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It was like our first night there. It's like 3 a.m. We're all exhausted. We had like been walking down the strip, you know, just doing Vegas stuff. My friend's like, hey, like I'm downstairs, come get us, and I'm like, okay, I'm gonna go. I'm not gonna lie, I was pretty tired. I'm still aware of my surroundings . Go downstairs, I meet them uh where the casino is, I meet up with my friends, I'm like, all right, let's go back to my room. As we're walking towards the elevators, we see that there's like this older gentleman just like standing there . I realized I'm like, oh, like he's one of the workers. He's holding a little broom and a little dust pan . But he's just kind of like just standing there . I was like, alright, whatever. So I go, I click on the the elevator button . We're just talking. The old man's just kind of like standing there. My friends get on the elevator. I like signal to the gentleman. I'm like, oh, are you gonna get in? And he's like, yeah, yeah. He gets in with us . First weird thing I notice is I go, I put in the key c ard and I press the floor number. Usually people will be like oh can you press this number for me like he just stays quiet. So we go the doors closed we're just having a conversation and my friend he looks at me and he's like man i am exhausted this gets like a little chuckle out of the old man he's like oh you think you're exhausted i've been here for a long time . And we were like, oh yeah, like you've been working a couple of shifts like back to back. And he's like, Yeah, you could you you could say something like that . And we were like, Yeah, man, that sucks . Are you off tomorrow? And he's like, No, I work tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day, and so on, and so on. And we were like, geez, like, sorry, man, sorry to hear that . We don't stop at our floor. We stop at the floor above us . At the time we don't notice anything weird about it, but like I have explained earlier, like certain elevators only go to the certain floors. So there was no reason for the elevator to stop at that floor above us. But at the time I didn't really think much of it. Looking back at it is when I realized like damn, that was weird. We don't get off. The gentleman doesn't get off either, like he's still on in there . We all like looked at each other and we're like, what the hell? Like this isn't our floor. Like that's weird. So we get back in. I put the key card again. I put the correct floor number it goes down one floor we get off i know for a fact this gentleman gets off behind us because i can see him from my peripherals get off I'm walking in front of my two friends. I just turn back to talk shit to them. And that's when I realize there's no one behind them. He's not there. There is no way that he could have like jumped back into the elevator. And there was also nowhere else to go. When you like get off the elevators, the only thing in that lobby are other elevat ors. There's no like maintenance room, there's no like little storage area. It's just crystal glass that you can see down, and then the four elevators . And if he would have gotten on another elevat or, like we would have heard it. The keycards, they make a noise when you put it on the pad. So we would have heard it . I felt him get off and I saw him through my peripherals and my friends who were walking in front of him felt him get off. And we heard the elevator door close . I'm frozen. And my friends could tell that there's something wrong just by looking at me. And they're like, Well, what is it? And I just point behind them and they turn around and they realize the gentleman's not there anymore . And they look at each other, they look at me, and they're like yo where'd he go go go go go you guys saw him get off right and they're like we felt him get like behind us guys like let's just go back to my room like please let's just go back . We go back. My wife's there. Like two other friends of ours are there and we explain to them like what just happened. And they're like, man, are you guys like messing with us? And I was like, no, I promise you, like , this just happened. I think we just saw a ghost . It was really creepy the way he was talking. And like just the fact that my friend said, like, man, I'm like really tired. And he kind of like was scoffing at us of like you think you're tired like buddy I've been like on an eternity shift right now everyone just kept asking us to see if like our stories would stay the same they're like man are you sure that you saw him get off the elevator or like are you sure that someone was in there with you and we're like yes like we would describe him it was like an older gentleman he had glasses on white hair like balding and the front we all described them the same way I'm like there's no way we all just shared like a fake memory . My friend started doing research on the Luxor . If you haven't, go and look at the history of the Luxor. It is definitely one of the most haunted places in Vegas on the strip. There's just like this really weird energy there . I believe there's like a female spirit that likes to mess around with especially when it's like gentlemen in the rooms by themselves. They'll feel like a a female presence or sometimes when they're sleeping like something will like cuddle up on them. People also talk about because like when they're staying like in like the higher floors like they'll look down and they'll have like that feeling of like bro you should just jump a lot of people say that it draws like a certain negative energy that you can feel at times there because I don't know it's something like really creepy about that hotel . If it would have just been me by myself, there would have been like room for doubt. I would have been like, you know what, like I was tired, like we had been drinking, like I I would have found any excuse, but it's the fact that I shared that experience with two other people . And they saw the same thing I saw and they felt the same thing I felt, heard the same thing I heard. It adds more to it. I'm a hundred percent sure there's no other explanation. Unless this guy was the fastest man alive and just like maneuvered his way into the elevator that ghost ride was one for the bugs for sure . Oh , freaky. Old dude's been probably cleaning that hotel since the early days. Vegas has some dark energy, man. I would know. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. May is Mental Health Awareness Month, which is a perfect time to check in with yourself and see where you're really at. Life is a journey, and while we all want every day to be a good one, the truth is that many of us are carrying around anxiety or feeling stuck. I personally have been losing sleep over big life transitions recently, and I found that therapy is a place where I can get that un biased support I need. We often feel we have to figure it all out solo, but no journey should be alone. BetterHelp is the world's largest online therapy platform, and they've helped over six million people globally find the right professional support. 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When I'd come back home, I'd usually try to find fun stuff to do, like whether, you know, with friends or by mys elf. My uh childhood friends, we always had a um like a snowboarding trip. In twenty twenty three we decided to go to uh Lake Tahoe to uh you know go snowboarding and we had a Airbnb and I was driving from Phoenix to Lake Tahoe and usually I do it by myself. I was in North Phoenix, just getting out of town, kind of going towards Wickenburg, and there was a dude standing on the side of the road and he was hitchhiking and I was kind of like uh like you know he looks clean he might need help so I just pulled over and asked him what he was up to and he was like oh nothing just hitchhiking and trying to make it to Laughlin so I was like well I, can drive you there. I'll be driving past there or at least close. And he was like, okay. His name's Kenny. So he started driving and we were just talking, and turns out that he was a professional hitchhiker. He's been hitchhiking for the last 20 years, like all over the world . I actually just talked to him. He got back to the US from Peru . So I asked him, I was like, well, you know, like, it's it gonna be a big house. He seemed like a cool dude. Instead of going to Laughlin, do you wanna come to Lake Tahoe and you know kick it in the snow and he's like, yeah, sure, let's do it . We end up going to Lake Tahoe. There was a bunch of uh weather, like crazy weather. We ended up getting stuck there for an extra week because there was just you know 20 feet of snow and everybody on the mountain couldn't leave. So we just kind of hung out there, and basically we were there for two weeks, and on the drive back, he wanted me to drop him off basically in lost He's kind of a hippie . When we were on our way back though, he had these rewards . I was so tired. I've been driving for like 12 hours, maybe, and dealing with the snow and everything else like that. It was just really exhausting. So I asked him, I was like, man, I was like, I can't drive anymore. We're gonna have to stop somewhere. He's like, well, let's stop in Vegas at the flamingo. I have this like uh uh rewards thing where we can get a free room and a little bit of money to uh spend on food and you know if we gamble a little bit, that's kind of is what it is, but I was like, okay . So we ended up going with Flamingo. I thought it was funny, we ended up skipping all the lines because he was part of that rewards membership or whatever, and they gave him $150 worth of food that we had to spend that night, and then they gave us a room in this older part of the flamingo, which I didn't know at the time hadn't been remodeled yet. Most of it has, but there's I guess there is one floor that hasn't yet . We got food, you know, and I was super tired and so we we both were . We walk up the stairs and it's like on the fourth floor, down this like really kind of old old hallway. Like you could tell it was like old carpet and the the paint looked like like didn't look crap like it was all kind of falling off in some spots . So we're like, well at least it's a free bed, you know, it's whatever. They put us in this corner room. I didn't realize it, but it was a a room where the windows was from the floor all the way to the ceiling. It just seemed like it was like an older non-updated room . I think it was probably around 12 30, 1 o'clock. We both are like, okay, we can fall asleep now. So I hear him fall asleep first and he started snoring. So I was just like, okay, you know, I'm gonna try and fall asleep too. So I started falling asleep and I don't how long it took, maybe 30 minut es . And the next thing I know, it felt like someone grabbed the back of my head and shoved it down into the pillow because I was sleeping on my stomach . It was like scary because I thought this dude that I thought was really cool, Kenny, was playing some joke on me and I was just like I was super mad about it because I I thought he was like trying to suffocate me . It was terrifying. It literally felt like like someone was above me trying to kill me. Like like holding my and I'm I'm 220 pounds and I'm in really good shape and I f truly feel like if someone was trying to hold my head down, I'd be able to kind of like get out of that move at least a little bit . There was nothing. Like it almost felt like my body was frozen and my head was just being sh oved straight down into the pillow . And it was to the point too where I was started like kind of gagging a little bit like I couldn't breathe. And it was right around the time when I started really panicking, and after about two or three seconds, my head being held down to the pillow, it like felt like it just went away and I got up . I started yelling at Kenny because I was convinced that it was him . I I looked at him. He was totally asleep, turned over, wrapped up in the blankets, snoring , totally out. I sat there and I watched him for a second. Is this guy messing with me? Is he is he actually trying to hurt me or what's going on ? And I was like, what in the world? And it just freaked me out because I've never had anybody do that to me befor e or anything . I'm kind of sitting there in my bed and I'm listening to him snore and I'm kind of thinking to myself like what in the world was that ? Well right around this time I looked at the clock and it was like 2 55 almost 3 o'clock in the morning and trying to go back to bed I started noticing that the temperature in the room got really hot . I got up and I messed with the AC unit and it was all the way pinned down and but it was still like hot like I was sweating . And so I lay back in bed and I'm sitting there and where the whole window was there was just like this shadowy tall figure in the corner of the room . And it was scary . I was terrified . I was frozen. I was just stuck in bed. It looked like a like a man that was probably six foot six, six foot seven, like a really tall guy. Broad shoulders and almost looked like it was like uh wearing like some sort of trench coat or suit . I'm sitting there with the covers kind of pulled up to my chin like what in the world is that? And but at the same time I'm still sweating because the room got really hot So I just sat there and I stared at it and then as I'm staring at it, I was just waiting for it to go away and either I put my head down or I blinked or whatever and it was just gone I was just kind of like okay I'm just gonna sit here and right around that time I remember looking at the clock too because I'm like okay how long has have I been sitting here for? It's right around like 315, 320. The closet lights turned on and they started flickering and then they turned off . What was weird though is that when I first walked into the room, there's no switch to even turn on the closet lights . And then the bathroom fan turned on, which is another weird thing because there was no switch to turn the fan on because I took a shower and I knew that that wasn't working, but it turned on . And then the air conditioner flipped on a different way and then it got really cold . So it went from being really hot to like super cold . And so I'm under the covers watching these lights flicker. Right around the time that these lights stopped flickering , the figure in the corner just kind of disappeared . Kenny this whole time is snoring, so I know that he's not even picking up on any of this stuff . After I kind of felt like it was gone, I got up and I went over to flip on the lights to just try and see what the heck's going on in this creepy room. It was only the lig ht for the bathroom and only the main living room light that would even turn on . For the rest of the night I basically just kind of stood there up until about four o'clock. That's when the because the air kept getting hot and cold and hot and col d. And then finally it just got cold and it went away. And then it was like this creepy figure, it didn't show back up. The lights flickered maybe once or twice more between you know me waiting from 315, 320 until 4. And then it all just like went away . I was so tired I ended up just falling asleep . So the next morning I wake up, Kenny is still sleeping . I get up, immediately get dressed. I didn't even want to take a shower, go into the bathroom or anything. I was basically put on my shoes, just ready to leave. Right around the time that I was kinda like, okay, Kenny, let let''ss get out of here, let's get on the road. He was waking up, and that's when I started walking around the room looking at stuff, like, okay, what's the deal with the fan? You know, trying to rationalize basically what was going on the night before, which was like, okay, why were the lights flickering? Was there like a weird shadow over here in the corner that I, you know, didn't notice before? And what was really weird is over in that corner there was a weird stain on the wall. Just like a bunch of weird splatters all over the wall. I don't I didn't know what it was. And then that's when I noticed under the closet, 'cause I walked over there and this is all while Kenny's getting up and we're kind of getting our bags together. That's when I noticed that there was the light in the closet and I was like, Oh, there's a light in here okay so there's a little bit of sense but then the the cord was chopped and I was like what the heck like how the okay that makes no sense and then I went into the bathroom again and that's when I started playing with the with the light, trying to see if I could get up get the fan to flip on. Was never able to get the fan to flip on. That's kind of when I told Kenny, I was like, what do you remember from last night ? When we got into the room, you went to bed and then what? And he was like, nothing. I just went to bed . And that's when I told him, like, dude, something held my head down last night. And he was he was just kind of looking at me like what the heck ? Like I was just speechless. I was like, I was like, was that you? Like, were you playing a joke on me? Like, what because I was very upfront about it. And he was like, no, dude. He's like, what what why would you even ask me that? And I was like, well, I had just had a really weird experience in this hotel room. And I explained everything that happened and he was just kind of quiet for a while. I don't know if he thought I was crazy or I was making it up. And then later on, because we hung out for another day or two before he flew out to uh to New York, he asked me, he was like, You were weird with me after that. He's like, what what was with that ? I'm like, dude, I thought you were holding my head down. I was like, honestly, I was very angry. I was convinced, I tried to rationalize it, but I was convinced that you woke up, you were playing some weird joke. I mean you're holding my head down, but when I got up, you were still sleeping. Nah, dude, he's like I that I did not do that. I I can't he just said he's like, I can't explain it. He's like, I was sleeping, and I was like, I kinda realized that too. And when I woke up and he was still snoring, but I just had to had to kind of clear the air air, at least for my for my sake . I have been to Vegas since I lived in hotel rooms for a long time. Like that's just part of the job. I had to start living back in hotel rooms again in 2024 when I moved to Wyoming to work out there at uh a few of the coal mines that they hired me to go out there and work on stuff. And they put me up at a hotel, and it was that was the first time that I lived long term in a hotel or even stayed in a hotel since that happened . I had a hard time dealing with hotel rooms for a while. Because I was always waking up think like right and it was always right as soon as it felt like I was like starting to fall asleep. I would start I'd just like wake up and just start looking around like what's going on. And it even like changed the way that I like like have the curtains drawn and stuff in hotel rooms because I don't want to be able to see out or their light shining in. It just freaked me out . I've never had someone hold my face down into a pillow like that before. I didn't even think that was like a thing when you, you know, see old time old time gangster movies where someone's like holding someone's face down. That's what it reminds me of though, is like someone like legitimately holding a pillow down and trying to suffocate you . One thing though that really like still lingers too is just like how strong the hand felt. And that was one thing that kind of made me rationalize it too with Kenny is Kenny is like a little dude. He's got like like little hands. Like it literally felt like these hands like wrapped around my head. Wrapped around my head and pushed my face down into the pillow. Then just held it there . And then it was just like gone. Like not even like letting go or letting me up. It was just like this like strong hand just was just disappeared. Ouais, man . This guy just picked up a total effing stranger off the side of the road and then slept in the same hotel room with him because he had points. That's very trusting . I mean yes, something weird happened in the room, but I mean was it an entity or was it Kenny ? I just can't rule out Kenny. He seems like a weirdo just like me uh a guy I know . Anyway. Noted that hitchhiking is alive and well. I'm always trying to find ways to make new friends, so maybe I'll give these thumbs a try. This storyteller could have been pretty unlucky. But you know who's going to be lucky? Here we go . Horse. Horse. Horse . Oh Oh Italian flag, damn . Oh . Well let's let's take another ad break. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. May is Mental Health Awareness Month, which is a perfect time to check in with yourself and see where you're really at. 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And so from my perspective, I felt like I was I don't know if jaded or you know it took a bit to rattle me. Also because I worked at a PageRen cell phone store, there were a lot of strange characters This was an era where, you know, the people who had cell phones without a contract and pagers month to month were drug dealers and other people like that . I had been followed home before by people who had been shopping at the store. I'd had people run in and steal things from the store, so it certainly was a slightly dangerous but not super scary place to work. I was pretty used to it at that point . A young woman came in to get both a pager and a cell phone. And she seemed about the same age I was. At the time, that was a really time consuming transaction, which sounds a little silly, but you know, I had to call like the home office and get the number, and there was all these steps you had to take. And then you also had to manually program the pager and the cell phone . Right off, something felt a little off about her. I couldn't even quite place what it was . She seemed a little strange, and I frankly just thought she was high. Like I thought, well, she's she's messed up on something. I don't know . So I had her fill up the paperwork. She picked out her phone or pager. I don't really remember all the details of that part, but I had to input all of her data into our, you know, fancy like Windows 98 operating system by hand. So she was kind of kept talking while I was doing that. And we were being a little bit distracted, like , okay. But again, you know, sometimes people are uh kind of yammer when they're high . From that point, she started to explain to me why she needed this. Because cell phones at the time were a little bit unusual. They were kind of new to have to have a a brand cell phone that you took unless you had money and you could be on a contract . She was explaining to me that she had to drive back and forth from Flint, Michigan to Ann Arbor, which is a good hour drive. And I thought, oh, that's actually a long drive because I'd commuted to school and I understood that. Then she said the reason she was doing that was because her husband was in the hospital . I thought, oh, that's so sad. Uh what a tragedy to be like this young woman who also's husband is ill. And my first thought was like, What could it be? Does he have cancer? Does there something go? Then she said it was because he had um shot himself while cleaning his gun