The Sonic Hitchhiker Podcast
Welcome to The Sonic Hitchhiker podcast !
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
Clowns, Scratches, and Music Boxes: Ghost Stories That Will Make You Run
What happens when the energy that makes us who we are leaves our physical shell? Steven Vasquez, a paranormal investigator with over a decade of experience exploring the unexplained, joins the Sonic Hitchhiker Podcast to share the deeply personal experience that transformed his approach to ghost hunting.
After his father's death in 2016, Steven waited months for the promised sign that something existed beyond death. When it finally came—through the unmistakable touch of his father's calloused hand while lying in bed—it erased all doubt. That single moment of connection stripped away his grief and provided the verification he'd been seeking that his paranormal work had genuine purpose.
From there, we journey through Steven's most compelling investigations across haunted Texas locations. At Blackbeard's restaurant, he captured a woman's moan on video when no one else was present. At Yorktown Memorial Hospital, mysterious scratches appeared on his face that somehow passed through his glasses without moving them. Most terrifying was his encounter at the Mineral Wells Haunted Hill House, where a clown doll seemed to launch itself at him during a livestreamed investigation—a moment that turned him into "the fastest man alive" as he fled in terror.
Throughout our conversation, Steven's methodical approach to investigation shines through. Using multiple camera angles, livestreaming, and careful documentation, he creates transparency that allows viewers to judge the evidence for themselves. Whether you're a skeptic or a believer, his experiences raise fascinating questions about consciousness, energy, and what might exist beyond the boundaries of our physical world.
Listen now and decide for yourself: when thousands of unexplainable experiences occur worldwide, how many can we dismiss before admitting there might be something more to our reality than what we can readily explain?
Welcome to the Sonic Hitchhiker podcast dedicated to all things strange, mysterious and just plain out of the ordinary. It is because of his interest in these experiences that this podcast was created. And now your host, billy Shadow.
Speaker 2:Welcome everyone to season two of the sonic hitchhiker podcast. You know, david, season one had plenty of guests that blew our mind and that had so many amazing stories in such a great season. Uh to for our first season of the sonic hitchhiker podcast.
Speaker 3:I thought it was great uh, yeah, I mean it was definitely we had some great guests, but I mean we had some amazing guests booked and this first episode that you're about to hear, wow yeah.
Speaker 2:That's all I got to say is wow, so get ready for this first episode. We have Steven Vasquez out of Texas. He is a paranormal investigator. He'll tell you about that. He also has a podcast as well. He also has other social media platforms and pages that he will tell you about that you can follow. I can tell you this is going to be a very interesting guest and I really look forward to talking to him, and I know David's looking forward to listening to him as well, and I hope all of you are. So a little something to talk about too.
Speaker 2:As far as season two, we have plenty of cool guests lined up for the season. Season two will also consist of 10 episodes, and we are also working on a little studio, a new studio that we will also at some point do video podcasts from as well. Not sure what part of the season that will begin, but for now, we are just going to enjoy the guests that we have lined up, and we once again want to thank all of you guys for being with us. And if you haven't, if you have friends that haven't heard about the Sonic Hitchhiker podcast and are into things that we are talking about, please tell them, if you have anyone that wants to be on the show, please reach out to us via our Instagram page or our Facebook page. The Sonic Hitchhiker podcast. And now we will talk to our guest, stephen Vasquez. Enjoy, stephen, you have you. You are you a, you consider yourself or you are, you're, a paranormal investigator.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I, I've been, and by the way Steven's out of Texas.
Speaker 2:I'm right, yes, yes, out of.
Speaker 4:South Texas, corpus Christi, texas. Yes, so I, I've been doing this for about 10 years. Seriously, we've dabbled in it way before that. I've always seen things that I couldn't explain when I was as a kid, and so when I became a teenager, my friends and I kind of got together and we would go and go through cemeteries with our little voice recorders and try to just capture things with our little video cameras, and we didn't really know what we were doing. We just knew that we were out there having fun, you know, and I didn't start to take this seriously until my father passed away.
Speaker 4:So when my father passed away, we would he was sick for a really long time, but we would always joke about when he passed away that he would let me know that he was still around or that there was something after, and so he passed away in 2016. And I was already doing investigations here and there, and you know, it was something that he was very interested in. He loved when I would go and do investigations, and so we would sit there and we would talk and I would tell him everything that happened, and he'd always tell me you know well, when I, when I, die, I'm going to let you know that there's something on the other side. That way, you get your verification right then and there. So he passed away. His uh, his anniversary is actually coming up, um, in a couple of weeks and uh, but he passed away June 13th of 2016. But he passed away June 13th of 2016.
Speaker 4:And my sister, who she was close to my dad, but she wasn't as close as my dad and I. My dad and I were best friends from the day I was born, like I was always his favorite. He would always tell me all the time You're my favorite, you're my favorite. I'm like, stop saying that. You can't say that in front of my brother and sister you know, they get kind of what about us, you know?
Speaker 4:but I stuck by my dad, you know, through thick and thin, and when my parents got divorced, I stayed with him. My brother and sister went with my mom, but he passed away, and so I started to think, well, what the hell? He would always tell me that he would let me know that he was around, and I didn't get anything. A few months passed, nothing, nothing, nothing. And my sister's posting this stuff on Facebook and I'm just like, whatever, whatever, you're not seeing nothing, whatever.
Speaker 4:But then one night I am getting ready for bed and my ex-wife, the way we used to sleep on the bed, she would sleep on the edge of the bed and I slept by the wall, so she's already asleep. I climb into bed tv's still on. Haven't even gotten, you know, haven't even gotten to that point where I'm dozing off. I roll over, she's got one arm under her head and her other arm is on her side and she's facing away from me. She's facing towards, you know, the door, yeah. And so I just kind of lay down, I roll over and I put my arm over her and I feel a hand touch my hand. Oh boy, she didn't move. Okay, so it happens so fast.
Speaker 4:I'm getting chills talking about it right now and every time I talk about this I get chills and I envision it. But it felt it was only a split second, but it felt like it lasted forever. All of my sadness, all of my anger, all of my depression in that moment was gone, wow, and I felt the roughness in his hands, like I held his hands almost until he took his last breath, which is another story I'm going to. That leads into this. But I felt, I felt the roughness of his hands. You know, before he got sick, he worked in the oil field, so he had these rough hands, you know, and I felt it, and I felt that feeling like everything's going to be okay.
Speaker 2:Was there an energy, almost like a energy that flowed through you at that same moment? It?
Speaker 4:did, because the same kind of chills that I'm getting right now talking about it and that I get every time I talk about it. It's the same kind of feeling that I got. I knew it wasn't my ex-wife, I knew it wasn't her. And so I sit up and I look over and, mind you, I had just closed my eyes, like I put my arm over her, had just closed my eyes, and I felt it like instantly. And so I sit up and I look and she hasn't moved. Her arm is still under her head, the other arm you know her other arm still at her head. The other hand, you know, her other arm still at her side. And I'm sitting there and I'm just like in disbelief at what just happened. And so I kind of shove her and she's like what the hell? And like wake up. Like dad was just here and she's like what? And I said dad was just here, he held my hand. From that point forward is when I started taking paranormal investigations seriously.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:That right. There was my verification that I needed that what I was doing isn't just for nothing. There is something out there.
Speaker 2:Well, stephen, here's the deal with that for me. Here's why this interests me. First of all, whether anyone admits it or not, I believe that most people have to believe that there is something more, because there are too many stories out there, like yours, like mine, like so many other people I know it's. It's kind of like it's let's. It's kind of like when someone is accused let's say someone's accused of beating someone up, they're like oh, that guy's not violent. Then you have 10 more stories of someone saying, yeah, he beat me up too. You're like whoa, wait a minute. You're like well, I still don't know if I believe it. Then there's 20, then there's 30. Oh, you know, like the bill cosby thing, oh you know, what, even if there's one that's, there's something to it.
Speaker 2:I feel that way about paranormal activities and ghosts. I feel that way about ufos. I feel that way because, okay, a handful of instances, even, let's say, even a couple of hundred, or whatever in the scheme of things, in the scheme of the world, but when you get thousands upon millions of these stories all over the place, look, they're not all fake, there's something to it so that that drives me, um, yeah, in one of my earlier episodes I won't go into it the one of the things, too, that that I'm interested in this, for I've seen things when I was a kid as well. Uh, especially one instance that really has stuck with me all these years, and I also had my, one of my ex-wives. We had two dogs and one of the dogs that we put down it made me think of this with your story about your dad and that brush with the hand uh, one of the dogs that we were, we were close to both, they were just like they're like kids, you know, pets become like children and one. We had to put them both down eventually, but the first one we put down, uh, he came back to visit us the night after just one night. I thought it was me. Then he went to my wife at the time and she started crying. I said what happened? She said, uh, boston, the dog just came. It just came in my room and brushed up against me. So that was very real. Yeah, so you know what's going on. There's no doubt in your mind, so that I really have a huge interest in this thing and I love hearing stories like the one you just told, which is very real.
Speaker 2:And see, here's another thing people, there's a stigma. There's a stigma put on a lot of paranormal activity or or ghosts, spirits, but it's not always a fearful thing. In your case, it was comforting. In your case, having your dad from beyond or another dimension. However, this is once we leave this life. Rub his hand to let you know. You know, this is me and it gave you such a feeling of, would you say, peace and it did yeah yeah I mean, like I said, yeah, you wonder, and you wondered too why hasn't he visited me?
Speaker 2:why haven't I gotten any sign from the other side, like he said he would? And there you go, and uh, also, I do believe that some of the emotions in life, uh, fear and love, there's a lot more to it than just a word. You know, a feeling so connected, like you had with your father, can go beyond the grave, and that's and I say, grave. I even say that loosely because I I don't know about you, steve, and I'd like to know your opinion on this. While we're on this subject, I believe that we're just a shell, that this is a shell and who we are. Some kind of energy is in here.
Speaker 4:Yeah, definitely 100%. Now I have.
Speaker 2:Christian beliefs, but I'm also very respectful of other beliefs, because I don't I never think that I have the end all be all of belief systems. That's just how I am. You have people Muslim people that also believe in spiritual afterlife, so there's something to all of it. You know it's just, it's not a generalization, but so what is your take on that, on the, the spirit part of us? What? Or energy, what do you feel about?
Speaker 4:what do you?
Speaker 2:feel happens to us, or what do you feel like we are?
Speaker 4:So I feel now. I was raised Catholic All my life. I was raised to believe certain things in the Catholic religion. As I got older, I ventured out into other religions, just because I've always been curious. I don't feel like there's any one right or wrong religion, as long as you have that belief.
Speaker 4:Now, everybody does have different views on what happens when we pass on. I, for one, feel the same way you do. This is just a shell, for whatever reason. Our energy, our soul energy, whatever, whatever it does not disappear, and it's a scientific fact that energy does not just go away. So when we're, this shell is gone, we have to go somewhere else. There has to be something after, whether it's heaven or becoming part of the universe or whatever theory you believe in. I mean, maybe maybe it's all tied into the same thing, maybe it's different for everybody, maybe, you know, maybe whatever you believe is what happens to yourself and everybody goes to that place that they believe in. And I don't know, man, it just blows my mind to think that this is it, this can't be it. There has to be something other than what happens we achieve here in this life.
Speaker 2:Well, if you see, if you look for instance, my brother died a few years back and this is one of the few times I've. I mean, when you hear about this sparkle in people's eyes, there is a glint in your eye. It's like a light. It's truly a light, like if I'm talking to you in person there's a light in your eye. When you die, when you see a dead body, I don't care, and I've seen one right away as soon as they die, and I've also seen one in a casket.
Speaker 2:It doesn't matter, the light's gone yeah it glazed, your eye glazes over and there's no, there's no light anymore in that eye. To me, that's what some people call it the soul, spirit, whatever you want to call it To me, I just like saying light, because light is energy, and when a person is dead, when their body is just there as the shell, it's easy to look in the face and like, oh, they're not. You know, you can hug the body, you can do whatever you want. They're not there anymore.
Speaker 2:Now, a lot of people I've read a lot on this stuff and people talk about coming out of their body and when they have life after death type stuff, they'll come out of their body. And when they have, you know, after you know, death, life after death type stuff, they'll come out of their body and they can see themselves, yep, and they say, oh, I'm dead, because they're out, they have released out of that shell. It's time, for whatever reason, it's time to go. Whether it's that, all of that, I can't explain either. So we could spend and I would love to talk to you again on this we could spend hours on this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, definitely Really.
Speaker 2:Stephen. But now I'd like to get into we touched on kind of the experience after death part, but you being a paranormal investigator, I want to, I don't want to. I want to get into, if you can give me a couple of really great stories, some of your favorite stories of places you've investigated and where and what happened in those places.
Speaker 4:Okay, so firstly, probably one of the I don't want to say it was crazy, but there's a local restaurant here that has been people say that it's haunted.
Speaker 4:It's called Blackbeard's. Now we're on the coast, we're on the Gulf Coast of Texas and we have what is the what's called the USS Lexington. Right in front of that is this old restaurant that's been there ever since I can remember. I'm 43 years old. I remember that restaurant being there ever since I can remember and it's right on the beach and there everybody always said it was haunted, it was haunted. A bunch of paranormal teams have been there and I finally got the chance to go and investigate and it's just a restaurant and we're there and we're, we're locked in overnight and we're, we're, we're getting some activity, but not much, nothing. That that is that I can say. Oh my God, that's paranormal. Like you know, sensors are going off and we're getting stuff here and there.
Speaker 4:But my, my old teammate and I were in the women's bathroom and I have what is called an SLS device, which is a connect sensor set up to a tablet, and I'm standing in the bathroom and we all used to wear body cams and we had cameras set up everywhere, so we tried to get every. We tried to get every angle that we possibly could so that if we did catch something, nobody could say, oh well, somebody was standing off screen or somebody. We have every angle covered. So there's there's no way to say you guys fake that, right? So I'm standing in the bathroom and on the SLS device Now, normally you get figures that are standing up and it looks like they're, you know, walking or just standing there this one was laying on the floor in the bathroom, in the women's bathroom.
Speaker 4:It looked like there was a stick figure laying in the back bathroom stall on the floor. I'm standing there holding the device and I tell joe I'm like hey, joe, like come check this out. And so he comes and he looks and he's like oh, wow, he's, I'm gonna go over there. So he goes over there and he stands right where this figure is and he bends down and goes hey, wake up. As to like slap it. Yeah, at that point on video, clear as day, you hear a woman moan. It went just like that. And so Joe was like what the hell? And I'm like what the hell? I was like that was you. He's like it wasn't me. I was like who's in the stall behind you? He's like nobody's here. And I'm like, like are you sure? And he's like I'm looking right here, there's nobody here. So there was one more stall right next to me. The door was closed.
Speaker 4:So I thought maybe one of our other teammates were in there messing around, because there was times where we used to you know, purposely joke around and try to scare each other, but we always let it be known on the footage that, hey, you know, that was just so and so joking around, right? Um? So he tells me to open the door and I said I'm not opening the door. You open the door, I have the camera. You open the door. So he opens the door and we're expecting one of our other teammates to be in there. There was nobody in there.
Speaker 4:The rest of the team was upstairs in the attic trying to get footage there. There was nobody in there. The rest of the team was upstairs in the attic trying to get footage upstairs. There was nobody else. We didn't have any females with us. Granted, you know, a male can mimic a woman's voice, but neither of us did it. The guys upstairs had no idea what was going on. Everything was live stream on facebook, along with the, the cameras and stuff that we had set up, so that right there I was like, okay, I can't explain that. Did you catch that on video? We caught that on video. I'll send it to you. I'll send it to you an email. Yeah, um, I, I still have the, the body cam video.
Speaker 2:I'm no longer part of that team and I still have my where's a place people can go to see that um, I don't think I have that one up anywhere except for my facebook page. If you send it to me, I'll I'll. I'll post it out, because, yeah, I'll send it to you and it was really cool, man.
Speaker 4:And, like I said, you hear it clear as day, you hear she just like the way, like just like a moan, like a kind of bone, it was just, it was weird. So that that right there, I'm like, okay, something is here wasn't anything malicious, wasn't anything you know scary or anything like that, but there is definitely something there. It is haunted. Um, then another time, like I said, we we live stream everything from the time we get to the investigation to the time we go to sleep. There's times where I've even live streamed me sleeping, just because you never know, right.
Speaker 4:And so we were at Yorktown Memorial Hospital, which is a very well-known location in Texas. It's about two and a half hours away from where I live and we go to this, this old hospital that was shut down, I believe, in the eighties or nineties, and there's no power in this place. It was an old Catholic hospital, so it's got a huge chapel, huge chapel. And while we're sitting in the chapel, one of my old teammates, mike, starts to get sick and as I'm filming him in it's sitting in one of the pews, he goes. Ah, I'm like what happened? He's like something, just something just scratched my face, oh, and so I'm like okay, so I go and I put my camera.
Speaker 4:Mind you, like I said, cameras everywhere yeah he didn't touch his face, he didn't do anything. Live on Facebook I go and he's got one scratch down the side of his face, and so a lot of times when I was part of that team, we would taunt spirits if nothing was happening. And that's what had happened. We hadn't been getting any evidence. And so we're in the chapel and he started taunting and we're sitting there and he just starts getting nauseous and he starts, you know, gagging like he's gonna vomit. And at that point I wear glasses. I have to wear glasses.
Speaker 4:I can't see a damn thing without glasses on in there too and so I'm standing there filming mike and all of a sudden the side of my face just starts to get hot. And so I told Joe. I'm like, hey, come, come, shine the light on my face. And so he comes with the light and he's like dude, you have three huge scratches on your face. I'm like no way. So I turned the camera around, and when I turn it around, this this is live on Facebook as well. Um, I don't think I ever uploaded this one to youtube, but it's. You clearly see that on my face, from here to my cheek, there's three clear scratches. Now the crazy part is, when I take my glasses off, the scratch did not, there wasn't a skip, it went all the way through my glasses. So whatever scratched me went through the side of my glasses as well, and it was just a straight scratch.
Speaker 4:That's an interesting note yeah, and so that right there I didn't touch my face. There was nobody around me there it it just happened. It just started to get warm. It didn't even feel like a scratch, like when somebody scratches it. That's not what it felt like. It just felt like my face was getting warm steven, how did that heal? It, just it went away within. I mean, they weren't deep scratches, yeah, they were just.
Speaker 4:You know, like if, if somebody just kind of like ran their fingers across my face yeah and so within a, within a you know, 10-15 minutes, it was gone, but it happened, and it happened live on camera uh, but it healed normally like a scratch would normally heal yeah, yeah, it didn't.
Speaker 2:I didn't have any scarring, no, nothing the reason I say that is because, if you think about it, you, you were in your glasses, you, the scratches obviously went through the, the, the frame, the holder, the ear holder. There it obviously went, it went under it like it. So, even though it was a physical um, I don't know if I'd call it an attack but a physical altercation on your face, the fingers or whatever was used to do it, were the molecular makeup of that. Your glasses, the piece of your glasses, didn't hinder it from going through. And that's interesting to me. I know, like you just said, you would think that if someone physical did it, obviously they're going to stop it to where your glasses, your ear holder, stops, and then go under it, and if they want to finish this, you'll have a gap. Yeah, yeah, see, that's that.
Speaker 4:Hmm, See, and I didn't feel my glasses move or anything.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was you know, if I would have felt like my glasses jiggle or something.
Speaker 4:I would have been like whoa, what the hell. But, like I said, I didn't feel anything. It just started to get warm, that's it.
Speaker 2:That was the only indication that anything even happened, and the only reason I even paid attention to it was because of what was happening with Mike. How much longer did you guys stay in?
Speaker 4:there. After that we spent the night. We spent the night. Every location that I go to that we investigate, we spend the night. They're always overnight investigations investigate we?
Speaker 2:we spend the night. They're always overnight investigations. Did anything else happen?
Speaker 4:beside the scratches physically. Um, that night I don't recall if anything else happened. Uh, we went there five or six times and if I you know, going back so many times, things happen different times we've heard things running down the hall that we thought there was other people in the, in the actual hotel or hospital, I'm sorry. Um, we heard something running towards the hallway where we set up camp is in the, in the lobby, which is right in front, and so that's where we would set up our base camp and set up our, our, our little beds and stuff. And we heard something running down the hallway and then it just stopped. So we all got up and we went to go. Look, we found a family of raccoons.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:So we kind of attributed it to the raccoons you know.
Speaker 4:So not everything that occurs in that location is paranormal. Just like in every location, not everything is paranormal, and that was kind of my job on the team at the time was to try to figure out what it could be before we could say we have no idea, it's more than likely paranormal, absolutely scared the living piss out of me. We were at the Mineral Wells Haunted Hill House, which is in North Texas, in Mineral Wells, and there's an old hotel there called the Baker Hotel, which was it's this very well-known paranormal location. But nobody's allowed to go in there anymore because they are renovating it to reopen it. It's been shut down for years, renovating it to reopen it. It's been shut down for years. It's been vandalized.
Speaker 4:But right off to the side is this old house that was built in the late 1800s. That was used as a brothel for the hotel, so guests would go and stay at the hotel and then make their way to the house and have their way. So the house has a ton of activity. There's there. There's even a. There's so much history in that house, so many different deaths that occurred. There is supposedly and I say supposedly because I've never seen it, I've heard it but I've never seen it. Uh, there's a demon that calls himself toby, um, but we're at this house and this is, this is with my new team. I, I, my new team, is called somewhat supernatural as well.
Speaker 4:I just kind of integrated it with the same, you know, with the podcast. That way it's all the same. Um. So we're at the mineral wells haunted hill house and it's probably my fifth or sixth time going back there as well and we're getting activity. And that's the thing about that location is, as soon as you step in it doesn't have to be nighttime you're gonna get activity in that place 24 7 um. It's one of the more haunted locations that I've been to.
Speaker 4:The very first time I went there, we're sitting in the living room, the lady's telling us the history of the house and we hear an audible growl right in front of us and so we were. What the hell was that Like that? That freaked all of us out, you know, and we were all big dudes covered in tattoos, you know, and and that right there was very unsettling. But we went back there five or six times and this most recent investigation that I did with someone supernatural. We're there and we're we're doing investigations and I'm in what's called the doll room and I'm in there by myself and I'm live. I use restream to go live because I can use multiple camera angles and as long as I have a wifi connection, so I have all these different cameras set up in the room live streaming, different cameras that people can check out, you know, with everything going on at the same time, in real time.
Speaker 4:So I'm sitting on the bed and I'm talking because my friend's wife had just had something happen to her in the bathroom, and as I'm sitting there talking to the chat, I lean forward and I feel something on my back, like it feels like somebody rubbed their hand on my back, and so I turn around and when I turn around there's a clown doll that falls off. I don't want to say it's a headboard, because it's not a headboard, it was a shelf that is screwed into the wall that the bed there. There's about a two or three inch gap between the bed and this. This shelf and this clown doll just comes at me and, man, I tell you what this is. This one's on my tiktok, and so my tiktok is lord underscore scuba cabra. This video is on there. You can go check it out if anybody wants to watch it. I became the fastest man alive because that caught me off guard and I tell you, man, vulgarity started coming out of my mouth and I just it freaked me out plus I go back down.
Speaker 2:I don't know what it is about. Clowns, well yeah clowns.
Speaker 4:Clowns used to be my, my number one fear when I was a kid, for some reason. Um, but I go back and I watch the footage because I'm like there's no way, that just happened, right. So I'm watching the footage and in the footage you see me lean forward, you see me sit up and I'm there, I'm not moving the bed, the bed isn't moving. I'm not making these, you know, jolty actions on the bed, and when you see me turn around, that doll hasn't moved yet. But I turn around because, like I said, I felt something touch my shoulder, right. So when I turn around, you just see that clown doll, like if something pushed it off of the shelf, and so I even slowed it down and slowed it down and did it, you know, just so people could see I did not move that doll. It was not the shaking, and so I put the doll back up, I get back on the bed in the same position I'm in and I start jumping on this bed and trying to shake it up.
Speaker 4:And that damn doll did not move at all, so that right there, I've, I've, I've had things move on us, but while we're in completely different rooms. It's never happened in in the 10 years that I've been doing this. Where it happened right behind me, and that was very unsettling. They had caught me off guard. I usually try to be very observant of what's going on, especially during investigations, and that one just caught me off guard. I didn't even think, oh well, maybe something behind me is going to come flying at me and it just that right there. It's funny now, but in the moment was absolutely terrifying.
Speaker 2:Oh man, yeah, I would have been like you if I had turned around and a clown. Not anything but the feeling of someone on your back and then, on top of everything, a clown jumping at you, a clown doll Again. I don't know what it is about clowns that freak me out too, and a lot of people I have no idea. But yeah, I'd been like you. I would have. I don't know how, I haven't tested myself to see how fast I can run, but I'm sure it would have been impressive, yeah I'm a big boy too and uh, yeah, I, like I said, I became the fastest man alive that day.
Speaker 4:It was, uh, something else. But, like I said, that location has a lot of stuff that's happened um, instruments turned on. We, I have this music box that has a sensor on it, so if anything walks in front of it, that sensor goes off and it starts making music and we're all asleep. We're all asleep downstairs and I wake up because this music box is spinning fast and so I wake up. The other guys that are that are asleep as well, and I'm like hey, hey, listen. And they're like what? And I said, the music box is going off upstairs and that's where toby's room is. I put in quotations toby's room the the demon, that's, his dedicated room is upstairs now, who says?
Speaker 2:who says this is a demon? How did this come about? This demon, toby, who? Who found out about this?
Speaker 4:the owner of the house. Um, there is a. Um, there's actually a news article on it that you can watch on youtube. Um, a group was there investigating and they got the name toby on one of the experiments they were doing and that's just what they started. Calling him was Toby and the name kept coming, kept coming, so that's what they call him. But there's also a photograph that one team caught of this entity and it's not human. Whatever it is, it is not human at all. It's very it's like they took the picture and he just decided to pop his head in through the doorway. So it wasn't anything. They were just taking pictures, taking pictures, and in one photo he just kind of looks like he's peeking his head out from the side and you can tell whatever it is is not human, so that's why they attribute it to being a demon rather than a ghost a normal ghost and so he's very mischievous.
Speaker 4:He's never attacked me personally, but he has scratched people. The team that actually caught that photo went back. Actually, no, it was the lady that got yanked off the bed. So they have their own surveillance cameras in every single room. And this lady's laying on the bed and she gets yanked off the bed, and this was the catalyst for us. Even going in the first place was because I wanted to debunk that.
Speaker 4:Because, the way that it's set up, the room is set up and the video that's taken, there's a man standing at the foot of the bed. So I in my head I'm like well, somebody could have been crouched down in front of him that we didn't see. That yanked her off the bed. So when we went and I saw this room in person, there's no way, there's not enough space for the force that yanked this lady off the bed. So that lady went back later on I don't know if it was months or weeks, whatever she went back again and she got scratched in the same room and these were deep scratches that were actually bleeding, like she bled through her shirt. Wow, yeah, so that, like I said, that's never occurred to me there or or any of my team members, um, but there is definitely a ton of activity that takes place in this location.
Speaker 4:But back to the music box. So the music box is going off. We get up, turn the cameras on and this video is also on my Tik TOok we go upstairs and when we finally get upstairs, the music box is actually facing the opposite direction of which we set it down. It wasn't facing towards the stairs, it was now facing away from the stairs, and so when my buddy tuck goes to turn it off, he puts his finger on the switch and as soon as he his finger barely touches the switch he hasn't even flipped the switch the music box stops completely and then he flicks it off.
Speaker 4:But this thing was going at a pace that it's never gone at before, cause it makes the noise, you know. But it's just a, it's just a normal pace tune. This thing was going so fast and I've never heard it do it since then like that, so that that right there, like I said, there, there's tons of activity that occurs in this, in this location, and that right there is probably one of my favorite places to investigate you know it's funny you say that about the music box, the, the handle turning, uh, not normally or not a lot as it would normally, but fast, faster than it would normally turn.
Speaker 2:You know, I, I beside, I do a bunch of different things in life, uh, but beside all the things I do, I'm also, I have an electrical company and I, I love electricity. So I've, I've dealt in that world for a while and electricity, of course, is one of the most powerful energies that we have on earth, one of the most powerful think of lightning. You know, it's a natural energy, but if you take a, let's say you take a ceiling fan that runs off of a certain voltage normally and you add too much voltage, it will automatically start spinning. It may ruin it, but it will. Firstly, first of all, it will spin super fast. Yeah, you'll be like holy shit, what just happened?
Speaker 2:and you'll see it spinning, but that's because too much voltage has has been guided to that fan, a motor. Yeah, I feel that way with spiritual energy as well. Uh, like what you're talking about. Sometimes it's so powerful it can move things or make things go faster. Or even, because not every like everywhere you go, you don't get it, you don't get physically touched, you don't get it, you don't get physically touched, you don't get attacked, you don't have things falling over. It's just certain places. So I feel like certain energies, whether it's demonic or just, uh, some kind of entity after death.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure. Sure, obviously I have no idea, but I think there are varying, uh varying energies from from these things that we can't explain, that are just more powerful than others and they can move things, they can scratch, they can do physical harm to people. That's another fascinating part, because not all of them do. Is it because they can't? I have no idea, but there's got to be something to that. I think we're, all you know, atoms, to get a little scientific, everything's made up of atoms, everything, everything's connected, everything's connected in this world and I think the after world, it's everything's connected somehow. This world and I think the and after world, it's. Everything's connected somehow. So it's amazing to me when those you know, the, the after the, the energy afterlife and the energy in this life meet, yeah, and things happen like this. That's wow, man.
Speaker 2:I could talk to you about this stuff all day and I'd love to at some point have you back and I'd be happy to be on yours too, because we could talk about this stuff. I have a lot of experiences, but it's about you mostly. Today I want to talk to you. We're going to wrap it up for now, but I want to wrap it up with something fun, since you said you're into horror movies and I ask people this when they're on here so give me your. It's kind of hard. It's hard for me, god. I've seen so many and you could go to different, um man, you could go to different uh eras silent films, man, there's a lot of, there's a lot of good horror movies. But if you were to name, if you, just if you were put on the spot to name your top three, what would you say?
Speaker 4:Ooh, my top three. Okay, so, and it's fluid, it's fluid.
Speaker 2:for me, it changes all the time.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and that's the thing is with my. My life is horror. My living room is. Let's do it this way.
Speaker 2:Let's do it this way Ghost movie about a ghost, a haunted house or whatever. Let's start there. What? What's one of your favorite haunted house? We'll make it a little easier on you oh, uh, what was it called?
Speaker 4:oh, my lord, um, what is it called? Uh, the. It's called the. The name is slipping my mind right now. It is about a woman who was being it's called the entity. That's what it's called. Oh yeah, um, the entity I it. It didn't age well, but I love that movie so much. It's one of the first ghost movies that I can remember watching with my, with my dad, as a kid, but then finding out that it was based on a true story.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:That, that right there. I absolutely love that movie, Um. So the entity is probably my top ghost film.
Speaker 2:That's a good one. That's a good one. Um, gore type movie, let's say, uh, gore fest type movie. There's of those gore.
Speaker 4:Uh, I gotta go I gotta go with the new, the new horror icon, uh, art the clown. Anything with art the clown, that's gory. And you know, uh, terrifiers, just it kicked it up, you know it brought that kind of gore to the mainstream, which is something that had been missing for mainstream horror for a long time. And so I feel that terror, especially with terrifier two, that one just just went way over the top.
Speaker 2:I haven't seen, I haven't seen that one yet.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that one. It's kind of long and and, and some people don't like it, but I am the kind of person when I watch a horror movie I want to have fun with it as well. Yeah, and I, I love practical effects. I dabble in practical effects for short films and stuff, and so I, I I love what they did with such a low budget and how it became such a breakout film that it was able to spawn a sequel, Exactly. And now we're getting another sequel. So I got to go with Terrifier as my favorite gore movie.
Speaker 2:That's a good choice. The first one. I agree with you Great movie. Not expecting much from that one, but not for everyone. Yeah, definitely. But a lot of humor in there too, which is always cool, makes it fun, you know it takes away the sting of the. You know you can kind of your mind can wrap around the gore because you're like, okay, it's, it's also. There's also a comic element to the whole thing as well and a heroic element with the girl.
Speaker 2:You know the, and the music was, by the way, great soundtrack for the first time.
Speaker 4:Awesome, oh the soundtrack was awesome.
Speaker 2:Oh my God. Yeah, it turned me on to a new genre of music, actually. And so now the final question, and we'll keep it on this topic, because we said three movies Demonic movie like the Exorcist, something that has to do with demons what would be one of the top ones for you?
Speaker 4:You know, I would have to say it's probably. What is it called? The one with Russell Crowe where he plays Father Gabriel Lamar?
Speaker 2:I like that one.
Speaker 4:I thought that was good until the end. The end got a little too.
Speaker 2:Hollywood yeah, the end got. They could have done the ending different, but the whole buildup and the fact that and the fact, and it was. I don't know if they've done this before, I think they have, but by the way, what was the name of that movie? Oh my God, yeah, the name slips me right now and it's one of my favorite films. Now, yeah, god, I can't. Anyway, it was a great movie, but yeah, you're right, the end got a little too cheesy, a little too.
Speaker 2:They, they went, they went to special effects at the end, and it was the pope's exorcist, the pope's exorcist yeah, that was good, and what I liked about that one, too, is how this demon said I want that guy.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, yeah, I like it when there's like a challenge and then, he's like laughing and Russell Crowe was a great fit for that role. But you know they say I know we were talking serious and now we're talking movies. But look, life imitates art.
Speaker 3:It does.
Speaker 2:Art also imitates life. You can't have one without the other. Hey, man, it was great having you on today.
Speaker 4:I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2:Thank you Absolutely, David, and I I know he's. I can tell he's been enthralled with what you've been saying.
Speaker 3:Oh no. I mean, I've definitely been enthralled, but if people want to follow you on social media, what are your handles on all the social medias TikTok, instagram, all those?
Speaker 4:So my TikTok and my Instagram are Lord underscore Scuba Cabra and on Facebook I am Lord Scuba Cabra Vasquez, and that those are the really the only two and, of course, my somewhat supernatural page, if. If you're interested in the podcast and the investigations, that's where I live stream all of them. The. The podcast. It used to be a live video podcast and recently I started just doing audio, shortening them down because I would get people on. You know, my buddies and I would get on and talk and we would just go for an hour and get off topic, and so I just kind of started bringing them down, making shorter episodes and just kind of sticking more to the, the, the, the meat and potatoes of the episode, as opposed to getting on and bantering and stuff. So that's where you guys can follow me.
Speaker 2:Well, that's amazing, hey, dude, to start out season two with an episode like this with you. I'm very glad we did this because you have stories that we could talk about and, like I said, I'd love to have you back. I'd love to be on your podcast, because this kind of conversation it's endless, there's so many. There's so many things to get into with it, but we want to appreciate, we want to thank you. We really appreciate you being on here.
Speaker 1:Steven, thanks so much no problem and we'll talk to you later thanks for checking out the sonic hitchhiker podcast. Follow us on instagram at sonic hitchhiker podcast and get new episodes wednesdays, wherever you get your podcasts the Sonic Hitchhiker Podcast. Follow us on Instagram at Sonic Hitchhiker Podcast and get new episodes Wednesdays, wherever you get your podcasts.