Encounters x333 - Exorcisms, Possessions & Demons

Summary

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Two Girls One Ghost – Encounters x333: Exorcisms, Possessions & Demons

Hosted by Corinne Vien and Sabrina Deana-Roga
Release Date: May 28, 2026

Overview of the Episode

This episode of Two Girls One Ghost delves deeply into the chilling realm of exorcisms, possessions, and demonic encounters. Hosts Corinne and Sabrina read and discuss a selection of listener-submitted stories that traverse themes of haunted homes, generational psychic sensitivity, night terrors, spiritual battles, and the enduring presence of darkness and light in the lives of those who write in. The episode masterfully weaves together humor and spine-tingling horror, offering a cathartic space for storytelling and communal catharsis.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Inherited Paranormal Sensitivity and Haunted Homes

• Story 1: “Mirror, mirror on the wall” by Melissa (Starts at 02:44)
  • The hosts read a harrowing story from Melissa, who describes herself as “a magnet for terrifying, inexplicable, please-get-an-exorcist-immediately experiences.”
  • Paranormal sensitivity runs through Melissa’s female family line, all having survived childhood near-death experiences.
  • Upon moving into her late aunt’s house—who had died suddenly in the downstairs bathroom—the family experienced odd happenings: cold spots, constant discomfort, objects moving, and a sense of persistent presence.
  • Most disturbing was Melissa’s sleepwalking episode toward a haunted mirror, where she saw a terrifying entity in the reflection—“thin, wiry, with sickly gray skin… Eyes like black liquid stared at me. And then it lunged…” (10:00)
  • The experience was so vivid that physical evidence (bruising, displaced objects) made her question reality.
  • “If I ever hear a fox screaming in the night, I will simply pass away. Although we know it wasn’t a fox.” – Melissa (12:18)

2. Exorcisms and the Life of a Teenage Medium

• Story 2: “I Was a Teenage Exorcist and I’m Still a Medium” by T (16:25)
  • T, writing as a non-binary medium, recounts a youth spent in a “super weird new wave Catholic religious movement.”
  • Their mother was regularly possessed, with clear signs: “her eyes would turn black… she would hiss and growl… until someone from our group would purge her.” (18:41)
  • T’s psychic abilities led them to see demonic entities and black-eyed children, and the family was constantly beset by poltergeist phenomena.
  • After family strife (parental divorce), the activity subsided, but T was recruited into a lay exorcism group, frequently participating in rituals.
  • “The only way to describe what an exorcism feels like is it’s like hot fire from God runs through my body as I pray and I feel myself pulling on darkness.” (21:22)
  • T’s most intense exorcism led to a vow never to do it again; they now combine mediumship with Episcopalian practice and are engaged to a fellow medium, forming a “very powerful couple.” (25:23)

3. Demons with Yellow Eyes and Sleepwalkers in South Africa

• Story 3: “The Demon with Yellow Eyes Tried to Kill Me” by Amy (27:53)
  • Amy recalls growing up in a Cape Town house with a deeply oppressive energy, only sensed by her and her sister.
  • Disturbing events: shadowy figures, a yellow-eyed presence by the closet, severe sleepwalking, and objects moving on their own.
  • The family had the house blessed, but the negative force returned. Upon her sister’s absence, Amy experienced sleep paralysis and was attacked by the yellow-eyed demon.
  • “I watched as my schoolbooks started flying everywhere… this entity turned its attention to me—I felt it on top of me, choking me. And the next thing I know, my nose started bleeding and I was being choked while drowning on my own blood.” (32:23)
  • Escaping through prayer (“…appear before the feet of God. I am the child of the Lord and you are not welcome here…”), Amy witnesses a vision of a protective light banishing the demon.
  • This phrase continues to safeguard her from perceived darkness.

4. Family Secrets and Suppressed Memories of Exorcism

• Story 4: “And You Didn’t Think to Tell Me” by Mott (38:36)
  • Mott learns, only during a casual family conversation, that her niece had an exorcism as a child, only to realize the family had intentionally kept the incident secret.
  • The house, neighboring a historic Connecticut home, was riddled with supernatural events for years: the brother dreams of battles, the niece plays with a mysterious “lady,” and the atmosphere is rife with hauntings.
  • “Get that crap off of me,” her niece screams, possessed, when sprinkled with holy water. (45:44)
  • Frustration is palpable as Mott laments, “This isn’t like telling me about a sandwich you made. This is a goddamn exorcism. Like, what?” (45:23)

5. Demonic Obsession, Astral Projection, and Angelic Protection

• Story 5: “The Demon That Took an Obsession with Me” by Maria (46:01)
  • Maria describes early experiences with “astral travel,” including visions of a parallel life and warnings from her grandmother.
  • After unwittingly opening a door during astral projection, a demonic force latches onto the family—her sister becomes the primary target, suffering scratches, bruises, and night terrors.
  • The demon communicates: “I will be there the day that you die. I will come for you when you take your very last breath…” (49:49)
  • The name the entity gives matches a high-ranking demon mentioned in a documentary.
  • The haunting ends after Maria dreams of “two people in white” (interpreted as angels) who promise to protect her and her sister. Afterward, peace returns and Maria loses her astral abilities, though she continues to feel the angels’ presence.
  • “Every time I feel scared, I just close my eyes, I call on their presence, I remember their warmth, and I feel that fear melt away.” – Maria (55:13)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Paranormal Inheritance:
  “My mom has premonitions and even has vivid dreams that predict tragic events… And then there’s me, blessed, cursed with that same family gift.” – Melissa (03:21)
• On the Harrowing Sleepwalking Episode:
  “My inner voice came back… saying, this is fake. Then my body turned sharp and immediate to face the piano, to face the mirror. I was screaming internally not to look at that mirror. But I had no choice because I was not in control.” – Melissa (09:34)
• On Exorcism Ritual:
  “The only way to describe what an exorcism feels like is it’s like hot fire from God runs through my body as I pray and I feel myself pulling on darkness.” – T (21:22)
• On Ghostly Attack:
  “This yellow-eyed man entered my room, walked straight through my closed door… my Spongebob poster that was behind my door got ripped—as if three sharp fingernails had been dragged through it.” – Amy (32:10)
• On Family Communication:
  “People, this isn’t like telling me about a sandwich you made. This is a goddamn exorcism. Like, what?” – Mott (45:23)
• On Resolution and Light in the Darkness:
  “You chose stories that… there’s some sort of figure or guardian or something coming in to battle the darkness.” – Corinne (53:46)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [02:44] Story 1 – Melissa’s haunted house and the dread-filled mirror
• [16:25] Story 2 – T’s upbringing and life as a teenage exorcist and medium
• [27:53] Story 3 – Amy’s encounters with a yellow-eyed demon in South Africa
• [38:36] Story 4 – Family secrets, haunting next to a colonial home, and a hidden exorcism
• [46:01] Story 5 – Maria’s astral projection, demon obsession, and the intervention of angels

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Tone & Style

The hosts balance “the scaries” with their quirky humor and relatability, providing much-needed levity between intense moments:

• “If I ever hear a fox screaming in the night, I will simply pass away.” – Melissa (12:18)
• “Why are you so obsessed with me?… This is a codependent demon.” – Sabrina (50:23)
• “Have you ever tried talk therapy?” – Corinne, joking to the demon (50:31)

They often connect the encounters with pop culture (e.g., “Haunting of Hill House” and “Good Omens”) and inject personal anecdotes, making the episode feel conversational and accessible.

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Episode Takeaways

• The paranormal can be generational, and sensitivity often runs in families.
• Exorcisms and demonic encounters manifest uniquely, sometimes blending psychological trauma with supernatural experiences.
• The power of protection—through prayer, rituals, or personal belief—is a recurring theme.
• Light, support, and “guardian” figures often emerge after or during crisis, providing hope and closure.
• Family communication about the weird and wild is important, as secrets can linger for generations.

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Summary for New Listeners

This episode is a quintessential blend of horror and humor—alternately making listeners shiver and laugh out loud. The stories, though chilling, are told with compassion for the storyteller, and the hosts’ banter keeps the mood buoyant enough to leave listeners with a sense of dark wonder, rather than despair. Those curious about real-life accounts of exorcisms, possessions, and generational hauntings will find this episode both thrilling and oddly comforting.

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For more haunted tales or to submit your own, email [e-mail].

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“We will see you on the other side…”

Transcript

[Sabrina]

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[Corinne]

Hello.

[Sabrina]

Be warned.

[Corinne]

This is a spooky, scary episode.

[Sabrina]

This is a very spooky, scary episode.

[Corinne]

This is two girls, one ghost.

[Sabrina]

Two girls, one ghost. And we are your ghostesses. That's Corinne. Hello, I'm Sabrina. And this is an encounters episode.

[Corinne]

Can you guess our topic?

[Sabrina]

And we went scary. This week. We decided to pick stories.

[Corinne]

It's already coming for me.

[Sabrina]

Oh, my gosh. Are you okay? Yeah. We decided to pick stories that were submitted by you, our listeners, our very haunted listeners that are specifically centered around exorcisms, possessions, and demons.

[Corinne]

Yay. Woo.

[Sabrina]

Why do I like, picture that? I like. I literally, in my head heard that, like, really cheesy kids cheering sound effect,

[Corinne]

like laugh track for Nickelodeon.

[Sabrina]

And then it like, weirdly skips out and starts going, Yeah, Anyway, all right,

[Corinne]

Sabrina, why don't you start?

[Sabrina]

I would love to. Thank you. Thank you. So, honestly, such an honor to be.

[Corinne]

It's been your badge, your claim to fame.

[Sabrina]

I wear it proudly and creepily. If you're not scared of me, I'm not doing my job right. Oh, I like the subject line of this one. So I'll start with this one. Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who's the scariest of them all? This is from our listener, Melissa.

[Corinne]

Melissa.

[Sabrina]

Hello, Corinne and Sabrina. First off, I love the podcast. You ladies truly are the best ghostesses and balance the scaries with just the right amount of humor. I. I'm a relatively new listener, and I'm pretty stoked to have a couple hundred episodes to catch up on while I'm working the night shift. Second, before jumping into my story, I should establish that I am a magnet for terrifying, inexplicable. Please get an exorcist immediately. Experiences.

[Corinne]

Oh. Oh, okay.

[Sabrina]

And it's been this way since I was 6 years old. Also, this is Encounters333, which we did not intend.

[Corinne]

But that is creepy.

[Sabrina]

It is creepy. Double that number 666. So this paranormal sensitivity runs through the women in my family. My mom has premonitions and even has vivid dreams that predict tragic events. Like my cousin dying in a car accident. My grandmother, her mom is the same way, although she prefers not to talk about it. And then there's me, Blessed, cursed with that same family gift. You know, just a girl out here trying to survive. Interesting side note about the three of us. We have each had a childhood near death experience. My grandma almost drowned as a teenager while water skiing. My mom almost died in a bad car accident when she was 19. And I almost drowned in a riptide when I was five. Connected. I don't know. That's for another email. This is the situation of me as a nine year old when my aunt passed away very suddenly. So after her death, my parents decided to buy her house and all of us moved in. So naturally, the ghosts that lived there were like, mm, yes, fresh meat. Mmm, mmm. Delicious.

[Corinne]

Bon appetit.

[Sabrina]

Finger looking good. I honestly have wanted to say finger looking good for a really long time. And that was like the perfect time.

[Corinne]

It's just always been right there, the tip of your tongue waiting for the moment.

[Sabrina]

Yeah. There's like an entity that's been in my head being like, give me my opportunity.

[Corinne]

Finger licking good.

[Sabrina]

You're welcome. Okay. At first, things were unsettling, but not outright terrifying. But I think I was the most affected. Like, I never felt alone in that house ever. I always felt like I was being watched. And I would constantly look over my shoulder to see if there was someone behind me and hey, would, you know, no one ever was. My dog at the time was just a little nine pound guy and he would growl and shake like a leaf at empty doorways. Lights flickered unpredictably. Small items would get moved. And then there was the bathroom. See, my aunt had died in the downstairs bathroom, and we all avoided this bathroom for obvious reasons. But then there were some less obvious reasons too. Ones that none of us ever talked about. This bathroom was always freezing cold, no matter the season. The walls and floors were weirdly slick, constantly with condensation, even though no one used that bathroom. It was as if the house itself was sweating. And beyond that, there was something very off in there, like a presence and a heaviness of sorts. Still, we could brush this off because, you know, grief is weird. Moving is unsettling. And maybe it was just our minds playing tricks on us. Until the first night that we actually slept at the house. I was camping out on my new bedroom floor in a sleeping bag when I woke up. So fast and so violently that I was already sitting up straight before I could even tell I was awake. My heart was racing and I had no idea until I saw the glowing red numbers on my alarm clock. 3:33am and that is when I heard it. A woman's blood curdling scream from inside the house.

[Corinne]

Oh my God.

[Sabrina]

Specifically coming from down the hall in the direction of the bathroom where my aunt had died. Cue full body shutdown. I buried myself in my sleeping bag like a little burrito and prayed to every deity that I had ever imagined. But then came the footsteps down the hall, closer toward my room. Nope. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. I panicked. I prayed harder. These footsteps kept coming. And then in my doorway, appeared my mother, pale as a ghost. Did you hear that? She whispered. I nodded, barely breathing. So they had both heard the scream.

[Corinne]

That makes it worse. When your mom is scared.

[Sabrina]

Yeah, it comes to you. Are you scared?

[Corinne]

Can I sleep with you?

[Sabrina]

Yes. My mom hesitated and was like, it was probably just a fox. Our new house was in a much more rural area, so, you know, we weren't used to living in places like this. It must have been some wild animal, right? We both went back to bed, but truthfully, neither of us slept. Weeks passed and nothing else happened. We settled in. My mom and I never spoke about that scream again. And I just started to convince myself that maybe it was really just some outside wildlife. Then came the night when I woke up in my hallway. Don't know how I got there. One moment I was asleep, the next I was conscious. Not in my bed, standing barefoot on the cold hardwood floor. The house was silent. Too silent. The kind of stillness that feels unnatural. Like the air itself was holding its breath. I was confused, disoriented. But before I could process anything, my feet start moving. Not by choice, or not by conscious choice. I was being compelled forward by something or. Or someone else.

[Corinne]

You. I'm picturing them not even walking and just kind of like floating. Levitating. Being picked up and drifting towards this thing.

[Sabrina]

Something else is controlling her body. I was moving as if in a trance. I walked down the hall, through the dining room, past the stairs that led down to the basement and the bathroom where my aunt had died. Finally into the living room where I stopped. Or whatever was controlling me stopped to the left. Was this Large picture window that overlooked the yard outside. And to my right was a piano. Above the piano was an antique mirror flanked by two wall sconces that we had inherited from my aunt. That mirror had never been moved like it was in its original place. Still. And it had always filled me with a deep, instinctual dread, so I always avoided looking into it. And I remember feeling very strange in that moment. Like my conscious mind and my body were disconnected. And yes, I was still inside my body, but I was not in control. And I remember thinking, as if from far away, this is so strange. What time is it? Why am I up? Why am I just standing here? And then, as if to answer my questions, my head turned towards the picture window. Corinne and Sabrina. I need to emphasize only my head turned. My shoulders and feet stayed frozen, unnaturally perpendicular to the direction I was looking. Ew. The sky outside was breathtaking. A sunrise bathed in shades of lavender and pink, so impossibly vivid it didn't feel real. And then a coaxing whisper slid through my mind. See, it's morning. It's time to be awake.

[Corinne]

Oh, why is this the creepiest thing ever?

[Sabrina]

I relaxed because despite it being creepy, there was a reassurance.

[Corinne]

This. No, this feels like a scene in a Mike Flanagan show. I'm sorry. This is disturbing.

[Sabrina]

But just as I relaxed, something was wrong. There was a different voice. My voice, this time screaming from far away to look closer. To look closer. It's wrong. It's wrong, it's wrong. And that's when I noticed these colors were too bright. The air was too still. Time felt suspended, stretched, like the world outside the glass was only pretending to be real. And my inner voice came back confidently, saying, this is fake. Then my body turned sharp and immediate to face the piano, to face the camera. I was screaming internally not to look at that mirror. But I had no choice because I was not in control. I looked, and I saw myself. Pale, scared. But when I really looked, I realized this wasn't me. I was staring at my own face, but I didn't recognize myself. And then my reflection was gone. And something else was there. Thin, wiry, stretched over sickly gray skin mottled with age spots. Long, sparse strands of stringy hair clinging to a mostly bald scalp. I could only see it from the shoulders up, but I could tell that even though it wasn't massive, it was physically incredibly strong. Eyes like black liquid, scared at me. And then it lunged. I saw its jaw unhinge from its mouth with an animalistic scream and jagged yellow teeth monstrously Sharp teeth, gray vicious saliva stretching and dripping between them. This entity slammed itself towards me. But just as it felt like it was about to reach me, it was held back by thick iron chains. It thrashed, angry. I could feel its rage, its hatred, like it wanted to tear me apart and it wanted to be free. Panicking, I finally gained consciousness of my body and was able to control it. I stumbled backwards. I crashed into the piano and I fell to the floor and everything went black. I woke up the next morning. I was in my bed, tucked snugly under my comforter. I was like, okay, that must have been a dream, a bad dream. But I felt drained, hollowed out, and withdrawn. And then I saw a massive bruise on my thigh. And when I went downstairs for breakfast, my mom frowned at me. Do you know who knocked the piano bench over last night? I am now an adult years removed from that house. I've lived in many places since, but to this day refuse to have antique mirrors in my home. And if I ever hear a fox screaming in the night, I will simply pass away. Although we know it wasn't a fox.

[Corinne]

Oh, my gosh, that's the worst. To, like, think that you might be dreaming still and then realize it was real. It is certainly real, whatever you experienced.

[Sabrina]

Yeah. Thanks for reading and giving me and the rest of us more paranormally inclined a space to share our trauma. Stay spooky, but not possessed. Melissa. P.S. that experience with the mirror haunted my adolescence. And I never told anyone. Well, until I was in high school.

[Corinne]

Wow.

[Sabrina]

While I was still a child, I dealt with night terrors following the incident. And I would imagine a sphere of white or golden light cascading over our house and angels wielding massive golden swords protecting us. This was just an instinctual practice, which is wild that. That's instinct. But it's something that when you are in this world, like people teach you. Now that I've dabbled in more witchy and metaphysical things, I've learned that this is a ritual protection of magic and is practiced by witches and meditation experts. Like, wow. The fact that I knew so cool anyway from Melissa.

[Corinne]

Dang. I mean, this is terrifying. The picture of that entity, the being whispered, like, see, it's. It's morning out, time to wake up. And just like, I literally am picturing haunting of Hill House, where like, they do in spirit form kind of like glide through the house and just the neck being. Oh, just everything. The imagery is horrifying.

[Sabrina]

Horrifying.

[Corinne]

And to know that this is just a small piece of the terrible things paranormally that she's experienced throughout her life.

[Sabrina]

It's horrifying.

[Corinne]

It is horrifying.

[Sabrina]

And like, what the heck is happening in this house? Because I agree, like, when you first move into someone's house, especially like the history of the aunt having passed away in the home. It's in a rural area. You don't really know. It's so new. Yeah. And especially if they're keeping like a lot of the aunt's, like, belongings. Like, it doesn't feel like your home at first.

[Corinne]

Yeah.

[Sabrina]

That you would be like, oh, this is just us getting used to it.

[Corinne]

Right.

[Sabrina]

But it also makes me wonder if the aunt was experiencing a lot of hauntings.

[Corinne]

Yeah. Ooh, I've chilled.

[Sabrina]

I know.

[Corinne]

So creepy.

[Sabrina]

You sick, sick spirits.

[Corinne]

It's not going to get better.

[Sabrina]

Yeah.

[Corinne]

No.

[Sabrina]

There's going to be very little reprieve, if any. I don't know your stories, but we'll see.

[Corinne]

I don't think they're as bad as that.

[Sabrina]

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[Corinne]

This one's called I Was a Teenage Exorcist and I'm Still a Medium.

[Sabrina]

Wait, that's cool.

[Corinne]

Yeah.

[Sabrina]

Okay.

[Corinne]

Hello, my name is T. They them. I'm a new listener and I found you through heartstart's pounding podcast Shout out to Karen, your episode in Salem. I'm an Episcopalian medium and I was a Catholic lay exorcist in high school.

[Sabrina]

What does that mean? Like, why am I thinking that's, you know, when you go to church and you're like, going through communion and stuff and you volunteer to be the little assistant palm bears. Yeah, pallbearers, whatever.

[Corinne]

Who knows?

[Sabrina]

It's like a volunteer exorcism for your high school church program.

[Corinne]

Right?

[Sabrina]

That wasn't English.

[Corinne]

That was not a position offered at my church. No, me neither. Did you do the one, like, one of the ones that involved being at mass?

[Sabrina]

I think I had to before my first communion.

[Corinne]

Before first communion, they put you to work when you were like, five?

[Sabrina]

Yeah.

[Corinne]

Damn. I don't have memories from that. I don't really know.

[Sabrina]

I don't either.

[Corinne]

What I did.

[Sabrina]

I remember an image of the outfit sitting on my stairs in, like, the house that I grew up in. But that's all of the memory.

[Corinne]

Oh, yeah. My position for, like, before confirmation, because you had to do like a year worth of contributing, was on Sunday nights at like 6pm they would have a meeting the priest and, like, all the people involved at the church, and they would talk about, like, what's going on? And I would go for 15 minutes and let them know what was going on in our confirmation class. I was like, people are still religious. Thanks.

[Sabrina]

Yay.

[Corinne]

Bye. And that was it. I never. I didn't go to church.

[Sabrina]

Wow.

[Corinne]

Anyway, if we had known we could have done exorcisms, maybe we would have.

[Sabrina]

I don't know if I would have, but we're about to find out. We're live vicariously through tea.

[Corinne]

Okay, so Episcopalian, but was Catholic in high school. My parents were a part of a super weird new wave Catholic religious movement called Charismatic Prayer or Charismatic Renewal. And the concept was that God empowered all of his faithful with the power to cleanse the world from evil, sin, and haunting and this sounds like a cult. Since I was a kid, was he

[Sabrina]

doing spanking or just kind of like winking? But I can't make him actually wink.

[Corinne]

Since I was a kid, my family seemed followed by curses. My birth mom, who I don't speak to now, and that's a whole other thing, was a very negative force who constantly seemed to be followed. She would be getting possessed around once a month. Like, her eyes would turn black, her hair would just float. She would start hissing and growling until someone from our group would purge her of the evil. And then she'd go back to normal. Not great, but, like, at least she wasn't denying.

[Sabrina]

What else is this?

[Corinne]

That's crazy. I would frequently keep watch over her because out of the corner of my eye, I swear I would always see claws or this like, demonic gargoyle like creature on her shoulders. Oh, my God.

[Sabrina]

I'm so sorry.

[Corinne]

Every home I lived in growing up had the same problems. Our family photos, posters, artwork would fly off the wall of the staircase or the living room all at once.

[Sabrina]

Damn.

[Corinne]

What in the. Paranormal activity.

[Sabrina]

This is wild.

[Corinne]

And only the family photos would be shattered. We ended up needing that.

[Sabrina]

Reminds me of the Hinsdale haunting. I'm pretty sure, like, the entity there was like a knife in a picture of, like, the family.

[Corinne]

Very creepy. We ended up needing plastic in our frames instead of glass. If you left half empty cups, they would always spill. Sometimes they would slide totally off the counter and onto the floor. I would see pioneer men and women, strange, half men, half goat, demonic figures.

[Sabrina]

Oh, my goodness.

[Corinne]

And these things were like as tall as the ceiling. I also saw a weeping woman with stringy hair. She like, literally looked like she was from the garage or the ring. And black eyed children appearing randomly at the ends of the hallways.

[Sabrina]

He had no choice but to become an exorcist in high school.

[Corinne]

What was happening? I'd see them in the corner of my bedroom in the backyard at night. And like I said, it was every house. Every house had these problems. I had to cover my mirrors at night so that I wouldn't see all of these weird entities in my room. And I'm a medium, so I did see them in their full glory. And my family was always fighting. We were getting sick, having horrible nightmares. And to be honest, I have complex PTSD from my parents raising me, but I'm sure a lot of that definitely fed from the energy of the homes. Yeah, this level of activity actually stopped once my parents got a divorce and they completely stopped talking when I was 18 years old. Once I got to high school though, I started getting really good at calling upon Jesus, Mary and God to take away the demons and the ghosts, at least for the night. So I was asked to join a prayer group that my parents were in. I ended up assisting my dad and our 25 year old tenant at the time, who was also in the group, in purging haunted houses and possessed people of demonic and poltergeist activity.

[Sabrina]

I mean, it's kind of fun.

[Corinne]

And I had to exorcise my mom a few times. And the only way to describe what an exorcism feels like is it's like hot fire from God runs through my body as I pray and I feel myself pulling on darkness. I see the darkness pull out of a person and this darkness is often hissing. Sometimes I even see claws detaching from a person. And I'll know that the exorcism is done when I see a person fill with light again and they start to look human.

[Sabrina]

The amount of power and like healing energy that T has.

[Corinne]

Yeah.

[Sabrina]

It's also like sad because it's like I feel like this is a parallel specifically to the like CPTSD that T has, where it's like you almost had to grow up so much earlier in life and take care of the other people in your life. And it's being reflected in a literal way where T at a young age is like coming to the aid of so many other people.

[Corinne]

Yeah. And it's like not even taking care of someone in a normal sense.

[Sabrina]

No.

[Corinne]

It is literally fighting demonic entities while also getting no moments of reprieve because your own home, your bedroom, your backyard, everywhere, so scary. There's other things I hope you have

[Sabrina]

really fun, like hobbies that fill your cup. Yeah.

[Corinne]

Like I don't even know what to suggest.

[Sabrina]

Why did I. My brain went to stickering.

[Corinne]

Like making them or just putting them or like putting them. We'll send you some stickers. The worst exorcism I ever did was on my own. And this was with a 25 year old tenant who we will call Elle. We were supposed to be visiting a retirement home to sing worship music and pray with the tenants. But there was one person that Elle had been visiting for a while. And my heart sank when I entered their room. Her pupils filled her irises, her hair stuck out like static, and she would speak in this thick, strange language, French, according to her nurses. The nurses said she was from San Diego, California, and she had never spoken French before, nor did she know anyone that was speaking French. So how she was saying it. We did not know.

[Sabrina]

Je ne sais quoi. She's just watching a lot of Moulin Rouge.

[Corinne]

Elle and I wanted to help her, so we decided to pray. As we prayed, she started chanting louder and louder. Her face started to contort into the snarl, and the furniture and small items in her room started to levitate.

[Sabrina]

What the actual.

[Corinne]

I know. I don't know why I said that. This wasn't scary.

[Sabrina]

I think it's a combination of, like, feeling sore from my workout last night and being hungry right now, but I feel so weak.

[Corinne]

Yeah, actually, I. Moments before this was cut out of the episode. But I texted Brian to be quiet because I thought he was on a work call right out here. And I was like, can you turn that work call down? And he goes, that was your delivery

[Sabrina]

driver with your lunch.

[Corinne]

So our lunch is here. It was him talking.

[Sabrina]

Okay, well, so at least you'll be refueled soon. If something else doesn't take over me because I am weak right now.

[Corinne]

Oh, man. The air got so thick, it felt like I could barely breathe. But I kept praying. I felt myself levitating, and then I got shoved a foot back, but I didn't stop because I saw the darkness pulling away from her body. Light and energy flooding in the room. And in that moment, everything that had been levitated just dunked back down. The woman fell back, and we completed the exorcism.

[Sabrina]

Holy.

[Corinne]

A week later, surrounded by her family, she passed away peacefully. That exorcism made me vow that I was never going to do one again. And I switched to being a witch and a druid for a while. And then eventually I converted to an Episcopalian last year because it allows me the closeness to God. But I'm also allowed to read tarot Sage, do medium and divination work. Comfort spirits who come to me and pray to God all at once. My future husband is a medium as well, and together we are a very powerful couple.

[Sabrina]

That is awesome.

[Corinne]

Thank you for reading this kind of insane story. I have so many, and I may email them later.

[Sabrina]

Please do.

[Corinne]

From T. T they them.

[Sabrina]

It's wild because, like, sometimes when we read some of these stories, I'm like, wow, these are perfect examples of, like, you really don't know what people are doing in their homes. Like, the fact that that's just existing, then that's just happening, and we don't get to experience it. But T is and has experienced that is, like, just blows my mind. Like someone somewhere in the world right now. Like, T is dealing with something like that.

[Corinne]

Right? Like, an exorcism could be happening at this very moment.

[Sabrina]

At this very moment. If we lived in an apartment building. I do. But we. Right now, in this moment, like, literally, someone in the room right next to me could be having an exorcism performed and we wouldn't know.

[Corinne]

No. It does kind of make you wonder, though, about. It's like when they get expelled, where do they go? Just into the next person. And then another exorcism. Does it never end?

[Sabrina]

I mean, energy can't be destroyed nor created.

[Corinne]

No. And that's science.

[Sabrina]

And therefore, demons are real.

[Corinne]

Brian texted me and said that the guy was telling him that I have no fries because the restaurant put them on just a bare plastic plate, and someone cut him off, and he jammed on the brakes and they went flying onto the ground.

[Sabrina]

He stole our fries.

[Corinne]

He ate the fries for sure.

[Sabrina]

I feel like we have a demon on our hands right now.

[Corinne]

Our delivery driver ate our fries, and that's pretty evil. They don't just hand you a bare plastic plate and say, here you go.

[Sabrina]

And if they did, you would say, hey, can you please put this in a container? Well, you know what? Enjoy your fries. Okay. This is. Hey. Another demonic story. It is from our listener, Amy. And that's a fake name, but it is called the Demon with Yellow Eyes Tried to Kill Me. Hope you guys are doing well and taking good care of yourselves. I absolutely love your podcast, and thank you guys are truly doing such amazing work, enlightening everyone, but also captivating everyone with your merry. With your amazing storytelling skills, like, you know, fumbling over our words. Yeah. Thank you. My name, if you read this on the podcast, is Amy. I live in Cape Town, South Africa, and I thought I would share my paranormal experience with you. As a note, I am a Christian, a child of God, but not the kind that judges others for their beliefs. I was taught to respect others, but please do know that I do pray that no demons or anything like that ever harms you, your families, or any one of your fans and listeners. Thank you.

[Corinne]

That's very nice.

[Sabrina]

Now, on to my experience. In the early 2000s, we moved into a new house. I was about five or six years old, and I remember immediately feeling like something was off and that remained. Like always, there was something that just felt off. Of course, I was too young to realize that there was darkness that dwelled in our walls. I remember there was always something watching us, like it was this incredibly dark and evil presence. But my parents could never feel it. Only my sister And I. And my sister's five years older than I, so she was probably 10 or 11 at this point. It got to the point where I literally couldn't go to the bathroom, take a shower, take a bath, or even go to sleep without one of my parents near me. And this went on for years. When I was about 10 or 11, that is when I started to see things. My sister and I shared a room, and I could always see these dark shadows that would move over my sister while she was sleeping. And the thing with yellow eyes. Yeah, that would sit by our closet and just stare at us and watch us.

[Corinne]

Hell, no. That is so terrifying. But at the same time, I'm so glad they had their sister.

[Sabrina]

I know.

[Corinne]

It's like the two of them together.

[Sabrina]

I know. But night after night, this thing would try to creep closer to us. And I don't know if this has anything to do with the spirit or demon, but I did start sleep talking and sleepwalking to the point where I would unlock our security gate and. And walk down the street while sleepwalking.

[Corinne]

Oh, that's so scary.

[Sabrina]

I kind of, like, picked a theme of sleepwalking here because the first one had that too. My parents always luckily got me before I wandered too far. But it's still so creepy. Yeah. Going outside, going through the security, being in the road.

[Corinne]

I know.

[Sabrina]

And my sister said that every time I would sleepwalk, I would, like, dart up out of bed, I would stare at her, mumble something odd, and then either go outside or climb back into bed and fall asleep. Ooh. Ooh.

[Corinne]

This is like, I want her to have the little, like, chime thing on the outside of her door so her parents can be alerted.

[Sabrina]

Or does the bells on her ankles.

[Corinne]

Right. Although she seems so high functioning that she probably would have removed the bells.

[Sabrina]

I know that's true. Is it even her doing this? Okay. So eventually, my sister and I had to tell our parents how scared we were. And my dad called over one of his good friends. I'll call him John. But John was a pastor that had experience with exorcisms and spirit cleanings, so he had a history. He also used to go to prisons and would help lost inmates find their way back to God. So John came over and blessed the house, and for about a year, all seemed well and good until our grandparents moved in the house and I started to feel it again. So my sister and I were watching the Messengers, which came out in 2007. One afternoon while everyone was out and the TV room had a weird layout because we had to move everything to accommodate for our grandparents moving in. So basically the way we were sitting and watching TV was our backs were facing our grandparents room. The room had double doors with glass in them so you could see in and out. My grandparents had put some tiny curtains up so you couldn't see into their room. But here's where the activity started. As we're watching this horror movie, I could feel something watching us. Eventually I turned to look at the doors behind us just in time to see the curtains move as if someone was watching us. And quickly closed the curtains. Freaked out but remaining calm, I mentioned it to my sister. She turned to look as well and it happened again. Luckily, five minutes after that, our parents returned home and all was well again for a moment. And life went on. Then my grandfather died and I caught my grandmother talking to his ghost in the living room. And shortly after that, my grandmother passed away. Literally from a broken heart. Oh, I started hearing someone call my name just to find no one else was in the house but me. My sister and I got our own rooms and I no longer had that dark feeling in my new bedroom. But the darkness continued in hers, which I imagine she kept their original room. So it's the room. One weekend my sister went away with her friends and I thought everything was fine until I could literally feel its anger. Like whatever was in the house was so angry my sister left. That night I had sleep paralysis for the first time. And I was about 13 or 14 years old at this time. And it is the worst thing I have ever, ever experienced. My eyes were wide open. I could not move. But I just watched as this yellow eyed man entered my room, walked straight through my closed door. And I watched as my school books started flying everywhere. But I couldn't make a single sound. My spongebob poster that was behind my door got ripped and looked as if three sharp fingernails had been dragged through it.

[Corinne]

That's bad.

[Sabrina]

Next thing I know, this entity turned its attention to me. I felt it on top of me, choking me. I could not breathe. And the next thing I know, my nose started bleeding and I was being choked while drowning on my own blood because it was running down my throat.

[Corinne]

Holy crap.

[Sabrina]

Suddenly in my head I start shouting. She was saying it in Afrikaans, but it meant appear before the feet of God. I am the child of the Lord and you are not welcome here. Within an instant, I see this light, grab the yellow eyed entity thing by the throat, shoot it up into the air, and they both disappeared.

[Corinne]

What in the world? This is like A superhero battle.

[Sabrina]

Right. The moment that weight came off me, I screamed as loud as I could, and my parents came barging in just to find me coughing while lying in a massive pool of my own blood. My room was a mess because this entity had scratched the posters and thrown books around. My dad is looking at the mess and is like, what the hell just happened? Luckily, I was fine. I told my parents everything that had happened, and my dad continuously started blessing the house again and again and again, and that thing never returned. My dad has now passed, but I still live in that house with my mom. And whenever anything starts to feel off or I feel like something's watching me, I just repeat that same phrase. Appear before the feet of God. I am a child of the Lord, and you are not welcome here. I actually used that same phrase last night. And within an instant, that darkness always lifts. Yeah, this was a pretty traumatic experience for me. I hope you guys enjoyed my story. Have a blessed day. Year end, lifetime. Much love and respect from Amy.

[Corinne]

I mean, kind of a horrible thing to experience, but also super cool to witness those final moments.

[Sabrina]

The literally just like, power of that entity grabbing the yellow demon and ripping them up. Yeah.

[Corinne]

Makes me feel like they had a backstory. Oh, seriously? Those two knew each other. There was some serious beef.

[Sabrina]

I started watching they were siblings a while back. I started watching Good Omens. Is it Charlie Sheen? Michael Sheen, who's the not problematic one?

[Corinne]

Michael.

[Sabrina]

Michael Sheen. So I think it's Michael Sheen who's not problematic.

[Corinne]

Definitely not Charlie.

[Sabrina]

Yeah, I was like, I was Charlie

[Corinne]

Sheen, but that's half your reputation.

[Sabrina]

But it's really good. And it's like a devil, an angel, like, kind of comedy. But they, like, have such a background between each other, and then they start to, like, help each other out.

[Corinne]

Oh.

[Sabrina]

I mean, I didn't. I didn't finish it. I think I watched, like, the first season, but I liked the idea of it. And it makes me think, because this

[Corinne]

kind of reminded me of, like, Thor and Loki sort of vibe.

[Sabrina]

Yeah. Like, get back here.

[Corinne]

You are in such deep shit now that I found you.

[Sabrina]

Yeah, Right.

[Corinne]

We're going home.

[Sabrina]

Yeah. Yeah. But I'm glad that you were able to, like, conjure this protective spirit to. To say, hey, demon, it's not.

[Corinne]

Not today, not today, Satan.

[Sabrina]

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[Corinne]

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[Sabrina]

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[Corinne]

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[Sabrina]

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[Corinne]

Right?

[Sabrina]

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[Corinne]

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[Sabrina]

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[Corinne]

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[Sabrina]

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[Corinne]

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[Sabrina]

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[Corinne]

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[Sabrina]

Well, can you retell that to us?

[Corinne]

Yeah, we want to know.

[Sabrina]

Yeah.

[Corinne]

And ones about my great grandma reading tarot cards. And she once held a seance in her childhood village in Ukraine, where plates flew off the shelves. You come from a spooky lineage.

[Sabrina]

Yeah. That's amazing.

[Corinne]

Oh, and there may or may not have been a time that I convinced the majority of my fifth grade class that the unused room across the hall was haunted. Yep, I'm that kid.

[Sabrina]

But was it haunted or did you just make it up and you convinced everyone? Either way, Love it. I had a friend in middle school. I think her name was Alexa. Shout out to you. I hope you're doing well. And I think we were just making this up entirely, but she would go to the bathroom and she'd be like, there was a ghost in the bathroom. So then I would be like, can I use the bathroom? And I'd go to the bathroom and I'd like, just like, sit in there.

[Corinne]

Ghost hunt.

[Sabrina]

In the first ghost hunt, and then I would come back to class and I'd be like, I saw it too. But I didn't.

[Corinne]

That's what bonded you.

[Sabrina]

Yeah.

[Corinne]

Okay. Anyway, let's get into the reason I started this email in the first place. I'm starting off with some background details, and I do promise these are important. I'm the youngest of three kids, the only girl, and was raised by, let's say, more traditional type parents. Part of their traditionalness involves not telling me a damn thing because they don't want me to worry. Oh, my brother's in the hospital. We don't want to bother you. Dad had surgery. Didn't want to bother. Oh, my God. This is my parents. Unless I directly ask, like, I Have to like just conjure things up. Like is there any chance that there was a test result that has anything to do with this? And it's like, oh yeah, they did happen a couple months ago. It's like they don't tell me anything.

[Sabrina]

It's like the fine line because like I feel like I was told way too much where it's like, how do you walk that line? But yeah, it's confusing because you're a kid and you, you don't understand but you know that something's weird. Like if your brother's in the hospital,

[Corinne]

you would want to know where's brother. Bringing me Back to my 5am Checked my mom's location on 5. My friends freaking in the emergency room.

[Sabrina]

Wild.

[Corinne]

Tell your kids yes, these things.

[Sabrina]

Yes.

[Corinne]

Okay. Anyway, dad had surgery. Didn't want to bother you. It's gotten worse actually. Now that I live across the country, I guess I'm out of sight, out of mind. I'm in Colorado and they're in Connecticut, which may as well just be different planets. It's trickled down to my oldest brother as well. And for context, my siblings are 10 and 12 years older than I am and my oldest niece is 20. During my last visit home, my brother, my older brother, niece and I were standing at my parents kitchen just hanging out. And at some point the conversation started to shift towards talking about some ghost show or another. And my brother says, yeah, like the exorcism we had at the old house.

[Sabrina]

Excuse me. What?

[Corinne]

Literally excuse me.

[Sabrina]

What

[Corinne]

now? Let's jump back a little bit. My brother and his family used to live in a house that was next door to a very old colonial home. Think traditional and old Connecticut.

[Sabrina]

I was like, Connecticut makes sense.

[Corinne]

Hunting in Connecticut, like one of the worst cases. It's a few hundred years old, it's set back in the woods. A house that I would absolutely love. It's old, it's historic. Maybe a little creepy in the vibes. Anyway, my brother's dog absolutely refused to walk past this house.

[Sabrina]

Trust your pets.

[Corinne]

Just a 120 pound pile of fluff. Parking his butt on the side of the road and holding his ground to not get anywhere closer to this house. On one of these frustrating walks, my brother glanced over at the property where he saw someone hanging from the property's barn.

[Sabrina]

Oh my gosh.

[Corinne]

He looked back again and it was gone. So he didn't really think anything of it. But around this time, he did start having dreams about this house. And the dreams were vivid. He saw soldiers battling in the Field. And he started having these dreams so often that he was convinced that maybe this was a past life of his, that he was a soldier.

[Sabrina]

This reminds me so much of the Conjuring House, which is on the border

[Corinne]

there, right there in Rhode island and

[Sabrina]

like, all the, like, battles that happened

[Corinne]

in Connecticut and Rhode Island. Yeah, King Philip's War. Like, there's so much. Jeez, that's right there. He's thinking maybe something in this house triggered memories from a past life. Maybe there was a battle near this house. In the one instance where my brother did get to meet the homeowners. He did admit that cups would randomly break and that they believed that the house was haunted.

[Sabrina]

I can confirm. Never been there. But based on these stories alone.

[Corinne]

Yeah, she writes, ugh, I would love to go into that house and ask these people so many questions. Why not lead with that? Hi, I live in a haunted house right next door. Okay, maybe not everyone does the things that I want to do. The next part of this involves my niece. My niece lived next door to the old house and pretty much lived there the majority of her life. And I can't help but wonder if everything that was about to unfold somehow involved the energy around this house. In the first story anyone ever told me, my niece was maybe three or four and she was playing in her room. My brother went over to check in on her and asked her what she was doing, thinking that she'd respond something like having a tea party with my stuffed animals or coloring a pretty picture. He was shocked when she said, I'm playing with a lady. He responded, what lady? To which she said, the lady that comes and plays with me and sometimes she touches me, but it's not mama. Say what now? So freaked out, my brother backed out of the room and patiently waited for my sister in law to come home. He just abandons his child.

[Sabrina]

Also, like, the touching me gives me like, icky. What's. What do you mean?

[Corinne]

Yeah, like, is she like braiding your hair? Because, like, if she's just like, oh, yeah, you wouldn't necessarily think to bring that up, right? Is it maybe the spirit of our murdered aunt coming to play? Or maybe is it something darker? Things like this continued to happen and they happened even when my niece wasn't home. On one occasion, my mom was taking my niece upstairs at their house to go to bed. My niece stopped and wouldn't go any further up the dark staircase. My mom said, come on, there's nothing up there. Au contraire, mom. Then who is standing behind you? She asked My niece, at this point, is having trouble sleeping. She's refusing to sleep by herself. And everyone grew more and more frustrated with her. But looking back, maybe she had good reason. Now, let's jump back to present day, where my brother told me about the time that his wife started sprinkling holy water on my niece, and she said, get that crap off of me. It was somewhere around this time that a priest was called in to help, and, of course, someone else walked into the room, and the conversation quickly changed. And then we flew back home to Colorado without any other details. And so then I tried texting my brother and his wife about all of this, and they were being really vague about the details and not like they're trying to hide something more, just like, oh, yeah, it was just this random thing that happened. People, this isn't like telling me about a sandwich you made. This is a goddamn exorcism. Like, what?

[Sabrina]

We need every single detail, please. Sure.

[Corinne]

It's. I'm going to have to get more details out of them the next time my niece visits. I'll definitely write back once I get more, that is. See you on the other side with love, Mott.

[Sabrina]

I mean, I'm not surprised that this place is haunted, considering, like, everything that her brother was, like, envisioning and seeing, but it is the. Get that.

[Corinne]

Get that crap off of me.

[Sabrina]

I don't like that.

[Corinne]

Very disturbing.

[Sabrina]

Yeah. I'm so curious who this woman is. I hope she's not touching her inappropriately.

[Corinne]

There's, like.

[Sabrina]

There's something about that that made me feel icky.

[Corinne]

Like sometimes she touches me.

[Sabrina]

Yeah, like, that's such a weird statement,

[Corinne]

but it's not Mom. Ah, creepy, creepy, creepy.

[Sabrina]

Okay, well, I have one more. This is from our listener, Maria, the demon that took an obsession with me. Why are you so obsessed with me? Demons have burn books. Yeah. Hello, my name is Maria. I live in California, and I've been listening to your podcast for about a year and a half. I love hearing you guys when I'm at work or just bored at home. Anyway, this story is 100% real. These events happened to me. It has taken everything in me to start open up about my experiences due to the trauma and the anxiety that I get from reliving it. Dang.

[Corinne]

I'm sorry.

[Sabrina]

Started when I was 13 years old. I lived with my mom and my brother, who at the time was an infant, and my sister, who was nine at the time. I remember as a child, my grandmother would say to me, when you go to sleep at night, make sure not to wander off too far. You don't want to do that because you won't wake up creepy Grandma fairy. But also, I feel like that's, like, Grandma's way of saying you have a gift. And it's, like, passed on, but without, like, being too creepy about it, you know?

[Corinne]

Yeah. It almost sounds like it's astral projection, where it's like, don't go too far from your body because you might not make it back in time.

[Sabrina]

I never really understood what she meant by this, so I kind of brushed her off. Like, okay, yeah, sure. But, yeah. At night, I would dream about going places that I had never seen before, but did somehow feel familiar. I would talk to people that felt familiar as well. But the crazy part would be when they would say, it's been a while. I'm so glad you're back. Oh, wow, we've missed you. And I swear I felt a longing every time I saw them. Like, I would cry in my sleep. And I know this because I'd wake up with eyes wet. Yeah. So it's like another life, or just. Yeah, I don't know.

[Corinne]

Or is there a whole other life in the astral world that people can just experience, like, over lifetimes? It's just your soul going back, right?

[Sabrina]

We're so glad you're back. In another instance, I remember seeing my body as I sat up, and I literally floated away, like astral projection. It reminded me of, like, how in Peter Pan, the kids would float away onto the stars. It was like that, only I didn't know where I was going. And I could see. See my body. And I was disconnected from it. So one night in this world, I came across a door. And at this point, I was naive and I assumed that. Ooh, a door. Where does it lead? It's probably somewhere really cool. I'm like, hey, you guys. It didn't. I remember feeling so afraid the moment I opened that door. Unexplainably, I knew I was in danger. Damn. So I turned back, and as I woke up, that feeling remained. It was still there, like I was in danger. Something else was there. Energy was heavy. Time went on. And my sister started talking in her sleep like she was arguing with someone. But I could never make out what she was saying. She would mumble and groan, and needless to say, it scared the crap out of me. She also seemed like she was really scared because she started sleeping with the lights on, and she would freak out if anyone had touched them or turned them off. She began to wake up with scratches and bruises. So she started staying up almost all night, afraid of actually sleeping. At one point, she refused to sleep alone, so she would sleep with me or my mom. One day, she was in the shower, and as I walked by the bathroom, I heard her scream. And it wasn't just like a small scream. No, this was a she was terrified scream.

[Corinne]

That makes me feel so sorry for her.

[Sabrina]

My mom and I ran and opened the door, and as we approached, there was blood going down the drain, and I could see my sister had three long scratches on her back.

[Corinne]

Whoa.

[Sabrina]

The same day, I asked her what was happening, and she told me she was being physically and mentally harmed by something that she could only see in the dark. Typically, I would be scared shitless, although I, too, had been experiencing something like that. Every time I'd go to sleep, I would have nightmares, which, before all of this and before opening the door, nightmares were rare for me. And I would dream about an entity that every time I fell asleep, would say to me, I will be there the day that you die. I will come for you when you take your very last breath in, like,

[Corinne]

a comforting way or a creepy way.

[Sabrina]

A creepy way. I mean, these are nightmares, right? I wasn't sure.

[Corinne]

There's just, like, a little shining, glittery thing being like, don't worry. Don't get scared. Death isn't that scary. I'll help you.

[Sabrina]

Do you remember what the topic for this episode was?

[Corinne]

I'm trying. I'm trying to find something.

[Sabrina]

This thing never harmed me physically, but it would tell me that my sister was having nightmares. It would describe the nightmare my sister was having and say it was responsible for that nightmare.

[Corinne]

Ah.

[Sabrina]

He would mock my sister and say that he would hurt her, all to get to me. One night. Again.

[Corinne]

Why are you so obsessed with me?

[Sabrina]

Literally, like, get over me. Pour that energy back into yourself. This is a codependent demon.

[Corinne]

Have you ever tried talk therapy?

[Sabrina]

Yeah. What's your attachment style? Because it's a little bit obsessive.

[Corinne]

She just starts reading every night before bed. Out loud.

[Sabrina]

Attached.

[Corinne]

Attached to the book. Attached.

[Sabrina]

One night, I asked this entity for a name, and it answered me. And I won't say the name because I very much believe it is a real demon's name. And I don't want to speak it.

[Corinne]

Oh, interesting.

[Sabrina]

Still, I couldn't make sense of it. Everything was fine until it wasn't. And. I mean, am I making this up? I don't. Like, I just was trying to write it off in my head. But all that changed when I was watching A documentary about a priest that was in charge of exorcisms, and he was talking about a demon that was known for its high rank in hell. This entity was the biggest demon out there, and this priest was saying it was the keeper of souls. Can you guess the name? The same name the entity had given me.

[Corinne]

Well, you know, at least you're getting some answers.

[Sabrina]

Yeah. Prior to this, in my dream, I had never heard that name before. So, like, it's not like I made it up. It was in another language. Like, I hadn't heard of it. I didn't know of it. I was beyond scared. And then I was even more scared when I was able to see this entity clear as day. He would peek out of my closet and look at me, and he would have these smaller beings that looked horrific. They all had smug smiles on their faces, and they would appear when I was home alone or with my sister. I began having things thrown in my direction, never actually hitting me. And I was so scared to sleep that I even began to force myself to stay awake during the night. And I would take naps after school while it was still sunny out.

[Corinne]

I feel like that makes it worse.

[Sabrina]

Yeah. Sleep deprived, right?

[Corinne]

Because then you're already, like, your brain's already trying to hallucinate from sleep deprivation,

[Sabrina]

also based on that documentary. Like, this entity is a keeper of souls, and he's, like, surrounded by these, like, little gremlins.

[Corinne]

Yeah. And then also sent, like, she's getting the messages. I'm coming for you when you die. Like, your soul's spoken for. I'm coming to collect you.

[Sabrina]

So this was going on for two to three months. I was just being tormented, harassed, and scared nonstop. My sister, to this day, still has some scars from the scratches she received.

[Corinne]

Whoa.

[Sabrina]

One night, I couldn't fight off my sleep. I was so tired and I dozed off. Only this time, the room was so white that it almost burned my eyes. Like the air was light. Something that I forgot was possible. And for once, I finally felt safe. As I walked in into this room, I saw two people sitting on chairs. And they called to me. They asked me to sit, so I did. I wasn't able to see their faces. I just saw, like, a bright reflection every time I tried to focus in on their faces. They wore white clothing, and they had these beautiful, soothing voices. They started by saying, everything's going to be okay. They knew that something not holy had taken a liking to me and that they knew it was doing these things and was hurting my sister and me. They said That I didn't have to worry about anything because they would not allow it to keep harming us, that they will take care of it. They also told me, no matter where you go, what you do, I will always be with you. And I woke up with tears in my eyes. I felt like everything was so much lighter and brighter and I actually felt. Felt safe for the first time in years.

[Corinne]

You know what, Sabrina? Although this is a really dark episode and you like choosing dark stories, you also chose stories that like, there's a

[Sabrina]

safe, there's a resolve.

[Corinne]

Yeah. There's some sort of figure or guardian or something coming in to battle the darkness.

[Sabrina]

It gives you. I leave you with a little hope in the darkness.

[Corinne]

There is not your usual mo.

[Sabrina]

Who is she? Fast forward to now. My sister. It doesn't say this at all, but my brain, like, autocorrected, I think just because we were talking about me being like light. I thought it said my sister committed murder, but it's not. Doesn't say that at all.

[Corinne]

She's not slander.

[Sabrina]

Fast forward to now. My sister is now a committed member of her church and she is no longer afraid of the dark. She told me not long ago that when angels appear, they are known to appear in twos. And so she believes. What I saw that night in my sleep state were two angels helping us.

[Corinne]

I've never heard that.

[Sabrina]

After my encounter with them, I have not been able to astral project at all, which is fine with me because I do not need another freaking demon.

[Corinne]

Yeah.

[Sabrina]

However, I sometimes do feel scared or uneasy at random times in the day, but I refuse to give it power over me. And yeah, I've had things thrown at me, but I just ignore it and I go on with my day. Stop being so obsessed with me. The living ones are the ones that I think we should all really be afraid of. So that's what I say to myself all the time. And it keeps me at bay. I have not been able to see these two angels that appeared in my dream, but I feel them around me. And if I ever feel scared, I just close my eyes. I call on their presence. I remember their warmth and their strength. And I feel that fear melt away. Thank you for your time. Sending my spooky regards. Love, Maria.

[Corinne]

Damn, what a grandma now. Like, it makes me so curious about grandma's upbringing and like, how much astral projecting she. She must have done. And also sounds like she understands the world and somehow knew that that world that she lived was passed on to.

[Sabrina]

That's okay. That's the part that, like, blows my mind is how does she know that Maria was going to have that gift? Like, is it every woman in the family line? But it doesn't sound like Maria's sister, does it? Or is it like, Maria's grandmother spoke to Maria's spirit in the astral plane before Maria was born? And that spirit was like, you won't see me for some time in this world because I'm joining you in the real world as someone close to you. Yeah. And one day I'll find my way back here. Because when Maria went, like, everyone had familiarity and knew her. Like, we've missed you.

[Corinne]

But it's also not like her grandma knew that there was going to be a dark entity either. It's not like, because at first when you were saying that, I was like, oh, could grandma have encountered this dark energy that's like, I'm coming for one of your relatives or something, or, like, I'm coming for someone that's close to you. But grandma's warning wasn't necessarily about, like, don't trust people that you meet at night.

[Sabrina]

It was like, just don't go too far.

[Corinne]

Right.

[Sabrina]

And don't open doors. You don't know where they go. Did you see there's a backrooms movie coming out with Tewetel Ejafor? Is that his name?

[Corinne]

I don't know.

[Sabrina]

Let's see.

[Corinne]

All I know is a 24 is making it.

[Sabrina]

Yeah.

[Corinne]

Right.

[Sabrina]

I think it comes out in May, which might be around the time of this May 29th. Yeah. Gee. Hotel Ejafor. Mark Duplass.

[Corinne]

It looks, based on the trailer, it looks really good, which I'm excited about, because I feel like the backrooms has such a rich lore that I feel like it's important that it, like, represents basically what is, like, said on Reddit.

[Sabrina]

Like, you gotta do it right.

[Corinne]

Like, you have to do it right. And, like, from the trailer, it does look like it's going to depict the back rooms and more of, like, a Internet lore. Appropriate way.

[Sabrina]

I agree. Okay, well, this comes out the week before it comes out. Or no, actually, it comes out same day.

[Corinne]

That's creepy.

[Sabrina]

This comes out May 28th. The movie comes out May 29th.

[Corinne]

Everyone watch tomorrow. People should pay us for these promos, right? Seriously, it just comes out.

[Sabrina]

We just like to talk about it. Pay us to do it. We'll do it anyway.

[Corinne]

Send us a screener so we can watch it before.

[Sabrina]

They're like, they don't. They're like, we don't have to pay them. They're gonna do it for free no matter what.

[Corinne]

Anyway.

[Sabrina]

Yeah, anyway, I'm excited for that and I loved this story. And I'm also excited for my food, but apparently no fries. I can't believe that story. Crazy.

[Corinne]

Well, but so I texted Brian. I was like, so did the guy eat it? Like, it's not just on a. They don't hand him over on a bare plastic plate.

[Sabrina]

Brian should have been like, let me see your car. Right?

[Corinne]

Let me see the crime evidence. And Brian's like, no, I think he was trying to describe, like, a plastic container. I don't know. All I know is one of us is gonna have to share fries with the other. And that's okay.

[Sabrina]

And that's okay. Sharing is caring, and you don't let the evil ruin your day.

[Corinne]

No, no, there's still goodness out there.

[Sabrina]

If you have the memory of what

[Corinne]

a fry tastes like is still within you.

[Sabrina]

Close your eyes. Just imagine it. Everyone who's listening is so hungry. And I'm.

[Corinne]

Potato. Potato.

[Sabrina]

Okay, well, if you have ghost stories, please email [e-mail]. If we influence you to watch back rooms or eat french fries, let the people know that we are influencers.

[Corinne]

There's no way to monetize that, but we're glad to have influenced you.

[Sabrina]

Just sponsored by french fries.

[Corinne]

French fries.

[Sabrina]

There you go.

[Corinne]

Grow your own potato. Makes zero sense.

[Sabrina]

Finger looking good.

[Corinne]

Finger looking good.

[Sabrina]

Okay, anyway, we're gonna wrap it up.

[Corinne]

Thank you, Jamie Ryan, for editing and producing this podcast. We appreciate you and I love the rest of you.

[Sabrina]

To all of you for joining. We love you. Yeah.

[Corinne]

And we will see you on the other side.

[Sabrina]

Very spooky.

[Corinne]

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