36 True Scary Horror Stories | The Lets Read Podcast Episode 013

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[Music] I live on an island off the east coasts of Brisbane Australia with my partner let's call her Lily our house was a lovely mainland facing house the entire front of the house is practically glass doors and windows to fully appreciate the view we moved to the island for cheap rent and be closer to my Lily's mother she supported us at the time while we were financially struggling she was a police woman of nine years my commute was minimum two hours to get to my job in the city so in order to go to work on time I would have to wake up at 4 a.m. my usual morning routine consisted of waking up showering coffee head getting dressed waiting for my ride to the ferry terminal this usually took somewhere to 20 to 30 minutes in total meanwhile lily is in bed asleep even though I wore heavy work boots send him all sorts of clumsy the front door closing was one of the only things that would wake her up they acted as an alarm for her to start her day just as I leave to start mine so cuts of the morning of the incident normal morning normal routine I'm making my way onto the ferry when I receive a call from Lily she was whispering in a hushed tone which was very difficult to understand over loud ferry engines hey what are you doing home did I miss your ferry what no no I'm just hopping on now what do you mean are you not home huh now it's 4:30 I'm on my way to work are you okay there is dead silence over the phone at this point I'm starting to think the worst I tell her to call her mom to tell her to get over to our house ASAP I get a faint okay and the phone hangs up you may be wondering why I'm not calling the police at this point as well on the islands police don't even start until 7:00 a.m. and even then it's very unlikely to get a form of assistance it's not incompetence it's just plain lack of resources and manpower the next part is told through Lily's point of view Lily woke up to the sound of the front door closing is a large glass sliding door and it makes a distinct metal clicking sound when it latches shut which it does so automatically or when you to open it she assumes it's simply me leaving and snuggles further into the warm blankets but begins to hear heavy boot steps on the hardwood floor making their way through the kitchen and slowly down the hallway to the bedroom they go past the bedroom into the study the study is adjacent to the bedroom think of a fork door left is study door right to this bedroom the walls are paper-thin so Lily can distinctly hear the door handle grinding its way open with a very clear clink sound to signify you can't turn the knob any further she hears the boot steps slowly walk into the study and what sounds like my computer chair rolling from underneath the desk along with the sound of the seat depreciating into the floor as weight is being shifted onto it this is where Lily assumes it simply me returning home as I usually would come home and sit down at my computer desk she quietly whispers into the phone hey what are you doing home did you miss your ferry awaiting a response she took her ear away from the phone to listen to who she thought was me respond through the wall silence she places her ear back on the phone and here's me responding with what I'm just hopping on now she explained to me how her gut dropped and felt heavy her breathing sped up and shortened simultaneously I had never heard her speak of a time where she was more terrified than at that moment I tell her to hang up and she promptly moves herself underneath the bed covers to obscure any noise she may make she calls up her mom and begs her to come over immediately she explained there's a man in the house he is currently still in the study as there hasn't been any footprints leaving the room or even the sound of weight shifting back off the seat two minutes pass and her mother is flying down the road that runs along our house and promptly pulls into our driveway here's a bit more info our driveway was at least 50 meters towards the house at the end of the block when you pull into it there is enough elevation initially where you can see directly into the front of the house all the way back to the study and bedroom door down the end of the hallway her mum speeds down the house and hops out she takes time to confirm the hilux doors are locked and there's nothing in the tray that can be taken she then proceeds to make her way into the house making sure every corner is checked in any potential hiding spot to discovered keeping calm and collected she begins to do a literal police tactical house clear moving from room to room doing a quick but thorough check confirming that doors are locked when those are closed and rooms empty she eventually gets to the study the doors shut no possible way to escape one way in one way out she opens the door to find no one inside but the desks chairs in a position where someone could have been sitting at it she cleared the cupboard and checked the windows were correctly shut she then proceeds to exit the study and turn left to open the bedroom door to inform Lilly that no in his home when in the corner of her eye she caught a glimpse of the glass sliding door opening she Sprint's over to it and runs outside to nothing no sound no movement nothing I can clear as day remember her response when I called her asking what happened there were no signs of entry forced or otherwise from the enter the building no signs of someone exiting initially as well although I do think someone somehow snuck past me I found the glass door open wide after I cleared the house but I remember the latch clicking shut there's my story of the time some sort of extremely agile and sneaky intruder spooked and evaded my partner's police mother a few months later someone in the island was caught breaking and entering and trying to force his way on to unsuspecting women in the homes Lilly's mother said the case is different as the man only recently arrived to the island a week before being caught but it still gives me chills when I let my mind wander [Music] I moved into my house when I was 3 years old it's big with three floors and five rooms the only thing I didn't like about it was the neighborhood because he see I lived a block away from the city's jail nothing too crazy ever happens except this one time so when I was around nine I kept waking up because I heard noises throughout the night my parents thought it was just birds or squirrels so I didn't think much of it one night something else woke me up bells sirens from the jail it caught me completely off-guard but what could I do that was a nine year old boy sooner or later my parents got wind of what was going on and told me to get back to sleep truthfully I couldn't the next morning the jail incident was on the news three policemen were held hostage during the night and to prison mates escaped one was found two hours later near the local park at 4:00 a.m. but the others were not found that night as I was in bed I heard something not outside but in the Attic footsteps and heavy breathing I wanted to run and get my parents but the door to the attic is right next to the door of my room then I heard it the faint creak of the attic door opening I was practically crying at this point fearing for my life my only question was how did he get in we keep the doors locked all the time five short minutes felt like five long years as the guy quietly walked down the stairs I was able to make out the sound of him opening the fridge some time passes and he was climbing back up the stairs and into the attic I didn't think it was safe to get my parents at that point because at any time he could come out it wasn't sure if he was armed or not so I waited waited till morning as soon as there was sunlight I woke up my parents to tell them what happened immediately they called the police a short time after three police cars were in our driveway and a search team was already trying to look for the guy what the police and detectives found really messed me up apparently the cellmates found a hole under our deck and was able to squeeze through a small tunnel leading to our fireplace but the thing was that thing was blocked off for as long as I could remember he managed to climb up the fireplace and into our attic that's why I could hear small animals during the night the man was armed with a wrench that my dad must have left out the night the guy came the man was originally put into jail for robbery and now he's in prison for the next 15 years under trespassing and Breaking and Entering I'm not going to say his name for legal reasons but just know that no one got hurt [Music] I don't think I was really young maybe 16 or younger I was on a ride north probably Dauphin with my father he was a building inspector and an avid motorcyclist and often has to make long trips within the province or just over once so this wasn't any different than usual I agreed to come along must have been a summer or sometime I owned up from school and wanted to go sightseeing before everything was covered in a blanket of snow the further north you go the prettier it looks and despite the huge amounts of graffiti scrawled on the smooth red stones I found the scenery gorgeous it's not unlike a lot of Canadian roads to have several offshoots and hiking paths and when nature called my father tucked into a fishing trail and parked we wandered a little way up to a camping site a few logs situated around a fire pit in a stream nearby i sat on one of the logs and my father went to go relieve himself I started to pick at the sand around my feet to notice something sticking out from under the log I was on foolish me didn't really think much of it rather I was excited to find an ornate hunting knife dad I called out certain my father was finished by now and was just enjoying the view from where he was come see what I found my father heard up the slopes shortly after hearing me and saw the blade he quickly grasped my arm I complain like any kid would at the sudden roughness I was being dealt with but relented when my dad said let's get back on the road okay I responded quietly following him while he still had a firm grip on my arm from the brush on our left we heard the weirdest squawking sound I'd ever heard but with that my father held me harder and began to tug me quickly to the car that's not a bird my father informed me under his breath and I think that might have been the only time I had ever seen such a stoic man so frightened my rough-around-the-edges tattooed biker father was running to the truck and towing me behind like a rag doll now we obviously made it got onto the road and drove to Dauphin and completed our business there and came back after an evening there nothing more was said about that until earlier this year in 25 now I said to my father remember that time we went off the road to a fishing trail and who heard that weird bird noise my father chuckled an uncomfortable chuckle and told me this the knife you found wasn't the only thing there I saw a bunch of bundled up clothes and food down by the water like someone had been there for a while I knew we were being watched two people go missing out there sometimes people want to go missing it's called being on the lam so I knew we weren't safe there that bird call was a signal for something his explanation gave me chills we were just average people going off the road to sightsee we were so far up north in the middle of nowhere we could have gone missing and could have stayed that way too needless to say my father hasn't gone too far from the highways to relieve himself on his long trips anymore and honestly I don't recall having gone with him on any of his trips after that whether it be related to this or not I'm not sure I was having a terrible time getting on a bed when I started eighth grade surprise surprise it was the onset of depression and anxiety so my parents decided that I was to take the bus for the rest of the year so I didn't depend on my mom caving when I slept through my alarm and had to go to school late it was go early or don't go being the absolute dork and teacher's pet I was I agreed to this because I was terrified of missing a full day I should also add I was in a very wealthy neighborhood that was very branched off from anything in our city the only traffic to the area was either residential or maintenance vehicles and landscapers also I was very small for my age I was pretty behind my female peers in terms of developing and makeup and things of the like I looked maybe 10 or 11 and I dressed like a four-foot tall IT guy one day in late spring Agatha fat my friend stopped so we could continue a conversation we were having as my stop was to behind hers the walk to my house wouldn't have been more than 10 to 15 minutes my friend and I parted ways and I walked home in the opposite direction it was about five minutes before I noticed a white truck that looked like a maintenance car had been following me pretty closely stopping every 30 seconds this was shortly after the release of the iPhone 4 so I assumed he was lost and checking his maps app or something as our neighborhood was full of loops dead ends and the such that was until I looked back a few more times and realized he'd slowed down to a stop every time I started to look back being raised in the height of stranger dangers my forget this senses were tingling at this point I started to walk faster towards the next left I had to make to get home maybe he really was just confused by a sprawling mountain top neighborhood with ridiculously long driveways and just couldn't find a house number for a place he was remodeling or something and would continue down that other road no he stopped waited to see which direction I would follow at the fork and went left after me I decided I'd stop altogether and see what he did as I was carrying a heavy backpack and cello was not about a howl at home for nothing he stopped next to me and rolled down his window you dropped your lunchbox dear I have it in here let me give you a ride home I never brought a lunchbox to school I used all the force and intimidation I could find in my little eighth grade voice and said I don't have a lunchbox stop following me you white trash I have your plates he looked very angry as I booked it and ran to the nearest house I could see people inside and watched him open his door I have violently rang the doorbell and a mother with two young kids came out and saw the look on my face and the man running after me and didn't ask questions she shut and locked the door behind her as I made a point of saying that that guy out there had been following me for 15 minutes and I do not know him please don't let me go back out there until he's gone we looked out the window and he was getting back in his car speeding off in the direction he came luckily the lady didn't let me walk the rest of the way home just to be safe and drove me back home making sure he was gone first [Music] I'm a 16 year old student in Sydney Australia I'm 6 foot 2 and in grade 11 I was walking to the bus stop like I do every morning to get to school I wasn't wearing a school uniform my school lets you wear whatever you want as long as it's certain colors with my backpack on I was about five minutes away from the bus stop which is literally like across the road from a supermarket called Cole's keep in mind I was walking and texting yeah someone will give me crap about that and as always before I get ready to cross the road I look left and right so there's no cars I checked left and right and there was a car with these two men in there I didn't really get a good look at their faces but I could tell that they were Islanders pretty sure that they were wearing those tradie shirts so as I looked right I saw them approaching close to me so I waited to let them go they were speeding and I didn't want to risk it and run across the road but they stopped at the last second before me and just stared they weren't doing anything they were just staring at me i signal met them to let them know that they could drive and I'd walk across the road after they left they looked at me like they acknowledged that they could drive so I waited a few seconds for them to go they didn't drive so I was like okay cool I'll just walk across the road but no they decided to drive their car as I was stepping onto the road and nearly hit me they stopped when I stepped back onto the sidewalk so I stopped and stepped back onto the sidewalk and glared at them I told him to just drive again so I could walk after they left I walked a bit further up before crossing same thing happened they stared I walked they nearly hit me again this happened a third time in my head was literally screaming you've read too many stories to know this isn't a coincidence get out of there even though it was 7 a.m. in daylight and I live in one of the friendliest neighbourhoods so after the third time I ran across the road I just went forth as expected they drove as soon as I left the sidewalk and obviously they didn't hit as I went to the other side walk across the street they went around the roundabout twice while staring at me again before they burn rubber and sped off [Music] this is from my time at university when I would regularly be out at odd times and odd things with odd people would happen often since moving to London that kind of encounter had not been a regular occurrence as too minor for me to recall I was living in an area that everyone would say was dangerous and was rough and supposedly had regular stabbings but I'd lived there for years and never had anything super out of the ordinary happened to me until I moved again where I live now has a reputation for being rough but nowhere near a bad reputation is where I was before but to put it into perspective I had a moped in the other place for two years and it was regularly left unlocked and had never been stolen this new place I had a push bike for less than two weeks double locked it in a supermarket CCTV parking lot and was only in there for 20 minutes and was gone so that's the kind of place I live now there's also a traveller estate and council estate right next to my street so that may also have contributed to the theft the story comes from when I still had the push bike I regularly bike from my house to the gym which was a 12-minute ride away along a main road that eventually led to a motorway if you kept going after the gym it was a winter evening in a month prior had been fireworks night it was still light out so was probably about 3 p.m. not at all late I was riding the bike home and was almost there when this white sheep old car with blacked out windows rolls up next to me it's pretty close to my house so this part is 30 miles per hour speed limit and we're coming to a roundabout so not too weird for a car to be moving that slowly next to me I pulled tighter to the path inside the bike lane but the car starts to drift closer and closer at this point I'm a little freaked out I'm terrified of driving because in general other road users can't be trusted and I hear horror stories all the time about bikers being knocked her squished against lampposts but I keep going because as I approach the roundabout my plan is to steer off the first exit into a car park in front of a general store however before I get to make the turn the passenger window is being rolled down from the brief second I have I can see inside its car full of early 20 year old boys who are cackling maniacally this freaks me out even more but I don't get the chance to do anything before they're pulling a firework lit from in front of them I have a millisecond to dock my head as this firework is directed at my face I feel this projectile breeze past my face and explosions from behind me I look up in the cars speeding off around the roundabout 10:00 in the opposite direction my heart is racing and I'm visibly shaking I pull over passed a bus stop thankfully I'm safe I'm not hurt and I didn't crash it all happened so fast that I didn't get the reg of the car but I called the police anyways they don't seem to care much and they say they'll send patrols near that area asked for my address to provide more details to an actual police officer that they send it's been almost a year and I didn't get any police to come around and ask for more details but yeah possibly the scariest encounter of my life [Music] the story takes place in a park called memory growth Park in a state in the South ish West with heavy religious majority I'll just leave it at that people who were around in the area during the satanic panic and Beyond may or may not know that this place is a bit of a local legend due to stabbing victims being found here who were possibly caught in a ritualistic stabbing the heavy presence of pentagrams all over the park don't know what I'm talking about locals next time you're there look at the stone ground by the memorials and other generally creepy and culty stuff unbelieva redditor has a picture of the demon they believe they spotted visiting the park after dark one night if I can find a link I'll include it but anyways my husband and his cousin had gotten drunk one night and I mean when my husband got home he was the most intoxicated I've ever seen him and went to the park and the trails around it he said they saw a noose hanging from a tree up on the trail and that once they made note of the pentagrams adorning the ground they saw a dark figure sprinted them but they ran me wouldn't call bullcrap on what was probably two drunk dudes being babies said that my husband and I should visit the Grove around the same time 2 3 a.m. the next day we had off so the next week we linked up with my husband's cousin waited for 2:30 to roll around and walk to the park approaching from the opposite side they did last time no matter which side you entered the park from you enter from above and basically traverse down a paved and dimly lit Hill with many turns and blind corners we had only made about three turns so maybe like 50 yards when we heard someone downwind from us a hold on to us as we approached a blind corner as we rounded the corner we saw a guy stopped facing up the trail putting something in a backpack and a girl waiting for anyone to come down for some reason we were polite and stopped away from the guy and said a brief hello to the girl but she blocked our path to go down the hill you guys know about all the bad stuff that goes on here right like sacrifice is real it's not safe when she is out there we said we know and we've seen it ourselves while collectively drawing a blank on who she was though the guy walked back up to her and looked very nervous he started humming in a very low tone and began checking his pockets feverishly as my husband grabbed my hand dragged me down the hill past them while his second stone cousin didn't seem to notice and kept up the conversation it was when I was downhill from the couple that I noticed the large hunting knife the woman sported on her belt as well as the man's switchblade peeking out from his belt I know one when I see one as my husband used to carry one when we lived in a terrible neighborhood as I looked at them and a better light I saw the man looked nervous and twiki and the woman had a scrape on the side of her face indicative or very probably being on meth or picking at her skin guys I'm being serious they're very very dark things out here she said and then mentioned again sacrifices real guys we found her living here as white dresses and nail polish all over the trails at this point all she is doing is sounding less and less coherent and my husband is doing his very best to silently get his cousin to look at him so he can gesture to leave without any trouble as the twiki guy continue to look nervous and check his pockets his cousin finally came down and joined us downhill from them and we ran my husband was convinced that they were going to try to mug us and I was convinced if we had stayed any longer the guy would have ganged up on my husband and cousin and the girl would have come after me and we would all be the next mysterious victims of the grove we did make it down to the Grove eventually but the entire way down we felt like we were being watched and something seemed off so we left the park almost immediately but not before we saw it written chalk on one of the monuments take the baby from his mother and drink her milk [Music] this happened back in the fall of 2016 I was a newlywed 18 and moved halfway across the country to live with my husband I was in a new town and had no friends my husband deployed in the early spring of 2016 a few months in the deployment I was lonely in wanted to head home I decided to make the 16-hour trek home alone I packed up my essentials and my cats I'd left at 11 p.m. because I couldn't sleep I was about four hours into my drive and I was growing tired I pulled into a well-lit public rest stop so I could catch some shut-eye I pulled my car into a spot right under a light and I made sure cars were nearby it's about 3:00 in the morning at this time and I fall asleep next thing I know I hear a knuckled tapping on my driver's side window sleepily I wake up and see an older man about mid 40s kneeling down to my window stupidly I opened my driver's side door please don't shoot me I won't what do you want my wife and I are stranded here we need money do you have some right over here he points to the van parked into the dark off behind him if you want to follow me uh and no man I'm I'm good I don't have any money I'm sorry at this point I'm being to feel like something is wrong oh come on I swear I'm up to no harm come over to my van my wife is in there sorry but I don't have any money I'm using the rest of my money to go home all right miss god bless god bless with that he stumbles off to the next car on my right to do the same thing by now I'm wide awake and I'm feeling scared I turn on my car and peel out of the lot I don't know what he wanted I didn't see a woman in the van he kept pointing at but I didn't want to find out [Music] so I just got home a little bit ago earlier I decided to walk up to a gas station to get some snacks and drinks because I'm usually up all night due to my job and I was bored as I was walking up this main road toward the store that I had planned to go to a man walked out of it as I was waiting across the street I heard him yell Hey and then a few seconds later hey buddy I'm talking to you I look over and see what's going on and realized this guy is looking and yelling right at me so instead of crossing the street I started walking straight ahead and he starts pacing me on the other side of traffic screaming at me he keeps claiming I stole some scooter from him and if he could cross the street he'd beat me and all sorts of other obscenities I have no idea what this guy is talking about I don't respond to him at all because I figured there's no way to de-escalate a situation with the person who is so messed up they've mistaken you for another person they just keep screaming at me until I get to the next block where I turn in then walk backwards another block then start walking to where I wanted to go again just in case they found the opportunity to cross the street I have no idea how that guy figured I was someone that stole a scooter from him I'm just glad the heavy traffic didn't afford him the opportunity to cross over to my side of the street [Music] for my story starts during the summer of 2017 I was in South Africa for an internship this opportunity was given to me by my school there about 15 of us participating in this program we all live together in an apartment and friendships were quickly budding typically on most weekends we wouldn't go out to Long Street where all the bars were and get food and then go out to the bars this particular night my friend a and I were doing our own thing and we're going to meet up with the bigger group for dinner later dinner time came around and we went to meet them and by the time we got to the restaurant the kitchen was closed so we couldn't order any food they and I were fairly annoyed with the group because someone could have told us the kitchen was closing in ordered for us some we were annoyed and decided to leave and told him that we would meet them at this bar beer house that we all usually went to we decided that we're just gonna eat at beer house since they had really good burgers we make our way towards beer house it is probably a 10-minute walk to get there now it's important to note that Cape Town has a huge homeless population and you should never give these folk money because more often than not they will not use it for good we were told that if we wanted to help we should buy them food instead even then some people have told us that they have seen people that just gave food to immediately turn back into the store or supers to return the food for money and crime is no stranger to anyone here Cape Town has one of the highest crime rates in the world it's especially bad for tourists so back to the story so we get stopped by this homeless lady asking us for money we made the mistake of talking to her for a couple of seconds too long of ahead of us we see another homeless person but this individual was very young maybe about 15 or 16 he noticed that we talked to the other lady and asked for money and we told him that we have none and try to walk past them he continues to beg telling us that he is so hungry in even just a couple rands which is South African money would suffice we tell them more sternly that we don't have anything and we see a change in his demeanor we walk ahead of him and we see him crossing the street we think we lost him and continue to walk towards food until we see him walking parallel to us on the opposite side of the road we are at this point pretty sufficiently worried we just tried to ignore him and of course we were walking along the road that has no people walking and is not well-lit he starts running towards us and catches up and he looks like he has something in the front pocket of his hoodie he looks both a and I in the eyes and says give me money I'm a beggar and I have nothing to lose stab you and flashed his homemade shank in that moment all I could think was wow I could definitely get stabbed right now by that very very rusty knife and I don't have insurance here and I'm going to get sick I don't even care if I get stabbed I just hope I don't get sick and then my flight-or-fight kicks in and I flight and loke leave my friend slightly behind we both run towards the only open store in the road and the owner of that store had to be one of the most incompetent people I have had the opportunity to interact with he was absolutely no help we explained to him what was happening and he just looked at us blankly the homeless guy followed us to the store and was just standing outside waiting for us to come out we stay at the store for about 15 minutes until he finally leaves we quickly make her move and run toward Longstreet's since there are a bunch of people there we get to the bar we are trying to get to and call an uber and go back to our apartment we were very shaken to say the least and just Santa naze room and ordered McDonald's yes they deliver McDonald's in South Africa and tried to get her stuff together and that's the story of how I almost got stabbed but could only think of how if I get stabbed I'm gonna get infected I was driving with my buddies up the mountain road that led to our favorite and reservoir to fish it was about 11 p.m. there was zero activity on the road and the night was silent usually I can hear the crickets and owls with the occasional coyote calls but not tonight I couldn't tell if this was a good or a bad sign yet but I did feel uneasy for some reason I mentioned this to my buddy who I'll call Bob for now he said he was also feeling a little on edge for some reason luckily Bob had his carry permit and his 45 so we ignored this tension that was building up and parked at the turnoff that leads to the hiking trail it's about a two mile hike to our spot from the turnoff into thick trees and brush our trail is well established and the moon is full so we didn't have a hard time getting to our spot the whole time though it was radio silent - except for the sound of leaves and twigs crushing beneath our feet and being echoed throughout to the reservoir our fishing spot is on the side of the mountain with trees to our left right and behind us with the reservoir in front of us and not much space to move this is relevant to the story everything went as usual - about 2:30 a.m. by this point - we had got five bass between the two of us and were itching for another bite Bob and I were both very silent and focused on feeling the next bite that's when we heard a slow and low creaking sound from up the mountain behind us we looked at each other but shrugged it off the sound grew louder and louder into a climax with the loud snap just as we turned a large tree about 400 yards behind us and up the mountain begins to fall and slides down the steep mountainside along with it it brought some big loose rocks tumbling down we start reeling up fast as we can and run back to the trail to our right and wait for everything to fall right into the water the tree got caught on another group of trees about fifty yards from us and a lot of rocks made it down into the water that we were just fishing at we could have just died is what we both said we were pumped full of adrenaline trying to cool down so we sat on a rock next to the trail and just breathe for a minute that's when we heard a loud bellowing how that sounded like nothing I had ever heard or probably ever will again if I had to describe it it sounded like a depressed middle-aged man letting out all his pain and one long howl with the force of a lion's roar I could feel the vibration of my chest as it let out this chilling cry it felt like it would never end and when it did however it was followed by the sound of something pushing the trees and brush walking deeper into the mountains needless to say we got out of there in record time once we got to the car we felt safe in our modern steel machine so we lit up heard a brick to celebrate being alive and making it back to another night while we did make light of the situation at the time it was definitely because if we had to take a hard look at what happened we probably would have pooped ourselves Bob and I later came to the conclusion that it may have been a sasquatch that had broken a tree to mark its territory and we just happened to be there we still fished there to this day and plenty goes on in Azusa Canyon from ghosts to Bigfoot and everyday Horrors nowhere is safe sometimes but we'd rather be in nature enjoying ourselves than in the city at least we pick our poison [Music] I'm from a rural small town in the Midwest and growing up I was super religious and fascinated by paranormal stories seriously I love the Travel Channel when I was like in grade school I would always watch those true ghost story shows that have the dramatic recreations I used to always ask my parents if they believed in ghosts or paranormal stuff and they would always say no fast forward to when I was middle school and we moved into a new house my paranormal interests had mostly passed as I was getting older and had decided that ghosts were not real when we moved we knew that the previous owner had passed away in the house and what is now my parents bathroom her name was Anna and she apparently really likes smoking and baking cakes and ugly floral wallpaper for the most part everything was super normal we moved in and I started seventh grade that fall after months of living there I began to notice strange things happening that I could never really explain but would always just ignore a shadow moving in the corner of my eye a kitchen sink turning on by itself weird footsteps and the TV turning off but nothing else that was plugged in just the TV and the sound would still be going you know normal stuff until one day I was babysitting my brother who was just a toddler at the time with a friend it was the middle of the afternoon we were hanging out in a super cool new addition my parents built and I was laying my brother down for a nap on the couch we turned the TV down super low and he quickly fell asleep we took the opportunity to relax and rest her eyes while watching TV all three of us were basically asleep on the couch when I heard the front door open heavy footsteps I called out thinking was my dad when I heard the kitchen sink turn on and no reply in more footsteps I got up to investigate the water was left running so I turned it off then I looked out the front door to see if my dad's truck was there he wasn't weird I shrugged my shoulders and returned to the couch not thinking much about it even though there was no way my dad could have come home walked inside to turn the sink on and leave which let's be honest that would be a very weird thing to do anyway in the amount of time it took me to get up and look for him well whatever a few more months go by I was sitting at the kitchen table doing homework after school waiting for my parents to come home I remember this very clearly because it was right around the time that song by the lady antebellum need you now was super popular and I had just heard it on the XM Radio I was in the middle of homework when the radio goes dead I was super focused on my homework so I didn't notice it right away that's when I hear the sink turn on hmm I got up turn it off and sat down to finish my homework a few minutes passed and I hear a large amount of water splash onto the kitchen counter I jump from my seat freaked out by the noise and got up to investigate only to find a puddle of water on the counter in floor I was the only one home so I was trying to rationalize how the water got there in the first place unsettled I cleaned up the mess and returned to my homework I didn't know what to say about the incident or the one prior to that when I was babysitting so I didn't talk about it with my parents for a long time weird stuff continued to happen and I continued to ignore it I always just thought there was some way to explain it entertainment items turning off or pausing for no reason it was probably the electronics or the power outlets kitchen sinks turning on by themselves and maybe I turned it on and forgot footsteps that was just my imagination forgot about the weird water incident altogether I don't remember how it started but one day my parents and I were eating dinner and someone made an offhand remark about weird stuff happening I think it was my mom so I started asking questions as the TV ever turned off for no reason yes have you ever seen a weird shadow in the corner of your eye yes as the sink turned off by itself yes yes yes for them it was always their bathroom sink I laughed almost relieved to talk about the weird stuff my parents and I spent hours talking about all the weird experiences we had I told him about when I was babysitting and my mom said she had something very similar happen she said she was sitting on the same couch I was we have two living rooms and heard the door open and heavy footsteps thinking was either me or my dad she called out but was met with no answer she gets up to investigate and nothing no one is home except for her we decided that we were being haunted by a ghost I think we were joking about it for the most part but over the years I'm 22 now plenty of weird stuff has happened that we have all decided that we are haunted we're not sure if it's Anna our knock but we'd like to think it is anytime something weird happens we yells something to the extent of come on Anna stop it this happens mostly during the fall when she's most active I can't really explain that fact either but she accept the most during September and October in November another weird thing is that she really hates heavy metal or screamo music I used to listen to it all the time and she would pause the iPod dock not even turn it off just pause doesn't matter where the iPod dock is plugged in doesn't matter which one I have had plenty over the years and it doesn't matter who's listening she hates that stuff my mom when we listening to it and Anna will turn off the music or posit a million times until my mom changes the music - something like bluegrass or something quieter Anna will stop after that but my mom gets pretty annoyed because she just wants to listen to the music Anna she would yell over the years anna hasn't acted up as much a few days ago my mom sent me a text I moved to a different state about how my family recently brought in my grandparents grandfather clock here's what she said I kid you not we have the grandfather clock from Papa and grandma's house the pendulum is not swung nor is the clock turned since we brought it home as a matter of fact the key to get it started is missing all of a sudden of 5:45 according to the clock about 45 minutes behind current time the clock chimes dad and Ike turned towards the clock because we weren't sure if it was on Harry Potter or in her house the pendulum on the clock is moving and the clock faces moving it really was the clock chiming in her house that we heard this can only mean one thing ana is back I died laughing Ana was probably just curious about why my parents couldn't get the clock to work and decide to take things into her own hands some things to note I did ask if my brother had been messing with it and she said no also Ana doesn't do big things like that very often especially when there's more than one person home but when she does it's always super surprising and funny though she is kicked my dog before which I don't really appreciate so a couple of years ago my friend Justin got sick of living in an apartment and started looking to buy a house because we did pretty much everything together at that point I was looking with him his price range was pretty low as he wanted to pay cash around 20 to 25 K so our choices were pretty limited however seeing as we live in a large Midwest city there were plenty of fixer uppers in that price range so he finds a house that's less than a mile from my house it's been vacant for just a few months and the owners are looking to sell it for about twelve thousand five hundred it's a huge house like six bedrooms four bathrooms huge and it really should have been a little suspicious but it's not in the best neighborhood so we assumed it was just a good deal we contacted the realtor by email around 1:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning and he got back to us instantly which was weird but okay we met up with him the next day to tour the house from the outside the house seemed pretty normal built in the 1910s it was a pretty typical World War 1 era Midwestern square frame house and cookie cutter floorplan that matched the houses on either side was painted as pleasing mint green color in the yard though overgrown and messy was pleasantly large and fenced in enough for Justin's dog and well planted with hedges and decorative trees past a screen and porch was the front door and inside it was a nice entryway with a beautiful wooden staircase preserved under shag carpeting my personal pet project would be removing the shag carpet and restoring the staircase a door to the left going into the parlor and indoors straight ahead going into the kitchen upstairs were four bedrooms in the bathroom and above that the finished attic that served as a master bedroom Justin loved the house and declared his intent to buy that day so the realtor went back to the office to get the paperwork and métis at a pizza place to fill it out and take payment he seemed very hip with the kids these days taking three twenty-something guys to a pizza place for paperwork before long the house was Justin's I was out of work at the time and Justin had 8,000 left to sink into the house before the year was out so he decided to pay me to help him out we planned on starting on the third floor and making it livable as a master suite then working our way down but the first step was getting electricity to the house the power company was being a P ITA and that took about two weeks when we finally got power to the building Justin brought a big pack of light bulbs from Costco so we could go around the house for placing bulbs when we came back into the house some ancient alarm system was going off letting out a shrill shrieking noise it took us a while to track down the alarm panel and when we did we couldn't figure out how to make it stop Justin shrugged and said it's my house my alarm panel took a hammer and bash the alarm panel in until it stopped beeping this will become a common thing for him with anything he wanted to Romano or replace anyways so Justin's started replacing light bulbs in the Attic I started in the basement and we plan to meet somewhere in the middle the basement had only one light fixture and the first Florist lights were fine so I got to the second floor before Justin finished upstairs the wooden stairs I wanted so desperately to restore led you to a small central room about eight feet squared with doors to four bedrooms and a bathroom coming off of it as well as the stairs to the Attic behind a locking door at the center was a very ugly 1960s ceiling fan light fixture I flipped the light switch at the top of the stairs in the ceiling fan came on now the house had been abandoned for some time in the plaster and the ceiling had started to come down so the fan comes on and starts throwing plaster and dust and paint chips everywhere I let out a startled shout and Justin starts to come running I turned the fan off and he comes down to find me covered in dust and plaster chuckling and saying I think this fan works Justin looked at it and said that's an ugly fan and jumped up and pulled it out of the ceiling there were no wires going to the fan they had been capped off long ago neither the fan nor the light fixtures should have worked but they both did and they both threw crap all over me I suppose it could have been Wireless but it looked really old for being a wireless fan of some sort so we finished putting in lights we found a bunch of tax receipts squirreled away in one of the bedroom closets that told us that the house had been bought in the 60s from a developer by a man with the surname guides tax receipts went up current to a few years before we bought the house so we knew it had been in the guides family for 50 years or so but the people who had last owned the house had a different surname in our research we'd also discovered that they had apparently abandoned the house and let it get foreclosed upon and auctioned to the city who sold it to Justin next we got the paint the house had a bunch of lead paint so we took Justin's dogs to his mom house for the entirety of our deep painting donned our astronaut suits and started scrapping up LED paint I wish I still had pictures but underneath we found crayon drawings from children nothing super creepy but the context of finding them under the paint seemed really creepy there were drawings of stick figures and flowers in a greenhouse that we assumed was the same one we were in it was all fairly creepy to find under the 50 year old paint we then pulled up the linoleum in the restroom and found that the water damaged it was original to the house the newspapers underneath that were dated from 1915 in detailed the sinking of the Lusitania in the United States entering the Great War it also contained a lot of old comics and cartoons which we thought was really a cool find everything was a bit damp so we closed the windows up and left everything spread out to dry figured we'd come back in the morning it was 9:00 or 10:00 p.m. by this point finally as we were leaving the house that day we went to check out the mudroom which was sort of a lean-to built onto the rest of the house on the back connecting the kitchen and dining room almost like a butler's pantry it had all sorts of ordinate cabinetry and into which we really liked on the wall was one of those cheesy suburban mom plaques that said something like Jesus bless this home Justin being the immature person he is laughed at it and said Jesus has no power to bless here and swatted it off the wall instantly and I mean instantly it dropped 20 degrees in the house it was enough to freak both of us out enough that we left right then and there I'm getting goosebumps just talking about this I was driven to post this I should mention because yesterday my girlfriend and I were watching a horror movie that reminded me of everything that happened and I had a minor breakdown and explained it all to her so when we got back into the house the next day to resume work it was still eerily cool in the house which had no a/c or anything yet we went upstairs to resume work donned our space suits and headed to the bathroom to get the papers and kept scraping paint when we got to the bathroom we found that a window had been opened it had rained the night before and every single piece of newspaper had been destroyed by wind or rain we had the windows open earlier in the night because of the whole scraping LED paint thing but we had definitely shut them something and opened them back up and ruined our paper justin was upset but figured he'd let it open on accident he hadn't and we threw the ruined paper away and got back to work scraping the paint took a couple of days and the couple of other creepy things happened we uncovered more kranj drawings and some done and what appeared to be charcoal heard noises downstairs a couple of times when we were both upstairs one of which resulted in justin grabbing his gun and heading downstairs with a drawn because he was sure someone had broken in and a couple of more temperature and pressure changes eventually we finished scraping the lead paint also it occurred to me before the lead paint could come into play but aside from mood swings and headaches nothing that really happened is common side effects for lead poisoning the next little bit of renovation went off without a hitch Justin got a window air conditioner in space heater and moved into the house by September of that year at this point I was still coming over several times a week to help out progress was slow but it was slowly but surely becoming a livable space with one functioning bedroom and bathroom in a mini kitchen consisting of a mini fridge in a microwave next to the bathroom he was living there full time with his girlfriend and dogs however his girlfriend who he had been dating for several years and him started fighting and they eventually broke up I'm pretty mad at her for leaving him alone in that house all winter to be honest one day he said that he came home and unlocked the door and didn't see the dogs who would normally come running in tails wagging and grinning and barely let him past the door they were so happy to see him he called out for them to no response he set his stuff down in the kitchen and headed upstairs in the landing space where the ceiling fan incident happened he said he saw both dogs frozen still hunched over hackles raised ready to strike both focusing on the spot on the wall he tried to get them to snap out of it but couldn't so he shrugged it off and went upstairs to put his stuff down several minutes later the dogs heard his playstation power up upstairs and ran up to greet him as if that was the first time they had noticed he was home he didn't tell me about this until later when winter started to break we got back to working on the house all throughout the winner Justin had been acting differently suffering from depression and I had tried to keep him company when I could instead of having him live all alone in that big empty creepy house but with the warm weather his mood seemed a lift one day we were out back working in the yard laying down the foundation for a back porch and fire pit when our friend Mac who was also planning on moving in and renting a room from him started shouting from inside we ran inside and upstairs to see what was the matter and found one of his dogs the older pitbull named Cain lying on the floor not breathing and foaming at the mouth we rush Cain to the Animal Hospital but he was dead by the time we arrived the vet said it looked like he'd either been poisoned or eaten something poisonous but we could never figure out what it might have been Cain was buried at Justin's parents house because he didn't want him buried in the house that killed him Justin took the death of his dog hard Cain was a little older but Justin had had him since he was a kid and and losing him was losing one of his best friends works load on the house again and Justin started dating a stripper in what was a very toxic relationship she moved into the house with him and was affected very heavily by whatever was in it eventually she stole a thousand dollars from him and when he confronted her about it she attacked him punched him several times and stabbing him with a kitchen knife he was hospitalized and honestly seemed to do better away from her in that house and he ultimately decided not to press charges while he was in the hospital she stole more stuff from him including his TV and Playstation when he went back to the house our Mack had gotten engaged and moved out and he was all alone with himself the remaining dog and whatever evil lurked in the house Justin asked me to move in with him and I almost did but every time I stepped into the second floor of the house at this point I felt this awful heavy dreadful feeling like something in there definitely didn't want me there I ultimately declined moving in and I really wish I hadn't by the time winter came again the house was pretty much livable Justin had recovered from his stab wound and had returned to the house to find that his brothers and I had gotten a lot of work done on the house most of the plumbing had been replaced and the old aluminum wiring had been changed to copper which had gotten all of the lead paint in most of the plaster removed and replaced and the backyard was finished complete with the fire pit justin was extremely grateful he started renting out the other four rooms to help fund the final bits of restoration including a new roof and exterior paint but had trouble keeping the rooms filled people would often move in and move back out within a month it was like nobody could stand living in the house so around January justin is living alone in the house again just him and his dog I'm still coming over fairly frequently but have found steady work and not spending nearly as much time working in the house anymore as I had been I'm laying in my bed one night when I get a text from Justin can't do this anymore considering ending it all help I texted him back immediately saying that if he could hold out until morning he'd be fine I told him my doors were open if he wanted to get out of the house and asked if he needed to come over and if I could pick him up he didn't respond I tried calling him but it didn't go through I eventually wound up going to sleep the next day I wake up to a missed call from him I try to call him back and the call goes to voicemail I decide to go over and check up on him later before work am eating breakfast when a text comes in I don't still have the text save but I can remember exactly what it said from justin 11:30 a.m. I'm not a baby I just don't want to deal anymore tell everyone I'm sorry and I love them come get Finn the other dog give him love take care of him there's a note on the phone give them my parents and sell this house I texted him back just somebody talking about you're scaring me two or three more times before running over to check on him he had not responded arriving I found that Finn had been put out in the backyard and was very happy to see me I don't remember how I got into the house because of adrenaline but I'm pretty sure I kicked the back door in and ran inside calling for Justin I found him hanging from his neck by a chain on those stairs I wanted to restore so bad sure enough his phone was next to him on the stairs he was blue in the face but still conscious his eyes wide open and his blue lives nothing helped me it was terrifying Justin isn't a small guy it took a lot of work just lifting him up enough that he could breathe again again I don't know how I lifted him enough that he could get his neck out of that chain and I managed it somehow again adrenaline is a crazy drug I guess he sat on the floor gasping for air and massaging his neck his color returned to his face while I asked him what he was doing over and over again finally he said let's get Taco Bell I need to get out of this house Justin wound up moving out of the house before nightfall and going back to live with his parents as far as I know the house is still sitting there empty he doesn't want to sell it because he doesn't want someone else to have to deal with whatever's in that house I think he plans on tearing it down and using the land for something else but the city has the land zoned residential so who knows how long that'll take he's now living in an apartment with his new fiancee in their one year old kid which tells you how long ago this was Finn is still alive and well in Cana sorely missed I used to drive by the house all the time as its on a somewhat major thoroughfare just off the highway and I've been avoiding it as of late I haven't stepped foot in the house for more than a year now and I'm glad of that whatever is living in there clearly wants to be left alone doing some research on the house we discovered that the owner mr. ginés was actually the grandfather of someone we went to high school with when we asked him about it he said that his grandpa took his own life in his bedroom on the second floor in 2007 [Music] when I was 14 I spent every other weekend at my dad's house after my parents divorced my bedroom there was down a long hallway and was the last room on the left my dad's in step mom's room was across the hallway from mine to the right side it was around 11:30 p.m. and I was lying in bed watching TV with a bedroom door open I don't know where this horrible feeling came over me and I felt completely terrified I felt that something was in the doorway and staring at me from the dark hallway I had never been this scared in my life before I couldn't even move it was this dark heavy and oppressive feeling that just kept hitting me in waves I couldn't physically see anything but I knew 100% that something was there it was blocking me from getting to my dad even if I could move this went on for about 15 to 20 minutes I then felt it move over to my window on the right side of my room I felt whatever it was now watching me through the window I started to hear faint scratching from my window I began to pray I had been trying to pray but for some reason it was difficult it was hard to get the words out let alone think them I finally felt safe enough to run out of my room and across to my dad's and wake him up I told him I felt like something was outside my window he got up and searched around the whole outside of the house and found nothing I was still so shaken up it was hard to fall asleep I finally did it around 4:00 a.m. in the morning I called my mom and told her what had happened actually started to cry when telling her something hadn't been in my room that was terrifying and full of hatred it was and still is very hard to explain fast forward about two years I'm hanging out with my mom and older sister in 16 now and my sister is 24 something in the conversation made me start talking about that night my mom and sister started acting all weird and giving each other looks I kept reading what what why were they acting so strange my mom finally says well we didn't want to tell you before because we didn't want to scare you more well your sister called me that same morning before you and said something evil had visited her that night too my sister says the same thing happened to her a dark presence woke her up at about 1:00 a.m. she woke up with the feeling that something was on her chest she told it loud you were not welcome here and began to pray she says she actually saw a black mass fly up above her and it was then flung backwards out of the window it scared my mom and sister both and was truly unexplainable but also had confirmed that something very real had visited us in the same night thinking back on my phone conversation that morning with my mom I then understood why she seemed so spooked and weirded out when I told her about my experience I had been expecting her to say something along the lines of it just being my imagination my family and I are not deeply religious nor did we attend church regularly but the only way to make this thing go away was to pray typing this all out has actually made me all jumpy and had given me a stomach ache I'd say that's enough for now I also got off of work and had been reading through the comments I see a lot of people saying it was sleep paralysis for one I don't really mind if anyone wants to think it was I realize and rereading my post again by myself saying I couldn't move really makes it seem that way and I apologize I just want to clarify prior to this incident I had experienced sleep paralysis before as well as after I know what it feels like you aren't able to move cry out or even wiggle your fingers or toes you're awake but your body will not respond to what you wanted to do this was not that I was very much awake and alert sitting propped up on pillows in bed I had full control over my body I was frozen in fear and didn't want to move much her yell out because I felt it would come rushing straight at me I did make small movements I remember grabbing my blankets in my head to the side when it moved to my window been making my run for it so I was at work last month and I had my phone with me as usual I know I had it because I and my boss were working in an apartment building fixing a toilet that was leaking into the unit below we were using our phones to communicate flush the toilet turn on the tub and sink and shut it off when done I set my phone with my unused tools cigarettes drink you know all the important stuff kept together about an hour later my boss gets a phone call from my phone someone found it laying in the middle of the street close to our office about ten miles away in another city I have two witnesses to this and we are all baffled [Music] this is not an experience that happened to me personally but I was seven or eight when it happened to my mom so some backstory that isn't necessarily important but could help give some insight to me and my mom when I was younger my dad traveled a lot he would fly out on a Sunday afternoon and fly back in on a Friday night he was gone most of the week every week with a rare exception otherwise so it was mostly just me and my mom in the house one night it was about 2:00 to 3:00 a.m. and we heard a knock on the door my mom was really confused and was hesitant to open it but she did because it was an officer so she thought maybe something had happened to my dad I remember standing behind my mom in the officer explained that they had picked up this old lady that was wandering around the roads in her late 80s and they had told the officers that her name was BDW the same as my mom's her date of birth same as my mom's and gave the officer our home address as well my mother was in her late 30s at the time and both my grandmother's were relatively young in their mid 50s or early 60s and we don't have a history of early onset dementia so we were really confused I remember my mom asking the officer if she could speak to the lady she thought maybe it was a family friend or something that was in trouble she went outside and I stayed by the door and she came back pale as a ghost and about to cry I asked her who it was and she said it was no one and we should go back to bed she told the officer this as well and said that she was sorry the lady had wasted his time I don't want to explain that I remember the police lights shining through the windows I remember the knock I remember the officer talking to my mom the next morning my mom seemed off my mother was always cheery and the perpetually happy person but that morning she was not and I wrote it off as she was tired from the previous night when I was about 14 or 15 it crossed my mind again and I asked her about it she said she remembered it and the lady in the back of the police car was her grandmother my great-grandmother Adina this would not be so strange but I never met Adina she died six months to the day I was born I was born on the 7th of January in 89 and she had died on the 7th of July in 88 I asked her if she actually spoke to her and she said she did and that she had just wanted to check on her and see me my mom was her favorite grandchild and we had several trinkets in her house that she gave mom mom has a very practical person and honestly does not believe in the paranormal at all I'm not really sure how she justified it all these years which she swears that night that she spoke to her grandmother in the back of that cop car I thought maybe I had dreamed it but before I posted it here I called her to verify this did in fact happen and it wasn't my weird little brain making it up at the time another odd thing was that the cop just left and we never saw him again I was never quite sure what to make of this since it was a spirit in his back seat or maybe the whole thing was some spiritual paranormal thing but I think my skeptic of a mother was happy it did happen since she never got to say goodbye to her grandmother [Music] back in 1992 91 I lived in a fairly large house with friends and Lancashire England the house was over three storeys in the basement used to be servants quarters and the old servant spell was still attached to the wall I've always seen things and felt spirits since being really young but hadn't really felt anything in the house for months it was party central most of the time so there were lots of people coming and going and music was always playing it was a great place to live when you're just leaving your teenage years and don't have many cares in the world after a few months of sleeping alone in the basement I've had my first encounter it was so unexpected I thought someone was playing tricks on me that was in my room and heard someone shouting my name a few times after calling back and getting no answer I searched the other three rooms to see if someone was joking around then when walking back into my room I heard someone say my name right behind me I stopped frozen for a second while all my senses screamed at me I knew 100% that was alone down there I turned on my heels and ran to the stairs and then in my peripheral I saw a black mass moving alongside me on the outside of the staircase I ran as fast as my dead weight legs could take me I was quite hysterical and my friend up on the top floor instantly knew I'd experienced something terrifying I couldn't go back down there I had to have friends come down with me to get my things as I was so scared after sleeping on the sofa for weeks I decided that was going to brave going back to my old room I just couldn't cope sleeping near the kitchen and having housemates wake me at the crack of dawn with their breakfast munchings I had been back in my room for a couple of nights when I heard shuffling coming into my room I thought it was my friend's old dog who seemed to like coming down to my room to poo I told him to leave but he just ignored me I called his name again and nothing just silence i sat up and looked around but he wasn't there laying back down I grabbed my book and I tried to dismiss it I then heard quiet snoring coming from the bottom of my bed which got louder it was a deep rattle type of snoring i sat up and scooped up my duvet and marched quickly upstairs to the sofa I eventually nodded off and told my housemates the next day they were trying to find reasonable explanations even saying the sounds of a seagull could have carried itself down the closed chimney to the bottom of my bed after another week of sofa sprawling I moved into a room opposite the kitchen I had a bed sofa and TV my friend had left there so it was really cozy and I felt safe weeks passed and then one Sunday afternoon I sat watching TV I can hear someone whistling - the advert tune on the TV and then the advert ended but the whistling didn't after a few minutes I started to find the whistle sounds annoying then a got louder and closer and was in my room with me I just freaked out and ran to a friend who was sleeping in the room directly above me I woke her and asked her to come down to my room with me she agreed as she could see how concerned I was we went back to my room with her boyfriend and tell the whistling had stopped and I eventually spoke out and dared to do it while others were present instead of making me seem crazy and neurotic after a few minutes had started again quietly at first and then raising in volume like it had gained more energy in its momentum my friend's boyfriend swiftly left the room saying sought this leaving me and my mate staring at each other with blank faces my friend spoke out why don't you just leave her alone and then I realized it was whistling a tune and my brain scrambled quickly to trying to figure out what it was my friend stood up quite scared at this point telling me to come on I said no wait oh my god who was afraid of the big bad wolf the big bad wolf the big bad wolf yeah I didn't stay after that and we my friend her boyfriend and myself managed to move into a vacant flat next door at the very same day a new tenant in the house was very animated then excited to hear what I'd experienced and she said she hoped she'd see something there then within a couple of months she was screaming the house down after she saw a suited man in the basement who leaned against the doorway folded his arms and smirked at her I wished I'd got someone in to help clear the house as I do worry that someone moving in may have children use the basement for a play area I still can't bear to hear whistling near me I [Music] work at a funeral home in Florida part of my job is that I go on removal calls which is exactly what you hope it isn't dead bodies don't bother me and I'm the youngest closest to fit guy they have so if we get a removal call for someone of any decent size or in a house that could be awkward to maneuver in they send me and one of my co-workers to bring the deceased back to the morgue or crematorium anyways early this morning my phone rings and I get asked to remove a man from his home a town over I get dressed and head out and by 3:00 a.m. I'm riding in a hearse down the creepiest dirt road and the creepiest hammock with the creepiest fog that I've ever seen even though the moon was three-quarters full it was super cloudy there was absolutely no light I don't know why but pine trees and Palmetto just give me the creeps anyways so I was already kind of edgy eventually and I do mean eventually we got to this old brick cabin I know we weren't actually very far out but just the general vibe and the destination made it feel like we were a good 30 miles from any point of civilization or 20 miles from the nearest Taco Bell we get out and my coworker owl knocks on the door now al has been a funeral director since long before I came aboard somewhere around 25 years or so he's as old as he is short as he is round and by this point he's pretty much seen a doll so I tend to just follow him he knocks on the door once twice three times with no answer he asked me to go around and see if I can spot anybody through the windows I walk around this entire house and the first thing I noticed is that all the blinds are open and all the lights are on but there's nobody in there not a soul in sight that report my findings to a land when he reassures me that we do in fact have the right house I suggest we called them and let them know we're here he responds by taking a short moment to consider my opinion before opening the door and waddling inside like the trooper he is I'm obviously not thrilled with the idea of going to someone's house unannounced but I followed anyway because they were expecting us given that they called us and all besides I was getting more creeped out by the minute and didn't want to be left alone the front door led to the laundry room for some reason and from there we make our way through the kitchen living room and dining room all the while al is calling out to absolutely no response the only sounds in the house was a baby monitor on the dining room table which emitted constant static as well as echoing al shouts from the other end of the house eventually we made our way up to the hallway I called it the hallway because once you've reached it the entire house completely changed up until this point every room had been well lit with very warm lighting pleasantly decorated and nice and roomy it was actually really inviting once again to the hallway however it becomes very dim completely plain and so cramped that al had to turn sideways to make it through and that entire half of the house was like this it's like they just gave up on building halfway through I feel the need to draw so much attention to this because it was just such a sudden abrupt and massive change from the rest of the house my first thought was that this half was just an add-on but now the front door was in the middle of the hallway everybody just used the laundry room door because it was closer to the gate and easier to maneuver through plus the only very thin bathroom was on this end of the house it was weird anyways when we got to the hallway now lets out one more hello right on cue a cowboy materializes just around the corner and speed walks towards us with a huge smile on his face coming to shake our hands he welcomes us and leads us to the very back the house into a tiny bedroom with one tiny lamp on the corner lighting the whole room in this room was the cowboy his mother his deceased father and the father's nurse it was here that I noticed the other baby monitor the one that was picking up I'll shout sand playing it back on the other side of the dining room but nothing else which means they could hear us calling to them but nobody said anything the entire time and the cowboy didn't move until a solid 45 seconds later when he sped walk into the hallway anyways we chatted for a few minutes and when a puppy came up to me the mother let me know that her name was precious this is noteworthy because it was the only time I saw the woman move in fact when I first came into the room she was blankly staring at a wall and I initially mistook her for the person we were here to remove it's also worth mentioning that she just disappeared at some point during the removal like one minute she was there and when I took my eyes off of her for a second both she and precious were gone I was standing in the only doorway and I don't remember either one walking past me that was the last time I saw either of them though as we were halfway through the hallway on our way out I could hear precious barking from somewhere in the house so we eventually got to work the hallway is too short for the cot to turn the corner so al the nurse and myself carry the men down the hallway eventually we make it and the rest of the removal goes smoothly one thing that kind of unsettled me though was the cowboy well it's not uncommon for a family to stay in the room as we move the body onto the cot most of the time they chose to leave or at least back up it's not ugly per se but it's just not very pretty to watch a recently departed loved one get manhandled onto a stretcher by two extremely out of shape men the cowboy however stayed right on top of us smiling and talking about building a fence the entire time it wasn't weird in the moment but looking back it just fell off from that point once we got out of the hallway the rest of the removal went off without a hitch we made it back to the funeral home and Al starts preparing to embalm if he found the whole situation as weird as I did he sure didn't show it the whole thing was just totally bizarre and felt off like I said my little brother wants me to go back tonight and see if the house is still there I've got a feeling that the man we picked up first set foot in that house yesterday no older than I am now honestly I wouldn't really be surprised if my boss never actually got a phone call but just dreamt it and then woke up with her found in her hands already dialing me either way they came in to make arrangements this afternoon so hopefully I get another story to tell from the funeral itself [Music] so my aunt and uncle went on a week-long vacation and asked me to come feed the dog everyday they live 15 minutes away in the middle of the countryside but it's actually on my way to work so I said yes I usually go there at 8 a.m. feed the dog check of the houses ok come back at 6:00 p.m. and feed him again yesterday I had more time as I had a day off from work so I stayed there throughout the day to play with the dog at lunchtime I go inside and decide to eat a salad so I take out all of the ingredients and lastly go over to the bowl cabinet and open it now my uncle's have a 6 piece set of white porcelain bowls and one red and blue bowl I have made for them when I was little it's ugly but of course has a lot of emotional value so they've kept it all these years and I always use it when I eat with them Bowl was not there though it's a bit of a tradition for me to use it so I started looking for it I take out each and every bowl out of the small cabinet but nothing else is in there I opened the dishwasher opened the cabinets the trash everything I opened and searched and every single piece of furniture in the kitchen and was not there I must have looked for it for 30 minutes or so because I was afraid that they had broken it or thrown it away and it is very important to me anyway I eventually put the white bowls in the cabinet didn't use another one for the salad I was kind of sad but that was it and I didn't tell my uncles because I didn't want to bother them fast forward to this morning at 8 a.m. I go to feed the dog and then enter the house and head to the kitchen to grab some water and be on my way as I finished the glass of water I stare at the bowl cabinet which is made of wooden glass and I see a glimpse of bread I open it and sure enough that bowl was there put sideways in the upper side as my aunt always put it in when she washes it just sitting there I wasn't scared or anything but I just stood there staring at it for minutes like what in the name of the Lord has happened absolutely no one else is entering the house these past couple days it is completely empty and I'm the only one with the keys right now the dog is not allowed inside and I search for signs of robbery but nothing's missing though I doubt a thief would mess with the bowls I'm speechless I searched for that bowl for half an hour it was not in there I'm active-duty Air Force and I was pcsing from Las Vegas to Georgia I had one of my girlfriends drive with me because it was just my six month old son and me and that's a super long drive alone anyways we left Vegas way later than I wanted we were supposed to make it to Albuquerque that first night my goal was to be off the road by 8:00 p.m. but we didn't leave Vegas until about 1:30 p.m. and with a baby that still took bottles and was in diapers you can imagine how that goes so we are driving through nowhere Arizona had like 10:30 p.m. and it's late and kind of scary no cell reception or random little towns for miles my friend and I are biessing about random stuff and it gets eerily silent between the both of us like chills and hair sticking up in the back of my neck she said I don't want you to think I'm weird but I just had a vision and there's something on the side of your car by your son's window before she said that I could feel something trying to get me to look out my mirror and window but I kept my eyes on the road she said I don't know what this is or what the feeling is but it's truly evil and I could feel it too thankfully I had one of those things in my window to keep the Sun off my son so it was blacked out so my son wouldn't have been able to see anything but I started driving faster and stopped the next town because I was so shaken up by that encounter or whatever that was I just wanted to be inside my home tell room I parked underneath the light in the parking lot and grab some diapers and formula and left everything in the car and went back out the next morning and everything was fine but I couldn't shake that feeling that night my friend could neither know I'm in my 30s I've been in combat situations so I wasn't just being a girl but whatever feeling that was I don't ever want to feel it again after doing some research it could have been a skinwalker it was definitely in the right area what are your thoughts [Music] that was around the age of 15 in the story took place and yes as I have stated before these are true events that have happened throughout my life a little backstory my mother and father at this time had been divorced for a good four or five years now so she was a single mother raising three kids on her own as my father was never really in the picture she had no easy job to say the least my mother after my siblings and I went to bed and she was off work decided to take an hour or so to herself and get on the computer she of course liked the time in the late 90s Internet and chat rooms were the big thing and well my mom enjoyed talking and sharing her thoughts with those who seemed to be like-minded people fast forward a year I'm 15 and my mother had many friends and one of the lucky few my mother actually talked to on a personal level was named John actually a quick small note his name wasn't John but I feel it's a bit weird using his real name and it's more so out of respect for him and you'll see why John you see was dying and he was in a wheelchair he had terminal cancer that spread throughout his body he was only using 10% of his lungs he had lost his legs to this terrible illness and being online was his way of being social as he couldn't get out much he also kept his illness to himself only to confide in a few like my mother and others so my mom and John would talk a lot about things and when he had a bad day or my had a bad day they would try to cheer each other up by virtual dancing and chat rooms to the WAV sounds they played yes weird and yes I type WAV sounds before mp3s oh and I should mention that every time John would send an instant message and say hello he would send her the image of the @ sign a couple of hyphens and arrow and a couple of hyphens and a comma he'd also tell my mother no matter where he was he would always watch over my mom and her angels two days passed and my mother hadn't heard from her friend she was concerned but not too concerned as again her friend probably was busy with other matters on the third day one of his relatives instant messaged her and told her the sad news that John had passed away due to complications of his illness they also wanted his relative to give her this and he typed out that rose and those symbols that he would send which by the way still found a way to give her a rose even in his passing now of course mom wasn't quick to believe so she did some investigating and yes in fact she found John's obituary and in that fact my mom cried another small note one of my mother's hobbies his painting and she had shared many of her paintings with him through email and John loved them this is where things get weird three days later I am sitting on the couch watching TV in the living room my sister and brother are in bed and my mom is on the computer in the living room off on the other side of the room it's quiet and then in the front room of our home that my mother called her studio we hear a loud thud now we both stop what we were doing and look at each other with that did you hear what I heard look I just slowly nod we were in the country in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and I don't know what my mom was thinking but I was afraid that someone was in the house then I found myself saying to my mom maybe it's a mouse I probably did this to help my mom feel better and at the same time trying to calm myself down I knew though that for a mouse to make that big of a thud it had to be one of those rats from the movie or the book The Princess Bride you know Rous mom gets up from the computer walks over to the closet and grabs one of my old metal softball bats that she named Bubba and headed toward her studio I follow when stuff like this happened I tend to make jokes calling it a coping mechanism so I comically pictured someone watching this scene on TV throwing popcorn at the screen shouting not to open the door and calling us dumb so yes dumb as we were my mom opens the door quickly flips on the light bat held high and ready to hit whomever was in her studio I watched as she lowered the bat as there was no one there it was a small studio so you could clearly see everything in the room window etc locked nothing I watched my mother look around and then her eyes stopped on something and the look on her face was easily described as pure confusion I follow her gaze to a painting face down on the floor halfway across the room her eyes then moved to look behind her to see her easel which had that painting on it before I only know that the painting was on it because son of my mother's mouth was I left my painting on the easel before I made dinner how did it get over there she looks at me for answers as we stare back at the painting across the room right weird I had no words and I watched as my mother moved over to her painting picked it up inspected it for damage seeing none and just put it back on the easel we don't say any more about it that night and I go to bed and she does too so on the next day my mom and I say nothing about what happened the night before and we go on about our days again that night mom's on the computer I'm in my room I hear a loud thud coming from the living room where my mom was this time my siblings and I run to see if my mom was okay afraid she might have fallen or something we found mom's staring down in the painting that had been on the wall for years now on the floor her face said it all while she was busy doing her thing computer the painting somehow just fell off the wall I again to make people feel better said mom it was bound to happen the nail probably just moved or something nothing to worry about relief filled my mom's faces she agreed my siblings went back to bed and my mother of course asked me to put the painting back up on the wall which I said I would do and well won't lie I forgot it about it that night and much on the floor my mother that night before bed decided to leave it on the floor to teach me a lesson and see if I would remember to put it back up on the wall the next day - my mother's delight the painting was back up on the wall at the very next morning and she was proud of herself and her parenting skills as her plan worked her darling daughter actually put the painting back on the wall like she had asked so she found me out in my room and said honey I want to thank you for putting the painting back on the wall I look at her and my face looked odd as I said mom I didn't put the painting on the wall I I'm sorry I forgot about it actually mom laughs a little stop joking like that I'm not joking mom I didn't put the painting back on the wall I reply and now I'm just confused as she is the only other person who would be able to put the heavy picture back on the wall was my sister because my brother was too little at the time so my mom goes to my sister who was in the living room and asked her hey dear did you get on a chair and put the painting back up on the wall my sister looked at her and shook her head no mom now my mom is thinking us kids got together to play a horrible joke on her which we assure her we didn't we were ourselves starting to feel this was getting a bit creepy as if a light bulb went on in my mom's brain she looks around the room and just shouts alright John I know you're here thank you for letting me know you're okay but you're scaring the kids and me and you don't have to watch over us anymore go into the light yeah we thought mom and lost it I just stared at her and so did my siblings funny thing though after she said that nothing like that happened again who knows if it was John or maybe something else I just know it was really weird I [Music] was 18 at the time and I haven't left the island where I live Halloween is coming soon and all I want to do is go on a paranormal investigation in a real haunted location and maybe see a real spirit I'm talking to my cousin mom everyone that I'm close to how I want to do this go hunting and I want to see his spirit Halloween comes and goes nothing we don't go into the investigation instead I go with my siblings to my cousin's house to hang out I'm disappointed but oh well next year right two days later my mother sister and brother and I are in the living room watching a movie the movie ends my brother and sister had the bed I stay with mom on the couch to watch another movie we both fall asleep halfway through when I am woken up by this overwhelming masculine but feminine smell in my nose it was as if someone tried to drown me and perfume and cologne at the same time I blink awaken then peer over at the TV to see a very tall white mist blocking the TV in front of the coffee table the light of the TV gives it a glow when I stare at it I blink again rubbing my eyes to make sure I am seeing what I am seeing and my body is frozen in a mixture of emotions fear excitement and confusion I know my mom is asleep on the other end of the couch so without my eyes looking away from this white mist I gently kicked my mom in the leg which she startles awake and blinks I whisper tell me you see that missed my mother's confused but she looks at me and then toward what I am staring at she replies after a moan with silence I don't see anything my heart sinks and I'm now thinking I've gone insane whatever I am seeing isn't real and then I hear from my mom you really need to learn how not to put on so much perfume if it wasn't for the fact this comment made me feel relieved I wasn't going insane it would have been very annoyed with the woman the mist didn't move just stayed there in a straight column of white I whispered back to my mother I'm not wearing perfume it's not me it's the mist in front of the TV at the same time I say this the mist moves it rather glides forward towards me and disappears I don't know about mom but I had a hard time sleeping the rest of the night [Music] the story takes place during the summer between my sophomore year and junior years of high school I'm a 5-4 male Hispanic with certain parts of my hair dyed blue in the front so not very threatening at least that's what I thought I'm an introvert because of it a lot of people take quietness and occasional witty remarks as a sign of malice rather than the defense mechanism it is let's be honest kids are mean and truth I don't hate anyone but when you get hurt enough by enough people you tend to limit how many people you let in to my friends I'm an open book booyah despite my pacifist philosophy and the value I see in all forms of life both human and non-human I'm still the guy that gets all the weird stalker jokes and accusations in eighth grade my own guidance counselor targeted me as a potential threat because I sat alone at lunch but that's a story for another time every guy I talked to who calls me gay or makes fun of me because I'm a hopeless romantic with legitimate respect for women and a sense of human decency and not some heartless jerk just trying to get laid in other words I pride myself on being the kind of guy that I am which is what makes this story feel so much worse than it already is I had a falling out with a girl who was supposed to be my best friend let's call her Eve right at the end of 10th grade my friends are the people I care about the ones who I'm their foreign the ones who are there for me she didn't want that she just wanted something surface-level I was crushed after not just losing my second half but essentially finding out she was never really there to begin with and though I'm usually able to keep my emotions in check I spiraled into a bit of the depression my grades had suffered during the school year because of the anxiety my so-called friend caused me has always felt like I was walking on eggshells but now that summer had started and I didn't have the daily routine holding my life together I just kind of stopped part of me was relieved to have the weight of a toxic friendship lifted from me but I still felt so empty inside so alone I had always been an outcast so feeling like I was special to someone was a big deal to me and losing it was devastating I didn't draw like I usually do I rarely went outside I even got sick more often I kind of just loafed around the house emotions are like a drug or salty food they can be addictive and even if they're bad he'll keep trying to recreate them when you're depressed you don't feel anything if you make yourself sad at least you're feeling something one day I was doing just that reviving the pain by sliding through old photos on my phone for Yves birthday I had made a video in which I got a bunch of people to hold up lyrics to the song my life would suck without you by Kelly Clarkson as the song played over it cheesy I know the photo app has this feature on it that allows you to see where pictures and videos were taken on a world map laying on the couch I got curious and pulled up the map to see where everybody who had helped me with the video were harmless right then I noticed that one girl who had helped me let's call her Harper lived within walking distance of my house I had meant Harper in the 6th grade but we were never all that close I admit I had a little crush on her in middle school but it was mainly because she was the only person who didn't treat me like trash and it was probably just because she felt sorry for me we didn't have anything in common and it's always seemed like I was invisible to her she was sweet but she just saw right through me I had gotten over any feelings for her a while ago but she would still say hi and we would talk once in a blue moon I would like to reiterate that I did not go searching on the web for her address or follow her home I just happened to notice because it was in the app along with several other people it could have been anyone for a few days I actually forgot about it completely trying to distract myself from any thought of Eve by watching YouTube and collecting stupid memes it wasn't until almost a week later that I remembered now this is something that only fellow misfits will understand and address my mother absolutely crazy when it happens when I see someone I know in public I tend to wander around them and wait for them to notice me I don't want to go up and say hi to someone who would rather I drop dead than have to talk to me if they speak up first I know I'm in the clear it's stupid I know I just don't want to overstep and embarrass myself if your company is rejected by most people a simple hello someone going out of their way to talk to you can really act as a confidence booster it's nice to feel wanted in one way or another and after I tried to be the best friend I could for Eve I still wasn't good enough well you see where this is going keep in mind this is North Carolina in the middle of June I wasn't about to walk half a mile during the middle of the day I go on a walk throughout the neighborhood every night so my parents really wouldn't suspect anything I guess that should have been my first clue that was keeping my plan for them deep down I knew something about what I was doing wasn't right it was about 9:30 p.m. when I set out I actually took a few wrong turns before getting to her Street as I walked down I had this sudden heavy feeling in my throat but I chalked it up to nerves it wasn't until I came to the actual house itself that it all began to set in what exactly was my plan to walk past their house and hope someone would notice me just then I saw a car pull into the driveway and Harper's brother step out he paused gave me a puzzled look and walked inside that was when it really hit me what am i doing standing outside the house of a girl that I barely knew in the middle of the night that's what I can make all the excuses I want that I wasn't thinking straight her than my emotions clouded my brain but truthfully I knew this was screwed up my mind knew full well that this was not okay and I just ignored it I wanted to go and turn and run away right when I was about to sprint out of there I saw someone step out of the door it was their mother I tried to act as casual as possible even asking if I was making people uncomfortable when she asked if I was lost or needed help or something I made up some nonsense story about having a faulty compass I just happened to have one with me and by some miracle she bought it or at least acted like it she was very pleasant considering what her kids must have thought and said before she came out once she was inside I ran home I panicked as the reality of what I had done hit me in waves I didn't tell anyone what really happened not my friends not my parents I told everyone else it was a coincidence and thought that if I just played it off nothing would come of it it's been several months and Harper blocked me as I discovered when I tried to text her about something completely unrelated we have the same first period every other day and she avoids me like the plague I ended up leaving her a voicemail as my final attempt in reconciling our not even friendship it went something like this hey it's me if you're listening and please just listen I know I screwed up that was a jerk and then a liar and a hypocrite and probably a few other things you have no reason to trust me or listen to me but a lot of people over the past few years and I'm sorry you've only gotten bits and pieces of some of the worst ones it was something I wanted to talk to you about concerning that but as I have realized that is probably a lot I've done that warrants an explanation I'm not trying to justify anything or make excuses there's just a lot of wrongs that I've been trying to write recently just get back to me if it doesn't make you too uncomfortable I won't bug you if you don't just think about it please okay thank you bye she never responded I feel awful I know there is nothing I can do to fix this it will forever be a stain on my timeline that I can never scrub away I was always an insignificant part of her life and I know that I was okay with only being a footnote in her story I just wish it didn't have to be a bad one Harper if you're hearing this I never meant to scare you what I did was unacceptable and I'm sorry [Music] this is my dad story it's one of many my pops told me growing up my dad is from a city south of him the Mexican capital and let's just say my father's childhood was quite colorful to say the least this city alone contains 365 churches one for every day of the year and the great majority built in the days of the conquistadors so they're pretty old my father is the third of 14 kids no seriously and those were the children actually survived this was Mexico back in the mid to late 70s and this was very common in the particular area that my father is from he remembers how city officials would hold competitions to see what mother had the most children he clearly remembers one woman having 22 living children mind you this was Mexico back in the day and Catholic down to the bone so birth control was out of the question since my father was the third oldest child and has a boy he was deemed old enough to help provide for his younger siblings again this was Mexico in the 70s there was no such thing as child labor laws I'll call my father andreas in the storages for the sake of anonymity so one day Andres his father wakes up twelve-year-old andreas around 4:00 in the morning and tells him get up you're gonna help senior Manuel with his groundskeeping duties at such-and-such church and you start helping provide for your brothers and sisters andreas had no idea his father had made such arrangements but did as he was told albeit progressively because this was a time when if you didn't do as you were told he got beat and I don't mean just a simple spanking I mean beat black and blue it was late fall early winter and since andreas and his family were poor the closest thing he had to a coat was the blanket off his bed Senor Manuel was already waiting for andreas outside and since it was cold weather the Sun wasn't even peeking in the horizon yet so here goes Andrei us revving the grip from his eyes grumpy that he had to be up so early in the cold to help out with his brothers and sisters when suddenly send your men well spoke up listen kid I only agreed to this to help out your father but you're gonna get in my way more than you help so just go into the church and do whatever you want just stay out of my way Andreas perked up at the sound of this his father was still gonna get a little money to help out with the siblings and he didn't have to do any of the work this was the best deal ever or so we thought when they arrived because they walked there send your men well unlock the old wooden doors to the church and told Andreia Stu laid down in one of the pews and keep out of trouble andreas happily wrapped himself up into his blanket and curled up on one of the pews in the old dark church the only light was from the candles that were stacked about the church and then the old wooden wrought iron candelabras ondrea's quickly fell asleep after some time something will Condrey us up it wasn't sure how long that he had been asleep but he couldn't help but feel that eyes were watching him he peeked out from under his blankets and screened the area his eyes were drawn to a darkened doorway to the left of the altar and the moment he realized what he was looking at the air was sucked from his lungs and his whole body ran cold there in the dark doorway with the faces of three men Andreas couldn't believe what he was seeing and rubbed his eyes like crazy hoping it was just a trick of the light but they were all right there the men weren't dressed in clothes he recognized but enclosed that looked to be from hundreds of years ago the faces were dark and angry and they kept making gestures at him that they were going to hurt him Andreas didn't know what to do he was frozen in fear and terror so he covered his face in his blanket and began to pray he peeks one eye out and is relieved to see the men are gone and somehow he falls back asleep after some time passes andreas who is a very light sleeper wakes up again that feeling of being watched snapping him awake he opens his eyes again to his horror the men have returned and they're actually standing outside the doorway now the clothes are old and their faces are full of hate at the sight of him they make gestures at him that they are gonna hurt him and one of them gives a dark smile that scared him more than the violent gestures the smiley man gestures for andreas to look up and when andreas does a scream claws up his throat but dies on his lips there from one of the old wooden chandeliers hanging senior manuel and his entire body had been skinned beside his face which is the only recognizable feature he pinches himself and pinches himself in the hopes that he is dreaming but he isn't andreas hears a creaking sound behind him and notices a silver of sunlight creeping on the floor of the church and before his mind could register what his body was doing he bolted from his place and ran out the open door and didn't look back Andreas hears someone calling his name but refuses to look back it was indeed the real groundskeeper alive and well but andreas was too frightened to look back after that day he refused to go into or anywhere near that church until he was around 18 years old by that time the church was mostly unused and borderline abandoned he went into that church went into that doorless room which led to some stone steps that went down into a type of basement the room was windowless and empty andreas made himself stand there for an hour to prove to himself that he was not afraid anymore and that what he saw although we couldn't explain it was a figment in his imagination nothing happened I asked my dad if he was scared and he responded with of course I was but I had to get over that fear many decades later after my dad had come to America and married my mother and started a life with her huge earthquakes rocked his hometown this was back in the 90s and my father paid for a friend to mail him copies of the local newspaper from his hometown what he read shocked him due to the magnitude of the earthquake that hit his town many of the old churches were severely damaged and revealed dark secrets the church from my father's story was among the damaged churches and upon inspection of said church the bodies of local Native Mexicans who were forced to build the church were discovered buried in the walls this of course made my father question what he had seen when he was a boy and severed the last threat of his religious interest in the Catholic Church unfortunately this was not the only case of bodies found within church walls my father went on to tell me that a certain covenant had the bodies of young pregnant nuns buried within and some showed signs that they had been buried alive it turns out that during the time of the Mexican Revolution peasants took their daughters to convents in the hopes that they would be safe from the dangers of the revolution sadly this is not the case when these poor peasants would go to visit the daughters some were told that the daughters were sent off to the Vatican to further serve the church only did never be heard from again this is just one of the stories my dad told me from his days in Mexico to this day my dad can't explain what he saw but he remembers it crystal clear please take into consideration that this is by no means me bashing religion this is just a scary life experience my father told me that ultimately turned out to have very sad outcomes for some poor people I'm a girl my study Chinese at a university and went to China for a program exchange for a few months also English isn't my mother tongue so excuse me for any grammar mistakes I went to a Chinese School in China and everything happened very well and after finishing my semester I got extra time before leaving the country so I could visit around with friends I mean another girlfriend decided to visit the capital during one week it was January so the weather was awfully cold in Peking and after two days there I got sick but since we had so much to do I just carried on for the full journey everything went okay I discovered that I didn't like Peking that much in comparison to where I stayed for my full semester but some places we visited were beautiful anyway what made the journey awful was the day before we left Peking on that day we had decided to visit a part of the Great Wall by our own since I was still sick we got up a little bit later than expected but it was still a little bit afternoon when we got out of our motel we made a few researches and how to get there and all we had to do was taking a couple of bus the final bus would make the longer trip about two hours and then we should walk about 10 to 15 minutes until arriving at the Great Wall so that's what we did when we arrived it was close to 4:00 p.m. when we got off the bus we were in front of a building with a parking lot area and on the right a large road that was leading to the Great Wall we followed our Chinese Google Maps and climbed the road it was literally on a mountain trying not to fall off since the road was very slippery after 10 minutes we saw some shops on our left side and we had the choice to keep using the road or using a shortcut through a tiny hall full of gift shops obviously we took the shortcut as we approached we noticed that we had to climb 60 degree stairs and my friend was already tired from all the walking that we had done so we took a tiny break and she ordered some food to warm herself up I'm just gonna remind you that the weather was below freezing even though we were wearing a ton of clothes for myself I wore three pairs of socks two sweaters with a jacket and two beanies and I was still frozen and couldn't feel my feet so we were tired up a lot more easily than normal at some point my phone even told me that it couldn't cooperate because of the freezing weather after that we climbed the stairs and finally arrived at the entrance area we bought our tickets and entered in the Great Wall area it was wonderful we climbed a few stairs took pictures we pointed a spot that looked like the highest from where we stood and decided to go until there and then go back the wind was crazy up there that's my phone almost died and the stairs were polished and all bumpy probably because this place is highly visited that made the path even more slippery than the road was I fell off at some point without even realizing it until my butt was on the floor halfway to the highest spot my friend felt really bad all of a sudden and needed to sit I asked her if she wanted us to go back and she declined she sat on one of the stairs and told me to keep going taking pictures of her and then we will proceed to leave at this time of the day the Sun was going down in China after 5 p.m. it's dark but there was still a lot of people in the Great Wall so we thought it was ok to continue it took me 10 to 15 minutes to reach the highest point I took some photos and then went back my friend but she wasn't there anymore I panicked a bit tried to check my phone and I couldn't see anything from her I texted her and thought that she should have gone back to the entrance area I went back to the area but she still wasn't there I noticed a big gift shop on the left and entered I started to ask for my friend and the man behind the counter pointed me to my friend in the back of the shop she was drinking a hot cocoa glued to a radiator but she was still shaking i sat down with her and relief we waited a bit more for her to warm up again and then left the store we wanted to take the shortcut out as we did before but it was closed we were used to seeing stores closing after 9:00 p.m. in China so it surprised us since it was only a bit after 5:00 so we had to take the long way and it's at that point that everything went from okay to a complete disaster we researched on the way how to go there but not on the way back to come back we thought it would be the same so it was ok for us normally there were two buses but only one of them did the trip back to the city and obviously we didn't know that the first bus we took to arrive there was going one way and stopped after 9 p.m. the only bus that could drive us back to the capital stopped riding at 5 p.m. we learned that the hard way we were going down the road when we saw two big cars with two suspicious guys one of them tried to stop us and yelled in an approximate English of no more bus go with me taxi I knew exactly what kind of taxis they were I've been warned by other friends that some people waited at the Great Wall and pretended to be a taxi they usually proposed to drive you to the nearest bus stop but that trip is overpriced we refused as we thought at that point that the first bus we took could still drive us back home we kept walking but the guy still talked to us we thought he will stop after a while since we ignored him we didn't know how wrong we were we were walking still trying not to fall and we didn't hear from the guy for a couple of minutes so we thought that he had gotten over it and then we heard a car slowly driving behind us there were some larger areas in front of us and the guy drove until there and turned off the car and got out of it he tried again to persuade us to go with them he said the price of the trip we said no in Chinese we told him moves too expensive and then started walking again we could hear him say no bus to Peking bus station very far but we ignored him my friend was still feeling really bad and it was difficult for us to climb down we heard him going back in his car and was driving at our pace next to us he kept talking and blocked the road once again at this point my friend had had enough and she told him she was feeling bad and she was okay to go with him if he lowered his price he said no so he kept walking I told her there was no use to show him interests otherwise he would keep bothering us and try scamming us while the bus stop was only about 10 minutes away from us obviously he didn't stop there and kept following us and talking to us he stopped his car again in front of us and finally said he was ok to lower the price I had pity for my friend state of health and I was also tired and feeling weak we talked a bit together to decide whether we should go with him and we were on the verge of saying yes then I had a gut feeling we were two young girls lost in the middle of nowhere and he insisted a lot to go with him I remember the stranger-danger talked with my mom when I was a child grab my friends arm said no again and helped her to come down we used a little path so the car couldn't follow directly thinking we were done with him but we could still see him from there and he was still asking to come with him my friend was almost crying from pain and all I thought was that I had to be strong for the both of us I screamed of the man threatening to call the cops and told him to buzz off he laughed and the second man from earlier arrived with his car they had a chat and we decided to use that distraction to flee thankfully he stopped following us after that we arrived at the building with the parking lot Aryan went to the bus stop that's at this moment that we realized there was no bus stop on the other side of the road on one side of the parking lot there was a little kind of house with we believe two policemen inside my friend went to ask them for help and waited just in case at the bus stop when she came back she told me that there was no use and also they rudely made fun of her Chinese accent I was mad thinking that these men only talked while we talk three or four different languages whatever I told her we will wait at the stop and we last the bus driver we waited for 15 minutes and no bus was in sight we saw that there were lights on in the building behind us and we went straight there to ask for help a nice security guy told us to take the bus for one stop and then there there should be a bus stop on the other side of the road so we could have a ride back he said that the bus should pass every 30 minutes or so so we should still wait at the bus stop he was nice enough to wait with us until the bus finally arrived we did as he said and after 10 minutes we arrived at the next stop at that place there were more houses and buildings so we felt a bit safer than before we waited for the bus but it didn't seem to come after a while a man that was getting at his trash saw us and asked if we wanted help we told him we wanted to go back to the city and waved his hand in the air there is no more bus he chuckled you should sleep here and go back tomorrow morning that's when we noticed the guy went out from a motel and he was probably the owner so we declined his invitation thankfully he left but we were panicking again it was around 8:30 p.m. and normally the last bus should be at 9 p.m. yes it took us almost three hours to arrive nowhere well normally we should have been home already but it wasn't done yet we thought forget it as we were so exhausted at this point in order to Chinese uber to drive us back to Peking it would be expensive since it was a couple of hours trip but we were too tired to think and at least it wasn't as expensive as the fake taxi the uber driver arrived ten minutes later still no bus came but so we thought it was the best choice we did he stopped in front of us asked her name and we nodded with relief but then he asked how much we paid him we share a weird look my friend told him you should know it you have the app as well he asked again she finally told him and he responded hmmm no I won't double the price we were dumbfounded how could even our uber driver try to scam us we argued with him saying we don't have any money and we paid already with the app we said we were tired but he didn't want to change his mind at this point I lost it and just screamed with a low pitched voice I was deadbeat frozen and thought we were never going home my scream did no reaction from the guy maybe he chuckled but I can't remember that I was having a huge panic attack I was crying and begging but the city it didn't want to change his mind I started sending my friends help Tex says I didn't know what else to do anymore one of them that lived in Peking at the time called me she was trying to understand what was going on and listened to the discussion and disbelief two old ladies were walking nearest so my friend stopped them to beg for their help the two ladies talked with the Huber driver and then told us we should pay him they were clearly on a side and thought we were dumb tourists and we weren't worth their time they stayed with us anyway he says my friend tried to solve the situation and my friend was on the phone just getting angry and angrier trying to find a solution on her side I was totally useless at that point suddenly and thank the Lord my friend got the idea to cancel the SuperDrive and to order another one luckily the other car was ten minutes away from us the odd uber driver didn't leave us and still tried to bargain with us even when the second uber driver showed up the old lady's left at that point and we jumped in the car without saying a word both of the drivers talked together I couldn't understand what they were saying because I was still in shock but our driver finally started the car this time our driver didn't try to scam us but I was tense starting the whole way back to our motel frequently checking the Chinese google map on my phone during my whole semester in China this day was the absolute worst experience I had ever encountered [Music] some background information from my experience one our German Shepherd Rocco passed away about a year ago leaving us with two pitbulls in the house - I often experience sleep paralysis of the non-paranormal kind this means when I experience sleep paralysis I did not see any figures or shadows during an episode nor experienced any paranormal activities which makes this experience very unique to me I was having a sleep paralysis episode downstairs while dozing off from the couch around 2:00 a.m. ish my husband and the two pities were already in bed upstairs and I hadn't heard any noises that indicated any of them were awake it's important to note that my two pits make clickety-clacked noises with their nails short as they are as our floors are all wood and tile throughout the house Rocco never made noises because he was always a proper dog and never bound around the house like these - during this episode as usually I tried to keep my breathing even repeat a few prayers not to freak out altogether it never helps and often make things worse while doing this I distinctly heard a dog sniff my ears and felt a wet nose it was brief maybe a few seconds and I just figured it was one of the two dogs that came down to drink water used the doggie door shortly after and I mean minutes after if that I'm able to move again I never fall back asleep after his sleep paralysis episode it always scares me to think that another may occur again so I always stay up and after I was able to get up and move again I searched for which dog it was that sniffed at my ears I did not see neither of them so I crept upstairs to find that all three were fast asleep in the Masters bedroom it was then I realized I hadn't heard any clicking noises from the to pit nails nor did I hear them go back up the stairs I told my husband and of course he rushes it off saying I probably fell back asleep and didn't realize it I'd like to think that our faithful and loving Rocco came to visit me that night [Music] this first story happened when I was around 12 years old so back in 2007 during summer holidays we'd hang out of the playground near my apartment often way past midnight it might sound weird for five kids to be out without supervision so late but Finland is generally a safe country and since the Sun doesn't really set during the summer our parents were really relaxed about us being out at night so one night were just chilling as usual laughing probably louder than this polite when we hear a car driving fast on the gravel road leading to the playground we hear it stop with a small opening meant as a parking lot for visitors before starting up again the car does what sounds like donuts before driving away only to repeat the same thing a couple of more times at this point we've all gone quiet listening to the car as it keeps repeating the same steps now we're at a position where we can't really see the car because the playground is surrounded by forest so we can only know what's happening my sound the car leaves again and comes back just as the oldest one of us at 13 called our does what I still to this day consider one of the stupidest things he's ever done from the top of his lungs he screams come play with us and then the car stops there's this moment of silence where we just look at each other we all let out a sigh of relief when the car starts up again and starts to leave we think we're in the clear when our shouts again at this point the rest of us are screaming for him to stop we all go quiet again when we hear the car engine stop and after this it's all very much a blur to me the car stops but this time we hear the door open and close like someone getting out of the car I remember my friends screaming as we run through the playground I hear footsteps following us but I'm too scared to look back afraid of what I might see we run to the other side of the park and straight through a worn-out hole in the hedge fence just big enough to fit through it's a weird detail to remember but I was the last one through and in my panic I screamed about not being able to fit through over and over until our an another friend quite literally dragged me to the other side once through we all just stood there and silence and then shock would also relieve because we are now right next to a big road and let me tell you seeing the occasional car driving by has never felt so comforting eventually once we feel the road is clear we go back because our dad left his bike when we bolted we make sure he gets out of the park safely all agreeing to send a text once we get home before everyone runs off to different directions safe to say we didn't hang out past midnight after that no matter how light it was outside the thing is while I said Finland is a safe place to live in we happen to live in one of those worst cities but it yet four of us lived or had lived in the bad part of town mainly inhabited by families living below poverty line and people suffering from addictions or mental health issues and the playground was smack dab in the middle of that area however our was from a wealthy family and grew up in what I call the rich people neighborhood on the other side of town and it took us closer to a month to convince him to come back and hang out with us even during the daytime the second story takes place in September of the next year me Arne K who was also there during the park freaked out to have spent the evening in the city centre it's the night of fashion basically a commercial festival meant to promote the local clothing stores with fashion shows and appearances from b-class celebs also primetime for teens a bit older than us to drink in public without any consequences and we've gone out with the same group of friends but two of us had to leave early unlike the three of us their parents actually set them a curfew after the previous accident it's around 11 p.m. and the festival was starting to die down so we head to the backyard of a nearby apartment building and just hang out at a swingset people had started the head home a little earlier and we can hear the last of the music blaring from the distance so we hang out there for a while not really feeling uneasy despite the growing darkness because we think that there are still people everywhere nearby so what's the worst that could possibly happen right well after a while a couple of older guys I guess around 17 or 18 entered the yard and sat down on the bed we pay them no mind and continue talking assuming they're just there to chill just as we are now I'm not 100% sure what happened at this point does I have my back to them but suddenly R and K go very quiet shush and me as well while taking Quick Looks over my shoulder I try to ask him what's up but they still just shush me and stop me when I try and turn around and see what's going on after what feels like minutes but was probably only a few seconds our whispers started walking away at casual canines and we leave and only at this point am I starting to get scared as quickly as they can they let me know that the guys have been staring at us for a good 10 minutes while whispering to each other okay at this point I'm creeped out but not as terrified as my friends however as we're walking away k looks back and lets us know the guys have stood up and are now following us matching our pace we start speed walking and then burst into a full sprint when we hear their footsteps getting faster behind us we run to the end of the road and make a quick turn right before a crosswalk KC's a barely visible opening in a hedge fence the true hero of my life huh and crawls through polling are with her who in turn grabs me and pulls me to the other side we sit there three kids on wet lawn right in front of someone's house and watched through the bush as the guys come to the same crosswalk and we're all just silently hoping they didn't see where we went someone I don't remember who points out that they're holding on to something and since I'm the closest to the guys I take a peek and it feels like my soul is about to leave my body they've stopped clearly trying to see where we went and half hidden in their fists her tiny pocket knives I whisper this to my friends and whatever color was left on their faces immediately drains away K starts muttering something in Russian and I can only assume she's praying for our lives finally the two guys evidently decide we must have crossed the road as they do just so clearly still searching for us as they disappeared in the park on the other side of the road we said still for another 10 minutes and then get up before once again hurriedly going back for our Spyke he's clearly a lot more shaken up than me in case so we walk with him as far as we can and then continue on the phone for another five minutes until it gets home we walked on the side of the motor road as our only other option was an unlit road right next to a forest for another 15 minutes before parting ways at my place and safe to say it was the last time we stayed out so late I don't know how much this affects the events of that night but at the time we were all between five foot four and five foot six and although our was the only guy of the group he was constantly getting mistaken for a girl at the time all three of us were also rocking some major baby faces leading to people usually thinking we were at least a couple of years younger than we really were I'm 23 now and have multiple more stories for a later time including some paranormal experiences as well as a drug boss living right next door but as for now we still don't know who those guys were or what they were planning on doing - what they probably thought were three preteen girls [Music] for some background my twin sister and I are females and this happened around the year of 2012 or 2013 that would make her and I around 12 or 13 at the time we're both currently 18 and the event that I'm about to explain still gives me nightmares to this day and have to remember how lucky I really am to be alive we are from the outskirts of Chicago and at that time hadn't been anywhere since during the Thanksgiving holidays some family of ours from around the surrounding towns invited us over for Thanksgiving dinner which would be in about a week my family and I weren't really close and everyone thought it would be a good idea to get together and spend time with one another boy were they wrong I have a big household a family of seven there was my twin and I our three younger siblings and our mother and father so two of my aunts both from my father's side this is important to note thought of a plan to separate us for more space and we would all meet up again in the following days my twin sister and I being the oldest got to pick who we wanted to stay with until we would all meet up again her and I chose our aunt for privacy reasons what scholar Shelly so my sister 9 chose to stay with our aunt Shelly as it was only her my uncle and grandfather we thought it best to choose her because my other aunt had many young children and my parents had my younger sibling there was only a few months old at the time we thought it'd be a great time away from all the crying hitting and whining hours pass and soon we're on the highway making our way to our Aunt Shelly's awesome house well we thought it was awesome at the time and everything kids could want she had a lot of video games a computer two dogs and she gave us all the junk food our little stomachs could possibly hold about 20 minutes until we arrived at my aunt and uncle's house my aunt decided to stop at his store next to Walmart I don't know which store it was as it was a chain of stores connected together to pick up a few last-minute things she needed for Thanksgiving dinner my aunt Shelly and my uncle went inside the store leaving my twin sister and I inside the car with my grandfather now remember when I said the fact that my aunt was from my father's side was important well here's where it goes into effect so my grandfather was also from my father's side making him my father's father my father's side of the family is Puerto Rican then a lot of that half of the family doesn't even speak English but my twin sister and I only knew English which but my sister and I an awful place during this let's cut to the chase a few minutes after my aunt and uncle went inside the store my sister and I made a game of messing with my grandfather while he was sleeping we took his sides put jelly beans up his nose kept rolling the window up and down in which he was leaning on you know funny kid stuff he never woke up during any of our playing but we could hear him snoring loudly he's not like a light my sister said to me and we both fell into fits of laughter the minutes kept ticking by in the parking lot around us grew smaller and smaller many cars leaving and hardly any cars coming in it was late when we looked at the car radio and it was almost 11:00 at night my sister and I were now getting antsy and needed to move around as many kids do I was always opening the car door on my side a small black car pulled up beside my aunt's car and I quickly shut it as the car now beside us almost took off my aunts cars door with how reckless they were driving they seemed like they were in a hurry I scoffed and look back at my twin sister who also looked as surprised as I did jeez what's their problem I asked it was taking the two men in the car beside us an awfully long while to get out my sister was no longer interested in them and continued messing around with our sleeping grandfather however I was interested I crouched my body down so my head was the only thing visible if you were looking at my aunts car I kept looking in their direction while also waiting for my aunt and uncle to get out of the store and come back into the car so we could be on her way minutes seem like hours and the men still didn't get out of their car I could only hardly hear them talking I grabbed the handle of the door and my sister quickly grasped my arm I turned to her and she shook her head at me what I asked I want to get out and stretch my legs I'm gonna go check on T T and t o t-- t-- and t-- o-- which is slang for aunt and uncle in spanish she once again shook head she always acted like she was the boss even though she was only two minutes older than I was I sighed and defeated and continued watching the men next to me which we're now beginning to get out of their car I sunk down further so they couldn't see me watching them both men dressed in all black slammed the car doors behind them and one handed something over to the other my breathing stopped and my heart began beating a thousand miles per hour the man handed the gun to the other man I yanked on my sister's sweater and made her sink down to my view so the men could not see us or so we thought the man who did not carry the gun was carrying a large black trash bag what my sister asked I shushed her and held on to her arm for dear life she shifted under my grasp and complained about how I was hurting her they have a gun I said barely audible but I knew my sister had heard me because now she was quiet and her breath also grew ragged we watched as they grew closer to the chain of stores and I knew we were both quietly praying that the men didn't go into the same store in which my aunt and uncle Rin thankfully they didn't and I leant out of breath I didn't even know I was holding instead they walked into Walmart what I heard next still makes my ears bleed I could hear very faint screams of the people inside Walmart as the man holding the gun pointed it towards the civilians my sister jumped over and shook my grandfather who is now awake grandpa grandpa my sister yelled what darling he said in Spanish she quickly went on a spree trying to explain to my grandfather about what was happening my grandfather tried to listen but he couldn't understand and him being as old as he was he just fell right back asleep at this point my sister and I were now terrified I still didn't take my eyes off the men in the store my sister quickly grabbed the blanket beneath us and made us sink to the floor of the car covering us up so we were no longer visible it seemed like years but soon the car doors next to us opened and we could hear a girl screaming and sobbing my sister's eyes went wide and so did mine shut up and get in the car that's all we ever heard the men say I wanted to see what was going on before laughs so I did something I regret I picked up from the covers and slowly peeked over the window I saw a girl I'd guess around 16 in the back of the car crying loudly I held my breath and looked at the men in the front seat two pairs of daggering eyes were looking in my direction the guy nearest to my aunt car abruptly opened his door but he didn't get out the other guy quickly grabbed him and shut the door he only shook his head to the other guy he looked annoyed the guy in the driver's seat looked at me smiled a sinister smile and put his fingers up to his lips motioning me to shush I nodded and finally let the tears fall I looked over at the girl once again and she looked back at me both of us wallowing in our tears her sad eye still haunt me a few seconds later the car sped off never to be seen again my sister and I were quiet in the car we didn't speak again until my aunt and uncle came back to the car we both quickly jumped over our words to tell them what happened they both just looked at us like we were crazy it was brother jazz the girl's parents picking up their teenage daughter who didn't want to leave a friend's that's all they said I never mentioned anything about the gun we mentioned or the trash bag my sister and I cried and silenced the rest of the way the house nothing ever came of it I now live in the town in which that happened I still haven't went into that store although what happened nearly six years ago [Music] my dad is a nurse who works at a nursing home in a small town in the south for the Netherlands I respect nurses a lot because you need a great deal of patience and have to be able to handle difficult situations like someone with dementia wandering off and bringing him or her back safe and sound his job consists of guiding and taking care of the elderly you can get calls from time to time from elderly who need his help at night with for example going to the bathroom he loves his job and makes a lot of hours working in night shifts seeing people leave fully rehabilitated and ready to go home always brings a smile on his face but enough of that on to the story my dad had just started his night shift one night when they got a call by an elderly man who I will call William Williams shared a two-person bedroom with another man Charles these two men were mentally healthy and had no signs of dementia whatsoever so my dad walks over to the two persons room and asks William if everything is okay and if he needs help with something William says there was a man in my room just now he stood next to my bed and was swearing along trenchcoat and at a top hat on his head and he had this very large book under his arms I didn't dare say anything to him my dad looked confused and asked maybe it was Charles you saw who got up to use the restroom William responded I did not make out his face i but I'm certain it wasn't Charles because I checked and he was asleep when the man stood next to me my father was pretty shocked to hear this and offered William to wait next to him until he fell back asleep when William did my dad checked on Charles who was still sound asleep halfway through the night to my dad shift ended then a co-worker took over for him he told her about the sighting of the man in the room she didn't really believe him very much though the next day in the afternoon my dad had to go to work again when he arrived the coworker told him what apparently went down last night the co-worker did not receive any more calls from the two persons bedroom the next morning as the co-worker was making her usual to wake everyone she discovered Charles lying lifeless on his bed she asked other co-workers to come help her to maybe save his life but they noticed he was already cold to the touch when I asked William about a to was woken up by all the commotion now sitting completely baffled on the edge of this bed he gave them an answer that left them confused and frightened he woke up out of nowhere in the middle of the night when he saw that the strange man had returned this time William did say something he asked who are you what are you doing here unlike last time the man spoke in a deep low voice he responded I'm not here for you I'm here for your neighbor go back to sleep William William was too scared to say or do anything after this they shut his eyes and tried to fall back asleep which miraculously he did later the staff reviewed the security footage that was the hallway in which the entrance of Williams room was no one except for my dad got in and out of that room the previous night William still believes to this day the man who visited that night was a physical manifestation of death [Music] it happened when I just started college I stayed in an apartment that was literally in the middle of the woods and isolated apparently my college worked together with the weird apartment that building had always been famous for being haunted and people ending their lives they're not proud but it happened even when I was still staying there I stated in a units on level 3a and my two best friends were on level five let's call her Jess and six angel you see the apartment sucks and even worse the past six months those three levels that happen to be our floors had no lights at all at the hallway and the worst part was was my unit was at the very end of the hallway near the emergency exit and in front of my unit all I could see was woods it was completely dark if I were to go out to have dinner since we were all females we decided to have a way to go out to dinner together without feeling scared angel and Jess would go out first and take stairs down to level 3a and I would go out last until they would call me that they were on level 3a and once more we never took a lift since it stopped working way too often one night angel texted me that she's on level 3a since most of the times she's always already with Jess I was taking my time I locked the door and looked towards where they should have been and I saw both of them and they waved at me with their phone it was completely dark but I saw their phone screen lights so I walked slowly since I knew they are together I was walking down the hallway while looking at my phone I said how I while looking at my phone and without say anything I just walked past them and go towards the stairs so they can just follow me right behind but what I heard was where are you going we're supposed to wait for Jess here I stopped I turned around and there she was angel all alone and no sign of Jess I looked around for Jess and she's still not there it was all darkness around us I remember it clearly I walked past them and even said hi to two people there I was stood there dumbfounded and waited for Jess without saying a word to Angel they still don't know anything until now so who was it the majority of my family does not believe in the paranormal I was raised to believe that when you die you go to heaven or hell depending on your beliefs I personally believe that places like homes hospitals graveyards etc have energy and depending on certain events that energy can focus on bad juju creating a force that is like in an imprint of another time even though the belief and ghosts within my family is lacking we have had our fair share of odd happenings specifically in my grandfather's home my grandfather grew up in dirt poor old coal miner country Pennsylvania he and his brother dropped out of school and barely had a first grade education the family was torn between two jobs gravedigger or coal miner and my grandfather chose the latter when he finally did get money coming in he and his brother-in-law purchased duplex my grandfather grandmother and mother lived on one side and his sister brother-in-law and my mom's cousin lived on the other my mother told us stories of how she and her cousin would talk through walls and how she would comfort her cousin because her uncle was a raging alcoholic and abusive to her cousin and aunt eventually my mother's uncle ended her life and her aunt and cousin moved out my grandfather tore down the walls of the duplex to make room for foster children as he and my grandmother had issues with conceiving more biological children off-topic eventually my mother did welcome a younger sister and brother when she was 12 my mother eventually left and married my father and had siblings and I in a turn of events while visiting my grandparents my grandmother suffered a heart attack gastric bypass gone wrong at the age of 40 passed away at home my grandfather naturally went crazy attempted end his own life rage quit his coal mining job then went on disability he refused to enter the house place the foster children back in the state's care and move my aunt and uncle in with a relative they claimed that my grandmother was haunting him in that house my family uprooted and moved into the house we lived there for about six years during that time I always had the feeling of being watched me and my sister's room had a door that led up to the attic there was always someone rattling the door handle and my sister got into the habit of climbing in bed with me out of fear my parents were on the other side and their room also had a door leading to the same steps to the Attic my mother the non-believer had even pushed her dresser up against the door to stop the door from randomly opening then there was the window in the kitchen it faced a porch and when he looked at it it always seems someone was walking past I swear there was someone walking past it I never mentioned it at the time but my father admitted he too saw the same thing years later eventually my grandfather decided he wanted to move back in and my family moved a few hours away coming back every couple of months to visit it during that time my aunt and uncle moved out on their own and my grandfather was introduced to a friend of my aunts and well they shacked up and got married at the ripe old age of 50 my grandfather became a father again not only to two young stepchildren but two more biological children yes my aunt and uncle were 10 years younger than me my grandfather told my mother about how he would get up with my youngest uncle and take him to the bathroom during the middle of the night there was only one bathroom and it was on the first floor he claimed my uncle was terrified of the lady who walked around at night my grandfather swore he could literally smell the perfume my grandmother wore white Chantilly lace he said it made his hair stand up on one particular midnight bathroom trip he heard a scratching in the roof between the first and second floor figuring it was a rogue critter he waited until morning to pull the tiles off and take a look at any damage done and lay a few traps what he found gives me serious goose bumps to this day stashed away in between the roof tiles were old family videotapes of his stirrers family from when the house was a duplex 30-plus years earlier there were many other odd happenings but the craziest is recent now my mother myself and my sister's family came into some luck when the two houses next door to my grandmother's became available we snatched them up and after some hardcore renovations moved in my mother and I in the house directly next to my grandfather's and my sister in the same property as mine up on a hill with a private road my mother had been looking to move back for a while as my grandfather after 20 years of marriage found himself 70 single and raising a 16 year old by himself yes some scum would leave an old man alone to care for himself in a young daughter this left my father living with my twin brother who incidentally lived next door to my oldest brother in his family three hours away though my father is stuck in a contract job he and my twins still make way to visit every weekend well my oldest brother visits once a year he has had his own family after all though my grandfather is quite old nowadays up until last November he still had one living sibling he was quite devastated to be the last one of five alive now my oldest brother hasn't visited since September of the year before and decided now was the time to pay his respects and visit our grieving grandfather he brought his two young sons with him mind you the youngest was two the last time he was here visiting we were sitting at my house eating breakfast and waiting for the funeral service to start when my brother came in with his youngest now three year old son and announced he had asked him if they could go visit my grandfather next door here's the real kicker he said that he wanted to see his friend patty my brother claims he never told him that name and had no idea where he got it from patty is my grandmother's name we took him next door and he told my grandfather he wanted to see patty my grandfather's mouth dropped open he asked my nephew to point out where patty was and he pointed to the corner of the kitchen next to the window he said patty says it was all going to be okay later when we got back from my great uncle's funeral we dropped my grandfather off at his to find a single white bird feather stuck in his door with no birds around we were all at the funeral there was no way anyone could have done this in case you were wondering the meaning of white feathers it means your loved ones are in heaven safe and well [Music] so this happened about six months or so ago in my home in a small town in South Australia we had just moved into a new house we being me my two brothers my sister and my mum my bedroom which has many windows along one wall showing the entire backyard to be visible there were three doors to my room one leading from the laundry in toilet one leading to the kitchen and the last one was a screen door that led directly outside those details are important the room was a rectangle down one end was the outside door and up the other was my bed one morning I woke up at about 4:00 a.m. which is really early for me and I had this strange feeling that I was being watched but I couldn't tell what it was I tried to look around but I couldn't move oh man I thought I had her plenty of stories about sleep paralysis but I never thought I'd experience it wait during sleep paralysis normally people see really weird stuff I didn't see anything I managed to move my eyes finally I looked at the cover next to my bed and then next thing I knew I'd looked at the clock on the cover when it was 6 a.m. I could now stand and everything seemed fine skip to the next morning at about the same time and I woke up I was able to move this time I couldn't get back to sleep though I had the same feeling of being watched I got up and went to the kitchen to get a glass of water but as I stood up I looked at the screen door and saw a face as it got closer I realized it wasn't just any face it was the face of a clown I know it sounds stupid I stared in shock I couldn't move then it just vanished I collapsed to the floor wondering what had just happened needless to say I moved out of that room pretty soon although my mom didn't believe me about the clown or the sleep paralysis I thought it was over and that was so wrong once I had moved rooms I had about a week where everything was fine then it began my bedroom door would open even though there was no wind and it was perfectly closed book pages would flip themselves I had wake up to the sound of knocking on my window and although it had died down a bit I think it's because my sister is in my old room now and she's been complaining about how hard it is to sleep I've always believed in ghosts and all that kind of stuff but I don't know guys is this a ghost er just mine and my sister's imagination keep in mind this is 2018 and the clown thing died years ago I'll update if anything happens hey friends thanks for listening be sure to subscribe and click 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Length: 161min 38sec (9698 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 23 2018

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