[Music] my first big skiing trip ever was with my friends Angel Amy and Jessica and we all flew to Colorado we all rented an Airbnb in the town of snow Mass right by Aspen Mountain Ski Resort I had only been snowboarding one other time in my life at this point and that consisted of riding down the Bunny Hill over and over I was pretty bad first thing we did from the airport was Uber straight to the Airbnb it was a spacious four-bedroom house it had a huge Deck with a hot tub on it overlooking the
Colorado Countryside since it was night time already by the time we got there we went out to some local bar on the first night which was a Thursday the next day we went straight to the mountain via Uber we got our rental equipment at the mountain to make things easier it actually wasn't super crowded on the first day probably because it was a work day the next day it got a lot more crowded for some reason I just couldn't really get the hang of it I couldn't make it down a slope without falling at least
a few times at a certain point I was so fed up that I just sat on the side of a slope to catch my breath and take a Break Meanwhile a bunch of people zoomed past me even little kids that made it look easy then came this man who seemed like he didn't really know what he was doing either he came up to me and asked if I'm okay and he started trying to make conversation with me it was is the weirdest spot to make conversation so after a few seconds of answering his questions I
got up and said nice talking to you and resumed trying to snowboard down the mountain this mountain was a blue run meaning it was a longer slope to get down and slightly more difficult than a green I stopped again a little further down the mountain to take another break I really wasn't having fun to my dismay I saw that guy from before approaching me again he was inching closer to me with the same struggle I had been dealing with he stopped right next to me and unstrapped from a snowboard then sat a few feet from
me he started talking to me about how he's not used to so many pretty girls like me being here this was super weird because I had on a ski mask and helmet my face was practically covered he asked who I was here with I lied and said my boyfriend he laughed and said he saw me come here with all girls I looked at him and said ew really loud and then got back on my snowboard and continued down the mountain it's weird but I snowboarded better than I ever had in that moment perhaps because I
had the proper motivation to just get down the mountain when I got to the bottom I immediately went to the lodge and sat at one of the tables calling each of my friends Amy was the first one to pick up I explained what just happened and asked her to just come sit with me a few minutes later I saw her walking over to me I had already texted our group chat saying we should leave it was already around 3:00 anyway we'd been there a few hours when Angel and Jessica finished whatever run they were on
they met us back at the lodge we returned our rental gear and then ubered back to the Airbnb we all showered and changed and then headed out to the village for dinner we then went out to a few of the local bars afterward and we got decently drunk when we came back to the Airbnb we all four went into the hot tub on the deck and drank more alcohol after a while of that we all eventually went to our rooms to go to sleep I'm basically an insomniac and I stayed up on my phone for
over an hour scrolling on Tik Tok even as I was still buzzed I wasn't tired and this was a very very good thing that may have saved us I heard footsteps out in the common area either the living room or the kitchen the Airbnb had wood floors throughout initially I thought it was one of the girls going to the bathroom or getting water but then I heard the door knob to my door twisting I sat up and was about to say one of their names but I stopped myself because why I would one of them
be trying to come into my room I instantly went to the group chat to text everyone and ask who that is nobody answered they must have been asleep I tiptoed to the door and put my ear up against it I heard footsteps moving around when it went quiet I ever so quietly unlocked the door and twisted the door knob I pushed the door open as gently as I could and I peaked into the living room I looked from corner to corner until I saw a tall black silhouette walk walking from one door to the other
it was a man for sure he was trying to get into one of our rooms I wanted to scream out to my friends to warn them but I stayed silent because I was too scared I closed my door quietly and locked it I prayed to God everyone had their doors locked four girls in one Airbnb though of course we did I called 911 quietly and whispered the entire time into the phone that's when I heard the light knocks on my bedroom door I turned to the door and watched as the door Knocks the again started
to turn but he couldn't open it I kept saying please hurry into the phone all the woman on the line kept saying back is they're almost here and to remain quiet it was entirely possible that the man on the other side of the door heard me Whispering because he started pushing into the door I heard shoves and bangs on the door and I just couldn't help it anymore I screamed get out of here followed with I'm on the phone with 911 right now the bang stopped and a voice on the other side said okay sweetheart
and then I heard his footsteps walking away the 911 operator instructed me to stay in the room until police should arrive I peaked outside the window but it was simply too dark to see anything beyond a few feet in front of the window my friends were awake now from my screams I told them all to stay in their rooms police finally got there about 5 to 10 minutes later and they came right into the Airbnb since the door was unlocked once it was confirmed the Intruder was gone we ensured every entry point was locked and
secured and the they left sleeping after that was difficult of course the idea came up that it was that creepy man from the mountain who was following me and I do believe that's a possibility The Voice could have been a match honestly after working out a partial refund with the Airbnb host we spent Sunday traveling the area instead of snowboarding again and we stayed at a small motel Sunday night we flew home Sunday morning [Music] whenever I was scared as a kid my dad had always told me in life that you should not be scared
of ghosts fear the living because they can actually hurt you in my late teenage years I came into some money after my father committed suicide and I received an inheritance from him at the time of my Dad's passing he and my mom owned a cabin up in Oregon by Mount Bachelor the cabin had been put up for sale since my mom could no longer afford the payments and renting it out was not covering the the payments either the cabin was set to go on the market for sale in less than a month and was in
the process of finalizing all the paperwork with the realtor and lawyer so for that month's time the cabin was not going to be rented out any longer and was just going to be vacant I saw this as a chance to get away for a while and clear my head in light of all the things going on I quit work packed up my snowboarding gear grabbed my dog midnight and headed up in my dad's car to the cabin my first two days at the cabin were normal and nothing out of the ordinary happened I spent my
days playing with midnight in the snow and snowboarding in the evenings playing PlayStation or listening to music drinking and smoking out on the balcony I had already stocked up on food cigarettes and liquor so I was pretty much a Shu in aside from the occasional out to hit the slopes with my dog's company and DVDs PlayStations as entertainment I was quite content and started to feel relaxed after all the drama that had preceded my outing the cabin itself was two stories the bottom story had the living room and a side guest bedroom along with a
small kitchen upstairs had another two rooms along with a walkout balcony attached to the master bedroom most of my time was spent either in the living room kitchen or master bedroom I never ventured into the other rooms and always kept the doors leading into them shut the third day came around and I was going through my usual routine of playing with my dog playing games and watching DVDs that day it was a pretty heavy snowfall so instead of hitting the slopes I stayed in that's when things started getting a bit weird in our area there
were only two other cabins adjacent to ours maybe a block away from each other all other cabins aside from these two were around a mile away from ours surrounding us was mostly forest and very tall pine trees both these cabins were empty and from the past couple of days I knew that no one was currently staying there around midday while outside with my dog I noticed what looked like footprints in the snow around the area surrounding our cabin it was still snowing so the footprints looked semi fresh like someone had just been there in the
last 20 to 30 minutes before me I thought that maybe someone was staying in the cabin near me that I may not have noticed maybe they were shuttin like me all right whatever the footprints LED away from my cabin and they disappeared in the snow towards the denser part of the trees I disregarded the footprints and went back inside night time came around and I decided to head to bed my dog midnight was laying on the bed with me when I noticed his ears perk up to a listening position this was followed by him quickly
jumping off the bed and running downstairs to the living room I lay in the bed and stayed silent I was honestly freaked out and I could hear him moving around downstairs back and forth after around 5 minutes he ran back upstairs to me and started to do his doggy dance for the sign that he had to pee or that he wanted to go outside [ __ ] well fine I can't say no to him so we both went downstairs to the outside driveway for him to do his thing only he didn't want to pee as
soon as we were outside he started to pull his leash trying to drag me to where he wanted to go he kept looking into the dense part of the trees where the prince had been earlier but he also kept sniffing the side of the house and looking up towards the roof after he figured out that I was not going to go where he wanted he sat himself down and just stared into the darkness a bit unusual for him but all right maybe there's some forest animals out there that he wants to chase down but [
__ ] this I didn't want to chase anything so I pulled him back inside and we both headed back upstairs around half an hour later I was lying in my bed when I heard what sounded like Hooves walking on my roof it was only a series of around six steps and I rationalized that it could be a pine cone falling from a tree onto the roof or maybe a kind-hearted Forest Animal running around but here's the thing the steps seemed to be spaced apart like a man length stride so it was really freaking me out
midnight also heard the noise and was quick to run to the balcony screen door expecting for me to let him out all right you know what I'm a tough guy and at the time I considered myself to be fairly well built and strong enough to handle myself so I grabbed my coat and shoes along with my cigarettes and flashlight and went out onto the balcony as soon as I went outside I lit up my cigarette and started canvasing the roof with my light nothing there and the snow on top was undisturbed weird was it all
in my head what about midnight hearing the noise maybe he was feeding off my paranoia I started to calm down and relax again my eyes started to adjust to the darkness and I kept smoking and just staring at the stars and trees next to our cabin that's when I saw it in a tree that was a little taller than our cabin and around 20 ft from the balcony I saw what looked like a man crouched in a squatting position in between two branches it looked really tall like 8 or 9 ft and it was really
[ __ ] skinny it was squatted on one branch and it's freaking L long white arms were extended above its head holding on to the branch above it while its mouth was wide open with no expression what the [ __ ] is that I wasn't sure if I was really seeing this thing and stood just staring and sat there motionless I noticed midnight stand up and start pacing behind me and lightly barking at the same time the things still did not move I put my cigarette out and was debating on Shining the light in the
thing's Direction but something in my head kept screaming Nat to so I walked backwards to the inside of the room and pulled midnight with me once inside I locked the door and shined the light in the thing Direction but there was nothing there I shut the curtains to the screen door and retreated back to bed but later on in the night I heard some light tapping at the screen door like someone was tapping on the glass with their fingers it was consistent and did not stop for nearly an hour midnight seemed to stare at the
door but he wouldn't go near it anymore the the weirdest part was that I had a feeling like someone was inviting me to open that door but at the same time I kept hearing my dad's voice in my head telling me to stay in bed and don't do it I listened to my dad's voice and just stayed where I was I passed out eventually and woke up in the morning it didn't take me long to pack everything and get the hell out of there [Music] my family owns a property in Vermont that we use in
the wintertime for skiing and snowboarding it's at the top of a hill surrounded by Woods the nearest neighbors are up the road but separated enough where you can't see their houses from our property there's a big shed outside that we keep a lot of our snowboarding gear along with General Lawn Care stuff like shovels rakes and everything like that we keep the shed locked whenever we aren't up there once we unlock it though we keep it unlocked for the entirety of our visits as we don't really worry too much about people coming and stealing anything
while we're there the actual house is pretty nicely sized it's technically three floors with the third floor being a loft master bedroom which is reserved for my parents and my siblings and I aren't allowed to use it this one weekend I was heading up there with this girl Melissa who I was going to be teaching how to snowboard as she never been before we had a beginner board up there that she used along with all the proper equipments on our property since it's on a steep hill we actually made our own little custom slope that
we'd sometimes snowboard or sled down for fun so before taking her to the actual Mountain I suggested I teach her the basics on the hill we put on all of our gear and right up at the top of the hill I slowly started descending showing her the basic movements when she made her first attempt she right away fell as expected but she was persistent and kept trying and getting back up each time we made it to the bottom of the hill she'd get a little better and then we'd walk back up and do it again
at some point we both heard a male voice call out from the woods presumably at us it said hello we start looking around confused as hell all we saw were a bunch of trees and a white sheet of snow covering the floor of the woods you'd think it would be easier to spot someone or something when it's just a sheet of white surrounding you but nope we didn't see anyone in the woods I yelled out is someone there nothing now just the Dead Silence of a secluded place in the winter Melissa and I were slightly
Disturbed so we walked back up to the house and went inside I didn't think it could be the neighbors because I didn't see the driveway to the one we passed shoveled and the neighbors further up the hill would have no reason to come down like that I told her it must have been some random person going for a hike in the woods that was the least scary possibility next thing we did was go out to my favorite nearby Diner then we went shopping for basic groceries to get us through the next few days since it
was a bit late now we were going to spend the rest of the night just chilling at the house we ate dinner and then chilled by the fire pit out back at some point we both heard the distinct sound of shoes stepping in snow not far away I turned off the music for a second but with the sound of the crackling fire it still wasn't Dead Silence by this point whatever we heard stopped I asked for her phone so I could use both my and her phone's flashlights to point into the woods again like earlier
I called out is someone there which scared Melissa she asked to go inside so we did we didn't go back outside that night the next morning I woke up to Melissa getting out of bed I was still tired so I went back to sleep and when I woke up again she was still not in the bed anymore I looked at the time and it was already like 9:00 a.m. so I got up and opened the curtain to the window I looked out at the shed outside the door was open and I saw the breath of
someone being blown from behind the door to the shed I wondered what Melissa was doing out there I opened the window and yelled Melissa's name but when she called back her voice came from inside the house right in the living room I got goosebumps I kept watching the escaping breath of whoever was in our shed blow out the door I yelled outside yo who's in my shed and a few seconds later I shut the window and ran out to the living room to find Melissa watching TV or rather now she was more so just standing
in front of the couch concerned I looked out the back door and saw the back of somebody dressed in black running into the woods I looked for my boots but by the time I put them on it was too late to chase him I went to check the shed to see if anything was stolen but it seemed everything was there I relocked the shed just to be safe I saw the footprints of that person lead from the woods to the shed then back to the woods again I wasn't about to follow the footprints though after
nerves calmed a bit we ate breakfast then headed for the mountain and we had a whole day of snowboarding Melissa picked it up surprisingly well and we plan to have one more day at it tomorrow after we got back to the house we cooked a steak dinner then watched a movie we didn't want to sit out in the dark again after last night and earlier that day in the middle of that night I woke up to Melissa shaking me she explained why then she told me to listen we sat in silence for about 30 seconds
before we heard help me in a very long drawn out voice from outside Melissa was in hysterics then we heard the voice again I went over to the window and she begged me not to open the curtain I said I was just going to take a peek I gently lifted one corner of the curtain to peek outside I don't know what I was expecting to see except for total Blackness I cracked the window open and a gust of Cold Air HD me in the face I listened intending on getting a better idea of where this
voice was coming from then i s suddenly heard Footsteps in the snow getting much louder very quickly they were coming toward the window I quickly pulled it down and relocked it whoever it was already saw me though the knock on the window confirmed it I looked over at Melissa who was hiding under the blanket making faint crying noises I told her to just stay quiet our best response was to not respond or acknowledge them there was never another tap at the window nor were there any more calls from outside it was a long couple hours
hours after that of not sleeping eventually though we got so tired that we did end up just falling asleep the next morning I checked around the house and there were Footprints literally surrounding the house someone or multiple people had been circling the house apparently going from window to window we decided we'd leave early because clearly someone was stalking us from the moment we got there I locked everything back away in the shed then we packed the car and back to Rhode Island we went for those curious nothing was broken Bren into or stolen the next
time any of us went back up there so truthfully I don't even really have a guess as to what that person out there wanted but it was most definitely the same person stuck in the house from the moment we got there it might have been multiple people when you're up in an isolated place like that realizing you're not alone is the scariest thing imaginable
