The Shattering Silence

It was 2024, a quiet Wednesday morning around 11:30, and Kevin and I were working in our bedroom at home in Paris, Tennessee. The sun streamed in through the windows, casting a soft glow across the room. As usual, we were both focused on our laptops—Kevin at his desk in one corner, and me on the bed across the room. The house was still, save for the sound of typing and the occasional click of a mouse.

Then, without warning, a deafening crash shattered the silence.

It sounded like every window in the room had exploded at once—an enormous, echoing blast of glass and chaos right in the space between us. We both jumped to our feet in panic, eyes wide, shouting, “What was that?!”

For a moment, I couldn’t breathe. Our house is old, and my first thought was that it was caving in. The sound had felt physical, like something had torn through the very structure of the home. I looked at Kevin; he was just as stunned, frozen in place, scanning the room with disbelief.

But there was nothing.

Not a single shard of glass. No broken objects. Nothing was out of place.

And yet, we had both heard it. Loud and clear. The sound had not just startled us—it had shaken us.

There was no logical explanation, no rational cause we could point to. Only the haunting echo of something we couldn’t see or name. We’ve talked about it many times since, trying to make sense of it, but we always return to the same conclusion: truth is often stranger than fiction.

We may never know what—or who—was trying to get our attention that day. But whatever it was, it left a mark on us both. A moment of pure strangeness in an otherwise ordinary morning.

Sometimes, the world reminds us that not everything is meant to be explained.

It was the beginning of winter in 2021, and we were settling into the second year in our new home—an 1854 Antebellum mansion in Paris, Tennessee. After moving from Florida, my husband and I were embracing a quieter, simpler lifestyle in this small northern town. That weekend, we were especially excited because his daughter was visiting for the first time to see our new home.

We took the whole family out to a local restaurant for dinner, then spent the evening driving through the town, showing her the charm and beauty of our little community. After a stop for dessert, we returned home and gathered together to share stories and enjoy each other’s company. Later, Kevin, his daughter, and I decided to watch a movie upstairs in the master bedroom, which was warmer and cozier than the main living area. We popped some popcorn and headed up, leaving the rest of the family downstairs.

As we settled in, music was playing softly in the background. Kevin, wearing his new cowboy hat, was laughing and dancing a bit—playfully showing off for his daughter. That’s when something incredible happened.

A grapefruit-sized, shiny white orb suddenly appeared near the ceiling, directly above Kevin’s head—as if it had entered the room from the attic. It hovered there for just a moment before beginning to circle around him. I was stunned. I’d never seen anything like it. My phone was lying nearby on the bed, and I instinctively reached for it and managed to snap a picture just before the orb reached his waist.

His daughter saw it too—and immediately began screaming in terror. She was completely overwhelmed and frightened by what she was witnessing. Kevin hadn’t noticed the orb at first, but when he looked down and saw it circling him, he was just as stunned. The orb continued to spiral down his body—making about four revolutions—before it reached his knees and vanished, just as suddenly as it had appeared.

The whole experience was surreal. I was so captivated by the sight that I didn’t even shout. I was simply observing, taking it all in. To witness something that clearly—so close and with such intensity—was rare. It felt like a moment of real, unexplained interaction with something beyond the ordinary.

Kevin’s daughter, however, was deeply shaken and too afraid to sleep alone in the house that night. We let her stay in the adjoining room off the master bedroom for comfort. Even now, Kevin and I still don’t understand what triggered the orb’s appearance or why it chose that moment—when his daughter was with us—to manifest in such a dramatic way. It's a mystery that continues to stay with us.

Rudely Awakened

 

So, it was February of 2020, we just moved to Paris, Tennessee., Kevin and I and our son and his family. It was cold, and our new home was like an icebox. I had never lived in a home with 10 fireplaces before, and here I was. I didn't know how to start a fireplace with gas. It was truly a frightening experience for me.  Kevin was still working in Tampa; Florida and we got here just two weeks before Covid hit America. Kevin stayed a week here helping me and the kids unpack and settle in. But work was waiting for him back in Tampa. So, he headed back to Florida to return to work. Our bedroom was upstairs and we had the whole upper floor for our living quarters.  There was so much to do cleaning an old, dirty Antebellum mansion. Each day was so busy with arranging furniture, paining to freshen the home up and unpacking boxes. By the time I went to bed every night I was exhausted. My son and his girlfriend would light the fireplaces every day and keep the house toasty warm. We would shut them off in the evening while everyone slept and use the electric heating system to assure there would be no fire hazards while we slept. 

It was the third day after Kevin had left that I had worked till late in the evening scrubbing floors, doing laundry and dishes, and burning boxes outside in the firepit. I had to make myself stop; it was overwhelming the endless chores to accomplish on a daily basis. I climbed up the stairs to the second floor to collapse into bed. I yelled downstairs to my son to please shut off all the fireplaces before he went to bed.  I took my shower and was out like a light the moment I went to bed. I was awaked that evening by someone pulling very hard on my leg. I was in such a deep sleep and the pulling on my left leg was so strong I just knew it had to Jason as I came up out of my deep sleep. I felt his hands firmly holding my foot and now just yanking on my leg to get me to wake up. I felt an urgency because he was pulling my foot so hard! The first thing I thought was "OH NO, there's a fire, he forgot to shut off a fireplace" he's desperately trying to get me up!  and I sat up in bed screaming, "OK, OK, I'm up, Jason, stop, I'm up." As I sat up to yell at him for not turning off the fireplace, I saw I was completely alone in the room. The room was dark but there was no one standing at the foot of the bed! I never heard him leave the room. Who was pulling my leg? What was happening? I know what I felt! I sat there for a moment in the dark. Then I reached over and turned the light on. I didn't see smoke or hear anyone shouting. The house was quiet. Very quiet. The dogs weren't barking, what was going on here? I got up and walked downstairs to see where Jason was. His bedroom door was closed, so I pushed it open to see if he was up, he was fast asleep! 

I walked back upstairs now. I knew this was no dream, I felt hands on my foot yanking on my leg. I knew I was dealing with a spirit. I immediately got angry. How dare some spirit touch me as I slept and how dare they cause me such alarm, waking me the way they did! I said out loud in the name of JESUS, you may NOT touch me, I command you out of this house now! I bind you from entering this home again by the power of JESUS that dwells within me. And at that, I laid back down to go back to sleep. I was mad!

I never knew who it was that woke me in such a strange fashion that night, or why. I didn't want to know either. The next day I called Kevin to tell him about my ghostly experience. He was mad at me for sending the spirit out and binding him in JESUS name. He said, Teri, next time something like that happens, let me at least try to get a video of that happening before you cast them out! I replied to him, that won't be happening Kevin. I don't entertain these unwelcome entities, if they have the power to hold tightly onto your leg and stir you from a deep sleep, while yanking your leg that hard, these are not spirits to be played with. These are dangerous creatures and need to be put out as quickly as possible. 

Once again, in our new home I knew we would have visitors, as spirits never just visit once. I knew we would have to stay diligent and be prepared for attacks in the future. These old homes have a lot to be dealt with. I'm ok with casting out spirits. I don't live in fear. No weapon formed against me can prosper and I know who I serve is so much stronger in every way as anything I might deal with in this life. I can't say this enough, truth is so much stranger than fiction! Just make sure you're on the right side of life and standing in truth when danger strikes! I put on the whole armor of GOD, daily, you'll need it while living in the land of the living. This universe is stranger than what you can imagine.

The Circular Colorful Craft

 So, It was April of 2019, we were living in Lakeland FL and Kevin and I had just gotten home from a trip out of town. We were sitting on the Pool deck in the back of the house and discussing all that had gone on over the week.

I was facing Kevin in a lounge chair facing North and he was sitting in a lounge chair facing South.

I was talking to him when he sat straight up in the lounge chair pointing South and said, "hey, did you see that flash of white light", I said "No, where", he pointed again to the South, and said over the tree line there, I turned to look at what he was pointing at and he said, "My GOD Teri, I think I just saw a very fast moving UFO", it was a huge white flash! I said, "Oh wow, I wish I would have seen that", It sounds amazing! But as I was looking in the direction of where he was pointing, I can honestly say I saw nothing. 

So we both starred out into the South sky for about 10 minutes, hoping to catch another glimpse of the white flash craft, and I turned my chair to get a good South view with him, but we saw nothing. So, we kinda gave up looking and then we started talking again about what we were talking about before the incident. 

Maybe 5 minutes went by and as I was looking up and talking I screamed out loud, "Oh wow, Kevin look!! He saw what I saw at the same exact minute. We both sat straight up and saw a huge circular craft fly over the Lanai just 500 feet above us, going at an incredible rate of speed! What a beautiful sight to behold, it was magical! The circular craft had a full spectrum of colored lights going in a circle motion underneath it, they were simply beautiful. I had never seen anything like that before. I had heard reports of craft like this but for Kevin and It was our first experience with it. And, we were together!!

We were stunned to say the least and elated at the same time. 

We were so happy to have seen a craft like this together. 

It was moving so fast that if you counted to 4 it was over and gone that fast. It was heading due west of us. It just dissapeared out of sight.

We look back on that experience together and we are so glad we both saw what we saw. 

We tried to find out who else may have seen it by calling the Local "Lakeland Linder Airport" to see if they had a sighting on it, but they said no, nothing was reported to them.

That's common when trying to validate sightings. So we shared it with the local MUFON Field Investigators and had a great time trying to find out where the craft headed after it left us.   

It's always an honor seeing an extraterrestrial craft. It's so exciting, it took us hours to calm down after we saw it. 

I could only wonder what species may have been in it, it's all so exciting to me. 

I have said many times that Truth is stranger than fiction, and this night proved it once again! We truly are NOT alone here on Earth. I can't wait to find out someday who are visitors actually are!

I'll keep you posted if I ever do 

Abduction and Pain

So, we just got back home to Florida from Alien Con 2019 in LA. We had a wonderful power packed event there. The trip was a non stop 6 hour flight. The time change had Kevin and I delirious, as we'd been up till very late then up extra early to accomplish everything we had on our agenda.

The three hour time change was difficult for some reason this trip, more so than ever before.

Well, here we finally were, in our bedroom, throwing down suit cases and running for the bed!

The room was immaculate, just as we had left it. We'd been showing the house all month as it was listed for sale with our real estate person. We were getting used to living with very little mess anywhere.

The bed was made in picture perfect readiness with clean sheets and plumped up pillows. 

We were so tired. We both slid in under the covers!

We didn't say a word to one another, except for the usual, "Love you, sleep well" comments we make every night to each other. We both fell fast asleep.

 

The next morning as I awoke, my hand hurt so bad it was like I had had a needle stuck into it all night. Literally, you know like when you go to the hospital and they stick you with a drip, then three days later your hand is hurting so bad you contemplate ripping the needle out of your hand yourself! That's what the pain was like. I was in a serious amount of very real pain. My hand was so sore. My arm was tender. It felt exactly as I stated.

I opened my eyes and Kevin was still in the same position he had fallen asleep in. I was extremely groggy, but that was to be expected I thought. We were both so tired the night before.

I started to tell him how sore my hand was. He tried to roll over to acknowledge me. He was very stiff. He then said to me, "something isn't right here"!

It was then we noticed the bed was no longer where it should have been. The top mattress was way off the bottom base by at least 8 inches towards my side of the bed. My side of the bed was hanging off the base!

It was way off the base. We were both stunned. In Seven and a half years that we have been together nothing like this had ever happened before. How could this be, we both wondered.

I kept rubbing my hand and I said to Kevin "I think we were not alone last night". He immediately agreed, as he looked at the bed out of place and said again, "How could this have happened"?

We are not wild sleepers. I usually hardly move all night. Kevin may move some but nothing like this is in order! 

Our bed is very heavy as it has a 6 inch comfort topper that is made of memory foam and a thick cooling gel, they don't just slide anywhere!

We were both speechless for a time. We walked around the bed just looking at the peculiar position it was in, shaking our heads, as I rubbed my very sore hand and arm. It was still hurting so bad. We both examined my arm for any needle marks. There were none, but something had happened to my arm!

The hand and arm were so very sore. No marks at all but very sore.

Kevin was exceedingly stiff, he wondered why his legs were hurting him.

Had he been in freeze frame while something was happening to me? This had happened many times before with me on both Spiritual and Extraterrestrial visitations.

We both looked at each other and said,

"were we abducted again last night"?

The only proof we had was the bed so oddly out of place and our aches and pains from the previous night.

This is so strange and we cannot know what actually happened last night. We do know, that we have never had the bed slide across the base ever in Seven and a half years. And Never have I woken feeling like my hand had a needle in it all night. It was not like I slept on the hand, it was not numb. It was painful! Telepathy is how extraterrestrials work and I felt as if there were something highly strange about the evening once I woke up. We do know the extraterrestrial races have many tactics that can cause these side effects and we truly both believe that is what happened.

Truth is always stranger than fiction.

 

The Guest Validation

So, it was June of 2018. I was conducting a Mutual UFO Network meeting in Lakeland Florida as I usually do. We had flown in a very popular T.V. personality to stay with us as well as some local friends while he was here.  

After he spoke at our meeting he came to stay with us at our home instead of staying in a hotel. We had a wonderful bedroom set up for him in our studio/office. He loved the set up and we all had a great time doing interviews and visiting with good friends while he was with us. He was pleased to be in our studio/bedroom as he was going to be on his LIVE Pod cast that next night, and he wanted to be in the studio to use it for that reason.

Everything was going just fine. We all were having a wonderful visit together.
We never shared much about our home and how many odd & strange things had occurred here. It just never came up.

 

That night as he slept in the studio he thought he had seen our little dog, "Lovey" in the room with him,  (our small black, tan and white chihuahua who is about 6 lbs. or less) . He said he saw this a few times throughout the night. He also reported something was running around the room, low to the ground along the floor boards, but he could not see it clearly and it didn't make any sound. He also said as he lay in bed that night, he felt someone get in the bed with him, and they were laying right next to him as he could feel their breath on his face.  He said that, "that incident" really frightened him. He quickly rose up and grabbed his phone off the night stand and turned it on to use it as a night light. There was no one there!

It really freaked him out, he just knew someone had gotten into bed with him!  He was sure there was another human in the room with him, but where had they gone? No dog was ever seen again by him that night after this incident.  He said he calmed himself down as he didn't want to wake us all up at that time in the morning, but he was really upset. He said it was hard to fall back off to sleep he was so frightened.

 

The next morning he woke up before anyone else and was eager to tell us of this happening. He was really anxious about it.

We all stood amazed at what he had just shared with us as we had the dog (Lovey) in the kennel all night long. She was not in his room at any time, the door where her kennel is, remains closed while she is sleeping. And our guest's door was also closed. It was impossible for him to have seen "our" dog. 

We also have a very tiny tea cup chihuahua named Wolfgang Tucker who was also in his kennel sleeping all night in our bedroom on the other side of the house with our door shut as well. We have always kenneled our dogs in the evening.

Whatever he saw was NOT a LIVE dog.

 

What our guest did not know, was that I had seen on several occasions in my home over the last few months, the exact same thing! I had shared this with several people who our guest did not talk to. What I thought was my dog, in the house, was actually a brown, low to the ground spirit which moved like a small dog quickly from place to place.  Stopping and then quickly moving again and again. Darting back and forth! It was always seen through my peripheral vision, I thought that very odd. But none the less it was clearly seen, time and again. It was very alarming as I kept seeing it. On two occasions, when I had seen this happening  I had yelled at my son to "please put the dog out", as she was running through the house and I was afraid she may pee in the house acting as crazy as she was. My son then walked into the room I was yelling from and said to me, "Mom, the dog is outside laying in her bed sleeping"! On both accounts I got up to see that what my son told me was in fact accurate. I saw our Lovey sound asleep in her bed on the pool deck outside, just as he said! I told him what I saw and he shared that the same thing had happened to him a week earlier. My son said he didn't mention it to me then as he thought he maybe could have imagined it. 

 

My husband who was not home while my son and I discussed this incident told us he had seen the exact same thing one evening. We then shared with him what we had both seen as well.

Having our guest see this was very alarming. We had rebuked the small entity and prayed in JESUS name, and thought it was gone. Obviously it wasn't. It had come back.

Some entities are stronger than others.

So again we bound the entity in the name of JESUS, and prayed it would not remain , or return to our home.

We have not seen it again to this date.

 

As for the breathing our guest felt in his room while laying in bed,  we have had many reoccurring issues in our studio with strange happenings. 

A young girl who used to live in this home, was killed in a strange way, years before we bought the home. As sad as that is, there have been sightings of her and voices and strange sounds throughout the house.

Because we are demonologists we are often attacked by forces from other dimensions when we are working with people to set them free from hauntings, possessions and poltergeist activity. From time to time we have to work on these spirits to get them out, more than once. 

We felt our guest unknowingly validated what we already knew. We needed more prayer.

We prayed for him and were glad he had no further issues.
He said he really "Loved" being here in our home! It was just so strange that one night. 

I hope we can get him to return again at the end of the year to be a guest here locally once again.

Truth is always stranger than fiction.

 

The Glowing Ball of Light

The Orb in the Cloud

It has been a wonderfully strange weekend—one filled with unexpected visits, emotional clarity, and moments that felt guided by something greater than myself. The kind of weekend that feels both earthly and otherworldly all at once.

The surprise visit from my granddaughter came just when it was needed most—for her, and perhaps for me, too. She had arrived with a quiet heaviness about her, carrying the weight of some painful experiences that she hadn’t fully unpacked until now. Over long conversations, we began to untangle the threads of those events—some traumatic, some just part of the heartbreak of growing up. It was raw, but it was healing. We both needed this.

As the day stretched on, we both felt the need to shift the energy. We wanted to laugh, to feel light again, to breathe in the sky and soak in the sun. So, we did what we often do in moments like this—we got in the pool.

Floating under the open sky brought with it a sense of calm, of joy even. The kind that only comes when you're surrounded by water and love and the quiet companionship of someone who understands you. Dusk was beginning to draw a soft curtain of lavender and gold across the horizon. A small storm cloud was brewing to the north, but it felt distant, more theatrical than threatening.

As we drifted lazily, I found myself watching the northern sky, speaking absentmindedly as my eyes traced the edges of the storm. And then—it happened.

Out of nowhere, a perfectly round, glowing white orb appeared. It emerged from the center of the dark cloud I’d been watching, stark and luminous against the moody sky. It wasn't the Moon. It wasn’t a planet or a reflection. It was something else entirely—something not of this world.

It took my breath away.

It was large, impossibly round, and glowing with an unnatural brilliance—beautiful and eerie all at once. I sat up on my float, stunned. It seemed at once far away and intimately close. As awe overtook me, I pointed and called out to my granddaughter: “Hey, look at that big bright circle over there!”

She turned to see it, but just as her gaze shifted toward the cloud—it vanished. Instantly. As if it had never been there at all.

I was left blinking at the empty sky, caught between amazement and frustration. She hadn’t seen it. That moment, meant for sharing, was mine alone. But maybe… that was the point.

I knew, without question, that I had just glimpsed something from another dimension. It wasn’t a hallucination or a trick of light—it was deliberate. It wanted to be seen. Not by both of us—just by me.

I believe now that the orb was a message. A spiritual nudge. A reminder.

So much truth had been stirred up that day—old wounds exposed, old fears spoken aloud—and in return, something beyond our understanding offered a sign. Maybe it was an assurance. Maybe it was a way of saying, You, are not alone in this.

Experiences like this don’t come with easy explanations. They come with wonder and with questions. They ask us to sit in uncertainty, to stay open to meaning that unfolds slowly.

Tonight, I’ll sleep with my heart open and my spirit listening. Maybe it will return in a dream. Maybe it won’t. But I trust that clarity will come. It always does.

After all, there is always a reason for the strange. We just have to be willing to look deeper.