[Music] for a very short period of my life i want to say i was around the time i was the age of 15 or 16. i lived in a fairly small house in vermont my family didn't live there long it was located in the forest and far from almost everything making any task that required leaving the house pretty inconvenient however there's one experience i had at that house in the time i lived there that i'll likely never forget it happened in january i only remember that because i can recall new year's day being just a
few days earlier my cousin jason and i were both still on school break at the time and had planned to spend the night at my place this was something we would often do we would typically stay up till 2 or 3am playing xbox watching movies or something along those lines this would all happen in the living room this night we had been watching a movie i don't remember what movie it was but that's not important what i do remember is being maybe halfway through the movie when jason kept looking out the window just slightly to
the right of where we were sitting it got to the point where like every minute i could see his head move out of the corner of my eye now i should mention on that night there was a fairly bad snow storm happening at first i just thought he'd been watching the snowfall until i realized just how long he had been staring out the window for i asked him what he was looking at he kept staring and responded saying how he thought he saw something this instantly filled me with anxiety i think this was mostly due
to where we lived wild animals weren't all that common and like i mentioned earlier we didn't really live near anything so someone on our property especially this hour and during a snowstorm would 100 be caused for concern nothing happened for a couple minutes i kept asking follow-up questions but he just told me to be quiet like as if to be able to focus that's when we saw it the clear shadow of a person sprinting from one tree to the next both of us physically jumped in reaction there was no sound but the sheer sight alone
was enough to startle us now this was a good 200 feet out from the house so we couldn't exactly tell if the person was coming closer or not we both looked at each other and right back out the window i guess as a way to confirm what we just saw a couple minutes of this went by when it happened again but this time much further to the left of where the first signing had occurred slowly over time the settings would become more frequent it was clear by this point that there was more than just one
person eventually one of the figures got out from behind a tree but this time instead of moving behind another one it just stood there and after a couple seconds the figure started sprinting in our direction this was enough to break us out of our sort of trance of disbelief we were in and run i ran straight upstairs to wake up my dad but by the time he got up and followed me downstairs there was no one visible outside jason and i both explained to him what we had seen typically i don't think my dad would
have believed us but i guess he was able to see the genuine panic in our eyes we all went around the house verifying all the doors and windows were locked my dad then went outside armed with a weapon he briefly walked around the house before returning inside but he found nothing that night we convinced my dad to fall asleep in the living room with us come morning and the snowstorm had almost completely stopped we went outside to better assess the situation in the daylight and we would find multiple sets of footprints in the snow next
to the trees facing our living room's window they were pretty filled in from the snowstorm but still clearly visible and recognizable as footprints there were even some around the house like on top of the footprints my dad had made the night before i even talked to my dad about it and he said those had not been there when he went outside even more disturbing once our shed had been left completely open with the only thing stolen being our knives we used for hunting none of this however would be enough to get my dad to call
the cops he always had this we take care of our own mentality and i guess he just never saw calling 911 as an option we moved out of that house two weeks later not because of the incident rather that just so happened to be when we had planned to move i was extremely grateful for this at least as far as i know nothing happened in those two weeks this whole experience still freaks me out to this day seeing first hand multiple people on your isolated property in the middle of the night and during a snowstorm
is straight out of a nightmare and i do my best not to think about it [Music] this all happened during the winter months of 2014. around that time my dad got a new job that required us to move not a small move it was a good nine hours away from the house i grew up in we hired a moving truck but we stole the task of getting our car down to the new house this time of year also happened to be around the time i was learning to drive i guess my dad thought 9 hours
on the highway would be good practice for me so the plan was me and my dad would drive the car down to the new house well my mom and my sisters would fly i wasn't exactly looking forward to the drive not because of the time i didn't really mind that part i was more so worried about the blizzard my phone was showing we would hit halfway into our trip driving in the snow as a new driver is not something i really ever wanted to experience my dad dismissed this though telling me it wasn't that bad
and for the most part would just feel the same as normal driving anyway we left it around 3 p.m so we were set to get to the new house at around midnight come around 8pm and yeah we got hit by the blizzard it was a lot more extreme than i'd imagined it would be although my dad must have trusted my inexperience driving for whatever reason as he never once said anything about him wanting to take over the wheel so i kept going eventually my nightmare would come true i lost control of the car and we
were sent sliding off the road in towards a line of trees in the moment i tried my best to avoid them but the car slightly grazed one of them luckily i don't think my dad was that mad it's not like we hit a tree head on at full speed we got out to assess the damage and by some miracle there was nothing but a slight scratch on the back passenger side door i held back a laugh of genuine relief just then i noticed a vehicle coming up the road with some extremely bright high beams on
as it got closer it started honking and continued doing so until it pulled up right next to us the guy rolled down his window i figured he was going to ask us if we needed help but no he looked in us and began some awkward small talk completely ignoring the situation we were currently in my dad just kind of looked at the dude and told him we didn't have time to talk and asked what he needed the guy responded with something like oh uh i just noticed you dropped something about a mile back i think
it fell into your trunk now we did have a few things in our trunk that we didn't send with the moving truck but there was no way any of it could have fallen out or at least i thought i looked at my dad and asked him if there was any way something could have fallen out my dad started his response but was interrupted by the man saying well you must have because i was right behind you it's in my back seat here why don't you go ahead and get it so i can get out of
here i figured it couldn't hurt to look just in case we actually had dropped something somehow but right as i put my hand on the guy's backseat door handle my dad abruptly yelled at me saying that we didn't lose anything and to get back in our car immediately a few seconds of silence with my hands still on the door handle went by yelling was completely out of character for my dad though i eventually listened to him and got back in our car we drove off with not another word being said by either us or the
guy i couldn't help but notice the extremely disturbing and almost angry face of the driver as we drove past him once we got a few miles down the road my dad would apologize for yelling at me i of course told him it was fine just that i wasn't really expecting it i will never forget what he said next he said he felt like he had to because while i was heading towards the guy's back door through the window he could just barely make out the silhouettes of two men waiting on the other side he would
further explain that by the looks of their movements as i was walking towards the door upon opening the door i would either be attacked kidnapped or worse hearing this was a complete shock to me but to this day i'm still glad my dad told me what he saw it taught me at a young age that not everyone has the best intentions in this world however at the end of the day we can't 100 confirm the guy had bad intentions but i myself truly believe my dad's instincts were correct the whole situation just didn't add up
why would there have been two men waiting right at the door for me to open it and on top of that when we got to our new house we were able to verify that nothing was missing from our trunk thinking about this whole experience still scares me even today this happened when i was 18. i just finished up my first semester of college and a couple friends i had met there planned to rent out a cabin on some lake over the weekend through airbnb they asked if i wanted to go and i said yeah i
didn't really know much about the destination but i decided i'd go regardless i was done with finals and honestly felt like i could just use some solid time away from it all so my two friends and i who i'll just call brad and dustin were set to leave the cabin was about an hour away when we arrived we unpacked the stuff we brought for the weekend and got settled inside the first night was honestly kind of creepy at least for me because the cabin was pretty remote it was the only one on the lake and
as far as i'm concerned it was the only one within miles of nothing but forest i'm someone who's used to being in cities with lots of people not quite forests with the occasional howl of coyotes needless to say it was for sure a scene i would have to get used to but all things considered the first night was completely fine it was the second night where things took a turn all throughout the second day a blizzard took place outside we didn't really plan for it i guess none of us thought to check the weather before
making the trip i mean you gotta remember all three of us were only 18 at the time so not the brightest anyway on the second night brad and i slept in our own bedrooms upstairs while dustin slept on a couch downstairs i think it was around 2 am when dustin went upstairs and woke both of us up seeing how the outside motion light kept turning on and off again brad told him it was most likely just an animal activating it or the light simply being activated by the motion of the falling snow but what dustin
responded with was pretty terrifying he explained how that's what he thought too but after looking outside he saw what he described as something resembling the shadow of a person and around six foot tall this definitely freaked us out a bit but brad who was still convinced it had to be an animal said he would go downstairs to check it out and so that's what he did meanwhile dustin and i stayed upstairs a good three minutes went by when a blood-curdling scream rang out downstairs dustin and i ran downstairs as fast as we could brad was
lying on the floor and pointing at the living room window we looked out the window but there was nothing he practically screamed at us to go upstairs and so the three of us did the rooms in the cabin didn't have locks so we resorted to barricading ourselves in one of the bedrooms brad quietly explained to us that when he got downstairs he started by looking on all the kitchen windows and when he didn't see anything he made his way to the living room window he pulled back the curtain and at first saw nothing but not
nothing like an empty snowy forest he literally saw pure black darkness confused he cubbed his hands to his eyes and got closer to the window but that's when he realized it was a person blocking the view he then screamed and fell back now at this point i hadn't seen anything myself don't get me wrong i was still horrified but in the back of my mind i still wasn't ruling out the fact that they might have just been imagining things just then the power cut out it felt like my heart had completely stopped for at least
five seconds i was now hysterical at this point all doubt i had in the sightings brad and dustin experienced instantly vanished i genuinely felt like my life was over in that moment we had no weapons and worse yet no phone service all we could do was sit and wait until daylight fortunately nothing further would occur in that time once the sun was up we took down the barricade and all started getting our stuff we had no intentions of staying there any longer than we needed to it was still snowing but luckily the vehicle we brought
was good in the snow before we left we took a quick survey of the outside area around the cabin there were no footprints but this was likely because they were filled in by the snow this had to have been the case as there were no footprints by the fuse box outside yet it was completely destroyed it looked like it was smashed in multiple times by an axe the sight of this was enough to get us to leave immediately later we tried contacting the airbnb owner but we got no response i always thought this was weird
i mean if your fuse box got completely destroyed i'd imagine you'd want to talk to the people renting the cabin at the time but no not even a text back from the guy i stayed friends with brandon dustin throughout the rest of college we would talk about the experience from time to time but for the most part we kept it to ourselves we still don't know who was stalking us in the woods that night or what their intentions were you
