[Applause] [Music] i'm a single mother of two my ex-husband and i take turns watching the kids month to month my son luke is 15 and my daughter melissa is 10. this happened just a few months ago i did some late night grocery shopping after work luke had texted me earlier that he was going out with his friends it was a friday night i wasn't thrilled with him leaving melissa alone but 10 is the age a lot of parents are more comfortable leaving their kids alone and he knows i can't expect him to babysit her anymore
i got back to the house around nine o'clock at night i had to make three or four trips from the car to the house because the amount of groceries i bought i always overdo it with the groceries on the months i get to watch the kids and then on the months alone i'm the complete opposite when i finally finished putting all the groceries in the fridge and pantry i went upstairs to greet melissa i heard the shower running in the bathroom so i went back downstairs to lay down in the living room and put on
my show on netflix i was halfway through an episode and i still hadn't heard melissa leave the bathroom upstairs long hot showers aren't free and i never condoned my kids wasting water i went up there to knock on the door and tell her to get out of the shower soon i went back downstairs to resume my show only for about five minutes though melissa was still in the shower so i went back up there again and knocked louder this time i waited for her to acknowledge me but when she didn't i continued to knock louder
and yell her name angrily it took me a little bit to notice through the bottom crack of the door that the light was off in the bathroom i tried the doorknob but the door was locked the locks on my doors inside the house are easily unlocked with a fingernail though so i had to force my way in now growing concerned as the door opened i yelled into the room at my daughter at that moment feeling more furious than anything i flicked the light switch up and went over to the tub i yank the curtain half
open honestly not knowing what to expect but not in my worst nightmare would i have expected to find some 50-something-year-old withered looking woman laying flat in the bathtub with a shower spraying water onto her i screamed so loud and long until i lost the ability to scream for a few seconds i had my back pressed up to the mirror everything on the counter had fallen to the ground i felt an unexplainable sense of shock and horror the woman stood up in the tub looking at me her hair and clothes obviously drenched i slammed the bathroom
door shut and screamed melissa's name i checked her room first thing and i found her hiding under the covers i grabbed her and tugged her out of the room as we passed the bathroom door towards the stairs that woman was standing in the doorway of the bathroom everything about her looked like a zombie her eyes her movement i made sure to grab my cell phone before locking the two of us in the spare room in the basement i called the police as i waited for the police to come melissa told me she thought it was
me who came into the house but when she saw some random scary looking woman walking up the stairs she ran to her room to hide luke left the front door unlocked when he left the police showed up in a timely manner i talked to the police and told them exactly what melissa told me i described the woman's appearance noting she was also soaked and because of that i couldn't give a good description of her hair besides long and graying this was all after making sure the woman was no longer in the house not under a
bed not in a closet not behind a shower curtain she simply left the house as easily as she entered it's likely she was drugged out of her mind i'd never seen someone who looked like they were literally lacking consciousness yet still walking i don't even know if i would have been able to press any charges on her if she was found which she wasn't and don't you worry i properly scolded and reprimanded luke always remember to lock your doors this was over 15 years ago we once went to this family resort in new york state
we took our two kids who were four and six at the time this focuses on our six-year-old michael jr we were on vacation around easter time so the resort had a bunch of fun little festivities set up for the kids like easter egg hunts easter decorations during bingo and someone walking around in a big easter bunny costume while we were in the dining hall one evening the easter bunny was walking around giving kids high fives when he came over to our table our four-year-old peter hid under the table crying but michael jr gave him the
high five and wasn't afraid at all the guy in the bunny suit walked away quickly probably to get our son to stop crying the next day there was an easter egg hunt which was in one of the fields by the kid's center of the resort i watched the kids scrambling to collect eggs while my husband mike was elsewhere i'm not really sure what he was doing the easter bunny guy was walking around the field interacting with the kids i noticed he knew to avoid peter peter came running to me when the easter bunny got near
to him he would do the same thing with santa around the holidays the guy in the bunny suit was interacting with michael a lot i found it kind of cute i just didn't want peter around him so that he wouldn't start crying again so i brought him to the other side of the play area for a little while when it looked like the easter bunny was gone i walked him back to where michael jr was last but i couldn't see him i started calling his name then another parent came up to me and asked if
i was looking for a boy wearing a red sweater i said yes and she told me the guy in the easter bunny costume walked him out of the field area in the direction of the parking lots she told me this in a slightly concern-sounding tone i picked up peter and ran in the direction that the woman pointed i ran faster than i ever could while holding my son on top of it motherly instincts clearly kicking in giving me an adrenaline boost i saw the man in the easter bunny costume holding my child's hand approaching a
black car i screamed at the top of my lungs at him to get away from my son then i screamed michael's name they both turned to look at us and the man let go of my son's hand michael ran over to me not realizing at all the danger he was just in the man in the costume said to me that he was trying to find his mom since he looked lost but that was total bs he was about to get in his car with my six-year-old son i tried to yank the mask off of him
but he shoved me and yelled at me to piss off then he got in his car and drove away i tried to remember his plate number but he was gone too quickly i called my husband on my old archaic cell phone and i brought my kids to the front desk of the resort to meet him there they said the man in the easter bunny costume didn't work there i was livid yelling at the front desk workers the whole time were apparently aware of the man yet didn't stop him or question him we threatened to sue
the entire place they ended up refunding us for our entire stay which we gladly accepted but i was mere seconds away from losing my kid forever we adopted our son charlie at the age of two he's aware that he was adopted we were honest with him about that ever since he started to learn to speak he's now seven years old we don't have any children of our own because my wife can't have kids somewhat recently my wife and i started noticing very strange behavior with charlie and what motivated me to actually sit down and write
this was something my wife and i still can't explain there's an upstairs toy room for charlie since there's two extra bedrooms in our house he has a big toy closet in there and the whole room has a bunch of toys like a lego table action figures and such for the duration of about a month at different times we'd hear charlie talking to himself not like role-playing talking in his play we'd overhear him speaking as if you were talking to another person in the room the first time this happened my wife wasn't home but as i
passed his play room i overheard him talking as if he had a friend in there and i swear to god i actually walked in just to make sure he didn't actually have a friend in there when i walked in i saw him sitting at his lego table with a couple of his wwe action figures on top of it but he wasn't currently playing with any of them he was just sitting there blankly staring at me i asked who are you talking to he shrugged his shoulders as weird as it was i had to assume he
was just playing the next time something strange happened it was a lot worse this time my wife was at least home to witness it with me we were in the kitchen charlie was in the backyard playing we heard him laughing and talking suddenly so my wife went to look out the window to see what he was doing then she called me over to look as well what we saw was charlie talking to thin air as if he were talking to a person it resembled him trying to show someone who wasn't there how to use the
plastic sword in his hand i expressed my wife my concern she said he may just have an imaginary friend i told her i didn't know how i felt about that she seemed to feel it was completely normal fast forward to like the third or fourth instance it was nine o'clock on a school night approaching charlie's bedtime he was in his playroom still i was trying to be lenient with the bedtime and let him play for a few more minutes i heard charlie laughing and talking to his imaginary friend again i curiously had to take a
peek into the room as i opened charlie's door i heard his closet door shut i looked at charlie standing up in the dead center of the room with his toys scattered around him i asked him who's in the closet and something on the inside of it fell it sounded like a big plastic toy i asked one more time who's in the closet in a yell he said george i swung the door open expecting one of his little friends in there maybe my wife let him have a playdate or sleepover without telling me but the closet
was empty besides his toys i picked charlie up against his will and brought him to his room i told him he was going to bed then i told my wife about the closet door closing on its own and then the toy inside falling on its own she thought i was messing with her at first but then she saw i was serious that night i woke up to sounds from down the hall in charlie's playroom we sleep with the door open i woke my wife and told her to follow me quietly we tiptoed to the toy
room charlie wasn't in there but a distinct loud clicking sound was coming from inside the toy closet i opened it showing bravery for my wife and as i did the clicking stopped we dug for any kind of electric toys that may have made that clicking sound nothing though i think that was the night i became a believer in the paranormal the next morning i woke to my wife's scream she was holding our wedding photo it was cracked right down the middle not just the picture in the glass but the frame too it was cracked perfectly
down the middle separating the two of us we took charlie and stayed with my mom for a week then after a week my wife and i returned to the house we listed the house for sale and after a few days of normalcy we brought charlie back to the house but we moved out a month later you
