The Last Visit: A Best Friend’s Spirit Returns Home

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2:06throughout the story that you're about to listen to, I couldn't help but wonder and think about a friend that I lost recently. This is what the story is all about, unanswered questions, the confusion that's involved, and sometimes the paranormal. My name is Edwin, and here is Nicholas, true, scary story. This particular story happened in Davenport, Iowa on August 20th of 2020. The event took place on the 20th, but it all started August 19th of 2020. My wife and I were living with my in-laws. We were living in the basement.

3:06One night, my wife and I were just sitting there watching TV and just kind of hanging out. And I got this really sudden urge to why get up and go clean my bathroom as weird as that sounds. So I go in there and start cleaning. It's about 11, 40-ish at night. I'm standing in the bathroom with cleaning and I step in the shower. It's one of those glass sliding door showers. So I'm in there and I'm just kind of cleaning and doing my thing. All of a sudden, it sounds like I hear a man yelling and it sounds like he's saying help or hello. It was just like a very sudden and very quick thing, but it was enough to catch my attention. So I walked out of the shower in our basement. We had a bit of a long hallway that reached the living room that we had, and I walked out there and I asked my wife, I said,

4:07hey, did you just call for me? And she's like, no, why? And I said, I swear I just heard somebody yelling. I said, but it sounded like a man's voice. It's just something louder, maybe deeper. And she's like, no, I went back out to the living room and just kind of hung out the rest of the night with my wife. The following day on August 20th, we had woke up. My wife and I were off work. We had just gotten up about nine o'clock in the morning. I was checking my phone just, as I usually do, just kind of doomed, scrolling. I was on Facebook and I noticed that I had gotten a message from a girl that I known in Katie. This particular person is my best friend's ex-girlfriend.

5:08I had known her for quite a few years. I had known him actually for quite a few years, about seven, but I had gotten a text message saying, hey, I know you and I haven't talked in a long time, but I just need you to know that Kendall had passed away last night in a car accident. That kind of struck me as I hadn't talked to her or heard from her in quite a few years after they had woke up. From that moment, I proceeded to get up. I ran into our bathroom and I was cleaning the night before and my wife had just got up, so she was in there. I burst in and I was just shaking, but I couldn't really say what had happened. I just handed her my cell phone. It was a very jarring panic. Almost like your world is just collapsing in, because it just doesn't seem real. But then my wife started screaming. She's like, what? What? And she threw my phone at me.

6:14Immediately after that, I had called my best friend, trying to reach him, and his phone would just go into voicemail. I think I called it probably 10 times. I ran upstairs to try to get a better signal. Maybe it wasn't connecting. I tried to call his mom. It rang probably twice and she had picked up. And I said, Michelle, I said, I just got a text message about Kendall. What's going on? She's just screaming, my baby's dead. When you hear a mother lose a child, it's just the most soul-shattering noise to hear. We had found out that he was in an automobile accident driving in on the highway, so we live in a small town in the Midwest. He was driving into town at, I think,

7:1712.05 from a friend's house. And when he had passed a certain intersection, somebody had came, they were traveling the opposite direction, and they had teabonged him. That accident basically, it ripped his car in half, and it threw his car down into like a ravine or a ditch. It was probably like 20 feet down. He was killed instantly. We were just very distraught. It was horrible. I don't remember just going and sitting on my back porch. And my mother-in-law's house, like he was the type of best friend that would be at every family function. Even with my wife's family, he was just very accepted and loving.

8:17So we would go sit on the back porch all the time. They had this like really nice deck, but all I could do, like I just immediately went out there and just kind of collapsed on the steps. I was sitting on the the dead, and there was a big butterfly that just like flew up on us, and it like landed right on this the stair railing, and it was black and yellow. And it was just weird because like my buddy, he was in a comics and stuff. It was a big nerd. He loved Deadpool Batman, and he always wore Batman and Deadpool jackets. And my wife's like, that's really weird. She's like, why is this butterfly just lingering around? But one of the things that had bothered myself and my wife was that our friend, he was a very conscientious person of his looks. He took very good care of himself.

9:19And he had these really really long dreadlocks. They went all the way down to his butt. Like he was just so proud of him. He took care of him. When the accident had happened, we weren't sure if he burned alive in the car. Was he killed on impact? Did he suffer? Like what happened to him? We had found out that the cause of death was actually blunt force trauma to the head. When he was hit by the individual that was driving the other car, it actually ejected his passenger out of the front windshield. And when the police and the EMS and fire trucks all got there, they didn't find his passenger until about five o'clock in the morning. It had been about five hours that the car was in that spot. And we had actually gone to see the sight of the accident. It was about a week later.

10:20And we were kind of just surveying to see how bad it was. And you know, if we could help find anything, because they didn't know where his cell phone was. His mom wanted his cell phone back. So we went there in the intent of trying to just find anything. The sight was just horrific. It was all like burned brush and grass. There was a tree that had been caught on fire. But it only burned on one side, which was very odd. There was stuff from his car that was scattered. He had like an emergency pack in his glove box. That was probably 50 feet away from where his car was. His battery was still at the site. There was random evidence bags and toe tags. It was pretty horrific. He used to have these glasses. There were like these funky like 70s looking glasses.

11:21They were like clear with like these weird tiger stripe print inside of them. We were surveying the accident site and I found his eye glasses. And it was weird because I was like, oh, like I found his glasses, you know. And it was broken. One of the earpieces was gone. And it just was like, what do I do with this? You know, this is kind of it's weird. I don't want to leave it here. But that was actually something I had called his mom. And I said, hey, Michelle, you know, I found his glasses. I think these should go to you. Like these, these are like one of the only things that's left. She didn't even get his wallet or his idea or anything. So I was able to actually give his mom his glasses back. I didn't really handle his loss very well in the coming weeks and months after.

12:23Because we didn't know when there was going to be a service for him. And the man which he died, there had to be a criminal investigation to see that the person that hit him was actually drunk. Where the person was coming from, they'd actually just left a party. So we didn't know when his services were going to be. After we had had his funeral, it was during COVID, it was 2020. It was really bad because we had to be social distance. So I remember just like going there with my wife and like everybody was just spaced five feet apart or six feet or whatever that was. And I just remember sitting there sobbing because like now this person that I knew that had you know, just such a big personality and just larger than life was sitting in this box on a pedestal because he had to be cremated. It was scarring.

13:30We had actually just seen him. It was like a week before his accident. And we had in the Midwest what's called a deretio. So it's like an on land hurricane. It was bad. But he just moved in with some other roommates because we lived with them for a while. It was our roommate for a few years. But he had lost power and he came over on mother-in-law's and was visiting. That was the last time we seen him. There was no text or any phone calls. It was just you see your friend and then a week later you find out they're gone. Step into the world of power, loyalty and luck. I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse. With family, conoles and spins mean everything. Now you want to get mixed up in the family business.

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15:35I had this very weird vivid dream that my friend Kendall had come to see us. But it was almost as if I was in like a third person view, so like I could see myself and my wife sleeping on our bed. He walked into our bedroom in the way that he walked in. He did this a lot when we lived together. I would usually work really early mornings and then by the time I got off, I was coming home to fall asleep and he was getting up to go to work. But he would just come in and he would just stand in our doorway and I would just be knocked out snoring and he would just kind of laugh you know and giggle and my wife would make fun of me because I was snoring so loud. But it was just a very vivid experience and I remember I caught him one time. I was like, what are you doing man? Like you're being weird. That particular dream I remember he walked in and he was just standing there and I could see him like smiling and he was wearing his usual clothes.

16:39He used to wear like this Deadpool jacket and he would kind of wear it hanging off his shoulders a little bit unzipped but just loosely hanging off his shoulders. It was like I was just watching him come in and he would watch us and he smiled and then I just woke up. The next day I told my wife I was like you know I had this dream and I explained it to her and I was like am I going crazy? I know people handle grief and depression in very certain ways and it has effects on people. And I've lost people in my life before and I've had other experiences with them but like this felt real. In my opinion it felt like maybe the accident was so horrific and so scarring just to the extent that it happened and he didn't get to say goodbye.

17:39Nobody said goodbye to anybody and you're just gone. I believe that he had passed away in maybe one of those safe places that he knew where people were because unfortunately I don't understand fortunately but like it was my house and I think that the noise that I had heard in my shower was actually him because I think the accident was just so traumatic and so sudden that when somebody dies I don't think their soul just goes to a heaven or hell like sometimes you're just kind of stuck in maybe a limbo maybe until your soul can move on or wherever we go I'm not sure. It was shortly after my dream that my wife had told me that she had a dream

18:42but she had described her dream. It was her and our friend Kendall and they were just in like this white room it was just all bright. I knew she took it a lot harder in how he had passed away and she was always worried like you know did he suffer you know finding out the details of his burns while my wife was in this dream in this white room with our friend she had asked him how are you here? your hair like your hair is okay he smiled at her and he just said don't worry about it I'm okay I've been through so much and I've lost a lot of people in a short amount of time and there's just been so many things that I can't explain how they happened I've lost my mom like grandmother my best friend I've lost another grandma all within like

19:49five years since 2020 we'll be sitting here and like we'll see like a piece of paper go flying off of a shelf when it sounds like it's something that would make sense but in reality like there's no fans there's no no breeze or anything to make those things happen or well here's something at the other end of our trailer that sounds like somebody's in our trailer and it's like we just accept that hey someone's here visiting us I don't want to say that like I want to invite things into my life spiritually like because you can invite the wrong things in but I'd like to think that maybe somehow he's kind of just watching over us we uh had went to his mom's house after the car accident she wanted to give me some of his belongings and when we were there she was giving me this Deadpool jacket that I had actually bought him for Christmas

20:50when we were there she was saying that she's experienced weird things in her apartment as well my best friend that had passed he actually had two younger brothers his mom had actually just given birth to one of them she had raised these three boys by herself and him being the oldest one like she relied on him for a lot of support growing up but she said that the youngest boy that she had you know was randomly just talking in a room with nobody in it she was standing in his older brother's room and the older brother wasn't there but uh he was just sitting in there talking like standing by himself in the middle of the room just talking it wasn't really like coherent words because he was really little he was like maybe three I think around that time it's crazy too because in his mother's uh apartment complex like I had actually helped her move

21:51in there with him because he didn't have anybody else and he's like hey we help you do this we moved her in there but one of the nights that we were leaving his mom's house we had just gotten all you know his belongings that she was giving us but we were like in the hallway and we were passing this guy and it looked just like him it's so jarring and weird because like he was the same height he was an African-American individual with long dreads down to his back he had these black rimed glasses it almost put out not my stomach because it was like wait how am I seeing this and then my wife's like she nudged me and she's like that looks like Kendall and I'm like it does but I'm like that's it's obviously not him it's weird too because like I live right by the accident site now I would say it's probably like a mile and a half away from me and I drive by it all the time after like the accident

22:53and happened I would specifically like avoid this side of town and I would just ask my life like hey like let's not go this way unless we absolutely have to but I drive by there every day now coming home from work and it's just scary because like we drive over there and it's like I immediately look to that spot that area is like tainted now with whatever bad event that happened there there have been other accidents at that actual location his mom had to fight with the city because there's no stoplights out there there's no there's like very few streetlights out there and the city had basically told his mom that it was a state issue like the city wasn't responsible for it and the best that they ended up doing was putting some stop signs with like red flashing lights it's not going to do anything just because the side road you have to pull kind of into the

23:59the intersection of the highway to see because there's there's like a blind spot but he was a month or two after my friend had died at that location a woman was driving from in town running from the police and she had crashed her car and she died there and then literally I think it was last week I was on Facebook and there was a car that got flipped over there it's been a lot of accidents every time my wife and I like whether I'm leaving work or she's getting ready to come home or work anytime we're separated and like I know she's driving I always text her I love you drive safe and it almost maybe to some people would seem like a broken record but like today it's almost like clockwork she knows exactly when I get off work and she decks me drive safe I love you on February 18th of 2024 my wife and I were driving and we were going to get coffee

25:08we just went and got groceries we went and picked up some taco johns we were passing this church and out of nowhere a lady out of the corner of my left side T-bone our car she was going pretty fast she had flipped our car it was bad my car was totaled and it felt weird because when the accident was actually happening I had never been in a car accident before my wife has but I hadn't and I was driving when it happened it flipped our car but it was like slow motion as soon as the car accident had settled and our car was upside down I didn't panic you know I kind of got up and I told my wife I was like we got to get out of the car like something is leaking I don't know if it's fuel a liquid so we were getting out of our car and I was trying to kick the windows out

26:12the next thing I went like this man like pride our door open he reached his hand and he grabbed us we got out we'd realized what had happened and the cops came tow truck started you know showing up right you know to tell the cars away there was already a local tow truck company on site and they asked they're like you know do you want us to take your car and I said I'm on the phone with my insurance I had gotten a hold of my insurance and they're like we're sudden somebody out the tow truck friendly coach showed up they got us towed away and my wife and I went back home I think just the jarring shock of that because like that's just been one of my biggest fears is being in a car accident my wife and I we came home and like we just broke down and we'd realized like how bad it was that one of us or both of us might not have

27:13came home and luckily we had only walked away which was like some scrapes bruises my car was totaled I was opening my wallet I was getting the cart out from the tow truck company I realized that the name of the tow truck company was Kendall's towing which struck me as very odd because he was like that best friend like if I had car troubles or like X partner that I was with like her wheel literally came off her car and I called him and I'm like came and like this happened like is there any way that you can come pick me up and he's like yeah I got you you know he showed up and it was just so striking and odd that the tow truck company name was Kendall's towing and this individual that meant so much and like was always that person to come save me that was the name of the tow truck company I'm not a religious person by any means

28:18I think I'm probably more spiritual and I believe in something but I think that somehow and some way that like the universe just allows certain things to happen and one of those things might have just been him showing up one last time maybe you know just to let me know like he's still here I 100% believe the the voice that I heard that night was him just because we have lived with my mother-in-law for probably two years and she had like a ranch-style house and it was very much backed away in like a little neighborhood and like those people that lived there they were very quiet there weren't people out partying or there weren't kids you know out late hours of the night like we were in a basement that was

29:20just kind of more or less sealed off from the world and the people that lived there was my mother-in-law I father-in-law and then my wife's grandfather but they all went to bed very very early like eight nine o'clock at night and those people weren't loud people either like it was just very chill it was a very quiet environment because her grandfather was very old and you know we more less knew not to make noise after a certain time I remember years ago my grandmother had passed away in 2018 she had pinker out of cancer and like that was really hard on me but I remember my best friend was there you know him and my wife like we worked together like I worked with this guy at many jobs I would get hired somewhere and then I'd get him hired on with me and then that would just kind of go on for a few years

30:22we were just always in contact and if it went a few weeks or a month you know there's still sort of we pick up where we left off when we would see each other but with my grandmother passing away like he was always very spiritually inclined like very open he was always just sort of open to me being like hey like what do you think happened to her you know like where do we go when we die and he would always just tell me like you know it's kind of what you believe like I said I don't I don't really believe in a heaven or a hell per se but it was just knowing that he was there to be supportive and now he's gone in such a tragic manner and I know his death he wouldn't want it to hurt and he wouldn't want to put that on us but it's just something that happens when you meet somebody in life that you just

31:25click with them and you know we would still be friends have the accident not happened he was the best man in my wedding but I do 100% believe that the the voice that I heard that night was him and I believe maybe he was just scared we're trying to let one of us know what was going on so this story really got me and you know as I've mentioned before we have these many conversations sometimes people who are telling me the stories and you know during the actual recordings like we have questions sometimes there are things that are wondering about the story but I don't come out in the final recording you know my questions kind of get edited out so it sounds like the person is just telling that they're full story most of the time that's how it is right but but every once in all we have these additional conversations and it got me because you know several months ago I

32:27mentioned to you guys that I lost my best friend he passed away unfortunately and it was a very tough thing you know for us to get adjusted to as a group of friends by the way you might be hearing a cat out in the front door he's really trying to get in we're going to let him hang out there for a little bit but anyway thinking about all that in the aftermath everything's confusing we don't know we know how this is going to work now our dynamic even as as us friends who are left on earth right like we don't we don't know what that's going to be like but I started thinking about the paranormal like is there anything paranormal that happened you know by the way his his name is Philippe and he's the one who told the very first story on this very podcast him it was him in Italia they both told a story and then the same episode about the same event but anyway so as I'm thinking back on all this

33:27I remember that his wife told me that they were I think she was picking out a clothing like something for him to wear actually didn't know what what he was going to wear as obviously a tough decision for the this for the viewing I think I believe and then some like clothing just fell out of a shelf like out of you know where to keep the clothes it was something like that that I was like wow is that possible yeah it's possible right and then I remember even as I was navigating through all this we were out at a restaurant with some of our all of our friends and I remember just like I was just out of it right and then I just hear a voice like in a song you know this island in the sun by Weezer it just says something like we'll never feel bad anymore we'll never feel bad anymore and by the way it's one of my favorite songs of all time and it's you guys should go look it up you know be in case you're wondering but it's a very it's one of my favorite songs and

34:28I don't get to hear that often I'm not in the US as often anymore but that song plays sometimes in the background right but I was seeing it as like okay this might have been a coincidence right but what if it wasn't right what if it's him telling us like hey he's okay like he's fine then also saw him in a dream I mean it just showed up and he looked completely different he was tall he had like he was different like he was just the different like I knew it took me a little bit to understand that it was him and it was a very confusing thing you know for me to to come to terms with I guess if you want to say like that that this might have been something that I that I saw like something that actually I can consider paranormal and it makes me wonder has anyone else experienced something like this something that maybe you see you ignore because you think it's a coincidence but really it might have been a sign and in hindsight you think hey maybe this this

35:31meant something has that ever happened to you I want to know I want to know because sometimes I mean I have that belief where like people ignore paranormal signs and things like that because our logical minds take over but again it's just an idea so I want to take the time here to thank Nicholas for sharing the story is very private very intimate story and I know I needed to hear it when I heard it and I appreciate that very much so thank you for that and if you have a story that you want to share here on True Scary Story be it something about the deep dark woods be it about a ghost or being about something that you experience something that you just want to share with the rest of us it has to deal with the paranormal please send it in you can send me an email you can also head on over to truescarystory.com I feel out the form there we'll get back to you and we can get started that way this episode of True Scary Story was edited and sound designed by Sarah Voorhees Wendell of VW Sound with additional production by me Edwin Covarubias and the scary FN team

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