S18: Ghostly nuns, demon dogs and ouija board premonitions (Sn. 18 Ep. 39.5)
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Good evening and welcome to Monsters Among Us. I am your guide, Derek Hayes. Howdy everyone, and welcome back to another chilling installment. Although this one is not your typical episode release.

As you may remember, Sarah and I are off this week to get our house and studio cleared of radon gas. A colorless, odorless, dangerous gas that comes up from the ground through gaps and cracks in the concrete and has been known to cause lung cancer in humans and all kinds of other cancers and pets. In short, it's nasty stuff and we're getting it taken care of and I highly suggest you test for it, especially if you have a basement.

Anyway, we were off on Tuesday, but for this Thursday episode, I'm releasing a couple of Patreon episodes to help fill the void. But have no fear. I'll be back on Tuesday with a shadowy episode, and again on Thursday with your normal creepy content. But until then, please enjoy Season 13, Episode 19's Beyond Portion, and Season 14, Episode 4's Beyond Portion. All ready and in progress.

We kick off this evening's journey through the beyond with that aforementioned call concerning depression and its link to the strange and unusual. Robin from Canada, please go ahead with your story.

Hello Derek, my name is Robin. I live in Newfoundland and in Grand Falls, Windsor, Canada. I am 14 years old and just this past weekend, Sunday, July 4th to be exact, the weather was clear,

Her time was around 5.13, I think. I normally get up early during summer. It's to clear my head. I have been having some mental health problems of the late. But anyway, that's not the point. So I was walking one of the...

The trails, Clare Diamond Trail to be exact. In the town of Glovertown, my parents were visiting their parents and decided to bring me along. I didn't see anything, but I did hear something.

I was reaching near the end of the trail to the lookout to watch the sunset and uh... Well, what I heard, it was very unnerving. It was like, something like a sad wailing.

Thank you Robin. Now I know you said your health problems aren't really the point, and you're probably right.

They're probably not related. But I should mention that I do hear that detail quite often. Often enough to take notice. So at the very least, it's something worth exploring. By brighter minds than myself. Or I suppose at the very least, my future self. In a future episode. But regarding the experience Robin reported...

We've already established that many mundane animals make monstrous sounds. Bobcats, coyotes, foxes can all make blood-curdling noises. There are at least half a dozen other culprits that can as well. So I can't say what you did and did not hear, Robin. But my money is on a known animal screaming at the very same sunrise you awoke early to witness. Thanks again, Robin, and hang in there, buddy. We're thinking about you.

Boy, do I have some fun ones lined up for you guys this evening. Weird stuff. Like this one from John in Massachusetts.

Hi, Derek. This is John F. again out of, well, I was out of Bridgewater, Mass. Now I'm living in Abington. It's still part of the Bridgewater Triangle area, the tip of it. And there's been some stories out of this area, stories you know, such as the big black dog with red eyes, also known as devil dogs or demon dogs. I don't know how credible that story is. I know it goes back and it gets told from time to time.

and where I live basically my backyard is about 200 acres of wildlife so it does freak you out going back there at night I've seen a lot in there I haven't seen any big black dogs every time I go to work in the morning I go to my car it's dark out and I kind of freaked out to be honest listening to some of these stories knowing where I live as well but um

So I was living in Taunton, Massachusetts back in the early 2000s, late 90s. I lived there about six, seven years, my early adulthood, late teens. And it was right around the time The Ring came out, the movie The Ring. I was in my apartment alone. I was about to watch it. Now that's scary enough. But what happened?

What happened after just totally freaked me out. And I don't know if you want to call it like synchronicity or something, but these things happen all the time when you think of something and then that thing happens. Whether it's a movie or a song or somebody died or... These things happen all the time. It can't be explained.

You know, you don't know when they talk about life as a simulation. It makes you think about that because you don't know. You really don't know. You talk everything down to what you see and what you experience in life as touch, you know, your senses and black and white. But you really don't know what it is, especially if you're thinking of the afterlife and things like that. I mean, you really you never know what's out there and what could be.

But let me tell you, I was in my apartment alone. I was watching the movie The Ring for the first time. And it was the part of the movie where the guy, the actor in the movie, was alone in the apartment. He found the videotape. He pops it into the TV. And as soon as he pops it in, he sees, I don't know if he sees the girl climbing out of the well or what, or if the TV just goes snow.

It completely goes to snow. And then at the exact time that happens, my TV shuts off. Now this is at night, I'm alone. And I'm watching this for the first time.

I freaked out. I don't know. It's a little too coincidental for this to happen. I didn't sit on a remote or anything like that. It completely freaked me out. I can't explain it, but you automatically kind of brush it off. You don't have a choice. You have to just keep going, right? But stuff like this happens all the time to people. All the time. You don't know what the hell it could be.

But I was freaked out. I didn't know what to do. It became dark. And I'm already scared of the dark. I'll be honest. I'm almost, I'm 36 years old and I'm scared of the dark. I'll admit it. And it's not the dark. It's what's in the dark. I don't know.

I don't know if something that's in my childhood, but I've always been, I used to stay up at night all night until the sun came out looking for a good spot to sit where I wasn't terrified because I was afraid of the dark. I don't know if it was because of something that happened to me that was traumatic that I don't really remember when I was younger,

Or is it more just because of what I was watching and keeping in my mind? Because I used to watch ghosts, UFOs, alien abduction my whole life. I used to love unsolved mysteries. It used to scare the hell out of me. But I used to love these things so much when I was younger that I would have to watch it even though I was terrified. But it was traumatic because it scares the hell out of you. And it did something to me.

So, I mean, and to this day, during my whole adulthood, I used to always need a light or TV or something or somebody in the other room. I would always think of these stories and these things that have happened, the ones I believe. I would use that. It would be in my mind and I would just need to have a light on or like ambiance of live action or somebody there in order to

feel comfortable so that I wasn't terrified at night. It was always a problem for me sometimes with the way I grew up in certain situations where I was afraid I might not have the light or the things I needed to be comfortable at night. But that was always part of it. I just wanted to share that. That freaks me out. So I think that was kind of interesting. But I just want to say, you know, keep doing what you're doing. I love your podcast. Keeps me going at work.

Keep it up, and I'm looking forward to hearing this on your podcast. Thank you very much. Have a good one. Thanks, John. So which is it? Wild coincidence or a sign from beyond? This sort of reminds me of the story I told early on in season, I'd say, two or three. We had one of those old plug-in musical organs. I think I found it at a garage sale. It looked like a mini piano and some hauntingly eerie sounds.

Anyway, we stored it in a room upstairs that was being remodeled at the time. A room we also used to store other toys and goodies in. But one important note to keep in mind is that the room had no electricity. No outlets wired to it. No power. No plugs. Well, one evening my brother decided he was going to go into the room to fetch something. Just as I was messing around with this little harmonica-like toy in an adjacent room.

I blew a note or two into the toy, and suddenly he came bursting through the doorway. No amount of explaining could convince him that that unplugged yard sale organ did not play by itself. In fact, I bet he still suspects something paranormal at play to this day. But hey, I tried to tell him. I'm sure it was a spooky experience for him, but it's certainly not a television set turning itself off during a horror film.

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Now the subject matter of this next call creeps me out for some reason. Please welcome our anonymous caller from Parts Unknown. Hi, I'm going to leave this anonymous just because. So my grandmother passed away in 2018. And I sometimes think about some of the stories that she would tell me about a house that she grew up in.

And then she only lived there for a short time. And it used to be, it was an old hospital. And she grew up in Big Spring, Texas. And she died in Texas also. But anyway, so she grew up in Big Spring and they lived in this old hospital. And she would tell me stories about how late at night you would be able to hear nuns

Walking up and down the hallways because of their habit, I guess is what they call them. You know, they were stiff and starched and any time that there was any kind of movement made, you can hear their habit. I guess you could just hear like the sound of moving cloth walking up and down the hallways.

Okay.

There was another time she had a bunch of sisters, and one of the neighbors had come over to the house probably about 4 o'clock in the morning and was banging on the door. And they had told my grandmother's mom, you know, we saw Maureen outside on the back porch because there was like a big wraparound porch. And it would leave, there was like a little...

that led out to a pond from the back porch, okay? And she said, we saw Maureen on the back porch walking towards the pond, and when we called her to tell her to go back in and go to bed...

Okay, so that was another thing. And then Grandma had told me that...

Anytime that you would hang a picture on the wall, because back then all pictures had a little piece of wire on the back. And she said anytime that you would go to try to hang a picture on the wall, the picture would pull away from the wall constantly until it would fall off the wall.

And she said he would put a picture on the wall and then he would just watch it, like sit there and pop itself like something was behind it, pushing it off the wall until it would fall off the nails. So they never could hang anything on the wall because it would break.

And she said that there was in one of the rooms a blood stain that was on the ceiling that no matter how many times you would paint over it, the blood stain would always appear back through just as it was just made. You know, she said that it would never look any faded. It would never change. There would never be any discoloration. You would paint over it and like within days it was just back and it looked fresh like it was normal paint.

And then years later, she said that whenever she was a little bit older, her and my grandfather were dating and they had turned that house into a dance hall. And in the dance hall, she said, you know, there would be a band because, of course, you know, this is in like the 40s and 50s and stuff like that.

And they did stuff like that more, I guess. And she said there would be a band in there, and in the main part of the house, there was a huge fireplace. And the band would play kind of in that same area, but the fireplace had been closed off, like they closed the front of it to where it was, I guess, walled off or bricked off. So there was no way that the sound of the band playing could escape through the fireplace. But she said no matter how loud the band played,

it always sounded like it was muffled music. And, you know, she said they would be in there dancing and all of a sudden the sound of the music would just fade and it would sound like it was coming from miles away and everybody in the room would notice it, even the band players. Thanks, Scholar. Nope, I don't like that. I'm not sure what it is, but I don't like ghostly nuns. No, I don't know a lot about nuns and I don't know a lot about the Catholic religion.

But most of the stories I do hear involve punishment of some sort. So maybe that's it. Or maybe it's the hood. The habit. Anything covering the head or the face always puts a human being on edge. Well, whatever it is, I thank you, caller, for breaching the subject and for creeping me out. We're appearing before... We say two people chased the guy into the store at 91st and Figueroa last night. He...

Now next up, we venture to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Laura, welcome to the program. Hi guys, this is Laura. I'm from Pennsylvania. Growing up, I lived on an old farm that was pretty haunted. I have a lot of stories, but the one I really wanted to share first was the experience I had with some sort of black dog creature.

I was in my late teens and I had been out to town with my mom and we pulled back into the driveway of our house. So this house is this big old farmhouse perched on the side of a big steep hill and the only thing around it is pastures and trees.

To the right, as you sit in the driveway facing the house, the ground goes up and the whole thing, as far as you can see, is this fenced-in pasture. And to the left, it slopes down and turns into a forest. So, as I climbed out of the passenger side of the car, something caught my eye up on the pasture. There was this black dog-shaped animal running away up the hill.

Except whatever this was, it was moving way too fast to be a regular dog. I've walked up that hill plenty of times and it's quite a hike. There is no way that any dog could have cleared the pasture and gone over the top that fast. By the time I really registered what I was seeing, it was already gone, so I kept quiet about it. But before long, I saw the black dog again.

It was maybe a few weeks later. The house has a wraparound porch on it, and I was walking around one side of the house, going to the back side of the house, up on the porch. I turned to the corner and stopped dead in my tracks. Up on the porch, not 15 feet away from me, was the black dog. It was just standing there, and it looked like it was looking through a window into the house. It was so close that I got a good look at it this time,

It was all black and huge, like really, really big Great Dane tall, but it was super thin. You could see every bone in its body, but that wasn't the strangest part. Its head was too big for its body and misshapen. The jaw was all wrong and looked too big and heavy for its face. And as I stood there staring at it in shock, it turned its head and looked right at me.

Now this is the craziest part, but I swear its eyes were glowing red. You can't tell people that too much. They think you're nuts. But so this dog and I stared at each other for several long seconds. I was pretty terrified. I got the distinct feeling that I was being sized up by a predator and I was just kind of frozen because I was afraid if I moved it would attack. And then this thing just calmly turned away, jumped down from the porch and bounded away.

Again, it moved unnaturally fast and I blinked and it was already out of sight. This time I did tell a few people about what I had seen but quickly figured out that most people will think you are crazy if you tell them you saw a demon dog on your porch.

No one else had seen this black dog, and I haven't ever seen it again either, thankfully. My parents still live on the farm, so I spend a lot of time there. But a few years after my sighting, a friend's daughter might have seen it.

She was a toddler at the time and barely talking, but one afternoon after a visit at my house, she babbled about the big scary dog that had looked in the door at her while on the drive home with her mother. This friend was one of the few people who I had told some of the things that happened at my house, so she called me up right away to tell me what her daughter was saying.

So I was just wondering if anyone else had experienced anything like this. It's been almost 20 years, but I can still clearly picture this thing standing there calmly staring at me. It wasn't a bear. It wasn't a regular dog. I've worked with dogs professionally for 17 years at this point. I've seen all sorts of different breeds and colors and shapes and everything as a dog. And this was not a dog, not a regular dog anyhow.

I've done a little bit of research, and you don't find a whole lot of black dog stories from Pennsylvania. So I'd be really interested to hear if anybody else has seen anything like this. All right, thanks. I would love to hear your ideas on this story. Love the podcast. Thanks, Laura. How about it, folks? Have any of you ever heard about a mysterious black dog in the state of Pennsylvania? Well, for me, at least one story comes to mind.

The tragic death and subsequent haunting of Nelson Ramire. Nelson Ramire's life came to a sudden and horrific end one minute after midnight in November 1928. The murder took place at Thanksgiving time, right in the cozy two-story home Ramire, a powwow doctor shared with his wife and two children. What led to Ramire's demise started with a suspicion.

One person in town didn't believe that Ray Meyer was a Powwow doctor. In fact, John Blymeyer, a Powwow doctor himself, had become convinced that Ray Meyer was a witch who had placed a curse on him. That curse, at least from Blymeyer's perspective, was the reason beyond the constant illness and pain with which he struggled.

Blymeier desperately sought advice from Nellie Knoll, the Marietta River witch. In an attempt to remove the curse placed on him, Nellie instructed him to find his way into Raymeier's home, where he would cut a lock of Raymeier's hair, then bury it deep within the ground. However, to effectively remove the curse, Blymeier would also have to burn Raymeier's copy of the spellbook, The Long Lost Friend.

On that late night in November of 1928, Blymeier and two other assailants broke into Rehmeier's home. When confronted by Rehmeier, the three men violently assaulted him, beating him and strangling him. As one last insult, they burned his body to ensure the murder would not be traced back to them. But despite the intense heat of the fire, Rehmeier's body did not burn, cementing Blymeier's belief that his victim was in fact a witch.

Now, all three men stood trial, were convicted, and were eventually released. The house in which Raymeier had his life violently stolen, however, has held on to the tragedy of his death. In fact, tales of the paranormal emanate from the unassuming home. Some tell of a dog with red eyes in the trees near the home, while others claim to have seen UFOs right in the area of Raymeier's house. Now, that info on behalf of OnlyInYourState.com.

and as you heard a mysterious black dog with glowing eyes is said to patrol the grounds is it the same black dog that laura reported well i certainly couldn't tell you that but the description sure does fit doesn't it now i'm sure we'll dive deeper into raymeyer's murder and the haunting of his homestead on a future installment but for now thank you laura for the hell hound tale and that brings us to tonight's final entry a real limb trembler out of illinois

Tim, those digital airwaves are yours. Hey Derek, my name's Tim calling from Illinois. Saw something interesting in the Boundary Waters up in northern Minnesota this year back on July 10th. We were paddling on Mountain Lake and we saw something that I just really don't have a way of explaining. It was a very calm day, sunny, flat water, no waves.

No wind. You know, we were paddling along and we heard what we thought sounded like a waterfall. We were in the middle of a lake, no waterfall, but we did notice there was a small grouping of trees shaking so violently that it was like a waterfall sound.

The best way I could describe it is it looked like a helicopter would have been hovering just above these trees. They were shaking so violently. You know, I'd like to be able to explain it with wind, but it was a completely calm day, and it was such a localized spot, maybe a 20-foot diameter of trees just shaking violently. And I was wondering if you ever heard anything about a phenomenon like this. I can't find any wind phenomena that explains it, but, you know...

Thanks Tim. Well, let's start with what I think it's not, or at least what it's not likely. I had originally thought that it was a deer, or possibly even a moose rubbing velvet from its antlers. A process the males of each species endure every year.

antler growth the shedding or rubbing of the soft velvet covering exposing the bone hard antler beneath which it too completely loses later that year only to start this crazy process over again in the spring but you see none of that adds up because neither species would be rubbing velvet that early in the year the first week or so of july

At least that's not what my intel tells me. Now I suppose biological clocks could vary from area to area, but that seems awful early. So if not an ungulant of some sort, perhaps a bear rubbing its back on a tree. Now we've all seen bear doing that very same thing at some point on television. Now if I allow my imagination to wander outside the confines of North America, the mountain gorilla also comes to mind.

as they've been reported to thrash vegetation to deter would-be threats. And since this is a show about the bizarre and unusual, what sort of guide would I be if I didn't mention that Bigfoot or Sasquatch has also reported to display that exact same behavior? A display threat. A big show that says, "I'm big, I'm tough. Get out of my way." Now it doesn't take a mathematician to find the connections here.

It's well known that gorillas perform this display, and many researchers believe Bigfoot to be a gorilla-like ape of some sort. So the only thing we have left to ask ourselves is could Bigfoot be in the land of 10,000 lakes? And well, the answer is yes, at least for one little town.

Along the town of Reamer, Minnesota, you'll find large silhouettes of the infamously known creature known as Bigfoot, as well as a possible life-size costume of the Sasquatch lurking the streets. And that's not, well, too out of the ordinary for this town. But something new coming to Reamer is that it will now be nationally known as the home of Bigfoot.

We figured, you know what, we need to name this as the home because we truly believe that this is the home of Bigfoot and that he spread from here to other parts of the country. I think it can do a great deal for our town.

This is all a new thing and I think that people will come up and visit more. History shares that the stories about Bigfoot and reamer began to surface around the late 1800s as sightings became more frequent in the area. The thing is with Bigfoot they really need three things to survive and we're talking about food, water, and shelter and reamer has all of that to offer. The most recent local piece of evidence was a trail camera

picture taken back in 2009 but it's by word of mouth with the stories shared. She saw something brown humped over she slowed her car fearing it was a deer when it stood up and walked on two legs into the woods creature matched other descriptions exactly

She said she felt that it looked into her soul. And the consistent research that goes into proving Bigfoot walks among us. I haven't actually seen anything or seen any tracks, but I have been in deep, dark places in the middle of the night that people shouldn't be, and I've heard things that are unexplainable. And that rumor can be the hub for conversation, allowing a place for people to share their stories. Because

It's not crazy to have had a story or had something happen to you. Now, surely not every little town can be the home of Bigfoot, can it? That clip was courtesy of Minnesota's PBS, Lakeland News. Now, I'm in no way suggesting that it was Sasquatch Tim, but I do think it's important to explore each and every angle, including the supernatural ones. So thanks again for sending that one in.

Now for the second half of this Beyond Double Feature, Season 14, Episode 4. Now to kick off tonight's after show, if you will, is Brittany from the state of Tennessee.

Hey, this is Brittany. I'm from Memphis. I just wanted to call in and give you my Ouija board story. This actually happened when I was living in Maine and I was probably about 11 years old maybe.

I had a friend that lived down the street and we would play all the time together. She's my best friend. Her name was Liza. And we would play in the woods and we'd play outside and, you know, just do all the little things that, you know, little girls do together and hang out and...

We like to do creepy stuff, like tell ghost stories, and we ended up getting a Ouija board. I want to say it was mine. We played a couple times. I don't really remember anything, you know, happening that was all that significant. But this time, it was definitely significant. So what happened is...

We decided, let's have the boys, we had these couple boys that we would play with that lived next door to me, and we were like, let's have them play with the board and ask it questions that only we would know the answers to. We were trying to see, you know, if it was real.

So we had the two boys put their hands on the Ouija board and we just watched and we asked the question, what is the name of Liza's bunny rabbit? Because she had two rabbits and the boys didn't know. She had just gotten them, I want to say she'd only had them for about a year or so.

But anyway, the boys asked the Ouija board, you know, what is the name of Liza's rabbit? And the Ouija board spelled back dead. It was D-E-A-D. And we were like, oh, you know, obviously the boys are just playing a joke on us. And I don't think we found it all that funny. And we just kind of, you know, continued on the day and played outside. And then we went home.

Well, a couple hours later after I got home, I got a phone call and it was Liza. And she said she had gotten home and that she went to go check on her bunny rabbits and that one of them was laying in the cage dead. And I always remember just that feeling of, you know, shock. And she was very upset about it and we had no explanation. I mean, I...

100% do not think that the boys, you know, killed her rabbit. That's just crazy. And her rabbit was fine earlier and that was kind of it. We never really talked about it again. You know, we were young, but that story definitely pops up in my head all the time when I think about creepy Ouija board stories and that's my creepy Ouija board story. So I just wanted to call in and give that to you and I love listening to the podcast and have a great day.

Thanks, Brittany. Now this is one of those stories that I think can go one of several ways. And I suppose it's all on how you look at it. You see, perhaps the boys did know something. Somehow. They were part of some cruel, elaborate trick. Perhaps the board itself somehow knew of the pet's death. Or perhaps the board itself was actually responsible for the pet's death. Or as they tend to do as they have shorter lifespans.

Maybe the rabbit just coincidentally died. Or perhaps it's simply a combination of all of these possibilities. Either way, a story certainly worth telling. So thank you again, Brittany, for sharing with us. So how is everyone? It's a pleasure having you back here for yet another bonus installment. And I trust this spooky season has you all safe and comfortable inside your homes. Well, like I'd mentioned in the main feed, I'm feeling a bit under the weather.

I've repeatedly tested negative for COVID, and I feel for the most part okay. I'm just a run-down version of myself, until I work my way out of it. Anyhow, I don't need to bore you with any of that. You're here to hear stories, and I'm here to play them. So let's together spin this one, from Phil, in Pennsylvania. Oh, by the way, a trigger warning. A gruesome murder and disposal of a human body is discussed in this entry. So listener, beware.

and I'll say the gore is fairly minimal. Hi, Derek. My name is Phil. I live in Chester County, Pennsylvania. I've lived in this area majority of my life. I was in the military briefly lived overseas, but for the most part, I've lived here and proudly called this area my home. So,

I recently discovered your podcast after seeing you on Paranormal Caught on Camera, the commentary on there. I always appreciate everybody's angles, but I always appreciate yours. You seem like you always have a more grounded, level view of everything. I love the scientific approach, the debunking, before you just jump right into the paranormal and supernatural explanation for things. So, thank you.

That's always nice to hear because this stuff, people kind of throw things out there sometimes and I think they need to really step back and kind of realize the gravity and weight of what they may be implying sometimes when they say things. But anyway, so here's my story. I have a couple different things, but I'll tell you this one. This is something that just happened to me. So I figured I'd call in. It was really an interesting experience. So

Listening to the backlog of your episodes, which obviously I love the podcast. I've been really trying to catch up. I've heard a couple stories and I've seen a couple stories on different paranormal shows about the app Rando Nautica. So what I did was downloaded the app. I personally never had a paranormal experience, so I wanted to...

download the app and you know try to see where it takes me so I downloaded the app and you know I've basically used it to focus you're supposed to focus on something you know basically find on the app and it will take you to a location in which you're supposed to find whatever it is you're focused on so

One thing that always gripped my attention in the paranormal world and sucked me in right away was actually a clip I saw on Paranormal Caught on Camera of a shadow person walking up a flight of steps. That grabbed me, and ever since I saw that clip, I've been hooked, and that was about two or three years ago. So I focused on shadow people, and again, I just focused on that, and I hit

find and as I was traveling to this location I'm familiar with the area it's in an area called basically Downingtown Pennsylvania it's a nicer area a lot of rural farmland you know very nice again county to live in it's

typically considered Chester County is considered one of the top areas to live in. But, you know, again, being on the East coast, there's a lot of history. It's very rich. And, um, there's a lot of old buildings, old land, and a lot of, you know, paranormal activity here. So, um,

I go to this location and it takes me to, again, an area in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. As I'm driving, it's a nice rural road that I'm on. As I turned off the rural road, I noticed immediately the area that I turned into had

different atmosphere and feel about it if you will this area was very open the fields you could see you know miles it's a very nice area so again as I'm driving to this particular location I'm familiar with the area but not exactly keen and to where it's taking me so again I turn off of the rural road and then this area that I turn into is

immediately it goes from rural to more of a kind of a suburban feel and there it's a rural area that there's single homes and it just seemed more dilapidated and kind of run down if you will it definitely had a certain atmosphere right when I turned into the area so

I go to head to this location that it takes me to specifically. And it's an actual address to a home. You know, I go down to the home and I kind of observe and look around and I don't see anything. And I just, you know, again, this is the daytime. So I figure, you know, maybe it didn't work. And that's that. I honestly didn't expect much. Again, never had a paranormal experience in my life. I figured, all right, well, that's kind of par for the course. But...

As I'm leaving this area, I start to recognize kind of where I was. And I'm driving down this road, and I drive through a tunnel. And there's an area in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, and it's famously known, after I did some research, it's called the Twin Tunnels. And this is the area in which this app took me to. And the Twin Tunnels, they're basically an area

area in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, and I can give you a quick description. Located in Downingtown in Chester County, Pennsylvania in USA, the Twin Tunnels are infamous for various suicides, an unsolved murder, and a popular teen hangout. Recommended not to visit at night. It's one of the most haunted tunnels on Earth. The tunnels are also known as Downingtown Tunnels. So...

One part that was mentioned in there was an unsolved murder. And after going to the location, doing some homework, after listening to your show, I know you know I love to do some research anyway. And I just, you know, I know you like to follow up and do that yourself and you encourage us to do it. But I did some homework and I did find out that there was actually a body discovered there back in the mid-90s. And the body was dubbed...

the suitcase Jane Doe because there's a small creek located that runs parallel to this road and under the tunnels. The suitcase was found in the creek and what was in the suitcase was the torso of

of a woman in her, they say she was in her mid-20s to mid-30s approximately, and they found her torso, but they did not find her legs in the suitcase. So it's still to this day an unsolved murder. They did end up finding her legs actually buried in a shallow grave in another park several miles away from where they discovered the actual torso.

I will say that ever since I visited that location, I have felt kind of drawn back to that location pretty strongly. And I'm hesitant to go back there because I've actually seen different paranormal shows. One episode of Caught on Camera actually had a kid who he actually used the same app, Randonautica. It drew him into the woods.

into a scenario in which he ended up having a spirit attached to him and go back to his house and haunt him. So I'm hesitant to go back there, although I do feel drawn in a certain way to go back there. I have not revisited that site since that day. Again, I feel drawn to actually go back during the night to do some type of investigation, but at this point, I don't feel comfortable going back there again just...

given the circumstances surrounding kind of how i would even you know drawn there to begin with and what i know about the paranormal again i don't want to have any type of uh... experience and have that come home and harm my family or anyone in my home but

I hope the story made sense. It was an interesting experience. I have used the app since and it did bring me to another completely haunted location. It's amazing how this thing works, which I'll share that in the future.

Anyway, I love the podcast, man. Like I said, I've been binging it since I discovered it a few weeks ago. I'm catching up. And I just figured I'd share this story. Sorry it's so long, but I just figured I'd include as much detail as possible. I hope it made sense. Take care. Bye. Thank you, Phil. Rando Nautica. I'm familiar with the app. Might have even used it a time or two. But outside of magic, I don't see how it could possibly work.

That said, I've heard several stories just like Phil's, where they went in search of something creepy and might have just found it. So if you find yourself using the app, why don't you make Monsters Among Us your next intention and let me know where you end up. Hopefully not my doorstep. Though I might have just figured it out. Perhaps this Randonautica app works because just about every spit of land on this continent has some sort of strange, unusual, or paranormal story attached to it.

All you have to do is look hard enough. I should know. I do something very similar week in and week out. But at any rate, Phil sort of did my job for me here. I did some looking on my own and everything he said was true to legend. And the area he's discussing certainly does look like a creepy spot.

And as far as I could tell, the mystery of Jane Doe is still unsolved. So if you have a moment, I'd link to the story in the show notes. And there's a police sketch artist photo there. So go see if she looks familiar to you. Especially if you fall in her older demographic. Maybe with a little luck we can solve a cold case. And thanks again, Phil, for sharing your adventures. ...dollars and awarded winnings... ...um, check out, that's 50% off at a...

This report is sponsored by... And that leaves us with this final entry out of the cotton state. Steve, take it away. Hey Derek, this is Steve from South Alabama. I've called a couple times and everything, but here's a story I have and I'm not sure exactly what to think of it.

A couple nights ago, I got up, used the bathroom, probably 12:30, 1:00 at night, and I heard an angry kind of scream. Now, we have no neighbors for probably half a mile or so. It was kind of low sounding. Well, I got up a couple mornings later, and I heard the same thing, probably 4:00 in the morning, getting ready for work. And my daughter was asleep on the couch.

And I'm getting my shoes on all and she wakes up. And that's what she's doing, sleeping in the living room. And she said she heard the same thing. And she swears it's a skinwalker.

Now, my issue is, can skinwalkers travel that far? Why would a skinwalker be there? What would cause this to happen? You know, everything. And I have narrowed it down to pretty much nothing. I have dogs in the yard, a couple of possums that come up to the house, raccoons, stuff like that.

you know, nothing major. But she told me that I told her about skinwalkers, which quite possibly I did, as we're both into cryptozoology and paranormal and all. But I never described what they would sound like, what they would do, what they looked like, because I've never met one. I don't really know.

but she swears up and down with the skinwalker and she will not sleep in her room now. If anyone has any idea what it may be, I would be glad to hear it. Anyway, I appreciate what you do. Thanks for the platform to share everything. Keep up the good work. Later. Thank you, Steve. I'm starting to think that folks throw the skinwalker term around too liberally. From my understanding, if they're real at all, the phenomena is very rare.

In addition, it's my understanding that indigenous groups from the Four Corners area are the custodians of this belief, which one would think would limit this phenomenon to that area somewhat. In short, Skinwalker wouldn't be my first suggestion to explain a strange sound heard in the Bama bush, but there are plenty of critters in that area that do make blood-curdling screams. Fox, coyote, bobcat, just to name a few. But it is spooky season.

So perhaps you're looking for a beast to blame. Well in that case, perhaps it was Alabama's own Huggin' Molly. The legend of Huggin' Molly is one of the best known ghost stories of the American South. It is centered here in the charming city of Abbeville, Alabama. They even celebrate Huggin' Molly today as you can see on the signs as you arrive in Abbeville. There's a great image here of her chasing a young boy who was out later than he should have been. The story that's told around here

as that Huggin' Molly would roam the streets of Abbeville and if she encountered young people out after dark or later than they should have been she would run up give them a giant hug and scream in their ear. The legend actually has its roots deep in the traditions of Ireland where many settlers of this region lived before moving to the United States. Now that clip courtesy of 2 Egg TV and that just might be one of the strangest paranormal legends I've ever heard.

So thanks again, Steve. Let us know if you hear it again. And for the love of God, watch out for old Molly. And that's going to do it for this episode, folks. Remember, if you'd like to tune in to more Beyond content, you can do so by joining our $5 level on Patreon or Apple subscriptions. Just visit MonstersAmongUsPodcast.com and click the Patreon tab to learn more. Now Monsters Among Us Podcast is written and produced by me, Derek Hayes.

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