Scary Stories For A Terrifying, Chilling, And Disturbing Night

This took place about 7 years ago and it's been haunting me ever since I've been a trucker for over a decade now and you hear all sorts of Stories on the road but this one it still gives me the chills so I was driving through a particularly desolate stretch of highway in the midwest when I decided to pull over at a truck stop for the night the place was pretty run down and there was Only a few other trucks parked there as I was getting ready to settle in I overheard a couple of guys talking

near one of the trucks they seemed on edge Whispering urgently I caught Snippets of their conversation and heard one of them say watch out for the lizards I thought that that was a weird thing to say but I didn't think much of it at the time I figured that it was some sort of local slang or an inside Joke as the night wore on though I started to drift off but then I heard footsteps crunching on the gravel outside it was strange too because it didn't sound just like one person it was like a small

group was walking around but the pattern was irregular and unsettling to say the least curiosity got the better of me eventually so I peaked out of my window I couldn't see much in the dim light but there were definitely figures moving Around the parking area they seemed to be skullking between the trucks trucks almost like they were looking for something I told myself that it was probably just other drivers stretching their legs but for whatever reason the unease just wouldn't go away suddenly though I heard a sharp knock on my door my heart leapt into

my throat at that I glanced at the clock and it was well past midnight I called out asking who it was But there was no response just the sound of footsteps shuffling away I was too spooked to investigate further so I locked my doors and I just tried to get some sleep now just as I was drifting off again I heard a low sort of hissing sound coming from somewhere nearby it was faint but persistent like somebody Whispering just out of earshot I squeezed my eyes shut then told myself that it was just my Imagination

but then I heard the footsteps again closer this time throughout the night I could hear knocks and scratches on the other trucks around me as well every once in a while there was some sort of yelling or moaning coming from the distance like someone or something was trying to communicate or call out occasionally there was a smoky smell too like a cigarette would waft through the air when these things or whoever was out there were close to my Truck the rest of the night was a blur of eerie sounds and well creeping dread I kept

telling myself that it was just some weird local prank but I don't know about that anymore the whole thing felt very off as soon as the first light of dawn broke I didn't waste a second I fired up my truck and I got out of there without even looking back I did not want to see what might have been left in the morning and to this day I just cannot shake the Feeling that there was something more to those lizards then meets the eye who knows maybe it was just an overactive imagination or maybe there's

something out there in those back wood truck stops that we're just better off not knowing about whatever the case stay safe out there and keep your eyes and ears open because you just never know who or what might be lurking in the dark out there [Music] This happened about 13 years ago I was in my early 20s at the time so to preface this while growing up my sister and I had many encounters that you could consider Supernatural I suppose her more so than me she seemed to be harassed by Spirits often and sometimes I

shared some of those encounters too now several years ago after moving out of home I went to visit my family and we were staying the night at my Grandparents parents place it was a normal day nothing out of the ordinary I went to bed that night my sister and I sleeping in different rooms I dreamt I was laying in bed a different bed in the dream no recollection of what the room looked like when suddenly an intense feeling of like despair just washed over me but it was worse than that like every positive feeling in

the world was erased and I was left with this overwhelming pressure Of all the negativity and I started crying I rarely cry and as hilarious as this example might be think of the effect the Dementors from Harry Potter have on people in the dream I rolled over and a red Dome had encased the bed and a black hooded figure stood at the end of the bed holding a scroll in his hand at this point I lost it and started screaming in fear I screamed so loud that the red Dome split open as I woke myself

up from my own Screams my dad came into the room and asked if that was me making the noise I just mumbled yeah I think so eventually I went back to sleep and that was that for the night now the next morning I went to tell my sister about my dream and she said before you tell me that I need to tell you something that happened to me last night you see I couldn't get to sleep and suddenly I noticed a person standing at the end of the bed holding a Piece of paper in their

hand at that I was terrified too scared to sleep for the next few nights but nothing else ever happened like that since then which is strange right it definitely put me on edge for a while but thankfully nothing else [Music] happened it was a random day and my family and I had a trip planned out to go somewhere far from home it was to go to to a place in the Philippines and While on the way we used a GPS tracker to reach our destination none of us were aware that the GPS may not be

actually accurate but we followed the route anyway my uncle was driving the car that day it was a fortune car big enough to fit many people inside as we were making our way there it was still Sunset and we were going up a hill surrounded by tall trees eventually I must have fallen asleep for A while because I was pretty exhausted from all the journey that we went through to just get here but I soon woke up to my mother's voice saying be careful we're going to fall off I looked around the car window and

we were on top of a hill now the sides of the road were so thin and tight a one wrong turn and we would all come crashing down my cousins and I were at the back of the car but we stayed quiet because we knew that to panic in a situation like this Was going to be very unhelpful my mom was the only one panicking and as we went further my uncle drove slowly and thankfully we didn't fall off and managed to find an area that we could turn and make a U-turn it was still

on the hill mind you but the area was wide enough now after making it back to the main road safely we were all pretty shaken scared even now fast forward a bit after that it was night time obviously there was Nothing in sight no lights and it was just pretty much Blackness and nothing all around us my family they didn't follow the GPS this time they used their memories because they'd used a different road before apparently we were going up a hill again and I had no idea where it was but all I saw were

trees around the car and The Quiet Sounds of the car wheels driving over the gravel then at some point we stopped and I was confused by that but it appeared that there was No continuation of the road ahead everyone in the car was quiet now my mother asked my uncle to check outside when they opened the car door it was really cold the wind was strong and I heard the trees it was really spooky and it sent a bit of a chill down my spine my uncle closed the door as he turned on the front

lights of the car and there all of a sudden was a line of people lots of them I don't have any idea what they were doing alone in the Woods there and it was so weird weird we quickly backed out of there and we made our way back home after that after that too I fell asleep from exhaustion I think I hadn't eaten all day because we were stranded in the woods and the next thing I know I woke up and we were already on the main road and stopped by a 7-Eleven shop they bought

some hot dogs for my cousin and I to eat all of us were starving and had no energy at this Stage I'm glad my family and I were safe but I guess it's just a reminder that if you want to go somewhere don't always trust the GPS or the maps because routs are definitely outdated at times and in our case that was definitely what happened still though what those people were doing up at that mountain in the cold like that out in the dark with no light I have no [Music] idea I was 20 at

the time home alone at My family's rural house with one of my high school buddies who lived with us at the time he was 18 and importantly there were no cars in the driveway so the house appeared to be unoccupied now my buddy is short skinny babyfaced and eternally looks like a middle schooler but he's a grown man who can hold his own in a fight a lifted gray Julie quad cab with a spot of white primer where a company logo would have been pulls into our Driver driveway I don't recognize it or anyone in

it they stop and three dudes hop out of the truck the driver has a semi-automatic in a holster on his hip too they had to drive past our no soliciting no trespassing sign violators may be shot to get where they were at I'm observing this through the crack in the blinds in the living room window my buddy was around back pretending to be a blacksmith with our homemade charcoal Forge he came around the side of the House while I was observing I couldn't hear but I could see body language I noticed my buddy was holding

the hammer in a very specific way so that he could whip it around his shoulder and throw it like Thor if he needed to this told me that my buddy also had no idea who these people were at that I grabbed his deer rifle off of the living room coffee table silly place to store a gun I know but that's where it was slammed a single Round into the chamber and aimed through the slid in the blinds at the armed trespasser jumping now to my buddy's perspective here's how the conversation went uh hey there kid

are your parents home where are some local ranchers going door too selling Fresh Cuts yeah my dad's inside getting ready to go shooting he's got plenty of meat but my uncle might want some let me call him to which my buddy pulled out his phone and called 911 after a moment the trespassers realized the cops were coming and got back in their truck and they left pretty quickly I found out later that the truck was actually stolen and we had had a runin with the group that was responsible for over 30 break-ins over the past

few months some of them pretty [Music] violent I just woke up in the middle of the night remembering this and I need to get it off my chest So when I was 16 my dad brothers and I lived in an old rundown house pretty much in the middle of nowhere it was a private rental my brother would do work for the landlord to pay our rent our landlord never came off as particularly creepy or anything but that could be because I rarely went outside when he came over to talk to my dad and he wouldn't

dare do anything in front of my dad but anyway I was Home Alone one day and my dad and brothers went out Somewhere I really don't remember where but I had my dog in a fenced in yard outside but that was it I was in my room doing whatever I was doing probably playing The Sims too at the time we lived in the middle of nowhere like I said and there was a long driveway which the window of my bedroom directly faced I could see or hear anyone driving up the driveway at any point I

saw a car but not my dad's and immediately began to get a bit freaked out I ran and shut All the blinds in the house turned off all the lights and checked the doors were locked but it was our landlord he lived next door about 2 mil away from our house and yes that was the closest house this wasn't the first time that he come here unexpectedly it had happened twice before and both times I was home alone those first two times he was only there for about 10 minutes walking around the outside of the

house and then quickly Leaving but this time this time was different I could sense that something was wrong so I grabbed a big kitchen knife and hid under the kitchen table I heard him pull up outside and open our front gate my dog outside was going ballistic and barking I heard him yell shut up mut I could hear his footsteps walking up to the door he tried to open the door and I was freaking out at this point I texted my dad too he was coming straight home but they'd be like an hour Still he

continued to walk around the outside of our house trying to peek into each window the house is old and has three doors that you can enter from the outside from he tried to open all three I thought that maybe he didn't know I was home maybe the last two times were a coincidence but he started saying things including calling out my name which means that he knew that I was home alone I couldn't hear what else he was Saying through the double brick walls but I quietly creeped through the house following his voice up and

down the hallway I was trying to hear what he was saying and that's when he said something that I'll never forget I'm going to burn the house down but I'll let you out first of course I didn't take him seriously which scares me even more now that I think about it but he wanted me to come out he wanted me to take his threat Seriously and that's the part that really gets to me I know exactly what could have happened if I had believed him and my life would have been well completely different he was

there for at least 30 minutes too maybe closer to an hour in fact and I mean he was very persistent he left before my dad came home and I told him everything and we moved out soon after this I still don't know how he knew that I was home alone too my dad never saw him on the way driving out so he knew my dad was gone because there was no car in the driveway but how did he know that I wasn't with him the whole thing was creepy and in fact I'm just realizing now

that I think we were evicted in the end we didn't leave we lived in a caravan at my uncle's house for a year before finding a house in a different town in the end and to be honest I was happier to be There in that Caravan and in that house [Music] this is by far the weirdest thing that has ever happened to me and genuinely I have no idea what to think about it so 14 years ago a group of friends and I were hanging outside and eating pizza on top of our friend's car when

we all saw what looked like a monkey swinging high in the trees a good distance away we lived in GA and I joke that one of the Apes from the local Zoo Must have escaped but there was definitely an uneasy feeling amongst us everything was quiet too and on this warm g day we live in an area with a lot of water there's lots of insects but everything just felt quiet and still all of a sudden the ape then stopped swinging from the trees and even though it was really large a black figure we could

just tell that it was sort of looking at us then the ape started straightening Its posture looking more human and less like a primate it was unsettling to say the least we all just stood there sort of Frozen and watching suddenly the man seemed to turn around and Crouch down but as he was crouching down his shoulder blades were getting impossibly larger growing over his head before huge Wings sort of sprang from its back out of nowhere and it jumped off the branch and flew Off even from a distance we could tell tell that this

thing was absolutely huge too at that moment it was like the spell that we were under broke and we all scrambled to get back into the car screaming I didn't sleep that night I felt like whatever it was had followed me home and was watching all night I'm sure that it probably wasn't but I was terrified honestly too I definitely wouldn't have believed it if three other people hadn't seen it also that night And it's just one of the weirdest things that's ever happened to me and something I'll never forget I've had quite a few

weird and paranormal experiences in my life but that one is by far one of the most terrifying weird and memorable ones yet so I moved into this house with my family mom dad Two Sisters two dogs about 8 years ago I was 10 at the time and my sisters were 12 and 15 some of my neighbors kids went to our School too and were in the same grade as my 12-year-old sister at the time trigger warning here but they told us that the son of the family who lived here before us had actually ended his

own life in our garage as a kid I very much believe that too they even went as far as to say that that's why the handprints are there which always freaked me out because on our garage door there is a set of handprints on the the side that just never seemed to come Off anyway fast forward a few years later my dad planted some purple tulips in the front for my mom because she has epilepsy and that's the representative color she had always mentioned how she felt bad replacing the yellow ones that were there previously

for the sun I had no idea that it had any sort of significance until she would always say that the story was just so tragic that she could only tell us everything when we were older she always got a little Bit choked up talking about it too over the years weird things had started happening though I would hear footsteps when I was home alone with my dogs beside me my dogs will randomly begin barking into my sister's room which used to belonged to the sun apparently the dogs refused to go into that room at times

I would hear knocks on my door but nobody was there my hangers were all flipped up in the closet at one point and one even started Moving on it own with no fans on or anything something about my sister's room had always freaked me out too and my sister had even said that she purposfully falls asleep in mine or my other sister's room because that room terrifies her it was in the basement she even said that while away at college or anywhere else she was fine but something about that room gives her sleep paralysis and

the only way that she can describe it is like the Baba du Hiding in the corner watching her could this just be a ton of weird coincidences or is there actually something [Music] here my dad has two short paranormal experiences from when he was around 20 years old and living with friends in a haunted flat that is now long demolished that have always freaked me out he lived with four friends in the late 7s early ' 880s and were into the Punk rock scene at the time nights in the pub and all that I do

wonder if the stories could be related to drugs but he insisted that he never took them personally and one night a girlfriend of one of the roomies was staying in the flat alone whilst the rest went to the pub and later that night she came crying into the pub to find them saying that there were voices coming from inside the flat with her this was the first hint that something creepy was happening in That flat and his standout story however is pretty brief but he was sleeping on the sofa one night woke up and saw

a person with no eyes leaning over the back of the sofa looking down at him he said that he was frozen in fear and it disappeared after a few seconds it wasn't his roommates and he didn't recognize the person at all his other experience was when he was younger around 15 when he was living at My grandparents house and this story has always always got to me so one night when my grandparents or his parents were out he walked out of the front room to go upstairs to go to the toilet and he swears that

he saw a naked man wet skinned with no arms long damp black hair down below the shoulder level stood at the top of the stairs in the light looking down before just disappearing he never told his parents this because he didn't want to scare Them but he told me a few years ago when I told him about some of my minor experiences I have visited that house a few times since my dad told me the story and when I stand at the bottom of those stairs and look up I can't help but feel a a

scary chill run down my spine imagining what my dad saw when he was young he hasn't seen anything since then and is now almost 70 I think he's definitely not one to make up stories and his other roommates also had Experiences in that flat too though minor compared to what he experienced I struggle to recall some of the other stories but to be honest my dad's ones are definitely the ones that stand out the [Music] most I live alone with my mom in a relatively nice area in a section of the house our friend owns

I have some anxiety issues from a stalking incident in a prior area of town so sometimes Paranoia gets the best of me but I'm able to use logic to reason my way out of it 99.9% of the time now our friend frequently travels and my mom has had health issues recently every person who lives here has to go outside and go through storm doors to the basement to access the laundry and we have motion sensors through the basement and yard to help us see as we're walking my front door it has a small Window with

a broken blind or two so there's small pees and there just happened about an hour ago and honestly I'm still a bit shaken by the whole thing so our housemate is traveling and my mom felt ill enough earlier that I told her to go to an emergency room and make sure nothing serious was happening and I was left by myself which isn't too uncommon here I'd been doing my normal routines when I remembered that there Was laundry in the dryer so I got up and walked down my steps into the basement and I had left

the storm doors open now was where you'd think that the story would start but surprisingly my laundry routine went fine I closed the storm doors and proceeded back up to the stairs to my section of the home I had to pee really bad so the second that I closed the door I placed the bin down and had the thought to lock my door tonight something I don't tend to do in Fact because my mom is a smoker and hearing the locks at night well it's pretty loud and it'll wake me up a lot but anyway

if I hadn't that could have been a huge mistake that night I used the bathroom and ended up taking a bit longer than I needed to scrolling around social media I remember all the clean clothes so I strip mostly naked besides underwear and I throw on a pair of shorts and as I grab a shirt to throw on my heart brain gut and Everything all of a sudden just screams door now locks in that second thankfully my buddy responded and took the two steps towards the door I tried to lock it but the door knob

wouldn't move that only ever happens if the knob is being turned and I know for a fact that I wasn't turning it I locked the secondary lock and slammed my back into the door waiting for a minute to test the door knob lock again hoping that it Would work this time thankfully this time it did and while I hadn't noticed at first the motion sensor light had activated far too long after I was inside for me to have done it and I mean there're such terrible lights I have to wave my hands in front of

them occasionally to activate them so I'm like 95% sure that somebody was out there that night I sat with my back to the door for who knows how long before I got up and Turned most of the lights off grabbed a knife that I had next to me all night I looked out both windows that fa that direction after a while and I saw nothing luckily I guess because honestly I don't don't know what I would have done if I had seen someone I really don't know what to do about all of this but I

am almost certain that there was someone there that night someone with bad intentions two nights back I had an Experience with something in the wooded areas around the Maple Lake in Illinois at the Overlook I tried to do my research on what it could have been I came across Encounters of other Cryptids like skinwalkers and wendigo however the Suburban nature of this encounter has led me to disqualify the possibility of it being either one of those creatures and its appearance and location has led me to believe that It may be what is regarded as a

crawler I don't know what it was but it was something that felt human but I know it couldn't have been a human it felt too much like an animal it still hit me like I was being watched by an animal too it just took longer for me to catch on than I usually do I suppose anyway so I'm there off the main streets in the southwestern suburbs at the Overlook listening to music in my car I often like to get out of the city Just to clear my head and I feel like I heard something

pulling up to me from behind you know it's late it's dark people like to come to the Overlook to drink or find some privacy so I check my rearview mirror and that's when I see it in the Moonlight something is in the shadows across the road up the hill I'm unsure of exactly what it is I move to adjust my mirror to get a better look when I see eyes like how animals have eyes that Glisten in the dark it's like that but they're watching me through the review mirror transfixed focused intent like the way

people do in photographs it looked like what I now imagine is the devil of some kind tall and white as snow it froze me in place it had straightforward eyes like predators do that's all I got to look at as it was sleeped up against and behind the Trees my head I guess finally processed what I was seeing and I get hit like someone poured ice down my back that feeling I get when someone is approaching me from behind or something is watching me this sends me absolutely bugging out into Panic so I shift into

drive and hook a right forward and out of the lot back onto the main road running along the hill I speed up and head forward I just drive until I hit the main road With street lights again and I don't stop until I get back out of the surrounding preserves area the eyes they just felt so human though but it felt impossible for someone to be out there but I know it just couldn't have been an animal because when I'm out in The Preserves it never felt like that when I was among deer or the

other animals that I know are out there whatever it was it felt wrong like it was invading the space but It didn't feel like a person exactly like the feeling you get when a person is around that you sort of know I keep my guard up pretty well when I'm out alone but whatever it was it flew beneath my senses and fit into the dark pretty quickly again I don't know what it was but it made me feel so sick that I was there and I missed it like I didn't know it was there until

I fully registered something was out there with Me if anyone has any idea as to what it could have been then please to give me a better understanding I'm willing to talk or listen I've been a skeptic as long as I've run in circles amongst my fellow Outdoors people but this encounter it has quickly turned my perception of the natural and unnatural upside [Music] down this happened about 15 years ago at a ranch style house in the middle of the Country surrounded by farmland and sparely space houses I haven't talked to my dad in years

and while he claimed to be religious he more so thought that he was than him actually being religious I've been a very headstrong skeptic was a typical teenage atheist and still am an atheist I suppose but have become more spiritual in my late 20s and 30s or at least open to it I Guess so my dad and I were home and he was in his office room with the radio very loud and I was in the living room working on College work my dad he can't hear very well at all however we both heard the

kitchen door open with a pop and sort of squeaking kind of sound which was the typical sound when opened work boots stomping on the kitchen floor we all wore work boots because we were outside laborers and walked heavy and the sound of both the work boots being Taken off and being dropped on the kitchen floor which is what we my dad little brother and I did and a very common noise my dad and I both heard it and figured it was my little brother coming home however the outside free roaming dogs hadn't barked and the

driveway alarms didn't go off maybe the dogs were out roaming or maybe the driveway just didn't pick up the car that's how he tried to rationalize it anyway so I Called my little brother and he was 45 minutes away still my dad and I searched outside the entire house ground floor and basement every room and it was just us like I said I'm not religious but something just isn't right about that house like at all all and a decade plus later my little brother still swears that it wasn't him he has story about seeing Shadow

People for years and something following him on and in his Car as well and many many more stories but my eyes water and I get goosebumps every time that I share this even all these years later many many weird or questionable things happened in that house too my older sister swears that she saw what she thought was my little brother when he was just a toddler but it turns out that it was like a light figure something during the middle of the night when she got up to she thought that she Saw my little brother

in the hallway by the bathroom at one point it wasn't my little brother though she locked herself in the bathroom and wouldn't come out until someone woke up and knocked on the door this was like 20 plus years ago and eventually she got older and she wouldn't talk about it anymore but for the longest time when asked about the story she would always say the exact same thing and again when I share this I have to admit that it's a Little [Music] creepy when I was about 6 years old I stayed at my grandmother's quite

frequently she lived in a mobile home or trailer I guess you could call it and the washroom and living room were on opposite sides of the trailer and one day I walked to the end of the hallway to use the washroom and when I looked inside to find the light switch and turn it on I saw my cousin Who sometimes visits my grandma looked me directly in the eye and put a finger up to her lips like a shush sound but she was completely silent she then got on her hands and knees and crawled behind

the counter and out of sight I felt a feeling of dread and instantly knew that this wasn't my cousin or even a human being for that matter I took off running and screaming for my grandma we searched the entire trailer Together but it was only Us in there while we searched I told her that I'd seen my cousin in there and she told me not to be silly my cousin is not visiting town and she's home which is a couple of hours driveway to this day I don't know what I saw or why I saw

it or why it made the shush gesture but the whole thing it has sat with me all these years later so last night on the baby monitor I saw a hand gently patting my Four-month-old son's belly when he was crying to console him this isn't the first time too we don't have squatters we don't have attic access to any of the bedrooms we have two dogs and we both work from home we would know if somebody else was secretly living with us but anyway back towards the end of May my son was taking a nap

in his bassinet in our room he's just a baby so he naps frequently throughout the day this was probably about 5:00 p.m. I would guess My wife and I were on the deck outside grilling and had the baby monitor out with us he was starting to wake up and was fussing a bit so she went inside to go to the bathroom before getting him upstairs I was bringing food inside as she was walking out of the bathroom and when she saw me she stopped dead in her tracks like she was absolutely shocked to see me

I jokingly said I live here too you know and that's when she told me that she just saw a hand on the baby Upstairs a second ago when looking at the monitor in a sudden panic when she realized that it wasn't me upstairs we rushed up and didn't find anything or anyone in the room when she told me it's not that I didn't believe her I guess I was just trying over and over again to think of a logical explanation for what she saw but nothing just ever made any sense now my first thought from

an Outsider's view would be oh this is common and it's just a glitch showing a previous image on the screen or something but this baby camera and monitor is just for a live feed there's no recording or onare memory or anything like that the image is very clear and doesn't have visual effects or anything if it is out of range it just goes to a white screen stating the signal has been lost it doesn't drop bit rate or get blurry or anything like that I also am a Videographer for a living so I'm quite familiar

with the concept of the artifacts or occasional compression glitch showing old footage that you would see on security cams that has onboard memory but I can assure you that this was not that in the four years of owning and using these cameras for our two kids that has never happened too anyway fast forward to last night about a month and a half after that First occurrence our son now usually sleeps in his crib in his room until he wakes up to a feeding in the middle of the night last night at 3:00 a.m. on the

dot I heard him crying on the monitor right on my nightstand I went to on to my wife to bring him in but she wasn't in bed as I rolled back over to look at the monitor I saw a hand come into frame from the side gently Pat him as he was crying for two soft pats on the belly then leave The frame I didn't think twice I mean I figured it was obviously my wife and she was maybe prepping the changing table to change his diaper or something which is why she had patted him

instead of picking him up right away but that was when my wife came out of the bathroom in our bedroom confirming that she was not in his room across the house I immediately stood up and said oh my Goodness I thought it was you as the adrenaline was rushing my body I could barely speak in fact it's true when people say that when something happens like this that they froze or couldn't speak or whatever I was just completely choked up and had a hard time explaining what I meant again we both went into his room

and as far as we could tell he was alone now what I don't get is if this is a ghost or a spirit or whatever why is it making itself seen we have two Cameras in the room his baby monitor and a blink camera on a shelf that we use just for live viewing so we can't access previous cloud storage that only triggers with motion two separate occasions of being seen I feel like it goes against all of the stories that you would hear about spirits and cameras not an orb not a light but truly

a physical hand this spirit is seemingly friendly I guess because otherwise I feel like it Wouldn't try to comfort our baby anyway has anyone experienced anything like this before I'm trying not to overreact and take this experience as a guardian angel looking over our baby but I'm not so sure about that and I would really really appreciate some help [Music] my ex and I were walking on a trail near my house one day and around my area homeless people are known to frequent everything was pretty much part for the Course until I walked off the

path and onto what seemed to be a deer trail on Earth I saw a few deer at first but later I heard what at first seemed to be voices I assume that maybe a homeless Community Camp there or something but we came across a deer where lowered its head and crown of antlers and continued walking toward us until it was maybe about 10 ft away and then disappeared into the forest okay so maybe the deer was sick Or had a wasting disease or something still strange behavior for a wild animal I kept hearing the voices

until I realized that it was actually chanting chanting at too low of a volume to register what the words were and the deeper we walked down that deer trail I realized that it couldn't be the homeless as the chanting repeated itself it was sort of on a loop almost like the sounds were repeating even if the words themselves weren't Audible and finally we came to what appeared to be a concrete tunnel at the end of the trail and I had this odd feeling that if we didn't leave now that we were about to die not

dread but like Terror so we ran from that place and while the looped chanting followed us down the trail or while I felt like we were being watched what I mean by that is that the sound of the chanting it didn't grow fainter from behind us as we ran and it Sort of stayed the same volume as if whatever it was was following us also I didn't know this at the time but later my ex told me that people apparently went missing there and some had even died there I heard rumors throughout my life to

avoid deer Trails here but I never thought that there was anything to it I am still perplexed and I don't know what actually happened that night when I was a kid I lived in a house with my cousins until we Eventually moved out I had lived there until I was about 12 and I had a variety of experiences there I know that they were real too because my family has had similar experiences my first encounter well it was while I was watching TV in my room suddenly the dresser in the hallway began making really loud

banging noises I unfortunately can't share images right now as I'm out of country But it was wooden and had large metal Hoops to open the drawers in it the sound was made by the metal Hoops slamming against the wood I could see them moving from where I was laying every time I would get up to look at it closer though it would always stop obviously I was freaked out and after a while of this pattern it stopped and I just continued watching TV it couldn't have been my sibling or a cousin messing around with me

too as my Family was out and my cousins were visiting family out of state the second thing though that I can remember was constantly hearing voices they would always be in my mother's voice too calling out either mine or siblings names it always happened when I was home alone and once I went downstairs thinking my parents had come home but there was no one the only thing out of place was a teacup sitting on the table in the living Room the teacup brings to me another thing that happened once before as well nearly every night

I would hear cups sort of tinkering around together I could tell it was the teacups too since it made a sort of specific higher pitch sound that other cups wouldn't I would go downstairs after hearing it sometimes but nothing looked different this final one was the last large experience that I had and it occurred a few months after my Grandfather's passing so sometimes I would sleep in his room as we were very close and it was comforting and one night while I was drifting off the cabinets in the room that would hold his medication they

began violently slamming and banging but then I saw a figure in the hallway hunched over and convulsing this image is literally burned into my memory from how horrific It was to a 9-year-old in the end too I just sort of covered my head in the blankets and eventually I must have fallen asleep the next morning I asked my parents about it and they said that they had heard the cabinets too but they didn't see anything in the hallway like I had so those are the stories that I can recall for now and I'll probably share

some more another time but yeah that House there's something wrong with it and I'm glad that I don't live there anymore so my coworker came into work today and told me about her night she was in bed and both her and her significant other smelled burning and heard crackling around 2 a.m. they both got out of bed to check it out they figured it was the bug zapper outside they went to turn it off and exited to the porch where they both heard a consistent bark from the field Below this field had no nearby houses

or anything and it's a bit of a trek to even get up their driveway the bark was weird but sounded like a normal dog aside from the fact that it was just consistent almost rhythmic in fact they decided to go ahead and check out the field they took a car down and as soon as the engine was cut there was a pit all of a sudden in their stomachs exiting the car it sounded like The bark was so far away now that even though they were right on top of it before it just made no

sense it hadn't have seemed to have changed much but it didn't sound as close as it did when they were in the house my coworker decided that it wasn't a good idea to leave her child alone in the house for too long and so in the end she went back about a half an hour passed and the dog is still consistently barking in the Field significant other decides to go back and make sure that there isn't a dog in the ditch or something she decided to call him so he wasn't just out there completely alone

once he got back there he started walking into the field trying to find it the pit still in his stomach the whole time he decided not to call out but to just look instead he left straps just in case as well by the way the entire time my Coworker listened on the phone the Barking grew more intense and the dog went crazy as it had obviously seen the light from his phone or something the weirdest thing though was that he saw nothing but the Barking continued to grow louder until he must have been right on

top of it she had commented at one point that it was so deafening it sounded like the dog itself was holding the phone but then all of a sudden just dead silence No running no barking no breathing nothing no dog found or anything she messaged her father who lives close by and he had heard the barking too but obviously didn't go to investigate she had her father ask the person who owns the property to go and check out where they had heard what was going on too the next day nothing found so far and it's

been raining there so there should be tracks and I also decided to ask them if it's sounded like A fox or a coyote or anything they Liv down there long enough to distinguish between the two and this sounded too much like a blunt Hound to be anything else so if you guys have any more ideas then I would love to hear them for reference we're in Ohio so we're in Appalachia and I know the place has a bit of a bad reputation for stuff like this but yeah I hope that's helpful so my boyfriend and

I live in a small neighborhood our house faces a densely Wooded Riverfront our street isn't very busy it's dark and there isn't a park in the woods or anything so not many people go down there much less the middle of the night but last night at around midnight my boyfriend was sitting on our front porch smoking a cigarette when he heard a weird voice in the distance it was clearly speaking a different language and the the only way that he could describe it was it sounded like Mickey Mouse he thought that it was just some

kids messing around with him but as he listened closely he noticed that it was just one voice talking and laughing it wasn't talking to anyone except itself whatever or whoever it was it was far enough off in the distance that my boyfriend felt comfortable listening until it started whistling an eerie song that he couldn't place and as it whistled it began to grow Closer he ran inside and locked all the doors and the windows he tried waking me up but I get up at like 5:00 a.m. every morning for work and I sleep like a

rock hearing about it though when I woke up to get a drink of water really gave me the heie jeebies my first thought was maybe some crackhead tweaking out in the woods perhaps but of course my brain immediately goes to Cryptids I can't help it but what do you think I've been Combing the internet for hours this morning trying to find out Legends and myths about this but I haven't had much luck so if you know anything then please do give me some [Music] ideas so I was alone once on a Friday evening during summer

in my house around maybe 2013 to 2016 I really don't remember the exact year but I was still in my early teens at this time as well and anyways usually On Fridays I would go with my parents along with my sister to help them out at their workplace but well this Friday they went only with my sister and I was left alone that day at the house I was playing Minecraft on my old PC inside my bedroom with my headset on when suddenly I hear footsteps like someone was rubbing their feet against the carpet in

the living room which is right next to my bedroom I had the volume really low so I heard It loud and clear even through my headphones I turned my head and look at my door puzzled and thinking if my parents had come back to get something or maybe my bigger brother had come to the house to grab stuff I get up from my chair and open my door but I don't see anyone the lights are on in the living room but nobody is there I go to the front door and the back door but both

are locked the windows are locked too I checked the driveway in the front gate And they closed with no cars there I end up going to every room and turn on the lights and check every corner even the closet but there was nothing nothing had been moved or changed so I go to call my mom and ask her if she had been inside the house she said no that they were already at work and suggested that it might have been my brother but I told her that he hadn't been here either and I didn't hear

a carple up or anything so she just says That I was probably just hearing things and just to make sure everything is locked I hang up and triple check everything is locked and walk back to my room absolutely creeped out now I locked the bedroom door and leave the lights on in my room I definitely turned up the headphones Volume 2 after that and continued to play Al beia creeped out till my parents came back from work to this day it still really creeps me out thinking about it especially because That house and property in

general has had a history of paranormal activity on it all of my family even my skeptic brother and dad have seen or heard things at least even my brother's ex-girlfriend has said that she would see or hear things in the house and in the back garage as well we still live there but since blessing the house most of the activity seems to have gone away which I'm thankful for but still this house still Has me on edge sometimes and I don't like [Music] that 2019 I was 25 and struggling financially I asked my mom if

I could take one of her rooms in order to pay less rent I moved in and then soon after I asked my girlfriend to move in with me to help pay rent it was a four-bedroom house with a studio attached in the back with a small family on one half of our house Was my mom in the master bedroom with one of my twin sisters Carla who was 13 it was a four-bedroom house with a studio attached in the back with a small family on one half of our house was my mother in the master

bedroom with one of my twin sisters Carla who was 13 in the other room was a man who was renting a room on the other half of the home was my sister Janet 19 with her baby daughter and my other twin sister Angela 13 and finally myself and my girlfriend Kylie myself and my girlfriend aside from some wine or mixed drinks on rare occasions are completely sober we're the type to just stay home and watch movies really my Catholic Family was fairly poor growing up and so I like to think of ourselves as just regular

hardworking people most importantly though we like to think of ourselves as rational we don't really deal with much nonsense no previous strange occurrences in any of our lives and my girlfriend is also a Christian now one night at around 8:00 p.m. myself and my girlfriend were in bed and we were alarmed to hear the most heavy footsteps that you could imagine on the roof it sounded like a big man with big boots and it was very clearly going from corner to corner above our room I got up and went to investigate but when I did

everything was normal in their house I went outside expecting to see somebody on our roof probably the back neighbors but there Was nothing we asked the people in the back but they had no clue me and my girlfriend in our cat were the only ones that heard it apparently too I thought that maybe it was someone running away from someone or something but our roof had that very steep triangle shape to it anyway a few days after again myself and my golfer and were on our bed and we heard running above us this time though

it was quick Light running like a child this time it was more odd we went to ask my sisters again but nothing which was very strange anyway every so often we would hear these steps above us I started believing that we had a person living in our attic and every time I heard the steps I'd pop my head in the attic and shine my phone around but again nothing eventually I climbed all the way up to search too but again there was Nobody up there nobody else heard them too except me and my girlfriend and

it started getting very frustrating I have anxiety and have always had trouble sleeping when I'd hear the steps at night it would be very uncomfortable and when it would wake me up I'd have trouble falling back asleep I started getting very angry at the situation in fact and I I was a competitive boxer at the time and sleep was pretty urgent for me myself and my Girlfriend came to the conclusion that this was probably an animal or who knows maybe a ghost myself and my girlfriend came to the conclusion that this was probably just an

animal one day though I was alone in the house and I heard footsteps at this point I was pretty ticked off and I perfectly rushed my way up into the attic I crawled around saying here I am I'm all by myself what Are you about what do you want show yourself do something Etc but there was nothing one night footsteps began at around 2 in the morning I'm awake now and the stress is high I start doing research on my phone animal sounds on roof or walls Etc nothing sounded familiar and there was really no

help ghost making footstep noises apparently though equals Poltergeist or noisy spirit in German I researched the history and they're not ghosts but Energies created by us humans allegedly in the past they believed poter were caused by teenage girls because of their strong emotions and that for me was a bingo my home at the time was a war zone of emotions anger sadness cursing yelling and fighting most of the issues were due to my twin sisters Angela especially at the time was rebelling severely she started hanging out with some bad Kids and drinking and drugging and

all that my mom was strict so they would fight bad about it and once they even got into a small fist fight and the police were called of course I'd get involved as well Angela had very strong emotions I was battling depression at this time due to being broken myself and my mom were bipolar my sister KLA was clinically diagnosed as bipolar but while researching learn that we could get rid of negative energy by bringing Positive energy like praying or saging your home Etc now eventually as I was up my girlfriend woke up as well

and I told her that I heard the footsteps again and couldn't go back to sleep and I told her about all of the research that I had found she started doing some research of her own at this point it was maybe around 15 minutes before 3:00 a.m. and my girlfriend says out loud I'm just waiting for it to be 3 a.m. because Apparently that's when Spirits are most active or something I took it as a joke and sort of ignored it but sure enough at 3:00 a.m. on the dot we heard the most aggressive chaotic

and sporadic thumping yet this time it was happening with no pattern and it was all over our roof my girlfriend grabbed my shoulder terrified I was paralyzed for about 3 seconds because I couldn't believe what I was hearing after coming back to my senses I picked up my phone pH and Started recording but unfortunately it was too late it must have lasted about 4 seconds or so all I got on my video was my cat freaking out the video was saved and recorded at 3:01 a.m. officially and this was the turning point for me the

next day I went to each of one of my family members one by one told them what happened in about poter I also told them about what we had to do to remove this and I told them That we have to chill out and no more fighting work on work on our anger let's pray at night together and thankfully they actually all took it pretty seriously we dialed her down severely we saged the house we prayed and read the Bible passages at night sometimes together I proclaimed at our home that there was no room for

negative energy only positive energy here and we really did a 180 at this point and amazingly it actually Worked after some time very suddenly it just sort of all stopped not a peep we never spoke about it as a family again and I've been known to be one of the more responsible ones of my siblings aside from that time being very hard for me emotionally and financially I have and am doing very well for myself thankfully honestly too at the time I really was the only one of the siblings that would have been able to

handle this Situation and turn it around like I actually helped do so I'd like to believe that that's the reason why my room was the only ones that hurt it maybe this occurrence happened in order for my family to be more at peace or something myself and Kylie are now married with a daughter we moved into our current home on December 15th of 2023 when we settled in we held hands and I proclaimed loudly to make sure That I was heard that in this house there's no room for negative energy only positive my wife did

her saging thing too and put oil on the doorways and prayed and all that and thankfully so far so good my mom and stepdad got married when I was four mom and I moved into the house that my stepdad owned after they got married it was just the three of us and our animals I'm an only child and at the some of the story we had two big Dogs who lived inside and out the dogs usually roamed outside at night on the 20 acres that we owned we lived in that house for about 14 years

and I saw my fair share of creepy stuff but this story it definitely sticks out the most a little bit of background first though so I was around seven I don't exactly remember the age but only the present that I got that year I know that I was old enough to use the bathroom at night alone but still young enough that my mom Usually checked on me to make sure that I got back into bed okay I also know for sure that it was Christmas Eve I know this because our tree was always off at

night except for on Christmas Eve our house was pretty small 850 ft small but I loved it when you walked in the front door you were immediately in the living room Straight Ahead was the hall in reality though it was just a small rectangle that had doors on three of the four sides From the living room or the front door you could see into the bathroom heading to the bathroom you had a closet on the left my bathroom door my bedroom door to the right an empty wall with the width of the door and my

parents' bedroom door as well the kitchen was off of the left of the living room and shared a wall with the bathroom in the closet it was super cute and just really cozy and we also had an unfinished basement with the stairs in the living room by the kitchen Door to the back porch now I got up to use the bathroom Christmas Eve I got up from my bed went out of my bedroom door and turned the corner into the bathroom I of course being a kid had to peek at the tree in the presence

underneath I thought that I saw a monster truck at one point at the time I was a huge fan and really wanted a remote control one but I didn't stop to Look because I really had to go after I finished up my business I got up and looked towards the living room I really wanted to peek at my presence again before I went back to sleep we didn't really close the doors in my house growing up unless we had people over so I could see the front door and the glow of the tree from my

seat I looked back at the toilet to flush and when I looked back up at the doorway between the hall and the living room I saw the silhouette Of a boy he looked about my age from his height but he had his back to me so I'm not sure what his face looked like he was standing in the doorway using his left hand to hold the door frame so that he could lean into the living room on his tiptoes and peek at the presence I think in his right hand he had what looked like a

I don't know like a red sucker or something his whole body was dark because of the lack of light and the Christmas light shining behind him I Shuffled to the edge of the bathroom so I was just inside the doorway if I had put my arm straight out I could have actually touched this kid I'm standing there about to ask what he's doing when he slowly drops back down to his flat feet and starts to turn to face me now as he starts to turn I get the most intense feeling of dread fear and anxiety

rush over me I can see the profile of his face and he's just smiling staring Straight Ahead just as he's about to get all the way around my mom walked out of her room and asked me if I'm okay okay and in the split second that it took to look at her and back at the boy he was now gone I instantly felt better and it was as if he just never even existed I pointed to the living room and my mom assumed that I was trying to peek at the presents so she just tucked

me back into bed and I fell asleep pretty quick woke up and I totally forgot about it the Next morning I did get my remote control monster truck that year too which I was super stoked about and it was years before it came back to me and I told my mom about it she wasn't surprised too because well like I said a lot of weird stuff happened in that house before I got my car in my freshman year of college I would use lift to get to work pretty much every day during the summer during

the winter or fall though I just walked even at night and in all of those lift cars and drivers I never had any noticeable encounters I guess I've probably been in a couple of hundred by now and aside from the occasional political opinion and speeda it was all fine for the most part now one day I order a lift car like normal it'll be here in like 7 minutes cool I walk outside a couple of minutes early to go and wait for my driver and I see a vehicle that pretty much matches the Description of

mine sitting in my driveway you know that sort of little car icon next to the profile that you can use to compare the real one well it was the same color the same size and unless you notice the little details it pretty much look the same but my driver was still apparently 2 minutes away I choose to ignore him thinking that it's just a funny coincidence and maybe he's a friend of a neighbor or something but then he rolls down his Window looks at me so I go up to talk to him maybe he's just

lost by the way too A different race entirely from my actual driver so I know for sure that it isn't him but it's similar skin tones and age I guess he tells me that he's my driver and pulls out his phone that has my profile like how your driver has to make sure that it's you so in my naive and innocent teenage mind I think to myself oh Lyft must have accidentally sent me two Driver and tell him that he's not the driver that I was told I would meet right as we're talking my actual

driver pulled up and rolled down his window I explained the situation and said that I'll probably get in the first Guist car because well he was here first but then my actual driver says that I should probably go with whoever is on my phone that sounded pretty logical to me And made sense but before I could turn around and tell the other guy that I was was going to go ahead and pick the other guy he drove off tinted windows by the way it wasn't until I got into the car that my driver brought it

to my attention how weird that actually was he told me that in his 10 years of being a lift driver that nothing like that had ever happened to him or anyone that he knew then it suddenly dawned on me about what might have just happened the Similar car appearance to my actual driver the fact that he had my info but I didn't have his the fact that he was there a couple of minutes early so if I did get in it wouldn't have intercepted my re driver and just everything and stupidly I almost got into

his car too I went to work and I was totally shaken up that day I tried making a report to lift but without any evidence or information other than a basic Physical description there really wasn't much that they could do my lift driver said that he would go ahead and tell the story to some other driver friends on a social Media Forum Facebook probably so that they could spread the word and so I guess that made me feel a little bit better about the whole thing but that driver he might have actually saved my life

that day and I think about him a lot and hey my dad heard about it too and got me a car in the end so I guess At least I got something other than trauma I've also only told a couple of people in real life due to the traumatic and scary nature of the whole thing looking back on it now it was most likely a trafficker or kidnapper these guys probably have access to lift servers and look for repeating customers like me I've since deleted the app and my account but I guess the uh lesson

from all of this is always check the license plates [Music] growing up I didn't know if Spirits or ghosts were real my mind was open to the idea but I had never experienced anything to believe it anyways I was 23 when I first moved out of home to my first apartment I'm 28 now so this was some time back I will say that living there for the most part was pretty normal but on a couple of occasions there were some moments that sent chills right down my Spine the first time I was chilling with my

lady friend we were just laying on my couch watching a movie or something the kitchen was small so looking at the TV you can see the whole kitchen I had a cheap trash can where the top lid spin so to dispose the trash you can just throw it in we were just chilling and out of the corner of my eye I see the lid spin a few times as if someone slapped it to make it spin I noticed it but I didn't say anything my lady friend Then asks me like 10 seconds later if I

saw that I was like holy cow I wasn't tripping we investigated the trash and nothing at first I thought maybe a rat jumped onto it or something I mean we didn't have a rat problem but I had no idea what else could have done that in short we had no idea what the heck it was and we were quite shook for a while the second moment though it genuinely made my heart sink and I've never felt that feeling ever since Then so my girlfriend she would come over a lot this was after my lady friend

I'm not a cheater or anything but she among a few of my other friends always told me that my apartment had a bad vibe to it like the energy in there was sort of dark I didn't think much about it but we had these two stuffed animals that we wanted a claw machine at our local arcade after some time of her feeling uneasy for some reason and we both concluded that those stuffed animals Just gave off bad vibes she removed them off the bookshelf and put them in my kitchen cabinet before I left for work

that day just to put them away for the time being keep in mind I dropped her off at her house and she didn't have a key to the apartment and I always double locked it fast forward a bit I get back from work and decide to take a nap I laid on my couch and the way that I was laying the bookshelf was in front of me a bit to the left side of the the wall At the time I was having a lot of sleep paralysis I still do from time to time but in

hindsight I did experience a lot of sleep paralysis in that apartment for some reason so of course I'm waking up in sleep paralysis mode my eyes open unable to move I look and all I see are those two stuffed animals sitting in the exact spot that they were at my first thoughts were what the heck how the heck did those get back on there it was impossible for those things to get back On that shelf unless they walked back there which obviously is impossible or is it my heart sank into my gut I felt my

skin crawl and that feeling of unease just took over my body after I was finally able to move I called her and asked if she put them back before we left the apartment and she swore up and down that she didn't she couldn't believe what I was telling her her as we were both in Disbelief I disposed of those two stuffed animals in the big trash this time certain that they would never pop back up again now I still consider myself a skeptic as I never again had any other experiences with what I believe was

paranormal but the couple of times that I did it was at those apartments I actually had a friend who grew up in them and she told me that they were definitely haunted she seen And heard things there too but but anyway I should have probably mentioned too that at one point my girlfriend claimed that she one time saw a big shadow figure above me it was allegedly in the corner of the ceiling and I vividly remember her looking up to and telling me to of course when I turned around there was nothing there but I

did feel my skin crawl a bit after she told me that she used to stay there when I went off to work as well and always told Me that she just always felt like she was being watched it was the main reason that I started dropping her off back at her house when I would leave for [Music] work I was working at a small business in Iowa when a man came in for an interview he was polite enough but didn't really say much but something about him just felt really off well my boss interviewed him

I stock Shelves listening to the men answer ourstanding questions what's your availability have you ever been arrested things like that when he left the manager asked me what I thought there's something weird about him I got really bad vibes about him the boss kind of chuckled at me and said we can't deny someone employment because of bad vibes I took out my phone and Googled the guy's name and he had been arrested a few few months prior for Threatening to shoot up a gas station after being accused of theft he lied and said that he

had never been arrested is that good enough reason to not hire someone it was and as it turns out it may have actually saved my life I remember September 2018 a beautiful clear day the calmness broken by the sound of police cars flying down the road a student had been murdered in the midd middle of the day on a nearby Golf course she had passed a group of men who very shortly later found her things abandoned on the ground concern they called management and shortly after she was found her body floating in a pond everybody

was in shock this was the second murder of a young student Iowa had in just a few weeks was it a disgruntled fellow golfer a jealous lover no the young woman woman had simply been in the wrong place at the wrong time she did not know her Killer he did not know her he was a homeless man who was found in the Woods by the golf course saw an opportunity and he took it he had fantasies about these sorts of things and the next day the story made headlines and plased on the front was the

Killer's face my stomach turned when I saw him because he looked just so familiar I didn't recognize the name but then again I've never been good with names but I remember stories and so I Googled His name and the same story about a man being arrested for threatening to shoot up a gas station came up and instantly I knew who he was it was the same man that I had convinced my boss not to hire at the job the majority of shifts there were only one or two of us working which means means that I

definitely would have been alone with this guy at so many points so many slow hours with few customers so many blind spots there would have been hundreds Possibly thousands of opportunities to be alone with him it only took a few minutes for a murder to occur on a beautiful day on a golf course so how much more opportunity would there have been if he had been hired so yes do trust your instincts because if they're anything like mine they may just save your life one day I have no idea what to do the last month

has been filled with fear and paranoia you see I had this incident Around a month back I don't know what the time in the night was that this happened but I'm certain that it was in the a.m. I just woke up with this feeling of dread and fear my room was lit in a dark blue from my LED lights near the door to my room stood my mom I called out to her quietly as she approached the foot of my bed slowly it became evident that it was not my mom only looked like her her

head began to tilt slowly as she stared at me I moved to the foot of my bed to kick her away but my fo went completely through her she then disappeared and reappeared at the side of my bed and began approaching me closer as quickly as she appeared she then disappeared I told my dad about it but he said that it was just a nightmare so I pretend like it didn't feel real until that same day my friend and I were driving around I've always been Known that I've always known that she was a bit

of a medium as we're both paranormal investigators however this really cemented this for me you see I didn't tell her anything about this thing's appearance but her eyes widened and she quickly drove out of the neighborhood that we were in she was repeating to herself saying we have to get out of here she later described exactly what was there with me in my room from the Clothes to the height that night we went to a Catholic church and we prayed I've been praying every night since then and I haven't been able to have the lights

off at all everything was quiet too for a while until the last 5 days because five nights ago I then froze in my bed I was laying on my stomach and I felt a hand press on my shoulder I couldn't move but the same sense of dread filled me four nights AO ago I was laying on my side when I felt something Brush my hair out of my face once again I couldn't move three nights ago I was laying on my side when I felt someone laying behind me I was completely Frozen in fear and

dread the last two nights have been Sleepless and even last night I cried to God begging for protection so my question for all of you guys is does anyone know what this thing is or how I can protect myself or maybe even get rid of [Music] it so I've had several Supernatural experiences and I figured that I would share some that have stood out I worked as an officer at a prison and although I've moved on to a new facility I have been on officer for the past 12 years one of the major skills I've

learned learned is how to retain and recall details which helps recount events that I witness this makes report writing much easier and is helping me Recount these events here as well the prison I worked at was the oldest operational in my state and was built in the 1870s in an old style with a big brick wall that runs the prison's perimeter the place has been updated over the years but some areas that still operated had little done to them since it was built now when I started the old heads told all of us that the

place was haunted given everyone who had died over the Years different places more than others like the old unit that was a segregation or what some people might know as the hole with all the prison graffiti here I never gave it much thought because if I do not experience it then it is just a cool story but not confirmed now I worked there for around 8 months when I first saw something strange I was working over time at night on what's called a one-on-one where you have to watch a prisoner who is feeling Suicidal and

make sure that they don't do anything it meant that I needed to stay up all night and check to make sure that the prisoner was breathing every 15 minutes and I had a partner who walked by every 28 minutes so I knew that I was awake it was about 2: a.m. and I had just used my flashlight to illuminate the cell of the prisoner that I was watching and confirmed that that he was breathing I looked down to Mark the check on my clipboard and I saw movement Out of the corner of my eyes my

partner had just done his round 15 minutes prior and all the prisoners were supposed to be locked in their cells so there shouldn't be any movement down there I turn and see someone doing a round on the housing unit but he isn't right this guy is wearing a blue uniform with a Breton cap shiny black with the belt and has a baton in his hand the problem is that these uniforms haven't been used by my department since the 1950s and our uniforms are not blue they're gray and modern whereas this one was very much old

I watched this guy walk down the unit for maybe 5 seconds and then I shook my head and slapped my face to make sure that I was awake when I looked back there was no one there anymore the next thing that happened was roughly 2 years later during my normal shift now the central building of the Prison I worked in is a big room called a rotunda it has two floors but it is open so you can see the balcony up on the top levels and anyone who was leaving the runder can be seen from

the opposite side even on the balcony the doors into the wings that Branch off the balcony all have Windows and most of the rooms directly connected have Windows too it was maybe 21 100 and I was going to the retunda to complete some paperwork with a coworker for my Sergeant which is pretty common as we were opening the open bar gate to go into the retunda I looked up and I noticed that the administrative Wing lights appeared to be dimmed through the window into the door I commented to my coworker that we would need to

report that a light was out in the administrative wing it was then that we were both looking at the window that we observed something move in the window and we realized that this Was not a light malfunction that instead a shadow person or something like that was standing in front of the window while we were watching this Shadow move to its left and through a solid wall into another room we saw it silhouette through the window of that room well we just looked at each other and we kept going the third experience that I had

I was about 3 years in as an officer by the Point that this one happened I was working the third shift in the control center which is where we use the cameras and security measures and all that also I should mention that there are several rifle posts around the prisoner's perimeter that are used to ensure the security of the prison but we only ever used like three of them during operational hours in this case it's important that you know that in this case it's Important for you to know that when a phone is left off

the hook the phone rings into the control center so that we can address the issue when the call Rings through you can pick up the phone and hear anything on the other end that may be being said in the area which is important in case we dealing with a staff assault or a hostage situation or something like that so I'm working as the electronic monitoring officer which means the Camera controls are my main responsibility along with the perimeter security as I'm working the phone rings and the institutional caller ID says one poost which is odd

because that post is not used because it's too small for a modern person to comfortably fit inside of it also at this time there is nobody that should be near it and for someone to reach it they would have to set off at least two Security Alarms which I was in Charge of monitoring given the fact that the guy who was doing the perimeter checks was a bit of a prankster I guess you could say I figured that it was just him playing a prank and that he knew a way around the senses somehow so

I answer the phone and all I hear is static which is continuously increasing and decreasing in volume like someone has an old television on a static field Channel and is moving the volume up and down Constantly I hang up the phone and move the camera to look at the post and I can see right inside there that there is no one in there as I'm looking at it the phone rings again as an off the hook at one post this time my lieutenant picks up the phone and after a minute walks back to me asking

if the perimeter officer is playing games because he can hear mumbling blurred out by static from one post he sees that I have the camera Pointed at it and that there is no one in there the lieutenant tells me to have the Perimeter Officer check it because an animal may have gotten in the post and knocked the phone off the hook or something the officer took a while to go to get there as they had been on the other side of the perimeter and he had to climb five flights of stairs to get there during

this time the phone has continued to ring from one post until I can see the officer opening the door at Which point the phone just stops ringing the officer opens the door with his flashlight on and calls over the radio that there's no phone in the post my lieutenant responds that there must be one because the Calli coming through in response the officer holds up a disconnected phone line so that the camera can see it and says that that is the only thing in the post this post has not been used since like the early

80s I think like I said It was way too small of a space the phone would still ring now and again on the third shift until we updated Ed our phone system to an internet based system upon which it stopped this next experience I had been an officer for about 4 years at this point I was working my regular shift as the electronic monitoring officer I went on a restroom break which means that I had to leave my post and go about 100 yards away to the nearest Restroom as I'm in the restroom I distinctly

hear the sound of boots clapping on the tile floor of the hallway that leads to this restroom among other rooms in that Wing as the sound gets closer to the restroom I can hear the large folga keys that are clinking together on their waist as they walk when it sounded like they were right outside the door I called out saying I'll be out in a minute and I didn't hear the sounds After I said that thinking that someone was waiting outside I hurried up and washed my hands not taking more than a few minutes I

open open the door and there was no one there the hallway is long enough and has three entry doors that I would have heard open and close as well as any other door in the hallway to where they would have had issues getting out of the hallway noiselessly in the time between me calling them and leaving the Restroom I returned to my post and I asked my sergeant if he saw anyone go into the wing while I was down there he said that he didn't and asked why knowing that he was someone who believed in

ghosts given that he and I had talked about how he used to do independent paranormal investigations I told him what happened his face went slack and his eyes got large as he said go check the video I return to my position and Watched the video of that hallway the hallway of the wing above that one and the areas outside the wing and I confirmed that no one was in that area during that time except for me me and there were no signs of distortions or anything now the final one that I'll share for today is

that i' had been an officer for about 6 years and was working my regular shift I was watching the medication Lines after the dino lines were done and my sergeant was talking with me not like a management thing but we were friends and just wanted to have a conversation while ensuring that prisoners weren't passing meds or fighting or Worse the medical hallway that I was watching is connected at one end to the Rotunda and at the other end to one of the main housing blocks specifically right next to our main segregation unit as we were

talking we heard what Sounded like muffled talking from a radio checking our radio we realized that it was none of us so we began searching the area around us given the location there shouldn't be an unattended radio so it was a security issue and of some concern as we proceeded to search the area we realized that the intercom system speaker for the segregation unit was making the sounds this intercom unlike a standard housing unit is not used Frequently which is why we were surprised to find a transmitting sound the sergeant points at it and says

that it must be broken the switch is in an off position and the activation light is off I looked closely and I got goosebumps as I'm made a shocking Discovery saying uh sge how is it doing that when it's not plugged in I held up the unplugged cord leading out of the interon box and gave it a slight tug to Show that it was attached directly to the Box the Sergeant's face went completely white and he walked off shaking his head just saying nope over and over again these intercoms don't have backup batteries or anything

to it and there were no direct power up hookups or anything like that just the cord that I had already shown was disconnected the sounds though they continued for the duration of the Medication lines I left the area after that and I never heard of it doing that again so that's everything that I've experienced but if you guys would like to hear more of the other stories that I've heard from there anyway just let me know and I'll be sure to share some more thanks for listening and if you're interested in doing a job like

this please do not let stories like this get in the way because it really is a very Fulfilling career so this all starts with a guy named Daniel Daniel was at one time an acquaintance of my ex-husband he was never my favorite person honestly as he was kind of an Insel I guess a lifelong drug addict and also had a chip on his shoulder because his family had money he was a liar thought that he was slick and did creepy stuff like once I came home and he was folding my clothes out of the Dryer

I don't know why he thought I would approve of such including folding my underwear into tiny little squares with a lot of care you get it though Daniel is a loser and look I know that that's mean but he really has no redeeming qualities thankfully after a while their associate friendship runs its course and he sort of Fades Into Obscurity as a bad memory like he very little concerning him for the next 10 or so years save one Thing he has lost his mind but that's just a throwaway statement a lot of the times so

and so has gone crazy and lost their mind I had the thought that he'd always been like that and forgot about him once again about 2 years ago I pull up to my house though and notice a side by-side sport utility vehicle in my driveway that I've never seen before when I walk in I see this unkempt wild-eyed looking man that appeared homeless Really I followed my husband to our room and whispered who the heck is that guy and he looks surprised and says it it's Daniel he's well sort of insane now apparently his family

keeps him in the house mostly because he doesn't do well in public and freaks people out now but he stole their side by side and drove it over an hour to hour house where he has run out of gas to go back home I instantly get a bad feeling when I see him before I even know it's Daniel This guy's Aura is just all wrong his Vibe is messed up and I get even more and more wigged out the longer that he is here because he's having a full-on conversation with well himself this was Sinister

and I didn't like his replies to whatever he was talking to as well whatever was speaking to him was saying hostile things about us for example he listened intently then laughed wildly and shook his head no no they ain't like that that is funny Though like what the heck right I'm just trying not to make him feel any type of way because I know that this may not be something that he can control or help and I don't want to make him uncomfortable or embarrassed but I'm getting more and more uncomfortable myself the longer this

goes on finally after like 20 minutes of talking to something he sort of looks at me sheepishly and says I apologize I have demons but I'm working on that I nod and tell him that I understand my husband rounds up some gas by his side by side and then he leaves at first I'm really relieved because I was feeling really freaked out by the time that he bounced when I knew that he was gone I was sitting on my bed doing some craft project and my husband is in the master adjoined bathroom doing something with

a tool I then quiz him what the heck is Daniel talking to To he tells me that he believes that he's talking to Demons that follow him and tell him things and so he was speaking to a demon with a Fong conversation at least in his mind which heightens my bad Vibe meter to the max let me tell you I tell him that I don't feel comfortable with him in my home I don't want him back here where me and my children are he's dangerous I do pity him but I just instinctively know that He's

Dark and Dangerous my husband says okay and he doesn't think he'll be coming back anyway quite suddenly though I then feel a pain in my arm like I cannot describe for a few moments I really think that my husband has accidentally shot metal across the space with whatever he was doing with that buzzing Dremel tool and he's just shot the heck out of me I put my flat hand over the inside of my arm below the elbow and Above the wrist and put pressure but it doesn't stop intense pain a weird pain like I've never

felt before I scream I moved my hand to look but don't see any blood so I couldn't have been hit with shrapnel from this tinkering or anything but I did see sort of Half Moon claw prints dug into my arm like someone had grabbed it and just sunk their nails into it not scratched just dug in there were at least 40 to 50 between my inner rest and her elbow and to my horror I Literally watched while Mo appeared right in front of my eyes I yelled for my husband to come here and I showed

him my arm and asked him what it looked like to him dang who clawed you up like that was his response I shook my head and said nobody and explain what had just happened before they appeared out of well seemingly nowhere what he did next sent a chill down me Daniel didn't leave his demon here when he left and it's clawed you up did he he jokingly said with a little laugh he was kidding but as soon as he said it I knew that it was true it didn't like me talking about Daniel like that

and it clawed me up to punish me I told him not to say that and I quietly freaked out about it until I went to bed and tried to keep it off my mind a couple of days later we were laying in bed and my husband was Spooning me with his arm draped over my side he had just nodded off when I felt that weird otherworldly pain in my side under his arm and I just knew that it had clawed me again I cried out and shook him awake in a panic and I asked him

to move his arm before raising my shirt and asking what my side looked like he looked crazy and said it looked clawed up like my arm had and he watched me while more claw marks sprung up until my side was covered in them honestly he Was pretty much as shook as I was well almost throughout the next few months I always felt like I was being watched too I would randomly get this same weird type of pain followed by some type of Mark in the pained area I basically had to exercise my house over and

over it would work for like a week or two and then it would always come back not as strong but it definitely kept coming back looking back I sincerely believe that Daniel is in just hearing voices That aren't really there I think that the demons that he says that he talks to are exactly what he says they are I think that the one that he dragged up into my house that night either decided I was weak and it would get to me it saw something in me that it liked and wanted or it sought to

me for talking about Daniel the way that I did whatever the case it was seeking only me because nothing had happened to anyone else in the House there was also a lot of DV in our home and I was the victim of it I think that it was feeding on the negativity in the home I felt like it was always just on the edges lurking or waiting to be able to get back into get to me and it was awful I've since divorced and moved on and I came to a better place spiritually but this

experience taught me that what you don't believe in you cannot defend yourself from and I for One will never make that mistake again I'm 30 now but this happened when I was 16 and it has just always stuck with me I was playing playing some OG Paper Mario one afternoon after school and as I was playing I heard my mother call me from downstairs I paused and called back yeah what's up come down to the office please I need help with something okay I'll be right there I sad is the good and Helpful son that

I was I went downstairs to the office to find it empty confused I went to the kitchen my mother's bedroom or all the places that she'd normally be I even went to the garage to find that her car wasn't even there I went to the living room to find my father reading the paper I asked him where Mom was and he said that she wasn't even home yet I stood there for a while processing that information before my dad asked What was wrong I told him that I definitely heard Mom asking me for help in

the office he simply Shrugged and said that he did didn't know what to tell me and went back to reading his paper so yeah something called out to me in the voice of my mother asking for help and my mother definitely wasn't home the whole thing has confounded me to this [Music] Day this is going to be a little bit lengthy as this has been An Occurrence in my life over the course of the past 10 years so I apologize for the length of this now I'm a Believer in the Paranormal World due to other

experiences but I am also open to the fact that this could be sleep deprivation or stress induced I guess but the moment of times that I've dealt with this and the fact that I have been Consciously awake every time it definitely makes me wonder I'm 30 years old now and my first encounter began in 2012 while I was a freshman at College I was on academic probation over a long weekend so the rest of my roommates were gone for the weekend and I was stuck in my dorm for the weekend all by myself one night

as I had finished my homework and was tired of mindlessly Scrolling through my phone I got unusually tired and fell asleep in my bed at around 8:00 p.m. with the lights on after about 20 minutes into my snooze I felt like I wasn't alone all of a sudden and just sort of jolted awake now our beds were over our desks in a sort of bunk configuration I rolled over and looked into the middle of the room below me and was shocked to see a humanoid figure Cur up into the fetal position I honestly thought that

I was Dreaming so I just continued to Blink and rub my eyes and was telling myself to wake up but soon realized that I wasn't dreaming at all after about 30 seconds it seemed to register that I was staring at it and it slowly stood up I was in complete utter shock and I just froze it looked just like a person but with no face or hair features no clothes just humanoid opaqueness I guess I Couldn't even discern gender it was about 5'9 and slowly walked towards my direction nothing felt evil or malicious about it

but I didn't want to test that theory by any means unfortun Ely it was between me and the door and I had to run past it to escape my room I yelled at it to stop approaching me as soon as my fight or flight Instinct overrode my being frozen In Fear And as it was only 3 ft away from me I jumped from my bunk onto the Floor and bolted past it mind you it never reached out or interfered with my Escape as I ran into the halls of my dorm with pure adrenaline and fear

but with it being awakened and there was hardly anybody present but I cooled myself down and quickly walked to find the closest human contact that I could find I finally found one of my friends down the hall who was still present as to not sound insane I didn't tell the soul of my Experience I chalked it up to being tired and stressed with school but unfortunately I had to eventually make my way back to my room to sleep alone again I finally summoned the courage to leave my friend's room and go back to mine after

a few hours I entered my room and there was nothing there I stayed awake with the lights on for the rest of the night with an uneasy feeling but nothing else Happened fast forward to 2013 my roommates and I had switched to a different room every year we had to switch rooms nothing else had happened until late fall and this time all of my roommates were present and it was a school night and we had all just begun to fall asleep three of us total once again I got that uneasy feeling and once again I

rolled over to find that humanoid figure standing near the head of my bed reaching up towards me this Time I absolutely freak and wake up my roommates who throw the light on as soon as the light came on it had disappeared to my roommate's justifiable annoyance they told me to go to sleep and that I'm just imagining things this occurs two more times throughout my colge as with the last college incident occurring in my senior year once again I was asleep and awoke to an uneasy feeling I had accidentally left my closet open and as

I peered into It I saw the figure again just standing there staring into me I fixate on it just telling myself that it's just my over active imagination but as I was wishing it away it stepped out of the closet and just like the other times it begins to approach me I scream at it demanding it to not take a step closer or else and then it just disappeared into oh nothingness I then graduate and join the military thinking that it was just College induced stress I felt like the encounters would end especially with me

leaving my old dorm for my first Judy station in Florida at this point I'm engaged to my now wife and have two dogs and to shorten the now long story The Shadow People they would continue to follow me it didn't matter which apartment or house I would move to I would never be able to escape the terrifying Encounters of whatever these things Are it would always start with my dogs growling at our bedroom doors and then full manifestations my wife would awake me to shouting at something demanding it not to come closer and to leave

me and my family alone it would absolutely freak my wife out as she could not see the figures I was confronting each visit it would just get a little closer before disappearing after I confronted it it would always Get close but it would never actually reach me I could also sense that it was never the same shadow person and each subsequent visit it seemed more for boating and with negative intent it also had this weird sort of pull to it as well like it was drawn to me this happened about four or five times from

2017 to 2019 and this leads me to the final encounter that I had in 2020 my wife was pregnant with my son at The time and I was a month out from deployment knocking out my pre-employment training this last encounter was was different from the rest too and was the single most terrifying paranormal or stressinduced event that I've ever witnessed I was asleep with my wife in my bed I had only been asleep maybe an hour when I woke up because I couldn't breathe I had felt two hands wrapped around my neck and weight on

my chest as I struggled to breathe I saw the shadow person above me this time and it felt like it was trying to suffocate me I hadn't even registered it as a shadow person I thought it was a home Invader at first I wrestled with it or at least it felt like I was and I could feel it and grab it this time once I got the upper hand it sprung to the bedroom floor and crawled under my bed my wife was already awake as I was thrashing about thinking that it was an intruder I

Was trying to find a weapon and told my wife to escape the house and call the cops she of of course refused and told me that it was all a bad dream I looked under the bed to find nothing there of course my wife told me that I was just stressed with the upcoming deployment I was incredibly embarrassed and utterly terrified I saged the house just in case and tried to work on my Stress and weirdly enough that was the last encounter and I haven't had another one since then now I know that this could

all be psychological but it doesn't take away how terrifying it is in the moment of note is the fact that I'm never half awake I'm always wide awake when I went through these encounters I don't have sleep paralysis and I don't sleep walk I hardly tell this story to anyone Unless they're a believer in the Paranormal is I know that it sounds super made up and I wouldn't believe it either if I hadn't gone through it I just know what I experienced and how it made me feel most won't believe my story and you know

that's fine I'm sharing this to see if anyone else has had a similar experience with shadow people or could explain the psychological reason if there are Any I guess the only thing that would go against that psychological reasoning is the fact that my dogs they always seem to react to it as well this happened when I was 15 and my little sister was 12 a little bit of backstory here we lived in this small town for several years and it was a very safe place a few years into living there we had a cop with

his wife and kids move in two houses down from us our house was built sometime in the 1920s I think a Few nights before this incident our other siblings locked us out of the back door us being idiots we kicked the back door in the door didn't budge but the frame came out of the wall and the door was just hanging there one of our blinds were broken and we didn't have the money to fix it seeing as my parents had eight kids and money was really tight growing up anyways the blinds were broken behind

our TV on the other side of the window Was a garage and our driveway next to the driveway on our neighbor's property which was abandoned and had tall shrubs what we didn't know was that there were two people hiding in the shrubs watching us I'm going to leave a few details out to make a long story short but if you have any questions then please do drop them below my little sister's name is Candice and my name is Arya so it was the summer of 2009 my oldest brother and his Girlfriend were a mile from

a house fishing fishing about 10 at night fishing right all of our siblings and parents were asleep besides my older brother out with his girlfriend fishing I was sitting in front of the TV watching it Candice was sitting in the bed watching TV with me too when all of a sudden Candice and I heard a very loud crash noise from the back door we both screamed we got up ran to the phone and called our brother's cell Phone he said that he was on his way because his girlfriend apparently Twisted her ankle he gets home

and by this point we woke everyone up in the house and had all the lights on my brother tells us to stay in the house my brother is 6'4 and 300 lb unknown to my family I slipped outside to check with my brother I know it was stupid of me to do this but I was a curious kid I saw my brother being really quiet he ran back to our fenced In backyard and he gets within arm reach of this guy and he steps on a stick the guy turns and looks back at my brother

and takes off running and hops the fence and he got away sadly I unfortunately didn't see all this because I went back into the house after a while this is just what my brother told me but my brother comes in and he tells everyone that he saw a guy all in black and he's about 6 foot and that's all that he Saw the rest of the night was pretty much calm my brother on high alert though the next night my brother was out with his girlfriend wherever they were at the time it was again about

10 at night Candice and I were watching TV again in the same spot as last time again we hear a loud crash coming from the back door we screamed again and called our brother's cell phone again and he came home again the whole house was awake again and all the lights on my Brother goes out and checks it out and this time he didn't see anything anyone out there oh I forgot to mention too both of these times we looked at the back door and both times the back door looked like it was kicked really

hard this time around the frame was out of the wall more and the door was leaning further into the house at this point we didn't make a police report because we had a cop that lived two houses down from us but while he was at Work us kids would help take care of his pregnant wife bring her over food play with her kids and all that we really didn't see him much and when we did he was really sweet and nice but anyways we told the police officer what had happened he told us that he

thinks that there are two guys out there and that they've been stalking our house and watching us the cop comes over and checks and looks he said that one of the guys seems To be on Lookout and hides right here in the shrubs he keeps Lookout while the other one does the possible breaking in he said that they had to have been looking through our broken blinds he said that at night they could be looking in and you really couldn't see anything if you were looking out after those two nights there was no attempted break-ins

anymore but fast forward to the fall of that year and our cop neighbor told us so I'm not actually Supposed to tell you all this but we actually caught a Peeping Tom he's in jail now about 20 or so miles away and he said that after this peeping Tom got caught that perhaps that's why everything stopped that is he suspected that this guy was the guy trying to break in he said that the town was safe again because of this and Candice and I were really freaked out and kind of scared to this day her

and I always have our windows and doors Always locked we check multiple times a day in fact if any of our curtains are open we get scared and we close the curtains every time I'm honestly afraid that it'll happen again one day we know no longer live in that town but that thought is definitely still there to this day we don't know what their intentions were I but I do think that if he would have gotten in that there's a very good chance that we Wouldn't be here today and that is a scary [Music] thought

I grew up in a small Southern California Town known for its orange grow Groves from Days Gone By all those Groves have been replaced by housing developments and also shopping centers now but there were still quite a few around when I was growing up in the late '90s my friend Johnny and I used to get into All kinds of trouble back then we were just general miscreant I guess but there was one time that I truly believe that we almost became victims of a child predator if anyone listening to this also grew up in the

'90s then you know that it was a different era we'd be out all times of the day and our parents would have no idea where we were and there were lots of kidnappings back then too and I can remember multiple times that I was offered candy or asked by Some creep to help him find his cat I always said that I'd go and check with my mom and by the time that she'd get outside ready to whoop some butt but they'd always be gone anyway Johnny and I were up to no good one day after

school like always we were traing around this Orange Grove that bordered his street we started pulling these little metal dam things off of the irrigation channels and tossing them Wly all of a sudden though we heard a sharp whistle and both looked up to see this man about maybe 25 ft away from us wagging his finger and going uh uh uh but his reaction was not at all proportional to the property damage that we were causing he clearly didn't own or work in the Grove because instead of screaming scaming at us to stop he had

a grin from ear to ear and I can still see his face in my mind all these years later and it gives me Chills Johnny and I stood there for a second watching this guy then we looked at each other and Johnny looked back toward the guy and shouted run I look over and the guy is in an allout Sprint toward us now despite the physical exertion that he was putting into his Sprint the grin was still on his face Johnny and I ran harder and faster than we ever had before we made it out

of the Grove and back to his house before noticing that the guy Wasn't behind us anymore we quickly forgot about it because Johnny's family had just gotten a Nintendo 64 and we started playing Mario I cannot remember if it was the next day or week or what but sometime after this happened we were both with his mom getting donuts and we saw a wanted poster with a sketch of a man that looked awfully similar to the guy who chased us he was apparently wanted for trying to kidnap a boy outside of a School Johnny and

I looked at each other and seemingly telepathically agreed to never say a word I don't know why we never spoke up maybe it's because we were at an age where we'd be relentlessly bullied by homophobes because of the mere possibility that we could have been well assaulted like that but we never did speak of it again as I'm sharing this I'm considering reaching out to him to see If he remembers and if it aligns with my memory of the incident there were so many different things that happened in my childhood in the '90s that could

have easily ended with me dead somehow I'm still here and I even have my own family now I trust no one because of incidents like this and these days I always have my head on a swivel [Music] a few years ago my mother died after a long battle with cancer in her last few Weeks she was bedridden at home at one point and on heavy pain medication the whole family took turns to help and spend time with her and what she told us towards the end gave us all a shock she kept having a a

scared reaction to something she'd jump up and say oh my goodness or she'd swear as if something had made her jump she didn't say anything at first but then after a week or two blurted out something one Day that gave us all the creeps I wish he'd Stop scaring me tell him to go away she was annoyed at something or someone to be exact confused we asked her what the problem was and she told us apparently in her last few weeks she kept seeing her deceased partner walking around the house he'd walk down the hallway

or past her bedroom door or sometimes he'd be sitting in a room and every time that it would happen she Would jump with fright obviously not expecting to see him there she was more annoyed than scared I guess but she'd see him several times a day just going about his business as if he'd never left usually her reaction would be oh for goodness sake go away not because she didn't want to see him but because it kept making her jump our first thought was that it was something to do with the pain medication that she

was receiving but the nurse assured us that It wouldn't cause hallucinations or visions or anything it absolutely terrified us to know that as well she went into hospice a few weeks later and it was then too that the Visions stopped weird huh we still don't even talk about it either because that's how creeped out we all are by [Music] it I've debated sharing this for well a long time but never got around to it Mainly because I try to keep this memory out of my brain this might be a long one but it's a creepy

thing that happened to me about four years ago so for starters I grew up in Southwest Saskatchewan and moved on to my aunt's Farm in 2019 to live in the other house that is on their property the house is fairly old but to be honest I loved it it wasn't long though after I moved in that I started To feel I guess uneasy in the house alone I would close every window when it got dark as it felt like something was watching me through them every night eventually I decided to get a puppy to keep

myself company when my boyfriend at the time was at work or away from the house it helped to have the company but I always dreaded having to take her outside when it was dark for a bit of scene setting our house sat on the left side of the gravel Road at the back of the house there was about 10 m of backyard and then there was the cow pasture and the cow barn we didn't own cows but in the summer another farmer would rent out our pasture space and so we would have them on the

property it wasn't uncommon at night to hear coyotes surround the farm either and there were tons of them as well every so often when I'd go out with my puppy we'd hear them all around us too close for comfort as Well we had a farm dog too who would keep the coyotes away for the most part as she was huge but every so often she would wander Elsewhere on the property to Scout and the coyotes would get a little too close they always tried to lure my puppy out to them as well but luckily I

kept her leashed now one thing you should know about my pup is that it takes her forever to find a spot to go potty this is still a problem today 4 years later Even but back then it was the bane of my existence she would pace for at least 5 minutes and that was only after finding a suitable spot sometimes we would be out there for like near half an hour just so she would go and not going in the house another problem of hers Huskies am I right anyway on this particular night it was

raining pretty heavily I was not happy to be out there and she had decided that she wasn't going to go Until she found her perfect spot we had already been out there for 15 minutes and at this point she was also getting frustrated with the rain and wanted to go inside but I wanted her to go before we went in since we'd already been out there for so long so as any annoyed puppy mother would do I started getting a little bit frustrated and would repeat go go potty every time that she' get distracted from

her objective it was dark I was cold and Annoyed and to make matters worse the cows behind us were fussing fairly loudly too this was out of the ordinary for them they were usually quiet and sleeping at this time of night I was also hearing what sounded like a strange bird whistling but shook it off as probably being an owl up in a tree somewhere I tried to keep it out of my mind as I kept shouting and pleading go I was facing away from the pasture And suddenly though in my left ear I heard

it go now one thing you should know about me is that I have a very strong flight response typically but this this froze me on the spot as I was mostly confused at what the heck I just heard I tried telling myself I didn't hear it I tried telling myself that it was just a move from a cow that I had heard wrong but again as if spoken directly behind me I heard it again go Go it sounded unnatural it was as if it came from someone who had never spoken a word before a raspy

deep monotone go it almost sounded like it was coming out of an old radio but of course there were no radios out there every time that it said it it sounded the exact same as the first time it was said and whatever it was had started repeating it as if it had been taught its new favorite word at this Point I spun around to the pasture to find nothing there but then again from behind me in the opposite direction now go this had all happened in the span of about 3 seconds and at this point

I remember shouting out loud all right you don't have to tell me twice as I picked up my little furball and made a dash for my front door I swiftly locked both doors behind me and sat bewildered in my kitchen Puppy went back to puying immediately obviously unbothered by it all and Happy mom wasn't making her stay out in the rain any longer I picked up my phone and called my aunt asking her if my uncle had been out in the field with the cows she said no and I explained to her what had just

happened to me she sent my uncle over to the pasture to check it out but soon after told me that he hadn't seen or heard anything he said that he checked The pasture again in the morning but again there was nothing I spent my night hiding from the windows with the lights and the TV on loud enough to not hear anything outside the next morning when my uncle checked on the pasture he didn't see anything out there but what he did find was two cves that were dead that explains the Colossal cow Panic that had

ensued the night before I regret this but I didn't push For any more information as I honestly just didn't want to know but they told me other than that that they didn't find anything out of the ordinary a few months after that and I started going to therapy for the paranoia that this had caused me I started feeling like people were watching me out to get me another few months after that I moved out of the province for good and finally felt safe I'm wondering though if any of you Here have any idea of what

the heck this could have been there's no chance that there would have been someone out in our field as we were fairly far away from town and neighbors and we have cameras that would have seen anyone enter our property coyotes are common like I said but I don't think they have a capability of mimicking words so do you have any ideas since moving I've had some weird Related things happen as well but I'll save that for another time if you guys want to hear it thank you to anyone who can contribute to this and thanks

for hearing me out to give some context I used to be a 911 dispatcher for a small City we dispatched all law Fire EMS for the entire County and within this County were multiple law agencies I had been there for about 3 months or so when I met him his name was Jake Jake had recently transferred from a big department in California and landed himself randomly at our department it didn't make much sense as to why he left California in the first place but he always insisted that it was just time for him to move

out to a smaller less dangerous Department him and I quickly became close and would chat almost every day after I got off shift within a few months it became apparent that we liked Each other and our floating progressed into something more serious fast forward a few months later and it turns out that he was doing some inappropriate things to photos or video videos of me whilst he was actively on duty this and a few other things that he had kept hidden on duty led to him losing his license and leaving during the process of his

termination his sergeant had suggested that I get a protective order against Him as he had apparently made threatening statements previously towards me such as you better be telling the truth I'll find out on Tuesday if you're lying to me Etc I had began to fill out the paperwork and was told that I had a temporary protective order on him in the meantime but don't think that I ever actually did anyway um about 2 weeks later after his termination he calls me to catch up the entire call is like an old friend to An old friend

what am I doing for work do I have a boyfriend now but progressively turns more personal when does my shift end what do I drive being 18 and naive I treated him like I always had answering his questions I had contacted his old Department afterwards as his sergeant had told me to let him know if I was ever contacted again but they turned me away pretty quickly and didn't want anything to do with it so with that I blocked Jake roughly a month later I get a call from a new number and it's Jake once

again he wants to meet up and catch up but this time he so casually goes on to tell me about this new house that he's wanting to buy in my neighborhood Hood knowing that it's my neighborhood I had never told him where I lived in town let alone what specific neighborhood I lived in during this call he progressively got more aggressive as well making Statements such as if I knew that I was going to get canned I should have just had my way with you he half-heartedly joked about getting a hotel room just for me

and well that was that a few days later he facetimed me and once again came off as simply wanting to catch up as he was sick Midway through our seemingly normal conversation he makes it apparent that he's been touching himself this entire Time keep in mind nothing suggestive was mentioned and our conversation at that point was about his new dog he's blocked once again but has tried to follow my social media and now I've started to see him in my area too last I knew he lived nearly 30 to 4 45 minutes in the opposite

direction from me so my question for all of you guys is am I just reading into this or should I genuinely consider this stalking and if so what should I Do about 6 months ago a group of friends of mine came to my parents house for my birthday for a few days this was right after our College had just ended one night we decided to hang out at the pool in my neighborhood too I live in a gated community and there's a community pool in there it was pretty late at night around 2:00 or 3:

in the morning now over the course of time that we were there I began to notice Shadows moving around in my peripheral vision And at times the sound of footsteps running behind me I live in Florida so I assumed it was just iguanas or some other sort of wildlife that might be around however within an hour or so I continued seeing shadows and hearing strange noises all around me they would be gone just as quick as I would notice them eventually I mentioned it to one of my friends with me that I was seeing and

hearing things and thought I was going crazy he said dude you aren't crazy Because I've been seeing and hearing the same stuff too I just didn't want to say anything I asked the rest of my friends and some of them didn't notice anything but others had sworn that they saw Shadows moving in the distance all of us describe the same sort of eerie feeling as well like as if we weren't the only ones there but we were it was late at night and we had been there alone for hours at this point then one of

my friends spoke up And he had told me that he talked to my dad earlier and that my dad had recently found out that our neighborhood was built on an ancient Native American and burial ground my parents they had moved to this neighborhood while I'd been in college so this was news to me also I'm personally not religious at all and I don't really believe in paranormal activity or anything I've never believed in ghosts and certainly never thought I'd seen a spirit or anything but now I Could have sworn that I was seeing things sure

enough too I looked up the history of my neighborhood location and hundreds of human remains were found in a sacred burial mound on the land it was discovered in the early 1900s just thought to be a mound of sand after remains were discovered the land was bought by an archaeological Enthusiast who eventually turn the mound into some sort of amusement park where people could walk through a tunnel and view the Remains of Native Americans from like 800 years ago there were even tigers and lions on the land too with dozens of exotic animals that were

attractions in the amusement park eventually though this park fell out and in the80s it was expected to be purchased by the county to as a a historical preservation or whatever however it was brought out by the current owners of my gated community that exists today that there are dozens Of condos and houses built all over the land and the actual Mound is still there today covered with grass and trees and to this day I still get the same Eerie feeling when I pass by that mound in my neighborhood because I always thought that it was

just a man-made Hill or a decoration or whatever but it's not and guess where it sits yeah right next to the [Music] pool at 4:00 a.m. tonight we got back From our walk we live in Poland pretty much on the check border and usually take a late walk around 2:00 a.m. we took our off-road vehicle into a nearby Forest that we've been in many times we parked the car and walked across a bridge to a spot that we visited in the daytime I should also mention that there's two separate sides of this Forest we walk

deeper into the woods surrounding us are mounds which I think are old war trenches based on the area's History and items that we found there before the ground is full of Dead Leaves so you could hear any movement especially this night because the woods were completely silent all of the grassy plants or shrubs on the ground around us looked like they hadd been recently crushed not cut down and all facing the same direction which was a little bit weird it was honestly like a a herd of buffalo came from on top of the Mounds and

just Ran down and trampled them all I assumed deer did this but as we were walking closer to the Mounds to venture upwards all of a sudden we hear this heavy thud on the ground like a a weight maybe 60 kilos landed approximately 5 m away from us closer to the Mounds we didn't see anything or hear any other movement which was strange so we decide that this is the time to leave the bridge is about 20 M away I'm trying to move quickly my Partner is clapping and shouting in case it's a wild boar

when we get to the bridge we're still on the same side before Crossing back to the vehicle we both stop and shine our flashlights at the forest to see if there's something there we don't see or hear anything but about 30 seconds later we begin to cross the bridge still with their flashlights pointed at the forest but now in a bush about 3 m away are two Sets of round yellow eyes staring at us the first set of eyes is maybe I don't know like 1 and 1/2 to 2 m from the ground and the

other set is about 1 M from the ground even though we had just shined our flashlights in that exact spot and was still an earshot of this bush we didn't hear anything moving there you can't even take one step there without the leaves going crunch though so that was definitely Strange the only thing that we actually heard was the sound of the initial thud so how did this thing move so quickly towards us without making any noise we walked the rest of the bridge backwards while shining lights at this bush the whole time These Eyes

Were Watching us as well we then jumped into the vehicle and we got the heck out of there luckily it didn't follow us and whatever this was stopped stared and just stayed behind the bushes on the Other side of the bridge I can't tell if it was after us or if it was making sure that we left it side of the bridge or something initially I thought that it was a wild boar but I've seen them many times in my life even at night and these eyes didn't look the same plus there was the actual

size of the thing whatever it was it was huge I really don't know how else to explain this and there's just no other large creatures like that in this Area we will go back tomorrow in the daytime to see if there's any animal prints near that bush but in the meantime do you guys guys have any ideas as to what this could [Music] be this incident took place in the summer of 2023 last year I transferred with my company to take a new position in a major Midwestern City my spouse was still working and living

back in California for the next few months so I rented a studio apartment for myself in a newly renovated apartment building in a popular downtown neighborhood until we could look for a place together the apartment was small but it was nice it was in a secure building with interior hallways and a nice downstairs Lobby I was one of the first tenants to move into this newly renovated building and other new residences soon started moving in too A major advantage of this move Was that I'd only be a couple of hours drive from my hometown and

my parents as well I started my new job and everything was going great I was enjoying my new neighborhood and the Neighbors in the apartment building generally kept to themselves like I did then a new guy moved in across the hall and everything changed David was a single man in his 60s and was very different from the College students and young professionals who lived in our building I started noticing his erratic Behavior almost immediately I would come home from work and he would be sitting in his car in a small parking lot just sort of

staring off in the distance we were having issues that summer with smoke clouds coming over from the vast Canadian wildfires they were leaving a light Dusting of Ash on our cars similar to pollen David though was convinced that someone was spraying this dust on his car and was accusing various tenants that he would run into in the parking lot he would hoard trash in his apartment and leave trash bags in the hallway causing a foul odor he would also be yelling to himself in the hallway I finally had enough and I complained to the leasing

office the manager was quick to dismiss my concerns Saying that she'd been in this apartment and everything was apparently fine in August though my parents 50th Anniversary was coming up and I was excited to go home and spend a weekend with them a few days before that anniversary my boss informed me that he would be flying into work on an important project with me that would have us working throughout the weekend I was really disappointed and I felt like I was letting my parents down but I Managed to get away for a quick overnight trip

in the middle of the week to see them and get back before my boss was due to arrive I drove down and I spent the night with them and the next morning I checked my email as I was getting ready to head back there was an email from my my apartment manager in regard to the incident the night before the email was very vague but it stated that a resident was dead and There would be further details coming later my heart sank and I immediately went pale my mind instinctively went to my strange neighbor David

I opened up a local news app for my city and the top story was an active shooter in my apartment building who was killed during a SWAT team standoff the night before apparently David approached my next door neighbor in the hallway with a gun and threatened to shoot him the Neighbor ran into his apartment and called 911 David also called 911 and told the dispatcher that his neighbors were hacking his phone and if the police didn't come he was going to start shooting people the police came and tried to talk to David but he had

barricaded himself in his apartment and claimed to be heavily armed the state police and the SWAT team soon arrived and David began firing a rifle out of His window at anyone that he saw in the parking lot below all of the Neighbors on my floor were trapped in their apartments with no way of Escape they had to get down and barricade themselves from the gunfire there was another building across the street with a direct line of sight into our apartment building a police sniper took position in the building across the street and shot David through

his Window when when they flew a drone into his open window and confirmed that he was dead with a gun still in his hand they went in luckily nobody else was injured I got home later that day to a bullet riddled apartment building and several neighbors who normally didn't speak to each other were hugging and crying and showing each other videos of the incident from their hiding places I've never been so lucky to have been out of town if my boss hadn't have Messed up my plans I would have been home that night and who

knows what would have happened I'm sorry David didn't get the mental health attention that he needed honestly but he put so many lives in danger and I'm just really glad that I wasn't there this event happened to me and a friend from out of town that I had invited to go hunting one afternoon this location was in south Louisiana in An area thick with woods and a lot of paletto up to 6 foot in height in some places and the water that we had to walk into to get to my deer stands were at least

up to our waist at times so it was slow moving in the mile that we had to walk to our deer stands and my friend wasn't used to this tough terrain but he kept up and when I got to the first stand which was about 15 ft off of the ground with a l to climb up once he was up I told him that I would be by to pick Him up in about half an hour after dark since I was about a half mile past him it was a full moon that was reflecting off

of the water allowing us to hunt a few minutes longer and when it became too dark to see I climbed down from my deer stand with my rifle on my shoulder and I started walking slowly towards my friend to pick him up and when I was almost to his stand I shine my light up and he just wasn't in the stand so I shy my light on the ground at the bottom of The stand and there he was leaning back against the tree that the stand was on and what was odd was that he wouldn't

look my way even after me calling his name so I walked up to him within a couple of feet and asked if he was ready to go and that's when he finally turned his head and looked towards me and what I saw in his face scared me so bad that I took my rifle off of my shoulder putting it between me and him his eyes were rolled back in his head and his Mouth was wide open just standing there looking at me not saying a word and he wasn't answering me either I was asking him

what the heck he was doing and what was wrong but he wouldn't answer me so there I was a mile or so back in the woods with solid paletos all around us and up to my waist in water with my good friend looking at me as if he was possessed or something something and yes at this point I was scared So eventually I finally slapped him in the face and he Seemed to snap back to himself I then asked if he was okay and his only words to me were let's get out of here now

so with me not knowing what the heck was going on I made him walk in front of me the hallway back to the truck and we get on in and we left without saying a word eventually I asked him what happened in the woods why did he look so shocked or possessed like That he started crying and then he started telling me about how apparently he was sitting there in the stand when he heard something coming through the water moving Palmetto as if it was walking and when it got close enough to see what it

was he said that it was a man that apparently looked like he had been skinned alive like he had no skin at all on him him and he said that he was so scared that after this thing had passed him he Climbed down and hid under the stand against the tree so that it wouldn't see him if it came back he was in shock and when I got to him that's why he had looked like he did apparently he was so shook up and crying that eventually I had to tell him to pull over so

that I could drive well a week went by and I was talking to my little cousin who had gone out on tour at a near Indian Memorial and they were explaining how this Indian Tribe would skin men of their tribe alive and turn them loose in the woods when they had committed a serious crime in the tribe and my friend who had witnessed this Skin Man a week earlier wasn't from around this area and had no way of knowing this so what did he see that put him in shock like that was it a ghost

of one of these Indians who was skinned alive years ago I don't know but I just know that the shape my friend was in when I got to Him that night in the woods is something that I will never [Music] forget I've been asked many times now in responses and conversations all over the place to share my experiences as an order of St John chaplain and demonologist it's hard to know where to start to be honest but the most important thing that I think is to say that these are my beliefs and experiences I certainly

don't begrudge You yours and definitely don't want to assert any kind of authority over the beliefs of others as chaplain we are not positioned within a church because we minister to communities it really isn't our place to judge any member of that Community but only to care for and support them in their needs also rule number one of the job is to disprove disprove and disprove again other than than that to save you the trouble I'll share things in order Of how much interest that I think that they get I'll begin with experiences then some

insight into our processes what I'm allowed to speak to anyway how I got into the field and then the training that I undertook so my experiences are this General and passive paranormal experiences are part and parcel of the job I'll touch on it more later but I'm not afraid of Things That Go Bump in the night I used to be but once you've Studied and understand it the Paranormal loses its excitement and becomes more of a puzzle that needs to be solved my passive experiences are things like every month or so I'll have some new

knocking on our doors and windows even though we live in a secure third floor apartment I get random prods and pokes when I'm by myself Whispering murmuring growling scratching electrical interference random misss distorted shadows and shadow figures here and There this has all become weekly occurrence although when I say that it's usually just one of these things that happens I deal with it and it goes away almost immediately but this is probably my most fascinating one because it's a reoccurring event that happens every couple of months and I haven't yet solved the puzzle you see

I travel a lot for my role and at the moment I've been sent to one of our small towns to train People run mental health programs or help with large scale crisis response sponsers this results in my driving for long hours sometimes during the day and sometimes at night and I will see the same stocky hitchhiking figure walking along the side of the road in a black hoodie and jeans with hood up thumb out I've never stopped mind you and he's never turned around when I've approached I've seen him at every point in the day

Dawn day dusk night I mean I've seen him In location several hours drive from each location as well at first I honestly thought that it was just a coincidence but hitchhiking is really uncommon in our country but we're small and buses are really cheap so to see this guy like that in so many different locations something is definitely up the next one this is another reoccurring one although it's newer it's more annoying than anything else to be honest but several times my partner and I have been work to a long Hal in our bedroom our

windows are closed apartment unit like I said but it's ruining my sleep and I really enjoy my sleep so this one is annoying the next one I'm actually thankful that it's resolved but I had to deal with it over a series of years to cut a long story short whenever I was in the middle of a really tough case supporting someone in what we call spiritual warfare I'd get a visit from Whatever this was it was the same every time where I would have a dream of a cloaked figure wake up to a spinning room

and I would be choking I've had sleep paralysis episodes before but this this was definitely different I'm still half convinced that this was some kind of sleep apnea issue or episode the only thing that makes me think that it was paranormal is because it happened without fail when I dreamt Of this figure and it stopped after I put some intentional work into stopping it there are also some experiences of clients that unfortunately I cannot share because is I've made a strict confidentiality agreement with them and that rests on my soul but generally speaking I've helped

people deal with their psychological issues more than spiritual some spiritual ones have been fascinating and there's a feeling that I get when there's a real obvious sign of Oppression or infestation it's sort of like a heavy feeling on my chest and stuffy air sort of I've helped people by blessing their houses which is a complicated process and depending on your beliefs can be somewhat risky you essentially have to call forth the oppressing force challenge it rebuke it and either condemn it or suppress it if it can't be dealt with in one blessing I've also helped

people with Deliverance Although I'm not really big on the Evangelical Deliverance Ministry we're a more traditional denomination but I've never helped with an exorcism I'm still relatively young for my role and while I am a commission member of the order I'm not yet a fully fledged ordained minister or anything thing so now to our processes we have to be careful with what we share and that's for a really inan reason we often get people who Either want to play a prank or desperately want something paranormal to be happening and the information that we don't share

is essentially the key information that we need while triaging our cases what I can say though is how we view the Paranormal as unusual anything paranormal by athology is demon iCal Angelic or the Holy Spirit when it comes to things that we humans get scared of well we're sort of hardwired to be Scared of the Paranormal if we believe in it it's an non-interactable nocturnal threat and it's really easy to trigger our lyic system however and again just my view I see Paranormal Activity as paror tricks of a a damned and jealous entity but I

have the power to send it back where it belongs and it knows that so it will struggle however it can it will try and scare me because it is scared of me and really it should be because I'm there to do a job it's sort Of like a spiritual pest extermination I guess but a moving cup Whispering growling etc etc is nowhere as scary to me as say driving in heavy rain or the things that I've dealt with as a bouncer while I studied humans dogs even cats are more dangerous than most hauntings or paranormal

experiences one exception though is that possession is incredibly dangerous but insanely rare Too I'm not scared of these things not because I'm tougher or Brave or anything but because they're not really actually that dangerous and they need to be condemned that being said if we go through an intensive investigatory sort of process it looks a bit like this so we're a medical order we're also an indigenously Focus arm of the order and our perspective gives us a different world view when we assess a person we don't just look at their spiritual Health we look at

their social physical and psychological Health as well the first thing that we will do fully funded is have the person see a doctor and a psychologist for assessment this isn't because we think that they're crazy it's because we're building a comprehensive profile for exactly what we're dealing with if someone is positive for physical or mental health issues that could be causing symptoms that they believe Are Spiritual we need to treat those issues And see if the symptoms go away our church fully covers any costs associated with this process too and if that doesn't solve the

problem my job is to definitively disprove the existence of paranormal activity or presences but to do so while believing that there may still well be a presence skepticism is a good thing most of the time but it's sometimes bad I know that we're not there to assume the issue is Mund vain we take all the Information that we can assess it and arrive at the likely outcomes and we consider spiritual outcomes to be similar as likely as mundane ones however we still need to disprove all of the mundane theories that we can but there's another

layer to this you see because we also need to prove all of the mundane theories too this helps us have equality of information so we won't be happy to say oh it's probably just this mundane thing Unless we can prove that after this if there is Persistence of a spiritual issue we begin our church Sanctified process of blessings and protections for the affected individual these interventions vary on intensity dependent on the person their faith relationship and the Persistence of whatever that we're dealing with I didn't take a standard Pathway to this either a standard pathway

is that you attend a church that believes in Demonological study get as involved as possible with whatever you can talk to the pastor about your desire to study and follow this pathway and see if the church will support you it's a long pathway though you can also try to become a sort of lay chaplain for certain denominations but honestly the best thing that you can do is wholeheartedly commit to a church show them that you're willing and they'll support your Journey my pathway was that I studied a youth psych degree and specialized in youth gangs

then a church was investing into the community and looking for a Christian with my expertise to be their youth pastor I worked there for some time and after a bit of a journey came back to my home denomination and that's who I work for now I got a masters in professional practice chaplaincy and a diploma in demonology but my psychology knowledge Is what sets me apart for this ministry in the eyes of the church I'm much more equipped to do a referral assessment than many of the clergy or congregation my training in demonology comes from

several sources I completed the diploma at bible college but have also done a small amount of training under a course from Bishop James long I did the Paranormal Academy of the United Kingdom online course because it's not Christian and I trained under our Archbishop for Some time to specifically respond to the needs of the community in this regard as a Chaplain this calling fit under my purview in his eyes and when I need to escalate Church involvement I go straight to him he taught me our beliefs blessings the process of our church Etc he also

taught me our Church's stance on demonology which is really old school we're Anglican King James was a demonologist so it's a particular field for Us and that's pretty much it I'm always open to helping people on here so if you have trouble please just reach out through a message I'm also happy to answer questions and engage in a discourse although I'm not going to be entirely engaging in wh ifs from the stories for me it's almost impossible to prove the Paranormal online due to the nature of evidence and how easily it can be faked so

I'm not going to get into that and I've peer-reviewed these things With my colleagues so to me I'm satisfied but before finishing I would like to offer a couple of more stories so after I started to get more involved in spiritual guidance and conflict and intervention we started noticing more stuff happening around the house one thing that came to visit was a large dark figure they were about 8T tall I'm 6'4 so tall in my own regard but this thing was huge it was coming from an underground storage next To our room we were staying

in a basement after getting involved in a particularly nasty case things started with knocking on the door from the underground storage area but once a day at random times we would hear a simple sort of knock three times the area was a brick walled room with dirt floors though but there was no external access by either wind or people we largely ignored it and when the knock happened if I was there I would rebuke whatever Was Knocking by letting it know that it wasn't welcome my partner however opened the door after the knocking but didn't

tell me she's not as spiritual as I am and she was curious to figure out what the knocking was the next next day we were relaxing in bed when the guitar standing next to the door strummed twice incredibly loudly again I rebuked but again I didn't know that she'd answered the door that night I was struggling to fall Asleep I was tossing and turning and was frustrated so opened my eyes to go to my phone and when I did roughly 20 ft away I saw a huge black shadow figure standing in the corner looking at

us it was well built with broad shoulders and a strong looking body I was Frozen with shock at first and then I flashed my phone screen in its direction it didn't disappear immediately though which shocked me to be honest but sort of slowly dissipated from the bottom Upwards I prayed an incantation and I went back to sleep the next night though was the same I struggled to sleep and had a feeling and when I was almost asleep I opened my eyes and again there was the figure except this time it was standing next to the

door to the underground area I grabbed my blessed Tire it's a mry weapon and stood then started to perform a fairly serious prayer this half woke my partner up this matters soon too and As I prayed in the darkness the same thing happened the figure slowly disappeared the next day my partner asked what I was doing and I told her I then asked her if she had seen anything and she said that she'd been hearing the knocking and tried to find the source I asked her if she'd open the door after knocking and she said

yes so I finally did what I should have but was probably too scared to at the time in case I picked a fight that I couldn't win I was New to all of this at the time and blessed both our room and the storage room I used frankincense and myr incense holy water and prayers in English Latin and my native Mary language I placed an iron cross above the door on the inside of the house and placed bigger Wooden Crosses above all of the entry points to my room including that one and thankfully I've had

no problems since and have gained a heck of a lot more confidence due to a lot more Exposure to this day though I'm not 100% sure what I was dealing with at that point so to be honest I would really like to hear if anybody else has had experiences like like this to try and gain some more information and perspective on perhaps what it could have been so I shared something about some howling at night and early morning to not too long ago and also said that I'd been thinking about Skin Walkers and I'd Also

been reading about them lately well tonight I was outside with my cousin helping him set up his new basketball hoop hoop we got finished with it and he was shooting some hoops while I was watching and it's about dusk at this point then he asks me if I want to go inside and I say sure and then all of a sudden I hear help me please help me someone help it sounded like a little girl crying for help near our Pond I was a bit shaken by that and my cousin had already went inside the

door but was waiting for me at this point I'm shaking because it's almost like I knew what it was as soon as I heard it my cousin came back out and I no longer heard it then I'm shaking my way back inside to tell my fiance and she looks out the bathroom window because it's looking out towards the pond and she sees a little girl out there then she tells me to come look not even 10 Seconds later and not even 10 seconds later when I get there there's nothing there what the heck is happening

though first I was knocking and Howling but we're having actual experiences now and I'm seriously starting to worry obviously I checked for any sign of an actual little girl and there was no sign of anyone out there it wasn't a real little girl of that I'm sure and I know that it wasn't I know who lives around this area in fact and I know what Happens around here it's not just some distressed kid I know that but I've been reading up on Skin Walkers and also thinking about them I'm about 60% native and also just

had a child lots of negative things are going on in the family right now it's pretty chaotic and it's feeding off of these things I think also by the time that I got out there there's no way that she would have fallen in the pond and there was just no sign of anyone there anyway there was no Splashing in the water no Ripples and also when I checked it this morning there were no Footprints or hair or shoes or clothes or anything either it was muddy enough to see if someone had been there last night

too and I think I'm going to start to try and catch this stuff on camera to document it because obviously something weird is going on so I've told my friends and family this story and they just look at me like I'm crazy here I also ended up telling My wife when we were moving out of the house that this happened in I lived in Nevada with my wife in a newly constructed house that was three floors the master bedroom was on the third floor and there was no door up to the Master Floor it was

just open sort of like a loft but it was a full-sized area not a converted attic or anything this is pretty common in Nevada so that they can squeeze as many thin taller houses in a lot as possible but anyway one Night about a month into moving into the house house we're both asleep I wake up in the middle of the night at around 2 or 4ish and see all the way at the other side of the room what I can only describe as like a little creature all black and I couldn't make out any

features or eyes or anything but whatever it was it was small maybe 2T tall I would guess and had two arms and legs like a person but was sort of wider and didn't move like a Person it was unnaturally fast it ran quickly to the edge of the bed and then I could tell that it was looking right at me I couldn't move and I very consciously remember thinking oh no I do not have time for this I remember it peered over the mattress and had a longer nose but for some reason it was not

able or allowed to get on the bed or something I watched it for about 10 seconds then was like okay if it can't get up then I'm just going to roll over So I rolled over and and nothing else happened that night I know that that ending is pretty anticlimactic but that's what happened to me that night I never saw anything in that house again except for that one night I was definitely awake and I could move so it wasn't sleep paralysis I've had that once and this was much worse and way more terrifying and

I guess I'm just wondering if there's a name for what I Saw or if anybody else is has had anything similar happened to them and what it [Music] was so this happened to me in my early teens I'm 21 now and my best friend growing up had this huge farmhouse in the middle of Virginia it was really old and beautiful but also had a very dark history in the house there's a tunnel that leads to an underground room of sorts that was used for slav hide in the 1800s and I'm 90% sure that some actually

died down there while in hiding so you can imagine the history and the energy that fills this house I always felt scared there too I never felt alone and wouldn't go anywhere alone in the house even just to grab something out of my room the room that I was staying in obviously even the family was scared to stay there with no company because of the intense apparitions and also experiences with Which I can get into another day the rooms though were massive and the entire house was white with honestly a sort of creepy vintage Decor

there was even a cabinet of vant triloquist dolls upstairs no I'm not joking they were a a really old family honestly with lots of dark problems but anyways the second time that I visited that house I was with my mom my best friend at the time and her mom it was a the girls trip one night I woke up and Was so thirsty and the last thing that I wanted to do was go downstairs and get water I mean I was terrified like everyone else I hated that house at night but my mom was pretty

much dead asleep so I literally sprinted downstairs with my head only looking at the floor I made my water in 5 seconds and when I made it to the stairs something compelled me to look at the giant glass doors that were in front of the stairs I was horrified but I don't know I just felt like I needed to look at the window what I saw too when I looked at the window will haunt me for the rest of my life because I saw a man as real as anybody else that I'd ever seen before

standing there it was Pitch Black outside with a huge bright moon the man was all black like a silhouette but because of the Moon being so bright I could clearly see his entire body he was black than black like he stood out so Much that I 100% thought that he was a trespasser he was wearing a top hat and was unhuman tall like well over 7 ft my heart literally felt like it stopped beating and for a moment I felt like I was in a trance of sorts I was so unexpectedly horrified but I couldn't

look away he was also moving a little bit almost like breathing I think then about 10 seconds later he was gone disappearing into seemingly thin Air well I absolutely panicked and bolted upstairs after I snapped out of my trance that is I cried to my mom and was up all night and I didn't get a wink of sleep after that the next morning I told my friend and herum about the experience and they were not shocked at all as they had seen multiple full body apparitions in the house themselves they didn't seem to be fussed

by it I found out later too that the nanny that worked for them even Refused to go into some rooms of the house after her own experiences but after that I never went back to that house ever [Music] again this experience happened a while back but I thought that I might as well share it on here for you guys to hear so back in the mid 2000s I lived in this house with my dad my mom and my sister across the road from this house was this massive Mansion which had a lot of Residential turnover

which my family being included believes is cursed my sister and I were kind of scared of it to be honest because it was this big dark house that felt uninviting and cold when my family moved into our house there was a wealthy businessman living in the Mansion across across the road who moved in a few months before us this guy was really rich like think luxury cars massive dinner parties with his rich friends Etc apparently he owned a bunch of businesses started a new business shortly after we moved in and after almost 6 months of

starting this business he went bankrupt he apparently lost everything he sold all of his luxury cars he had no more dinner parties and he also quickly became an alcoholic he ended up selling his house because he of course couldn't afford it but after he sold the house a young recently married couple moved in I have No idea how they afforded the house but nonetheless they moved in and settled in quickly my parents actually became quite good friends with them and we would have them over for dinner occasionally they stayed in the house for about 2

years but within that 2 years they had three miscarriages the wife ended up becoming depressed and even had to be committed to a psych ward because she was thinking about deleting herself these two incidences could be Just classified as bad luck I know that perhaps Unfortunate Events but the third one in my opinion solidifies that this house is cursed so another couple moved into the house after the other couple decided to move and this couple were pretty wealthy they hired a maid to stay in the house and to assist them with cooking and cleaning Etc

after a year of them living there we once again got pretty close to this couple and would sometimes have Them for dinner too and swim in the pool that they had as well one night my dad woke up and had a strange feeling apparently he heard something outside so looked out of his bedroom window and saw the maid packing her car in the middle of the night the couple that was living there was apparently away for the weekend and the maid was staying at the house by herself he thought that it was weird and was

a bit concerned but didn't think too Much of it and went back to sleep after he went back to sleep he had a terrible nightmare that the maid ended up ending her own life in the garage of the house he woke up in the morning a bit shaken from this dream and had a sort of six sense feeling he decided to go over there and check if everything was okay he rang the doorbell but didn't get an answer so he decided to go around to the back of the house to see if the back door

was unlocked The back door was unlocked so he went in he entered the living room and sure enough his dream had come true he instantly ran home and called the police in ambulance but by the time that they got there and by that point it was too late I remember seeing my dad after the event and he was as white as a ghost of course he didn't tell us what had happened as we were only Young he ended up telling us when I was about Maybe 15 or 16 or something and I don't really bring

it up to him because he hates talking about it and gets really upset about the whole thing we moved a little bit after the last event happened I still have no idea what happened to the next family that moved in but I seriously hope that nothing bad happened to them to this day though I am convinced that that Mansion is cursed so myself and three of my friends were all sitting in my backyard on my picnic Table the top of it so we were all facing the same way looking up at the clear night sky

one evening in the small town that we lived in we had just left the bar and were chatting about our night and smoking a joint when all of a sudden out of nowhere we saw something really big all black triangle in shape with no no lights whatsoever on it appear in the night sky it was a split second that we all saw it move from one end of the sky to the other and it Covered the stars as it did this it was absolutely massive easily the size of a football field all of us just

looked at each other and exclaimed at the same time did you just see that it was honestly insane and something that I'll never forget but then a few weeks after the incident I had a very Vivid dream that I was on a very cold operating table with what I can only sense as beings that were not human and they were sort of Tickling me each time that they touched me almost like a a faint electrical current but there were more than one touching me in different places all at one time it was weird because I

could feel their physical touches while asleep like I was actually there I wasn't able to see anything while this was going on I'm pretty sure that had something over my face so I couldn't see them or anything around me however I didn't feel threatened or scared by them at all Which was a bit strange because honestly I probably should have been the dream ended abruptly and I woke up in my bed but it seemed so real to me that to this day I fully believe that maybe I was abducted while asleep so that they could

study me I've not seen the black triangle in the sky since or had any more abduction dreams thankfully but it was definitely one of the strangest occurrences for me to Date I'm wondering though if anybody else here has had a similar [Music] encounter when I was a kid I lived in Clinton Tennessee both parents worked full time so I was often sent over to stay with my grandparents who had a plot of land in the vicinity of but not right in mosheim near Greenville both of them had been in East Tennessee for their whole lives

and that area for a good many years as well they Had been established at their home for some decades before this story and remained there a good time after recently I had reason to return to that area after having spent the majority of my adult life in MN being in and around the area driving the same roads made me reminiscent about my lazy summer days tucked away at my grandparents I had learned to shoot on the same 22 with which grandpa had taught mom feeding fish at a neighbor Stocked Pond or just spotting deer and

bear with binoculars from the back porch when I relayed this to my mom she in turn told me a story about a time that I scared my grandpa half to death then lied about hanging out with Bigfoot at first I honestly had no idea what she was talking about but then I remembered exactly what actually happened with startling Clarity there was some new context given by The Experience adulthood provides I Guess and no this is not a bad big Fort or a crypted but before we start some information about my grandparents land their house was

on a small hill surrounded by a grass lawn the lawn gave way to a smallish Hayfield than the wood line these Woods lasted for a good half mile to either side of the home and a good several miles to to the back I hated the Hayfield because it was too Pokey to play in but I like to hang out in a sort of cck that ran behind it to Get there I would walk to the edge of the property just in the Woodline to avoid the hay and while at my grandparents the only rules were

that I had to stay where I could see the house so the house could see me I was to take a whistle with me anywhere that I went as well I didn't take the whistle seeing it as a badge of my regrettable young age and the best part of the creek was it was out of sight of the house in fact that was the only stretch where it got Deeper than my knees and thus the only part where I could swim naturally I spent much of my time in that water splashing around skipping stones and

just being a kid but one day I was playing in the creek when I noticed someone it was a man a stranger on the bank just watching me he had long hair a beard and pale skin and so dirty that it was stained I couldn't tell his age and simply thought of him as old I have no better guess now as well As he clearly went through long years of hard living He Wore no shirt on no pants only a wrap of dirty cloth around his waist and I thought of as a sort of Moses

dress at the time thanks to some Illustrated Bible stories I heard growing up around his neck there were multiple necklaces made from nodded tatters of cloth fiber and string in those knots were various pieces of mostly bones but some flowers and bits of dark glass as well it Seemed when I first saw him there I was terrified I was frozen still the man however was smiling he gestured from his squat with an outstretched arm fingers down in a kind of don't stop for me wave I didn't react at first I think I was just sort

of startled then he SP flashed at me still smiling he did it again I splashed back and soon we were playing we both threw water at each other he jumped into the creek and stomped around with me Laughing all the while he threw rocks in the water and so did I I pushed him he pushed back we carried on for some minutes until my grandma called for me with her voice a switch had turned off the man also stopped in his tracks fixed his gaze toward the house then as my grandma kept on hollering he

looked at me he crept back to his side of the creek barely disturbing the water and then slid into the brush completely silent the whole time holding my Gaze once he was out of sight I waited in the water until my grandma found me she wanted to know if I was alone and I said no she became very tense asking who was with me while looking around I didn't answer because at the time I I just didn't know how seeing no one she pulled me back to the house without any more words gripped like iron

the whole time at the house the real Inquisition began and I didn't really have new words the event and this Reaction overwhelming my ability to explain I guess such silence further irked my grandma and I was swiftly placed in a corner held without bail awaiting patriarchal judgment around an hour later my grandpa came home from work he was told about my churlishness and was ready to set into me again when I started talking I told him about the man hairy and old dressed like Moses about how he played and then he Disappeared I remember they

digested this for a few minutes before sending me to my room I was honestly happy to go and happier still when Grandpa didn't yell at me like he usually did when I misbehaved later I was brought out for dinner I ate in the kitchen with Grandma but Grandpa called me to The Back Porch he was on The Swinging bench looking out over the Hayfield turned red by the Setting Sun he kicked off his boots and put them next to his shotgun I knew that That was odd for the gun to be out of the closet

previously we had used it to shoot bottles Sam I would actually throw them into the air like their clay pigeon or whatever but these escapades were accompanied with speeches about how the gun was dangerous and only for adults to use he went through my story again his tone deadly serious now eventually he asked me how hairy was the man really I told him very thinking that this was the right answer he asked where and I told Him everywhere like a bear he ruminated on this and I grew more nervous worried I was in trouble or

causing trouble just wanting the trouble wherever it lie to end so when he finally asked me to swear in the Name of Christ or on my mother that I was telling the truth about everything I said that I had been joking he finally yelled and then sent me back to my room and after that the family memory became that I had hid by the creek and made up a tale about Bigfoot at the time everybody was upset with me and I was forbidden from going back to the creek or anywhere out of sight the enforcement

of this rule like the others was was a bit like luster even so for a time I didn't go back there in my memory I stayed away for a long time but I am sure that it was only a few days that Hiatus feeling interminable to my elementary aged self when I did start going to the creek again I took a bucket of toys mostly Godzilla stuff and a thick stick plucked from the Woodline on the way I think that I was conflicted about what to do if the man came back imagining either impressing him

with my toy collection or clubbing him or both in turn when he did show back up he appeared next to me as I dozed under a tree on my side of the creek I was once again gripped with Terror he was not smiling his face expressionless as he looked beside me having watched for who Knows how long before I smelt him I scrambled away leaving my stick and toys coming to my feet a yard out I stood in the sun while the man watched me from the shade eventually he crouched and started to look through

my bucket I remember becoming indignant as he examined my toys one by one only to toss them into the dirt it became too much at some point and I started to lecture the man telling him about how he got me in trouble how he was a weirdo How he stank at some point he stopped watching through my things and calmly watched my tirade face still neutral eyes analytical once I had concluded my lecture I sat back under the tree to pout having become hot in the sun I remember the man made a noise a grinding

kind of snort and when I looked over at him he was chuckling while he inspected the last few figures in my bucket I wanted to laugh too but was More determined to stay Sullen once everything was out of the bucket he put one figure gor a back into the bucket he then stood to his hunched fullest took the bucket by its handle began to make his way back into the woods I stayed by the tree line until he turned said something not a word that I knew or know and gestured with a forward sweep of

his hand at first I didn't comply despite knowing that he wanted me to follow After a few moments he yipped clicked his teeth and gested again more emphatically with this further prompt I did get up and come along the man making improving noises and putting on his smile again we went into the woods the man LED but he was naturally quicker and quieter making it hard to keep up eventually he would stop when he lost Me Knocking on the trees with sticks and whistling AR rhythmically so that I may find him in The vegetation he

never came back for me though opting instead to guide me forward with the noises at this point and it was at this point that I became lost having only a vague sense of my grandparents Place being behind me after some time maybe 15 minutes we came to a bol the man had me wait there indicated by padding the ground before going into the tree line alone he returned from a Different direction pulling a sled it was made from half of a discarded plastic drum and lined with small pelts and and smooth bark and on the

back half there rested the fly covered carcass of squirrels opossums and other Critters Savaged into anonymity on the pulling end woven pouches were tied into place on it by the same eclectic cordage that made the man's necklaces he put my bucket on the sled And tossed a gadora in a pouch he then called me closer with a glottal noise and a beckoning wave I saw the sled's pouches held many odds and ends dried salamanders mushrooms metal bits glass fragments from one the man pulled a square made from bound together sticks just big enough to slip

over my wrist from another he pulled a piece of fool's gold and a small Shard of geode crusted with a a sort of bit of purple Crystal It looked like these he handed to me with an air of business and made a few more utterings of nonsense he then ped the ground again for me to sit I did so without much bewilderment understanding that we had traded the same as exchanging Pokémon cards at recess I didn't much Miss gadora anyway as he was a bad guy but the bucket was a huge loss in retrospect I

think Adora was Chosen because its d gold scales resembled something valuable the bucket for its obvious ability to hold things I guess but the man came back and G Ed for me to follow by slapping his thigh I did this readily during the hike back I tried to keep up and pay attention I did so moderately well having to be whistled over a few times but I did notice that our path was not straight the man led me one way and then another making turns unneeded by the lay of the land but we Eventually though

came out by the creek but from a different approach than we had left I could hear my Grandma calling for me again not from up on the hill but from out in the field the man would not cross the creek at this point but pushed me to do so I did but did not go to my grandma instead I crept back to the house and around to the opposite side there I laid in the shrubs by our front door pretending to sleep and I was Found I swore that I had been there the whole time

but when I was sent back to my room I placed my Fool's Gold Crystal and charm in my bed inside table for safekeeping the next day I went back to the creek to pick up my toys and the man was not there however throughout that summer he did visit me again to sit under the tree or throw rocks at the water or Yammer softly to himself I would bring snacks and candy to share and he would likewise Give me stringy dried meat which I ought not to have eaten I know or honeysuckle blossoms which I

still would eat taken from my old bucket he seldom visited long and never splashed and whooped like he did on that first meeting and at this point you may be wondering why I'm sharing this story and well there are two more occasions that I wanted to account one absolutely gruesome and the other was awful so the eventful one occurred near The 4th of July I had brought two boxes of bang snaps to the creek the man was initially wary of the little fireworks but quickly came to appreciate their miniature pyrot Technics he took the box

that I gave him gratefully even taking the empty box likely for the wood shavings which are excellent Tinder but during the use of the bank snaps I had scared a turtle into the water and to the opposite Bank it sat there watching us from the far Shore the man after Stowing the bang snaps into the bucket noticed the turtle with little thought he scooped up a smooth Stone and threw it with force and accurac Y into the turtle he then waited over to retrieve the slider which struggled meekly in his grasp one leg knocked clean

off on my side of the river he took from the bucket a new piece of stone one side was rounded and fit into his hand the other came to a sort of flinty Cutting Edge working with deaft experience the man Began chopping the live Turtle above its neck pulling up on the shell toop the thing struggled and BL L as it was bisected the Dome eventually coming free the turtle dropped eventually to mingle everything with the dirt and the sand the man rinsed the shell in the river then offered it to me in wordless horror

I just ran that evening I came back to shuffle the dead Turtle into the flowing Waters of the creek the shell itself was Nowhere to be found this experience did not deter me from going to the creek or the men from visiting again however sometimes he would try to call me away from the creek with thumbs and whistles I would tell him that I heard him and refused to move on some occasions he would join me on others he would leave the last time that we met we were sitting under the tree sharing cowtails And

from the woods there came some whistling and the staccato knocking of a woodpecker the man looked up and whistled back there were a few more such exchanges before he stood collected his bucket and beckoned for me to follow I was curious and felt comfortable with the man as a guide so I did as asked he took me back to the Bal a direct path this time periodically stopping to call or respond to the other in the wood and waiting for us at the Bal was a woman and a child the woman was dressed the same

as the man topless wrapped at the waist she was dirty with long hair and a wiry frame the child was in a similar State wearing a sack that went to their knees the man sat on the ground and the woman joined him sitting in his lap sort of partly but leaning forward so that her elbows rested on her cross knees she had dark brown eyes that were fixed on me the other child would not look up I Didn't know what to do I didn't speak the other kid lifted their sack to wipe at their nose

and I learned under all that dirt that it was a hert her the man then made a noise and drummed on the woman's bare back the kid looked at him still hanging her head hair covering her face the woman yammered and swed at the girl lazily the man echoing her noises slapping skin to skin once more at this bizarre scene the girl approached me stopping close enough that I could smell her and hear her wheezing breath she was thin but not emaciated and slightly taller than me should she have straightened up the man and the

woman fussed some more then the girl leaned close to me and pressed her cheek to mine her hair was in between us greasy and cold she made no move to embrace me no move at all only pressing limply against me and breathing so loud now that it was all that I could hear during this time the woman had Approached she pulled the girl back by her shoulder with one hand and delivered a flurry of slaps to the crown of the girl's head the woman then gathered the girl's hair in one hand using the other to

sweep back her bangs the girl was then made to look at me face bare one side of her jaw was bulged out smooth skin over a lemon-shaped bump her mouth was twisted by this deformity her nose faced to one side as if a fixed sideways and leaked a trail of clear Snot one eye was bulged and sort of roomy the other startlingly regular it looked at me blank and dark brown the woman gave the girl's head a little Shake spat off to the side then cwed like a dove as she smiled at me at that

I'd had enough and I ran there was commotion behind me I think the girl was pushed to the ground but I didn't look back and they didn't pursue my flight ended at my grandparents house my absence Unnoticed I chose not to tell anyone what happened wanting to just forget it I guess not wanting to get into trouble either not thinking about the girl the couple what was intended for me I just spent that August inside whenever I visited my grandparents I beg not to be taken claiming that it was boring and lonely sometimes when I

sat on the porch or went from the car to the house I'd catch a snippet of a bird call in the Wind or the distant tapping of wood and I would always hurry inside my grandmother could tell that something was wrong and made made an effort to entertain me in town my grandpa cared in his own way involving me in errands as he never had before eventually school started classes and Friends eased me away from the thoughts of the dirty man or the people in the clearing and time must have done the rest I think

now that all of the people In the clearing were of a family I guess but their features white skin brown eyes brown hair are common enough that that they all could have been unrelated I guess I'm sure that they lived together though they knew each other's signs and signals they even use their own words I know that the Smokies are full of tales of feral people wild men and Superstition I also know that they are full of people living in unlikely ways in unlikely places and that those real People call others kin and that through

the chain of human connection even a recluse living in a rundown sha is someone somebody I guess though that I'm asking if people in my story are somebody someone or if they may be known or if their behavior Rings any bells bellies any known intention I figured that here where the taale would not be discounted immediately out of hand this might be The right place to ask some people so if you have any thoughts about this then I would love to hear them and thanks for listening [Music] I still think about this every now and

then when I was in third grade I had a friend named Rebecca she had transferred to my school because she moved around a lot from foster home to foster home so I didn't plan on creating a tight bond with her because I knew that she would Have had to move eventually throughout the school year she was my only friend though she was somebody who truly understood me I never felt understood until I met Rebecca in fact she was the first person to introduce me to the Paranormal whenever I would spend the night at her house

she would always tell me scary stories in the dark as she would shine a flashlight over her face I really didn't believe the scary Story she told me until well this one particular night so we had just went to dinner and a movie with her parents when and I would spend the night we would have a bedtime and it was 8:00 p.m. exactly on the dot but Rebecca and I never followed that rule whenever we knew her parents went to sleep we would go downstairs and watch some TV in the living room so we did

that that one particular night and as we sat on the couch she started Telling me that she would see this man and his dog every single night he usually minded his own business and didn't speak he would just wander around the house with his dog obviously I was skeptical but as the night went on I thought to myself that Rebecca was lying to me just trying to scare me you know how Elementary schoolers are they often have a bad habit of lying but as we sat there on the couch watching TV I looked behind me

And sure enough there was this man with his dog going up the staircase the man had a top hat and a tuxedo on and his dog was what looked like to be a golden retriever of sorts Rebecca didn't have a scared look on her face like I did I remember being so scared that I had to sleep in my mom's room for a couple of weeks after it because the whole thing just really shook me I never did keep in touch with Rebecca after she moved but I hope she's doing well my husband works at

the Oregon State Hospital a facility Infamous for its past treatment of mental illness and where the classic film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was shot despite its dark past the facility had become a place of healing for many individuals suffering from mental illness however as with many older buildings a portion of the Asylum was Scheduled to be demolished as part of his cleaning duties my husband ventured into the abandoned portion of the building which had been void of any human activity for a considerable length of time by this point as he worked he couldn't

shake the feeling that he was being watched during his lunch break he decided to call me to check in I answered the phone and I could hear what sounded like people talking in the Distance however the voices were muffled and indistinct he sounded distracted and didn't seem to be listening to anything that I was saying irritated I sort of snapped at him and asked if he was calling to talk to me or them my husband was confused and quickly replied that he was alone in the building my heart sank as I realized that something just

wasn't right there was a panic in his voice too that I had Never heard before in our 19 years of marriage after that experience my husband was understandably shaken but he continued to work at the Asylum he never had any other experiences like that again but the memory of that day still very much creeps us [Music] out I lived in this house for about 7 years and I have a lot of stories so I apologize if this is a little bit long I've tried to structure it in a Chronological sense as best as I can

anyway but for some background info this is in a small town in Central Texas the house is a one-story three bedroom two bath with a front and back living room a nice sized backyard with a palm tree gazebo and a shed converted into a bar it was right across the street from a Catholic Church Cemetery and after we moved out we found out that the property used to be an orphanage in the 1960s but shut down because before that it was a Funeral home with a crematorium that the orphanage was using to dispose of the

bodies of the now nourished and abused children living there we me and my immediate family were initially hired to clean up the house after the previous tenant trashed it by trashed I mean absolutely trashed it too the carpet when we cleaned it was a light beige color but it started out black there were humanized holes in the walls as if someone was slammed repeatedly all Through the house dead chickens and other animals were all over the floor along with black candles pentagrams on the walls and floor and some mystery blood smeared on the back closet

of the master bedroom as well how did we feel comfortable enough moving in after we found all of that well when it was cleaned up it was a really nice place and the rent was only $450 a month we should have known just based off of the low rent but I Digress so the first incident it was our first day in the house I had most of my stuff in already so my parents told me to wait at the new house while they went to our old house with my siblings to get some more stuff

and all that I decided to take a nap after putting a few things on my dresser in the center of the dresser I put a merry candle my mom had given me might be important to note too that the most satanic stuff was found in the master Bedroom that had a walk-in closet a dressing room and its own bathroom this room became my room because everybody else was too scared to even set foot in it in including my parents the whole s years that we lived there the only time anybody else but me set foot

in that room was before we moved in while we were cleaning the house my little brother got the middle room and my little sister got the room next to his at the end of the hall next To the other bathroom and my parents opted to turn the back living room into their bedroom so after arranging my stuff on the dresser I laid on my bed to take a nap while waiting for my family to return with more stuff when not 2 minutes after I shut my eyes the candle slid off the right side of the

dresser to the floor with a thud I was a little bit freaked out but as I was by myself I try not to let it Get to me too much rationalizing it saying that it was the wind or my dresser was crooked or slanted or something I checked the dresser by pulling it away from the walless smidge and putting a ball in the center to see if it rolled and it didn't then I checked all the doors and the windows to make sure that there wasn't a drafter or anything like that I put the candle

back in the center and I laid back Down when not even a minute or so after I shut my eyes the candle slid off the left side this time like someone was sliding it and it fell I literally said nope and I ran outside and waited on the porch until my family got back when they questioned why I was outside because it was summer and Texas is really hot in the summer I replied that I wanted some fresh air and Sun trying to play it off so that they wouldn't think that I was crazy here

now the second incident this Was after we had been living there for a few months I was asleep in my room with the door open because it made me feel better and the rest of my immediate family were gathered in my sister's room down the hall telling each other ghost stories as it was close to Halloween at this point my mom said something along the lines of you all better stop telling that stuff before something happens and right after she said that my door slammed shut with so much force that it Shook the entire house

I instantly started screaming side note too when I was younger I used to sleep talk or walk a lot especially if there was paranormal activity in the house as this wasn't the last time that we lived in a haunted house unfortunately my mom urged my stepdad to go and check on me but he just said you go and check on her So eventually they both came to check on me and they said That once they open the door they saw me sitting up in my bed with my eyes open but glassy and not focused on

anything and apparently I kept saying get off of me help they were too scared to enter the room so from the door they switched on the light and said get out at that moment they said that a black sort of cloud seemed to lift off of me and I fell back in the bed with my eyes closed fast asleep I don't remember any of that but What I do remember is waking up and them freaking out but they freaked out and left me there because apparently they were too scared and told me about it in

the morning I knew that they weren't lying too because the dream that I had the night before matched up with what they were saying and they both sort of looked kind of pale when they were telling me so they were scared and they just left me in there Apparently I'll probably end up sharing a part two later as there's a lot more but any additional information needed or any questions please do ask below as I'm happy to share more I think that I was someway between 10 and 12 when this happened but I do remember

it pretty well so I was very adventurous as a kid still I'm now to be honest I was always outside wasn't at my house too much especially around this time time is my parents were going Through a divorce and everything was about them and US children were somewhat neglected we lived in a really nice Suburban neighborhood though that had a lot of trees and curvy hilly windy blocks that were quite a lot of square miles really big maybe 100 or so but I could be way off basically we had a lot of space to explore

though is what I'm getting at I was with my four friends during the summer middle of the day we were walking back to go to some 's house After playing some baseball or something two of us had scooters and went ahead of us a little ways and two of us were walking trailing behind at one point our scooter friends get to the end of the block and turn around to wait for us slowpokes just walking and I remember getting a really strange feeling but at the time I didn't really know up from down so I

barely recognized it they're both looking back at us kind of concerned which I think triggered that Feeling but then one of them shouts guys run I look at my friend like why would they want us to run right now he says it again with more force and gave me a slight fright run so I thought all right we start running full speed towards them really wasn't that far away maybe 100 ft and stopped when we got to them but why did you want us to run apparently a car drove by us slower than normal with

purple tinted windows and turned around the corner and Disappeared and that car had slowed down and was pulling over and someone had opened one of the doors and my friend said that they could see someone there like they were getting ready to try and grab us I don't remember seeing that part happen but I do remember the very eerie Vibe of the car so I'm fairly certain that they weren't lying I thought that I remembered that same car parked in a nearby driveway at One point like maybe they lived there and it was their lot

but I was never sure if it was that exact car or not in any case having good friends like this that look out for you it may just save your life like perhaps it did mine I'm 19 years old and living far from home in a studio room I'm often up late and last week I was just doing some laundry at around 11:00 p.m. is when I saw a man sitting in the lobby I saw him around a bit at night but I didn't think Much of it anyway I'm in the laundry room I just

put my clothes in the dryer I think and I hear the laundry room door beeping which meant that someone was coming in there was the man standing there with no clothes to wash just sort of staring at me I maneuvered around him and headed to the lifs he followed me quickly and cornered me and asked for my Snapchat I was tired and I just wanted to get back to my room so I stupidly Gave it to him I figured that he'd message and try and flirt a bit and I'd say I have a boyfriend sorry

if you thought that this was anything else and that would be the end of it I'm about 5'4 with very long red hair and I'm half Indian and English with afghanistani descent so I'm wide passing I guess but kind of exotic but people tend to stare at me a bit because I look a bit different anyway he starts messaging me It's kind of normal but then he starts saying weird stuff like I saw you a month ago and I was impressed I've been visiting a friend and staying here and I've been watching you I noticed

that you come out mostly at night he told me that he was Saudi Arabian and only visiting for five more days but then it gets worse he then says I love you I can't help it and then I say I have a boyfriend and he says I only want you and continues to completely ignore that He asks to come to my room and I said no then apparently he wanted a hug he asked me if I lived alone and if I was a virgin he kept saying that he loved me and that I was perfect

for him that I impressed him at that point point I recorded all the messages on Snapchat spoke to him a little bit more to gather evidence so that I could take it to the reception in the morning because apparently he's been watching me for a month I got my guy friend who lives on The second floor to walk me down to the laundry room too we sat in the student lounge area and my friend calmed me down I was shaking with adrenaline and fear at this point but we saw him around the laundry room again

looking for me but luckily I'd already picked it up I ran back to my room and my friend says that I can stay in his room but I said that it's okay I'll just lock my door then it's about 1:00 a.m. and I hear someone outside of my room trying to get In by sort of fiddling with the doorknob I asked my friend if he was outside of my room and he messaged back no and at that I just froze I didn't want to make a sound but I felt sick in my stomach and completely

helpless thankfully eventually it stopped and whoever it was they must have left in the morning I reported this to the reception and then I went to stay a few days with my boyfriend then after that I went to London to visit a friend And last night was the first time that I'd spent a night in my room since this happened but I'm very paranoid now sadly I should probably be used to this but yeah it is is what it is it's not the first time that I've been harassed like this in fact one guy tried

to kiss me in a club by grabbing my head and a bunch of other things have happened that I won't get into here but anyway I'm pretty afraid to go outside of my room after dark I'm Constantly looking over my shoulder and feeling paranoid I just keep blaming myself for being too nice and I know it's my long thick hair that attracts people's eyes to me I just want to cut it all off at this point but has anybody else had a similar experience and how did you deal with it reception still hasn't updated me

on if he's still in the building so I think I'll go and talk to them in the morning And see how everything is [Music] going the afterlife spirits and the Paranormal have always intrigued me my husband and I love to watch basically anything paranormal related and like anyone too who watches these types of shows I did begin to wonder what was real and what staged we always talked about wanting to go on some sort of a ghost hunt but as for my husband he's always been a bit of a skeptic he's one Of those I

need to see it to believe it kind of people so for my husband's birthday in July I bought us two tickets to a public investigation at a place called Hillview Manor located in Newcastle Pennsylvania it's a place known for its Paranormal Activity the tickets that I bought included a tour of the building and then after the tour you are able to go off on your own to investigate as well the time slot for this investigation is from 7:00 P.m. until 4:00 a.m. if you would like to read about the history on this place more then

you can also find them online at Haunted Hill view now everyone thought that we were crazy for wanting to do this especially overnight for 9 hours but it's just something that we've always been interested in experiencing on our own so we arrived at 6:30 and there were maybe three other small groups there to investigate as well one of these groups takes this kind of thing Very seriously and brought a ton of equipment here we were with our little backpack that had a few flashlights a voice recorder snacks drinks and extra batteries we walked into the

building nonetheless and it just felt creepy right from the beginning maybe because we knew it was haunted or because it just smelled musty and old from being unused for so many years the building has no electricity other than a few lights in the bathroom and the exit Signs lighting the hallways it's structural code for being able to have investigators and visitors in the building but after all the investigators arrive the people who work there give us a tour and backstory of the Hillview Manor and it's most active rooms this building has three four this building

has three floors really long hallways and many many rooms as it was once used as a home for the elderly poor and the crazy but not only were there suicides And murders here too but also many other stories of the residence and activity throughout the property during the tour though my husband realized that he did not care for the third floor he didn't really have a reason for it he just didn't like the way it made him feel with him being a skeptic I found this quite amusing if I'm being honest and I didn't witness

anything out of the ordinary while we walked around with the tour guides I asked my husband if he saw Or felt anything and he said that he would tell me after the tour after we were finished with the walkthrough of the building my husband pulled me aside and said that during the tour he just kept feeling like something was touching him on his arm it happened once in one of the rooms and again in the chapel and he said it almost felt like cobwebs rubbing his arm but every time he went to grab it to

pull it away there was nothing there This creeped him out a bit obviously but after everyone regrouped in the front room we were able to start investigating on our own now we have never done anything like this before so we just kind of walked off just the two of us with a voice recorder flashlights and EMP in hand acting like we knew what we were doing we walked the halls and climbed the stairs to the third floor the floor my husband really did not want to go back to but I figured that we Should just

start there and get it over with while it was still light out we didn't last long up there though because like I said my husband just did not care for it after leaving the third floor we visited other rooms in other portions of the building and tried to record a few sessions we never experienced anything the entire time and I did a lot of talking I was always respectful and just tried to say hello and talk with whatever may have wanted to communicate Back my husband didn't talk much and he finally admitted that he was

kind of scared which was amusing as it started to get late though we began to realize just how dark this building really was It was kind of freaky and we usually aren't afraid of the dark but when you're thrown into a setting that is supposed to have spirits and Paranormal Activity you tend to panic a little bit but to shorten this up I'm going to fast forward through a Little bit keep in mind though that during this time we haven't experienced anything so after we realized that we were too chicken to keep investing getting on

our own we decided to find somebody else to tag along with we found another group of two to team up with and I mean who doesn't feel safer in a group right this other team has done some paranormal investigations before with this being the sixth one and so we stuck together throughout the rest of the Night investigating mainly the first and the second floors around 11:00 p.m. we end up in the atrium on the first floor this is where the residents would hang out play the organ Checkers or watch TV we held up an EVP

session for a while in there and decided to move on since we weren't getting much at this point I was getting kind of bored because I haven't seen heard or felt one damn thing all night we walked out of the atrium and down the Hallway they call this area one North from what I've read and I'm not sure just how true this statement is but it was the combative unit during the tour one of the guides admitted that she did not like this hallway and the end of the hallway furthest away from the atum especially

she said that she just gets a a bad feeling there it's a hallway with patient rooms and a nurses station and we stopped at the nurse's station to Record for a little bit but again nothing so we moved a little further down the hall past the station we stayed in this area for a good 15 minutes or so with not much going on other than hearing slight shuffling at the end of the hallway towards the atrium we laughed about it and said of course now we're hearing stuff in the area that we just came from

and at this point we turned off all the devices and got ready to move on Mike one of the others that We had met up with needed to charge his cell phone so he knelt down to pull a portable charger out of his bag and here is where things got real so after no activity all night I literally cannot believe what is about to happen to us it is 11:30 p.m. now and my husband and I are standing on the left side of the hall with Mike and Jenny on the right side think of it

like a a hospital hallway kind of and while waiting for Mike to finish plugging his phone into His portable charger we all began hearing heavy footsteps starting near the nurser station but these footsteps grew louder heavier and closer as this thing started running towards us but not only that the walls and the floor shook with every footstep that this thing took it ran so fast and so hard down this hallway at us that before we knew it it was between and through all of us and just an immediate rush of electricity is the only way

I can describe it ran Through my entire body screams of absolute fear escaped each and every one of us and I've never heard my husband scream that way that he did that night he's a tough guy so to hear him get startled by anything was just crazy to me I was backed into the wall of the hallway my husband tripped over his feet and fell backwards Jenny fell into the room behind her and Mike stayed crouched down where he was still trying to plug in his phone it all just happened so Fast but it was

so real and so scary it was at this stage too that my husband started yelling okay we're leaving enough we immediately ran to the office which thankfully was not very far away we walked through the office doors and I just completely lost it I fell to my knees balling and shaking and I was wearing my Apple watch at the time and received a notification that my heart rate was way too high I later checked this to see what the it was for and in Just 2 minutes my heart rate jumped from 120 to 180 plus

BPM I knew that they had surveillance cameras and I told them that they needed to rewind the footage right now and show me what the hell that was unfortunately we saw nothing at all on this video all four of us experienced the same damn thing but how there was nothing visible on the video I'll never know it figures though that we all turned our devices off since we were getting ready to move on on how would Anyone believe us without audio proof right if we heard it and felt it the audio devices surely would have

picked it up too but it was just so forceful almost like a train rushing between all of us whatever it was I didn't get a good feeling from it it elicited just so much fear from me I don't know if it was because I was so scared from this thing running at us so quickly and unexpectedly in the dark or maybe Because it really was just a a bad thing after viewing the video and trying to C myself down the best that I could though I wanted to get away from this place pretty much ASAP

after my husband and I told the spirits that they did not have permission to come home with us we left 4 hours before our scheduled time in fact it was an hour and a half drive home my adrenaline was so bad that I could hardly breathe luckily my husband Was well enough to drive and we got home and of course I I just couldn't sleep I was terrified and I just couldn't be in the dark at that stage and I was sick to my stomach to the point that I was heaving over the toilet all

night I couldn't eat or drink and I was gagging on everything that I tried to put into my mouth to eat the next night I had a friend bring me some Sage so that I could cleanse my house and myself too and my mind was just all over the place Because my biggest fear was that something may have followed me home everyone assured me that if something was attached to me my kids and dogs would know I ended up not eating for 4 days and not sleeping I felt sick to my stomach and depressed and

I lost about 10 lb in 4 days I was scared to be alone and I begged my husband to stay home from work my dogs would run down the hallway in our house and I would have some form of a PTSD episode or something Because them running would remind me of the feeling of that Spirit charging down the hallway through us a feeling the Footsteps in the walls on the floor and Loud Noises startled me too I didn't want to be around my kids my husband or anybody I just wanted to kind of be left

alone but with people around if that makes sense my anxiety was so bad that I was willing to do anything to help me feel better I even had people bringing me Valium which I ended up not using for My husband's requests and essential oils as well crystals in the water and I even thought about having the house blessed I just didn't want to go on in life knowing what I knew now because it scared the absolute crap out of me I honestly wish that I never found out just how real the Paranormal really was I

wanted to go back to how I was before having this experience I cried every day wishing that I could just feel like myself again and I began to wonder About what really happens after you die if Spirits were real and it who's to say that heaven hell God and the devil aliens and UF phes for that matter weren't real too I would lay in bed wide awake all night freaking myself out while listening to every Creek of my settling home mad at my husband for being able to sleep so soundly while I was unable to

sleep until I felt safe enough after the sun came up I did a lot of reading on the internet after this Incident and I figured out that what I was suffering from was severe panic and anxiety due to trauma some people experience trauma after a car accident a a natural disaster an intruder but this was my trauma a paranormal experience sounds crazy right I know but how would I have ever been able to go and talk to someone if I needed to without sounding nuts that is fast forward 3 months though and here I am

almost normal again still afraid of the Dark I won't lie I begin to panic if I'm left in a dark room for too long while I'm searching for a light switch like I'm going to see or feel something or someone until I get the lights on I'm finally and thankfully sleeping through the night it took me a while to get where I am but I'm very thankful that I'm healing with every day that passes after this experience too I totally respect the spirit world even more than I did before and I'll never Barge into their

space again like that to this day I still can't believe how bad the experience messed me up and how sick it made me afterwards as well I'm forever going to wonder why this Spirit chose our group that night why was I the only one that felt the way that I did after this experience and who was it and what was their purpose the people who worked there were really intrigued as well saying nothing like that as ever happened in the many times people have Visited and investigated there and I would be curious to find out

if it ever happened again