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Odd Trails

Episode 96: Praying Mantis

Odd Trails

Cryptic County

True Crime, Arts, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Stories in this episode:

- My Experience with Something Paranormal, by MrTeajunkie
- Saved by an Angel, by username-way-too-lon
- Home Invasion, by Lonely-Teaching-1913
- 2ft Long Praying Mantis, by randomthrowaway2373
- Someone Spoke to Me from My Empty Basement Last Night, by Arthur Golanski
- My Stories, by Theo-Logical_Debris

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Step inside the jury box and don't miss an episode of the new series of the

0:05.0

number one true crime podcast, The Storyteller, Naked Villainy. Two decades on

0:10.9

from confronting evil. Did you kill your ex-wife, Brenda Page? Evil has been

0:16.5

confronted by the law. Did you kill her? No. For the first time in UK history,

0:22.6

you'll hear the full murder trial. I understand that you've reached a verdict. The

0:27.8

Storyteller, Naked Villainy, out now. Odd Trails contains adult language and

0:34.4

content. If you have a story to share, send it to stories at oddtrails.com.

0:39.0

Enjoy the show.

0:57.8

You know your life is just a dream. Don't share it.

1:27.8

This is long, but I have to get it off my chest. Why do I want to tell my story? I

1:35.6

have Stage 3 cancer and was given six months to live, five years ago, and I'm

1:42.0

still here. If I can pass on any advice before my time comes and help someone,

1:47.6

then great. I'm not religious and when this event happened, I didn't believe in

1:53.2

the paranormal. I was around 17 or 18, living with my girlfriend who was six months pregnant

1:59.9

with my son. We went to bed on a normal evening. Nothing strange had happened, and in fact

2:06.7

we were very happy and looking forward to getting the baby's broom ready over the weekend.

2:12.7

I was sound asleep and as a heavy sleeper, nothing wakes me up. Until my girlfriend woke

2:19.2

me up to say there was someone in the house. It was around 2 a.m. I assumed that someone

2:27.2

had broken in, so I jumped up to grab something to protect us. I then saw a figure with

2:34.2

no defining features at all, hovering at the end of our bed. It was shimmering with

2:40.6

a gray outline filled with a white smoke texture. I came within two feet of it while jumping

2:47.9

up and became face to face with it, so to speak. I froze for a second as it moved toward

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