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And despite law enforcement knowing who the murderer is, he's free now and no one knows where to find him. It is a brutally horrible story you do not want children in the room for. Being the victim of a stalker is terrifying, not knowing when or where the person might show up next or what they'll do to you when they do show up. But there are those who have an even more terrifying situation, where the stalkers follow them their entire lives and there's nothing they can do to stop it because the stalker is paranormal. But first, the 1725 newspaper headline read, Bloodsucker Devastates Village, and thus began a great vampire epidemic. We begin with that story. If you're new here, welcome to the show. While you're listening, be sure to check out WeirdDarkness.com for merchandise, to visit sponsors you hear about during the show, sign up for my newsletter and our contests, connect with me on social media, listen to my other podcasts like Retro Radio, Old Time Radio in the Dark, Church of the Undead, and a classic 1950s sci-fi style podcast called Auditory Anthology. Plus, you can visit the Hope in the Darkness page if you're struggling with depression or dark thoughts. You can find all of that and more at WeirdDarkness.com.  Even the least superstitious person in the world would not be able to ignore the headline Bloodsucker Devastates Village. But that was the news spreading like wildfire across the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the late 1720s. Mysterious epidemics had been linked to chilling reports that captured the imagination. Across language divides from poor villages to mighty imperial cities, whispers spread of long-buried corpses with fresh blood in their mouths, savage attacks and communities shattered by individuals thought to be deceased. The ingredients to this story sound familiar for a reason. Somewhat incredibly, two small-town calamities in what is now rural Serbia ignited a worldwide phenomenon. From Dracula to Edward Cullen, vampires all derive from the combination of folklore and coincidence that drove the world's first Bloodsucker craze. It started in 1725 in a tiny village called Kisilova, which is now Kisoljevo. Life was already hard for Kisilova's poor residents who endured harsh winters and had recently been occupied by the Ottomans. God seemed very far away among a slew of problems, all of which were about to show up in the form of a monster with a familiar face. Local Peter Blagojevic knocked on his wife's door and demanded she hand over his shoes ten weeks after he had died. That's the account that panicked villagers related to a military representative. Needless to say, he was a little skeptical, but what followed was no joke. Within days of Blagojevic's reported reappearance, eight villagers died after short, brutal illnesses. Supposedly, Blagojevic crept into their homes at night, laid on top of them and crushed the breath from their lungs, thus sealing their fate. It sounds like fiction, but the reaction of Kisilova's residents made sense at the time. Illness was a terrifying prospect after the village's ordeal of occupation and hunger, and a monster was easier to blame than God. After a heated debate, the whole of Kisilova decided to march to the graveyard and dig up Blagojevic's body. According to the amazed military representative, there was not the slightest smell of death. The face, hands and also feet and the whole body were so recreated that they in his lifetime could not have been more complete. And here comes the scariest part. Quote, in his mouth I did see fresh blood, which after the general opinion he had sucked from those killed by him. No one had a name for what this monster was, but what the villagers did next, perhaps prompted by medieval Balkan folklore about the walking dead, set the precedent for hundreds of vampire movies to come. They sharpened a stake and drove it through Blagojevic's heart. Witnesses said blood gushed from the corpse's mouth and ears, signaling an end to his brief reign of terror. A few years later, a highway man named Arnold Pale was entertaining the locals in his central Serbian village with tall tales about a Turkish vampire he'd known. The vampire had bitten him, he claimed, but not to worry. He'd taken precautions against infection by eating dirt from the vampire's grave. Garlic and holy water it seems had not caught on just yet. Despite Pale's efforts, his untimely death and a farming accident led him to rise from the grave as a vampire. His killing spree was even deadlier than Blagojevic's, with more than two dozen people dying within just a few months. As with Blagojevic, the villagers dutifully dug Pale up to be rewarded with another ghastly sight, the apparently recomposed Pale gasping as they drove a stake through his heart. These stories were certainly enough to make headlines and made for great folk stories, but Europe has been full of strange folklore for centuries, so why did these accounts take hold so thoroughly? The answer historian Gabor Klinigseh writes might be the clue to the vampire's lasting appeal. Medieval Europe had been preoccupied with witch trials.  Vampires were distinctly more modern and therefore scarier, supernatural beings. And people only tangentially aware of the rise of technology and medicine, vampires seemed a plausible mystery for the new field of science. In other words, vampires represented what seemed weirdest and most frightening about the present for 18th-century peasants. Today, says author G.K. Hansen, they've become a tool for exploring oddities and unknowns in our ever-shrinking world. Series like Twilight and True Blood suggest that vampires have a whole other world that we humans don't know about, tantalizing possibility in our high-tech present. Vampires are a fertile playground, and once Stephanie Meyer let absurdity creep in, for vampires sparkle. People started finding it everywhere, Hansen says, noting that there's so much territory left unexplored. The undead might not be killing Serbian peasants anymore, but vampires will likely survive, stakes are not, to reveal more about the stranger side of the human imagination for years to come. When Weird Darkness returns, Margaret Allen was hanged to death. But it's the strange life she lived and the odd nature of her crime that still interests people in her case. That's up next. Are you a member of the Darkness Syndicate? The Darkness Syndicate is a private membership where you receive commercial-free episodes of the Weird Darkness podcast and radio show. Behind the scenes, video updates about future projects and events I'm working on. You can share your own opinions on ideas to help me decide upon Weird Darkness Contests and events. You can hear audiobooks I'm narrating before even the publishers or authors get to hear them. You also receive bonus audio of other projects I'm working on outside of Weird Darkness. You get all of these benefits and more, starting at only $5 per month. Join the Weird Darkness Syndicate at WeirdDarkness.com-Syndicate. On January 13, 1949, 42-year-old Margaret Allen was hanged at Strange Ways Prison, now the H.M. Prison Manchester. Not only did this make her the first woman to be hanged in the United Kingdom in 19 years, but the very circumstances of her life as well as the nature of the murder she committed has given her a unique place in Britain's forensic history. Born in 1905, as part of a very large family, she was the 20th of 22 children, Margaret apparently knew that she was different from an early age. Not only did she refuse to do female chores, preferring more masculine tasks such as shoveling coal and doing household repairs, she also hated wearing dresses. Instead, she insisted on more masculine clothing, the same as her brothers. While this would be much more acceptable today, her unbehavior made her into a virtual outcast as far as her family was concerned. Never having married, she embraced a completely masculine lifestyle, including cutting her hair short, wearing men's clothing exclusively and insisting on being called Bill instead of her given name of Margaret.  Despite being largely estranged from her family, Margaret took her mother's death in 1943 especially hard. Not only did she begin smoking heavily, but she sought medical treatment for depression and anorexia. To support herself, Margaret, or Bill, worked as a bus conductor, though she eventually lost this job due to her tendency to strike passengers on the back of a head if they weren't seated fast enough. In any event, by 1948 she was in financial trouble. Not only could she not afford her rent or her electric bill, she apparently couldn't even afford cigarettes. This will become important later. That brings us to the events of August 29, 1948, when a neighbor, 68-year-old Nancy Ellen Chadwick, came to Margaret's door to borrow a cup of sugar. Chadwick was a wealthy widow with a reputation for being eccentric but largely harmless. Unfortunately Margaret considered her annoying, so they didn't get on particularly well. For reasons that aren't quite clear, Margaret viciously clubbed Nancy Chadwick to death using a coal hammer. She then placed the body in her cellar before going out with her only friend, Annie Cook. After sharing a couple of drinks together, Margaret returned home to deal with the problem of the body. First she poured great ashes on the face of her victim and then dragged the body outside to leave in the street nearby. She apparently hoped that the soot on Chadwick's face and the injuries to her head would convince police that she'd been a victim of a hit and run. When bus driver Herbert Beaumont found the body at 3 a.m. on the following morning he immediately called police who launched an investigation. Another bus driver insisted that he had passed by that same spot 15 minutes earlier and saw no body at the time. Since it seemed unlikely that Chadwick had been walking outside at that time of morning, they quickly dismissed the possibility of a hit and run. They also found the woman's purse floating in the nearby River Irwell, though all the money had been removed. Since Margaret Allen seemed to be taking a keen interest in the investigation, police came to question her about the death on September 1st. They quickly discovered blood stains on the inside of her front door as well as a shopping bag filled with great ashes in one of her closets. As she was being questioned, she confessed to the killing almost immediately but added that she didn't do it for the money, I was in one of my funny moods. She told them I just happened to look around and saw the hammer in the kitchen, then on the spur of the moment I hit her with it. She gave a loud shout and that seemed to start me off more and so I hit her a few times more. I don't know how many. Margaret later insisted that being unable to smoke had made her especially irritable. The fact that she was heavily in debt and that she had apparently been hoping to rob her victim seemed a likelier explanation, however. Though a murder would not ordinarily generate much interest from the press, many of the details of Margaret's life helped ensure that her case would receive international coverage. Virtually every newspaper played up Margaret's mannish appearance, including her refusal to wear female clothing and her previous claims that she had undergone a sex change operation. The papers also played up her spinster status, though Margaret largely remained silent throughout the trial. What was likely even more upsetting to her was that she was kept in a woman's prison, despite insisting she was a male. While in prison she only received one visitor, a woman named Anne Cook, though the exact nature of their relationship is still debatable. As for the trial itself, it was held on December 8, 1948 and only lasted five hours, given that Margaret had already confessed to the crime, there really wasn't all that much for the defense to do in her case. Though her lawyer, William Gorman KC, tried to argue for the insanity defense, the jury rejected that completely. They seemed completely swayed by the argument of the prosecutor, E.G. Roby, that Margaret's sole motive for the murder was robbering, and it only took 15 minutes to hand down a verdict of guilty. Then again, Margaret's wearing a man's suit for the trial, she insisted on that, probably worked against her as well. Once the verdict was in, the judge, Mr. Justice Sellers, sentenced her to be hanged. Despite a last-minute attempt to have the sentence commuted, including a petition with 162 signatures, the Home Secretary denied any reprieve, and Margaret's execution date was set for January 12. Though she had been cheerful at first, while still hoping for an appeal, her mood quickly changed when the prison governor told her her execution would go on as scheduled. At her final meeting with Annie Cook, Margaret told her not to come to the hanging but instead to go to the corner where they usually met at 9 a.m. at the hour of execution. Irritable to the end, Margaret kicked over her breakfast on the morning of her hanging, saying, I don't want it and no one else is going to enjoy it. Even worse, the prison refused to allow her to wear men's clothing to the hanging and she was forced to wear a prison dress instead. She was hanged at 9 a.m. on schedule by Alfred Peerpoint, assisted by Harvey Kirk. The only real mourner she apparently had was Annie Cook, who was seen crying at the corner where Margaret had asked her to wait. While Margaret, or Bill, was evidently a pre-operation transgender male, the fact that she lived in an era before such operations were widely available certainly made her life more difficult than it might have been. As it happens, the case of Christine Jorgensen only a few years later would help open the floodgates, though it would be 20 years before Sweden became the first country to allow people to legally change their sex. Despite there being no real indication that Margaret's transgender status played a role in her crime, she may well have been treated more harshly by the court as a result of her mannish appearance and general refusal to abide by the accepted sexual stereotypes at the time. It would take a very long time for these attitudes to change. Here's a story from one of our Weirdo family members, Brian Barnes, sent this banana, it's called Mysterious But Appreciative. In April 2010, my wife and I decided to purchase a beautiful home just outside of Milwaukee. This community was one of the earliest suburbs of Milwaukee and was home to some of the wealthier residents back in its day. Today it's still a community made up of middle-class residents, many of them being educators, first responders, or professionally unemployed. We chose this community because of the variety and beauty of the homes in the community. Many multi-story brick homes from the 1920s to the 1940s. Our home is a 1927 brick with stained glass and lead-pain glass doors and windows, hardwood floors, fireplace, and a grand staircase. It was a beautiful home and my wife and I fell in love with it immediately. After the purchase, we got to know our next-door neighbors, Rick and Joanne, who had lived in their home for more than 40 years. Rick was a retired surveyor for the city. Joanne was a retired teacher. Hanging in the backyard and talking with them over the summer, my wife and I learned a great deal about the original owners of our house. It was originally designed and built by the homeowner, who was an architect. That explains why our home had so many custom design features for the home. It was later sold to a gentleman who was a dentist. His wife had died and for the longest time it was just the dentist and his younger daughter, Dina. After Dina's father passed, she inherited the home and lived in it until she was in her 80s, putting it up for sale and moving to Florida where she eventually passed away. Noticing how much my wife and I were landscaping and planting new flower gardens, Rick shared with us how it reminded him of Dina. She loved gardening. She loved this home and would have loved what we were doing. Fast forward about a year. My wife and I were working in our backyard. I was busy trimming some hedges that had not been trimmed in some time and were severely overgrown. These things were over 10 feet tall and easily four foot wide. They were huge and took a lot of work to get them trimmed. These hedges have been here since the mid 1930s. I know this because the previous owners would write the date and height from 1933 to 1938 on the wall in the garage. I like the history of it also. I left the original writing in the garage as it was. While working, I noticed a lady walking up our alley and into our parking space. She was average height and weight with long curly reddish brown hair. I'd say that she was in her mid to late 40s. Excuse me, she said. I don't mean to be a bother, but I used to live here when I was a young girl. I happened to be in town on business and thought it'd be fun to stop by and see the old place. Intrigued, I invited her up the steps into our yard. Well, hello, I said. My wife and I have always been curious about the history of the house, so we'd enjoy the opportunity to hear about your time living here. We stood and talked for a while, her sharing her stories of playing hide and seek with her best friend and providing all kinds of very specific details about the house that only somebody who has spent a great deal of time there would have known. She knew everything about the house and its history. Her mother, Dina, had grown up in the home just like Rick had told us, and she shared all kinds of stories about past holidays and backyard parties with the neighbors. She was very nice and politely asked if we wouldn't mind if she peeked inside just to see the interior one more time. I agreed and walked her up to the back door where you'd enter the kitchen and access the back service staircase. Once she entered the home, I immediately noticed a change in her demeanor. She went from a very animated, talkative person to a very somber, quiet, even serious person. She walked from the kitchen to the dining room, which then flows into the living room as the largest portion of the downstairs was all an open concept. As she peered at the house, she never said a word and she looked at different parts of the downstairs. She seemed almost like she was in a different time and place. I assumed she was just remembering how the house looked when she was little, or maybe picturing a holiday gathering and remembering the home at a different time. Weirdly, she never said anything, not one comment on the house or how we had furnished it, or recalling any moment in the house, not a single word. She just walked around gazing at different parts of the house. I didn't say anything, I just gave her a little space and let her take it all in. She then looked to the grand staircase and asked if she could go upstairs, never looking at me or in my direction. I said, of course, stop yourself. And watched as she made her way up the stairs. I moved toward the bottom of the stairs, watching her make her way up. I was just about to follow her up when she suddenly stopped and just stared down the hallway. She wasn't looking around at the pictures and art that we had on the wall. She was staring down the hall almost like she was seeing someone else on the other end. It was really weird. She never went into any of the bedrooms. She turned slowly and made her way back down the stairs again with this very somber look. She never made eye contact with me, nor said another word. She walked right past me at the bottom of the steps. She started to make her way back to the way we came in. I began walking slowly behind her until we walked outside to the back porch. Once we were outside, her demeanor changed once again, back to that pleasant, smiling, and talkative person. She thanked us for trusting her and giving her the opportunity to see the home again. She also spent some time with my wife looking over the garden and telling my wife how much her mother would have loved to see what we had done with the garden.  She apologized for interrupting our Saturday, but thanked us again. She started walking back down our carport into the alley. I followed slightly behind her just to watch her safely leave. I only lost sight of her for a few seconds when she rounded the corner of my neighbor's garage. I followed behind by about ten seconds. As I rounded the corner, she was gone. I expected to see her car in the alley or at the end of the alley parked on the street, but there was nothing there. I could easily see the end of the street with a stop sign. Nothing. The end of the alley from my house is a good forty yards. There is no conceivable way she made that distance without me seeing her. If her car was parked in the alley, she would have had to drive past me or back up forty yards to the end of the alley. Either way, I had no idea where she went. I basically shrugged it off and got back to work on my monstrous hedges. A few days later, I was outside talking to my neighbor Rick and told him about our visitor and all the things that she told us about the house and its past. As I was talking, I noticed he had a perplexed look on his face. I'm sorry, he said. You said the lady who visited said she was the daughter who lived here? Yes, I told him. She said her mom lived here with her until she moved out when she left for college. Again, Rick looked confused. How old was this lady you talked to? Rick asked. I don't know, mid-forties maybe? I provided him a description of her, thinking it might jar his memory. That can't be right, he said. Dina lived in this house her entire life. She didn't sell until she was in her eighties, and she never married nor had any kids. Are you sure she said she was the daughter? Yes, 100%. She told us all kinds of things about the house that only someone who lived there would have known. She knew Dina and her hobby of gardening, etc. About that time, his wife Joanne came out, and Rick proceeded to tell her about our visitor. Joanne responded confidently, Dina never had any children. She never married nor had any kids. Both Rick and Joanne were very close friends of Dina. Now I'm confused, but I just reiterated what she had told me. Rick asked me to wait a second and went back into the house. Joanne and I continued talking about the experience, and all the daughter told us. A few minutes later, Rick returned with an old picture. It was a group of people consisting of 10-12 people gathering for a barbecue or a party standing in front of the garage in the backyard. Rick indicated this was one of Dina's many backyard parties that she'd host for the neighbors. The date on the picture was 1977. As I looked at the guests, I suddenly felt a cold sweat coming over me. In the picture was a lady that looked exactly as the lady who just visited us. I pointed to it and showed it to Rick. Who's this lady? I asked with a shaky voice. Rick looked at me with a slight concern in his eyes. That's Dina. I responded that there's just no way. This lady was just here. My mind scrambled to come up with a reasonable explanation. Maybe it was her daughter who looks a lot like her. Rick and Joanne looked at each other though and then back to me with a confused look on their faces. I'm not sure who visited you the other day, Rick said, but trust me, Dina never had any children. They lived by her for 40 years. Rick would often help her with things like moving furniture or hanging things that she couldn't do herself. He never saw anyone in the house other than her. So who was this lady that visited us? Was she the long lost daughter that no one ever knew about? How does she have all of this intimate detail about our house and know the entire history of the house? If this was not the daughter, was this Dina who stopped by to make sure that we were caring for the home? I have no explanation for it. I know the lady my wife and I saw was real. I know the lady in that picture looks exactly like the lady who visited us. What I don't know is who it was. We've had no additional visits from this lady, nor have we ever had any other weird happenings since that time. So I like to think maybe it was Dina checking to make sure the new owners loved the home as much as she did and felt that we did. I don't know. But it was the weirdest experience I have ever had. Coming up, being the victim of a stalker is terrifying. Not knowing when or where the person might show up next or what they'll do to you when they do show up. But there are those who have an even more terrifying situation where the stalker follows them their entire lives and there's nothing they can do to stop it because the stalker is paranormal. That's up next on Weird Darkness. Nothing goes better with chocolate than vanilla, and nothing goes better with the darkness than vampires. So we have combined all of them into a new blend of weird dark roast coffee called Very Vam Pilla.  So good, you'll want to sink your fangs into the fresh roasted bag itself. Weird Dark Roast Very Vam Pilla, the only thing at stake, sorry, not sorry, bad pun, is your dissatisfaction with your old coffee. Sip it while the sun is down if you're one of the undead, or when the sun is up if you just feel dead and need a bit of a boost. Get your Weird Dark Roast Very Vam Pilla at WeirdDarkness.com slash coffee. That's Weird Darkness.com slash coffee.  Are you jealous of your friends who've woken up to something standing over them in bed? You might change your mind after you hear about some of these real-life people who have suffered lifetime hauntings. Ghosts that attach themselves to people always seem to have some kind of agenda. If you're lucky, the ghost acts as a sort of protective, invisible friend. But if your forever ghost is like most of the creepy crawlies I'm about to tell you about, you're in for a lifetime of chills every time you go to the bathroom, close the kitchen cabinet, or walk down to the basement to do laundry. People who have their own ghost can never lead a normal life. Not only do they spend every waking moment looking over their shoulders for the next scare, but it must be impossible to let someone into your life, be it a friend or a lover. How do you casually explain the presence of an old man in your bathtub or the shadow that lingers in the closet every time you invite somebody over to your house? Keep listening for a few stories about people who grew up dealing with something spooky attached to them. Hopefully they'll help you begin to understand the intense mental anguish that these individuals are under at all times. The next time you meet someone who has a house ghost, you'll be able to be a little more sympathetic. Amanda wrote into a website Your Ghost Stories to share about a dark presence that had followed her throughout her life. She notes that since she was a child, she'd see a figure looming in her bedroom doorway until it zipped into her closet. The entity would come and go as she got older, but she always knew when it would be around, almost as if her body was in tune with whatever it was. Her most recent run-in with the thing occurred while she was in bed. She heard the presence, rifling through her essential oils and felt it lean over her. Amanda fears that it wants to drive her to hurt her family. I think it attacks me mentally. I'd get images of hurting someone or seeing them suffering. I would never hurt anyone like in the images it showed me. It actually did this before, years ago. It showed me hurting my son. I snapped and took pills. A man from Australia describes a lifetime of paranormal activity that not only got him into trouble with his parents, but also seems to have ruined at least one of his relationships. The ghosts started their mischief when he was a child, manifesting themselves as a white cat and splattering black paint over his bedroom walls. Years later, this man's clairvoyant fiancee told him that he was being followed by two spooky children and a sinister spirit who gave her the heebie-jeebies. The storyteller fast-forwards 18 years and notes that his engagement had been called off. Then, one day, a stranger approached him to say that it looked like he was being followed by three spirits that gave her the heebie-jeebies. Redditor Zach1392 has had a lifelong hate-hate relationship with a brood of ghosts following him from home to home under the leadership of an oppressive demonic ringleader.  Following that experience, Zach saw that what he describes as a shadow trying to break into his third-story window and a presence that would make everyone uncomfortable in one particular room in the house. Even after his family moved to a new house, he believed the hauntings continued. He even thanks the ghosts talk about him. Since I worked night shift, he said, I'd come home around four or five in the morning. I've walked in and heard someone say, Hey, I've respond and get nothing. I've seen a woman in the kitchen who looked like my great aunt.  I've had the front door yanked out of my hand. I've even seen the deadbolt turn by itself. I've walked in on conversations only to hear, Shhh, he's here, be quiet. One of the most frustrating things about true ghost stories is that the people who live through them rarely get any answers when it comes to their haunting. Kelly, a woman who has moved around quite a bit, has been followed by the spirit of a young girl since she was only 15. Their interactions range from full-on attacks on her ex-boyfriends to silent appearances in the kitchen to haunting whispers telling Kelly not to be afraid. Kelly doesn't know where the little girl came from, but wonders if she is something of a protector. The young woman in Florida feels certain that either a French ghost or possibly a demon has been following her since she was a baby. According to her parents, when she was an infant, they would hear the sounds of people speaking in French over the baby monitor. Not that she's older, she believes that something is waiting for her in the dark rooms of her house. I'm uncomfortable being in any room by myself, she says, when the lights are off. It just feels like someone's watching me. When I sleep on the couch, it feels like someone's standing about 10 feet away from me just watching me. It's very uncomfortable, and I could have sworn I saw someone standing literally right next to my shins when I looked down at my feet. Another Florida woman, Angela, has been living in the same home since she was a child, and in her account of the ghostly happenings that occur around her, shadow men, giggling children, etc., it seems like she and the ghosts have grown used to each other. But then her fiance moved in. The moment he did, the haunting took on a malicious quality. Things began to be thrown across rooms. Something started banging on the walls, and one night, Anton, her fiance, took the brunt of the ghostly force. As Angela tells it, one night they were in bed when, quote, the ghost literally grabbed him and threw him. He flew out of the bed and hit the wall next to the bed and whacked his head on my nightstand. I started screaming, and he was awake now and understandably pretty freaked out. He flew off that bed like someone had shoved him and he hit that wall with a lot of force. He actually chipped some of the plaster off the wall. Samantha's haunting began when she was still in the womb.  Years later, Samantha would have to deal with a similar, shadowy presence that would hold her down in the middle of the night in between her horrific nightmares. An anonymous young woman who will call Amy claims that she has been followed by something malevolent since she was about five years old. Her first run in with the entity came when she recorded a radio show with her sister. After I was done, she said, I rewound the tape and began to listen to it before going to play it for my parents. Mid session, however, I heard a sound. It was a long, drawn out sigh in a deep register. It sounded as though a man were standing in the background and was very annoyed with the talking and expressing his frustration with it. But then, when she was in college, she experimented with recording the entity again and things got creepy. On the tape, things are quiet until Amy's mother leaves the room. So my mother gets up and walks down the hall and into the room where my nephew was hanging out in his crib, Amy says, not trying as hard to nap as I would have liked.   I make no comment on it, but you can hear me flipping through the magazines. I hadn't noticed anything. From down the hall, you hear my mother talking to my nephew, trying to get him to say, I love you. So she's saying that very slowly, I love you. On the tape, you hear this very odd hissing laugh and suddenly you hear a very, very deep man's voice say very loudly and clearly, I love you, Amy. When you think about something following you, would you rather it have a recognizable form or not? One woman has been dealing with a shadow person for close to a decade. One night, it appeared in her room. I laid there for what felt like hours just watching it, she says of the experience. I was about to fall asleep when I saw it move. I just kept staring at the mirror, too afraid to turn around. I felt the bed shift like someone was laying down. It happened so slowly and I've never felt more scared than I was at that moment. I closed my eyes out of fear and when I opened them back up, it was morning. She got older, the figure would occasionally stand directly behind her while she cooked and once even pushed her down the stairs while no one was home. Luckily, the woman says the activity has died down somewhat in the past few years. A Redditor who goes by the name Smittisab writes that he has been haunted by the same ghost throughout his life. In fact, he says it's gone so far as to cause his vasovagal syncope to flare up and give him seizures. The paranormal activity began when he was three, when voices began to tell him to stab his mother. Then the haunting died down until he was eight, when something began walking around in his room and opening the cabinets in the bathroom while he showered. The activity in the bathroom only got more intense. That night, he says, I convinced my brother to sleep in my room. As we were talking around one a.m., something hits the other side of the wall near my head. Note, the bathroom shares a wall with my room. It sounded like a fist and then nails dragging down the wall, screamed and cried. Brother hates ghosts, refuses to talk about it. This next young woman is seriously haunted. She believes that she has been followed by an entity her entire life and that it, as she calls the presence, made one of her ex-boyfriends afraid of his own apartment. Another house she lived in was said to host the ghost of an old man who would throw things from the bathtub. Could hauntings be passed down from parents to their children? One woman thinks so. She saw many spirits as a child, including a sinister man in a black hat and a girl who floated above her head. Now her young son seems to be experiencing similar paranormal activity. She says, Today we live in a house where there are footsteps walking around upstairs and knocking on the closet doors. My husband has woken up to someone clicking their tongue at the side of the bed. I've walked in on my four-year-old talking to the closet door and saying he's talking to his friend. I turned to walk out of the room and someone had very distinctly knocked on the closet door from the inside.  Her chilling story has continued until she had grandchildren. According to Linda, she lost one child four hours after it was born and her house contained something that liked to play with her husband's feet and annoy her dog. The entity in her home has even shown itself to her grandchildren. She said, That night I put both kids upstairs in the same bed to sleep. It came running down the stairs white as a ghost. Grandma, there's a ghost right by the fan on the dresser. They had never heard any of what went on in the house. I kept it quiet because they were small kids. I didn't know what to say. A self-described simple man from Florida has been dealing with something for over 20 years and it doesn't show any signs of stopping. While living in Kissimmee, Florida, the father of three began to be haunted by a series of knocks that would wake him up while he was sleeping. On numerous occasions, I was awoken by the sound of three knocks on what appeared to be a window or door, he says. I cannot remember whether I opened a door or not on any occasion, but I do know that it was a very real and convincing knock that was always in rhythm and always only three knocks. The story continues after even moving. We then built a home in St. Cloud, Florida. The knocks did not stop. After living in St. Cloud for a while, the dad woke up to a deep, cat-like scratch on his inner thigh. Then, when he moved to Kentucky, something extra weird happened. Quote, While standing in my bathroom door in my bedroom last night and watching a Little League baseball game on ESPN, I witnessed my work desk I have in the bedroom lift up about one inch and then drop back to the floor. This happened two feet in front of me. I did not get scared or jump up and down but instead stood there in disbelief. I then went to understand and was wondering what could have caused this other than what's been historically following me around for the last twenty years. Fortunately, not all stories of lifelong hauntings are dark. One Redditor actually has a nice story about their ghost. They believe that the spirit is watching out for them in every situation. He says, It's not annoying or frightening. It almost seems like it's protecting me. Every time I start to get involved in something I probably shouldn't, I feel a tug at my sleeve or a hand on my shoulder. Every time I tick someone off and at risk of starting a fight, I feel something pressed up against me, like it's shielding me or telling me to back down. When Weird Darkness returns, twelve-year-old Gabriel enjoyed playing games with an online friend. But when he borrowed less than two dollars for an in-game purchase from this friend, then ignored his friend's requests to continue playing, he found himself dying the most horrifying murder you can imagine. And despite law enforcement knowing who the murderer is, he is free now, and no one knows where to find him.  Coming up next. It is the dark and lonely road. You drive, you're tired, and falling asleep behind the wheel. The windows are down, the cool air blowing through your hair as you crank up the stereo. AC DC blares on the radio, and you're screaming out the chorus. Then, a set of headlights emerges from the darkness, and your night has become a nightmare. Welcome to Last Exit, an anthology of seventeen horrific tales where life on the road can sometimes take a dark and unexpected turn. Last Exit by Jason R. Davis, narrated by Weird Darkness host Darren Marlar.  Things in your life are in a constant flux. Money isn't easy to come by, not for you and not for your parents. And the problems this causes in your young life are just starting to register. Add to that a mix of hormones and social pressure, and what you end up with is a cocktail of adolescent angst. So you seek an escape. You go online and start playing a game, meet some new friends. What should have been just a fun way to spend an afternoon, maybe forget real life for a while, would end up opening the door for murder. Daniel Petrie was by all accounts a messed up kid. Even at the age of sixteen he had a history of violent outbursts so bad that his parents had sent him to several psychiatrists throughout Brazil. These sessions didn't go well and Daniel eventually stopped going to them, as well as school. There is some speculation that he was also institutionalized for a brief period around this time, but those claims have not been substantiated. No longer in school and unemployed, Daniel Petrie spent most of his time playing the online multiplayer game Tibia. There he would spend hours upon hours grinding levels against monsters, making trades and interacting with other players. One of these players was a local boy named Gabriel Coon. Gabriel was twelve and an avid player. While Tibia was considered a free-to-play game, meaning it didn't cost anything to initially play, it was loaded with microtransactions and its own in-game currency. The currency coins were used to buy anything from full characters to in-game pets. Coon and Petrie would play together on a private server set up by Coon. After one of their gaming sessions, Gabriel explained that he wanted to buy an item from Tibia's shop but he didn't have enough coins. He asked Daniel to borrow 20,000 coins, which would be the equivalent of $1.75 in the U.S., with the promise to pay him back in a few days. Petrie agreed, but when it came time for Gabriel to pay him back, instead, he banned Daniel from the server. This act filled Daniel Petrie with a murderous rage. That history of violence came rushing back into his present day and he found himself at Gabriel Coon's door. The boy was alone, but Daniel was able to convince him to open the door and let him in so that they could patch things up. Instead, Petrie began beating Coon and violently abusing the boy sexually. As he lay bleeding and sobbing on his bed, Daniel mocked him, assaulted and ridiculed the child's mind, ran to the only protection it had known. Coon stated that he would tell his mother what Petrie had done. This incited Daniel again, who unplugged Gabriel's computer and began to choke the boy with it, while again sexually abusing him. Once he thought Coon was dead, he realized that he would have to hide the body. Petrie tried to force Gabriel into a crawl space, but the door wasn't wide enough. Thinking quickly, Daniel found a hacksaw and began to cut at Coon's torso. Then, Gabriel Coon regained consciousness and began to scream from the pain. Mutilating his victim's body, excited Petrie, so he continued to saw Gabriel in half while he was still alive. He also carved symbols from Tibia into Gabriel's body. Still unable to fit the body into the crawl space, he left it there in the hall for Gabriel's mother to find later that day. It didn't take the police long to track down, Petrie. They uncovered his argument with Gabriel on Tibia. Daniel didn't show any remorse or any emotion at all really, as he recounted in detail to the horrified police just what he did. The only time Petrie reacted with anything other than contempt for Coon was when the police brought up the sexual assault, at which point he angrily lashed out at the insinuation of homosexuality. In a gross miscarriage of justice, the Brazilian court only sentenced Daniel Petrie to three years in a juvenile detention facility. He was released in 2010, and from then on, all reports indicate he just disappeared. No online presence, no lasting consequences for murdering a child. Petrie was by many indicators a sexual sadist. He was aroused at the act of beating Gabriel, sawing into him while he was still alive. A sadist enjoys hurting others, not always in a physical way, but the fact that Petrie raped his victim twice indicates it was the suffering that turned him on. His past history of explosive outbursts may also indicate psychopathy, as would him escalating a small slight of $1.75 to the point of murder. If Petrie is still alive today, it would not come as a surprise to find he has other victims. You can find information on any of the sponsors you heard about during the show, find all of my social media, listen to free audiobooks that I've narrated, sign up for the email newsletter, find other podcasts that I host, including Retro Radio, Old Time Radio in the Dark, Church of the Undead, and a classic 1950s sci-fi style podcast called Auditory Anthology. Also on the site, you can visit the store for Weird Darkness t-shirts, mugs, and other merchandise. 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Hey guys, welcome to another week in my life vlog. Sorry the sun is up. It's if it's loud or whatever I'm wearing a juicy shirt, and I have a juicy mug. This is insane. Oh, it's green. Okay. Let's take me guys Okay, me again. Oh my gosh, it's so bright Anyways today is my first day of classes of the spring semester So I am on my way to school right now and turns you to be there a little bit early It is so freaking bright. Oh my gosh So if you guys are new here be sure to subscribe I attend Zoe leadership college in Los Angeles, which is accredited through a southeastern University I am so excited for the spring semester if you guys haven't seen my orientation vlog yet. Go watch it I'm just so pumped guys. So I'm in my class today is also Dom's birthday her 21st, which is very exciting So anyways, I'll tell you guys when I get there. Okay, really quickly. Let's just talk about how actually insane. I am a truck is passing Okay, guys. This is how insane. I am. This is literally a juicy Gator Not mug thermos. No, I don't know. Okay. Well, anyways, all my playlist this morning. It's Travis Scott and JoJo, so I'm knocking myself enough time to get ready this morning. I was just blanking because I forgot I had to be there at 8 30 and not 9 So really was rushing not a peaceful morning. Not my fave totally my fault though. I Made it to class. I'm gonna chug the rest of my coffee I made it in like perfect timing So that's great Whoo, okay. Well off to my first day of class guys so good Really good 21 in the club. I have perfect my shades on. I had that mini skirt with my J's on. She literally went to bed Doesn't drink This audio is so bad. The Daniel fast right now. Yeah. Hi guys. I'm back I'm back. I'm back. I'm back. Move over ladies But yeah, no, so this is a smoothie that we're having and the thing is with this smoothie It tastes like Cheerios but not the honey-nup one. It just tastes like dry plain Cheerios 21. I'm like what's worse? A Shawn Jack Daniel? This is You can get like a Daniel fast approved meal. Here you just have to only get You know I'm back for my first day of classes Just had class did some like goal-setting and stuff and then we What happened went to blue bottle after extending it some coffee realize that I can have milk alternatives on the deal fast So oh milk is a go. That's amazing. Um, so anyways tonight cocoa come on tonight's Dom's birthday So I think we're gonna have a movie night here. I might get some computer work done to start some editing or something But I have like a few hours free right now, which is really good because normally it doesn't happen on like weeknights So I kind of like don't know what to do with myself But I'm very happy. I'm in New Orleans. Oh well without milk. It's the best thing ever at blue bottle It's my favorite coffee shop. Oh my gosh. I forgot I have my vegan chili that I meal prep last night So I'm gonna have that it's also I posted an Instagram I will show you guys this photo once I pull it up. Go check it out. If you guys have not already Comment that you're coming from this vlog, and I'll stalk you guys. Okay. Bye I decided to get to doing some stuff I have so many videos pre uploaded right now, but I had to just fix some videos for Jesse pennies So I just am like I edited two of them and I'm exporting them right this right I'm not sure why I'm saying right this second right now So if you guys can see here these two videos, I don't you can't see that but they're exporting so I can send them off to JC penny, which is good Just put or just lit some candles so the candles are going Update guys this I believe is all we have left of the stuff that you ought to need to shoot for the depop store We had like if you saw my last vlog So many clothes like it was covering this whole thing So they're all listed on my depop go check it out because we're selling like a ton of clothes And they're just like the best thing ever and changed in it to comfy clothes movie night attire I'm pretty sure that's what we're doing. I hope because I'm wearing this right now um If you guys were wondering this necklace as well as these rings are from the em-jewelers But I'm gonna go heat up some chili that I Oh my gosh that I meal prepped so one sec. I Am so hungry and so ready for this food. I am So ready for food guys. I'm so obsessed with this new jewelry like I know I just brought it up But I just love it so freakin much Awesome. What color should I do on my nails next? I'm over these and they need to get a feel like probably this week on Probably Friday. So what do you think I should do? Let me know in the comments below So I have my vegan chili I have water and I'm just going to get some editing done I'm gonna edit yesterday's vlog and just see how much make the most of this extra hour that I have Extra two hours. I don't know whatever what our plans are, but my classes like academic classes Don't actually start until tomorrow like we had like other things today Like I said, so I'm gonna really use this my benefit I have a little more of editing to do and I know we actually have time to work on class tomorrow But I'm just gonna get a little bit ahead So that's a good surprise guys. I know this is probably reading just you but I'm gonna make some coffee. It's like 645 But I am so tired. Yes. This is my third coffee of the day But it's fine guys. If you guys didn't know This is week one of the Daniel fast all of Zoe like my church is doing it and it's basically like Vegan plus stuff like there's like no yeast so you can't have bread no sugar Some people don't do coffee, but we do coffee because it's not like that doesn't make sense But the first few days are just like really difficult And then it gets better as long as I'm for sure But because I don't have like normal food or like whatever. It's just you get so tired So I'm making coffee at basically 7 p.m.. It's okay I also need to do my like reading of the day. We have these packets I'll show you guys on my show them my last one. So what's calling me? Okay one sec. I need Guys look at my tattoo it needs to be touched up so bad like that's just embarrassing, but it's okay like Perfect any dinner can this hurry up? All right, we're done Guys Casey just posted a video Casey must grace of course. I already thumbs it up Then I go Joe you have to get over here. No, he ran. So now we're sitting here to watch your video We love you Casey Best album ever I am currently doing some planning I'm on the Facebook page video planning just doing some updates and stuff just sending some stuff to my podcast team For new templates and stuff, which is you know exciting But if you guys want a whole video I know a lot of you guys have been asking about like digital planning and stuff Let me know but I don't really know what you guys like like what do you want to know?  Oh my gosh. That's a stuck in the suburb CD and then Jojo. That is so funny That's hilarious and then the skirts from the Luna 2 skirts We definitely went to Libby Lou right before this that was just wow. This is just so funny Now I'm watching a Zach saying interview with Jojo. I think I've probably already seen this but whatever Okay, guys my friends just left. We just had a little movie night for Tom's birthday I am going to pick up my outfit and like shower and take my makeup off My skin has just been feeling so dry and like lackluster lately Maybe it's because I haven't like self-tanned, but honestly like just not good just picking out my outfit for tomorrow It's gonna be very simple, but I will talk to you guys in the morning When I am probably getting ready Everyone it is like 845. I have to leave for class at oh my gosh my hair. I can tell right here. It's very messed up I just like threw it up today. It's not even supposed to be in a type on but anyways today's Wednesday I've class starting at 1030. We have a second-year teaching lunch and then normally I have tracks But we're gonna actually have two hours to just work on schoolwork because our classes actually began today My school is a little bit weird if you guys want to know more I have like two FAQ videos I don't have a cue but like my college experience what it's like how the classes go whatever so anyways I'm gonna take Coco on a little walk and Then I'm gonna head off to class. She doesn't even know. Do you want to go to a walk, Coco? I think she forgot what that means. So I'll show you guys what I'm wearing Okay, so I'm just wearing a black crew neck guys I've never worn like leggings in a crew neck to cause before or like a sweatshirt I've never worn leggings to class before so I guess I'm not a real college student, but My leggings are from aloe. I'm just wearing my Adidas shoes My normal jewelry that I've been wearing pretty much every day the M jewelers H&M rings are the in what am I doing? Rings are also the M jewelers When I go to class, I'll probably put on a jacket or something, but for now. Oh wait, it might be cold on the walk What am I thinking? Make a video live and then answer like a few emails and then I'm ready to go to class I have it's only night out there right now So I finished all about like quicker than I expected to but I'm uploading currently another vlog on my ipad bro Do you guys like Instagram feeds that are like super curated with like Like presets or do you like them that are just cool and they kind of flow like mine doesn't flow right now But I'm trying to make it flow without a preset because I personally am not like a super huge Precept person but that's because maybe I haven't found a preset that I really like like I'm trying to improve my Instagram But I just like don't know. I don't I don't know But a girl was really kind and maybe some presets, but I don't have light room Like I need to download all that and like figure it out But like to like explain like my vibe. It's so difficult and it's really hard to show So gotta figure that one out.  Oh, it's email time Updating on my classes when I was talking about how I was a little bit worried How's a little bit worried because I didn't know if I was gonna get in all the classes that I wanted to and I Really needed to to like be able to graduate on time essentially and not have to take my 18 credits like my senior year one semester and It got fixed so we're all good here guys very happy about that. I really like a thrift shopping after school today We have a prayer night tonight Because of the fast like every Wednesday. We have those so that's cool at like seven so like maybe I can go in between I don't know.  I really like Wednesdays I'm gonna really like today because we also have time to do schoolwork And I want to finish all of it because Keaton comes around this weekend Friday. It's pretty busy Monday I'm pretty busy in like Sunday. Yeah, so basically I have to finish it today So I'm spent together because you don't have phones.  Oh my gosh. This is so bad. I'll talk in a second guys my backpack when it's my passenger seat sets off my like Like people are my car all the time. It's so annoying Okay, I got to class early and I went on find my friends and some of my friends are at Starbucks So I'm gonna get a Starbucks. I'm probably gonna get a cold brew Which is fine. I know I already had coffee today. I feel like my cure of coffee gives me no energy though It's just like the habit of making coffee in the morning. You know, I don't know In the class of Angel Quentin is just starting to there's cold brew all over my hand. This is what I get for having two coffees Okay, Angel cuz knowing because it's like you were okay Angel and it's time for selling I've realized that you've been Angel Angel for like six months, but I'm over it and I need to go back So after school we're back getting lemonade. I'm so hungry. I don't even know what is fast-friendly here So you lead the way. I Have never been in this lemonade before.  I don't even want to see the other food. I don't want to see the salmon especially Okay, so we got oh my gosh Don one of my favorite recipes my mom makes is which is like one of them the ones that she makes is Tomatoes, avocados, mozzarella balls and something else is amazing. Anyways, that doesn't have bad But this is Daniel fast approved guys from lemonade amazing I'm down guys are plenty of big beer trip right now. Just made some coffee This is my third cup of the day. This is I like yeah, it's really bad But it's the only way I'm surviving right now. Okay guys. We're leaving Going to prayer night not vlogging there. Just giving you guys a little update. There's a really crazy wild drive over here traffic is horrible Point five miles guys took us ten minutes go point five miles And then I made a wrong turn and like literally made one turn it added ten minutes But I finessed our way out of that one by the grace that's on our life the grace of our life Maybe something illegal who knows one of the two. Okay, bye It's like midnight. We just got back from girl. Let's use modra. I dropped everyone off We got food. I Am so tired.  Oh my gosh. I'm so tired.  I'm from Grosso's moderate to vegan restaurants. It's fast friendly. It's gonna be I'm so sorry for everyone. How many times I say fast friendly really good morning everyone I don't even want to watch the clip from last night because I was so tired I woke up at 7 30 which because they make class a little bit later today, which is the latest that I wake up I think this is the combination of the Daniel fast and whatever I Was so tired waking up this morning was so hard. Um, I don't want to wear this jacket I need to wear the black one or maybe the tan. No, just wear the tan. I just really want to be comfy today, but Yeah, I'll wear the tan. Whoa, okay. I'm gonna go. I literally showered into my makeup in 20 minutes I'm gonna go and make some breakfast. I need to leave for class and like No, but I'm turning off lights and I are not even on I don't know why I'm exhausted Um, I have clean to leave for class Latest in like 30 minutes, but I kind of want to leave earlier so I can get there earlier Obviously be best. I'll show you guys what I'm wearing not my best outfit ever I just am exhausted and don't want to do anything. I have a black t-shirt my normal jewelry My hair is wet. I am Gia jacket. These jeans are from garage I actually love gorgeous jeans like these are some of my favorite I wish that they didn't rip at the end and that they were like seemed Because then they would be perfect And then I just have my a cheetah shoes I've been wearing. I need to wear like cute outfits But for class I just wear like the same stuff every day because it's like what is it? Is it comfortable or whatever and I need to I go to class most of the time So I need to like wear different stuff, but yeah I'm gonna make some breakfast and charge my vlog for like a second guys I don't know why I keep using my kitchen table instead of my office My office is like meant for me to like do the work, you know, but I've been just out here. Okay But they just texted us and said they want us there at 9 15 the interns Instead of 9 45. So I need to leave like right now. Thank God. I was ready I need to go put my coffee in it to go mug So I'm gonna put my stuff out here and then do that and then I'm back with my juicy Trouble mug.  Why isn't it there we go? Okay guys. Oh my gosh now. I'm driving. We've literally been sitting here for forever. I'm on my way to class Oh I know we're gonna hit a red light a second. Okay, so I'm on my way to class and I realized yesterday guys. I'm really not trying to think I'm so tired, but like not complaining.  It doesn't even matter if you're wearing like Sun glasses you just get blinded Anyways, my class is a semester or at this session. So we have session a and session b in um this semester Obviously, I have 15 credit like I'm taking 15 credits, but this session. I'm in humanities and stats I want to die like first off obviously not the most fun classes, but second off They are so tedious and time-consuming like I have like 10 assignments that are like 50 questions each for both of them and one of them I'll state is horrible. Absolutely horrible. I don't know how I'm gonna like I mean, I will I'll figure it out and have time for everything but like this is normally I can do my classes and they're not like it like these are just like Tidious like I took a math class that was like this and it just took so long for no reason like it was just so difficult It's not difficult. It's not even that it's like I mean, I'm not like great I've never taken it. I'm not great at stats.  So anyways, that's an update on my life Today I am heading in to school on Thursdays now. We have Chapel lunch and then like a theology Thursday thing. So it's not like any academic stuff. It's all like Cool, we're out growing this place that run right now. So we've been trying to like go to other places. So That's why we go to this other building too. That's across the street and that's where it's gonna be today Which is exciting. It's like we're always in the same room, you know, so something new Cool So my podcast episode with Dom went up this morning. I've been listening to it It's so exciting. I like I just love this episode But if you guys haven't checked out my podcast that I love you so much podcast check it out It's really conversational I do a little bit of the beginning for myself and then I always have a guest on we just talk about It's very lifestyle based, but I think a lot more of it is like a life-based Um, it I don't even know how to describe it if someone could help me come up with like a bio for it Let me know because it's like everything from like productivity to School like school finances work jobs career inspiration like some faith stuff like there's just so much in it Literally so much that I don't know what to say. So if you guys are good with bios or anything you let me know I'm I'll have it linked down below. It's like my favorite thing ever It's always linked down below and if you guys haven't joined the secret Facebook group You should do that because it's really fun. All right guys. I'm going in the class. Goodbye, everyone Whoo, I also just finished my coffee. What perfect timing, you know, oh We're here on Kinsey's camera check this out check this out Hey, hey Kinsey Kinsey Well, there she is It's still recording. I don't know turn it off. They got us all Chipotle. This is amazing God bless America. It worked out before this here. Yeah. Oh, yeah. We also did a karaoke earlier Really hard yeah, I'm actually let it if you can tell I led worship karaoke. Yeah, it was karaoke It's really exciting. So we're rewarding ourselves with some Chipotle Oh, wait, I didn't get a fork Walking to Starbucks is I'm gonna pass out. I'm so tired Okay guys, I am home from class it is like for something I have I was gonna say spin I have Orange theory at 445. I couldn't go the past two days try to go in four days a week for the past two days It just didn't work out like scheduling. So I'm going like every day for the next three days So I hit my four days this week But it's changed really quickly into workout clothes. I have so many black t-shirts somehow like I always am working out at orange theory of black t-shirts Tonight is gonna be a workout and homework night. Probably have so much homework to get done. We'll see what I do But I am about to head out I'm probably gonna get earth bar or something after like yeah I have dinner ready for me and no, maybe I won't get earth bar. I don't really need it But I want it. So we'll see what I'm feeling then I'm not gonna lie. I don't feel like going to work out at all I'm so exhausted But I know it's gonna make me like give me more energy if I go and I'm gonna be so happy that I want it It's a goal that I'm doing so I'm making myself go. It's also why it's nice to book classes for real So anyways, and I forgot my friend has called me I think I might just meet her somewhere and work on homework with her there So we will see but I'm proud of myself for making myself go even though I it's the last thing I want to do right now literally the very last thing I want to do so great My hair is crazy because I'm already on just finished my workout Christina is actually gonna meet me at nectar and we're gonna do some homework there So I'm probably gonna do like two hours of homework and then go home and then clean Yeah, let's kind of get my life back in order. I'm walking the wrong way, but I'm so excited for an actor guys. It's so good Oh, hey I'm so extra. I have my iPad My laptop I know This humanity class makes me want to die. It sucks so bad guys Anyone would yeah No way Probably through the arts Thank God not to me too. I was just really quickly just so you understand how okay, this is just my stats class This pretest alone is 50 questions Just look at this all these and like they're all gonna be 50 questions And they're like 50 like most of them are like three part questions So that's like 150 times all of this I want to die and it's Scott's Just want to just yeah, this sucks so bad. I'm home I'm quickly gonna do you look a 30-minute Cleanup of the house because King gets here tomorrow, and I just want the house to clean. Yes. I just just I did just clean it And yes, I'm cleaning it again Quickly gonna do some dishes Then I'm gonna shower salt and and do all that get back. It's a homework. It's just so fun I'm like really getting stressed out not realizing how much I have to do for the semester But it's gonna be okay. It's gonna be fine. Hey guys, I'm about to spend like the rest of the night in my room It is currently 750 I have no idea what time I'll be done probably I don't know we'll see who freaking knows I'm gonna get as much done as I possibly can because I have so much to do, but it's okay I'm gonna put on my productive or whatever the playlist that I like to put on When I do some work Okay guys I somehow did all of my stats stuff took a test and like six quizzes I don't know how I just lucked out.  I mean it wasn't just an hour. It's like much later now But I got so much on Anyways, I'm just gonna end today's vlog because I'm gonna start a new one in the morning a weekend on my life Keen is coming to visit space having her we were making some plans So I'm super excited for that But yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed today's vlog if you guys did let me know by giving a thumbs up subscribe Check out my podcast that I posted today. 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Okay, looky, dooky, dooky, dooky, dooky, do-do-do-do. I love you so much, but I'm gonna film you, okay? You okay? You okay, girl? Hi, beautiful. Heatless curls are just kind of the best. They keep your hair looking sexy, feeling sexy, feeling healthy, looking healthy, losing a finger. There's so many different techniques. It's such a little effort and that's why I love heatless curls. Today, we're trying 11 heatless curl methods. I don't know why 11, but it's an even number. No, it's not. What, bro? I just liked the number 11, so we're doing 11 today. And we're gonna slay the hair away. I'm gonna show you all the different ways of curling the hair with some different weird tools and some things with just your hands and you're gonna discover some new things, hopefully, that you might wanna try on yourself because heatless curls are the vibes, baby. So I did plan this video. I know. I never planned shit, but today I did. This is the best I could come up with. Okay, guys, just don't laugh. Don't laugh. Stop. Stop laughing. Stop. I'm determining that this looks fine. You know, I can do this. I gotta put this off a little further. I can't see. There we go. See you guys. I can do it. Ah, there I am. So what's gonna happen here is we're gonna do, hold on. So if you don't already get how I'm gonna do this, I am going to be curling my extensions with all different methods, probably like three on one of them and then we'll move on to the next one and I'll walk you through how to do them and then the hair will dry and then we'll take them out and we'll look at the curls and you can discover which ones you love the most, which ones you hate, which ones you wanna try on yourself. That's my hope. We got a couple things to start with. Those two, okay. I gotta get some water. Uh-oh. Where's my water? No. All right, and we obviously need some wave tech. So let's prep these b****. We got our wave tech here. We're gonna spray this down. I don't know. My wall is gonna be f***ing arrest after today. Just, you know, we start with damp hair when we do heatless curls, right? Excuse me. That's gonna be an issue. Should I tape it? I'll tape it so I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid of a little dark tape. Yeah, so look at that. All right, let's put a little wave tech in because it just makes all of our curly, wavy hair dreams come true. Oh, sh**. Okay, okay, chill. Oh, there we go. Okay. These ones looked the most fun and I actually have no idea how to use these. Oh my God, how do you use these? Oh, right. So with these is gonna give you a nice spiral curl, right? We're gonna take our hairs. We're gonna, right on there. And then we're gonna feed it through this loop. I've actually always wanted to use these things. I just had no reason to. But maybe after this, maybe I'll curl my own hair with this. Oopsies, oops. A little technical difficulty, but we're gonna get through this. Okay, there we go. So I'm gonna fish this b**ch through and then I'm going to hopefully pull all the hair. If I'm not doing this right, call me out, please. Okay, then we fish the hair through and we just pull it through. Oh, and we, oh, there we go. Okay, and we got the hair at the bottom. Boom, wait, let's do that. And then we just, and we, ah, yes. And we do that. Yeah, baby, work. Our first one is complete. These swirly swirl things are fun. Next up, we got foam rollers. I knew the name of that. I don't know why I looked at it. Don't come for me, please. People come for me enough online. I don't need any more. These just remind me of like a Barbie doll, which I love Barbie dolls.  It comes as a shocker to people and what I was getting at was that I loved Barbies, but I was like too afraid to admit it. And I really regret that.  It's not playing with Barbies enough. All right, with the foam rollers, right, we're gonna wanna take a section as wide as the roller. Makes it no knots and we are just going to start at the bottom and the roller way up. Make sure there's no hooks at the bottom, okay? So make sure that hair is all the way wrapped around. If there's hooks in here, it's fine, guys. Trying to do my best, but as you know, I don't do a lot of roller. What am I talking about? I don't know. It's really hard to talk and do hair at the same time. And it's my job, so it's like sleigh, but like also like, ugh, you know. Okay, here we go. This one can take a little bit of practice. Boom, done. That is the, oh, I missed one little strand. Whoopsies. Up next, we have these things. I know what you're thinking. You're like, what is that? That's so cool. I think that might have just been me actually, but they are cool. Basically, they look like this.  I've never used these things before and I'm very intrigued. I really like this. This is good for me. Great mental health exercise today. I'm gonna more like twist the hair around so it gets more wavy rather than like curly, like this. And then I'll make sure those ends are tucked in and then I'm gonna, whoop. I really like this one. This one's a 10 out of 10 for me already. I don't even care if it looks good. I just love it. I love it so much. Okay, this one is, I don't know what's going on in here.  Okay, let's go. I don't know how to open you. Ah, I opened it. These things, you do this. Okay, you just do a little, at the ends.  Maybe it's gonna be cute. All right, get those ends wrapped in there just like that. And we're gonna curly curl curl curl curl curl curl. Wavy all the way up to the top of the head. And then we're gonna just do a little just like that. And then a little twist. And there we go. Wait, that went better than planned.  Flexible rods. All right, wavesack wave foam. A little bit of water. If you're doing this to yourself, do it out of the shower. So you don't have to like dry your hair and then wet it again. I think that's obvious, but I don't know. And now we are going to start at the bottom of the hairs. We're gonna wrap the ends around. It really helps if your hair is wet. That way it just kind of sticks the rod. Make sure there's no hooks in the ends. And then we're gonna wrap, do the little wrap wrap. Oh God, the hair is falling out of the thing at the top. All right, we're gonna do a little, a little wrappy. Oh no, oh no, no, no. Please don't fall out. Once you're at the top, come on, baby. Stay up there.  All right, once you're at the top, you just gotta twist it and tie it. And it stays. Can you see that? Our next utensil is a straw. It's really up to your own discretion, but I'm gonna show you how I like to use it. We're gonna start at the top and we're just gonna wrap the hair around the straw, like this, that it twists as we wrap. I think that gives it the most prettiest curl way of possible. Oh wait, I did it upside down. Just kidding. Let's do it again with the bendy side down. All right, once you get to the bottom, let's fold the straw and let's take a pin and we're just gonna pin the hair like that. Oh, nobody told me it would unravel. We're gonna also pin the hair at the top because this unravels and we don't want that. A straw. All right, I've seen these things all over the tickety, rickety, tockety, or dockety.  So it comes with a clip. Just pretend that this is on the side of her head and we're gonna wrap the hair around just like we did with the last one. And then we take our clip. This one's so freaking easy and we just clip her into place. Look at my experiments. Okay, please stay. Okay, it's okay. I can do this. I can do this. Please extensions just work for me. It sucked time, baby. Yes, you heard that right. All right, let's take a section and we are going to just put this on here and we're gonna wrap it around.  If you wanna use a dirty sock, that makes the curls stay way better. Okay, at the top, before this falls off, I'm just gonna make a knot with the sock. I was so close to this thing up here. All right, we got our sock in and that's how it should look. Beautiful.  Like really messy. Did somebody say Velcro rollers? I heard one of you. Usually we use these on dry hair but it's also okay to use on wet hair. These ones are super, super easy because they basically just stick to your hair and it's super convenient. We're gonna start at the bottom.  Like honestly, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Round two. Might take five rounds, but we'll get there. We're wrapping it and we're going up and honestly, these babies are a dream because they're just so sticky. You know, like a good Velcro is just so sticky that it just stays on itself like that. Okay, so there we go. I did it. The sock is just a little too heavy for this. That's gonna have to do. Okay, I have time for like one more. Two more, I'll do two. We're gonna do a simple pin curl because this requires no tools. Just your hands. Actually, it's a lie. I did just lie because you do need something to pin the pin curl. I like to use flat clips. So all I did here was just take my two fingers, do like that and I'll wrap it around your fingers. This is what they did in the 1920s, right? To get that flapper girl. We're just gonna pin that right on the top. So it looks like that, nice and flat. And why not have the finale be something major? Something groundbreaking, like? Yes, you guessed it, a braid, I know. It's my most creative one today. I had to give the braid some credit, God, guys. The braid has served us and it is gonna serve today probably too. We did 11 different heatless curls. Boom, so I'm gonna let this dry. I'm gonna come back and I'm gonna do an unveiling of every single one of these and it's gonna be so satisfying and so fun and we're gonna see what we like, what we don't like, our personal vibes and maybe you might try one of these on yourself. I'll be back. It is time to take the curls out. They have dried, I think, I hope.  Let's start off with the first one I put in which is this thingy. I don't know what it's called. This one is so much fun already to take out. I literally could play with these things all the time. So I just pull this thing down and then boom and there it is. Wow, that is really curly. I feel like it's not doing that much right now on the head. It's on actually extensions but on a real head doing a lot of these would look so stunning. If you put more hair into this it'd be way less tight and springy like it is right now but I really like this one and it's super fun and super curly. This is definitely gonna be one of my favorites. I just like the way it went in the hair and the way it came out. It's kind of like a sleigh. Okay, now on to the foam rollers which is more of a traditional thing to do. So let's take this baby out.  This one is definitely a ringlet curl. This will definitely drop but right now it is quite bouncy and it's like really curly.  Okay, now it's kind of like our new age pin curl type thing. This mechanism that is like rubber that folds over. So let's unravel this and this one is giving something. I'm not obsessed with it, you know? These things are so tiny. If you use your whole head like this it would take you three million years. I don't know if I would like a full head of these curls. Like, it's just not my vibe. This, it's giving ugly. That one's an ant for me.  I had a feeling this one was gonna give ugly too because this is so reveled in there. It's so tight. These things are so small. It just is kind of giving us like a weird shape. You know what I mean? Like when I pull on it, it's giving irregular. It's giving strange. It's giving like not what I wanted it at all. I don't know. That one's kind of an ant for me too. Like not my baby, not my vibe. And it would just also take forever to do to your hair. And I don't want to take three hours to do that to every single strand of my hair. It would just be so annoying. I'm not feeling this one. Okay, next we have the flex rod. I think I got that one correct. Oh, this one was a bay. It's coming out so easily. It's so easy to use. I like using this. I like the way the curl came out. It's definitely more of like a wave as pattern. It's definitely tight, but that comes with the territory when you're wrapping the hair up on a tiny little rod. They come in bigger sizes, but this one so far is like my favorite. I just love the way that looks. That is what I want. The straw. Ooh, ooh, ooh, this straw. Obviously, this straw is tiny. So you're gonna get like crimped waves. Like look at, when I take this out, look at how crimped that hair is. It is. Brrr, doom, brrr, doom. If you want to take your time into your entire head with it, I think it would look sick. And then if you brush this out, oh my God. I do like this one a lot.  So we're taking it out. I am automatically obsessed. I think it's a great size for doing beautiful waves and curls in your hair. I love the way this came out. It gave me that perfect like soft curl to the hair.  And it's so easy. It's like all you have to do is wrap two sides, go to bed, wake up, unravel it. It's one of my favorites for sure. I love the way this came out. 10, 10, 10, 10, 10s across the board, baby.  I liked applying it because it was just like easy to do and it's like you can just find it around your house and anybody can do it. I love not having to spend money on things, you know? I also love spending money. I unraveled this one and actually it was pretty beautiful. I mean, it wasn't like exactly what I was looking for, but again, we're working with such little hair, you're gonna get like the most intense wave and curl possible. So this one actually was giving me energy and life. If I did like six sections around the head and did this with a lot more hair and went to bed and slept on it and woke up and unraveled it, it would give you really, really nice waves. It'd be a little bit tighter than say the TikTok thing, but it would still be really beautiful and I like this one. The Velcro roller, I love a Velcro roller. So I'm undoing it and I love the way it looks. This one's gonna give you like a volume curl and if you brush it out, it's gonna give you like that more finger wave style wave. This one has a lot of volume and most of the other ones don't. So I like this one. I like the way this came out. I've used them obviously before and I enjoy them and they're really easy to use because they're Velcro. Now we have our two boring ones. Sorry, I did the boring ones last. I know. Pink curl is actually looking slay. Pink curls are classics. It's just a beautiful like easy way to do your hair without using really any tools besides a little clip at the end, but those are pretty cheap and pretty easy to find. So a pretty reliable curl. That is very old fashioned style, but beautiful. And it gives you that bouncy curl but it's also more flatter, more of that finger wave style I'd say. And I really like it. You know how to braid looks. If you don't, then hair it is again. I love a braid. A braid is a great way to just get beautiful waves overnight, so I feel like people, you know, don't even think about that sometimes. So I wanted to include it. You don't even need tools. Like really just braid your hair and even tease the bottom with a comb or a brush and it'll stay all night. And in the morning you'll have beautiful, sexy waves. I love braids for waving hair or doing heatless wave curl methods. It's perfect, it's great. So this is all 11 methods next to each other. This is what we got. My personal favorite is that TikTok thing. And also that, that shrinky sleeve thing.  I would definitely use those in my own hair. It's really fun. Well, that is all the techniques I have time for today. I hope I helped you. I hope you've ended up trying some of these out yourself. They're honestly so easy to do and literally anybody who with no hair experience can do it. And honestly, heatless styling is the vibe. If you would like to check out my hair care line or my hair color line, you can do so with the links right down below or go to xmodohair.com. That is all for today guys. Thank you so much for watching. Don't forget to live your extra life and I'll see you next time. Bye.


Hey there friends, thanks for checking in today We're looking at a new release from Springfield Armory called the Hellion. The Hellion is a 5.56 bullpup now the bullpup takes the action in the magazine and moves it behind the trigger and the grip Which makes a very short firearm you're looking at 28 and a quarter inches Overall length it has ambidextrous controls throughout even the ejection can be moved over to The left side takes a little bit of tooling, but out of the case Everything is ambidextrous certainly left-handed friendly. It has a 16 inch forged steel barrels one by seven twist It is a beautiful looking and shooting Bullpup and I had so much fun with it. I took it to the range. I set it in the optic. I was able to Fire this no problem. It was so much fun. Let's get into some of the features And I think you'll like what you see. Let's begin with the stock. It's a five-position spring-loaded stock You hit this lever right here, and it will back it up to wherever you want it. I like it fully extended But you will see below Those notches there tell you where you're at with it The bull release is right here and the charger is over here now What's cool to charger is that it is ambidextrous, so I just pull it this way if I want to charge from the left side I can push it the other way charge from the right side So I'll go ahead and pull this back and lock that bolt lock that bolt back and It is now locked back over here is the bolt release once again Ambidextrous all I do is take this lever here push it forward I use my thumb there and that releases the bolt and that will also put the charger underneath the pick rail Super cool. I've got a 20 round mag pull P mag in there All right five five six here is the ejection port. Well, this is the left side ejection port The actual ejection port is over here All right, but as I mentioned that can be switched over it has a flip-up rear sight You can see that that will not be in use because I have an optic on here We're gonna talk about that, but it does have a pick rail that goes completely across And I mentioned that the charger could go either way. So this is on the right side Here is the front sight. It is spring-loaded All right, you hit the button. Where is it? Here it is. You hit the button and that will Put that into a sight position so you could use that front sight and the rear sight if you're not running an optic the handguard is an M lock handguard, okay polymer handguard and You can see it has slots on the side Down below a couple down below over here. So you're gonna attach your accessories However, you choose it does have a BCM gunfighter mod 3 grip All right, nice texture to it feels good and then the ambidextrous thumb safety right here. All right and fire Safe and we'll notice that that is on Both sides one of the things that bullpups Well, they are should say it is so common on bullpups is that the Trigger is a bit stiff, but I have not found that on the hellion You know that it takes this long arm to go to the actual trigger of the standard rifle This is not that bad. Now. I did show clear here, but this flat-faced trigger Feels really crisp and I was noticing when shooting off-hand at the range that I did not have an Issue with the trigger that I have on other bullpups, honestly So I was happy about that. It does have a four-prong Flash hider, right? We'll get a look at that It's got a cool look to it and an adjustable gas system right here You can move it or just keep it on the normal state or move it depending on what ammo you're running Or if you're running a can it does have QD mounts throughout all right You can see one there also has a fling mount over here And there is the rail all the way across Super nice completely ambidextrous beautiful looking and shooting Bullpup take a look at this side Very similar looking, but I also moved the bolt back. I want to show you once again I've got it extended out to the right side all I have to do is take this lever and It will close the bolt and it will move that right there the magazine release is Behind the mag well, okay? All you do is push that in and release the mag I mentioned the 20 round mag 30 round mags work no problem all right nice set up there and then the The sights and the overall look and feel of this is super cool Of course, I mentioned ambidextrous thumb safety and here it is over here We'll take one more look at that trigger because I did Just run the bolt and we'll see right there flat trigger Nice break a little heavier than your standard rifle trigger But that's to be expected with a bullpup when you move the whole trigger assembly Forward along with the grip and you move the action and the magazine backward for an overall length of 28 and a quarter inches The optic that I have here is a night force and x8 One to eight power with a 24 millimeter front lens. It's a very nice optic I certainly enjoyed it now sighting it in was no big deal You've got your turrets over here and over here, but over here you've got illumination and What is really neat when you move this to a one power? It will serve as a red dot. Okay, so you'll you'll you'll see Your crosshairs you'll see all the markings that are etched in the glass But then it will serve as a red dot But as soon as you zoom in it illuminates That oval circle that surrounds the dot. I'm sure there's a word for that, but Nonetheless, it certainly works really well now. I shot this during the day. It wasn't low light condition or anything like that I didn't use it, but it does have various brightness settings right there Wherever you want it much like any other illuminated Optic or a red dot or anything like that, you know, make it a little brighter make a little dimmer Primarily don't need it too much during the day, but it's a short to mid-range Optic that certainly works well with the Hellion Hellion bullpup was based off of the VH to bullpup I'm told that's a Croatian military firearm that has a very good reputation. I'm really not sure I don't know much about the VH to but I did get to know the Hellion quite a bit and I'm certainly excited to have it I was excited when I first saw it is really interesting how Short it is, you know, I say 28 and a quarter inches and that's what it is But it's not until you look at it and feel it and put it up to your shoulder so you realize how short it is It's a nice shooting bullpup. I'm certainly happy with it. I look forward to doing more with it The MSRP on it is $1,999 now if you price out other bullpups You may realize that it's not that bad of a cost overall and we'll see what the gun store sell it for Of course, you could decide if you're gonna run an optic or not or use those flip-up sights They come standard on the Hellion, but it's a fine firearm. I could verify that I took it to the range and shot quite a few rounds through it It's certainly performed just as expected super excited about it. I can't wait to get it back out again already Hopefully in a little more warmer environment, but nonetheless, I love the bullpups I love this Hellion and I think it's going to be a blast in the future If you like videos like this, please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button Thanks for watching and you guys be safe