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The J Files

Welcome to the J Files, Andy's blog for all things "spooky" and paranormal. She's been writing it since she was around twelve years old, and stopped now that she's at Infinity (let's be real, she is definitely writing future blog posts on pieces of scrap paper in her room.)

Here you'll find blog posts she's made over the years that pertain to other characters - who knows, maybe even your own. But when you're talking about paranormal incidents, the only evidence is hearsay- and they always say.

If the incident isn't well known, well, someone could have always submitted a tip to her.

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The Yellow Springs Crushing

by Jasmine / April 15th, 2014 | 452 Comments

This post has been a long time coming- so sorry I'm late- school has kept me super busy.

I've been wanting to write about this for a while, and now that the scene of the incident is about to be demolished, I finally had to go. I'm sure many of my longtime readers are familiar with this case, it gets brought up a lot here. The title speaks for itself.

On the outskirts of Yellow Springs, Ohio, there's a dilapidated little house with yellow paint chips flaking off the outside. The place is a dump- and from what I heard from the neighbors that were willing to talk to me- it always has been. The yard was rarely mowed, their daughter was always wandering around the neighborhood, it was a mystery that such a respectable looking, middle class couple would let things go that way.

Until one spring evening, when their daughter speed walked out of the house, clasping her little brother's hand. She allegedly walked calmly next door and called 911. When the authorities arrived, they were unable to describe what they'd seen. Even the woman I interviewed myself told me she'd never seen anything like it- they looked like they had been crushed, like cars at a scrap yard.

The house itself of course had been cleaned after the incident, and it's been many, many years since nature has reclaimed it. Nonetheless, I stepped into what had once been the kitchen in the hope that I could find something- anything- to report. Time did the most damage, and now all I have is hearsay.

One of the neighbors mentioned the rumor that they had been targeted by gang members- word around the neighborhood was that the husband had a bit of a drug problem. He owed some money, maybe. And yet their sixteen year old daughter and their young son were untouched! I suppose you could say that those gangsters had a conscience, but I'm skeptical. That same daughter also didn't seem to be very upset about what had happened.

She seemed "impeccably calm" in fact. Shock, perhaps. Nobody suspected her, and why should they? It would take an absolutely massive amount of strength to do something like that to a human body. Bones splintered into pieces like toothpicks, flesh almost vacuum sealed into a pressed shape- unless there's something more to her, I don't think we should suspect her. By all accounts she was a normal girl, weird, but normal. A neighbor even told me it seemed like she had trouble carrying her brother sometimes as he got bigger.

So what did happen? While there is some structural damage to the house, I've been told that it's recent. This wasn't a clear act of nature, unless we're really bending the laws of physics. It's not a known phenomenon, like spontaneous human combustion. The daughter was far too scrawny, and the son was five years old- I suppose he could be physic- but why his parents and not his sister? Because she took care of him? There wasn't a bruise on that boy's body.

How were two grown adults crushed so perfectly- so much so that nothing around them, even the floors, were damaged? I came here to find the answer, but all I'm left with is questions. And the only person who might know left a long, long time ago.

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The Chicago Bolt

by Jasmine / December 16th, 2019 | 126 Comments

This post today is going to be a little different from what I normally write about, but don't worry it's an interesting one!

Honestly, it just sounded like a freak thing to me -- I didn't pay any attention to it, until one of my kind readers wrote to me.

There may be more to the Chicago Bolt than meets the eye.

Let's look at the two students involved in the incident: for the sake of anonymity, I'm going to refer to them as Charlie and Catie.

Charlie and Catie were best friends up until that year. My source didn't tell me much about Catie, but he had a lot to say about Charlie. Anyone I asked about him did. He was a smart, confident boy, that nobody really wanted to be around for long - except for Catie. He was adopted by his parents when he was three, and all sorts of strange things happened around him. He always got extra snacks and soda's from the vending machines: he always won at games, and anyone he decided he didn't like? Always ended up in a humiliating situation. The only reason anyone bothered to hang out with him was because he somehow never got caught doing anything.

Catie, who was one of the few people that could stand Charlie, was on the swim team. He always went to their matches, and she always won. I guess you could call it a coincidence, but I heard that at practice she could never get close to her match times.

So these two start arguing constantly, then they stop talking to each other entirely, and then they start fighting again. Many of their classmates seemed unsure if they were just friends, or if they were dating. Or if they had dated. They were together constantly from Kindergarten onward.

The last time they ever met, well, you all know the story. They met outside of school, and tragedy struck.

So, why am I posting about this "friendship" drama? Well, it turns out that Charlie confessed!

When he woke up, he immediately asked to speak to an officer. He was "incoherent and agitated". I wasn't able to get his exact words - but he claimed it was his fault. Everyone dismissed him, including the officer he talked to, and even Catie's own parents.

Ever since then, Charlie's behavior escalated. He was in and out of juvenile detention, and mostly kept to himself outside of his outbursts - until he finally left town.

The Chicago Bolt, an act of a nature, or one of the messiest friendship breakups of all time?

Charlie is long gone, and Catie will never be able to tell us her side of the story.

I, myself, am still a little skeptical. Extra snacks and being a supernatural good luck charm does not necessarily mean he can summon lightning. Then again, they were inseparable, she might have known just the right thing to say.

Edit 1/23/2020: Hello, Jasmine here. I would just like to remind everyone that while conversation is ALWAYS encouraged, I will be DELETING comments with too many personal/identifying details that affect those involved. If this continues, I may have to DISABLE comments on this post! Thank you