SPIRIT TALES AND MAGIC
Our host; Dr.G had his first paranormal experience at only eight years old. With over five decades of storytelling, magic and paranormal story collection he is an award winning story teller on a mission to revive firelight and the telling of stories!
SPIRIT TALES AND MAGIC
Ghostly Visions in the Mist
Picture this: You're driving down a dark, deserted road, your eyes heavy with exhaustion, when suddenly a ghostly figure appears before you. This isn't the plot of a horror movie; it's a chilling tale shared by our listener, Randy, and it will leave you questioning the boundaries of reality. Join us as we unravel Randy's harrowing experience of a late-night drive that blurs the lines between the conscious and the unknown. With no evidence of the mysterious woman he thought he hit, Randy's story is an unsettling reminder of how easily fatigue can play tricks on the mind. Coupled with my own eerie encounter as a volunteer fireman on a fog-laden road, this episode ventures into the shadowy intersections of the known world and the enigmatic.
As Halloween looms, we dive deeper with insights from Dr. G of Spirit Tales and Magic into the realm of premonitions and ghostly narratives. Could these glimpses into the future be more than mere coincidences? Are they calls to action or cryptic warnings meant to alter our course? Engage with us as we ponder the significance of supernatural experiences and how they shape our lives. Gather your courage and your friends, as we encourage you to share your own spine-tingling ghost stories. These tales not only thrill but spark contemplation, reminding us of the profound mysteries that linger just beyond the fringes of our everyday reality.
There is indeed a world unseen, a world that exists all around us all the time, and every now and then, for whatever the reason, we catch a glimpse of it and the dead get in. Good evening everybody. It's Dr G. Spirit Tales and Magic. Thanks for tuning in.
Speaker 1:You'll hear me say many times that sometimes the show writes itself, or sometimes a series of circumstances will present themselves in such a way that you think the universe just wanted you to do a certain thing. So, as you know, cassandra and I are out and about pretty much for the next seven or eight days straight, next seven or eight days straight. And one thing about living in the desert even if you're on the highway, it gets dark. Now about 530 in the afternoon and by 6 o'clock it is dark, it is pitch black, it's dark. And even in places where you have light pollution, you turn around the next corner where there aren't any streetlights and you go wow, these car headlights are very terrible, I can't see. So we've been moving around a lot at night, which we don't do a whole lot of, because you are still in the Wild West here, whether you want to admit that or not, and there's a big difference in society between the day people and the night people, and those of you who have ever gone through a federal law enforcement training academy or police academy or psychological training, studied to be a psychologist, psychiatrist you know that to be true. Usually the day people don't associate with the night people. They don't know each other. They have different habits. Okay, fine, in a place like where I grew up, the day people and night people got along and it wasn't a big deal. Out here it's a little bit different than that. You can move freely at night, but you must be cautious. So we're tired and sometimes did you ever get so tired? You hallucinate. What was that?
Speaker 1:Back in my younger days I loved to drive. For long, long periods of time I'd sit up at the firehouse almost 24 hours and then I would jump in the car and take the 800-mile drive to surprise my mom or a friend of mine. That was like up in Saugatuck, michigan area. Yeah, take a nap and drive back, that kind of thing. But at night sometimes I would get so tired that the asphalt would look like it was cracked and like it was almost glowing, like almost like an old lava bed or something, and that would be the point where I'd be like okay, you're way too tired to be driving. You should knock it off and go sleep somewhere, and I'm sure most of you have been there. So we're tired. Yeah, we have to stop. We have to get back to the motel or the hostel or wherever it is that we're spending the night tonight. We better get there quick.
Speaker 1:I open up the email and I get this hey, doc, it's Randy. Hey, doc, it's Randy, and I was wondering if you would publish my story Because I believe it's very similar to one of your own that I've heard in the past. Have you ever been so tired that your eyes feel like they weigh a ton? I'm talking the kind of tired that gets down into your soul and just makes you wonder if you're going to be awake in the next two seconds or not. It's the realization that I've gone way beyond where I need to be. Such was the case with me last year. I was driving a truck and I wasn't out of hours, but I should have stopped and I didn't, so I kept playing games to keep myself awake. I know that you know what that's like.
Speaker 1:Now the particular truck that I'm driving has some cargo that is only allowed to stop in certain places and we have a map that says where those places are, and those are the only places that you can spend the night. Now I'm about five miles away from one of those places and I have gone down to about 45 miles an hour because I don't want to make a mistake and you know I've got to get to this place. So I'm going. Finally I get there, I'm down to about 35 miles an hour and I'm, you know, fighting to stay conscious and I get on the off-r off ramp and I'm going up the little hill to go into this place. It's a designated safe place for this load to be. There are other drivers up there and they're sleepy and they're out. Their lights are out. Even their marker lights are out.
Speaker 1:It wasn't very cold outside, so there was no need to leave the truck running. You could just crack the front windows and you would be comfortable. You could open the windows in the sleeper, which is what I intended to do. So I come on to the level part. I'm searching for a parking place. I see it. I put my blinker on and I turn left to get the truck in a straight line to back it up, and I swear that I hit this woman who was walking, hit her with the truck. Now, unless you've ever done that, you can't possibly know what it's like, but I was awake, then I'll tell you that.
Speaker 1:And then I backed up the truck, didn't see anybody and jumped out. I've got a flashlight and I'm looking all around, I'm screaming for help, and woke up several other drivers who came out with flashlights. I said I just hit this woman, I hit her, I ran over her and we've got to find her. We looked and we've got to find her. We looked. Another driver got on the CB and immediately called the highway patrol, who just so happened to be about one exit away. So they were there in probably two minutes or less. They called other highway patrolmen.
Speaker 1:Long story short, we've got about 15 guys out there looking for this woman. I described her, the way she was dressed, I described how I thought I hit her and I knew and this may be a little tough for some people to take, but I knew, just knew that I had knocked her out of her shoes. But we couldn't find the shoes and we couldn't find the woman, and it was to the point where I was going to get arrested for filling out a false police report, not to mention. I'm so tired that I could positively pass out. Now we're all done, everybody's gone, the other drivers are angry and we're back in bed and I'm gonna bed down for the night. The escort car that travels about a half a mile behind me had gotten there and those guys were involved for the search and called dispatch and said there's been an accident. I had to call back and say there was no accident and one of the guys said you know you, you believe that that happened because you were so tired and even though you're not out of hours, if you ever drive in that condition again, you are fired and you could even be facing criminal charges.
Speaker 1:That incident stayed with me for a long time. As you know, those particular secured freight jobs have a shelf life and mine was running out. I had to take two more final runs, which took me to that place two times, and the safe zones are when you're carrying explosives or a bomb or something like that. Those are the only places you can stop. So I'm going into the same one about a year and a half later. Cops all over the place I'm listening to it on CB breaker breaker. Coops full of smokies. Don't go anywhere near. There's all kind of smokies. I'm listening to it on the CB breaker breaker Coop's full of Smokies. Don't go anywhere near there. There's all kinds of Smokies. There's a helicopter, there's an ambulance. But I was running out of hours.
Speaker 1:So I stopped at the state patrolman that was at the bottom of the entrance ramp and I said look, I have sensitive freight and I'm out of hours. What do you want me to do? Let me see your logbook. I gave up my logbook, like I'm supposed to. He looked at it. You have less than half an hour left. Yes, sir, that's correct. Well, you won't make it to the next place where you're allowed to park that thing. No, sir, I will not. All right, then I'm going to walk you up this ramp. You go very slowly. Be aware of the equipment that's sitting on both sides of you and there's plenty of parking once you get up there, because we've been closed now for about three hours up here, so don't move until I tell you to. I'll explain it to everybody on the radio. So he walks me up. We're moving in. Anybody's ever driven a truck.
Speaker 1:I'm in granny gear, so I'm going incredibly slow walking speed or less up this small hill on a across and back into my parking place. There are several other drivers standing down in a clear area. I walked up to them and said why all the equipment? What's going on? Did somebody drop hazardous waste on? And somebody drop hazardous waste or no? There was a guy in a car that came tearing through here and hit some woman and killed her, knocked her right out of her shoes. I've never had a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach like that.
Speaker 1:So I went over to the patrolman. He recognized me. Didn't you have an incident like this? And I don't know what made me say it. But I said can I see her? No, you absolutely cannot. She's under that sheet, isn't she? If she is, then you absolutely cannot look under there.
Speaker 1:Another patrolman came up and he goes why would you? What kind of freak are you that you want to do that? So we explained the incident to him. I said I don't even know why. I don't want to see it, but I want to look. Is she wearing a Native American jacket with, like, all kind of raw hide strings coming down off the shoulders and the arms? Now, if you could have seen the look on Smokey's face, yes, she has black hair and she's wearing a lot of turquoise around her neck. That stayed there. How could you possibly know that? Because way prior to this incident, I saw it in my mind so vividly that I thought it was real.
Speaker 1:A year after that, I retired from trucking. I don't do that anymore, but I've never, ever, forgotten about that incident. You have a similar incident. I heard you talk about that in a lecture and I wonder if you would run that story right after this one. You might be one of the only people that know how I felt and how I still feel. How is it possible that I saw, two years into the future, the tragic end that another human being was going to meet? That's something I will never understand and it's a story that has become an urban legend, if you will, between my family and friends and I, if you will, between my family and friends and I, and on the rare occasions when I talk about it, the room is still. That reminds me of a story that happened in my much younger life. You all know I grew up in a very small town. It's still a great place to grow up to this day.
Speaker 1:I was on the, at the time, volunteer fire department. There I was a fireman and a paramedic. I'll be the first to tell you I was a mediocre fireman but I was a really good medic. At the time I worked for an ambulance company professionally and did the volunteer thing when I wasn't working. In small communities sometimes you make a lot of friends on other fire departments and you know, occasionally you might go to their station. Back then the thing was you know playing cards, you know euchre was the game, so you know you might go to a station 10, 15 miles away and sit there play a couple games of Euchre. If they had a call they might invite you to go with them. Didn't always happen, but it was good relationships with guys who did the same thing you did. There were some stories to tell, of course, like there always is. You know, there were some stories to tell, of course, like there always is.
Speaker 1:So one night I go to another station and I'm exceptionally tired. So why don't you just spend the night at the station? And I'm like, well, I would do that, but I'm going to miss something back home and you know it takes me 20 minutes to drive home. It's going to be fine. So I actually did take a little nap. I slept for about an hour and they had a call. I actually went on the call with them. It was a non-transport which happens, so you go out there with the ambulance, you check out the patient. Patient doesn't want to go to the hospital, so, okay, fine, thanks, call us if you need us and you leave. So you know. I think I'm wide awake, I'm fine.
Speaker 1:Get about two miles away from the station and it's very rural. It's on Route 40, which goes across the country, as you know. Route 40, which goes across the country, as you know. But it's out there on the not-so-populated end of Route 40. So I drive through a place called Egypt Bottom, which you heard about before as kind of a shortcut to get back to my end of Route 40, if you will. So I come out of there and going up what they call Lady Bend Hill, which is you'll hear about that in the podcast a lot. It's haunted and as I'm going, it's foggy and I'm tired and I very clearly nicked someone walking on the side of the road, saw it, felt it.
Speaker 1:Man turned on my warning system on the car, got a walkie-talkie out. I was also a police officer in a small town in the same area. I gave my call sign, called the base and I said I've been in a 31 involving a pedestrian. That's a motor vehicle accident. Here's where I am. Could you send a couple deputies out here please? So the dispatcher puts it out as officer needs assistance. An officer involved pedestrian automobile accident. I got attention, people came.
Speaker 1:So here we are finding nothing, just very similar to the other story I just read you. There's nobody there, there is no dent in my car, there is nothing. So we look under the car as best we can, the car's off the road a little bit and into some mud. So we get the car out of there and we scour the area. How fast do you figure you were gone? How much do you think this person weighed? If you're going to hit this person, how far do you think they're going to fly? I mean crazy stuff.
Speaker 1:So that area, the right side of the road where I thought I struck the pedestrian, there's you wouldn't call it a mountain, but you're in the foothills of the Appalachians, so there's, the hills are pretty big right in that particular spot. So there's nothing there. We had 20 people out there for 90 minutes Searching every square inch. Nothing. I went on back home went to sleep About three hours later. We did have a call so I went out on the call to answer it. Much closer to my home, on Route 40, there was a branch of the Ohio State University. A branch of the Ohio State University which sets directly across the road from what used to be a closed down tubercular sanatorium. It's now, I think, county offices, or it was when I left there.
Speaker 1:So right in that area, which is a troubled spot we had for automobile accidents, you come over the top of the hill and if you're not paying attention you drift over a little bit into the left lane. The guy that's coming the other way can't necessarily see you and we've had a few accidents there. So the call came in as an automobile accident. Call came in as an automobile accident. So I get to the station. I think I was in the first ambulance out I was driving. There's a rescue truck that dispatched behind us and then the second ambulance and, I believe, one fire engine.
Speaker 1:It's the first round of people that were headed that way. Patrol's already there. There's four or five patrol cars already there. So when the patrol's already on scene you don't have to lag back and not be the first ones there, you can rush right in. So we get there and the patrolman comes up to the squad. He's like don't even rush, there's nothing you can do. Okay, how many people involved? Well, it's one car and one pedestrian. The guy in the car is fine, he's under arrest. He's in the back of one of the cruisers. He's drunk. Okay, pedestrian is not fine, he's deceased. Okay, she was knocked 40 feet out of her shoes. Wow, now we have to take the body after the coroner comes into wherever it's going. In this particular case, it was going to a little town called Bel Air, to the hospital there where the county coroner would take a more in-depth look at cause of death and things like that. Just kind of like you would see on any TV show. There has to be an investigation. So we load this person into the squad and I know what that guy means about a sinking feeling in his stomach, because the girl that was laying on that stretcher was the girl I thought I hit four miles from there on Lady Ben Hill.
Speaker 1:Do you have a creepy road story? If you do, we'd love to hear it. You can go out to the website, fill out the form and it'll get to us, or you can email it directly to an email that I will personally receive, which is ninpaws at yahoocom N as in Nancy I, as in Ida N as in Nancy P, as in Paul A, as in Adam W, as in Whiskey S as in Sam and pause at yahoocom. That falls directly into a mailbox that I check on a very regular basis. Or you can mail it to us the address is on the site. You can dedicate it to someone. Or you can mail it to us. The address is on the site. You can dedicate it to someone. Or you can remain anonymous.
Speaker 1:But as we get closer to Halloween, it seems we're reminded of things that go bump in the night. What do you think? Is it possible to see an event before the event actually happens? And if so, what would the purpose be? Was it someone wishing that I would have stayed in that area long enough to prevent the accident? Was it a premonition of something to come? And if it was, why? Something I guess we'll ponder until tomorrow. Thank you for tuning in. Good night from Arizona, na. Get yourself some friends and tell a ghost story. It's good for you.
