Haunted Workplace & Glitch In The Matrix | 9 True Scary Paranormal Ghost Horror Stories (Vol. 20)

I work for a cleaning company for a little over a year and I'm convinced that at least two buildings that I cleaned in the evenings were haunted I very easily could have had evidence for a lot of this but the phone I had during all of this most of the battery life of about 20 minutes I'm tearing up just thinking about how awful that was to deal with and opening the camera almost always immediately killed it sometimes it worked and when it did I tried to capture evidence but since the phone itself sucked none of it is very quality I also occasionally had a co-worker with me but they each had their own experiences that I will include here one building was a community activity center and since these experiences were less terrifying and more unsettling than anything I'll start here I cleaned two areas two bathrooms and two locker rooms though our rooms were down the end of a large dark Hall I could have easily turned lights on in this building every night to make things less creepy but I wanted to save an extra thirty seconds since I'd be at this particular location anywhere between 1:00 and 4:00 a.m. in the men's locker room in particular I would get a feeling of uneasiness upon crossing the threshold the room itself seems safe but while it was in there the rooms around me being acting up I would hear lockers opening and slamming shut in the woman's room next door there would be the distinct sound of someone sprinting up and down the hall with heavy footsteps one time I asked for a very specific sign for whatever was there to show itself I requested that it opens seven lockers in the Northside of the men's room as I walked in maybe ten seconds after saying that I caught the tail end of the motion of seven lockers right in a row finishing swinging open I started to cry a little cuz I don't know I didn't really need that to am alone with a very dead cellphone but before I shakily continued with my work I said something along the lines of hey your valid this is your space to just let me do my work and I'll be on my way without bothering you after that I noticed a couple of things waiting at the doors where I entered oftentimes there would be a shadowy shape just sitting there I don't know waiting one time I swear on my life it waved at me on these nights I felt a presence that seemed there but in the distance like it respected my space possibly than when I spoke to before but I also noticed there were other feelings there some nights I would walk in feeling nauseous and the closer I got to the areas where my brain told me not to look inside the gym where I hear footsteps a dance room with mirrors where I'd see a large figure and even the bathrooms as a whole I would feel a pressure on my head so bad it would set off my tinnitus and even trigger migraines sometimes one nights when I was feeling this pressure and negative energy I was cleaning the sinks and mirrors and underneath where my knees were a cabinet door opened hard on my knee and slams shut a second later the doors were ziplock shut because little kids but gross stuff in there so they shouldn't have opened and I checked afterward but I was still in place and holding the door shut two co-workers of mine also had experiences there my friend was cleaning one bathroom and I was using the other one that was out of the room she heard a sound like a hand running itself along the middle with sis bars in the handicap accessible stalls she also swear she heard footsteps in the bathroom but no one else was in the building but us my fiancee who didn't believe me about any of this experience the same cabinet thing I described earlier same bathroom same cabinet still tied shut so my big question here if this place is haunted or whatever which I'm pretty sure it is could it have been something to do with the fact that it's pretty much across the street from a cemetery could that explain the different beings that I felt with distinct personalities do these sound like average run-of-the-mill ghosts just haunting a building late at night the second building I want to talk about is much worse the feeling here was just mark it stuck with me for hours sometimes days after leaving and I had anxiety attacks when I thought of having to be there it was only twice a week thank God at the local USDA building it's just a little place maybe 15 deaths total took at most two hours to clean but they were the worst two hours of my life every single week it started out as kind of a gross feeling like I was being watched my shoulders were tense accompanied by what's almost felt like fingers my back and neck I felt sick often walked away with a headache that sort of thing I got slowly worse over a while and here an odd clunk in another area of the building maybe a door would shut somewhere things I could explain away at the time things have had rational explanations but still left me feeling shaken during the time it wasn't horrible but the little creepy things and the noises has definitely picked up in frequency by the way I'd start seeing shadows that would dart out of rooms as soon as I'd look at them directly which is to say the least unnerving I sent a friend a snapchat of the room in general nothing spooky just complaining about being at work she replied telling me that if I ever sent her another photo of that place she would block me she's very into supernatural stuff and she claims she has a ghost in your house that just kind of hangs around I don't know that just put me on edge it must have angered whatever dwells there that someone didn't want contact with it because things got a lot worse after that really fast one night that I will never forget actually thoughts I might legitimately die there the sick feeling was immediate upon opening the door like the air was thick with it by my supply closet door in the dark since I hadn't turned on the light yet it looked like a huge trash bag was lounging in the hall blocking my path I averted my eyes because I was already terrified and turned the light on and the shape was gone nothing could have cast the shadow in this virtually empty hallway when I went to open my closet door it was hard to pull open as though something was forcing it back shut I gathered my supplies and walked away to begin my job and move on and the door slams shut I kept cleaning you know because I had to otherwise I would have gotten right out of there and continuously felt a hot breath on my neck but I heard over the music blaring my headphones at one point I heard the rattle of a rattlesnake but of course after thoroughly investigating I found no snake was in the building I probably would have rather have found a snake though the door slamming sounds happened several more times throughout the couple of hours that I was there and then was always drawing over it was somewhat easy to brush off and ignore after a minute since it was so used to it by then but when I was walking in front of the doors another glass I noticed in the reflection there was another me behind what was actually my reflection it moved a half a second slower than me and was placed several feet behind me I even heard the footsteps and felt something there behind me but I was too scared to look over all was just wrong I avoided looking in most reflective surfaces after that until the day I quit later when I was cleaning the bathrooms I noticed a sink turning on without me being anywhere near it an emotion censor mind you but a good old handle turning sink one that should under no circumstances turn itself on the mirror was also dirty again even though I just cleaned it it kind of looked like someone clawed at the mirror with soap on their fingers thankfully the bathrooms were the last part of my night tonight rushed out and had a really nasty anxiety attack in the car my previously mentioned friend also cleaned here sometimes she also experienced the nasty feelings I was talking about even down to the headaches one night and she didn't want to work alone there it was so scary guys I'm telling you I often couldn't go alone despite company rules so she brought her boyfriend when she was cleaning the bathroom the same one with the faucet incident she began feeling hot breath on her neck then she heard her boyfriend from the entrance to the bathroom asked you okay in there babe and she said yeah I'm fine then her necklace which is I think the Virgin Marian was blessed by a priest got hot and she left the bathroom her boyfriend was sitting in another area of the building entirely and had not spoken to her or left a spot he couldn't have talked to her at the bathroom doorway what I'm wondering is what was that I've never felt so scared and the Blessed necklace then nauseates me every time I think about it please help me figure out what that was am I still in any danger of that following me around since I interacted with it and took photos of it I just want some thoughts I quit a month ago and still feel uneasy when I think about or even just drive past this building [Music] this happened to me several years ago while I was living in California and working a great job in a coffee house downtown I loved everything about that job I worked with fantastic people and our shop was located in the city's historic district in a very very old beautiful building that had once been a hotel in the 1800s but had since been converted into apartments lofts and of course the big coffee house on the main floor being an early birdie in living only a couple of blocks away from the coffee house I was always secluded to work the opening shift which started at 4:15 a.m. it was always the most unpopular shift but it happened to be my absolute favorite one because I loved walking to work and the quiet of the early mornings as the rest of the city was sound asleep normally downtown was quite loud and busy full of people and constant activity but in the early hours of the morning it was still and silent and I felt as if though I was the only person in existence walking through a ghost town every day I arrived about 10 or 15 minutes early for my shift and would wait for my manager on the patio outside of the shop it was always just the two of us working that early shift and my manager was often running a little bit behind and never arrived before I did but I didn't mind at all I'd like to spend some time by myself on the patio outside of the darkened shop gathering my thoughts while I waited for him to walk up with his keys to unlock the doors one morning as I was walking to work in approaching our building I noticed that the coffeehouse was brightly lit up as all the lights were already turned on and shining through the stores giant glass windows I was about 10 minutes early that morning so I was very surprised to see that my manager had arrived before me and it already started opening up the shop I walked up to the glass door and pulled on the handle to let myself in only to find that it was locked shut that wasn't really unusual as we often kept the doors of the employee entrance and main entrance locked while we got everything ready for the day and went through our morning procedures until 5:00 a.m. which was our official opening time what was unusual though was the sound of music I could clearly hear drifting through the speakers inside the store this was during the holiday season so we're playing Christmas music throughout the day but we never turned it on until around 9:00 or so in the morning out of respect for all of the tenants living in the apartments above us but on this particular morning I could hear the Christmas music already playing its familiar loop at a rather high volume inside the store I thought it was odd but decided that maybe my manager was just feeling extra festive that day and wanted to listen to some tunes while we worked I knocked on the employee entrance door and waited for my managed to come and let me in I looked through the glass and watch for him he didn't come so I knocked again and waited some more he still didn't appear so I knocked again and again I then walked to the main entrance doors and tried knocking on those with no luck I checked my watch and saw that I had five minutes until I needed the clock in I knocked again much louder this time and looked inside through the glass door for any signs of my manager and that's when I heard the muffled sound of voices coming from the back of the store what the kitchen of our coffee shop was located at that quiet early hour in the morning everything seemed to sound amplified and what I could distinctly hear was two male voices talking laughing together that was very unusual as I had mentioned before that it was normally just me and my manager who opened up the shop but I figured someone had probably just needed to pick up an extra shift I knocked yet again and continued to listen to the sounds coming from the coffee shop the men kept talking and laughing loudly they seemed to be having a really great time in addition to the music in the talking and the laughter I began to hear the sound of clanging dishes and also the sprayer of the three compartments steel kitchen sink being turned off and on which was very very unusual as there would be no dishes to wash before the store and even opened I was also confused as to why my manager and whoever was with him were in the kitchen in the back of the store because so much of our opening procedures setting up the pastry case brewing the coffee preparing everything for the espresso machine were done at the front of the store where I was waiting to be let inside at this point I was getting a bit irritated as I was supposed to start work in just a few minutes and needed to punch in on our time clock I hated clocking in late for work I dug out my phone and dialed my managers cellphone he didn't pick up so I dialed the number to our coffee shop instead and the two phones inside the shop one in the back office and one up front by the register started ringing once twice three rings and no answer now four rings and five I hung up and immediately dialed again annoyed that they were making such a racket in there with all the music and all the talking the laughter that they probably couldn't even hear the phone at all just as before nobody answered I hung up and read out the store for the third time the phone rang and rang and went unanswered so I bang on the door yet again to no avail I looked at my watch I was officially late for work as I was standing in front of the locked door with my phone against my ear becoming more and more irritated I noticed a pair of headlights reflecting in the glass rollin up behind me I turned around and saw something I didn't expect at all it was my manager I'm so sorry I'm late he said is he climbed out of the driver seat and shut his car door and hustled up to the shops entrance I tried to get here as fast as I could he said as he moved toward me and fumbled with his keys trying to find the one to the shop door you're mad he said I can tell I'm really sorry completely confused I put my phone away and turned to head into the store with him and that's when I lost my breath for a minute the coffee shop was totally dark none of the lights wrong not one single light and it was dead quiet the Christmas music had stopped and so had the voices and laughter all of the loud noise had disappeared every sound I had been listened to just seconds before it suddenly vanished I promise I'll be here on time tomorrow my manager said is he fit his key into the lock I'll even be early you'll be shocked little did he know that I could not possibly be more shocked to see him than I was at that very moment as he opened the door to the silent completely empty coffeehouse [Music] the first story centers on my maternal great-grandmother who emigrated from Norway to the United States in the 1920s and would sometimes travel back across the ocean to visit her family for a period of time during these trips she would have her neighbor's watch over her house barter the plants collect the mail etc while she was away her neighbors were very good and reliable people and we're always happy to lend her a hand whenever she needed some help on one such trip my great grandmother planned to be staying with her family in Norway for a month and asked her neighbors to take care of her house while she was away they told her that of course they would watch after her house for a while while she was out of the states and that it would be no trouble at all looking after her things so my great Gary mother left them with a house key and headed back to her Norwegian homestead to see her family with one less worry on her mind a month passed and my great grandmother returned home from a trip but when she arrived back at her house she was very surprised to find that her neighbors seemed to have not taken care of anything for her at all her mail had not been collected and neither had her newspapers and when she walked inside she found that her plants were completely dry and many had not survived her week-long absence she was confused says the wire neighbors had not looked after her house as they promised they would as they had done for several times before but it was late in the evening and my great grandmother was tired from her travels so she decided to head to bed and talk to them about in the morning the following day my great grandmother knocked on her neighbor's door and when they answered she greeted them and told them that she had returned from her trip they said yes we know that he'd been home and we saw that you had returned early this confused her as she had returned home at the time that she had originally planned to arrived she told them that she had only just come home the previous night her neighbors were very surprised at this news and insisted that she had been home for several weeks they told her that they had taken care of her house for the first three days but when they came over on the fourth day they found her shoes in the very shoes my great-grandmother was on her feet at that moment placed in front of the main door where she always left them Norwegians don't wear shoes in the house and further they distinctly hurt her inside the house the unmistakable sound of her footsteps moving through the rooms they assume that her trip had been cut short as they continued to see and hear her going through her normal household routines from that point forward during the days that followed her neighbors swore they heard her cleaning heard pots and pans and dishes clanging around in the kitchen as she cooked saw her opening and closing windows saw lights being turned on and off in the nights and watched her silhouette move all through the house just as they always had they also saw her outside of her house sweeping the front porch and walking through her front and back yards tending the things she normally did everyone was beyond confused at this point my great-grandmother was 100% certain that she was across the ocean in Norway for a month and her neighbors were 100% certain that she was home the entire time in the second story centers around my maternal grandmother and my aunt who had an extremely close relationship my aunt had been living in Arizona for a few years but she and my grandmother who lived in New Mexico spoke to each other regularly on the phone sometimes daily but at least once a week one particular month my aunt had been very very busy with work and not been able to speak with my grandmother on the phone for a couple of weeks this was very out of the ordinary for her to not call my grandmother for such a long time while she simply did not have the time being so absorbed in her job one morning my aunt arrived at work she was getting ready to begin her shift she crossed paths with one of her co-workers in the hallway look at workers stopped her and said you need to call your mom she was just here looking for you and she's really upset and worried about you well I thought she had misunderstood her co-worker and said you mean my mom called here looking for me her co-worker told her that no she hadn't called she had just been right there inside the building looking all over for her aunt this was not possible as my grandmother was hundreds of miles away in New Mexico she explained this to her co-worker who continued to insist that my grandmother had definitely been inside the building and had in fact just left only a few minutes prior to my aunts arrival still thinking her co-worker must be mistaken my aunt opened her wallet and pulled out a picture of my grandmother and showed it to her asking if this was the woman who she had just spoken to her co-worker immediately recognized her and said she was definitely the same woman my aunt was extremely confused at this point so she found the nearest phone and dialed quickly after the first ring my grandmother picked up the phone hundreds of miles away in New Mexico and told my aunt how worried she had been about her and how relieved she was to finally hear from her the last story center around me I was out shopping for some new clothes one afternoon and was sifting through some shirts on a rack inside a thrift store when a woman came up behind me and said excitedly I thought that was you hi how have you been I turned around and looked at her bright smiling face and had absolutely no idea who she was absolutely none I had never seen her before in my life though she seemed quite certain that she knew me she must have read the expression of my face because she said do you remember me from the festival last week we met in the parking lot I was still drawing a complete blank and I definitely had not been to our town summer festival the week before or she thought we had met I told her that she must be mistaking me for someone else but she was adamant that she hadn't met me in the parking lot after the festival was over she said that she had been drinking during the festival but she was sure it was me who she had crossed past with that night she said I had slipped her keys out of her hand just as she was about to get into her car and had convinced her not to drive home until she had sobered up a little bit and that I had spent the next several hours sitting and talking with her in that parking lot having a deep discussion about life I told her that I was very sorry but I just was not who she thought I was as I didn't go to our towns festival that year and in fact I didn't ever go out at nights at all at first she seemed to be frustrated and a little insulted that I couldn't remember her but then she seemed to be genuinely heard about it and I felt terrible that she thought I was simply pretending not to know her she said well I just wanted to say thank you for not letting me drive that night and then as she turned to leave she said it was really good to see you again now long after that I encountered another person who I had never met before who was again quite certain that he knew me and was delivering groceries to a husband and wife who had recently reached out to our church looking for some help they had fallen on some very hard times and the husband was struggling with can't serve and was extremely ill the wife had contacted our church and asked if we had any food at all that we could spare so we got a load of groceries together for them and I was helping to deliver the bags of food to the couple's house when I stepped inside their front door the wife greeted me and moist showing me the way to the kitchen when I noticed her husband fast asleep in the living room on the couch he was very frail and hooked up to an oxygen tank I was trying to be as quiet as possible as not to disturb him but as his wife was showing me into the house he opened his eyes and sat up on the couch he looked at me in his face just lit up he says oh it's you I remember you I did not remember him at all he was a complete stranger to me and this was the first time I had ever seen him he said I met you that nights after I got diagnosed with my cancer you were in the parking lot at the church and you talked to me all night long about life he said you made me feel so much better I could tell it was difficult for him to speak and I did not want to correct him and tell him that he was mistaken that it was most definitely not me who he had spoken to that night so instead I let it be to smiled at him and just like the woman in the thrift store they told me it's really good to see you again before he laid himself back down on the couch and closed his eyes as a child I moved a lot my mother couldn't ever really settle in one place although we'd often leave my hometown we'd always end up back there and this time was no different I was tannin liyan lived in a different town with my mother's boyfriend however they broke up after a very abusive relationship and after living in a woman shelter my mother grabbed the first house she could find back in her hometown the house was a pretty normal house for a cotton mill town Darwyn UK there was a terraced house small with two bedrooms dining room living room and an extension with the kitchen at the very end of the kitchen the only bathroom in the house my mom's sister see only lived two streets away with my six cousins so I was very excited to be back with them after living in another town where I knew no one we moved in without even looking at the houses mum was so ready to be out at the shelter at this time my mother was about five months pregnant with my brother I think she just wanted to find somewhere to settle ready for his arrival the house wasn't in good condition it was really damp and it smelt very strongly mold the carpets were old it was a rental and the wallpaper was falling off the walls but home is a home I guess the first night was scary I had been used to moving around so much so I was used to first-night nerves but this felt different my room was very small just enough space for a single bed to go along the wall so my feet or head depending on which way I decide to sleep would be pretty much against the doorframe I had decided to sleep with my feet by the door so that I could keep my eye on the door which was open as my mom and asked me to leave it open so she could check in on me the whole night I sat under my covers with my eyes firmly on the door I could feel someone watching me you got no sleep that night the next night my mother's boyfriend moved in not the abuse of one another ex that she had got back with a pretty good guy the whole feeling of the house got worse once he moved in we'd be sat watching TV in here walking upstairs we'd hear things moving taps running in the kitchen but when we look they'd be off lights would turn off and on one night I woke to see someone standing outside my doorway I couldn't see features or even a gender it was late and dark I assumed it was my mother checking on me I watched the figure move towards the stairs and go down so I got up thinking was my mom and I was far too creeped out in the house to go downstairs alone at night so I thought I'd go down while she was there to get a drink however as I got to the top of the stairs I couldn't see any lights on downstairs thinking it was odd I checked in my mom's room right next to the top of the stairs and both my mom and her boyfriend were in bed asleep I very quickly went back to my room and closed the door after a few weeks we discussed the creepy things happening in the feelings we felt in the house my mom decided that we'd look for somewhere else to move my mom's boyfriend had things thrown at him in the house and heard breathing in his ear one night when he fell asleep on the sofa moving day came the men in our family decided they'd do the moving my mum's boyfriend to my uncles and family friend all went into the house to start moving the boxes to the van I was at my aunts two streets away so this day I didn't see what happened with my own eyes but all of the men in her house left the house within an hour and refused to go back in apparently a male voice told them to get out and one of them was pushed down the stairs in the end my mom my aunt see and I ended up doing the moving because they flat-out refused to go near the house my mom's boyfriend even told her to just leave the stuff and he'd buy her new stuff after we moved out my Heather on 2's who my mother doesn't really talk to said how she lived in that house for a short time in the 80s and it was one of the number of houses in the town that offered rooms to addicts she had said a few people had died from overdosing in that house and then she had paranormal experiences in her short time there I wish I could find more about the house I don't even remember the houses number another street name but the house is long gone it was knocked down in the mid 2000s and now there are new houses there although I'd love to know if whoever lives in that house that stands in that land now has had experiences I've had experiences in a number of homes I lived in but that was the only one I felt was truly evil I've always believed in ghosts in the paranormal I've never been able to see spirits but I can feel the presence and their emotions when my son who is autistic was 3 he's now 12 we lived with his dad sister in a huge house I don't know how old the house is but one day my son and I were home alone and we were in our room playing I was grabbing him by the ankles and flipping him over on the bed we've been doing this for about 30 minutes all of a sudden my son starts looking past me into the corner of the room and looks terrified I should also mention that he was completely nonverbal until the age of 6 he grabs the blankets and throws it over his head I pulled the blanket off his head and say what are you doing silly still looking past me and still looking terrified he puts the blanket back over his head I pull it off again and ask him what's wrong he points behind me I turn around but I don't see anything so I tell him mommy doesn't see anything he then looks even more terrified and puts the blanket back on his head again I pulled it off and this time I asked him what he sees he makes a motion like to demonstrate someone hanging and makes a face with his tongue hanging out this time I don't let him put the blanket back over his head I tell him to wait a minute I turn around in the direction he's been looking and say out loud look I understand you're probably trying to communicate with my son because you realize he can see you but he knows I can't see you so it's scaring him he's autistic I needed a leaf please I watched my son's gaze follow from that corner of the room all the way to the door he then looks back at me with a big smile on his face collapses hands and is ready to play again if I hadn't been a believer before that day I definitely would have been after that I spent a lot of time at cemeteries and my girlfriend is constantly bringing flowers and toys to Forgotten children we also loved a thrift shop for old dolls pictures and books the creepy or more unusual with better I guess I'm just trying to make it clear that I frequent many places where spirits might be and bring all kinds of weird things into my home I also want to make it clear that I'm always very cautious to be respectful I feel like I need to add that I am polyamorous and have both a husband and a girlfriend the story may get a little confusing without this information as we have each experience and things strange things have been happening at home each time my husband has tried to convince us that there is a logical explanation I'll try to break down each instant as well as what we think could have logically happened incident one the first things we experienced were weird noises we would be in bed and it would sound as if though someone was in the closet two moving hangers around we would hear things like this constantly and then upon investigating we couldn't find anything during Halloween I had hung plastic around my living room giving it the feel of a creepy circus tent this plastic has a very distinct sound when someone rubs or brushes against it and we would hear this wrestling constantly but never when we were in the room pretty creepy my husband trying to convince us that the breeze happened by my girlfriend wasn't so convinced instead number two I make little newt clay sculptures as a hobby and they take quite a bit of time and are pretty detailed so I will work on them for weeks or months sometimes and while doing so I just leave them out of my working mat recently I started coming home and pieces would be cut the first time it was the middle of one of my woman's torsos my husband's explanation was that the clay simply got too heavy and pulled apart right down the middle the seem logical but now it's happening all the time I came home and one of my sculptures thighs were cut in half incident number three I went thrifting on a Wednesday at my local place and I got a really cute skirt that I tried on at the store I am always super careful to check out any defects as an avid thrifter I have made the mistake before the skirt seemed perfect and I plan to wear to dinner the next evening I left it out so that I could wash it before we went out but when I got home the waistband had been cut not torn a perfect little cut my husband suggests that I might have missed this at the store it made me roll my eyes I am a pro I will spend six to eight hours in the same thrift store it's like he doesn't even know me I just know I would not miss something like that but logically I must have incident number four I woke up in the middle of the night to pee not something unusual and when I opened our bathroom door I found the shower curtain on the floor the end of the rod was unscrewed and it just totally freaked me out our bathroom door is literally in our bedroom and I am convinced I would have heard the shower curtain and rod fall on our cement floor by this time I'm freaking a little incident number five so technically this is two different experiences but I will list them as they had happened on the same night I was about to fall asleep when I heard my girlfriend asked my husband what did you say Chad she swears she heard him say something but he was fast asleep on the other side of me later that night I woke with someone's hand on my shoulder from behind me my arms were wrapped around my girlfriend who I was spooning and I assumed the hand was my husband's I just remember it very heavy after a few sanga's my mind realized that my husband's arm was around mine and my girlfriend's wrist and that he couldn't be touching my shoulder I literally jumped so hard and woke my girlfriend we convinced herself that I must have been dreaming incident number 6 this is where things get even weirder my husband woke up a few mornings ago to find the top surface of our bedroom dresser soaked in water his PlayStation 4 literally had water pouring out when we picked it up to clean the mess I am 100% sure the substance was water I smelled and even tasted it in the name of science we've gone through every possible explanation as to how this could have happened there were no cups glasses bottles or anything containing water anywhere near the dresser there is no damage to the ceiling no leak it's not under any event or fixture and we have cement flooring the amount of water was pretty insane all the clothes in his top drawer were wet as well however there was no splashing the carpet and surrounding areas were bone-dry now even my husband has freaked out this morning as I went to leave the apartment I turn off the light under the kitchen cabinets as I turned to leave the light flip back on I didn't bother switching it back I was a little freaked so I just left I guess I shouldn't mention my girlfriend has saged and use Palo Santo wood in the apartment and asked anything that may be there to leave this is before the water incident I'm sure I'm leaving out some things but I wanted to give a quick outline of what's happening I feel like this mostly has been directed at me except maybe the PlayStation thing we all spent an equal amount of time on it so I can't really say any advice would be great [Music] I'm a 25 year old female living in a small town in Idaho I've always been fascinated by the paranormal obsess might be a better word despite my fascination I have only encountered a few instances in person and the following recollection is one of my favorites to tell the story in which this happened and the names of the co-workers involved will be kept anonymous even though the store had been closed for no other reason than to protect the company which I no longer work for at the time the story took place I was 20 me and my boyfriend had just moved to Twin Falls Idaho for a career opportunity I had landed the management job doing signage and shipment for a retail store that happened to be located right along the canyons edge we packed up what little we had and moved with very little notice to a place we had never been we found a small very rundown apartment in a not so nice part of town it was all we could afford at the time and I had truly thought I would make it big here this new job was our ticket to a better life it was December very close to Christmastime although I can't remember the exact day the holidays are a very rough time for retail workers as the business picks up immensely due to this so did the hours of operation on this particular night we were open until midnight and that was tasked with the closing shift I remember feeling this was very unfair because I would be the one opening at 7:00 a.m. the next morning the way the closing shift worked we would have four people scheduled from 2:00 to 10:00 then two people scheduled from 6:00 p.m. to 1:00 in the morning we would adjust this as needed but it was a Tuesday and half of the nightshift had already been sent home due to slow business so when I arrived only two people were in the store the night manager let's call her Jess and my closing cashier will call her Kim I had only been working there a few months and I had somehow managed to get him the night manager's bad side looking back I'm sure I wasn't the easiest person to get along with as I took my job very seriously and the others didn't just have been working there for a very long time and clearly disliked me she was known for being of a bit of a prankster she had made it her life's mission to be a nuisance to myself and the other employees she would be hiding behind corners and dressing rooms and anywhere she could out of sight in order to scare someone I however was not easily scared I'm horribly anxious all the time and constantly on guard besides I could usually hear her snickering from across the hall this infuriated her It was as if scaring me was her personal responsibility all of this is important to events that would follow she was more than eager to leave the moment I stepped in the store she grabbed her things clocked out and left at 10:00 without saying more than a brief greeting or goodbye I was fine with this as conversations with her would like pulling teeth the store was quiet for the entire evening no more than a few customers stopped in and the night felt like it was dragging on that was until it was time to close as soon as the clock hit midnight I did my nightly check walking from the back of the store through each dressing room the bathrooms the employee area around each department and up to the registers checking to make sure there was no one left I conducted this walk every night tonight did this thoroughly the point of this check is to make absolutely certain no one had still been in the store once I made it to the register I informed my cashier Kim that we would get out early as I had to work again in the morning she agreed but in one headphone turned off the horrible Christmas music everyone hated and began to sweep up I grabbed her till tray the only one left open and proceeded to the back office to count down and finish the paperwork as I made my way back I glanced over each department one more time to check for customers looking back I don't know why I did this I usually don't I trust my checks but that night I felt like someone was still in there this bothered me to the point I did my check again just to be certain I didn't see anyone and return to the office the store was a fairly large warehouse style building with concrete floors and tall rafters in the center of the shopping complex being here after clothes always gave me a weird vibe but especially tonight I send it up to the falling snow outside sleep deprivation and working long hours however I would never mistrust this gut feeling again every employee was required to wear a clip-on walkie-talkie with a wired headset this is the main way we would communicate with each other these headsets were known to pick up interference and act up on a regular basis and tonight would not be any different I was typing up some numbers completely focused in what I was working on mostly just rushing to get out as soon as possible the headset cackled de life sending a loud mesh of static voices into my right ear the static was loud enough to make me jump I was completely out of my seat I muttered curses under my breath and turned the volume all the way down as soon as I resumed my work I noticed the familiar sound of jingle bells ringing from outside the office I rolled my chair back and leaned backwards out the door the music had been turned back on merrily and rather loudly playing jingle bells I picked up my headpiece and called out for Kim she answered in a confused tone asking why I turned on the music the controller for the music was up at the front registers and I had no way of turning it on from where I was what I didn't touch the music you're the only one up there why did you turn it on I asked rather annoyed Kim had always minded her own business he wasn't well liked among the crew either and stayed out of just his little vendetta against me all this intermingled drama was quite common for a business full of girls her silence that my question was even more irritating but I watched on the store cameras as she quickly turned the store music off we both continued with our work in less than three minutes passed and the walkie-talkie crackled to life again I looked back at the cameras a symphony of static in my ear this time a familiar voice broke through the noise can you hear me please static overtook the voice I walkie home the words broke through with static in between it was common to hear static over the walkies but never voices like that I press the small button on the headset Jess I knew that voice anywhere she sounded almost panic what no one else is in here it's just us Kim's voice clear as day through the headset no static didn't you hear that I asked watching Kim moved slowly over to the center of the store on the camera no I didn't hear anything she looked visibly confused on the camera spinning around searching each department the walkie crackled yet again please is anyone there this was much louder and more clear there was no way Kim wasn't hearing this she resumed her work as I watched her closely she hadn't taken an aside on the drama in the store but that didn't mean she wasn't going to I grinned at the camera well played Jess I almost left out loud this woman would stop at nothing to spook me but staying three hours past her shift to make it happen that seemed like a little bit of a stretch well if she wanted to scare me that badly I suppose this was a good time to do so I calmly stood up from my chair stretched and grabbed my bottle of water off the counter if she did in fact try to jump out of me when I found her she was going to get a face full of water my mind was racing with where she could have hidden I was almost certain that I'd checked every nook and cranny when I did my walk maybe she had left and managed to sneak back in and using her store key these racing thoughts stopped instantly as I made my way out of the office the table that held the charging ports for the walkie-talkies was right outside the office glancing at the receiver I noticed only two walkies were missing mine and Kim's we didn't have any extras six in total wind force at charging the lights off flashing green indicating that they were fully charged my overactive imagination began running scenarios through my head as I made another walk through the store searching every room and corner the bathrooms the rafters even under displays in between racks everywhere I took a peek outside the front doors a thick blanket of snow had fallen over the dim parking lot and the only two cars in the entire stretch of the canyon were ours no footprints in the snow as we hadn't had a custom almost all night I shook my head and went back to the office i summed up the noise as interference began closing out the day it was almost 1:00 a.m. and I wanted to go home I closed the door and turned back to my paperwork but not before suddenly getting the strong urge to look at the front camera something caught my eye there standing next to the register was Kim standing perfectly still her head turned towards the front corner of the store by the main entrance she stood so still for a moment I thought the security system had crashed I watched the scene for a moment and caught the steady snow falling out of the front window she held a broom in one hand and held completely still as if frozen in time I stood up slowly to get a better look at what she was looking at suddenly she dropped the broom spun on her heels and began sprinting towards the back office this girl was by no means fit I had never seen her move faster than a brisk walk but she was sprinting leaning forward her headphones bouncing wildly behind her I shot up from my seat to know open the office door for her she sped right past me almost ran into the counter spun around and slammed the door behind us completely out of breath I stared her up and down what is wrong with you when heart felt like it was pounding as hard as hers she was white in the face and eyes were tearing up there's there's something up there there's men in the store her voice was very high-pitched and she was almost choking on her breath her eyes were wide and there was no hint of humor in them I leaned forward glaring at her this girl was terrified this wasn't a prank at least if it was Kim was not in on it she was legitimately afraid at this point saw my alarm bells started going off Twin Falls was hardly a safe town as I had decided to move there at a rough time we're drug problems and homelessness seemed to be at an all-time high even for such a small town our world around to search the cameras fighter flight mode had officially been activated and my main priority now was to keep my employees safe I began switching through channels there was nothing on the cameras Kim studied her breath and pointed to the front doors slightly to the left that's why I saw him that's all man I think in a black a big black overcoat the coat almost touched the floor I kept looking nothing nothing nothing sifting through each channel over and over he's wearing like a top hat I stopped suddenly I was frozen staring at my hand on the mouse a top hat I turned back to look at her she was visibly shaking and crying I'm not seeing him I said looking her over and over she shook her head I don't think you can see him on those I nodded the only way out without setting the fire alarms off was through those doors if there was someone in the store he would certainly see us leaving but I hadn't seen anyone something wasn't right for certain but if it was just someone playing a prank and I called the police I would certainly get in trouble on the other hand if there was actually someone here with ill intentions and I didn't call the police I would get in more trouble I was completely at a loss what to do my thoughts were interrupted by the sound of footsteps hard heavy footsteps outside the office door impossible I thought we hadn't seen anyone on the cameras coming this way there was no way for him to be back here without us noticing I suddenly felt dizzy nauseous and out of breath my hands started shaking and my knees felt weak I hadn't felt this before suddenly eminence and certain danger I had to get us out of this building it wasn't until this point that I realized this wasn't something I could just rationalize this is beyond explanation what explanation didn't matter not right now right now we needed to run it didn't even cross my mind to lock the door and call the police for some reason that didn't seem to make sense at the time this thing whatever it was was at the back of the building now which means our best bet was to run at the front I grabbed Kim's coats and threw it at her we have to make a run for it she nodded and put her coat on grabbed a purse and nodded at me I grabbed my keys leaving my coat and backpack completely and grasped the handle I didn't hear the footsteps anymore but at this point I think I was acting purely on instinct and intuition as nothing about my actions made sense to my rational mind now I ripped open the door and we ran I'll admit I didn't even look back I could feel it I knew something or someone was there I could feel its eyes on me it felt like the back of my neck was on fire we ran I could have easily outran Kim but I stayed a few steps behind her making sure she got out first she hit the front doors hard she unlocked them quickly and was out of the store faster than I've ever seen anyone move she was at her car in no time getting in sobbing I however had stopped just outside the front doors I stood in the snow and cool silent night air and watched as she tore out of the parking lot I stood there for what felt like hours collecting my breath and turned slowly to face the building the light still shining brightly out of the full face of Windows I couldn't leave the store like that I was terrified beyond belief my hands and knees shaking but I couldn't leave the store lights on unlocked alarm unarmed all night so full of fear of losing my job and fear of what was in that building and went back in the store was completely silent there was no movement no shuffling no foots nothing even the heavy feeling of danger I had felt so strongly before was completely gone I slid sideways over the alarm system I punched in my code and hit the arm the system beeped and didn't arm I stiffened and turned to face the system motion error section 5 I urgently typed my code and again and hit arm motioned error section 4 the alarm system wouldn't arm if the detected motion in the building this way it wouldn't be able to be set during business hours or when employees were still in the building the only way it would scent was if there was only motion in section 1 the front of the store after it was sets employees would have 30 seconds to get out of the building before it would actually set for the night this was telling me there was motion in the back of the store heading up to the front I'm one of the scream I wanted to cry and yell and tell this thing to leave me alone I was tired I was afraid and I was angry I punched in my code hit system override armed the building turned off the lights and ran out that store I slammed and locked the doors behind me and step back into the snow everything was silent again calm and silent I stared at those doors for what seemed like another hour before finally turning around and going home for the night I had hoped to see someone I had hoped this man would pop out and try to leave the building setting off the alarm but nothing moved in that store not while I was watching it at least I went home that night crawled into bed and cried in my boyfriend's arms until finally falling asleep as the Sun rose of course I had to go back the next morning I felt almost hungover as I drag myself through the snow to the front doors of that awful place really debating if I needed this job to my surprise I wasn't the first person to show up as I arrived my general manager stood shivering in the snow in front of the building with a police officer my heart dropped the lock had been broken off the doors from the inside and I tripped the alarm the police had arrived finding nothing in the building nothing stolen and no footprints in the snow the alarm company had woken my boss and told her the alarm had been true and she arrived for the store the same time as the officer her expression was a pure rage I hope nothing would be a miss and I wouldn't have to tell her but the big sigh explained to her and the officer what we experienced that night they of course didn't believe a word of it the policeman left assuming the door had been broken by wind or something of the like and simply asked for security footage if we chose to send it I was taken to the office to review camera footage my boss sat in silence as she reviewed my whole night only commenting on the fact I didn't finish my paperwork the camera showed nothing only Kim and I running around looking like lunatics it was after that I left that anything tangible showed up it was the front doors clearly locked an arm swinging open at 3:00 in the morning effortlessly and the locks dropping off them as if they were not fastened to the doors at all and just arrived shortly after obviously to take over my shift as I was being sent home when asked about the incident she of course knew nothing and swore she had gone straight home without ever touching the walkie talkies my only other hope for redemption would be Kim's story I hadn't experienced this alone and I knew she would back me up the problem was Kim never returned to work she never showed up for her shift she never answered another phone call and she never came to pick up her last check last I heard of her was through another co-worker who simply said she had moved back in with her parents in Arizona I put in my two-weeks that night we moved back home to where we felt the most comfortable and seven months later that store closed permanently for cost related reasons it was one of the most terrifying experiences of my life and on everything I hold dear I swear it's true I simply wish I had some evidence to back it up [Music] I'm a 24 year old woman in I've had a few strange experiences in my life there's one in particular that stands out I finally decided to share it I've also added the picture that I took around the same time which I will explain in the context of the story decide for yourself what do you think I can only assure you that the picture is not altered and then my story as I experienced it is completely true first I think will be useful to provide a little backstory my childhood home was very old and burned down due to faulty wiring when I was send the eighth grade my family decided to rebuild on the same spot and six months later we were living in an essentially reincarnated version of the old house the layout was almost exactly the same as before I always used to joke that our new house was haunted by the spirit of the old but in secret I sort of believed it was true when we moved into the house 2.0 I took a different room than I had stayed in before I had never liked that my old room faced the street since it had large low windows that anyone could look directly into if they had hopped our short wooden fence instead I took the room on the opposite side of the hallway which in its previous life had simply been a storage room another interesting bit of backstory is that I have always suffered terrible insomnia and I'm prone to nightmares when I do sleep as a small child I often had nightmares that would bring my parents rushing into my room not knowing what I do is I screamed and cried totally unconscious however I hadn't had an experience that extreme for many years before the time my story takes place and I had never felt that there was something unusual happening in the house that was 15 I hadn't been staying in my new bedroom for very long before I started to have terrible nightmares all the time at first I didn't think much of it since I had a history with bad dreams I figured it was just a psychological pattern that was bound to return but then I began to notice other things little things that increased my feeling of the uneasiness in the given picture you can see there is a small window directly over in my bed I began to feel like someone was outside watching me at night many nights says time went on almost every night I would also hear quiet shuffling directly outside that window it was always just after I went to bed as it often takes me a long time to fall asleep there was a line of bushes all along the side of the house my room faced and I could distinctly hear movement in the gravel below my window the disturbances of branches and the most disturbing thing of all what sounded like fingernails lightly scraping up or down the mesh screen I am admittedly an easily startled person when this first began to happen I would freeze suddenly fully awake and wait for several minutes before timidly peeking between my blinds to see if I could spot anything I never did it kept me up many nights but after a while the experience became so regular and nothing besides the noises would occur so I gradually got used to ignoring it I tried to tell myself it was birds or other small animals we live in a very rural area and that they must sleep in our bushes at night for safety but some months later things began to escalate my dreams were no longer simply bad but full-blown terrifying I would sometimes wake up crime totally in shock and sit with the lights on for the rest of the night once I could swear I heard our front door open and slam shut in the middle of the night but when I checked it was still locked and everything was quiet this was bad enough but then I began to have experiences with sleep paralysis of course it was always scary when this happened but there's one night in particular that stands out I was having a particularly terrifying dream one that only became bad after a dark figure appeared in it upsetting an otherwise normal series of events and forcing me awake I knew I was paralyzed right away and the room felt very strange many people described paranormal presence as as chilling but for me everything was uncomfortably warm and it faintly smelled like something was burning it was too quiet as if sound had been sucked out of the room I was able to look around a a little bit sand in my peripheral vision I saw it the blurry dark figure the same as in my dream standing near the edge of my bed just watching me I felt like it was moving closer slowly as to be nearly imperceptible I could feel myself crying struggling to break free I wish I could describe how I felt in that moment it was beyond fear it was a terror so huge that it felt more like despair it was nauseating I had never felt anything that awful before or since the silent suffering went on for what felt like hours the figure creeping nearer to my face before finally exhaustion and stress caused me to lose consciousness again things were relatively quiet after that decide from the sounds at the window plus I had read about sleep paralysis experiences before and their commonalities so I didn't think my story was particularly unique with a couple of months after that last nightmare I found this picture I was just bored and looking through pictures on my phone probably trying to delete some from memory space I don't remember exactly which night I took this picture I only know it wasn't the same night as the paralysis but I remember taking the selfies there were a few others in this set taken in quick succession but for some reason I got distracted and leaned away during this picture exposing the window behind me I never bothered to look closely at it before but in the right lighting the thing in the window became visible to me here I brought up the fill light in the image somewhat and sharpened it to make the shape more clear before anyone asks the window was open in this image what you're seeing cannot be a reflection since the mesh screen does not reflect to me and looks like the torso of something dark standing directly against the window to me it looks like something that could have made all of those noises the shuffling the tapping the scraping of nails I've shown several people over the years and while we don't always agree on what it looks like everyone agrees that something is there and that the images make them feel uneasy since that night I'm grateful to report I haven't to anything remotely like this I still heard the noises outside for a long time but since moving out of my parents house I've never heard them again all that remains is a mild sense of uneasiness whenever I sleep in that room and only after the lights go out [Music] this is a true story my dad told me a few years ago it takes place when he was in his early teens if I remember correctly he is not one to make things like this up so I believed him wholeheartedly he was in the car with his dad and they were having a casual conversation when all of the sudden he got the feeling of deja vu but it wasn't just an ordinary I've done this before type of deja vu along with this feeling came the knowledge of what his dad was going to say next and what he was supposed to say in response to what his dad was saying this went on for several minutes with him just following the script of the conversation everything was going exactly as he knew it would after a while of this he decided he wasn't going to follow the script anymore he knew what he was supposed to say next but he 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Length: 67min 21sec (4041 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 10 2018