The Night Something Tried to Take My Son – Ep. 198
Odd Trails
Andy & Brandon Lanier
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
- Hat Man, Not Sleep Paralysis, by Savannah
- Seeing Through my Brother's Eyes, by warmapplepie0
- Ironing Ghost, by Kayla
- Mind Portals, Ancient Beings, and Shifting Realities, by Aegis_Auras
- The Night Something Tried to Take My Son, by Vivian
- Another World, by Brainvr124
- What Did My Pets See? by Nesse
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Odd Trails is a true paranormal podcast. |
| 0:02.7 | If you have a story to share, send it to Stories at oddtrails.com. |
| 0:06.8 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:10.5 | Forget facts. |
| 0:12.3 | Forget logic. |
| 0:14.3 | Forget everything that seems real. |
| 0:17.2 | You just trust. |
| 0:21.6 | Believe. Believe. trust believe you know You know your life is just a dream, don't you? Hatman, Not Sleep Paralysis, by Savannah. |
| 1:03.7 | Please take care when listening to this story, as it mentions attempts at suicide. |
| 1:09.4 | I just finished episode 150, and the Hatman's sighting that wasn't part of sleep paralysis |
| 1:15.5 | made me want to share my story. |
| 1:19.0 | I'm in my early 30s now, but this happened between my sophomore and senior years of high |
| 1:24.6 | school. |
| 1:25.8 | Back then, life was rough. Issues with my dad, my mom's sick |
| 1:31.4 | most of the time. I kept to myself and sank deep into depression. I was already a believer in |
| 1:38.9 | spirits after a poltergeist experience when I was around 11 or 12. So when I began seeing this |
| 1:46.3 | hat man, I just tried to ignore him. He wore a black top hat and a long trench coat, |
| 1:54.0 | open to reveal a suit. I didn't know about the hat man growing up. I always thought it was a spirit attached to me. |
| 2:03.9 | At first I saw him near my home, every day on the bus ride back. He stood off the road, usually in |
| 2:11.2 | fields. When I mentioned him to a friend on the bus, I realized no one else could see him, so I kept quiet. |
| 2:20.3 | For months I saw him constantly. Then he began appearing in my home. I'd be in my room |
| 2:27.3 | watching movies, doing homework, reading, and he'd stand at the door, but never coming closer. |
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