26 True Scary Horror Stories | The Lets Read Podcast Episode 020

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so remember this clown incidents during 2016 where clowns would go around scaring people all over the US well me and my group of friends were some of those people I'm the first to admit we're scumbags however I learned from this experience and I am far from a monster I had many weird things happen to me while clowning as we called it one of those things was meaning this guy we referred to as Shaco named after the League of Legends character a bit of context I lived in Texas with the same group of friends we spent that whole month traveling around most of the state going to various smaller areas to spook people while avoiding police attention during one of these runs is when we met Chico at Marble Falls sheikha was dressed more as a jester than a clown hat with bells on the side really colorful and puffy outfit with a masquerade mask over his face which was painted gold in color during our clowning runs we actually met other clowns before so we went to talk to him cuz even if we were all dressed as clowns we are still human beings couldn't hurt maybe to make a friend during this little prank or so we guessed sheikha was hiding close by and a spot near the lakes I couldn't see his eyes yet I noticed him staring at a few people playing by the water judging by where his head was pointed towards I assumed it was a small get-together we talked to him and everything was semi normal for the situation he didn't act normal though a lot of us figured he was just hardcore into acting trust me one of the other clowns we met before did the same thing this guy acted like a madman straight from a horror novel which didn't mess with me at all I thought it would be fun to tag along with so when he started asking us to follow him no one refused it was a large group of us with one single guy leading them towards the lake so nothing happened to any of us at least going down this path we spotted two guys that seemed to be a couple judging by how they held hands and how close they were to each other and they were talking loudly which is probably why they didn't know too till Shaco made his first move this guy reached up into his hat and pulled in a knife I kid you not this guy pulled out a knife like it was nothing I wasn't expecting it most of the other clowns I meet didn't try to hurt people they just scared people at most just like us he had seen this guy with the knife caused me to hesitate I looked at my mates who were all freaking out silently like I said we're not Saints but we didn't want to hurt anyone during this little prank the two guys kept going not noticing Shaco charging them till it was too late both of them naturally started to scream despite this and obviously feeling terrified me and my buds decided to cut them off and surround them I guess due to us being a-holes and not believing someone would actually get hurt we felt the need to continue the horror now our group of friends are literally a dozen guys and two girls adding Shaco made it 15 versus two there was no way they would get away once we got them in a circle once trapped by all of us Shaco came in and then started screaming at the top of his lungs while saying weird things to one of the guys in particular darling did you miss me my sweet eggo waffle did you miss my morning light I miss you my dusk I want you back they kept going on and on after this my friends all had mixed feelings about this situation some of them were laughing enjoying how afraid these two dudes were the rest of us well bad vibes hit us hard would change this whole situation though and where things got 100% real was when sheikha went close to this guy a blond male called Jeff be mine be my king and I'll be your fool or I'll make you disappear in your little knight in shining armor shei : put the knife close to Jeff's face the second guy a redhead I'll call max stood there bawling up his fists tears streaming from his eyes watching the mad jester getting so close to his boyfriend well we may be terrible but none of us however were heartless the two largest guys in my group basically grabbed Shaco from behind both of them were about six foot two chico tried to fight them off but one of my female friends and I grabbed his feet the couple stood there stunned seeing us turn on Shaco when my mate drew told them in his thick Australian accent listen who came here only for thrills not kill anyone dudes just get out of here run away and call the cops please the moment those words left my bud jurors mouth they booked it back to whatever camp they had just left leaving us with the now screaming Shaco cursing us and threatening to slit all our throats none of us were afraid however again it was 14 of us versus him so we tossed that madman into the lake and ran off we got into our cars and drove away from that spot we didn't know what happened to Shaco or the two guys until recently you see what made me write this story was that me and my friends all went to the hookah bar near my house this weekend drew was telling us some story about how he lost his favorite baseball when some guy with red hair came and said hey guys did you go to like marble during Halloween I mean like during the clown crap apparently through fate we ran into max he and Jeff were in fact a gay couple who had been stalked by Jeff's ex-boyfriend aka you guessed it Shaco sheikha was basically a stalker that had been stalking them for months even before the Halloween stunt in fact the stunt didn't stop the creepin at all Shaco just kept stalking them both no matter what for 2 plus years he tracked them all across the state to eventually do de-stress max broke up with Jeff max couldn't take a crazy guy like that always watching them from the shadows every single day so he bailed leaving alone with no one to help beside his sister will make the story terrifying to me was the sad ending max found out at some point in August's both Jeff and his sister ended their lives together without max to help through the hard times Jeff and his sister couldn't take Chico's madness much longer and ended their lives by hanging themselves max broke down crying by this point in the story he is now trying to leave Texas by saving money due to a mixture of guilt and fear the reason for this fear is because he got a Facebook message from an unknown account telling him I'll make you pay I'll make you pay for leaving my Jeff alone I'll make you pay so now Max is just praying that Shaco doesn't find him before he leaves the state I ended up buying him three shots that night and getting him an uber home I admit I'm not a good person but not pure evil not like him so to whoever reads this believe it or not please stay safe there are monsters lurking amongst us and to you shake oh if me and my crew ever come across to you make no mistake we aren't against beating up monsters like you especially after the pain you put poor Jeff through to his final moments [Music] I'm a pretty big girl not extremely obese but chunky enough that it's obvious and it's not due to diet I have polycystic ovary syndrome PCOS which can cause issues with weight due to the pituitary gland releasing the wrong type of hormones with this comes insulin resistance which is like pre pre-diabetes it's reversible but not always effective as such in my 20s I'm on a drug called metformin metformin or glucophage depending on what name you know it by isn't an addictive substance it's used to control high insulin and I have to take it with my heaviest meals lunch and supper so I'm usually toting around this giant pill bottle full of white tablets the reason why I do this is because I work part-time and attend a university I live in the dormitory of my University and have to take transit to work and back with a bus switch downtown around the area where I have to switch my bus are numerous cafes and convenience stores needless to say I've grabbed something to eat from there numerous times and finally I tend to dress goth or punk my head shaven on the side and I've got a few piercings mostly I'm left alone but there have been times where some idiots decided to have a go at me particularly on Friday nights it was Friday the 2nd of November to put things into perspective my instructor was ill so class was cancelled and I had an extra hour to get to work I usually grab a quick deli sandwich and a coffee from a cafe the closest to the bus stop and stick it into my backpack so I can eat it on my break this Friday with extra time on my hands I decided upon arriving at my stop to stay at the cafe I go in order my usual plain latte and turkey bacon wrap if you have to know and sit down next to the windows so I can keep an eye on the stop I have my earbuds in and I'm listening to a podcast just going through the motions once finishing my rap I unzip the front pocket of my backpack fish out the bottle of pills pop it and wash it down with my latte all at once this guy just comes up to my table and motions for me to take my earbuds out for a description he's pretty tall kind of burly why does a sheet with his broom moustache wearing clean civilian clothes nothing that set off my alarm bells being confused I do so and he tells me excuse me miss what exactly are those he was talking about my pills a thing with me is that I'm pretty confident so I said to him none of your business then the sky pulls open his jacket flashing me a police badge only he did it so quickly that I couldn't make out the details just the shape and nothing else I think it is what are those narcotics at this point I'm in complete shock the rational part of my brain is shut off because I'm so caught off-guard by this random man potentially a cop looming over me no is all I could get out that's so he says and picks up my pill bottle also if you know the medication you know they put your full name on the label as well as what it is before I can tell him to give it back he puts it in his pocket and quickly goes you're right I'm confiscating these if you want to come with me downtown to discuss this further I suggest we do so now before to place you under arrest okay so at this point I'm half calling him half unsure what to say or how to react all I'm able to say is flat-out no like a moron do you want to be placed under arrest I'm a cop miss I can do that and then he flashes out his pair of handcuffs they're not the fluffy kinky ones either you'd expect a fake cop to have their real and as far as I can tell metal I'd recommend you just follow me to my car so we can have a chat of course my sense of rationality is still undermined by the sheer ridiculousness of this situation so I end up just blurting out I'm not using drugs bad ones that's medicine he says this cliche yeah that's what they all say and proceeds to reach for my arm when he grabs it my senses finally come to me and I pull back up against the window give me back my medication I yell loud enough to get attention from the patrons and staff miss I'm asking you to come quietly he says along those lines I keep my mouth running that's my medication for diabetes and I need it it says so on the bottle if you're a cop give me my pills back and call for backup better yet I proceeded to grab my phone I'll call the cops here because there's been a mistake that got him angry he says something along the lines of you're resisting arrest and tries to grab my arm again at this point I'm dialing 911 one of the baristas is coming out from behind the counter he asked this guy what are you doing it finally scares the creep and he takes off granted with my medication in his pocket I speak to the dispatcher and the real cop show up within minutes I speak to the cops and explain what happened the barista also tells them that this guy has been sitting the cafe for over an hour before I showed up but hadn't been bothering other customers just me apparently cops took surveillance from the security cameras although of course there's none pointing out into the road I actually had to go to the station to file a report because yep there were no undercover narc cops in that area that day so 100% wasn't an actual one I suspected as much but in our society you're inclined to believe in trust in authority figures these days not so much but disobeying them isn't in our programming usually it really isn't in mine either but the whole thing was fishy from the get-go considering of course it was my metformin he took and I had to replace the entire three-month bottle and go several hours between doses something that puts me at risk for hypoglycemia low blood sugar I'm of course quite angry at this idiot still but I'll admit I'm also fully aware and freaked out that I was in a whole lot of danger too it's not common where I live but human trafficking is a thing the fact that this guy wanted me a lone female who looks the type to use some kind of illegal substance to go with them alone gets to me what if my common sense didn't kick in or the barista hadn't done something the people around us sure didn't pool of what would you do and come to my rescue the biggest thing that's freaky is that not only has this guy not been caught yet but my pills were later recovered the bottom was found a few blocks away still half full by eyeballing it which confirms the cop theory that he wasn't some desperate junkie or guy trying to rob me he wouldn't have dumped the pills if he wanted to sell them so they dubbed this an attempted abduction due to his aggressiveness to get me to go with him before anyone asks no I can't take them not that I could anyway the cops are keeping the bottle for evidence because fingerprints exist I've been keeping my eyes out in case fake cop comes wandering onto my campus and I did switch my bus route I'm taking the long way which I don't enjoy but until they catch the creep that's the way it's got to be unfortunately otherwise so far I've gotten no creepy phone calls no random people texting me no cryptic messages and my social media platforms nothing if this guy is smart he wouldn't even try anyways and really hoping he's smart for my own sanity [Music] I'm in my early 20s I work overnights at a group home for autistic children there were three boys living in the house my job was to come in if they weren't asleep when I got there I would get them to sleep I would do some paperwork and do most of the cleaning but in the morning I would wake them up get them ready for school make breakfast and tell the morning person about anything that might have happened over night or that the afternoon or evening person told me about what had happened the previous day all told it was an easy job I loved being with the boys when they were awake but largely had five to six hours to do two hours worth of work so that was three to four hours where all I had to do was stay awake and hope that the boy slept through the night typically I spent that time chatting online or watching TV on my laptop or reading however sometimes things did get a bit creepy there would be times throughout the day where I would be talking to one of the boys getting him dressed and he would stop what he was doing and just stare over my shoulder I'm pretty short for a guy only five seven so if someone is standing behind me they're pretty easy to see obviously there would be no one behind me or I would have mentioned it there were a few times where one of the boys would actually point up toward the ceiling and say who's that who's she I think those moments were the second scariest thing for me other times I could hear walking down in the basement the office was in the basement and the door was kept locked so the voice wouldn't go down there are times where I would hear the door to the laundry room slam sometimes when I worked mornings after the boys had left for school I could hear children laughing in the house and other staff had mentioned hearing it too the scariest moment in the house for me was a night shift I was laying on the couch in the living room reading the couch was against the wall and had a chair directly next to it so that they were touching and the chair was right next to the doorway in the kitchen the kitchen led to the hallway that led to the bathroom and the boy's room so I was laying on the couch with my head closest to the hallway to better hear if the boys got up you had to react quickly if they did or you might have a big mess on your hands when I heard footsteps now the boys who were down the hall were small boys and both needed help getting their shoes on but these were heavy footsteps and they sounded like someone wearing heavy boots I froze the steps came down the hall into the kitchen and into the living room then I heard the air leaving the cushion on the chair that was literally six inches away from the back of my head as if someone had just sat down I took a deep breath and turned around no one was there I was freaked out but I had a job to do and honestly if I was mistaken about the direction or placement of those footsteps and someone was in one of the boys room I would rather face them than let the boys get hurt so knowing where I heard the footsteps I walked back just to be sure I look in on the boys and they're all asleep I didn't get much more reading done that night but I think that's the cleanest the house has ever been [Music] ever since I can remember I've had what I assumed to be a dark entity attached to or following me I call it the shadow man because it looks like a very dark silhouette of a tall man that appears to me usually when I am going through a rough time in my life now I think this is important to note that the entity appears to me mostly at night but also during the day usually when I am alone but I must mention that I do not suffer from sleep paralysis have never hallucinate 'add except after surgery have never taken hallucinogenic drugs etc and I have seen it in multiple houses I've lived in and it's been a part of my earliest memories I usually see the shadow man at night sometimes walking with the joltin it is at the foot of my bed just standing over me when I was young my mother used to tell me to command it to go away but ever since I turned 12 that hasn't worked when I was 12 I was in my bed and my dad's house when I saw it manifest through my sliding closet door that was a mirror it started as a mist and the color slowly became darker and it seemed to take a more three-dimensional shape I was terrified and hid under the covers with my eyes shut tight and felt the corner of my bed pressed down with an unseen weight that I moved as far away from as I could I was too afraid to say anything aloud but in my head I was shout and get out leave me alone as loud as I could possibly think eventually I fell asleep bend didn't see it again for another few months when I was 15 I started dating my current boyfriend he is a skeptic and always has been and has never believed my stories of the shadow man when I was 18 we got an apartment together and the first time I saw the shadow man there I was home alone and called him hysterically crying because the shadow man moved towards me at warped like speed and I dropped to the floor and closed my eyes crying for it to go away my boyfriend thought it was a ploy to get him to come home early from work and he just told me to get into bed and try to take a nap until he got home at about 3 p.m. this happened in about 12:00 in the afternoon after much begging and pleading on my end we eventually got a dog because it would make me feel safer when I was 20 that was in the kitchen downstairs making dinner with my dog by my side and they got the feeling of static electricity on the back of my neck that I always got before I saw the shadow man and I turned to see it in the dining room and I looked down and my dog's hackles were raised and I called for my boyfriend scared but determined to make him believe me it came down the stairs and by this point my dog was growling and barking something very unusual for him as we have heard him bark only a handful of times and he has only ever ground two other times when I felt I was in danger but those are stories for another time and my boyfriend said he saw the air almost shimmer where my dog and I saw the shadow man standing and it just faded out of sight when my boyfriend got to me but at least he believes me now I'm so grateful to my dog for making enough of a scene for my boyfriend to come down because now I'm taken seriously and at least I'm not alone in this [Music] I remember when I was 13 years old we were living in Florida in the suburbs of Orlando we have since moved up to Oklahoma to get back in touch with God as my grandpa pastors a pretty big church there in Tulsa anyway I played in a soccer program called upward I loved every second of it especially playing with my best friend at the time Brandon would goof off most of the time and neither of us were too good at the sport but we both loved it now some explanation Brandon has a moderate case of autism his was a bit worse than mine however and he'd often overreact to small situations and go off in his own little world normal stuff he was really into sonic.exe and Slenderman all things horror his parents didn't know how to deal with him properly I imagine this is why Brandon did what he did on this particular night or it could have been his obsession with things of its nature Oh also we're both homeschooled so we did school whenever we wanted so Brandon and I bugged his mom about letting me stay the night after a successful soccer game one night she said it was okay with her then branded suggested a week she said no and instead suggested three days I agreed on that and Brandon did too my parents knew them at this point and also agreed it was a done deal I packed up and headed over there when I was dropped off at the house Brandon greeted me he talked about what we were gonna do almost none of which we did and we walked to his bedroom we instead talked and talked about random things and his older sister who was 15 joined us later that night we all went to bed late at night the next day came and we woke up pretty late that is Ash Brandon's sister and I did Brandon was nowhere to be found we decided not to worry about it didn't talk to each other instead about half an hour passed and I decided we needed to find Brandon ash went to her bedroom instead I walked around the house and with no luck decided to look outside immediately my senses were attacked by a foul sour stinging odor as if the sources were right next to me I remember her recoiling and surprised I got away from whatever the smell was going toward the lake they lived on I saw Brandon walking along the shore holding something red and brown in his arms it looked like a towel it was about as long as his forearm I faintly heard him singing something to himself as he walked I silently made my way over to him hoping he wouldn't hear me I wanted to try and scare him not thinking at all about what he was holding he went toward the small kayak house that they had for you guessed it kayaking I figured the perfect time to attack would be when he walked in there where it was dark I smiled and dash behind a tree to wait for him to enter Brandon stopped right outside the door and locked it in both of his hands in front of himself he lifted it to a side and I got a good view of the carcass of a rabbit my eyes opened so wide in shock I couldn't blink he started slamming it against the tin build of the shack screaming he opened the door and used the edge of the door where the doorknob was and slammed the rabbit's spine into it a sickening snap was heard and I felt dizzy I walked back to the house and entered it and and began crying it scared me so badly that I was bawling I soon gathered myself and decided against saying anything about it to anyone because I truly thought no one would believe me Brandon came in later on and we hung out as usual with the exception of my newfound knowledge night fell and we all talked and went to bed a little earlier this time so we'd wake up later and have more day to burn Brandon wanted to show me something first though and got me out of bed we walked outside on his back porch and the same smell from earlier that day stung my senses and remember this night vividly Oh what is that smell dude I asked cupping my hands over my nose and mouth he walked over to a small box with holes poked in it opened it and picked something up out of it facing away from me he turned around excitedly and held out what he picked up this he said smiling it was an extremely skinny rabbit red stains on its brown fur it smelled horrific oh dude what is that I shouted jumping back they did things moving in its fur its eyeballs were sunk into its skull almost to the point that they had fallen out of the sockets Brandon had a sad look on his face what he asked curiously what do you mean what I shouted angrily at him I killed it look at what's happening to it it's cool right he asked me No you're a monster I yelled at him his face completely went blank after that I'll kill you next my parents pulled up after I'd gotten Brandon's mom up and asked her if I could go home I told her I was homesick I know I probably should have mentioned the threat but the only thing I wanted to do was get out of there I told my parents while we were driving home who in turn told his parents I really haven't seen him since then like I said we moved up to Oklahoma soon afterward for unrelated reasons [Music] I used to live out in the country in Manitoba Canada like real boonies you had the biker drive to go anywhere aside from a railroad side ice-cream parlor at night it would get pretty dark too with my mother and stepdad we had three small dogs in a cat that was often left in charge of all of them I was kind of resentful for all the work on top of the schooling and homework but I loved the animals so I couldn't blame them too much unless they made a huge mess then they'd be pretty ticked but that's not entirely relevant what is is that I would routinely take them all out before going to bed and I would go to bed very very late at nights like any fourteen-year-old with such lacks parenting Emma ledian my dog Carmelita would usually stay in the front yard which was a vast acreage of flat land with a tiny ditch it was easy to see the small dogs and call them back in sometimes Emma would wonder my mother's Karen Terrier had a bit of the rebellious side to her but it wasn't her who took off this night it was Lady the cocker spaniel she was a protective and watchful eye while the others were mostly divas frustrated I ran off after her around to the back of the house which is a steep slope toward a water bed that is an offshoot of the Red River what I saw slowly sprawling across the slope still gives me chills these things were about chest height to me and 25 feet away pale tan or grey mostly no tails no muscles but on all fours with long legs that were longer in the front they turned their almost featureless faces up to us at the top of the slope their eyes were large and glowed in the faint back porch lights like big marbles luckily lady had frozen at the top with me her hackles raised like a hyena the creatures were still walking but were bobbing their heads about looking at us I grabbed the dog by crouching quickly frightened would be attacked and bolted around the side to the front again calling for the others to come inside Emma and Carmelita were already sitting at the door waiting for us I guess they'd figured it was too chilly for them stay out so long but truthfully my out-of-shape self was boiling from the adrenaline I refused to take them out after dark after that which unfortunately resulted in plenty of messes I had to clean up I would occasionally see those strange things crossing our backyard after that they'd only look up at my house if I had the lights on and was obviously moving and Clearview another night I woke up radio flashing 1:00 a.m. or something close to that I wasn't sure why I woke up at that time until I realized I wasn't alone I sleep in the basement at that time the windows overlook the backyard but only slightly it was located under the back porch which was able to be walked under if you simply stooped a bit one of those things with pale skin and huge green eyes lowered its head as it looked through my window I froze I'm not sure if I moved at all after waking up it sort of bobbed its head around for a brief time only and then quickly bolted off as if something had frightened it to this day I had no idea what they were they almost acted like deer but they hardly look like them the bodies look closer to misshapen dogs or humans their faces were hard to see but from what I could tell they had no muscles and very big eyes I tried looking up what cryptids or myths were native to where I live but everything just sort of points to Wendigo where skinwalkers and I'm not entirely sold on either I saw them too frequently for them to be a random misinterpretation of another animal and aside from simple distance making it hard to discern their faces they stuck around long enough for me to get a really good look at their form so what was I seeing out there [Music] I grew up in a reformed Jewish household for those who don't know what that is basically it means we want to feed the world and respect traditions but aren't really religious picture the typical grandma when you come in and of course she wants to feed you has to be thought in the sterically - grandma voice you're so skinny what you never eat say it sit have some matzo ball soup chicken I'm making brisket for dinner want some candy gosh don't your mothers feed you but multiply that by 10 I love my family and have always had a sensitivity to vibes my mom says I got from my great-great grandmother who was Sephardic Jewish gypsy while my mom and biological dad divorced I no longer recognized him as my father since no man should treat his child the way he treated me growing up and we'll leave it at that so I guess to clarify I love my mother's side of the family my biological dad would take me to his hometown growing up and let his parents watch me as he drink the day away this was fine as I had friends in his neighborhood and they helped me learn to surf fish and more when I was 8 years old my pop-pop had passed away his hadn't my stepmothers mom she was a rad older lady Jewish - and always looked out for me on trips grandma s my biological dad had inherited his parents Ullman was now helping care for my grandma my pops wife Grandma J and by help I mean his sister cared for his mother and he drank and did yard work it was strange being in the house without him and his cigars and my grandma's voice singing through the kitchen bubala you hungry Shayna punim wanna watch Disney movies with me it was silent except for my aunt fussing over my grandma J who had Parkinson's and dementia poor woman I wish she and I had been closer growing up but she was always suffering from early onset dementia and was confused so often I found it best to sit with her but leave her be so my next door neighbor Sammy was my age and she was a dead ringer for Rock girl from rocket power the TV show from nickel owed like mid-90s to 2000 she asked if I'd bring my dad longboards and meet her at the beach and we'd catch the small waves and ride the line this was and is Florida and we lived right on the beach so like a five to ten minute walk with my little legs I agreed and with my little eight-year-old arms and legs this was a big undertaking by myself keep in mind this is the 90s so long as we were a vocal where we went and were back in a few hours we were fine so I'm trying to maneuver this huge board about eight foot seven inches and my board seven foot 10 inches across a busy intersection across the street to the beach I put my board down and press the crosswalk button and pick up my dad's board and put it on my shoulder and smushed it against my head as I basically used my head as a prop fiberglass at the age was heavy this was obstructing my view of oncoming traffic to my left I saw the pedestrian walkway light changed green and I made my way to cross the street this is where it gets interesting as soon as my little sandal touched the road I felt a strong hand pulled me back from the road onto my butt as a huge red SUV came speeding through the red light and most certainly would have meant severe possibly life-threatening injuries my mouth gaped open wide as I saw it zoom past horn blaring presumably at me like I was the crazy one i sat up pulling my board in my feet quickly glancing for damage as I dusted myself off to thank whomever just saved my life I heard a very familiar voice you need to be careful bubala I recognized the voice and the red hair she disappeared as quickly as she had appeared her perfume that usually made my nose crinkle due to how overwhelming it was now wafted and hung in the air like a goodbye I was speechless how could this have happened I grabbed the board's and carefully crossed the street one or two patrons on the other side asking me if I was okay from their seats at the beachside dive bar I nodded and sniffled as I was too overwhelmed at my young age and I wasn't supposed to talk to strangers I see Sammy making San Kingdom off in the distance as my sore legs wobbled her way she was a sweet girl and could tell it was distressed hey are you okay she noticed I was banged up a bit he have scrapes on your legs come on let's wash them off in the ocean she took me slightly by the hand and let the waves lick my legs and the salt stain and clean my scrapes dude you okay now she whispered as she had never seen me cry before except the time I ate at skateboarding but I had busted up my chin and blood dripping off my face was freaking me out yeah I squeaked out do you still want to surf she asked concerned yeah so he paddled outs in the lineup where I just laid on my board and quietly cried to myself I caught a few bumps in and after two hours I told Sammy it was time for me to go I sat in my grandparents house the incident replaying in my head over and over the weekend went by in a blur and I was back home with my mom in our shoe box of the house we had after the divorce okay my mom interrupted neverending thoughts you are way too quiet what happened did your dad do something she prodded I turned and looked at her on our violet leather couch and Letta Desai I hadn't realized I've been holding mommy what happens you know when you died I asked in a whisper she looked shocked I mean what parent wouldn't when their child is asking about death what do you mean why are you asking this she now moved closer moving my bangs from my eyes looking so concerned I sighed again debating whether to tell her what happened mom I tried again are there such things as ghosts I looked in the eyes searching for an answer she sighed and said I don't know she said pulling me closed arm around me and settling in on the couch she told me her story but when I was out of college I was in New York working as the regional manager for JM and it was freezing cold snow clung to everything it was sleeting and the sidewalks turned to ice skating rinks she chuckled to herself I must have looked so confused as she continued with anyways I had six to seven white boxes of clothes stacked to bring to retail location just about three blocks down from the main office I do this to check in and keep morale high if I can't reg through the snow you can stretch with your shifts and meet sales goals you know type thing mind you I made this walk countless times in my boots and heels with boxes stacked ten high the weather was making it hard to see though and the sleet was stinging my face not to mention the boxes impaired my view so I went across the street my heart stopped as my encounter played again in my head and as I went across I heard a voice I was so familiar with say don't cross Shawna poonam weight I felt your great-grandma Esther she was there I was so stunned I took a few steps back and saw a taxi comes zooming past then hit a patch of ice and nailed the light post not even ten steps to my right I looked all around baby I didn't see her and how could I she had passed that month I dropped the boxes and checked on the driver and called 911 up she paused her own confusion playing across her features and probably to keep from rambling so they answer you a question I don't know what happens when we die I wouldn't say I believe in ghosts but I do believe in guardian angels and spirits they are always watching over you to protect you and keep you safe she said she did again ask why I had asked but I didn't tell her to this day I haven't told her my experience I am certain she'll think I'm making it up to match her story or something I wasn't a very honest child after all I had my father's drinking and abusive nature from her maybe now she'd believe me but it's been so long what it does give me such peace to know that our loved ones are never really gone they're always watching over us so I believe in the paranormal ghosts spirits and the like but I believe over everything else we have guardian spirits watching over us [Music] my name is Lydia I'm a 19 year old female I live with my dad in the weekends but I live at school during the week that isn't really relevant to what I'm about to tell you but I thought I'd tell you where I stand this occurred last July and I remember this timeframe so well because it happened the day after I saw Panic at the Disco at MSG the day after the concert so the 25th I think I was playing animal crossing at my dad's house he wasn't home so I was the only one in the house other than the cat I heard a knock at the door it was later in the afternoon maybe about 6 p.m. so I started to walk towards the door not thinking twice about it my dad's house has a large one-way window next to the door so I was able to see who was outside I assumed it was a kid from the neighborhood so I opened the door it was a boy he looked a little lost so I asked him if he needed anything he said no and asked if he could come inside I asked whine he just shrugged and stood there with a blank expression I was confused by this and was torn on what to do this boy it was a child only about 6 years old I then remembered the whole stranger-danger thing in know it was a child and I'm a 19 year old female the boy asked if he could come in again so I asked why do you want to come in it gave me an answer and it was kind of unsettling he said something along the lines of my parents will come looking for me soon that was confused and thought this boy was just terrified to be on his own and then looked at his eyes for whatever reason and the eye sockets were empty or black I couldn't tell my body began to speak almost on its own and long story short I ended up letting him in I couldn't stop myself it was almost like pressure or something was forcing me to say it even though I knew it felt so unlike me as I'm a pretty anxious person around new people never mind random children who show up to your house when he came inside he sat on the chair in the entryway I was uncomfortable and I could tell that this child did not want to speak at all I opened my DS to resume the game and it froze I tried to turn it off and back on without saving my progress and it wouldn't even do that I brushed that off as a coincidence and just me being paranoid after what felt like eons the child stood up and said they're here he got up and walked out the door I watched him get into the car and as he was leaving my dad was driving in front of our house to pull into the driveway my dad got inside and asked who that boy was not responded with the whole story - the black eyes and DS part cos my dad's a skeptic about this kind of stuff I then made up that I called the boy's parents to come and pick him up that was obviously a lie I told my friend about this and she said that I probably had an experience with the black-eyed children I'm no paranormal expert but this felt very unhealing like I don't know what the children's parents were either I asked my dad and he didn't see them or anyone driving the car he blamed it on the tinted windows but I'm not sure I couldn't see anything either with all that being said I'm not sure what the child actually was I haven't had any strange dreams or had any medical problems and I hope to keep it that way I grew up in a haunted house no big deal but it was built in the early 1800s as nice house and like many ice houses of the time it was used to store dead bodies during the winter months particularly when the ground would freeze hard then when coal was struck in the power company ate up as much land as they could it turned into a coal dump the Attic was built enormous Li and could have easily been two stories high and still room for all my father's pack rat crap it had two huge rollup garage doors about eight feet from the ceiling of the apartment which would make a solid 19 foot fall the floor was jacked up a foot or two from the bedrock I like the joke that I lived in a bomb shelter and one of the Timbers of the apartment walls had 1960 written on it it had a strange layout where my older brother would have to pass through my room this caused a whole other bucket of stories I had always been afraid of the closet in that room it still gives me a phobia to this day my brother would often tell me horrible things to keep me in the bed at night none of that's out of the way I'll start with a little girl who had died of yellow fever I was able to find her obituary at the library they even had her post-mortem pictures she is the one that I would say has been there the longest I was never afraid of her I was a lonely child because of the huge age gap for my siblings she wouldn't be what I would call an imaginary friend either she came at clear times of the day and I actually miss her at night she would try to lay down in bed with you she would first sit like trying to ease into the bed instead of just flopping into the bed hear her breath just a few moments of fully laying down she would play with certain toys especially when new people came around girlfriends boyfriends best friends and sleepover parties all fell victim to the little girl that just wants someone to cuddle at night I assumed she was stored in the ice house due to winter the coal miner he died in that house when a truckload of coal had been dumped accidentally basically burying him alive and the dusty unwashed coal he died of collapsed lungs no pictures in the obituary but he stayed in the Attic just over the master bedroom he didn't wear a shirt only overalls that have been covered in coal he himself just as dark as carbon with his eyes and mouths rubbed by a clean handkerchief read like a sunburn under the dust on his face he wasn't a nice guy but he wasn't a mean one either only confusing and annoying at times with his loud boots around 3:00 a.m. the last thing that lived in my house is the star of this show this man shaped being was not a good spirit in the slightest in fact I really don't think it was a spirit at all something horrid and unworldly under the cloak of a normal shadow man it had substance and depth at times but like the girl in the coal miner it too would come out during special events my parents had a toxic marriage for the better part of my life knowing that my mother had been having an affair for six years longer than my own life I understood why they would have screaming matches about the food my mom cooked the stain on the shirt the taste of the tea money bills etc when left in the care of my brother who was more than old enough to be a responsible older brother he would beat me to near unconsciousness when I bugged him a little too long which caused me to just curl back up to my room under the bed my sanctuary and sometimes little girls meeting-place only her energy holding a hand or moving a toy when I grew up a little and had thoughts that are hard for even adults to process the earliest memory was when I was searching the toy box of hand-me-downs that was kept in my bedroom closet my mom had just left the house then my dad left after a huge fight of course the night before my brother locked me outside in the cold he turned out the porch light like a hyena then went to the other room I broke through the glass that was closest to the doorknob by accident after beating a little too hard and fear and anger about staying outside for god knows how long I panicked about how cut up my hand was and I was finally led into the house where I was tortured further with rubbing alcohol on my glass filled fists I screamed more about that than the initial cuts I was threatened by my brother next time it would be worse sadly I promise he kept the spirit yanked back the clothes that hung over the toy box and tilted and egg-shaped head toward me it examined me like a bug up then down and over again I just held tight to my littlest petshop a pound puppy I had been searching for looking at him and wonder tinged with shock and fear the door shut closing me in the closet here started to increase but who did I fear more my brother I only stayed with my eyes locked on the man he snapped and popped with his movements like arthritis had been building up for an eternity he moved back into the clothes and straightened himself adjusting popcorn in the microwave when I let out a squeak and started to reach for the doorknob it only looked hard at me for a moment then slammed the clothes back together with a snap naturally I was slightly relieved but I still went for the door the knob didn't budge don't panic both hands still no turn in full panic mode I screamed and thumped myself against the door smashing my hand in the process my final heave I wind up tumbling out to my brother with his cackling laugh it gave me carpet burned down my face the reason I panicked so hard hurt myself and was willing to break my shoulder to get out of that closet was that thing it started growling it stretched up towards the ceiling and was now leaning over the rack of clothes leering down on me it felt like its darkness was going to swallow me this actually became a go-to for my brother too but I disarmed him by not coming unglued this came to an end when my mother came to wake me up for school and found me asleep in the toy box she was on the verge of grounding me which consisted of no four-wheeler or video games in short I ratted on him but that closet scared me more when I was out of it the doorknob had this jingle from being loose the jingle would come and then the door would break open with force but not slam the shadow would ease out from the door and the closet would be left open a crack I saw this twice as a preteen and once as a teenager it would slink itself into my brother's room where he was probably tripping balls one night I heard him jerk his playstation controller out of the port and slam it into the wall that faced my room following was a muffled cussing than him coming out of his lit bedroom crotch of his pants covered in pee i sat up once he was out of my room and clasped my hand over my mouth to keep him from hearing my laughing this small victory came to an abrupt resolution when I saw the shadow glide back to my closet then the door closed with a jingle I haven't asked my sister what does the bad one mean because I'm scared of the response I haven't asked my brother because we have never willingly communicated with each other until recently when we agreed my sister was the favorite do you think my brother's teasing was just teasing or does he still have to make sure his closet door is completely shut before bed too I live in a rural area in New England and nothing out here really bothers me I've seen black bears coyotes and have become used to the wildlife in the area by living out here for 17 years but whenever you get used to something mother nature always tends to mess it up it was a warm summer day in July and I decided to take my horse cheyenne down a forested trail and my grandparents property we've completed this trail many times with no issues so I thought nothing of it at the time I tacked up and started down the trail in mid-afternoon the heat and flies already getting to my horse and I went rail riding and you tend to lose track of time you studied the forests and listened to the noises all around you and that's what I did as we carried on down the trail mine noticed my merit became increasingly nervous and reluctant to move forward I encouraged her the best I could but I started to notice a change in the forest it was like a mood swing the forest noises seemed to dim which put me on edge up ahead of us was a sharp wooded corner so I couldn't see what was up ahead the logical side of me was screaming I've listened to scary narrations this simply wasn't a good situation the stubborn side of me however was encouraged to round the corner and with my horse on edge I did the forest was now silent and dread consumed me but I rounded the corner in front of me was a decently dressed man in the middle of the trail but he just seemed off his motions were almost mechanical I dare say robotic he lurched backwards he didn't jump back it was like something pulled his body back it was almost like it wanted to act surprised or shocked that I was there it just didn't look natural he looked like a puppet at that moment my mind was screaming no one was supposed to be out there no one should be out there this was private property in the middle of nowhere this trail wasn't even connected or near two main roads strangers couldn't access it I didn't even get a good look at his face I could feel myself avoiding looking at it as if even the thought of it unnerved me his clothing as I recall just seemed average nothing special but his presence made me physically sick I've never had so much dread come over me a person shouldn't enable that much fear into someone as if my horse sensed my dread she turned quickly around and bolted back down the trail as if spooked herself and we headed back to the barn as I got to the end of the trail and saw the barn I felt everything lift the forest noises came back and most of the fear drifted away I could finally breathe I never untagged a horse that quickly in my life I had to walk past the trail to make it to my grandparents house and I dreaded it I got on the phone with my mom as I made my way down the dirt road to the house I had boasted to her about how I saw a deer on the trail trying not to make my voice crack as I walked past it too afraid to tell the truth of what I saw or even managed a glance back at it once I passed the trail I sprinted the rest the way almost like an invisible boogeyman was behind me I don't fear the woods don't fear people but then man or whatever it was terrified me he said nothing but still could enable so much indistinct of dread and fear into me my horse sensed it a person has never spooked her but that thing did I don't know what that was but the motions were not human please everyone be careful in the woods and never get too comfortable that's when the strangest encounters happen [Music] my dad passed away about two years before which left only my mom's sister and myself to help me cope with my father's passing my mom took me to the animal shelter to pick out a dog since having a large dog was something that I always wanted and one of the cages was a small Shepard husky huddled in the corner that I right away fell in love with when this incident happened he was about 1 years old 90 pounds and my best friend my mom worked nights and my older sister taking advantage that my mom wasn't home would constantly leave me alone I didn't mind though because then she couldn't boss me around since when she was home she would try to be mom telling me what to do and when to go to bed we live in a small middle-class suburb with low crime so I wasn't afraid to be home alone I was sitting in the living room playing video games and got up to head into the kitchen to grab a drink in the kitchen and I had a clear view through the back door and could see the garage open thinking I just left it open after putting my bike away I handed out the door to close it my dog was sleeping in the basement since he'd like to lay on the cold floor during the summer months and I didn't think to take him out with me I step out the door and make it about five feet from it when I noticed in the darkness a crouched shadow moving in the garage I froze trying to get my eyes to adjust to make out what the shadow was it finally hit me when I saw the figure stand up and turned towards me I was terrified and felt like I had been glued to the spot I knew that this person could see me since the back porch light was shining above me at that moment the figure started running towards me I was too scared to move and let out more of a Yelp than a scream but that was all it took for my dog to hear and the next thing I hear is him behind me snarling and growling I could make out it was a man but not features when he now froze seeing the 90 pound beast behind me he turned and ran for the back fence with my dog right behind him the guy made it to the fence and since it was only about four feet he hopped right before my dog got to him after he got away my dog came running back to me and we went inside where I barricaded the doors I don't know why but I didn't call the police and never told my mom or sister what happened one thing that bothered me was then he had to have known that I was inside since the lights were on and the blinds open so why take the risk to hit a house when someone was clearly home the morning after my mom was home I went outside to finally close the garage and notice what he had been going through my dad's toolbox I locked up the garage and never told anyone about what happened I walked my dog to McDonald's and got him a burger an ice cream cone for being my hero [Music] my family loves traveling like all the time so about a year ago my family took a trip to France at this time I'm a ninth grader in high school before the trip my mom spent a few months learning French and my sisters had some basic knowledge on the language so we were set so we flew into some country in Europe I forget exactly where when we took the train all the way to Paris once we arrived in the train station we took a few minutes to prepare ourselves before heading out and looking for a taxi we were walking when suddenly a guy comes up to us he knew some English and asked if we were looking for a taxi since he had a large van taxi my family was happy since we have over a five person family and there isn't enough seats and normal taxis so we agreed and walked over with him as he points out a large black van with another nice sitting in the driver's seat now that I think of it there is no reason for two taxi drivers to be in one car the weird part was is that it had no taxi indicators or anything on the van stating this is a taxi service I remember my parents exchanging glances with each other but going along with it so at this point we haven't even discussed price or where we were heading he just opened the rather large trunk and started chucking our bags inside there at this point my mom was worried she demanded an answer on why there was no taxi indicators the man started switching between English and French and wasn't giving a clear answer she didn't push it my mom then asked for the price it was a bit costly but there are no other regular taxi vans around at this point the man is getting to the last of our luggage when we noticed my dad's attitude change he seemed more concern he went up to the man stopped him at putting the last piece of luggage in the van and said to him show me your taxi license at this time I didn't even know there was a taxi license I guess neither did the man his eyes widened and he seemed nervous and very broken English he said something along the lines of right right taxi license he pretended to pad his pockets and acted like he left it at home my parents at this point quickly grabbed their luggage and said thank you but we don't need a taxi anymore they quickly took us across the street and merged us into a large group of people getting away from this mysterious black van we eventually found a taxi terminal and found a large van we never spoke at that event again but I feel like I was that close to being kidnapped or whatever these people had planned on doing to us [Music] this happened in 2016 a week before Christmas Day on this particular day my mom decided to take me out shopping with her for some last-minute Christmas gifts and holiday deals as we were leaving I grabbed the handbag I was using at the time a relatively worn but nice black leather fossil brand backpack I didn't have much in it besides my planner a journal my wallet and my whole D s case I'd gone to a gaming party that night before and still had it in there but I didn't think much about taking it out I was prone to carrying it around in my bag regardless of what I was doing I never knew when I was going to get bored enough to pull it out and start tending to my animal crossing' villager training some of my prized pokemons we made our rounds at the mall and whatnot and about halfway into our trip I received a text from a high school band mate of mine I was a big band nerd and was particularly close with a lot of people who marched with me the text informed me that some people from my old percussion section were planning an impromptu get-together at the movies and I was invited to come along as well as my mom she was a well liked band parents so they had no qualms about her showing up as well we were both pretty game and after finishing up the last story we wanted to get into we headed to the theater to meet everybody we had a good time caught up took some funny pictures all that jazz my mother and I headed home around 9:30 p.m. and as soon as we pulled up into our driveway my mom asked me to retrieve the bags from our shopping endeavors I remembered that I was listening to music on my cell phone as I got out of the car and shrugged my backpack onto my left shoulder I trudged around to the back of the car and stood there waiting for my mom to pop open her trunk I glanced slightly over my shoulder just in time to see what looked like an SUV whip up onto our swale the first thought that came to mind was that one of my band mates had follow me home as a joke they were a Mimi Bunch so I didn't put anything like that past them i smirked a little and turned around to greet whoever it was instead of facing a friend I instead came face to barrel with what looked to be a revolver holding it was a short guy I'm 5 7 and he looked to be slightly shorter than me he a dark-skinned a black unkempt beard and unruly curly hair to match I remember shooting my gaze up to his face and staring at him because I had watched enough crime shows to know exactly what was about to go down give me money he shot it as we made eye contact I remember freezing out of what I could describe a shock and maybe some fear my first thought was there was a chance the gun wasn't loaded followed by the thought that I didn't wish to find out followed by the thought that I needed to keep my eyes on the stood until he got what he wanted and left it was at that moment that my mom rounded the back of her car and yelped at the sight of her daughter with a gun to her head according to what she told me afterward she heard the man shout and assumed it was a joke and came over to give the alleged prankster a piece of her mind well her Yelp seemed to alert the gunman because he took his eyes off of me and instead ran over to her she of course ran from him this is when my fear really started to come into play given that the gun was loaded I became very scared that the man would decide to shoot my mom if she didn't comply with what he wanted so I ended up yelling just give him your purse she threw it at him but then began begging to at least retrieve her car and her house keys before he took it once again I became scared that he turned that gun on her and told her to shut up however the gunman didn't seem to care about her anymore because now his eyes were on me he came back to me waving his little revolver around and repeatedly shouting give me your money I calmly shrugged my bag off my shoulder and he hastily grabbed it before I even had it off completely it was then that I glanced over at the car and noticed another man standing at the driver's side door he was much taller and also dark-skinned but despite the streetlights I couldn't make out his face by this point my mother ran back toward her opened garage and the gunman seemed to have gotten what he wanted and started heading back toward his car I however refused to move until they had sped off I was still entirely frozen in place I still locked him the stood robbing us dry just as I thought he was about to get in the car he noticed that I was still clutching on to my cell phone I was holding it flat against my chest with my palm covering a majority of it I was hoping he wouldn't notice it but those hopes were shot when he came rushing back at me and snatched it out of my hand he ran back to his car got in and then zoomed off the entire altercation lasted no more than 45 seconds I'm rather nearsighted and it was half dark so I failed to see the license plate as they drove away once they rounded the corner and my feet finally unfrozen I calmly yet hastily sped walked in my house and shut the garage door my mom had turned back to get me as she realized I wasn't behind her when she ran inside when I got to her she was already trying to dial nine-one-one on our landline albeit hysterically I ended up taking the phone from her and trying to dial on my own but just our luck our landline had been momentarily disconnected due to maintenance issues this was when I actually fell into panic I frantically had lucid nightmares about criminal altercations like the one we just had and in each one every time I tried to call for help the phone wouldn't work it was just an odd reoccurring thing in my dreams and to have it happen in real life is what really freaked me out we somehow got it working and got the police on the phone and before I knew it our block was covered in cop cars and ambulances I got questioned quite vigorously by the cops as they realized I was the star witness being that I had gotten a very good look at the gunmen they questioned me as I sat and deactivated all my cards and whatnot as I was doing that it dawned on me that the only real thing of value they got from me during that robbery besides our purses was my D s and case I had at least 20 games in that stupid case on top of the D s mm plus of pokemons just gone like that my hacked Animal Crossing village gone just like that while I was more than absolutely thankful that I or my mother weren't shot I couldn't help but be slightly chapped about it I was even more peeved when I ended up having to go down to the police station to do a police sketch which took over two hours I didn't have a phone a journal or my stupid D s to keep me entertained so you can imagine how excruciating that was news of the event ended up going viral around her area apparently had been over 10 years since anything of that nature had happened in my neighborhood and people were pretty shook about it some idiots at the local news stations did a piece on it and ended up plastering our address all over the news scene they made as well painted a target on our garage door we had to call numerous times to get them to take it down a few months later those idiots struck again a few houses down they caught the lady of the house in the garage one night and forced her inside and ended up robbing them of a ton of jewelry among other things all the while her husband and her young kids were asleep upstairs she claimed the short one wore a bandana around his face that time since then we've heard nothing else from the police as far as I know they've never been caught nowadays I framed the tale is something more comical at the time it was rather surreal and even scary but having to explain to people how I had my D s stolen at gunpoint inevitably got a few laughs and I quickly learned to laugh with it even though I was and him still fairly butthurt I lost all that stuff my friends even memed how the news channel spread around our address because of how utterly ridiculous it was that I even giggle heartily at that too when it's brought up as for the phone not working when it needed to that was more than a momentary fright I got over it rather fast and never really thought much of it again [Music] this happened when I was in my early teens in the late 80s my family lived in a very secluded forested area with a long driveway in our small home Sun a square acre of mowed grass with woods on two sides I was alone late one night talking with a buddy from school often rode my bike to town over the summer and he and invited me to come over and spend the night it was a 20 mile trip over completely empty country roads but it was always an adventure and I seldom hesitated to go when I had a place to stay I told him it was a sure thing I called my mother at work and then start my ride but here's where it gets creepy once I hung up the phone and started getting dressed in all black I picked up the phone again to call my mom the line was dead this had never happened before it was a sturdy rotary phone and we never had problems with it my thoughts instantly went to the small phone box on the back of the house it was a tiny round junction with nothing but a rubber covering behind the cover was the exposed connection between the phone pole and our insider line the wires were twisted together and capped but completely vulnerable I questioned why I would even think about that why would I jump to conclusions about the case of the dead line I was overwhelmed with a feeling of dread that didn't make sense and I was wrestling with my thoughts I decided to behave as though I was in real danger but calm myself by focusing on how unlikely it was and how my imagination was probably getting the best of me but I couldn't shake the feeling that I was in trouble I've finished dressing and strapped a buck knife to my hip the old Rambo knives with a compass in the stock it was cheap but very big and moved quietly and planned how it would leave the house I remember this very well I would slide out the front door and pull the clothes behind me locked I would not be able to get back in I would grab my bike from against the wall on the enclosed porch spin around and used my elbow to press the button of the on the screen door and jump down the concrete steps I'd hop on my bike and speed down the drive it was very dark outside but there were bright lights in the front and rear of the house that created big pools in the yard that's all the line I would have I executed my maneuver just as I planned but my elbow slipped off the button on the handle and banged into the door as it opened and within seconds I was pumping down the gravel drive I turned my head to the left filling my ears with the roar of aira was cutting through and stopped pedaling my eyes fixed on the rear of the house I was 100 percent sure someone was coming I don't know how or why it was only a moment but I didn't look away despite my own skepticism at the last instant I saw him a man wearing dark clothes and a ski mask came tearing out of the littered around the back of the house and plunged into the deep shadow along the side heading for the front where he had been only seconds ago I was invisible wearing black from head to toe and instead of running straight for me he went for the porch where the commotion I had just made had come from I turned forward and leaned into the pedals I could barely see the driveway but I had ridden my bike down at many times at night and I could make out the large stone gate posts before the dirt road I almost wrecked turning the corner but recovered and speeded away about a mile further and I finally stopped at the intersection at a paved road my heart was pounding in my chest and my forehead was sweaty I stood there for a bit and got my breathing under control while I tried to digest what had just happened my thoughts were racing I knew for sure what I saw but I was out of danger all they could do was press on my neighbors were Amish no phone I wouldn't have known what to say anyways when I got to my friend's house much later I told him what happened and called my mother she listened and didn't give me a hard time but I could tell she didn't know what to think she wouldn't be home until morning and she said she'd be careful and that was it I had heard laughter once from the edge of the woods and things in the yard had been moved on occasion but no one else that had these experiences and I assumed it was backwards Amish kids fooling around nothing had ever really happened before I doubt honest kids would know how to disconnect a phone line though I'm a tenth grader in high school at the moment I don't want to think of what could have happened to me and my friends when we were in eighth grade it all started when I was walking home with four of my closest friends we all live very close to each other so we walk home together one of those friends was a girl and the rest of us were guys the girl really liked dogs she would stop and pet any dog she saw and that is what led us to meeting the creepy old man with a cute dog one day all five of us were walking home and we got off the bus and we are walking through our neighborhood now this neighborhood has very low crime rates and is very peaceful and diverse which means it's common curiosity here to just go up to your neighbor and talk we were walking when suddenly the girls started running across the street we followed her across the streets and saw an old man around his 60s I'd say he was walking his beagle down the street so we went up and talked to him he asked a lot of personal questions while we were getting to know him but we didn't think much of it two weeks passed and we spoke to the old man every day he always waited at our bus stop for a switch now thinking about it is very creepy but he did live right next to the bus stop we got off the bus one day and the girl was talking about her poster board assignments she completed the old dude joined the conversation and oddly knew all about the topic she wrote about we stood there and talked for 10 minutes me and the other guys were bored so we were on our phones while she talked to him suddenly she started leaving so we walked with her she seemed upset so we asked her what had happened she said she was uncomfortable with the dude because he kept trying to give her a hug today and for the past week had apparently kept the tempting hugs my friends and I being idiots argued he was just trying to be a nice old man boy were we wrong another week pass and the girl would now stay out of the conversation with the old man it was just me and the three other guys and she would wait for us though oddly though he would try and talk to the girl instead of us one day the girl went ahead early so it was just me and the three guys we got off the bus to find the old dude with a batch of weird-looking cookies okay again don't do this ever bad idea to accept cookies from strangers me being smart I decided to eat one halfway through the cookie I realized how weird everything in been and spat out the cookie my friends ate it all though and they were fine and so from then on we tried to engage the old man less since he was just a little creepy but it doesn't stay that way a few weeks later things were weird and I was walking home solo one day when this random lady was standing at the crosswalk which I turn at holding the leash to a dog I was about to pass her until I realized that it was the old man stalk the lady I've never seen before was waiting for me she said the dog knew me and wanted to wait for me I idiotically believed her until I realized after I went home she was waiting at the corner for me before I was even in eyesight I assumed she was waiting to see which way I would go home and I'll explain why about a week later and we stopped talking to the old man entirely one day after school the girl was gone and the three other guys were coming to my house for a sleepover we saw the old guy he had his dog with him and we waved we nodded and kept walking after a block that I turned around and realized he was right behind us staring at us I told the guys and they said he's just walking his dog a similar direction so I tested that to get to my house he have to walk multiple blocks and take many random turns next block we turned left he's behind us next block we turn right he was behind us this repeated with different blocks until we were approaching my house the guys believe me at this point and did a smart thing until my friends to keep walking past my house the next block is a large roadway he would have absolutely no reason except something devious to be out that far from his house if he's still behind us we book it to the next left and down an alleyway which leads back to my house sure enough he was still there staring and following we booked it we ran as fast as we could and waited in the alley for 10 minutes now I'm a person that doesn't normally get shooken up I was freaked out my friends were all laughing and joking about us possibly being a victim but they were making sure I was okay and I eventually laughed along and put it out in my mind now in 10th grade we still walk by his house but the weird thing is I've never seen him since that last time in eighth I don't like to think what could have happened to us but I hope I never see that old creepy guy again [Music] this just happened today and I'm still pretty creeped out I'd had my first driving lesson today and I was pretty worn out after it I'm also feeling pretty unwell the bit nauseous as well as a sore throat knock off after the driving lesson I came home late on the couch under a cozy blanket and began practicing some driving theory from apps I downloaded I was home alone and this means there were no cars in the driveway or out front of my house and I had the lights on lowest my front room receives a lot of light from the large front window anyway I've been sitting there for almost two hours and barely moved when I heard an aggressive knock on the front door the postman had already been and we weren't waiting on any packages to be delivered I also hadn't heard a car pull up this made me assume it was someone selling something recently our village had been somewhat bombarded with charity workers who once finished their spiel would tell you that they can't accept cash donations but instead you have to sign up for their direct debits and pay at least 12 euros a month being unwell tired and too embarrassed to reject yet another charity worker I stayed put and hoped they'd leave they knocked twice more increasing more loudly than the time before eventually I heard them walk down the front steps so I crept to the front window to peer through and see who it was and where'd they go except I couldn't see anybody I've read enough creepy stories and seen enough scary movies that multiple scenarios nagged at my mind but as most people do I assume nothing of it and decided to make myself lunch I headed through to the kitchen which I should mention faces the back yard we have both a large window in a set of patio doors the curtains were open on both I immediately caught something out of the corner of my eye and my vision slid to the window where I saw what looked like the top of someone's head as if they were crouching as they passed the window I froze but I lent my eyes follow until I saw the person appear at the patio doors clearly ready to attempt to enter we made eye contact he was a tall male big build wearing what looked like a track suit with a black jacket on top as soon as he realized that was at home he bolted I heard him run up the side of my house so I ran to the front room again where I saw him continue to sprint down the street and out of sight being the big brave girl that I am I phoned my dad and begged him to return home which he did my hero this happened last Friday and I'm still stumped for reference I'm a male in my late 20s and live with my girlfriend who's currently away on business and worked for a large financial institution in the UK and often worked till very late as I hate bringing work home for some background info we bought our current house a few weeks ago and during the move in the process I was away with work leaving it down to my partner and a few friends my car's also recently had a complete electronics failure so we were down to using just her car the house itself is located in a small gated community off of a country road on the outskirts of an upmarket town in the UK it's surrounded by woodlands and if you didn't live there or know somebody who does chances are you wouldn't have heard of it or even knew of its existence in total there are eight houses in the community and the main gate gives access to the first six or my house is located and then there's a further two gates at the top of the road which leads to two very large mansion style houses the houses which haven't got individual gates are all about a hundred feet away from each other and have enclosed rear gardens and the neighbors are all business types who were very often in work and keep themselves to themselves anyway about two days after leaving for my business trip I get a call from my girlfriend who seems shaken and tells me that there's a man standing in the garden and that she can't see his face but he's walking around and crouching in the tree line so concern but not 100% convinced says she does have a vivid imagination and it's the first time she's been home alone in our new house I tell her to lock the doors go to bed and call the police if she sees him again I return to our cities train station on Tuesday and agree with my girlfriend that she'll pick me up in her car then I'll take it home as she's scheduled to go to Manchester for a conference I meet up with her grab a coffee see her off to her train then drive her back to her house the time is roughly 9:00 p.m. I parked the car on the driveway head inside shower watched some reruns of king of the hill then head to bed then get woken up by a light being shown into the bedroom window from downstairs I get up to investigate crouching to avoid being seen and headin to the study next to her bedroom and opened the curtains that covers some French doors that lead to a small balcony my heart drops when I see that a man has now moved towards the back door and is trying the handle the house is in an L shape so although I can see him he can't see me without moving around from the back door he stops for a while begins flashing the lights on and off back into the woods before walking calmly back into them I call the police and make a report nothing happens on Wednesday but on Thursday when I'm giving our cat a bath she's a sphinx she needs them I hear the garage door being messed with I'm in the bathroom directly behind the garage so I move into the kitchen to get a knife before heading into the garage to check what's going on when the noise has stopped and I hear running down the driveway and away from the house I called the police and they sent an officer around to check the property all they find is some knife marks and scuffs on the bottom of the garage on Friday I get my car delivered from the dealership and decide to work from home I also parked my car in the garage leaving my girlfriend's on the drive at around 11 p.m. I'm in the upstairs study listening to music and working when I find myself freezing I thought it was gonna stop breathing as I felt someone watching me and turning to face the French door I see a man nondescript looking around 35 wearing a coat and gloves carrying what looked like a torch standing on my balcony our eyes meet now filled with rage I go for one of my golf clubs from my golf bag and charged towards the door he climbs down off the balcony and runs off into the woods I've never seen this man in my life before but I'm sure it's the man that's been causing problems recently it's also dawn to me that he would have only seen my girlfriend before and only seen her car maybe he thought she lived alone I've notified the police and have bought some more security devices to install on the property as well as parked my car in the drive with hearse we don't know who he is or why he's doing this but we're hoping it won't happen again this was in the 90s when I was about 15 my mom my best friend and I were in Florida on vacation for three weeks we discovered Sizzlers and really loved it so we ended up going for dinner there quite often and also got to know the waiters a bit one night we noticed a middle-aged man sitting at a nearby table who was staring and I mean really staring at me he was with a young boy and maybe five or six years old they had already finished their dinner but the guy was just transfixed completely ignoring his kid he wasn't smiling or frowning just a blank face stare my mom was getting really uncomfortable so she spoke to one of the male waiters who'd we become friendly with I don't know exactly what she said to him but I think it was basically to help keep an eye on it and might be worth mentioning that my mother is usually quite comfortable with confronting strangers if required but something made her choose not to in this case the guy in the little kid eventually left though it took what seemed like an eternity once they left we were just relieved and carried on our dinner I think we were there for at least another hour before we were ready to go when we were getting into our car I noticed another car parked behind this with someone sitting inside it was the guy from the restaurant without a kid in sight even worse when we started driving he started his car without his headlights on and started following us we basically freaked out my mom started driving in a different direction of the hotel is not to lead him to where we were staying we drove around for a while before we eventually lost him finally getting to the hotel my mom went straight to the front desk to inform them about what had happened and the police keep an eye out I'm not sure if she or they contacted the police but we were just glad to be safe thankfully nothing else happened after that other than a terrible night's sleep but it was scary at the time especially because he seemed to have lost his kid and just waited for us [Music] this happened a few weeks ago and I'm still a bit shaken up by it my husband and I like to take long drives in the desert with our dog we live outside of Las Vegas and are fortunate to live in a city with abundant beautiful areas to stargaze or use a telescope my husband just got one for his bday in October so he was excited to try it out we drove our kia up to a popular overlook and he took out the telescope he showed me a bunch of constellations and we saw a shooting star the dog Oh sat in a car two windows rolled down my dog is not nice they weren't kidding when they named female dogs what they did she's an American Cattle Dog and she saved my butt before from an home invasion she's protective of both me and her dad anyway hubby had to pee so he told me to wait in the car for him so I got in and locked the door meanwhile I'm browsing reddit when I hear gravel moving thinking it's hobby I remarked that was fast suddenly my dog goes berserk she's snarling barking so I turn around and there's a dude that's not my husband idiot made a mistake though he put his hand through an open window with a crazy 63 pound dog she got his hand so he's screaming I'm screaming my husband is yelling as he runs towards us with his pants half on the dog lets his arm go and the guy takes off as I called the cops my husband tries chasing after the guy but he's 6-3 and 280 pounds and this guy was fast the cops do show up tell us they will look out for him but to maybe stay away from that area at night the cops in our town are kind of a joke needless to say the dog Oh got a cup of Dairy Queen that night like a lot of people in the early days of winter are really tough on my immune system I seem to always get sick either when the temperature takes its first big dip or when we get our first big snowfall this past winter I got so sick that I actually had to call into work which I have only had to do one other time in my career my wife left for work at about 8 a.m. that day and I passed out on the couch shortly after that was up for most of the night so this was some much-needed sleep I woke up a couple of minutes after 10:00 with my throat's sore and dry in my head congested and pounding I laid there for a minute trying to muster up the strength to get off the couch to get something to drink I walked to the kitchen and got a cup of juice and a cup of ginger ale on my way back to the couch I walked by our living room window and noticed a light snowfall in the ground that must have accumulated while it was asleep I stared for a minute admiring the snow and taking a chance to stretch my legs before I returned to the couch for the majority of the day right before I turned back to the couch I noticed footprints that started from the bottom of the driveway and went towards the wooden gate that led to our back yard at first I thought maybe they were for my wife however there wasn't snow on the ground when I fell asleep and when she went to work so these tracks had to be fairly new I went back into the kitchen and looked out the window into the backyard I saw the footprints continue in the back yard and also noticed that the wooden gate was ajar even though it was shut and closed with a padlock nightly I threw my robe on and opened the sliding glass door to peek my head out and see if I could see anything else the cold breeze and snow on my face only made me feel more ill it made me want to retire back to the couch but then I immediately got a rush of adrenaline seeing that one of my small basement windows was also ajar and left completely open and now was in a state of panic and trying to think rationally or explain the situation to myself my wife would never have opened the wooden gate or the basement window no animal could have done this the only logical explanation is that someone was in or trying to get into my house I exited the kitchen and walked down the hall and peeked my head around the staircase that led down into the basement the stairs had traces of snow and puddles of water on them trying to think quick on my feet I quietly but briskly got into the nearest closet and called the police for my cell phone I tried to whisper not knowing where the intruder was or if they were even still in my house luckily the 9-1-1 operator was able to hear me and told me to remain quiet until someone was able to arrive at my house for assistance she remained on the line with me as I heard someone come down the stairs from the second level of our house it seemed like the person was walking around looking for something specific walking by the closet door several times at a fast pace I was doing my best to hold in any sniffles sneeze or cough that I thought was coming in order to remain silent and undetected I remember thinking I didn't care what the person took they could take anything they wanted I just wanted to remain unharmed after what felt like hours but in reality was probably only a couple of minutes I heard the whoop whoop of sirens outside the cops knocked on the door and after a few attempts must have come around back and entered through the now unlocked sliding glass door even though the police made the presence known the intruder was still in the house they arrested him and brought him out of the house I didn't really hear much of a struggle I just heard them say to get down and put your hands behind your head I honestly just stayed where I was and didn't move until the cops opened the closet door and told me that it was alright to exit apparently the burglar hadn't tried to steal anything or at least didn't have anything of mine on his person but upon further inspection of the man's vehicle it looked like he had broken into several houses in the neighborhood and taken packages and other valuables from their homes the police did find a knife on him but they told me they didn't believe he had intentions of using it I think they said this just to make me feel better as I don't know how they would have known this person's intentions my wife as well as myself we're obviously shaken up by this ordeal I can't put into words for those of you reading this story what effects and incidents like this can have on you after the fact of course you're scared in the moment but ever since this has happened I find it difficult to feel safe to feel like my family is safe it's a terrible feeling to not feel protected in your own home we have since moved from that neighborhood but the feelings of insecurity still remain I have taken more proactive steps to try and ensure this doesn't happen again we have state-of-the-art locks for our windows and doors as well as a new security system I also have an Akita guard dog to protect the house when I'm not home as traumatizing as this event was I'm still grateful that I woke up when I did and that's something worse didn't happen [Music] growing up and spending my entire life in the northeastern United States I can confidently say that I'm no stranger to snow and driving in the snow if you're from a similar climate I'm sure you would agree that driving the snow is both annoying and dangerous I live in a city where we are consistently in the top 10 for nationwide snowfall each year dealing with this much inclement weather each year has turned me into a pretty good driver in the snow or at least that's what I thought on a night in February a few years ago I was driving home from my girlfriend's house it was a p.m. and had been snowing for a majority of the day I went over there to shovel out her driveway and make sure it was as clear as possible for her to get up and go to work the next morning he usually took me about 10 to 15 minutes to get to or from her house but so far this drive had taken 30 minutes and I was a little over halfway home the roads and highways were empty for the most part but I was forced to go slower than normal was I didn't want my car to get stuck or go off the side of the road I had made it off the final highway and now I just had side roads until I got back to my house I was approaching an intersection I think one that had a four-way stop and of course after I stopped and tried to start again my car began fishtailing and wouldn't move at this point I was pretty tired and started to get frustrated I hadn't been home from work yet and really just wanted to get out of this car and whether I tried rocking the car back and forth in the snow but it wasn't working I was digging myself a deeper hole and probably taking some of the tread off my tires I didn't know what to do if I should call someone for help try and dig myself out by hand I certainly wasn't asking one of my family or friends to come out and try to help I decided to get out of the car and try to kick some of the snow out from beneath my tires hoping to regain traction on the road as I was trying to dig out my tires a random woman came up to me she didn't say anything or offer me help or ask what was going on she just stood there and stared at me she began walking towards the stop sign with her hood now of her head I shouted hey are you okay do you need anything she didn't answer I was a little weirded out but mostly annoyed with my car and was focused on that after a few minutes on my hands and knees using my snow brush to move snow out from under my tires I got up to get back into my car I saw the lady standing in the same spot and I yelled out okay well have a good night then probably sounding sarcastic and annoyed as I was in a crappy mood right as I opened my door to get back into the car she finally spoke up and said wait in a monotone voice I continued to open my door and looked at the woman waiting for her to say something else then in an eerie unsettling and almost manic voice she said that is my car not wanting any part of the situation and the obvious crazy person thirty feet away from me I got into my car and closed the door I started the car and again began to rock myself out of the snow and then I noticed that the woman was now standing in front of my car probably close enough to touch the hood without stretched hands if I tried to floor it and drive I would easily have ran her over so I started to honk my horn and put the car in reverse she moved after a few honks but came over to the driver's side door and started pulling at the handle the doors were locked but I was obviously still scared and confused as to what was going on this is when things started to turn for the worse she became aggressive and started to beat on the door screaming loudly this is my car you Beast she kept referring to me as a beast or the Beast and insisting I was in her car completely freaked out I tried to floor it and thank God I was finally able to fishtail out of that spot and move forward up the road I looked back in my rearview mirror and the lady was running after the car waving her arms in the air I tried my best to forget about the incidents and to not dwell on what the intent or reason for it was either way crazy beasts master snow lady let's not meet again [Music] for a little bit of context this story took place when I was 19 years old I am currently 28 to no longer live in the state where this occurrence took place when I was 19 I worked at a gas station convenience store that was only a few minutes away from my house I was enrolled in Community College so most of my shifts were evening or overnights for the most part the job was normal and boring we didn't really get many customers during the later hours and if we did they usually pump their gas paid with a credit card and were on their way I decided to pick up some extra hours during our holiday break from school I figured I could use the extra cash to get Christmas presents for my family that was scheduled to work three overnight shifts in a row which was a pain because I always found it difficult to fall asleep when I got home in the morning the first night of my overnight stretch was going by pretty uneventful II I was biding my time by restocking the shelves and facing the products that had gaps in them I remember I was bringing out a big box of cosmic brownies to fill our display case when I heard the bell ring and someone enter the store it was around 2:00 or 3:00 a.m. so I dropped what I was doing and had to behind the register to assist the person I hadn't seen them yet but yet out good evening to see if I would get a response I didn't hear anything so I proceeded to move behind the register to see if the person needed assistance when I got a glimpse of the person it looked to be an elderly woman with dark black hair her face was covered in wrinkles but it was hard to really make out anything else as she was bundled up pretty tight due to the cold weather I saw her moving slowly throughout the aisles not seemingly looking for anything but just walking throughout the store after several minutes of watching her do this I decided to ask if there was anything I could assist her with she didn't even bother to look at me or acknowledge that she heard me she just continued to pace throughout the store after another five minutes or so she suddenly stopped and stared at the clock that was above the cooler turned around and scampered out the door and disappeared into the night to be honest I didn't really think much of it I assumed she was homeless and was possibly just trying to get some relief from the cold we weren't technically supposed to let people loiter in or around the store but this occurrence seemed pretty harmless to me the next night I was sitting behind the counter getting pretty drowsy wishing the Sun would come up so that I could go home and try to get some rest I was watching a TV show on my iPad around I think 4 a.m. when I heard the bell ring I'm pretty sure I jumped out of my chair as I was not paying attention and dozing in and out of sleep startled and trying to regain my composure I looked at the door to see who had entered and it was the same woman from the night before she looked almost exactly the same except now there seem to be several scrapes or scratches on her face I agreed at her and asked if there was anything I could help her with again no response and she began the process of walking up and down the aisles with her head down I figured I was going to have to wait a minute or two and let her know that if she wasn't planning on buying anything then she would have to leave the store once a few minutes passed and I informed her she stopped directly where she was standing stared at me and said the only thing worth bargaining for is your soul her voice was high and shrill and not at all what I expected I responded by saying excuse me and she didn't say anything else she just stared at me with a menacing almost aggressive look after about 30 seconds she exited the store and I watched her walk across the parking lot hoping she wouldn't come back the final night of my consecutive overnights came all too quickly and all I could think about was hoping that this crazy woman wouldn't show up again tonight and never really had anxiety related to this job so for the first time I was uneasy about heading into work I couldn't really focus on anything during my shift other than staring at the door and waiting for customers to enter I didn't really leave the register even though I probably could have done some stocking throughout the store the clock seemed to be moving so slow it was only 3 a.m. and I felt like I had been there for 12 hours shortly after 3 a.m. I heard the bell ring and there she was the same woman from the two previous nights she looked even more disheveled and the cuts on her face had increased and were also noticeable on her hands her hands almost seemed ran like they were smeared with blood I looked over to her and yelled out are you okay can I get you some help meanwhile really only concerned with my own safety she looked up in my direction and mouthed the words help me and look like she started to cry I told her to hold on and went down to my purse to grab my cell phone to contact someone I found my cell phone and was getting ready to dial nine-one-one but then I heard the bell go and the door open and when I looked up she was gone I didn't even see her scurry across the parking lot it was that quick I decided to call my boss not knowing what else to do I clearly woke him up but he seemed attentive when I explained what transpired during the previous three nights he decided to come in and talk to me and check the property to see if we could locate her when he arrived he decided to go to the back and check the video recordings to see if he could get a visual or description on the person in case we decided to contact the authorities that someone had entered our store clearly in trouble when not in the right mental state he came back up front about 10 minutes later and had a scowl on his face hand me the phone I'm calling the cops he said in a very serious tone what I asked startled slightly worried that she might be back come look at this he said leaving me back to the surveillance room he proceeded to rewind the footage that was overlooking the back of the building near the bathrooms upon playing it I watched as the old woman walked onto screen facing directly towards the store seemingly out of nowhere her slow demeanour became Xplosive as she began aggressively thrusting her shoulders into the bricks of the building falling to her knees and intermittently scratching at her face in the store she proceeded in this psychotic state for nearly two minutes straight before she wandered off screen towards the front of the store in entering towards me the timing lined up directly with when I remembered seeing her I was in mild shock with my hand over my mouth as my boss informed me about experiences he's had with various junkies in the past explaining that some of them seemed borderline possessed without rhyme or reason for their actions we ended up reporting the incidents and showing the footage to a few patrolmen but there wasn't much they could do besides reassuring us that they keep an officer patrolling the area for the next couple evenings the way that woman moved still baffles my mind based on the difference when I saw her demeanor when she walked in looking back her asking for help really made me wish there was something that could have done for her but needless to say I haven't worked night shift for quite some time I wanted to share this story that happened to me and a group of friends a few years ago first let me give you a little backstory on what we used to do for fun my friends and I loved playing outside during the winter time our parents didn't mind how long we were outside and it was the best time of year for some of our favorite games our twin friends let's call them Ava and Andy for the sake of the story have a beautiful home with tons of land on the property there were at least five acres of forests that were located directly on the property behind the house when we got together at their house we would all play games like manhunt or even just hide-and-seek if we couldn't decide on anything specific so on the day of this occurrence we all gathered an Ava and Andy's house to play hide and seek we had a snow day from school and my parents brought a bunch of us over so we could hang out and play for the day the group decided to play hide and seek so my friend Danielle and I decided to go and hide in the woods which was a pretty common hiding spot for our games we decided to run out further than we usually did but we weren't worried as it was daytime and we always made sure we could see the exit to the woods so we wouldn't get lost we began making our way back and started to veer pretty far left hoping we could see whoever came in looking after us and make our exit before we were caught however we noticed what looked like to be a small wooden structure a mix between an outhouse and a smaller shed we walked up to it for a closer look and had to kick some snow and ice off the door to try and open it once we got the door open we saw that hanging on the walls was an assortment of all sorts of traps or I guess that's what they look like to me they didn't look like anything I had seen before so my best guess was traps of some sort they were all metal and had what looked to be blood or maybe some dark rust on them to be honest with you the first thing I thought of looking at this room was that it was straight out of the movie saw just a bunch of contraptions that look like they would be used with sinister intentions we immediately shut the door and made our way back to the house through the woods not caring if we lost the game of hide-and-seek once we got back to the house we asked Ava and Andy hey do you know that there is a creepy shed in the woods on your property filled with some pretty weird stuff and he responded oh yeah that's just our dad's hunting stuff he doesn't like keeping it in the house so he keeps it out there Danielle and I kind of just dismissed it and let it go but I still felt a little disturbed and unsettled about it my dad has hunted my entire life and I have never seen him with any equipment that even resembled when I saw in that shed that night I let curiosity get the better of me and I tried to Google some of these traps I saw in the forest I searched for a pretty long time but really couldn't find anything that matched the mental picture that I had in my mind the next weekend we went back to Ava and Andy's house after a few hours of sitting in the living room drinking hot chocolates and just hanging out we decided to play manhunt again just as Danielle and I were going outside even Andy's father confronted the two of us heard he found my shed he said in the somber sounding voice we kind of just nodded and smiled at least that's what I remember doing he then bent his neck down to us aggressive and said that's my shed don't go in there again and if I find you out there there will be trouble and then he walked away from us into another room this was weird because their father was always super nice and treated us with a lot of respect so this seemed to be way out of character for him as we join the rest of our friends outside I went and hid myself to try and get a look at the shed from a distance open no one else would know but when I got close enough to see I could make out three different industrial-sized padlocks on the door that hadn't been there previously I'm still not sure what those traps were or what they were used for was he just looking out for us kids safety I was he hunting something other than animals I live in the northern United States a state that lies on the Canadian border in my hometown there is an abandoned military base or at least is supposed to be abandoned back when I was in high school my friends and I would always hear all sorts of stories saying that it wasn't actually abandoned and the dangerous cults met or even lived in the abandoned buildings or that the homeless population had taken over the abandoned compound to get some shelter from the cold pretty much any and all bizarre stories you can think of could be attached to this military base anyway one frigid January night my three friends and myself decided we were gonna try and locate the base to explore and see what was actually there it took us a bit of time and research to locate where we needed to go and how to actually find the location this was mostly due to the fact that this base is located in the middle of the heavily forested area closed off by several fences and gates we were only able to find it because my one friend John noticed a little sign sticking out of a dirt driveway that said no trespassing if we hadn't seen that we probably would have never stumbled upon the base the sign looked old and very worn down so we ignored it and proceeded to head in what we thought was the right direction we drove down a dirt road for a minute or two until we approached a closed gate that we were unable to get by with the car this gate was also covered with no trespassing and no entry under government law science my friends and I had a little debate as to whether we should go any further or just turn back my friend John and I were arguing to push forward and see what we could find while the others were a little more reluctant but we eventually agreed that we had come this far and we wanted to see what we could find John gone out of his driver's side door and manually lifted up the gates so we could pass through and continue moving forward after John got back in the car we drove for another five minutes the road was full of twists and turns and barely went straight for more than a few seconds through the light flurries of snow out the window we could see all sorts of stuff on the side of the road we drove fairly slowly to try to make out everything that was lying on the ground there were beds dressers and boxes that would seem to be unopened food everything was becoming ruined from the light snow on the ground it was a weird sight to see because none of the items look like garbage or trash it looked fairly new perhaps it had just been placed there recently after a couple of more minutes we finally reached the end of the road and arrived at what we assumed was the abandoned base it was strange looking and not really what you would expect when you think of a military base there were three separate buildings the one closest to us was a big building that almost looked like an old apartment building there were rows of uniformed windows that seemed to go around the building the building right next to it was a tall building with a huge satellite dish on the roof it wasn't very wide but was the tallest of the three buildings by at least five storeys lastly the third building looked like a church it was an average sized building with two double doors in the front each door sporting a large cross on it hence why I assumed it was a church of some kind all three buildings did truly look abandoned they were covered with vines and moss up the side it definitely appeared as if the structures had been untouched for many years we all sat in the car with this feeling of uneasiness none of us really sure if we were going to get in trouble for being here and if the property was routinely monitored so we would get caught and despite all the warning signs we kept telling ourselves it was abandoned and that we were probably the only ones there and we wouldn't get into trouble finally John opened his door and said I didn't come this far to sit in the car I'm gonna look around try not to seem scared I decided to go with him our two other friends were pretty scared at this point and decided to stay in the car John and I went into the first building the door was unlocked and of course the lights didn't work inside we were using flashlights that I brought to navigate throughout the building it was a strange and almost surreal feeling walking through the hallways it was freezing and every little noise made us jump but what was really creepy is that the place looked like it was actually abandoned all of a sudden out of nowhere all the beds were still made the dresser is still shut that were even pictures and art hanging on some of the walls we decided we had seen enough and moved on to the second building with a large satellite the door to this building was locked tight we banged on it pretty hard but the door wasn't budging at all we walked around the entire building but we didn't see another entrance so we gave up and went to the third and final building now it's worth noting at this point I had become a little paranoid and jumpy I kept hearing noises that would dismiss as nothing but I had that pit in my stomach feeling that something just wasn't right I felt like we weren't the only ones there and then we were going to get caught and get into the massive amounts of trouble we approached the church and the door was unlocked we walked in and immediately noticed the mess there were books and papers everywhere littered across the floor I tried picking up a few papers to read them but it all just seemed like military code that I couldn't understand just an assortment of numbers and letters that made up a certain pattern the inside of the building didn't have any kind of religious paraphernalia in it other than just one cross on the back wall just as we were getting ready to leave John noticed a door in the floor that seemed to lead to a basement or a lower level of the building John and I looked at each other with curiosity I knew deep down we shouldn't open it but my curiosity got the best of me we opened the door and it was a ladder that went down a hallway that seemed to have lights or some source of brightness we went down and started to walk through a long hallway that was lit up with orange lights much like you might see in a parking garage after about 30 seconds we made it to the end of the hallway where there was a door with a small window on it there was a lot of light coming from the window we walked up to it and slowly peeked in to our shock that was 8 or so men all in suits sitting around a table we only looked in for a few seconds when one of the men turned his head and noticed us in the hallway outside of the door we ducked immediately trying not to bring attention to ourselves but before we knew it the orange lights in the hallway had turned red we started to run as fast as we could knowing we stumbled across something we weren't supposed to as we were coming up the ladder in the church we could hear what sounded like a door slam and people running down the hall knowing the amount of trouble that we were in we ran as fast as we could to the others we got into the car and drove out of the area as fast as we could once we turned back onto the main road we could see headlights shining through the heavily wooded area at least we thought they were headlights it could have also been flashlights after this night the four of us felt like we were walking on eggshells for what seemed like months we figured it was only a matter of time before they found us or the cops would show up at our door knowing what we had done a banana high school for 12 years now and nothing of note regarding this instance has happened to me or any of my friends I'm not sure what we found that night John thought it was some kind of secret government base but I don't think you can just walk into an active base unnoticed like that it seems a little too official to be a cult but then again I don't have much cult experience so I'm not sure what happened that night it's been almost 12 years since this occurred and I wanted to finally share my story and see what people think what was all of that and should I still be scared and looking over my shoulder [Music] and the events of the story happened to me about two years ago in the middle of December I remember it because it was about two weeks before my birthday I was working as a nighttime janitor for a church about 15 minutes away from home it was a pretty simple job for the most part but once every six months or so I would have to do an overnight shift when we did a deep-clean of the church we usually did this once during the winter and once during the summer part of the job was to get ready for the winter holiday season I was responsible for retrieving all of the Christmas and winter decorations from the basement of the church it is just about as boring as it sounds but wasn't very difficult for decent pay the church was very big and old-fashioned and to my knowledge it hadn't been updated in decades it has many rows of pews adorned with antique religious statues and artifacts and the far left corner of the church behind the altar was a small door that led down into the storage basement on the right side of the altar was another door and the store led into a small kitchen the evening started normal just like any other overnight shift that I had in the past the first thing I did was get all the decorations and winter items that needed to be hung and installed throughout the church from that basement it's important to note here that I locked this door after going to the basement I had a bit of OCD especially when it comes to my job and I always check to make sure I locked up when I finished after getting all of the decorations I spent a few hours sweeping and then mopping the entire floor of the church it was about 3:00 a.m. by then and I had to do a few last things before I could leave including vacuuming the carpet that was on the altar while vacuuming I thought I heard a loud noise from the back of the church something like a pipe or a ladder falling to the floor not seeing anything and figuring it was just nothing I looked back down and continued vacuuming just before finishing I heard another loud noise at this point I was admittedly a little startled I thought maybe I had left the church door open which isn't like me maybe if I left the door open someone had wandered in it was really cold out and it wouldn't be the first time someone had wandered inside just to try and get warm so I cautiously approached the door and was reassured that the door was in fact locked and that wasn't where the noise had come from as I started walking back toward the altar I noticed that the basement door was now wide open and the entire area was freezing all of a sudden like a window was open right in front of me even though the church was very old it was usually always warm inside and for some reason it was freezing I swear I could see my breath I decided I had to go check the basement out since the door was now open and I was sure that I had locked it perhaps the lock was broken and the door was able to swing open as soon as I got to the basement I almost threw up due to the putrid smell it's not like spoiled or rotten meat it was honestly the most repulsive smell I have encountered in my entire life now remember I was just down there a couple of hours ago and it didn't smell at all and it wasn't cold at this point I was really struggling to put the pieces together had a stray animal somehow gotten in a skunk perhaps after a moment of walking around the basement for a few minutes the lights suddenly began to flicker and actually went out completely I used the light on my cell phone to navigate the freezing basement I reached one of the corners of the basement to find a pool of black sludge it was really thick like blood but appear to be jet-black while I was examining the pile of sludge to see if that was giving off the smell and be a bursted pipe I heard another loud bang similar to those I thought I heard earlier in the night I turned and looked back at the stairs and began to make my way back up them and there appeared to be some kind of shadow at the top of the stairs it looked like the shadow of a dog or an animal of similar size sitting down on the floor I shouted at the shadow but it didn't move at all I was yelling in hopes that the figure would become more clear and I could make some sense what was going on I ran up the stairs toward the shadow and as I reached the top there was nothing I couldn't even find anything that was making the shadow I turned and locked the basement and as I walked off the altar I noticed that the big cross that sits on the front of the table was now on the ground well at least that explained the bang that I had heard moments earlier as I went to pick up the cross I felt a burn on my forum and as I yelled in pain and dropped the cross I noticed that I had a small scratch on my arm that was the final straw for me I locked the church doors and left right then and there not questioning my decision when I was asked why I was given notice and leaving the job I provided no explanation I didn't want to recount those acts to co-workers and superiors I've reached out to mediums and other types of professionals who specialize in this area but unfortunately I've been told I don't have enough physical evidence to determine what this could have been using the internet for research the events that transpired that night seem to be involved with those of a demon or a demon possession but how could this be surely that type of entity wouldn't be able to survive or even enter a church either way I have tried to move on from the traumatic events of that evening and thankfully have not had another experience like it since if anyone has any information or experience with a similar situation please let me know [Music] the story happened to me approximately seven years ago for the better part of my adult life I have been somewhat of a loner I don't have many friends and have never been married after college I moved to a small city that is home to a lot of rural areas and forests I have always been drawn to nature so this was a perfect living situation for me I was able to partake in all of my hobbies like hiking kayaking camping and so forth my job luckily allowed me to work from home so whenever I wasn't working on coding inside I was out on a trail or exploring some new area that I hadn't previously been to on this particular night it was a bitter cold evening during the winter I had grown accustomed to hiking to the lake located in the main forest near my house the lake was very large and I don't ever recall it freezing completely from when I was told there was a huge salt deposit in the bottom of the lake which kept it from icing over another interesting fact about the lake is that nobody knows for sure if it was man-made or natural there are apparently arguments for both cases as I started to slowly close in on the lake I thought that I could see someone up ahead this wasn't abnormal was there was several major trails that could take you to and from the lake I began to make my way closer what I was moving much slower as I was trying to focus my eyes in the darkness as I got closer I could see that there was a figure about 30 feet away from me just looming and staring directly at the lake they weren't moving and had their face fixated on the lake the figure was tall well over six foot and very skinny the figure appeared to be naked or at least wasn't wearing a shirt their head was elongated and round on top whatever I was looking at was certainly not human but humanoid in nature paralyzed by a mixture of fear and intrigue I just stared at the figure hoping I wouldn't be noticed I was trying to squint and get a better look so I could figure out what I was looking at after a few moments of silence another figure walked up to the one that was already standing there at this point I could see the entire side profile of the humanoid creature its legs were long and they kind of shot out slowly as they walked its eyes were larger than normal and took up a larger area of the creatures face the figures both looked at each other they were moving their arms and bodies as if though they were communicating but weren't making any noise before I knew it I was forced to clenched my hands of my ears I heard a loud blast followed by a high pitched ringing that forced me to my knees once the noise stopped the creatures were gone I slowly made my way over to the lake where I thought I saw them standing to search for any kind of evidence of what I saw unfortunately there was none I saw no footprints or anything else that looks strange and out of place I spent the rest of that night staring at the stars trying to understand what I saw and what I had just experienced maybe these creatures like the cold winter night perhaps they were attracted and drawn to the salt water either way I know I saw something that wasn't human that night was it some sort of shapeshifter was it extraterrestrial or perhaps it was something even more sinister like a demon trying to take human form I'm just happy I was able to live through this experience without finding out hey friends thanks for listening be sure to subscribe and click that notification bow 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 your story featured on the next video and join my discord to interact with me and other listeners directly and if you want to support me even more 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 links in the bio thanks so much friends and I'll see you again soon

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Length: 133min 56sec (8036 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 21 2019

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