I'm Heidi Wong, an artist, poet, and creator, and if you've seen my TikTok, YouTube, or Instagram, you'll know I'm obsessed with horror movies.

And every Monday on my new podcast from Crime House, Twisted Tales, I'll take you deep into the real-life events that inspired the world's most terrifying blockbusters, and the ones too twisted to make it to screen.

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I opened my eyes.

Thank God I didn't have sleep paralysis,

but I looked at him and only the moonlight was showing on his face and it was it was not him.

...it was not him. I'm Romanian, I was born in Romania, came to the States.

Lots of people in Romania believe in the supernatural.

They believe probably in more Eastern medicinal things than Western energy work like Reiki and all this stuff.

So I kind of grew up around it too.

My mom used to tell me that she would come into my room and kind of like see me

looking at paintings and laughing to myself, like I had an imaginary friend.

My mom later on had her own business, elderly, like it was like a foster care home from long-term living.

I experienced ghosts in that house.

Usually just even when I walk into someone's house, I can feel the background of it, if there was some energies or spirits there from their family or previous people that live there. My story, it's hard to tell it to someone who doesn't believe in the spiritual world and the other side.

This time I did have someone with me that I feel like I encountered the worst of it.

This was my boyfriend at the time. We're still friends to this day, and this is something that him and I continued to have a connection on because

it was such a powerful thing that happened in our lives.

It started on Valentine's Day about five years ago.

He wanted to surprise me with renting out a hotel stay by the beach.

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