Disembodied Voices and a UFO Encounter
Recalling the first two of several experiences I’ve had with the paranormal
I’ve always had a great love for horror, cryptozoology, and the paranormal. As an elementary age child some of my favorite shows were things like Tales From the Crypt and Goosebumps. I was the proud owner of the Tales From the Crypt comics and all of the Goosebumps books.
Dracula, Jaws, and other scary/gory movies were also favorites. I had an interest in dead things which I think helped when I had to take biology classes later on in my school life and had to dissect frogs and such. Other kids would think it was gross so I was always the one in my group that had to do the dirty work.
Once, when I was no older than six, a chipmunk had somehow managed to get stuck in our basement. We think it was hurt by a mousetrap then crawled underneath a pile of rags near the washing machine to die. My parents didn’t find it until over a week later and that was only because they were searching for the source of the foul odor that had permeated the basement.
The dead chipmunk was apparently stuck to the cement floor and the stench was absolutely rancid. So much so that my father, who ended being the one to have to clean it up, gagged and retched as he spent over an hour scraping it up and…
