Asatru Folk Assembly - 10⧸8⧸25 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 170 - Bump in the Night

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00:03:00.000 Good evening, everybody, and welcome to another episode of Victory Never Sleeps.

00:03:11.680 I am Wynton Brandy, and tonight I am joined with Githya Sheila McNallan, and our episode

00:03:17.140 tonight is about things that go bump in the night.

00:03:20.040 So we are so excited about this episode.

00:03:22.560 this is a great season for all of the spooky and the paranormal and connecting with our desir and

00:03:30.940 relating to fall all of the wonderful things that happen well thank you githy mcnellen for joining

00:03:37.100 me how are you tonight i am doing well i have two candles and i did a rune pull a few minutes ago

00:03:45.440 i'm making it kind of a magical night myself right here even though it's daylight but it's

00:03:51.280 be fun i'm really looking forward to this yes us too we have a very special thing that we're

00:03:57.680 doing tonight we have reached out to all of our folk and all of our membership and we had asked

00:04:03.120 them to submit their spooky stories either paranormal incidents um you know contact with

00:04:10.080 their ancestors um moments of revelation and things of that nature so we are going to be

00:04:15.520 sharing those stories live on the show tonight. And we also have a very special drawing at the

00:04:22.380 end of the show tonight. But I'm going to send you my favorite snack for fall that only comes

00:04:31.700 out for fall. And I've already eaten one out of the 10 boxes that I bought. So I have nine boxes

00:04:38.260 remaining and one of them is going to go to the winner of the drawing tonight. So I am sacrificing

00:04:44.680 seen an entire box of something I wait for all year for those of you guys that submitted stories

00:04:51.640 tonight. So we appreciate it. And this is going to be a two-part episode. So tonight will be our

00:04:58.540 first episode about things that go bump in the night. And our next episode of A Fifth of Brandy,

00:05:05.040 which is going to be on the last Wednesday of October, is going to be part two. So you still

00:05:10.540 have time to submit more stories about all of those spooky things that have happened to you

00:05:16.640 in your life. So if you do want to submit a story for us to read online, please send an email to

00:05:22.000 vns at runestone.org. And we will tell your story on the show. So couple top of the show

00:05:30.920 things that we want to go over this week or this weekend. There she is. Hey, she made it. You know

00:05:39.080 what i'm gonna do this for githia katie erickson i'm gonna let her talk all about the upcoming

00:05:45.400 event this weekend winter nights go ahead ma'am oh am i muted no i thought i came in muted i guess

00:05:54.840 i didn't sorry oh well you guys really threw me uh off guard i wasn't expecting the exuberant

00:06:01.640 welcome um i have spent the day getting ready we're packing and getting all the last couple

00:06:07.960 of things in order um for winter nights in new hampshire this year uh mr ronald boardman is

00:06:15.320 going to be going to the store tomorrow to pick up all of the food for everybody um and uh i will

00:06:22.280 only be on the call for a little while because we will be getting in the car and heading out there

00:06:26.840 sometime in the next couple hours uh it's always kind of a crazy rush the last couple hours before

00:06:33.320 we leave trying to figure out exactly what we need and then remembering like four different things

00:06:39.560 that we forgot but never at the same time we can never remember all four things at once we have to

00:06:43.480 remember them in pieces you know but we will be having uh winter nights up in new hampshire as

00:06:48.600 you all know and uh new hampshire is really really beautiful this time of year um and uh folk builder

00:06:55.480 ron boardman is kind enough to let us use his property and um ron has been uh also true or

00:07:04.200 theta for a very long time now and his property up in new hampshire has hosted many events

00:07:10.680 um for like 20 years now he's been hosting stuff at his property so it's just

00:07:17.240 super wonderful super super energetic and i'm sure if nick can figure it out before i'm done

00:07:24.520 talking he can show you a picture too of his stalli and maybe his his own personal meat

00:07:38.120 haul that he has all his property um we'll be up there we're gonna be doing matt uh al-share

00:07:45.320 godi flavell will be doing an odin bloat on friday and anybody who's ever been to him uh

00:07:50.920 Alshear Gothic Odin Bloat will know that they're some of the the best bloats. I personally am

00:07:56.680 always a really big fan. Matt just has a knack for him like no one else does, you know? And then

00:08:04.460 we'll be doing Desir Bloat on Saturday in the evening after it's dark because I just can't

00:08:10.140 picture doing the Desir Bloat when it's not kind of dark and spooky out. I'm sorry, I can't think

00:08:19.040 anything else to say right at the moment because i wasn't expecting to talk about it so that's what

00:08:23.440 i got you should come it's not too late to show up yeah you guys should come tickets are still

00:08:29.040 available you can get those on the website at runestone.org nick did have that link up there

00:08:34.720 so if you do want to go have any questions reach out to reach out to your folk builder they'll be

00:08:39.920 able to get you in touch with the people in charge and i hope you all can go out it is always a great

00:08:44.800 events um they do a really good job putting on winter nights and it's always one to remember

00:08:50.960 that is for sure and top of the show here we've got gw farm group donated 25 to vns

00:08:59.760 and donated 25 to folks here thank you so much sir that is very much appreciated

00:09:06.640 a couple of other announcements that we have um there's places to catch us uh it doesn't have to

00:09:15.520 be just youtube there's several places that you can find us on odyssey twitch twitter rumble

00:09:20.960 youtube and vk you can also catch the podcast on apple spotify i heart radio and amazon music so

00:09:30.240 if you want to listen to us at work on your drive while you're doing the laundry or while

00:09:35.760 you're sitting at a campfire entertaining your children those are all the places that you can

00:09:39.840 catch us also please be sure that you check your district websites because that is where all the

00:09:47.440 information about where to find us where to come to our moose how to get in contact with us so go

00:09:54.480 to each one of those websites and get in touch with your local leadership find out when the events

00:10:01.120 are and we are very very excited to announce that that phrase hoff is going to be coming to us very

00:10:07.600 soon until then keep an eye on thorshoff.com that's where they used to the events used to live

00:10:14.720 and we will let you know when they move over katie anything to add

00:10:22.800 yes i wanted to i wanted to make a point of one that map looks pretty nice with a brand new color

00:10:28.880 on it i think but uh for anybody who might think that they could still make two winter nights but

00:10:35.680 they're kind of waffling because it's a little bit of a far drive i want to point out that this

00:10:39.740 will be the very last national winter nights to be hosted as a camping event out in the wild

00:10:48.840 because from now on any winter nights that we will host will be being hosted at a hof which is

00:10:54.680 really exciting so it's kind of like a two-fold boast we got phrase off which everybody knows by

00:11:00.340 now and if you don't now you do um and we're super excited about being able to host events and

00:11:05.160 and winter nights at the hof but also we're both uh my husband whitney erickson and i are both

00:11:11.080 very sad to see kind of the end of an era with the camping winter nights that we have been hosting

00:11:20.180 for 14 years now so if you can't if you if you think you might be able to make it but you're

00:11:27.380 waffling just remember this is the last opportunity that you have to to come to a winter nights like

00:11:33.380 the one that we're hosting this year they'll never be like these again so you should come the end

00:11:41.620 so speaking of winter nights we have all been at a winter night celebration in one location or

00:11:48.820 another right so i would like to ask you ladies what was your favorite winter nights bloat or

00:11:58.180 moment in all the years that winter nights has been an event let's start with githia mcnallan

00:12:04.020 what was your favorite winter nights moment you're muted ma'am where's my mute there you go

00:12:13.140 there you go oh i think yeah nick's handling it i think so i'm going to kind of split it a little

00:12:19.540 bit because i want to acknowledge katie katie does beautiful desa bloats and she gave us a song

00:12:29.620 we use every year at ours at odin's hof um she we all kind of learned were to tutored under a

00:12:37.940 wonderful lady named pamela hall who did some really unusual things sort of be like a drum

00:12:43.220 with the heartbeat of our mothers of our children bump bump bump bump those are the kind of things

00:12:49.060 that katie brings into all of her bloats and so i really do encourage you to come on out if you

00:12:55.380 you know you can still come it doesn't matter that it's kind of late in the game there's always room

00:13:00.580 for more for you know and i love our bloats at um odin south of course i've got so many wonderful

00:13:09.460 memories but for us in the afa we started with winter nights being the premier event that we

00:13:17.220 were doing for years we did that from 2005 until 2010 i guess when we started doing midsummer and

00:13:26.820 for me i'm not really a summer person i have a summer birthday but i don't like summer i love

00:13:31.700 fall and so i'm just going to mention a place that we had that was a truly magical location

00:13:39.060 and it was over near the coast of california in the redwoods um it was the kind of place where

00:13:44.660 you know that trolls and elves live there all year round because it was redwood trees with that moist

00:13:50.660 soil that is there all year round and just that earthy smell and these trails went all over stone

00:13:58.420 trails and everybody had little cabins that were were log cabins with stone fireplaces

00:14:06.020 and the whole thing had that kind of a theme to it and it was just it truly had a really magical

00:14:13.940 feeling as a setting and uh the music was great the food was great everything just worked together

00:14:20.580 and we had these wonderful fires the whole time but but that was a location i love of course what

00:14:28.420 we do at odenshoff and i do encourage people to come to odenshoff for our our uh veteran night

00:14:35.540 or what we call win winter nights is now veteran night uh we're doing it on the 18th and um ours

00:14:43.220 is going to be a little different because this year um i'm doing an alfar bloat in the morning

00:14:49.540 so you come early on saturday and we're going to have coffee and stuff the equivalent to fika

00:14:55.860 and we're going to enjoy socializing we're going to our cemetery and visit the people who

00:15:01.380 who are still have life there you know they never really go away and you can talk to them and so we

00:15:07.780 have three three departed who are in our odinsoff cemetery we'll go there and then i'll do an alphar

00:15:13.460 bloat for our fathers and um we actually are going to do something a little different with it

00:15:21.140 for uh in a way of an offering that is very different very masculine compared to what will

00:15:26.820 be the d sub load which will be again at twilight and i hope that uh lauren uh gideon lauren anderson

00:15:34.660 will be there to help me with that and we expect to have a wonderful time so we have torches we

00:15:41.780 have bonfires no matter what time of year we we chant we have we drum we sing songs all those

00:15:50.020 things and then the kids have a wonderful time just being halloween just wearing costumes getting

00:15:55.860 can't be playing games so um yeah um we make everyone as special as we can and they're all

00:16:04.900 different you know it's really hard to pick one but anyway that's kind of my summary of

00:16:09.460 some of the ones in the past and how they've affected me

00:16:15.780 thank you ma'am how about you githia katie what is your favorite winter nights bloats or moments

00:16:20.820 um so honestly i've never actually attended a desir bloat or a winter night's bloat i have

00:16:29.500 led every winter every desir bloat since i became a gideon training and i became

00:16:35.640 thinking i did not i was pregnant with my son when i went to winter nights

00:16:43.520 for the first time and i had been sick so i was only there for a small portion of it and i didn't

00:16:49.460 actually get to do the desir bloat um and the year after that i was a student in patricia hall

00:16:56.260 who was a mentor for me and shayla both was like hey why don't you guys just do the desir bloat

00:17:00.900 this time i'm like i've been a student for all of about a month and a half what are you talking about

00:17:06.820 that was really terrifying really terrifying um um i'm trying to think so i've never actually just

00:17:14.660 attended a winter nights to see her bloat um so i can't say that i have a favorite one that i have

00:17:20.740 attended but i don't know that i i can say that i have a favorite one that i've performed either um

00:17:32.660 sorry uh mostly because for me the most important part about the desire bloat is

00:17:40.420 that other people walk away having had having had a good experience so i guess generally speaking i

00:17:49.780 can say my favorite part of this year bloat is knowing that people have been positively affected

00:17:55.780 by them um like swan uh witten hero will sometimes talk about how at one of my bloats he had just

00:18:03.860 like a visceral reaction and it's not um i mean it's a little bit of a pride thing if we're being

00:18:09.780 honest we are aryan men and women we should have pride in in our accomplishments and when we do

00:18:15.140 good things we should be proud of them but so there's a little bit of that but more than that

00:18:21.540 i like hearing swan say it because it means that i managed to do something good for him

00:18:27.140 uh and he had that moment and you never you know i i don't hear it too often but i hear it from

00:18:34.260 other people like oh so and so said that they really had a good experience or so and so like

00:18:39.300 was crying because they really felt like they could feel their mother there and those things

00:18:43.700 are the things that i i i take away a lot of positivity from because as a guinea especially

00:18:52.180 for this year but when we're trying to connect to the ancient mothers that's the kind of thing

00:18:55.860 you want to hear you know so yeah so i know um i use and i do believe katie does as well um her

00:19:07.620 and i kind of are on the the same mindset in regards to using water in ritual so for for my

00:19:14.900 diesel bloats i tend to use water in my ritual and i like to instead of a sprig i like to use

00:19:21.700 a carnation so i'm going to take the opportunity to tell everybody why i use carnations okay

00:19:28.500 my grandmother and we'll actually talk about my grandmother during this episode if we have time

00:19:33.220 time. But my grandmother, one of her big things when I was a kid was she would take me to the 0.99

00:19:40.680 cemetery and we would go to every single one of our ancestors that were buried at that cemetery.

00:19:45.900 Every one. We never missed one and we never missed a year. And for all of the men, she would buy a

00:19:53.120 red carnation for me to put on their tombstones. And for the women, we used white carnations.

00:19:58.780 So that's why I've chosen to use carnations is because I'm bringing my desir into that 0.55

00:20:04.800 bloat.

00:20:05.240 It's kind of my way of opening that door, but I also like to use water and I like to

00:20:11.960 use water as, you know, a reminder of the water that you were, you know, conceived in

00:20:20.160 and formed in, you know, the water of the womb, but also the tears that your mother

00:20:25.860 has shed for you. Also the sweat that she has poured in your upbringing. So if you think about

00:20:34.500 all of the different things that your mother has done for you, it can all kind of be tied back to

00:20:39.800 water. Whether it's the water of the womb, whether it's the sweat on her brow, or whether it's the

00:20:45.440 tears on her cheeks in good times and bad. So I really like to use water. So if you guys ever

00:20:51.620 wonder why are you tossing water on me with a carnation? That is why. And also I just got a

00:20:59.920 text message from my brother who is a member. Hi. And my nephew is currently eating dinner

00:21:09.940 and watching what he calls the anti-bee show. So I'm going to go ahead and give a shout out to 0.83

00:21:15.940 walker my wonderful nephew hello gorgeous boy i hope you're enjoying the auntie b show

00:21:22.100 and talking to your friends so special shout out to walker

00:21:28.900 so with that i think we are going to get into our first spooky story and

00:21:37.620 githia mcnalen would you be able to read us the first spooky story that was submitted to us tonight

00:21:45.940 i'm ready to go am i

00:21:52.740 unmute me you're good ma'am i'm unmuted i'm unmuted excellent so this was um

00:22:02.580 uh presented just by shannon and she starts with this as her story i was in fourth grade or so

00:22:12.580 a year or three after my father's chocolate lab died my family's chocolate lab died from drinking

00:22:19.380 antifreeze my dad had left in an uncovered pan in the garage we dug her grave as a family and

00:22:26.660 i watched my father dump her body out of a plastic bag into the hole before covering her with dirt

00:22:32.980 and saying a prayer i developed a loyal hatred of antifreeze as only a child can and pined for

00:22:40.100 the dog off and on oh if only she were still alive if only i could see her again i had a fever

00:22:48.180 and was very sick and was sleeping in our basement which was horribly hot to the to the furnace

00:22:53.700 not being connected to any ducks i managed to fall asleep on a couch but at some point in the middle

00:23:00.020 of the night and in the pitch of dark i woke up sweaty nauseous and generally uncomfortable

00:23:07.460 my long long dog's snout was inches from my face her ghost was standing there perpendicular to the

00:23:16.180 couch and my body and her head was low as if she were pointing or about to growl shocked and

00:23:24.740 terrified i threw my blankets over my face until it felt like i would suffocate on stale air and

00:23:31.540 when i peeked out she was gone never to be seen again i stopped pining to see her knowing i would

00:23:39.540 not be throwing hugs if it happened that's kind of creepy yes oh lesson about antifreeze huh

00:23:52.820 right yeah so i have heard of that i've i had a very very old chocolate lab and his name was

00:24:02.900 colby and he was very much um a part of the family and he was very loyal and very dedicated so

00:24:10.100 it's a little bit different than shannon's you know shannon's yours is kind of creepy

00:24:13.780 kind of like yours is like hey you know we weren't we won't be hoping to see that dog

00:24:19.700 obviously but mine i could hear him my bedroom was in the basement and he always had long

00:24:26.180 fingernails because we had to like literally hold him down to trim his nails and it was just a

00:24:30.820 disaster so his his nails were a hot mess right and you'd be downstairs and you could hear him

00:24:36.740 walking down the hallway and it was like click click click click click click click on the hardwood

00:24:40.420 floors well after he passed away you could still hear the click click click click click click click

00:24:46.500 click click click click click click click click go upstairs there'd be nothing there you know so

00:24:53.140 do i believe that you know animals have like a soul like we do no i don't believe that they

00:24:58.180 have the same kind of soul that we do but i do believe that they can you know still have an

00:25:04.580 energy that floats around you know i won't pretend to understand the paranormal i'm not on that side

00:25:09.780 of the veil um i can only tell you what i've experienced myself but it's it's almost like

00:25:17.140 that energy is still there whether it's the energy we keep there because of our own emotions you know

00:25:25.540 or our own our own minds wanting us to hear those things you know so i can relate i heard kobe for

00:25:33.300 a long time after he died with that click clack click all over the place yeah yeah so do i believe

00:25:41.220 that animals can come back in some form yes i don't think it's actually our animals though i

00:25:45.620 think they kind of get absorbed this is brandy brandy philosophy here they get like absorbed

00:25:51.780 kind of like uh that's the best thing kind of like the the like a veteer but not necessarily

00:25:59.300 like a conscience being like we would assume would be like our grandmother or a grandfather i think

00:26:05.060 it's more of an echo for us than it is an actual returning of the animal or of the spirit of the

00:26:12.420 animal i think it's i think it's more of an echo of things that they did you know that's what i

00:26:17.540 that's what i personally believe it's more of an echo yeah i think a lot of people a lot of people

00:26:25.060 have had pets revisit we're a cat family and i know there have been times where i'm not even

00:26:31.540 one who the cats don't associate with me they love my husband right but then he really takes

00:26:37.780 good care of him but i have had um just lying in bed and there's that thump you know and it's like

00:26:44.580 doesn't really develop into much more but it was like oh what would cause that oh it feels like a

00:26:50.740 cat you know kind of a thing and i'm sure i think a lot of people will understand they have that

00:26:56.900 same thing happen or a cat scratching at a door or as you say a dog scratching at her door and

00:27:02.580 you go there and there's nothing yeah yeah i have a hilarious story do you guys want to hear my

00:27:08.260 hilarious cat story sure oh my goodness okay so i'm one of those people that when things go bump

00:27:15.700 in the night at your house and you get super scared you know you call me and you're like what

00:27:20.100 is this noise that i'm hearing right i get a phone call at like 10 11 o'clock at night and there's

00:27:25.860 these things i'm hearing noises i get up and there's nothing there and it's just the oddest

00:27:30.980 thing i can't track it down and as soon as i start looking it stops stops i was like okay well

00:27:38.020 leave it alone let me know if it continues a week later i think the story before a week later i get

00:27:46.180 a frantic phone call at 11 o'clock at night it's still happening all of the time it happens every

00:27:50.660 single night i don't know what to do i need you to come over now i need like a house cleansing

00:27:54.900 or an exorcism i need something now i'm freaking out now goodness okay over right and i'm sitting

00:28:03.060 there in the dark listening for this noise and there and and i finally had to tell them you need

00:28:08.900 to go away like just go away you know let me do this so i'm listening to this for this noise and

00:28:15.060 and all of a sudden I hear a noise sure as heck I hear a noise and it's kind of creepy it's a little

00:28:22.620 odd a little odd so I'm like what is that I'm kind of starting around trying to chase it

00:28:28.880 got me out of bed in the middle of the night for a cat toy on top of the refrigerator with their

00:28:36.860 cat that was jumping up there and hiding its toys and it would push the toys back behind the fridge

00:28:43.140 and bat them around. They got me out of bed for a cat. So let that be a lesson to everybody. Yes,

00:28:51.820 we all hear strange noises. We all hear things that go bump in the night. But before you freak

00:28:57.500 out, please make sure it's not your cat, especially if you're going to call for help.

00:29:02.520 We pulled out the refrigerator. There must have been like 15, 20 of those little mice,

00:29:07.680 those squeaky mices stuck behind the fridge. 1.00

00:29:13.140 Oh, Sheila, do you have any stories about the Hoff that you would like to share about Odin's Hoff? 1.00

00:29:25.200 Anything that comes to mind?

00:29:29.040 Yes.

00:29:30.920 Dealing with a lot of people who have been there at night experience different things.

00:29:38.960 I never have myself in terms of the building itself.

00:29:44.280 Ritually, yes, sometimes things happen.

00:29:46.880 But so one of the people who is buried in our cemetery is Farron Lassonde.

00:29:52.700 She's the wife of Monk.

00:29:54.360 A lot of you know Monk.

00:29:55.540 He goes by Eagle Monk.

00:29:57.260 He's really a sweetheart.

00:29:58.700 And she passed away last year, 2024.

00:30:02.180 And we did the memorial for her, I believe it was in June.

00:30:08.960 june or july i think maybe july and she is buried there her ashes are there and he comes out

00:30:15.760 you know three four times a year to take care of it and bring her little trinkets and things that

00:30:21.120 he was like little trolls on motorcycles he does have a story in our list later on oh okay well

00:30:30.000 then i'm gonna let that one go but i do know that of recent that there are people who um sleep alone

00:30:37.520 sometimes in the hof at night i think what is our own hof steward who relayed that he was sensing

00:30:46.000 somebody in the hall and recently fairly recently and another person one of our members said he

00:30:54.480 actually woke up and saw a person in that hall and other people have seen him around the property

00:31:01.120 and that is our own gothi thorgan odin who passed away in uh july and we did his memorial on his

00:31:09.080 78th birthday 2025 2024 but he would be there you know he had work to finish he needed to take care

00:31:18.100 of the place he loved being in the hof um he really was our caretaker there and he's still

00:31:24.040 there i mean there is that sense it doesn't mean that he's not really connecting with people but

00:31:30.820 there is that echo and that echo is a presence that some people actually visually pick up something

00:31:37.200 from him and so he's still there but it's a wonderful presence there's nothing nothing

00:31:42.180 sinister at all and i think that's something we need to really teach children is everybody makes

00:31:47.840 so much of the spooks and the goblins and the gooks and the the ghosts at halloween but truly

00:31:53.000 those ghosts are our own people our ancestors our friends and we need to also honor them as much as

00:32:00.840 we can and yeah we can kind of play with halloween i think we all do but no we really do take winter

00:32:08.360 nights seriously in honoring ancestors absolutely katie before we get into our next story do you

00:32:16.600 have a story that you would like to share while you're still here i have sorry i have so many

00:32:25.000 stories um basically since i was old enough to realize i wasn't christian and i wanted to be

00:32:34.120 pagan i guess i was wiccan for a while because i was 12 so what did i know you know um 12 in

00:32:40.440 the 90s we didn't have a whole lot of information available other than what we could find on geo

00:32:44.520 cities and angels uh angel whatever angel sites things i don't even remember what they're called

00:32:53.160 yeah yeah i think i might have tried making one once they were terrible they were terrible

00:32:58.680 but uh that's where i had all my information from but basically from that point on i was very

00:33:04.600 interested in in the ghost stuff i had a very active imagination and i was terrified of everything

00:33:10.200 thing the show are you afraid of the dark scared me like to the point of I would be sitting behind

00:33:15.340 my couch like peeking over it to watch it like oh my god and I because you know especially the

00:33:21.680 episodes with ghosts although the one about the killer car kind of freaked me out too because

00:33:26.140 there's always a killer car episode on all of those scary shows but um

00:33:29.300 So 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.

00:33:48.840 And 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.

00:34:00.320 Because 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?

00:34:08.520 I had a really good friend in high school, Molly, and she was always talking about how her house was really creepy.

00:34:20.400 And from the outside, because I'd been there before, never overnight, but definitely been there before.

00:34:25.580 You know, it was a pretty nice 90s looking, modern looking house.

00:34:32.060 Very large. I grew up in a very wealthy area.

00:34:34.520 and uh uh it was a very big house that had clearly had additions added on to it and she used to talk

00:34:41.840 about how she remembers coming downstairs and it happened to her like three separate times where

00:34:46.880 over by this fireplace in in this like sitting area you know those like depressed sitting areas

00:34:54.040 that used to be a thing conversation pits or whatever they had something very similar to that 0.98

00:34:58.620 at the bottom of the stairs that she would come down from her room and she said she'd come

00:35:03.800 downstairs and she'd see a man hanging from a tree limb right in front of her fireplace and she said

00:35:10.460 it happened to her like three or four times and she used to be really terrified um and it turned

00:35:15.820 out that her house was actually a pretty old house at least parts of it were uh there had been

00:35:21.480 additions and it had been remodeled to make it look much much more modern than it was um but on

00:35:27.300 her in her bedroom she lived at the end of this really long hallway that was an addition it was

00:35:31.860 all the way kind of like everybody I keep people can actually see my hands um her house was like

00:35:38.320 her room was like all the way down here and everybody else had bedrooms all the way over

00:35:41.620 here so she was on the whole opposite side of the house room where the the main part of the house

00:35:45.660 was and everybody else slept her siblings and stuff she said her room used to get so cold it

00:35:51.580 would be 90 degrees outside and her room would be like 30 degrees she'd have you know her dragons 1.00

00:35:58.160 of breath. You could see her breathing super cold. And I was like, I know what that means. 1.00

00:36:03.040 Ha ha ha ha. I was like 17 years old. And I was all excited. And then she invited me and my sister

00:36:08.860 to have a sleepover at her house. And I was so excited. And nothing happened when we were trying

00:36:14.120 to make it happen. So of course I was disappointed. And then we're all sitting there laying in bed

00:36:17.700 trying to go to sleep. And I hear a piano playing. Her parents were out of the house. All of her

00:36:22.600 siblings were older and didn't live at home anymore um it's like two in the morning and

00:36:28.260 there's a piano playing downstairs and then we're sitting there like uh do you hear that and my 0.95

00:36:33.880 sister who wasn't really a believer in this kind of stuff at the time she's like there's a fucking 0.90

00:36:37.460 piano playing pardon my language but so we're sitting there hearing this piano and i'm like 0.89

00:36:42.900 super excited but also super terrified because are you afraid of the dark scared me so an actual

00:36:48.180 ghost piano downstairs scared the shit out of me um and then i started hearing like conversations

00:36:55.060 like there was a party going on like people were like chatting with each other and the wine glasses

00:37:01.140 were clinking and it sounded like a full-on like a party downstairs with the piano playing

00:37:07.060 and we're like all right we i know the parents aren't home because they were out of town i know

00:37:12.580 none of the siblings were home none of them lived there anymore so we all got up and we you know

00:37:18.180 all scared and like huddled together and grabbing on to each other go walking down the stairs

00:37:22.640 into the room with the the fire pit and we did not see anything there was no hanging man

00:37:28.240 that night but um the room was like super super cold and it was like a warm night out it was like

00:37:41.400 75 degrees out so it wasn't like but it was really cold and every once in a while we were standing

00:37:49.180 there looking around you'd feel like this just absolute gust of breeze coming from nowhere

00:37:54.080 around your ankles and stuff and that was like that was my big holy crap it's not just my

00:38:00.460 imagination it's real moment because like there were three of us there and I'd say something like

00:38:07.180 do you hear that piano my sister would be like do you hear those wine glasses and we were all

00:38:11.440 confirming that we were hearing things but not in the same way so like I didn't say anything about

00:38:16.200 the wine the wine glasses clinking my sister did and Molly was the one who's like yeah do you hear

00:38:21.680 them talking so like we were all hearing it but we weren't all describing do you know what I mean

00:38:27.680 so like the fact that we were all saying I hear this I hear this I hear this and we're all saying

00:38:32.040 different things but we're all experiencing it made it really real um especially because I know

00:38:36.940 my sister is the sort of person who absolutely would have done everything in her power to freak

00:38:41.980 me out as much as possible um so the fact that she was serious and like wow this is real that

00:38:50.140 was an even bigger aha moment so that's my my one my one big story i guess of the many that i have

00:38:58.000 but 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

00:39:04.420 And I'm going to put the disclaimer because my nephew is watching. I do not condone breaking

00:39:09.820 and entering my good nephew. Do not do what auntie did. And my brother's watching and he's

00:39:16.540 going to be like, that's why. Okay. So when I was in high school and junior high, one of the big

00:39:25.900 things that in our town to do was go to like the end of the year fall festival for the Catholic

00:39:32.820 church, right? The Catholic church is known to be, it used to be a Catholic school, okay? And

00:39:41.040 they had a convent in the whole school, in the church. This place is known to be extraordinarily

00:39:46.960 haunted, like haunted to the point that paranormal investigators have gone to this building, okay?

00:39:55.600 And one of our, the convent was no longer in use because, you know, the church had

00:40:02.020 shrunk to such a small size you know there was maybe like three nuns left and they all

00:40:07.660 lived in this different building but the convent across the street was known to be super spooky 0.98

00:40:13.360 so what do we as stupid teenagers do we broke into the convent which i say we broke into the 0.98

00:40:21.480 convent the window was open we crawled through a window we didn't break anything and it's totally 1.00

00:40:27.140 dark. There's no power. But when we're walking through there, they had a confessional set up

00:40:33.200 still. And there's lights on confessionals that tell you when somebody's in the confessional.

00:40:37.680 So you don't barge in and interrupt somebody's confession. Right. So we're going there and the

00:40:42.180 lights are flickering red and green. And that was enough for most people. Half of the crew left out

00:40:49.340 back out the window but nope not brandy nope no i doubled down right so i'm walking through the

00:40:58.220 convent and it's just super creepy and all of a sudden it gets pitch black i mean can't see

00:41:06.060 your hand in front of your face pitch black right and there's three or four kids behind me

00:41:12.860 and nothing creepy other than the lights flickering on and off nothing creepy happened but i want to

00:41:19.940 i want to demonstrate the overreaction of human beings in dark circumstances where your mind

00:41:26.580 plays tricks on you somebody behind me said run like they must have something happened to them

00:41:33.080 and they just went run so we all ran down a dark hallway and i'm in the lead you know and all of a

00:41:42.360 sudden I come to a door that was locked that I couldn't see. Bam, face first into the door.

00:41:49.720 And then there's three or four kids behind me. Bam, bam, bam, bam. My face hit that door at least

00:41:56.020 four times. Like we open the door and we leave and I'm like covered in blood. My nose is like

00:42:03.060 just dripping blood. We had to clean me up so that nobody would know what happened because I had to

00:42:09.780 go back into the church fair. And if my parents would have seen me, they would have known that I

00:42:14.860 was in the convent and we're not supposed to be in the convent. But the only thing creepy that

00:42:21.160 happened was the lights, right? The smart kids ran back out the window. The rest of us idiots

00:42:26.440 ran down a dark hallway and face first into a door. So if my brother wonders why I look like 1.00

00:42:33.060 I got beat up at that one church fair in like the mid nineties, that's why bro.

00:42:39.780 all right i have a lot of silly stories like that this might be a fun night you guys might

00:42:46.960 learn a lot about your witness tonight okay our next submission that we have is from ryan harlan

00:42:54.740 and it reads in 2012 my maternal grandfather was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer

00:43:01.700 he had been to regular checkups his entire adult life but this was somehow missed until it was

00:43:07.440 finally caught. Unfortunately, it was already terminal. In his younger days, he was a strategic

00:43:13.560 air command and probably exposed to numerous forms of radiation at various posts across the country

00:43:19.020 due to this. As he declined, many of us helped my grandmother care for him. It was decided that

00:43:26.620 hospice would be the best choice so that he could live out his final days in the home he built with

00:43:31.860 his wife on the day he died it was just my grandfather grandmother and one of my younger

00:43:37.620 cousins in the house both of my grandparents were sleeping and my cousin was walking through the

00:43:44.280 house but when he came to the hallway which led to the back bedroom where my grandfather was

00:43:53.100 he saw a man standing in there he asked the man his business to which he smiled and said

00:43:58.500 I'm here to see your grandfather. My cousin replied that grandpa was very ill and unable

00:44:03.580 to take visitors but he would inform our grandmother that someone was there. According

00:44:08.020 to my cousin that man just smiled and said he would wait. My cousin went and informed grandma

00:44:13.700 that someone was there and she replied that wasn't likely. She had locked all the doors before going

00:44:19.360 to sleep but since my cousin insisted that someone was there they went looking. Nobody was there. The

00:44:25.120 next day my grandfather passed away. Grandma questioned my cousin and after hearing his

00:44:29.800 description of the man, she pulled out an old black and white photo and asked if he could pick

00:44:34.960 out the man in the picture. He pointed to a man kneeling in the front row. My grandmother told him

00:44:40.560 that was his great-grandfather and that he died in 1976. None of us great-grandchildren ever met

00:44:46.840 the man. He died before I was born and I'm the oldest. The photo was a company mining picture

00:44:52.500 of the day shift at the agronaut gold mine this side of my family were miners who came over from

00:44:58.660 cornwall to work the mines across the west i spoke to my grandmother about this entire story when she

00:45:04.100 told it to me i talked to her about our ancestors and about the philia it's our firm belief that

00:45:09.540 great grandpa charlie came to help his son across to the other side oh that's amazing that is an

00:45:15.780 amazing story ryan it really really is and you know you look in our folklore and you will find

00:45:23.540 you know the the harbingers of death which are not always bad there are sometimes that there

00:45:31.240 are stories in the folklore about um previous ancestors or even um beings that their entire

00:45:39.440 purpose is to show up to announce the death of a loved one and to actually help them across the

00:45:45.640 and help them walk the hell road so thank you ryan that is an amazing story

00:45:50.120 anything to add on that ladies 1.00

00:45:55.080 no all right

00:46:05.680 i'm sure there's stories like that but i can't recall any but that was an amazing story the way

00:46:13.080 was done yeah that's a beautiful beautiful all right so

00:46:19.400 sheila i i know you have kind of a personal story would you mind sharing that with us

00:46:29.020 if not it's totally okay no it's okay i know it's i know it's very dear to you

00:46:36.140 so i'll leave it up to you okay so are you thinking about the one that was written in

00:46:40.960 rune stone okay yeah waiting for my my husband's pouring water right now anyway uh 1993 um i decided

00:46:52.800 that was the summer i was going to take myself to the old country the old country being ireland

00:46:58.640 and both sides of my family are very irish um people who came after the famine for the most

00:47:04.080 part um and uh i made it over there um i found was really difficult to do genealogy even though

00:47:12.160 i had birth dates just because there's so many small parishes and each one has its own records

00:47:18.640 so i focused on the the ancient ones the the um the deep forebears those those who we cannot name

00:47:26.720 but no were there and that's really what i spent my time doing spending time around stone circles

00:47:32.640 and really powerful places um beautiful beautiful experience for me i really felt like i was home

00:47:40.960 i felt totally safe i would not go back to ireland like that again because i would go out in the

00:47:45.120 cemeteries late at night and sit out there and just look at the tombstones and look at the yew

00:47:50.880 trees the yew trees over there are so different all that i was really soaking it in i came home

00:47:57.440 and felt really good about what i had done and it was kind of in the early days that

00:48:02.720 steve and i were together and he actually we were producing the brunestone together

00:48:08.720 and um i was not particularly well acquainted with alice true but i certainly knew my ancestors

00:48:15.040 and i decided to write a story about my recollections of my my ancestors and my family

00:48:22.560 both sides we have very very long uh distance between generations like my own grandfather was

00:48:29.120 born in 1865 in germany i mean that's my grandfather right and both sides of the family

00:48:35.280 are like that so um when i was growing up i was the youngest of the youngest of the youngest or

00:48:41.440 people that only had one child have almost no cousins but we still had a place to go and that

00:48:47.360 that was to our grandmothers. She lived with her mother and my godmother all lived next door to us

00:48:55.740 in an old house. And the three ladies seemed so old to me, just so very, very old. And probably

00:49:03.860 my grandmother was in her 60s. But the one thing about her and the other ladies is I just knew that 1.00

00:49:09.460 they loved red lipstick and red nail polish. And as Christmas would cover every year, I would take 0.99

00:49:16.180 my $1, whatever I had to go down to Woolworths and start buying presents for them. And I would

00:49:23.060 get red nail polish or red lipstick for my grandmother and my godmother. But for my great

00:49:31.720 grandmother, I would buy a hairnet. And when I bought a hairnet, so she had white hair that she 1.00

00:49:36.680 pulled back and she was already about 90 years old at this time and maybe even 91 and had really

00:49:44.200 lost her ability she had aphasia she couldn't talk she had a very hard time moving but she

00:49:49.800 taught me how to do nursery rhymes she was the one who played the piano she still did that

00:49:55.000 played the piano for me so i could learn nursery rhymes so i had a really nice connection with her

00:50:00.040 even though she was very old and feeble at that point and um when i would buy um these hair nets

00:50:06.920 being you know 10 years old or whatever i get ones with like sequins on them or glitter you

00:50:12.280 know it was that something that i thought she would like and so i'd spend my my 15 cents or

00:50:17.960 whatever to get the hairnet and wrap it up and every year we would unwrap these and so that was 0.77

00:50:24.280 the tradition in my family it's like every year i get these same gifts for these same ladies

00:50:30.280 i was writing this up and what it was like because our meals were very formal it was a very small

00:50:35.320 family but we had the damask tablecloth and the candles lit and the nice silver and all for for

00:50:41.560 thanksgiving and for christmas that we had together and i was just trying to recall all these these

00:50:48.280 poignant memories i had with just my brother my sister myself as children and uh as i was writing

00:50:56.760 this typing this out on my computer i was taking laundry out it was summer of course i took laundry

00:51:04.280 out to it clothesline was putting laundry out there from the washer coming back and forth and

00:51:09.320 I happened to see that there was a flat envelope that was on my dryer it was just a brown envelope

00:51:15.160 it was really flat kind of shiny you know that shiny kind of waxy waxy brown paper that they

00:51:20.840 used to use and I thought oh it looks to me like maybe seeds were in there I thought maybe planting

00:51:26.040 flower seeds and I went back and forth a few times and finally I came back I said I'm going to check

00:51:31.880 and see what it is and i picked it up and i opened it up and inside was a an envelope like this with

00:51:40.840 a beautiful look like was almost hand tinted hand colored lady with brown hair kind of 1920s look to

00:51:50.920 her 1910 1920s of this brown hair and it said real human hair on it and it had the price on it

00:52:00.520 was like i think was like 19 cents or something like that and on the front of the envelope

00:52:07.560 it said alberts and i'm thinking alberts what is alberts what is this because i'd never seen

00:52:13.160 it before it was my own home nobody lived there but me and my kids at that point i had no idea and

00:52:22.360 i ended up talking to my sister about it because i realized that this was by connection with my

00:52:29.080 great-grandmother was this hairnet so it was a real human hairnet in light brown i got this

00:52:34.600 impression that that was the color of her hair when she was young and it was perfect it was in

00:52:39.880 perfect condition it had never been open i opened up that first envelope and in it was tissue paper

00:52:46.360 and folded up in the tissue paper was this very delicate brown hairnet made with real human hair

00:52:52.120 so it all went back in there it stayed with me and of course I reported to my brother and my sister

00:53:01.120 and my brother said oh you've always had that I said no I haven't and then I said to my sister

00:53:06.720 what is this Albert's and she said do you remember Albert's you know it was the department store in

00:53:12.280 town I said no I don't know that she said oh it became Macy's you knew it as Macy's so this was

00:53:19.780 definitely something that had made its way across through the veil to me at a time when I was trying

00:53:28.620 to connect with these ladies and honor them even though they were quirky in their own way you know

00:53:34.260 and our holidays were weird they were still my kin they were my blood kin and I was honoring

00:53:40.080 them with this story about them and I got this beautiful gift I would even take this when I was

00:53:46.640 a teacher, you know, at Halloween time, I, one thing I did is I dressed up like a little

00:53:52.580 old lady I'd named Miss Biddy. She looks just like me today, you know, with the hat and

00:53:57.360 the gray, gray hair and everything. But I would tell the kids about this and I actually

00:54:03.300 let this, passed it around and said, I do not know where this came from, but it came

00:54:09.000 to me as a gift. So it was actually written up in a rune stone probably back in 1995.

00:54:16.640 four or five something like that where i wrote up it's called the hair the hairnet that's spelled

00:54:22.440 h-e-i-r because it was a hairnet from who's my hair or i'm the heir to it so and i don't know

00:54:30.080 where it is now i keep looking someday we'll find it because i never would have thrown it out

00:54:34.480 but over time you know it looked like it was absolutely brand new it had never been opened

00:54:40.060 and over time it just it faded it kind of wore the envelope wore the bag it was in all of that

00:54:48.160 and it changed over time but it had been timeless up until that time it arrived to me so that was

00:54:55.320 the best gift I've ever received you know a very tangible thing so that's my story

00:55:01.620 it's a really great story Sheila and I've heard it before but that's so special to have

00:55:09.640 something that you know and you just know you don't even there doesn't even have to be any kind

00:55:15.560 of proof you just know like when we have things that are connected from our ancestors you know

00:55:21.560 sometimes as as giddy as we'll get a message about hey i saw this and i think it's a sign or

00:55:28.560 you know this happened and i i think it's a sign you know when you have things like that happen

00:55:35.680 and you can connect them to your ancestors you don't have to ask yourself if it's a sign right

00:55:42.120 like you know yeah candles right now just like we would have had on those tables i just realized

00:55:51.180 that there's a reason i have these i probably purchased them but it takes me back to that

00:55:56.940 there we go meant to be yeah we do have a question what's the afa belief of sleep paralysis entities

00:56:06.900 there's a story in the heim screen lid that reminded me of a sleep paralysis episode

00:56:10.920 yes so witten's fawn is going to kill me for my pronunciation so i apologize i'm trying but i

00:56:23.920 believe it's um if spawn is in the chat please give us a sound out way to sound this out but

00:56:32.020 it's the the mare the the mera yeah katie's shaking her head yes i'm close and what that is

00:56:40.860 that's one name for them the other like the in the german folklore i believe they're called the

00:56:48.780 alps and if go these stam is in the chat correct me if i'm wrong in the chat um and both of those

00:56:58.660 um both of those entities were known to attack you in your sleep but not like thrash and and

00:57:07.140 but like sit on you like they would sit on you and you would feel like you're suffocating

00:57:11.240 so what is the afa belief in that i don't think the afa has a specific stance on that

00:57:17.700 but sleep paralysis can be two things. It can be a medical condition or it can be something like

00:57:26.580 that. And again, I'm on this side of the veil. I'm not going to pretend that I have knowledge

00:57:32.300 from the other side of the veil, but do I believe that these kinds of things are real? Yes.

00:57:38.820 Do I believe that they're common? No. If you do suffer from sleep paralysis,

00:57:44.460 couple things that I would highly recommend for you. First of all, see a doctor. Don't discount

00:57:50.580 medical conditions that can be life-threatening and dangerous. But second of all, commune with

00:57:57.520 your desire. There is nothing that will protect you harder and better than your desire. Nobody

00:58:08.220 will love you more than you're to seer. Nobody will fight harder for you than you're to seer.

00:58:15.240 When I have things of that nature, when I am scared, when things go bump that scare me, which

00:58:23.300 mind you, there's not a lot of things that scare me anymore that go bump in the night. It's more

00:58:29.020 along the lines. If you make me get out of bed and find out what's going on, the pots and pans

00:58:34.880 are going to be banging. I'm going to chase you out and wake up the whole neighborhood.

00:58:39.200 Don't mess with me tonight. I'm not in the mood, right? Mr. Monk and I talk about that quite a bit.

00:58:48.140 It's more along the lines of, I don't want to be irritated right now. Don't,

00:58:51.780 right? But there are still things that happen that will send the chills up my spine or that

00:58:57.200 will legitimately scare me. When I'm legitimately afraid, I call upon my Desir. I know a lot of

00:59:05.540 people are like, hey, we can call upon the gods or the Vatir or this. I call upon my Desir. There

00:59:11.560 is nobody more ferocious in the universal powers when it comes to my protection than my grandmothers.

00:59:19.040 They were fierce in life and they are fierce in death. And if we have time, I will tell the story

00:59:26.000 of the lady in the blue dress. That is a very interesting one. I think the Githias have heard

00:59:31.780 that one. The Githias have heard it. But when I say there is nobody more fierce than your Desir 1.00

00:59:37.000 when it comes to your protection, whether it be physical or spiritual, emotional, mental, 0.98

00:59:42.420 I'm not joking. Not joking. I'll call on my Desir for protection and support before I'll call on

00:59:49.280 Thor. That's real. You know, my grandmother is spiritually invested in me. I am her bloodline.

00:59:55.080 I am her pride. I am her name continued on in the legacy of, of the family, you know? So when

01:00:02.020 things like that happen, I call upon the desire. Um, we used to have what was called monster spray.

01:00:08.720 I am 40 something. We're not going to be exact, but I'm 40 something. I still make monster spray.

01:00:16.840 My kids will still ask for monster spray, right? It's, it's lavender water.

01:00:22.720 you know it's it's something to empower them and again when i talked about water being important

01:00:30.820 with our desire you know the water is the vessel for my just for the love of the desire

01:00:37.340 and we put lavender in it you know monster spray when you get scared spray it there's something in

01:00:44.780 the dark corner spray it you take control even as a child teach your children to take control

01:00:51.260 of the situation. Call upon your desire. Take control of the situation. So yes, I hope that

01:01:01.160 answered your question. I kind of went off on a couple different rabbit holes. We're going to

01:01:05.880 have a whole prairie dog farm of like loops and stuff if we're not careful. We all know I'm good

01:01:14.480 for that, right? All right. And Katie and Sheila, do you guys have any thoughts on the sleep paralysis

01:01:25.940 or the things that go bump in the night when you're sleeping? Have you had any experiences

01:01:30.600 with that? Your kids have any experiences with that? Any recommendations that you have for those

01:01:35.560 kinds of things so I've never personally had any experiences with um sleep excuse me sleep paralysis

01:01:44.960 uh or things that might cause it but one of my very good friends for a very long time and the

01:01:51.820 woman that I used to do the most about of like we called it spooky stuff uh spooky stuff with did 1.00

01:01:57.420 have issues with sleep paralysis and 1.00

01:02:00.480 because we were silly and maybe sometimes foolish and we 0.98

01:02:07.380 actively invited things to come and harass us 0.98

01:02:11.720 they did sometimes come and harass us and

01:02:15.220 she had and you know I'm obviously a full

01:02:19.460 firm believer in this kind of stuff and like Brandy said sometimes it is a medical

01:02:23.460 issue and you should you should always approach all of these things with a with a level of

01:02:32.100 reason logical yes thank you um even though i am a firm believer when something is happening i

01:02:39.620 always look for a logical conclusion or logical solution to the problem before i immediately

01:02:44.260 jump to it's a ghost um although sometimes you know instincts are what they are and sometimes

01:02:49.220 you just kind of know but um we invited stuff in all the time on purpose because we liked to 0.86

01:02:56.900 fuck with it and they pardon my language would occasionally we would fafo for lack of a better 0.80

01:03:03.380 phrase you know never in any kind of bad way but she had um a very negative experience with sleep 0.99

01:03:12.300 paralysis with a uh creature of some sort uh she explained it looking like a very tall man all

01:03:19.460 dressed in black with like one of those like black um puritan hats um that would when it wasn't

01:03:28.140 bothering her at night it would often be in doorways um and i slept at her house a couple

01:03:34.360 times or often we i'd go i lived far away from her so we i'd go spend the weekend at our house

01:03:40.480 night's sleep on her couch and there were a couple of times where I definitely kind of saw

01:03:45.340 something tall and black standing in the doorway but you know monster spray sounds like a great

01:03:54.460 idea uh my son is uh super scared of a lot of things right now every time the wind blows the

01:04:04.840 shower curtain because you know it's hot there and cold there and it creates you know drafts and

01:04:10.720 he moves and doesn't realize he's touched the curtain he's like mommy come here because you

01:04:15.560 know obviously the shower didn't the shower curtain didn't move because he you know there

01:04:20.880 was a little gust of wind he it had to have been a ghost and i i i like the monster spray idea i

01:04:26.480 think i'm going to try it out and see if that works um but as far as like i know for a while

01:04:33.380 when i lived out in glenrock pennsylvania which is in like southern new york county

01:04:40.640 it was a very old house and i would wake up every night

01:04:46.380 around like 3 34 i think it was same time every single night for months and there was just there 0.76

01:04:55.940 was a old lady she wasn't too old but a woman standing at the end of my bed staring at me

01:05:03.380 and like I don't know how to describe this to people when you can like see things but not

01:05:10.020 really see them you're not seeing them with your eyeballs I've never actually seen a full-on ghost

01:05:14.540 with my eyeballs but I have full-on seen them like it's just like it's a picture that flashes

01:05:19.680 and you had almost like you're seeing it with your eye you know um I would see her there every

01:05:26.780 night for months for months and I'm not really sure why she was there I never really she wasn't

01:05:32.240 trying to hurt me i never got any kind of negative feeling certainly creepy to wake up in my my nice

01:05:37.820 sorry i just painted my nails while we were on this call so if you see me scratching my head

01:05:42.080 with a pen it's because i painted my nails because if i'm sitting here i can do little things while

01:05:48.020 i'm i would have had to paint my nails you know in the car or at ron's house on thursday and i

01:05:54.200 would have run out of time so i did it now sorry um don't talk in the straight line anyways yeah 1.00

01:06:00.740 i forgot where i was going with that that lady was creepy uh

01:06:04.900 i feel like there's something else i was going to say but i completely forget so

01:06:10.360 yeah the i think it's the mare by the way i don't remember it being i think it's the mare

01:06:15.780 but i'm probably wrong but i do i have heard of the the yeah i've heard of them before yeah

01:06:22.300 that in the elbow pretty much the same thing there's just different names for it um i'm more

01:06:28.520 familiar with alp than i am with the again witness fun would give us the proper pronunciation of

01:06:37.000 that i apologize i'm working on it i promise i'm trying i i'm not gonna judge you've heard me try

01:06:44.040 to say stuff two quick things uh i have used um i see in the chat i have absolutely used nail

01:06:52.120 stickers before and i love them to pieces i just don't have any right now and also i'm sorry this

01:06:57.080 is completely unrelated but there was a conversation in the chats earlier about carving um and i know

01:07:04.440 that uh nick gave my email i often carve both horns and wood with dremels so um it was primal

01:07:12.760 if you ever have any questions or want tips or whatever about how to carve with a dremel feel

01:07:18.120 free to reach out to the email address because i'm a nerd and i like talking about that kind of stuff

01:07:22.840 so i wanted to say that before i forgot get the arrogant friends with kind of

01:07:31.960 right

01:07:36.760 all right so we are gonna go over oh go ahead sheila i don't know how to not make faces

01:07:42.120 um so a story that goes along with a presence in a house probably about 20 years ago or so

01:07:54.680 um we had an old house in the town of grass valley it was associated with one of the big

01:07:59.960 mines the empire mine there and was supposedly built for one of the mine managers at the very

01:08:05.180 edge of the mine so it was really an interesting place with a basement and the whole thing and

01:08:12.120 my kids lived there with their dad during their teen years, finished high school there and all

01:08:19.040 that. And I was over there the very last night before we changed ownership to someone else.

01:08:25.340 We were there and we did a walkthrough and we talked about things. And I have to say that I

01:08:30.860 had an impression before of somebody in a doorway, you know, some kind of a spirit. I thought it was

01:08:38.980 probably an older man. It was nothing bad, but I'm curious that other people can explain this

01:08:44.820 because I went through the house and was taking pictures of all the rooms. And the one thing that

01:08:51.060 came out in lots of them was the spiky white, look a lot, almost like spider legs and white.

01:08:58.480 And they'd come out of the corners out of different angles in a bunch of those pictures.

01:09:03.220 and I felt yeah if there was ever a haunted house I lived in that was it and it's not that it was

01:09:09.400 bad haunting but it had spares because it had been built in probably the 1850s which is very

01:09:14.280 old for California um so I'm curious if anybody can explain that with a logical answer do you

01:09:21.340 know of anything Brandy why it would do that okay you tell me all right so I am along the

01:09:31.640 lines of with Katie, where I am always going to look for a logical explanation before I jump to

01:09:38.260 supernatural. But in the event that there is not a logical explanation, I will assume that it is

01:09:44.980 supernatural. Okay. So I have the, I have the belief. So most of us, our homes are made out of

01:09:51.120 what? Rock, brick, wood, right? Yep. Okay. All of those things are natural materials.

01:10:05.200 Natural materials absorb energy. Natural materials are energy. So our homes will absorb

01:10:13.160 what we put into it. You'll see this a lot in homes that have murders, assaults, abuse,

01:10:21.120 traumatic instances, the walls will absorb that. The house will absorb that. Your floor will

01:10:28.640 absorb that. I'm talking from my personal experience, my personal belief. Okay. Things

01:10:35.940 that happen in that house, stay in that house. And that's what produces echoes. That's what

01:10:40.840 produces some of the things you catch out of the corner of your eye. The house may not necessarily

01:10:47.700 be haunted, the house might be energetically dirty, right? Because everything will absorb

01:10:56.300 everything, right? Just like the reason we can see my altar across the room is because of light

01:11:05.060 reflecting, right? If it was completely dark, we can't see it. Absence of light, absence of sight,

01:11:11.100 right? I feel like energy is the same thing. I feel like your house will absorb that.

01:11:19.320 You will absorb that. So it could be built up energy that's showing itself when the lights

01:11:26.500 are flashing, right? Um, there are people, my son's home. There are people that, um, you know,

01:11:36.240 paranormal investigators will actually take specific kinds of cameras, use specific types

01:11:41.500 of light to make those things appear. Is it a trick of camera? I don't know. I'm not a scientist.

01:11:46.660 I think it's neat. But I think that some of the things that we see in pictures

01:11:51.740 is energetic. Whether it is energy of a person, a deceased person, whether it is just an echo of

01:12:04.240 things that have happened, whether it is a reflection of yourself. There is one picture of

01:12:11.780 Matt that I absolutely love of him doing a bloat. And there's this huge green thing, blue, and it's

01:12:22.300 ginormous. And I don't know if Nick is able to find that picture. I don't know if he's got a

01:12:27.140 stash somewhere because it's a good one where you can just see a huge energy. Is it possible

01:12:34.000 that that is absolutely just a trick of the light reflecting off of the fire and through

01:12:40.760 the camera? Absolutely. It's absolutely possible and very highly logical. Do I also think that it

01:12:48.760 is possible that that is a reflection of the Alshira gothic energy during that bloat? Yes, I do.

01:12:57.140 I'm not sure if I answered your question, Sheila. So yes. Can it, can it, can it be a trick of light

01:13:04.640 and camera? Yes. Could it be the energy of the, of the house itself as I'm touching my walls?

01:13:10.600 Like you guys can see me touch my wall, right? Yes. Could it be a spirit? Yes. Which one is it?

01:13:19.320 I don't know, but it could be any of those things. So use your gut instinct on that. If a house

01:13:25.320 feels gross when you walk into it. And I think we've all kind of experienced that at least once

01:13:30.460 in our life, right? Where we go into a house, that house can be pristine, absolutely spotless.

01:13:37.420 Everything's in its place and it feels so gross. Like you walk in and it feels like you've been

01:13:43.280 hit with a ton of bricks. The house absorbs the energy. When we talk in the ladies group,

01:13:50.280 but I've talked about this before. When you move into a new place, you clean the house,

01:13:56.520 like top to bottom. And it's not, it's not just the dirt and germs and other people's yuck. You're

01:14:02.700 taking away, you're taking away the energy. You are wiping the walls clean. You are saying, okay,

01:14:09.100 you don't belong here anymore. This is my space now, right? I claim this, this is mine. You gots

01:14:14.620 to go you're not welcome here a lot of people forget that step you know and a lot of people

01:14:21.400 will hear things and see things and they're like i have no idea what this is this house is gross

01:14:26.380 that's why go ahead

01:14:28.100 i think you're i think you're muted sheila

01:14:35.600 there we go yeah thinking about land taking which we do it's one of our

01:14:43.960 our rituals that we offer to people go to the corners with a flame and bless the place and

01:14:49.800 sanctify it and protect it um but we don't do it in any kind of official way with moving in

01:14:56.760 houses i mean that i can think of but obviously you do i've not really thought about this and

01:15:02.280 something that i can see i need to um and prepare for to be ready to somebody asked me for that it's

01:15:09.640 a good thing to do right so could you just go through and tell us what it would be like if you

01:15:14.440 went somebody said can you come i'm moving into a new house i would like to have a clean tell

01:15:19.320 us what that might look like um there we go this is this is going to be the brand new version um

01:15:27.880 and i've actually done this for some of our members um i will tailor it to the folk right so

01:15:36.040 So if it's a family, I like to do a bloat, right? And do an exchange of gifts.

01:15:46.220 But I also like to do a couple other things. I like to have a bowl of water and I like to have

01:15:55.200 the family put their hands in that water and then wash over their hands and basically infuse that

01:16:01.520 water with their energy, you know, and this is following the bloat. Like we're, we're going to

01:16:07.040 do a gift exchange. Right. But I also want them to take responsibility for their home.

01:16:15.040 One of the things I like to really stress for the folk is don't beg of the gods what you can do for

01:16:20.260 yourself. Right. So when we're claiming that land is of, of your own, you know, you go to

01:16:28.940 the properties and you know you can you know hail the gods and take that land absolutely claim that

01:16:34.040 land but when you're making the house introducing yourself to the home there's a couple other things

01:16:41.460 that you can do on top of that i have the the family wash like not wash their hands but like

01:16:47.260 infuse it with the water and put their energy into that water and i actually have the woman of the 0.98

01:16:53.640 house. Take that in every dark nook and cranny. We're put in water. This is my home. I am the 1.00

01:17:02.320 woman of the hearth. This is my energy. This is my home. I own this. This is mine. Take charge of

01:17:10.700 it. Control it before it controls you. I also have usually bring a candle, a large pillar candle,

01:17:18.200 and we'll talk ahead of time if there wants any runes that wants to be carved in it or anything

01:17:23.460 like that. But, um, if there's children, I'll have the children carry a gift for the house

01:17:30.040 that come with the house, right? Here's some incense. Make sure you make sure you gift them

01:17:34.780 from time to time. So they don't act silly. Have the children present the gift, bring it to each

01:17:39.760 room. But I also, the big important thing that I think is really important is I have the man

01:17:45.520 take the candle. The man is the power of the family, right? It is his force that moves the

01:17:55.920 family forward. It is his land, his domain. So where there is darkness, that man will bring

01:18:03.180 light. So he takes that candle and literally will open every closet door. He is the light

01:18:11.360 of this house. He is the strength of this house, right? This is who this is. And the man and the

01:18:19.940 woman in the family take ownership of that, that home, that energy. This is their space. This is

01:18:26.440 for them, their ancestors. I also have them keep that candle. And whenever there's strife in the

01:18:33.980 home, I ask them to light it. Light that candle. Okay? Bring the light back when it's dark.

01:18:42.980 Because remember what I said earlier about your house absorbing what you put into it, right?

01:18:48.880 Right? We want to shine that light and remember that moment when we were happy,

01:18:55.100 when we were peaceful, when we were doing something together in love, in frith, and in unity,

01:19:00.980 to drown out the other stuff that you're putting in you know if you need another candle if you

01:19:09.440 have to burn that thing a lot burn it a lot I'll make you another one you know but one of the

01:19:15.560 things I would tell the man and the woman is when you're mad at each other and you don't know how

01:19:21.000 to say it when you don't have the ability to say you have hurt me or you have angered me you have

01:19:27.840 upset me or disappointed me and you don't have the words to say that or initiate the conversation 0.96

01:19:35.200 rather than sitting there and pouting or holding a grudge or acting a fool because your feelings 0.94

01:19:41.760 are hurt when all you have to do is communicate go light the candle let that be a warning flag 0.58

01:19:48.400 for the other member that something's not right right kind of serves two purposes

01:19:54.720 stop the strife in the home before the strife ruins the home

01:20:00.720 i don't know if they answered your question or not sheila but those are like the little

01:20:05.880 additions that that i do for land takings and like home blessings and things like that

01:20:12.660 not the same

01:20:13.580 did you have anything to add on that

01:20:18.580 my husband is up here packing his stuff and he said light the can't the light the candle

01:20:25.820 let the other know you're upset he said it's like the beacon

01:20:28.980 it's like calling batman it's like houston we got a problem there's a light on

01:20:38.480 that's nerdy but that ain't the level of nerd he was talking no no i think he was like letting

01:20:45.360 the rohiram no it's time to go to war kind of kind of lighten the beacon but i don't know

01:20:51.760 yeah he says that's exactly it um as far as uh i don't know if you were talking to me or just

01:20:59.060 so i'm sorry for just jumping in there because that's okay a little distracted but um

01:21:04.180 one of the the the the very first ritual we ever do when we open a new hawk on not necessarily on

01:21:13.960 property but definitely in the building is the the dedication and the dedication is literally the

01:21:20.440 the the taking of the building the stripping of all the previous energy and everything else that's

01:21:26.360 there and removing it and making way for creating that sacred space that is um

01:21:34.440 Odin's Hoth and Njord's Hoth and Baldur's Hoth yes and then we we are always like we

01:21:45.800 may not need to do a Himmer halloween every single time we do bloat in a Hoth but every

01:21:50.960 time we do bloat in a Hoth we're building upon the positive energy that we we started

01:21:56.420 when we did that dedication so I'm a big fan of the idea of doing a house taking or land

01:22:01.280 taking when you take possession of a property um you can ask my husband uh one of the things i keep

01:22:07.500 saying is like we cannot have dedication until i have done a deep clean of the entire hall now i'm

01:22:13.700 perfectly happy to let other help people help me do a deep clean of the hall um in fact i would

01:22:19.240 appreciate the help but i know that i am at the very least going to scrub every wall wash every

01:22:26.660 floor i'm going to get inside every one of those cabinets at some point uh we took down the drop

01:22:32.500 ceiling in the community room because it was only half there and it was just really in bad

01:22:37.700 shape so it was easier to just take it down so now we're going to go clean up in all those

01:22:42.340 um rafters they're not called what are they the rafters not actually after

01:22:49.700 um all the nooks and crannies they have to be scrubbed i'm going to get a carpet cleaner and

01:22:54.980 i'm going to clean the carpet in the in the sanctuary because i truly believe that the

01:23:00.340 very first thing you need to do in order to clean a space is physically clean it because it's it's

01:23:08.340 it is an act a physical act an outward act of cleaning but when you're doing that there's

01:23:14.900 also an energetic cleaning that is happening because the intention is i'm going to clean

01:23:19.700 the space i'm going to make it clean i'm going to make it fresh um i'm going to make it mine

01:23:25.140 that's the thing when you move into a new place and you're cleaning it you're getting to know

01:23:29.540 the space that's super important to me like this is my space we moved into this house we got the

01:23:35.860 keys um and they had still been working on it right up until the day that we got the keys and

01:23:42.340 we knew they were going to be doing that but they said they were going to have somebody come in and

01:23:45.220 and do a clean like just clean up after them you know and so i went in there and they hadn't done

01:23:50.980 a thing there was still paint paint stuff everywhere and there was like i don't know

01:23:57.760 what they were doing but there was like this dust everywhere i can relate four-year-old

01:24:03.620 sitting on the counter when we went to boulders off i can relate i know you can uh but so just

01:24:09.780 i spent two days i scrubbed every wall i scrubbed all the floors i got into every cabinet and it

01:24:17.120 it sucked because i don't think i slept for like two days but i got it done because that was me

01:24:22.420 introducing myself to the house um to the that was me introducing myself to the the vaiteer

01:24:29.000 the property like the house vaiteer and the land vaiteer because we did some stuff well we didn't

01:24:33.980 do a lot outside it was like what december january 2nd or something like that it was

01:24:38.400 in erie pennsylvania yeah it was it was a very cold winter that year when we moved in so we just

01:24:46.280 you know but that's that's part of it getting to know and and we have other things like there's

01:24:51.060 old superstitions that um exist out in you know um so there's this one book and i'm sorry i don't

01:24:58.200 remember the author's name off the top of my head but it's called the yule tom and it's a story

01:25:03.120 about this old grumpy yule tomt who you know does stuff i don't know uh and one of the things that

01:25:10.860 they mentioned in this story and it's a children's story is that um it's bad luck to leave a clock

01:25:17.320 unwound in your house and this is an old scandinavian story they also have one about the

01:25:22.540 midsummer tomt and they're both very cute my son loves them but that's an actual superstition that

01:25:28.140 have and it's a long it's not a new superstition it's an old superstition so we do have um a

01:25:34.300 pendulum clock or what are they called a grandfather clock that actually you have to

01:25:38.780 wind every day um so we we make a point of trying to make sure we always keep that what always have

01:25:44.780 the clock working because apparently they really don't like it when you you know do that they don't

01:25:49.100 like untidy houses so we keep our house tidy and we make offerings to the yule wait um so we have

01:25:55.260 When 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.

01:26:16.060 and that's our way of saying like we we have you know and then once a week sometimes more

01:26:22.500 uh we leave an offering for the yule white in a bowl that we have um on our altar and

01:26:28.600 for the kids they they might like owen has turned it into a rhyme uh house white house white full

01:26:34.480 of might please help keep the monsters out tonight or something like that he changes what he wants

01:26:40.940 every every so often but sometimes it's the nightmares please help keep the nightmares away

01:26:45.760 or i always say hail the yule light new rings the bell we each take a turn and i always say thank

01:26:51.200 you for being a part of our family and on like this week i haven't been doing much in the house

01:26:57.680 because i've been super busy with us unrelated to the afa stuff and now getting ready for winter

01:27:04.240 nights and i cleaned my house for the first time in like two weeks and that mop bucket water was

01:27:08.640 nasty so when i ring the bell before the bed tonight i'm going to say a housewife thank you

01:27:14.000 for being patient with me while we're busy and i couldn't keep the house clean and the reason why

01:27:18.640 i'm bringing all this up is i know it's um not really related to doing a house blessing

01:27:23.440 necessarily but these are the things that we do in our house to help build and keep a relationship

01:27:32.160 with our house of a tier and that's really important because while negative energy can

01:27:38.400 come from a lot of places there are i i firmly believe that our house faith here are invested

01:27:45.600 in the house and when we are unhappy they are unhappy and when we don't treat our house well

01:27:50.640 they don't treat us well um things i personally have experienced things going wrong in all the

01:27:59.600 stupidest littlest ways when i and i always i don't always get there right away sometimes it

01:28:04.960 takes me a minute or two to realize like oh i just realized we haven't rung the bell in like a week 0.98

01:28:09.680 we haven't thanked him for being a part of our family in like a week we better remember to start

01:28:14.240 ringing that bell again um but when we are on top of it which is most of the time our our house of

01:28:21.680 a tier goes out of his way i believe goes out of his well to help build the the joy of the house

01:28:28.800 because he's invested in it it's his house too so um if you can do a land taking um

01:28:36.480 do the land taking or the house taking and it doesn't have to be anything fancy i'm a big fan

01:28:41.280 of sage i know that a lot of our folk are like sage isn't isn't ours we should use stuff that's

01:28:46.880 native to our to the vikings but i don't live in scandinavia i live here and um i think our viking

01:28:54.240 ancestors would have been perfectly happy to use sage if they'd come across it because they were

01:28:58.080 just like wink that's ours now kind of what they did right so i use sage and i'll walk around and

01:29:04.800 you know very wickany in some ways i suppose but you smudge the house and you maybe you

01:29:12.800 gold or some runes or you do what you gotta do but i lost my favorite i burn a lot of lavender

01:29:20.800 I burn a lot of rosemary rosemary rosemary and cedar are my go-to and a lot of lavender um if

01:29:29.940 I'm working with my desir roses you know I I'm a big fan of burning stuff you know I'm taking it

01:29:37.140 around you know I do it as an offering I do it as as as a cleansing thing you know you know my go-to

01:29:43.700 is you know your go-to is sage my I like cedar a lot you know cedar's got really good things and

01:29:49.540 I really love rosemary rosemary's. I use rosemary for a lot of stuff. I use rosemary bundles for

01:29:55.000 nightmares. Um, I use rosemary, you know, sassets, satchets, satchets, sorry, satchets, um, for,

01:30:04.640 you know, like, um, gifts for, for, you know, housewarming gifts or, you know, hide them in

01:30:10.520 my kids' car for, you know, little trinkets of protection. Here's a little offering, keep my

01:30:14.860 kid safe on the road, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, you know, watch out for it. I'm a big fan of the

01:30:21.260 rosemary, I guess. And, you know, like I said, if I'm working with Mike to see your roses, but

01:30:25.460 I don't know, I kind of like to start things on fire and clean with the smoke.

01:30:33.100 Again, if my nephew is watching, don't start things on fire, young man.

01:30:38.420 No, that's the best thing. I have the, I have the favorite uncle because I teach them how to

01:30:44.160 use a lighter and smack the flame

01:30:46.340 and put it out with your bare hand.

01:30:48.500 Nick, stay away from my nephew.

01:30:50.600 My sister told me the same thing.

01:30:54.680 All right, let's go over

01:30:56.100 to another story. 0.90

01:30:58.560 Sheila, would you

01:31:00.020 be able to read... I don't know

01:31:01.920 how to say the name properly. It's

01:31:03.640 number three.

01:31:07.380 He's in her

01:31:08.060 district. I don't know.

01:31:12.820 He uses another name.

01:31:14.160 yeah there we go yeah number three right yeah

01:31:20.800 there we go

01:31:23.600 there we go way down here all righty let me grab so no it says think i'm going to miss the show

01:31:32.240 tonight but i've got a spooky story not much of a ghost story though one halloween a few years ago

01:31:38.960 was a full moon i had to walk to the store to get a new keyboard to write up an essay

01:31:44.480 and i lived out in the boonies so it was a three-hour walk saw hundreds of kids walking down

01:31:50.720 the highway in a straight line like some sort of procession well on the three-hour walk back

01:31:57.600 it was right at midnight check the time later when i got home when i got to uh lonely crossroads out

01:32:05.600 in the desert with just a single light across the street diagonally and as i was in the exact

01:32:13.120 middle of the crossroads i heard every dog coyote and who knows what else howling up at the moon

01:32:20.560 every dog for miles around as far as i could hear even further down into town went on for a few

01:32:27.600 minutes and i froze and looked around to listen to it almost expected something to walk down the

01:32:33.920 crossroads toward me but nothing came and the howling died down as quickly as it started

01:32:43.200 okay i am a really really big firm believer that cats canines felines birds i don't know about fish

01:32:51.840 i don't think fish care i don't know what kind of you know hauntings are happening in the ocean i'm

01:32:57.360 not there i'm not an ocean girl i'm a prairie githya okay but i don't know about the oceans but

01:33:04.560 like the coyotes that's a thing like i'll sit out at the farm and they just go crazy and

01:33:11.200 they're probably just eating but like when you have like the synchronized freak out of animals

01:33:19.280 like i'm a firm believer they can sense things that we can't see you know i'll watch my cat just

01:33:25.680 stare off into space and i'm just like oh who's here did they knock first kitty you know and

01:33:34.720 maybe it's a bug logic would say she sees a bug or she had too much catnip but you know i watched

01:33:42.400 her just watch things and i'm just like oh what's here do i need to get out the pots and pans you

01:33:49.200 you know. That's an inside joke, by the way, the pots and pans. It's kind of a joke, but it's kind 0.97

01:33:56.520 of serious. If things are in my house and I get super upset, I have been known to dent my pots

01:34:02.820 and pans with spoons and slamming them together and telling me. Some people will ring a bell

01:34:07.820 because that's proper. Some people will use gongs or bowls or whatever things that have notes. Some

01:34:14.580 people will use tuning forks not me i'm impatient i don't have time to go over and get those nice

01:34:21.200 beautiful sounding things they just get the pots and pans and bang them together um chase things

01:34:26.260 out of the house get out my house i have dented metal bowls you know because i'll beat on bowls

01:34:32.700 and stuff like that it works on ghosts and kids by the way um if you can't get your children up

01:34:37.920 bang some pots and pans at six o'clock in the morning they'll wake up i promise

01:34:40.960 yeah you know it's funny one of our yuletide traditions at the end of the year

01:34:46.620 um on mother's night actually we take pots and pans and that's the first thing we that's our

01:34:52.320 first ritual of the year for yuletide is uh we turn off all the lights in the house and we leave

01:34:58.580 a candle in every room and the kids get pots and pans and they lead the way into every room

01:35:02.660 banging pots and pans and we kind of chase everything out of the house from top to bottom

01:35:06.580 out and out the door and that's one of our our big things that we do of course the kids are

01:35:12.580 usually too scared and kind of end up hiding behind us more than in front of us but we're

01:35:16.220 getting there right right funny story i'm going to share this story because it's going to be kind

01:35:22.620 of relevant to one of my ghost stories and then i'll go to another ghost story i told you guys

01:35:26.960 i've got a lot of ghost stories this is kind of a jam um it was new year's eve it was um a couple

01:35:33.960 years before my grandparents were killed. We were at my grandparents' house for New Year's Eve and

01:35:40.040 my grandparents liked Rainier beer. They liked to drink it in large quantities. And when you went

01:35:47.860 to their house, they expected you to sit in the kitchen with them and drink beer with them. And

01:35:53.000 most of us went to bed. Me and my cousins that were staying over, we went to bed. My mom went

01:35:58.640 to bed. My grandma went to bed. Not my, not my dad and my grandpa though. Nope. They rang in the

01:36:05.560 new year and they got pretty deep in those cans. And they got my grandmother's bowls out, her

01:36:14.180 mixing bowls and her spoons. And they went in every room in the house at midnight and woke

01:36:19.940 everybody up banging on them and stuff like that. Woke up everybody. Oh, my grandma's mad. Oh, she

01:36:26.920 was mad. First of all, they woke her up. Okay. She was fierce to begin with. They woke her up

01:36:34.520 at midnight. Second of all, they put dents in her good mixing bowls, put dents in them 0.98

01:36:40.720 because they were beating them so hard, you know? So they got in a lot of trouble for that.

01:36:46.900 But I tell that story to tell this story. Um, when I was 16, my grandparents were killed very

01:36:56.620 very brutally, um, in their home. And we went, we went back, we went through the whole funeral

01:37:06.540 process and, and all of that. We went back to North Dakota. And the first night that we were

01:37:13.040 home, I went to bed and I was, I was asleep. I know I was sleeping and I felt somebody sit on

01:37:21.120 my bed. I assumed it was my mom. You know, my mom was pretty traumatized. It would not have

01:37:27.020 surprised me one bit if my mom had come down and sat on my bed. But I woke up because I could feel

01:37:32.700 my bed move. And when I woke up, my grandmother was sitting on my bed. And I'm not talking about

01:37:38.720 like I was dreaming. I felt the bed move. That's what woke me up. And when I woke up, she was

01:37:45.600 sitting there it wasn't it wasn't like this ethereal spirit being it was a woman sitting

01:37:52.600 on my bed physically there and she told me that she came by to say goodbye and that she was going

01:38:00.560 to go now but that she's not actually gone and that was her way of showing me she could come

01:38:07.320 back anytime she needed to right the same night and i would have never i you could have chalked

01:38:15.200 up to a dream to a grieving granddaughter because we were very close however you want that but the

01:38:20.640 same night my dad saw my grandpa upstairs in their bedroom same night so they were making their rounds

01:38:33.440 very interesting thing the summer that they were killed they were killed in 1997.

01:38:38.800 that year there were two hurricanes you know when hurricane seasons every year right

01:38:44.800 um but that year there was hurricane bonnie and behind hurricane bonnie was hurricane charlie

01:38:53.800 and those were my grandparents names and we were all making jokes that they were on vacation and

01:39:00.680 my grandpa was chasing her through the through the caribbean you know but it's things like that

01:39:07.080 that kind of make you go yeah yeah i get it i know you're still here i get it you know

01:39:12.680 but yeah tropical storms charlie and bonnie go ahead sheila

01:39:17.880 story just said thing really interesting a nighttime story out walking at night

01:39:25.800 we've all had experiences you know on that kind of thing but also the idea of the crossroads

01:39:31.400 and he was diagonally in the middle of the crossroads at midnight you know it is it makes

01:39:36.240 for a great story and then what's this with the 300 kids in a line along the highway or something

01:39:42.880 that was pretty strange i suppose it could be a church maybe but still but yeah other people

01:39:50.160 um there you know you might want to come come up with your own story about a nighttime adventure

01:39:56.320 you know that one a person we know a lady we all know has has a really interesting story about

01:40:02.160 something happened as they were driving and crossing a bridge one night um in california

01:40:08.960 and maybe we'll hear about that sometime we should get we should have that submitted for our

01:40:14.160 part two yes we will i think we should yeah i will ask for that

01:40:22.640 all right i am going to i am going to read our next story and our next story

01:40:27.360 comes from Weyland. And it says, recently an invitation was given to submit ghost stories,

01:40:35.320 stories about ancestral visitations, etc. I have a brief story about when my Aunt Terri,

01:40:40.040 my mother's sister, died. This was in 1998. One night I was at my then-girlfriend's place

01:40:47.000 spending the night. We lay in bed together and she wanted to play music on a cassette tape.

01:40:51.800 This music was called Ram Das Guru.

01:40:55.360 It was supposed to be new age spiritual music.

01:40:57.920 It was a woman singing with a harp accompaniment.

01:41:00.640 It was supposed to be uplifting, but as we listened, I felt sick and as a sense of utter dread.

01:41:05.180 I 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.

01:41:16.460 The vision was me as a soul floating above and away from my body watching the scene.

01:41:21.660 As a child, I had been sickly and had to be hospitalized a few times for asthma.

01:41:27.180 I opened my eyes and still saw the vision.

01:41:30.420 I told my girlfriend at the time about the vision and that music had deeply disturbed me.

01:41:34.840 The next day, I arrived back at my apartment and my mother had left a message on my answering machine to call her.

01:41:40.560 I did and she informed me that my aunt Terry who herself had struggled with illness had died that

01:41:47.980 night I immediately remembered the vision of the previous night and knew that I had somehow seen

01:41:53.900 her death I don't know if she actually sent the vision my intuition tells me it came from the

01:41:59.740 connection that I have to my mother's side of the family which has always been strong and as I look

01:42:04.840 back on it deeply spiritual somehow I looked through the normal barriers and I saw her die

01:42:10.460 Later that day, I shared this with my girlfriend.

01:42:12.520 We talked about it and we agreed, and I still believe that I had been involved in a spiritual event.

01:42:17.640 I 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.

01:42:26.380 When 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.

01:42:34.160 The next day, I was at my girlfriend's place again.

01:42:36.140 I was worried because I was afraid my two kittens I had at my place would fall into the toilet bowl

01:42:40.860 somehow and that I should have to close the lid before I left, but I did not. I remember talking

01:42:46.240 to my girlfriend about this. The next morning when I went home, I immediately went to the bathroom.

01:42:50.360 The toilet lid was closed and the toilet brush was sitting dead center, perfectly aligned on

01:42:55.060 the toilet lid. This was not something I would have ever done. When I saw it, I knew it was my

01:43:01.920 aunt terry who had placed the brush on the lid she was letting me know that she was watching out for

01:43:06.760 me it was this incident that confirmed absolutely my belief in souls the afterlife and the soul of

01:43:11.980 a dead person may still somehow present in midgard for a time and might even be able to physically

01:43:17.620 act upon it this is the story of my desire thank you for letting me share this story it has been a

01:43:23.220 long time since i have thought about this hail the icier hail the folk hail the afa i love and miss

01:43:28.700 you aunt terry hail aunt terry and thank you thank you waylon for sharing that

01:43:36.700 and then we do have a question from the chat and it comes from corey how do you fix bad energy in

01:43:44.620 a house let's start off with katie katie how do you fix bad energy in a house i know we talked a

01:43:50.380 little bit about it but go ahead i just realized i wasn't unmuted sorry about that guys um

01:43:58.700 was I unmuted the whole time my kid was up here all right because I could

01:44:07.640 believe I would well no Nick you wouldn't know you would have on me you

01:44:10.700 would have muted me all right so a lot of what I said before we we make a big

01:44:16.440 point of of being aware and recognizing our housemate here in our land bait here

01:44:23.480 part of uh twice every year i mean obviously more often but twice a year usually once during

01:44:29.820 yule and around midsummer we make a point of kind of ritualizing going out onto our property and

01:44:35.380 cleaning up um we have a fenced in yard that usually stays pretty clean but we also have a

01:44:41.380 huge field next to our house that is our property and we get we find a lot of trash out there

01:44:46.540 because people you know we live on a main road so people throw trash out and a lot of high school

01:44:51.180 kids and middle school kids walk past our house every day um because we live right right by the

01:44:56.140 school so we get a lot of trash out there and you know we pick it up periodically but twice a year

01:45:01.180 we make a point of going out there and keeping it clean so really i think stewardship of your

01:45:06.540 your house and your property is a huge thing because um well obviously we you know we bought

01:45:11.900 our house we own our house it's our house but also it's not our house there the land material

01:45:18.620 live here the house of atia live here um so we share the house with with with other um so it's

01:45:25.340 important to make sure we take care of them i said like i said before i use sage i'm also a big fan

01:45:29.580 of using water um in one property that i lived in that i got super negative vibes off of and uh

01:45:38.940 sage wasn't really cutting it by itself i may or may not have uh physically carved runes

01:45:46.540 into the walls in places where people wouldn't see them and i may or may not have uh used blood

01:45:51.980 in some ways i do not really recommend people use blood uh during things like that unless they know

01:45:58.540 what they're doing because uh it can be very dangerous not because i think you're gonna cut

01:46:03.980 yourself or whatever like you can literally prick your finger with a needle and get blood so um i

01:46:10.460 So 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.

01:46:22.060 But 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.

01:46:34.020 And 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.

01:46:42.960 You can find a rune and hang it on your wall if you need to.

01:46:49.920 Things like that.

01:46:51.020 I really do believe there's almost no wrong answer to that question because everybody has their personal preferences about things.

01:47:00.080 Brandy and I are very similar in a lot of ways.

01:47:02.040 i use water for a lot of my rituals i think water is like the most basic most pure

01:47:10.120 thing that you can use water is represented everywhere it's the wells that are at the

01:47:17.240 roots of yggdrasil you know water um the rain that that falls and and and helps to heal the

01:47:25.800 or not that the well heals there's whatever there's just waters everywhere we we live in

01:47:31.880 water when we're in the wombs i mean amniotic fluid isn't i don't know really water but like

01:47:36.760 brandy said before um sorry i will sit here and contradict myself all night long but water is

01:47:42.840 super powerful and can be used very easily for lots of things and i think it's very pure and i

01:47:49.800 think that it it's a great thing for for for cleansing and literally and figuratively because

01:47:58.120 you know you use water to clean your house i hope maybe with chemicals maybe with that i'm a big fan

01:48:03.640 of vinegar vinegar is kind of a natural thing and add that to water and you'll kill everything you

01:48:09.320 don't need anything about vinegar and water i am going sorry i'm i'm gonna stop talking now my

01:48:16.920 brain's kind of just looping but I don't think there's a wrong answer on how you can clean your

01:48:23.740 house I think a lot of it is intention and a lot of it is is the energy you put into things

01:48:34.840 your intentions and also consistency if you want things in the energy in a house to be good you

01:48:41.880 have to to work on it consistently you can't just do it one time and walk away and expect for things

01:48:47.400 to just magically be better and i mean that because like if you're yelling i use kids because

01:48:54.240 i have kids if you spend a lot of time yelling at your kids it's not directly affecting your house

01:49:00.460 at least that is to say like you're not you know punching holes into the walls but you're yelling

01:49:07.180 at your kids and that's negative and that energy will just over time it will build up so if you're

01:49:12.860 always yelling at your children constantly all the time you constantly are going to need to have to

01:49:17.740 to work on cleansing the energy of your house so you need to work on consistently

01:49:25.100 if not cleansing your house then you need to work on consistently acknowledging or recognizing that

01:49:30.700 you maybe your your energy is a little negative and finding a way to to to reel it in a little

01:49:36.060 bit and we've all been there i certainly have my moments where i i may not always be

01:49:42.300 the the kindest most patient person in the whole wide world and you know

01:49:50.220 my kids bicker a lot and it gets annoying and they make a lot of really repetitive noises and

01:49:55.260 if there's anything in the world that's going to set me off fast it's a repetitive noise that just

01:49:59.500 I just can't stand it but uh I know that those are my triggers and so I actively remind myself

01:50:06.480 all the time like they're just kids they're having fun they're playing let them play yes I

01:50:13.100 know it's noisy it's okay just let them do it they're fighting with each other just let them

01:50:18.460 fight they need to learn how to figure it out on their own so just actively reminding yourself

01:50:22.860 and like I said I'm using children because I have them and so I'm struggling with that on a regular

01:50:27.580 basis i love my children i homeschool them i'm with them all of the time the reality is patience

01:50:34.460 is not always everybody's it's not always there but like i said the consistently reminding yourself

01:50:41.260 like okay it's okay they're just playing they're allowed to be noisy is it because they're actually

01:50:47.660 doing something wrong or is it just because you're not liking it because i don't want to be a selfish

01:50:53.180 person who says my children are never allowed to do anything just because i don't like the sound

01:50:57.020 you know what i mean i don't know i said i was gonna stop talking like five minutes ago so i'm

01:51:01.100 really gonna stop right now what about you sheila do you guys have anything special that you do in

01:51:08.620 your home to cleanse the energy is there any specific things that you do routinely for yourselves

01:51:15.260 or for your home or even in your cleaning process that might be related to spirituality

01:51:21.020 say I don't because I'm not known for being really good about that but you've really inspired me

01:51:28.000 and I have to say that ritually I use water too I like using spring water if I can find it

01:51:35.340 there's actually a spring on the way into town that sometimes I use that with Thorgren when I

01:51:42.660 went to do last rites for Thorgren in the hospital I did not want to use anything commercial

01:51:48.140 So I stopped and got water there and did some anointing of runes and, you know, kind of said my farewell to him.

01:51:58.360 But besides that, I had an interesting thing happen to me.

01:52:01.320 Last time I went to Ross Dress for Less, right?

01:52:04.620 We all know that.

01:52:05.460 It's clear across the country.

01:52:06.840 As you get towards the checkout, you know, they've got all the candies and everything and the water bottles.

01:52:12.320 Well, I'm sure everybody here has seen it.

01:52:14.340 They have Icelandic water.

01:52:16.300 Have you seen that?

01:52:16.900 We have it out here.

01:52:18.140 and i've bought it before but i always think uh you know it's in a bottle and it's is it really

01:52:23.620 made in iceland and the whole thing as i was doing that my sister and i were there together

01:52:28.220 the lady in front of me she said oh yes icelandic water she said we just came back from iceland i

01:52:33.900 know that that's they they bottled that there that is really icelandic water comes right off

01:52:38.780 the glaciers so it was just the timing was perfect and so we bought up all the water that

01:52:45.600 they had there but yes ritually and i will do that of course with our the the decent bloat

01:52:51.360 that i'll be doing um i expect to use water mostly in that and i do water

01:52:57.200 you can't go wrong with that especially for anything feminine and for for the the uh senior um

01:53:07.680 what was i gonna say i'm not really sure but anyway i love your stories you've inspired me

01:53:12.480 that's all i can say i have nothing to add about cleaning a house except i need to do it thank you

01:53:17.280 for telling me how and do it the right way the only other thing i would say that part of the

01:53:23.360 around the home and you talk about making a really comfortable place a place with order

01:53:31.360 settled all those things we want feels well taken care of and my husband everybody knows

01:53:39.680 that you've seen us do it is we do go out on our deck in the morning together um and we do the

01:53:46.320 what we now call the valkyries prayer uh from the sigdryphamal um hail to the hill to the day

01:53:52.400 hail to the suns of day is what we do and we do we also as people have seen us we do a rune galder

01:53:59.200 at the very end, Stalig Alder, with two runes, with Ewaaz and Gebo, who stood Gebo and Ewaaz.

01:54:11.380 And that is kind of our bonding to the day, sending intentions to the day, and giving purpose,

01:54:22.320 you know, making sure that we commit to good things. The healing hands, and I've said this

01:54:27.460 before means so much to me. I think we all have opportunities to help others heal. And whether

01:54:33.140 it's in words or whether it's in actions like holding a door open for someone, smiling or

01:54:37.820 saying thank you, those little things still make a difference because you have truly added something

01:54:44.880 to someone's life. I know what I was going to say. And going back to the whole idea of ritual

01:54:49.640 and people say, I don't know how to do bloat. Again, it's the intention that matters. And if

01:54:55.560 you don't have mead and a lot of people don't have mead you can use something else but you can also

01:55:01.840 use water if that is what you have and that is part of what you're gifting with your words and

01:55:07.700 your heart to whichever of the iser that you are honoring that is that is okay you know and don't

01:55:16.240 hold back because you don't have all the paraphernalia to do blood you don't have a

01:55:20.700 hammer and you don't have incense you don't have candles you don't need that it's here it's here

01:55:26.700 it's in the heart it is but again it's gifting so make sure that you are offering your truth

01:55:33.580 to that particular deity that you want to cherish love honor and then you know if you are worthy

01:55:45.720 and ask if you need some kind of thing that again shouldn't just be self-centered it should be

01:55:51.080 something that makes your life better to build a better world around you that is what i would say

01:55:57.240 so just add a little bit about started with water

01:56:06.440 a comment comment there's a comment in the chat uh from racial that says the mcnallans do not

01:56:13.320 wake up in the morning and choose violence so good on the mcnellens good on the mcnellens

01:56:21.720 all right and then as far as how do i clear cleanse clean spiritually the houses

01:56:31.720 i'm not going to go on a very very long rant through prairie dog town about mirrors but i'm

01:56:39.960 going to mention the mirrors we are we are not we're not going to go there that's a whole episode

01:56:45.960 on its own right katie's like yes she loves it when i rant about the mirrors but um for me a very

01:56:56.360 very huge part of my spiritual cleaning is not only cleaning the mirrors but sealing the mirrors off

01:57:05.560 i am superstitious about mirrors to the point that if i walk into your home and i i don't know

01:57:16.920 if you guys are gonna remember or not but i know people that had floor-to-ceiling mirrors like the

01:57:21.800 squares i won't stay at your house i will not i'm not comfortable in a room full of mirrors like

01:57:30.200 the house of mirrors when i was a kid there's no way i've been to one i think i had a nervous

01:57:37.720 breakdown in the middle and my parents had to come pull me out of the house of mirrors

01:57:42.200 like i'm i can't i can't do it um it's a massive phobia that i have and the more research i've done

01:57:53.160 about the magical properties of mirrors the folklore around mirrors the more i understand

01:57:59.640 that they are more than just reflections and no it's not just mirrors um i when we're walking

01:58:07.160 down a street if there's a reflection on like the store mirrors you won't see me catching a glimpse

01:58:13.700 of myself in that store mirror i mean it's it's kind of bad but i am i have a very specific order

01:58:21.260 on which i clean things um i have taken every mirror in every house that i've ever owned and

01:58:27.760 downsized it to the most absolute level possible um i hate mirrors so i have a lot of stuff about

01:58:35.680 you know cleansing protecting the mirrors um i also use wind chimes as a deterrent

01:58:41.840 wind chimes are really awesome um tuning forks if you cleanse with sound other if you don't like

01:58:49.360 the great big bang bang bang of my pots and pans um tuning forks tuning forks are a thing take a

01:58:57.120 a look at it, do the research on it. Cleansing with sound is real. Energetic force between

01:59:03.320 sound is real. That is why you are spiritually, emotionally, and mentally moved by music.

01:59:09.980 Right? And galder. And galder. Yep. Absolutely. Other things that I do, like I said, I use

01:59:19.040 rosemary a lot. Rosemary, lavender, cedar. You can steep it like a tea almost and put it in your

01:59:25.960 water at all it has cleansing properties right um you can do all kinds of things to do that

01:59:32.560 you know whether um and i'm going to kind of answer another question while we're talking

01:59:38.380 about that because we did have another question um that came from let me get to it i'm so sorry

01:59:46.300 that came from primal might kindred sheila's got tuning forks outstanding i've had in a box

01:59:57.160 i was going to just i had two of them you know they they serve a purpose i'm gonna get rid of

02:00:03.140 them now yeah not very strong but nice scent very nice tune

02:00:10.320 mm-hmm tone primal mike kindred had asked does the afa have a specific ritual to sanctify

02:00:19.520 new ritual items the norena society says do you smoke but i haven't looked deeper into it

02:00:25.360 um yeah i guess smoke is fine but traditionally the proto-indo-europeans cleanse with fire

02:00:33.360 we cleanse with fire um i'm not saying throw your things into the fire and burn them to a torch 0.96

02:00:38.880 that's not what i mean um a lot of the hoffs use fire in different ways you know odin's hoff has

02:00:46.480 this big beautiful outdoor fire right they have this big beautiful lead fire um balder soft when

02:00:52.320 you walk through into the sanctuary or into the vey before ritual you run your hand over a candle

02:01:00.480 the candle of sin and that is that switch from the mundane to the sacred that is the self-cleansing 0.57

02:01:07.200 before you go to ritual um we pro uh the proto-indo-europeans typically cleanse with fire 0.97

02:01:14.660 when i and but all of each gothi and each githy are going to have their own little way of how 0.78

02:01:24.720 they like to do things what works with them um what they've done through the years what they

02:01:29.520 have found works as the best conduits for the blessings. I like to use fire. I will cleanse or

02:01:38.580 use incense as an offering in and around the tool. Like if it's a horn, I'll go inside the horn,

02:01:45.000 around the horn. But that incense isn't actually my cleansing tool. That incense is an offering

02:01:52.740 given for the blessing you know i'm not going to go to the gods or to the ancestors and say make

02:02:01.800 this special i'm going to give them something first i'm giving them a piece of myself you know

02:02:09.120 my time my energy my might and then i'm giving that through the smoke so one thing um that i

02:02:16.260 self is part of the gift, but it's not the whole gift. I'm giving a piece of myself to the gods

02:02:23.880 when I do that. That's what you'll see me whispering as I'm going through. I'm whispering

02:02:29.740 prayers, and I'm giving the offerings of myself and my servitude to the Aesir. 0.99

02:02:35.920 Other things that I do at Baldursof is I actually have sacred dirt. Girls, the ladies have heard me 0.96

02:02:44.620 talk about sacred dirt before. I'm not going to get up and get my jar of sacred dirt, but 1.00

02:02:51.500 my sacred dirt includes dirt from the homes that I've lived in, where very, very good,

02:02:58.480 wonderful, happy memories have taken place. Dirt from the graves of my ancestors.

02:03:07.440 Dirt from the Hoffs that I visit. I might, if you ever see me with a little bottle and I'm 1.00

02:03:13.080 snatching up your dirt, I'll fight you for it. Dirt from Sigerheim. I have dirt from Sigerheim. 1.00

02:03:21.660 Dirt from Baldrishoff. So when I bless things at Baldrishoff, I will actually use

02:03:28.460 soil from Baldrishoff as a sacred blessing. It's sacred ground. Therefore, it is a sacred

02:03:36.540 dirt. That could be a whole nother story about the sacred dirt. Don't let me fall down the

02:03:43.580 prairie dog trail. Okay. Um, but I will use that. I will also use water. You know, water is a

02:03:49.840 cleanser, especially if I'm doing something, um, where I'm blessing something for a woman,

02:03:56.320 I will often use meat or water. So I definitely feel a lot of feminine energy towards that. So

02:04:04.720 that is what I like to use

02:04:07.120 and then

02:04:09.580 let's go to another

02:04:11.240 story 0.99

02:04:12.360 let's see Sheila 0.98

02:04:16.540 would you be able to

02:04:18.980 look through and find

02:04:21.120 Monk's story and read that to us

02:04:23.540 please

02:04:23.940 here we go

02:04:27.760 let's start

02:04:29.800 it involves skipping a few but he is number six yeah

02:04:38.520 okay walked in the hall and looked

02:04:44.000 yeah this is his

02:04:48.020 monk okay this is monk who is one of our regulars on here and is there tonight

02:04:59.800 we just pulled in and set up to camp and prepare for my wife's funeral there wasn't a lot of talking

02:05:08.600 and things were a little depressing however paul and i got a little mood boost just being at

02:05:14.800 odin's hof yeah it was about 2 30 a.m give or take and i went into the hof to pay my respects

02:05:21.720 to the all father the kitchen light was on and the door unlocked so i went right in

02:05:26.380 it was quiet I walked through the hoth and looked around went to the men's room and washed my face

02:05:31.900 and hands walked out and stood before Odin and what he's talking about is our big Odin mural

02:05:37.560 in the hall I stood at attention with my head bowed bearing the full weight of Farron's death

02:05:45.980 I looked up and faced Odin hands raised and hailed him hail Odin hail the Aesir hail my ancestors

02:05:54.580 I asked Odin to look after my wife and for my ancestors to welcome her.

02:05:59.760 It really hit me hard that she was gone.

02:06:02.580 So many unspoken words, so much unfinished dreams.

02:06:06.760 She was so young.

02:06:08.280 I thanked the gods for all they had done for me and turned to leave.

02:06:12.600 And I went and washed my face again.

02:06:14.600 And when I came out of the restroom, I was drawn to the ancestors' table and remembered I had placed her picture there.

02:06:20.820 I 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.

02:06:30.480 For some reason, I read the card out loud, and it said,

02:06:33.740 Vicala Pavora Bern, Vicala Pavora, well, yeah, Maine.

02:06:40.880 Vicala Pavora's sister, our folk come him, folk come him.

02:06:44.020 It's our Swedish chant we do.

02:06:45.520 I felt inspired to read it louder, so I did, two more times, place the card back on the altar.

02:06:53.140 From the silence, the Hoff came alive with disembodied voices and shadows moving in my peripheral vision,

02:07:00.800 whispers and talking all around me.

02:07:03.480 I gave the altar a small bow and walked into the lounge area as I went through the double doors. 0.99

02:07:09.620 There stood my wife. 0.99

02:07:11.280 I stopped in shock. 0.89

02:07:12.980 She was so beautiful, all smiles. 0.99

02:07:14.780 I blinked, and as I was standing there like an idiot, no words, just staring. 0.98

02:07:20.120 I heard a loud noise in the kitchen and turned. 0.99

02:07:22.800 There was nothing.

02:07:23.980 I looked back, and she was gone.

02:07:26.720 Tears streaming down my face, I just stood there for what seemed like forever.

02:07:30.440 I whispered, come back, and said the words of the very first line of the last letter

02:07:35.200 I'd written her right after she passed.

02:07:38.620 My heart died with your last breath.

02:07:40.660 The hoff was now silent, and the air was heavy.

02:07:44.780 I'm not sure how long I stood there.

02:07:46.860 I found myself and my truck still days.

02:07:50.320 That's the end.

02:07:51.860 She is missed.

02:07:54.480 Thank you.

02:07:57.240 That's more details than I knew of that story.

02:07:59.780 I really appreciate it and I'm honored to have read it for you.

02:08:07.880 That's really, that's really beautiful.

02:08:10.980 Yeah, it really was.

02:08:12.640 okay this is maybe a little more oh she made it back I was gonna say this might

02:08:26.920 sound a little bit morbid but in a lot of ways I think monk that you are very

02:08:32.260 lucky that you were able to have that experience because so many people don't

02:08:39.160 have the opportunity to really get that goodbye does that make sense I don't

02:08:44.500 know cuz that that seemed like you really had that experience and it I would

02:08:51.460 imagine it would make it not easier nothing will ever make losing her easier

02:08:56.140 but certainly maybe closure a little bit I don't know I lost my words sorry it's

02:09:04.820 I don't know if I'm brain dead to begin with, but it just gets worse as time goes on. I mean, literally, because it's getting late.

02:09:15.140 It is. Yes, Monk, that was a beautiful story. Thank you so much for sharing.

02:09:21.920 And we do have another question, and then we'll do another story.

02:09:27.500 um it's varin varine do you think there are people who weaken or strengthen the veil with

02:09:36.320 their presence i've met people hypersensitive to this stuff and people who create a sort of

02:09:41.660 dead zone to the supernatural do i think that they affect the veil physically no um do i think

02:09:50.420 the veil affects them differently? Yes. Do some people have the ability to

02:09:57.060 see further beyond the veil or hear beyond the veil or feel beyond the veil stronger than others?

02:10:06.520 Yes. I believe it is a talent. One of the things I also believe with all talents is that

02:10:13.960 it will improve if you exercise it. However, do so at your own risk. Do so with knowledge. Do so

02:10:23.280 with confidence. And you know, like Katie said earlier, don't play with things. Number one is

02:10:32.940 childish and immature. And we've all done it. I've done it. Katie's done it, right? And we will be

02:10:42.320 the first ones to tell you it's childish, it's immature, and it's disrespectful. It's disrespectful

02:10:47.460 to the dead to play with it. You know, some of us learn the hard way. Some of us experience things

02:10:56.440 and we don't want to do it again. Some of us mature over time and our talent shifts over time.

02:11:02.920 You know, do not welcome things, challenge things, or invite things, or try to communicate

02:11:14.160 with things that you are not prepared for. The more you invite energy, the more you will receive

02:11:22.240 energy. Okay, it's kind of like, okay, so this is a poor analogy, and I apologize, but it's a

02:11:31.560 couple hours past my bedtime so we're going to use with what we got here okay you know um those

02:11:36.640 little styrofoam peanuts for shipping but the really really tiny ones like what's inside of a

02:11:41.580 beanbag right and if you tear it open and you get some on your hands like more will be attracted to 1.00

02:11:49.700 it because of the static electricity and then the next thing you know you can't get rid of the stupid 0.96

02:11:53.840 little styrofoam things that's what playing with things will get you that's where experimenting 0.94

02:12:00.260 with things you shouldn't be messing with will get you that's where challenging things to be

02:12:06.700 immature and show your might will get you um treat everything respectfully you know don't

02:12:14.920 when you're when you're going to a cemetery for instance and you're you know bringing

02:12:20.560 a spirit box or you're out trying to communicate. It's not just the dead. That is somebody's

02:12:31.700 grandfather. That is somebody's uncle. That is somebody's wife. That is somebody's child.

02:12:39.480 That is not just a spirit. That's somebody's someone. And you had better show them the same

02:12:47.440 respect that you would show your own. You know, and I think people forget to do that. You know,

02:12:53.340 they think it's a game. They think it's a hobby. That's somebody, somebody. So

02:12:59.580 tread with respect. That is my biggest recommendation there.

02:13:06.700 All right. And I'm going to read the next story.

02:13:12.660 let me get to it here I apologize this one is from Rachel and she says this happened the morning

02:13:23.360 of October 7th I had stayed up too late the night before rising with my alarm was proving to be quite

02:13:29.760 difficult while trying to pull myself from the dream world I felt a gentle touch on my hand I

02:13:34.740 acknowledged it and brushed at my hand still mostly asleep I felt a touch in my hair to me

02:13:40.620 that was confirmation of someone trying to get my attention and helping to pull me awake.

02:13:45.860 I lay in bed a bit longer coming to, and then I felt a gentle touch on my foot.

02:13:50.700 I thank whoever was there to help me wake up. That is awesome. That is awesome. Okay.

02:14:00.640 I think that's the thing. I personally feel that that's a thing because I've kind of experienced

02:14:06.660 something a little bit myself for anybody who knows me. Um, I drive in a similar fashion to

02:14:15.240 the law speaker. Um, and I too will accept my, my time tax also known as speeding tickets.

02:14:24.560 When I get caught, we call it the time tax, right? I have a lead foot. Um, I like to drive

02:14:32.940 way faster than I should. And for some reason, cruise control is all like fairy dust and glitter

02:14:39.280 and it's not real. It's not real. Um, so I, I tend to drive a little bit faster than I should,

02:14:45.100 which has gotten me into trouble more than once. I have wrecked vehicles, you know, things like

02:14:50.120 that. After my grandparents passed away, I would be driving down the road like I normally would

02:14:56.180 and my hands would itch. I'd get like itchy hands. You'd be like, what is going on? It would catch

02:15:02.000 my attention. And I would look down at the speedometer and I would be like, oh, I'm doing

02:15:05.620 90. Let's not do that today. And I would slow down. And I'm not even joking about this. As soon

02:15:13.100 as I realized what was going on and I was like, oh, I'm doing 90, I would slow down. There'd be a

02:15:17.680 deer or a car would pull out in front of me. And it was like, somebody was telling me stop being

02:15:26.340 an idiot. And like, if you look at your hands, you, my hands were like right at the speedometer. 1.00

02:15:31.580 so i would naturally put my hands back and my eyes were a speedometer and to this day it still

02:15:36.540 happens to this day i get that tingling in my hands and i'm like oh something's coming but

02:15:42.540 instead of me going what is that i'm just like i need to slow down and pay attention

02:15:48.460 and i think it has i think it has saved me more than once so yeah i think that's a thing

02:15:55.420 all right katie do you have access to any of the stories that you can see

02:16:03.100 can you see any of them i can only see like the last half of the last story that's posted in this

02:16:09.100 oh okay so no i don't have them sheila would you be able to read uh austin's story

02:16:20.940 i think you're muted though okay nick fixed it

02:16:25.420 Hello, Whit and Brandy. I don't have any spooky ghost stories. The closest thing to paranormal

02:16:31.320 activity that happened to me was an evil stuffed Easter bunny doll moving on its own. But I was

02:16:40.340 two or three years old at the time and probably hallucinating. Anyway, my question is, what is

02:16:48.260 winter nights what makes it important and why do we celebrate it thank you for all you do

02:16:56.100 that's sweet austin yeah so austin i can relate my grandmother went to mexico on vacation and

02:17:08.020 she brought everybody back the coolest souvenirs and the coolest gifts except for me she didn't

02:17:15.100 bring me something nice she brought me like a little brown man in a sombrero that was a puppet

02:17:21.580 you know with the strings that moved around and my mom thought it was the coolest thing in the world

02:17:27.220 to hang this thing in the corner of my bedroom and it moved all the time and i would take it

02:17:33.640 down and i would throw it in the closet and she would find it oh goodness how did this turn up

02:17:37.880 of the closet she'd hang it back up she'd hang it back up i finally threw it in the canal i

02:17:45.740 couldn't take it anymore i could not take that spooky little man move nope can't do it nope

02:17:51.920 traumatized me for life every time i hear a mariachi band now i'm just like got the shutters

02:17:57.040 all right so i'm gonna give this one to githia mcnellen uh could you explain to us what is

02:18:03.620 Winter Nights, what makes it important, and why do we celebrate?

02:18:08.600 Winter Nights is that time of year that we have recognized as Eurofolk when the veil

02:18:16.880 is thin, and that means the ability to connect with those through the veil who have passed. 0.93

02:18:25.660 It's easier, and it makes it a wonderful time for us to simply remember those who have passed,

02:18:33.040 our ancestors. Traditionally, Winter Nights has always been for the de-sear, for those,

02:18:39.920 the ladies of our own, our lines, all of our mothers, right? But we also have the fathers.

02:18:46.020 And this year with Veteranite or Veteraniter, we're changing it to basically a more ancestral

02:18:54.340 look at both fathers and mothers. But it still does the same thing. We are honoring them.

02:19:02.120 we are communicating with them what we typically will do in ritual is have everybody be thinking

02:19:09.000 about a a particular ancestor and in the d sub bloat it would be one of the mothers and something

02:19:18.220 you would like to say to them that's what i always do what would you like to say what kind of an

02:19:22.180 answer what kind of guidance would you like and something that i think katie i think you are the

02:19:28.300 one with the washing of the hands right yes so we do that and it's just so beautiful because

02:19:36.520 it reminds us all especially the men that they are entering into a sacred space that is the

02:19:45.980 place of the mothers the feminine energy is there and they come in very respectfully and are expected

02:19:52.200 as you would when you go to grandma's house grandma or great aunt that you bring your best 0.78

02:19:57.980 manners and you look nice and clean and and all that and so we actually do a basically a washing

02:20:04.460 of our hands and that is the preparation of stepping in through the threshold of grandma's

02:20:11.020 house or our mother's house and the ritual is to help us each connect to ancestors to learn from

02:20:20.140 them to let them know that they're still loved that they still matter and so we do the same of

02:20:26.380 course with our fathers as we do our mothers um the celts do um what is halloween is they're the

02:20:35.500 name for it is sahan if you know sierra she does sam hein that's how it's spelled but it's actually

02:20:42.300 pronounced sahan and um and then as we know that there are people who in uh the i guess the catholic

02:20:50.220 tradition especially the latino type people do a lot of um all souls day right and they do they

02:20:58.940 do all their altars we have that in our own town where people will take one of our big halls and

02:21:05.660 people will set up their altars well we of course can do the same thing we need to all have a place

02:21:10.140 for our ancestors where we can look upon them light a candle to them thank them and us up to

02:21:15.820 bless the families but other people do that too and they also choose the same time of year which

02:21:20.700 is interesting so it kind of coalesces there's something about this time of year the end of

02:21:25.980 of um in the middle of fall you know we're kind of we've gone through uh the autumnal equinox and

02:21:34.060 we're just past that and you know halfway to yule so it's one of those eight uh points of the wheel

02:21:40.620 of the wheel and uh but it is a very special time you know you light the candles you have the fire

02:21:47.340 you have the hot beverage it is it makes the ambiance that comes this time of year is perfect

02:21:53.580 for communing with our ancestors on the other side and we want you to do that and if you can do

02:22:01.500 it by doing a special ritual to your ancestors um yeah try it this year if this is your first time

02:22:09.740 you don't need us to do that for you just take the time and think about them look at their pictures

02:22:16.060 put out special things that they would have liked maybe make a special dinner and then do it

02:22:20.620 an ancestor's plate at dinner time um for the disa bloat or for the alfar bloat and alvar is

02:22:28.780 the elves right the light elves and frey is seen as a frere is seen as the basically the leader

02:22:37.100 the guardian of of the alfar the fathers and freya as vanadis is does the same for the dc

02:22:45.980 and again somebody mentioned the poem october women which we have that recorded and that's one

02:22:52.220 that my my husband wrote many years ago and i've heard it a hundred times and i love it every time

02:22:58.380 it's really special to me it captures the essence of what this time of year is when we're going into

02:23:04.620 the darkness we're prepping for that and we do it internally we do it externally in our lives

02:23:11.260 how are we going to plan for the winter for the unexpected things that happen with weather

02:23:17.580 and other mishaps that can happen and be prepared and but also mentally be ready to go into the

02:23:25.020 darkness of winter and use that as a time of not just vegetating but taking the time to learn to

02:23:33.740 perceive more about yourself to be ready to come out in springtime having gained so much wisdom

02:23:39.660 that you're going to be like a seed that's ready to sprout and and grow again that is what winter

02:23:45.500 does it's our time of peace and uh uh pleasure and i guess we've got you all and all that i

02:23:53.260 don't know anybody else have things to answer add to winter nights how about you get the

02:24:02.940 sorry so I'm not I'm not gonna go I'm gonna try not to go crazy you know so

02:24:09.360 winter nights is one of our three historically attested to festivals it's

02:24:17.340 written in I think it was Heimskringla and well it's mentioned in Heimskringla

02:24:23.880 and that with Yule and with Sigurbut which historically was usually celebrated

02:24:31.740 in May around the same time as Sumer Mall

02:24:34.180 because that was when they were getting ready

02:24:35.980 to go out a Viking and all that stuff.

02:24:39.480 So Winter Nights is one of the ones

02:24:41.800 that we actually know historically

02:24:43.900 our ancestors celebrated.

02:24:46.000 And we also know that they had a different...

02:24:50.680 Every once in a while I hear feedback

02:24:52.740 and it startled me.

02:24:58.060 I lost my train of thought.

02:24:59.440 I'm sorry.

02:24:59.840 Okay, so...

02:25:01.740 They 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.

02:25:19.340 um and this big this is this is the festival at i guess it's kind of the beginning of their winter

02:25:26.300 it's the beginning of their winter it's still fall for us a little different but this is when things

02:25:31.820 are starting to get darker the dark part of the year is beginning you know they have their last

02:25:36.380 big festival until yule it's probably the last time they're going to be able to really travel

02:25:40.700 to see people who don't live um in their immediate communities which sometimes is just for their own

02:25:47.020 household because if you lived on a farm in the middle of nowhere you probably weren't traveling

02:25:51.660 the five miles to your nearest neighbor in the middle of winter you know

02:25:55.500 so this is um winter nights was often seen as um when we say a festival we mean that it's

02:26:01.660 usually celebrated over the course of more than a single day it was usually you know two or three

02:26:06.460 days to two weeks um we know that that meant that there was going to be feasting there was going to

02:26:11.900 be um probably some drunken rowdiness at times there's definitely going to be some storytelling

02:26:18.220 but it happened over the course of time because this was really like i said one of their big three

02:26:23.580 main festivals they celebrated over the course of the year so um winter nights is important for us

02:26:30.040 because i mean we're we're also true we're trying we're trying to be also true so we says should

02:26:36.020 celebrate australia holidays obviously um and this is one of the ones that we know was a big deal for

02:26:41.540 ancestors um there's a time when they started to reflect on the dying world which would probably

02:26:49.620 mean they were reflecting on their their ancestors who had come before them and all the hard things

02:26:54.100 that they had to do in order to survive for them to be there um as they are now and things like

02:26:59.780 that so that's really the only thing i wanted to add because i actually remember that much about

02:27:04.260 winter nights so yeah that's that's it just historical context you know i i remember the

02:27:13.620 other thing was uh i believe that winter nights was often supposed to be like the the first or

02:27:20.580 second full moon after a certain point i actually don't remember exactly now that i'm trying to

02:27:25.780 remember but um it wasn't really it was more about the the lunar cycle so where winter nights fell

02:27:33.460 over the course of the year had to do with when the the first something or other after the full

02:27:39.460 moon or something like that um or the first full moon after the the the solstice there's the

02:27:45.860 equinox i don't remember but so we know it was in october it was never the same time in october

02:27:53.380 because depending on when the the lunar cycles landed and stuff like that but

02:27:59.140 But yeah, that was literally my last thing.

02:28:03.940 Not literally, actually.

02:28:05.540 It was actually my last thing.

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02:30:45.960 from Nick. Back in high school, our friend group was big on spooky. Same friend, same.

02:30:55.200 We'd always been piling up 5, 6, 7, 10 deep in our buddy's SUV just to go drive in real late at night.

02:31:02.420 Same friend.

02:31:04.180 2 a.m. hot rides were a common thing.

02:31:07.420 Did we go to school together?

02:31:09.240 I don't think so.

02:31:12.060 All right.

02:31:12.900 Whether we were going exploring in abandoned buildings, hanging out in old graveyards, exploring the back roads, midnight walks through the woods, all that.

02:31:20.640 but the big one was this one road in town that we all visited all the time it was a back road

02:31:27.580 off a back road and everybody knew it was apparently haunted we'd done this trip down

02:31:34.480 the road many a night but this night was special so the road you go down as as turn onto it there's

02:31:41.440 a field on either side for a couple hundred yards then you get to a tree line and you go deep into

02:31:46.340 the woods. This night, I don't know what it was. This night, I don't know what it was, but we're

02:31:51.500 creeping down the road. I think seven, eight of us in a vehicle. Sounds familiar. As soon as we

02:31:57.760 start approaching the wood line, standing there, two of them on each side of the road, right at the

02:32:01.780 woods, 10, 15, 20 foot tall beings. I don't know, giants, yotans, trolls. I almost think the Ents

02:32:08.400 from Lord of the Rings. That would be awesome. They were looking right at us as we approached.

02:32:15.080 every single one of us saw them the girls were freaking out the guys were freaking out we kept

02:32:20.300 driving right in between them their heads turned as we drove as they drove to follow us their heads

02:32:26.180 turned as we drove to follow us they let us pass still that wasn't the end of the night these woods

02:32:32.680 were more than creepy i never found proof that there's a graveyard in these woods it's easy to

02:32:37.280 find we always heard it was an old witch's graveyard there's county stories about old-timey

02:32:43.440 witches doing their black magics black magics he's got in quotes out in these woods and apparently

02:32:49.580 the same site they did ritual decades a century later kkk took up shop and held their thing in

02:32:55.820 the same spot now that was all off in the woods but story tells that those same witches were buried

02:33:02.820 in the graveyard we spent a lot of time there over the years sometimes during the day sometimes at

02:33:09.820 night hanging out just being teenagers we were always respectful of those who now live there

02:33:15.840 though we felt at home well that night with those guardians of the woods as we're driving down a few

02:33:21.420 of us we're taking pictures out the windows near every one of them an orb a shape a mark on the

02:33:27.480 picture floating sometimes the same super specific unique shape on people's cameras taking pictures

02:33:34.300 out different windows different sides of the vehicle time passed we made us to the graveyard

02:33:40.000 it was a crazy night and it didn't stop we were all on edge but we got to our happy place our

02:33:45.320 goth place or whatever you want to call it we started relaxing i don't know if it was chanting

02:33:50.620 or drumming or screaming or crying but a rhythmic noise started in the air it was close off in the

02:33:55.200 woods we could all hear it we got louder but after all that was after all that was that night

02:34:02.020 we didn't wait around. Don't blame you. We all knew the road continued on and you could circle

02:34:07.440 back to the main road if you went deeper in, but we did in the past. We always went out the way we

02:34:13.460 came in. Not that night. I don't know if those guardians let us pass for real, for real or woe.

02:34:19.740 I don't know if they were trapping us in, keeping us there, but we weren't going to find out.

02:34:25.460 we we out the long we went out the long way the back way and all was quiet it was some time before

02:34:32.840 we went back some rich guy from out of town bought those fields up from the road they're a factory

02:34:38.100 now i wonder what they've since disturbed i wonder how those souls and spirits get on now

02:34:43.080 i might go back there one day to the graveyard to that wood to that special place if you do let me

02:34:48.400 know. That sounds like an interesting drive. So, okay. You're not the first person to see

02:34:58.900 something big and strange that you don't know quite what it was on the side of the road. Okay.

02:35:07.160 At this point, I wish that my BFF wasn't probably asleep because I would text her because she

02:35:13.680 actually had a name for it and for the life of me I cannot remember what she called them

02:35:19.620 but they were spirits that would um feed on flesh of the dead and they almost look like a Sasquatch

02:35:27.960 type thing um and you could find them like by roadkill um things like that so sometimes you'll

02:35:34.040 see something out of the corner of your eye when you pass and it's you know feeding on the on the

02:35:39.540 flesh of the dead and there was something that she called it and I cannot remember what story

02:35:43.040 she got it from i will hopefully have that information for you considering where y'all

02:35:48.080 live that's probably is it when dingo yeah no i'll have to ask her i'm gonna have to ask her

02:35:55.040 i don't know but i think i was crazy one that night but there was like seven or eight of us

02:35:59.200 in that vehicle we all they have saw all the stuff that's a thing so i mean and it and it's gone in

02:36:05.360 the blink of an eye like this this thing that she talks about i've caught them out of the corner of

02:36:09.680 of my eye, but when you look hard, there's nothing there, but you swear there was something there

02:36:15.280 with that roadkill or whatever that was, and then you look straight at it, and it's gone,

02:36:20.620 and I will have that for you guys on Fifth of Brandy. I will get in touch with her. I don't

02:36:24.780 want to bother her this time of night, but I will find that, but yeah, that's a thing, man.

02:36:32.960 All right, well, that is all of our stories for tonight, unless anybody put anything else

02:36:39.180 in the comments or asked any other questions it doesn't look like they did so that being said

02:36:45.940 remember we're doing a drawing I'm going to send you something um that I ate 10 of right before we

02:36:52.880 got on this call because I just needed to you know eat my feelings because I'm on BNS and

02:36:57.840 I get nervous so I had to eat my my special snacks so take it away Nick who's gonna win

02:37:04.700 the super secret snacks that I'm going to mail them tomorrow. See what happens. Spin the wheel.

02:37:23.760 Austin, you're going to win the special snacks. I know where you live, friend. I will get that

02:37:29.520 in the mail to you tomorrow. You might like them. You might hate them. I don't care. I love them,

02:37:34.820 but just remember I'm sacrificing a box of my special snacks that I wait all year for

02:37:39.540 just because I appreciate your story. So yeah. And don't tell anybody else. Don't tell anybody

02:37:47.060 else because I want you guys to submit your stories for a fifth of Brandy part two coming

02:37:51.960 up the last Wednesday in October. We would like to hear about your ancestor visits. We would like

02:37:59.920 to hear your spooky, scary stories, your paranormal visits, your strange activities. Tell us about

02:38:07.040 your favorite thing that goes bump in the night. Are you a fan of Will-O-Wisps? Do you know what

02:38:11.880 Kelpies are? Is there a favorite story from folklore that you want us to talk about? Tell us

02:38:17.540 that story. We will share it live on the last Wednesday of the month. So get those stories

02:38:25.220 submitted. If not, you're just going to have to listen to us fall down the rabbit holes

02:38:29.180 and who knows where we might end up. So it's, it's hard to say.

02:38:37.820 All right, guys, Katie, can you remind us one more time about when winter night is,

02:38:44.160 how we can get tickets, and who to contact for information.

02:38:49.840 Sure. Winter Nights begins on Friday, so not tomorrow, the day after.

02:38:55.480 You can find tickets online at rudenstone.org at the store.

02:39:01.040 Nick is super efficient and already has that up on the screen for you.

02:39:05.320 And what was the other thing?

02:39:08.180 Oh, if you have any questions, you can reach out to me or my husband, Witten Erickson.

02:39:11.840 our emails are up on the

02:39:15.040 website

02:39:15.800 sorry guys it's almost midnight

02:39:22.960 well yeah we were supposed to leave

02:39:29.000 around 10 but it looks like

02:39:30.940 we're probably going to be leaving around midnight

02:39:32.940 instead I don't know at this rate

02:39:34.940 we might just get a couple hours of sleep

02:39:36.780 and leave at like 4 in the morning instead

02:39:38.440 we'll see but

02:39:39.400 Well, we appreciate being here and hanging out with us, Katie.

02:39:44.460 We really do.

02:39:45.220 So I want to thank Githya Erickson.

02:39:47.180 I want to thank Githya McNallan.

02:39:49.000 Thanks for hanging out with me.

02:39:50.340 Thanks for reading the stories.

02:39:52.120 Thanks for telling me your stories.

02:39:54.020 Really do appreciate it, you guys.

02:39:56.120 We're talking about some of my favorite stuff.

02:39:58.200 I couldn't miss it.

02:39:59.300 Well, you know what?

02:40:00.080 Just for giggles, let's add some divination to our Wednesday.

02:40:06.160 Fifth of Brandy. 0.84

02:40:07.100 Ooh.

02:40:07.420 gonna be alone i'll bring some tea i like that stuff too tea we should all bring make sure all

02:40:15.420 of our giddies have tea we should all make sure we have tea absolutely like a virtual tea party

02:40:19.740 tea party i'll even raise my pinky when i'm drinking yeah we'll be fancy

02:40:26.540 we'll wear a hat who knows i don't actually own any fancy hats so probably you need to get a fancy

02:40:34.140 hat i mean i i reckon ron's wife probably has a few you might be able to borrow absolutely i'm

02:40:40.140 lucky i can manage to brush my hair what makes you think i'm gonna get a hat no i'm just kidding i'm

02:40:46.700 just kidding sort of i appreciate you guys hanging out with me tonight i appreciate all the folks for

02:40:53.180 sticking by sticking in here being in the chat appreciate you for the likes and for the subscriptions

02:40:59.180 send me your stories so next time guys same time same place next wednesday hail the gods

02:41:08.460 all the folk hail the afa and remember victory never sleeps good night everybody good night

02:41:14.220 everyone.

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Asatru Folk Assembly - October 09, 2025

10⧸8⧸25 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 170 - Bump in the Night

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