm hearing voices, plural. I'm hearing a man, I'm hearing a woman, I am hearing a dog bark. So I text the neighbor girl again. I'm like, okay, so seriously, it's just him. And she responded back, yes. So I put my coat on. I knew right then and there I had to go figure out what was going on. But I also knew that for some reason in me, I knew if I just casually opened the door and walked over there, he would shut down. He would shut the whole door, he would not respond. So I secretly unlock my inner door, open it very quietly. My porch light is not on. I've got my hand on the screen door and other hand on the porch light. And I'm gonna flip the light and open the door really quick and poke my head out and look left, because that's where he would be sticking out of his door. I did just that, and I caught him just as the neighbor said, leaning out the door, shirtless, had pants on. Just him, and just a quick, quick visual. I see that, and I see papers in the front yard.

SPEAKER_01 4:23

Like just torn-up papers or everything.

SPEAKER_00 4:27

Books, papers, pamphlets, a whole bunch of stuff. But remember, I'm oh, what would that be? 30, 40 feet away.

SPEAKER_01 4:34

Oh gosh, not even that.

SPEAKER_00 4:36

No?

SPEAKER_01 4:36

Maybe 20.

SPEAKER_00 4:37

Okay. So anyway, but I just did it real quick and I'm I ducked back into my place. So I texted the neighbors again and I said, Hey guys, if you could keep an eye out, I'm gonna go attempt to talk to him. And both of them, a guy and a girl, they both responded and were like, Yes, we will be watching. So I literally uh had my phone on the ready for 911 just in case. And I walked out at a at a curve, like out into his front yard, so that I could be what five to six feet away from the the door, and I can see in through his screen door, and he's sitting on the couch, just staring at the wall. Like his left side profile is what I see. And I just am shouting his first name and asking, can I help you? Can I help you?

SPEAKER_01 5:33

So was his screen, it was just his screen door. So his door is kind of open, so it was just the screen door. Correct.

SPEAKER_00 5:39

His front door is open. So and I'm like very loudly saying his name. Can I help you? Are you okay? Do you need help? All this stuff. While knowing it's just weird. I just knew I knew he would not hurt me. Um, but also too, I was scared because okay, voices, you know, just well, yeah, because it was freaky. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm slowly approaching the door, and he just turns to the left and looks at me. Just dead faced, soulless looking eyes. Um I kept approaching the door because I knew at that moment I was like, he needs help. In my head, literally came out the words, he needs help. I didn't know how to help him, but I was going to. So I actually got to the front door, the screen door, and I opened it, a crack, and I looked directly at him, and I was like, I said his name and my name, hey, I'm your neighbor. I'm here to help you. Is there anyone that I can call for you? What are what's going on? And he immediately says, You need to call my doctor. So I was like, Okay, this is the first. Like, I don't, okay. And I just was agreeing. I'm like, Do you have his number? He got up from the couch, goes to another couch where over by where his phone was, and grabs his phone, he looks at me, he's like, it's dead. And I go, Hold on, let me get you a charger. I had to go over to the neighbors and grab an iPhone charger, and we got his um phone charged up. So I'm in the house now. I'm I'm standing right in front of him, and I do still feel the presence of something not good, but also too, knowing because I pray and because I believe that nothing was going to happen.

SPEAKER_01 7:28

Nothing that's because let's just interject this he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. So it's because you carry the presence of Christ in you.

SPEAKER_00 7:36

100%. Yeah. I don't go on. I don't know that anyone else would have done it if they weren't, you know, walking with God. So um I'm in there, and he finally was able to pop up the screen, and I got his doctor's number and I called, voicemail, left it, looked right at him again and said, Let's call your mom or your dad. And he goes, Yeah, yeah. So called the mom. She picks up, I told her what was going on, and she goes, Monica, call 911. And I and my heart sank because I was like, Okay, something, something's obviously something's wrong, but it's really wrong. And they know like something's up. And I asked her, I'm like, what's going on? She's like, you need to call the psych ward at Carl Health. I was like, okay, I will let them know that's where you want them to go. And she said, Thank you. Uh, they were in Alabama, so that's why they couldn't just come to take care of the situation. So I did just that. I walked over to the other neighbor's house and called 911 from there. They were on their way. So I walked back and told the neighbor, neighbor kid, get, you know, could you put a shirt on and some socks, maybe a hoodie? You know, grab a few things. Are there any books you like? And he was getting excited because I said, You're gonna go see your doctor at Carl Health. And his face and change changed and his demeanor changed. He was happy, he was excited. So he goes out of my sight back into his bedroom. I'm hoping, and at the same time, too, you know, you're still praying the whole time, thinking, Okay, I don't think he has a gun, but what if he has a gun? Little things like that are coming up. So it seemed like an eternity that it was taking him, but he came out head to toe, hoodie, socks, backpack, ready to go. He was ready to get out of him. Comes right up to the screen door, he's inside, I'm outside, and just stands there and goes, Are they here yet? Yeah. I opened the door, I'm like, if you want to come out, you can, or you can stay in there, they're on their way. But remember, um, at this time though, by the way, two cop cars, unannounced, meaning no lights, no sirens, had pulled up, uh, gotten out, and uh one of the big guys was behind me asking me questions about, you know, does he have a gun? Does he have any weapons? I'm like, I don't know, but I was in there, I felt safe. I don't think he's gonna do anything, he's not harming himself, etc. And then finally the ambulance pulled up, and a really nice young lady got out and started asking me the questions and phone numbers of people. And so I gave her all the information um I had, and she's the one who finally opened the screen door and said his name, and he got excited, and she's like, Do you want to go? And basically walked him over and got him up in the ambulance and away they went.

SPEAKER_01 10:28

Okay, and then let's rewind just a little bit to the papers that you saw strewn in the yard. When did you notice what they were?

SPEAKER_00 10:38

Well, very soon thereafter, um, when I had made that curvature round to go see inside the door, I'm in the yard where the papers are. And as I'm walking up closer and closer, saying, How can I help you? Do you need help? I'm noticing pages from a Bible. I'm noticing Christian pamphlets. Um, a miniature Bible was actually out there. Whole bunch of religious, I guess, or or Christian-based things because But actual torn Bible verses that he had torn out of a Bible.

SPEAKER_01 11:12

Torn pages and tore them up and threw them out.

SPEAKER_00 11:14

Now, precursor to this young gentleman was one of the leaders in his youth group at his church. His parents, uh, when they're in the town, members of this church. A lot of their family lived in Alabama, though, so they went there a lot.

SPEAKER_01 11:32

And now let's fast forward just a little bit that once you connected with his mom, she explained to you what he is diagnosed with. No, she didn't.

SPEAKER_00 11:42

Oh, she didn't? No, it was what, two, three days after the whole situation, I got a phone call from the father. Oh, okay. Where he asked if he could come talk to me face to face. And we did just that outside underneath my awning. It was kind of raining. I had my garage door open and we started chatting. And that's when he told me that um his son had been suffering from schizophrenia for years, plural. He had been doing really, really good on medicine, his all of his medications, and he had uh come to his parents requesting to um move out and and make it on his own again, and because apparently he had tried it before, and that's when the parents were backing him on it. Um, apparently the dad told me that they had spoken with him and said, You need to tell Monica your past what's going on. She's your neighbor, so she can help you if you need anything, etc. He never did that, so I had no clue until the dad's talking to me after everything. Um, and then come to find out there is like the the dad was telling me several several stories, but the one that stood out was at one point they couldn't find him. He had left the house, it was very frigid and cold outside. His coat, his shoes, everything was in the home, but he's gone. They couldn't find him. They get a phone call from a neighbor that was like two, three miles away, lived on a lake that had just pulled their son out of the lake. Was this when he was younger? Uh, probably early, early 20s, like just a couple years prior to this episode.

SPEAKER_01 13:27

Yeah. So a young man who is literally fighting demons.

SPEAKER_00 13:33

Oh, hands down.

SPEAKER_01 13:35

And you know, it's not a coincidence. Like, we can chuck it up to like, oh, well, that's just mental isn't illness, you know, that's why there's torn Bible verses on the ground. No, there's a spiritual component to many, many mental issues.

SPEAKER_00 13:53

I agree too. And I do I just want to touch base too on medication. I I'm not a fan, right? Some things I've been through, which we'll touch base on, I'm sure, soon enough. But, you know, I always talk talk bad about prescribed medication, synthetic, man-made in a lab type of things. In this scenario, I do wonder, because that type of affliction apparently was controlled right by the psychotropics that he was on, the the drugs that he was on. I like to say masked, you know?

SPEAKER_01 14:25

Like our like certain things will just be masked and maybe subdued a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 14:29

But here's what I what's the situation then there where, and then this is how I think it was, where they're on the medication, they feel solid, they feel like they're rolling straight, they can do it all. So now I don't need the medicine. Right. Yeah. And they stop taking it and everything goes to hell.

SPEAKER_01 14:45

Yeah, I mean, I think there's there's a whole lot of stuff we could talk about when it comes to prescription medications, especially when it comes to the the mental side of things. I mean, even look at the commercials, right? So for a medication that's supposed to help with your depression, a side effect could be that you it will increase your thoughts of suicide. Right. Like so, it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense.

SPEAKER_00 15:09

One of the side effects for an antidepressant is that it will cause suicidal thoughts. Okay, all right, that makes sense.

SPEAKER_01 15:15

And the reality is, you know, Jesus died to give us life and life to the full. That's what the Bible says life abundantly. So I'm not saying that there's never a time that God wouldn't use medicine to maybe help somebody get over or over a hump or maybe help them in their healing process. I'm not gonna say that.

SPEAKER_00 15:37

But there has to be more divine intervention on behalf of human beings working through God, with God, right? To help someone this type of medicine.

SPEAKER_01 15:48

I was just gonna say that God, I don't think it that the Lord would necessarily want us on those types of medications, especially when you look into them and look at the side effects that they cause.

SPEAKER_00 15:59

Well, how does his psychotic break and everything that I saw and his multiple voices, because he was not on his medication.

SPEAKER_01 16:06

Right. In my personal belief as a Christian, I believe that he needs deliverance. We know from scripture and from personal experiences that people can be oppressed and possessed by demons. Yes, it's a reality.

SPEAKER_00 16:23

I've seen it, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:24

And that's why you have people like um I follow I follow this guy, his name's Father Dan Rehill, and he's a priest, and he's an exorcist, a modern-day exorcist. He actually was just on the Sean Ryan show, and you can find him on YouTube. Go to YouTube, look him up. Um, Dan Rehill, R-E-E-H-I-L, I think. But anyway, he has a ton of modern-day stories of exorcisms that he's performed on people, um, like of all walks of life, and the stories are fascinating, but anyway, people are still casting demons out. Just like Jesus did. Right. Just like Jesus did. I want to read a little bit of this that I found on schizophrenia. Um, if you go and you start looking up a bunch of information and reading, you know, papers and research on schizophrenia, one thing that is consistent is that they say that the causes of it are unknown. And even if you're reading something that seems to be giving you a cause, you'll notice the language that's used, and they use a lot of this type of language. Maybe, might be, could possibly be. You'll read that throughout all the research for schizophrenia. Masking it. Well, because they don't know. They really don't know what causes it. Yeah. And then I was looking up some stuff and I came across this article on PubMed, and it's a government website. It's actually part of the NIH, which is the National Institute of Health. And I came across this article, and you know, I know that anybody I think in the medical field, if you have a license, you can get on there and write stuff. But this is the article I came across. Talks about schizophrenia, about how there's really no known cause for it. It talks about the symptoms, how there's delusions and hallucinations, um, subjective psychological pain. Um, the most common delusion types are people that say my feelings and movements are controlled by others. People say they put thoughts in my head that are not mine, and then lots of hallucinations. But this is what this article says. It says one approach to this hallucination problem is to consider the possibility of a demonic world. Demons are unseen creatures that are believed to exist in all major religions and have the power to possess humans and control their body. Demonic possession can manifest with a range of bizarre behaviors which could be interpreted as a number of different psychotic disorders with delusions and hallucinations. The hallucination in schizophrenia may therefore be an illusion, a false interpretation of a real sensory image formed by demons. And then this person actually went on to say a local faith healer in our region helps the patients with schizophrenia. His method of treatment seems to be successful because his patients become symptom free after about three months. Therefore, it would be useful for medical professions to work together with faith healers to define better treatment pathways for schizophrenia. Amen. So I don't think we can ignore the connection between something like schizophrenia and demonic possession.

SPEAKER_00 19:52

No, I I fully believe there's a demonic realm right here, right now. I fight it daily. So I'm just strong in the Lord.

SPEAKER_01 20:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:01

That I'm not schizophrenic.

SPEAKER_01 20:03

Because you can you can recognize, and not that we never have bad days, but we can kind of recognize and sense and discern when something is demonic coming against us. Correct. Um, but I want to go to Luke chapter eight, too. So Luke chapter eight tells the story of Jesus and a demon-possessed man. So let's start in verse twenty-seven. As Jesus was climbing out of the boat, a man who was possessed by demons came out to meet him. For a long time he had been homeless and naked, living in the tombs outside the town. As soon as he saw Jesus, he shrieked and fell down in front of him. Then he screamed, Why are you interfering with me, Jesus, son of the most high God? Please I beg you, don't torture me. For Jesus had already commanded the evil spirit to come out of him. This spirit had often taken control of the man. Even when he was placed under guard and put in chains and shackles, he simply broke them and rushed out into the wilderness completely under the demon's power. Jesus demanded, What is your name? Legion, he replied, for he was filled with many demons. The demons kept begging Jesus not to send them into the bottomless pit. And if you're interested to read the rest of that chapter, it's uh Luke chapter eight. But this is a clue that it is possible for people to be possessed by multiple demons. And I think that's why you were hearing clearly different voices.

SPEAKER_00 21:35

Oh, yeah. I was just gonna say Jesus and I, you know, went against the legion. So for real. There's no other physical human being was there besides my neighbor, besides that kid. His his voice was the voice of demons.

SPEAKER_01 21:52

And it wasn't it wasn't like you were sitting there thinking that it sounded weird. It sounded like clearly distinct a

SPEAKER_00 22:00

Manfred voices. Another a girl, a guy, and a dog. Straight up, just a dog, like a d barking dog that not an evil barking dog. A dog was that was maybe just chilling next to his owners, listening to them talk, and every once in a while he wanted attention.

SPEAKER_01 22:14

Yeah, he was happy to be there.

SPEAKER_00 22:15

You know, it was so weird.

SPEAKER_01 22:16

Ugh Yeah. And we're not experts. Like we don't we're not claiming to have all the answers, but we do have real life experiences with some things that have opened our eyes to lots of the spiritual realm.

SPEAKER_00 22:30

Well, I'm saying too, in my in my case, I think the word discernment is right, and I didn't think of it at the time, but something within me knew I would be okay. And at the same time, God knew that that young man needed help. And I I needed to do something about it.

SPEAKER_01 22:47

And thank God you were there to help him. I I agree. Because honestly, who knows what could have happened. A lot of people in that state either harm themselves or harm someone else.

SPEAKER_00 22:56

Uh, I agree.

SPEAKER_01 22:58

So I'm glad you were there.

SPEAKER_00 22:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:00

Okay, so now talk about how he you thought he had a roommate, but you actually an imaginary roommate is what I thought. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:11

So prior to all this, he and I were talking one day, and I said, you know, it's it's fine if you need to get a roommate, you know, to help with the bills and stuff. And he said, Great. So anyway, at one point, I was talking to him, I was like, Did you end up getting a roommate? And his response was, yeah, his name is, and it was the same name as him. And in my head, I thought, well, that's weird. So then when everything went down with the voices and the and the weird thing that happened that one night, in my head, I'm like, oh my gosh, it was an imaginary roommate. Right. Oh no. You know, like I remember even telling the other neighbors that I'm like, oh no, imaginary roommate. So cut to, I'm gonna say two weeks after that event, I'm pulling up from work and I'm looking over, and the two neighbors from across the way are talking to this really tall looking kid outside of that unit, and I'm like, who is that person? Why are my neighbors talking? Why are they talking? And I'm pulling up and I'm looking. It is a young man that I had worked with from 2018 to 2020 at the Olive Garden, who had a similar name. Correct, who had a very similar close in the sound of the name of the other young kid. I pull up, I rolled down my window, I screamed his name. He looked over, he's like, What? I was like, Hold on, let me get in the garage. Came out, gave him a big hug. Now remember, too, I worked with this guy at the Olive Garden. Cut to the end of 2022 into the beginning of 2023. I had a seasonal job at the room place back in the day. Mind you, when I walked in to start that job, who do I see? This young man.

SPEAKER_01 24:59

Yeah, that's so crazy.

SPEAKER_00 25:00

Yeah. So anyway, again now, 2024, I'm pulling up and I see him again. I'm like, this is just unbelievable. I think this is amazing. This is great. I don't have to worry about renting the place out again. That was a relief. Yeah. So get to chatting with him, come to find out. Yeah, they'd um the other kid had put up an ad on I forget where. My friend answered it, had been living there for like a month. I didn't even know it. Anyway, so now it's like summer, early summer, and I get a phone call from a number. And again, this is this is God too because as you well know with cell phones, you can see if someone's in your phone book, they're you're gonna see who it is. It was a number I did not recognize, and I picked it up, which I never do. Right.

SPEAKER_01 25:49

I never pick up numbers I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 25:51

Um and I hear sobbing, and it's a woman. And I wait, um, instead of hanging up like any normal person would. And I hear her go, Sean is you know me to dead. Yeah, Sean Sean is dead. Yeah, and that is my friend. So it's hard for me to talk about, but I'll cry anyway because people cry and talk all the time.

SPEAKER_01 26:15

Well, and yeah, we it's okay to cry. Like when tragedy and horrible things happen, it's okay to shed a tear. Like that's what's called compassion and you know, emotions. It's okay.

SPEAKER_00 26:28

And this woman, it was his grandma's grandma who basically helped raise him, and she was just in pieces. So this is like literally I used to get to work really, really early and park in a parking lot, smoke a cigarette, which I don't smoke by is just so anymore. Yeah, not anymore, but so I was smoking a cigarette, playing a game on my phone, and got that phone call. I went over to my job and I told them this situation. They had found him in the duplex and um that I needed to go over there and because the family was coming over, all this stuff.

SPEAKER_01 27:12

But how did his grandma would talk to him every single day?

SPEAKER_00 27:17

Correct, and hadn't heard from him in like three or four days, something like that. It wasn't it wasn't yet a week. And I I was texting him back and forth there too, and one of my last texts to him was in regards to rent. I had yet to receive it, and it was already the fifth day of the month. So maybe this is early July. Either way, I don't remember the time frame.

SPEAKER_01 27:41

Um but she's the one who she decided to come check on him because she was so used to talking to him every day. And after several days of not hearing from him, she's the one who found him. Or getting responses, she went to the duplex. Did she have a key? Yeah, he had given her a key. Okay, so she had a key. Yeah. And the poor woman, she's the one who went in and found him.

SPEAKER_00 28:03

Yeah, and called the by the time I got there, uh, the body had already been removed. Um his mom and dad actually live up in Wisconsin. So it was a big kind of back and forth with everybody. And they came and uh got a few things out of the duplex. Um I had to go over and it threw me off because Yeah, this is the this is the really, really devastating part. So his bedroom was actually one in the very back of the duplex, and there was just tons of clothes piled up in the corner, and there was just a bed and a box spring and on the floor, and just dirty, not like filthy dirty, but just oh, you need to pick up, you know, that kind of stuff. So I'm I'm I'm initially just walking the duplex to see what all needs to be done. And I go into the front, what was considered the front bedroom, and hundreds of plastic 1.75 liters, the big jugs of every alcohol empty in that room. Gin, tequila, whiskey, rum, vodka, the everything, and um Tampico juice things, a couple of things that two liter sodas, but so alcohol alcoholism. Um, and I knew I knew he was a recovering alcoholic doing really, really well, had gone back to was going back to school at ICC, was holding down his jobs, had just got a really cool 1970s like fixer upper car that was gonna be really, really, really cool. And he was really just moving forward, and I I was shocked. I stood in that room and just took it in.

SPEAKER_01 30:09

I was just like, wow. Well, and there's a again with many things, traumatic things with the death, you can just feel the darkness, and I didn't see that, all that stuff. But standing there knowing that this man had died, drank literally drank himself to death. And that's that's what it was, yeah. And seeing all of those empty bottles.

SPEAKER_00 30:32

Oh, it was I was I was just silent tears, I guess. I don't know how to describe it. Like crying inside, but literally flowing tears. But I wasn't making a sound, it was just in my gut about how awful.

SPEAKER_01 30:48

Yeah, because he was only 30 something. Oh, you're right, 31 or 32. Yeah, he was he was young, and we don't know if there was something that happened that was like a trigger for him to start drinking again or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 31:01

But had I obviously had I have known, I would have called someone or asked for his sponsor or done something because I I vividly remember a conversation with him at the room place because we were on the same shift and we were talking, and he he was like, Yeah, my sponsor's awesome, he's really been helping me. Had I had I have known any anything, I would have reached out, I would have tried to do something. Now I'm not I'm not a counselor at all. I could have been there to help for sure. And had I have had a number of a counselor, what whoever I needed to call, I would have helped him because he was such an incredible, he had a stutter, but you it's like you didn't hear it when he started talking because of how kind he was. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:43

Oh yeah, it's really sad, and it makes you wonder too. He spent days by himself in the duplex, drinking himself to death, and that's what the enemy wants to do with all of us. Just keep this in mind that if he can isolate you, you know, in your depression, in your anxiety, um, in your doubt, in your loneliness, the the biggest thing he tries to do in our lives when we struggle with those things is to isolate us because then we are more tempted to listen to and believe his demonic lies about who we are and whose we are.

SPEAKER_00 32:28

And that's why it's okay to cry on a podcast because you can't be afraid to show emotion. You can't be afraid to ask for help. It's okay.

SPEAKER_01 32:40

Yeah, it is okay. And I'm, you know, and this is part of part of the podcast is that we don't want to be fake, we don't want to put on masks, we don't want to pretend that we're people we're not. We want to try to keep it as real as possible because I think it's a big problem in the world, especially with social media, AI. AI, social media. Everybody, everybody's looking great all the time and their lives look perfect.

SPEAKER_00 33:04

And that's what I was just thinking. You want to put this on video too. We want so be ready, everyone.

SPEAKER_01 33:10

I mean, we'll we might do our hair. Do something like that. Well, that's fine. I will. My my point is that people actually when I say mask, I don't necessarily mean that you're wearing makeup. I mean that you ac you're pretending to be someone that you're not, right? So that people view you in a specific way. And somebody like him who died and the duplex, well, both of them, but I don't know what my point is.

SPEAKER_00 33:36

I'm no, just that just that there was a a front, there was a a mask, a cover brought on by a demon, had to have been hiding what that demon was doing to that person. You see what I'm saying? Like how I feel about it is just that that the person I knew, the person I spoke to at the jobs that I had with him, was even though I knew he had a problem with alcohol, right? But then I knew he had been in recovery, he was like two, three years sober, he had told me, had a great sponsor, all this stuff. You know, so you what you're seeing there, I think is real.

SPEAKER_01 34:20

But was that that was a a false well, that's what we've talked about regarding rich, especially is some people who struggle with like substance abuse, you know, addictions, depression. There are there are times where it's them, it's their real selves. You know, they they want to live a good life, they want to be free. People don't want to be addicted to stuff. Agreed. Yeah, you're right. That's not it, it's a it's a demonic thing. You know, alcoholism, porn addiction, drug addiction, it's demonic. It ruins your life. Correct. Yeah, it does. So anyway, it's pretty wild that in the span of six months, was it about six months?

SPEAKER_00 35:08

Yeah, because there was a short little snippet before even the one schizophrenic of an older gentleman who had been there for four years, passing away due to uh physical illness, nothing mental, but a physical illness. He passed away in that in the bathroom in that duplex. So that being said, Rochelle and I having faith, I asked Rochelle to come over and pray. Yeah. After everything that had happened, to pray and bless this this duplex because I brought some oil that was from Jerusalem. Yeah, it came from Israel. We prayed and prayed, and I felt at that moment of praying and walking that duplex and blessing the doorways and everything that we need to do. I felt a weight lifted, a darkness removed from that duplex.

SPEAKER_01 36:03

Yeah, because it it like I said, it's pretty crazy that in the span of six months, uh-huh, the one guy dies who had been living there. Yep. And then you get a schizophrenic, a schizophrenic, and an alcoholic, and then an alcoholic, and both well, the schizophrenic didn't die, thankfully. No. But the alcoholic a few months after that is found dead from drinking himself to death.

SPEAKER_00 36:26

Whew, so yeah. Strange happenings next door indeed.

SPEAKER_01 36:30

Yes. And we want to give you a phone number to anybody who's listening. If you struggle with any kind of substance abuse, if you feel like you need some help mentally, there's a national helpline. It's 1-800-662-HELP. 1-800-662-4357.

SPEAKER_00 36:51

And I encourage you to reach out. And if you can't reach out, if you can't reach out to family and friends, reach out to someone you don't know at that number. They're trained to talk you through the right things. Right.

SPEAKER_01 37:05

And they can lead you to somewhere or someone that can help you. That's correct. And don't forget to have faith. So in 2 Timothy 1, verse 7, this is what it says. It says, For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of sound mind. That is what God gives us. So anything else that's coming against you that doesn't contain those three things is not of God. I agree 100%. Yeah. So one more time, that number is 1-800-662-HELP. And you can call that if you need help with any kind of substance abuse, any kind of mental help that you might need. And we thank God for you. We bless you. Thanks for listening.