Unearthly Realms

By Ron L. Carter

It wasn't the last minute call to a kitchen fire that almost ruined Tyler's one year anniversary dinner with his wife Maggie. It was the fact that he took his eyes off the road for a split second as he was rushing home.

Firefighter Tyler wakes to find he's no longer part of the living, nor has he "passed through the light" to Heaven, he's somewhere in between. What he encounters as he tries to find a way to contact Maggie, turns out to be the last thing he expected; demons, bigfoot, aliens, underwater base, and underground city. Join Tyler as he meets up with other spirits, Markus and Holly, as they journey to what could only be described as "Unearthly Realms."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ron L. Carter
• Release date: Apr 29, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301216918

Ron L. Carter

Ron L. Carter - born - Norman, Arkansas. Lives in Visalia, CA. Graduated from Redwood High School in 1965 and College of the Sequoias in 1969. Spent twenty-one months in the U.S. Army and did one tour of duty in Vietnam from Sept. 1967 to Sept. 1968 (during the Tet Offensive). Had a successful career while holding Insurance, Real Estate, Construction, and Stock Broker licenses. Father of three children. Been writing books since 2011 with 12 that are currently published.

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Unearthly Realms

By

Ron L. Carter

Copyright 2013 by Ron L. Carter

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The people and places appearing in this book, as well as the story, are fictitious. Any resemblance to real people, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 – Tyler’s Encounters with Ghosts

Chapter 2 – Tyler Goes Into Another Dimension

Chapter 3 – Meeting Markus and Holly

Chapter 4 – Trying to Contact Maggie

Chapter 5 – Cho’s Kitchen

Chapter 6 – Meeting Zitrik

Chapter 7 – Finding out How to Contact Loved Ones

Chapter 8 - Tyler Meets Tarmic

Chapter 9 – Tyler Makes Contact with His Mom

Chapter 10 – Mr. Potts, the Nonbeliever

Chapter 11 – Ty Meets the Psychic Medium

Chapter 12 – Meeting Eigcok

Chapter 13 – Holly Makes Contact with Rebecca

Chapter 14 – Zitrik and the Underwater Base

Chapter 15 – Mission to North Korea

Chapter 16 – Crenshaw Ranch and Celeen

Chapter 17 – Patrol Over Iran

Chapter 18 – Korbin and the Underground City

Chapter 19 – Holly Returns

Chapter 20 – Trudy and the Demon

Chapter 21 – Markus makes Contact with his Mom and Moves on

Chapter 22 – Tyler goes to Colorado to see Justin

Chapter 23 – Tyler Contacts Maggie

Author’s notes

Special Thanks

Other books by Ron L. Carter

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Chapter 1 – Tyler’s Encounters with Ghosts

As a child, Tyler McBride heard stories about ghosts and was both fascinated and terrified of them. He’d seen all the old movies about ghostly apparitions, unseen entities, lights going on and off, footsteps, odd smells, orbs, unexplained noises, misplaced furniture, doors opening and closing on their own, shadows, mists, the feeling of being watched, touched, and cold spots. Tyler also had seen many old movies where ghosts confronted people and would talk to them. It would frighten him whenever he saw the ghost figures in the film.

None of what he had seen or heard on television had prepared Tyler for his first encounter with a ghost. He was ten years old and spending the night with his favorite cousin, Craig. Tyler and Craig were almost the same age, liked a lot of the same things, and spent a lot of time together.

Craig’s house was one of those creepy places that Tyler didn’t like spending the night. Especially after he and Craig had a couple of encounters with ghosts in the house. It was an older farmhouse in the country, and to get to it, you had to drive down a narrow dirt road in the middle of a walnut orchard. During the summer months, while the leaves were still on the trees, they could get spooky, hidden away in the middle of the orchard. The house was faded dark brown and raised off the ground about four feet.

Tyler always laughed about it, leaning a little to one side while heading toward the house. It had four steps leading up to the large open front porch area where they kept a couple of rocking chairs, and an old swing chair hung by chains in the ceiling.

The old, run-down, dilapidated, two-car garage was detached, leaned to one side, and about ten feet away from the central part of the house. The windows in the house were old single-pane pull-up windows with latches that locked from the inside. The front and back doors had beat-up screen doors that squeaked when opened. They had holes in them from the dogs and cats trying to get inside to stay warm. The floors were wooden, and when anyone walked around inside, you could hear every footstep.

One Saturday night, while Tyler was spending the night, he and Craig decided to stay up late and watch one of those scary movies. Craig’s parents weren’t interested in it, so they had already gone to bed. Tyler and Craig each had grabbed a blanket at the beginning of the movie and wrapped it around them as they curled up on the couch.

It was close to midnight when the movie was finally over, so they decided to hit the sack. There were two twin-size beds in Craig’s big open bedroom. They closed the door behind them as Tyler jumped in the spare bed, and Craig jumped into his. They lay in bed, talked, and laughed for about thirty minutes. It gave them time to catch up on what they had been doing since they had seen each other. Plus, it helped them to forget about the scary movie they had just watched.

They were both almost asleep when suddenly they heard a noise at the door. When the boys looked over, they saw the doorknob turning. They hadn’t heard footsteps leading up to the door and thought maybe one of Craig’s parents was checking on them. They first thought they were making too much noise to hear someone as they approached the door. Craig believed that if it would’ve been his mom or dad, they would open the door and come right in.

Tyler looked over at Craig and whispered, Did you see that? Craig said yes and immediately sat up in his bed with his eyes wide open and called out, Mom, Dad, is that you? Not getting any response, they became more frightened as they watched the door slowly open. Standing at the entry to the doorway was a tall, dark figure of a wrinkled old man. He was much taller and older than Craig’s father. Tyler noticed the guy was only about six inches shorter than the doorway as he glared down at them. It was dark, and they couldn’t make out his facial features, but they could tell he was old and scary looking. Craig spoke up loudly and said, Who are you? What do you want? The old man didn’t say a word. He just stared down at them and smiled. He looked as if he wanted to say something but couldn’t.

Neither recognized the old man, so it scared them out of their wits. The boys froze with fear as they waited to see what the old man would do next. They weren’t sure what he wanted with them, and they kept looking at him for about thirty seconds until they both lay back down in their beds and pulled the covers over their heads as if to hide from him. Foolishly, they thought that pulling the blanket over their heads would protect them from the old man.

Nothing was happening, so Tyler waited for a few minutes, which felt like an eternity to him, and then looked over at Craig and told him to see if the old man was still there. Craig said, No way, man, you look. Reluctantly, Tyler slowly pulled the cover down below his chin and peaked out to see if he was still standing there. Much to his horror, the old man was still blocking the doorway and still just looking down at them. Tyler whispered to Craig, He’s still there. What should we do? That’s when Craig pulled the cover down to peek for himself, and just at that moment, the old man’s body began to fade away right before their eyes. They watched in horror until he disappeared as Tyler said, Did you see that? Craig replied, Yes, I did.

He jumped out of bed and headed for his mom and dad’s bedroom, screaming in fear. Tyler was right behind him, yelling. In Craig’s mom and dad’s bedroom, they were jumping up and down and telling them they had seen an old man standing in their doorway. By that time, Craig’s mom and dad were sitting in bed, wondering what was happening.

As he heard bits and pieces of their story, Craig’s father sprang to his feet and grabbed a baseball bat to protect them from the intruder. He slowly went through the entire house, room by room, looking for what he thought was someone that had broken into the house. After checking to ensure all the windows and doors were still locked and not damaged, he returned to the bedroom to tell the boys he didn’t find anything.

Once the boys had calmed down enough to talk about what they had seen, he had them tell their entire story just as it had happened. Not wanting to add more validity to the boy’s already somewhat unbelievable story, Craig’s father said, It sounds like to me you boys probably just frightened yourselves watching that old scary movie. Tyler and Craig tried their best to convince them that what they had seen was real and not just something they had made up. Even though Craig’s parents didn’t believe the boys, they let them sleep on the floor in their bedroom the rest of that night.

Neither of them got much sleep as Tyler lay there shaking, afraid the old man would return. The following day, they talked about what they had seen with each other but knew there was no point in talking to Craig’s parents about it. They didn’t believe their story, and there was nothing they could say or do to convince them they had seen an actual ghost apparition standing in their doorway and that they’d watched as he faded away.

It was about a year later, and the ghost experience had faded in Tyler’s memory to the point where he decided he wasn’t afraid to spend the night with Craig again. That’s when he had his second and scariest encounter with the old man's ghost. Since it was a weekend, they stayed up late and played video games in Craig’s bedroom until the early morning hours. It was around 2:00 a.m. when they finally decided they had enough of the games and needed some sleep. They jumped into their beds and were soon fast asleep.

Tyler was asleep on his right side, facing the wall. He’d only been asleep about an hour when he heard a soft voice whispering in his ear. At first, he tried to ignore the voice, but it kept repeatedly saying, Tyler wakes up. After several times hearing the voice, he reluctantly opened his eyes and looked around for the person who had so rudely woken him. He immediately realized that all his cover was off the bed and on the floor. His first reaction was that Craig was playing a prank on him, but as he looked over at Craig’s bed, he saw that he was still asleep.

At that moment, Tyler felt something tugging on his legs, and when he looked down at the end of the bed, there was that same scary old man they had seen once before, and he was glaring back at Tyler. He had Tyler by both ankles, and he was smiling at him as he was slowly pulling him out of bed. Tyler began to kick his feet up and down to get loose, yelling and screaming for the old man to let him go. Craig woke up when he heard Tyler yelling and saw the old man trying to pull Tyler out of bed. He yelled at the old man to stop and let Tyler go. Looking over at Craig, and after a few seconds, the old man let go of Tyler’s feet, and Tyler instantly sat up and jerked his body against the back of the bed, shaking with fear. He pulled his legs up against his chest and wrapped his arms around his legs. Frozen in fear, he just looked at the old man to see what he would do.

As he and Craig stared at the old man, he smiled at them as if to say I got you and, just like his first encounter with them, slowly disappeared in front of their eyes. Tyler said to Craig, Did you see that he tried to pull me out of bed? Craig replied, Yea, but no one will ever believe that story. Get in my bed, just in case he comes back. Tyler didn’t know what good that would do but gladly jumped in the bed with him and under the covers. He lay awake terrified until sometime in the early morning hours when he couldn’t keep his eyes open any longer and finally fell asleep.

It was around 11:00 a.m. when Craig woke him up by shaking him and saying, Wake up sleepy head. It’s almost noon. At first, it startled Tyler because he thought the old man had returned for him. He was still so frightened from the experience that he quickly jumped straight out of bed and put on his clothes. He was eager that it was daylight, and the thought of going home was very much on his mind.

After they had time to talk about what happened, Craig told him that he had seen the same old man several times over the past year since their first experience with him. He told Tyler he had never tried to pull him out of bed. Craig said the old man always stood at the end of his bed and stared down at him. He said that it always freaked him out, but that was it. He never tried to hurt him.

He told Tyler he had tried to tell his mom and dad about the old man every time it happened, but they never believed him, or they would try to appease him in some way by saying it was just his imagination. Tyler said, Maybe he didn’t like me spending the night in your room and sleeping in your extra bed. Maybe that’s where he sleeps? The thought of that freaked them out. Craig replied, Maybe so. That makes sense, but who was whispering in your ear that woke you up? It couldn’t have been the old man because he was pulling on your legs at the foot of your bed. Tyler thought for a moment and then replied with a funny look on his face, Maybe that was a friendly ghost trying to warn me about the old man. They both laughed, and Craig replied, Yea, you’re right. That’s probably who it was. Neither of them said anything else to each other about the fact that maybe there were two ghosts in Craig’s bedroom instead of just one.

Once they entered the kitchen, Craig’s mom prepared them lunch and set it on the table. She sat down at the table with them. She sat with her elbows on the table and hands, holding a cup of coffee. Once they knew they had her full attention, Craig started telling her what had happened to Tyler during the night. He said to her, "Mom, we saw the old man again last night, and he tried to pull Tyler out of bed by his ankles. He told her he believed it was the same old man he had told her about several times.

She looked annoyed with the entire story as she rolled her eyes back and directed a question to Tyler. She said, Is that true, Tyler? Did that happen to you? He very apprehensively shook his head up and down and replied, Yes, mam, he had me by both ankles, and he was slowly pulling me out of the bed until I started kicking and yelling, and he finally let me go. She cocked her head to one side, looked at Tyler, and said, Sounds like you boys didn’t get enough sleep last night, or you both just have a huge imagination. Tyler knew she didn’t believe a word they were saying, so he shut up and didn’t say anything else about the old man, even after she asked him a few more questions about the experience. He just changed the subject as he thanked her for lunch and asked Craig what he had planned for them for the day.

Later that evening, as Tyler was leaving to go home, he pulled Craig to the side and told him that he wouldn’t spend the night with him again if the old man's ghost were there. He said he didn’t want to have another experience like that ever again in his life. Craig was disappointed to hear him say that, but he understood why. He told Tyler, I don’t blame you after what happened to you last night; I wouldn’t stay here either. He told Tyler he would probably sleep elsewhere instead of in that room if he could. He told Tyler he had no choice because his parents wouldn’t let him sleep anywhere else.

The worst part for Tyler and Craig was that Craig’s parents, the ones supposed to love and protect you, didn’t believe a word they had said about the old man. After that experience, Tyler spent time with Craig during the day but never spent the night with him again.

Over the next several years, Tyler had a few more encounters with ghosts but believed they weren’t out to harm him, so most of the time, he just kept the ghostly encounters to himself. Occasionally, he would tell his mom about them, and she seemed to believe what he told her as she listened intently to his stories. At least he felt like she had a more open mind regarding ghosts than Craig’s mom and never belittled him for talking about his ghostly encounters with her.

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Chapter 2 – Tyler Goes Into Another Dimension

It was a beautiful sunny day in California, and Tyler could hardly wait to get home to be with his wife, Maggie. She’d taken time off work from her busy schedule as a nurse at the hospital to make sure she would be ready in time. It was their first anniversary, and he’d made plans to take her to her favorite restaurant for dinner. They’d been planning it for days, and he’d gone to the local jewelry store and picked up a gorgeous gold tennis bracelet he would give her during their romantic dinner.

They married a few weeks after he turned twenty-five, and she had just gotten her nursing degree. They were still in the honeymoon stage and were crazy in love with each other. Tyler was so much in love with Maggie that his thoughts were always on her when he went to work, no matter what he was doing. He couldn’t wait until he got off work to get home and be with her. The excitement of seeing her would always remind him of how lucky he was to be with a partner he loved so deeply. He always felt lucky to have found that one person that loved him just as much as he loved her.

On this day, he’d planned his schedule at the fire station so that he would be off around 6:00 p.m. His much-anticipated date with Maggie was going to be at 7:00, and he couldn’t wait. He thought he would have plenty of time to go home, shower, and get ready after work. He knew how important this date was for both. For a few weeks, Maggie told her friends that Tyler was taking her for an extravagant dinner at her favorite restaurant on their anniversary.

The fire station had been slow, like most days, until around 5:00 p.m. That’s when they received a call that a house was on fire and needed to respond immediately. Tyler quickly put on all his firefighting gear and headed for the truck. His other friends, Jerry and Frank, were already on their way, and they met him just as he was getting