Thank you for yet another awesome performance 👏 ❤️. I'm alone in the world and suffer from painful diseases. I am so grateful for you giving me such terribly good company and thought-provoking entertainment . You take me out of myself with much needed escapism you provide. GOD bless you and your family, Jasper.
That story was GREAT, BTW, J. Cldn’t join the comms, as I was in ZogTube jail: “…to keep the community SAFE [from incontrovertible facts & opinions]”, aGAIN. On PAROLE, baby! Like the classic Mötörhead song… till the next time, lol.
I loved that. It almost feels like a modern-day fairy story; strange dwellings in the woods with kindly tenants. I struggle to picture the roof fully, but I'm a sucker for stories where architecture that's slightly off plays a role. It's something I felt keenly as a child and something I obsessed over.
I'm glad you said that, because I wasn't sure either. At first I thought it must be some kind of low pyramid roof, but I wasn't sure that was that unusual, even for the time, so then I imagined it must have a slight curve to the slopes...like a traditional Chinese roof perhaps, but more..."impracticable". Any roofers out there care to chime in?
Fantastic, sad, beautiful, and well-written story. This one is immaculate and just flows. I do so feel for Robbie. I came from the upbringing he longed for, and count myself lucky. Fantastic narration!
Your sound, the pace of your narration, everything is perfect!! My favorite narrator & you have consistently good , scary, weird, interesting stories. THANK YOU 😊
That was terribly sad….yet beautifully told. Like many of your stories, my brain will be chewing on this one for a while. Thank you Jasper! I’m so thankful to have Encrypted to escape to!
It was sad, wasn't it? It didn't really hit me until I was doing the edit, and then I thought, goodness, this is actually quite moving. Makes you wonder where the author got the idea.
"We let the weirdness in." Thanks Jasper, a lovely, sad story, perfectly presented. I love the birdsong (was there birdsong?) that you added for atmosphere. It really tweeks the spot of our memories that we don't completely trust. Well, some of us anyway. 🏡
Brilliant. Thanks Jasper. Experience a particular horror in these stories. "He didn't dance, shoot or hunt.." - at the risk of wokenes, its in the ordinary world that hinted at. Old enough to have had 'almost' Victorian school masters....
It's a beautiful tale; Robbie was able to create/conjure a place where everyone and everything was as he desired. I think he was able to move from a place of fear, to a place of love and acceptance. Having a powerful imagination can be a phenomenal, and saving gift. Einstein himself valued imagination above all things. I would love an imaginative quality like that. Thank you. Beautifully and sensitivity narrated. From Ruth xx
This story and narration (and the sounds- especially when they turned the corner and first saw the house!)- brilliant, beautiful, comforting, sad, and true. I am beyond impressed. And yes, I believe Roger did indeed see the house Robby created. Roger was his best, long-time- and perhaps only- friend. Roger accepted Robby as he was, truly cared for him- and Robby showed only Roger his greatest masterpiece, his greatest moment. I had a feeling he was the architect of the house. Robby may now be ‘fully’ insane, but hopefully if all the bad is gone from his mind- if he is free of those constraints- he may continue to live happily. This story is so much more than it first seems. Thank you.
That was disturbing. A very fine short story, (and very well read), but coming from an extraordinarily dark place. The type of thing that stays with you for a while after you've heard it.
I just couldn't get into The Horror Horn, and kept going to sleep. But this was perfect! I loved the narrative, the narration and the narrator. Bravo again X
Losing my mind is ABSOLUTELY my greatest fear. A cleverly multi-layered bit of writing expertly told - reminded me a little of shared psychosis (folie a deux).❤
*Spoiler Alert* Pouring rain where I live & power was off at mid~day so it is perfect weather as we need rain & it's a good fit for this tale of what I'll call *longing* & the author asks a question ...Yes, I believe PTSD can cause this w/ collective hysteria in certain circumstances. It is a highly poignant story. It very much reminds me of the 1945 movie : *The Enchanted Cottage* starring *Robert Young & *Dorothy McGuire* ... a brilliant movie & this is a brilliant story. Thank You *Jasper* . The one bit of humor is the part about getting a chill from being seated on wet grass; this being a medical condition in certain cultures where it is believed they should always keep their stomachs warm or else sickness soon arrives.
I'm so so happy that you're back my friend I've missed these so much, no one quite has the same knack for narrating as you do, not to mention the editing and production :)
Ahh yes, Tis strange that imagination can be a very powerful thing. I remember once seeing, from a distance, whilst on a country walk, a rather splendid small house nestling amongst some trees. This was in the very far north of Scotland up in the Highlands. I was working during the summer term from University at a hotel overlooking Loch Rannoch! It was quite isolated but a wonderful place & id had a few hours owing to me so i took this walk, exploring. As it was getting on abit & in the gloaming & i needed to get back to the hotel for my next shift. So decided to come back to explore the lovely house when i had some free time. I thought & thought about the house id glimpsed through the trees & so told my friend about it & wanted her to come with me to see it. Then, she looked at me strangely & asked again where id seen the house. I told her ( she was a mad keen walker & had explored the area alot) she told me there was no such house that id described there or anywhere near. I told her id seen it, described it fully to her & she said she knew where i meant & she could well imagine a house like that, fitting in, very well in that position. Feeling very disgruntled, i was determined to show her the house & that it was very real. So our next free time, off we went. Nearing the elevated area where id seen the house, i pointed it out And there was indeed the house id seen & she stared at it too, open mouthed, then to both our alarm, the house just faded away, becoming fainter & fainter until nothing remained. We looked at each other, extremely perplexed. I said perhaps its a ghost house but she said, no house like that had ever existed there & one of the hotel groundsmen had shown her about the place & would have mentioned if a house had once been there. I insisted we went down as i was sure we'd seen a ghost house that had once existed there & there would be remains. But when we got to the area there wasnt a stone or brick or any foundations to be seen at all. I asked how she could explain seeing the house ( however faintly) too but be adamant it hadnt existed? She said it was indeed the perfect location to have had the house id previously described & which we'd both seen, if fleetingly. But, she thought my imagination had conjured up the building so convincingly that a kind of apparition had materialised on the strength of my 100% belief As hard as it was to accept, there was no other explanation Especially as when we told the groundsman, he too said hed often imagined the setting was perfect for a pretty & large cottage with 2 floors & gardens Yet there never had been a building there, ever, but because so many people had kind of "Placed" a building there, some strange sort of energy had built up & i had somehow released it to reconfigure as this lovely house There wasnt any other rationalisation! The groundsman offered the quote ... "I Think, Therefor I Exist" ( was it by Rene Descartes?) So maybe the power of thought can manifest, at least im pretty sure it can & i also think its viable in the Quantum Physics world which can slip into our 3D world. Thank You Jasper! Sorry i rambled on, rather, but its always puzzled me - the above incident! LOVE your narrations! You're a true Bard 🗣 Peace 🇬🇧👧
No need to apologise. I loved hearing about your experience (especially the Descartes-quoting groundsman). I'm sure a lot of us could think of similar experiences in our own lives. There's also the Mandela Effect, isn't there? I have a version of this where often when a famous person or celebrity dies I'm surprised because I thought they were already dead. Not just in a "they've been out of the public eye so I assumed" way, but like I saw the news bulletin, read the obituaries and have carried the idea that they were dead for ages. 🤔
Wow! That's got my cogs whirring...you should research if it's a thing. When I was very young, l saw my mother's ghost before she had died (which is nothing to do with your comment, but thought I'd throw it in there...😅). Freakiest thing that ever happened to me
Wonderful elucidation of what is known across disciplines as disparate as psychology and cosmology as "the hard problem" of consciousness. Rubs right up against it, so to speak, like a big cat would. In my own experience in MH work, I was convinced that the diagnosis of folie a deux was probably as spurious as so called "split personality". That was until I saw a genuine case in a clinical setting. It existed for a husband and wife who were passing through our area and walked in seeking help, which they got. They then traveled on. The world they lived in was as uniquely different from the world the rest of us share as black and white are. The kicker was that although that was the case, they functioned within the larger culture in much the same way as the author portrays his protagonist... just picking up his life after the shared delusion/hallucination. It is a hell of a proposition to think we really do make up the cosmos we live in and so far, there's no way to know! Is anyone sharing this with me?😮
Folie a Deux is fascinating. The person who joins in the psychosis paradoxically had no signs or symptoms of any mental health issues before or after, and following the delusion, both return to normal. More than two people have been recorded as sharing a delusion, although this is debatable. The human mind is still largely unknown territory, and I find that pretty terrifying. Great comment by the way ✌️
If I'm not mistaken I think I heard of a mental illness where it is possible to share holosonations with someone else, or maybe it was something supernatural that happened in this story where the main character Rodger actually saw the same things his friend saw. I don't really know, but I have a feeling it was the lather.
❤ I thought I saw a notification but I am sure someone told me that this channel had been taken down because of copyright issues and I was obviously mistakenly thinking it was this when clearly it was a different one but then I didn’t get the notification’s or maybe I did as I seriously oversubscribed to way too many channels and then recently I thought I saw one but when I looked it was horror babble!!! Anyway my subconscious saw it as this…, my phone was hacked and this crazy cyber stalker (an ex saw me on Facebook and I had to delete the app which was more hassle than it was worth anyway) did he leave an offensive message pretending to be me like he did on my favourite spiritual channel!??!??? o m g th channel is still here! Maybe it’s come back….. either way I am happy‼️ Sorry but had to get that off my chest! Lol 😂 bloody hell!!! ♥️✨👑✨♥️😊
@@EnCryptedHorror ha Ha! Yes 👍 Finally!!! Have much to catch up on! Hopefully you have written your own stories?! I am so looking forward to exploring your fabulous amazing channel again!!! A lot of really good channels were taken down or else not monetised or something like that but you are still here!!! I was in hospital for a while in November last for 5 weeks I won’t bore or depress you but otherwise I would have checked myself as for a while I couldn’t even listen to anything and wasn’t even feeling it anyway! The only good moments where I enjoyed the odd story was on morphine lol 😂 for a while but I am currently healing myself and I have a chance to prove what I always said about incurable being curable from within! And already it seems that doctors disagree with each other and now apparently 50% go on to live a normal long healthy life anyway but I still would have healed because my mother did after being let go home to die and healed from stage 4 cancer!!! A book called you can heal your life saved her and now is saving me! I don’t know why I’m telling you this! I think I’m justifying my absence! LOL I should’ve made more of an effort and I would have but I genuinely thought like so many channels that you had been or decided to stop! Misinformed 😬 never mind! We are back! I am not going to leave anymore long msg’s I promise‼️ ♥️✨👑✨♥️
