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Welcome once again, and thank you for listening.

I'm your host, Nick Ryan.

Tonight's first submission comes to us from Melinda, and Melinda's experience is called

Ghosts and UFOs.

Melinda says,

Hi Nick, I've been listening to your podcast for the past year now, even though it creeps

me out sometimes, I always come back for more.

Growing up, my mom always told me that ghosts exist.

I grew up listening to all her ghost stories because she lived right next to a cemetery

as a child.

I always love to hear these stories, but I thank God he never let me see these spirits

that my mom and even my brothers talked about.

I knew even at a young age I'd have a heart attack if I ever saw one.

In sixth grade, I would check out books about the paranormal from school, and my dad would

talk about aliens and the possibility of them.

You could say that I was open to the paranormal from a very young age.

When I was around five, I saw something in the sky.

This was in the early 2000s, so there wasn't much known about flying droids.

The closest thing that I knew to them were remote controlled helicopters that my older brothers

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