This week on House of Weird, we’re diving into one of the creepiest corners of paranormal lore: astral home invasions — the phenomenon where people claim something enters their home, bedroom, or even their body… without ever opening a door.

We break down what an “astral intruder” supposedly is, why these attacks tend to happen at night, and why so many cases involve the same chilling details: the pressure on the chest, the paralysis, the sense of being watched from inside your own skull. Think sleep paralysis — but with the victims insisting it wasn’t a dream, and something actively fought back when they resisted.

We go deep into three of the most unsettling real-world reports:

• The Melbourne Encounter (2011) — A man wakes to find a faceless human shape standing at the end of his bed. It moves wrong. It folds itself into the floor. And by the time he can move, the house smells like burnt metal.

• The Alberta Case (2017) — A woman claims a smoky, humanoid form pushed itself through her bedroom wall and tried to “climb inside her chest,” leaving bruising on her sternum the next morning.

• The London Flat Incident (1994) — A university student reports waking to see a tall, shadow-thin figure crouched over her face. It whispered in a voice that sounded like her own. She moved apartments three days later.

We talk about the theories, from astral projection gone wrong to parasite-entities feeding on fear, to whether these things are actually part of us — the leftover junk data of a brain glitching between states of consciousness.

Expect tangents, expect fear, and expect Simon to accidentally reveal at least one opinion he definitely shouldn’t have about the supernatural, the spiritual, or women in STEM. We rein him in. Mostly.

If you like night hag stories, shadow people lore, psychic warfare, or anything in the “this ruined my sleep schedule” category, you’re in the right place.

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