Spooky Weather
Relaxed, thoughtful storytelling and analysis of all things spooky and paranormal. The stories are purported to be true; their interpretation is up to me and you.
Spooky Weather
When Reality Slips: Stories of Unexplainable Encounters
Weather patterns provide the perfect metaphor for understanding life's mysteries. We examine how sometimes the normal weather of our lives is disrupted by something unexpected from beyond our understanding.
• Strange footprints that begin and end mysteriously with no explanation
• The social consequences of sharing unexplainable experiences with skeptical friends and family
• A teenage boy encounters a "travelling nightshade"
• A fourth-grade boy's terrifying experience attempting a séance that summons something disturbing
• The statistically impossible death of a community activist
• How even ordinary events can sometimes display patterns of cosmic irony that defy explanation
When the weather gets spooky, the spooky become climatologists. Join us next time for more explorations of when the other world creeps in.
There's all kinds of metaphors and symbolisms that we can use to understand complex subjects, understand complex subjects. What makes the most sense to me is using weather patterns to describe different situations in life. There was a movie by Oliver Stone called Natural Born Killers, where one of the characters said the news is like the weather, except that it's man-made. I always remembered that, and that's where I developed the idea of ascribing weather patterns to different kind of storm. A family is a kind of storm. A country, a culture it's a particular group of elements coming together to form a wave pattern in which everyone moves and grows and has their being in. Sometimes, though, the weather gets strange. In which everyone moves and grows and has their being in. Sometimes, though, the weather gets strange, it's not normal weather. Something pushes in to our world from the outside, and we may not have any way to understand it. All we can do is think about it, feel about it and meditate on it and see where that leads us, and that's what this podcast is all about. So, from the cosmic Northwest Territory that sits on the banks of the Michigan me, my name is Davey C, and this is the maiden voyage of this podcast. It's April 25th 2025. Pluto has entered Aquarius. Neptune has one toe in Aries. Venus is shining with all her dignity in the constellation of Pisces. God is still at peace in heaven and down here on the ground. Some of us sometimes are going through spooky weather.
Davey Cee:Now, I've long been an aficionado of spooky stories, stories of the supernatural, the preternatural, spiritual traditions. I take all kinds of pages from different mysterious scrapbooks to look at these stories, to listen to these stories and see what I can glean from them. These days there's any number it is numberless actually of the stories that you can find online of people recounting their tale, their personal tale, of when the weather got strange and the other world crept in. There is a glut of it. Much of it is not real. What I'm doing on this podcast is I'm picking what I consider to be the cream of the stories, and the way I define cream is that they are interesting and they seem real to me. They may not be the most fantastical, even though they might be very unusual and fantastical, but for me it's. Do they seem like a real person is telling the story and that they really believe it happened to them. And is it interesting to me into them? And is it interesting to me. These days we have videos of robots and ai telling stories very quickly, very mechanically, just cranking it out.
Davey Cee:Even though many of the stories are interesting and probably many of them are true or true enough, I don't like that delivery. It sucks some of the life out of the story. So here I'm going to tell the story and I'm going to try to feel what the person telling it felt and I'm going to think about what they said happened. I may laugh, I may analyze, but however it comes out, you're getting this from a real person For me to tell all these people's stories, without me throwing in a personal story, of which I have many, many I won't share, but a few I will.
Davey Cee:But I have to contribute something, because I do believe that strange things happen, that spooky weather is real, that sometimes something, some force, encroaches upon our world and our understanding of what's going on. We have our definitions and then the spooky weather comes in to destroy all definitions and we're left there holding the bag. So I am a believer in these kinds of things, even though I'm not a believer in every story and not a believer in every interpretation. And if your interpretation is different from mine, that doesn't mean you're wrong and I'm right. When you're dealing with spooky weather. There really isn't a scorecard we can keep. There is no board of directors that we can submit our interpretation to, to get our PhD or to get our certificate or to get approval. So I'm going to tell you my story, even though I hesitate, because telling spooky weather stories is very seldom going to win you any friends or admiration. It's really just going to make people uncomfortable with you. They don't like it, or they like it too much, and then they want to go hang out at the graveyard at midnight with you. So we're very lucky we have the internet where people can anonymously tell their stories. I'm going to tell you a very, really not that impressive story, but it is a true story.
Davey Cee:Six or seven years ago it snowed where I live About a foot of snow and I woke up that day and I stretched and I went to the back window of my house and I looked out the window at the snow. Ah, isn't it beautiful. But when I looked closer, I saw something very unusual. In the middle of the backyard there was undisturbed snow, undisturbed snow, undisturbed snow. And then, for about ten feet in the middle of the backyard there were human-like footprints About ten feet and then they disappeared. It's as if someone dropped in from the sky or materialized in my backyard and their feet touched the ground in the snow. They walked 10 feet and then they were yanked back up in the sky.
Davey Cee:Now I went out to investigate. You know I'm thinking surely there's more to this. This can't be, surely there's more to this. This can't be. Someone must have been walking through the backyard and you know the wind blew the snow over. You know where their steps came from and where their steps disappeared to. And you know I'm looking for a reasonable, what they call rational explanation, Because even though I believe in spooky weather, it is not my first inclination to ascribe everything to spooky weather. I'm really hoping there's a normal quote, natural explanation.
Davey Cee:So I went out back and I looked around, looked around the house, the perimeter of the house. There were no snow drifts before the steps or after the steps, there was no wind blowing. It was a flat, almost level one feet of snow uniformly distributed throughout my backyard, the side of the house, the front of the house. So I'm standing there and I'm looking at those footsteps and I'm thinking, hmm, hmm, hmm. I have no explanation, but it was interesting to me. So I took a picture of it, of these footsteps, on my cell phone and I texted that picture to a friend and I said look at this. And I explained to the friend what it was, I gave them some context and explained to them everything that I just explained to you, dear audience member, and if you are an audience member and you've lasted this long, I love you, thank you. Thank you for listening to me.
Davey Cee:But I explained it to my friend, showed them the picture, and they immediately mocked me, mocked me. They sent a text back mocking me that oh no, now Dave believes in Bigfoot, even though I have never been a promoter of Bigfoot, either to my friend or to anyone else. Now, if you believe in Bigfoot, that's fine. I'm sure people see strange things in the woods. I know they do. I personally am not playing hide-and-seek with Bigfoot in the forest. That's not my bag. No disrespect to anyone who does, that's not my bag, no disrespect to anyone who does. But immediately my friend shot back and smeared me with being a Bigfoot believer.
Davey Cee:So you see, spooky weather is really not something that it pays to talk about. Even though I'd never promoted Bigfoot to this person, they automatically put me in a camp that searches for Bigfoot and plays hide-and-seek with Bigfoot in the woods. And oh, aren't I a dumbass? You know that's the implication of their text. I just thought it was an interesting picture, I thought it was an interesting situation and wanted to share it with them. So it never pays to share spooky weather with people, and yet that's what I'm doing on this podcast. So if you do like thinking about these kinds of things and hearing stories about these kinds of things, then maybe this is the place for you, especially if you want it to be told to you by a real person and not an AI bot. It really is difficult to talk about these subjects and most people just give up.
Davey Cee:There's another aspect of this where you might be with someone and you both witness the spooky weather. It could be an apparition, it could be, you see, I guess, a Bigfoot or a sprite or a wood nymph or whatever it is. Or, you know, your mother's ghost comes to visit you in the middle of the night and tells you where you misplaced your dentures, whatever, whatever it is, but you and someone else, you have a witness and you both witness the spooky weather incident at the same time and you both look over at each other and you say, did you see that? And they say, yeah, I saw that, isn't that weird? Yeah, that's weird. Hey what, let's get the hell out of here. And then you book it and you get the hell out.
Davey Cee:And then later, even though you have this witness, even though they were there and at the time admitted to experiencing it too they saw the same thing you did, felt the same thing you did you go to them later it could be three weeks later, three years later, ten years later and you say, hey, remember that time that that strange phenomena happened? Do you remember that the way I do? And they might turn and look at you and say I have no idea what you're talking about. I have no idea what you're talking about. They have no idea what happened. Well, you know they blotted it out or something erased it from their mind. They couldn't deal with it, or whatever. Erased it from their mind, wouldn't let them deal with it. And you know, in my opinion, they don't have to deal with it. It's no big deal, but it does just illustrate further how spooky weather is a difficult subject to talk about Now. Spooky weather is a difficult subject to talk about, because even if you have a witness with you weeks later, years later, they may deny the whole thing.
Davey Cee:This has happened to me more than once. More than once where I experienced something very strange with someone else as a witness and we both agreed, yeah, that's strange, and then talked to them later about it and they have no idea what I'm talking about. They're just shaking their head and scratching it and looking at me like I've grown a second head or a third head. So it really doesn't pay, does it? But I'm used to doing impossible things, so I'm going to continue in this endeavor.
Davey Cee:Now, the first story I'm going to talk about that is not a personal story Is one I found on the website Reddit, and there are millions of stories like this on Reddit. I have consumed many of them. I picked this one Simply because it interests me and I think it has the ring of truth. I don't think this was concocted. It's a little too strange and I trust the narrator. Now for you, I'm going to narrate it, but I'm not going to read it verbatim from Reddit. I'm going to try to humanize this. I know the story and I'm going to tell it.
Davey Cee:A few years ago, there was a young man about 14 years old and it was a Saturday afternoon and he was out with his mother running errands. Typical thing, right? We've all been there. Remember that stage of life. You're 14. You're really not old enough to drive. Maybe your friends are busy that weekend, or maybe the video games just don't appeal to you today Because it's such a beautiful day out and you haven't seen the light of day in months. But, for whatever reason, you're a 14-year-old boy and you're out with mom on a Saturday to run errands A very normal thing. Can you feel it? Can you feel that? I don't know how old you are, you might be 30., you might be 25., you might be 70. But do you remember what it was like to be a gangly 14 year old with nothing else to do but hang out with mom while she runs her errands on a Saturday? Can you feel that? I can feel that? Oh, I feel it right now.
Davey Cee:So the first place they went was an open air market. You know. They got fruits and vegetables and there's the farmers there. They probably grew the stuff themselves, or it's their niece or their nephew running the stand, and it's local stuff. It's real colorful, you know, all these panoplies of fresh grown fruits and vegetables and people milling around. It's a very relaxed and normal thing, kind of a. You know, I like that, I really do, I really do. I like that feeling, especially if it's a nice day.
Davey Cee:And that's what was going on here with this young man. He's just bebopping around Mom's picking up fruits and inspecting them and telling, you know, whoever give me three of those or whatever, and he's 14, the boy. So he's bored. Glad to be out of the house, but bored. Glad to be out of the house, but bored. And he looks over and he sees a strange thing. What could he possibly see? Do you think he saw a gremlin or a ghost? No, what caught his attention was a peculiar looking tomato. It was, you know, and it was sitting on top of all the other tomatoes. They're all there in a big pile, but this one tomato, it seemed a little too large and it was lumpy and misshapen. It's not really round or it's partially round and then part of it grows out to the side. You know, like, like a freak. It's like a freak. You know, you've seen one of those unfortunate people that grow a third leg or, you know, have an extra head. This is the equivalent of that in the nightshade family.
Davey Cee:A tomato. It's big, it's too large, it's lumpy, it's got things growing out of it where it shouldn't. And he picked it up. Can you imagine this? A 14 year old I'm there with him. You know, if I was 14 and I saw a tomato like this, I'd walk over and look at it too. And he picked it up and he turned it over and he sees a gross, a really gross rotten spot on the bottom and it's kind of green and mushy down there. So, you know, misshapen and red on the top and on the bottom it's kind of green and mushy and looking a little rotten. Can you see this yet in your mind? Can you see this fucking tomato? It'd get my attention too. I mean, if I was 14, if I was 30, I'm not sure I would, you know, dwell on it too much, but at 14, yeah. So that's what he does.
Davey Cee:He picks it up and inspects it and, of course, you know, he passes his judgment on it and sets it back down and mom finishes her shopping at the outside open air market and they leave and they go and run the rest of their errands for this Saturday, you know, go to the hardware store, maybe go to the cloth store, because she's one of those trad wives that still sew, who knows. I don't know those details, but before they went home she had a few items to pick up from the grocery store. It was about an hour later, they weren't out long, and she looks at her 14-year-old and says you know, we're going to pop into the grocery store real quick. Maybe she needed some feminine napkins? No, I don't know, but she needed something in there. And so the boy, you know, he goes in with her and while she's you know he's not with her in the store he wanders off by himself. That's why I say feminine napkins, and that's feminine napkins is code, that's code for something else. Go look it up if you don't know. But she wanted some privacy, so he wandered off by himself while she bought her pantyhose or feminine napkins or whatever it was.
Davey Cee:And he walks over to the produce section just aimlessly, bumbling around like a gangly 14-year-old would, and he suddenly got a very strange, just a really odd feeling in the pit of his stomach. Can you imagine why? Well, it was because while he was tooling around the produce department, he looked over and saw something very distinctive looking, something that if you saw it once, you would never forget it, because it's so distinctive and strange looking. It was a very large and misshapen tomato, a deformed-looking tomato that looked very similar to the one he had seen at the open-air market about an hour before. Obviously this piqued his interest and he walked over to it and he picked it up and started to inspect it and he saw that it looked identical to the tomato that he had seen at the open air market down to a tee. But that's not possible, is it? That's really not possible. How could that tomato from the open air market wind up at the grocery store an hour and a few minutes later? That's not possible. Surely it couldn't be the same one. But he turned it over and there on the bottom was that same rotten green, wet and mushy spot Exactly the same. It was the same tomato.
Davey Cee:Of course he startled, startled, he dropped it once he had made sure that it was indeed the same one and went and found his mother and, being 14 and not understanding how unpopular it is to relay spooky weather reports to other people, he went and told his mom Mom, that same weird, gross tomato at the open market is now here at the grocery store. It's the same one, mom, let me show it to you. Come this way, mom, let me show it to you. Come this way. Can you see the panic that he has? Can you feel the dismay? Surely mom can explain this to him, right? But you know what His mother, once he recounted this to her, told him you must be insane. Have you ever been there? Hmm, has your mother ever looked at you and said you must be insane? Oh, I've been there. I've been there more than once. So he dropped it. He dropped the subject. He clammed up, like most of us do Once we tell our spooky weather story and it doesn't go well.
Davey Cee:That same gross, misshapen, mutant tomato showed up in two different places within about an hour. There can only be one. You see, there can only be one tomato that looked exactly like that gross fucking tomato. Now, I hope you felt this. I hope I succeeded in putting you in his shoes a little bit, because that's what I really enjoy about these stories and that's what a robot can't convey to you. The AI can't even come close. But if you felt it even a little bit, let's think about it too for a second.
Davey Cee:What could possibly be responsible For a mutant tomato Leaving one area and teleporting to another? And you say, well, that didn't happen. Okay, well, what are the options? That somebody bought that tomato at the open-air market and, you know, completely ignoring what a grotesquery it is, and then had second thoughts once they got it home, tried to take it back to the open air market because it scared them. This was a scary, scary tomato and the people at the open air market won't take it back because they were just so relieved that this customer took it off their hands. And so now they walk out of the open air market and what are they going to do with this tomato? They can't take it back home. I mean, the dog curled up in the corner and howled when they brought this mutant tomato in their uh, you know wife, made the sign of the cross at them and backed away. So in the market they won't take it back. And you know, I guess they could. Just, they could just throw it in a garbage can on the street. But you know, if this is a cursed tomato, maybe the cursed would would bounce back on them if they disposed of it improperly. So what they did is they snuck it into a grocery store and just dropped it in with the other tomatoes.
Davey Cee:Do you really think all that happened? See, I don't. I don't believe that that Well, dave, you're saying otherwise. It just got teleported to the grocery store, you know, from the open air market. I don't believe that. Hey, it's either one is hard to believe. It's hard, it's hard to believe either one. But if I have to choose either one, but if I have to choose, if I have to choose from both scenarios, I chose that somehow it just disappeared from the open air market and reappeared at the grocery store.
Davey Cee:Okay, so I mean I could be wrong, but this is spooky weather. I get to play around. I get to play around. I get to think about it. I get to. Yeah, you know, in the world today, everybody's telling you what you can and can't do and what you can think and not think. Well, you know I disagree. I'm going to think about it.
Davey Cee:And so I'm wondering if I wonder if something was watching this young man from the other side. Because what did that tomato have in common with the two locations the open air market and the grocery store produce department? That young man, the open-air market and the grocery store produce department that young man had noticed the tomato. The young man who noticed it was in both locations within about the span of an hour. That's what those two locations have in common. So this may be personal Did something from the other world on the other side notice that that young man, that 14 year old gangly boy, paid special attention to that gross, mutant tomato.
Davey Cee:And so, whatever that was that spirit, that sprite, that goblin, god only knows. I don't think god did it, but whatever it was, he said you know, I'm gonna move that tomato, I'm gonna pluck it up into the ether and then drop it down at the grocery store and that young man is going to encounter it twice and and then I am going to sit back and watch him and maybe he'll think about me, whatever I am, this spooky thing. So it's like whatever it was Was kind of poking him, kind of pinching him on the earlobe, poking him with a psychic stick. So maybe the young man would think about whatever did this, the entity that did this, that moved this tomato. Why would it want him to think about itself? I don't know.
Davey Cee:I don't think God moved the tomato, but maybe God allowed the tomato to be moved, to be moved. Maybe he allowed it for some reason. Some weird sprite or gnome or spirit or demon or whatever is playing charades, playing hide and seek with this young man for sport. You know God said okay, okay, let him do it. Why would God do that? Maybe even though moving the tomato wasn't God's idea, maybe God said okay, well, you know, let it happen, because maybe the young man will think about the other world. Maybe the young man will think about what's in the ether, what's beyond the atmosphere. He'll think about the other world. That's a possibility to me. I don't know that that's true, but, like I said, I'm allowed to think these things. So I want to feel the story and I want to think about it, and it doesn't matter if I'm right or wrong, I'm just thinking about it.
Davey Cee:And I can hear some people saying well, you know, god moved it. I didn't say God moved it. I said maybe God did. And they'll say, well, well, I don't believe in God. Who is God? I can't even explain spooky weather to you. You think I'm going to explain God to you? Oh, I have ideas about God. Yes, I have ideas. Even though I'm not religious in the least, I have ideas about God, but those are not the subject of this podcast. So if you need to refill your hot drink or go to the bathroom, now is a good chance to do that. I'm going to do those things. I'm going to take a two minute break and I'll be back at you on the other side with another spooky weather story. So Thank you. I hope you enjoyed that little musical interlude. Perhaps it gave you the opportunity to refill your drink, or perhaps you just sat there and contemplated your own spooky weather. But now we will continue.
Davey Cee:I have another story that I found online, and this time it's told by someone who was a little younger than the protagonist in our last story. This was a fourth grade boy. Do you remember being in fourth grade? I sure do. The world is so large and it's it's opening up to you in so many ways and everything seems exciting and new and you're growing and learning and you can't imagine what you will grow into or learn next. And back in the quote day. And back in the quote day.
Davey Cee:One of the places we found to discover and learn new things was the library. I believe there's still some around. What I always remember about the library from yesteryear was how well lit they were and how still they were. People still had manners back then and well, people were allowing other people to read and concentrate, so there was not much chatter and things were very well lit and very still and you could sit there with your book and you could read and focus and you could also feel the other people reading and focusing on their book. You could feel, if you tried. You could feel the mental tension or excitement in the air without ever hearing a thing, as your eyes were glued to a book and their eyes were glued to their book days. People read looking at a screen, a little screen, a black or blue screen, and I often feel like that screen is reading them while they're reading it. We're to the yesteryear, the old days of very still and well-lit places where books were assembled.
Davey Cee:And this young fourth grader, this boy. He went looking for a new adventure in the world of learning. And what did he find on the shelf? The world of learning. And what did he find on the shelf? But a book about how to do your own seance. And if you don't know what a seance is, that's where you get real still and you call out through ritual or spoken word, or with a partner or partners, you call out to the ether, something out there in the spooky weather realm, to come and talk to you. And this boy is in fourth grade. And wow, he thinks you know fourth grade. And wow, he thinks you know I can get on the telephone and I can call somebody a thousand miles away and I can talk to them.
Davey Cee:It shouldn't be that strange or too great of a leap to take this book and reach out and talk to someone a thousand miles away in the ethereal realm and bring them down here. I mean, why not? You're a fourth grader, a fourth grade mind. Why can't you do these things? Do you remember? Do you remember what that felt like? That simple optimism, that idea that anything is possible. You're in fourth grade. You don't have 20, 30, 40, 50 years of bullshit strewn behind you. At this point, hope springs eternal for the fourth grader.
Davey Cee:So he got this book and he checked it out. They let him check it out. Oh yeah, kid, take this book home, learn to talk to the dead. Hmm, adults are so responsible, aren't they? Oh, adults have it all together, kids, they really know. They really know what they're doing, don't?
Davey Cee:So he took this book and he checked it out from the library and he hid it in his backpack. Yeah, he hid it. Do you remember hiding things in your backpack? What did you have in there? What were you hiding? I hid things in my backpack. Are you hiding things in your backpack? Are you still hiding things? I bet you are. We all are hiding something. You know, and that's fine. That's fine. You hide away. I don't need to know everything about you away. I don't need to know everything about you. But he hid it away.
Davey Cee:Why did he hide it away? Because he had Christian fundamentalist parents. This is not the kind of book that would go over well, and while I'm not a Christian fundamentalist I'm not even a Christian, even though I believe in God I don't blame that young man for hiding that book from them and I don't blame them for not wanting him to read that book. But that's just me. Okay, you do you, I'll do me. The kid did him and his parents did them. We're all doing something here, right? So he hid it.
Davey Cee:He hid this book away in his backpack and he got on his bike and he rode home. He was so intent on hiding the book from his Christian fundamentalist parents. He hid the book under his mattress once he got home. Oh yeah, he's not old enough for mom to look between the mattresses for pornography magazines. For mom to look between the mattresses for pornography magazines, he knows it's safe there. Now, in a few years, when he's 15 or 14, that might not be such a safe place, kid. For the nosy fundamentalist Christian mother she might look there, but now, while you're still in fourth grade, it's probably pretty safe. And it was.
Davey Cee:They didn't find it, nobody looked, nobody suspected he had a book under his mattress that would presumably allow him to speak with interdimensional beings of one sort or another. So he waited. Of course Mom and dad are home, and how was your day? And dinner is served and you pet the cat or the dog and Mom snaps at Dad and Dad grins and bears it, and you know the usual rigmarole of suburbia. You know Norman Rockwell painting on painkillers. But the boy waited and he waited and eventually especially since sex is out of the question the parents went to bed early and were asleep very soon. The parents went to bed early and were asleep very soon, and the young boy dug out the book you know nine o'clock or so and he starts flipping through his book on how to conduct a seance and the first instructions he receives from this library book is how to summon someone who died in a mirror. Yeah, you go to the mirror and you chant some spell, you say some rune, you clap your hands three times behind your head and reach out into the ether and do your occult dance like only a fourth grader could, so that you can talk to someone who's died. Oh, this is really a good idea, isn't it? Can you see this boy? Can you see him there? Can you see that book? That book's probably a quarter of his size.
Davey Cee:I picture a large book, one with lots of pictures, lots of pictures. You know big, colorful pictures of lights in the air hanging above a table where people are holding each other's hands with their eyes closed, and you flip through the book and then there's another picture of the ghost that showed up. And then you you know another page and big, glossy photo like quality illustration. You know ectoplasmic blobs that are hitting the floor with a splat. Do you know what ectoplasmic blobs are? You know, apparently, according to some people, when spirits manifest, they drop a kind of goo that they call ectoplasm. I've never seen anything like this, but it was very, very popular in the 19th century and the early 20th century in spiritism, in that line or that field of thought, and it even made an appearance in Ghostbusters, that famous movie from the early 1980s. So this book has all these illustrations and the instructions on what to do.
Davey Cee:And this boy he's. And this boy, he's a boy, he's fourth grader, he's got this large book and it's dark in the bathroom. You have to do this in the dark, right? Things like this you do in the dark, right. So the only person that this young boy knew who had died was his grandfather. So that was the person he was going to follow the instructions to summon. Can you see him, wide-eyed, looking in that mirror? There's probably a part of him that thinks you know, this won't work anyway. That's another part of being a fourth grader. You try things out just to see if it's possible, right? Maybe he wouldn't have done this at all if he thought it was really possible. That doesn't make much sense, does it? But you know that kind of trial and error thing. That is something associated with the young. What else do they have? Experience will be their teacher, won't it?
Davey Cee:So he looks in the mirror, in the dark, in the middle of the night, and he begins to chant the instructions that are given him in the book. At first nothing happened and the boy kind of felt stupid. Do you remember that when you were young they told you Santa Claus was real and you believed it? And now you find out otherwise and you feel stupid. Right, oh, they tricked me. So that's really kind of how he felt, there in the dark, doing his chant from the book, looking at his own wide eyes in the mirror.
Davey Cee:But suddenly, almost imperceptibly, at first the mirror seemed to fog up, and it's not because the boy was leaning close to the mirror in his own breath causing it to fog up. It seemed to be fogging up on its own. And it's dark, of course. And you wonder if you're him. Am I imagining this? I'm not doing this ritual because it can happen. I'm doing this ritual to find out for sure that it can't happen. That trial and error process of youth. But as the seconds ticked by, he eventually saw that, yes, the mirror was actually fogging up on its own.
Davey Cee:Fogging up on its own and you know that would create a kind of grayish, opaque, hard-to-see image on a mirror. If you've ever seen a mirror fog up, it's hard to see anything in that fog and it's kind of like a crystal ball, isn't it? And it's kind of like a crystal ball, isn't it, that the wizards of old and a few who are around today like to use to gather an image, a psychic or spiritual image, from their crystal ball. Now, the crystal ball itself, like a foggy mirror, is rather opaque and it's hard to make anything out. And you'd think that that's counterintuitive, but it's not, because it's so opaque and formless, both the crystal ball and the foggy mirror.
Davey Cee:If something does show up, the image is stark and indeed that's what began to happen for this boy. There was the fog on the mirror, hard to see, non-distinctive background, meaning this fogged up mirror made the image opaque to where the boy couldn't see himself in the mirror anymore. And then something very stark began to appear in that amorphous background of the mirror. Something kind of began to form. That was really. It really stood out, just like, you know, something that appears in the wizard's crystal ball.
Davey Cee:What began to appear was a face and as the lines filled in gradually he saw it was the face of his deceased grandfather, except this wasn't the happy-go-lucky chipper old man that the boy remembered. This face seemed twisted, emaciated, it was gray and it was frightful. The young boy felt the hair raising on his arms and on the back of his neck as he realized what was happening and what he was seeing. And this was not a grandfather, deceased or otherwise, that he wanted to see. And slowly, slowly, the twisted form of his deceased grandfather began to open its mouth, slowly. Now, you know, you and I, we can open our mouths pretty fast. I mean, I know I can. My mouth can go up and down kind of fast. I bet yours can too. I bet yours can too. But this strange and creepy image of the deceased grandfather, its mouth, was opening slowly, slowly. Can you see that it's like suspended animation, but not quite. It's like grandfather evil grandfather was in suspended animation and then he is slowly thawing and the mouth is starting to open, slowly.
Davey Cee:Of course, at that point the boy backed the fuck out. He grabbed the book and ran out of the bathroom, slamming the bathroom door behind him, and he ran and dove into his bed. That'll show you that little detail. That little detail will show you that this is probably true, because with the Christian fundamentalist parents, the last thing you would do If you were trying to perform an exorcism or a seance or raising the dead in the middle of the night. The last thing you would do Is slam a door while they're asleep, right? I mean, the ghost or the demon or whatever you're dealing with is bad enough, but you don't want to wake up the Christian fundamentalist parents now, do you? That's really scary If you're holding the book of the occult in your hand and they wake up. Oh no, no. So that gives it a ring of truth to me. He slammed the bathroom door behind him. He ran and dove into his bed and pulled the covers up over his head. Do you remember that, as a child, if something scared you in the middle of the night and you pulled the covers and blankets over you as if that is some sort of protection against whatever it is lurking in your closet or lurking in your mind or lurking in your soul or whatever it is, that cotton comforter or blanket is real, powerful protection, right, right. And so he shivered there. He shivered there until he fell asleep and the next day he returned the book. And the Christian fundamentalist parents were never the wiser, he said the teller of the story he said.
Davey Cee:Years later he still doesn't know whether he imagined it or not. It seemed real to him at the time. So you know he has given himself an out in his own mind. He has written it off. Is it possible he imagined it, I guess. So I'm not ruling that out. I suppose you could get especially if you're a child get yourself worked up enough to imagine an apparition.
Davey Cee:But what makes me think that he did see something is I don't think he really expected it to work anyway, I don't think he expected it to work. And because he still struggles with it years later, wondering did that happen? Did I really see that? Did I I really? That makes me kind of think it probably happened, or something happened. He saw something, something began to manifest. He had gone fishing. In the middle of the night he went fishing and what wound up on his line? What tugged at his line? Some spooky weather that he instigated. What is it? They say Fuck around and find out. Well, he found out. And years later he still doesn't know if it really happened or not. That's how disturbing it was to him, which kind of makes me think that, yeah, something happened.
Davey Cee:So you know, I feel this, I can see this in my mind. I can see this child doing this. I can feel his fear. I can feel him just, you know, kind of farting around with it just to see if it's possible. Because that's what you do when you're a kid you see what's possible and what's not. And you know he found out it was possible to make a long distance call on the phone a thousand miles away. Maybe he could make a call to his dead grandfather too, and did he get him on the line? I don't know what that was in the mirror. Was that really his grandfather? I don't think so. I don't really think that was him. Well, what was it? You know, I don't know. I don't know If he did see that, I don't know.
Davey Cee:Maybe it was something posing as his grandfather to frighten him. Why would it want to frighten a child? Well, you know, in this world that we live in, there are evil, malicious people, and by evil I don't mean someone wearing a black cape, I mean someone who is damaging, someone who likes to damage other people. Well, if we have people like that running around on Earth, if there's a spirit realm, why wouldn't there be spirits that do that too? I'm just thinking now wow, well, why would God allow such a thing? He's a child. Well, maybe God was letting him fuck around and then find out.
Davey Cee:Maybe it was god's grace you know his favor towards the boy that the mouth opened slowly, slowly. Maybe God was giving the boy a chance to back out. Would you really want to know what that twisted image had to say? See, I don't, I don't want to know. There's nothing. A twisted, gray, emaciated thing that looks like my dead grandfather. There's nothing. It would have to say that I want to hear.
Davey Cee:So maybe it was God's grace, you know well, maybe God's thinking here's a young boy, he's poking around where he shouldn't. God's thinking here's a young boy, he's poking around where he shouldn't. And there's, you know, god would know, there's a monster in the ether, you know, maybe behind every other bush, and it's going to come out. And God just, you know, slowed its mouth down so that the boy would have a chance to back out, before it said whatever messed up thing it was going to say Right, right, see, that's what I think. Do I know any of that's true? No, no, I don't know. I think the story has a ring of truth to it somewhere in there that something happened.
Davey Cee:But interpreting spooky weather, your guess is as good as mine, but I do want to think about it and feel about it and try to put myself in that young boy's shoes. That's what this podcast is all about. It's allowed here. You get to think and feel about these things without being judged. Now maybe you're out there listening to this and you're here. If you're still listening, I don't know why you're here.
Davey Cee:If you don't believe in spirits or spooky things or God or the devil, or you know that strange, unexplainable things can happen sometimes, then you're really in the wrong place and I encourage you to keep on listening to this and torture with my stories. But if you are one of those types and you're hanging around because you're a glutton for punishment, I'd like to remind you, as I finish this podcast out, that sometimes spooky weather happens that doesn't involve anything supernatural or preternatural or out of this world. On the surface, you know, there's no ghost, there's no demon, there's no god, there's no sprite or goblin around or even Bigfoot or even Bigfoot. Sometimes things happen that just really make you scratch your head. So on the way out, this story's for you. If you hung around and you don't think you don't believe in strange things and you just hung around to call me a fool. And you just hung around to call me a fool.
Davey Cee:On June 9th in 1990, in the suburb of Chicago called Orland Park, there was a woman named Narian Vlodarsky. And Narian was an older woman, she was a grandmother. She was, by all accounts, a very kind and responsible person, loved by her family, beloved by the community, or trying to summon the dead in a bathroom mirror. There is no indication she was involved in any sort of occult practice, just your typical beloved grandmother and responsible citizen of Orland Park, illinois. Narion was so responsible and took such pride and concern in her community that she was an anti-drunk driving activist. She was part of an organization called Don't Drink and Drive and I believe she even helped offer to give rides to people, especially young people, who had drank and needed a ride. And you know this organization didn't want people who were drunk to get in automobiles and potentially hurt somebody, hurt somebody. So they would offer rides to these young people to prevent an accident and maybe scold them and lecture them a little bit along the way. But you know they saw themselves as responsible citizens preventing tragedies. That's who Narian Vlodarsky was a kind, responsible citizen and activist in her community, who was much beloved, who was not playing with the occult. And on June 9th of 1990, narion was asleep in her own home, asleep on the couch, innocently taking a nap and minding her own business, when a jeep traveling 55 miles an hour crashed into her house and injured her severely. Yes, the jeep was driven by a drunk driver and Narion died of her injuries a couple of days later.
Davey Cee:Now, maybe not to everyone, but to me, this is spooky. This is really spooky. What are the odds? What are the odds that someone crashes into your house with a car while you're asleep on the couch and kills you? That's not something. You might have a better opportunity to win the lottery. But how many drunk driving activists, people who have dedicated their lives to stopping and preventing drug driving, how many of them do you think this happens to? What are the odds? That's really strange to me. It's real To me. It is spooky weather territory, even though there's no ghost or goblin or sprite or you know some being dragging chains in the attic in the middle of the night.
Davey Cee:It's spooky to me because it almost seems like there's an intelligence that's perverse Intelligence that's perverse and it sees this woman who's doing all this good For her community In this Entity or intelligence, says, yeah, that's the one, her. There's a drunk driver going down the street. He could peel off at any point, or he could make it home, or he could veer to the right suddenly and kill this drunk driving activist. Wouldn't that be ironic? Is irony? Ringing throughout the ether as some entity or spirit says, yeah, her, take her out. Ringing throughout the ether as some entity or spirit says, yeah, her, take her out. And then it has some Terrible Interdimensional joke and cacophony Of evil laughter. When it does take her out, does it just fill the ether and the atmosphere with laughter that we can't hear. All we can do is sit here and scratch our head and say, how can this happen? How is this possible? The odds are against it happening to anyone. But someone who's actually a drunk driving activist innocently sleeping on her couch gets wiped out by a drunk driver that crashes through her house.
Davey Cee:That's very strange, makes you wonder, or at least it makes me wonder. Now I know you know some of those hardheaded types. It's not going to make you wonder, you're going to say, oh well, it was a coincidence and these things happen and uh, you know, surely these things do happen. But I hope that it puts a little bit of a doubt in your head. It makes you reconsider events like this. Maybe you don't want to, but, against your will, something is just going to you, you know, start scritching at the back of your brain. You know, just scritch, scritch, scritch. As you wonder, maybe there is more to what's going on than what I just see and what I just think and what I just postulate based on my own personal worldview that I picked up from TV, comic books and mom and dad.
Davey Cee:Scritch, scritch, scritch. It's in the back of your brain, scritch, scritch, and maybe one day you'll deal with spooky weather yourself, knowing that it doesn't have to be fantastical, it doesn't have to be some mythological creature come to life. Just the very ordinary things that happen in life are sometimes extremely bizarre. Possibly there's more to it than meets the eye, but I can't nail it down for you. That's like nailing jello to the wall. I can just present these stories, and these are stories that I think are the cream, the cream of stories that I've gathered throughout the years, and with that I'm going to bid you adieu. This has been Davy C recording from the cosmic Northwest Territory by the old time waters of the Michigami. And remember, when the weather gets spooky, the spooky become climatologists. So until next time, give them hell out there or give them heaven, but either way, you're gonna give them something, I'm gonna give him something.
