I'm going host, Nick Ryan. Tonight's first experience comes to us from Stephanie,

and Stephanie's experience is called

The Woman in the Mirror.

Stephanie says,

Hello, I recently discovered your podcast and have been enjoying the stories.

It's nice knowing I'm not alone with my experiences.

It's important for me to provide background before diving into this experience.

I'm a natural-born psychic and medium.

This is a gift that runs in my family dating back to my maternal great-grandmother,

and possibly even further.

She taught me how to read the tarot, and my mom is a psychic, and my sister and her daughter

are psychic too.

I live a normal life and do not profit off my gift. In fact, only a handful

of people know this about me. I have a family and work full time in the cyber industry. If people

at my work knew this about me they'd probably

question my sanity. I've grown up seeing and sensing spirits and energies.

Unfortunately I've been visited by spirits, demons, and shadow figures my entire life, but I've also had beautiful experiences too.

Back in 2017, my family and I traveled to Peru for vacation and to visit family.

We rented an Airbnb in Miraflores Lima.

It was newly renovated and quite nice, but there was something off about the energy in the rental.

One night I had what I call an out-of-body experience while I was sleeping.

This is similar to lucid dreaming, but for me, when this usually happens, a spirit is trying to contact me, and I can't quite

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