6 Years in a Haunted House

AOTP EP:20 Tonight, I welcome Bonnie from Pennsylvania, who shares a terrifying account her family endured decades ago when moving into an old farmhouse—from the mischievous spirit of a woman who died in the home to a much more malevolent, darker entity that still haunts her to this day.

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Transcript

Gino 0:43

Welcome to the show. Tonight, I welcome Bonnie from Pennsylvania, who shares a terrifying account her family endured decades ago when moving into an old farmhouse from the mischievous spirit of a woman who died in the home to a much more malevolent, darker entity that still haunts her to this day. Bonnie, welcome to the show. Happy to have you here. I was excited when I received your email. You um and your family endured something uh pretty wild that went back to when you were about six years old in this uh old farmhouse that you guys had moved into and found out. It looks like pretty quickly that there was some something going on there, some spirits in this home. So start at the beginning. Because I from what you can remember, I know this is a long time ago and you were young, but as traumatic as it sounded like it was, I'm sure you have some uh some stories to tell from that. So what happened when you guys moved in there?

Guest 1:50

Well, the the first strange thing that happened when we moved in is that very early on, maybe in the first weeks, my mother and I had the same dream on the same night. And um, and it was about this lady whose name was Martha, and she had um we had a big brass key ring with the all the doors in the house would have skeleton keys. So in our dream that Martha had that key ring with our skeleton keys, and she was running through the house laughing hysterically. I have the keys, I have the keys. And it was it was just disturbing that, you know. So um we were doing a meet and greet with one of the neighbors sometime after those dreams, and my mother was telling this lady about this dream and how strange it was that her and I had both dreamed it at the same night. And the lady said, Oh my goodness, that lady Martha is your landlord's sister, and she was deemed to be insane, and the family would lock her up at night, but she would get the keys and run through the house laughing hysterically. You can't lock me up because I have the keys. And in a run one night, she fell down the cellar stairs and broke her neck and she died there. So, you know, it sounds like a pretty convenient ghost story, and we didn't think too much of it. Um, but you know, we dreamed about her, you know, occasionally, but Martha was very mischievous, and our brass keyring would disappear along with some of our brass trinkets that our mother had. They would just disappear, and later on, you know, a month, two months, a week, they would reappear. And so we were pretty convinced that Martha was real and she was just mischievous, and she was there, and we were just gonna have to deal with her. And then not too long after that, we were made aware of another entity in the house that seemed to be quite evil, and we couldn't put a name to it, but it was very apparent that this thing wanted to hurt us. And so us kids called it it with a capital I, capital T, long before Stephen King had an it. And um, so that's kind of where the story begins, and then it went through six years of absolute terror until we had to move out.

Gino 3:59

Okay. Back to the the dream and moving in that first week. Okay, so you're six years old. You had this dream. How did it come about that you guys recognized you and your mother that you shared the same dream that night? Like, did you wake up and say, Mommy, I had a very scary dream about a woman running through the house? Did you hear your mom talking about the dream? Where did you guys connect where you said, Okay, wow, we dreamt the same thing last night? How did that come about?

Guest 4:29

I don't directly remember, but I've always been prone to nightmares, and I might have screamed and she might have woken me up. And then maybe the next morning we talked about it, and you know, I told her this is what I dreamed. And then, you know, I I don't, I just don't directly remember that conversation, but we must have had a conversation about it. And then it was it was important enough to my mother to mention it to the neighbor lady to say, wow, you wouldn't believe that my daughter and I had the same dream on the same night. And so somehow we, you know, somehow we talked about it and you know, she was made aware.

Gino 5:05

Um, how many siblings did you have?

Guest 5:07

There were there were four of us, two girls and two boys, um, and then our mother. So there was five of us in the house. So initially it was just the dreams about Martha and the things disappearing and stuff. And I I really don't remember how much time passed before we were made aware of it. Um, I don't think it was very much time. Um I can't I can't say it was two months or three months. It was just sometime after the dream about Martha that you know we were made aware of that there's something really terrible in the house. Um, early on, when our mother realized that there's something terrible in the house, there was a door at the top of our stairs that led to the old part of the house, the old abandoned part of the house. And she took a coat hanger wire and she wired that door shut. So she actually wired the door handle to the stair banister. And so that whatever it was that, you know, could possibly come in, she figured it can't open that door. And then we had two bedrooms upstairs, and one was what we called the spooky room, which was connected directly to the landlord's house, and then the other bedroom in the front part of the house where you see the windows, we called that the safe room. So our mother also wired the door closed in the spooky room that led to the landlord's house, thinking that maybe something was getting in the house and chomping around and making us dream, or you know, she just doing whatever she can to protect us. So that was our first indication that something was going wrong in the house.

Gino 6:42

Did anyone claim to see anything uh early on?

Guest 6:46

Well, at first it was just feels. Um, so the boys, the boys slept in what we called the spooky room, and they weren't there, they spent maybe two weeks they spent in the spooky room, and this thing, this thing, it, it would come into the room, and now I've I saw it, I don't know if anybody else saw it, but I saw it later on. But it would move into the room and you could feel it, and and it would just through that feel make you aware that you needed to get out or you were gonna get hurt. And we did indeed get hurt, a few of us. So, um, so whatever it was, it you know, it chased the boys out of the spooky room, they moved their beds into the safe room, and from for those most of those six years, the whole family slept in the same room. Um, and as things progressed, we when it was summertime, we would sleep outside. Um, you know, we would just camp out outside because it was safer to sleep outside than it was to sleep in the house.

Gino 7:52

Uh you said it it chased them out. What was it doing aside from just a spooky feel? What was actually happening that people were so fearful?

Guest 8:02

Well, in the spooky room, several different things happened up there. Um, my brother, my youngest brother and I, we had a wild idea that we were going to run away. So we had a rope coiled up and hiding behind the door, and we had some other stuff, you know, back there. And we would play in the spooky room during the day, but we just wouldn't be in there at night. So my brother and I were in the spooky room and we were playing, and the door closed. And the rope that was behind the door kind of uncoiled itself and crawled at us like it was a snake. And um, we we bolted, we we left, you know, we just got out. Um when the boys came to sleep with us in the in the in the in the safe room, my sister said, Oh, you guys are a bunch of sissies, I'll go sleep in that room. So um after maybe the first or second night, real early on, um, it came in and and it just it just emitted this sense of terror. And so Anne, my her name, she jumped up and she went to turn the light on and the light wouldn't come on. So she went to open the door and the door wouldn't open. So she was screaming and pounding on the door, and mom was on the other side of the door trying to push it open. Ann's trying to pull it open, the door won't open, the lights won't come on, and then all of a sudden the lights came on, the door came open, and whatever the scary thing was, it left. Um, that's that was a bad room. Another time in that room, um, I was home, it was during school time, and I was home, I had pink eye. And so my mother and my myself were the only ones home. It was during the day, and we felt it was safe to be in the spooky room during the day because it's daylight. So I was upstairs in the spooky room, and uh, there's no beds or anything up there, so it's just this big, huge play area now. And I was sitting on the floor and I had a pair of scissors and some pencils, and I was cutting out little doll-shaped things and just playing, you know. And um, and I don't remember it happening, but I I remember the after effects. This thing stabbed me in my abdomen several times with a pencil. And I remember having the little brown spots in my stomach where it stabbed me. And um, so I went hysterical downstairs, and mom wouldn't let me go upstairs anymore. I stayed downstairs until the pink eye was gone and I could go back to school. So um, those are some terrible things that happened in that room. So we were all moved over into the um the safe room, and one night um I woke up and I saw it walking towards me. And it wasn't very tall, and it had a weird kind of farmer hat or something on its head, and it was old and it was stooped over, but it meant to kill me. I just knew that if it got to the bed, I was gonna die. And so I started screaming, and mom was sleeping on the other side of the room in a bed over there, and she jumped up and she ran towards me. Well, she ran through it, and it kind of poofed like smoke, and then she turned around and she ran back through it, turned the light on, and then it just dissipated. It was gone. Um, so that was the most visual that I had with that thing.

Gino 11:19

Could you see its face? How clear was it, or how physical did it look?

Guest 11:23

He was he looked kind of translucent. He had a long coat on, so he was gray, he was all gray, but he had he had a long coat on and he was old and stooped over. And I I I don't I I can't remember if I saw his face or not. I just know that he was very, very dangerous.

Gino 11:43

Did your mom see it in that particular time? Okay, she did not see it, she just ran right through it, didn't know what was.

Guest 11:49

She just ran through it and ran Yeah. And uh, and another time in the safe room, my brother, my youngest brother and I were up there and we were getting ready for bed, and we were jumping on the bed and being naughty and all that stuff. And that first window that you can see up there to the right of the porch, that was the room that we were in, and something black came through that window. To me, it was a giant bat, um, like a baseball bat. And but to my brother, it was a giant bat with something riding on it. So that's what we each saw. So we came unglued, you know, yelling and screaming, and he ran to the dresser and he looked in the mirror, and I don't know what he saw in that mirror, but he just came to millions of pieces. I mean, he just went screaming down the stairs with me following him. So I don't know what that was. And that was one of the nights that we spent on the floor, sleeping on the floor in the living room because we were afraid to go upstairs.

Gino 12:49

So it it was something literally shaped like a bat.

Guest 12:54

Yes. It was big. I've never heard of it. How big about? Yes. Yeah, like six feet long and you know, big, big around, like a pumpkin size around. It was it was really big, whatever this thing was. And it came through. I mean, it just came so fast. It was like whoosh, and it's in the room, you know, and it filled the room, it filled the room with like a dark, foreboding feeling. Um, just whenever this thing came around, it was just so dangerous. It was just such a dangerous feel. And um, but I don't know what Tom ever saw in the in the mirror, and and he never he he never told me. He just said, I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to talk about it, you know. And so I I was afraid of mirrors for the rest of my life after that. I don't have a mirror in my bedroom, you know. I just I don't like mirrors.

Gino 13:44

You said uh whenever it would come around. Okay, so this one time it showed up appearing like it did, like you just described as a bat. The other times, or or when it usually would show up, how would you know when it was there?

Guest 13:59

Um, sometimes it was a feeling and sometimes it would do things. Um downstairs in the living room, um, we had three windows. You can see two of them, and then there's another one around the corner of the house that you can't see. And so we would be, you know, watching a television show in the evening, all of us in the living room, and the window shades would go up one at a time, up, up, up, just quickly, just like somebody just, I don't know, they just and it happened a lot, and it just was, you know, almost like this thing was letting us know that I'm here. Don't forget about me. And um, so uh things that happened downstairs in the living room. A knife was thrown at my brother, a kitchen knife, and and it just came across the room. Um, Ron was home alone. Um, and I know it happened because he couldn't get the knife out of the door jam, and our mother had to climb up on a step stool to pull the knife out of the door jam, and we had a hole in the door jam ever, you know, for the rest of the time that we were there. So that's what happened to Ron. Um to me, there was a toaster in the kitchen, and um I came downstairs to get a drink of water or do something in the night. I came downstairs and that toaster chased me halfway up the stairs, and then it, you know, it finally gave up and just clattered down onto the stairs. And then, you know, I raced upstairs screaming, Mom, Mom. And um, so that's so that's what happened to me.

Gino 15:26

That's that's absolutely incredible. Hang on a second. A toaster chase. Oh, okay. Yeah was it was it floating up off the ground, flying? Yes. Holy smoke, that's insane.

Guest 15:41

Yep, yep. And the the cord, I remember the cord, it was coming at me so fast that the cord was straight out, you know, like it just it was it was it was scary. Um, my mother, she was taking college courses, and she would stay downstairs, you know, and study after us kids went to bed. And she said that it it would come and fill this room with this scary, scary feeling where, you know, and just to let her know, I've given you enough time, now you have to leave. And mom said she used to try to bargain with it, just give me another 15 minutes. I gotta finish this paper or whatever. And she would bargain with it, and sometimes it would give her time, and then other times it was just like, nope, she had to go. And um, so that was her story about, you know, about what it would do. Our mother, you know, she stayed with me, you know, when she was, you know, had cancer until she died. And I tried to talk to her about it and her memories and what she thought about it, you know, these 55, 60 years later. And mom, mom was so terrified that she would not talk about it. Um, us three, the three women in the family from all these years, if we talk about it like I'm doing tonight, it will come and visit us. And and uh it will give us, you know, a terrible, terrible nightmare. And and it's almost like it wants us to never forget who it is and that it knows who we are. So my brother that had the knife thrown at him, he's very hesitant to speak about it, also. So I'm burning, I'm burning incense tonight.

Gino 17:18

When this was all happening, what were your mother's thoughts or words on it? What did she do to like ease your guys? You just were kids at the time. Well, what did she say about it back then?

Guest 17:31

I don't really know. Mom was really good at saying, just don't think about it and it'll go away. So I'm pretty sure that's probably how she handled it. Um, we didn't talk about it a lot. I know that at first she would, you know, holler at us kids for the because the coat hangers would come undone and they would be, we find them on the floor that she had wired the doors shut with, and she would scold us kids for it. But she finally came to realize that it wasn't us, it was it that was undoing the wire. And so um she kept us close to her when we were, you know, all together. We were always in the same room, you know, we slept in the same room. Um, if we slept outside, we always slept outside together. Mom just stayed close with us, you know, and and uh to protect us, I guess, in the best way she knew how. That you know, she was a single mother in the 60s, you know, she was kind of stuck there for a while, you know, until we could move out, you know. So there wasn't much she could do.

Gino 18:31

The landlord. Did your mom ever inquire with him about these happenings, like if he was aware of it or any prior tenants ever mentioning anything to him? What was the deal with a landlord?

Guest 18:45

I don't know if she ever spoke with the landlord about it. I know she spoke with the the lady up the street, um, and you know, because they were kind of close. So I think she spoke at length with the lady up the street, which is how we found out that Martha was the landlord's sister and that she really did take the keys and run through the house. Um, she asked us not to go to Mr. Eshelman, the landlord. She asked us not to go in his house or hang around with him very much. Um, so I think that she was kind of spooked by him. I I'm not really sure what her feel was with him.

Gino 19:22

This dark energy. So you you were aware of the other one, Martha. You were sure of who that was. Did you guys ever have an idea or a feeling about what this other more malevolent entity was?

Guest 19:38

No, I I I never did. I could never put a name to it. I know that the the neighbor lady didn't know anything about that. Um, you know, uh I I I don't know. I've often thought, you know, that you know, that if I was brave enough to do some meditation and maybe try to reach out to it, but I'm not brave enough. I I I don't I'm I'm too scared of it. Um, you know, so I I don't know. I don't know what it was. I do know that the house was involved in the Underground Railroad. There was a tunnel in the house from our basement to the barn. And um uh upstairs, the house was built in 1820. So upstairs in the attic, we found a Civil War uniform and a musket and a sword and some other papers and things. Um uh and um I had heard that this uh a Civil War skirmish happened in, you know, in the fields and things around our house. So I mean, it could be an entity from anywhere that just attached itself to the house. It in the Lancaster County area, um, that was a big underground railroad area. Um so our house might have been involved in the underground railroad. I I really don't, I just don't know.

Gino 20:54

That is so interesting. Yeah, I was gonna ask about the history of the home and what you knew about it, and you just answered that. That's that is very interesting. So from the 1820s and those objects you found. Wow. Whatever happened to those items, do you recall? Do you know?

Guest 21:11

Um, they they remained in the attic until we moved out, and then when Mr. Eshelman died, um uh the house was sold, and the Amish owned the house now. So I I I have no idea. I have no idea. Um my mother and my sister decided that they were gonna go upstairs, and this is after we were all living downstairs, and this thing would only allow us upstairs to use the bathroom and change our clothes, and then it was get out. Um, and you could almost feel it chasing you down the stairs. But um, but anyways, my mother and my sister decided they were gonna go upstairs and they were just gonna sit down in the safe room and they were gonna stay as long as they possibly could and just kind of just kind of push back on it and not let it chase them out. They lasted a About 10 minutes. And then they had to go, you know. So and the only thing is, I mean, it's such a feeling of terror, you know, when this thing came in the room. It didn't have to throw anything. I mean, it did a lot of throwing things, and you know, um, I'm not gonna tell you about the chair also, but I mean it did a lot of throwing things and moving things around, but if it wanted you to leave, all it had to do was just kind of fill the room with this sense of terror. So yeah, they lasted about 10 minutes and then they had to leave. So that was the end of that.

Gino 22:33

Did you ever feel like cold spots? Anything other than the senses? Did you ever have any like scent of you know candles or anything burning? Do you recall ever picking anything else up?

Guest 22:46

No, I I I don't. Um it was an old farmhouse and it was full of cold spots. So if there was cold spots, we probably didn't think much about it. There, you know, but there was, I mean, there was always noise in the house. You know, there was um there was a piano in the old part of the house, and I used to hear it play. And and in my mind, in my young mind, I always thought that's funeral music. And I could never quite understand why I would have thought that. But um, you know, now I know that funerals were held in parlors and that, you know, that's possible. But you know, this thing used to play the piano. But you could hear people walking around and doors opening and closing, and just like people really actually lived over there in that part of the house. So that's so I did notice that there was always some kind of noise somewhere, something going on that wasn't real and you couldn't see it, and you couldn't feel it, you couldn't touch it, but it was there.

Gino 23:39

So I totally get that. And you did send me uh the photo of the home from the outside. So um for just for the listeners, I will include that in the um in the I'll I'll add that to the blog so people can see the outside of the home to get an understanding of what it looked like. And I'll include it in the in the YouTube uh slide as well. Very interesting. Tell me about the chairs moving. What what happened with the chairs?

Guest 24:04

Oh, yeah, we have a we had a spindle black, a spindle back black chair. It was a very old chair, my mother's, my grandmother, whatever it was, and it was kind of in the family chair. And so this is when we were all kind of living in the living room. Um we, you know, was sleeping downstairs in the living room. There was no more going upstairs. And my brother, my youngest brother and I, we were sleeping on the floor closest to the door that goes out, and you know, not the door that you can see, but the other door. And then there's a window over there. And we woke up really early and the sun was coming up, and we were trying to be very quiet because everybody else was sleeping. And we noticed that black chair was not where it belongs. And so we thought, oh, you know, maybe somebody just moved it. And so we, you know, kind of talked and chatted and maybe drifted off or whatever, but then noticed again that, oh my goodness, that chair is closer. And then we started to get scared, and then, you know, so well, I think we kind of took our mother's advice, and if we don't pay any attention to it, it'll go away. And the next thing I remember is that that chair was over top of my brother's head, just sitting like somebody picked it up and put it over his head, sitting there. And um, well, you know, there's two little kids that just came unglued, woke up the whole entire family. And um, and it wasn't too long after that we moved out. Mom had enough and we moved out.

Gino 25:23

What happened when you left? If anything.

Guest 25:26

Martha, yeah, Martha stayed. We nobody's ever dreamed about Martha again. We just remember her. Um, but like I said, about it, um, it will visit us when we're, you know, talking about it. Um, he'll visit me when I'm sick and vulnerable. Um, you know, he just picks random times. And the dreams, they aren't necessarily about it, but I know that it's because of it. Um, so I might have a terrible dream like I'm being swept away in a terrible flood, and it's the scariest thing that ever happened to me. And um, and I could always say, gee, I had that dream because my sister and I talked about it last week, or something like that, you know. So I believe that it, you know, is just is he's still there, you know.

Gino 26:16

And you had mentioned to me that uh uh the people or the residents um after you guys um never reported or that or you somehow you were made aware that they never experienced anything. Is is that accurate?

Guest 26:32

Yes, my sister and I um we you know, we when we left the house, we moved to New York State. And um, so my sister and I, you know, we got you know, she got a driver's license and we took a trip back down just to drive through the old neighborhood. And we, you know, we drove up by the old house and um we saw that people lived in there, and we knocked on the door and we asked them if there was anything weird going on in the house and if you know there was any hauntings and things moving around, and they they looked at us like we were crazy. And they said, No, it's a beautiful house. We love it here, you know. So it was just us.

Gino 27:07

What do you think it was? Why do you think you guys were targeted like that?

Guest 27:12

Well, um we're all we all have our own um uh psychic abilities. Um I'm I'm a psychic medium, and um, you know, and I have found myself walking in and out of time slips, which is a whole nother story. Um, so I think that we were just very aware, you know, that these things were there. And, you know, um spirits like chaos because chaos is the energy that they need. And, you know, there's four kids and we're all a year apart in age. And you know, so I think I think the energy in the house just allowed that thing to to to manifest itself. And, you know, I've thought about, well, perhaps it didn't like us because we were a bunch of active, energetic little kids and it was a grouchy old man and you know, get the out, you know. So I I I'm I really don't I don't have a good answer. I just have guesses.

Gino 28:09

Sure. No, that's very interesting. Uh absolutely. Have you had any other type of activity at any level since those years?

Guest 28:20

Oh yeah. I have had a spirit in almost every house that I can remember that I've ever lived in. I have a spirit in this house here that I live in. Um I had a little girl that followed me around to f through several different houses, but I haven't seen her in decades. Um, but it's spirits uh well, I think spirits are all around us all the time. And um, you're either aware or you're not. And um, so there's something that lives in this house with me, and the cat sees it too. Um, but every now and then I'll see it just kind of sweep through the room. It's just kind of a dark shadow, foop, there it goes, you know. It's not benevolent, it's just here, you know. So um, I don't know. And it's interesting too, is that my cat, um, he's not quite a year old, but he has appointed himself my caretaker because when I have nightmares, the cat jumps up on the bed, he meows at me, he touches my face and wakes me up, and then I say, Oh, Sir Takala, oh, good kitty, good kitty. And then he'll lay down and he'll purr on me until I go back to sleep. So I have so I have a caretaker of my cat.

Gino 29:26

Sir Talk a lot. Yeah, he saves you, he saves you from the nightmares. That's awesome. And that's interesting. My last, my last guest, my last episode. Um, Bruce uh is a cat and kind of the same thing. It had seen um something at one point. Uh he you can tell the cat was looking at something, something was there, and the cat was uh totally honing in on it. So um animals definitely have a really great sense for that stuff.

Guest 29:52

Oh yeah.

Gino 29:54

So things kind of whiz by in this current home you're in now, so you know something's there. Um has there been anything near the level from back when you guys were younger in that other home? Have you ever any kind of poltergeist activities since then, or that just completely stopped?

Guest 30:11

I've seen poltergeist uh activities since, um, but nothing as malevolent as that thing. Um, you know, I lived in a condo and it was a fairly new condo, too. But um, the spirit of the lady that was lived there before I did, um, she didn't like all of my crystals and, you know, all my goosey stuff, and she would knock it down. So, you know, it was it was interesting. So she was a poltergeist in that house, and you know, I just knew she was there because she didn't like my stuff. And every now and then, you know, a stone would come off of a cabinet where I had it set or something like that. Just, you know, there's no way the stone could move by itself, but there it goes, you know. So, and I had a Cheweeney at the time, and and her name was Bibi. And um, and she knew she knew when when uh this entity showed up because she would get up and her fur would hackle up and she would growl and she would look at nothing and you know, stuff like that. Um, so yeah, so that that was the most poltergeist I'd had with with that lady. Um, I can't remember her name. Uh I want to say Alice, but anyways, that's the most I had. But she wasn't she wasn't out to hurt me. She was just mad because she was the first owner of that home, and I turned it into something she didn't want it to be, I guess. You know.

Gino 31:25

What about your siblings? Have they experienced anything since this this home back then?

Guest 31:31

Not as much as I have. Not as not as much as I have. Um, I mean, the nightmares, yeah, but as far as but then, you know, I'm involved in the paranormal, and you know, and I do paranormal investigations and I reach out to spirits, and um, you know, and like I said, I've I've I've been in time slips, which is very, very interesting stuff. I can't make it happen, it just happens, and it's just really, really weird when it does.

Gino 31:55

Um can you describe that? That's very interesting.

Guest 31:59

Yeah, the last time slip I fell into, um, I was in Gettysburg. I live very close to Gettysburg. And um, there's Dobbins Cabin, uh Dobbins Tavern, and Dobbins was um, you know, one of the early settlers in Gettysburg. And interestingly enough, about Gettysburg is that my seventh great grandparents emigrated from Scotland and they settled in Gettysburg and they're buried in Gettysburg. And um, but anyways, um, and you know, now here I am, but anyways, so I was at the in Gettysburg and I was gonna meet some friends for lunch at Dobbins, and I was there early. So um, there's a long walkway because the building is a long building, and there's a gift shop. And the tavern, the restaurant, the tavern part wasn't open yet. But I was walking under the um underhanger, the overhang on the sidewalk there, and I was gonna go into the gift shop, but all of a sudden there's all these people bustling around, and and but they're dressed in like 1850s clothes, but it was so real to me that you know, they're bumping into me and I'm saying, oh, excuse me, pardon me, pardon me, excuse me. And I'm like, where's all these people from? What's what's the what's the deal here? And then I walked into the gift shop, and then poof, I was back into my own time, and I realized there's nobody out there. And I went, oh, holy cow, you know. So that's that's that's what happens to me. I get into those little time periods. And I figured that particular day was it was Sunday morning, and churches were often held in homes. And um, so and it was mostly ladies dressed in their very finest. So um, there were some gentlemen there too. But um, but I think I'm thinking that as I was walking, you know, in that walkway, I was getting in the way of everybody bustling in to go to church. I was just in the way, you know. I I wish I could make it happen, but I can't.

Gino 33:45

Yeah. How about another one that stands out to you? This is so interesting.

Guest 33:52

As a trucker in um uh, you know, I did I did a lot of stuff in Georgia, in South Georgia, and you know, in in the slave territories. And I was uh was out um walking around my at a truck stop and I was walking around, and it was close to this little tiny town that just looked like it was got frozen from the 1850s or whatever. And um, so I was real close to that town. So I was out walking around, and and all of a sudden there were no longer cars and trucks and modern buildings and street lamps, there were mules pulling wagons and people walking and and the and this very sad, oppressed feeling. And, you know, like I was in slave territory, you know, and um, and what was really um interesting about this little town is that there was still a slave jail and the whipping post was still there. And um when and I would drive by this every week when I'm on my route down there, and uh, and I and I would look at that and I'd say, oh gosh, that must have been so terrible. And then that that one day it just happened. I was just there was mules and horses and carriages and people and and and it just and then you know I went back to the truck stop and I was back in 2015.

Gino 35:06

That's incredible. When you come out of that, so to speak, what is it like for you? What do you what do you feel or what are your thoughts on on that moment that you experienced?

Guest 35:19

Well, the first thing I feel is complete exhaustion. It is it takes everything out of me to go back 150 years or whatever and then come back. It just I'm wiped out. Um sometimes I I shake like the the the emotion, like right now I've got the shakes, you know. Um uh it's just so very strange. But the biggest feel is it's it's it's exhausting. And it's so clear because I don't, it's not like gee, where was I or what happened? It's so clear, you know, that I was there. I saw that. You know, I could smell the horses, I could, I could, you know, it just I was there, you know. It's weird.

Gino 36:03

How long does it is it just seconds long?

Guest 36:06

Yeah, yeah, I think so. Um, like in Gettysburg, it was just long enough to to walk that walk, which is, you know, maybe 10 seconds, you know. But you know, what but while I'm there, you know, while I'm there in that other time period, it it it feels like, you know, longer than 10 seconds. It's almost like I sort of kind of belong there, but I'm I'm I don't it's it's like a parallel universe. I I really don't know how to describe it.

Gino 36:36

That's absolutely fascinating. You're able to tap into it. I don't know. Uh but you you you're able to do that and uh experience that and that's just amazing. Um investigations you do. Man, well maybe we'll have to have you back and have you talk about those if you're interested in that. What you've experienced on that side.

Guest 36:59

I could send you a picture. I I just investigated an old mill, and um now I I felt like there was something behind me, and um, and I had a name, and um, I was accurate on the name. And um, so uh, but anyways, I just felt like, you know, gee, this thing is right behind me, and um, and it's it's just it felt cold and it felt it just was really close behind me. And so um one of one of the other team members took a picture, and there's you could actually see it, you could see its arm coming around me, and um, it's really weird. And then this big blue uh aura kind of light is there also. It's really, really an interesting picture. I'll send it to you. Yeah, so yeah, interesting things happen to me. Um, I don't know why, I don't know where I got this ability, but you know, just um um I walk in, I start my investigation with a pad and a paper, and I just tell everybody, just go get away from me. I don't want to pick up any energy from you. I just want to be alone in the room, and then I just start writing. And uh that's that's how I get information.

Gino 38:02

And how long have you been doing that?

Guest 38:04

About seven, eight years. My son died, and um I think that's what got me interested because I I wanted to know more. I didn't want to do it before then because I was still scared because of it. Um, but my son died, and I knew some paranormal investigators, and I thought, you know, I I want to know what's on the other side. I I I do want to know. And um, so in the safety of you know, my friends, I I thought I would reach out and do that. And then I discovered that holy cow, I'm a psychic medium. And it isn't from me saying that I'm a psychic medium, it's from other people saying, Wow, you're a psychic medium. Look at you got all this information and it's accurate. How did you do that? I don't know, it just came to me, you know.

Gino 38:47

So wow, I'm very and I'm very sorry about the loss of your son.

Guest 38:50

Yeah, that was rough.

Gino 38:52

But um, yeah, I I would love to get you back to hear your um adventures from your investigations. So maybe we'll set that up. But uh I appreciate you coming on to talk about this, what you experienced with your family in that home all those years ago. That's incredible. I hope tonight you don't have any, I hope it does not. Or I hope uh sir, what is it, talks a lot, uh uh gets you out of it. Yes, sir, talk a lot, gets you out of it if there's something does happen and you're and you're having a nightmare. Um but yeah, thank you again for coming on, Bonnie. I really appreciate it.

Guest 39:30

Well, thank you, Gino.

Gino 39:32

Thank you, Bonnie.

Guest 39:34

Bye bye now.

Gino 39:38

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