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Episode 18 – Strange Stories from the Strange Woods!

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Hi, again, everyone! This a very special episode because it is all from you guys! We read some of our favorite true stories submitted by our Strange Woods community. We cover topics like past lives, Norse mythology, hauntings, and even Bigfoot! PLUS the winning story from our Listener Story Contest gets revealed and read! Join us for some real life encounters of the strange and unusual. Here we go!

                                                  STOP! INSIDE JOKES AHEAD!

If you haven’t gotten to listen to the episode yet, spoiler alert! This post contains lots of stuff that will make waaay more sense if you listen to the episode before or while reading. So if you haven’t already, pump the brakes and listen to the episode or just click above to play so that you can be in on all the shenanigans to follow! 

 

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Produced by Peter Woodward

Thanks so much!

We just want to thank everyone again for taking the time to send us all these great stories! Whether you’ve been a listener, are a new listener, participated in our story contest, or just generously responded to our FaceBook group invitation to write in, we are so grateful! You are now part of the Strange Woods fam, and we love you guys! 

We also want to shout out the awesome FaceBook group pages that we’ve started participating in! 

–Hauntings, Paranormal, & The Unexplained

–True Ghost Stories

–The unexplained

–Myths, Legends and Folklore

–Ghostly Stories & Paranormal Urban Legends

If you guys don’t follow these pages, go check them out!

Flashes of a Past Life?

So…Nina from the UK wrote in to tell us about an experience she had with her 3-year-old daughter, Abbi. While passing by a row of 18th century cottages on a bus, her daughter asked her if she remembered when Abbi lived in those houses as an old woman!

NINA’S STORY

Here’s a little story that made my blood run cold when it happened.
I was on a bus into town with my 3 year old daughter, and we happened to pass a row of 18th century cottages. My daughter was absently looking out of the window when she piped up, “Mummy, do you remember when I lived there”?
I replied “No, darling, we’ve never lived in that house,” to which she replied “No, Mummy, I didn’t live there with you. I lived there when I was an old lady.”
She then carried on with her usual 3 year old chatter.
For someone who is rarely stuck for words, I was rendered speechless!
The older lady who was in the seat in front turned to us and said “I knew that little girl had been here before when I first clapped eyes on her!”

Could this be evidence of a past life? Very cool, but also creepy. Sort of like…

The Others (2001)

A Special Guardian

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Next, we heard from Lola from South Dakota. Lola is Lakota, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and told us about a crazy car chase one night on a stretch of remote road. She and her family saw what they thought was a man initially, but Lola kicked it into high gear when she realized it was, in fact, BIGFOOT! Follow that biped!

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LOLA’S STORY

HI! I woke up for no reason, so wanted to tell you about my Bigfoot experience. My mom always said to cover up your mirrors at night because the wanagis can come in through the mirrors. But, that isn’t the story. Here it is:

A long time ago, I was coming back from Rapid City, SD to Selfridge, ND. I had a grandson with me in the front seat (14 or 15), a young couple in the back seat, and way in the back of the SUV, two little ones. It was late at night, and we were going I think by Cherry Creek, and right before that junction that turns towards Eagle Butte, it got a little foggy. I slowed down, and my grandson said “Be careful, grandma, there is a man up there on the road.”

Sure enough, I could see a figure on the right hand side walking toward us. I hit the brights (I had on dims because of the fog), and slowed down, and the man began running straight toward my car, cutting diagonally across the highway! We were all staring by then, wondering what was up, when we realized it wasn’t a man. It was shaped like a man, but it had hair all over, like the color of a buffalo’s hump. It ran straight toward my driver’s side headlight, and we almost hit it. I realized it was Bigfoot! So I hit the brakes, and did a cookie, and chased it down the ditch!

My passengers were all yelling at me to take off because they got scared. When we passed through Eagle Butte right near that housing area, something hit the car tire on the back driver’s side. This is where my niece was sitting, and she began to cry and have a panic attack. I stopped on main street in Isabel, and we smudged ourselves and the car. My niece got very ill, and she couldn’t quit crying. I asked her why she was so scared, and she said one of us was going to die. I told her “No, Bigfoot is not bad.” By the time we got to McLaughlin (Bear Soldier), her leg on the side by the door had swelled very big. Her boyfriend took her to the emergency room from there , and the doc said she had a clot.

Every time I would tell someone of this experience, something would hit the wall of the house very hard. I asked this lady who knows things what she thought, and she told me it was a guardian and would hit the wall to let me know it was still guarding me. Afterwards, I asked my grandson what he saw. At first he would not say Bigfoot, but finally he did. Then, he said “But, grandma, did you see what he had in his hand?” I said “What?” He said “It had a rabbit in hand when it was running. It had the ears of the jackrabbit in its fist.” I did not see that part.

I am not scared of Bigfoot, and I am honored to have such a powerful guardian…Pilameya. This is how I remember it.

So cool to have Bigfoot as a guardian. Plus Lola was legit like…

Something Nordic This Way Comes...

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Dragonslayer BMX wrote in and shared an unsettling encounter he had while working security one night. As a believer in Norse Paganism, he felt strongly he came face to face with some very important and prominent entities in his faith! 

DRAGONSLAYER BMX’S STORY

Hi, a friend of mine recently introduced me to your podcast on Spotify and I just finished listening to episode 1. So I thought I would take the open invitation towards the end to share an experience that I’ve had while on the clock at work. You see, I work night shift security and while I know that the eyes and the mind can play tricks on people when they don’t sleep for so long. I have also been growing more connected to my spiritual beliefs in recent months as I have been converted into what is known as a Norse Pagan plus I was raised on learning about the Bible and everything that it teaches. 

I’ll try to keep it brief, but I have a short story from something that happened to me I believe could’ve been some form of paranormal happening.

This story is DEFINITELY a little wild and fitting considering the name of your podcast. 

So rewind a little bit, I was 21 at the time, almost 22, and I was at work when this happened. Now with me working security, I’m bound to get asked to go to a few different work sites to cover this shift or that shift, but I had already worked at this site in particular before so it was a walk in the park. However, this one night in particular was just “off” like something was wrong. Previously I had mentioned that I’m a Norse Pagan and, of course, every culture has their own beliefs and ways of rationalizing things that usually go unexplained. Well, I believe that I may have had a close encounter with not 1 but 2 very big names from Norse Mythology. 

As the night dragged on, I kept getting this feeling like I was being watched from the edge of the property that I guarded. There used to be a closed down building that we had to patrol around, but it wasn’t even being used anymore. All of the doors were welded shut and most of us guards REFUSED to go inside from the only real door around front. Most of us just sat in our cars on our shifts and listened to music or whatever, but I kept getting that same feeling straight from the horror movies like someone or something was staring me down. So I made the mistake of deciding to do part of my job and investigate where I was getting this feeling from. 

The closer I got to the fence around the property, my chest got heavier and my heart was pounding. Everything in me was saying to book it out of there, call my boss, and tell him that I just couldn’t work there and that someone else would have to take my shift. But when I turned on my phone’s flashlight and saw absolutely nothing from the other side of the fence, I was still freaked out, but also relieved in a sense. I was glad that nothing was there, but was also wondering what could’ve given me the impression that I was being watched in the first place. 

Now, having lightly studied Norse Mythology my first reaction was to laugh and think “Haha, very funny Loki” as he is the Norse figure most associated with trickery and deceit. But then the same “watched” feeling returned, and I felt like I was standing face to face with whatever energy or presence might’ve been on the other side of that fence. I knew it spiritually, or at least I thought I could feel an invisible something standing on the other side of the fence and only a single name came to mind: Fenrir. 

I firmly believe that I had a spiritual experience with one of Loki’s children.

Then later that next morning, the sun rises, there’s a dense fog over the area, and I’m sitting in my car when I hear what sounds like tapping on metal. Come to find out, a raven landed on top of my car. Ravens in Norse Mythology are related to the god Odin as he kept 2 of them. Same as with the watching feeling, I also got a strange feeling and decided to follow this raven as it flew in steps: first from my car, then to an old loading bay rail by the building, then across the old loading bay to the opposite rail, then finally all the way down the side of the building to then disappear over the fence where I could no longer follow. 

I haven’t had any strange occurrences like this in a while, but felt as though this one was worth sharing.

Who did DragonSlayer encounter out there? Did he take a heart-pounding, moonlit stroll with the old gods?

“Very funny, Loki.”

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Fenrir, the Great Wolf

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Quoth the Raven…

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The Lady and the Soldier

Our next story came from DillPickle478 as part of our Listener Story contest. He shared about his haunted childhood and told us about two spirits that he experienced starting when he was just 4 years old!

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DILLPICKLE’S STORY

I’ve got a story. When I was 4, I used to be haunted by a younger woman. She used to wear a really pretty white dress, almost like a wedding dress. She used to stare at me from far away, like at the tree line or over long distances. 

 

One night, I felt something touch my foot while I was asleep, so I thought it was my mom. I woke up and looked, and the woman in white was there, staring at me. This time, the dress had blood splattered all over it. When I had looked up at her face, it was severely contorted and very blurry. At first, she never said anything, and would subtly wake me up at night. Eventually, she started whispering to me, and it started to cause very horrifying nightmares. 

 

One day, another spirit or ghost or whatever in old military slacks appeared next to me, and looked at me and smiled, then walked up to the woman, and together they both walked out of my room. The man, later walked in, and introduced himself as ‘Jim’, and said I didn’t have anything to worry about anymore. 

 

To be honest, I never looked into the woman’s background or tried to find out more about the woman.

The man would follow me around, as if he were watching over me. He never said anything to me again, but followed me for the next 10 years, and I haven’t seen him since I was 14. 

 

 

Was Jim his protector? And what about that blurry face? Ugh.

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A Father's Last Goodbye...

Next, we received this beautiful little story from Karen from Queensland, Australia. She shared with us about being visited by her father just before his unexpected passing. She was able to see him and hear him as a younger version of himself, and he was able to convey his love to her before passing on.

KAREN’S STORY

My dad came to me before he died. Unknown by me, my dad had a heart attack that morning not wanting to worry me, my parents held back informing me as i was in an abusive marriage… 

Asleep that night i woke to a knock at my door, and upon opening it, I saw my father looking so young and with his dog whom had passed and his old cattle truck parked outside my home. He was a very old schooled ex-farmer who became a stock truck driver serving community of farmers in rural Australia. I lived in Queensland Australia, dad in New South Wales (about 13 hours apart). 

I was in shock, confused.  He smiled and said “I’ve come to say goodbye. I love you, Bub” and walked back to the truck.

On remote control, I shut the door walked away… then ran back, reopened the door, and just like that…nothing there.

I ran outside…nothing!

Perplexed I couldn’t sleep. At 7am the following morning, I received word that he had passed away…

Bless him, hay.

This experience held me together as you can imagine…over the years have had strange and varied  occurrences of the paranormal starting in child hood, but this was very special…

What a cool reminder that our loved ones are always with us…

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WINNER OF OUR LISTENER STORY SUBMISSION CONTEST!

Haunted Antiques?

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The winner of our Listener Story Submission Contest is Jodie DeRhonda! She sent us a very unique, fun, and freaky story about two potentially haunted objects that didn’t particularly care for one another! Congratulations, Jodie!

JODIE’S STORY

I went to an antique shop in Virginia once. I lived in NY at the time. I can pick up on many vibes and tell you what goes on with your house. So as I was walking around, my eyes were constantly running. That’s my sign that I have something around me. I notice an old Victrola record player with the big horn on the needle, and it had the friendliest feeling about it. So I say to my girlfriend at that time “I want this,” and she says “ok” and she found something too. I go to look, and she had an old alarm clock with the 2 bells on top and the hammer between them. I said “Ok,” and we purchased them and left. 

 

We were on I-95 going home, and about 2 hours from home, we hear this banging coming from the back of the car! I thought I had a flat, but car was still moving. I got off next exit and looked. Nothing was out of place. We stopped in to use rest room and get gas, and as I was pumping I heard a loud ringing coming from the trunk.I opened it and found the alarm was going off on the clock. It’s a windup and you have to spin the hand to show what time you want. Neither was matched up! It was not even wound up for regular time! AND the alarm hand was at 12:00…and it was 8pm. I thought “Ok, maybe from the ride and bouncing in the trunk it just set it off.” 

 

Finally we get home, and I put them both next to each other and went to bed. They were on my dresser in our bedroom. At about 3 am, I heard some banging again and sounded like it was coming from the foot of my bed but couldn’t see anything. I fell back asleep and heard an American man and an English man yelling at each other, but couldn’t make out what was being said. I thought people were outside, but no one was there. Now I wake up my girl and tell her what is going on and all of a sudden the alarm started to go off again! We jumped up and looked at it and same thing: wasn’t set to be on!

 

So next morning, she left for work and I was getting ready. And I heard an English accent again saying “Keep this away from me!” I ran out fast! 

That day my girlfriend was home first and was crying and saying she heard the same thing I heard. All of a sudden, I got a feeling that these 2 antiques didn’t like each other at all, whatever was attached to them. 

 

So I decided to put it to the test and stuck an old fashioned album on it and just walked out. As we were standing in my yard, there it was: we heard that music followed by the alarm. I thought this was so wild that I had to call my friends over. 3 showed up. 

 

First, they thought it was a joke…and then you could hear voices…and then music…and finally the alarm! We don’t know what truly happened, except what we witnessed. But as we were standing below the window, we heard banging again, and the window smashed…and the clock and record player came crashing down and broke into little small pieces! And that was the last of them. We took separate bags and dropped each of them in different places. That was one of the most bizarre encounters I had!

 

So cool! Which one was British and which one was American…we wonder…

Either way, awesome. And we at the Strange Woods Podcast would like to commend Jodie for her courtesy in bagging and discarding them separately so they weren’t forced to remain together forever when they so clearly didn’t get along! 🙂

Beauty and the Beast 

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Brave Little Toaster

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Some other things we discussed...

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Casper, the friendly ghost

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Smudging

Alright, ya’ll! This was a good episode. What’s cooler than true, personal encounters? Nothing, I say! We’ll catch you on the next episode. Thanks for stopping by and don’t forget these important things: that 3-year-old could be a reincarnated old lady, keep an eye out for Odin’s raven, antiques don’t always get along, and finally, if given the chance, you should always go off-road with Lola! Stay strange! 

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