Confronting The Unknown In The Woods

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Next level legit You just came in the nick of time. Today's the last day Radio Rntal will be open for a while. Yeah, we're closing till fall. And guess what? I'm on closing duty. Here by myself cleaning and packing things up. Starting to think I'm the only one who works here Oh yeah, sorry, Maloat my bad. He's helping too. Mostly he's just playing with backing peanuts. It's actually pretty cute though. Oh, look at all these Legos I found over the last couple of months, whole popcorn box full Mysterious Anyway Let's pop in our first scary tape where they finish up taping using the tape to tape up the Here's the tape. into the VCR we go I'm real estate photrapher and so I kind of travel all over Michigan I just finished up at my last photos shhoot for the day and I was heading home. It was I' aroundround three or three thirty On this route, this is the last gas station between my house and the chute that I was leaving. And it's exactly thirty three miles from my house. So it's a long stretch before you get to another gas station I've driven by this place a half doz times as I'm going to different areas out west of my house. And this occasion I was going about sixty on this road, and as I'm coming up to the gas station on the left hand side I have a semi truck that is coming down the oncoming lane And on the left hand side where that gas station's at, there's another semi trunuck that's ready to pull out as I'm passing this semi truck I don't know if the truck didn't see that I was there, but the semi truck that was waiting to pull out from the gas station pulled out behind the other truck that I was passing And the front end of it came into my lane It happened so fast that I wasn't able to react and I ended up basically blindsiding the side of that truck impact was so forceful The front headlight ended up cving into the dashboard pushed the steering wheel into my chest. Theyar the driver's side door him. buckling in and the window on the side and the windshield shattered I hit that truck with so much force that I ended up lifting the back end of my car and spinning it around to the front of that truck And the passenger side of my car hit the front of that truck before I spun out and went into the ditch across the street The phone went flying out of the floorboard working with stopping I couldn't breathe. I was gasping I remember when I was struggling to reach for that phone I couldn't bend, I couldn't stretch. I had blood starting to come down to my face and it was getting harder to see. And I was just thinking that just I needed to call somebody. I needed to call and just tell me that I'm probably not gonna be making it back home I turned to look out the window and saw somebody that started to get out of their truck This wasn't the truck that had hit me, it was a pickup truck that had stopped And the man was coming out of the truck And it's when it start to get hazy. I knew that was about to lose consciousness Everything's starting getting dark, dark. knocked out before and this wasn't entirely like that. This was This was weird It was this great Copain You thing that causeed like this reallyally weird tunnel vision and everything started getting like really echoy I can feel my heartbeating in my throat When I was fading out, that I I felt I wasn't gonna be able to say goodbye to my kids and that they were going to get a call later and that they were going to find me on the side of the road pose onene of the scariest moments in my life very quickly after that and everything just Whenint lights out. a few minutes later I was pulling into my driveway that same purple dark hue that had faded out kind of went in reverse and it faded in and then everything kind of came into view I was in motion as I was pulling into the driveway. I was literally pulling down the driveway as everything was fading in It was just One of the biggest what the fucks of my life I could feel the impact. I could smell the smell of the gas and the grass and the dirt. It smelled like a bag of coins I don't know how to explain that. It It just smelled like metal. and I was just smelling that and thinking, this was it But here I am So did that just happen? Am I going crazy Literally just left work died and now I'm home and I can see out my window that is no longer shattered I don't know if I've ever been that confused becausecause it's literally like I was in two different places when I was pulling in My partner at the time, she was standing on the front porch and she was talking on the phone, like she usually is pull and I put the car park and I didnn't understand what happened I slowly get out of my car and I'm just standing there and five minutes I was standing there and she was still on the phone comes down and she says, Are you okay? And I I't really say anything becausecause it really didn't make sense eventually they able to tell her like, I don't know I was shaking and I was I was starting to break out in like a cold sweat in my head while I'm trying to process this stuff myself and I know my kids are home want anybody to panic any moreore than I'm already panicking And so I just had to kindind of swallow it and just be like Okay I've dealt with crazy stuff before. Nothing like this compartmentalize it store it for later. I have things that have to be done I know I have to get my uploads done I know this is real. I know this This is what I can control So that's what I put my focus on. That was like the way of me like holding on without completely losing my shit over whatever whatever that was didn't have a way to not only prove anything I didn't have a way to Explain it. I was just in one spot. gasping and Kning that I wasn't going to be able to make it home, but I'm home. As I finished upload I went upstairs and I was telling her like, I need to talk about this because I really don't know what I don't understand what happened. I feel like I'm having like a mental break Or I had some weird psychosis moment And I explained to her the whole story about everything that happened. and all she had to say was or that that's kind of weir That was it And then I ended up telling my mom the next day about this kind of same thing. There wasn't a lot of support with that either. and she kind of told me that I needed to like go see a therapist talk to somebody, but I didn't want to talk to somebody because It seemed really crazy. I kind of just swallowed it and dealt with that for a really long time And then I finally came forward, everybody and started talking about this weird event in my life and people started asking me if anythingything has been different or anything seemed weird since then And then I kind of started thinking about it a lot harder because I hadn't really piece anything together before Growing up from the time that I was a teenager. all the way up into my adulthood I had consistent Really severe migraines Almost on a weekly basis. P I was like thirteen, started going to the doctor, getting out a whole bunch of different medications, eventually I ended up going to imTrex, injections, all this kind of stuff Since Whatever this was I have not had a single migraine. The logical side of to me would have been like, you just had some kind of mental breakdown Somehow you had some kind of hallucinations that were so real and so vivid that not only could you smell and eal them and taste. mentally scarred you started looking for reasons beyond The reason is beyond logic because Pn't just settle on Just a mental break when out seemeemed to be fine up until that was it some type of timeline shhift paradox. posossible, I don't know. I don't like to think that it could be health related if I'm now healthier And I think that might be Why I'm healthier that there could be something else to this head to work the next day. And so the first thing that I'm thinking, when I'm looking at that car is like, wasas that a premonition? Is that something that's going to happen today It became something that I was constantly thinking about it and almost got to the part where I was getting paranoid about actually Driving again I can't really explain what it's like to go from an experience like that. to trying to act as if everything's normal If it happens to be something like a strange timeline jump or if it happens to be what I've heard is quantum immortality or something. what would happen to the people I leave behind It's kind of terrifying, but you can't you can't live in fear of like what if something could happen? You just gott to work with what you have now There's so much unanswered there. It's like I experienced this traumatic event without having it physically And yet It's affecting me Quantum immortality, you say That's like some Marvel universe shit right there. I don't know. I wonder what I'm like in another parallel consciousness Maybe I'm really popular and I got a lot of friends Okay We've returned And now let's play another tpe. So a little bit of backstory was Born and raised in Miami to Hispanic parents lived most of my life in like the same area. which is called Little Hamanna, right at the heart of Miami This was a two story building When you would look outside the door, there was a giant front yard sururrounded by trees and bushes and flowers It was surrounded by like a chain link fence which divided like the building from the street and the sidewalk Because there was a fence and it was all gated, my mom would allow me to go and play outside. Her only rule was that the door had to be open and I couldn't really like stray far from the door She had to like have visual of me and like hear me. Just a regular day I'm outside playing with my toys I hear ike it sounded like someone whistling someone trying to get my attention that I don't pay mind to it. I'm still playing, obviously, I'm outside, There's different types of noises And then I hear someone calling out my name Like if it was like right next to my ears, someone is calling out my name towards the end of the front yard, towards the fence Standing right there looking straight at me is my mom Without a shoutow of a doubt, I know it's my mom. L I could see her My mom has a very distinct streak of white hair that's super noticeable because she has jet black hair It's my mom And I'm like, hey, So of course, I get up and I'm running smiling towards my mom She's just standing there and I'm like, what are you what are you doing doesn't really answer me. She's just staring at me smiling and just She starts telling me how much she loves me She tells me how special I am. She's like, I love you, I love you We have to be together like Don't you want to come with me And she was walking sort of like in slow motion. And her voice was like very, very soothing. veryery loving She starts walking outside the fence They can telling me like, C come on, let's go, let's go. And I'm just walking just talking to her And she just keeps telling me how much she loves me And I noticed that she's directing me towards the gate to like walk out, like the only way to go in and out of this building And she's like, okay, come on, let's go. It's time I promise you, I don't know what it is, but something stops me You know how people usually say like they have like a gut feeling or something? No, with me, it was like something was physically like stopping me Like I promiseed I felt like hands like on my chest, like pushing me back My mom is just staring at me like, what are you? come on, let's go, let's go, let's go. I hear my mom's voice. again, but this time it's not coming in front of me. me from where my houses I'm hearing my mom like asking calling my name with like a concerned tone I look back and then I hear person I think is my mom yelling. No. This time it doesn't sound s my mom's voice It sounds like a mixture of her voice with like a man's voice It went from very loving to very demanding. And I'm staring at my mom but not really. Some of her features are there, but like it's they're like shifting And it's still telling me like we have to be together. Let's go, let's go And I just start crying I just start crying. I start running towards my house And my mom comes out, she's like, what's wrong? What's wrong becauseuse I was so young, I didn't know how to explain myself. I was just telling her like, you, like you were telling me to go outside. you were telling me to go outside. And she couldn't like really comprehend what that meant I just remember from that day on, like she didn't let me play outside. She was very watchful of me A couple of years passed by I have like family over, like we're all like at the dinner table just talking about like life and past experiences. The paranormal becomes the topic and everyone's like sharing experiences and I hadn't really like spoken to my mom about this because like I had said, I wasn't really sure if this was like a real memory or something I had just made up. And I was like, Mom, by any chance,, did this ever happen to me as a kid? And like I went into full detail about everything that I had experienced And she was just shocked. She was like, wow, like You remember that Yeah, I was I remember like seeing someone that looked like you being outside. She proceeds to tell me that She never liked that building, that she would had always had like different experiences there. It actually turns out that there was a lady that lived in the second floor She was heavily into Santoria, which is like really big here in Miami The lady had told my mom Hayless and like don't let him play outside. I feel like a weird energy Whenever he's outside, like make sure that he stays indoors or if he does go outside that you have to be with him at all times My mom didn't really like didn think much of it until I told her That story about someone trying to lure me out I'm telling her all this Famil's listening to allth this I realize that My dad's there and his jaw is basically on the floor He is just shocked hearing all this It adds very like no nonsense, very like by the books, doesn't super skeptic, doesn't believe in anything paranormal As soon as I told him this experience, he just stares at me. He's like, this happened to you. likeike this actually happened I guess my mom had never really told them that about this story And then he proceeds to tell me that in his country of Honduras when he was a kid somethingomething like this happened to him where someone had come to his house and actually lured him out And if it wasn't for a neighbor, like he would have been basically like kidnapped After that for a couple of months Someone would come to in front of his house and just stare at him, telling him that they had to be together this doppel gang or whatever it was likeike it mimicked my mother. In my father's experience, it was one of his aunts. And the scary part is his aunt had passed away. He told me that and I promise you, I was shocked. I told my wife, what if I have like, if this is just like, a generational thing that just happens with males. The biggest fear I've had and I've had this conversation with my wife is I am so scared that if we have a kid, especially like a boy And he goes through something like this You know, this isn't like really a conversation that you have with like a child of like, hey, buddy, just letting you know something might come visit you. So just be on alert, but it is definitely something that's been like in the back of my mind I can tell you like toill this day, like it still scares me. Whoa generational curse Crazy theory. You know, I think I might have a generational curse Because every man in my family is cursed With amazing charisma That's time Now the Ky, don't eat the packing peanuts. You're not gonna likeem, trust me. Sttyyrofoam does a number on your guts. 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Okay, here we go My friend and I, let's call him Travis camping up at my family's vacation property in the Lake Wanache area of Washington State. pretty rugged area I'd been going there my whole life Just a lot of kind of like wild territory We were camping, planning on staying a couple nights, and I think the second night we just decided we'd rather kind of be a little adventurous and walk off up into the mountains and just camp somewhere out in the middle of nowhere We both have a little bit of experience with that. Enough to feel comfortable without GPS or anything like that We started hiking and went for a few hours until we were satisfied with how far away from everything we were We just wanted to feel like we were away from everything fished our ts, a small tent. It was just big enough for the two of us We camped right in the middle of the clearing. We knew better than to camp near the forest you're safer typically if you can see your surroundings. So we cameamp in the middle of this clearing. There was absolutely nothing around us. ground was kind of like You couldn't walk In a way, that was quiet, unless you maybe were a deer or something like that It was sticks and rocks just kind of littering the whole area an old gth like moss over everything. We pitched our tent. we were pretty tired. We got some food in our bellies And we fell asleep pretty quickly I woke up in the middle of the night. I don't know where it was I heard a sound Something off in the distance It kind of startled me And I noticed that Travis was already sitting up listening really intently He was like, shh Listen, because I asked her, I was like, what's going on? He saids like, just want me to sh re listening. there's nothing And I say, well, it's probably just like a coyote. and then he was like shh, like really like intently. L he was freaked out about something It wasn't too long before I did hear something. Off in the distance It sounded like it was past the tree line probably It sounded like people. But I couldn't tell what they were saying It sounded organic. It definitely didn't sound mechanical. You can tell that there were There was a little more complexity to it. We thought it was saying something. We thought there were words Just kind of like people time're having a weird conversation maybe it K kindind of like just distant chatter Talking about I couldn't discern what words were being said That freaked me out because animals are one thing I really don't want to run into people when I'm out in the middle of nowhere because why are they out there too, especially in the middle of the night We sit there listening Right before I was ready to just kind of call it a flute because we didn't hear it after a little while I was like, okay, I'm ready to go back to sleep. but then I hear it again onn the other side of us And then it got up closer and it sounded less like words and more like just a threatening like sound. And It's like alright, that's pretty creepy I would be surprised if a human were able to make that sound It was a negative intent of some kind. There was something going on with the voice like it was warning us, It was trying to scare us off or really don't know It was the strangest sound and yeah no matter how much we I would just strain to hear, to understand, like there really wasn't anything discernable the whole time Not even so much as a word there's nothing in that area that should be making these kinds of sounds It just kind of sent a chill up your spine. When you don't know what it is, that's the scariest thing Whatever we were hearing We didn't know what to make of it I just had no idea. It became more and more I would say threatening sounding I was starting to be afraid for my life. I didn't have any new weapons. I didn't know what I was going to do I did have a knife, like one of those little three four inch kind of pocket knives And I grabbed that and I was just clutching it as hard as I could. just waiting. Travis I could just hear his breathing, just ragged He is terrified He was frozen. And in my mind, I'm like, okay, well, I guess it's up to me if something happens So this thing kept getting closer and closer And it gets to a point where it sounds close enough that the fighter flight kind of kicks in. It's like, either I'm going to sit here in this tent. And to let something happen or you're going to kind of try to confront it terrified as I was I unzipped the tent. I jumped out holding this knife And I yelled get the F out of here Looking all around And there's nothing. This was a night when the moon was pretty bright. and it was almost like daylight You could see very easily, especially because our night vision was totally intact There was nothing around us. This entire one hundred yard clearing was empty There's nothing And this thing, I mean, I guarantee you, whatever I was hearing was within ten yards. It had to have been at least within ten yards I just kept looking around, I can disbelief. I'm like, there has to be something. There has to have been something. I looked in. I was looking for like something in the air Its like a bird or something Obviously I didn't see anything kind of wandered around a tent for a couple minutes, just on alert And I finally I told Travis was like, I don't I don't see anything out here crawled out of the tent, literally just kind of crawled out like sweating. I feelel bad for him like he he was really freaked out basasically just stayed the whole rest of the night until dawn sitting there. around a tent just watching, just watching the tree line. The second the sun came up, we packed up and we were out of there I tried to like strike up a conversation at some point with Travis about it He just wouldn't have it I was like, that was a crazy thing. What do you think that thing was? And he was just like, I don't know And that's all he would say is I don't know I don't know what he thought it was, but He was clearly a lot more freaked out than I was. I was more like I want to know. Like I'm freaked out, but I really want to know what that was. And he seemed to be more of the mindset of like I I want to forget that ever happened He was also really religious I felt like that might have had something to do with it. Like maybe he thought it was like literally like a demon. I don't know what he must have thought and it's not like whatever he thought was invalid at all. and mayaybe it was a demon You didn't want to talk about it. So for a long time, I really didn't talk to anyone about it It would make a big difference if I was the only one out there I might question my own sanity, I guess I mean, I know he was hearing the same things as I was. Body language alone Some people say that there are legends from that area entities something happening. but None of the descriptions really matched what I experienced. It felt like something was coming after us. It felt like something was stalking us It's just a big mystery to me. And I'm a pretty rationally minded person I really don't even like tent camping anymore because of this It just freaks me out Radio Rental is created by Painne Lindseay and brought to you by Torfoot TV. Showrunner is Meredith Steedman. Lead producers are Eric Qintana and Stephen Perez. Executive producers are Painne Lindsseay and Donald Albreright This episode is hosted by Tony Cavallero Writing by Meredith Steedman.