25 True Creepy Horror Stories | The Lets Read Podcast Episode 005

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every week with the help of audio boom I am able to broadcast my stories from previous weeks in a two to three-hour compliation available on iTunes and Spotify enjoy today's taste of spooky tales and download this and all previous podcasts via the links below your data plan will thank you now enjoy the show [Music] so funny enough I was reminded of this event after discussing an older let's read video about cults my friend and I were on our way to grab some food from McDonald's after I had recounted one of the stories there was a brief flaw in the conversation that's all my friends Steph casually said do you remember the time that cult came to our high school what was a bit taken aback by that I had no idea what she was talking about she began to recount the details of that day and as I listened to her it all came rushing back it was like a truck it hit me it's a bit of a crazy story so I thought it would share it here so to start off I have the same group of friends now as I did in high school and this story happened about eight years or so ago during the morning announcements that day the principal informed us that after school there was going to be a seminar he said that an author hadn't written an educational book aimed at teens and that he would like some feedback on it and that if you attended there would be food and he'd be given extra credit I remember after my second period class that day someone had hung flyers for the seminar all over the school where there had been none up that morning during lunch that day after talking about it me and my friends decided that we would go to the seminar we were already planning on hanging out after school that day so we thought we would go get some food and extra-credit seemed like a good idea at the time after school we met up in her usual spot and walked to the classroom that the seminar was being held in remember I was surprised to see how many kids actually turned up there were about 30 kids and some teachers and even the Dean was there as well everything started off normal me and my friends were chatting amongst ourselves eventually we started talking to the teachers that were there - things got weird about five minutes before the seminar was supposed to start a bunch of adults walked in and they dispersed through the room none of them sat down they all stood around the room and one even stood in front of the door I remember not being so weirded out by what was happening until one of the dalts came and stood ranked next to my group of friends she was a short Asian woman she had this weird smile on her face I looked around and realized all the adults were smiling the smiles looked forced they weren't big toothy cartoonish smiles there were closed mouths tight lipped smiles kind of like they were in pain but were forcing themselves to smile through the pain then the seminar started the author came out and all the smiling adults started clapping so everyone else did too the author went up to the podium and introduced himself he was an average looking middle-aged asian man he said he was a doctor and then he had been a devout Catholic all of his life and that he had two teenage kids he said that he decided to write his book after witnessing the evils and the lies that schools were teaching teenagers and though the smiling adults were a part of his congregation and that they were his assistants he began to talk about passages from his book it was all weird crazy stuff like how to protect against the lie of evolution and how to guard yourself against demons and how most teachers are possessed by evil spirits so not to trust them throughout all of this the author was so calm and casual like he wasn't spouting crazy nonsense he said the only way to save yourself from evil was to join his church he never once mentioned the church name by the way and then he and other leaders in the church had wanted to start a youth group he then offered that if any of us wanted to go to a service at his church after the seminar he would drive us there or any of his assistants would give anyone who asked their cell phone number and that the assistant would come and pick them up if they wanted to go to a service in the future and needed a ride throughout all of this mean my friends kept sending weird and confused glances at each other and the teachers the teachers who I might add all look terrified and the Dean who was so mad he was bright-red the seminar ended with the author telling his assistants to bring out the food and to hand out each of us a copy of his book and then he started praying a few of the assistants brought out some trays of cookies while others handed out his book me my friends each got handed a book and we stood to leave the Dean made a beeline toward the author and pulled him aside as we were leaving one of the assistants stopped us and directed us towards the food despite being uncomfortable we went to get food and when I got to the table with the food I remember thinking that the combination of the food was gross what I mean by this was that they were handing out grape juice and some weird large white sugar cookie I just grabbed a cup of juice in a cookie and walked out of the room my friends copied me and followed out we stood in front of the classroom and started talking about how weird everything that happened was we noticed quickly that Steph was missing my friend Christine looked into the room and saw her still near the food table Christine told us as much and we waited for her I hate sugar cookies so I gave mine away to my friend Alicia who had already ate her cookie and drank her juice I was thirsty so I drank mine looking back on it now it was really stupid to consume the food they gave us after how weirded out we were by the whole situation finally stepped walked out of the classroom she made a beeline to the trash can and threw her juice and cookie away she ran up to us and asked if we had eaten her drank anything they gave us some of the sad stuff hurried us away from the classroom and explained what they were doing none of us grew up in a religious household except Steph her family was very strict and religious and she explained to us that basically those people were tricking everyone into taking some sort of mock communion that the grape juice is normally supposed to be wine and is meant to signify the blood of Jesus while the sugar cookie though normally smaller was supposed to signify his flesh that really freaked me out because while we were waiting for Steph I had seen a bunch of other kids eating the cookies and drinking the juice Steph also explained that the reason she was still in the classroom while we had all walked out Steph was the Last of Us walk up to the food table when she saw the food they were serving she realized what they were doing and decided to leave without grabbing anything off the table before she could get out of the door one of the creepy smiling assistants stopped her and grabbed some juice and cookies off the table and held them out to her she politely declined but the insistant didn't move he just told her to take them she tried to get around him but he kept blocking her way and kept telling her to take the food finally she did just so she could leave and queue to us seeing her walking straight to the trashcan and throwing the food away we all threw the books away and went home later that week we noticed a few kids from that meeting were missing I asked the Dean about what had happened and this is when my stomach dropped apparently about five kids who attended that meeting and ate the cookies and drank the juice were admitted to the ER at our local Medical Center related to a foodborne illness we attempted to probe more but he became incredibly defensive and just said it was taken care of we also asked one of the teachers that was there and she just kept apologizing and saying how sorry she was for allowing any of that to happen but wouldn't go into further detail [Music] I'm a five three female living in the North Island of New Zealand this happened during the summer when a few friends and I were taking photos and cosplay cosplay is where you dressed as your favorite characters from your favorite shows and my partner and I absolutely loved it anyway a few of us travelled over the next town over to take advantage of the beautiful huge set of Gardens all created with different themes in mind like Italian Renaissance and surrealism although the gardener's are beautiful there can be so many that it can be quite a bit of walking especially in the hot Sun with a wig on this is important to the actual creepy part of the story there was a little Food Festival happening in one of the gardens open fields so my friends and I stripped off of our wigs and went over to have a much-needed rest and a bite to eat as we sat down I suddenly needed to go to the bathroom I pulled out my phone to check the time and my phone is dead of course I grow into my partner about how I have to go relieve myself but my phone was dead I have a fear of crowds and didn't want to lose them if I decided to move he gave me his phone and that put me at ease I head towards the bathroom quickly feeling sick and almost lightheaded from the Sun as I'm walking to the bathroom I pass an old man in a mobility scooter he locks eyes with me and I smile I have a sunny disposition so this is something I do with everyone I keep walking and make my way into the bathroom and do my business as I'm getting up from the toilet I start to feel even more dizzy from the heat so as I'm washing my hands I text my friends and my partner's phone to let them know that I don't feel so good I carry on and walk outside again before long I feel my legs give out and I'm forced to collapse onto a bench down the path a bit from the bathroom I text my friends again but they haven't seen the messages yet everyone is walking by oblivious and fair enough so would I I look to my right and there was the man and the scooter coming back the way he was going I couldn't have been in the toilets longer than five minutes and there he was again I didn't think anything of it I mean it's a public gardens and this is completely common occurence until we slowed to a stop about seven odd feet away he made a hand gesture as if asking where to get some water I slapped a smile on my face and told him that there was a Food Festival just ahead I mean surely he had seen it he had come from the same direction as me the first time he slowly started to speak in Spanish in fact and although I love the language I know Jack all about how to speak it I shook my head in confusion as he carried on speaking in broken English in Spanish he said that his name was Roberts and that he was from Argentina I could just make out what he was saying so no I can't remember his real name though I'm glad I can't his voice was rough and husky from what I assumed to be some sort of smoking habit judging by the yellowing of his teeth and the staining on his nails but what really stood out to me was the way he was smiling and staring at me not like he wanted help her directions but like he was sizing me up or something I told him I'm sorry and don't speak Spanish but you can find food and drink over there I pointed away from me in hopes that this would send the message that I didn't want to talk anymore but he just started getting out of his scooter and limping over to me now at this point I would usually have gotten up and walked away because even though I'm nice I'm not afraid to be rude and this guy was freaking me out but because of my Afra mentioned lightheadedness and inability to get up without feigning lord knows what would have happened had I fainted I looked down at the phone and frantically messaged my friends to help as it got closer still rambling and now only Spanish the only thing I could make out was him repeating me gusta in almost every breath again I only know very rudimentary Spanish so forgive me I through pleading looks at passers-by but I was ignored this man was creeping on me in broad daylight I didn't know what to do in that moment they say there is either a fight or flight mode but I froze now I was starting to get scared he kept getting closer and closer to me as I felt my blunt freeze-up his eyes were almost predatory as he approached me bear in mind I had just turned 21 at the time and this man looked to be in his late 50s and early 60s the way he lent his hand on the arm of the bench as he pressed further into my personal space made my stomach coil and discussed he was leaning his face down and towards my head as if though he was going to kiss me or something it was then that I heard my husband's voice call out my name jasmine I turned my head around to see my husband staring the man down as he approached a hint of worry in his voice but also the scarier tone of anger as he spoke again what's going on relief washed over my frozen form as he slipped in next to me wrapping a secure arm around my waist as he stared back at the man the old man now leans away slightly but doesn't actually leave my personal space he is now trying to speak to my husband in Spanish his tone almost aggressive I cling to my partner like a lifeline the sunstroke in my anxiety causing my heart to race a million miles an hour after the man takes another limping step towards us as if to try and grab me my husband scoops his arm around me and all what carries me is far away from this man as he can get I almost break down in tears as we reach my friends and they all hug me and tell me how worried they were by my messages my husband recounts what he saw as I hug him silently I'm glad this is where the story ends we waited around for a while and decided to walk all the way around the gardens again just to avoid where I had seen that man and thank God I hadn't seen him since [Music] when I was just about to start seventh-grade my mom and I had moved into a new house that we were going to rent for a short time the house itself was a bit chilling both literally and metaphorically there weren't many windows on the main levels so it was naturally very dark the main level included a living room the front door and the door to the garage there was a basement but it didn't go that far into the ground in fact there wasn't a wall to separate the living room and the basement there was only a railing so that's if by chance you feel you wouldn't plummet four feet in the basement there was a large empty space as soon as you walked down a cupboard in the stairs which will be pivotal later a hallway that leads to my bathroom and my room on the left-hand side and then straight in front was the guest room there was an upstairs level that included a kitchen my mom's bedroom and a computer room the kitchen had a sliding glass door that led to a patio in the backyard where there was a small garden a crabapple tree in the center and a hedge that separated us from neighbors and Golf Course the realtor had informed us that the only thing we had to worry about was that because we lived on a golf course we should watch out for flying golf balls and that the occasional golfer would walk into our backyard and collect their balls however when we discovered much greater things to be concerned about as we contain to live in the house during the first few months everything was fine except the dishwasher had broke so we would have to hand wash everything what was awful about that was sometimes if we stood at the sink to start washing dishes at night we had the feeling something was running up behind us to attack other times you could feel someone watching you through the window above the sink that was the only freaky thing that had happened but then I finished up seventh grade that's when the house began to wake up during the summer we all began noticing the feeling of always being watched and occasionally sometimes I swore I saw someone peeking just over the railing of the basement staring at me whenever I watched TV in the living room halfway through the school year I was told we were going to move out as soon as I was done with school I was so happy I hated the constant creeping vibe of the place the day after a crow had flown into the side of the house and died on impact a week later my mother had to sit down and tell me she was diagnosed with breast cancer a month later another crow killed itself after slamming into our house a week later my mother was t-boned which ended up totaling her car the final month of living in that house had began having dreams of a woman she was dressed in regular sleepwear - staring at me her face was shadowed out but her vibrant blue eyes weren't after a bit - her shirt began to slowly formed spots of blood I always woke up from these dreams drenched in sweat and with a headache I never told anyone though at the time I just thought I was paranoid from all the scary movies I watched the dreams continued to haunt me every other night however the greatest day came it was the day before he moved out of that house I went to bed smiling but I saw her again my dreams this time she finally moved stretching had a long decaying arm and a wispy voice she told me to come to her I woke up immediately but that was no longer in my bed when I woke up I was surrounded by pitch black the floor was hard and cold and when I went to stand up I hit my head because the ceiling was so low I crawled around this space waving my hands in front of me to find something and soon I did it was a string to a light that dimly lit the room than it was in it was a completely concrete room with various stains along the floors and walls I whipped my head around and saw wooden panel on the wall that I practically charged into when I pushed it out of the way I realized it led to the cupboard underneath the stairs I had no idea this store or more importantly this room even existed that room was directly underneath our living room and no one knew about it I bolted up to my mom's room crying and hyperventilating telling her everything that happened how I had no idea how I got in that room she didn't hesitate on grabbing me and driving me straight to the new house after a few years of trying to forget that house I had their urge to look up the history of it what the realtor had forgotten to mention was that there was a murder there a previous owner was brutally murdered and stabbed a countless amount of times and her body was discovered in the same room that I had woken up in in Bangor California growing up I always heard the same ghost story it became a sort of urban legend for our town of 665 people from 2006 to 2009 our fire station was haunted the firefighters all insisted on the presence of a wailing spirit it would lock the firefighters and rooms alone and screech a deafening sound at the helpless workers this lasted for years until the station workers refused to ever enter a room alone as that is when it usually struck in 2009 the station was torn down and ever since the Bangor Banshee had been heard in the hills at night now being a local having lived in Bangor my whole life I had long since ignored the spirit as a telltale that is until a couple of months ago I was at a friend's house a town over and found myself driving home at 2:00 a.m. alone down her unlit highway it being the start of summer and in my old Honda lacking air conditioning I left my windows open for the drive that's when I heard it a scream doesn't quite sum up my feeling it sounded so loud and inconsistent like a hundred simultaneous blood-curdling screams behind in front all around me I believe I saw a dark figure on the road in the corner of my eye but I was so disoriented by the noise my mind may have tricked me in a moment of panic I slammed the gas and the sound dissipated after a few seconds I haven't driven on that road at night since I still get an eerie feeling on my commute to work each morning this happened to me a year ago I am currently a 14 year old male living in Toronto and I've kept the story to myself it was September and school had just started it's the end of the first week and I already felt like I wanted this year to be over because too many people were acting like they own the school and others had gotten into drama that usually occurs with early teens so because the first week ended my family decided to have a little barbecue outside of my house at night I didn't eat much so I went back inside after finishing my food I left the back and front door open in case my family needed something from inside the house and wouldn't have to bother me while I slept to give you more insight I was the only person that had a room on the first floor while my sister and parents both had rooms on the third floor on the second floor was the second kitchen the living room in the front door besides my room was another room that no one ever used and next to that was the back door if you were to eggs in my bedroom in front of it was another door that led to the basement so I was in my room with the door locked and my eyes closed until I heard the back door and gently open and closed I found this weird cuz no one in my family ever opens or closes the door like that even if there was someone asleep I thought nothing of it until footsteps moved in front of the door and started gently turning the knob i aghast and held my breath after the person on the other end realized it was locked they started to violently turn the knob back and forth while slamming themselves into the door I started to praying to God that they wouldn't break the door down and thankfully after three attempts whoever was on the other side gave up and opened the door to the basement and walked down there then closed the door behind them I waited for 10 minutes and heard nothing so I decided to check to see if it was safe for me to run outside in my family I suddenly unlocked the door and opened it the basement door was unlocked so I carefully opened it to see if the person was still there i frozen fear as i saw a huge six-foot tall man probably in his 60's staring directly at me I knew I wouldn't be able to get the back door in time because of how long it takes to open it I ran to my room and as soon as I closed the door the man had started to push against the door then God he didn't try the knob first cuz I was able to lock it in time I grabbed the phone and called my mom with my house phone and told her what was happening she stayed on the phone with me the man was banging my door and I thought I was going to die then I suddenly heard something chilling on the phone my mom told me that both the front and back door were locked the heart dropped as I realized what kind of person this man was I was scared for a minute and then I got an idea I told the man that the neighborhood cops are on their way and the bluff seemed to work he ran out the front door and I got out of my room to open the back door for my mom she thought I made the whole thing up as a prank because nothing was stolen I had no proof of what had happened so I had no idea how to react except cry unfortunately my story didn't end there a few weeks later and moved on from what had happened and decided to continue regular life I was having an average day at school and was getting pretty tired about everyone talking about their drama at lunch I always go to a park to eat cuz I didn't want to be a part of the fights that occur at the cafeteria it was beautiful weather in October so I took my time walking to the park I sat down on the bench on the playground and as I did I saw a man leaving after finishing my lunch I checked my watch to see the time there was still 30 minutes till lunch period ended so I decided to finish the remaining homework I brought with me so I would have free time on my hands as soon as I got home while headed to the can to throw out some garbage I have found a wallet I opened it and found the idea of the man who left the park a few minutes ago I decided to leave it there just in case he came back for it and if he didn't by the time I did have to leave I would bring it with me home to call the number the I didn't have a phone wan nee when I finished my homework there was only about ten minutes left so I got up to pack up my stuff when I looked to the other end of the park where the wallet was I saw a man dressed in black pick up the wallet he wasn't able to see me because I was on the other side of the park still sitting down when he got back up I almost threw up seeing that it was the same man who broke into my house a month ago as soon as he left the park I ran the opposite direction of my school I told no one at my school and just continued the day as if though it was normal that night I was taking a walk in my neighborhood to get some fresh air when I reached near my school I saw the man again wearing the same clothes he noticed me and started running towards me I ran as fast as I could back to my house and as I let myself in I began to have a panic attack I had no idea how to react I didn't even know whether I should call the cops because I was just so uncertain of how to explain the situation because my parents didn't even believe me thankfully that was the last time I ever saw him but I still don't feel comfortable in my own hometown [Music] if I'm honest my pain started 10 years ago to me that's mind-blowing I've only just developed difficulty sleeping in the beginning it was believed to be a thyroid issue not the case new meds new doctor he can't keep a good dog down my first doctor actually ended his own life he battled an aggressive cancer and I don't have the ill will toward him but I wish I could find someone just as good as he was with these difficulties horrible nightmares sweating vomiting vertigo and extreme bouts of pain along my neck and back I'm scared okay I said it I'm scared out of my mind my new doctor received lab results and I'm having a flare-up of Rocky Mountain spotted fever and I'm sick extremely the bad day all started when I called my mom who used to be an RN I explained my symptoms to her and she freaked out I've never heard fear in her voice like that before and we have been through a lot we share on luckiness maybe someday my mom and I can be friends again sorry unrelated I go to the Walmart pharmacy because my mom demanded that my husband and I go to the closest pharmacy to pick up doxycycline this is where my day went from bad to worse I took it immediately just like my mother said I knew it was gonna make me vomit and I could feel the lump in my stomach threatening before the pill could touch my stomach acid just like now actually I took the blue capsule in a little less than an hour later I was puking out my car door were real explorers but have a very terrible car that feels a lot like a terrible wooden roller coaster on certain roads especially an hour from home my husband got upset at me which is what he usually does he means well he's just emotionally constipated why did you do that why didn't you eat before worried felt his voice I just put an arm over my eyes and swallowed the lump over and over until it passed then explained that it was coming up anyway food or no food figure out what's going on I called my mom and after she rolled the words around in her head for five minutes or was tired me begging you may have bacterial meningitis my mom finally told me you can use stomach numbing meds for a while but it's looking more and more like IV antibiotics are gonna be your only hope I can tell my husband is scared now I asked him to look it up and get the full article about it it made my stomach fly out of my butt the instant my mom said it it all fit my sickness had gotten me down again and my guts are rolling like thunder in Kansas forgive my humor I have to laugh at it to her I will be in a wallowing pit of self despair I will find out if I have to spend time in the hospital when the doctor calls a day I hope she tells me that everything will be okay and I don't have to face my biggest fear being in the hospital for multiple days maybe even being alone my fears go one hospitals to the dentist I conquered the dentist when I had a bad experience with a wisdom tooth wish me luck I'm a 45 year old male who lives in a small rural community in Wyoming I believe there are only about 6,000 people that live in my community you would never imagine in a town as small as this one that anybody would have to worry about having a stalker or at least I didn't think so that wasn't so much to my horror I discovered I actually had one let me preface this by saying that until I became a published author back in 2013 I was just another friendly face in the crowd so to speak granted I am well known in my community because I work at the local hospital and have for many years at the time I was working as the training coordinator for the front office staff for a medical clinic as well as the hospital getting my first book published generated a great deal of press in my hometown and statewide the fact that I quickly rose to a five star rating on Amazon only generated more press and interviews therefore more attention then when my second book came out in 2015 all of a sudden I was like the local celebrity being somewhat humble I was appreciative that the publicity helped me sell a lot of books but I was uncomfortable with all the attention local folks would come to the hospital just to have me sign their books and this is where my stalker story began on this particular day I am up in our medical office building where I was training a new hire on a rather large biker dude with long stringy blond hair and covered in tattoos approached the front counter where I was standing I smiled and greeted him with a warm hello and how can I help you I was under the impression he was there to check in for an appointment they smiled and admitted he did not have an appointment that day but was wondering if I would autograph the copies of my books that he had had with him not wanting to be rude I said that I would be more than happy to and had him follow me down to the end of the counter so that we would not be in anybody's way to be honest I was a bit surprised he bought them considering that they were gay themed supernatural thrillers I guess he just did not strike me as the type of guy that would read anything that was gay themed regardless I thanked him for purchasing the books and signed them for him he thanked me and left and I didn't give it any more thought until a few weeks later he showed up at the hospital where I was again at the front desk doing some training and asked me to sign two more books that he had said he had purchased for a friend I again thanked him and signed the books fast forward a few months and I'm filling in as the receptionist for one of her other clinics in a small town about 30 miles away from my hometown the reception is scheduled to work had called in sick that day and so I agreed to fill in for her it was shortly after lunch when guess who walks in with both my books in hand none other than mr. biker being at work I remain polite and again signed his book and he was on his way feeling truly creeped out and concerned I spoke with a nurse on duty as well as the provider and expressed my concerns they dismissed it as nothing other than an obvious span who must have a little crush and nothing more I figured they were probably right and went about my day the week's went by and I began to notice this larger guy hanging out in front of the house and in the back alley behind it he always wore a hoodie and so I could not see who it was I pointed this out to my husband who reminded me that with the house up for sale he was probably just someone who was either interested in buying it or a looky-loo then one day my mother who lives across the alley from me called me while I was out of town on her book tour to tell me some strange guy in a hoodie was casing my house and peering in the windows I told her it was probably a potential buyer and did not worry about it fast forward a few months I am back at the medical office building in our urgent care training another new hire when I get a call from one of the girls in central scheduling she tells me that she is a guy on the line who keeps calling asking for me but refusing to identify himself for why needs to speak to me thinking that it was a patient that had an issue of a more sensitive nature I told her to go ahead and patch him through introducing myself I asked how I could help him I quickly discovered he was not needing an appointment nor did he have any medical concerns he began telling me he was naked and touching himself he wanted me to know that he was thinking of me and began to tell me all the sick and twisted things he was going to do if he ever got me alone I was thinking what is wrong with this guy that was flipping out at this point but somehow still managed to keep my voice calm and informed this idiot to never call me again otherwise I would notify the police unbeknownst to me the clinic manager was standing behind me and asked me what was going on I explained the phone call and what the creep said the manager was concerned and felt we needed to notify the police immediately I met with a few police officers and explained what had happened they asked me if I might know this person and at the time I had no clue who it was the next morning I received a call from a local detective who asked me if I would stop by his office before I went to work he said he had more information on the guy who called me the day before I agreed to meet him and called the clinic to let him know what was going on in that I would be in as soon as I was done talking with the detective upon reaching his office I was invited in and the detective got up from his desk and shut the door he informed me they did a search of the number the guy called in from and came up with some rather disturbing information he went on to explain that after learning who the guy was the detective had done some digging including interviewing some folks this guy associates with what the detective told me next made all the hair on my body stand on end and sent my heart crashing to the floor I was informed this guy had been watching her stalking me rather for over six months not only that but he believes the guy had been in my house I was shaking with fear and was finding it hard to breathe I began to pace the floor of his rather small office I explained I don't even have a clue who this guy is or what he looks like this is when the detective turned his computer monitor around and showed who it was it was biker dude my blood ran cold and I felt that it was going to pass out when I could collect myself I began to explain how he had been in my yard the front and the back he had been sitting in front of my house on the street I also told him I have seen him walking up and down the alley between my mother's house and mine the detective informed me that this guy was a well-known gang and drug dealer from California and has been living in my hometown dealing here for years now he told me I needed to make sure all my doors and windows are locked at all times and always have somebody walk me to my vehicle and never go anywhere alone he said this guy had been accused of threatening to kill a witness and previous drug offenses and that is why he is still on the streets so to speak but much to my surprise and horror the detective asked if I would be willing to befriend this guy and help the cops set up a drug sting operation I was mortified and angry to say the least I told him I needed time to absorb all of this and to get back to him my manager and the CEO of the hospital met with me when I got to work that day and I told him everything an organization-wide email went out with this guy's picture along with an alert asking that the CEO e clinic and I be notified if the creep was spotted in any of the facilities we are a small Hospital so to speak so we have no security two weeks when buying things seemed to calm down my husband and I had gone out for the evening and reminded our roommate that if he left the house to be sure to lock all the doors we had already made him aware of the situation he had seen the guy sitting in front of the house on several occasions but just shrugged it off I needed to get out for a bit because I felt like a trapped rat it was a great night and for a while I was able to forget about it all upon returning to the house much to my relief the front door was still locked I walked through the house to the back door and it too was locked our roommate was sound asleep in this room I breathed the sigh of relief and made my way to the bedroom as I walked into the room I noticed my husband was reading something and he was white as a sheet I asked him what was wrong and he handed me the sheet of paper saying that it was under your pillow then I got up and then began looking in the closet and under the bed he then went through the entire house why I read on at horror the letter said hello sexy nice house I love the smell of your pillow I hope you don't mind but I borrowed a few of your sexy things I will return them when I have added my own scent to them don't bother contacting the police I know when your mother is home alone I know your mother's schedule as well as your husband's by the way your roommate is a very sound sleeper I will be seeing you soon I called the police but they said there was nothing that they could do since he was no longer in the house and I could not prove it was him because he never signed the note I was crapping bricks because I still could not figure out how he could have gotten in another few weeks go by and I began to realize I am seeing him everywhere at the grocery store the pharmacy I mean everywhere I went he was always there lurking in the distance it had gotten to the point I was now on medications to help me sleep an antidepressants because I felt like I was losing my mind I couldn't function because the cops kept saying they could do nothing about it unless he heart me or was caught in my home sitting in front of it for a few hours on end in the alleyways is not illegal apparently and this went on for over a year where I work a professional job I maintain my bubbly outward appearance in public but hid like a timid little mouse behind locked doors at night too afraid to leave my house one night about six months ago my husband and I awoke to lights flashing and people hollering outside it sounded like they were right outside on the front lawn peeking through the drapes I discovered they were right outside they had some guy on the ground ordering him not to move the fire department was there putting on a large 15 gallon gas can that had been lit on fire and placed on my front doorstep we threw on our robes and rushed outside when we were met by several police officers they had the biker guy on the ground and cuffs one of the officers informing the neighbors across the street called reporting a suspicious character lurking in my front yard and that they were carrying what appeared to be a rather large gas can the officer also pointed out that all the tires of my car had been slashed he went on to explain that bike dude had placed the gas can on the front step in living on fire my heart was pounding so hard in my chest I thought it was going to die of a massive coronary right there I lost it and broke down sobbing my husband on the other hand blew up he was beyond angry I was too but I was too overwhelmed with the fact that had her neighbors not been up and called the police we could have been killed by her dude is now behind bars but was only sentenced to two years on a plea deal the scariest thing about that is the police nor the state is required to notify me in the event this creep is released [Music] so this account is that of my partners we've been together for seven years and this story specifically struck a chord with me I personally believe in the paranormal while he's incredibly skeptical he was in fifth grade at the time and his father had just moved the family in with his new girlfriend he'd woken up early on a Saturday morning because he couldn't sleep just moving into a new home gave him a weird feeling which is normal and he didn't want to get his day going yet so he just chilled on the couch with his dog at the time blue laying next to him on the floor the living room was littered with piles of packed boxes I suddenly got hit with the scent of tobacco like the loose kinda put in a pipe and he happened to look down to bloo-hoo a minute ago had been sleeping was now awake alert and silently lifting his lips to a figure standing a good feet away with a pipe in its hands he froze upon seeing it as it gently tapped the pipe in his hand he hightailed it out in the living room with blue tailing behind him and hid under his blankets until the rest of the house was up later that day he mentioned to his dad who then mentioned it to his girlfriend to which she quickly responded oh that's just my uncle it's fine excuse me from then on he went to feel different sensations like a ghost cat rub against his legs impressions on the bed a lot of wisps of black and white masses lights turning on and off by themselves and little girl at the top of the stairs who dropped a ball down to the bottom and had disappeared upon reaching the floor once his dad had broken up with her and they'd moved out every single bit of activity ended the story still makes my hair stand up and I don't get how he's still on the fence about believing but I do agree that house wasn't haunted it was her [Music] I'm a 17-year old male currently living in Hawaii lucky me but as a child I was raised in a Christian home in a rural part of Nevada for as long as I can remember I've had a fascination for the unexplained and paranormal unlike my Christian family I do not believe in anything that I cannot see for myself thus up until recently I only thought of the supernatural is a very ancient superstition nothing to be afraid of or be concerned about would like anyone else like a good ghost story some of the horrific stories that my friends would tell me would keep me up at night not in fear but in curiosity I would always wonder what the meaning behind the Phantom's actions would be or even if there would be any reason behind it at all if a shadowy figure stood across from you down the hall what would he be trying to accomplish scare you or feed off your fear call out to you or help it pass over or is it doing that for no reason at all this is what I was interested in not so much the terror aspect of it on my free time I would usually and still do watch youtube videos about the paranormal namely by darkness prevails and let's read my parents being Christian were greatly concerned about this interest and afraid that I would invite something into our house or our lives I didn't believe that thus I continued my routine about four years ago when I still lived in my Nevada home my ten-year-old sister who will call Sarah for the sake of the story was scared in NASH if she could sleep in my bed with me this was nothing out of the usual Sarah was still afraid of the dark and she believed that if she slept with me nothing would happen or if something did happen she'd feel less crazy because I'd be there to witness it like the older brother I am I allowed her to sleep with me in my bed some time later we got into an argument I don't remember I ended up feeling guilty and apologizing about the fight but Sarah decided to sleep in her room despite me I saw her leave and the my bed was positioned couldn't see her after she had stepped out of the room ten seconds after Sarah had left she sprinted back into my room looking as pale as and ghosts leapt onto my bed hid herself under my sheets and latched on to me with a grip I had never felt before she began crying and it wasn't her normal cry it sounded like there was a force behind her cry as if though she wanted to cries loud and as long as she could but couldn't out of fear of being heard by someone or something and her breathing was rapid irregular and shallow as if though she was suffocating or drowning and reaching for air I asked her what was wrong but she never answered I thought someone was in the house so I wanted to get up and check I moved only an inch before Sarah held me even tighter and cried don't go please don't go I laid back down and tried to explain but she talked over me and repeated this about ten more times before I assured her that I'll stay here until she calms down after about 15 minutes Sarah was calm enough to talk but now she was shaking I asked if she felt all right to explain what had happened and through tears she explained the horror when she stepped out of my room she saw someone standing in the room directly in front of her the room was my older brother who had moved out about seven years prior Sarah and I had always seen things inside that room through the corner of our eyes whether it be day or night but when we looked nothing would be there the figure looked like my father and it stood just enough inside the doorway for her to see its figure it even appeared to have his exact clothes on Ed's body was facing her its head was facing ninety degrees to her left away from her when she had seen it she realized that my father was at work driving a semi-truck to Boise Idaho for one of his regular runs no other males besides me lived there when she had realized these things the figure slowly turned its head towards my sister and while doing so from my father's appearance into what she thinks was its own appearance and Sara's words its hair was frizzy and black and red streaks its eyes were glowing red had no nose its skin pale ish blue you could see the veins which were tar black he was extremely tall and slender with long bony arms reaching past his knees his fingers had thick long and sharp nails that were stained with black substances it wasn't dripping off its nails it was like crusted on it stood there extremely straight and stiff and just stared at me it didn't say anything or make a sound and filled me with this almost paralyzing fear seeing this she wanted to run to my parents room down the hall but she feared that she may not make it before this thing caught her so she looked quickly behind her to see if my door was still open so she could dash into my room when she looked back the figure was two feet closer to her still retaining the same posture and unwavering stare as soon as she saw this she turned and bolted into my room to her these few steps into my room seemed and felt like a mile she fell to get closer and closer each step she took but right as she set foot in my room she felt that stop and/or leave which she never looked back to check and she launched herself on to my bed and hid herself latching on to me once she had finished I wanted to believe that this was true and see for myself but somehow I knew that it wouldn't be there now I thought about telling her parents about this but who would believe it I knew they wouldn't believe no parent ever does her once to when this sort of thing happens you just had a nightmare they'd say or it was just your imagination thinking about their response got me doubting in Sarah's story but the utter terror and exhausted look that my sister had made me dismiss my doubts eventually we decided to tell our parents I went first of course with her tightly hanging on behind me when I left my room I didn't see the figure which I knew was going to happen and made me feel relieved and bummed at the same time upon reaching my parents bedroom and telling them about it they said the exact things that I predicted my sister once hearing the response snapped and began yelling through sobs to them what was I thinking I should have never told you you never would have believed me unless you saw what I saw I thought by telling you you'd come for me but instead you're sweeping it under the rug and telling me that I'm crazy Sarah is a sweet and respectful girl she never raised her voice at her parents even if she wanted to so this got her parents attention and Foley woke them up they realized through this outburst in my account of the event that this was indeed true my mom called a pastor it was about 1251 a.m. to come bless the house the pastor came prayed burned incense and other rituals to cleanse her house I didn't believe any of this work but it made my sister feel a little more at ease so that made me feel better my parents and Sarah never told anyone of this still believing it could be some imagination and I only told a few close friends when they would sleep over fortunately we moved two years later to Hawaii leaving that thing behind although other things such as bowls falling out of the cabinets by themselves or random but ghastly screams have happened nothing ever occurred before or after that was as serious as this after this event I wanted to know what my sister saw so I searched online for what it could be I thought that it could be a Wendigo or skinwalker but all of those things would have hurt my sister and probably all of us if it was any of those if you think you know what this could be please write it in the comments and thank you for reading this interesting story [Music] when I was an elementary school kindergarten to be exact a girl Beatriz went to school with me it was in grade four who was notorious for doing rituals for curses she pulled me aside during recess and told me they needed one more person to do a Bloody Mary ritual she brought me in to the school to the bathroom closest to the gymnasium were four of her friends were waiting I was too scared to say no to be at risk because of the gossip about her so he went into the bathroom we all stood in a circle and held hands and began chanting Bloody Mary for some time it felt like forever but about 15 minutes after beginning the lights in the bathroom went out the lights in the bathroom were controlled by a key only the caretakers carried at the time they were not automatic and the lights went out all of us screamed like Bill love each other and ran out of the bathroom three of the girls including Beatrice were covered in bruises and scratches we all stopped running as soon as we got outside of the bathroom to do a roll call we were missing one of the girls specifically the one who was holding my left hand during the game as soon as the lights returned in the bathroom we went inside to see if she got hurt or hit somewhere until the lights came back on we searched the bathroom high and low but she was nowhere to be found we all freaked out for a while and tried to rationalize there must be another door like a hidden door in there or she could have ran right past us we all knew she didn't come out with us and didn't see her run past nor was there any other exit that one could run out of we all parted ways and none of us ever saw that girl again not even Beatrice I didn't even get a glimpse of her anywhere at school who knows what happened all I know is a hope she made it out [Music] so the seven at the beginning of freshman year open lunch was a rather new concept to us because we had freedom to go where we pleased to stuff our faces my friend and I had decided to go to Burger King to think of some comic ideas what we saw two of our friends with a face pure disgust on their faces I asked what was going on and they said yeah there's some creep in a booth over there beating his meat with one hand and eating with the other all the while staring at us so we thought we should probably leave I asked if they did anything about it and they responded with I mean we called the cops to see if they can get him to leave but no not really I thought it was bullcrap so I went in anyways and sure enough there was an old man beating his chicken tenders while eating a burger breathing heavily I looked at him like are you out of your mind and said excuse me sir you gotta leave this is a public area get out of here you freakin weirdo they stopped abusing himself for a moment and looks up at me and says just let me finish I don't know bring those girls back inside for a couple of minutes my obvious response was nah you can't be beating yourself to 15 year old girl's gotta get out of here man we called the cops there's not much I could do so I grabbed this burger and threw it in the trash he got up and zipped his pants and tried leaving thankfully an officer had arrived and started talking to this gentleman he asked us of my friend and I could leave so they can talk to the girls sadly I don't know what happened to this pervert but I do know that I hadn't seen him in quite some time [Music] growing up my dad had a very very bad temper he would hit anyone throw things scream all the scary things from around ages 5 to 14 I saw him every weekend and because of change in pay he often switched between houses and had different roommates the house we were living in was rented out to us the owner only rented the upstairs while they lived downstairs but we were welcome to the kitchen bathroom living room etc I remember one roommates I got along with very well we'll call them Tina my dad and Tina dated before but had broken up at this time and my dad used the space to see other women he once had one over it was the first time they met - in the first sleepover Tina and I went upstairs I was playing with the snake our housemates had she was a Python named Medusa while Tina and did her own thing when my dad came downstairs to greet his guests he told us he wanted us upstairs in our section of the house we listened and as they were sitting on the couch Tina and I were in the room knitting or doing her nails or something Tina told my dad he would give them alone time and go downstairs this resulted in him getting angry as he already told us he wanted us up there they had a verbal altercation and this led to my dad's guests running out of the house reasonably scared my dad hated this and he chased after her and when she drove away you could hear him wailing downstairs for her to come back uncontrollably sobbing this went on for hours then in the house was silent my dad slowly crept back upstairs to our section and into Tina's room I laid in my bed crying and sobbing and shaking because I knew what was going to happen I knew my dad was going to punish her for an hour you could hear her hitting yelling screaming things being thrown threats and all I could do was sit in my bed I was a young girl and there was no way I could overpower my dad after he calmed down he came and checked on me and asked me why I was crying I just told him I had a nightmare went to bed the 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if they are awakened if the gods wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated the women become feral and spectacularly violent and while they sleep they go to another place be sure to check it out with audible I've been a forest ranger for going on five years now I don't feel it's necessary to disclose my location so please don't ask me where these take place with that out of the way I also want to say that I'm no professional when it comes to the paranormal or creatures I don't have an explanation for most of the things I went through and experienced maybe you all can help me with that with that said I'll start with the first encounter I had while patrolling the forest where I work we had gotten a call about a possible wanderer a wanderer is someone who walks off the path and is either lost or up to no good I can't tell you how many teens thinks it's cool to go smoke in the woods out here anyway I took the call and started taking the Ranger trails so I could find whoever it was the description they've given me was tall and slender not much to go off of but I figured it was better than nothing I was nearing the end of a specific trail when I heard something off to the east of me I'd look over in that direction and saw a quick flash of color and ducked behind a tree I call out hey you can't be out here it's for the forest personnel only and they didn't respond and then come out so I started walking over I was left speechless when I came up beside the tree I'd seen this figure go behind and there was nothing there when you're in the woods it's not really easy to make it out without being heard I looked all around but there wasn't a sign of anyone I walk eat my superior and let him know he said to do one more run-through of the area and if I don't find anything to report back to him after my second patrol I still found nothing so I did what he asked and reported to him after he asked what color I saw duck behind the tree and I explained that it looked like someone with the red flannel shirt with blue jeans he just laughed and said that was probably Sebastian I was lost what do you mean is he just void of punishment kind of hard to punish a ghost I shot him a skeptical look Sebastian was a young kid who was attacked by a bear out here nearly 15 years ago when I first started he's never really left from that day forward I saw Sebastian a handful of times I've also seen a few apparitions here and there the most notable being I was giving a tour of the campgrounds we have out here there was a small group of people with me when a woman raised her hand and asked are we allowed over by the river she then pointed over to the bank where I saw a woman in a white nightgown yes however we require that everyone who can't swim more is not an illegal adult to wear a lifejacket you can't swim in it either as the current is very strong however the lifejackets are a safety precaution I called out to the woman near the bank ma'am do you mind joining my group up here you really shouldn't be down there her head turned to face me slowly and when it did I felt all the color drained from my face she didn't have any eyes they were just black pits a few of the people in the crowd gasp and a few kids hugged their parents and fear I look back at the group and they looked at me for an answer but I didn't have one when I look back the woman was gone we just continued on with the tour after that with a palpable awkwardness and uneasiness when people find out I work where I do I'm often asked if I believe in Bigfoot the short answer is no I don't my longer answer would be that there are much more things out there things that are scarier than Bigfoot here's my story of one of them this will also be my last story as it may give an idea to the location in my workplace and I don't want people visiting just because of these stories that's not a good reason to come out here the real reason would be to enjoy nature and all has to offer and with that said I'll stop beating around the bush I was doing another patrol when I saw something run out in front of the patrol vehicle it's really a golf cart thinking I'd hit a fawn or something similar I hopped out radio in the lead Ranger when he asked for a description I didn't really know what to say this thing was about the size of a full-sized German Shepherd but was all black and had a shiny coat the body type was also similar but there were no ears and no sign of their even being any there also wasn't a snout I don't mean that it was squashed in like an English bulldog but there wasn't one the face was flat and pointed with two small slits the front the lead rangers showed up soon after we spoke over the walkies he was just as confused as I was the wildlife preserve was called and they took it with them to get a better idea of what it could be while they were transporting it however some campers got a few pictures of it these were turned in to local news stations and they ran a piece on it in the newspaper and never made it to television thankfully the last I heard there have been no new updates about what it could be I hope you all get a little bit of enjoyment out of my stories and maybe even feel like you can share some of your own depends on the response to this I may share a few more but as of now I think I'll keep it under wraps [Music] when I was eight my parents put me in the Boy Scouts now despite what you're about to listen to I still believe it was one of the greatest things I'd ever did I loved hanging out in the woods learning about survival all that good stuff being that a large part of the courses we took were in the woods and dealt with wildlife he'd expect me to have at least one spooky story well I can assure you that any Boy Scout has at least one and this is mine I've been in the Boy Scouts for about a year at this point we were covering something to do with leaves in the woods I'm not sure what it was that's besides the point though once the lesson was over we were paired up and told to go out and find the biggest leaf that we could it sounds silly but it was a ton of fun we were instructed not to go out of eyesight of the Scout leader but the kid I was with didn't listen he kept looking back at the Scout leader to see if they were looking away and as soon as they looked away he booked it into the forest no we were taught that if you were ever separated from your partner to blow the whistle that given us that wasn't really going through my head though I stupidly gave chase calling out we're not allowed to go out there he just kept running through eventually he stopped and turned to look at me he had been a few years older than me maybe ten so when I saw that he had a cigarette in his mouth I wasn't surprised my parents did at the time too so I figured it was something adults and older kids do we need to go back I said I can't see the Scout leader he just laughed and took a drag from the cigarette fine I said I'll just get their attention I reached for my whistle but when I pulled it out he knocked it out of my hand you better not get me in trouble or I'll beat you up I took this seriously I wasn't the biggest kid and being that he was older than me I assumed he was stronger he was laughing for a little before he looked behind me and that's when his face went white I figured the Scout leader had found us but it was so much worse he dropped the cigarette butt and booked it back towards the Scout leaders I ran over and stomped it out when I turned around to leave though I saw what it was that scared him so badly for lack of a better word it was Bigfoot it was tall hairy and smelled like absolute death the fur on its face and around its hands were matted with what I assumed was animal blood I legitimately peed myself then and there it wasn't moving so I tried to fight all my logical thinking and ran over to the whistle that was on the ground I made it to it and blew in it as hard as I could I'm lucky this thing was slow because it could have taken my head off the whistle sounded and the creature cried out before running off into the woods soon after I was scooped up by a scout leader and we were all back at the Boy Scout camp the leaders gave us a long and stern talking-to about forest safety one thing I remember vividly is when he said there are some things out there that will hurt you it seemed like such a terrible thing to say to a child but I knew he was right we still went out to those woods after that but I never saw anything like it again [Music] I've been staying in Japan for about ten years when this took place my reason for staying there in the first place was studying abroad once my studies were over however I ended up going back I love the culture and enjoyed just being there I've met someone now and we're getting married in the fall wife had seemed pretty figured out just the last week though something happened that caused a lot of turmoil and strain on my relationship it started when a buddy of mine hit me up on skype he like me was American but had come to build a new life in Japan being five years older than I was he had been just about to every notable site in Japan and had two kids we were shooting the breeze for a little while while kind of out of nowhere he brought up Akita Hara now I'm fairly certain that most everyone knows what that is if you don't then look it up real quick because I'm not gonna explain basically he told me that he would pay me five hundred bucks if I would go camp out there alone for two nights my wife who is native to Japan could not protest enough she told me all the horror stories of people going in and never coming out people being followed home by spirits all kinds of crazy stuff I told her I wasn't scared of some silly forest and agreed to the bet the day I had left she begged me not to go but I did anyways I wanted to prove to her that there was nothing to be worried about oh that's and I really wanted the 500 bucks and maybe a little adventure I kissed her goodbye and headed out walking up to the forest is something sinister while it is beautiful it's also extremely foreboding the density of the trees is beyond reason I'd never seen anything like it as soon as I stepped in I was taken aback by it all it was like another planet I heard all the wildlife whether it be bugs or animals I heard a handful of other people walking around as well the temperature had dropped significantly I wouldn't admit to anyone who asked but I was scared I told myself it was nothing more than a forest and continued on my trek through the various trails did eventually lead me to a spot flat enough and secluded enough to camp it was around 7:00 p.m. at this point night 1 was a go sleep came but only after a long fight everything I heard around me made me jump I didn't know what kind of animals lived out here and also given the reputation this forest had I was beginning to get a little worried about those who were in here with me I woke up on that morning feeling groggy I didn't want to leave my tent honestly I wanted to leave the forest and decided that I would hike down to the base of Mount Fuji and give that a look all through the forest I was taking photos I needed something to prove to my friend and I'd actually done it I got some great photos of wildlife some trees all that good stuff halfway through my hike however I decided on putting my camera away for the rest of the trip I heard a woman weeping off to the east of me I decided to walk over and see if I could help her at all when she was finally in sight I saw that she was a young woman maybe in her 20s there was another woman much older possibly her mother who was holding her to her chest they were both kneeled on the ground in front of a body it was absolutely heartbreaking to see the older woman made eye contact with me and we shared a small moment I could tell she was holding back the tears I nodded to her as a way to say I understand he'll be ok and then went about my way I'm assuming the body they were kneeling in front of was a relative possibly brother maybe father I didn't get a good look and had no plan to I continued walking trying to get that out of my head it was so hard to shake that image though I took a rest at the base of a tree and just thought about everything myself my fiance my friend and mostly this stupid challenge I left the forest and went home after 20 minutes of deliberation let me explain my decision when I went there I knew what I was doing I was going to visit a place people regarded as spooky or scary and what was both of those things I feel like I lost light of what else it was it's a place where those who have lost all hope all will to move forward go to end the most precious gift given to us life I wasn't looking at it through the eyes of someone like the woman who'd found someone they loved I was looking at it as some sort of attraction you'd visit for Halloween it was disrespectful I felt over the course of the next few months I fell into some pretty serious depression seeing how quickly life can be taken away from you voluntarily or not is a sobering thing it put me in a state of mind where I believed nothing really mattered no matter what we do in this life have kids get married whatever it didn't matter because we lose all of it in the end this is where the strain on my relationship came from I wasn't as lovey dovey as I had once been my fiance and I were fighting all the time we weren't making love we even got into a small physical altercation at one point causing me to storm out of the house guess where I went that forest and went to all the way there and just stared into it thinking about all I'd seen and all that had been going on I contemplated going inside but I knew that if I did I wouldn't come out the thoughts I were having weren't good once they came and went and waves as I was standing there but then one specific thoughts entered my mind the thought of that woman I'd made eye contact with I remember that while she struggled to do so she wasn't crying she held it in she was strong that's what I needed to be I made it back home to my fiance and broke down telling her everything I was eventually put on antidepressants and luckily for me they worked wonders it's been nearly a year on them and I'm thinking of trying to lower the dosage I've not had an episode of depression in quite a while so I think I'll be all right so yes I went back but before you bother asking no I didn't see any ghosts or he or any phantom voices maybe it's because it wasn't looking for them maybe it's because they weren't there I don't really know or care the point I want to get across here is that if you're going to visit this forest please know the real reason you're doing it if you want to get a cheap thrill it's better to just stay home calling it one of the scariest places to visit is like advertising a graveyard as a ride at a State Fair I apologize if this post doesn't fit the whorish dick that is usually on here but I really just wanted to share this what I did see in there was something much scarier than ghosts or spirits it was morality I saw what people have to deal with when a loved one dies something I haven't had to deal with much in my life feel free to grill me on the comments for not posting something scary but I really just had to get this out be aware and honest with your reasons for visiting a kikah Hara and reevaluate your decision so I'm not really sure how to start this I suppose I just say it I saw something in the woods it wasn't a bear or Bigfoot everyone knows that's nonsense on top of that there will be things I mentioned later that will disprove that theory so people listen on the way through I was backpacking through an old hiking trail here in town when I came across an abandoned camp sites off one of the trails now normally I would leave that kind of thing alone and let those who clean up the trail deal with it I don't want to be accused of meddling was someone else's things this was different however it wasn't just abandoned it was trashed it didn't look like someone simply left it there it was like someone was attacked the tent had been pulled off from the ground and flipped completely over the food was strewn about and there were embers of the fire all around the site still burning that's what caused me to walk over there I didn't want one of them to catch a strong wind and send the whole forest into flames I made my way over and took my time to stomp out all of the embers I then checked the percent around the campsite to see if there was anyone near who may have been staying out here I went off into the woods calling out for anyone that was my mistake that was maybe 20 feet in when I heard it but it was a lone guttural kind of growl coming from deep within the woods it was like something I'd never heard it wasn't like a large dog but at the same time it wasn't like a bears roar I wasn't sure what I was getting into I thought about heading back but at the same time I wanted to find out if there was someone out there who had to go through that I would have tried to help them out as I kept walking the ground began to grow closer I kept an eye and an ear out for it but it was nearly impossible to pinpoint eventually I decided that the person must have left their things there and something came by and tried to snatch it all up and search for food that didn't answer all of my questions though most all wild animals were afraid of fire Halden was it scattered about like someone had kicked it I decided this was getting a little too spooky for me so I started back to the campsite I didn't pick up on it at the time but when I was heading back the growling had subsided it wasn't until I made it back that I heard it again and what was causing it I stayed at the treeline hoping this thing wouldn't see me it was massive imagine a bear standing on its hind legs only totally hairless this is why I couldn't have been a bear I'm fairly certain that they don't shed all their fur also this thing was walking albeit awkwardly it lumbered around the campsite for a while searching for more food I suppose when it didn't find anything it lumbered slowly back into the forest I left and went back home soon after that I did some research and I can't seem to find anything that matched this thing's description I'm not sure if anyone knows what it was I try to give a more detailed description but pulling from memory here it was definitely the size of a bear also it had to be an animal and in no way was it human it wasn't clothed and I didn't see any human Jenna Talya or any at all for that matter there were small round ears fixed atop its head and a large long snout on its face if anyone can help me identify this thing I greatly appreciate it it's been stuck in my mind for a while and I've just never looked for answers this way through fear of ridicule please guys what was that thing when I was a kid I spent a lot of time over at my grandparents house both my parents were forced to travel often for their job so I was dropped off at the grandparents house pretty often it wasn't as bad as some kids would expect these were the days of dial-up internet so being upset about not having Wi-Fi was non-existent kids like myself played outside during those times shocking I know this particular story takes place when I was about nine years old it was right around Christmas time and they hadn't allowed me to open one present early without my parents knowing of course I remember what it was and how I felt as well it was a brand new pair of binoculars I was a big fan of bird-watching as a kid and still in today but of course I had more time back then my granddad looked at me and said I'm going to let you go out into the woods to look for all the critters but be sure not to go past the creek being nine and this kind of went in one ear and out the other I agreed and headed out the force behind my granddad's house was massive and he owned it all I think my dad told me at one point that it was nine or so acres I as a kid told myself that I had explored it all funny how your imagination can run wild like that well this day in particular my mind wasn't running rampant what I saw was real and I knew it judging by my grandparents reaction I've been in the forest for a good ten minutes at this point just walking as straight as I could looking for any of the critters that ran around out there I saw a handful of Cardinals and chickadees but nothing super spectacular then I ran across the creek it was completely frozen over of course but my mind still wandered about trying to think of what could be on the other side why wasn't I allowed over there of course it was for safety reasons once you're past the creek a little ways the house is no longer within seeing a shouting distance in my mind however it was the only place I'd see what I wanted to I wanted to see a bird I hadn't seen the less common ones I look back at the house a few times contemplating my decision then had decided not to go over the threshold and disobey my granddad but then I heard something on the other side it was a man's voice it wasn't scary I remember it was warm and inviting kind of like a good audio book I grabbed my attention and before I knew it jump the creek and headed deeper into the woods I didn't hear that voice again for quite some time and I wasn't seeing any new birds so I was beginning to think this was a waste of time I decided to take one more look into the binoculars and do a quick 360 and then head back the Sun was starting to go down and I knew if I was out here much longer I'd get into trouble I pulled the binoculars to my eyes and took one last look and I saw it it wasn't what I was looking for it was a man he was tall and wore a fine black suit even had a briefcase with him judging by how strong the binoculars were he could have been a little less than half a mile away he wasn't doing anything he was just standing there the longer I looked the more apparent of how wrong this was came over me why would someone in a suit carrying a briefcase be hanging out the woods in the middle of December I was so focused I didn't hear my granddad approaching soon he snatched me up and carried me all the way back to his house was scolding me the entire way back home i sat on the couch and he questioned about what I could have seen that made me disobey him through my sniffling and eye rubbing I could only say I heard a man out there his demeanor changed completely and I remember hearing my grandpa gasp a little bit he crouched down beside me and said what did he say he just said hey and then he was gone I didn't see him until I crossed the creek nearly whispering he responded what did he look like he had a suit in a briefcase I could tell my mom he looked up at my grandmother and then back at me no no we're not kiddo don't worry we're not mad we were just worried about you it wasn't until I was much older that I figured out what I saw in those woods that was 18 and my grandad was in bad health he wasn't at the past anytime soon mind you but he was just very sick we were visiting in the hospital and when my parents left to get some food he told me all about what that man was apparently there used to be a cemetery on that land before it became overgrown with trees and vines that man was a spirit everyone referred to was the Undertaker according to my granddad he was a business man hence the briefcase but suffered a heart attack during his wife's funeral nowadays he roams the woods looking for the grave of his wife it was a heartbreaking tale the reason he was so worried about me at the time is because it said the fear caught by the Undertaker Oh curse you you'll fall gravely ill and eventually pass away from cardiac arrest like him I'm not sure how much I believe that story but I will say that I'm glad he never looked at me his back was facing me the entire time my grandma did eventually pass away not cardiac arrest if you're curious but I've kept the legend strong I tell everyone I know about it and if I ever run across kids in that area while visiting the old house and make sure to tell them never go past the creek every town has its urban legends and mine was no exception ours was about the child snatcher it's not totally original I know but what are you gonna do nearly everything is a remix at this point anyway the cool thing about this legend is that there was a location behind it as well the story goes like this there was a man who lived in my town in the 20s he was found guilty of six counts of child abduction child endangerment and worse before he was hung he swore that he would always be here stocking the woods for any children that straight out of the boundaries their parents set no parents tell their little boys and girls not to play in the woods because the child snatcher will get them I believed that when I was a kid a lot of us did however as I grew older I knew it was total hoopla there was no way someone from the 20s was hanging out in the woods the legend lived on though one of the kids in our town went missing a few years back he still not been found however his shoe was found in an abandoned sewer tunnel in the woods that sewer tunnel was only about a mile from my house I had ventured out there multiple times using it as a checkpoint in a meeting place with my friends we talked about venturing down there multiple times but never did we'd open it up get one good look from the top and close it back up a few weeks back I decided to quit beating around the bush and just go down there obviously no one was living down there would be nearly impossible all my friends were busy doing something much more important so I set out on this quest alone it was maybe 6:00 p.m. when I arrived at the sewer tunnel a little elbow grease and the cover was off I slowly made my way down the ladder and was 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the trees taken down for a housing development to be built I wasn't happy about it mind you they paid the bills though nowadays I'm working with someone in my town that's completely besides the point though and they get back on track now being a logger is a lot of hard work and being that you're in the woods 90% of the time you can come across some weird stuff we found old tents tons of trash jackets shoes hey a few years back someone even found some remains no joke they still haven't been identified though pretty spooky stuff now I've been in the logging business for a few years and never came across anything of note a few tents and such but nothing like everyone was talking about I was ready to see something I did eventually get that wish it was about 6 p.m. and we were getting ready to call it a day it's too dangerous to work at night so we got off a little bit early in the winter months the guys who were there which was only 2 hung out at the truck and I went off into the woods to have a pee sorry but when you're out there nature is your toilet we did have a port-a-potty but who really wants to go in one of those I was working on getting the flow going I've been having some issues with that lately when I heard a branch snap behind me it was getting dark and I was pretty much alone I'd walked out a little further than I should have so I was getting a little uneasy I tried to look behind me while still focusing on peeing which had finally begun I heard a second crack and then a chuckle I knew then that it was my co-workers if you wanted to be embarrassed he should have just asked and then made a gesture of turning around and heard one of them call out never mind just hurry up it's freezing out here I heard them walking back to the truck and soon they were out of earshot izip dup and started heading back but the snap it was much farther away this time man behind me again it was coming from the direction I was facing when I was taking a pee ha very funny guys come on let's get out of here nothing no one laughed and nothing moved guys seriously I'll leave you here again I didn't hear anything I scoffed and turned around to leave all right then I don't want to keep your momma waiting anyway as soon as I turned I heard it again snap I knew that would get his attention I thought turning around I said so are you Rhett I couldn't finish my sentence far off and the untouched force was some kind of figure it looked to be about my height six feet but its head was strangely bulbous there seemed to be steam rolling off its body given it was about 25 degrees out this thing's body heat had to be off the charts it was only covered in skin no hair like I would be expecting especially in this weather what stopped me though would mainly quite literally stop in my track where its eyes they were a deep red and had a glow to them they weren't unlike when a dog's eyes catches the light but I'd never seen something like this I could even hear it breathing I'd say it was about 50 yards away but the breaths were so labored and raspy they were easily audible it was almost like a growl I finally regained my bearings and started to back up towards the truck I wasn't sure how far I'd come but it couldn't have been too far at least that's what I hoped soon and I was running into my absolute dismay I could hear this thing pounding through the forest mere yards behind me the whole time I looked back and it was running on all fours despite it looking bipedal the first time I saw it and began calling out to my friends saying there's something out here start the truck soon I could see them in the distance they either hadn't heard me or didn't believe me it was the latter I soon found out I hopped in the truck and urged in hurry as there was something out there they both just laughed and leisurely walked over to the truck that was until my eyes grew wide and the thing that had been chasing me appeared over the hill it was now nearly wheezing and growling at the same time seeing that I wasn't messing with them they ran to get in the truck and shut the doors just in time the thing slammed against the side of the truck and fell back on the ground before screaming at us and running off I wasted no time and floored it to get out of there we were on the road soon after and we're all freaking out they apologized for not believing me but I wasn't worried about that I was more worried about going back out there the next day we told her boss about what happened and while he didn't believe us at first they couldn't deny the large dent and the door of the truck either way whether he believed us or not we still had to go back the next day I didn't want to none of us who'd seen it wanted to but we didn't have a choice it was either that or get fired for not showing up the day that followed was pretty quiet everyone kind of kept to themselves it was pretty easy to do so most of the team was gone we were just told to clean up a bit around the area and the day was uneventful until we started packing up the equipment in the truck the growling came again from the south of us we all perked up and looked over in that direction we couldn't see it at first which is way scarier wood soon the growling got louder we all looked around until finally one of the co-workers spotted it he pointed it out and the other co-worker and myself jumped in the car we urged him to get in as well but instead he pulled a pistol from the glove box and fired four shots of the thing before getting into the truck with us from what we could tell he hit it twice once in the leg and once in the chest that's when we got in and left the following morning since I was off I called the wildlife preserve and let them know what we've seen I'm not sure how serious they took my claims even when I told them about my French I really hope they did investigate the following weeks were uneventful and we never saw it again it either ran off to another part of the forest or my friend actually killed it either way I'm glad I've never had to deal with it again I'm still not even sure what it was this takes place about a week ago for some context I was totally alone and this takes place in Tennessee a buddy of mine told me about a fishing hole he came across a few days before and I had decided to go check it out he'd apparently had a good turnout so I figured I'd try my luck I asked him to come with me but his daughter was sick so he was staying at home with her I told him I understood and headed off by myself following the mental directions I'd taken when he told me where to go I eventually made it even though it was pretty deep in the woods I had a good mental compass and wasn't worried about getting lost I don't know what made him think this was just some other fishing hole it was easily the size of a small lake I roll the log over to sit on it and set up a new pole before getting started it was a nice day out that's not really relevant to the story I just remember it so well soon after sitting down I was casting out and lighting up a cowboy killer I was halfway hoping to catch something in another half of me was just looking to get away for a little while I was beginning to enjoy the time alone I'd say it'd been about 20 minutes passed and I'd cut about three fish one that managed to jump out of the bucket because I'd forgotten to put the top back on not a spectacular day to say the least I cast it out with my last piece of bait and decided if I didn't catch anything else I'd throw the other two back they weren't that big anyway while I was on my last cast I heard something on the other side of the lake it was similar to the sound a dog makes when it was drinking water after being in the heat a really loud lapping sound I focused on the other bank and sure enough there was something drinking from water on the other side my eyesight isn't what it used to be but I was fairly certain on what I was seeing and I didn't like it it was like nothing I'd ever seen I'd say it was the size of a deer and stood like one as well with its head being held low to reach the water but then it did something I'd never seen a deer do it dove into the water now not super well versed in wildlife so I thought nothing of it at first it was a little weird sure but I thought it was just something I wasn't familiar with soon after it had disappeared under the water I saw my cork go under I went to grab the pole that I had wedged in an opening of the log I was sitting on but about that time I did my entire pole went into the lake it happened so fast there was no way I could have grabbed it totally dumbfounded I looked out to the lake I didn't think there was anything in there that could pull down my pole but I started thinking about what I had just seen on the other bank that's when I grabbed my pocketknife it wasn't a huge one but it could cause some damage I started packing up staying on my guard just in case then I heard it there was a wet sloshing sound from behind me when I built up the guts to turn around I nearly fell over the thing I'd seen on the other side had come out of the lake and was now right in front of me I could barely process what I was seeing it was covered in scales and had large webbed feet but was standing on all fours its face looks similar to that of a duck and its eyes were small black and beady large gills covered its neck and from what I could see it had small sharp teeth all over the inside of its mouth the way breathe in and out and yes it did was disgusting the gills would open up and close as it inhaled and exhaled I started coming over to me and hissed as it walked I held the knife up as a way to keep distance between us but soon it was charging I had no choice but to swing my knife and by some miracle I connected with it I hid it somewhere near the gills and it cried out Payne before running off back into the lake I left all my things there and decided to run back to my house I wasn't sure if that thing was coming back or not and I didn't want to take the chance once I got back home I called my buddy and told him about what I'd seen he told me that he's never seen anything like it and didn't believe me at first I expected that I didn't want to believe it myself the following day though we went back to that spot and the footprints that that thing left were still there since then we haven't went back I don't know what that thing is lurking in the lakes of Tennessee but I feel like I was never meant to see it [Music] I'm not sure when this story takes place it was a good while ago maybe five years ago either way all you need to know is that my friend and I were taking a walk through the woods near his house we've been out there for around 20 minutes when we came across two other guys they seemed to be around our age and we assumed they were doing about as much as what we were doing being the social butterflies we were we stopped for a little small talk the kids seemed a little nervous at first but eventually opened up and told us about the hangout spot it was a little vague but we were bored and saw no harm in it soon we were following them deeper into the woods we kept the conversation going the whole way and they asked if we smoked which we did and they claimed to have a plan out in a forest near the shack I was really feeling good about this I thought that we'd find a new place to hang out and some new buddies to smoke with I was so wrong a handful of minutes passed and as we were coming up on a dilapidated Shack it's not the prettiest thing one of the kids said he was right too it looked like if you farted on it too it would fall over just follow us inside we've got some cool stuff in there I was just about to walk right behind them when my friend grabbed my arm when I turned around he pointed over to a large rock on the other side of the Shack when I looked over I saw a foot slide behind something was fishy about this Wow we gotta go I didn't realize what time it was just as we started backing away an older man came out from behind the rock screaming at us we turned and booked it the way we came I don't think he ever gave chase but we didn't stop to find out we made it back to my friend's house and told his parents about what happened which prompted them to call the police they came out soon after and they walked with us back to the spot where we'd seen the group once we showed up there wasn't anyone there the police searched the inside of the building and around it they didn't find much but what they did was a bit disconcerting a hammer a little baggie of pills and a ton of you syringes I don't know what kind of messed up things that group had planned on doing out there but I'm glad we didn't get the chance to find out so I'm sure everyone has heard about these staircases in the woods right if you haven't then go read that long post by the search-and-rescue officer well I thought the whole phenomenon was bullcrap and if I remember correctly we were never given an explanation as to why you shouldn't walk up them now I don't know if that story was all fiction with a little bit of truth thrown in but I can assure you that this one is not this all happened nearly five years ago but it was so strange it stuck with me I have some pretty thick woods behind my house I've been back there before just checking them out but never really went deep enough to find anything interesting like streams or ponds I decided one day in early summer that I would I owned them after all they came when I bought the house I'd say I walked about a mile in before I came across something really interesting it was a cobblestone staircase in the middle of a cobblestone rectangle about 40 feet by 20 feet despite the size of the foundation it was only a foot or so high the stairs on the other hand went up about six feet I'm not really sure how they were still standing honestly they didn't have any support I decided it would be a great idea to walk up to the top of them to get a better view of the forest I took it slow of course like I said they didn't look stable to my surprise though I made it all the way to the top without issue it was when I turned around to see if I could see my house at the problem arose a loose stone slipped out from under my foot and I was sent straight to the ground fully expecting the hard unforgiving ground I set my arms out to catch myself imagine my surprise when my hand went deep into ice-cold powdery snow now if you remember this happened in the middle of summer there should be no snow on top of that it wasn't snowing in the first place I shot up totally freezing being dressed in canvas sneakers cargos and a button-down I looked all around and the entire forest was covered the snow is at least 8 inches judging by how deep my legs went in when I stood up the strangest thing though was that the staircase was still there my mind was racing that I knocked myself into a coma why does it feel so real then snow was still falling rapidly so I searched all around for my phone but to no avail it was either too deep in the snow were just totally gone I couldn't dig for more than a few seconds before my fingers started going numb I decided instead just to run back to my house and try to find something that would help me wake up I was obviously unconscious I had to be I trudged through the snow my toes crying out in pain from the cold but soon I was in my front yard immediately I was confused my car wasn't there rather there were two cars and a small pink bike out front still thinking this had all been a dream I barged through the door knocking off a Christmas wreath that had been hanging there that was met with a decorated foyer my foyer I heard a television gnawing in the other room and someone a man with a deep voice yell out go upstairs soon I was approached by him with a bat in his hands ready to fight I began backing away trying to explain that I have no idea what's going on or why I'm here but he yells back that I'm insane and he's about to call the cops I tried to reason with him but he takes a swing at me and hits the wall near me causing the drywall to drop to the floor that's when I know it's time to leave I run out of the front door and head back into the woods and made it back to where I was the staircase and took a second to catch my breath I ran through what had happened when I came up with the insane idea to climb the staircase again I figured of climbing it and falling from it the first time put me there maybe doing it again would bring me back I climbed to the top turned toward my house and let myself fall sadly this time I was met with a hard unforgiving ground luckily though it wasn't covered in snow it seemed as if though I was back where I needed to be the Sun was out and despite a headache I was doing fine I made my way back to the house this time it was my car outside and when I went in I wasn't approached by someone with a bat no I know everyone here will be trying to figure out what just happened but I think I know I believe when I fell I fell into the past I know how that sounds but hearing out it took me a while after it all happened to really think about it but the guy I ran into was the one I bought the house from he was the original owner his daughter had just left for college and they needed to downsize I'd always wanted to big house so I could have a studio for my photography so it was perfect and remember the conversation so well he went on to explain that something scary had happened to them around 10 years back he wouldn't elaborate but I'm sure some dude wearing cargo shorts in the snow claiming he doesn't know what's going on is pretty scary there's also the fact that he continually said he recognized me from somewhere even though we eventually agreed he went to school with my dad who I was the spitting image of I know how that explanation sounds believe me but it's the only one I can come up with if anyone has a better one I'd love to hear it and there's a quick word of warning don't walk up the steps in the woods [Music] so this happened to me and my brother when we were pretty young I believe he was eight and I would have been ten my dad had built us a really awesome Clubhouse out in the woods it wasn't super far back seeing as we were kids but to us it was like a whole nother world after the events of this story however he took it down and we weren't allowed to go back into the woods it had been getting late when all this went down it wasn't quite dark but it would have been in the next hour or so I told my brother that it was time to go back so I started packing up the snacks that we had brought well he went to go take a pee being ten I was growing increasingly impatient and kept bugging him to hurry up of course he was being hard-headed and wouldn't that was until I pointed out the thing in the treetops at first he didn't believe me told me to stop messing with him but he looked up and saw two he quickly put everything away and started backing up to me the thing in question was huge and perched on a branch right above my brother had large talons on the end of scaly yellow feet its red eyes stared down at him and the sharp beak it had would open and let out a horrible screech as my brother continued to back away this thing spread its wings out and swooped down towards us I remember feeling a gust of wind when its wings opened I tried to get to my brother but this thing was fast when it came down at head-butted his chest and he dropped to the ground struggling to catch his breath I snatched him up and started running back to the house hoping that the thing wouldn't follow us as far as I could tell it wasn't but I didn't stop running until I was in the kitchen where my mom was the only words I could get out were he fell out of a tree I guess my mind came up with a line knowing that they wouldn't believe the truth he was rushed to the hospital where he was treated for minor internal bleeding and his chest was bruised pretty badly but he came out of it all right over the next week or so my dad took down our Clubhouse and told us we were no long allowed in there a month or so later a fence went up around the entire backyard I could tell he really didn't want us to go back but I can assure you we didn't want to either a few days after the initial incident we heard that thing out there screeching like it did before it attacked my brother and that was enough to keep us out I have a small plot of property on the woods I head out there every once in a while to just get away from everything I keep my cell on and bring my laptop of course but they're mostly used for the internet it's more of an escape from the real world rather than technology I'm glad I brought them though because I can write this somewhere where a good amount of people will see it the past few days have been hearing something crawling around under my cabin I'm not sure what lives out here but it moves fast I can hear it scratching around and growling at some points it kept me up the last few nights so I called a guy out here to see if he could figure it out I had found out where it went but I wasn't trained in how to approach this kind of thing I'll let you know what he says ok so he just finished and I really just have more questions the hole he had to go through wasn't much wider than a footer so he crawled all around snapping a few photos of the damage and thought he'd seen something at one point but told me it was probably his eyes playing tricks on him once he was out and we looked over the photos I don't really know how to approach this there were deep claw marks all through the foundation of my cabin and they were all over the ground and even the concrete pillars that held it up I oppressed on him about what could have caused it but he continued insisting that it was a bear no I've seen a bear before there is no way one can fit underneath that house he barely could and he looked to be about 120 pounds soaking wet the last picture he showed me was a little divot that had been dug into the dirt it was about six inches deep and a foot wide I tried to get him to explain what had been going on here but he insisted it was nothing to worry about he'd be out tomorrow to take care of it I wanted to take his word on it I did but I couldn't that was left feeling more uneasy than I had before he'd gotten there I decided on calling the wildlife preserve instead it was kind of late so I was directed to the messaging service I tried to explain everything that had happened up until this point as best I could and just hope they would get back to me soon it took two days during those two days got no more sleep than I had been getting either the thing whatever it was seemed angry that someone had been down there the growling and scratching went on for nearly two hours it did finally die down and I was able to fall asleep at around 2:00 a.m. when I woke up later that day I saw that the wildlife preserves still hadn't call me back I tried calling them but was put on hold for nearly 45 minutes eventually I gave up and went about my day it would have been a great day for a walk through the woods but with that thing out there I was afraid to leave seeing that it could claw through concrete I didn't want to find out what it could do to me for the record the exterminator never came back and never returned any calls either that night it seemed like it was going to be all my own on this I felt like I was going to be stuck with this thing living under my house till it died off or I just left and never came back when I laid down to bed I didn't even try to sleep I just browsed reddit's and as I expected the noises started up again this time they were more tame and it didn't seem as pissed off I suppose it sorted out everything the exterminator had messed up I'd hear it for a few minutes then I'd hear it leave then it would come back moving around below the cabin or the fourth time it came through I heard a loud thump it caught my attention so I listened more intently there was no more noise absolutely nothing I thought it had finally found a resting spot and plopped down for sleep I decided that would do the same it was given a rude awakening that morning an absolutely vile smell filled my nostrils and rose me from bed I stepped outside and it only got worse I nearly puked on my steps luckily I got a call from the wildlife preserve saying that they were headed out to my area I explained the smell and they assured me that they had everything they would need once they were there they dressed themselves and coveralls gloves and gas masts trust me it was needed one went in and the other stayed out to help him pull out whatever was under there it took nearly 20 minutes but they rest with it out I'm not sure what it was it resembled a large dog but there was barely any hair on it if it was a dog then it was terribly infected with something apparently what happened was it smashed its head on a beam while running back and forth hard enough to break its own neck they told me it had turned a deep blue grey just overnight and I could hear the guys moving it gagging in their mass the snow was that bad they bagged it up and went back under only to find six small I suppose I'll call them Cubs late in the whole of the dug sadly they all passed as well it seemed that they were all stillborn according to workers sometime later they explained that they had to call someone out to clean all this up and it would be better for me to just leave I didn't want to argue so I did just that it's been a few days I haven't heard anything back yet I'm beginning to think I came across something I wasn't supposed to I'm afraid to go back and check on it though I was really big into exploring when I was a kid so when we moved into a new place and I noticed that there woods in the back that was a static I'd say I was anywhere around 10 or 11 when this took place we've been living there for a few weeks and I begged my parents to let me go out into the woods but they refused they explained that that was why the fence was built to keep the nosy little kids out my dad said well I wasn't going to let the fence stop me you see the first day there I examined the fence post and found one that was pretty loose I knew if I pulled it enough it would pop loose and I'd slip through I waited until my dad was at work and my mom was busy chatting on the phone I slipped outside and through the fence into the woods it was nearly magical seeing on the tall trees being able to stand under them was so awesome I remember being in total awe not wanting to waste any time lollygagging I set out to find anything interesting I found a trail that seemed to be walked quite a bit maybe from the cater lived down there before me it was pretty tame as far as big roots and thorn bushes goes so I started running sticking to it as much as I could soon I found myself standing on the bank of a small creek I knew that I may have gone much too far at this point but still wanted to press on what I saw on the other side of the creek though made me forget any ideas of exploring would look to be a gray wolf who was severely injured came up to the stream I should note here that the stream was about three feet across so I didn't feel like I was in any immediate danger there was a large gash across its side and the more drank the more it howled in pain I wanted to help it but there was no way I could have made it across then something began happening that I still have nightmares about today this wolf and I wish I was making this up began morphing into a man a full-grown completely naked man the house turned into cries of pain and fear he looked up at me and screamed for me to get some help I had no idea what to do so I just ran home I made it in the house before my mom noticed I've been in the woods and I just told her I'd been running around the yard to explain being out of breath she laugh it off but on the inside I was terrified I still haven't told my parents about what had happened as a matter of fact this is the first time actually talking about it to anyone could I have seen a shape-shifter a Wendigo a werewolf maybe even a skinwalker hey friends thanks for listening be sure to subscribe and click that notification about to be alerted of all future narrations if you got a story be sure to submit them to my subreddit our let's read official and give and receive feedback from the community and maybe even hear it featured here on the channel and grab early access to all future narrations for just $1 a month on patreon and maybe even pick up some let's read merch on Spreadshirt comm and links in the bio thanks so much friends and I'll see you again soon

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Length: 126min 9sec (7569 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 24 2018

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