[Music] [Music] when I was about 12 I spent New Year's Eve at my friend's house while our parents went to a restaurant in a nearby town the house was really old and far away from other houses which made it feel super creepy to get there you had to drive up a long overgrown path surrounded by tall trees that almost blocked out the sky some of my friends at school said the house was haunted and I even remember hearing that the house was mentioned in a ghost book which made it even scarier so anyways we were sitting downstairs in the living room watching TV when we heard a really loud crashing sound I can still remember the look in my friend's eyes when we turned to each other completely shocked it took us a while to get up the courage to go and see what made the Noise We slowly left the living room and walked down the hallway trying to stay quiet the sound seemed to come from upstairs so we decided to go up and check it out when we got to the top of the stairs we felt a freezing cold breeze coming from somewhere it wasn't just chilly it felt like ice against our skin we slowly walked down the hallway following the cold air then we turned into another hallway this house wasn't just big it was enormous almost like a mansion from the 192s with high ceilings and long dark corridors it felt like the house was watching us at the end of the hallway we saw his mom and dad's bedroom door it was slightly open and mov moving back and forth creaking Softly As It swung we both stopped and stood still completely Frozen neither of us said a word after a moment my friend started walking toward the door I was too scared to move and stayed behind a little he pushed the door open and stepped into the room it was so dark inside that it swallowed him up I could barely see his shadow anymore for a few seconds everything was compl completely silent then out of nowhere he let out the most terrifying scream I've ever heard my heart started racing and without thinking I ran toward the room to see what was wrong I felt around for the light switch and quickly turned it on he was standing completely still his face pale and his eyes wide with fear staring at an empty corner of the room just to the side of him was a massive antique mirror shattered into pieces the broken glass was spread all over the floor I slowly stepped closer carefully avoiding the broken glass and put my hand on his shoulder his skin felt cold like he'd been standing in the freezing Breeze we felt earlier are you okay without looking at me he whispered she broke the mirror his voice was shaky almost like he didn't believe his own words confused I asked who broke it finally he turned his head slightly toward me and said the woman in the corner at that moment I brushed it off and told him we should leave he agreed and started to walk out with me but just before we left I couldn't help myself I wanted to check the mirror I thought maybe the wire holding it had broken or something so I bent down and carefully turned the mirror over and to my surprise the string that held it to the wall was still perfectly fine it hadn't snapped I looked at the wall and the nail was still firmly in place exactly where it should be that's when fear really hit me I was so scared I told him to call his parents and ask them to come home right away we waited outside by the front door until our parents got back back from the restaurant when they arrived my dad and his dad went straight upstairs to check the bedroom they saw the broken mirror but didn't take us seriously they said we were probably messing around and playing a game that got out of hand the scariest part is this I'm 24 now and recently I was chatting with my mom about random things since New Year's is coming up that night from years ago came up in the conversation I decided to tell her the full story about what happened after I finished she looked at me and said I believe you your friend's mom told me something a few days after that night she said she saw a woman in her bedroom standing there and the woman told her to leave the house hearing that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up it gave me chills all over again even after all these years and I started having flashbacks to that night even though it's been almost 12 years now to this day I still can't figure out how that mirror fell off the wall for it to fall someone would have had to lifted up and over the hook it couldn't just fall on its own and as for the woman my friend seemed to be staring at in the corner of the room I think it's better if I just try to forget about it [Music] I never thought anything creepy would happen to me I always loved reading real life scary stories and over time I became really imaginative and a little paranoid I thought it was just for fun and nothing serious but a few years ago when I was 19 years old I was heading home after watching the New Year's Eve fireworks it was 3:00 a. m. when I got back to my quiet safe neighborhood I live in Sydney Australia in a nice area where nothing bad usually happens my friends wanted to call a taxi because it was so late and we didn't want to wake up our parents to drive us home but I was stubborn and insisted we walk instead even though it was a really long walk my friend Aiden complained the whole way but I guess I can't blame him for complaining Benjamin stayed quiet and just went along with it I was in a good mood even laughing a bit when we got close to my street we split up the guys kept walking their much longer Road home and I went my own way as I passed a small cake shop I noticed a guy on the other side of the street I only glanced at him for a second but the way he quickly looked up at me like he was interested caught my my attention I continued walking quickly because I'm usually paranoid about things and most of the time it's just my imagination I turned onto my street which was much darker than I expected it was around 3:15 a.
m. as I walked past the Bowling Club in the oval I glanced behind me a few times to check it was cold and dark and I started to feel nervous but there was no one there I was halfway down my street where the road goes downhill when I noticed something on the path ahead of me I couldn't tell what it was but at the last second I stepped off the path and onto the road to avoid it as I stepped onto the road I turned a little and saw someone behind me they weren't too close but not too far away either my heart started racing because I hadn't noticed them before for them to get that close so quickly it felt off when I told people about it later they said I should have been suspicious I mean it's 3:00 a. m.
and you're quietly walking behind a girl without even keeping a safe distance and if you were really innocent you'd try to show that right I couldn't see who it was or tell if it was a man or a woman because to me it just looked like a black shadow I only saw them for a second I was scared so I quickly took out my phone and tried to call Aiden I kept trying but vone wouldn't let the call go through I tried calling Benjamin but he didn't pick up I called him at least five times feeling more and more nervous but I didn't dare look behind me to see if the person was still there by the time I reached my driveway I thought I was safe and hurried up it but halfway up I quickly glanced over my shoulder and I saw the figure again the next part is a bit hard to explain it's all mixed up in my head on one hand it looked like he was just walking past my driveway but on the other hand I'm pretty sure it looked like he was about to step onto the driveway like he was going to walk up at that moment I thought maybe it was my brother Jonathan I mean who else would bother walking up my driveway even if someone was following me I never thought they would actually go as far as walking up my yard I felt completely safe because my house was so close when he started following me but something about the shape of this person didn't look like Jonathan so I kept hurrying anyway my mom stayed up to wait for me and I'm so glad she did because she opened the door as soon as I knocked I don't even want to think about what could have happened if I had to wait outside I went inside but left the second door open and the outside light on because I thought Jonathan might come in any minute now but Mom said you can turn them off your brother came home 2 hours ago I felt a bit scared for a moment but I brushed it off because we always think we're completely safe so I closed the door turned off the light and went to get a glass of water mom went to bed I went to my room to grab my clothes and then headed to the bathroom for a shower I also turned off the living room lights before I took a shower I replied to a message from Aiden he was asking if I got home safely I asked him why he didn't answer his phone and told him I felt scared for a few minutes but was okay now while I was showering I started thinking about that figure I wasn't sure if it had been following me but my mind kept going back and forth wondering about it anyway I remember thinking it was fine because I was safe now but near the end of my shower I heard a noise at the window it wasn't the usual creaking or bumping noises you hear in an old house the best way I could describe it was like someone pressing their hands against the window to steady themselves it sounded really strange and it caught my attention right away I immediately thought there might be someone outside I knew it had to be a strange sound to make me do what I did next I turned off the water and crouched under the window hiding and waiting I stayed like that for a while too scared to move I waited for a few minutes but nothing happened slowly I CW red out still too scared to stand up straight and turned off the bathroom lights but it was too hard for me to dry off and get dressed in the dark so I turned on the heater light which is smaller and not very bright as I did I noticed tiny blue lights at the window lights that definitely shouldn't be there the best way to describe it is that it looked like the keypad of a phone glowing I felt so scared but I turned off the heater light and backed into the corner holding my towel tightly around me I waited it felt like a long time too scared to unlock the door or move because I knew it would make noise as I sat there in the dark more blue lights appeared outside the window several of them they got really bright and whoever it was seemed to be moving them trying to shine the light through the window I unlocked the door and went into my parents' room shaking like a leaf and trying to explain that someone was outside the bathroom window I was really scared so Mom quickly tried to find a safe room for me to change in meanwhile dad said he heard footsteps running back down the path I'm so glad he did because now the whole thing feels unreal and I sometimes wonder if I imagined it all but this proved it wasn't just my imagination I was so shaky that I got into bed but I couldn't sleep all night until the morning even then I was still scared especially when I heard dad go outside into the backyard I learned my lesson I'll never walk home at night again I even feel a bit nervous during the day now some people think it might have been the person I saw earlier but I don't think so please don't walk home alone at night girls it only takes one moment to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and things can go very [Music] badly on New Year's Eve 2016 something happened in xapa Mexico my family and I go there every year for the holidays because we have an apartment there it's a nice break for my dad from his work our apartment is part of a building complex with 24 apartments in total they are split into four towers and they all look the same we've had that apartment for a few years and on New Year's Eve one of the residents invited us and many of the other families to their apartment for a party to celebrate about 35 people came to the party the apartment was on the fourth floor and we got there around 10: p. m. we planned to celebrate the rest of the night together around 10:50 or 11:00 p.
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