[Music] this happened when I was 18 I'm 22 now I live in San Antonio Texas it was my senior year of high school but this was when Co just started blowing up so everything began to shut down including my school even though everyone was supposed to be staying home and being in quarantine my friend group and I were going out more than ever there wasn't much to do since all the non-essential businesses were closed but one thing about me I love Urban exploring or exploring haunted places to this day I still do I'm not one to scare easily I've had a couple experiences with the homeless Colts even had a gun pointed at me but nothing compared to how odd and creepy this one instance I came across while exploring was moving forward around this time I started talking to a girl who I had a class with in high school her name was Clarissa if it weren't for her matching my alibi of what happened this night I'm sure none of my friends would have believed me we were still kind of freshly dating but I somehow convinced her to explore a wooded natural park at 3:00 a. m. here in San Antonio the park is called op Schnabel it's relatively nice safe and very Scenic during the day but at night it can be a dangerous place and police usually Ram the entrances to the area at night keeping people away in 2016 a 24-year-old woman named Lauren bump was brutally murdered and stabbed over 20 times and in 2021 a boy exploring the woods was shot Clarissa and I get to the park around 3:00 a.
m. it's super creepy and Pitch Black the trees do a really good job at covering the Moonlight I don't like to have my flashlight on because then my eyes can't adjust to the darkness and you can really only see what's lit up from the light plus I wouldn't want someone to see my light from a far distance so I like to keep them off while exploring we were probably about 15 to 20 minutes in Walking the main trail I didn't plan to be in there for too long because it was kind of creepy and oddly quiet that night I knew a trail that goes off the road that leads back to where my truck was parked I told her we could take that trail essentially making a full circle instead of walking all the way back around she agreed and so we began walking through that off-road Trail we were probably only about 2 minutes into the off-road Trail when suddenly out of nowhere a flute began playing Clarissa and I stopped dead in our tracks and looked at each other just listening whoever was playing it it was super In Cadence and sounded like it was playing some sort of piece of music however there was no time for me to process that it may have sounded good it was creepy as [ __ ] as I said before I don't scare easily but 15 seconds into the flute solo Clarissa began trembling in fear and on the brink of of crying I was kind of just listening but when Clarissa started praying to God to save her and forgive her for her sins that's when I realized the severity of the situation to be clear it was super hard to pinpoint where the sound of the flute was coming from it sounded like it was coming from the direction of the previous main trail which was parallel to where we were with about maybe 30 to 50 yards of woods in between but it was getting louder and closer to the point where it sounded like the sound was right on top of us Clarissa couldn't even focus because she was so scared so I knew I had to man up and get us out of this situation this is going to sound corny but I told her don't worry I'm not going to let anything happen to you and told her that we should run down the off-road Trail to get away so we did we began to Sprint I believe the flute stopped playing but it was hard to notice because I was more focused on getting the hell out of there we only got about 30 ft when out of nowhere we heard the rustling of bushes and the Snapping of leaves and twigs before some something big dashed across the trail right in front of us now this could have very well been a deer or some sort of bigger Wildlife but it was so strange because I could almost feel the size of whatever was in front of us I don't know if it was from the wind or what the only thing is I never saw a silhouette or a shape of anything in front of us another strange thing is I didn't hear it coming and I didn't hear it run away I only heard the dash right when it was right in front of us as soon as we felt and heard whatever dashed across the trail right in front of us we obviously turned back around and bolted in the other direction until we got back to the original point where we heard the flute and then as if whoever was playing it was waiting for us to return the flute started to play again loud and right on top of us this time it was almost chiming it sounded like it belonged to some sort of Irish jig song or something but the chiming was still in Cadence however it was still impossible to pinpoint where the sound was coming from it was just surrounding us at this point my fight ORF flight instincts kicked in because we were trapped we had two options either go back into the off-road Trail where we heard that terrifying Dash right in front of us or go back to the main trail where the flute and whatever psychopath was playing it was at the off-road Trail was definitely scarier because it was darker and surrounded by more dense forest and at least the main trail was a cement path thus I told Clarissa who was still trembling in fear let's start running down the main trail back to the truck we ran back adrenaline was still pumping so we cut the 20-minute walk into a 7 to 8 Minute Jog and somewhere along the run the flute noise must have stopped along the run back there was a random portapotty and I was scared to death because what if someone was on the other side or hiding inside of it because it seemed to be somewhat parallel to where we were at earlier thankfully I didn't see anyone or signs of anyone ever having been there in fact my truck was the only vehicle in the area near the main entrance to the woods we made it to the truck and I sped far away from there the next day I told all my friends about it and I looked all over the Internet to see if anyone's everever come across anything like this people claim to run into ghosts Colts animals making terrifying noises but a soft and rhythmic flute solo I couldn't find anything on that or maybe I just didn't look hard enough I tried to figure out all the possibilities there are some houses that eventually led into a neighborhood on the far edge of the woods but those houses are at least a couple miles away and we were fairly deep into the woods so there's no way the sound could have traveled that far because I'm telling you the flute was clear as day and it was 3:00 a. m.
obviously I never found out who was playing that flute or what dashed right in front of us I actually kind of got chills writing the story the more I think about it it actually seems more paranormal rather than something scary on a tangible level I don't know if it was a person ghost cult or what I'm really hoping someone might have a rational explanation either way I never really went back to those woods at night I still explore plenty of creepy places but never really came across anything like that ever again I'm a 20-year-old guy I work at a medium-sized Hospital in Northwest Alabama as a pharmacy technician I work an early night shift 6:00 p. m. to 4:00 a.
m. I'm also in charge of stocking the surgery rooms I work for 7 days in a row and then I have 7 days off working the seven sucks but the 7even off feels amazing I work Thursday through Wednesday and on my sixth night working a Tuesday I left a little early to go stay with my wife at her aunt's house about 30 minutes away from our house she was babysitting her little cousins while her aunt and uncle were on a trip the house didn't have any curtains so she felt uneasy for the few nights she was there I didn't go with her at first because it was during my work week and she told me there was really no point if I was going to get there around 5:00 a. m.
and then go to sleep once the sun started to rise but on her last night babysitting she felt extremely anxious so I told her I was coming over she is stubborn but she thanked me and felt so much better once I arrived working the night shift for the last 2 years has really taken a toll on me mentally and I think I've started to developed some slight insomnia I literally could not go to sleep after getting to my wife's aunt's house this isn't anything new but I had never stayed up for more than about 28 hours before even if I wanted to I couldn't sleep because we had a really big day ahead of us we had to drop her little cousins off at school our friend was having a gender reveal party we had to go shopping because we had no groceries at home since she had been away for the last 3 days and I had to be a work at 6:00 p. m. I ended up falling asleep in the car for a little less than 10 minutes I was really feeling that wave of sleepiness come over me but I ended up getting a huge Red Bull and another energy drink once I got to work I had my wife drive me to work and pick me up since my brakes needed to be changed and I wasn't driving my car and also because neither of us trusted myself to drive her car in over 24 hours of No Sleep it was Wednesday night now and I had been awake since about 2: p.
m. on Tuesday afternoon my shift started out fine if I could stay busy that tired feeling wouldn't really get to me I put in my earbuds and was listening to music as I was stuck in the surgery rooms with their meds it was a week night so there were still some late surgeries finishing up and housekeeping was cleaning up some operating rooms that had been used it's not uncommon for surgery Personnel to come into the room I was in and grab something that the room they were using may be out of so I usually turn around and at least smile and they smile back I was in my own little world stalking the omnis cell machine with meds and listening to music when I heard the door behind me open there was that distinct high pitch squeal when a door needs its hinges to be oiled made the loud crash that heavy wooden doors make when they shut so I turned around to see who it was like always except there was no one there I didn't really get worried about it maybe they opened the door and saw I was in there and just decided to go to another room so I continued on as I pushed my car to the Next Room the light in this room was off I opened the door and I swear I saw someone hunched over by the omnis cell machine digging through the sharp spin if you don't know what that is it's a bin where you dispose of needles and vials after use instead of just putting them in a normal garbage can someone had already been caught doing this before in search of morphine and consequently was fired I turned on the light I was going to ask what they were doing but when I turned the light on there was no one there okay now I was starting to get a little creeped out I didn't know the time frame of when you could start hallucinating after not sleeping for over 24 hours so I just told myself I was probably seeing things I needed to just down I finished up stocking surgery with no other occurrences and headed back to the pharmacy at 2: a. m.
every night we have to deliver patient specific medications to the nurses station I'm going to use the fifth floor as an example of how the floors are laid out but each floor number corresponds with Which floor they were on there are three elevators in the middle of the floor if you go left when getting off the elevator there's the 5100 and 5200 side and if you go to the right there's the 5400 5500 side there are two Wings on each side so there are patient rooms numbered 5105 to 5115 and the other Wing has rooms 5201 to 5215 each floor is laid out the exact same way so each Wing has 15 rooms on each side to shorten the floor names though I'm going to refer to them as 51 52 and 5455 recently the fifth floor specifically the 5455 side had been undergoing some remodeling so our overflow floor the third floor was where they put the patients who were on the 54 55 side of the fifth floor while they remodeled the 5455 side was empty because there weren't that many people in the hospital that night I made my way up the hospital delivering meds to the nurses station floor by floor until I got to the fifth floor I went to the 5152 side delivered the meds and decided to go check out the progress of the 5455 side as I went over there I just got creeped out there were no nurses no patients just the long empty hallways the surgery rooms are already empty and desolate most nights so I'm used to walking around down there no problem but seeing empty patient rooms just creeped me out I walked slowly down the 55 side I heard a noise that sounded like one of the hospital beds rattling as I passed 5512 I quickly found out what the noise was as I looked into the rooms I saw an old man violently shaking as if he was having a seizure blood was running down his eyes nose and out of his mouth he was making this gargling groaning sound almost like the sounds the zombies in The Walking Dead make a monitor was frantically beeping like it does when a patient is coding my heart dropped when I saw this and I took a quick step behind the door frame I immediately stepped back into the room as I realized this man was in desperate need of medical attention but when I looked back in there there was no man the this bed was clean and made the monitor was off and there were no signs that anyone had even been in that room for at least a whole day I thought at that point I was for sure hallucinating I quickly made my way back over to the elevators and I made my way back down to the first floor where the pharmacy is as the elevator doors open an old man in a security shirt and Hospital badge got on the elevator he padded my shoulder as he walked past me it was that same man I had seen moments before having a seizure and making those zombie like noises he smiled at me as the doors closed and I watched the numbers on the elevator go all the way up to the fifth floor I didn't push the button for the elevator to come back down but the same elevator came back down to the first floor and opened there was no one on the elevator I ran back to the pharmacy and sat in a chair for the rest of my shift until my wife came and picked me up as I was waiting I Googled when hallucinations start when you haven't slept it said between 30 and 48 hours and I was on hour 38 of no sleep so it made sense the pharmacy's located directly under the 5455 side so when I walk in I can see the window at the end of the hospital wing on the 24 34 44 and 54 side sometimes as I wait on the elevator on that side to go back down to the pharmacy I look out the window as I was walking out to my wife's car I looked back up at the fifth floor window and saw the same old man looking at me through the window I got shells as I got into my wife's car I didn't say anything about what I saw that night I'm not sure why I would have hallucinated that specific man as I've never seen him before and even if I have he has no significance in my life whatsoever I'm still not sure though if that was even a hallucination or if what I saw that night was real it certainly felt real I went to sleep immediately after getting home I've not seen that man again but this was just under 2 weeks ago [Music] I live with my boyfriend and his house that he owns it's a modest house in a good neighborhood violent crime here is typically low I say it's a modest house because compared to the other houses in the neighborhood it's on the smaller side but having a smaller house in this neighborhood is still very desirable because it allows us to still live in a nice town without owning a multi-million dollar home it's a single floor three bed and two-b house with a basement we're on a very quiet block with a lot of privacy the way the street curves provides this optimal privacy as when we step outside of the house there's not a single neighboring house directly facing us there are eight houses total on our block further down the block is a small wooded area my boyfriend MAA was away one weekend in Vegas for a bachelor party last October I was alone from Thursday to Monday Friday after work I had some of my girls over over for a wine night at some point while we were in the living room watching scary movies the doorbell rang we all went quiet and looked at one another with the same faces the doorbell ringing late at night while watching a scary movie almost felt not real I went to go sneakily see if I could see who was outside on the porch but I couldn't get a view from the window there is a tiny glass panel at the top of the door so I peaked through it there were like four cars in the driveway they had to know people were home but I didn't see anyone on the porch I went back to my friends and while we all agreed that was weird we accepted that it was just a very unfortunately timed ding-dong ditch after everyone left it was late enough for me to go to bed and fall asleep right away but I was awoken that night not even an hour later to the doorbell ringing twice I looked at my phone and it was like 1:00 a. m. no one belongs outside your door at this hour I immediately called M and he picked up sounding really drunk in a loud bar he had to go to a bathroom to be able to hear me once he heard me he told me to just stay in the bedroom and not open the door to anyone he never once suggested calling the police so I refrained from doing that for now we ended our call and I tried to just stay calm and go back to sleep just as my heart rate started to slow and I started to calm down I heard something from outside some kind of clicking sounds until there was a knock at my window window and the male's voice said hey anyone home I need some help out here I thank the Lord the blinds were closed I couldn't see who was out there and they couldn't see me instead of leaving he knocked again on the window he said I know you're home this was what prompted me to call the police I never heard the man outside walk away from the window for all I knew he was still standing outside of it so I whispered the entire time while on the phone reporting someone trying to break into my house call me dramatic or an embellisher but I was scared and I wanted the police here ASAP within 5 to 10 minutes the doorbell rang again followed by loud knocks I went out and approached the front door and asked who it is a male's voice said it's the police it was a different voice from the other guy I looked through the glass and confirmed it was a couple police officers I opened the door for them and right off the bat the taller off officer in front walked right into my house without my even inviting him in he said they were responding to my report of a disturbance and I said there's a man lurking around the house ringing the bell and knocking on my window I don't want to make a big part of my recounting the story about this particular police officer but he was the rudest man I'd ever met I felt like he was on a power trip he was demeaning towards me telling me to shush and talking over me while I was trying to explain he also didn't seem to take my claims very seriously his partner didn't say a word he just stood in the back the taller one asked me details that I'd already made clear I wouldn't have such as what the man looked like when I clearly stated that I hadn't seen him and the officer actually said to me well you're the one who called us ma'am if you don't want our help we can leave I was taken aback completely I'd never called the police before and I never expected such a lack of professionalism I apologized and said I'm just scared it was around this time that the two officers walked around the house with their flashlights they went full circle and then came back but honestly they didn't really check very thoroughly I watched them through the windows they came back to the door and told me there's nothing they can do if I don't have any cameras or proof of the man trying to commit any wrongdoing the two cops then left I didn't feel any better at all besides the fact that maybe whoever that man was saw I called the police I went back to bed and thankfully the next time I woke up was to sunlight creeping in through the closed blinds it was around 10:00 a.
m. it was Saturday and that night my friend was having a Halloween party that I was going to help set up for during the day I did a little grocery shopping and while I was at it picked up some things for the party my costume was Velma from Scooby-Doo and my friend throwing the party was Daphne I got to her house around 6:00 p. m.
the party started at 9:00 and it really picked up around 10:30 I was there pretty late like I probably left her house a little after 1:00 a. m.
