when my dad passed away not only did he pass along his fishing boat but he also passed along his love of fishing to me the boat is a rod min 1250 which has a decent sized cabin allowing me to go overnight deep-sea fishing I usually fish off the coast of Mississippi and would sail for an hour out to sea then stop and spend the rest of the day fishing that's exactly what I did one Friday taking my cousin Jack McLain done spending the night and fishing most of Friday and sailing back so after sailing out
to sea for about an hour I picked the spot for us to stop and cast our lines we brought a radio and tons of beers to make the time more pleasant the Sun started to set and seeing the Sun setting in the horizon with no visual intrusions was a beautiful sight perhaps the last pleasant thing that would happened that night by the time the sky was completely dark we had already packed our stuff for the night and we're inside the cabin playing cards and eating burgers mid-conversation Jack stopped me and told me to listen there
was the sound of a bow border in the distance we left the cabin to look into the horizon but with no moon it was just too dark to see more than maybe fifty feet in front of us but over the calm waves we did hear a boat motor whoever was out there didn't have their lights on the lights in my cabin were on which was definitely enough for anyone to see us and avoid hitting us we were expecting the sound of the other boat to sail away into the night however it seemed to circle us
for a bit then abruptly stopped the motor just cut there was nothing but the sound of the calm water splashing against the boat Jack started acting a little paranoid he thought we were being stalked he wanted me to use the spotlight to look for where this boat could be I didn't want to do that because that would be a bit obnoxious and obvious to make him happy though I started to drive the boat for a few minutes away from the last direction we heard that engine stop maybe I did it because I was a little
suspicious about it as well after a solid five minutes of driving the boat in the opposite direction I killed the motor and we went back inside the cabin to resume playing cards it felt like only seconds after we sat down we heard it again this time I heard it first and it sounded like the motor was being given much less gas [Music] we went outside again and at that instant the sound stopped this time I agreed with Jack turning on the spotlight was a necessity now the spotlight only rotated 180 degrees so I turned the
boat a little to the right so that I could point the light out in the direction we heard the boat the beam of light shot far into the horizon I felt my heart racing as I slowly turned the light to point more to the right and finally I stopped when the light started to land on a boat floating not too far away from us I turned the light off at once I told Jack to turn the cabin lights off as well I put the boat in full throttle and stead away from the area I steered
the boat for about 5 to 10 minutes before thinking it was enough we hung out outside for a while to ensure we weren't followed again when it seemed safe to do so we went to sleep however I woke to a thumping coming from above my head above the cabin I looked over at Jack sleeping on the couch I whispered his name a few times to wake him up and I pointed up at the ceiling he looked up then back at me with a look on his face telling me he heard the thumps I opened the
door to the deck and ran outside and saw two men one on the bow of my boat the other on a boat floating directly next to mine Jack came running out behind me both of the men slowly put their hands up in front of their faces and claimed they meant no harm the one on my boat said they were simply almost out of gas and needed help he said he was going to knock on my cabin door to ask for assistance but in my head I was thinking why was he on the bow of my
boat done a very low-key like flicked Jack's thigh to indicate to him that I was getting ready to do something rash the guy stepped down from the front of the boat to the lower deck right in front of Jack and I he was significantly taller and bigger than us he looked at me for a few moments and reached out his hand expecting a handshake without saying anything I knew something was about to go down with these guys and for all I knew that could start with my shaking his hand instead of shaking his hand I
pushed the guy overboard into the water with all my strength and I ran up the stairs to turn the boat on while I yelled at Jack to make sure they didn't get back on the boat we were able to lose them in the night for good this time I didn't stop though I kept going the full two hours straight back to the shore you made it back to my dock and we slept on my boat that night the next morning we packed up and drove home strange things can happen out at sea in the dark
but I never anticipated anything like that I don't know what those guys were planning on doing to us on my boat but considering they had been making a point of stalking us I know it was nothing good a few years ago I went on a Norwegian cruise with a few friends it started out as a great little vacation however by the third day at sea things started getting weird after two days of eating constant sushi I started to feel a little dizzy and lightheaded at times my friends told me no more sushi as it probably
had something to do with that but anyway after a few drinks I separated myself for my friends who were sitting in one of the ships many bars and started walking back to my room because I really wasn't feeling too well I took some weird to lower deck around back in the direction of my room though since some of the bars were on the lowest public levels of the shed I asked one of the maids in the hallway which way was the quickest to get to the certain section my room was in the man had a
very thick accent but I understood her to have said keep going straight then make a left at the sign so I did that I came to a sign that I don't remember what it said but it was a sign so I turned left there I was in some narrow hall with a tiled floor instead of carpeting it didn't seem like the right way to go at all it seemed more like an employee's only section still I figured I'd give it a chance before turning back and continued down this narrow hall I came to a corner
then looked to my right and here was the creepiest hallway you could possibly find on the ship half the lights were out one was flashing on and off but at the end of this tiny hallway was someone standing facing the wall my head started to hurt even more as I saw this I had to rub my eyes to make sure what I was seeing was real when I moved my hands away from my eyes the person standing by the wall was now looking at me considering they were standing in the dark section of this hallway
not lit up by lights I couldn't really see much about their actual face other than I knew they were looking at me I turned it and went back the direction I came I walked back down the hall the maid was gone now however so with my head still killing me I managed to get back to the lobby of this floor and at that point finding the elevators was easy I made it back to my room easily at that point and crashed into bed I was sure I had gotten food poisoning from the sushi because my
stomach was also hurting along with my head but anyway I woke up at some odd hour in the night and I couldn't move the only thing I could move were my eyes I tried looking around the room but my inability to move my head or sit in an upright position that made seeing a lot of the room difficult and I remember something seemed to appear in my peripheral vision I turned my eyes to the opposite side of the room and there was a figure I figure facing the wall as I looked at it I wanted
to scream or run but I couldn't do anything it was as real as could be like I knew I was seeing it the head of the figure turned around to face me but all I saw was black the body of the face everything about this figure just looks black the figure started to move closer to me the most disturbing thing about it though is that as it moved towards me it didn't move its limbs it seemed to just slowly float towards me the figure stopped over my bed and how I could slightly see a face
to it and I recognized it as that person I saw earlier in the night in that hallway I don't remember exactly how long that figure stood over my bed but suddenly I saw its mouth open twice as wide as you'd expect to be humanly possible and now came a deafeningly real scream so loud that I think it woke me up completely from the sleep paralysis I was just in the craziest thing I remember was the scream of this sleep paralysis figure feeding into the scream of my own voice I was finally able to make I
flicked on the light and my friend who was in the other bed woke up asking what's wrong I told him about the horrible experience I just had he once again said I'd been eating way too much raw fish and it was [ __ ] with my head my whole body was shaking and my voice was trembling I went back to sleep and don't remember having another dream that night but I still wonder if that person I saw in the hallway was real or not because I'm 90% sure that's the hallucination I had in my paralysis
that hallucination was also the realest most horrific thing I'd ever seen I live on the east coast of United States recently I moved to Florida from Georgia and I figured it would take a couple days to sell my boat down there to our new waterfront house I didn't have any cars with the tow hitch to carry the boat let alone a trailer to carry it with so sailing it seems like the best option while my wife finished up moving the rest of the stuff to our new house I kissed my family goodbye and set sail
none of them were really willing to come with me on this adventure and I didn't blame them but anyway I brought enough food and guests Hill asked me the whole trip the first day was a breeze I got some sleep then sailed for 10 hours the next day with breaks in between of course by nightfall I went to bed in the cabin sleeping in a rocking boat isn't exactly the easiest thing to do so I was up for hours rolling around on my sides trying to find a comfortable position trying to press my head firmly
enough into the pillow thinking it would hide the unbearable feeling of the boat rocking over the ocean surface eventually I heard sounds coming from above my head that it could best describe as small thumps and it sound like someone walking on my boat I couldn't tell yet with a medium-sized fishing boat floating out in the ocean random sounds like creaks and thumps are going to be made but these thumps were coming so rapidly and consistently I started to get sick with the thought that someone out this far could be on my boat I had to
get out and look but I wanted to be quiet so I opened the cabin door very slowly but before I could even open it all the way I heard a big splash in the water it sounded to me like someone or something jumped into the water I was honestly scared I wasn't alone even though it made no sense to me I didn't want to go outside I felt I should move the boat away from whoever or whatever was out there in the water so I ran outside to the cockpit and started the boat engine I
gave the boat some guests and got myself the hell away from there immediately I heard my boat bump into something in the water not something heavy enough to cause any kind of impact but heavy enough to hear it and slightly feel the boat bump I didn't see what it was because to be honest I wasn't paying attention to whatever was out in the water plus the lights weren't on anyway I sailed for a few hours in the deep night because I was wide awake anyway when I started to get tired I killed the motor and
went back to bed emphasis on the word bed not sleep because even though I felt tired I was still having trouble falling asleep I figure half an hour passed and I started hearing more thumps this time of thumb seemed louder and more clear for some reason in a split second my heart started racing again the thumps were consistent and deliberate sounding again no way it was just boat noises I felt like I was being followed by someone I couldn't just sit there and hide in the cabin like this all night I had to sum up
the courage to go outside again but when I checked there was no one on the entire boat was it my imagination where this sounds really just coming from the boat I decided that must have been the case and once again went back inside the cabin to bed I lay there extremely silent now trying to listen for any little noise and when I did this I heard something I knew I did it wasn't the sound of thumping or anything like that I had to perk up my ears to really pay attention and I figured out what
I was hearing it wasn't the sound of the wind outside or the water hitting the boat it was the sound of someone breathing it was not the sound of my breathing but someone else's it was coming from inside the cabin of course I panicked but I tried to maintain composure so did not make it obvious I got out from the bed walked outside the cabin and locked myself in the cockpit I intended on sailing until I could find a dock by the shore there's a small window that looks into the cockpit from the cabin it
has a curtain I turned to every minute or so at least once to look back at it expecting to see someone watching me and one of the times I looked back I did see someone the curtain was curved up a little bit in the corner and I saw someone's eye and maybe a quarter of their face peeking into the cockpit I turned away right away acting like I didn't see them I had the thought what if it was my young son trying to scare me but it wouldn't make sense I saw him waving goodbye when
I set sail from the house it was 3 or 4 tense hours of hell thinking at any moment someone could break into the cockpit and stab me but I made it to shore and sailed through the narrow canal I had already called the cops 15 minutes earlier requesting they have a few officers waiting at the dock I was headed to it was still dark out but I saw people standing on the dock and I couldn't have been more excited to get there when I stopped the boat next to the dock I came out from the
cockpit screaming at the officers to help pointing at the cabin door the two officers went into the cabin with their hands on their pistols and ten seconds later I heard them yelling at someone they pulled out some guy with really long gray wet hair and a similar beard wearing wet skinny ripped jeans and a gray t-shirt they had him in cuffs as they walked him past me he looked at me and just laughed this insanely off-putting laugh the guy who looks and sounded like a meth head the best way I could describe him the police
questioned him but he never answered anything as to how or when he got on my boat or what he was trying to do but thinking back when I heard breathing in my cabin it's likely he was hiding under my bed and that's the most horrifying thought imaginable by then I was exhausted and went back to my cabin and fell asleep right away by late morning I made it to the new house and my nightmarish adventure was over [Music]
