The Sonic Hitchhiker Podcast
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This podcast is dedicated to all things strange , mysterious, unusual and out of the ordinary.
Billy Shadow is your host for this program .
Billy has traveled all over the United States and has led an interesting life .
His time in the ghettos , visiting prisoners , serving in the military , traveling the country while living in a bus , working as an electrical contractor for high profile celebrities, playing in bands ,
writing and performing music and much more . He has first hand experience in cult organizations and has had several supernatural encounters.
Because of his life , he brings a unique take to the subjects that will be discussed on this podcast .
Now based out of Atlanta , Ga
The Sonic Hitchhiker Podcast
Whispers from the Beyond: James Biggs on Shadowy Encounters and Childhood Resilience
A mysterious figure spotted in a grocery store. Late-night ice cream escapades that turned into lessons of survival. Memories like these shape our latest episode of the Sonic Hitchhiker Podcast, where I sit down with James James Biggs unveils his gripping life story, taking listeners through encounters with abductions, supernatural beings known as imps, and a childhood marked by resilience amidst turmoil. His unique experiences challenge us to question our perceptions of fear, trauma, and the supernatural, revealing how intertwined our realities can be.
• James's encounters with attempted abductions as a child
• Experiences living in the foster care system
• A robbery incident that showcased his bravery
• Introduction of supernatural experiences featuring imps
• Exploration of out-of-body experiences and vivid dreams
• Discussion on childhood trauma and resilience
• Questioning the boundaries of reality and belief systems
Welcome to the Sonic Hitchhiker Podcast dedicated to all things strange, mysterious and just plain out of the ordinary. Your guide on this audio odyssey is Billy Shadow. Billy has led a life full of experiences that have put him on his current path, from his humble beginnings in the ghettos of southwest Georgia to the Great Plains of Oklahoma. Billy has led a life full of experiences. As a youth, billy traveled with his family on a bus while his father preached in churches across the country. As a young man, billy spent time in the military, became an entrepreneur, met and worked with multiple celebrities, became a singer-songwriter. Billy's travels and experiences have led him to witness exorcisms, cult mind control events, ghosts and other supernatural phenomena. It is because of his interest in these experiences that this podcast was created. And now your host, billy.
Speaker 2:Shadow, welcome to another episode of the Sonic Hitchhiker Podcast. I am your host, billy Shadow, and today we have a very special guest. I like to say that all of our guests are special guests and this one is no exception. His name is James Biggs. He reached out to us about some interesting stories that he has based on. What we talk about the paranormal, ufos, ghosts, psychics, anything that has to do with the odd, unusual, out of the ordinary. That's what we talk about here on the Sonic Hitchhiker podcast. Today we have a guest, james Bigg, who is originally from Queens, new York, who says that he has some stories that he wants to tell us, some true stories that's happened to him, that he has some stories that he wants to tell us, some true stories that's happened to him.
Speaker 2:And, as usual, you people that listen to this, whether you are skeptical or true believers in this type of thing, I ask you to stretch your imagination, to give the benefit of the doubt, because there are a lot of things in this world that none of us completely understand. Even if we say we do, we don't. There are so much that we just don't understand. A case in point recently in the news, of course, with the with the big drone, uh phenomena that's going on, that that has not been explained as of yet, are from from this planet, are they not? Some people claim they come out of the ocean. Some people say they're man-made. We don't know yet. We will find out eventually. So there's. This is a time we live in where strange things are happening and the congress is congress has even opened up the whole ufo discussion uap as they call it discussion. That's saying that, yes, we have been visited. Yes, there have been aliens that have crash landed. Yes, they have been discovered.
Speaker 2:On and on, the stories were fascinating to me. So my point in saying all of this is to say that keep an open mind, if you will, when you listen to these podcast episodes, because the people talking really believe this is what they saw. They really believe this happened to them. They have no doubt, and it's okay to have doubts if you're listening, but we ask you to give them the benefit of the doubt and, without further ado, I will let James Biggs introduce himself, talk to us a little bit about himself, tell us what he does, where he comes from as we said, he hails from Queens, new York and tell us these stories that he says he told me these stories are going to get really deep, so strap in, hang on and let's see what James has to say. Go ahead, james. Good to have you.
Speaker 3:So how I go about this, because it's it's I'm kind of like, just take it back so you have an idea of what might have contributed to events, situations in my life. So just kind of give you, you know, just a background of my family tree. I don't have one. So, with that said, I grew up in a foster care system. I guess I was an infant when all this whole situation happened. Going through the foster care system. I'd been probably an infant, or just not remembering this, but the parts that I do remember, or the stories I heard or things that I witnessed myself growing up as a kid in the system.
Speaker 3:Growing up as a kid in the system, you know you go through strange relationships with families. You don't know None of my siblings. I got to know my siblings but we all grew up separate homes, so we didn't have that brother-sister bond growing up. I grew up with my half-brother, but that's about it. So, with that said, I grew up mostly alone, by myself, and moved around about four times four different homes. So you know, you see things, you hear things and you know you see odd things. That goes on. But just as a person me I've experienced stuff. I'll give you an example Growing up I was bullied a lot. I was bullied a lot, bullied a lot. Kind of just that stigma of oh, you grew up in a foster care system so you know you get, you know, teased about that.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's not your real mother. You know that type of deal. So I don't know why, growing up I experienced seeing or experiencing I don't know if it was the homes I was in that might have had bad spirits. You know what I mean Went to the grocery store one time as a kid. So we're saying I would say this incident happened when I was about six, seven, maybe five or six, somewhere in that area. I remember my first mother had said you know, don't wander off. You know, stay nearby Me.
Speaker 3:As a kid I went wandering off, I go down this aisle and it was close to the back of the grocery store. I'm a kid, you know, like I said, about five, six, seven, somewhere in that area. And I see this and this is like some shit straight out of like Stephen King, a page of one of his novels. But there was this tall white guy in a trench coat, black hat, rain hat, just kind of eerie looking tall guy, and he was trying to convince me to come over to him. And then me, growing up I liked candy. So he reached in his pocket and showed me some candy. My eyes, just like you know, just kind of like just got that, you know bright, look like, oh wow. And it's like, should I? And right when I was thinking of it, he grabbed me. He was trying to force me out the back door of that grocery store and james, you were five or six.
Speaker 3:You said um, yeah, yeah yeah, about five or six, and all I could think about at that time was my mother was strict, my foster mother was strict and when she says don't do something, don't do it, you're going to get the repercussions, I bit him, I bit this guy and he had dropped me and I ran off and I looked back and he wasn't there and I went to my mother and for some reason, billy, I wasn't scared but I knew something was bad about it, real bad about it. And growing up you don't know that. But later in life, you figure, I just escaped an abduction.
Speaker 3:So, moving on in life, and probably still in the same age area, maybe about eight, nine, my foster mother back then and we're talking about the 70s, this is like 1975, 76, somewhere in that area so she was really strict because she grew up in the South herself, her family, her husband, he grew up in South Carolina somewhere. She grew up in Augusta, georgia. So you know her parents already when I was growing up with them, five, six years old, her parents already in the late 70s, 80s already, they saw stuff, she saw stuff. She grew up in a strict environment so she didn't play. She was one of those type of women that when you're getting ass-whipping, she'll tell you go out to the backyard, go get you a switch, take the lead Can.
Speaker 2:I stop you there, because that reminds me of something. I had the same issue. My mom would do the same thing. If you were in trouble, she would say, go pick out a Switch, and you better not pick out the smallest Switch because, if you brought one back that was tiny. She would say that's not good, go back and get a bigger one. So I sympathize with you there, james, because I remember that that was the time that we lived in right back then. That's how it worked.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So you better get a decent-sized switch. You know it's going to hurt, but you better do it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Sorry to deviate a little bit, but I had to let you know that we have a little camaraderie.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:So you know what I'm talking about and you know people around that age. They you know, especially if they grew up in a very strict family environment. So later, probably somewhere still in that young age area I might have been about seven, eight, but she liked back then you was able to get we're going way back now where you got your newspaper, your Sunday newspaper. The thing was like that, daggone thick Coupons and all these others that would come out at midnight. She would always get her Sunday paper at midnight. She would always get her Sunday paper at midnight. Reason why? Because on Saturday she would also get Carvel ice cream, chocolate Carvel ice cream. She was a very sickly person. She suffered asthma, like chronic asthma. So she was old and dairy was one of her components. That really she was lactose intolerant as we say now.
Speaker 2:But she would eat ice cream anyway. Yeah, yeah, that's what.
Speaker 3:I'm getting at, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:That's what I mean.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, because that was just like her weakness, and you know the environment, you know the pollen you know, just asthmatic.
Speaker 2:And what part is this? You said this is Carolina's. Where is?
Speaker 3:this no, no. Her parents grew up in. She grew up in georgia, her husband okay, in the carolinas, but this is all and this is your, okay, and this is your.
Speaker 2:Uh, I'm trying not to get the audience too lost, but is this your foster parent? Yeah, yeah, these are descriptions and this is your second set of foster parents, or your first this is the first this is the first one, there was a second.
Speaker 3:Well, actually there was a first first, but I remember more because of the age you remember the second one more gotcha yeah, but moving on more because of the age, you remember the second one and then going back gotcha, yeah, um, but yes moving on, uh. So I will go get this ice cream at uh, this newspaper ice cream at midnight, and you know regular routine. Now, how old are you now, james, in the story uh?
Speaker 2:okay, all right, so we're moving up okay, yeah, so I'm still you know an abduction an abduction attempt from a stranger that that disappeared on you at five or six and now we're moving on to the seven, eight year old range.
Speaker 3:Okay, yep, yep and um, but I, you know, I'm in this candy store back then it was called five and dine or you know something like that, I put it this way where you used to get the um, the old school fountain drinks and, uh, um, malts and and shakes, and you know, right at the fountain, you know where you sit at the counter you get your burger or whatever, and they had like a little area with nothing but sweets and, like I said, I grew up loving candy, you know. And you know back then, you know you had a dollar. You come out with one of them, little small paper bags Full of candy bag candy um yeah, yeah, they had candy bands and all of that.
Speaker 2:I remember those you know yeah, 50 cent dollars man I don't know, I don't know many kids that didn't like candy pretty much I met some I met some who didn't.
Speaker 3:I met some kids, so she would give me a $20. Yeah, it would be a $20 bill for me to break. It would always be a $20 bill for me to break. I guess you want to change or whatever.
Speaker 2:Are these stores open at?
Speaker 3:midnight. I guess you want to shop in or something. The Carvel was. The Carvel closed at like 2 am.
Speaker 3:Wow yeah back then and I would go get this ice cream and you know it's funny. Growing up I loved music and that was constant to me any black family so music was a big thing to me James Brown and so forth and so forth, but I would go past. Still on the reference to music, there was a club that played disco and stuff, because we were talking about the 70s. It was called Fantasia and I was like, wow, it'd be such cool people hanging out and, I guess, out front smoking their cigarettes and smoking their weed. It was just going through this like coming from around the corner at this, you know pretty nice neighborhood and all of a sudden you know you come around the corner, you know late at night. Now, all of a sudden this building is live.
Speaker 2:It's exciting.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I had to go past that to get to carvel, you know. So it was just something that always stuck in my mind and it's just funny you know, I'm a dj and I play music and you know stuff like that and um.
Speaker 3:But I get the ice cream, get a half a gallon, I bring it back and as I'm going back, going back past the store, go around the corner, there's this alley. So I walk past the alley and all of a sudden sudden, someone just snatched me and pulled me into the alley, dark alley.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 3:Had a knife to my eye. And you're just a kid, you're just a seven eight-year-old kid. I'm just a kid, but I remember noticing someone looking at me through the window because I had, you know, just kind of like you know had that wandering eye, you know, growing up, you know, and I noticed this guy was like always, you know, like pacing back and forth and you know, looking in the window.
Speaker 2:So someone snatches you with a knife, pulls you into the alley, you're holding the ice cream in a newspaper.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he took the money. He's like where's the change? I saw you get change. Oh, I was like, yeah, this guy was watching everything. So he's like don't you tell nobody or I'll you know, I know where you live and I'll come back and kill you.
Speaker 3:I was like and he ran off Once again. Billy, I wasn't scared, but just because I knew who I was dealing with, I had to make it look, you know real, because I'm like I'm going back with no money. So what did you do to make it look legit? You know real, because I'm like I'm going back. So what did you do?
Speaker 2:to make it look legit.
Speaker 3:I took some dirt, you know, because the alley it was one of these alleys with the rocks and pebbles and I took some saliva. I looked, you know, at my hand and put it around my eyes so it looked like I was crying, but I wasn't scared.
Speaker 3:I don't know why, but I just wasn't scared. But I get back to the house and my foster brother, which is her son, was there and at the time, funny as it is, he was a New York City cop. So I tell him what happened. You know I said, you know I got robbed and you know, know, he took the. I still had the.
Speaker 3:you know, the ice cream, the ice cream in the newspaper, but I'm coming back with no money, though, you know, so the only thing I'm thinking is ass whooping, you know so I had to get my story right.
Speaker 3:So I was like you know so, when I told him he go, you know, so I had to get my story right. So I was like you know so when I told him he go, you know, he, he runs upstairs, he come back down and he had his gun and he's like, yeah, all right, let's go look for this guy. So we went to the alley and you know we walked around the corner and you know we didn't see nobody. We even went past the damn disco, you know we didn't see nobody.
Speaker 2:We even went past the damn disco.
Speaker 3:So, jane, so james once again people outside smoking cigarettes. You know smoking their weed and you know uh yeah the bass just coming out, the you know, and he's like looking around and he's like, hey, y'all seen this guy, you know, I kind of didn't know what he looked like, but I I knew, you know, uh, he, you know, at right at the time, he was black.
Speaker 3:You know, when he came out the alley he grabbed me. I remember just catching a glimpse, so. So he had this knife to my throat and threatened to kill me if I didn't give him the money or if I told anyone. So it had to have been somebody I knew, if you knew where I was.
Speaker 2:So, james, there seems to be a pattern here in your life. So I'm not trying to rush you too much, but I know you're going to tell us a supernatural experience. But what I see here is a pattern of you as a child, as a foster child, going from family to family. You have had two. At this point, at seven or eight years old, you've had two abduction attempts. Well, no, you had one abduction attempts. Well, no, you've had one abduction, I'm sorry. And then another pull another, not an abduction so much as a robbery, although the man pulled you to him.
Speaker 2:In both instances, as a child, you are not afraid. So the pattern I'm seeing here there's two tragic events that's happened in your life that would normally maybe traumatize a child, but you seem to be unaffected by that. I have a feeling that once we get to your part about the supernatural stuff that happens to you this is important because you're not afraid of human interaction when it comes to some type of tragic event. But I'm wondering, as we go along, what's going to happen when the supernatural stuff happens and what? What is the fear level going to be with you? And? And so I'll let you, I'll let you, I'll let you get through it.
Speaker 3:Oh, wow, wow, you, you hit, you hit, you hit the nail right on the head with that Cause. That's what I was doing. I was just kind of get you, giving them the background or a little history to what leads up to these other you know scenarios in my life and I see the pattern and I do see that.
Speaker 2:So you're. You're to me, you're an unusual kid already because you have this fearless mentality when it comes to these things. So I'm going to ask you something now. What age were you? You've had some tragic events. First of all was that did you have other abduction attempts or did other things happen to you? You don't have to go into detail, but were there?
Speaker 3:many more Growing up. Well, growing up, you know, like I said, later in life I kind of and I think even at a young age I felt and I'm talking about the home that I was at, you know, with the whole abduction and the robbery. That's the one I grew up, that's the mother I grew up in Queens. Now, I had mentioned to you pre this we were just randomly talking because you told me about the podcast. I told you about these things called imps and those were one of the things I witnessed, I think, right around that age.
Speaker 3:Five, six right around that age. Uh, five, six, so somewhere in there.
Speaker 2:I can't, uh, pinpoint exactly, but I don't want to talk to you, but I want to. I want to give a reference for the audience really quick. Imps are very popular in folklore. Now I will say that a lot of, in my opinion, a lot of stories that were told many, many years ago and throughout the years they may not, I mean, they may sound fairy tale, like a fairy tale or like something out of of of grim's fairy tales, you know.
Speaker 2:But there is often, there is very often, james and you you've seen this but there is very often truth in stories that were told throughout. There may not always be exact and they may not be, but there it may not be completely true, in, in the, in the, the, the whole scheme of things, like little red riding a big bad wolf, that kind of stuff. But there is truth in the fact that there are children in danger in situations and the wolf could be symbolic. Uh, uh, that, uh, that is very similar. We could, we could even say you were as a kid, there were big bad wolves out there waiting to take advantage of it. So fairy tales can
Speaker 2:morph into real life Maybe not the same characters, but there is some truth in these things. So imps are from what I understand. You may have a different description, haven't seen something similar are little demonic characters. They look like little demons, almost like gremlins who caused mischief, and this is the folklore. It caused mischief, but they're never really in a real danger. They just like to scare and cause chaos, but from what I understand, they're not deadly, and so anyone that are interested in what we're talking about, all you have to do is put imps in Google imps and you'll come up with these little creatures that they're. From what I understand. They're very tiny.
Speaker 2:Now you may be saying to yourself, if you're listening to this, that that this podcast is beginning to get crazy. But wait a minute, but wait a minute. I want to. I want to say crazy, but wait a minute, but wait a minute. I want to say something.
Speaker 2:I've had religious people tell me that stories that we talk about are crazy, but yet you're willing to believe some of the stuff in the Bible that sounds even crazier than what we're talking about, and I'm a Christian. I'm not saying I'm a non-believer, but what I'm saying is you will suspend your disbelief to believe some of these things that are told in the Bible that are insane if you think of it from a common sense perspective. So again, I will ask the audience to keep an open mind to what James is about to tell us, because I believe what you're about to tell us is going to sound very crazy. But suspend your disbelief in listening to the story. And on that note, I'm sorry, james, but I wanted to lead up to what you're about to tell us. So now go ahead. Now go ahead and tell us when you first saw these things?
Speaker 2:what were the conditions, the circumstances, how old were you and how many times?
Speaker 3:What's the first? Can you tell us the?
Speaker 2:first time you saw one of these things and what, and describe what they look like and where were you um, I was, I was, I was in the uh, I was in the house, all right.
Speaker 3:Um, at the time there was other people living in the house.
Speaker 3:Other foster children, and that's another story. She was kind of a tomboy, but she's part of the story too, but that's later. Um, but um, but yeah, growing up you know, uh, sometimes I slept downstairs on the couch that was a fold out bed, Um, and that's where I, um, I think I first experienced seeing these things. Um, the ones that I saw were kind of like, uh, like you said, small, demonic looking Mines, were like kind of like these scary as monkeys, and when I witnessed it it scared as a kid, it scared the shit out of me.
Speaker 2:How old were you the first time you saw this? Do you remember?
Speaker 3:I would say about five, and was it at?
Speaker 2:night you were alone.
Speaker 3:Did other kids see them. It was a lot. I was a loner, like I said. I got bullied, I was alone. A lot I stayed to myself. So, but yeah, my very first one I stayed to myself. So, but yeah, my very first one had been about five years old and what were the circumstances? Under the bed. Oh cause, I immediately crawled up under the bed, got out the bed was it at night?
Speaker 3:you were in a room by yourself it usually happens like out the bed, but was it at night? You were in a room by yourself At night. It usually happens late or early in the morning.
Speaker 2:So you know it's funny you say that because a lot of people say that the supernatural stuff, for some reason and I know there's time changes across the continent, united states, that type of thing, but they. There is a claim that around the 3 am mark is when certain things seem to seem to be most, most lively, the supernatural seems to be most lively yeah, I heard, so you're telling us something similar in your situation. So you're're a little kid, you're in a room. Are you in a bedroom by yourself?
Speaker 2:This time I'm down in the living room, but are you alone?
Speaker 3:This is the first time I've witnessed yeah, yeah, I'm alone and suddenly out of the blue.
Speaker 2:The first time you saw one of these.
Speaker 3:They just appeared in the room, yeah, uh, no, they would be at, I would hear this noise. It would be like just droning noise, like I mean this shit was scary, yo, because it will always happen when I'm like trying to go to sleep and it's like, right before you go right into that, yeah, that drift into sleep, that's when, uh, I would get this air, this really eerie sound that would. I would be scared to go to sleep because it's like, oh, uh, because I always remember hearing the sound growing up. You know, I never knew what it was and all of a sudden, here it is again, and out of the pitch black, because it was just dark, but out of the pitch black of top of the stairs. I see these images and you know they're kind of black themselves in the black.
Speaker 2:How many James, how many of you? A lot of them, Tiny tiny little creatures. They come in three. They look kind of like shadows, almost Okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but you kind of see the outline of the image or what they look like. And when they used to get closer and closer, the sound would get louder and louder, but for some reason they couldn't come off the stairs. I don't know why, but they couldn't go off the stairs. I don't know why, but they couldn't go past the bottom step.
Speaker 2:There seemed to be a barrier between you and them to a degree.
Speaker 3:And they used to taunt me. It was just scared.
Speaker 2:How would they taunt you? Give us an example of how they would taunt you.
Speaker 3:They always had little ornaments or something in their hands. It was just how they looked, because as they got closer I was able to kind of see them better. Like I said, they came in threes and they all seemed the same size. I would say 12 inches, maybe a little bit more, 12, 18 inches tall.
Speaker 2:And you said they look like. You said they look like monkeys, yeah, so how? Would you describe the face, the facial features? Yeah, how would you describe it?
Speaker 3:Uh, it was really uh uh.
Speaker 2:It was really. You ever see those African artifacts of like demons, yeah, with the sharp teeth smiling almost Like the masks that they'll?
Speaker 3:have. Yeah, they had this like hair that kind of stood up, but they had, uh, this really, uh twisted grin, if I could describe like that, it was just, it just didn't look good, you know, you know, and as a kid that shit looks scary.
Speaker 2:I, imagine.
Speaker 3:I can imagine you know, so I I spent many nights, you know uh scared to go to sleep, because when I try to go to sleep I see them now, this is the, this is your.
Speaker 2:Your said you're around five when this is happening. Right, five, six something. And now how? So you saw that. So now you move to your second foster family? Uh, because I'm laying some, I'm laying the groundwork here, so you, okay, yeah, yeah again what I want to do is establish a pattern.
Speaker 2:We've already established a pattern that that the that you've had your, no matter where you go, you've had a couple of that. I think a lot of that's due to the fact that the families you're with sends a kid out to do things that they probably not safe, really, if you think about it, and so these things are bound to happen to you eventually, Right, right. So now we've had these things that have happened to you between five and eight years old. You're seeing these creatures at five, six years old. Now, this is the experience you have in the first home. Now did you see them in the second home, too that you went to? For now I want to keep on the subject of these imps.
Speaker 2:The second home, where you were robbed.
Speaker 3:Did you see them there? So just kind of go forward yeah, because I had left the first home, all right, and just kind of go back. I, even living there, I had out-of-body, because my dreams would be so, oh man, vivid, my dreams would be like they was almost real. My, my, my dreams would be like there was almost real, like my. There are a couple of times that I had like actual body out of you know, out of body experience, I would say, living there was about uh, 10, 11 years old, cause in my dreams I would do a, do a lot of flying. You know, uh, in 11 years old, cause in my dreams I would do a, do a lot of flying. You know, um, in the air, um, traveling, you know.
Speaker 3:And later in my life I had found out that there was like, yeah, you can actually leave your body and uh, explore, but if you don't know how to control it, it's scary as hell. Because it's scary as hell because you're flying and I had experienced that, you know, in these forced, you know in these homes. So, moving forward to the next home, and it's just kind of ironic and you're going to laugh, billy, because what I went through was my horror there too. And with that said, the next family I moved to was out on Long Island, new York, amityville, long Island.
Speaker 2:There was a movie made about it, amityville Horror. Yes, of course, and real quick, james.
Speaker 3:I just want to real quick, yeah, moving into that damn town Real quick.
Speaker 2:I want to tell the audience that if James is breaking up every now and then which you are a little bit I just want to let you know that it's because we're I'm in the studio with David, but James is from a remote location, so forgive us if we have a little noise discrepancies, but we still hear you loud and clear, james. I just want to let you know that if there seems to be a little delay, oh, okay, well, I need to bring it down a little.
Speaker 3:No, you're fine, you can continue talking.
Speaker 2:I just know you're breaking up a little bit, but so far I'm keeping up with you. I do want to. I do want to uh, before we get too off topic and off track here, because I know you have a lot of stuff to talk about, but I do want to say that we've already established in your life, uh, what happened to you, the two traumatic experiences plus the imps that happened, that that you saw as a child, that that seemed to taunt you and scare you while you're alone. And now we're getting to, we're leaving that subject. And now we're saying that you also, on top of all of these things, as a kid, as a foster child that's had these traumatic experiences but was not afraid.
Speaker 2:But yet when the supernatural imps come along, that strikes fear into you. We see that. So I'm seeing that the human element is not so scary to you, but the supernatural element obviously has struck a nerve in you, with you as a child. Now you're saying, not only did you experience these things, but you also had amazing out of body experiences. Now, dive into that a little bit more if you will. I know we're, we're, we've probably got another 15 minutes, so I just want to make sure that we cover. We can always get you back, james, because I think you have a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, there's a lot. There's a lot I gotta say, and I appreciate you know you invite me to to this platform to express that, because I know I'm not the only one who.
Speaker 2:And that's what this show is about. Believe me, we've heard. If you get a chance, listen to some of the other episodes. You'll see that you're not alone in the experiences that you have. So you're definitely not. So now let's get back to the out-of-body experiences. Dive into that, if you will. You can do it for the remainder of the time, or you can talk about that and then something else too, if you want to throw that in.
Speaker 3:Yeah, let's dive into this just for a little bit, and then you know.
Speaker 3:however, you want to reschedule this. You know I'm glad to. But the out-of-body things like my dreams were dreams that you know. As a kid as young as that, I've had some crazy ass dreams, Billy. I know everybody probably had monsters in their dreams and but it was like growing up, monsters was always in my dreams and to get away from that, I think it was the out of body flyingbody flying to me was my way around it, but I didn't know how to control it and it was scary because you know it's like you're free-falling and it's like you know you're scared that you're going to hit that ground.
Speaker 3:you're scared that you're gonna hit that. You know you're gonna hit that ground, um, but uh, I had like dreams, you know, of that. You know, when I was living with that first foster family, um, and like I said, she was, you know, she was strict, you know, and stuff like that. But as a kid you shouldn't be uh having dreams of murder. I'll give you an example.
Speaker 3:It was a school I went to and you would go up these stairs and the, the glass was like hey, I don't know if you remember the type of glass that a lot of schools had over the. Uh, the glass panes kind of had a little wire going through. It was like opaque, uh, kind of thick. Uh, you go up the stairs, you know they would have it. You know stuff like that. And I remember one time, you know, going up those stairs, they would have it, stuff like that. I remember one time Going up those stairs it was the same stairs I would get bullied on. There was blood All over the walls. And Going up them stairs, as I'm going up, I noticed it's my foster mother Chopped to pieces this is in your dream that you're having.
Speaker 3:You know it's blood. Yeah, this is like, say, about the same age 5, 6, 7, somewhere in that area. I would have these really crazy-ass dreams. Like I said, a lot of my dreams would be running away from monsters. That was my fear. It seemed like my fear was sleeping, because if I went to sleep I knew I was going to end up having a bad dream monsters. I really didn't like the out of body thing because I didn't know how to control it and it was scary as hell. So, with that said, this leads into more events as I'm growing up. Once again, it's the fear factor that I come from, I encounter and there's going to be some traumatic situations. This is going to be a little ongoing, billy, because it's a lot, but to me it has a lot to do with.
Speaker 2:Well, this is what I want to do, james. I want to bring you back at some point and let's dive into some more stuff, because I don't want to rush through too much, because I feel like each individual event is an important event in your life, and what I don't want to do is is try to get too much in one episode, because if we do that, it's going to lose. It's going to lose context. So what I will say as we close it out is I'm hearing, I'm hearing your story and I want to ask you a question that I don't want to bring this. I don't want to make you feel like I'm trying to be a psychiatrist or anything, but do you feel that as a kid, you really had no family to speak of? You were a loner. Honestly, life seems to have just given you a bad hand and that happens with children quite often, more than we would like to believe and you had to, you pretty much had to. You were you, as you call yourself, a loner? You were a loner and even though you had foster families, it seems like you were still a bit of a loner and I feel this is my personal belief that that is a very that can be. If you're a child, you know children, I believe, experience more, can experience more of the supernatural than adults can, because their minds are not yet so full of the of the, the stuff that are fed into them as adults. You know their, their minds are very open, but you, growing up in the circumstances that you grew up in and having the traumatic experiences that you had, but yet not being afraid, I feel like you dealt with so much bullying and this type of thing that human, the fear of human, uh, negative connotations just didn't seem to affect you as much. And so now you're experienced these, these supernatural things that really do strike fear into you. It's almost like the, you know, it's almost like something is saying we are going to force some kind of fear upon you. You're not not afraid of this. We're going to put this on you, but, but you have, but you have a very interesting life, james, and I would definitely want I know I want to hear more about it in another episode, but I, I, I, I want to thank you for coming on today and sharing that. I know this is, this is something that you probably just don't share with anyone. So I appreciate you sharing this with us and I asked the audience what do you think about this?
Speaker 2:How do you feel about what James is talking about? Do you feel that it's just total BS or do you feel like there's something to it? I personally feel like there's something to it. Just I personally feel like there's something to it, just based on your childhood, james, and what you went through, and I believe, also your experiences in what you talk about may believe it or not. To some people listening they may be like this is total BS, but I feel like it could be helpful to people that have had similar experiences and they're like you know what? I too had some similar experiences. I didn't know other people had it like that. So I think this will be good for other people to listen to that have had.
Speaker 2:You know, it's like in life, sometimes traumatic things happen to people, but they don't want to talk about it until they hear it in public and they're like oh, now I can talk about my traumatic experiences. So I'm hoping this will open up some people's minds to where they can admit that there's some things to them happened as children, you know. So I won't keep you any longer, james. I really appreciate it and we'll do this again because you have I can tell you have we haven't even touched the surface of your life. We just got into the eight, nine, 10 year old. We just went up to that point. We haven't even gotten into the teenage years.
Speaker 2:So I have a feeling where there's a lot more to come, and what we'll do is we'll, if we bring you back, we'll make sure we tie it into this episode to where people are back on track, like here's where James is now, and we'll just go. I think you're one of these people that we can just go through your life and we're going to see things that have happened that are very unusual but are also based, I think, on the circumstances that you're living in at the time that you're living in. So I really appreciate you coming on here today, james, and to the audience, thank you for listening. Listen with an open mind, if you will. This is Billy Shadow with the Sonic Hitchhiker Podcast. We'll catch you next time. Bye.
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