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April 22, 2026

The Ocean, the Moon, and What We Can’t Explain

The Ocean, the Moon, and What We Can’t Explain

Send us Fan Mail Hello everyone, & welcome to our podcast Whispers from the Mist: Conversations from the Spiritual Byway! This episode begins with a plan to explore time travel, but quickly shifts into something more immediate and alive. Under the energy of a powerful full moon, Michelle and Stacy share the strange, subtle, and sometimes unsettling experiences that have been unfolding around them. Sleep feels elusive. Emotions feel heightened. And moments that defy easy explanation begin ...

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This episode begins with a plan to explore time travel, but quickly shifts into something more immediate and alive. Under the energy of a powerful full moon, Michelle and Stacy share the strange, subtle, and sometimes unsettling experiences that have been unfolding around them. Sleep feels elusive. Emotions feel heightened. And moments that defy easy explanation begin to surface, not just in their lives, but in the stories being shared with them by others. What follows is a deeply curious conversation that moves from personal encounters to the unseen layers of reality, asking whether what we experience is spiritual activity, energetic shifts, or glimpses into something beyond our understanding. This episode invites you to sit in the unknown, to notice what feels different, and to consider that everything may be more connected than it first appears.

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SPEAKER_00

Hey everyone on this week's episode of Whispers from the Mist, Conversations from the Spiritual Byway. Well, today we set out to talk about time travel, but the conversation and maybe even the universe had other plans for us. Instead of time travel, we found ourselves diving into the current moon cycle, the energy shifts that we've both been feeling, and how it's been showing up in our sleep and daily experiences. We also talk about the increase in spiritual activity, not just for us, but for those who've been reaching out to us and sharing what they've been going through as well. From there, we wander into the mysteries of the ocean, what we know, everything that we don't know, and what might still be waiting. Take away from the episode what resonates, and right now, or we're gonna meet you along the spiritual byway. Hello, everyone, and welcome to this week's episode of Whispers from the Mist: Conversations from the Spiritual Byway. I am Michelle. I am here with Stacy. Hi, Stacy. Hi, Michelle. Hi, everybody. And I can hear them saying hi back. I know, right? Hi, everybody. We love that you're here. We do love that you're here. We have an interesting episode today, but before we jump into the topic time and time travel, I think there's just a couple things we wanted to touch on, things that have been going on around us. So, Stacy, you said you had something you wanted to share.

SPEAKER_02

I did. I know that this is gonna come out probably several weeks after, but last night was a major full moon, and I wanted to talk a little bit about it. It was a pink full moon last night. And I wanted to ask you, Michelle, if you had difficulty sleeping or a feel of the energy at all last night.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, and yes. Very hard time falling asleep. There's other things related to this date. So I'm really excited that you're jumping into the full moon and the date.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, because it was April Fool's Day that the full moon kind of fell on to. Like we'll we can spend a moment talking about that. What I experienced is I think I slept for max three hours last night, which is also, you know, you and I kind of ran into a scheduling conflict this morning because I double booked myself, which is absolutely not my personality, which you know, everything goes in my calendar. And somehow I did not put our recording in the calendar. So we had to finagle and shift things around. But like I said, maybe three hours of sleep last night. So this morning I was, I remember I was laying in bed going, I can just breathe. I can just breathe. And the intensity of that full full moon, like I was talking to the moon, I think for hours last night because I could just feel it so intensely.

SPEAKER_00

I could feel like this weird fluttering in my heart and just the energy almost like pulsating kind of around me, within me, and just trying to align is what it felt like.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, a lot of um different movements. And I and I did have um a few individuals reach out to me this morning because they were looking for Reiki and clearing because they just felt so off. And one of my closest friends, you know, I saw a post on Facebook going, is it just me? Am I the only one feeling this and experiencing it? And I was like, nope, nope, it's very intense.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, prior to that like tingly feeling with the heart fluttering and everything, I was feeling off and not like myself and wondering, again, am I an imposter in my life, not just with the podcast, but in life in general? Oh it it was really pretty intense. So yeah, that's the feeling that's going around.

SPEAKER_02

That's really interesting. And you said there were some other things with the date too.

SPEAKER_00

Uh yes, with the date. So of course it was April Fool's, and today it's April 2nd. And today, in real time, our episode on my grandpa just dropped.

SPEAKER_02

Oh.

SPEAKER_00

In that episode, we talked about my grandma and her passing. And today is the 10-year anniversary of her passing. I had no idea that it was lining up like this. So it feels very universal.

SPEAKER_02

It it feels almost like right, right space, right time, actually. Like to me, it feels like, okay, on the right path, you're doing the right things. Like I'm kind of loving that. I am too.

SPEAKER_00

And then I'm traveling right now, and I had two very strange events that happened. Give us snippets. I'm again traveling. I'm staying in a home that is unfamiliar to me. I've been here for four or five days already. And like a night ago, so the night going into April 1st, I went up into the kitchen and there were some lights on that I didn't turn on. So I'm like, am I just so clueless that maybe when I turn this light switch, everything comes on and I didn't notice. So I went around the house for like 10 minutes trying to turn those lights off, and I couldn't figure out how to do it. And I'm like, this is really weird. And I could tell they were string lights. And I'm like, they have to be plugged in. I can see where they're plugged in, but how do you turn them off? I know I didn't turn them on. So they stayed on all night. And I got up in the morning and I reached out to the persons whose house it was, and I said, How do you turn off those lights? And he told me, and I can a hundred percent guarantee I've never seen that remote. It was on a shelf I have not touched, and those lights went on. So that was the first thing that happened. And I'm thinking, okay, it's around the anniversary of my grandma's death. It's April Fool's Day. What's going on here? And then again, here four or five days, I'm staying in a bedroom upstairs, and I didn't notice that it had one of those blinds, the accordion blinds you could pull down with your hand. So I've just been shutting the curtain every day. And I did that when I went to bed. I shut the curtain. That's all I did. And in the morning when I went to open it, there was a shade down. Oh, interesting. And they happened both on the same night. They hadn't happened any other time. So I do have a sign and synchronicity log in my chat GPT. So I went to record the event just so I had a record of it. And it told me, well, there's many reasons that can happen. So it was trying to walk me through spiritual discernment, which is a whole nother episode. And that's why I was like, well, maybe we should wait and share this on another day. But I'm like, no, I've already done the discernment by reaching out to my son, by checking everything out. The lights, the only thing could be is batteries in the remote. It wasn't any of the other suggestions and what it suggested for the blind. None of those conditions match.

SPEAKER_02

There is something to say, and I'm wondering if it's kind of not just around the full moon energy or the spiritual connection to, but there has been a lot more activity at my place of employment as well. Like we heard something drop behind us in a room where nothing, like no one was. And it wasn't like, you know, when things fall and you're like, oh, it just must have fallen off a shelf for some crazy reason. No, something like landed hard. So I got up to investigate and I was looking for what may have fallen, and I couldn't find anything. And then I stood there for a moment and I could feel this shift in space, in the energy of the room. It almost got colder. So I stood there for a few minutes and I was like, okay, this is interesting. And the hair on the back of my neck was definitely standing up. I knew there was a presence there. And I was like, okay, like, cool. Like you, we we share space. And I walked through like another room because there's like this like walkthrough area. And I actually grabbed a coworker and I said, walk with me for a moment. I said, tell me what you feel. Like, what are you experiencing? Just out of curiosity, without, you know, diving in. And she was like, it feels cold in here. Like it feels colder in here. And she's like, it almost is like an energetic shift. Like, I don't know how to explain it, but it feels weird to me. And I was like, okay, okay, that's good to know. And we've had recent activity of like walking being heard when nobody else is in the building. And so it's an uptick for certain.

SPEAKER_00

And that's so interesting that you're saying that right now because I had a friend reach out to me. Again, I'm traveling, and she thought I was in town and wanted me to come over. She goes, the energy in my place is off the wall. She owns a restaurant in Arizona and she has a home behind it. And she had gone to bed that night, and something actually physically touched her. Her leg and let her know that it was there. Like she's always known it was there, but it never had touched her before. And I was like, oh, I wouldn't like that very much.

SPEAKER_02

No, it's it's an interesting thing. It it almost feels like this full moon has shifted a lot of energy because I will also speak up to that a little bit. There have been times in in my workplace where I've been by myself like in the basement, and I can feel that energy. And like I'll be doing laundry. So I'm by myself bent over like a washing machine, and I'm like, don't touch me. Like, because I can almost feel it like approaching me from the back. And I'm like, don't, don't touch me. Just you know, let me get through what I need to get through. And it doesn't feel menacing, but it's like this presence that it's like, I'm here. But this actually is a great conversation to get started on time traveling because it it is the question of are we glimpsing into another time and space that is layering over ours? And I wanted to know if you had anything else to add, but I figured it was a great like segue.

SPEAKER_00

Well, I was thinking like we were going so far down the road of this that maybe time travel will be pushed to the next episode. So we'll just have to see how we get because time travel seems so big and like there's so much information to cover. But yeah, it will be a very good bridge or segue into that. The only thing else, or the only other thing I want to add is I know the advice that I shared with my friend about something reaching out and touching her.

SPEAKER_02

What advice would you have shared? I exactly what I did when I was in the basement and I could feel this energy approaching me. And it felt like, you know how you're in a space with other people and you can tell they're coming closer to you, and they might reach out and put their hand on your shoulder. And you might look over and be like, give me a moment, like I'm in the middle of doing something. It was a like I could feel it instinctively, and immediately in my brain was like, please don't touch me. And like literally kind of dropped that boundary very quickly because I could feel the approach. And I'm like, no, I don't, don't touch me. And, you know, kind of firmly, just in my mind, because they would have been able to hear me upstairs and probably thought I was, well, bananas, but that's fine.

SPEAKER_00

It's so funny that you talk about uh bananas because just a quick side note when I reached out and was asking the person who owned this house, like, has this ever happened? And I asked first about the light because that was the only thing I noticed. And he's like, No, that's never happened before. And so then when I had to send another message asking about the window shade, he must think I'm cuckoo for Coco Puffs. I mean, he does know me pretty well and he knows that this stuff happens, but he's never gonna have me come back and stay at his house.

SPEAKER_02

Well, um, you know, this but it really does, it's it's a great lead into that that time, time kind of traveling idea because one of the theories around time travel is that it's called thin place theory, is that there's such deep history or so much has taken place in these environments that it they bleed into other times.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Even though we're in this space in this time right now, that there are other layers that we just can't see or tap into. Right. Right. Yeah. No, I've been reading a lot about that, like lately, even when it comes to heaven and where heaven's located, it could be somewhere very close. It's just on a different level of or different plane of something. But what is existence, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Existence. Yeah, or dimension or whatever word you want to input there.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, even I've even been hearing a lot about Bigfoots right now. They're really big in the news and where they used to think they were just creatures that were out there in the wild, now they're really thinking there's something interdimensional or spiritual or cryptid about them. Well, I guess they're interested. They're already cryptid, but like cryptid. But that now they're thinking they could be interdimensional where they can come in and out.

SPEAKER_02

It that's so it that's fascinating to me also because I've been reading a lot about the ocean recently. And the have you really like that that we have explored less than I think the the statistic, and correct me if I'm wrong, is like we've explored less than like 1% of the ocean because we can't go deep enough in some areas. And there is there are spots that they've determined are deeper than Everest is tall. And we can't go that far because of the pressure of the water, you know, it it would actually kill a person. And I was reading this article about fish that don't even have eyes because they don't need them to exist in such a dark, deep place. And it makes you wonder what is there that we don't actually know about? What is there that it's like the idea, I think you and I have talked in the past, and I'm gonna throw unicorns and like fairies out there. We've we've talked about it. And like I'm a firm believer that they didn't just appear one day in someone's imagination. Like they like I like to believe that unicorns and and fairies and things that we don't see every day are fully in existence, but we're not supposed to see them because they're layered in with within our our lives. So like dimensions. Does that make sense? It does make sense.

SPEAKER_00

And yeah, there's no way you're gonna have me going into water that deep. I've been already completely freaked out about being in any type of water other than a pool or something I could see the bottom of, because I don't like not knowing what's below me.

SPEAKER_02

See, I just don't like knowing that all of the fish and animals pee in it.

SPEAKER_00

And well, that's it. That is gross also, and sometimes the water does look kind of mucky, but it's more the idea of something grabbing onto me and pulling me under. And when you're talking about those depths, and what I heard was very similar to what you just shared, that it was a very high percentage that we haven't even explored because we don't have the equipment to get down there. And they even brought in, I guess it was a like a tourist thing that unit that went down and then collapsed upon itself because it couldn't stand the pressure. Yeah, you wouldn't get me in that either.

SPEAKER_02

Well, that's why scuba diving is so dangerous, too, is because you like the people, individuals that choose to scuba dive, they have to have lungs essentially of steel, and you have to release pressure as you go and come back up. Or I'm not I'm I I've I've never scuba dived and I I can't speak to it like fully, but they have to, you know, proceed to the the top, you know, to the break in the water very slowly because otherwise it it can cause some severe damage to them too.

SPEAKER_00

It's just so scary to think about. So whatever lives down there, as you said, it's adapted. Like the fish probably don't have eyes because they don't need them. And who knows what kind of creatures live down there. Maybe Godzilla lives down there. Or, you know, maybe there's a lot of UFO activity because I have seen a lot of documentaries on that too, where they're in the Antarctica or the Arctic region, and they talk about water and what they've seen come up and out of it. I I guess it was a long time since I've seen that episode.

SPEAKER_02

The lost city of Atlantis. You know, there are all of these things that kind of go into the water around the water that that are very interesting. You know, people seeing Myrrh people, for example, pi, you know, I I'm gonna say pirate ships, but people that that sail the oceans, that see things that that, you know, otherwise are not to be spoken of. I have several friends that are, you know, members of the military that have been out that have spent many months out to sea. And I remember having a conversation with a few of them asking if they've ever seen anything. And and their answer was, if we had, we couldn't tell you. We couldn't, we're we're not, we we cannot speak to what we may or may not have seen. See, that's very telling.

SPEAKER_00

I wonder if it was SpongeBob.

SPEAKER_02

I I hope so.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, no. I forgot about all those other lures of like mermaids and everything like that. That again, those had to come into mind some way. And maybe it's just someone had the creativity to be looking at a person and be like, oh, what if you were half person, half fish? It could have just been as simple as that. And as you were talking about underwater and what may be, and you know, we know there's like the Titanic that sank, it's underwater. I know we when we went to Lake Lanier in Georgia, that lake actually flooded a town. And I do believe that there are some places where there's a whole city under the lake. And how creepy is that?

SPEAKER_02

Right. Right. And and, you know, the the other piece too, and I I think the thing that kind of weirds me out a little bit about the ocean is how many people have passed in the ocean or had sea burials or, you know, shipwrecks, or, you know, there there are different historical sites that you can see from the top of the ocean. You can look down and you can see the ship just sitting, you know, because it got banked right then and there and and they weren't able to move it. And like there's so much history there that you can still kind of get a picture of because you can you can find it, you can see it, that we don't really consider. And it's interesting because we can talk about the history of the land that we're on, but we don't see it like we do with the water. Does that make sense?

SPEAKER_00

It does. It holds so many mysteries and it is very spiritual. I know I've been out on the water before and just watching the waves or watching the stillness. I know um on a recent trip, I was on a cruise in Japan, that area, and one night the waters were so eerily calm and the fog was so heavy. I mean, I just wanted to sit out there because it was so beautiful, and it just almost felt like it was calling or welcoming or sharing or just allowing me to step into being part of something greater.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Yeah. And and it really is the ocean is quite therapeutic. And and you know, that a lot of people that friends that I have will sit by the ocean and just listen to the waves because there's something very tranquil about it too. And I I can't imagine, I think the last time I was on the ocean, I was actually, I was on a cruise ship at one point in time. And I remember I I think I slept better on that cruise than I had in in perhaps months, because it just rocks you to sleep.

SPEAKER_00

It does. And I know often when I meditate, because I'm a person who prefers meditating to music or having that background noise, so many times it involves water, either the running of water down like a waterfall or rain or waves, because it is so tranquil and so peaceful. I mean, it is elements. Well, yeah, one of the different elements for sure. And then I was thinking with tarot cards too. I mean, you have the cups there, which are, you know, some which symbolize water, which represents feelings, it represents intuition, it represents all those things that flow so wonderfully throughout our lives.

SPEAKER_02

What I was going to kind of dive into too, with to your point of just looking at the elements as they are, especially water, is it can also be the exact opposite. It can be so damaging and do so much harm to, you know, different spaces and where, you know, we're looking at what, you know, you brought up flooding and leaks, and like it does so much more. damage than I think a lot of people might even put thought to. But it's also that our emotions are the same way, right?

SPEAKER_00

They are. And I've always thought about the four elements and the idea of balance and giving Mother Earth a lot of credit for having to manage all that in a way that we can exist here. Because if you have too much of something, like you said, water, you're going to get floods, you're going to get horrible issues there, big tides, things that cause damage. But the same with the earth, if you don't find a way to balance it, you're going to get those earthquakes. It's got to release a little bit. And so Mother Earth, I mean, that's a huge job. And when I give my faith talk every day, I shout out to her for taking on that challenge and balancing everything so we can live right.

SPEAKER_02

And it really is. And I know that we kind of went off on a major tangent about the ocean. We're not going to get to time travel today. It's really interesting though. And I think I think this is maybe the the conversation that we needed to have because of the energy that we're sitting in right now from, you know, I don't want to say from specifically the full moon, but the active more active cryptids that you were just talking about, you know, things that are coming up for a lot of individuals, you know, all of a sudden experiencing paranormal activity that that's happening now that perhaps was not moving or or happening either. It's really interesting because, you know, I I was talking about my my place of employment the other, you know, this past week, but I will say that one of my coworkers had her own pretty significant experience when she was alone in the building as well. And she like to the point where she got up looking for the other person that was in in the building because she could hear them walking and no one was there.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Maybe I'm bringing in the energy too. And I know we've talked about that because one of the free channels that they get here is Ghost Adventures. Oh. Not the one with Zach Begans like the other one, Ghost Hunters, maybe it is. It's the one with um Steve Gonzalez and Tango and that one. But it's just been on in the background a lot here and them sharing their experiences and them going in with the task of we'll debunk what we can debunk, but we'll see what we can hear and what we can't explain. And so maybe just watching that and bringing that energy in has kind of kicked it up a little.

SPEAKER_02

I mean it's entirely possible because we do shift energy when we're in different spaces. It's just very curious that it's all happening to me at least around the full moon.

SPEAKER_00

Around a full moon, around the anniversary of my grandmother passing again the universe works in mysterious ways. And here we started off this conversation about and around the moon, but the moon also has a huge effect on what? Tides. So in the ocean. Jumped into the ocean and that is just organic and authentic. We didn't plan to do that, but here we are and it's where we're sitting right now.

SPEAKER_02

It it is really interesting when you step back and think about it because if we were to lose the moon, get rid of it, we would actually end up ceasing to exist. Not immediately, but it would impact us so much over time because it does, you know, impact the ocean and the waves and the movement of Earth in in many different ways. I mean that's why, you know, not to dive too much into female health but that's why it's called you know essentially a moon flow or was called the moon flow when women were menstruating for years and years and years. I did not know that.

SPEAKER_00

50 some years old and I did not know. Yeah no it's all very interesting and it's all interconnected and I mean I guess that's what we're experiencing right now. Just a boost in that interconnectivity of everything and how it all comes together. Well I would like to jump into the ocean and the unexplored parts at some point in the future because it's so fascinating. I also would really like to jump into um a series on the four different elements because those are also illuminating. That will be fun. But I do have a question for you. Ooh so where the oceans are concerned because again I've seen a lot of documentaries do you think it's more alien or extraterrestrial beings inhabiting that area or do you think it's just earthbound things that we have no idea exist or dimensional things?

SPEAKER_02

I'm going to say D, all of the above, Alex I I don't think that there's one specific thing and I think that's one of the reasons why we can't explore so deeply. I I think that it's I don't want to it it's almost like because you gave me three options it's almost like all of the elements kind of combined there. So you know maybe there's this I I feel like common ground for all three of those things and then the three are separate or have their own spaces where they are more in existence. Does that make sense?

SPEAKER_00

It does and I'm going to sit with it for a little while but it does make sense and I would say all of the above too because if all of the above can happen on land, why wouldn't it happen in the water? Right. Yeah we're just babies here. Like what we've accumulated in our years of living I'm speaking for myself what I have accumulated in my the years that I've been alive honestly lately I know I haven't even scratched the surface. And that's part of the energy I talked in the beginning a little bit about imposter syndrome in my own life. That's part of it because I just now feel like things that have always been so obvious I'm either feeling it differently noticing it differently or diving into the impact differently if that makes sense. It does it does it it's like knowing and then understanding knowing that it's there knowing that it's possible knowing that you know you've learned about it but then you step into this but what does that mean in life and how does that impact the world differently right there are just so many aha moments and when I start tugging on one string I just realize like it's attached to a whole bunch of garbage or something that's just going to drop on my head. Not that the stuff is garbage. I'm just trying to give you a visual just it's attached to something that when I pull on it there's just so much more that I haven't even explored.

SPEAKER_02

Right. Right. I is I just picture somebody that's pulling a balloon out of a box and it opens and everything falls out.

SPEAKER_00

Yes. Maybe like a pinata but I don't beat sometimes in life you get beat up a little bit by both the good and the bad yeah yeah it's true. Yeah it's true this was not an episode on time travel even though I will give you credit you tried two times to bring us back to topic and I'm like well wait a minute I want to talk about this.

SPEAKER_02

I I think it's an introduction in a way too because we will be talking about time travel in the next episode but it's it's cool because with all of these experiences you can start to think about that exploration. Are we just kicking into different timelines? What does that mean? Right? Right.

SPEAKER_00

And again there is so much with time there's so much with time travel you're talking things like the Mandela effect. You're talking things I heard one that I'm like I gotta look up exactly what it is the butterfly effect. Like there's so many different things out there and again different strings we can pull but what should we be pulling into each episode because they're so intertwined right now. Right.

SPEAKER_02

Right. And and I mean it's interesting and and it's it's all really fascinating. And I know we kind of we didn't stick to our topic which means I'm guessing you don't have questions ready for today.

SPEAKER_00

Well I don't really have questions but I could think of one or two I've got one.

SPEAKER_02

Oh good so because we're talking about the full moon and we jumped in in that full moon my question to our listeners is did you notice an impact or change around the full moon in your own life and what was it?

SPEAKER_00

We'll just stay with that question because that was very similar to the question I was going to ask you just said it more elegant elegantly eloquently. How do you say that eloquently you said it more E word so yeah so the next episode will definitely be time travel and then also introduced in this episode we're going to talk at some point about spiritual discernment because if I have ChatGPT questioning something like hey look at this I think that's very fascinating that ChatGPT is doing that and maybe we need to look at spiritual discernment and also my friend that reached out to me who's having all these experiences wants to come on and talk about so that's awesome. That's awesome coming up I'm super excited about awesome I can't wait it'll be great either.

SPEAKER_01

So with that Stacy will you close this episode of randomness out all right everybody stay curious that's what you know and we will meet you along the spiritual byway.

SPEAKER_00

Until next time guys bye everyone thank you so much for meeting up someone like that. Thank you so much for taking the time to be here with us wherever you are here right now. Just know you're not alone we're here for you and we're all in this together