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In this episode of Scary, the host narrates two distinct paranormal encounters. The first involves a person who, after moving away from a religious upbringing, experiences unexplained activity in an old apartment, including moving furniture and toys activating themselves, eventually leading them to confront a spirit in their child's bedroom. The second story takes place in Kenya in 1978, where a US Embassy attaché recounts a fortune-telling session with a local shaman. Though initially dismissed as a tourist swindle, the shaman's specific prediction regarding a physical deformity in a future child comes true years later when the narrator's second son is born.
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The strings light up and a few notes played. I was so startled that I got a response that I grabbed my car keys and I left the house.
00:09:26 · The narrator describes the moment a spirit responded to their challenge by playing an electronic toy guitar.
Suddenly I hear my husband's voice downstairs saying hello. It startled me because I didn't hear the front door close and there was no reason for him to be at home at that time.
00:11:23 · The narrator recounts hearing their husband's unmistakable voice in the house while he was actually away at work.
He spoke to the interpreter who in turn told us that we had a child with a deformity.
00:17:39 · A shaman in Kenya predicts a physical abnormality in the narrator's family during a fortune-telling session.
The delivery room nurse immediately brought to our attention a large hemangioma on his elbow, a bulging collection of blood vessels.
00:18:46 · Years after the Kenyan encounter, the narrator realizes the shaman's prediction was accurate when their second son is born with a specific medical condition.
In this episode of Scary, the host narrates two distinct paranormal encounters. The first involves a person who, after moving away from a religious upbringing, experiences unexplained activity in an old apartment, including moving furniture and toys activating themselves, eventually leading them to confront a spirit in their child's bedroom. The second story takes place in Kenya in 1978, where a US Embassy attaché recounts a fortune-telling session with a local shaman. Though initially dismissed as a tourist swindle, the shaman's specific prediction regarding a physical deformity in a future child comes true years later when the narrator's second son is born.
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