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My Frightful Story RABBIT
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[00:00:00] Welcome to this bonus episode of Frightful, where I'll be sharing something personal that has been on my Patreon for a few months, but I thought I'd share it with you tonight. In the Frightful podcast, I regularly bring you strange stories of the maar, bizarre, shocking, and paranormal, and so far all of it has happened to other.
[00:00:29] But tonight I thought I'd share something that happened to me. My own frightful tale.
[00:00:46] Hello, I'm Peter Laws, the host of the Frightful Podcast and also Creepy Cove Community Church, the Horror Church podcast, and our curious past. Podcast. Yeah. A YouTube. Many. Anyway, . Um, I've [00:01:00] been asked to share a little bit about a spooky experience that I've had. I've had a few unusual experiences, I guess.
[00:01:07] Uh, but one that comes to mind is when I was a teenager, my friends and I would go hunting for ghosts and we would hop over the fences of abandoned buildings. And when we were able to drive cars, We would go further afield. And I remember one night we kind of broke into a national trust property somewhere called, uh, Dunbrook Castle.
[00:01:33] I think it was National Trust. It was a very dramatic place, and we went there and tried to do a seance in the middle of this spooky old castle. It's very atmospheric, but the one that comes to mind particularly is one night when my friends and I jumped over the fence of this old kind of, well, not an asylum, but a kind of sanitar.
[00:01:53] For a sanatorium for, uh, ex miners in the northeast, which is where I was [00:02:00] from, where I grew up. And so we ran into this place and we were hunting for ghosts as ever. But at one point we moved around the corner at the back of this old spooky building and a few of us just saw a strange figure. But it wasn't a ghostly figure.
[00:02:20] It was more like the silhouette of a bizarre kind of humanoid animal, almost like a rabbit, almost like an alien. I dunno what the heck it was, but it was this very stark silhouette, and it was standing on top of the building, like right on the peak of one of the roofs, and it was starting to crouch down and turning its head to look at us.
[00:02:44] It was really terrifying, to be honest. My friends and I just spun on our heels and rushed out of there and sprinted home. And I remember that I whipped out my diary and I wrote a very kind of in depth description of what had happened. And even though my [00:03:00] heart was pounding and I was terrified, I did start to go back.
[00:03:03] I wanted to go back to see what was there, but I didn't see anything again. But I just had this thought of this kind of tall black figure being there anyway, years. I was at university and I became a Christian. That's a whole other story, but it was, uh, a surprise for me to become one of those. And I went to, uh, see a church minister who suggested that I might find it helpful to pray through all of the different things I've ever done.
[00:03:36] And literally I sat with him and a woman and I just shared everything I've ever done that I've been ashamed of. It was quite an emotional couple of hours, and I shared all of these things and afterwards I really did feel quite a weight and come off me. But the minister said, I'm really pleased that you did that.[00:04:00]
[00:04:00] He says, because when I saw you, uh, the other day, I saw this black figure standing with you. And now that you've done all of that, that figure is gone. I had a little shiver at that, of course, and then randomly a week later, I was feeling loads better. Encouraged. But a week later I happened to be performing some kind of middle of the road singing in a Blackpool nightclub.
[00:04:29] I know. Yeah. Just making money as a student. And I was up there singing, I think it was Tale Who About It? By Billy Joel. Billy Joel. And that night in the hotel, they gave me a hotel room. I was lying in. And as I was lying there, I just lucked up and I saw this black figure in my room walking towards my bed, and it could have been a hypnogogic hallucination, you know, half asleep or whatever, but it was really quite frightening.
[00:04:58] But then it just went, and [00:05:00] I've never really experienced that since. I'm totally aware and open to the fact that that might have just been. Dream, or we may have mistook something when I was younger, although that was, it was so distinct on top of that rooftop. I don't know. It's, it's fascinated me ever since.
[00:05:18] And, um, it actually became the inspiration for my second novel called Unleashed, which talks about a tall black rabbit that comes to usher people towards death, , and, um, I, so I got a book out of it, but also very stark images that I've never, ever for.
[00:05:46] Well, there you go. My own frightful tale. Short, but not particularly sweet. But you know, there was one thing that I forgot to mention in that recording for Patreon, which I added in the comment section on Pat. [00:06:00] Toward. And so I thought I'd share that with you. Now, remember when I said that I was invited to go to the church to pray with the vicar and someone else that afternoon?
[00:06:09] Well, the night before, I had very strange and vivid dreams about a wolf like dog prowling around outside my bedroom window and looking up and putting its poles on the wall to look up at my window. And that was strange. But then the next morning I needed to get to this prayer meeting via a. And so I got on the bus and on the way, I was just getting the most bizarre sensations.
[00:06:35] I remember vividly my scalp feeling itchy, weirdly itchy, as if there was something moving through it, and as I was sitting on the bus alone. I was convinced that some insects had fallen out of the top of the bus or something and fallen into my hair, that I'd walked into a spider's web perhaps with lots of spiders in it.
[00:06:54] But no matter how much I shook the hair out, there was nothing there. And I also kept getting these [00:07:00] crazy blasts of imagery that would come to mind in a flash. Just really strange stuff, including the image of a mini eyed. Which is something that I'd seen in a 1980 William Hurd film called Altered States, which is filled with a lot of strange and frightening religious imagery.
[00:07:21] Put it this way, it was a very unusual experience, and maybe it was all just psychosomatic, or perhaps I was just nervous about having this unusual prayer meeting, but I'd never felt that way before or since. Well, what do you make of this strange little story of. Well, if you want to get in touch and connect with me about this and indeed other frightful stories, then you can follow me on Twitter at rev pizza laws or search for the frightful podcast page on Facebook.
[00:07:48] But the best way to connect is via my Patreon at patreon.com/pizza laws where you can get ad-free episodes of. Both this show Frightful and Ur past, but [00:08:00] also a lot of extras, including an exclusive frightful and UR past cup. Just something to keep you warm on these cold nights. Well, and Peter Laws, and you've been listening to Frightful.
[00:08:18] Goodbye.
