00:30:02.180And we did the memorial for her, I believe it was in June.
00:30:08.960june or july i think maybe july and she is buried there her ashes are there and he comes out
00:30:15.760you know three four times a year to take care of it and bring her little trinkets and things that
00:30:21.120he was like little trolls on motorcycles he does have a story in our list later on oh okay well
00:30:30.000then i'm gonna let that one go but i do know that of recent that there are people who um sleep alone
00:30:37.520sometimes in the hof at night i think what is our own hof steward who relayed that he was sensing
00:30:46.000somebody in the hall and recently fairly recently and another person one of our members said he
00:30:54.480actually woke up and saw a person in that hall and other people have seen him around the property
00:31:01.120and that is our own gothi thorgan odin who passed away in uh july and we did his memorial on his
00:31:09.08078th birthday 2025 2024 but he would be there you know he had work to finish he needed to take care
00:31:18.100of the place he loved being in the hof um he really was our caretaker there and he's still
00:31:24.040there i mean there is that sense it doesn't mean that he's not really connecting with people but
00:31:30.820there is that echo and that echo is a presence that some people actually visually pick up something
00:31:37.200from him and so he's still there but it's a wonderful presence there's nothing nothing
00:31:42.180sinister at all and i think that's something we need to really teach children is everybody makes
00:31:47.840so much of the spooks and the goblins and the gooks and the the ghosts at halloween but truly
00:31:53.000those ghosts are our own people our ancestors our friends and we need to also honor them as much as
00:32:00.840we can and yeah we can kind of play with halloween i think we all do but no we really do take winter
00:32:08.360nights seriously in honoring ancestors absolutely katie before we get into our next story do you
00:32:16.600have a story that you would like to share while you're still here i have sorry i have so many
00:32:25.000stories um basically since i was old enough to realize i wasn't christian and i wanted to be
00:32:34.120pagan i guess i was wiccan for a while because i was 12 so what did i know you know um 12 in
00:32:40.440the 90s we didn't have a whole lot of information available other than what we could find on geo
00:32:44.520cities and angels uh angel whatever angel sites things i don't even remember what they're called
00:32:53.160yeah yeah i think i might have tried making one once they were terrible they were terrible
00:32:58.680but uh that's where i had all my information from but basically from that point on i was very
00:33:04.600interested in in the ghost stuff i had a very active imagination and i was terrified of everything
00:33:10.200thing the show are you afraid of the dark scared me like to the point of I would be sitting behind
00:33:15.340my couch like peeking over it to watch it like oh my god and I because you know especially the
00:33:21.680episodes with ghosts although the one about the killer car kind of freaked me out too because
00:33:26.140there's always a killer car episode on all of those scary shows but um
00:33:29.300So for the last 25 plus years of my life, I was very into ghost hunting and doing the seancey stuff and stuff like that. And I had a very close group of friends that we used to do that, that I used to do that with.
00:33:48.840And I've experienced a lot of things, but one of the most, one of the earliest, like most, oh my gosh, this is real kind of moments.
00:34:00.320Because no matter how much you believe it, there's always that one moment where you have that one experience where it's like, holy cow, right?
00:34:08.520I had a really good friend in high school, Molly, and she was always talking about how her house was really creepy.
00:34:20.400And from the outside, because I'd been there before, never overnight, but definitely been there before.
00:34:25.580You know, it was a pretty nice 90s looking, modern looking house.
00:34:32.060Very large. I grew up in a very wealthy area.
00:34:34.520and uh uh it was a very big house that had clearly had additions added on to it and she used to talk
00:34:41.840about how she remembers coming downstairs and it happened to her like three separate times where
00:34:46.880over by this fireplace in in this like sitting area you know those like depressed sitting areas
00:34:54.040that used to be a thing conversation pits or whatever they had something very similar to that
00:34:58.620at the bottom of the stairs that she would come down from her room and she said she'd come
00:35:03.800downstairs and she'd see a man hanging from a tree limb right in front of her fireplace and she said
00:35:10.460it happened to her like three or four times and she used to be really terrified um and it turned
00:35:15.820out that her house was actually a pretty old house at least parts of it were uh there had been
00:35:21.480additions and it had been remodeled to make it look much much more modern than it was um but on
00:35:27.300her in her bedroom she lived at the end of this really long hallway that was an addition it was
00:35:31.860all the way kind of like everybody I keep people can actually see my hands um her house was like
00:35:38.320her room was like all the way down here and everybody else had bedrooms all the way over
00:35:41.620here so she was on the whole opposite side of the house room where the the main part of the house
00:35:45.660was and everybody else slept her siblings and stuff she said her room used to get so cold it
00:35:51.580would be 90 degrees outside and her room would be like 30 degrees she'd have you know her dragons
00:35:58.160of breath. You could see her breathing super cold. And I was like, I know what that means.
00:36:03.040Ha ha ha ha. I was like 17 years old. And I was all excited. And then she invited me and my sister
00:36:08.860to have a sleepover at her house. And I was so excited. And nothing happened when we were trying
00:36:14.120to make it happen. So of course I was disappointed. And then we're all sitting there laying in bed
00:36:17.700trying to go to sleep. And I hear a piano playing. Her parents were out of the house. All of her
00:36:22.600siblings were older and didn't live at home anymore um it's like two in the morning and
00:36:28.260there's a piano playing downstairs and then we're sitting there like uh do you hear that and my0.87
00:36:33.880sister who wasn't really a believer in this kind of stuff at the time she's like there's a fucking
00:36:37.460piano playing pardon my language but so we're sitting there hearing this piano and i'm like0.77
00:36:42.900super excited but also super terrified because are you afraid of the dark scared me so an actual
00:36:48.180ghost piano downstairs scared the shit out of me um and then i started hearing like conversations
00:36:55.060like there was a party going on like people were like chatting with each other and the wine glasses
00:37:01.140were clinking and it sounded like a full-on like a party downstairs with the piano playing
00:37:07.060and we're like all right we i know the parents aren't home because they were out of town i know
00:37:12.580none of the siblings were home none of them lived there anymore so we all got up and we you know
00:37:18.180all scared and like huddled together and grabbing on to each other go walking down the stairs
00:37:22.640into the room with the the fire pit and we did not see anything there was no hanging man
00:37:28.240that night but um the room was like super super cold and it was like a warm night out it was like
00:37:41.40075 degrees out so it wasn't like but it was really cold and every once in a while we were standing
00:37:49.180there looking around you'd feel like this just absolute gust of breeze coming from nowhere
00:37:54.080around your ankles and stuff and that was like that was my big holy crap it's not just my
00:38:00.460imagination it's real moment because like there were three of us there and I'd say something like
00:38:07.180do you hear that piano my sister would be like do you hear those wine glasses and we were all
00:38:11.440confirming that we were hearing things but not in the same way so like I didn't say anything about
00:38:16.200the wine the wine glasses clinking my sister did and Molly was the one who's like yeah do you hear
00:38:21.680them talking so like we were all hearing it but we weren't all describing do you know what I mean
00:38:27.680so like the fact that we were all saying I hear this I hear this I hear this and we're all saying
00:38:32.040different things but we're all experiencing it made it really real um especially because I know
00:38:36.940my sister is the sort of person who absolutely would have done everything in her power to freak
00:38:41.980me out as much as possible um so the fact that she was serious and like wow this is real that
00:38:50.140was an even bigger aha moment so that's my my one my one big story i guess of the many that i have
00:38:58.000but yeah i'm i'm gonna tell one story um and then i'll i'll read the next one that we had posted but
00:39:04.420And I'm going to put the disclaimer because my nephew is watching. I do not condone breaking
00:39:09.820and entering my good nephew. Do not do what auntie did. And my brother's watching and he's
00:39:16.540going to be like, that's why. Okay. So when I was in high school and junior high, one of the big
00:39:25.900things that in our town to do was go to like the end of the year fall festival for the Catholic
00:39:32.820church, right? The Catholic church is known to be, it used to be a Catholic school, okay? And
00:39:41.040they had a convent in the whole school, in the church. This place is known to be extraordinarily
00:39:46.960haunted, like haunted to the point that paranormal investigators have gone to this building, okay?
00:39:55.600And one of our, the convent was no longer in use because, you know, the church had
00:40:02.020shrunk to such a small size you know there was maybe like three nuns left and they all
00:40:07.660lived in this different building but the convent across the street was known to be super spooky
00:40:13.360so what do we as stupid teenagers do we broke into the convent which i say we broke into the
00:40:21.480convent the window was open we crawled through a window we didn't break anything and it's totally
00:40:27.140dark. There's no power. But when we're walking through there, they had a confessional set up
00:40:33.200still. And there's lights on confessionals that tell you when somebody's in the confessional.
00:40:37.680So you don't barge in and interrupt somebody's confession. Right. So we're going there and the
00:40:42.180lights are flickering red and green. And that was enough for most people. Half of the crew left out
00:40:49.340back out the window but nope not brandy nope no i doubled down right so i'm walking through the
00:40:58.220convent and it's just super creepy and all of a sudden it gets pitch black i mean can't see
00:41:06.060your hand in front of your face pitch black right and there's three or four kids behind me
00:41:12.860and nothing creepy other than the lights flickering on and off nothing creepy happened but i want to
00:41:19.940i want to demonstrate the overreaction of human beings in dark circumstances where your mind
00:41:26.580plays tricks on you somebody behind me said run like they must have something happened to them
00:41:33.080and they just went run so we all ran down a dark hallway and i'm in the lead you know and all of a
00:41:42.360sudden I come to a door that was locked that I couldn't see. Bam, face first into the door.
00:41:49.720And then there's three or four kids behind me. Bam, bam, bam, bam. My face hit that door at least
00:41:56.020four times. Like we open the door and we leave and I'm like covered in blood. My nose is like
00:42:03.060just dripping blood. We had to clean me up so that nobody would know what happened because I had to
00:42:09.780go back into the church fair. And if my parents would have seen me, they would have known that I
00:42:14.860was in the convent and we're not supposed to be in the convent. But the only thing creepy that
00:42:21.160happened was the lights, right? The smart kids ran back out the window. The rest of us idiots
00:42:26.440ran down a dark hallway and face first into a door. So if my brother wonders why I look like
00:42:33.060I got beat up at that one church fair in like the mid nineties, that's why bro.
00:42:39.780all right i have a lot of silly stories like that this might be a fun night you guys might
00:42:46.960learn a lot about your witness tonight okay our next submission that we have is from ryan harlan
00:42:54.740and it reads in 2012 my maternal grandfather was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer
00:43:01.700he had been to regular checkups his entire adult life but this was somehow missed until it was
00:43:07.440finally caught. Unfortunately, it was already terminal. In his younger days, he was a strategic
00:43:13.560air command and probably exposed to numerous forms of radiation at various posts across the country
00:43:19.020due to this. As he declined, many of us helped my grandmother care for him. It was decided that
00:43:26.620hospice would be the best choice so that he could live out his final days in the home he built with
00:43:31.860his wife on the day he died it was just my grandfather grandmother and one of my younger
00:43:37.620cousins in the house both of my grandparents were sleeping and my cousin was walking through the
00:43:44.280house but when he came to the hallway which led to the back bedroom where my grandfather was
00:43:53.100he saw a man standing in there he asked the man his business to which he smiled and said
00:43:58.500I'm here to see your grandfather. My cousin replied that grandpa was very ill and unable
00:44:03.580to take visitors but he would inform our grandmother that someone was there. According
00:44:08.020to my cousin that man just smiled and said he would wait. My cousin went and informed grandma
00:44:13.700that someone was there and she replied that wasn't likely. She had locked all the doors before going
00:44:19.360to sleep but since my cousin insisted that someone was there they went looking. Nobody was there. The
00:44:25.120next day my grandfather passed away. Grandma questioned my cousin and after hearing his
00:44:29.800description of the man, she pulled out an old black and white photo and asked if he could pick
00:44:34.960out the man in the picture. He pointed to a man kneeling in the front row. My grandmother told him
00:44:40.560that was his great-grandfather and that he died in 1976. None of us great-grandchildren ever met
00:44:46.840the man. He died before I was born and I'm the oldest. The photo was a company mining picture
00:44:52.500of the day shift at the agronaut gold mine this side of my family were miners who came over from
00:44:58.660cornwall to work the mines across the west i spoke to my grandmother about this entire story when she
00:45:04.100told it to me i talked to her about our ancestors and about the philia it's our firm belief that
00:45:09.540great grandpa charlie came to help his son across to the other side oh that's amazing that is an
00:45:15.780amazing story ryan it really really is and you know you look in our folklore and you will find
00:45:23.540you know the the harbingers of death which are not always bad there are sometimes that there
00:45:31.240are stories in the folklore about um previous ancestors or even um beings that their entire
00:45:39.440purpose is to show up to announce the death of a loved one and to actually help them across the
00:45:45.640and help them walk the hell road so thank you ryan that is an amazing story
01:20:18.580my husband is up here packing his stuff and he said light the can't the light the candle
01:20:25.820let the other know you're upset he said it's like the beacon
01:20:28.980it's like calling batman it's like houston we got a problem there's a light on
01:20:38.480that's nerdy but that ain't the level of nerd he was talking no no i think he was like letting
01:20:45.360the rohiram no it's time to go to war kind of kind of lighten the beacon but i don't know
01:20:51.760yeah he says that's exactly it um as far as uh i don't know if you were talking to me or just
01:20:59.060so i'm sorry for just jumping in there because that's okay a little distracted but um
01:21:04.180one of the the the the very first ritual we ever do when we open a new hawk on not necessarily on
01:21:13.960property but definitely in the building is the the dedication and the dedication is literally the
01:21:20.440the the taking of the building the stripping of all the previous energy and everything else that's
01:21:26.360there and removing it and making way for creating that sacred space that is um
01:21:34.440Odin's Hoth and Njord's Hoth and Baldur's Hoth yes and then we we are always like we
01:21:45.800may not need to do a Himmer halloween every single time we do bloat in a Hoth but every
01:21:50.960time we do bloat in a Hoth we're building upon the positive energy that we we started
01:21:56.420when we did that dedication so I'm a big fan of the idea of doing a house taking or land
01:22:01.280taking when you take possession of a property um you can ask my husband uh one of the things i keep
01:22:07.500saying is like we cannot have dedication until i have done a deep clean of the entire hall now i'm
01:22:13.700perfectly happy to let other help people help me do a deep clean of the hall um in fact i would
01:22:19.240appreciate the help but i know that i am at the very least going to scrub every wall wash every
01:22:26.660floor i'm going to get inside every one of those cabinets at some point uh we took down the drop
01:22:32.500ceiling in the community room because it was only half there and it was just really in bad
01:22:37.700shape so it was easier to just take it down so now we're going to go clean up in all those
01:22:42.340um rafters they're not called what are they the rafters not actually after
01:22:49.700um all the nooks and crannies they have to be scrubbed i'm going to get a carpet cleaner and
01:22:54.980i'm going to clean the carpet in the in the sanctuary because i truly believe that the
01:23:00.340very first thing you need to do in order to clean a space is physically clean it because it's it's
01:23:08.340it is an act a physical act an outward act of cleaning but when you're doing that there's
01:23:14.900also an energetic cleaning that is happening because the intention is i'm going to clean
01:23:19.700the space i'm going to make it clean i'm going to make it fresh um i'm going to make it mine
01:23:25.140that's the thing when you move into a new place and you're cleaning it you're getting to know
01:23:29.540the space that's super important to me like this is my space we moved into this house we got the
01:23:35.860keys um and they had still been working on it right up until the day that we got the keys and
01:23:42.340we knew they were going to be doing that but they said they were going to have somebody come in and
01:23:45.220and do a clean like just clean up after them you know and so i went in there and they hadn't done
01:23:50.980a thing there was still paint paint stuff everywhere and there was like i don't know
01:23:57.760what they were doing but there was like this dust everywhere i can relate four-year-old
01:24:03.620sitting on the counter when we went to boulders off i can relate i know you can uh but so just
01:24:09.780i spent two days i scrubbed every wall i scrubbed all the floors i got into every cabinet and it
01:24:17.120it sucked because i don't think i slept for like two days but i got it done because that was me
01:24:22.420introducing myself to the house um to the that was me introducing myself to the the vaiteer
01:24:29.000the property like the house vaiteer and the land vaiteer because we did some stuff well we didn't
01:24:33.980do a lot outside it was like what december january 2nd or something like that it was
01:24:38.400in erie pennsylvania yeah it was it was a very cold winter that year when we moved in so we just
01:24:46.280you know but that's that's part of it getting to know and and we have other things like there's
01:24:51.060old superstitions that um exist out in you know um so there's this one book and i'm sorry i don't
01:24:58.200remember the author's name off the top of my head but it's called the yule tom and it's a story
01:25:03.120about this old grumpy yule tomt who you know does stuff i don't know uh and one of the things that
01:25:10.860they mentioned in this story and it's a children's story is that um it's bad luck to leave a clock
01:25:17.320unwound in your house and this is an old scandinavian story they also have one about the
01:25:22.540midsummer tomt and they're both very cute my son loves them but that's an actual superstition that
01:25:28.140have and it's a long it's not a new superstition it's an old superstition so we do have um a
01:25:34.300pendulum clock or what are they called a grandfather clock that actually you have to
01:25:38.780wind every day um so we we make a point of trying to make sure we always keep that what always have
01:25:44.780the clock working because apparently they really don't like it when you you know do that they don't
01:25:49.100like untidy houses so we keep our house tidy and we make offerings to the yule wait um so we have
01:25:55.260When we got married, Witt and Svahn gave me and my husband this bell as a wedding gift. It's an old wrought iron bell. I don't know if it's old, but it's a dragon, like a dragon with a bell on it. And every night before bed, we all do a group hug because the kids want to do a group hug. And then we each go over and we hail the house white and ring the bell.
01:26:16.060and that's our way of saying like we we have you know and then once a week sometimes more
01:26:22.500uh we leave an offering for the yule white in a bowl that we have um on our altar and
01:26:28.600for the kids they they might like owen has turned it into a rhyme uh house white house white full
01:26:34.480of might please help keep the monsters out tonight or something like that he changes what he wants
01:26:40.940every every so often but sometimes it's the nightmares please help keep the nightmares away
01:26:45.760or i always say hail the yule light new rings the bell we each take a turn and i always say thank
01:26:51.200you for being a part of our family and on like this week i haven't been doing much in the house
01:26:57.680because i've been super busy with us unrelated to the afa stuff and now getting ready for winter
01:27:04.240nights and i cleaned my house for the first time in like two weeks and that mop bucket water was
01:27:08.640nasty so when i ring the bell before the bed tonight i'm going to say a housewife thank you
01:27:14.000for being patient with me while we're busy and i couldn't keep the house clean and the reason why
01:27:18.640i'm bringing all this up is i know it's um not really related to doing a house blessing
01:27:23.440necessarily but these are the things that we do in our house to help build and keep a relationship
01:27:32.160with our house of a tier and that's really important because while negative energy can
01:27:38.400come from a lot of places there are i i firmly believe that our house faith here are invested
01:27:45.600in the house and when we are unhappy they are unhappy and when we don't treat our house well
01:27:50.640they don't treat us well um things i personally have experienced things going wrong in all the
01:27:59.600stupidest littlest ways when i and i always i don't always get there right away sometimes it
01:28:04.960takes me a minute or two to realize like oh i just realized we haven't rung the bell in like a week
01:28:09.680we haven't thanked him for being a part of our family in like a week we better remember to start
01:28:14.240ringing that bell again um but when we are on top of it which is most of the time our our house of
01:28:21.680a tier goes out of his way i believe goes out of his well to help build the the joy of the house
01:28:28.800because he's invested in it it's his house too so um if you can do a land taking um
01:28:36.480do the land taking or the house taking and it doesn't have to be anything fancy i'm a big fan
01:28:41.280of sage i know that a lot of our folk are like sage isn't isn't ours we should use stuff that's
01:28:46.880native to our to the vikings but i don't live in scandinavia i live here and um i think our viking
01:28:54.240ancestors would have been perfectly happy to use sage if they'd come across it because they were
01:28:58.080just like wink that's ours now kind of what they did right so i use sage and i'll walk around and
01:29:04.800you know very wickany in some ways i suppose but you smudge the house and you maybe you
01:29:12.800gold or some runes or you do what you gotta do but i lost my favorite i burn a lot of lavender
01:29:20.800I burn a lot of rosemary rosemary rosemary and cedar are my go-to and a lot of lavender um if
01:29:29.940I'm working with my desir roses you know I I'm a big fan of burning stuff you know I'm taking it
01:29:37.140around you know I do it as an offering I do it as as as a cleansing thing you know you know my go-to
01:29:43.700is you know your go-to is sage my I like cedar a lot you know cedar's got really good things and
01:29:49.540I really love rosemary rosemary's. I use rosemary for a lot of stuff. I use rosemary bundles for
01:29:55.000nightmares. Um, I use rosemary, you know, sassets, satchets, satchets, sorry, satchets, um, for,
01:30:04.640you know, like, um, gifts for, for, you know, housewarming gifts or, you know, hide them in
01:30:10.520my kids' car for, you know, little trinkets of protection. Here's a little offering, keep my
01:30:14.860kid safe on the road, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, you know, watch out for it. I'm a big fan of the
01:30:21.260rosemary, I guess. And, you know, like I said, if I'm working with Mike to see your roses, but
01:30:25.460I don't know, I kind of like to start things on fire and clean with the smoke.
01:30:33.100Again, if my nephew is watching, don't start things on fire, young man.
01:30:38.420No, that's the best thing. I have the, I have the favorite uncle because I teach them how to
01:40:55.360It was supposed to be new age spiritual music.
01:40:57.920It was a woman singing with a harp accompaniment.
01:41:00.640It was supposed to be uplifting, but as we listened, I felt sick and as a sense of utter dread.
01:41:05.180I closed my eyes and I had a vision of myself as a child in pajamas laying in bed and people on my mother's side of the family standing over me in the vision I had just died.
01:41:16.460The vision was me as a soul floating above and away from my body watching the scene.
01:41:21.660As a child, I had been sickly and had to be hospitalized a few times for asthma.
01:41:27.180I opened my eyes and still saw the vision.
01:41:30.420I told my girlfriend at the time about the vision and that music had deeply disturbed me.
01:41:34.840The next day, I arrived back at my apartment and my mother had left a message on my answering machine to call her.
01:41:40.560I did and she informed me that my aunt Terry who herself had struggled with illness had died that
01:41:47.980night I immediately remembered the vision of the previous night and knew that I had somehow seen
01:41:53.900her death I don't know if she actually sent the vision my intuition tells me it came from the
01:41:59.740connection that I have to my mother's side of the family which has always been strong and as I look
01:42:04.840back on it deeply spiritual somehow I looked through the normal barriers and I saw her die
01:42:10.460Later that day, I shared this with my girlfriend.
01:42:12.520We talked about it and we agreed, and I still believe that I had been involved in a spiritual event.
01:42:17.640I don't know if it was the web of weird, but I know that I am connected to my maternal family in a way I can only describe as a web of soul tethers.
01:42:26.380When I think of the Desir, I tend to think of my maternal grandmother and my Aunt Terry and all the women in my mother's side of the family who have passed on.
01:42:34.160The next day, I was at my girlfriend's place again.
01:42:36.140I was worried because I was afraid my two kittens I had at my place would fall into the toilet bowl
01:42:40.860somehow and that I should have to close the lid before I left, but I did not. I remember talking
01:42:46.240to my girlfriend about this. The next morning when I went home, I immediately went to the bathroom.
01:42:50.360The toilet lid was closed and the toilet brush was sitting dead center, perfectly aligned on
01:42:55.060the toilet lid. This was not something I would have ever done. When I saw it, I knew it was my
01:43:01.920aunt terry who had placed the brush on the lid she was letting me know that she was watching out for
01:43:06.760me it was this incident that confirmed absolutely my belief in souls the afterlife and the soul of
01:43:11.980a dead person may still somehow present in midgard for a time and might even be able to physically
01:43:17.620act upon it this is the story of my desire thank you for letting me share this story it has been a
01:43:23.220long time since i have thought about this hail the icier hail the folk hail the afa i love and miss
01:43:28.700you aunt terry hail aunt terry and thank you thank you waylon for sharing that
01:43:36.700and then we do have a question from the chat and it comes from corey how do you fix bad energy in
01:43:44.620a house let's start off with katie katie how do you fix bad energy in a house i know we talked a
01:43:50.380little bit about it but go ahead i just realized i wasn't unmuted sorry about that guys um
01:43:58.700was I unmuted the whole time my kid was up here all right because I could
01:44:07.640believe I would well no Nick you wouldn't know you would have on me you
01:44:10.700would have muted me all right so a lot of what I said before we we make a big
01:44:16.440point of of being aware and recognizing our housemate here in our land bait here
01:44:23.480part of uh twice every year i mean obviously more often but twice a year usually once during
01:44:29.820yule and around midsummer we make a point of kind of ritualizing going out onto our property and
01:44:35.380cleaning up um we have a fenced in yard that usually stays pretty clean but we also have a
01:44:41.380huge field next to our house that is our property and we get we find a lot of trash out there
01:44:46.540because people you know we live on a main road so people throw trash out and a lot of high school
01:44:51.180kids and middle school kids walk past our house every day um because we live right right by the
01:44:56.140school so we get a lot of trash out there and you know we pick it up periodically but twice a year
01:45:01.180we make a point of going out there and keeping it clean so really i think stewardship of your
01:45:06.540your house and your property is a huge thing because um well obviously we you know we bought
01:45:11.900our house we own our house it's our house but also it's not our house there the land material
01:45:18.620live here the house of atia live here um so we share the house with with with other um so it's
01:45:25.340important to make sure we take care of them i said like i said before i use sage i'm also a big fan
01:45:29.580of using water um in one property that i lived in that i got super negative vibes off of and uh
01:45:38.940sage wasn't really cutting it by itself i may or may not have uh physically carved runes
01:45:46.540into the walls in places where people wouldn't see them and i may or may not have uh used blood
01:45:51.980in some ways i do not really recommend people use blood uh during things like that unless they know
01:45:58.540what they're doing because uh it can be very dangerous not because i think you're gonna cut
01:46:03.980yourself or whatever like you can literally prick your finger with a needle and get blood so um i
01:46:10.460So it's a very useful and very powerful tool, but it's also a dangerous one because magic can go wrong if you don't know what you're doing.
01:46:22.060But yeah, carving runes into things, if you're not comfortable carving them into your wall because maybe you don't own the property or you don't have to worry about repairing it later.
01:46:34.020And I mean, like literally tiny little runes carved up into a corner someplace behind a painting or a picture that nobody's going to see.
01:46:42.960You can find a rune and hang it on your wall if you need to.
02:06:14.600And when I came out of the restroom, I was drawn to the ancestors' table and remembered I had placed her picture there.
02:06:20.820I picked up her picture and looked at it, kissed her face, and placed it back on the table and noticed a three-by-five card with some words written in another language.
02:06:30.480For some reason, I read the card out loud, and it said,
02:25:01.740They had a different calendar than we did our ancestors. Most of us already know this stuff. They had two seasons, not four. So when we say winter's nights, it, you know, Vader's, Vader not, it's already well into winter for our ancestors.
02:25:19.340um and this big this is this is the festival at i guess it's kind of the beginning of their winter
02:25:26.300it's the beginning of their winter it's still fall for us a little different but this is when things
02:25:31.820are starting to get darker the dark part of the year is beginning you know they have their last
02:25:36.380big festival until yule it's probably the last time they're going to be able to really travel
02:25:40.700to see people who don't live um in their immediate communities which sometimes is just for their own
02:25:47.020household because if you lived on a farm in the middle of nowhere you probably weren't traveling
02:25:51.660the five miles to your nearest neighbor in the middle of winter you know
02:25:55.500so this is um winter nights was often seen as um when we say a festival we mean that it's
02:26:01.660usually celebrated over the course of more than a single day it was usually you know two or three
02:26:06.460days to two weeks um we know that that meant that there was going to be feasting there was going to
02:26:11.900be um probably some drunken rowdiness at times there's definitely going to be some storytelling
02:26:18.220but it happened over the course of time because this was really like i said one of their big three
02:26:23.580main festivals they celebrated over the course of the year so um winter nights is important for us
02:26:30.040because i mean we're we're also true we're trying we're trying to be also true so we says should
02:26:36.020celebrate australia holidays obviously um and this is one of the ones that we know was a big deal for
02:26:41.540ancestors um there's a time when they started to reflect on the dying world which would probably
02:26:49.620mean they were reflecting on their their ancestors who had come before them and all the hard things
02:26:54.100that they had to do in order to survive for them to be there um as they are now and things like
02:26:59.780that so that's really the only thing i wanted to add because i actually remember that much about
02:27:04.260winter nights so yeah that's that's it just historical context you know i i remember the
02:27:13.620other thing was uh i believe that winter nights was often supposed to be like the the first or
02:27:20.580second full moon after a certain point i actually don't remember exactly now that i'm trying to
02:27:25.780remember but um it wasn't really it was more about the the lunar cycle so where winter nights fell
02:27:33.460over the course of the year had to do with when the the first something or other after the full
02:27:39.460moon or something like that um or the first full moon after the the the solstice there's the
02:27:45.860equinox i don't remember but so we know it was in october it was never the same time in october
02:27:53.380because depending on when the the lunar cycles landed and stuff like that but
02:27:59.140But yeah, that was literally my last thing.
02:31:12.900Whether we were going exploring in abandoned buildings, hanging out in old graveyards, exploring the back roads, midnight walks through the woods, all that.
02:31:20.640but the big one was this one road in town that we all visited all the time it was a back road
02:31:27.580off a back road and everybody knew it was apparently haunted we'd done this trip down
02:31:34.480the road many a night but this night was special so the road you go down as as turn onto it there's
02:31:41.440a field on either side for a couple hundred yards then you get to a tree line and you go deep into
02:31:46.340the woods. This night, I don't know what it was. This night, I don't know what it was, but we're
02:31:51.500creeping down the road. I think seven, eight of us in a vehicle. Sounds familiar. As soon as we
02:31:57.760start approaching the wood line, standing there, two of them on each side of the road, right at the
02:32:01.780woods, 10, 15, 20 foot tall beings. I don't know, giants, yotans, trolls. I almost think the Ents
02:32:08.400from Lord of the Rings. That would be awesome. They were looking right at us as we approached.
02:32:15.080every single one of us saw them the girls were freaking out the guys were freaking out we kept
02:32:20.300driving right in between them their heads turned as we drove as they drove to follow us their heads
02:32:26.180turned as we drove to follow us they let us pass still that wasn't the end of the night these woods
02:32:32.680were more than creepy i never found proof that there's a graveyard in these woods it's easy to
02:32:37.280find we always heard it was an old witch's graveyard there's county stories about old-timey
02:32:43.440witches doing their black magics black magics he's got in quotes out in these woods and apparently
02:32:49.580the same site they did ritual decades a century later kkk took up shop and held their thing in
02:32:55.820the same spot now that was all off in the woods but story tells that those same witches were buried
02:33:02.820in the graveyard we spent a lot of time there over the years sometimes during the day sometimes at
02:33:09.820night hanging out just being teenagers we were always respectful of those who now live there
02:33:15.840though we felt at home well that night with those guardians of the woods as we're driving down a few
02:33:21.420of us we're taking pictures out the windows near every one of them an orb a shape a mark on the
02:33:27.480picture floating sometimes the same super specific unique shape on people's cameras taking pictures
02:33:34.300out different windows different sides of the vehicle time passed we made us to the graveyard
02:33:40.000it was a crazy night and it didn't stop we were all on edge but we got to our happy place our
02:33:45.320goth place or whatever you want to call it we started relaxing i don't know if it was chanting
02:33:50.620or drumming or screaming or crying but a rhythmic noise started in the air it was close off in the
02:33:55.200woods we could all hear it we got louder but after all that was after all that was that night
02:34:02.020we didn't wait around. Don't blame you. We all knew the road continued on and you could circle
02:34:07.440back to the main road if you went deeper in, but we did in the past. We always went out the way we
02:34:13.460came in. Not that night. I don't know if those guardians let us pass for real, for real or woe.
02:34:19.740I don't know if they were trapping us in, keeping us there, but we weren't going to find out.
02:34:25.460we we out the long we went out the long way the back way and all was quiet it was some time before
02:34:32.840we went back some rich guy from out of town bought those fields up from the road they're a factory
02:34:38.100now i wonder what they've since disturbed i wonder how those souls and spirits get on now
02:34:43.080i might go back there one day to the graveyard to that wood to that special place if you do let me
02:34:48.400know. That sounds like an interesting drive. So, okay. You're not the first person to see
02:34:58.900something big and strange that you don't know quite what it was on the side of the road. Okay.
02:35:07.160At this point, I wish that my BFF wasn't probably asleep because I would text her because she
02:35:13.680actually had a name for it and for the life of me I cannot remember what she called them
02:35:19.620but they were spirits that would um feed on flesh of the dead and they almost look like a Sasquatch
02:35:27.960type thing um and you could find them like by roadkill um things like that so sometimes you'll
02:35:34.040see something out of the corner of your eye when you pass and it's you know feeding on the on the
02:35:39.540flesh of the dead and there was something that she called it and I cannot remember what story
02:35:43.040she got it from i will hopefully have that information for you considering where y'all
02:35:48.080live that's probably is it when dingo yeah no i'll have to ask her i'm gonna have to ask her
02:35:55.040i don't know but i think i was crazy one that night but there was like seven or eight of us
02:35:59.200in that vehicle we all they have saw all the stuff that's a thing so i mean and it and it's gone in
02:36:05.360the blink of an eye like this this thing that she talks about i've caught them out of the corner of
02:36:09.680of my eye, but when you look hard, there's nothing there, but you swear there was something there
02:36:15.280with that roadkill or whatever that was, and then you look straight at it, and it's gone,
02:36:20.620and I will have that for you guys on Fifth of Brandy. I will get in touch with her. I don't
02:36:24.780want to bother her this time of night, but I will find that, but yeah, that's a thing, man.
02:36:32.960All right, well, that is all of our stories for tonight, unless anybody put anything else
02:36:39.180in the comments or asked any other questions it doesn't look like they did so that being said
02:36:45.940remember we're doing a drawing I'm going to send you something um that I ate 10 of right before we
02:36:52.880got on this call because I just needed to you know eat my feelings because I'm on BNS and
02:36:57.840I get nervous so I had to eat my my special snacks so take it away Nick who's gonna win
02:37:04.700the super secret snacks that I'm going to mail them tomorrow. See what happens. Spin the wheel.
02:37:23.760Austin, you're going to win the special snacks. I know where you live, friend. I will get that
02:37:29.520in the mail to you tomorrow. You might like them. You might hate them. I don't care. I love them,
02:37:34.820but just remember I'm sacrificing a box of my special snacks that I wait all year for
02:37:39.540just because I appreciate your story. So yeah. And don't tell anybody else. Don't tell anybody
02:37:47.060else because I want you guys to submit your stories for a fifth of Brandy part two coming
02:37:51.960up the last Wednesday in October. We would like to hear about your ancestor visits. We would like
02:37:59.920to hear your spooky, scary stories, your paranormal visits, your strange activities. Tell us about
02:38:07.040your favorite thing that goes bump in the night. Are you a fan of Will-O-Wisps? Do you know what
02:38:11.880Kelpies are? Is there a favorite story from folklore that you want us to talk about? Tell us
02:38:17.540that story. We will share it live on the last Wednesday of the month. So get those stories
02:38:25.220submitted. If not, you're just going to have to listen to us fall down the rabbit holes
02:38:29.180and who knows where we might end up. So it's, it's hard to say.
02:38:37.820All right, guys, Katie, can you remind us one more time about when winter night is,
02:38:44.160how we can get tickets, and who to contact for information.
02:38:49.840Sure. Winter Nights begins on Friday, so not tomorrow, the day after.
02:38:55.480You can find tickets online at rudenstone.org at the store.
02:39:01.040Nick is super efficient and already has that up on the screen for you.