By Tim Binnall
An NFL quarterback recently revealed that he experienced what he perceived to be some kind of paranormal activity while staying at a teammate's pool house. Sam Darnold of the San Francisco 49ers reportedly shared the story earlier this week during an appearance on the podcast Pardon My Take. Asked about his brief stay at teammate George Kittle's pool house earlier this summer and if he had moved out because it was haunted, the NFL star initially claimed that was not the case before conceding that "there was something going on there." The revelation understandably piqued the hosts' interest and Darnold proceeded to recount a pair of chilling incidents that occurred during his visit.
"It was crazy," the quarterback marveled, "I've never had anything like that happen to me before." Darnold went on to explain that, one evening during his stay, he woke up at around 3 AM and briefly felt as though he could not move. "That next night, the same thing happened" wherein he was seemingly frozen in place and "I had to keep focusing on this thing in the corner, like there was something else in the room." Showing some commendable knowledge of the paranormal, one of the co-hosts asked Darnold if he saw the infamous 'Hat Man' shadow being, but he indicated that he did not observe anything like that and just mused that "it was very creepy."
Darnold indicated that the experience was a first for him, though noted that "I know a couple people who have had situations" at an "old Civil War place where there is now a hotel or a dorm." Reflecting on his stay at the pool house, the quarterback continued "it was just super, super weird, and it just felt like when I woke up there was something holding on to me and then that next night, I felt that something was in the room with me, and it was the freakiest thing. I'm like getting chills talking about it right now." While the quarterback seemed certain that there was some kind of presence with him at the pool house, skeptics will undoubtedly say that Darnold merely 'fell victim' to sleep paralysis.