Uncanny Encounters

Strange Familiars

Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Michelle shares stories of her encounters with ghosts, the hatman, an unhuman hitchhiker, UFOs, and a possibly-demonic fireball.

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0:00.0	I heard a noise that sounded like a rumbling, like a big engine revving up.
0:09.6	But it started getting louder and louder and louder until it was deafening.
0:14.2	Like I couldn't hear anything else.
0:16.6	All sounds were drowned out.
0:18.6	And it was coming from the back bedroom, from my bedroom. I was peeking
0:23.6	down the hall, trying to figure out what would be making this, like, god-awful sound. And suddenly a ball
0:31.9	of flaming white light shot out of my shut bedroom door.
0:38.6	The door blew open, and this white light shot out of it,
0:44.5	and it shot through the living room,
0:47.5	and then into the TV, which actively sparked.
0:53.8	They claim that our eyes were just be treated a slightly different than what they are.
1:01.0	We talked to see things about a world. Welcome to Strange Familiares.
1:26.4	Alison, you're back. I was barely gone. Allison, you're back.
1:28.7	I was barely gone.
1:30.3	Thank you for coming back.
1:31.9	If you want to know the truth of it, I did offer to help last week, but we were in a little tip with each other.
1:37.4	And you were like, no, it's fine. I've got it.
1:42.0	On tonight's episode, I'm... On tonight's episode On tonight
1:47.2	On tonight's episode, I'm going to be talking with Michelle.
1:51.4	She's got stories about ghosts.
1:53.8	A Ouija board where she contacted not a ghost but an alien.
1:57.5	Hatman, an unhuman hitchhiker guy, UFOs, and a demon fireball.
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