Aubrey's Novel Bingo Podcast

Lee Stanford, a self-proclaimed prophet, shares his story of having visions of the future. He had his first vision of a purple cat when he was young. As he grew older, the visions became more real to him. Lee recounts a vision of his mother getting into a car crash, which later came true. After her death, Lee and his sister Murphy discovered adoption papers in their stepfather's trunk. They decided to run away and find their grandmother in Benin. They eventually located their grandmother's farm, where they shared their story and found solace. Lee also discusses his visions with his grandmother, who supports and finds them amazing. The interview ends with the promise of continuing the story in the next episode. Hi, this is Aubrey's interview podcast, where I interview people with crazy stories or gifs. Today's guest is a person named Lee Stanford. Lee claims he is a prophet and has visions of the future. Lee says that he is gifted by the spirit and is going to tell us his story of how he got here. But before he tells his story, I'd like to ask him a few questions. Lee, when did you have your first vision? I had my first vision when I was around 6 or 7 years old. Do you remember what the vision was exactly? Well, sort of. I was playing in my living room with a toy and I saw a huge purple cat, which I obviously knew wasn't real. Okay, I have one last question and then the stage is yours. How did you know it was a vision and not just your imagination? Well, at first it got harder to tell because they were just small, harmless visions. But as I got older, the visions became more real and I knew they were real. Yeah, okay. Perfect. That's all the questions I have, so whenever you're ready, you can tell us your whole life story. My name is Lee Stanford. I grew up in Benin and I had a very terrifying vision one night. It was my mom. So I saw my mom in a vision get into a car crash, which most of my visions came true most of the time. So I was not ready for her to get in a car crash. As you would if your mom got into a car crash. And my stepdad, Horace, me and my sister Murphy never liked him. And he wasn't, I don't want to say abusive, but he was very hard. He was a very hard man to please. And he, he was hard on me specifically. Murphy, on the other hand, he loved her. She was the tougher one of our siblings, even though she was younger. But yeah, my mom started acting weird before I had the vision. And before I had the vision, I saw the hobo. The hobo is a raggedy old man that I see all the time, right before I have a vision of something bad happening. And I hate it when he's around. He's a vision, well, I thought he was a vision, when every time I saw him, I just wanted to scream. And I wanted to cry and I wanted to run, but I couldn't. I could only just sit there and let him watch me until I had another vision of something bad happening. And that vision that I had that night was my mom getting into a car crash. After I had the vision, I heard my mom and Horace fighting. They normally fought nowadays, but this one sounded a lot more aggressive. And I just remember running out of my room, and my mom at the bottom of the stairs, closing the door, and Horace and Murphy standing at the top of the stairs with me looking down. And then Horace turned around and said, Good riddance! Yeah, something like that, I don't know. It was a very long time ago. And then, um, Murphy said something along the lines of, Why is mom acting weird? What's wrong? Why did she leave? And then, a couple minutes, well, around half an hour later, I heard a crash. And it was my mom. She had gotten into a car crash. Like, I had the vision. The next day, we had to go to her funeral. And it was very hard. And Horace had to drive us, and now Horace had to take care of us. And we don't like Horace, so we wanted to get out as soon as we can. So after the funeral, we were just lying around in the garage, Horace inside. And then Murphy came out and said, I want to check Horace's car. I heard him talking on the phone about something being in his trunk for us. I thought it was a horrible idea, because you being around in someone's car is not good. What if he found something that you didn't want to see? What if he turned around, if you turned around and he was there waiting to kill you or something? But I wanted to get out of there as fast as I could, so I just went along with Murphy. And in his car, we saw letters from a grandma. We never really heard of our grandma. My mom always just sat there. She never really talked about her grandma. All we knew was that she lived on a farm with lots of hummingbirds. Hummingbirds were my mom's favorite. She absolutely adored them. So they were just letters that my mom wrote, or no, that my grandma wrote trying to contact us. My mom wouldn't let us or something. Wouldn't let us see anything. But the real thing that scared us so bad was adoption papers. We saw adoption papers in his trunk. The trunk of his vehicle had adoption papers for me and Murphy. He was going to adopt us. And then Horace ran out of the house and saw us in his trunk. And he was like, What are you shitheads doing in my trunk? That's private matter. Murphy grabbed one of his tools from the garage and hit him a bunch of times, like beat him up. And said to me, Let's go. We need to run away now and find grandma. I have chills right now just listening to you talk about this. Your life seems so mysterious and crazy. Like, did you have any friends growing up? No, I didn't really have any friends. It was mostly Murphy who had a ton of friends. He was the most popular person I knew. Anyways, as I was saying, So we get in the car and I start driving for a very long time. We checked the date, well not the date, but the stamp of where the letters came from that our grandma sent to us. And it said Benin. So I'm not technically from Benin. I'm from California, which is right beside Benin. But, I had to escape to Benin and I was raised on my grandma's farm. But, anyways, we were driving for a very long time until we stopped at a gas station to get food. And this old, not old lady, but I'd say around mid-forties, we asked her, you know, where a farm is. And she said, of course, I guess our grandma was famous enough for her to know who she was. So we thank her and we leave. And we drive down the road that the lady told us and we find a farm. We go inside the house on the farm and there's our grandma. We tell her everything that was after us and wants to adopt us and that our mom died. And she's like, yep, I know, that kind of stuff. And, yeah, she... When I tell you, I've never seen someone cry more than I've seen my grandma cry. And Murphy, I've never, ever seen her cry. And then I saw her cry a little bit. And, sorry, this is a very emotional story about me. But, yeah. And then we go to bed, we have our showers, we get to our mom's old room, and the next day we are off to work. And we go to work in the farm and I find this place called Hummingbird Grove. And I tell my grandma about all my visions. And she thinks that it's amazing. My mom never, ever liked my visions. She thought that it was horrible that I had visions. And, yeah. I just... I just hated it when my mom told me this stuff. When I told her about my visions, it was horrible. It broke my heart when I told my other sister about my visions, too. Like, Murphy. Wow! So it's like a bunch of sibling love in this story. And, like, brother and sister over everything. Like, you trust her. Like, it seems like you really trust her. Oh, yeah. I could trust Murphy with my life if I truly wanted to. Wow, that's amazing. Well, that's probably all the time we have for today. But tomorrow, like, we're gonna have Leon again to continue his story because this has been going on for a while. But, yeah. We're gonna have him on tomorrow. And, yeah. It'll be all good. And we'll hear the end of the story. Because I have chills. Like, literal chills. Wait to hear the rest of the story. Bye!