Ghosts That Follow

AOTP EP:6 Tonight, I speak with Amanda, who comes to us from Nevada, sharing the paranormal activity that has followed her throughout her life; where spirits - through sights and sounds - are frequently making their presence known to her.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:43

Welcome to the show. Tonight I speak with Amanda, who comes to us from Nevada, sharing the paranormal activity that has followed her throughout her life, where spirits, through sights and sounds, are frequently making their presence known to her. Amanda, welcome to the show.

SPEAKER_03 1:09

Yeah, thank you so much for having me.

SPEAKER_00 1:11

Oh, it's my pleasure to have you here. I appreciate you coming on. Uh, I know you reached out to me telling me about your life experiences where you've uh you've had spirits and the afterlife kind of follow you throughout your life and you have things you've been experiencing in your home. But let's go back. Start at the beginning, maybe when you were younger when this all started. Start it from there.

SPEAKER_03 1:34

Okay, I think I was probably I'm actually from the East Coast originally, New Jersey, but at a point in time we lived in Florida, Melbourne Beach, which is on the coast, and we were in a family home that, you know, my grandfather has had purchased with his um business partners. And we kind of moved down there first, and we were living there for maybe a year or two solely by ourselves, and the house was completely fine. Um, until a few years later, my grandparents moved down from New Jersey and moved my grandpa's mom in as well. So after she passed, which I was probably between six and eight, I want to say that the first time was probably seven years of age. I have a younger sister who's um five years younger than me. And I remember when great-grandma passed that there was a thing about her bathrobe. It was super special to her. She never let any of the women wear it. Um, so when she passed, my mom and her sister kind of fought over the bathrobe. And it was, you know, this hideous teal thing with friff like a like a ruffle thing around the neck. Well, that thing stayed in that spare bathroom across from where her bedroom was, where she passed in that home for years. And right around the time that I was seven, we moved in to that house again with my grandparents. And I remember that I was sitting in the room one day, and the very first thing that I ever saw was this little boy in the closet. And I don't know what I was going in there for, but I looked down and I saw this boy almost sitting with, if you could imagine, with his knees up and his arms around his knees. Um, and I can still picture exactly what he looked like, with a white t-shirt and brown shorts, kind of, but they were filthy and he was dirty. And I just looked at him because I was kind of struck in fear. And I remember running out and going, Mom, Mom, I need you to come and see this. And she came with me, and of course, by the time we got there, he was not there. And she didn't really believe me. She was like, You must have watched something that you shouldn't have, and now your imagination's playing tricks on you. And I was like, No, there was a little boy in the closet, and he looked right at me. Um, I want to say that she the look on her face was more puzzled, I guess. My sister was pretty little, so uh it wasn't for a while longer, I want to say, maybe a couple of years, and I saw my grandmother had passed um in that same house in her room, and I think I was about ten then, maybe eleven, and I saw her clear as day, like maybe six months after she passed in the laundry room at her sewing machine, and I went to go tell my mom, but I didn't have the heart to. You know, it's kind of one of those situations where um I didn't even know what to say, but she just kind of looked up at me, and I looked at her, and I just got really sad, and I left the room. I remember I didn't tell anybody for probably a good year until we had family visiting, and I was telling my great aunt and uncle, and they told me they saw her in that same room after the funeral. So I thought that was super odd. And I don't know, I don't think my mother ever asked me. I know she heard us talking about it, but I think maybe she just didn't want to know. Um because I saw her several other times, which I did start to mention eventually, because she loved the swimming pool, I saw her floating on a floaty in the pool. At least this these were things that I was pretty sure that I was seeing then. Um and I, you know, grew older and the family moved away, and that's kind of how we ended up over here on the East Coast. And we've been back and forth probably multiple times, but my graduation present was to actually go to Florida and visit with the family. So it had probably been eight years since I had been um since I had seen anything in that house, but just to kind of go back to this house, I took a friend with me. Her grandparents paid her portion of the trip, and you know, she was super excited because it's Florida, and we were gonna go to the beach, and you know, back then we had cash, all kinds of cash from graduation, and we went shopping and kind of dropped it all off in the dining room area, and I went to the restroom one night late and came back through, and my friend was like, Yeah, you know, before I go watch, before we press play on the movie, I'm gonna use the restroom too. Only when she went that direction, all of our change and trinkets and things that we had purchased uh from the beach shops flew off of this table, and you just heard change just everywhere. And she came running and she was like, Amanda, I can't go to the bathroom. There's something there. And I said, Well, why did you throw it all over the ground? You could have just came to me, and she goes, I didn't throw that stuff. Something threw it at me. And so I went back with her. We walked together, and maybe a few days into that trip, we finally started being able to go to the restroom by ourselves. We didn't tell any of the adults in the house of the situation because it was just kind of odd. But I again, this time saw my great-grandmother walking one way and I was walking the other way. She just was on the other side of the table from me. And I went into the living room and I kind of explained to my friend, I said, I think I just saw my great-grandmother. And she goes, I saw her too. And I was like, wow, that's that's crazy. We had a few more days of our trip and it kind of ended lightly. We were in a couple different houses along the way and just visiting with family. Um, but my childhood was full of family occurrences. That house in particular. I think there was one more instance there with my sister that we saw this. Oh I yeah, because we went and ran and we told mom this one, and it was late. It was like two in the morning. We were sleeping on the couch in the the couch pull-out bed in the living room, and we saw three faces bolt around the corner, and but it wasn't like a person like you and me. It was like a like a see-through. Um, but it was three men. You could tell that they had like one had a hat on. Um, and we bolted and ran the other direction through to where my mother was, and she just was furious with us because she was like, What are you doing? It's two o'clock in the morning. And um we were like, Well, we saw people walking through the the entryway to the front door. And she was like, There's no way. She came out there and she didn't see anything, and you know, like most parents, I guess, either if she did believe it, she just didn't want us to think or be scared. But she claimed she never saw anything in that house. And I always thought, well, maybe it was just because we were kids that we saw that kind of stuff. Your innocence kinds of you know goes away as you get older. But it that's not the case for me. It has never stopped.

SPEAKER_00 10:39

Going back to the your grandmother when you first saw her at age I think it was 10, 11, you said?

SPEAKER_03 10:46

Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:47

After I guess a few years after you saw that little boy, just those sightings. Uh describe that experience. Did uh did you just like witness her sitting, uh, I think you said at the sewing machine? How did she appear to you? Did she look at you? Did was it like she recognized you were there, or were you just seeing the image of her? Was she physical, whole, like a person, or was it kind of apparition-like? Can you just describe what you saw?

SPEAKER_03 11:11

She she looked to me like it was her, like you and me, like a person um sitting at her sewing machine, and she just was the sewing machine wasn't on or going, but it was like she was gonna prepare to do something. And the funny thing is, I don't recall her ever sitting there in real life as a kid. I never saw her sew a thing. I know that thing was in there, but she looked right at me. And I looked at her and she just smiled at me. There were no words, and it was for a good, I don't know, maybe five or ten seconds of me just, you know, frozen in fright, kind of, because she raised me. So I was, you know, when my mother worked, she was the one who raised me. And I was super heartbroken. Sadly, she passed in a really traumatic way, and she didn't want the kids to see her like that. So we didn't um see her in her dying days, sadly. But she looked just fine. Like she, you know, regular outfit that she would be normally wearing. Um, same thing with that little boy. He just looked like a regular person to me. Like he was just as real as me and you.

SPEAKER_00 12:34

Did you see either of them disappear? Did they just instantly vanish? Did they slowly fade away? What was that like?

SPEAKER_03 12:44

It was kind of like, well, with the little boy, I ran to go get my mom to come see him. And when I came back, he just wasn't there. But with my grandmother, it was like I remember getting that, you know, sad, choked-up start of a cry almost. And I closed my eyes, and when I opened them, she wasn't there either. Now, the great-grandmother on the reverse side of the table, she was like a see-through apparition. In fact, I don't even think her feet touched the ground because this was a huge dining room table, if you could imagine it had like eight seats, you know, two at the head and three on the sides, very large table. And I looked back and I thought for sure that her well, because she wasn't whole, you know, sh she wasn't even touching the ground. It was kind of like she was floating past the table on that side. And I remember thinking that it was weird because, you know, when we walk, we have that, you know, like a stride, your shoulders move, and she was not moving, but her body was moving past me. And the three men that me and my sister both clearly saw, they were completely see-through as well, but they didn't have any body. It was just heads. It was three heads. Um, like they were all talking and joking around. Uh, they didn't even I think they came to turn the corner, if I remember correctly, and we kind of saw a face, but it wasn't like a normal face, it was the outline of a face.

SPEAKER_00 14:35

That's crazy. Just seeing the faces. How square, how scared were you?

SPEAKER_03 14:40

I well, I was so scared. My sister was little, and she just kind of, you know, looked at me and we went screaming. It was probably two o'clock in the morning, and my mom was up on the computer playing a game. That was her weekend thing. And we just flew, I mean, bolted through that door. Luckily, there was another direction that we could take through the house where we wouldn't have to go the way that we saw these things, because I don't think we ever ran so fast. And I just remember my mom telling us, slow down. And she's like, Okay, now now what are you guys watching out there? And I said, I don't know. I I don't even remember what we were watching, but I assume it was probably Nick at night, to be honest. So I dream a genie or whatever used to play at that time frame, you know, in the 90s. Um, but it was definitely not scary. And we both saw it, which made it even better because we both looked at each other and freaked out and just took off. But she wasn't having any of it. She was like, no, that's not happening.

SPEAKER_00 15:47

She just wrote it off when you told her what you saw?

SPEAKER_03 15:50

Yeah. Uh-huh. Every time, too. She was like, No, you, you know, even in my teen years when I told her that I had seen my great-grandmother, because I thought, well, it's, you know, been a long time, so maybe this is something that I can talk about without upsetting anybody. But even then, she was like, You you're so funny with your ghost stuff. And I was like, Well, it's not funny, you know. Even to this day, same thing.

SPEAKER_00 16:18

The items being thrown into the air um when you guys went shopping, what do you think that was?

SPEAKER_03 16:24

You know, I think it was honestly. Um, earlier in the vacation trip, like the first few days, that bathrobe that I told you about was still hanging in that bathroom. Uh the only reason I know it's not today is because, you know, the family since sold the house. Um, but that thing was in there for I don't, I don't even know how long, years. And I made a joke, at least this is what I always thought. I made a joke about how hideous that bathrobe was, and I didn't understand why everybody was fighting over it. And my friend and I were both laughing and joking about it. And I think that my great-grandmother got upset and just wiped all that change off of there because then I saw her a few days later, and it just clicked in my head that maybe she didn't want us making fun of her. Or she was very private and kept. Um, we weren't super close, but I was her mail girl, so I would bring her her mail when I was little, and you know, she would get me a drink or, you know, sit down and just talk with me about school and whatever, but she was very strict and kept. So that's what made me think, oh, we laughed, and she didn't think it was funny.

SPEAKER_00 17:50

Who do you think that little boy was you saw in the closet?

SPEAKER_03 17:53

You know, for a long time, when I was little, because I didn't know any better, I guess. I just, you know, Florida's a huge melting pot of people from all around the world, and I've learned that as I've lived there, but I always thought that I mean, he looked to me then like a I thought maybe he was Cuban. So I looked that up. I mean, I've did tons of research on that house, and the only thing that I can find is that there were uh obviously that's one of the oldest settlements in the United States, is that area, is that there were a lot of um Native American tribes that lived there, and he did resemble somebody with that color skin tone. So it wasn't Cubans because when I looked that up, but he looked scared. Um I thought that he came from the neighborhood because he was so real, but he was filthy, and I just remember telling my mom there's this little boy in the closet, and he's just sitting there crying and filthy, and his he didn't have any shoes on, just a white t-shirt and tan shorts, dark brown hair. And but by the time I got back, he wasn't there, and I never saw him again.

SPEAKER_00 19:18

Where do the experiences go from there? What happened next?

SPEAKER_03 19:22

Um, so we moved to Nevada and we c have kind of been here on and off, I think, since right around my ninth grade year. Um the paranormal kind of let me be for a few years until I became an adult and got married. So a lot of my paranormal experiences now, um, funny enough, have stemmed from homes that I've been in in my marriage. And it's funny because the apparitions are the same, and these ones appear to be coming wherever we go. So uh the first one that I I saw actually was in my son's bedroom in a different house, not the one that we're in now, but I heard it first on his baby monitor. It was like a female, uh, sounded like she was comforting him, but still I'm the only female in the house, so I went running and I saw a lady just outside of his room, like a ghostly thing, and I looked at her and looked at his room, and when I looked back, she faded out completely. She was gone. Um, but the kids, you know, both of our sons at the time had seen many things in that house. Our our son that was five then was telling me he saw the neighbor in our house, and I was like, No, I don't, I don't really think that that could happen. And he goes, No, he looked like him, though, and a little girl who says she you know was looking for the stairs, which is funny because this none of the homes we've been in have had stairs. And I think from there was probably this house. So this house that we're in now, the one with the video that I shared with you of the orbs, has been by far the most active. So that female that I saw, I don't know, 15 years ago, I've seen here, but there's also a man with a hat. Um, that he's not like you and me, or a sha he's a shadow figure, I guess you could say. And I think everyone in this entire house, minus my youngest and my husband, have seen him. So he, I want to say he comes around whenever there's an argument in the midst, whether that be that the kids didn't do their homework and they're all in trouble, or the husband and I are having a disagreement, he's very, very present. Um he will pose, it's kind of odd, but he poses as people as well. So in my living room, that my living room looks nothing like it did in that video now, because we have different furniture, but the desk is in the same area over to the left there, and we have multiple times seen this man sitting at the desk in the chair. He will walk up and down the hallway, he talks, and I also have captured his voice. What sounds like he's telling like little kids almost, go to sleep. It's time to go to bed. And in this, you know, EVP that I have, because you don't see anybody in the video, the kids go, but I can't. I'm not tired. And so I want to say that that that guy, he sticks around. He's the only one that kind of he moseys up and down the hallway, you can hear footsteps. I'm not exactly sure what he wants, but I'm pretty sure that I've seen him once before at the previous house. So I'm not sure why he and the lady are both here.

SPEAKER_00 23:57

You said something very interesting. The apparition of the lady that you had seen in your son's bedroom at your at a previous home. You saw those the same apparition in your current home?

SPEAKER_03 24:09

Yeah, and the kids have seen her too or described what she looks like. She's a like a misty or a ghost, you know, see-through type person. She's not whole, but she's also not shadowy.

SPEAKER_00 24:28

Um who do you think she is? Why do you think she appears to you like that? That's very unique to hear that you know, most people will see an apparition and then they may see others, but it's it's kind of rare to hear that you're seeing the same one. Who what do you think that's about?

SPEAKER_03 24:43

You know, at first I thought maybe I looked at her too quick in the first house. Um because I don't know. I remember when I saw her, that afterwards I kind of got the guts to kind of go around, and I the only thing I had at the time was uh, you know, an old Apple iPod, but I could record on it. So I walked around with it trying to catch EVPs because you know, my love for ghost hunters and all the other things. So I walked around and tried to get some answers, and I have no clue. She doesn't look like anybody I've ever seen before, but she does. There's one other thing that I haven't seen regularly, which I'm grateful for because I feel like that one's not so good, and that one is a little girl. Um, but she doesn't present a happy feeling when she's around. So I've tried to basically ignore that one, and she has been in probably six out of the 10 homes that I've lived in since childhood. Um I could describe her to a T. She is and actually the only other person that's ever seen her is my son. My 17-year-old son has seen her a few times. And I don't know what she wants, but I've heard her voice too. So I'm not sure. I haven't seen her in about a year. We did kind of what we thought was a little cleanse, and we walked through with um some sage, but she's dressed in like a period school attire, like what you would expect kids in the forties and fifties that went to school to wear. Like that black dress with the white collar, um, you know, hair kind of pinned half up and half down with a bow. Yeah, white tights and black shoes. I could still picture it. Her dress might even be navy blue because when I see her, it's very dark. And since I saw her the last time, I now plugged in lights around my room because there's so many things that go on at night that it'll drive my brain crazy. And in order to go to sleep, I have to have some sort of light or be able to see a clear path across my room. Um you know, specifically, I guess, for her and that shadow guy with the hat, because they they kind of freak me out.

SPEAKER_00 27:46

So no doubt.

SPEAKER_03 27:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:48

You said your son has seen this little girl as well. What is what are his thoughts on it? How does how does he react? How does he describe it?

SPEAKER_03 27:55

He doesn't really like to talk about it. Um, if we're not home, he will because he thinks that she's here and he she can hear him. So he doesn't want her to know that he acknowledges her presence. Um and he's seen her also since he was little in a totally different house. So she came from maybe four houses ago to this one. And he yeah, he just is not like acknowledging it. He will, you know, anytime I mention it, he's like, Alright, no, we're good. We're gonna skip that for right now. Like, okay.

SPEAKER_00 28:39

Sounds like whatever you have, the ability to see and and hear these spirits, looks like it was passed on to him.

SPEAKER_03 28:47

Yeah, he he claims to have a lot of the same abilities that I do.

SPEAKER_00 28:54

He doesn't sound like a fan like you are, though.

SPEAKER_03 28:56

No, I mean, every once in a while, he likes all the stuff. We'll we'll talk about it and watch Ghost Hunters together. That's basically my son's extent that he wants to go. He has more of a a seeing ability than even I do, I think, which is kind of why he doesn't want to talk about it. Is he can, or at least he claims to me that he can see like what they were doing before they passed, not necessarily their passing, but what kind of person they were before that. And he says some of them are not good. And I believe that because I could feel that with the little girl and the man. They're both not good. The lady doesn't feel bad, but the man and the little girl do not feel like good people. There's a lot of anger whenever I see them that makes it kind of scary.

SPEAKER_00 29:57

Why do you think why do you think this happens to you? Why do you uh where do you think this all comes from? What are your thoughts on it?

SPEAKER_03 30:03

I think, well, you know, I've had this discussion with my dad. Sadly, he passed, but you know, the story was that the women in the family had this gift, um, which he didn't tell me about until just a few years before his passing, he finally kind of explained. And I don't know, I sort of feel like I do have certain abilities that maybe they kind of flock to me for help. So what I've done just based on the research that I've done is try to get them to go to the light, you know. Um, I think maybe that they just have unfinished business here or maybe passed in a way. I feel like some of them might be residual over the years, but some of them definitely have this, you know, unfinished business, and maybe they're just or they don't know how to find their way to the light.

SPEAKER_00 31:03

Um Do you have success with that when you have tried to maybe communicate with them and ask them to do that? Do you see them again?

SPEAKER_03 31:12

Yeah, I haven't seen the lady in a while since the last um we burnt some sage and we just went around and kind of explained, you know, this is our house, you know, we live here. I'm not sure if you're from here, you know, and we just kind of went over that and the lady kind of drifted out, and I and nobody's seen her since. Um, and I've not seen the little girl either, so I'm not sure if she was attached to that or if she was something negative that maybe bred in just as a you know, an attachment from something else. But the guy, he's here, and the craziest part about him is that for the most part, every kid, I think, and maybe half the of my friends have actually seen him. You know, some in broad daylight and some in the middle of the night. So I think that they're they're stuck, and maybe I'm not able to help in the right way for some of them, but some of them seem to have taken off. So I want to say that I maybe helped some of them. Um but I'm also kind of scared because I don't want to open up a a doorway, I guess, to something that is negative and allow that in by accident, you know?

SPEAKER_00 32:48

Oh, I hear that totally. And it sounds like you've done a lot of investigating of your own using recorders and uh video whatnot. Have you ever reached out to like some type of uh paranormal group? Have you ever sought help and had anyone come in to see what they might find?

SPEAKER_03 33:07

No, in fact, it's funny that you mentioned that because I had looked a few times and there's really not a whole lot here, at least that I've found, um, in terms of people in groups. And I was just telling my friend the other day as I was messaging you that I should probably look into that again and see if there's somebody in the area or a group, you know, that can come in and kind of guide me in the right direction. A lot of the land around here is and well and was reservation land at one point. And, you know, they've dug a lot of it up to build the freeway. And I don't know. I think that it's definitely you stir up things when you change things. Spirits know. And the ones that are here, I feel like have been here for a while. You know, there's some that are less noisy, I guess, that I've only caught voice of. And then the ones that are moving around, I'm not sure. But yeah, I would definitely love to get somebody's take on it and get somebody in here at some point.

SPEAKER_00 34:20

Yeah, that would be interesting and uh to see what what they might find that you might not have experienced yet or yourself. Does the activity is it random, or do you see it happen at certain times of the month or of the year? Do you see it spike at any particular times or when you're doing any certain activities?

SPEAKER_03 34:43

Yeah, I've noticed, and this is kind of funny because you know, this is something that the family always told me, you know, that if you watch the ghost stuff, you're gonna see it more. And it's funny because I'm a a Halloween and horror lover year-round. This is, I mean, in fact, we do a huge production at our house every year for the neighborhood, and it definitely seems to increase around the Halloween time frame between September and November. Um, but it's it's very random too, because it happens at odd times. I've tried to pin the time down, and a lot of it will start like right when I, you know, get into my bed. So I'm still very much awake. Sometimes I'm asleep for just a few minutes. I'm very, very light sleeper. But yeah, it's I would say it happens more in the fall time for sure. And I'm not sure what that's attributed to, but um yeah, it definitely spikes around that time. Most of my footage is, I guess, in the September-October range every year. I had a recent one and I'm so sad that I lost it because um it was kind of like a household argument, this video. And it was weird. I'm I'm a crafter in my spare time, and my desk is in L-shape, and it's very large, and it takes up most of that area in that video over to the left by the kitchen. And I constantly have paints with like syringe tops on them to paint something with precision, and all of my stuff one night, and I heard this vividly, fly off my desk. Um, and the cats were nowhere to be found until a few seconds after the things. But my husband, like I said, is kind of skeptical, and he was like, It's the cat. And I said, It's not. He's nowhere around there. So I'm thinking that maybe I must have deleted the video by accident, but that was actually in March of this year. And it was a very good video because I don't know how this all happened, but I'm telling you, probably six or seven bottles of paint, rubbing alcohol. I mean, a whole, it was like somebody, if you could imagine, went past the desk and just swiped all the things I was working on off the desk and onto the ground. And the only reason I don't believe it could have been a pet is because of those needle tops on those paints were sticking straight up, probably over a good four-foot span of the desk where I was working on this project. So, you know, there's a lot of things that cannot be explained.

SPEAKER_00 37:54

That's interesting. That that activity kind of goes way back to your the graduation, those items that were thrown as well. You said you friends have seen um apparitions in your home as well. How do they react? How do they do people just not want to go to your house anymore?

SPEAKER_03 38:12

Yeah, basically. We uh, you know, I'm in my late 30s now, but I used to have friends come and stay the night. If we had a couple drinks, I would just offer up the couch and their kids could bunk in with my kids. Um and I mean we've grown older now, but that was some of the reason why the friends did not want to come. In fact, one of our uh one of my family members who has the same name as me, my cousin Amanda, she did not want to come stay the night again on the couch. Not at this particular location, but at the one where I initially saw that lady years ago. Um, she had chose, she she was like, I love you, but there's some weird stuff in your house. And she didn't tell me exactly what happened, but just that she saw people and she goes, and it wasn't you walking around in your house. And I could feel it. And I said, Yeah. I mean, I frequently have I swear somebody comes and sits on the bed, on my side specifically. Um every once in a while. Like, you know, the last time I think I had a bad day, and unfortunately, my friend's husband husband had just passed, and I don't know who it was because I couldn't see. I had my nightstand light on, but it felt like somebody came and sat right next to me and just put their hand on my leg. And I just kind of looked at my husband to see, is he awake? Is there something touching him? You know, but he never sees anything. The kids have seen plenty to the point where it's like a household joke almost with them, because they're like, Dad, we've seen it. Mom's seen it. And I don't know what it is, but they just will not do or perform anything uh in his presence at all.

SPEAKER_00 40:13

You know, you hear that, and like myself, I've never I've been very interested, and kind of like you, I've always been into the paranormal shows and horror movies and all that, but and I've had some st strange things, uh but nothing like what what you I've never seen an apparition. It just doesn't uh I know people who have, but for some reason, kind of like your husband, although I'm not a skeptic. Um yeah, I don't I don't see anything either. You're just you certainly have some kind of connection, as you had mentioned to me, with the afterlife. And it seems like it's passed on to your son as well.

SPEAKER_03 40:49

Yeah. You know, I'm kind of grateful that the girls don't have it, and my son kind of does, and we've gone over, you know, kind of it it makes you feel a certain way, I guess you could say. Um I've encountered probably so many instances that I couldn't even recall them all. Um of all the little things and the little things that go missing and move around. And I'm not talking things that like kids can take and move. Things that even my husband actually have found odd. We recently this the the kids took it initially, was my pair of black tweezers, and we were out putting our Halloween decor up, and my husband goes, What are these doing on the dryer? And my daughter goes, Oh, because you called me out. So he hands them to me, and I come back into my room and I put them up in my in my makeup stuff, in my vanity, and I walk back out, and maybe like an hour had gone by, I shut the door behind me. Um, my husband and I were both getting ready to leave the house, so I came back in and I was fixing up my makeup, and my husband walks in and he goes, Did you just put the tweezers on the cat tree inside the door instead of putting them away? And I said, No. I put them up and I looked and they were no longer right there. And he goes, Well, here. And he hands them to me. And I said, Okay. It was weird. And so I put 'em up and we go about our business and we get home and they're sitting in front of the kitchen. So I checked the camera to see if the kids were just messing with me. Like took the tweezers. But they just randomly appear in front of the kitchen. Like, I don't know how they got there. You don't see anybody, nobody took them and put them there. But they were like right where the carpet meets the linoleum of the kitchen floor. And he was shocked. He's like, Are there more pairs of these around? And I said, No, they're the only ones I have, which is why I get upset when they're missing. And so he handed them to me a third time.

SPEAKER_00 43:09

And that wasn't enough to make him a believer at any level.

SPEAKER_03 43:13

Well, he says, I was kind of talking to him about it yesterday and we were laughing because he goes, I'm not a non-believer. I just I can debunk 90% of the stuff. And he goes, but that orb video, what's weird is in the orb video, the fans are not on. You can see the ceiling fans still on the ceiling. Um, the air conditioner's not in use, it's you know, off, or you would hear that loud blowing sound in it, and you don't.

SPEAKER_00 43:40

The video that you had sent me as well, is that the one you're talking about?

SPEAKER_03 43:43

Yeah, the orb video.

SPEAKER_00 43:45

Yeah. And it's interesting because the one uh in particular that comes from that far wall of the tapestry, and it comes uh moves from right to left, but then the that third one literally goes from the ground straight. Up. So if there was any kind of airflow or breeze, you know, I would think it would that third one would have been it would have gone up, been captured by that draft, and then gone to the left as well. They just go in random directions. It is very interesting. Yeah. No doubt about that.

SPEAKER_03 44:16

Yeah, and that large one too. We uh my coworker and I, we slowed that video down to where I don't remember how many seconds per minute that it was, but it was pretty slow, and we watched that thing kind of manipulate in the air. It's so odd because it changes shape and the fact that it gets so bright that the camera actually puts a square around it. Like, hey, there's something right here walking around.

SPEAKER_00 44:46

Yeah, I'm glad you brought that up. I I was thinking of that as well. It literally does. And I I find it hard to believe that as something as tiny as a dust particle that camera will do that, will throw that square around it and kind of follow it for a second. I mean it saw something like you said. Another interesting point, you had heard some uh bangs uh just shortly before, correct?

SPEAKER_03 45:09

Yeah. Mm-hmm. It was like 10 o'clock at night, and I had just fallen asleep and I heard this loud bang right behind my head, which is that wall. And so I sat in here for a minute and I listened, and it sounded like there was somebody walking up and down the hall and doing all kinds of things, and I'm like, oh yeah, I have a camera. I'm not gonna move from the bed and be the person in the horror film that goes to check it out. I'm just gonna view the camera. So I laid here quietly. I put my headphones in and I just listened, and I was in shock. I was like, there's no way. And then the more I watched it and actually showed it to other people and friends, they were the ones that pointed out, you know, the one on the ground and the one that shot straight up at the end, because my brain was just stuck on that large orb because it starts from nothing. It looks like it's so teeny, and then almost like Glinda appearing in the Wizard of Oz, you know, like a small, tiny little light, and then it gets bigger and bigger and brighter and brighter, and it's like, how is that possible?

SPEAKER_00 46:20

And you heard the footsteps uh at this time as well. Do you do you think and you attribute those to that that man that's there? Do you think the these orbs are related to that?

SPEAKER_03 46:29

Yeah, definitely. I do get that feeling um that he kind of causes a lot of havoc out there. And I attribute him to the footsteps for sure, because the floors are kind of hollow in this house, um, as we have a crawl space under it. So you can hear, and it's funny, I know which kid and which person's coming down the hall based on the you know, sound of the footstep. And this isn't anybody's footsteps. This is uh, you know, something totally different. And the kids have all heard it, and they're like, we don't even want to come out to go to the bathroom. And I'm like, I know. So I put a night light out there in the hallway and in their bathroom so that they could see. And it's kind of calmed them down a little bit. Like the girls kind of seem to, you know, flick it off. Whereas my son's kind of like, eh, me and him are the same, so he just moseys along, and I do too. I've I've spent too long being totally terrified that now I'm like, it is what it is. I'm just gonna go about my day as usual, regardless. It doesn't really seem like there's any malice intent to it, per se, but I definitely get like a trickster vibe, you know, or like, oh, you know, you guys are arguing, so this would be a good time to add to that sort of thing.

SPEAKER_00 48:03

And that's good. You have a a great attitude towards it.

SPEAKER_03 48:06

Yeah, I didn't, like I said, for a really long time, and I just I would remember, you know, kind of explaining these instances to my dad, and he would say, Yeah, you know, these are normal things, and I see them too, and you know, so do a lot of the women in my side of the family. It's just you gotta take it with a grain of salt or as a gift, whichever you choose. And so I've kind of just made it known here at the house that this is my house. Um and some people don't like this, but I was like, you know, this is my house, but we can coexist as long as you're nice. You know? Don't don't be messing around. And then I've tried to help the ones that I've could just based on what I've seen. I would definitely like to get somebody to kind of feel it out and see what they think, because that would just be you know, the icing on the cake, basically. I don't want anybody stuck here. I don't want to be stuck here.

SPEAKER_00 49:10

Oh, no doubt about that. No, and you're again you're you're handling it well and you're doing the right things. Uh if you ever get anybody in there to do any investigating and and they do find anything, be sure to reach out to me and let me know. Let me know what you found or what was captured. I'd be interested to hear that.

SPEAKER_03 49:25

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 49:26

Amanda, thank you so much for reaching out. Thank you for coming on. Very interesting uh connection uh with uh the afterlife.

SPEAKER_03 49:33

Yeah, thanks.

SPEAKER_00 49:36

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