This is a real ghost stories online extra.

Hello, I heard you guys on the podcast.

Funny enough, but I was having in the shower.

And I was like, well, I've never told my stories.

So let me just give it a shot.

So my name is Mario.

I live in Jolia, Illinois.

For as long as I could remember, I've always had paranormal things happen to me.

I've always been very open-minded, just the whole world in general.

But this story takes place.

This story that I have, I have really, really many of them, but this one particular is when

it kicked off a lot of stuff.

The year was 2015.

It was on a Tuesday morning, and I had braces.

I remember that day because I went late for, I was a senior in high school, and I was going in late for an appointment for my orthodontist.

And I woke up with the sign of my little brother slamming the door in the front, which indicated that I'm the only one in the house because all my other family, they go to work at five or six.

So the minute I hear a door slam, that's my brother going to junior high and getting ready to go on the bus.

So at that time, we just, my cousin gave us a dog that they brought from California.

And it was, you know, adjusting to the house.

So it was kind of wild at first, but it started getting tamed the minute we started giving the dog love.

I was still not connecting with the dog yet.

It was still like an animal to me.

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