foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] school I had a couple of close friends Jason and Brian we did quite a bit together and when it came time to graduate Jason had to move away to Lexington South Carolina with his family due to his father's work after we graduated and he had completed his move with his family my friend Brian and I were invited to pay a visit for a weekend to his new house we decided out of boredom to start hiking around in the nearby forest and Countryside which we found had a Scenic River it was a
beautiful area and felt quite peaceful but we ended up getting lost we decided to keep following the river as we lost track of which direction was upstream or Downstream with no sounds of civilization anywhere we could hear we quickly became concerned about finding a telephone to call Jason's mom or dad to get us from wherever we were even though there was no paved Road or Street that we could find nearby as we kept following the river we came to this old church looking Building made of really old red bricks with a dirt parking lot and
a dirt road leading up to it it was very encroached with growth and bushes we decided to go inside and see if there were people and maybe asked to use their telephone and get the address for this location we noticed there were a few old cars which looked to be 70s or 80s possibly novas four of them very dirty and rusted in this dirt parking lot with flat or missing tires they were all white colored or used to be and parked in a row side by side as we got closer we heard gospel music sounds
and some singing inside the church we were relieved that there were people so we went into the church which appeared to be rather old and dilapidated we peeked past the main doors to the hall and saw what I estimated was a couple dozen people dressed as nicely as they could though they clearly were poor when we went inside the old white-haired woman wearing horn Rim glasses who was playing the church piano stopped playing and she looked at us with no expression on her face what happened next really stuck with me and I will never forget
it as long as I live everyone in that church stopped singing and put down their song sheets and they all slowly turned their heads and looked at us with the most vacant and unwelcoming glares Jason said we're sorry to interrupt we just want to use your phone to call my folks to come get us nobody spoke it was dead silent in that church other than the wooden pews creaking from the weight of the people in them so we just slowly backed out of the door and let it close behind us and looked at each other
an ominous fear and quietly left we started walking up that dirt road and when Brian mentioned that there were no crosses or anything Christian in there we looked back up the road to see that maybe a dozen of those people all men had walked out in the front of the church and were standing there watching us intently as we walked along the road this freaked us out and we began to Sprint up that dirt road for what felt like a good half hour we finally came to a very old broken down gas station that looked
like one of those old full service stations we went inside to find that the shelves were mostly empty and Dusty from a quick glance and an old overly tan swarthy man with a really oily and dirty baseball cap was behind the counter reading some old book with ragged edges and yellowed Pages he looked up and said you boys lost huh just head out that way you came in and make a left and follow that road till you see a telephone pole and just go right at the pole down the trail and it'll take you to
a highway we thank the man and left quickly and as we walked down the road to the telephone pole the man told us about again looked back and the old man was out in front of the gas station with his arms folded just staring at us with a rotten tooth grin on his face we got to the poll made the right and followed that trail to the nearest highway after about a good half hour of walking in the Twilight it had just gotten dark as we got to the highway and we tried to wave down
a few people passing by but nobody stopped thankfully a police officer saw us and pulled over to help us we told them we were lost and gave him Jason's address to which he whistled and said we really were lost it took about 30 minutes for that officer to drive us back to Jason's and during the Chit Chat he told us we needed to be careful out in those woods as there are some crazy witch folks in it a long time ago I'm talking like eight years ago two friends and I James and Sean did something
really stupid but at the time doing stupid things was what we did to pass the time we're not really friends with James anymore but Sean and I still talk often and so often times we'll talk with each other about this story we were 19 years old we lived in New Jersey lots of vacant houses in our old town and Atop A hilly road not far from our houses was an abandoned church locals knew about the church it was on a closed off road and it had been abandoned for many years I'm not sure if it's
still standing or what the current state of it is as I live in Florida now but James Shawn and I being The troublemaking Thrill Seekers we were came up with this genius plan of bringing a Ouija board to the church late one night this was October so I guess we were doing it in honor of spooky season Sean had the Ouija board in his closet so he brought it I drove the three of us so I first picked up James then Sean and we just drove straight towards the church since the road up the hill
to the church was literally blocked off we had to park on the side of the road and walk from there we followed the road up the hill to the church using one flashlight at first so as not to overdo it and draw any possible attention but once we were atop the hill we pretty much all three of us turned on our flashlights the church was surrounded by Woods in basically all directions and had a gravel parking lot alongside it the church had been broken into a million times before and was littered with graffiti so the
big front door was already a jar two of us had to work together to pull it open because it scraped on the floor though once inside we naturally just looked around the place with our flashlights to make sure no one else was in there it was definitely creepy being in that place at night Sean set up the Ouija board then he pulled out these three candles from his backpack as well and he laughed and said it would add to the experience he placed the three candles in a triangle formation around the board and as they
were all lit we turned off our flashlights now the only light in the whole place was from the candles creating a much more eerie and uncomfortable vibe we really couldn't see more than maybe six feet in all directions so we began playing with the Ouija board Sean was doing most of the talking at this point I can't remember exactly what he said but he definitely opened with is anybody there in the typical cliche Ouija board questions the planchette started to move and we started to laugh I knew it was one of them doing it I
feel like it's not possible to play with a Ouija board with your friends without someone jokingly moving around the planchette we went along with it though and whoever was moving it spelled out a few words as this was going on though we heard a weird crack type sound come from the altar of the church best way I could describe it is it sounded like a big piece of wood cracking in half it was loud and it sounded like it was done by someone we all jumped in reaction and hurried to shine our phones flashlights in
the direction of the altar there was no one there as far as we could see I think both of them were just as freaked out as I was after that but the place was old and falling apart so some weird noises here and there didn't seem that crazy and so we kept going we all took turns asking the board questions but the planchette was no longer moving I think because that crack sound freaked all three of us out and now we were taking it more seriously this went on for some time until another sound from
the altar area broke the silence again but before we even had time to shine our lights over there again something landed on the Ouija board causing all of us to jump and scream it was a rock about the size of a golf ball all three of us just had her hands on the planchette two seconds ago there was no way any of us could have done that we all three got up and ran back out of the church screaming leaving the Ouija board and candles behind we ran all the way down the hill and back
to my car and fearing we were being chased we didn't stick around I drove us all back to James's house where we just sat in the car for a good half hour talking wondering what exactly just happened Sean is very religious and superstitious as well he was confident we had reached a spirit of some kind I don't really believe in any of that stuff I believe there was someone else in the church with us which I find to be equally terrifying Sean went back to the church the next day with James to get his Ouija
board back and to make things even stranger the Ouija board was missing but the candles were still in place when they saw it was missing from the entrance they decided to just leave right away this remains to be the single scariest experience of my life [Music] this happened in Warren County Georgia a very rural Inland part of the state I was with my girlfriend Marissa and we were driving around checking out the area seeing if it was somewhere we'd like to live it was very quiet and spacious which is what we wanted were both Roman
Catholic she likes to go to church a little more than I do though it was a weekday in the middle of the day and not much traffic at all we checked out a bunch of things in the area that would be important to see before deciding on moving to an area since Marissa has been an equestrian for most of her life a big point of us moving to a rural area was for her to have a barn for her horses after checking out some properties listed for sale we happened to pass by a small cute
looking Church on the side of this very quiet road with a bunch of cars in the parking lot this church wasn't far from the last property we just looked at so Marissa shook my shoulder and said we should see if a mess was going on see if it's nice and so I pulled into the little dirt-like parking lot for the building and parked next to some old red minivan a lot of the cars in the parking lot were on the older side in fact I'd say most of them I mentioned that to Marissa as we
got out of the car and she agreed and said it was probably because it was a lower income area I opened the door to the church for us and we stepped in and it was a pretty small insight as we expected I'd say there were five rows of pews each cut in half in the middle by the Nave or Center Isle there had to be at least 20 people in there though they were not an older crowd usually in every mess big or small you'd see a decent amount of seniors but based on the backs
of everyone's heads in there everyone appeared to be in their 30s to 40s it seemed everyone was sitting in silence for some kind of prayer as we sat down in the back the people closest to us started looking at us like one at a time and as others noticed the staring they would look to see what the others were staring at and then look at us Marissa and I looked at each other then nervously looked back at everyone all we could think to do was smile but no one smiled back they were giving us the
most unwelcoming stairs and I just realized none of these people were dressed even remotely nicely for a mess what was going on here this was when I realized there were no women in here not a single one besides Marissa in the stairs they seemed to be staring more at Marissa than me a man in a mask at the front of this alleged Church by what I guess was supposed to be the altar then stepped up and pointed at us and said who invited you here I took it upon myself to answer for us and said
that we were just passing by and saw that a mess was going on and we wanted to join the man was clearly not a priest and this was clearly not a Roman Catholic Church the masked man said you need to leave now by now every last person in the church was looking at us I said come on honey and we got up and hurried out and ran to the car we wasted no time sitting in the car I got us out of that parking lot right away but we both noticed in the rear view mirror
someone from the building getting in their van in the parking lot I felt like there was no way they were going to follow us until we saw that gray van catching up to us in the mirror I had Marissa GPS the Warren County Sheriff's Office and we drove straight there the van was behind us the whole time not on our ass but close enough that it was obvious the second we pulled into the public safety parking lot the van kept driving down the road when it was gone we simply drove straight home and never looked
at Warren County again we clearly ended up in some kind of cult meeting but I don't get why they had someone follow us nor why they were having their meeting in broad daylight or why they didn't at least lock the door [Music] when I was a Cub Scout we would always have our meeting somewhere in a Catholic Elementary School whether it was in the school gym or in one of the adjacent rooms I was like eight years old when this happened and it was disturbing but before I get into why I'm telling you that let
me start from the beginning it started a few days earlier when I was at Mass with my mom and my brother like we'd go to every other week we usually would be late so we'd either sit in the back or stand by The Doors if there were no seats today we sat all the way in the back corner my mom and then brother entered the Pew first I sat on the end at some point during the mass I noticed an older man with glasses and a white mustache was standing against the wall to the left
of me looking at me as I glanced over he smiled and I still remember vividly this stupid creepy face that he made as he was trying to be funny but I was eight I wasn't a toddler it felt weird and uncomfortable I did my best to look away but I could see him keep looking over to me every few seconds I looked back at him and once again he made another weird face that I assume he was making to try and be funny it just came off as weird again my mom noticed it this time
and tapped me on the shoulder and whispered to ignore him I believe she gave him a dirty look as well the next time I looked in that direction the man wasn't there anymore he had walked somewhere else the next thing I remember from that mask was going up for communion and then as I got back to my seat the man was back in that spot again and he was staring at me just smiling the whole time until I got back to my seat my mom noticed it again and since we got the communion we just
left my mom said on the way out she didn't like the way that guy was looking at us specifically me now fast forward to when Scouts come into play towards the end of our meetings we'd sometimes have little fun contests or games and this day in question we were having a scavenger hunts the items we were supposed to be finding all tied into the theme of scouting I remember some of the objects on the list being a first aid kit a rope a flashlight things of that nature we were split into two teams and we
all had a copy of the list and the team to find the most items would win so we all split up the play area ranged from the gym to the cafeteria to some of the adjacent rooms I was running around rooms and Tiny hallways I'd never even seen before looking for any of the items I could find on the list I wasn't having much luck eventually I found myself in this very narrow hallway in the back section of the cafeteria by the kitchen in this hallway was one of those ice cream fridges filled with like
ice pops I looked inside the fridge for any of the items nothing but then I decided to be sneaky and take one of the ice cream pops as I did I heard a man's voice to the right of me I looked over and saw that man from the church a few days earlier walked walk over to me smiling he said something like don't let them see you taking that he shut the fridge door and grabbed my hand and told me he had some better treats in the back where the kids aren't allowed I broke my
hand free from his grip and tried to walk away scared and he grabbed my wrist this time tightly I turned to him and he went shh calm down I yelled help and he let go of me and said stop it I ran back to the gym and told the cub master what happened thankfully my cub master wasn't actually nice caring man probably because he was a father himself and he told my mom about it I told my mom it was that same man from the church and my cub master would help my mom in reporting
that man to the church turned out that that man worked for the church I'm not sure what exactly he did but he lived on the church grounds which explained why he was there what makes me sick though is that allegations came out against that man from an altar boy's parents claiming he touched him inappropriately the disgusting thing is I can imagine what he was planning on attempting to do if I actually followed him to wherever he was trying to take me I don't know if that man went to prison or what but I know the
church cut ties with him after this [Music] thank you
