Midnight Confessions| Close Encounters: Shadows and Stalkers

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There’s a specific kind of silence that only happens at midnight—and tonight, we’re filling it. Chapter 3 of Midnight Confessions is live, and it’s a journey through the woods of the unknown and the horrors found right at home.

We’re covering everything from a murderous mother to a terrifying encounter in the trees, alongside a haunting experience from Lauryn’s own past.

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SPEAKER_00 0:04

Welcome to Cozy Midnight Collective. Midnight Confessions. Um yeah, so for those of you who don't know or might be new to all this, we have a segment of Cozy Midnight Collective called Midnight Confessions. And that's where you, our amazing listeners, um, send in your stories. And they're not always like spooky, they don't have to be spooky in nature, though we welcome that. Um, you know, they can be tea, you know, just something you want to get off your chest, you know, if you want just someone to talk to, you know, that's kind of what we're here for. You're not alone with whatever you're going through, whether it's, you know, again, if it's spooky, scary, um, traumatizing, like whatever you want to talk about, whatever you're comfortable with.

SPEAKER_02 0:58

We're your bestie.

SPEAKER_00 0:59

And the beauty of it is an anonymous. It's anonymous.

SPEAKER_01 1:04

And we're like, we're your shoulder.

SPEAKER_00 1:05

Yeah, shoulder to shoulder to cry on.

SPEAKER_01 1:08

Cry on us. Yeah. No judgment.

SPEAKER_00 1:10

None at all.

SPEAKER_01 1:11

There's literally nothing you could come and say that I would be shocked at. Yeah. I would be like, I mean, that makes sense. Yeah. I've been literally lived 80 lives.

SPEAKER_00 1:23

So yeah, I'm I like to pride myself on being somebody that tries to put myself in other people's shoes sometimes. Like, whether I understand it or not, I try to understand it from people's perspective. And um, yeah, so like, you know, if you feel like if you felt like you made like a bad decision, like I try to like put myself in that position to think, like, okay, you know what? For you, that probably made a lot of sense, and it's okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:52

So and me, I'm the one that makes all the bad decisions. Literally. So I'm sure like a point in time will come where I share more stories, but I've literally been that one that chooses the wrong men, that got a DUI, that got addicted to drugs, that you know, on and on and on. Like I like I said, I've lived like 80 lives, and I've got nothing to hide, and I'm not ashamed of any of it.

SPEAKER_00 2:26

We got some good ones this time around. So um, just a quick little disclaimer. Um slight trigger warning. Yeah, we don't really know.

SPEAKER_01 2:36

Um, we can't really give I'm just gonna say full-blown trigger warning, just in case, because who am I to judge how something makes you feel you feel?

SPEAKER_00 2:45

Yeah, yeah. So yeah, just kind of be aware as we go into this. You know, we could be covering a range of topics. Um, so just kind of keep that in mind.

SPEAKER_01 2:54

Um, if you're and we're not reading these. I mean, we are reading these for the first time. Like maybe she knows some, maybe I know some, but some are also going to be first-time listener for each of us, so that way we get kind of like that shock factor. And so we don't know who's coming with what is what I'm trying to say. And so basically, does it involve murder or essay? Does it involve ghosts, loss, death, yeah, yeah, like skinwalkers, like who knows what it's gonna be? And so just trigger warning, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:44

Just take care of yourself. That's all. If you feel like you're not gonna vibe with this, that's totally fine. We get it, no hard feelings, yeah. So okay, well, um, I'll start. Yeah, I'll start with a one and then we'll just kind of take turns and switch off. And then that'll go from there. So all right. First one, uh, walk with me. It's set in Austin, Texas, broad daylight. I had just left a store alone in a city, I didn't know. That's when I felt it. That specific crawling feeling on the back of your neck. I turned around, he was there, eyes locked on me, not glancing, not passing by, but watching. Let me walk with you. No, he kept walking, I kept pace, I stopped, I turned around, he slowed. I turned and faced him directly and said clearly, I don't know you. Stop following me. Nothing, no embarrassment, no reaction at all, just that flat, hollow stare, like my words dissolved into air. So I pulled out my phone and hit record quietly, calmly, pointed at his face. He saw it, he knew, he didn't care. No flinch, no leaving. He just stood there staring at me with those empty eyes, completely unbothered that I was recording him. Like evidence meant nothing, like I meant nothing. That stillness was the scariest thing I've ever experienced. I found a security guard, told him what was happening. He walked me all the way back to my hotel and stayed until I was safely inside. This is why women choose the bear. The bear doesn't smile when you say no. The bear isn't fueled by power, it just wants to survive. And so did I. A wild animal is predictable in ways that man never was.

SPEAKER_01 5:43

I remember when that happened. So that story is from my best friend, and I can still picture this man in my head, and if we can find a way, I'll see if I can have her send me the video that she took. Um, because just like she said, she took a video, and she amassed like over a hundred thousand views from this video. It went viral, but it was wild because, like she said, she was in like a town that she had never been to. She had won a trip through her gym at 45, and so she was in Austin. Actually, I was supposed to be with her. Weirdly, that was the end uh November, December of last year, and like this happened, and she was like, never again, I'm never solo traveling ever again. And that like broke my heart that the first time in her life, she decided to take a solo trip, and that's how it ended up for her because I feel like that's so sad. Yeah, like you should be able to take solo trips with just yourself and like experience what life has to offer and it not fucking haunt you like a bear hunting a pre. Like it's hard to be a woman.

SPEAKER_00 7:14

Yeah, you know, sometimes like people are just are scarier than any kind of ghost or monster can ever be, you know? Like it's yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:24

I felt bad. I felt really bad for her. She was really shaken up.

SPEAKER_00 7:27

Yeah, I bet.

SPEAKER_01 7:28

Yeah. She was she was literally like, I'm not leaving my hotel room.

SPEAKER_00 7:35

Yeah, especially being so far from home, like you don't know anybody there. Yeah, like yeah, it would hard to feel safe after that.

SPEAKER_01 7:43

And then she was like supposed to be there with me, and it was supposed to be this like, and then that happens, and it just like it just ruined the whole fucking thing. Yeah, no, I would get that, yeah. And then he just like, yeah, he looked all laxadaisical in the fucking video, and I'm like, you're an idiot. Yeah, fuck you, and that's why our whole entire lives, even like pretty much since cell phones came out, we've always shared our location with each other, and like even like when you're like just going somewhere simple, it's like let me know when you leave. Let me and it that's kind of like sad to be a woman in today's society that has to literally check in to make sure that you're okay everywhere you go because you never know what kind of fucking retard is lurking around the corner for you. Anyway, yeah, yeah, okay. Well, Nikki, I love you. I'm sorry you went through that. I know that was traumatizing for you. Yeah, fuck that dude. He'll get his. Yeah. And I'm gonna read the second story. Okay. Um, this one was anonymous, correct? Yeah, so this one comes from an anonymous source. Yeah, source. I don't know. I was kind of hanging on to that there. Um, all right. When I was a kid, maybe fifth or sixth grade, we lived in a haunted house. Everyone that spent time in the house all had some kind of story of something weird happening. For example, we had my aunt move in, and her great Dane absolutely refused to go to the front door. One time we were watching TV in the living room. All my siblings and my mother were sitting in the living room. Our living room had a huge window that was just about the length of the front porch. That was pretty big. We could all see the entire porch and just about see the front door. While we were watching TV, the doorbell rang. We looked out the window, expecting to see someone standing there at the front door, but there was nobody there. Another time when everyone was asleep, I had woken up in the middle of the night. I heard some kind of movement by the bedroom door. When I sat up in bed and saw three little boys standing just inside the bedroom door, just staring at me. They didn't seem threatening, and I wasn't scared of them. But they were not moving, just looking at me standing completely still. They were wearing button-up shirts and dark pants. The smallest one looked to be around five years old, and the oldest looked to be around my age, so maybe 12 or 13. I stared at them, and they stared at me for what felt like 20 minutes. It could have been 10 seconds. Even when I moved, they did not move. So I laid back down and rolled over, thinking I was dreaming, and I rolled away from them. And when I did, they were standing right next to my bed looking down at me. Holy.

SPEAKER_00 11:16

Yeah, that's a no for me.

SPEAKER_01 11:20

Oh my god. I instantly cover my head with a blanket and hid. Yes, just like the scary movies. And I stayed like that, thinking they were going to grab me or say something, but nothing ever happened, and I ended up falling asleep under my blanket. Yeah, I would have worn myself out. I've been like, good fucking night. The next morning, there was no sign of anyone else being in the house, and nobody in my family said anything strange happened. So I chalked it up to a dream. That was not a fucking dream.

SPEAKER_00 11:54

Yeah, the way I would have been screaming. Like as soon as I wake up and see what I'm saying. This must have been a this must have been a man.

SPEAKER_01 12:02

Because that is the difference between a man and a woman, because I would have noped the fuck out of there. Yeah, I would have screamed so fast. I would have screamed. My hair blowing in the wind as I ran down the hallway. I would have left the fucking house. Yeah. Bye.

SPEAKER_00 12:18

I would have scudoodled out of there for sure. Skidoodled. Because that's that's fucked. Yeah. Yeah, no, thank you. That's a no for me.

SPEAKER_01 12:29

And it's like, I wish something crazy like that happened to me growing up, like in a paranormal sense. And then I'm thankful that it didn't, you know? Um, but it's like that would have been like cool to live in a house that was actually haunted. But then you, you know, those TV shows that you see that are like on A E. And it's like, yeah, then I like left the room and I came back and all the fucking cabinets were open, and then knives started flying, and you're like, I'm good. Yeah, yeah.

unknown 13:03

No.

SPEAKER_01 13:04

Anyways, that was a good story. Anonymous, I love it. That one was spooky as fuck. I was not expecting those kids to like. Could you oh fuck no?

SPEAKER_00 13:15

Just have it's literally like a scary movie. Like you're like, I'm gonna roll over, and then boom, they're old right there. Like that's I would have lost it. That's like classic.

SPEAKER_01 13:22

I literally would have died instantaneously. My heart would have Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:27

I wonder how long they lived in that house. Cause like if my kid had told me that there were three little boys staring at Would you have moved like immediately? Yeah, and I'm not rich. I would figure it out. I would figure it out. We would I no, I think.

SPEAKER_01 13:42

Like, we're literally going to a motel tonight. Yeah. Pack your shit. It's gonna be cheap. We're gonna figure it out.

SPEAKER_00 13:49

Yeah, no, I hate it.

SPEAKER_01 13:51

I hate it, yeah. I would have literally like, is there a store that sells sage in the middle of the night?

SPEAKER_00 14:00

Call the priest.

SPEAKER_01 14:02

Literally. I am not religious. That would have been, oh, that's money, it's not holy water. Yeah. Almost said. I used to be a stripper. I mean, can you blame me?

SPEAKER_00 14:17

But I meant. Yeah. No. Um, well, actually, so strippers? Strippers? I don't well. I mean, they're cool, you know. I've been to I've been to a strip club before, and yeah, they're nice. Holy what? Yeah. On on strippers? No, I wouldn't throw holy rod on strippers. I would throw money on strippers, though. But yes. But yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:45

Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. It's okay.

SPEAKER_00 14:49

I just, I was like, oh, Leeway. I know I was like making a joke, and I'm like, wait, oh that was not good.

unknown 14:57

That's okay.

SPEAKER_00 14:59

Um so this next story. My cheeks hurt.

SPEAKER_01 15:07

Oh man. Okay. We've been waiting for this all day, you guys. It's like, yeah, these are the funnest recordings. Yeah. By far. Yeah. I mean, the other ones are really good too, because we're both like on it. Yeah. We're like ready to go. It's like, did you pick that up? I picked that up. What did you miss? Oh, I missed that. Yeah. But then these ones are just like. It's just fun. Yeah. Yeah. I'm like, my cheeks are literally like spasming. Okay, you're up.

SPEAKER_00 15:37

Okay, so this next one was um actually sent in by my handsome husband. Um we You're so handsome. He's kind of telling his perspective of things, and then I kind of have like a piggyback off of it. Okay. So cool. I'm gonna read his perspective first, and then I'll kind of go in with my version of events. So one time while my wife and I were living on base, we were pregnant with our daughter. So in the house, it was just the two of us. The on-base housing had rumors of being haunted, but I always thought it was just rumors. But for about a month, every time we would come home and our garage door would be wide open, which wouldn't be a big deal, except we never parked in the garage. We always parked in the driveway. So we never opened the garage door, and the garage never opened on its own while we were home.

SPEAKER_01 16:35

Okay, like the exterior, or like you're in the garage, the door opening.

SPEAKER_00 16:40

So the big garage door was wide open. It happened lots of times. Okay. And um You're like, great!

SPEAKER_01 16:49

Welcome to my fucking house, everybody.

SPEAKER_00 16:51

Um, so it never opened on its own while we were at home. It was only while we were out of the house. It happened so often that we had to start keeping the interior door that opened to the house locked because when the big door would open, uh, sorry, because we when we oh my gosh. I'm just kidding. Uh because the big door would be open. Okay. But even that, I dismissed it thinking it was maybe a neighbor's door button was somehow synced with ours.

SPEAKER_01 17:21

Oh, well, that makes sense.

SPEAKER_00 17:23

Yeah, because I mean on-base housing, those of you that have lived on base, it's fucked up. Like it's always messed up. Yeah. So one day, leaving for work, I kissed my wife goodbye while she was still asleep in bed. As I was walking down the stairs, I made it maybe three steps down and I felt her push my shoulder. Not hard enough to push me down, hard enough that I had to grab the railing to not stumble. I turned around to tell her to chill out because I almost fell down the stairs. That's fucked. And nobody was there. I thought maybe she rushed back to the room before I could turn around. She was about eight months pregnant, so she was for sure not moving that fast.

SPEAKER_02 17:58

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

SPEAKER_01 18:00

Let's all envision an eight-month pregnant lady fucking scooting.

SPEAKER_00 18:05

No, I couldn't. Like, there was one time there's no scooting.

SPEAKER_01 18:09

You're like, boom, boom.

SPEAKER_00 18:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:11

Like I can I feel that eight-month pregnant lady right now.

SPEAKER_00 18:16

Yeah. No, there was like one time where he had to come home from work at lunch because I couldn't get off the bed. Like I had sat down. Oh, you were like stuck. But I was so pregnant and that my back hurt so bad that like I called him sobbing because I couldn't get up. And he had to like come home and help me up out of bed. And he like came in and he was just like dying laughing. But I was like, I can't get off the bed. I'm so sorry. And he's like, it's okay. And like he literally had to like help lift me off the bed because I was so heavy and like my back hurt so bad. Yeah. So yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:52

Oh my god, I want to hug you.

SPEAKER_00 18:56

No, I mean it's just like both of my kids were huge, so they just wrecked my back. Yeah. So it is what it is. But it was just like I was also like hormonal. I cried over everything.

SPEAKER_01 19:08

Yeah. Well, that's normal.

SPEAKER_00 19:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:10

So when I was pregnant with Kennedy, I remember sitting, I lived alone. So I just like I had barely bought my first house, like just a couple of months before she was due. And I was sitting on, and I was used to living alone. That was fine, but like I was living alone. It was just me and like my three dogs. And I was like sitting on the couch, and I don't remember exactly what the video was, but it was a happy video. And there were cats. I remember there were, it was like an animal video.

SPEAKER_02 19:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:43

And I just remember sobbing uncontrollably. That's how I knew I was controlling. It was like, I was like so happy for the cat. Yeah. And I was like, this is fucking stupid. Like, why am I sobbing? Like I've literally lost a grandparent, and I'm happy for this cat.

SPEAKER_00 20:04

That's how I was I knew I was pregnant with my daughter. Was like he had showed me a video, and like it was hilarious. It was like the dumbest, funniest video ever. And I was dying laughing. And then I just started sobbing uncontrollably. And he was like, What is up with you? And I'm like, I don't know. And then the next day, next day we bought a pregnancy pregnancy test. And then there it was. And I was like, you were like, oh, it all makes sense. Yeah. Cool, cool, cool, cool.

SPEAKER_01 20:32

And then you're like, it's what they say. It's they're they're speaking the truth. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:38

For no fucking reason. No reason at all. None whatsoever. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, so sorry.

unknown 20:45

It's okay.

SPEAKER_00 20:46

So um, so yeah. So she was for sure not moving that fast. And I didn't hear her footsteps on the very loud flooring we had. But when I checked on her, anyways, yeah. No, you like you would have heard me like walking down.

SPEAKER_01 21:00

Didn't you say you had like wood floors there or something?

SPEAKER_00 21:03

So downstairs was all wood. Yeah. But then upstairs it was like the like, you know, like the tiled carpet. Like it's like very cheap, super like and there, it's old housing. Yeah. And the housing was like built like in the 70s, 60s. So it's like it's old shit there. Yeah. So I mean, you could hear.

SPEAKER_01 21:21

What are you doing with our taxpayer dollars at Pizzagate?

SPEAKER_00 21:26

Like, yeah. So like you you would hear anything walking down those, like up and down the hallway. So anyway, so when I checked on her, anyways, and she was still for sure asleep, snoring away. I was confused what it was, but I had to go. But for the next few days, I felt off in the house, like sitting in a room with someone who's obviously angry with you, but they don't want to say anything. That's how the whole house felt until a couple months later when we had the house blessed. After the blessing, it was like the house was almost lighter. So to piggy. Back off of that. I'm gonna continue. So when we had our daughter, um did you we did it in here? No, I you're just talking it off off the dome. So off the dome. We had our daughter. Okay. Right? And the three of us. It was just the three of us in the house. And she had a room. Like, so the the way that it was set up was like, you know, there's the downstairs area, and then you would go up the stairs, and it's this long hallway. And at the end of the hallway is a bathroom, and then to the right, there's two bedrooms, and then to the left, it's kind of like a little L-shape.

SPEAKER_02 22:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 22:40

And so it's like another little mini hallway. And so you go like down into the mini hallway, and then there's like a huge closet, and then um to the left.

SPEAKER_01 22:50

Before the room?

SPEAKER_00 22:52

Yeah, so before her bedroom. Okay. And then our bedroom, the master bedroom, was to the right of this little mini hallway. So it's literally like down a hallway, like you go up the stairs, turn left, long hallway, two bedrooms to the side on the right, and then on the left is another mini hallway. And then you had our your master bedroom to the right, and then in front of you was her bedroom, and then the closet to the left.

SPEAKER_02 23:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 23:15

So it's like a little like a like a line. Yeah, it's like a puzzle piece.

SPEAKER_02 23:21

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:22

But um, so her room, you know, we kept her room close to us, and you know, yeah, you thought in the middle of the night when you're literally broken out of sleep for the 80th time in a row and you're exhausted, ready to like fall through the wall.

unknown 23:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:37

Yeah, you want her as close to you as physically possible.

SPEAKER_00 23:40

So yeah, that first year she slept in that room maybe twice. And it wasn't for the lack of like we tried. And um, she's a cuddler too. She's just like she always slept the best in bed with us. Yeah. And but we had tried. We tried so hard because we wanted our bed back. We didn't want, you know, to be woken up to a baby kicking you. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:05

She doesn't sleep as well. You don't sleep.

SPEAKER_00 24:06

Oh, she slept like a rock. She slept amazing. Okay. But he and I were like clinging to the bed because she's like starfish doubt, and she's just, she's living the life. Nice, cozy mattress, two parents that are just keeping you warm. Like she was, she was set.

SPEAKER_02 24:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:23

So there was one time where we were able to get her to sleep in her bed. She was like about like four or five months old, like a like old enough to be able to kind of scoot, you know, and like kind of crawl away. Um what's gonna happen? We had um like a baby monitor, but it wasn't one where you could see her, it was like one where we could just hear her. Oh and she was asleep for maybe 30 minutes. We were downstairs like making dinner or like watching a movie or something, and we just heard her screaming. And it wasn't like a mom come get me scream, it was like a like you know when your kid is scared, like that scream that they have. And we knew like something was not right.

SPEAKER_02 25:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:02

And so we sprinted up the stairs, and when we got into her room, she was like cowered in a corner of her bed, and she was like staring at something in the corner of her room, and she was like, it was like she was trying to get away, like she could not get away fast enough, and like she sees us and she like immediately grabs us and she was shaking. And so we took her out of the room, like closed the door, and we're like we what like that was scary. And then there was a second incident where like this is what prompted us to call the priest, um, like the chaplain, like because my husband's Catholic, and so my god, I was changing her diaper late at night in her room, and like for some reason her room I think just held like a bunch of activity. And so I was changing her on her changing table. It was weird. Like, I like she hated being in there, she did not like being in there at all.

SPEAKER_01 25:58

Like it was just thin, yeah, for like babies and like animals and stuff like that. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say, Kevin.

SPEAKER_00 26:08

Yeah, yeah. So I was changing her diaper, and the way her changing table was set up is so like I could look kind of down the little mini hallway into the longer hallway, and it's like 3 a.m. really early. Like, I'm tired. Yeah, she's like, you know, she had woken up because she was like wet, and so changing her, changing her. And my husband's asleep. I can hear him snoring, right?

SPEAKER_01 26:31

Um, and you're like everybody everybody's accounted for.

SPEAKER_00 26:35

Yeah, everything's good, right? I know where everybody's at. So I hear like like footsteps, like like he said, like you can hear everything on that floor. And I look up because like at the time our cat had had kittens.

SPEAKER_01 26:51

And so running at you.

SPEAKER_00 26:52

The kittens were like we had kittens and they were small, but they weren't walk, they weren't able to walk yet. So I like I was like, oh, maybe the kitten like learned how to walk. And like I'm looking down in this big black mass. Oh fuck, is running at me, like running at me to the point where like I had my hand on her on the table. I turned my body so it wouldn't hit me. And I screamed. Like I literally was like, I screamed and like I grabbed Whitney and like, you know, my husband gets up and he comes running out and he's like, What's what's going on? I'm like, something ran at me. Something, something is here and it ran at me. And he's like looking around and he's like, There's nothing here. Um, like all that. Like he was just like, he's like, like, so we're I was like, I can't be here. Like, we need to do something. And so he calls, like, he gets in touch with the chaplain. Yeah, he gets in touch with the chaplain. And the chaplain came and he was like this really sweet, he was like this really sweet like Haitian guy. So he had like an absolute, he was like very happy, very sweet. He like walked into the house and he was like, Fuck no. Oh yeah. He's like, there's some there's some stuff going on here, and he like blessed some water and he went around, like, blessed the house, like blessed Whitney. Like he walked into her room and he was like, Yep, there's something definitely going on here.

SPEAKER_01 28:09

And he was like, I just think of like Stranger Things, like a demagorgon. Yeah, but like the rift is slowly appearing. Like, I don't know, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:23

But like he said in his like version, like it did get better afterwards. Like after that, like it didn't feel like there was something there. Like there were times when I would be home alone with Whitney, and I'm just kind of like I don't feel right in here, but like by myself. Like I feel like I'm not alone, you know.

SPEAKER_01 28:42

And yeah, so you just feel vulnerable.

SPEAKER_00 28:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:48

You know, just yeah, yeah. You you you at least need your partner there to experience it with you where you take you feel like you're taken advantage of when you're by yourself. You're like, that's not the energy's not equal.

SPEAKER_00 29:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:06

Like I at least need some support if I'm gonna go through this, you know.

SPEAKER_00 29:11

Yeah, it was creepy and like I to this day, I'm like, you know, I tried to like in my mind, I tried to rationalize it as like, oh, maybe it was like I don't know. Like I tried. I tried, but I was like, no, it was it was something like it was so big that like I said, I move my body because it was going to hit me. So yeah.

unknown 29:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:36

All right, so this next one we're going. Here we go. There are times in the woods when you feel like you're being watched. Your pickup is the only one in the parking lot. You go in with this sense of not being alone, but you shake it off and you go, anyways. I went fishing in the woods one day by myself, and I made a stringer where you take a willow branch and you make a V to string up the fish that you catch. I was fishing in the river, and the whole time I couldn't shake the sense of being watched. I had been fishing for a bit and I got hungry. So I decided to start up a fire to cook the fish I had caught and hung up on the stringer. When I got to the stringer, the fish were gone. Each one. Sure, you could say it was a bear or some other animal, but uh when I looked around, I noticed tracks in the sandy bank and in the water. They were twenty-five inches long. Oh bro. Oh my god. Yeah. What the fuck?

SPEAKER_00 30:56

There's more.

SPEAKER_01 30:58

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 30:59

Yeah, it goes into the next page.

SPEAKER_01 31:04

I can't explain it. The feeling of being watched, the tracks. I didn't hear anyone approach or even take the fish. I'm not a superstitious person. I don't know if it was Bigfoot or what. But all I know is I can't explain any of it. To get the tracks in the water, you have to wear waders. There was no one. Just me. What are waders?

SPEAKER_00 31:34

Um, you know, like the little rubber boot things that like they you can step into so you don't get wet. So it's like they're weight, so they go up to like your waist, like up to your chest, so you don't get any of your clothes wet. So it's you like to wear those in order to leave those prints and yeah, like you would have like if somebody were to have gone into the water, they would have had to have been like wearing like waders, or they would have like just gotten like soaked, like it's like I think this person is saying that like barefoot, basically, right? Yeah, like if you went in as like a human, because like my dad fishes all the time, and so he wears waders sometimes, and so it's like I'm assuming that it would have been like if if you were to be in the water, like either like because it's like depending on like where they're at, like I know where I'm from, the water's cold, it's like freezing. So it's like the waders also keep you safe from temperature.

SPEAKER_01 32:27

What I'm saying is if you were barefoot, it would just like wash away. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, maybe it might make a bigger impression.

SPEAKER_00 32:39

Yeah. But the fact that they're like, like the fact that they're 25 inches long. That's that's that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:46

Dude, that's a fucking giant.

SPEAKER_00 32:48

That's like two feet. Yeah, like that's that's insane. That's that's huge. One foot, two foot. And like if it was a bear, they make noise.

SPEAKER_01 33:03

Like they're no, but a bear isn't bruh.

SPEAKER_00 33:07

I mean, it's obvious too, like, what those tracks look like, you know. Like, I think I'm more curious to know, like, what like were there, like, was it like clawed? Did it look like like a foot? Like, did it look like I kind of want to know like what those tracks looked like, I guess.

SPEAKER_01 33:21

But like Was it smooth or rough?

SPEAKER_00 33:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:24

And I'm also kind of like like well, because we're in the land of big foot. Bigfoot, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:32

So it's like that's a big fucking foot.

SPEAKER_00 33:34

Yeah. I'm curious as to like what those tracks look like to know, like, and like the woods are just creepy, like it's another thing that like it's just scary, you know. So yeah, I have I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 33:47

Some somehow though, in my brain, I think Bigfoot would be gentle and Yeti would be angry.

SPEAKER_00 33:56

Yeah. I mean, like, obviously, whatever this was, like, did not care about this person, like just fishing. No, he's like, Oh, thank you. Yeah, food, thanks for that.

SPEAKER_01 34:04

I've been like, bruh, you could have at least left me like one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:10

Okay, so we have one more and then like one small one that we just kind of want to address. So, yeah, so I'm gonna read this this next one. So one night I was sent to a noise complaint in White Center. It was for the sounds of a child screaming. A call had been holding for two hours. I got to the house, it was quiet and dark, so I listened for a bit. Didn't hear anything, so I didn't knock on the door. About six months later, I was contacted by homicide detectives asking about the call that night. There was a lady in a mental health facility that lived in the house at the time. She confessed to killing her six-year-old daughter because she thought she was possessed by a demon. She chopped her up in the bathtub and put her into a few rubber made storage containers and dumped them into the river somewhere between Seattle and Portland. The night of the call was the night they believed she had killed her. Even though I um, and so like there's like a small typo here, um, so I'm not quite sure what they meant, but um I didn't do the right thing by listening and not knocking on the door. And the fact that the little girl was probably dead already, it still creeps me out. So it sounds like a police officer, and I I have some like experience as like I was an explorer in high school, which I'm not, I was not a cop by any stretch of the word. Um, but I did it for a couple years, and I know if there's like no because I know how some people might feel first of all, that's not anybody's fault but the mother. Yeah, so that's why I kind of want to say, like, I don't want anyone to blame this person for not.

SPEAKER_01 36:06

Again, we're like, this is like a judgment freezer.

SPEAKER_00 36:08

Yeah, no, because I think it's one of those things where it's like if there's no probable cause, you know. Yeah, you can't just bust in. You can't just bust it. It's America. Because I know there's a lot of people that are gonna want to say, like, why didn't this person just like bust in, or why did this person just like do this or that?

SPEAKER_01 36:22

You know, there's policies and procedures in place, and if you have an issue with how they handled it, then you need to contact that department and make a noise there. It is not the people who are actually on scene knocking or not knocking, or intruding or not intruding, or calling for backup, or not calling for it's not look, everything has a hierarchy and change doesn't take place on a lower level. So, first of all, I have no idea who the fuck wrote this, but like it is not your fault, and that gives me the absolute chills. I pray to God that that child is in heaven.

SPEAKER_00 37:10

Can you imagine?

SPEAKER_01 37:12

No, like those screens. And that mother, it sounds to me like I don't know, six years old is kind of late to be going through like postpartum depression, but maybe they had an you just never know. Maybe they had a younger baby as well, and like you hear about it's it's acute psychosis for postpartum depression, and some of them it's rare, but like some of them can be severe, where like you literally think like you're saving your child from hell or the demon or being possessed, and so they murder them and they like line them up in the bed. You've heard these stories, right? And they're so sad. And when they get the help that they need on the correct medications and they're not in psychosis, they're a mess, right? They don't want their child dead, they can't believe their actions, they agree with where they are and agree that they should be in prison or the mental institution, and it's just like it's just sad all the way around. There's no winner, the only person at fault here is the mother, but again, we don't know her backstory, so like I'm not even judging her. Definitely not judging the person.

SPEAKER_00 38:36

Yeah, because like what are you gonna do? It's a it's one of those things where like I'm not gonna like I am a human being where it's like obviously I'm not like a judgmental person, but when it comes to hurting a child, right? I have I have a set, I have a different set of emotions, and especially when it comes to like you know, whether this applies to every mother or not, you know, there's that thing where it's called like the mother's instinct, you know, like you know some people don't have it though, yeah. Some people just don't have it, and you know, and it sucks that children are born to people that don't have it. Born to people that don't have it, yeah. And it and it's it really sucks for those kids.

SPEAKER_01 39:19

Like I like they have no business being born. Like, why are you having children if you're not gonna protect them?

SPEAKER_00 39:29

Yeah, if you know that you're not gonna like and some of these people too do not. I'm not saying that this particular mother knew, but some people know that they don't like kids or that they don't want to be around.

SPEAKER_01 39:38

I can't even like there's a story that probably that just like Yeah haunts me still because I remember vividly when it happened and I learned the details of it.

SPEAKER_00 39:51

And Adeline was the same age as this baby, it was five months old and what she went through, and I remember looking and holding Addy and being like who the fuck could do that, like one to a child, but let alone your own child. Like it never makes sense to me how anyone could hurt a child in general, but like it I always this is where I do get judgmental, right?

SPEAKER_01 40:26

Where it's like when I think there's some people that are sick as fuck and they deserve to die.

SPEAKER_00 40:32

Yeah, this is where I like I said I get judgy because it's like I can't imagine hurting. Throw them in the polar bear enclosure, you know what I'm saying? Bye. Yeah, like if I snap at my kids, I usually end up crying like that night. Like I like I end up like, oh my gosh, like I probably just messed them up, like they're gonna hate me, and then like luckily, you know, kids are really quick to forgive.

SPEAKER_01 40:56

And they're resilient, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 40:57

And that's what makes it so much worse that people are so willing to hurt these innocent creatures because it's like they are forgiving. Kids up to a certain age are the most forgiving, sweet, kind-hearted, like you know, like, hey, that's my mom or that's my dad.

SPEAKER_01 41:13

You know, they look at you make mistakes. I make mistakes, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:16

Okay, they look at you like you think you hung the moon, and so it that's what makes it so much more devastating and so much more maddening to me.

SPEAKER_01 41:24

Yeah. When I hear stuff like this, and it's like But the stuff that we ask for forgiveness for, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:33

And it's it's nothing, it's nothing compared to and some of these parents don't even care. No, they don't care, and that's where it's like, why did you why did you procreate then? Like you, you know, up until recently, you know, like it's not paying you enough to give a fuck.

SPEAKER_01 41:49

Yeah, I can tell you that right now.

SPEAKER_00 41:51

No, that's what I don't get to. Yeah. I know we said no judgment, and like it sounds like we're judging, but like there are certain people that I think we can all do, we can all agree deserve a certain level of judgment, right?

SPEAKER_01 42:05

Um no, we're not like judging a particular person in general. We are just judging those people. A group. We know though those of you that exist, and we can all agree that they exist, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:19

But I'm not sitting here and saying like one specific person or anything like that, or anyone that we read about. But yeah, that one is um That was wild, short, but effective with haunting um and making you feel like gross. Like Yeah, that's so sad. And I feel bad for that person that sent that in. Like I can't imagine like what I'm assuming, like they probably held some sort of guilt over it, thinking, like, you know, what if I had done this or maybe I should have done that? And it's like no, this person's right. At that point, if they're not hearing screaming anymore, it it probably was at that point where it was too late.

SPEAKER_01 42:56

But there was also nothing to intervene.

SPEAKER_00 42:59

Yeah, nothing like at that point, maybe it would have stopped her from chopping up the body, I guess. But uh I can't imagine doing that too much. I just don't get it. I don't yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:12

I I think I can't no, we'll move on. Yeah, okay. We have one last story, and then we're wrapping up Midnight Confessions for you. So this one's anonymous, and this one we did read beforehand, and it obviously I don't know who it comes from, but my heart goes out to you, and so does so does Lauren's. And we wanted to read it because they said it was okay to read on the podcast. They were keeping themselves anonymous, and we just want you to know that we hear you, we support you, and that you matter. So this topic is personal. I feel trapped sometimes. I feel as if my life isn't what I truly wish it was, hiding my true self. And it's exhausting sometimes. Always watching how I say things, having to be on my best behavior. My every move followed. Explanation for most things when I just want to do without question. I want to love freely and openly. A love I feel, but it is so far away. Never being able to feel closeness, warmth, just more and more distance. So I don't know who you are, but we love you and you're worth it. And stick in there.

SPEAKER_00 44:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:54

Hang in there, stick in there, all the things. If you ever need anybody to reach out to, message us. You know, we will be there for you. No questions, no judgment. Yeah, you're not alone. Just still, yeah, I feel that way. I know it feels that way. Literally all the time. Like I went to my husband earlier and I'm like, I need a hug. Why? What happened? What happened? Nothing. Nothing. I'm just sad. I'm depressed. Yeah. Well, what happened? Did you read something online? Did like, did you get your first like hate comment and it made you no, nothing. I'm just depressed. I'm just sad. There's no reason for it. I'm just what I am. And I just needed him to hug me. And so I did. You know, and that's what I want to be for people. Like, here's my shoulder. I'm here. You know? Like, you don't have to explain yourself. You're loved, you're wanted, you're needed.

SPEAKER_00 46:21

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I've, you know, I've struggled with, you know, feelings like those, you know, in the past. And, you know, sometimes I still kind of think about it, you know, and um I'm really blessed to have like, you know, the family and the friends and the love, you know, and you know, you can have all those things and you can still feel that way. And it's okay.

SPEAKER_01 46:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:50

You know, it's okay. And like I don't say this.

SPEAKER_01 46:53

We're literally trying to figure it out.

SPEAKER_00 46:56

So as you can see, wearing different clothing. Uh, it would not be an episode of Cozy Midnight Collective or Midnight Confessions or pretty much anything that we do without some sort of technical difficulty. Um the Thanks for hanging in there. Thank you. Um, so I know it probably kind of cut off on our last confession, but we were kind of discussing, you know.

SPEAKER_01 47:19

I think it was over, but we were just letting the person know that we're here for you.

SPEAKER_00 47:24

We're here for you. No matter what you got going on, we're here for you.

SPEAKER_01 47:27

Yeah. Um, we want to be a supportive community to just we want to be a supportive community. Yeah. And part of that support is lending a shoulder, you know, shoulder to cry on, ear to listen.

SPEAKER_00 47:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 47:44

You know, you're always welcome to reach out. So yeah. This is Bo.

SPEAKER_00 47:54

Um, so yeah, with that, um, you know, that was our what our third episode of Midnight Confession. Come on, yeah. Which is insane. Yeah, it's really exciting that we are getting more confessions. So, you know, as usual, we're still always gonna ask. Please send in your confessions. Anything that you want to talk about, we're here to listen. We love the spooky stuff, but we're also here just to listen, just to talk, just to read what you guys have to say. So, yeah, anytime you feel like the need to share something and maybe you don't feel comfortable sharing it with, you know, the people in your lives. Yeah, we have our anonymous submissions on our Google forms.

SPEAKER_01 48:32

And just so you know, when you submit, you you are anonymous. Like we don't even Yeah, we still haven't seen anyone's names. We can't see names. Even for the people that say they don't want to be anonymous, that we can use their name, we're not like yeah, we're not seeing we're not we're not seeing um, I think you guys get a confirmation email from the form, but because it does ask you, I believe, to put your email address in, but we don't get that information. So um, I guess that brings me to the topic of saying if you do have a story and you do want to share and you don't want to remain anonymous, so you want us to share your information, um, it would be great if you could still just send like a very quick email letting us know, hey, this is my story, this is what I titled it. Um, this is my information. I mean, right? That would be a great thing to do.

SPEAKER_00 49:34

And um I mean, if anything, just like your name too. You just like, yeah. My name is Jonas Willaker. No, I'm kidding.

SPEAKER_01 49:42

So, but it's cozy c o Z Y dot midnight M-I-D-N-I-G-H-T dot collective c O L L E C T I V E at Gmail.com. So just yeah, give us a quick shoot us a little message, let us know who you are, and we'll make sure that you get the credit that you're deserved.

SPEAKER_00 50:07

So yeah, for sure. So yeah, with that, um, thank you for listening or watching whatever you are choosing to do. And um share. Yeah. Please. Please.

SPEAKER_01 50:19

We love uh yeah. If you could share our podcasts with your friends and family and just help us keep this train going, that would be really cool. Awesome. Uh, we do have some merchandise that we finally uh got around to making, and so I did want to share that with you. Um, do you want to grab something?

SPEAKER_00 50:41

Yeah, so we have um these cute little bookmarks that we put together. They're epoxy. Um, it's kind of hard to tell from here. We'll probably take some pictures. Um but they're really cute. They have like a little moon indent, like moon phases. There's this one's got like a couple moons and like a cute little sunshine. We got some flowers and sparkles. There's glitter. Yeah, it's really pretty.

SPEAKER_01 51:05

There's very vibrant tassels.

SPEAKER_00 51:09

We have a we have a few different kinds of molds too.

SPEAKER_01 51:12

Yeah, like this. We're gonna make some coasters, some keychains. Um, I made some really beautiful, they're not up here with me right now, but some really beautiful keychains that are like white to purple ombre. They're gorge. Really cute, yeah. And then I've been working on my sticker skills, but we have tons of stickers, they're gold, there's some silver, there's some white, there's all sorts of stuff. But we'll take close-up pictures of these as well. But you could purchase some and support the podcast. We'll be listing our Etsy website. So you can do it through there until we get, you know, until we figure out our web, our like official official website. We're just gonna go through Etsy to get started. Um, but eventually, once our website's up and finished, we'll have this stuff up on there. We're gonna do tumbler shirts, sweatshirts, all kinds of stuff, but also decals for your car. And we'll make whatever you want us to. Like if you have an idea that you want to shoot an email, uh, you can do that as well. And we'll, you know, we'll figure out what you want and how to make it happen. So keep it in the realm of vinyl decals, stickers, that kind of thing. But we can do DTF like heat transfers and stuff too. So we'll help you get what you want too. And we're cheap because we're brand new. So take advantage of it. All right.

SPEAKER_00 52:55

Well, with that being said, yeah, that was you keep listening. Yes, please. Please. We love it. It this is like this has been pretty fun. Like it's it's hard, it's really hard like trying to figure everything out, but it is fun at the end of the day.

SPEAKER_01 53:10

Yeah. I mean, I I've done harder. Yeah, honestly. Like being a mom is yeah, this it's time consuming, but it won't always be. And there's about a million other things I could think of that I would not rather be doing than doing this. Yeah. So I feel blessed. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening, thanks for sharing. Yeah. We love you. We hope you keep listening and remember some stories are meant to haunt you.