we're in the right place for it which is a very spooky house yeah have you got a story that suits the surroundings I do I do I actually there's a story um that I think is one of the best ones I've ever told so I'm setting sting some pretty high stakes here but uh for reference I I told this one live last year in Texas to a soldout crowd at the Paramount Theater and this story had a a big reaction to it because the twist at the end is something else and it's house themed so
uh in 200 4 there was this guy named Mitch who was going to a university in Louisiana and he's a senior and there's this girl in his class named KLA who's also a senior and he just loves this girl he he wants to date her more than anything and you know he's tried several times to to you know woo her but she's not that interested you know she's kind of playing hard to get but she he could tell there was something there maybe maybe she likes him and uh eventually she does kind of acques and
say okay you know like let's go on a date you know and they hit it off you know and Kayla hit it off you know they're an item and they end up graduating and after graduation they get married and by 2006 Mitch and Kayla have bought their actual you know white picket fence Dream Home in Louisiana and you know life was great you know they they loved their careers they both of them were very intentional about spending time together on the weekends and really making you know their time together as a couple very important and
then by 2007 so they've lived in this new home for a year now they have have they welcome their first child uh their daughter and then two years after that which puts us in 2009 they have their son and then then they're done at that point they got their girl they got their boy and it's like life couldn't be better you know Mitch loves his job his wife loves her job they they had this this thing where every morning the the dad would uh he would sneak into the kidss bedroom and he'd like spook them
to wake them up you know it was a playful thing and they always had you know family game nights on the weekend and and and the Mitch and Kayla made a point to still have those romantic dates you know anytime they could they always got babysitters to to spend time together so this is like a it's the American dream in many ways you have this this this young family living high school sweetheart white picky fence two and a half kids dog that's it so it's 2009 and uh Mitch is at this this little dream home
and he's watching football he's sitting on the couch watching football and you know it's just like any other day and as he's watching the game there's this lamp that's in the back right corner of the room this this non-descript you know you know Target lamp you know it's a red lamp and Mitch he's he's seen this lamp a million times it's in his house and he's watching football but at some point he he notices something odd about this lamp and he looks over at it and for some reason the lamp itself not the light bulb
but the actual physical lamp like the base was blurry the rest of the room is in Focus there's plenty of light in the room but the lamp is blurry and so Mitch he's he's you know he's looking at the lamp he's he's rubbing his eyes to see if there's something in his eyes but still the lamp is is blurry he goes back to the TV not blurry you know Mitch has good eyesight this doesn't make any sense and so Mitch finally you know he's he's worried about this you know there something wrong with me and
he stands up and he walks over to the lamp and as soon as he gets up to it it's still blurry and he touches it still blurry and he's like okay I don't know what this is about but he does the typical you know kind of dude reaction like whatever the male medical problems yeah it's like I'm probably having a stroke but you know whatever uh so he he turns around and he goes back to the couch and just does his best to ignore the still blurry lamp and so he's watching the game he's watching
the game he's glancing periodically but he's mostly focused on the game and then at some point towards the end of the football game the lamp changes it remains blurry but you know out of the corner of his eye he sees it moving around and he looks and the lamp with having not been interact no one's touched the lamp at this point but the lamp is now turned upside down which is you know it's not possible it's flipped upside down and now it's blurry and so now now Mitch is he's looking at this lamp thinking okay
huge problems here there's something wrong I I I might very well be having some sort of medical emergency but for some reason that Mitch just could not place he couldn't bring himself to call the doctor I mean this is a this is a situation where you call the doctor there's something wrong and he knew it but he didn't do it instead he just could not stop looking at this lamp he's he's not watching the TV he's just staring at this upside down blurry lamp and at some point that day or that evening uh his wife
Kayla and his two kids they come home and the second she comes in you know Mitch kind of breaks out of his his his fixation and he thinks I should tell Kayla about this lamp I'm having a medical emergency I should tell her but again he doesn't and in fact he quickly thinks to himself I can't tell her I'm I'm going to pretend this didn't happen he kind of forgets about the lamp and he goes and he sees his wife and his kids and it's a normal night she she is none the wiser that he
spent the day staring at a lamp that's blurry and upside down and you know when Kayla came in the lamp was not blurry and upside down she's not experiencing this so that night regular night you know they put the kids to bed and you know Kayla and Mitch they go to bed too but then after Kayla had fallen asleep Mitch is wide awake you know he can't sleep and there's something telling him to go down and look at that lamp and so Mitch gets up and he sneaks downstairs and he goes to the couch and
you know the light is not even on at this point but even in the darkness he can tell it's still blurry it's still upside down and he sits on the couch and he just stares at the lamp and all night Mitch sits on this couch and stares at this lamp in absolute silence and then in the morning Kayla gets up she comes down it's it's you know during the week so it's a work day she comes down and she she finds Mitch on the couch and she's like what are you doing and he kind of
breaks out of it and he's like oh you know I wasn't feeling well last night you know he's lying to her I wasn't feeling well so I came down here and in fact he tells her you know what I I feel so sick I I can't go to work today and Kayla's like you've never taken a day off from work ever and you don't you don't seem sick to me like what's happening and he's like no I just just not feeling up for it and so Kayla's like okay but she's she's thinking there's there's there's
a red flag here you know but she doesn't know what it is and so ultimately Kayla and the kids they leave for the day and Mitch stays home and he just stares at this lamp all day he is staring at this lamp and by the evening when Kayla comes home this is like 8 10 hours later when she walks in the house all the lights are still off ex except for the red lamp and she sees her husband who now is not breaking out of his trance he's sitting on the couch and he is absolutely
focused on this lamp and when she walks in she's like what's going on with you no reaction Mitch is fully locked in on this lamp he's completely unresponsive and so Kayla is like putting it together that oh my God something's obviously wrong and so she she grabs the phone and she calls the doctor to be like what do I do about this and she's at the same time kind of yelling for Mitch on the couch there's no reaction she's shoo her kids away you know go upstairs you we'll deal with this and so as this
is happening Mitch who can kind of tell you know his wife is on the phone with the doctor eventually he can't even hear her anymore she disappears completely and he's left with just this lamp and the lamp begins to change for a a second time now in addition to being upside down and blurry the lamp begins to grow inside the room and so as it's growing it's taking up more and more of this field of vision until this lamp is so big he now is basically consumed by the lamp and it's at this point that
he begins to feel his blinding pain in his head and he doesn't know where it's coming from and then he hears a ringing in his ears and then all he hears is just people screaming everywhere and it's total darkness the lamp is gone and then he opens his eyes and he looks around and he's surrounded by a sea of people that are all looking at him and he's on the ground it's broad daylight he's not at his house anymore and he's looking around at this crowd of it looks like college kids and he's looking for
his wife and his kids he can't see them and he stands up and he's he doesn't know what's going on and as he's yelling for his wife and kids Kaya he was yelling for his wife and kids a police officer comes charging through the circle and he grabs Mitch and without saying anything he lifts him up a grown man and just runs with him to his police car and the whole time Mitch is like I don't know what's going on here his head's still like you know he's still got pain in his head he has
no idea where he is physically he has no idea where he is and he gets thrown in the back of this police car obviously there's some emergency happening right now and and the cop without saying anything he hops in the driver's seat and they they start speeding down the road and as they're driving Mitch just starts saying Where's My Wife and Kids what's going on and the police officer was like sir you just hit your head I'm bringing you to the hospital and so ultimately the police officer brings Mitch to the hospital and they end
up you know he gets treated by the doctors and nurses but he discovers what's actually happened Mitch was a senior in college and he got tackled by a football player and he hit his head on the ground and he was unconscious for a fraction of a second like 10 seconds or something and in those 10 seconds his brain constructed an entire life with a wife with kids with the white picket fence the house none of it existed he never had a wife he never had his kids they they're not real and so he realized what
had happened when he was at the hospital and he had to grieve the loss of people who never existed and it wrecked his life he did this huge Reddit post this ask me anything where he tried to tell people what it's like to have basically lost your entire family who don't exist and he said to this day he still has dreams where his little son will come running around the corner and he's perpetually 5 years old he you know and then that was his life and so it it wrecked his life and it never existed
it was just a figment of his imagination dude pretty crazy right wow yeah have you reached out to this guy given that you've had so you've given this story so much attention yeah and what's he like no he doesn't want talk about it he did his AMA and that's it the dude wants to disappear he goes to therapy for this I he basically gave permission but doesn't want to be a part of it I mean he's trying to cope and he'll be about our age now or something maybe mhm yeah I mean for him I
mean h how do you go about dealing with something like that because the to other people it's like well it never really happened you know come on but for him it was like years that in his brain was implanted like an entire history an entire family I mean that's real loss we'll get back to talking to Bing in one minute but first I need to tell you about Fountain life Fountain life is the best One-Stop shop for preventative medicine that I've ever found I went and got a full body MRI heart angiogram brain scan dexa
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