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And now without further ado, on

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to the Strange Stories
encounter with a Black Eyed kid.

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By 81 during the winter holiday
season of 2021, my partner and

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her son left the country to
visit her father.

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So I was home alone with the cat
and the dog.

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The entire day of the event was
filled with strange occurrences.

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One example being I walked past
the front door on my way to the

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washroom.
I looked at the door as I walked

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by and it just opens by itself.
So I closed the door, thinking

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to myself how strange the timing
was.

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I make sure it's securely closed
by trying to open it without

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using the handle.
It doesn't.

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Budget satisfied, I head to the
washroom and do my thing.

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Walking back from the washroom
to the rest of the house, I pass

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the front door.
It's open.

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The fucking door has opened
itself and this time the dog is

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barking at it.
I tell him to relax and usually

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he would.
Not today.

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He finally relaxed after a few
minutes of ear bleed.

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Fast forward two hours, around
1830 to 1900 and it's a nearly

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identical situation in that I
walk past the door, close it,

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test it, head to the bedroom,
come back to the house and it

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has opened again, dog barking
again, yadda yadda.

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Another two hours passes, 2100
and I'm in bed when the dog

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starts in again.
I immediately check the front

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door and thankfully it's closed.
This happens every two hours

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until around 4:00 AM.
At 4:00 AM I'm woken by the

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barks accompanied by three Hard
Knocks at the door.

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My blood is coursing, heart
about to beat straight through

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my chest as I look through the
window to the left of the door

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to see who is there.
There he is, a 10:00-ish year

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old indigenous looking boy
standing there in a jacket,

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wholly unremarkable in
appearance until I look for his

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eyes under his hood and the dark
of night, completely black from

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eyelid to eyelid.
The conversation went roughly

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like this, Me, door still
closed, talking through the

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glass.
What's up, little man?

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Him.
I'm so cold, can I commend me?

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Where are your parents?
Him.

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He just stands there, silent.
He has this eerie fake smile

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he's showing me.
Well, just kind of nodding.

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He evades the question and again
talks about how cold he is.

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Me.
Do you have parents?

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Dude, it's 4:00 AM, what the
hell is going on?

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Are you OK?
Where are your mom and dad?

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Him shrugs.
I tell him I can't let him in

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because I had COVID.
I didn't end up getting it.

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I still wasn't convinced this
wasn't a home invasion type

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scenario.
I run to the bedroom, grab my

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cell phone, and dial 911.
I give the dispatcher my name

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and address while walking back
to the front door and start

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describing the kid.
This takes maybe 15 seconds.

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When I get back to the front
door, he's gone.

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I throw the door open and run
out to the street, but he's

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gone.
There's nowhere he could have

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gone that quickly.
We live at the top of a

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cul-de-sac.
That's basically it.

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I looked for my neighbors with
any cameras attached to their

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homes and asked if they had
captured anything.

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Only two homes on my street have
cameras and neither got

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anything.
One of the homes with a camera

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is across the street from us and
while she didn't capture any

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footage, she said she saw a kid
walking the neighborhood a few

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days later in the early morning
hours as she left for work.

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But when she got to where she
saw him, he was gone.

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I cannot blame you for calling
911 any more than I can blame

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your dog for giving you ear
bleed.

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Barking constantly at the
mysteriously open front door.

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The Black Eyed Kid.
OK, we'll get we'll get to the

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Black Eyed kid.
But I used to have recurring

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nightmares about my front door
being open in the middle of the

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night, me just walking past it
and seeing my front door open.

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And then I would be stuck
standing there just frozen and

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dread because if I close the
door, is something now trapped

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inside with me or are they still
outside?

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Did someone come in?
Is someone hiding, waiting for

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me to lock myself inside with
them nowadays?

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The thing is, is if that
happened, then they would be

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locked inside with me and they
would need to be the one that is

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concerned.
But that front door opening not

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just once, but twice, and your
dog knowing something is up with

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it, Absolute goosebumps.
Completely freaks me out.

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And then you're kind of already
set up, right?

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You're you're primed, as they
would say, to be on alert and to

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be scared the rest of the night.
So when a child shows up at your

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door at 4:00 AM, the same door
that had been randomly opening,

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inexplicably opening earlier
that day, When a child shows up

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to your door at 4:00 AM, if
anyone is at my door at 4:00 AM,

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I'm calling the police.
But a child, especially one with

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entirely black eyes and you
know, just a reminder for anyone

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listening that's not familiar
with Black Eyed kids or Black

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Eyed children, their entire eye
is black.

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So the the whites of the eye
called the sclera, those are

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black.
The iris is black and the pupil

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obviously black.
So entirely black eyes.

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I mean, anybody at the door at
4:00 AM is a problem.

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And then they have entirely
black eyes and it sounds like a

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Black Eyed kid.
Absolutely not 911, what is your

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emergency?
I cannot blame you whatsoever.

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I also think that you actually
might be on to something there

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with the home invasion.
You know, it's just it's it's

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suspicious timing, right?
Like, it could just be a

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coincidence, a strange
coincidence, but it could be.

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But I do think that maybe you're
onto something there with the

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home invasion, whether or not
it's a home invasion by normal

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humans or a home invasion by
creatures that are either

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associated with men in black or
demons or vampires, which are

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all things that people have
tried to explain Black Eyed kids

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away.
As you know, either way, you

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were right to be cautious.
You were right to not open the

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door.
You know, maybe it sounds cruel

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to say, well, there's a child
who needs help on my front door.

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I'm not going to open the door.
But I, I call that smart.

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I call that sensible.
So good job not opening the door

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and everyone listening.
Do not open the door to anyone

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at 4:00 in the morning.
Just call the police.

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That's what they're there for.
I do love that the cat was only

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mentioned once in the story and
otherwise was just chilling, you

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know, just hanging out, letting
things happen.

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Just not, not concerned,
unconcerned.

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You know, the dogs got it.
No worries.

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No worries for the cat.
You know why?

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Because that cat, that cat knew
you weren't going to let a Black

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Eyed kid into that house.
And they were right, because you

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are smart.
Good job.

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What made you believe in the
paranormal?

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By Coyote?
I mean I've always seen and

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experienced weird things since I
was little.

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I saw Grandpa at his own
funeral, standing right beside

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Grandma with his hand on her
shoulder after a minor house

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fire that damaged the second
floor.

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I heard someone opening and
closing my brother's dresser

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drawers late one night, but when
I sneaked upstairs to see who it

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was, all I found was every
drawer pulled out of the dresser

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and laid on the floor.
There was an old abandoned house

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across the street from ours with
no floor for the second story,

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but sometimes at night I would
see a light on upstairs.

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All the neighborhood kids called
the house the witch house

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because it was just weird and
apparently always had been.

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When we moved out to our new
house in the country, things

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really kicked into OverDrive.
The first night there the whole

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family heard a loud bang, like
something heavy being dropped on

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the kitchen.
But when we went to look,

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nothing was out of place.
Shadows would walk behind us in

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our reflections in the windows,
footsteps would pace back and

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forth across the roof.
At night I saw a full body

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apparition of a girl my age and
she saw me.

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You had to draw the curtains
after nightfall because of the

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overwhelming powerful sensation
of being watched by something

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out in the woods around the
house.

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My apartment in college had a
poltergeist and multiple people

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observed its activity and was
also haunted by several small

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black cat like entities that we
could only see in my roommate's

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curio cabinet mirror.
Once when I was home alone

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during spring break, I was in
the bathroom when I heard the

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vanity cabinet doors opening and
closing.

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I thought it was the kittens at
1st until the door handle

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started to rattle up and down
like someone was trying to open

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it from the outside.
This escalated to the whole door

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shaking violently for several
seconds until it abruptly

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stopped, at which point I ran to
the living room, grabbed the

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kittens, and hid in the bedroom
with them for the rest of the

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night.
The apartment I lived in with a

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friend several years ago had at
least two separate entities, a

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small white childlike entity and
a large, shadowy, angry man.

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Both of them were confined to
the hallway and the master

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bedroom.
The women's shelter was haunted

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by a teacher who had committed
suicide when the building was

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still a school.
A handful of spirits and at

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least two extremely malevolent
entities, one of which was

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attached to the now former
executive director and which

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took the form of either a cloud
of static around him or a giant

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black dog, again, which was
witnessed by multiple people.

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The flop house had shadow people
who lurked the hallways after

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dark.
And while my current apartment

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isn't haunted per SE, some
strange things have still

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happened, like floating blue
lights in one corner that

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fascinated my late cat Bear, and
a music box that had never been

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wound suddenly starting to play
music and stopping when I

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scolded it.
Also Bear.

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He's still around too from time
to time, usually when I'm

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stressed or upset about
something.

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I also have had three dreams
that predicted the future, with

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payouts ranging from a few hours
after waking up to a few months

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out, to almost 10 years later.
And that's not even touching on

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the weird UFOs.
So yeah, it's been a lifelong

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thing for me.
Coyote first of all, I love

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hearing that Bear still visits
you and can sense when you're

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stressed and maybe having a hard
time.

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Like what a good Kitty.
And now on to the much less warm

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and fuzzy parts of your story.
You have seen so much in your

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life.
It also sounds like there's been

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quite a bit of trauma in your
life.

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So I'm, I'm sorry that you've
had to deal with that, sorry

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that you've gone through that.
I think it's completely

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understandable that with the
sheer amount of people that are

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all experiencing, you know, the
same types of traumas and the

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same types of intense, negative,
stressful emotions in some of

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those settings that, yeah, I
think it's completely

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understandable that people are
seeing things picking up on

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negative energies.
I mean, I think, you know, after

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certain kinds of trauma that
were hypersensitive and hyper

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vigilant and constantly on high
alert, you know, looking for

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danger, looking for just the
slightest shift in someone's

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energy.
So, you know, that hyper

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vigilance that comes after those
situations.

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I think it's completely
understandable that people are

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seeing shadow people or that
strange black entity tied to

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that former director at the
women's shelter.

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Like as if all of you are not
having a hard enough time as it

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is now you need to have shadow
people around.

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Like shadow people y'all?
Can you just read the room

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please?
Thank you.

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I think my favorite part aside
from Bear visiting you are the

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little black cat like entities
that you could only see in that

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one mirror.
And OK, I also love how you went

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and grabbed all of the kittens
to keep them safe with you.

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A good job.
That was smart thinking, quick

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thinking.
I would have done the exact same

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thing.
Step one, collect kittens.

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Step two, hide in bedroom.
Can't blame you at all.

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And how about the witch house
with that light on the 2nd floor

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even though there is no second
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I mean that is textbook 100%
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You know, urban legend,
folklore, scary story.

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I don't care.
That is horrifying, and I never

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want to see that.
Maybe there's an explanation.

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Maybe there was part of a floor
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the whole floor was missing, but
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of a floor.
Maybe, but maybe not.

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And OK, how are you just going
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Oh, yeah.
And that's not even counting the

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weird UFOs.
Well I would love to hear about

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the weird UFOs.
I know you and I spoke briefly

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on Reddit and you know the one
question I had for you was about

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the little black cat entities in
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Well that's just on me.
That's my bad.

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I am easily distracted by cats
and what I should have done was

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asked you more about the UFO.
So if you are listening and you

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want to share with me more of
your UFO stories, feel free.

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You can PM me on Reddit on the
thread that we were in, or you

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can e-mail
madamstrangeways@gmail.com.

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That's MAD AM E.
We'd love to hear more from you,

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Coyote.
And if you do share any more

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stories, especially about the
UFOs, I would be happy to share

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them with the audience.
Update 5/17/2024 by Ogre Ogre

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This is actually starting to
scare me.

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My morbid curiosity is getting
me afraid I'll probably not poke

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the bear for a bit.
I went to Ledges State Park in

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Boone, about 10 minutes from
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The forest if not sliced by Hwy.
30.

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It's the same one that Mick Hose
lives in, same forest I see

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weird shit in.
I went there tonight.

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Less for spooky Cryptid stuff,
more for camera gear testing

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stuff.
I bought an old Sony F717.

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It's a camera that can easily
work as a cheap night vision

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camera.
I wanted to test it out Lower

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ledges.
The area of the park you can

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drive through is one way.
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pole parking lot and walked back
into the park in the opposite

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way traffic flows.
We made it to that stone bridge

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that everyone takes pictures of
and my wife attempted magnet

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fishing.
This was around 9:00 PM.

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The sun was setting around 5
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I get the feeling that we should
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but at a slow pace so we can
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Around 9:30.
It's black night outside now, no

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remnant of sunlight.
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from the bridge that leads to
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Maybe a 5 minute walk back to
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And we were joking about not
feeling afraid and how this is

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fun.
We both hear the same thing.

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I'm not fucking joking about
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I'm not going to post this on
any Subs.

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I don't care if people don't
read it or don't want to believe

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me.
I don't want to believe me.

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I'm getting scared.
We both hear in a little boy's

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voice.
Help.

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I want my daddy.
This was repeated 4 times at

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different intervals.
It didn't sound normal at all.

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Every word was broken.
The pitch was constantly

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changing and inconsistent.
The volume changed with every

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word.
It sounded like whatever was

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trying to make this sound was
straining, trying to mimic the

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voice of a boy.
I don't know how else to

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describe that.
I'm good with words.

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I know that wasn't actually a
little boy.

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It sounded sinister.
It gave us chills.

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We started hurrying back to the
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The whole way back, we hear the
increasing volume of tree

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branches and twigs, grass and
leaves being broken and crunched

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as something moved through the
trees very, very fast.

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Deer started running out of the
tree line toward the road like

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they were running from
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I drove straight home.
I'm exhausted and going to bed.

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Ogre, I am not sure that you are
capable of not poking the bear.

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I think it's in your nature.
So I will not be shocked if I

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jump on Reddit, catch up on your
posts, and see that you have in

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fact had more experiences after
this one.

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I hope that you haven't because
you and your wife and your two

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dogs deserve peace and quiet.
Now, we've heard from Ogre Ogre

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previously in previous episodes
about his experiences and

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encounters with these unknown
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I think he has described them as
crawlers.

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But you know, I don't know that
we'll actually ever know what

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these things are that he's
seeing.

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But he has seen pale, hairless,
lanky, strange creatures.

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He has seen what he's described
almost as hairless male lions

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walking like gorillas, stalking
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In both instances, he has seen
what I think the Internet would

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call a not deer, wherein it was
not acting like a deer, it was

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acting strange, and it was also
following him.

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So he is attracting a whole lot
of paranormal and unexplained

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phenomena.
This one though, is, I mean, to

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me, not having experienced any
of these things for myself, to

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me this one is honestly the
scariest.

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This one is the most insidious,
like this voice trying to lure

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you and your wife closer, you
know, attempting to mimic the

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realistic sound of a human boy
in distress.

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What these creatures do not
count on though, is that we are

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not stupid, we are not gullible,
and we are not falling for their

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ghostly Cryptid nonsense.
Just like in 81's story earlier,

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on its face, it might sound
cruel again to not try to help

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whoever was asking for help out
there.

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But also, you don't know what's
waiting for you.

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It could be an ambush.
It could have been, you know,

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not something paranormal.
This could have been, you know,

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humans trying to lure you.
And I think that y'all were

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smart to not go any further, not
deviate off the path and to just

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get the heck out of there.
On the other hand, you know,

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sure do hope that no one was in
trouble and having a stroke or

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some other medical emergency
that just makes them sound wrong

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and inhuman.
So, you know, maybe in those

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situations, maybe we run to
safety and maybe we also just

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call the police.
I know that you're in rural

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Iowa, so maybe that's not how
the police work out there.

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Maybe it's a little different.
Maybe there's a little bit of a

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stigma that you might have if
you call them and say, I'm

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hearing this weird voice out in
the woods and, you know, I don't

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know what the situation is.
But all I can say is obviously

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in these situations, everyone
should get themselves to safety

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and not put themselves in danger
attempting to, you know, be a

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Good Samaritan or be a good
person.

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You can also call for help.
So I'm glad that y'all got out

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of there OK.
And I do hope that things have

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been quiet for you, Ogre Ogre
and your wife and your doggies.

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I just, you know, I'm just not
super confident that it has been

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quiet.
Although keeping my fingers

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crossed for y'all.
Thank you to 81 Coyote and Ogre

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Ogre for submitting your
stories, and thank you so much

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for stopping by for such a
lovely spooky time.

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You're always welcome here.
It's perfect timing really.

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Looks like the rain just stopped
now.

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Remember, if any of the
strangeness scared you, remind

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yourself that you can feel
afraid and not be in danger.

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You're safe here with me.
Until next time.

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Madam Strangeways is produced
and narrated by me.

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Madam Strangeways theme music is
by marina.ryan@marinamakes.co.

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send in your thoughts or
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Thank you for listening.