Today's podcast will feature three stories that are all about people who appeared to have a paranormal encounter.

The audio from all three of these stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel and has been remastered for today's episode.

The links to the original YouTube videos are in the description.

The first story you'll hear is called The Friend, and it's about a girl who gets lost hiking,

and while she's lost,

she makes contact with a very strange companion. The second story you'll hear is called The Midnight Man,

and it's about a woman who wakes up in the middle of the night and sees a man just in her room.

And the third and final story you'll hear is called From the Field, and it's about a man

who gets into a freak accident while riding his motorcycle, but no one can explain the series of events

that happen next. But before we get into today's stories, if you're a fan of the strange,

dark, and mysterious delivered in story format, then you've come to the right place because that's all we do,

and we upload two, three, even four times every week. So, if that's of interest to you,

please replace the Follow Button's 2026 calendar with a 2025 calendar that just has a six glued over

the five. Okay, let's get into our first story called The Friend.

Okay. Okay, let's get into our first story called The Friend. On April 29, 2001, 6-year-old Haley-Zega was on a hike with her grandparents in a very rural part of Arkansas called the Upper Buffalo Wilderness Area. For an area to be deemed a wilderness area that means no vehicles of any kind can come through there,

making it incredibly remote and incredibly wild, hence the name.

They had taken this trail that brought them up to the top of this bluff that was about 200 feet higher than where they started,

and they got to this

incredible overlook, and they're looking down over this river, and at some point at about 11 in the morning, they turn around to head back. On the return trip by about 11.30, they're making their way down, and Haley spots a waterfall that's off the side of the path, and she wants to go to it. She asked or grandparents, can we go check out this waterfall? And the grandparents kind of scope it out. And it seemed like the only way they could get down to view this waterfall would be by literally climbing a tree and descending over this cliff. And it was something that the grandparents just did not feel comfortable letting their granddaughter do. And so they told Haley, no, we need to keep going.

We're not going to go check out that waterfall. And Haley, being a six-year-old, she really wanted to see this waterfall and she wanted to get her way. And so she threw a tantrum. And she sat down on the trail and she said, well, if you're not going to take me to the waterfall, I'm not going to move. You're gonna have to carry me. And the grandparents are like, no, we're not gonna carry you. You need to be a

big girl. I need you to stand up and start walking with me. And the grandparents were like, no, we're not going to carry you. You need to be a big girl.

I need you to stand up and start walking with us.

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