And the Hello and welcome to the Strange Matters podcast.

Here are Strange Matters we discuss anything just outside the norm, ranging from the bizarre and unexplained to the supernatural and paranormal and everything in between.

I am Sean and I will be the host of this episode.

For this episode we will be discussing a number of personal paranormal stories that people have sent in to share with us.

And for a while we've been asking our listeners to send in their own creepy and spooky stories and experiences.

We've gotten a pretty good number of pretty strange and unnerving stories that people were willing to share with us.

And these tales include ghost, hottings, mysterious sightings, and just a whole bunch of other unexplained phenomena.

So for this episode we have picked a select few of the bunch that we have received that we felt were particularly scary and entertaining.

And so today we'll be sharing those stories with you listeners as well.

So let's begin with our first story.

To start off this episode, we will share a story by one of our listeners,

Carlos Baltz, who also goes by his nickname, Aylone. He's also the brother of Christops, who helped us with our Chernobyl episode.

So here is his story.

It is not one of the long stories, and I'm afraid I won't be able to go into much details as I was just four or five when it occurred.

Now then, how better to start this?

Well I suppose with me going to bed.

Imagine any typical Soviet style bed couch with a container underneath

the bed part. It's in the corner of their room with the pillow at the corner. There's a huge

typical Soviet style wardrobe just to the left, so my brother pulling a prank

like what is about to happen was not possible.

So here's what happened.

I'm half asleep and moving around in the bed. I reach out with my hand

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