Scary Stories For A Stormy, Lonely, And Bitter Night

this was a couple of years ago now I was still in college I worked at my local high school in South Jersey on the night shift for some extra money but unfortunately the hours meant that I didn't really get to have a life during the week I get a call from a friend group on a Friday before I headed into work saying that they were going to explore Clinton Road which was known to be the scariest Road in New Jersey obvious vious ly I couldn't go so I told them to let me know how they

made out later in the night I get a call from them though in a panic saying that all these crazy things happened to them they described what happened to them how they threw coins over Ghost Boy bridge and they came back a ghost truck following them and the feeling of just being watched honestly I thought that they were just hyping it up because of the fact that I missed out so it was decided said that we'd all go the next night but this time I got to see it for myself something that I'd regret for

the rest of my life us being from South Jersey Clinton Road is a bit of a drive for us about 2 hours so there was plenty of time for us to get all hyped up and spooked out now I can only describe myself as the manly man of the group I guess being 65 and 260 lb especially back then I had the Persona of ah it's all made up nothing will scare us but boy was I completely wrong right when we get there the entire Vibe changed from oh we're all going to be spooked to

oh wait this is actually pretty creepy the road it's in the middle of the woods houses few and far between the first thing that we see when we get there is a small mini castle looking building it's the best that I can describe R it and because of the far ride we all had to pee at this point so I went to the left friend to Joe went straight and friend three ha went to the right friend four was female who stayed behind us in the road after I was done I immediately walked back along

with har but we noticed that Joe was walking towards the creepy building I start shouting asking what he was doing and he turns back around with the look of shock me being completely confused I asked what are you doing walking there and Joe swore up and down that I was actually behind the building waving at him to follow me to the building so naturally we're all getting pretty freaked out about that we pull up to the bridge Ghost Boy bridge and I check everyone for coins to make sure that they don't fake it just to

scare me we all throw the coins and well nothing happens see see guys it's just all in your head let's go so we all start walking back to the car and then I hear clinking I hear the coins hit the road we Sprint back to check and we find the coins laying in the road I was 100% convinced though that they were just messing with us so I had the idea to Mark a coin so they couldn't fake it I threw the coin in the water waited 5 minutes silence and nothing see guys let's go

but then I hear the coins in the road again I walked back and well it was a coin with the same exact markings that I had put on it I'm extremely freaked out at this point so we decided to go driving down the windy road in a newer sports car we're all pretty freaked out and just want to leave at this stage and that's when we see headlights appearing behind us seemingly out of nowhere also we didn't see them attached to a vehicle per se I'm no car expert by any means but I would almost

bet my life on it that there were lights on an old truck getting closer the faster that we went taking bends at fast speeds that even a new truck wouldn't handle suddenly though the lights just disappear so now all in a panic we decide to pull over to map our way out there was dead silence no lights except our headlights in the woods and that is when we hear the typical woman ghost moan and of course what came with it was the typical woman in a white dress standing in the woods right next to our

car and suddenly she let out the loudest scream that I think I've ever heard we also began screaming at this point to get out and go go go and all that that eventually we put the car into gear and we get the heck out of there once we make it back to the main roads we decided to dig a little bit deeper on this road and apparently according to the sources that I found at least the ghost truck tries to make people crash on Dead Man's Curve allegedly there have been numerous bodies buried there from

the famous murderer the Iceman on our way home we wanted to go back again the next night on the Sunday but we suddenly pass an old rundown church that looks like it hasn't been used in like 50 years and of course the sign left out front says you need Jesus on Sunday safe to say I never went back and even to this day the friend group still refuses to talk about what happened that night on Clinton Road I do hope that one day we can talk about it again because I don't know the whole thing

just seems like a memory now and I just really don't want to forget [Music] it as late teens early 20s growing up in South Jersey my friend group was always getting into ghost hunting on haunted roads and buildings around New Jersey and surrounding areas but we always had some uh crazy experiences I guess you could say and this one was really no different during this we had the original friend group plus another one of our friends as well now one night brainstorming what to do we decided to go on a little Ghost Hunt trip in

our area everyone knew of our friend group as the ones that would always be getting into these kinds of things so we would always be getting tipped off by other friends outside of the group as to what places to check out we were tipped off to do a little haunted road not far from us and we decided heck why not it's better than nothing in just sitting here so we all hop in the car and start the little trip towards the road on the way we happened to see a Wawa which of course we had

to stop at per usual we were always hyping each other up to see if we could spook the others while waiting in line I'm messing with one of the friends that's not in the ghost friend group saying ah you're scared to go aren't you when out of nowhere we hear what's the little one scared of I say little because the guys in the friend group were all abnormal size humans the smallest being roughly 63 and 240 where the little one was just a normal size typical guy these guys straight up look like they just didn't

belong there to be honest some sort of back roads Texas Chainsaw looking fellas but we explained to the guy and his friend that we were going ghost hunting on a road and simply put they said that's not that scary if you really want to be scared go here instead so we leave and hesitantly we all agree to actually go to the new hunt instead of the first trip we get there middle of the woods we notice that there are some trees cut down and laying on the sides parallel to the road deeper and deeper into

the woods black and that's when the nervousness is really starting to build we pull up to this sort of Monument to commemorate a plane crash that had apparently happened there years ago there's Dead Silence pitch black only the light shining from the moon was our light other than the car the light shining from the moon was our only light source other than the car lights that is to put a little bit of fear into us as well we de the driver to shut the lights off which was a big mistake he completely shuts the car

off a few minutes go by and we see this absolutely massive and I mean massive Shadow crawl from behind the statue and start narrowing in towards us when I say massive to I'm 65 plus and 260 and this thing had me looking like a third grader we all started panicking and zoom away into the car a bit disoriented we didn't realize that we were driving deeper into the woods to where we would hit a huge sand opening in which there were many ways to go from there in the end we decided that it was best

to turn around and try to map our way out out while doing so our radio cuts out to almost like an oldtime fashioned music sort of thing I happen to look up in confusion and seconds after that I see what I can only describe as a white face not a typical white face but almost like a jabbawy mask zero expression and almost a see-through body if that makes sense just a face and then another and another now I don't know if it was us just being disoriented and seeing things or if this really was happening

but we all scream in unison let's get out of here so we fly out of the sand back on the same road where I had mentioned the trees earlier only this time on our way back the trees they were no longer parallel to the road but actually in the middle of the road blocking our exit the driver Joe and a sports car mind you tells us to hold on and we're driving driving on the side of the road next to the woods in what I can best describe as basically Defying Gravity to make our Escape

we do manage to scrape through mind you the car was a bit worse for wear afterwards but we get out of there and we don't look back now I don't know for certain if this place is legitimately haunted or if we were set up by those two guys earlier in the night but two things are for certain one is I'd bet my life that it's a combination of both a haunting and a bit of a setup and two I for sure will never be going back there again to find out this is the story of

my worst hitchhiking experience this incident was really sketchy but I still wouldn't give up my love for hitchhiking I'm a 21-year-old 20 at the time man from Finland so this happened on the 2nd of December last year in camata Greece I had been hitchhiking for quite a while at that point I had started from Budapest and had hitchhiked through seven different countries with only ever positive outcomes The Story begins around 11:00 a.m. on Saturday so some hours before I had awoken in my hammock which was hung up behind the castle ruins in the only place

that had trees that weren't someone else's olive trees I was tired from the lack of sleep caused by the cold night and early wake up by noises of the busy market across the street and after a quick tour of the town and some breakfast it was time for hitchhiking I made a sign with the words Athens and Sparta in Greek I was standing by a road leading to a roundabout where the first exit goes around arapoli with the second towards Sparta and the third towards Athens a lot of cars drove by but nearly all of

them took the first exit it took at least an hour for the first car to stop it was this small quite old worn out white car and driving it was an older guy around 60 who looked a little dirty I guess greasy hair some teeth missing and big nose filled with visible blackheads he didn't really speak English but I could understand that he was going to Sparta I was a bit frustrated by the fact that pretty much all of the cars were going towards arapoli so I thought this might be the only chance and so

I jumped in we are trying to have a conversation but without a shared language it's pretty much impossible we introduce ourselves and I try to explain where I'm from he smokes and offers me a cigarette but I refuse it we drive a shy of 6 km before the guy suddenly makes a left turn and we end up in his yard of all places he stops the car gets up and signals me to follow so I do I take my bags and feel a bit confused it's a small house on the mountains surrounded by sheep and

olive trees there's a dog sleeping in the Sun but it doesn't seem to be bothered by us at all we walk to this balcony or Terrace that surrounds his house I put my bags inside of his house and join him sitting on the balcony he lights up another cigarette and asks if I want to eat something or maybe take a shower I refuse and with the help of Google translate I ask why we aren't going to Sparta he answers that I can sleep at his house and he'll drive me there tomorrow I try to explain

that I would like to get to Sparta or even to Athens today so staying at his place isn't really an option I'm pointing out that there's not that many cars going past this house like one every 15 minutes and only some four or 5 hours of daylight left so every minute is valuable to me he doesn't really seem to understand me so I get up and I walk through the door to grab my bags I put my backpack on and pick up my other bag I turn over and see him inside I try to walk

out but he stops me and guides me to the side he then locks the door and turns to me at this moment I'm not panicking or anything because I assume that this is a form of hospitality and he's just doing this job jokingly to offer me some food or whatnot I keep saying no to him but he doesn't seem to care now he standing right in front of me and I'm starting to feel very disturbed by his presence for some reason too I keep staring at his blackhead filled nose the image still haunts me in

fact he opens his mouth and raises his right hand in a sort of loose fist in order to show me some motion I'm still saying no to him he's suddenly grabs me by the crotch though and I can feel this cold tingling sensation shivering through my body as my hair suddenly stands on end I keep saying no and I start to raise my fist in order to hit him we stand like this for a couple of seconds and thank God he lets go I'm still feeling the urge to hit him but I don't he asks

no sex and I almost shout out no at him in a tone that makes it sound like I'm questioning the question itself he then opens the door and I'm suddenly free I walk out feeling so creeped out by the experience I walk past the dog to the road and I see two pickup trucks on the other side of the road the trucks are surrounded by a group of hunters carrying shotguns on their shoulders this makes me instantly feel a lot safer I keep walking by the road for a while before a car passes Me by

it's quite warm and I'm in the middle of nowhere so I empty one of my water bottles and turn it upside down showing it to the cars passing by so they would think that I'm out of water this works and the second car stops eventually I get to Sparta and later that day to Athens safely but I felt disgusting until I got to take a shower all the kindness I had experienced while hitchhiking before this event had made me too comfortable I guess and maybe maybe I'd let my guard down or whatever I think humans

are good by nature but probably trusting every stranger is a bit of a stretch right stranger danger in my opinion is still overrated though I'm quite a lean guy too and not that strong so I was lucky that the situation didn't end up worse though I do think that I could have beaten that also very lean Shepherd Grandpa as a safety measure I carried a knife with me too but it wasn't on me at that moment of the incident also the knife could have made the situation worse obviously I wouldn't have done anything unless it

was absolutely necessary my mind was running like a million miles an hour during and after this experience and I thought about everything how it could have turned out in the worst case I thought about beating the guy telling the incident to the hunters and calling the police but in the end I ended up doing nothing and just sort of walked away I hope Karma gets to him eventually but who knows after this experience I still think hitchhiking is the best way to travel and I definitely am not giving it up but I certainly am a

lot more careful about how I do it I'm from a small town that houses three different elementary schools and only one Middle School in a high school can connected by the gymnasium and a tunnel between the two buildings I had lived there my entire life and I went to a different School than most other people mention in this story now back when I was in Middle School I had a Litany of bullies Who Loved making every moment of my day a living hell they did pretty much everything that you could think of ranging from pranks

in the middle of class to downright physical assault even but all of them were nothing compared to this one girl that I met at the beginning of seventh grade whom I'm going to refer to as Sadi sad was a stereotypical mean girl in every sense of the word loved fashion had a gaggle of friends willing to do her bidding and every guy was into her or wanted her she was the kid with the highest amounts of detentions argued a lot with the teachers and the principal pretty much did nothing about her actions she also made

a habit of having fun with some specific kids which includ included me I was a plus-sized kid at the time a scaredy cat gullible and a bit of a pushover as well but I did try to do well in school and I just kept to myself but that that didn't do much at all as soon as s took notice of me she took it upon herself to make sure every time that we even saw each other she'd make me miserable at the beginning it wasn't anything much she started rumors about me talking about me online

I didn't have social media yet so I didn't find that out until much later and in school as well she said things and threw things at me that ranged from her garbage to one of her textbooks it wasn't terrible at first s was annoying sure but I had work around so I just ignored her but when other kid saw that I wasn't going to fight back they joined in and took things way too far almost daily I had been chased in the Halls ganged up on in the bathrooms had my food stolen gotten blamed by

the teachers for their dumb actions in class and many other things these kids they had me on edge in feeling practically worthless for the entire school year to the point of me considering just running away to avoid the heck out of going to school why didn't I tell the school you may ask well I tried dozens of times teachers guidance counselors even the princip possible but they didn't care the school was honestly not the best and they were pretty negligent to everything that didn't involve funds sports events and GPA for the year so they gave

no heed to me when I tried to tell them what was going on with Sadie and her lackes these are some of their real responses from the incidents that happened though when I had gotten my backpack thrown down the stairs and a calculator inside that I brought from home got broken it's your property problem is what they said when Sadi had written a fat joke alongside of a slur on my locker door and permanent marker you have no evidence that it was her when s's boy toy and his friends cornered me outside the changing rooms

for gim to ask me for something they were probably just kidding around all of them were spearheaded by Sadie who was practically in charge that year and nothing she did was getting her into trouble summer could not come fast enough that year and by the time the seventh grade was over they let those kids get away with so much that I honestly gave up on trying to get outside help at that point as I got some personal help that summer I decided that things would be different by the time that I had to go back

to school for the following year I was not going to be s's personal punching bag anymore in other words when eighth grade started up I was ready I learned some MMA self-defense I defended myself vocally I wasn't so quiet anymore and I I started to fight back and what did you know it worked none of the old bullies from last year even looked my way again except for Sadie who still tried to pull her usual stunts but the longer I showed her that I didn't care the more it seemed to get to her honestly it

felt like ample Revenge to all of the stuff that she put me through last year Sadie however would not let it go for the life of her I didn't know it then but this whole Act of hers would end up taking a really bad turn one day I was walking to the gym with Sadie following close behind me she didn't share a gym class with me but she did like following me around in between classes and trying to get a rise out of me this day however was not great for me and I don't exactly

remember why now but I was stressed out and I kept getting really ticked off over whatever went wrong that day Sadie following behind trying out different insults and comments about me it must have just sent me over the edge in a quick motion I stopped walking spun around pushed Sadie backwards and spit towards her with it landing on her leg I told her to just get lost and to leave me alone I didn't know what I was really expecting her reaction to be but it sure as heck wasn't what she did Sadie just sort of

stood there Frozen staring at me I I expected her to be coughing up blood from Rage or her screaming or anything at all but instead she just stood there as if a deer in the headlights I didn't think about it at that time as I left for gym not long after and eventually forgot about it but after school I was walking across the school building to head for the parking lot next to the high school building everything felt normal until I saw sad not far behind me I didn't think anything weird of it so I

ignored it and kept walking until I noticed that she was taking the same path I was to the buses this wouldn't be too odd I guess if she actually rode the buses at all Sadie walked to and from school every single day if not that someone would always come and pick her up but the carpool lot was in the opposite direction of the buses I took a different path than my normal route around the back of the school I looked back to check and yep Sadie was taking the exact same path I was and she

stopped walking every time that I looked back at her I began picking up the pace a bit and from behind I could hear her running to catch up to me by the time that I was nearing the bus lot she was somewhere around maybe 10 ft right behind me still jogging to follow me I definitely did not want her to learn which bus was mine nor did I want her to follow me home so I decided to try and fig her out I jumped onto a different bus much to the dismay of the driver and

Sadie ran in after me after she got in the front the bus driver yelled at her about something and I ran off and raced to my actual bus which was all the way on the other end where this particular bus was I got in and the bus drove away just as Sadie got off to see where I went now the next day I didn't see sad anywhere at school not in any of the classes not at lunch not even after school either I asked but nobody knew where she went this went on for the rest

of the week the bus incident took place on a Monday and the disappearing act happened on the Tuesday by Thursday I began to relax about the whole thing I still didn't understand what Sadie was doing with the whole bus incident but as long as she was gone things felt well pretty okay that is until Friday afternoon came along like the last few days Sadie wasn't there so I was pretty relaxed for the most of it when the end of the school day came I was about to walk out of the front doors to the building

when something stopped me I just had a sudden horrible feeling in my stomach telling me not to go outside I had no idea where that came from but I thought it was just my leftover anxiety playing tricks on me so I headed out anyway not still twisting the middle school and the high school were all part of one connecting path system which means that we all had hallways and walkways connecting both the main middle school and the main high school buildings with one long sidewalk path out front the parking lot where I had to walk

to my bus was on the opposite end of this long sidewalk which ran in front of both the middle school and in front of the high school too this can make for a pretty long walk and the doors leading into the high school often flooded with students make for some interesting obstacles this would all come into play when this happened too so I just walked down the outside stairs to the sidewalk when I saw someone run around a corner from the building I look over and it was sad looking completely ticked off as bad as

a Rabbid Dog full sprinting right towards me I bolted running faster than I ever had in my whole life running off nothing but pure adrenaline and fear sad was catching up quickly behind me though and all I could do was run and pray for help I dodged between crowds of kids and just tried to lose her somewhere in the masses not caring at all if I bumped into other people only afraid that stie was still behind me by the time that I reached the buses I didn't see her anywhere so I stopped and nearly collapsed

to catch my breath I felt relief for only a second until she popped out of nowhere from the side of the crowd and lunged at me Sadie grabbed me by my hair and backpack swinging me around in a circle as I tried to get her off of me she kept pulling and jerking so much that I felt my hair being ripped out at some point but she kept going I screamed for help kicking and punching blindly in s's Direction but either nobody wanted to get involved or were too scared to break us up because there

was nobody who came forward sad let go of my hair to reach for something behind her and what happened next was only a miracle my older brother was walking out of high school drinking a soda when he saw the scene and ran to help he was the only one who knew about Sadie and recognized her when he had gotten to school in the mornings he threw his soda at sti's head which startled her enough to let me go and Dro whatever she was holding I grabbed my brother and we took off for the bus making

it just before it drove off after we found a seat I looked back outside and what I saw still gives me chills sad was on the ground arms pinned by a teacher and right on the ground next to her was an open hunting knife and I knew without a doubt that it was definitely hers because of the sound that I had heard when she dropped it earlier next Monday I got a call down to the office where my brother was also waiting we got pulled into the C counselor's office where there were two police officers

waiting Apparently after we ran a high school teacher saw Sadie picking up the weapon and apprehended her while another person called the police they got s into interrogation and now they needed to hear what happened from me I practically broke down right there and then and told them everything what s did to me last year what I almost did because of her torment the bus incident the week prior and what happened on the sidewalk too my brother he put his arm around me while I just sat there nearly sobbing my words out the police and

the counselor just sat there writing down what I said but they looked unsympathetically one of the officers asked me if I would like to tell my parents so they could press charges at this point I just wanted everything to end about this horrible situation and to just be done with it so I just told them to do whatever they wanted I just wanted this to stop the counselor could tell that I was already upset enough so he sent me back to class and me and my brother made a promise to never speak about this again

Sadie ended up getting into juvie for the rest of the school year all the way until halfway through the second semester of freshman year of high school the school it also had some changes to it too police officers were now on duty during school hours in the middle and high schools we had stricter policies with bullying and and kids could now stay with teachers before during after school if they needed to I never did see sad again after that not even in passing in fact I later learned from one of her old friends that after

senior year she dropped out to get her GED because the incident on her police record meant College was well impossible it's been over 9 years since that day on the sidewalk and I'll admit that this is honestly not as bad as what other kids probably had to go through but I still feel the trauma from that time in middle school and especially from what stie did to me after middle school I had developed depression severe social anxiety and PTSD from the bullies I can't fully blame the situation for everything is maybe if I just pushed

a little bit harder with the teachers and the principal maybe this wouldn't have happened in the first place but eventually things did end up getting better I just wish that I could go back to my 13-year-old self that had to endure all of that to say that everything was going to be okay I'm doing better now I'm looking into therapy I'm in University right now too and I cannot be prouder of how far I've come thankfully I'm doing better now and I'm looking into therapy too also I'm in University right now and to be quite

honest I couldn't be prouder of how far I've come [Music] my female friend came to visit me for a long weekend and I a 22-year-old female won't be letting her stay with me ever again we were friends for Less Than 3 months before we both moved to separate states and continued our friendship virtually until now it has been a healthy friendship I guess with open communication we have had our disagreements but mostly always talked it out and moved on they mostly revolve around her believing that I don't open up enough and for me she does

things that are inconsiderate at times like be jealous of my long-term friends to their faces and have an odd attitude problem at times only has been shown maybe three times but still she can also be a bit obsessive and she gets upset when I don't text her for more than a day she's got loads of my photos saved to her phone and remembers every little thing about me and even has a list of my interests and look I know that's a bit weird but I've seen it as endearing that is until now so the first

day of the trip was great she was bubbly and brought me a gift with a sweet note of appreciation we went clubbing and headed to bed separately for the night this is where things got a bit weird now remember we slept separately well I woke up and she she was in my bed but not in my bed she was sitting upright on the top of the blankets next to me with her feet straight out and her back against my headboard while looking forward I was startled and said oh instinctively she just looked at me she

never said that she was waiting for me to wake up or maybe she was uncomfortable on the couch nothing then she left my room I have no clue how long she was actually sitting therefore day two in the morning we walked the city where she was engaged in wanting to hold my hand while were out and about by midday still day to her attitude had shifted completely and she is near mute now she isn't conversing with me enjoying any activities or even smiling anymore at the bar arcade or even at home watching movies you know

how those driving games take a sort of silly little photo for your profile pick on the leaderboard I was blowing a kissy face in mine I glanced at hers and even snapped a pick without her noticing her head was tilted forward looking up at the camera and she was blank-faced and you could mostly see the whites of her eyes it was like the film poster of a horror film see the orphan 2009 for what it may have looked like anyways for the rest of the trip she continued to not smile she was called to every

service worker she responded with one-word answers otherwise complained about any and everything I asked are you okay a couple of times and she replied I'm fine avoiding eye contact every time car rides were silent dinners were silent the final day I drove her to the airport at 3:00 a.m. I asked if she enjoyed her visit and she said it was okay it was fine I told her that I enjoyed having her she bought at her flight and she left now I cannot figure out what caused this 180° shift I mean I paid for everything took

her to all sorts of events that she wanted to go to and even took a day off my first sick day ever to take her to more I felt myself overcompensating because I felt insecure of being a terrible host or something I've had several friends stay with me and express to me that they enjoyed themselves so much that they never wanted to leave I don't believe I did anything so wrong to ruin this trip or whatever when she arrived home though she didn't contact me but she posted photos and videos of Me captioned Mine on

her social media I haven't brought this conversation to her yet all of my family and friends believe that I narrowly avoided a Selena Yolanda a lifetime film situation and that I was potentially with someone very unstable what do you guys [Music] think so I've never shared this with anyone except my wife and my mother growing up we lived in an old townhouse complex I always used to wake up terrified unable to move anything except for my eyes and there would be a man standing at the foot of my bed wearing a cowboy hat arms crossed

he would just stand there and then he would be gone and then I could move again this happened to me from the ages of about 6 to 12 until we moved not every night but probably maybe about once a month or so I would say I never told anyone about it for years I just kept it to myself in my early 20s I was visiting my parents and finally told my mother about what used to happen she was absolutely flawed and then went on to tell me when we lived in that house it used to

happen to her as well for about the same amount of years until we moved and they bought the house that they now live in I'm not quite sure how to explain the feeling of both relief and Terror that I felt knowing that a I wasn't crazy and B this man was also troubling my mother my dad worked in a remote work camp and was gone 15 days at a time this only ever happened when he was away we talked to him about it after we discovered that we both had these experience and he thinks that

we're nuts anyway I just wanted to share this I drove past the old house that this happened to me in and even just being close to it man it gave me the creeps I remember once my grandmother came to visit when we lived there and I'll never forget that she just looked around and said this is a busy Place Another strange thing that used to occur in the same house is that we had two cats and they used to just sort of sit at the bottom of the stairs and look up at the Landing like

they were watching someone The Landing at the top it overlooked the stairs and I used to feel like someone was looking down at me when going up them all the time the one cat that we had he would just sit there sometimes for like an hour or more just staring the bedrooms were on the top flooor anyways thanks for listening and it feels good to have this finally off my chest I'll also add that I had no other experiences since then when we first moved I was terrified that whatever used to haunt my Knights would

find me again after all the house that my parents bought it was only about two blocks away [Music] so I've spent about 2/3 of my life trying to debunk this one or come up with a reasonable explanation when I was in fifth grade I rode the bus with a girl who was a grade or two below me but we lived on opposite sides of a rather large apartment complex but could still walk to each other's homes if we wanted to her name was Micah Michael was born in Romania and had moved here a few years

prior to me meeting her she had had heterocromia Micah had brown eyes but half of one of her irises was blue this is relevant later now her family was off for a better word I went over to her apartment a few times to hang out with her and remembered seeing a lot of unusual Decor in her home lots of candles a few altars and a lot of taxidi as well her mother would get very upset any time that she brought friends over so typically she would sneak myself and a few of our other friends in

anytime her mom was out shopping but my mother was pregnant at the time and often felt sick so I never brought my friends over unless she was out shopping or at the doctors or whatever and so she had never met Micah a lot of the other kids were scared of her or felt sort of uneasy around her I guess none of our mutual friends could explain why I did two at times I'll admit for some unknown reason but as a fellow Outcast we stuck by each other's sides in the end after a few months of

knowing each other she started telling me that her family followed a belief system similar to paganism I forgot exactly what she called their religion but it wasn't wicker or Pagan or any other common one for lack of a better word again spiritual belief system and Micah started claiming that she had special powers I immediately called Bull on this and told her to prove it and she responded by saying that she would shapeshift into a cat and visit me later that evening my family and I lived on the third floor of our apartment building there were

no fire escapes balconies or anything like that we barely even had window Ledges as a side note too I do love cute stuff Hello Kitty Care Bears My Little Pony all that good stuff my best friend at the time was very into fashion and love to act like a high schooler and the few times that she saw me in cartoon PJs she made jokes so I stopped wearing anything like that to school or sleepovers almost a full year prior to me meeting my car I went to bed at my normal bedtime of 9:30 wearing some

Care Bear pajamas that my mom had bought me a week prior nobody had seen me in them aside from my parents and around 3:00 a.m. that night I woke up to hear scratch watchingg at my window I jumped out of bed looked out of my window and saw a black cat staring directly at me the cat was sitting on the very thin window ledge and raised its pore at me as if it was waving at me freaked out I told myself that it was a dream and so I went back to sleep I guess that

morning while my mom was cooking breakfast she asked if I had heard anything weird outside the night before so I asked what she meant I saw the weirdest thing last night I heard scratching at my window I got up to see what it was and I saw a black cat on the window ledge it looked like it was trying to open my window I sat there in silence unsure of what to say my mom continued I was afraid it was going to fall so I brought it inside carried it downstairs and put it outside but

you should have seen its eyes it had one eye that was half blue I've never seen a cat like that before I instantly felt so sick that I couldn't speak or finish my breakfast not wanting to approach mic after all of this I stood off to the side away from all the other kids until she walked up to me hey gloomy bear why didn't you let me in last night I was completely stunned I could have died at least your mom was nice enough to take me downstairs I stopped hanging around her as much after

that our building caught on fire a few weeks after all this happened and we ended up moving a few towns away I haven't seen or heard from her since then and to this day my mom still remembers that cat she'll mention it in passing every few years and make comments about how weird it was that a cat could have gotten up on that ledge and was trying to seemingly get in like that for the last 20 years I've been racking my brain looking for any explanation as to how this could have all happened but I

just haven't been able to come up with one so if anyone has one then genuinely I would love to hear it this all took place in the mid90s in a little town called Ottawa in Kansas these are all true stories of experiences that I had while living in that house I'll be sharing these experience es in chronological order but first I'll describe the layout of the house so from front to back you walk into the den and moving forward you enter into the kitchen with a doorway to your right that leads to a bathroom and

a master bedroom if you continue through the kitchen it leads to a dining room and living room on the left if you go through the dining room further to the back of the house it leads to a doorless room that we used for a computer room and then two more bedrooms in the back I share all of this because over the years family members switched rooms so the first experience happened not long after moving in at the time my mom had started a new relationship and we moved in with him his mom also lived there

as well and she had the master bedroom at the front of the house my mom and her new boyfriend they had the room at the very back of the house and I was in the room next to them now one night I heard all of my mom's music boxes just start playing out of nowhere that she had these painted clowns and such that sat on satin pillows and played music they weren't creepy to me until this night I suppose but anyways I hear them just all going off and in my kid mind I'm just sort

of ticked off that my mom is in there playing when she told me that it was bedtime but they just kept playing and playing all at the same time it was years later that she my Mom finally told me that but she wasn't playing with them the second thing that happened was probably the scariest experience of my life I was still in one of the back bedrooms but by this time my step Grandma had moved out so my mom and her boyfriend were in the master bedroom at the front of the house I was alone

in the back I have siblings but they were back and forth between my mom and dad so at this point I was the only kid there my mom and I we had just come home from Walmart and she had gotten me the nightmare Before Christmas on VHS and yes I'm showing my age there but it was late so she and I could watch it the next day I put it in my dresser and I went to bed it was still wrapped in the cellophane and still in the Walmart bag and as I was falling asleep

I heard the plastic of the bag even with my NightLight on I couldn't see anything I was scared though so I gently tossed my big white cat Muffin Man onto the floor at the foot of my bed in the hopes that he would scare whatever it was away and instead he literally took off I kept hearing the plastic and was literally petrified I couldn't even scream I was so scared I eventually woke up and when I did the movie was now out of the case and on the floor and honestly I simply cannot explain how

that happened now the third experience I had a friend over and this story still gives her chills as well she had recently lost her mom in a car accident and this was another attempt of her sleeping over she would try but she missed her mom and just wanted to be with her family but this time she actually stayed the whole night the experience itself wasn't scary for me but I had a poster of the crow it was my first poster ever and I loved it but when I woke up it was tacked upside down I

certainly wouldn't have done that to Brandon Lee and when my friend saw that she turned white and she never spent the night again I know it wasn't her and at that time my little brother was living with us again but there's no way that he could have reached the tax at the top of the poster like that so again I just don't know how this happened now my fourth experience was probably the second scariest one we had cats at that time but one day in the middle of the day my brother was down the street

playing football at the school and I was home alone with my mom I was in the computer room and she was in the kitchen the day before my little brother had been pretending that he had caught an alien he had a huge plaster ET piggy bank that was probably like 1 and 1/2 to 2 ft tall it was pretty ridiculous really but he had a rope tide around it because he had caught it you know so I'm at the computer and all of a sudden I hear a loud Crash from the rooms in the back

and here comes my cat Jara with the other end of the rope tied around her tail mind you Jara was a tauy they're kind of known for just being all around crazy but for anything to keep that cat still long enough to tie something around her tail well that's kind of mindboggling but something had definitely tied it around her tail like that I mean it wasn't an accident there was a bow and everything and broke off et's head in the process again I cannot explain any of these experiences my mom ended up having a priest

come in and bless our home he stole my Stone Collection and dream catcher still pretty ticked off about that by the way but we did a little bit of research and found that the property had actually burned down in the past I cannot remember the dates now but I don't think that the spirit or whatever it was was demonic I actually think that it was a little girl named Margaret but I'm curious as to what everyone else thinks I'll do a little bit more digging and see if I can find any more info about the

fire but yeah really at this point that's all I've [Music] got I was 11 years old when this happened I'm female and currently 24 I was visiting my dad and step M over the summer in Saskatchewan Canada my dad worked long days during the week so on her day off he planned for my stepmom to take my sister eight of the time and I out for a day to get some bonding time in with us as we didn't know her super well yet she took us to get our nails done to the mall and on

the way home we stopped at a McDonald's we planned on eating inside the restaurant but it was very busy so my stepmom asked my sister and I to find a table and wait there while she went to the counter to order our food it was around then that I noticed this rough older looking woman possibly 60s or 70s looking towards the direction of the table my sister and I were seated at all I could remember is thinking she looked like a drugged out Susan Bole she looked possibly homeless and addicted so I didn't give her

much of a thought letting her do her own thing and I just tried to talk to my sister about random stuff once my stepmom came back to the table this woman was also seemingly already approaching us and then stopped beside us she just said hello so we all kind of set high back and tried to ignore her she asked if we were my stepmom's daughters so she says they're my stepdaughters trying to be simple to kind of shut her down the lady says that we were beautiful girls and begins to walk towards the door she

stops one last time and asks how old are they we had the impression that she was on her way out so my stepmom just says to her like 11 and 8 her eyes though they lit up and she looked at me with a sort of strange look I've always wanted an 11-year-old she said I'd buy her from you that definitely crossed a line so my stepmom finally tells her that we're trying to eat lunch and ask her what she's even saying in a somewhat aggressive tone the lady got one last look at me and then

she finally left she definitely didn't have the money to buy me even if I was for sale anyway so I wasn't too worried but I do think that she was possibly on some drugs and not in her right mind but knowing my shy self at 11 I wouldn't have known how to get rid of this lady if she had tried to talk to us without my stepmom there we weren't super close then but I respected her a lot after that day for being ready to protect us even in a minor situation like [Music] this this

actually happened just last night for me I was almost home after a long day of traveling and it was approximately 1: in the morning as I ran at a corner and stopped at the intersection right near my home the light was red and as I slowed to a stop out of the corner of my eye I saw three people on the sidewalk they were all dressed in black and wearing white face masks or face paint or something maybe a combination of the two even one was crouched on the ground while the other two were standing

crooked they were still as statues when I came to a stop but when I looked at them they all started crawling or walking towards me I was absolutely exhausted at this stage and apparently my instinct in moments of Terror is to just like laugh and shake my head like I was in on a joke or whatever they were super close to my car in the end but thankfully the light turned green and I was able to get out of there before they reached my car since you could see the corner of my house from the

intersection I ended up just driving for quite a while and then turning around once it felt like enough time had passed so that they wouldn't follow my car pulling into the street that I lived on I imagine it was just some teens playing a prank or whatever but afterwards I was thinking about it being a a school night and most people wouldn't be having sleepovers in the middle of the week or anything I'm debating whether it's worth calling the non-emergency line to report it just in case regardless I won't be going out past Sundown for

quite some time and I'll likely invest in some door lock reinforcements too after that because honestly who knows what they were up to [Music] I've always been aware growing up in a house of oldtime romanii people gives you that I say aware in respect of that to quote Shakespeare that there are more things in Heaven and Earth there's places places I've been where I'll never go again and here's one of the last of them I'm going back 30 years or more to a day in the summer holidays where I found myself alone I'd walked my

girlfriend home and it was the time where the light starts to fade and the night starts to close in it would have been around 8 or 9 I suppose it was still quite light and looking back there was no need to be worried about well anything really but as is the case with many things the worry it started anyway I took a shortcut through a park which led me onto a path that cuts through some Woods the light was good enough for me to walk the path and stay on through to the other side I've

spoken about the feeling of something watching you before with others and if you take anything from hearing this then it's that this feeling that you get is rarely wrong mine in fact has never been wrong so as I walked down the path it opened up into a small field full of long grass yellow colored yellow colored as the sun had been quite merciless with it when that feel it just struck me hard now I was at an age where I thought that I could have handled pretty much anything so I stopped and surveyed around to

see what or who was there with me that's when I heard a sharp whistle the kind where a dog may come running I looked around to see where it had come from but there was no one there I just started to walk again thinking that the whistle must have carried from the park or whatever then I caught something from the corner of my eye in the grass a streak of white just slow enough for me to catch it I Whirled on the spot but there was nothing there I shout hello no answer so I carry

on walking I'm getting nearer to the far edge of the field now and that's when I heard clear as day literally to my back you're not leaving so soon I quick turned again thinking that somebody was there but there was nothing there and no one fear is a a funny thing and the realization that you could be in trouble coupled with fear is a horrible thing I've always been told from being very young that nothing can hurt you that's passed on so armed with that knowledge I just carried on walking I was scared but I

hunched my shoulders with my hand in my pockets and watched my feet glancing up for the Gap in the fence to get out of there only it wasn't there I don't know how but I must have turned around one too many times and I must have threw myself off by quite a ways from where I should have been and now I'm a little bit more scared I am definitely not prone to irrationality so this was not right at all and it was then that on the breeze I I heard a distinct laugh or more of

a chuckle maybe I started to jog this time keeping my ey line on the Gap in the fence and I fell down I say fell because it felt more like I was tripped but maybe that was adrenaline I'm not too sure whatever the case may be my memory gets a bit hazy there because in the Dying Light I swear that I saw a man just an outline silhouetted by the Setting Sun but he was there dog at his feet with a long walking stick like a shepherd's crook I sat up and for the first time

in my life I realized that my family wasn't as crazy as I thought they were it's a a humbling experience really and I bounced onto my feet like Jackie Chan and that jog quickly turned into a dead Sprint I knew in my head and heart that I'd seen something that wasn't right and I needed to get out of the way as fast as my legs would carry me the last thing the very last thing that I heard or thought I heard was don't be a stranger lad like I said there's places places that should really

be left alone is the things there want you to come and visit after that even with my mates hanging around on that Park I always felt watched i' looked down the that path and I swear that I'd hear laughter they built some warehouses on that land eventually so I suppose it's not somewhere to worry about these days I still tell my boy about things like this that happened to me when I was younger and he always rolls his eyes and sometimes laughs and who knows I might take him there one day and see what happens

just to see this happened about 5 years ago so I had just gotten out of a 2-year long relationship living in the city I moved to my then boyfriend for after he left I felt lonely and heartbroken I was stuck in the apartment that we had shared so I downloaded Tinder to chat to guys as a way of coping with the breakup there I matched with this guy he was about 4 years older than me he was extremely handsome and Charming he was very much into fitness and had an amazing body after talking for a

few days he asked me to meet and so we did he came over to my house and I was immediately attracted to him he was a bad boy type the kind I usually fall for but he was also very sweet in the way that he talked to me he kept complimenting me and doing sweet stuff to me and after a few days of meeting we ended up having sex and it was was honestly the best that I'd ever had I felt this intense Chemistry Between Us we started hanging out and doing it a lot in

fact at the time I did smoke weed a lot I knew that he smoked too and did some other things as well I didn't really care much at the time but eventually he would keep asking me to hang out pretty much every day begging me to come over because he missed me when I told him that I was too tired he would bribe me with stuff like saying that he would give me massages we dinner romantic things give me the best night Etc he didn't like it when I told him though he would sometimes get

angry send me a bunch of messages just pleading for me to come over after every time that I'd been to his house he would shower me with love via messages he was so romantic saying that I made him feel so amazing that there was something special about me and that he loved being with me he would often shower me with compliments but then get angry when I said that I didn't have time to hang out with him now at some point I was at his house he got a phone call from someone after he hung

up he told me that I had to go upstairs and hide because his baby mama was coming over he didn't want her to see me because she was crazy he told me some stories of crazy stuff that she had apparently done and I believed him he was very convincing and I believe that this happened twice now I know that I should have seen the red flags I probably did to some extent but I didn't care much I kept hanging out with him a lot even though I figured out that he was heavy on drugs and

one day I was at his house and we had done the deed I had smoked a lot and he was on some stuff he wanted to go again but he got frustrated that he couldn't get up he got mad and kind of blamed it on me not being firm enough on the grip he kind of yelled at me to squeeze it harder and he just kept getting more frustrated obviously I felt uncomfortable and wanted to leave but he wanted me to stay he tried to continue but it just didn't work I was extremely uncomfortable and

felt very embarrassed after a while I told him that I wanted to leave he then told me to give back the weed that he gave me as is his mind it was his payment to me being with him and at that I was absolutely Furious and so I just grabbed my stuff and I walked out the door he followed me and at first he walked calmly about 30 m behind me begging me to stay with him asking where I was going and I just kept walking and saying no but he then ran towards me I

picked picked up my phone to call a friend of mine because I could tell that he was getting aggressive and then I turned around and saw him literally tear his shirt open and began stomping towards me he grabbed my phone out of my hands then kicked me in the stomach so hard that I fell into a ditch he then smashed my phone to the ground and told me you're done I thought that he was going to beat me up at this stage but then it looked like he was actually trying to contain himself for a

second and just turned around and left obviously I was mortified by what he had done I ran away shaking I can't even remember how I got home but somehow I did I was able to borrow a phone from someone and called my friend I think and he came over and I had bruises all over my stomach and legs and I had no phone obviously it was then that I called the police using a friend's phone and told them that I wanted to press charges a few days later he messaged me saying that I tried to

steal from him that I took advantage of him just to get some weed a few hours after that he texted me saying sorry a few more hours he texted asking what had happened to me yesterday then a week later he found out that I had reported him to the police and he was mad he said that he couldn't believe that I'd reported him then he told me that he would give me two new phones or whatever I wanted if I withdrew the report that he wouldn't contact me anymore if I just did it he just

didn't want any trouble and didn't want to lose his daughter I didn't answer then he sent me another message fabricating the whole story of what happened that night he kept harassing me for weeks with messages some days he was begging us to get back together or to be friends bribing me other days he was accusing me of random stuff calling me names Etc and that he had a great lawyer and that he would report me to the police for stuff that I had never actually done he kept acting like a smart Alex saying that he

would beat me in court it all became very chaotic in the end after a few months there was a trial as well I couldn't attend physically so I testified via a phone call I was questioned about our relationship and the incident that night he lied and made up stories about me but no one believed him as the trial was done I received all the papers in the mail and honestly I was in shock when I read it you see he had previously been charged with violence and rape towards his ex apparently there was also an

incident where he had forced his ex-girlfriend to do things in front of other men and videotaped her there were other girls too that had experienced similar things stuff like robbery weapons fights violence and torture you name it he had been in jail multiple times as well and I had no idea that i' had been dealing with such a dangerous person in fact I I'm pretty sure that he was a psychopath he has no understanding of what he has done and the sick part is that I recently came across a post about him on Facebook apparently

he's pretty popular with women lately on Snapchat and Instagram he posts stuff about his life whining about being beaten up by random men being tortured and robbed and all that that people follow him with guns allegedly I've learned that the reason that he keeps being beaten up by people is that they know what he has done he posted pictures of himself at the hospital to make people feel bad for him and weirdly enough they do he makes women feel sorry for him he says people lie and make up stories about him and he gains pity

he then posts all the sweet replies and messages girls send him saying stuff like he feels so Greatful for all of their support he's extremely good at manipulating people and I honestly feel so lucky that I got away at the time that I did and that it didn't escalate any further I checked his Facebook recently too and apparently he has a girlfriend now I just pray that he doesn't hurt her her in any way and that she gets out of there quickly because Lord knows what that man is capable [Music] of from the age of

7 to 12 I had a best friend called Aaron he was playful always cheerful witty and intelligent his family they rented a place from a relative of my brother-in-law his family consisted of his parents his sister and him we always hung out in the afternoons and on weekends my cousin Aaron and I would get together and it's worth noting that neither he nor his sister attended school but we were like the Three Musketeers I guess you could say although Aaron was much more mature than us not in a bad way but because he was very

intelligent knew about everything and had answers for pretty much everything everything was normal too and and I have very fond memories of our mischief and games together I remember that he taught me songs and words in a language that I don't know he also Drew strange pictures and at his house there were figures and something like an altar with similar drawings But Here Comes The Strange part so in the seven years we knew each other neither he nor his sister nor his parents seemed to age a single day they remained unchanged I also remember that

once they invited me to dinner and when he started talking about the moon and its power his mother and father looked at him with a face as if telling him to be quiet and changed the subject his house was surrounded by a yard and had two entrances the main one and one from the patio leading to the kitchen at the age of 13 one afternoon we waited for him to go out and play but he just never showed up so not willing to give up we went and looked for him my cousin and I went

through the patio entrance and heard him telling his mom that he didn't want to leave and she said you know how it is we could be discovered you know that and they continued talking in a mix of his language and ours at that point my cousin whistled and he yelled I'm coming we went to play ball and I was left wondering what they had been talking about I waited for the right moment to ask him which was in the late afternoon after the game and he told my cousin and me something that we will never

forget because his voice changed and he became very serious he told us that his family came from a lineage that didn't age normally like us and that he wasn't really 13 apparently too they traveled everywhere my cousin jokingly asked well how old are you 80 and he replied 64 I got goosebumps from that and from there we each went home the next day we went around to see him but his house was now empty and there was no trace of him or his family anywhere in fact we never saw him in the town again they

just disappeared completely the question of what really happened I guess that will always G at me we all remain with this doubt and to this day everyone in the town remembers this kid so it wasn't just a figment of my imagination or anything also my brother-in-law told my mom that his relative rented out the place privately but the father's name was Samuel Basset or bti or something like that I've searched on Facebook dat as family search I mean everywhere where I could find a record and there is no record at all anywhere of this [Music]

family a little bit of context first so I'm 27 and male my parents are out of town for the weekend at a church Conference of some kind they're very religious but I personally am not I take care of our animals while they're gone and I started a new job 3 weeks ago that requires my being there at 7:00 a.m. this has changed my sleep schedule to where I start getting tired at around 9: to 10 and wake up at around 5:45 my alarm clock is normally set to this too I do have one cat of

my own and my parents have two cats and a dog our dog black lab German Shepherd named Daisy lap dog in a big body is getting older and doesn't have the best bladder these days so I was a work at around 1ish I didn't look at the time but it fits the timeline of the Night by Daisy panting at my bedside wanting to go out I managed to get myself out of bed and downstairs we have a back room area that leads to the backyard as do my neighbors I opened the back door to this

area turned on the light in a bit of a days and opened the door to let Daisy out I came back inside to our kitchen and closed the door behind me my cat enjoys eating while while being pet so I started petting him the cat Bowl is on a countertop that looks out into the right side portion of the backyard a little bit of our neighbor's yard too because of the fence and a clear view of their back room area we use ours as a storage room for old kitchen stuff and trash cans my neighbors

they converted theirs into a sort of mini Lounge room I began to get hungry at this point so I got a bowl of cereal and placed myself next to the cat leaning over the the bowl while eating I stared out the window while I waited for Daisy to finish her business and that's when I saw something I saw a black figure moving around in the dimly lit red light room of their back Lounge area at first I genuinely thought somebody was robbing them then I thought that maybe I was dreaming I looked at the time

on the microwave and it was 1:16 in the morning so I stared at it to make sure my eyes weren't playing tricks on me and it moved really strangely like whoever it was wasn't trying to forcibly enter But spastically sort of flailing and moving back and forth that's when my neighbor turned on the light to the back room and hobbled out her and her husband are older and honestly I couldn't believe my eyes as soon as she turned the light on whatever it was was just gone I've seen movies where the person sees a ghost

turns the light on and it's gone but seeing it in real life is very much a different story she looked around the room and then looked into her backyard she turned around and walked back inside after I'm assuming she saw nothing but I think she saw something or heard something that made her want to check it out in any case I let Daisy back in after she had done her one bark to let me know that she was done I put the finished cereal bow in the sink and went upstairs to go back to bed

before I did though I went to my notes on my phone to write down times dates and what I saw I'm very tempted to ask them about it too but some people are very very freaked out by stuff like this I told a past cooworker about one other experience that I had and they visibly looked distraught I just don't really tell anyone about this unless it's brought up naturally in conversation I guess she is also not the best mentally and has recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and I don't know this might just be a

little bit too much for them I just wanted to share this here with someone because I don't really have friends to share this with and parents think that anything ethereal is demonic maybe it is I mean who knows but it could also be their deceased father that passed away 2 years ago or something else in any case eventually I went over to my neighbors to check in and see if they saw what I saw and she said that apparently they didn't see anything she said that she went out to turn off the heater in there

but doesn't remember looking around the room and into the backyard I must have been in a dream state or something because I don't know what I saw looked just so real I must have been imagining things I guess but I just cannot shake the feeling that I wasn't I live with my wife in a home that we recently purchased around 6 months ago I have never had an experience like this before and I'm really not sure what I should do if anything so last night at around 3:45 a.m. I woke up Suddenly rolled over and

saw a 7ft tall dark silhouette standing over my wife's side of the bed I flinched and jumped out of the bed took my eyes off the be for probably half a second and in the time that I had it had disappeared and I can assure you that there was nothing there that could have mistaken for what I saw I.E a coat rack or anything of the sort it was dark no lights were on and I had just woken up from sleeping however my eyes were adjusted to the darkness and whatever it was seemed far darker

than anything else in the room like a solid black as if you drew a solid Sharpie figure on a dark gray piece of paper the silhouette was very tall had no details on its body or face no hair no ears no impressions for eyes or anything it looked three-dimensional as I could make out a radius around the Dome of the head and the neck it had broad shoulders as opposed to a lot of similar reports I've seen online it looked slightly hunched over and was staring directly at me I say this because it looked like

it had a small forward tilt to its head I saw its full body from where I imagined its knees were its midsection tapered slightly inward from the broadness of the shoulders and from the waist down it looked like the same no gaps of Shadow between where its legs would have been as if it was wearing a cloak that sort of draped down to its feet all a deep solid black color like I said too I looked at it for about 2 seconds before I jumped up I noticed it immediately when I rolled over but didn't

understand what I was seeing until after a moment or two I suspect my delayed reaction was due to the fact that I was asleep shortly before and had to get my bearings on what was happening I have no idea what it was or what to do and I remained awake for about an hour afterward before eventually I just fell back asleep from exhaustion I wake up for work at 6:00 a.m. and go about my business if anyone has seen this or if you have any advice for how I should handle this then really please do

message me I mentioned it to my wife only that I saw something strange last night and that she should tell me if she sees anything odd in the future I don't want to scare her but it sure scared the heck out of me my husband and I moved into this house that we currently live in a little over 4 years ago we live on Long Island New York in a very old Colonial House built in 1907 ever since moving in we've experienced some very strange things the first experience still freaks me out to this day

I left work early as I was sick with a cold that day I went straight upstairs to our bedroom to take a nap and after lying in bed for a few short minutes I heard the sound of someone coming up the stairs clear as day footsteps on each step now our staircase has two sets of stairs with a landing in between so whoever it was made their way slowly up the first set paused for a moment then the second set our bedroom door sits at the step of the stairs and whatever it was it just

stopped right at our door I rationalized at first as my husband coming home from work but that didn't make sense as he wouldn't be due to come home for like another hour and a half and in my heart I knew that it wasn't him I genuinely got such a scared feeling that my entire body stiffened up and all of my senses heightened later when my husband did come home I asked him if he came home early and then maybe went downstairs again and told him what I heard but he said no he just got home

but he didn't quite believe me I guess well about a month later he experienced the same thing he was home from work alone and laid down to take a nap when he heard footsteps coming up the stairs he then started believing and it was then that he started believing that we weren't alone in the house but we had our baby a boy in 2021 and one night I was up breastfeeding him I used to go downstairs to our living room so my husband could sleep as he went back to work after paternity leave I'm sitting

on my big comfy armchair snuggling our newborn who fell asleep in my arms when I suddenly hear footsteps upstairs clear as day again Footsteps in our upstairs hallway I freeze and listen carefully knowing that I didn't hear our bedroom door open so it couldn't have been my husband oddly enough about 10 minutes later my husband does get up to use the bathroom and I call up to him and ask him if he was up before to which he said that no he just got up then to go to the bathroom I was really creeped out

I refused to bre feed downstairs anymore and I only did it in our bedroom from then on the last big thing that happened was my mom who lives out of state was coming to visit and Babys sat for us to give us our first official date night out since having our son we got home after dinner and my mom looked absolutely horrified she said that she was sitting on the rocking chair while my son was asleep in her arms when suddenly she heard footsteps outside the bedroom door and then three loud bangs against it like

someone was banging their fists against it angrily she said that she jumped right up and opened the door to check but when she did nobody was there she then anxiously awaited our arrival back and has been afraid to stay with us ever since then since then too we've experienced little things here and there but it seems like the activity has died down my son is older now and has told us that the walls in his room talk to him which creeped us out a lot but we chalked it up to an overactive toddler imagination I'm

honestly glad that nothing has really happened since then as it sincerely freaks me out and I really really don't want my son getting scared either I also want to add one more thing too that may or may not be related to what we have also experienced but one day a few months ago we were eating dinner with my son and out of nowhere he tells us I played with Grandpa yesterday so we assume that he met my dad as my husband's father unfortunately passed away several years ago and when I asked him what he meant

because we haven't seen my dad in a while he said no not that Grandpa my other grandpa my husband and I looked at each other and asked him what his grandpa looked like and he said he looks like a girl with long hair and he had wings and flew up in the sky my husband's dad he was a musician and had long hair all of his life and I kid you not we were so freaked out but also sort of relieved I guess like maybe this ghost or whatever was his grandpa looking out for us

I'm really not sure but it is one of the craziest things to happen to me ever and really I just wanted to [Music] stop back in 2018 and 2019 I was outside my house with my little brother keeping him entertained while my family was out I don't remember exactly what we were doing but all of a sudden I just had this feeling that we were being watched I looked past my brother into the wooded area in front of my house in the ditch right before the wooded area I see a figure of a head pop

out it had the head of a fox or a cat or something I guess ear pointed up white fur black eyes ears were white with the tips being black as soon as I locked eyes with it though it sort of shot down originally I was going to look into the ditch but something was screaming at me not to about 20 minutes go by and my back is facing the woods and my brother is facing the woods we got into some conversation when he just stops mids sentence and looks over me in shock and confusion I

look back and we see a black figure run into the woods we just stared into the woods and I then got an idea and told my brother to go inside and grab one of our flashlights it's one of those really powerful ones that you can adjust the distance with and brightness enough to even light up a room even when it's day time or when it's completely dark it's like you just turn on a light to a room he goes and grabs it and he hands it to me when I shined in on the woods just

slowly searching for something I stopped near the right corner of the woods and that's when I see that there are just white eyes looking back at us we were stunned looking at this thing and then I realized something our house is on a hill you see and the woods they are not so whatever it was it was looking at us and standing at equal footing with the hill to look at us and this hill was pretty large the eyes kept looking at us then to the side and then they would sway left to right we

were watching it and sort of clicking off the flashlight to wait for 5 or 10 minutes to see if it would leave but it wouldn't we didn't have our phones with us to take a photo or a video at never even crossed our minds to be honest but we stood there until it got dark which was almost 2 hours the figure just looking at us the whole time occasionally moving left or right my brother eventually ran inside though and said that he had an idea now and grabbed a BB gun took aim and tried to

shoot at it the eyes just looked down and slowly back up he took the flashlight and told me to try to scare it off again I aimed shot where the eyes were and nothing the eyes moved like it turned around and slowly turned back to us 30 minutes go by and we still did the same routine turn off the light wait a minute or two and then turn it back on and the eyes just still stared at us swaying like that then my grandfather came home and we tried desperately to show him what we were

seeing and when we did it was gone we we tried telling him what we saw and he kept telling us that it was a raccoon we kept trying to tell him that there's no way that it was that I mean it had to be something else with the size of it he just snapped at us eventually and yelled that it's a raccoon and not to ask or talk about it again shortly after telling him about this though we moved out of the blue without warning before we officially moved my grandfather just stared into the woods

shook his head and and looked up I personally have no idea what I saw that day but I have a sneaking suspicion that my grandfather knew exactly what we saw but just never wanted to tell [Music] us ever since I was a kid I remember my grandma denouncing horror of any kind ghoulish Halloween masks haunted houses scary movies I had attributed this aversion to her background and Faith she's Hispanic and a devout Catholic she believes that anything horror related is wrong evil you name it so imagine my shock and curiosity when my grandparents shared a

bombshell back in 1974 my grandpa convinced my grandma to see the Texas Chainsaw Massacre this would be her first and last scary movie the weekend after the movie my Grandpa Grandma my then toddler AG mother and my aunts and uncles decided that they'll go horseback riding for the first time since everyone lived in Wisconsin my family made the journey to a farm about 2 hours away for the most part everyone is in High Spirits and I mean who can say no to a family adventure on a crisp autumn Wisconsin day despite the others excitement my

grandma is worried since she doesn't care for horses she chooses to stay behind as well on her own with my mother when my family arrives at the farm it is 3:00 at this point according to my grandma she watched everyone get saddled up and then slowly ride off into the tangle of trees the guide leading my family called out that the ride would last less than 2 hours mentioning different Trails the need for breaks and all that things of that nature my grandma figures everyone will be back by 5:00 she waits with my mother in

the car playing games reading story books and trying to silence her bubbling anxiety needless to say 5:00 comes and goes and no sign of my family by this time my mother has fallen asleep which leaves my grandma with no way to distract herself from her worries finally though when 6:00 rolls around she calls to a farmand from her car window no way she leaving the safety of a vehicle but she demands to know why her family hasn't returned yet when 5:00 has long since passed by now Darkness has begun bleeding into the Wisconsin Sky the

farmand assures her that everything is okay and that extra paths are taken throughout the ride he tells her that her family should return very soon now keep in mind that this was all before cell phones were a thing also a week before she had seen her first scary movie and it had scared her half to death at this point my poor Grandma feels like she's living out of scene from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre she tries to contain her worry and begins a hushed fearful prayer until the flash of lightning that is soon followed by earsplitting

Thunder occurs the noise wakes my mother who starts to cry my grandma must now not only Ponder the frightening question of where her family went she also has a stress howling 2-year-old to deal with as well it is now reaching 7:00 the storm is growing more ferocious by the second my grandma has to pee and her bladder feels like it's going to explode but between the Roar of the storm and the images of crazed country Maniacs plaguing her mind she refuses to leave the vehicle she plans in her head that if they aren't back by

7:30 she's going to leave and find the nearest gas station to phone for help again there's no cell phones during these days and 7:30 arrives her family hasn't come out of the woods yet as she's scrambling around the car for the keys she realizes my grandpa never gave them to her the pound of a fist against her window shakes her from her Whirlwind of panic that Panic amplifies by a million when she notices a sizable bronny man peering in at her he's wearing a jacket and the hood covers his head my grandma says that by

now it felt like someone had pushed a button and sent the world into a slow motion everything crawled by at a snail's pace why don't you and your little one come inside the men yells his words are authoritative though and carry no hint of warmth he isn't speaking from a place of concern he's ordering my grandma Into The Farmhouse all my grandma can do is shout where is my family the man responds gruffly we're looking for them my grandma orders him to call the police the next words the man said made my grandma literally pee

her pants we don't need the police is what he said as he turns to go back into his house he says you and the baby can come inside whenever you're ready my grandma starts to sob wholly convinced that her family has been brutally murdered and that she and her baby will be next in the chaos of this moment she hears someone calling her name but because of the pitch black darkness and her Prof found fear she knows that she must be hearing things then she hears her name again this time even louder Dora help me

it's my grandpa's voice when she realizes this she puts my mom in the back seat grabs the wooden baseball bat my grandpa keeps under his seat locks the doors and then exits the car keep calling my name I can't see you she cries after what feels like an eternity she follows my grandpa's voice to his location when she gets to him she realizes that my grandpa needed help because he is guiding my aunt across the high rain soaked grass she had accidentally hurt her ankle as well they're both drenched from mud and rain and covered

in scratches the rest of my family is nowhere inside at this point though before my grandma can assume the worst she hears my uncle calling for my grandpa one by one everyone shuffles out of the Wild Woods and through the Tall Grass everyone is soaked in mud and injured in some capacity Cuts gashes limping unsteady all are shaken as well but when they finally make it back to their vehicles the sounds of running engines and the flood of headlights gets the attention of the man inside The Farmhouse The Farmhouse door swings open and the brwy

Man Comes standing on the porch with an amused chuckle he draws oh you all made it out of there my grandpa shouts that guy left us out there and never came back all the man says in response is I'll have to talk to him about that you all can come inside his freakishly flippant and joking attitude sinks into his words he knows very well that they aren't going into his house my grandma begs my grandpa to leave it and get them out of there and with that my family tears out of there as fast as

humanly POS possible once my family was back home and safe my grandpa explained what had happened so during the ride the guide LED them into a deep part of the woods to a creek where the horses stopped for a drink as the horses rested the guide told my family that he had to do something and would be back in 20 minutes my family thought that this was a bit strange and my grandpa even anxiously joked you're coming back right the guide simply gave a low chuckle and took off on his horse the 20 minutes came

and went and the guy didn't return my family continued to wait as they had no idea where to go they could see the sky blackening above them and they would have to make it out of there on their own at this point as my family rode off they tried to remember the path back to the farm they wandered aimlessly and eventually the rain started to fall pulsing lightning and crash of Thunder spooked the horses everyone but my grandpa got through thrown off their horses when my grandpa climbed off of his horse to help the others

his own horse galloped away as well and from there it was a nightmare trying to navigate the woods while wounded and roaming through a thick void of Darkness like that it is something that my grandma has never forgotten and they often talk about what the intentions of those guys actually were I guess the only advice I can give you is this be careful about things like this because what seems like an innocent day can turn into an absolute [Music] nightmare this story happened just this summer I'm only now getting around to writing it down as

well so I would consider myself an Outdoorsman I grew up in the sticks and I've spent a lot of time wandering in and enjoying the back country I'm older now and have settled down in the suburbs wife two boys a house a dog a desk job the whole Suburban stick I want opportunities for my kids that come from Suburban life but I also want them to grow up with an appreciation for the outdoors so when my oldest son was big enough for his first solo fatherson camping trip I was really excited my wife and younger

son stayed home for this Midsummer trip and it was going to be a great bonding experience for me and my son because my son is just five I didn't want to do anything too extreme on our first big solo camping trip we needed a place that wasn't too deep in the Colorado Front Range but still allowed for dispersed camping I don't consider camping in RV parks or established campgrounds to be actual camping I mean you might as well just be at a motel watching TV camping at most is a tent sleeping bag and a fire

for sure a dispersed camping area called Gordon Gulch west of Boulder caught my attention because of this I'd never been to this area before there were no facilities and it was dispersed enough that you couldn't see or hear other campers nearby my son and I had a blast that day we set up camp collected firewood went for a hike saw a moose and a bobcat tried a little fishing as well and finally as the sunlight faded we returned to our campsite a lot of fire we had a very traditional and nutritious camping meal of fireb

bured hot dogs and marshmallows it was a good day really and definitely a core memory for both my son and me the perfect first camping experience for a preschooler really or so I thought so after all that fun my son and I were pretty exhausted it was time for bed and the sound of an evening Summer Breeze through the Pines is better than any commercial sleep aid I don't even remember drifting off it was a a hard dreamless sleep that only physical exertion can really bring on one thing about my son is that he inherited

many things from me hair color eye shape disposition and my usual wide feet but one peculiar thing he got from his mother was sleep talking It's Not Unusual to hear him having full conversations in his sleep it gets more pronounced when he's overly tired but I was catapulted out of the Void of sleep not sure what aroused me but I sat up collecting myself the world seemed to be at peace it was quiet just me and the breeze through the Treetops I couldn't figure out what actually woke me so suddenly like that but the sound

of my son laughing in his sleep cut through my groggy confusion it was a deep belly laugh must be a fun dream I thought hazily I gently rocked him and that was enough to quieten him down that must have been what startled me I determined as I sort of repositioned to fall back to sleep my son burst out laughing I sighed and closed my eyes the hill quietened down soon enough I thought he laughed again but this time his laugh was echoed by something outside of our tent I held my breath and listened unsure of

what I just heard it wasn't an echo though there was something out there and it was laughing in unison with my son my grogginess vanished as the adrenaline began to pump it couldn't be real it had to be my imagination surely I sat up in my sleeping bag listening to the night hearing nothing after a minute my muscles relaxed I started to settle back down I I must have been hearing things I mean I was tired after all at checking the time I saw that it was 4 in the morning the sun would be up

in a couple of hours my son laughed again and again it was answered with laughter outside I was now absolutely certain that that was not an echo as I tried to make sense of what was happening The Voice outside called my son's name and at that my blood ran cold that voice it was so familiar then it clicked in my brain it was the voice of my youngest son that wasn't at all possible though he was safe at home with my wife miles and miles away I could hear Twigs crunching beyond our Thin N and

tent walls it was impossible to tell the distance from us but there was something out there circling us unprompted this time it called out my son's name in that little toddler voice my 5-year-old still fast asleep called out to his brother asking him to play the thing outside the tent laughed in reply and urged my son to come outside that thing with my little son's voice sounded cold though sort of hollow dead the floodgates of my adrenaline burst open at this cold sweat formed on my face I was frightened out of my mind but my

Primal caveman brain roared to life all of a sudden I was in Papa Bear mode and nothing was going to take or hurt my son I was putting a stop to this and whatever it was that was out there I didn't care you don't mess with my kids say what you will as well but when you're camping miles from anything it's not worth the risk of being unarmed wild animals wild people you have to be prepared I almost always take a firearm with me when I'm camping pepper spray and bear bells are great but nothing

gets attention from a conscious threat faster than the sound of chambering around I spoke loudly into the night that I had a gun and was coming out I hoped that the fear of my voice was masked by my aggressiveness the only reply was the breeze through the Treetops my son was still asleep thankfully kids a hard sleeper another trait from from his mom my wife and I joked that he could sleep through a tornado in fact stepping out into the cool summer night though a gun in one hand and a flashlight in the other I

surveyed the campsite the fire was now down to Embers our fishing gear was leaning against the pickup the firewood was still neatly stacked and really nothing seemed out of place not wanting to stray far from the tent or my sleeping son I sat down inside at the entrance I waited in the dark with the flashlight off and it was then that not far into the trees I heard a branch break then another snapped and this time it was closer I stood up and flashed my light in the direction of the sound but nothing was there

The Voice then called out this time from behind and this time seemingly focused towards me Daddy Daddy at said head it was my youngest son's voice again crying out for me from the Dark Forest I threw the light beam in that direction a pair of shimmering green eyes were illuminated by my flashlight all of a sudden they were only two or so feet above the ground though the same height as a toddler I took a small step forward I wanted to see more I needed to see more the eyes unblinking remained in place getting closer

the though didn't seem to help reveal this thing in fact it was weird it seemed to absorb the light from my flashlight almost devouring it I couldn't make out its size shape or color it seemed to swallow up the light all around it save for its two shimmering green eyes obviously but that thing whatever it was laughed in its Hollow toddler's voice this time with malice and cruelty in it the eyes never looked away from me never blinking focused only on me almost like a predator before the pelts not wanting to give up any ground

to a predator I stepped forward again it didn't move not knowing what to do I screamed as loud as I could I waved my arms trying fuly to sh it away the eyes shimmered and as I stared back the eyes shifted from green to l I watched as they began to rise up into the air and it was now apparent to me that this thing whatever it was had been crouching and was now standing up I could only watch in silent Terror as the eyes finally stopped Rising nearly 10 ft off the ground at this

point the night air erupted with a deep growl I could feel the vibrations in my guts I couldn't see a mouth but I could hear teeth sort of snapping and nashing my son in the tent behind me began to scream at this point that was the only time the eyes lost focus on me and shifted towards the screams of my kit my only reaction was to fire my gun into the air the eyes immediately vanished my ears were ringing but I could hear the growls turned to shrieks followed by a cacophony of crashing branches and

undergrowth I stood there until I couldn't hear the shrieking anymore it trailed off deep de into the trees I was left with only the sound of the breeze in the Treetops and the quiet sobbing of my kid Twilight was beginning to illuminate the forest shaking and somewhat exhausted now I sat down in the dirt in front of the tent and I tried to collect myself daddy daddy where are you my 5-year-old shouted that got me out of my days I picked myself up and went into the tent to retrieve him putting him in the truck

I locked the doors and I wasted little time breaking down camp we were out of that camp and back on the road by the time the sun broke Over the Horizon now I have no idea what is in those woods I do plan to camp in that area again albeit without my family and definitely with some friends this time because I really want to find out more about this thing thankfully my son doesn't seem Faz by anything that happened that night he thinks that I was chasing a bear away from camp and who knows maybe

maybe he's right I hope he is anyway my son can't wait to go on another camping trip but truthfully I'm thinking that the next family camping trip might actually be at an RV park or maybe even a motel after all that is family camping right so I went out to one of those sort of abusive Wilderness programs for troubled teens when you're backpacking through the Utah desert and while out there we stayed one night near some Native American ruins before we settled into our camp we went to go to look at them and were told

like we always were around sites like this not to touch anything only to look and definitely do not take anything majority of us did just that we looked around a bit while being respectful for maybe 15 minutes and then went back to our camp to finish doing what we needed to do we were sleeping in an a-line shelter that night so we were all in a straight line side by side because it was an Aline shelter both ends were just open to the darkness and because we had one male staff and one female staff both

adults had to be on one end with the female separating the rest of us from the male consequently leaving the kids on the other end completely exposed but anyways the rest of the evening was pretty uneventful and we went to sleep like normal in the middle of the night I got awoken up by the kid to my left shaking me awake telling me that they keep hearing something hitting our shelter I'd been out there for a decent amount of time at that point and immediately told her that it was probably just an animal or the

wind making a branch hit it or something and to just IGN it and go back to sleep she was super insistent though that it couldn't be any of those things and begged me to stay up for a few minutes to hear what she was talking about so I agreed under the condition that she would go back to sleep and leave me alone if I didn't hear anything in 5 minutes I don't even think it was a full minute after I said that before something hit against the side of our tent right at my feet very

hard it sounded like someone open Palms slapped the side of our tent in fact hard enough that we saw the top sort of bow in under the pressure we sat in complete silence listening to whatever it was circling our shelter and periodically slapping it in the different places first by my feet then my staff's feet then their heads then my head before moving to slap above the heads of the kids who apparently took the pottery from that place before circling to slap at their feet it just kept going around and around and we started trying

to figure out what to do I told her to wake up the staff and that was when she told me that she tried waking them up first before she woke me up and that they had told her to just go back to sleep and ignore it we decided that the best thing to do was to wake up the girl to my right and tell her what was going on she stayed awake and heard the slapping that we were hearing and then tried waking up the staff telling them that we weren't joking and that there could

be someone in our camp they didn't take her seriously either telling us to stop making things up and to let them sleep at that response the girl to my right just said to heck with it that if we were going to be killed by a Madman she'd rather it happened in her sleep anyway real of her to be honest and she rolled over and did just that I didn't know what else to do so I told the kid who woke me up that the girl to my right was probably on to something and that we

should just try to get some sleep while I was telling her this her eyes sort of shifted to where she was looking passed me over my shoulder and she got this look that I'll never forget before saying my name there's someone standing at the end of our tent I nearly wet myself in that moment I really did not want to look but I knew I had to so I turned around and saw the silhouette of a man standing just on the other side of of the tree that the topl line to our shelter was tied

to I remember the first kid asking me what do we do and the only thing that I could think of was to wake up everyone to my right and pull them all as tight as we could inside of our shelter and so that's what we did we all stayed up packed together like sardines listening to this thing Circle our shelter for hours until we each finally fell asleep it wasn't until the next morning that we found out that a couple of kids that had lagged behind at the ruins the day before took pieces of pottery

and hid them in their sleeping bags we immediately made them return them and apologize and we never had anything like that happen again after that I'll be honest though I don't know if it scares me more to think that it was paranormal or that there was actually a man in our camp that deep in a national park in the winter like that in the dead of [Music] night when I was a kid probably around 12 to 13 my mom moved out to this farmhouse in the middle of nowhere like we couldn't get internet middle of

nowhere it was a property with 13 acres a dilapidated barn and horse corral that had overgrown weeds and of course the main farmhouse at night there were no lights other than the one in the front yard to show that our electricity was working my room had a window that faced the horse corral now one night I woke up in the middle of the night it was a full moon and I looked out of my window and beside one of the fence posts of the Corral there was a a girl standing there she was wearing a

night gown and rubber boots she was facing my window from there things seemed to get worse as well the TV that we had in our basement would turn on and off randomly my mom would hear an old radio playing in the middle of the night my stepmom would go out to the barn to smoke and one time she was in there she heard a girl say her name she thought that it was me but at that time I was at my dad's house in the city when I would wake up in the middle of the

night to pee or to get some water or whatever I would feel like someone was watching me if I looked into our living room it felt like someone was watching me through the window one day my stepmom and I were walking down the hallway and we both saw a night gown go down into the bathroom when we went to go and check no one was in there this all came to a head though one night when I woke up randomly again in the middle of the night I used to keep my room door open and

it would look out to the hallway of our house I was laying in bed unable to fall back asleep when as clear as day I heard a girl whisper my name at first I thought that it was a noise that my sheets made when I moved I tried recreating the noise but it didn't work then I looked out into the hallway and standing in my doorway was a dark figure of a girl wearing a night gown I stared at it unable to move I turned on my bedside lamp and when I did nobody was there

it had honestly took everything in my body to run down the hallway into my mom's room where I slept for the night but eventually I got there for unrelated reasons we moved out of the house shortly after that which to be honest at that point I was very grateful [Music] for my family moved around a lot when I was a child mainly due to my dad's job we moved forward five times before I was 6 years old my mom wanted some stability for the family which at this point comprised of her my dad myself and

my younger brother so in 1994 my old man went and bought an old derelict farm that was situated in a rural area in the southwest of the UK a mile from the nearest Village and a quarter mile from our neighbors he purchased it at a property auction and we had no prior viewing just the pictures on display at the auction house this place was really old and comprised of a few large fields and two interconnected yards filled with out buildings and a derelict house it had been a working farm in various forms for 500 years

or so and the house itself was 250 years old we spent a year living elsewhere whilst the renovations took place but would often go there at weekends to run around and play the first day we entered the dusty half collapsed two-story house we realized that the previous occupants had left loads of their stuff behind the house had been vacated 25 maybe 30 years prior everything was Dusty moldy and falling to pieces some of the highlights though were dressing tables filled with old clothes and makeup a wall in one room was plastered with rosettes one in

a queen competitions and hanging from the banister at the top of the stairs were a row of small string nooses covered in fur it's a barbaric but not uncom common way for Farm folk to get rid of unwanted kittens apparently now this wasn't paranormal in any way but man it was an unnerving thing to see in an already creepy looking house it would take far too long to list everything that happened so I'll just try to list some highlights below before ending with what I consider to be the strongest occurrence that happened there so we

had loud bangs loud enough to make you think that someone had tipped over a wardrobe or something footsteps running up and down the long wooden hallway were common cold spots and Breezy points throughout the house that changed from day to day one night my grandparents were house sitting and before they went to bed they did a quick look check one room at the end of the house was filled with thick Mist it was a clear night all doors and windows were shut and the Mist was exclusive to that room they just kned it out of

there and stayed at their own place that night but the next day everything was back to normal after living there for 6 months my mom actually called The Village priest in to bless the place we weren't a religious family by any means but she was really at a loss about how to cope with everything priest arrived and then proceeded to sprinkle holy water in every room of the house once that was done mom walked out to his car and as soon as they got out of the house he turned to her and said there's an

incredibly dark presence in this house and I'm never setting foot here again I don't know what to suggest I'm really sorry but good luck and then he got into his car and just sped off he had apparently been fairly neutral during the blessings but as soon as he got out of that house he went pale and his whole demeanor changed instantly things got a lot more chill after a medium came around and told Mom to kind of embrace it which she did but there was always this nagging feeling that we were just never alone there

it didn't feel malevolent but it felt sort of observational and sometimes sad in a sort of wistful way still very strange but anyway the weirdest thing that happened actually occurred during the renovation phase dad and his work crew had removed all of the old possessions from the house and made a huge bonfire in the yard they burned over the course of a few days until it was just a steaming pile of Ash the following weekend my mom took me and my bro over for a picnic and run around we were feral little things and needed

it at one point mom sat in the chair not far from the bonfire and noticed an envelope on the big mound of Ash and despite being in the center of this pile the envelope had inexplicably not burned up Mom could tell that there was something heavier than paper in the envelope and when she opened it up an amethyst Crystal dropped out along with a letter the date on the letter was sometime in the early 60s and was written by the childhood sweetheart of a girl who had lived at the house with her parents it was

a letter of condolence to the parents because it turns out the girl had sadly committed suicide in her room when she was around the age of 18 her ex-boyfriend had heard about it and sent their parents a really sweet letter expressing his love grief and condolences he also sent the amethyst Crystal as that was apparently the girl's favorite Stone but my bedroom had been the girl's room apparently this was evident from the contents when we first got there my wardrobe was in the corner by the window looking out over the farm I could never linger

there for too long because that part of the room just felt really unpleasant and sort of tense I guess I've since wondered if that's the spot where the girl took her life or not and while the story of the letter isn't very paranormal the fact that the letter survived the bonfire is just kind of crazy to me and obviously the contents and all is a bit weird too so yeah we lived there for 6 years or so and then moved again after my parents split up the house has changed hands at least twice in the

last 20 years I live about 2 hours from this place nowadays and my girlfriend and I are really tempted to go and visit and see how it's going and I mean I'm sure the owners would just love to be regaled with odd anecdotes about the property right just to clarify too aside from the weird feelings and the random bangs and noises my brother and I were largely unaware of things that happened there but we were only told later in life thank the Lord because honestly if I had known that at that time I would have

been an absolute [Music] mess so for starters I live near the Appalachian mount mountains which honestly makes this probably more disturbing I'm a pretty Aid Runner I've been quitting a lot of bad habits lately and exercise just does the trick for me I have a Greenway behind my house that I go and run or bike rides on it's very beautiful and during the day plenty of people are there as well well about a week ago I ran through the greenway to stop by a friend's house and grab something by the time I got back onto

the greenway the sun was already starting to set and the path was getting dark as I was walking back through the path I had my flashlight on and kept looking around me I felt paranoid being alone in the dark but as I was walking I distinctly remember hearing my grandma's voice call my name into the tree line it sounded so real and normal that I turned around instantly only to immediately go cold realizing that my grandma was dead this freaked out but I tried my best to somewhat convince myself that I was just hallucinating because

I was paranoid only about a minute later I turned around behind me with my flashlight out of fear and that was when I saw it it looked like a a gray blob pretty much just like a human sprinting At You full speed in the pitch black I screamed and I don't think I've ever run so fast in my life when I got back home I I tried to laugh at off as just me seeing stuff and just being a little scaredy cat but about a week later and I still could not stop thinking about it

it sounded so real I mean I heard her voice clear as day and the person chasing me looked so real as well I've heard all of those stories about Skin Walkers and while I doubt their existence my experience was so similar to that of Skinwalker encounters that I'm seriously beginning to question myself what do you guys think is it possible my brain was just hallucinating out of fear and anxiety or is there something more to [Music] this I'm from the UK and way back in 2016 when the whole killer clown epidemic was huge I was

walking through the woods at around 10: p.m. alone in order to get to a party or a gathering that was happening in a secluded part of the forest it was almost pitch black and I could barely see in front of me besides the flash of my phone and everything seemed normal as I was walking to the party I got to a long stretch of woods with no defined path but it was the quickest way to the party so I took it as I got around maybe Midway through I heard something to my left I turned

and saw a shadowy figure sat on a fallen log I was understandably unnerved but I couldn't make out if it was just Shadows from the Moonlight or if it was an actual person I made the mistake of shining my phone light directly at it and I was instantly terrified sat there alone in the middle of the woods in complete darkness was a largest man dressed as a clown with full face paint and sporting the creepiest SM imaginable I tried to call five different people as I was passing him and then I heard him get up

behind me I instantly started sprinting towards the end of the long stretch onto a path which had a barbed wire fence down the side of it during the Sprint I was pretending to be on the phone with one of my friends and I could hear him running after me but there was no chance in heck that I would be turning around to see if I was right when I got to the path I jumped over the fence as fast as I could and sliced my hands open as I did so I turned around and kept

running backwards as I saw the clown stood behind the fence just staring at me and smiling I didn't stop running until I got to the party and I was scared for a very long time after this too you have to bear in mind that there were so many rumors of people being killed by people dressed as clowns at that time and while I will never know if the man had evil intentions or was just trying to scare me it was still extremely strange and scary to live [Music] through so first uh a bit of context

my cousin was tragically murdered not too long ago and in the days leading up to this horrific event his nieces and nephews had some inexplicable experiences one of his nieces visibly upset was found crying and clutching a photograph of him telling her mom how much she missed him on the very day that he was murdered it was as though she knew something terrible was about to happen another niece had a chilling encounter as well the night of his murder she claims to have seen a shadow Dart across her room she described it as a swift

unexplainable presence that sent shivers down her spine but perhaps the most puzzling incident involved one of our nephews out of the blue he started yelling no I don't want anyone from my family to die repeatedly without any apparent Trigger or context it was as if he was sensing something that we couldn't we couldn't help but wonder if these strange occurrences Were Somehow connected to my cousin's murder it almost felt as though he was saying a final goodbye to the newish generation of her family visiting each of them before departing this world in a a really

tragic way I'm wondering though has anyone else experienced or heard of similar bizarre events surrounding the murder of a loved one it's as if the boundaries between this world and the next are thinner than we might think and these unexplained phenomena really only add to the mystery so this happened years ago when I was a dumb Girl Who Loved walking the city alone after dark this took place in Eastern Europe for context in a city with a Tramway system so on this one night I sat in a tram station waiting to catch the last tram

Home Three tra stopped at this station two of which went where I was going it was around 10: p.m. and as I sat there waiting lost in thought I barely registered a man quietly walking up and standing by the shelter I didn't think anything of it just somebody else waiting for the tram like me until I started feeling weird the streets were quiet and dark and there was no one else in sight just me and this guy and I started wondering why he chose to stand this close to me when he had so much space

to avoid dealing with people at all I couldn't comprehend anyone wanting to socialize this late at night given that I was not very social myself so I sort of glanced at him trying not to overthink it he was a baldheaded guy beady-eyed giant tall and built like a bear big belly and big arms and legs I was 52 and scrawny but that wasn't what scared me it was the fact that he was staring right at me when I looked at him unblinking and expressionless not even attempting to look away or act embarrassed no this guy

wanted me to feel uncomfortable I instantly felt weak and shaky cold shivers down my spine this was not normal I realized quickly that I was not in a good situation I couldn't miss the last tram but walking home was out of the question and my phone was almost dead too I was a shy kid and I didn't have what it takes to scare this guy away I knew that but I had to try at least I only managed to utter a small high trying my best to startle him out of whatever he was thinking but

my attempts failed in the face of his silent threatening Aura he kept staring no sign of intent to reply he was enjoying this feeling the Panic Rising inside of me I told myself to stay calm and to think rationally I mean maybe he didn't hear me minutes passed his stare continued to burn on my skin and there was still no tram in sight ignoring him didn't seem to work either so I mastered the courage to speak once again this time louder what do you want stop staring no answer he definitely heard me this time I

felt myself start to get angry I didn't want to let this guy get to me anymore I didn't want to continue to give him the satisfaction of watching me squirm nervously and pretend that his behavior didn't bother me I took a deep breath and forced myself to start thinking I knew what I can't do I mean I couldn't fight him off if he makes a move and there's nothing I can say or do that will get him to stop I didn't know what his intentions were but I knew that they weren't good if I tried

to walk away he would probably follow I could run but he would most likely catch up to me before I can Tire him out since his legs were much longer than mine if I managed to somehow lose him walking home through dark alleys past the junkies and gypsies that were always prowling about anyway could land me in an even worse situation I could pretend to call someone but he might feel compelled to act much stronger and sooner if he felt threatened so what can I do the only thing that I could realistically be able to

do was to try and outsmart him somehow so I started developing a few plans depending on which tram showed up trying to confirm whether he was just amusing himself and actually waiting for a tram too or popped over for other more suspicious reasons and whether I get any kind of help I couldn't let him see where I lived so if he followed me I'd have to be prepared to employ whatever strategy available and for that I needed to stay rational and aware of my surroundings while I was still thinking though the first tram showed up

it was one that I could have taken home but this one pulled into the Depot right in my neighborhood forcing me to lead him to my home I hoped that he would board it and just leave me be but of course he didn't he kept watching me carefully instead I let the tram go desperately hoping that it wasn't the last one to head home he continued to watch and I sensed that he was quite happy with how things were going I put up with it for another 15 minutes trying to focus on another plan of

action I could now pretend that I needed the other tram the one going to a different area of the city and just ride to the next station getting off as soon as possible so I don't end up too far and miss the tram that I need this tram showed up next so with my heart in my throat I boarded it and sat down by the door he got on it too but sat himself at the back pretty far from where I was I let out a sigh of relief thinking that this might still go well

when the tram reached the next station I got up and out not looking back and hoping that it was all over but when I stepped onto the pavement and watched the tram drive away I couldn't see him in it I turned my head slowly and was terrified to see him walking towards me looking slightly ticked off at this point he stopped just a few steps away and resumed staring this time with a clear hint of malice still in silence my vision blurred as I fought back tears of Despair he was not going to let me

go at this point the helplessness that I felt was unbearable but I couldn't cry I couldn't give up I had to find a way I had to get home tonight the prospect of what might happen to me any time now if I didn't was becoming very real my head was full of unanswered questions regrets and horrible scenarios I wanted so badly to not have to think anymore to not have to fight back the tears and stay composed but I knew that this would be his cue to enact whatever messed up plan that he had in

mind and I could not let that happen then I saw the final tram approach the only one that I could take now and I got on as quickly as my trembling legs would allow me to when I was in Bright Lights enveloping me my mind snapped out of this nightmarish spiral of fear and allowed me a Moment of clarity I had three stops to figure this out I sat down at the front and looked at the driver he was a frail old guy blissfully unaware of my distress getting the driver's attention was pretty much a

nogo as well we passed one stop there was no one else waiting to climb aboard I turned around fully expecting to see that the psycho had followed me again but I did not expect him to be sitting right behind me he was not taking any chances now he was making sure that I won't try anything like last time I shot him a hateful glare and allowed my anger to overcome my fear I stood up and purposefully walked over to another seat in the middle of the tram car I wanted to make it clear that I

will not put up with this any longer he got up too and slowly walked up to a spot two seats behind and diagonally from me then sat down with the tiniest arrogant grin on his face already expecting it I shot up and stood by the middle door instead determined to keep him on his toes if I stood right by the door he won't have any idea which station that I plan to get off at he remained where he was this time convinced that I was bluffing after all this was really the last tram and there

was nothing else that I could possibly do to escape now he must have reckoned this so my defiance was just a funny act to him this though was my chance I had to take the risk and it had to work there were three doors on the tram and they all opened and closed at the same time and stayed open for around 5 seconds before closing again if no buttons were pressed or people detected on the threshold the next stop the only one left before mine came into view the tra slowed to a stop the doors

opened and I made my move five long seconds passed the door started to close I bolted out and ran for it reaching the back door as fast as I could and slamming the button to open it again my whole body tensed with adrenaline I waited a long painful second then jumped back in keeping my head low holding my breath and crouching behind the nearest seat I shut my eyes tightly and exhaled slowly while thanking the gods that I didn't believe in for the button working and wishing with all my might for him to have not

seen me before I got back in as I was waiting to hear his footsteps approaching I pictured him frantically looking for me was he still on the tram face screwed up in Anger head turning like a fat ugly mircat or was he catching his breath on the pavement of the last station mad eyes searching the darkness for me as the tra continued its loud Journey banging and clanging and sink with my heartbeat I dead smile to myself imagining his face when he realized that he had messed up hand on my chest I did my best

to stealthily look around the corner and found no one looking back I stood up in excitement and threw myself at the foggy back window and there he was standing alone and victimless on that slowly fading out of sight station watching me leave him and his vile plans behind giving someone the middle finger never felt so good I made it home and told no one my story for fear that I'd be admonished for my naivity but I was safe and I was proud of myself and most importantly I learned my lesson so my parents opened up

a haunted house in my dad's shop I know a bit weird and we had a few actors names were obvously I'll change the name so as to hide the identities but the actors were me my dad my mom my sister bear ghost face cheerleader alien prisoner doll and skeleton I know it's a lot but let me explain how the setup was so the shop has a store in the front a gym in the middle storage in the back dad would lead the patron into the storefront and ring the bell to let us know to get

ready then the patron would pass bear and ghost face then they would get jump scared by cheerleader me and the Prisoner and then pass through the rest alien would follow them all the way through as well simple so when we were near the end of our time Dad LED in a guy you know like normal and I don't want to profile him but he seemed to be of Arabic descent or perhaps Muslim because he seemed to be wearing his clothes like you know the clothes that they wear or whatever but this guy shall be known

as the creepy guy I think now I should me and most of us are minors as well sister bear Ghostface and skeleton are middle schoolers and cheerleader alien and I are high schoolers anyway creepy guy touched Bear's shoulder and also pulled a knife on bear and ghost face after he passed them he didn't notice cheerleader but grabbed alien and scratched his arm after that he stared at prisoner and ignored him he then started speaking in a different language it sounded like chanting but I don't know towards skeleton doll and my sister but Mom then ran

him off we were on edge for the rest of the night and it was a really weird experience I don't know what he actually said when he was speaking and if he was threatening us or what but the whole thing was very strange and quite honestly downright [Music] scary back when I lived in the rural Midwest about 10 years ago I lived in a house right off of the highway my house was right between one town and another almost right on the county line so our house had a big circle driveway if you drove in

the driveway you would be going straight towards our barn if you curved right you could pull into our garage if you went past the garage you could circle around in front of the house and pull back out where you started our house had two large double doors in front which we rarely used we always used the door that was inside the garage and one night it was very late and my doorbell rang my husband and my three-year-old daughter and I were all asleep it woke me up and I thought maybe I was dreaming at first

but it rang again I work my husband up he thought that I was hearing things until it rang again it was very dark outside but we have a dusk to dawnlight so most of the driveway is pretty well lit up unfortunately you can't really see the front doors unless you open the door and look out you can open just one at a time or you can open them both by using two latch like things that are in the top of the bottom of one of the doors but anyway my husband gets up and I follow

him he decides that he's going to open the door I want to call the cops but because we live on the county line we know it's going to be a while before they can get there so in the end he opens the door to a girl maybe early 20s she looks normal except for the fact that she's standing at my door in the middle of the night I looked past her and her car is pulled into my driveway just off of the road not up to the house not around the circle she says that she

needs to use the phone she says that her car battery died or something she's not sure but she can't get it to start I told my husband no way this is how horror movies start and we offered to call the cops which would be the county sheriff she asks over and over but I'm not letting her in we tell her that we will call and she kind of Stomps off we watch her walk back to the car maybe 50 ft away I'm a bad judge of distance so sorry but I can see her car and

I can see her I call the cops they say that they'll be there as soon as they can about 15 minutes they don't sound very concerned and at this point I'm not really either I guess I mean it's just a girl and she's apparently broken down she probably just does have a dead battery after all but then she opens the trunk no lights come on and she rummages around in the trunk then the driver's side door opens and out steps a guy then the back passenger door opens out steps one more guy they all rummage

around the trunk no lights on I can't hear anything I can't hear them talking and I can't tell what they're doing they all get back in the car eventually and at this point maybe 5 minutes have gone by I am silently praying that the sheriff puts his foot on the gas and gets here quickly but I know it's going to be another 10 minutes or so at least and they just sit there in the car lights off not moving I can't see them when they're in the car but I know that they're in there I

also know that they didn't get out of the car and walk past the house because they would have had to have walked right under the dusk dawnlight I would have seen them in other words I think that I see the driver's light or smoke or whatever and that part I'm not sure about but then I see something or someone walking towards the car from the right coming from the direction of the barn it's a man I have no idea who this man is but we don't have a neighbor for at least a mile and he's

coming from the back of my property which ends in a creek he walks under the Dusk to dawnlight straight to the car he doesn't look at the house he just walks to the car and gets in the back then the car starts up and they slowly back out of my driveway and head north the cops arrive about 10 minutes later and at this point I am freaking out they search around but can't find anything they ask us if we got a license plate but they were parked too far away to see and they tell us

to call if they come back sure buddy thanks but my husband goes and he gets his shotgun from the shop on our property and we just try to go back to sleep they never do come back and I don't know who those people were and I don't know what they wanted but they were definitely up to something and I know that whatever it was was not good it all started about a month ago when a man started banging on my door at 6:00 at night yelling for Mike to come out that he needs to see

him and get cigarettes I told him that he had the wrong house and to leave there has never been a mike in this house he got even more aggressive though calling me a liar and how he was going to come in and beat the skinny living whatever out of me and I tried to call the non-emergency police line because I've never called 911 before and they didn't even pick up looking back it was stupid but it was Instinct but after some more yelling eventually he leaves I called my father who was across town to come

home and what was going on and he showed up he called 911 to file a report the guy came back and started screaming at him though cops were called again showed up half an hour after the call and couldn't find him and told me to defend myself if it came to it I ended up staying staying with a friend for the night because I didn't think I would feel safe at home I can be a strong person but I just don't think that I can do much against a a drugged out man like that what

made the situation even scarier to me though is that as I was going through my driveway camera photos it shows him walking up to my house hours before and I didn't even have any idea about this I have really bad anxiety so the next few days were filled with paranoia and stress but I managed to finally calm down and convince myself that that was the end of it come that weekend my father went on a trip with his girlfriend so I was left alone for a couple of days I just put on a scary movie

when I heard screaming again and a loud bang I pull up my camera and see that he's back pacing back and forth on the sidewalk and has thrown over our trash can again this guy's screaming for Mike and call 911 and they show up within minutes this time and are able to stop him down the street they tell me that there's really nothing that they can do since he hasn't committed a crime yet but if he comes back to call them again and then they'll have more reason to hold him things were quiet for a

few weeks too and so I again believed that that was the end of it until today this morning my father and I got into an argument so I wanted to take a walk to clear my mind I went across the street to a park and sat by a tree watching Cars pass every now and then and it was beautiful morning weather I noticed a truck drive down the left side of the park and turned to the street my back is facing he waved as he passed so I did too thinking that it was just a

man going to work I wanted to show that I was okay thinking that that might have been what he was asking about he then pulls off into the right side of the park stops makes a U-turn to come back red flags instantly go off in my head so I get up to start walking home I look back and see that he's turned off his headlights and is trailing me I get to the front of my house and he slows I get a better look at his face this time and it looks like the man that

had been harassing me from the physical characteristics to his red baseball cap he just glared at me like I took everything in his life away from him I get to the door and try to barge in but my father put the chain on in Anger of me walking out so I had to yell to him that I was being followed and to open the door he opens it and by then the truck was gone and it was down the street now I'm terrified to leave my home I don't have a car to get anywhere quickly

I have to bike but even now I'm scared to do that I don't know who that man is or what his deal is or what his intentions are but I live in paranoia just waiting to find [Music] out so I live in Virginia in a pretty rural area my house is a town home in a neighborhood right next to a middle school I've lived in this house for over 10 years now and frequently went on walks during the daytime all around the neighborhood itself plus the surrounding buildings and the woods but I've never gone on

a walk at night here after starting College I got very accustomed to taking walks around my campus at night when the weather was nice so now that I'm home for winter break and Virginia is in one of its weirdly warm winter weeks I decided that I may as well go on a walk at night here since it's a safe area and night walks are almost daily routines for me now so I leave my home at around midnight not pretty late I walk over to the middle school and I sit down on the track the track

is a concrete oval going around the soccer field I'm just sitting there relaxing listening to music with one earbud in I also had a lit Candle on the ground in front of me which sounds kind of weird of me to have now that I mentioned it I know but lighting candles while I sit and chill somewhere outside is just a a habit I developed from having a ton of candles and being unable to light them in my room at College anyway it was around this point that I hear what sounded like a cough so I

instantly stop my music and start looking around I don't see anything but I'm an extremely paranoid person so I'm still very on edge even though everything seems fine I just sit there doing nothing for maybe one or two minutes and I start settling back down thinking that maybe the cough was just leaves in the nearby Woods between my neighborhood and this soccer field so I'm almost fully relaxed but then I heard the cough again then I see something Sprint on its back legs across the field faster than I've ever seen anything move before and it

gets to the other end of the field and then continues to stand there on its high legs I couldn't see it super well because it was dark and far away since I just heard coughing and it was running on two legs I initially thought that it must have been a person but when it was standing still I could see that it was too large and weirdly proportioned to be a human it was also screeching the whole time sort of like an incredibly loud horror movie creature screeching that made my ears ring it looked like its

back was to me so I took the opportunity to pack up and Sprint home at that not wanting to hear the sound anymore and obviously I was pretty freaked out I'm also physically disabled and I can move around just fine but never very quickly I literally cannot think of another time in my life where I have ever run that fast though now the only sort of paranormal thing that I believe in is is plain old ghost so as soon as I got home I texted all of my friends about it and Googled all that I

could everyone that I texted reassured me that it was probably just an injured or diseased animal since that can make deer act weird like that so that was a little bit reassuring but at the time I'm Googling about deer running on their hind legs and screeching their heads off and while it's a decently documented occurrence none of the pictures and the videos on any websites are anywhere near what I saw or in fact the only accounts of experiences just like mine are posts and on other subreddits and they were about Skin Walkers and stuff also

two additional details that I should add are that one I'm just assuming that it was a deer based on its size it didn't have antlers or anything I couldn't really tell what it was and I'm mainly going with deer because I'm very skeptical about paranormal topics and I don't want to assume that it was anything other than a deer and two I've read descriptions of deer running on their hind legs and I've watched videos of it in fact but none of the videos that I've seen really match up with just how strangely fast this thing

was moving like it was basically a blur running past me anyway to this day I still don't know what it was but I just wanted to get this out there maybe someone knows Appalachian animals better than I do and can reassure me that it was just a sick deer or something in any case I hope all of you guys had a happy New Year and are all doing well so I'm not really sure if this would be considered a a paranormal story per se but nothing else really makes sense let me explain my family would

go camping every chance that we got and the place that we'd always go had no natural Predators at least nothing bigger than a fox my dad specifically chose this spot so us kids me and my two siblings could sort of Frolic through the woods without having to worry too much this particular trip was during the May long weekend there was still a considerable amount of snow so my dad brought our ATVs and some sleds for us it was the day after we had arrived and my dad wanted to go on a little trip down the

road that we came up I asked if I could come and he said sure for we both hopped on his quad and we set out on our little trip oh um I forgot to mention to earlier that we had deer around this area nothing crazy but the old one would wander through our campsite every now and then you could tell that they had no natural Predators though for sure since they didn't run away when there was a human around even but my siblings and I would always manage to get pretty close to one before my

parents yelled at us to stay away from them anyway my dad and I were a few miles away from the campsite when we red a corner and came across one of the most gruesome sites that I've ever seen in my entire life on the side of the road were the pieces of a deer at least I think it was one there was blood absolutely everywhere were still there was steam coming from the remains which meant that this was a recent kill my dad is usually a pretty calm guy not much can really rattle him but

I could tell that this freaked him out a lot he was in the process of turning us around when this I don't know Screech came from the forest it was so loud that we both flinched and I remember searching the forest for the source but my dad was in the process of hauling butt down the way that we came it could have been a trick of the light or because I was freaked out and maybe I was seeing things but I could have sworn that I saw something running alongside of us but only for a

second or two I know that I sound absolutely crazy but the thing genuinely looked like an absolutely enormous dog before it vanished into the trees my dad traced back to the camp and we were all packed up and headed to a different location by the end of that day we never did go back to that campsite after this encounter too I did ask my dad about it a couple of years ago and he just said that it was because the new camp campsite was better than the old one better trails and whatnot but honestly I

think it was full of it I think whatever we encountered that day scared the absolute heck out of him and I think that whatever I saw he must have as well but I for one I'm actually thankful that we never went back I'm not sure if I would be able to sleep at night to be honest after what I saw there and it still plagues my memories to this day [Music] so I sleep in the basement of a one-story house out in the country I've never seen or heard anything unexplainable until out of nowhere weird

noises could be heard outside of our house one night about 3 years ago the first noises were heard by both me and my mom but we had let the dog out around 12:00 at night and we're letting him back in and talking when we heard a sound that no animal could make it sounded like a a large cat that had its throat slit it was like a a gaggling meow and we both immediately stopped talking and looking outside to see if there was anything just outside because that's where it sounded like it was coming from

just beyond where our houses lights could reach but we couldn't see anything it was like something just letting you know that it's there then not doing anything or making another sound the next incident happened a couple of months after when I was sleeping outside my room since I didn't have a bed at the time and the food Zone couldn't fit through my doorway it was late at night I was watching TV and I heard what sounded like someone moving stuff around just outside of my laundry room the layout of my basement is pretty open so

from where I was laying I could see almost everything in the basement except the laundry room and another open area at the bottom of the stairs so I honestly thought that someone might have come down to get something from the fridge or the freezer so I just went back to watching TV but a couple of seconds later I heard someone walking around Barefoot and since the floor is concrete you can hear it pretty clearly so I sat up and thought that somebody was going to turn the corner but then the walking turned into a full-on

Sprint and that was when it happened I watched as the footsteps ran past in front of me but nobody was there they disappeared into our unfinished bathroom and stopped instantly and when I say instantly I mean no slowdown in the footsteps just an abrupt stop my dog used to sleep in the bathroom but after that he refused to even come downstairs after that I had my first and last sleep paralysis episode 2 where I heard the same footsteps before a pitch black person on all fours crawled at me and got right in my face before

disappearing under the futon and the final incident happened probably 3 or 4 months later when I was finally back in my room I was laying in bed when I heard those footsteps again but it sounded like they were running around sort of aimlessly after a good minute of this they stopped in front of my door and it went quiet but only for a few seconds before my doorknob began to jiggle back and forth I have never had that sense of dread ever in my life too and I have never been that scared before I ran

to my door grabbed the knob and sat with my back against the door and my feet pushing against the wall opposite I even looked under the door and I confirmed that there was nothing there I probably sat there for 30 minutes before I got the courage to move and throughout those 30 minutes I kept looking under the door and there was nothing I slept with a a steel that night because I was absolutely convinced that there was someone in our house since that night nothing major has happened but sometimes when I come back into my

room and close the door I'll turn around and my door for whatever reason we'll be open [Music] again so I don't really normally share stories often but I've been listening to some here and it sparked an encounter that I had years ago on a solo bike toour that I thought was worth sharing so it was the spring after I graduated college I'm 22 and female and didn't know what I wanted to do with my life so I decided to take a pause and ride my bike down the coast from Canada to Mexico I was pretty

nervous to be going by myself but for the majority of the time I felt safe halfway through or so I got pretty comfortable with sleeping alone in fairly empty campsites and Parks Etc there were even some stretches on the trip that I rode with other bike tourists and this one encounter however brought my guard back up for the remainder for sure so I was halfway down the Oregon coast and was a mile or so out from the campground that I had planned to stay for the night there was this notable yellow vintage Ferrari I think

it was car that had passed me headed in the opposite direction when I pulled into the campground I stopped at the information board to look at the map and the fees as I'm sitting there I see the yellow car coming down the road and stops where I am this older guy in his late maybe 50s or early 60s gets out and starts looking at the board with me he's friendly and seems completely normal charismatic even he's asking me about my trip and starts mentioning how he's from the area but has never checked out this campg

ground at this point I'm still pretty naive there's plenty of nice people that have met on the trip that chat me up and ask me about the bike T he's talking to me and getting closer and this part is what starts to make me a bit uneasy he would repeatedly reach out his hand to shake mine like he was about to leave but every time he shook my hand he would grab my forearm with his other hand and do this weird sort of gasp laugh thing the way that he did it looked absolutely insane and

the arm grassp was very firm it immediately sent shivers down my spine but then he suddenly dives into another topic and repeats this freaky handshake maybe two more times in between I realized then that I'm completely out of sight from anyone in the campground have no phone service and I'm now very close to him and his open car door there's a nod in my stomach I'm on the verge of tears and my voice is shaking with every response at the time I didn't know why but something just felt very off about him I finally speak

up loud hoping somebody can hear me and tell him that I have to get going run to my bike and speed to the campground when I get there I don't even try to find the hike and bike spots and just throw tent down directly across from the campost and thankfully I I didn't see him after that again I had a lot of encounters with random strangers at the at this point but none of them terrified me like this one did I fought with the idea that he was probably just an overly friendly guy but the

fact that he would repeatedly grab my arm like that and laugh like that was frightening all in all most people that I met were sweet and it made me very trusting of others and even if he was harmless his actions were a good reminder that I had to be mindful of my vulnerable situation and I had to be much more [Music] alert so something a little bit Eerie I guess you could say happened to me one night on night shift when I was closing and doing outside trash a chore that I have to do because

I was closing I was listening to music since there were no customers and the lot was empty two of my co-workers cook and manager were both inside doing what they had to do before leaving I noticed a red car pulling into a stall but not all the way the car was parked in this strange way kind of sort of sideways and far away from the stall where they would call in I guess I noticed it was an elderly couple and the husband rolls his windows down and says something I couldn't really hear him so I

paused my music and asked if he could repeat and it sounded like he said are you here alone so I laughed and said said no I wasn't alone they stayed there for a while before pulling out but they stopped for such an unusual amount of time in the middle of the lot that it was a bit weird this was when one of my co-workers walked out leaving he's around the same age as me and we said our goodbyes as I continued doing the trash I noticed the car had went back to the main road in

front of my workplace but only to turn back into the lot again in a sort of slow and unusual way I started to freak out a bit and I tried to hurry at this point I noticed the car was gone for a while so I thought that they left so I was heading back to the dumpster the big one to throw away the trash bags when I saw it the red car was right behind the dumpster at the stop sign it was parked there and this was when I quickly called my brother and I put

him on speaker I talked so loudly that anyone could hear me and I was honestly on the verge of tears once I hung up though the car had finally started to move slowly paused for a moment again then finally left for good I don't know what really happened but I just felt like I was being stalked that night I don't know if they had good intentions on it but I realized that my coworker had stayed in his truck with the engine running the whole time I can't remember exactly but I do believe that his truck

was right next to the dumpster and he may not have known what was going on but I'm I'm really thankful that he didn't leave just yet because I'm kind of coming to grips with the fact that maybe maybe this was an attempt at kidnapping or something this was my very first job so I don't know if this was common or not or if the people just were looking out for me or something but I don't know what do you guys think is this normal or should I have been more concerned I haven't told anyone at

work about what happened and I'm wondering if I should what do you guys [Music] think so I'll need to explain some context here so bear with me Rock Island is a state park located at the tip of DW County Wisconsin on Lake Michigan it's a pretty difficult place to get to in fact to get to the island you have to take a car fery from Allison Bay to Washington Island drive across Washington Island to Jackson Harbor then take a pedestrian only ferry to Rock Island no vehicles or bikes are allowed on Rock Island now even

though the island is relatively small at about 975 Acres it has had an interesting history in the early 1600s it was inhabited by a tribe of Native Americans as well as a small fishing Village of European settlers the two groups they didn't trust each other and did have a few bad encounter cters that almost led to violence but for the most part they lived peacefully together on the island by the 1640s the Native Americans had migrated to other parts of Wisconsin shortly after they had left the island some settlers from the fishing Village reported seeing

a new group of people on the island they seemed to be more white settlers but they wore strange clothes and kept to themselves no one from the fishing Village was ever able to talk to one of these new settlers or even find where they were living it was around this time too that strange things started to happen in the village several animals it's not mentioned what they were but maybe it was pigs or chickens kept by the settlers were found slaughtered in the village and seemed to have been used to make markings in blood on

some of the buildings in the village on a different night a building used for preserving meat burned down the villagers felt that these things must have been done by these new people on the island and they intended to find them but after a search of the island including the wooded inland area they never found a a single person these strange occurrences seemed to stop soon after the search and none of the other settlers were ever seen again as well in 1836 the lighthouse that was built on the northern part of the island after construction was

finished the lighthouse was inspected and it was reported back that the material of which the lighthouse and the dwelling are made are of the best quality in that the work is done in a substanti and workmanlike manner David E Corbin was appointed the first Keeper of the light on December 19 1837 only 3 years later in 1840 despite the apparent quality of the construction of the lighthouse David Corbin started to complain that the plaster started to fall off the building and some sort of liquid would ooze through the cracks leaving the house constantly damp Corbin

was completely alone most of the time at the Lighthouse and some have said when visiting him that he was stare at a certain wall and sometimes spoke vaguely of the other visitors in 1845 after 8 years of relative Solitude at the Lighthouse an inspector visited the Lighthouse Keeper and determined that while Corbin was fulfilling his duties he was acting strange the official report says that the inspector ordered Corbin to take a 25-day leave of absence to find a wife to live with him at the Lighthouse however some think that the inspector was startled by orin's

mental state caused by Years of Solitude and thought that it would be best that he spent some time away from the island altogether in 1852 Corbin reportedly fell ill and died that December in that same Lighthouse he was buried in a small Cemetery just south of the lighthouse now the next Lighthouse Keeper also reported the surprisingly quick deterioration of the lighthouse some friends that had visited the newe keeper said that he would talk of seeing strange things in in the house at night but he wouldn't elaborate on what he had seen in 1858 after only

22 years of service the original Lighthouse was torn down and a new one was built from that point on the lighthouse Keepers were required to have an assistant keeper or a family with them at the Lighthouse no strange occurrences were further reported in the lighthouse log book outside of strong storms and occasional shipwrecks except on January 20 1976 The Keeper at the time named Betts reported that he saw two men attempting to row to the mainland from Washington Island he wrote that a terrible storm came up shortly after their departure and they never made it

to their destination over 3 months later on May 3rd of 1876 Betts wrote that the two men were lost last January have since been seen several times once from keny Lighthouse and once from Jackson Port the men are apparently frozen stiff and sitting upright in the boat among a mass of ice that last account there was still a drift there's not much hope that they'll be found and buried by 1900 most of the Island's inhabitants left for better fishing areas on Lake Michigan in 1910 a successful business owner and inventor Chester thoris purchased all of

the island except for the land that the lighthouse occupied in the north he used the island as a private summer Retreat from his business in Chicago he is responsible for the unique and mystifying buildings and structures that are still on the island today on the south end of the island he built a giant stone wall that has a boat house on the lower level a stone water tower was built on the east side of the island and an imposing wooden gate was constructed on the west end of the island the Great Hall that was used

to store thon's immense book collection was there too he had over 11,000 books and it's rumored that he possessed some very rare books on the occult in his collection too thoris died of heart failure on January 6 1945 though some have speculated that he saw something that actually scared him to death I couldn't find any writings from thoris however that mentioned him experiencing anything strange on the island after his death though multiple churches and universities were interested in his book collection but he had wer to the University of Wisconsin and Madison providing that they had

to purchase it for $300,000 which they did some of this history is hard to find on the internet but there are a couple of binders in the Great Hall that has a lot of this documented thon's personal papers are housed in the archive section of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin as well now all of this history I gave is just to provide a little bit of context for experiences that I have had directly or indirectly on Rock Island in August of 2021 I took my first and last trip to Rock Island after taking two

Ferry rides I arrived on the island at about 2:00 p.m. I booked the remote campsite e which is a backpacking site that is a little over a mile from the dog I took my time hiking out to the site to enjoy the scenery and took a couple of breaks just due to how heavy my pack was I was definitely packed more for camping than hiking to be honest but I got to my site set up my tent got everything situated and started Gathering sticks and driftwood from the beach so I could start a fire on

my third trip back from the beach before I got back to my campsite I heard a single sort of high pitched squeal noise coming from the forest it didn't sound close but it was such an unusual sound that I stopped in my tracks and waited for a good 30 seconds waiting to see if it would happen again it in so I continued back to my site and when I got back I began working on getting a fire started the remote camping sites on Rock Island are pretty well spaced out sites C D and E are

grouped together but there's probably 100 yards between each site there's not a real Trail connecting the three SES directly but enough people have walked along the ridge between the three SES that there's an obvious path now as I was setting some sticks up on my fire ring something caught my my eye though and I looked up fairly far away it looked like it might have been at maybe sight d or a little further was a person running in my direction my first thought was well that's odd because like I said it's not even really a

trail that they were on then my mind just went up to Well there must be something wrong and this person needs help they got a little closer and it looked like maybe it was a woman in loose gray clothes maybe a hoodie it it was still far enough away that I couldn't really make out the details at this point but I quickly stood up from the crouching position that I was in and just as I did I heard that high-pitched squeal noise again this time it was behind me and it was much closer this startled

me quite a bit so I turned around to look behind me I scanned the trees for a couple of seconds but didn't see or hear anything I turned back around because I knew the running person must be getting close now but what I did they were gone again I stood there and scanned the trees but I didn't see them anywhere I was honestly so confused that I was just kind of Frozen for a few seconds it was all very strange but I was able to reason it out of my head that it was a a

fellow camper from site CLD that was maybe running to pit the toilet that was a couple hundred yards west of the sights or something like that I tried to forget about it but it really bothered me I'm not going to lie I really did not like whatever that squeal noise was too and I don't know I just felt strange all of a sudden with some effort though I decided to let it go and started my fire I had a quick meal and a couple of adult beverages and then decided to take a little walk I

hadn't seen Sid Cod yet so I thought that I would check those out and see if I did have some neighbors camping nearby or something S D was in I did see the path that led from that side to the main trail and pit toilet so that made me feel a little bit less uneasy about the runner I figured that it was maybe someone from site C that took a strange way to get to the main trail by going through site D or something it didn't make a lot of sense obviously because I probably still

should have seen them but it made me feel better I continued on to side SE and saw that there was a tent up I really didn't want to bother anyone but I just thought maybe I would go over with the excuse that I would introduce myself as a camping neighbor from site e and see if anyone looked like they might have been the person running earlier I came up on the site and there was a couple sitting at the picnic table neither of them looked like they would have been the person that I saw running

but I introduced myself nevertheless and they introduced themselves too they were probably in their mid-30s and they were really nice too both of them seemed to be pretty drunk but not not quite off their face yet I guess you could say I didn't ask about the runner in the end or the squealing noises because I thought that that might be weird and in the end I just wished them a good night and I walk back to my tent when I got back I had a cigar and a few more drinks it got dark and it

started as a perfect night the sky was clear and I was just staring up and looking at the millions of stars and I felt better about everything from earlier and felt a little bit stupid about the whole thing and decided in the end to just get some sleep it was a long day and so I fell asleep almost immediately as well at around 2:30 in the morning though I woke up to a huge boom of Thunder it started downpouring like crazy the wind picked up and the temperature dropped and I love camping in the rain

but I do not like camping in a lightning storm a pretty big storm came through and I was starting to worry a bit the wind was whipping at my tent and the ground was shaking from the Thunder and the lightning and I didn't feel good about being out there in a tent and felt pretty exposed the storm lasted for about an hour as well before it became just a sort of light and steady drizzle I was starting to fall back to sleep too when it was then that I heard that squeal noise again I opened

up my eyes wide in the dark and I just laid there silent there was another loud squeal noise and it was pretty close now I knew that there were no real dangerous animals on Rock Island there are deer and porcupines but nothing like bear or Wolves knowing that still didn't make me feel better though because there was just something about that squeal that it just seemed I don't know weird to me I didn't like it I say squeal though because that's the best that I can describe it it sounded to me a lot like a

pig squeal and while I honest L don't know that much about pig noises that's what I thought of when I heard it an injured or perhaps angry pig squeal in any case I continued to lay in my tent and that's when I started to hear footsteps outside my tent it was still raining so the sounds were a little bit buried in the sound of the rain but it definitely sounded like um a somewhat large animal or human walking around at that I sat up in my tent and I took a knife out that I had

just to feel better in my head I just kept saying you know it's just an animal it's fine there's nothing in these Woods that can hurt you I listened as the footsteps started moving away from my tent I just sat there being still holding my knife for maybe 10 minutes without hearing anything else I started thinking to myself it's fine it's just an animal you're being stupid and you just need to get some sleep I was just about to lay back down too when there was a very loud squeal and this time it was right

outside of my tent it felt like my heart just stopped and a shiver went down my spine my heart was beating so hard my entire body was pulsing and I felt it in my ears it took everything in me but I forced out a get out of here not shouting but a Stern and mean sounding voice as I could make at that moment and after that I didn't hear any more squeal or footsteps the rest of the night but I also didn't get any sleep I just sat there in my tent for maybe an hour

before I laid down eventually the rain stopped and I kept laying there until the sun came up just listening all that time I was trying to reassure myself that I was just being stupid and that it was just an animal it was probably around 7:00 a.m. before I decided that I had to get out of my tent to relieve myself and as soon as I stepped outside of my tent I saw that my picnic table had been turned over and was now upside down when I saw this I surprisingly calmly thought oh okay this is

enough I'm leaving the island today I checked my surroundings and nothing else seemed out of place I eventually reasoned with myself that the wind must have blown the table over during the storm it still seemed a little bit strange because the table was pretty heavy and I felt like I would have heard the table flip over that night but I made some cold instant coffee and had a bite to eat started to feel a bit better about the whole thing and then I decided to go for a hike I admit too that I get easily

scared when I'm camping by myself in the woods maybe that's natural but after I had some coffee and food and the sun came out I realized that nothing I'd heard or saw was really anything that couldn't be explained other than not getting a good night's sleep I was having a pretty good time to be honest the reason that I came to the island in the first place was to hike the 7M thoris loop trail that has a lot of interesting things to see and I was excited to start the hike today so I packed a

few things in my backpack and I started off now fairly close to my side is the water tower I have no idea how it originally worked or why it had to be a tower but it's an impressive building with a fireplace it looked like someone had recently had a fire in it a little further down the trail was a cemetery where two sisters and a few others are buried it's believed that there are still more buried here in the unmarked Graves too but these likely are some of the settlers from the old fishing Village the

island has three cemetries in total there's one by the beach and that's where Chester thoris is buried there's one in the eastern part of the island where the two sisters are buried and there's one on the northern part of the island where the original Lighthouse Keeper David E Corbin is buried too there is also at least one Native American burial area on the island too but no one knows exactly where that is anyway I kept walking on the trail until I came to a nice Scenic Overlook area with a bench where I sat down and

drank some water I started to hear some talking on the trail ahead of me but I couldn't see anyone yet there was a bend in the trail and the trees were thick so I sat on the bench waiting for these people to come around the bend the voices were coming closer and I I could tell that they weren't speaking English but I couldn't place what the language it might have been was and both voices were very very deep and sort of gutural then back deep in the woods I heard a loud and quick sort of

ooh sound immediately both the voices that I was listening to responded with their own ooze and I kind of smiled because it sounded like these two heard whatever it was in the woods and they were trying to be funny and mock it by responding I got off the bench put my backpack on and I started walking in the direction further down the trail where the voices were coming from the strangest thing is that I never found those people that was really weird too because I could have sworn that they must have been on that trail

somewhere really close to me the rest of the hike went very well though I visited the cemetery where David E Corbin is buried I took a self-guided tour of the lighthouse house and I passed the wooden gate that apparently used to be part of a larger structure I walked by the great hall and dock area from where I arrived on the island visited some of the other structures on the island too came across the cemetery where Chester thoris is buried then finished the loop by returning to my campsite it was a really nice hike with

a lot to see and wasn't especially difficult but by the end of it I was tired I did walk down to campsite SE to ask the couple that I spoke with the night before how they did with the storm during the night but they had packed up and left by this time so unfortunately I didn't get to talk to them I was disappointed too because I really wanted to ask them about the squealing noises during the night as well anyway the rest of the evening was pretty uneventful I built a fire made some meals had

a cigar and I had some drinks as soon as it got dark though I was ready for bed since I had so little sleep the night before so I got in my tent and quickly fell asleep and I might have been asleep for about 3 hours when I woke up Suddenly again and was immediately fully alert nothing that I was aware of caused me to wake up but I don't know I just felt like something was wrong I sat up in my tent and this part is a little hard to explain so bear with me

so a feeling of just complete dread washed over me all of a sudden it was unlike anything that I'd ever felt before it felt like there was something in the tent with me and I could feel that it was angry seething with anger rageful even and I could feel its hatred for me it felt like something very bad was about to happen and I just couldn't do anything about it I started to shiver uncontrollably and then there was a a smell of like garbage or rotten meat and it got stronger and stronger to the point

where I almost threw up but couldn't because I was just completely Frozen I'd never felt so exposed and help us apart from that point in my life and I stared forward at nothing just Frozen and the weird thing is is that I accepted that whatever was about to happen to me was just going to happen it was like my brain telling me that whatever is about to happen even if it is death will at least be relief and then all of a sudden I just blacked out at least I have to assume I passed out

because that's all I remember until I woke up at about 10:00 a.m. that morning now when I woke up I was laying outside of my sleeping bag on top of it and my legs were in a really sort of unnatural and uncomfortable position I was on my back with my left leg straight out and my right leg was bent so that my foot was up against my left knee my heart St started pounding but I kept thinking to myself that it was a dream it must have been but I'm leaving right now but it was

a dream I packed up everything very quickly and I started back toward the dock to catch the first boat off the island at this point but since the first boat from Washington Island doesn't arrive until 10:30 in the morning I had to kill a little bit of time around the Great Hall and dock area I wanted to get off that Island though so bad but I did feel a little better just being out of the woods I'll admit and that I could see other people as well I sat down on a bench a little to

the east of the dock and lit a cigar just to give me something to do while trying not to think about the night before I was sitting a few minutes and scanning out over the water when I was startled by someone behind me saying hi I jumped and was really embarrassed when the person came around saying sorry sorry I didn't mean to scare you I saw you smoking and just came over to ask if you had a lighter I felt a bit like an idiot and told him that that was fine I just didn't sleep

well last night and was kind of zoned out and I handed him my lighter he thanked me lit a cigar and then handed the lighter back to me we made some small talk and then started talking about the unusual things that you might talk about he said that he was from the Madison area we talked about the storms that we'd been having and he seemed to be a real outdoorsy kind of guy as well and talked about his plans to move to Washington Island it was a nice normal conversation and kind of took my mind

off the night that I just had for a little bit he seemed like a a pretty nice guy then naturally he asked me what site i' had been staying at I told him that I was staying at site e the last two nights and he said that he usually books that site but I must have reserved it before him he said that he had booked ID the last two nights and I was surprised by this because no tent or anything was that site the either two times that I walked past the site I told him

this and he said that he comes to the island a few times a year and you have to sort of book aide but he actually camps at a different area on the island I asked him where he camps and he told me that most of the time he camps in the East Cemetery but he also likes to camp in the woods south of the lighthouse he told me that he hikes about halfway down the Fernwood Trail and just heads North into the woods where he finds a place to camp he said that one time he

found the ruins of a small log housee in those woods and he's going to try and find it again and Camp inside of it at this point I started to change my opinion about this guy and I wanted to change the subject but then he asked me if I heard the screeches in the woods and at that I took a second to reply and knew exactly what he was talking about I told him that I had and asked if he knew what it was this time he took a second to reply and I saw his

face change he looked as if he was thinking if he should tell me something almost like a a secret I guess but with no expression at all on his face he just said matter of factly a demon lives on this island now under any other circumstance I would have laughed this off for sure but not after what I had experience the night before he looked at me and must have seen the anxiety and the fear that I was feeling he surprised me by letting out a quick laugh and then he asked me if I'd saw

anything that night I told him that I hadn't seen anything and he stared at me like he was trying to figure something out I felt like he could tell that I'd experienced something and at this point I was ready for the conversation to be over but then he told me that he had seen something in the cemetery that night now his face and mood kind of changed again like he was trying to fight in me I really did not want to ask the question but I knew that he wanted me to ask it so I

asked him what he saw in the cemetery but my voice was shaky then I could tell that he had changed his mind about telling me he actually looked at me with empathy and told me that what he saw was hard to explain but if I was afraid of the screeching noises he didn't think that I should go near the cemetery I didn't say anything right away but he said four words without any context keepers of the flame at that I looked at my cigar and the ash was long I put it out and told him

that I was going to wait by the dock for the boat and he nodded and I started to walk away after a few steps he said hey and I turned around to look at him he just said don't come back here okay I turned around at that and started walking again I don't know if that was a a war warning or a friendly suggestion but whatever it was I took it to heart I was definitely not going to come back to Rock Island when I did get home though I looked up keepers of the flame

as it pertained to Rock Island I found three things that he could have been referring to in fact the name of the Native Americans that lived on the island it could be translated to keepers of the flame the lighthouse Keepers on the island were sometimes referred to as keepers of the flame but then there was also a 19th century cult that was said to visit the island from time to time that called themselves the keepers of the flame I know that hundreds of people visit Rock Island every year and they have a great time camping

hiking the trails and exploring Chester Thor's buildings but my humble suggestion is this do not go to Rock Island [Music] so about 12 years ago I was 9 years old and I was home alone with my 12-year-old brother we were supposed to go to my aunt's house to have lunch and wait for my mother there we always did that because we were too young to stay home alone according to my mom so we got up at 10:30 a.m. I took a shower and my brother after that we were both in the bathroom brushing our teeth

and finishing up when we heard someone knocking on our door since every time someone knocked at our door they turned out to be a Salesman or probably a Jehovah's Witness we kind of waited for them to just go away and after a couple of minutes I went to see if they were still outside through the window but nobody was there which was a huge relief for us we continue getting ready when we saw a shadow go by through the bathroom window which was kind of like a small square made with that kind of glass that

makes everything behind it really blurry we waited and saw in case it was just a bird flying by but then a hand hit it clear as day we got scared we really didn't know what to do my brother had his cell phone so he immediately called the police though and while it was ringing we heard a loud bang at the door someone was brute forcing it I don't know if they were kicking it or ramming it or what but it was one of the most frightening things that I had ever heard my brother told me

to lock the bathroom door so I did it took five bangs before the perpetrator finally bashed open the door then the police answered and I remember the exact thing my brother said he was whispering his voice could barely be heard but he said hello there's someone in our house and I think they're stealing then there was a pause we're at and he gave our address there was another pause I'm with my little brother locked in our bathroom please hurry while all that was happening I was sitting against the wall hugging my knees and it was

one of the most nerve-wracking experiences ever I could hear this man going through all of our stuff emptying stands going up and down the stairs opening cabinets he even broke a few cups and plates don't know why then I heard the sound my cell phone does when it turns off and I remembered leaving it on the kitchen table I felt so stupid for leaving it there to be honest but things continued for a couple of minutes when we heard him trying to open the door to the bathroom my brother got a hold of a big

metal rod that we had lying around there he started kicking the door who's there the man screamed and we didn't say anything there was another kick then another one I felt like I was about to have an anxiety attack my chest started to aaken I had chills and was really hot I tried to remain calm but it was just too much after that though he stopped we heard the door open and then there was silence we waited for almost 10 minutes before going out of the bathroom and the living room was just a total mess

lots of papers and books on the floor the cabinets were open cups and plates on the floor in our mother's bedroom the nightstand and the closet were open and everything inside them was all over the place upstairs in our room it was the same thing in about 5 minutes the man was able to go through everything that we had and left after a total mess after that my brother called my mom and she ordered us to go to my aunt's ASAP so we did when we got there I was a little bit more relaxed my

aunt was waiting for us with ice cream probably because my mom told her everything and she wanted to calm us down a bit we went back home at about 5:00 in the afternoon and my mom told her boss that she had a a home emergency so she left early she tidied up the house cleaned up and left everything the way that it was before so that we could relax I really appreciated her effort and my aunts too to calm us down and do everything so that we didn't have to think about it according to my

mom the police got home after she arrived at 3:00 4 hours after the incident mind you she explained everything but because of a lack of evidence nothing could really be done the man was never caught and honestly I don't even think they even tried to search for him the next few days though my mom was home with us and yeah I tell the story these days as a bit of a funny anecdote I guess luckily no one was hurt and he only took use of stuff in the end but at the time I was really

scared to be a 9-year-old and have an experience like that can have really serious repercussions I'm lucky it never came to that and I got over that after a couple of weeks but yeah it's something that I'll never forget that much is for [Music] sure when I was 16 or 17 I was coming home to Brooklyn from a movie in Manhattan with my friends I was the only one who lived in BK so I worked home from the train alone I was used to being out late by myself I had midnight curfew but I frequently

broke it because I didn't think nothing bad would ever happen to me that despite an uptic of assaults and all sorts of stuff in our neighborhood at the time too this night however I was actually slated to get home on time for once it was the summer after I graduated high school and I was feeling amazing I had a little to drink and a little to smoke and I felt like I was on top of the world it was really hot out too and I remember that I was wearing this long sheer Cape thing and

a very tight and revealing little dress underneath not that anything would have probably been different if I'd been wearing shorts and a t-shirt anyway however because of my fun little outfit I was feeling myself and being so stupid taking selfies while I walked down the dark streets and listening to music with both headphones in not paying any attention to my surroundings I think I even sang as I was walking and I got to my building after finishing my 10-minute walk from the train and walked up the steps to our apartment we lived in a brownstone

with apartments in and ours was on the third floor we had a gate at the bottom of the steps separating us from the sidewalk I pulled out my headphones and began to Fumble with my keys at the top of the steps just as I had found the correct key still humming to myself and thinking about my great night I heard the latch on the gate Clank as if it were being opened I turned around and I saw a man standing at the gate staring at me he was young probably early 20s wearing a gray hoodie

with the hood up covering part of his face but I could see his eyes and immediately I knew that something was off because of just how blank yet nervous his expression was one hand was on the handle of the gate as if he were about to open it completely but stopped once I turned around somehow my FAL flight Instinct didn't kick in yet it was probably the alcohol I guess but I cautiously called down can I help you and he didn't respond I looked him over more closely and realized then that his other hand the

one not on the gate was moving fast low near his waist I registered that he was actually touching himself gasped and within milliseconds he was sprinting up the stairs behind me reaching out his hand to grab me my brain clicked into place and I started screaming at the top of my lungs as I jammed my key into the door and slammed it behind me I ran up the stairs to my apartment screaming for my dad not even stopping to make sure the door was locked thinking that if he followed me upstairs he'd soon be met

by my very tall father and our very loud dogs too who slept in the bedroom right next to our apartment door but as I looked over my shoulder while tearing my way up the stairs I saw his face pressed up against the glass window still watching me but now his eyes looked absolutely Furious I ran into our apartment so screaming to my parents to call the police my dad went downstairs and looked around but by that time he was gone the police came anyways after my mom called and came upstairs to take my statement so

that they could make their report the two cops who showed up asked me to describe him I did and they said that they would cruise around looking for him and regardless of if he was found a detective would call me soon to make a more detailed report but they never actually called me there were many more sexual assaults and other assaults as well that continued to take place in my neighborhood for the rest of the summer even and I shudder every time that I think about what would have happened if I hadn't taken out my

headphones before I began unlocking that door that day I don't know how long he was following me for and as far as I know he was never caught either but from that point on for those last few weeks before I left for college I would call my dad and make him meet me at the train station so that he could walk me home safely now as an adult too I'm far more cautious than I was as a teenager I'm always extra aware of my surroundings especially at night and I don't look at my phone while

I walk home either I don't think that I'll ever get the image of his Blank Stare as he lunged towards me out of my head and I'll never forget the feeling of the pit of my stomach as I realize that he followed me home watching me and touching himself like that and was now waiting to strike it was like being a deer realizing that it's being stalked by a tiger because the tiger accidentally stepped on a twig and gave itself away right before it pounced on its prey I was extremely lucky that [Music] night so

I'm a 21-year-old French girl and I'm sorry about my English I'm also a student in Lay France so tired of not finding true love I decided to lose my virginity with my best friend then I found a fantastic hookup friend which I get along with wonderfully on all levels and we were together for about 3 months but it was around this time that they then say that they still love their ex so being fragile as I was I actually attempted to take my own life I go to the emergency Ward and then the mental hospital

as well for the Smart Ones among you you'll have to understand that I was already depressed for a few months under treatment is what I mean with a strong pension for alcohol as well and to complete this Auto destruction mechanism what better way than dating apps right so a few weeks after my release from the mental hospital I match up to make some new encounters and I forgot about my dear and tender hookup friend I always meet guys at their home for a first date because I have zero experience and that's what I did for

my very first date too so one day I match with this guy and let's call him Matthew Matthew is not a very handsome guy and has a few extra pounds but I'm not Beyonce either let's be honest so I match him we laugh a little bit we have some common taste and he smokes some weed so I thought well perfect we can plan to smoke and then we can just you know get it on he gives me some personal information like his address no idea if it's the real one mind you and his job or

rather old job I should say he just got fired apparently work or not work to be honest I just didn't really care at this point I don't want to do my life with him anyway it was just a a quick hookup so I explained to him that I'm a bit fragile and that I came out of a a kind of Mental Clinic that I'm depressed and blah blah blah it's all for the sole purpose of making him understand that he should play with me I also tell him that I'm looking for just a fun time

but still with some discussion and some hugs and whatnot and not just a shot in like 20 minutes and it's done sort of thing he assures me that that is what he is looking for too and that he's actually very cuddly and so I thought perfect after one or two days of discussion we agreed on a date meito party at my house and he can bring some joints Matthew arrives and he is not cute at all even worse than in the photos he has a dirty look like greasy hair stained t-shirt it was like the

style of a teenager who didn't know how to dress himself despite him being 26 years old in short I'm far from excited but I desperately need the company I offer to make him the drinks while I choose a film on television and he runs and passes on the kitchen side to prepare two Mojitos before joining me on the sofa we talk a bit he's not very smart and not very interesting either I drown in my drink hoping to animate the party alone but this is where there is a 3-day blackout so according to dear Matthew

we would have drunk and smoked while watching a film before going into the bedroom I vaguely remember being naked on my bed and seeing him dressed above me looking at me before turning his heels and just slamming the door my phone is dis charging and my alarm clock is not ringing I'm away from a workg group appointment so my friends are worried and they call me they can't contact me so they contact my sister but she also goes to voicemail the girls apparently come down from my house and ring again and again but there's no

answer they call the firemen who managed to open the bottom door but not the door to my apartment they knock on the door calling me and I end up opening the door dressed in a blanket to hide my nakedness I look at them with just what they described as incomprehension the firemen conclude that I'm hung over and break up while my friends help me get dressed and whatnot they also think that I drank too much but they notice that my body is covered with what looks like yellow badine on my arms legs stomach Etc I

told them that I burned my arm yesterday and that I wanted to heal myself but there was no sign of a burn or anything on my arm besides I don't even have badine they take my cat and take me back to one of their houses since I'm in just a completely com State I have trouble speaking I look completely elsewhere as antiz and I even seem to have trouble thinking the next day my sister comes to pick me up so that I can stay with her for a few days everyone is convinced that I tried

to end my life again with drugs or alcohol or something but I Tred to tell them that that wasn't the case but I start complaining about pain in the vver area and blood loss as well my pill stops my period completely so my sister takes me to the hospital at this point I explained to them that there may have been unprotected sex since I was well pretty much unconscious there is an AIDS vaccine and stuff that you can get and I'm advised to file a complaint and I'm being redirected to the ob emergency room the

next day I finally regain Consciousness gently and my relatives see it right away I'm a little bit more lively and my remarks are a little bit more consistent they meet me in the emergency place and I get swabs done and I get a preventative AIDS treatment and so over the course of a week I made a series of appointments for blood samples urine samples Etc and I went to file a complaint with the testimony of my friends who met me at home and my sister who took care of me as well and after talking about

it around me to people my age older people as well but especially medical staff and the police police the term organ trafficking was more than mentioned they think that the guy must have chickened out right at the last minute so despite my complaint My Bed full of badine my underwear torn off and the blood on the doors of my apartment which was weird right my attacker apparently got nothing out of me in the end and I'll never know what really happened that night and I guess what he really wanted too I would like to point

out too that I used to drink and smoke in addition to my treatment and that never before had happened where I blacked out for like 3 days but in the end I got lucky that night thankfully I didn't have AIDS or any sort of sexually transmitted disease and also thankfully I didn't seem to have been sexually assaulted or anything but I am pretty sure that he put something in my drink that night and that he had intentions to take something from me that I'm pretty confident [Music] on so I feel like now that I'm 23

years old male and that I've grown up a bit I'm starting to feel the gravity of many things that happened and have happened around me even being a curious person I like to investigate things I like to make my own theories around them and yesterday morning I started having this conversation with my mom about my theories on what dreams actually are and what science says about it in the midst of that conversation I suddenly recalled an incident that happened with her many years ago my mom is not at all a person who likes to make

things up she's always really skeptical of superstitions and all that and I know that if she claims that watching something with her own eyes which freaked her out and almost froze her to death that she is probably speaking the truth it happened around 12 years ago my family was going through financial crisis and we used to live in my maternal Grandma's house back then recently a thief had been cited in the house who ran away in panic because of the fear of being caught many scary things were happening and we took them all seriously because

they were causing all of our family a lot of stress I didn't get to know exactly when and how but one evening my mom told my grandma that she saw what she described as a hair demon in the bathroom and almost froze to death seeing it as I was a stupid 11-year-old kid back then I took it as a fun Horror Story and I just let it be but when I recalled this incident yesterday I decided to ask about the details with my mom so I asked her to explain what the appearance of that thing

was like she told me that apparently it was sitting on the floor of our bathroom she said that it looked like an early man was her word words told me that it was so gigantic that when it stood up on its legs he easily reached the ceiling as she froze and started screaming for help from my dad this creature took only a couple of really really long strides and disappeared but the strangest thing is that she says that she doesn't actually recall many of the details about how this thing actually disappeared it's almost like she

has a memory Gap I asked her why she calls this thing a demon and she said that because that's what her first guess was I asked so you mean to say that it looked like a caveman she said no it wasn't a man or a human in the first place a beast I asked in fact she said that it had very long hair all over its body and the hair had a a sort of soil-like color to it and it was at this point immediately in my brain for whatever reason and said Bigfoot then I

Googled Bigfoot and showed her the images and she said that it was very much of the same appearance as those images to be honest I really didn't know what to make of that I was shocked to hear it the thing is too is that I'm from India of all places nobody ever heard of any Bigfoot in India let alone in an urban environment and that too in one's bathroom of all places as weird and illogical as this incident sounds apparently my mom swears by it that it really happened again my mom rarely believes in things

like this and is always very serious towards stuff like this so she's never really been attention seeking or something like that and this incident never helped her in any way either so I can't really think of a reason why she would lie about it in fact she was facing so many more challenges in life that this incident was a fresh wound on already wounded skin to be honest but I don't know what do you guys think about this incident how can one see a Bigfoot likee creature in one's own home which then just disappears and

is never seen again could it have been something else also there's a little incident about how my grandma saw her two around the same time which I'm not including here but I don't want to make this super long and all that but that obviously lends Credence to my mom's story too anyway thanks for listening and if you've got any thoughts to share then I would love to hear [Music] it so my childhood best friend Mary and I were around 11 or 12 years old at the time Mary's family had their own Campsite in a Provincial

Park about 2 hours from our own Hometown and would spend the entire summer each year living in their camper out there this particular summer I was able to go and stay with them for a week and we were pretty excited to spend our time adventuring throughout the forest on the last night that I was there we decided that we wanted to hurry down to the ice cream shop by the lake before it closed it was early evening at this point still pretty bright out but beginning to lose light the path that we took was down

a short slope right next to the main road with maybe 10 ft of thick brush and trees in between on the other side was the forest and with more tall thick brush so we were walking along we didn't see a single other person on the path in front or behind us but we hear a sudden rustling and snapping of branches similar to the sound of maybe a deer moving through the woods quite honestly I I wouldn't have thought anything of it but then the sound of running footsteps follows Mary glances back and suddenly grabs my

arm urging me under her breath not to look back at the same time the running stops I don't know why I didn't ignore her and get a good look myself but I guess I could sense the the very real fear in her voice and I chose to listen we both start to panic though getting that feeling like when you're running up the stairs after turning the basement light off we pick up speed as much as we can without breaking into a Sprint knowing that the ice cream shop is only about a minute walkway at this

point the path soon breaks and we're in the parking lot suddenly Mary steers me hard to the left heading towards the lake in the boat rental instead of continuing straight to the ice cream shop and I go along with it silently understanding ice cream is no longer in interest right now Mary is clearly panicking at this point we're both looking around but it seems like whatever scared her is nowhere inide at this point Mary walks up to the boat rental and gets us a kayak and we climb in and begin to paddle out into the

middle of the lake as we paddle she tells me that apparently there was a man behind us and that the man had stopped running at us very abruptly upon making eye contact with her he had been wearing a long black coat with the hood up despite it being the middle of July had a terrible smirk on his face and she swore that as he stopped running she saw him put something shiny away in his coat he appeared to have just emerged out of the bushes after we walked past given the sounds that we heard right

before he came running on the path too I am pretty sure that she was telling the truth we reached the center of the lake though and sto paddling I pull out my noia brick phone that my parents had thank God given me just in case and I hand it to Mary and tell her to call her parents to come and pick us up as the phone rings I see her look out past me to the shore and go pale then lifting a hand to point out what she was seeing I turned and and there was

the man stalking his way around the path that circled the edge of the lake staring out at us we sat in the middle of the lake and watched him do two full laps never looking away from us before finally disappearing it took a few tries to get a hold of her family we were just freaking out so bad the whole time as the sun got lower and lower as well but eventually we did manage to have someone come with the truck but by that time we reached the shore it was pretty dark outside and to

be honest I really don't know what we would have done if we hadn't have been able to call for a ride that day looking back I don't know why we didn't just go to the ice cream shop in the end inform an ad old there and asked her parents to come and get us but whatever the case it worked out for the best in the end and we got back safe and thankfully we never saw that man again [Music] this takes place back in early 2017 I had recently moved from a major city to a

small town in the midwest to get myself together and separate myself from bad habits that I had developed previously I've been living on the west coast and worked for a couple who were pot Farmers just trimming their weed for one season with a few other trimmers nothing major stuck out to me other than the guy mid-30 was a total jerk and super protective of his weed and his girlfriend was someone that I wouldn't normally get along with but she was okay in any case I trimmed their weed that season and they paid me a portion

up front they or he I should say said the rest would come after he sold a few pounds of whatever because that was just how the business went they did end up paying me within a few weeks so all was good with me in the end however the man here here kept texting me after I moved Mid Country with random hey how are you doing sort of thing I never liked the guy got bad vibes from the get-go and his wife or girlfriend was a friend of a close friend so I sort of gave them

the benefit of the doubt I guess anyway the wife or girlfriend started messaging me via texts nearing spring after ID worked for them trimming weed that fall season asking if I would be available to house it for them while they were on vacation out of the country at this point I was living in Colorado and the farm was in California I didn't have a permanent job set up yet and they were offering good money to house it plus some extra money trimming weed that they had left over from the season stupidly I drove my butt

17 hours with dollar signs in my eyes and all the hell that was from there I would like to share a lot of details but the gist of it is that someone was at their house the entire time that I was house sitting I'll try and set up the scenario for you as best as I can but they have a full house with a gardener quarters attached to their main housee there's a one-bedroom in a bathroom an electric stove Kettle or kitchen area in The Gardener's bedroom there's also a doorway from this area into the

main house blocked by a bookshelf on my side when they invited me to stay and house it they were there for 2 to 3 days and part of their stay included drilling the door shut on the opposite side so that I could not enter their house to be honest that did not bother me and I honestly understood why they blck up their house like that but things got really weird afterwards so I'd been there alone for a few days just trimming weed walking the dogs filling the hummingbird feeders watching the house like I was supposed

to honestly this house was out in the middle of nowhere anyway so I don't even think anyone would have come there anyway but the girlfriend or wife would call from Morocco every so often to check up on me I thought that everything was fine to be honest until I started to hear water running from the kitchen inside of the house the part of the house that I had no access to but was directly connected to I immediately called the couple or texted them maybe and told them that I could hear someone in their house their

response was literally it's none of your concern what you hear on the other side of the wall this really turned my stomach I was in the middle of nowhere locked by a gate on their property hired to house it and all of a sudden it was not my concern if someone was inside of their house it freaked me out and I still had two more weeks to be at this place without phone service too and I was properly freaked out at this point over the next few days though I would feel scared and calm in

waves at one point I was sitting outside with the dogs and they all ran up to the side of the house wagging their tails like they were greeting someone and I heard a very quiet shush and footsteps patter off I continued to hear the TV microwave water running from the main part of the house the language the girl or wife was using with me via text was too personal in regard to what I was doing I mean sure they could have had a camera installed although I scorched the room for any device but the sounds

and even the dogs reacting to what I heard was enough for me once I realized that I was house sitting but also being spied on in some weird way I started to have some fun with it I don't know if I figured that I was going to die anyway or that if maybe I acted crazy enough they wouldn't want me for whatever their purposes were but one night I was out in the small porch steps having a very late cigarette it had to be 11: to Mid night and I could hear someone walking around the

perimeter of the house so I stood up opened the door to The Gardener's quarters and Clos the door as if I had walked back inside but I just opened the door and closed it to give that impression keeping my position with the cigarette on the porch that is immediately someone walked from the side of the house because they thought that I went inside noticed me and then ran into the woods in my mind I set up a tiny trap to see if I was just delusional and it proved that I wasn't so I started doing

crazy dumb stuff because I was alone nothing too wild I just blasted Backstreet Boys set up their garage cans like a drum set and walked around topless honestly I thought that if these people were crazy enough to watch Me While I house out for them I had to do something more ridiculous to push them away maybe that doesn't make sense to you but I can't help but reference the Hey Arnold episode where a bully is after him and he says don't hit me I'll hit me I'm crazy anyway the couple finally came back to their

house from Morocco and acted like they didn't want to pay me they did after some pulling and tugging but man don't ever go house it and not really know the people you're housting for in the Emerald Triangle like I did or just don't even go there at all as it's genuinely a a really shady business