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Thank you. much for making the show possible. Tonight's first encounter comes to us from Maya, and Maya's experience is called Pets, keep them away.

Maya says,

Hi Nick, I live in Finland, and I have always been sensitive to energies, and I think spirits like me for some reason.

From time to time, I get a strong feeling that I shouldn't go somewhere or do something.

I think someone is trying their best to warn me, but as you know, you can't always decide where you go

or what you do. That's how I find myself in situations, thinking that this is exactly why I should

have stayed home. Maybe one day I will tell you more about these experiences,

but for now, I want to tell you another story. Almost 20 years ago, my husband and I lived in a

tiny apartment in a moderately new building. I tell you this so that you know that no one had

died in this building, or in our apartment. One summer night, we were laying on the bed and watching TV,

when I noticed that the mattress went down from the end of the bed,

like someone was sitting on it.

I pointed to the mattress and asked my husband if he was seeing the same thing.

My husband calmly said that it happened all the time, and I was shocked.

What do you mean all the time? I asked him, and he said that there seemed to be someone sitting on the

mattress almost every night. I sat up, pulled my legs as far from the edge of the bed as I could,

and I just stared at the mattress. After a while, something left,

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