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12 Jul 2017
Sleep paralysis, specifically 'old hag syndrome,' is a plausible explanation for the terrifying visions experienced by the accusers.

Sleep paralysis is another explanation for why kids would have terrifying visions of people. Maybe you're a kid and you run into a homeless beggar. That can be scary just in the effect of like, oh, why is this person all dirty? They're an adult. Shouldn't they be not... They should be in a home. So that could scare you. You go home, you have sleep paralysis, you see that person in your head. I tell you what, growing up in Indiana, there was a Greek family that lived by us. You know what I say to them? Calimera. It means good day. Oh, that's very nice, Dan. But they had the grandmother living with them, and she was as old-school Greek as you can get. We thought she was a witch. Of course. She looked like a witch who wore black all the time because her husband died. You should have said Calimera to her. Everything would have been fine. Or, if it's the evening, Calihespera. Yeah, well, we didn't like her, so we called her a malaka. Oh, no, no malaka. Now, the only other Greek word I remember is efkaristo. Oh, yeah? Which means, thank you. Yeah. Malacca's like a fucker, right? That's evil. Malacca's a fucker, right? It's a bad person. Oh, okay. No, not fucker. No. Okay. I don't think they had a word for fucker. Motherfucker? Malacca's not a motherfucker? No, Malacca just means like evil person. Oh, okay. Bad person. So, we, I mean, we were convinced we'd go in their backyard freaking out. Like, this is fun. And if you had an instance of sleep paralysis or something like that where you might see her. Sure. There's a huge phenomenon of people seeing an old hag. It's called old hag syndrome. People have sleep paralysis, and when they come to, they hallucinate and see an old woman sitting on their chest. Yeah. This is just something that is super bizarre, but it does happen. Yeah. So that's a pretty good explanation for some of it.