Hello and welcome to mini episode 286 of Real Life Gold Stories, and I have three spooky

stories for you today and the last story comes from March the 27th, 2023, and story number

one comes from Raquel. I've had a handful of unexplainable experiences as a teenager,

mostly from my time living with my parents, and often find myself thinking of them from

time to time. Sometimes I just can't believe that I was so lucky to have them in the first

place. Today I decided to share a story with you that I still have a hard time processing

and I get spooked every time I think about it. My parents both worked the graveyard shift

at their jobs, so I was always home alone with my younger brother at night. Since my brother

is 12 years younger than I, it wasn't uncommon for him to ask or want to sleep in my room

with me. One night while we were sleeping, I remember being woken up from my sleep from

a very strong, putrid smell. It was almost as if it was wafting in the air and near my

face. Since I was dead asleep, I still had my eyes closed and called out to my brother

in disgust, thinking that maybe he broke wind, but once I opened my eyes, I realised he

hadn't responded, and it couldn't have been him as the smell was still present. Finally

the smell subsided and all I could do was sit there in the dark thinking, what was that

smell? I have never in my life smelled something so gross, I imagined it must be what the smell

of death would be. Fast forward to the next night, it was the same scenario. I was being

woken up in the dead of night to the putrid smell. This time around I remembered feeling

so annoyed by this that I didn't bother to open my eyes or get up to investigate, but

instead I yelled out, fuck off I don't have time for this, and turned the other way and

went to sleep. By the third night it was different. I was woken up to a beautiful aroma

that I had never smelled before. Half asleep I remembered sniffing the air as deeply as

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