August 20, 2025 • 29 mins
Jade grew up in a small Mississippi town, but her childhood was anything but ordinary. From the time she was six years old, she was haunted: scratched by unseen claws, stalked by shadowy figures, and tormented by something with burning red eyes that followed her from childhood into adulthood. It started with whispers in the dark and a figure in the bathroom mirror, but it grew into years of terrifying sleep paralysis, violent encounters, and dreams that felt more like messages from the dead. Jade is still searching for answers, caught between faith and the unrelenting presence that refuses to let her go.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The following episode has mentions of self harm and sexual assault.
If this may be triggering for you, please take care
of While listening.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Something knocks on my door, walks in, and it drags
its feet across my poor It sits on my bed
and it looks at me with it's like a really
dark red eyes, and it says I'm bad.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
A young woman from Mississippi has lived with a paranormal
since childhood, from shadow figures in the mirror, in violent sleep, paralysis,
to voices and bruises that can't be explained. My name
is Edwin and here is Jade. It's true scary story.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
My name is Jade. I grew up in a small
town in Mississippi. We lived with my grandma. When I
was a kid, I was really scared of the smallest things,
like I would be scared to be like in a
room by myself, I would see shadows. I just try
(01:14):
to kind of shove them off because I didn't want
to think, oh, that's something more than just a shadow.
I was around six or seven years old, I just
started first grade and I was washing my hands in
the bathroom. I looked in this mirror and there was
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this like giant figure behind me. It looked like it
was kind of furry. It had these dark red eyes
and was staring right at me. I had gotten really scared,
and so I didn't say anything, and I didn't move
for five or six seconds. I just kind of stood there,
(02:00):
and it grabs my arm and it scratches my arm.
I go to my grandma and I tell her about this,
so she saw the scratches and everything, and we got
our preacher to come to our house and kind of
bless the house. I would hear footsteps and other things
(02:29):
like moving around like deer in the night or during
the day, especially if I was home alone. We had
a computer room in one of the back rooms. I
was in there and I was watching YouTube. I heard
someone walking back and forth down the hallway. So I
walk out and as I open the door, I can
hear it walking and then it stops. So I close
(02:52):
the door and it happens again. I don't know what
to do at this point, like I just hear someone
walking back and forth in the hallway, but I can't
see anybody. I opened the door and I just leave
it open, and whenever I sit down, it starts again.
I just sat at the door so it would stop walking.
(03:17):
I was at my dad's house because my parents were divorced.
I had my own rim. I was laying in my
bed and it was kind of late at night. It
was around like eleven thirty. I was gonna lay down
and go to sleep, and I hear knives scraping in
the kitchen. My first thought, I was like, oh my God,
(03:39):
like somebody just broke into the ouse. I grabbed this
baseball bat that I had in my room because I
thought there was somebody there. I walk out and there's
nothing in the kitchen. There's no knives laying out. There's
no one in the kitchen. So I go in my
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room and the door and I can still hear them
like scraping the knives. I felt really uneasy about it,
and I was like, Okay, there's nobody in the house.
All the doors are locked, and I was like, this
is really weird. I tried to go to sleep the
best I could, and I put my headphones in. I
was listening to music and I just went to sleep.
(04:23):
I guess I didn't want to just deal with it,
whatever it was. Whenever I was thirteen, I moved in
with my dad I had started to have like sleep proalysis,
and I didn't know what this was at first. I'd
never had anything like it in my entire life. The
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first one that I had, I had this horrible dream
and whenever I want to go wake up, because whenever
you have sleep paralysis, you can't like fully wake up.
So my eyes were just kind of like open a
little bit and I was able to move my head
back and forth. Whenever that happened, I felt like this
pressure come over like my entire body and like something
(05:08):
had pulled my legs apart, and my head it felt
like it was on fire. I was very scared this moment,
so I just said I belong to God, like you
have to leave me alone, and it stopped right then.
The next morning, a couple hours later, I called my
(05:30):
grandma and I was like, hey, like this just happened,
and I don't know like what it is or anything.
She told me that when I was a kid, it
was around whenever I was about eight years old, she
woke up and there was a stick figger standing at
the end of her bed. She's like a wholehearted Christian,
(05:52):
Like this is the most Christian woman I've ever met,
and she's an amazing person. She was not scared at all.
She got up, she pointed at it, and she said,
you have to leave. I belong to God. You cannot
do anything to me. And she said that it left.
She felt like something was kind of off. So she
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had walked to my room and she said, I was
standing up by the closet and it was standing right
next to me, and it had its hand kind of
on my back, and so she told it again that
you have to leave. You cannot be in this house.
You are not allowed here. So it finally left, and
she said, I just walked over to my bed and
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I laid back down and I went back to bed.
I had no idea that this was going on at all.
I had no idea that this happened. She told me
the reason why she didn't tell me was because she
did not want me to get scared. And she told
me just to pray and that if anything was to happen,
to say that I belong to God and that it
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has to leave me alone. I was also told that
my aunt's husband, he's originally from Mexico and his aunt
was a witch. This was around the same time that
my grandma had seen that figure. He had went there.
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He had walked by her house, didn't go in it,
just walked by her house whenever he came home. My
cousin she was about three years old, and she was
sleeping in her crib in their ring. My grandma told
me that when my aunt my uncle woke up, something
was holding like their arms around their chest and was
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putting pressure on their chests and would not let them
move or anything. By the time it stopped, they went
to go check on my cousin and she was fine.
They felt like something came back with him because she
would like do spells and everything, and she would put
kind of I guess spells on people like she didn't like,
(08:01):
and she wanted bad things to happen to like. She
definitely focused more on black magic. And what he told
me is that she completely gave her soul to the
devil and that's the reason why none of the family
had anything to do with her because of what all
she was doing. No sleep process happened again until I
(08:24):
was fifteen. I went on vacation to Texas to see
my aunt. We had taken my other aunt and my mama,
my dad and my stepmam. We had went to my
aunt's boyfriend's dad's house. He wasn't there. He was at
some press court friends for the business that he owned.
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It was a really nice house. Me and my other
aunt had ended up saying with my aunt at this house,
and we slept in my aunt's boyfriend's dad bedroom because
he wasn't there and it was a really nice bedroom.
I was really tired that guy, and so I just
went to bed. I had this dream where I was
(09:12):
standing in front of this mirror and I shot myself.
Whenever I want to go wake up, my head felt
like it was on fire. I could kind of see
a shadow's face. I guess you wouldn't see it like
the face, but it was a circle face like kind
of next to my face. And I was trying to
grab my aunt's arm so she could help me. She
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didn't wake up. I fell back asleep, and the same
thing happened again, and the exact same way. At the
first time, I was like, Okay, I'm not gonna let
this get to me, like I'm just gonna go to sleep.
So I fell asleep at the third time, and whenever
it happened the third time, whenever I said I belonged
to God. It felt like there was a ringing in
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my head. My head felt like it was on fire,
and it was just getting worse. Finally woke up all
the way and I sat up and there was this
figure of this lady like standing in the closet. It
really freaked me out. I was like, Okay, I'm not
gonna pay any attention to it. Maybe if I just
ignore it, it will leave me alone and it will
(10:19):
finally let me sleep. So I rolled over and I'm
like facing away from it, and I go to sleep.
The next day, I told my aunt about it and
she said, yeah, that's where her boyfriend's dad's wife had
shot herself in that room. Well, that's really weird because
the dream I had beforehand, I was standing in the
mirror and I shot myself. She said where are you on,
(10:41):
like the far end of the room, right next to
the bathroom, and I was like, well yeah, and she
said that's where she shot herself. She also told me
that they would be upstairs, and this was hard. With
the floor, they would hear her walking downstairs. She told
me the reason why maybe this was happening to me
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was because I was so young and I had such
an open mind, and it was her trying to tell
me how she died, and I told my aunt, I
don't want anything to do with it, like this takes
a total on my body, Like it doesn't just hurt
my sleep, but it makes me feel so like dreary,
like just so tired and like mentally drained. And she
was like, I get that. It'll leave you alone when
(11:27):
I promise, I was like, okay. So anytime I had
walked into that room, I felt very uneasy, especially after
hearing the story. And I don't know if I felt
uneasy because of what happened the night before or because
of what I found out that happened in that room.
I was standing in the bathroom and I was blow
drying my hair and I just felt like someone was
(11:50):
standing like right behind me. I couldn't take that feeling anymore.
So I got myself and I had went to the
other bathroom in the house and I finished get ready,
and I was so happy when we left because I
just felt so scared in that room and in that house,
because I constantly felt like there was someone standing right
(12:10):
next to me. And as soon as we left, it
felt like a weight was lifted off my shoulders, like
there was no one that was following me around or
sitting behind me or seeing what exactly I'm doing. We
left by Tennessee and we had moved further into this
(12:30):
like small town. It's like an old house. There's like
a well outside, there's a brick oven outside to like
it's an old house, but it's beautiful. I really liked
my room. I had a balcony that went outside, and
I would still kind of hear things, but I would
just ignore it. I was like, if I don't feed
(12:51):
into it, it's not gonna do anything. I was seventeen.
I was talking to this guy and we were supposed
to go to the zoo the next day, and he
canceled on me, and I was really upset about it,
and I had stayed up kind of crying a little bit,
and I had a guitar kind of sitting in the
corner of my room by my closet. All the strings
(13:16):
on the guitar just went off. I took the guitar
and I had put it in my closet because I
was like, I don't want it to go off for
the rest of the nights. So I go to sleep
I wake up and my guitar is back in the
corner of my room and there's a shadow standing next
to it. So I tell it, I'm like, please leave
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me alone, like I don't want anything to do with this.
I belonged to God. You have to leave me alone.
And it left. So I was fully convinced, Okay, this
is the end of it. It's all gonna leave me alone.
I'm not gonna have any sleep prosis, like none of
this is gonna happen. It stopped for a good year.
(14:09):
Whenever I was sixteen, I had my first and only
wreck so far. I thought I was dead. There was
so much blood everywhere. Whenever I was upside down in
a ditch, I unboke with my seatbelt and I looked
over and I could kind of see like a light
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of someone they put their hand out on me, is
what it felt like. Which I hit my head a
blunch during this wreck, so it could have been that,
and I could have just been like imagining it. That's
why I never took it into full perspective. Because I
had like a major concussion and I had had some
like brain bleeds, and so they had to go in
and they had to work on everything, and so I
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never like actually put that as like that was an
angel telling me it's gonna be okay. It could have
been anything with how hurt I got in that rec So,
whenever I was eighteen, me and my best friend got
an apartment in the town that we're going to go
to college too. About three months into living into this apartment,
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I had the worst sleep prolysses that I had ever
had in my entire life. I had a dream beforehand
there was a group of people and I was doing
like these really horrible things to them. There was like
a bunch of murder, there was rape, and there was
like kids in fog and I couldn't control myself in
the stream, but I know it was horrible. It was
(15:39):
a really bad dream, and whenever I went to go
wake up, I felt like very cloggy, like it was
a sleep prolysis. Again. My door was closed. Something knocked
on my door three times, and I thought it was
my best friend walking into my room. She came and
sat down on my bed and she started violently shaking
(16:01):
me to wake up, and I couldn't wake up fully.
I could kind of see like a figure of something
at this point, it wasn't necessarily like a shadow. It
had more like dimension to it. I could see like
the outlines of the arms. I could see kind of
more of like a jawline. It had gotten its face
(16:22):
right next to mine, and I see like dark almost
black red, and it looked at me, and then it
got in my ear and it said, I'll be back.
I have to go check on you know who. I
fully woke up and I texted my friends and I
was like, Hey, what are you talking about? You have
to go check on you know who? And she was like,
what are you talking about? Like I've been at work
for two hours, and I was like, you just came
(16:45):
into my room, sat on my bed, shook me to
wake up, and told me that you had to go
check on you know who. And she was like, I
have no idea what you're talking about. She had got
home that night and I was asking about it. I
was like, you're lying to me. You have to be
tell me that you're lying to me. So I don't
think anything weird is going on. She said, I find
(17:08):
that really strange because that not I woke up and
she could hear whispering in her room. She said, as
soon as she turned around, it stopped. So I went
to work the next day and I work in a
still living facility right now. One of my residents, she's
(17:31):
very Catholic, very religious, and I love her to death.
I had walked into her room and she looked at
me and she said, do you have sleep prolesses? And
I don't tell them, you know, really any of my
personal information, especially stuff like that. And I was like,
what are you talking about? She said, there's something following
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you and it's not going to let you go. I
was like, no, you know, like I'm okay, I promise,
like everything's fine. She said, no, someone needs to help
you because it's not gonna let you go. Her daughter
had came in. I had went her to go check
on her, and the resident looked at me and she said,
there's something following you. Her daughter was like, Mama, what
(18:18):
are you talking about? You know? And she was like,
there's something following her and it won't let her go.
You have to help her. I didn't know what to do.
I didn't know what to think. And her daughter told
me that her mom was always able to sense things
and see things. She told me that her mom had
(18:40):
seen something following me. And it's She said, it was
holding on to me and it wasn't gonna let me go.
So she gave me just like rosemary cross and some
holy water, and I was like, I promise, like, everything's fine,
It'll go away at some point whenever it realizes I'm
not gonna feed into whatever it wants. She was like,
I would feel more comfortable if you would take this.
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I was like, okay, well i'll take it, but I promise,
like I'll be okay. I had put the cross on
my vanity set, which sits in front of my bed.
I would wake up some knots and it would be
kind of swaying back and forth. I was like, I'm
not gonna think anything of it, like my dog may
have bumped the vanity set and it may be moving.
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I had gone back to work maybe a month afterwards.
The resident. She didn't say anything to me. The daughter
came in and she said, has your problem gotten better?
And I was like, oh, yeah, like you know, nothing's happened,
you know, Like I said, I'll be fine as soon
as it figured out I wasn't gonna feed into whatever
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it was telling me. And she was like, I would
feel better if you would kind of be careful. There
was one time I had went to one of my
friend's house and her mom was not really like a
good person. I saw like it wasn't her shadow because
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her shadow was in front of her and the light
was behind her. But I could see like this figure
kind of standing behind her. And I told my friend
about it. She told her mom about it. I don't
know what happened, but her mom completely changed, and by
the time I went back over there, her mom had
quit drinking, she had quit doing drugs, she started going
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to church, and this like thing behind her was just gone.
I find it weird that, like, I've had this happen
my entire life, and now it's starting to get like
more physical and it's more of the same thing that's
happening instead of like different things. I had a tree
(21:03):
where I was driving in town. There was this guy
next to me. He was kicking me in the face
as I was driving. I was like, I'm just gonna
run off the road and maybe we'll just botho. I
don't know why I had this mindset. I didn't know
what was really going on, but I had ran off
(21:25):
the road. Whenever I woke up, something was choking me.
I could not breathe at all. I said in my head,
I belong to God. It has to leave. Then I
have the same dream that I had whenever I had
(21:48):
the really horrible sleep prosis where I was hurting other people.
I was like, really freaked out about this. So I
wake up to an extent, like while I'm having sleep prolesses,
something knocks on my door, walks in, and it drags
its feet across my floor. It sits on my bed
(22:12):
and it looks at me with its like really dark
red eyes and it says, I'm back. Whenever I finally
woke up, I just didn't go back to sleep. I
was really scared. And my friend got up and I
asked her. I was like, did you come in my
room and choke me out? Like this is not a
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funny joke or whatever you're doing? And she said, what
are you talking about? Like why would I come in
your room and choke you out? That's horrible. No one
has been in your room. It was really worrying me
at this point that this same dream, and I want
to say it was like the same spirit that was
trying to scare me, and it was definitely scaring me
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at this point, being Southern Baptist, we don't really talk
about like paranormal and stuff like that. We just kind
of believe that if you just ignore it, it'll go away.
So I looked up some priests online and there was
this Catholic priest and he asked me if I was
ever part of a cult, and I was like WHOA, Like, no,
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I have nothing to do with any of that. And
he said, well, it may be a colt that has
a hold of you that won't let you go. He
asked me if I knew any witches. I have no
idea of any colts or any witches. You know, like,
no one of my families really like that. He told
me that I may be like a medium and some
(23:40):
other things like that. He said I could use like
sage and holy water and I could do some prayers
and talk to God more about it and maybe it'll stop.
I told him, I was like, even if I am
a medium, I don't want anything to do with that,
Like I really just want to be left along with it.
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I want to just kind of be Okay. I would
sage the house, I would take the holy water, and
I would kind of put it throughout the house. We
had some more crosses put up and I would have
bibles kind of laying out because I was getting really
freaked out at this point and I didn't want something
to be attached to me. All this kind of happened,
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and then I had that exact same sleep proalysis again
with the same thing, and it was the same spirits
that had been bothering me for a couple months now.
It did the same thing again, and at this point,
I'm getting really tired of it, and so I tell
my friend about it, and she said that that night
she had a dream where she was debunking the devil,
(24:52):
she was getting rid of the devil, she was casting
them out. Well, I don't know how to do that,
Like with these dreams that I'm having, I can't control
anything at all. And she said, I've never had anything
like that. I've just had a few things that happened
since we moved in together. This was maybe like a
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month ago that she had told me about this dream
and all this other stuff, and I was kind of
getting convinced. I was like, Okay, so it's gonna leave
me alone at this point if I just ignore it
and I just pray, I keep reading the Bible and
doing my devotions and kind of trying to cleanse the
house a little bit. Maybe it will finally leave me alone.
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Last night, I had stayed up until about twelve, kind
of hanging out with my friends. Whenever I went to sleep,
I had the exact same dream with the sleep proalysis,
and at this point, the last two times that it happened,
it had never actually like hurt me physically. It was
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just kind of mentally training me. So whenever I want
to go wake up, something knocked on my thword three
times and rugged their feet into my ram sat on
my bed, and it grabbed my ankles. My ankles felt
like they were burning, like they felt like they were
on fire. I was trying to kick my legs, but
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I couldn't move them. In my head, I'm saying I
belong to God, you have to leave me alone. As
soon as I said the word God, my head felt
like it was going to explode, Like it felt like
my head was on fire. It was so bad. I'm
like starting to cry at this point because it's really
hurting me. And so it gets up and it says
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I'm leaving, I'll be back. I see it move out
my door and I can get more of like a
detail of it. I'm about five to two and a half,
and I want to say that this thing is maybe
like six foot. It's tall. It doesn't have any hair
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or anything. It's not really a person, but it's got
longer fingernails, and it's kind of muscular, and it has
like furry or if it had kind of like what
looked like a burd coat on, and it looked like
it had like tattoos on the back of its like neck.
It looked like it had horns. But I may be
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like mistaken that because everything was kind of blurry at
this point too, and so I could just kind of
see something walking out, but I couldn't see like exactly
what it was. Whenever I woke up, I looked at
my ankles and I have these handprints skinnier and longer
like nails burned into my ankles. It kind of hurts,
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and it's just very mentally draining, and I don't know
how to get rid of the same. And I don't
know what it is. I do believe it's something supernatural,
especially for like how much it's happened and how long
it's been going on. I just don't know how exactly
I can get it to stop. It doesn't hurt physically
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as much as it does mentally, like it's so draining,
it wants to hurt me and wants me to feel
bad about it. I want it to know like it's
not going to completely drag me down and it's not
going to completely break me apart.
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We are following the show. I'll be back next week
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it scary everyone, let's see you soon.
The following episode has mentions of self harm and sexual assault.
If this may be triggering for you, please take care
of While listening.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Something knocks on my door, walks in, and it drags
its feet across my poor It sits on my bed
and it looks at me with it's like a really
dark red eyes, and it says I'm bad.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
A young woman from Mississippi has lived with a paranormal
since childhood, from shadow figures in the mirror, in violent sleep, paralysis,
to voices and bruises that can't be explained. My name
is Edwin and here is Jade. It's true scary story.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
My name is Jade. I grew up in a small
town in Mississippi. We lived with my grandma. When I
was a kid, I was really scared of the smallest things,
like I would be scared to be like in a
room by myself, I would see shadows. I just try
(01:14):
to kind of shove them off because I didn't want
to think, oh, that's something more than just a shadow.
I was around six or seven years old, I just
started first grade and I was washing my hands in
the bathroom. I looked in this mirror and there was
(01:38):
this like giant figure behind me. It looked like it
was kind of furry. It had these dark red eyes
and was staring right at me. I had gotten really scared,
and so I didn't say anything, and I didn't move
for five or six seconds. I just kind of stood there,
(02:00):
and it grabs my arm and it scratches my arm.
I go to my grandma and I tell her about this,
so she saw the scratches and everything, and we got
our preacher to come to our house and kind of
bless the house. I would hear footsteps and other things
(02:29):
like moving around like deer in the night or during
the day, especially if I was home alone. We had
a computer room in one of the back rooms. I
was in there and I was watching YouTube. I heard
someone walking back and forth down the hallway. So I
walk out and as I open the door, I can
hear it walking and then it stops. So I close
(02:52):
the door and it happens again. I don't know what
to do at this point, like I just hear someone
walking back and forth in the hallway, but I can't
see anybody. I opened the door and I just leave
it open, and whenever I sit down, it starts again.
I just sat at the door so it would stop walking.
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I was at my dad's house because my parents were divorced.
I had my own rim. I was laying in my
bed and it was kind of late at night. It
was around like eleven thirty. I was gonna lay down
and go to sleep, and I hear knives scraping in
the kitchen. My first thought, I was like, oh my God,
(03:39):
like somebody just broke into the ouse. I grabbed this
baseball bat that I had in my room because I
thought there was somebody there. I walk out and there's
nothing in the kitchen. There's no knives laying out. There's
no one in the kitchen. So I go in my
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room and the door and I can still hear them
like scraping the knives. I felt really uneasy about it,
and I was like, Okay, there's nobody in the house.
All the doors are locked, and I was like, this
is really weird. I tried to go to sleep the
best I could, and I put my headphones in. I
was listening to music and I just went to sleep.
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I guess I didn't want to just deal with it,
whatever it was. Whenever I was thirteen, I moved in
with my dad I had started to have like sleep proalysis,
and I didn't know what this was at first. I'd
never had anything like it in my entire life. The
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first one that I had, I had this horrible dream
and whenever I want to go wake up, because whenever
you have sleep paralysis, you can't like fully wake up.
So my eyes were just kind of like open a
little bit and I was able to move my head
back and forth. Whenever that happened, I felt like this
pressure come over like my entire body and like something
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had pulled my legs apart, and my head it felt
like it was on fire. I was very scared this moment,
so I just said I belong to God, like you
have to leave me alone, and it stopped right then.
The next morning, a couple hours later, I called my
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grandma and I was like, hey, like this just happened,
and I don't know like what it is or anything.
She told me that when I was a kid, it
was around whenever I was about eight years old, she
woke up and there was a stick figger standing at
the end of her bed. She's like a wholehearted Christian,
(05:52):
Like this is the most Christian woman I've ever met,
and she's an amazing person. She was not scared at all.
She got up, she pointed at it, and she said,
you have to leave. I belong to God. You cannot
do anything to me. And she said that it left.
She felt like something was kind of off. So she
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had walked to my room and she said, I was
standing up by the closet and it was standing right
next to me, and it had its hand kind of
on my back, and so she told it again that
you have to leave. You cannot be in this house.
You are not allowed here. So it finally left, and
she said, I just walked over to my bed and
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I laid back down and I went back to bed.
I had no idea that this was going on at all.
I had no idea that this happened. She told me
the reason why she didn't tell me was because she
did not want me to get scared. And she told
me just to pray and that if anything was to happen,
to say that I belong to God and that it
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has to leave me alone. I was also told that
my aunt's husband, he's originally from Mexico and his aunt
was a witch. This was around the same time that
my grandma had seen that figure. He had went there.
(07:19):
He had walked by her house, didn't go in it,
just walked by her house whenever he came home. My
cousin she was about three years old, and she was
sleeping in her crib in their ring. My grandma told
me that when my aunt my uncle woke up, something
was holding like their arms around their chest and was
(07:40):
putting pressure on their chests and would not let them
move or anything. By the time it stopped, they went
to go check on my cousin and she was fine.
They felt like something came back with him because she
would like do spells and everything, and she would put
kind of I guess spells on people like she didn't like,
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and she wanted bad things to happen to like. She
definitely focused more on black magic. And what he told
me is that she completely gave her soul to the
devil and that's the reason why none of the family
had anything to do with her because of what all
she was doing. No sleep process happened again until I
(08:24):
was fifteen. I went on vacation to Texas to see
my aunt. We had taken my other aunt and my mama,
my dad and my stepmam. We had went to my
aunt's boyfriend's dad's house. He wasn't there. He was at
some press court friends for the business that he owned.
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It was a really nice house. Me and my other
aunt had ended up saying with my aunt at this house,
and we slept in my aunt's boyfriend's dad bedroom because
he wasn't there and it was a really nice bedroom.
I was really tired that guy, and so I just
went to bed. I had this dream where I was
(09:12):
standing in front of this mirror and I shot myself.
Whenever I want to go wake up, my head felt
like it was on fire. I could kind of see
a shadow's face. I guess you wouldn't see it like
the face, but it was a circle face like kind
of next to my face. And I was trying to
grab my aunt's arm so she could help me. She
(09:35):
didn't wake up. I fell back asleep, and the same
thing happened again, and the exact same way. At the
first time, I was like, Okay, I'm not gonna let
this get to me, like I'm just gonna go to sleep.
So I fell asleep at the third time, and whenever
it happened the third time, whenever I said I belonged
to God. It felt like there was a ringing in
(09:57):
my head. My head felt like it was on fire,
and it was just getting worse. Finally woke up all
the way and I sat up and there was this
figure of this lady like standing in the closet. It
really freaked me out. I was like, Okay, I'm not
gonna pay any attention to it. Maybe if I just
ignore it, it will leave me alone and it will
(10:19):
finally let me sleep. So I rolled over and I'm
like facing away from it, and I go to sleep.
The next day, I told my aunt about it and
she said, yeah, that's where her boyfriend's dad's wife had
shot herself in that room. Well, that's really weird because
the dream I had beforehand, I was standing in the
mirror and I shot myself. She said where are you on,
(10:41):
like the far end of the room, right next to
the bathroom, and I was like, well yeah, and she
said that's where she shot herself. She also told me
that they would be upstairs, and this was hard. With
the floor, they would hear her walking downstairs. She told
me the reason why maybe this was happening to me
(11:05):
was because I was so young and I had such
an open mind, and it was her trying to tell
me how she died, and I told my aunt, I
don't want anything to do with it, like this takes
a total on my body, Like it doesn't just hurt
my sleep, but it makes me feel so like dreary,
like just so tired and like mentally drained. And she
was like, I get that. It'll leave you alone when
(11:27):
I promise, I was like, okay. So anytime I had
walked into that room, I felt very uneasy, especially after
hearing the story. And I don't know if I felt
uneasy because of what happened the night before or because
of what I found out that happened in that room.
I was standing in the bathroom and I was blow
drying my hair and I just felt like someone was
(11:50):
standing like right behind me. I couldn't take that feeling anymore.
So I got myself and I had went to the
other bathroom in the house and I finished get ready,
and I was so happy when we left because I
just felt so scared in that room and in that house,
because I constantly felt like there was someone standing right
(12:10):
next to me. And as soon as we left, it
felt like a weight was lifted off my shoulders, like
there was no one that was following me around or
sitting behind me or seeing what exactly I'm doing. We
left by Tennessee and we had moved further into this
(12:30):
like small town. It's like an old house. There's like
a well outside, there's a brick oven outside to like
it's an old house, but it's beautiful. I really liked
my room. I had a balcony that went outside, and
I would still kind of hear things, but I would
just ignore it. I was like, if I don't feed
(12:51):
into it, it's not gonna do anything. I was seventeen.
I was talking to this guy and we were supposed
to go to the zoo the next day, and he
canceled on me, and I was really upset about it,
and I had stayed up kind of crying a little bit,
and I had a guitar kind of sitting in the
corner of my room by my closet. All the strings
(13:16):
on the guitar just went off. I took the guitar
and I had put it in my closet because I
was like, I don't want it to go off for
the rest of the nights. So I go to sleep
I wake up and my guitar is back in the
corner of my room and there's a shadow standing next
to it. So I tell it, I'm like, please leave
(13:39):
me alone, like I don't want anything to do with this.
I belonged to God. You have to leave me alone.
And it left. So I was fully convinced, Okay, this
is the end of it. It's all gonna leave me alone.
I'm not gonna have any sleep prosis, like none of
this is gonna happen. It stopped for a good year.
(14:09):
Whenever I was sixteen, I had my first and only
wreck so far. I thought I was dead. There was
so much blood everywhere. Whenever I was upside down in
a ditch, I unboke with my seatbelt and I looked
over and I could kind of see like a light
(14:30):
of someone they put their hand out on me, is
what it felt like. Which I hit my head a
blunch during this wreck, so it could have been that,
and I could have just been like imagining it. That's
why I never took it into full perspective. Because I
had like a major concussion and I had had some
like brain bleeds, and so they had to go in
and they had to work on everything, and so I
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never like actually put that as like that was an
angel telling me it's gonna be okay. It could have
been anything with how hurt I got in that rec So,
whenever I was eighteen, me and my best friend got
an apartment in the town that we're going to go
to college too. About three months into living into this apartment,
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I had the worst sleep prolysses that I had ever
had in my entire life. I had a dream beforehand
there was a group of people and I was doing
like these really horrible things to them. There was like
a bunch of murder, there was rape, and there was
like kids in fog and I couldn't control myself in
the stream, but I know it was horrible. It was
(15:39):
a really bad dream, and whenever I went to go
wake up, I felt like very cloggy, like it was
a sleep prolysis. Again. My door was closed. Something knocked
on my door three times, and I thought it was
my best friend walking into my room. She came and
sat down on my bed and she started violently shaking
(16:01):
me to wake up, and I couldn't wake up fully.
I could kind of see like a figure of something
at this point, it wasn't necessarily like a shadow. It
had more like dimension to it. I could see like
the outlines of the arms. I could see kind of
more of like a jawline. It had gotten its face
(16:22):
right next to mine, and I see like dark almost
black red, and it looked at me, and then it
got in my ear and it said, I'll be back.
I have to go check on you know who. I
fully woke up and I texted my friends and I
was like, Hey, what are you talking about? You have
to go check on you know who? And she was like,
what are you talking about? Like I've been at work
for two hours, and I was like, you just came
(16:45):
into my room, sat on my bed, shook me to
wake up, and told me that you had to go
check on you know who. And she was like, I
have no idea what you're talking about. She had got
home that night and I was asking about it. I
was like, you're lying to me. You have to be
tell me that you're lying to me. So I don't
think anything weird is going on. She said, I find
(17:08):
that really strange because that not I woke up and
she could hear whispering in her room. She said, as
soon as she turned around, it stopped. So I went
to work the next day and I work in a
still living facility right now. One of my residents, she's
(17:31):
very Catholic, very religious, and I love her to death.
I had walked into her room and she looked at
me and she said, do you have sleep prolesses? And
I don't tell them, you know, really any of my
personal information, especially stuff like that. And I was like,
what are you talking about? She said, there's something following
(17:54):
you and it's not going to let you go. I
was like, no, you know, like I'm okay, I promise,
like everything's fine. She said, no, someone needs to help
you because it's not gonna let you go. Her daughter
had came in. I had went her to go check
on her, and the resident looked at me and she said,
there's something following you. Her daughter was like, Mama, what
(18:18):
are you talking about? You know? And she was like,
there's something following her and it won't let her go.
You have to help her. I didn't know what to do.
I didn't know what to think. And her daughter told
me that her mom was always able to sense things
and see things. She told me that her mom had
(18:40):
seen something following me. And it's She said, it was
holding on to me and it wasn't gonna let me go.
So she gave me just like rosemary cross and some
holy water, and I was like, I promise, like, everything's fine,
It'll go away at some point whenever it realizes I'm
not gonna feed into whatever it wants. She was like,
I would feel more comfortable if you would take this.
(19:02):
I was like, okay, well i'll take it, but I promise,
like I'll be okay. I had put the cross on
my vanity set, which sits in front of my bed.
I would wake up some knots and it would be
kind of swaying back and forth. I was like, I'm
not gonna think anything of it, like my dog may
have bumped the vanity set and it may be moving.
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I had gone back to work maybe a month afterwards.
The resident. She didn't say anything to me. The daughter
came in and she said, has your problem gotten better?
And I was like, oh, yeah, like you know, nothing's happened,
you know, Like I said, I'll be fine as soon
as it figured out I wasn't gonna feed into whatever
(19:51):
it was telling me. And she was like, I would
feel better if you would kind of be careful. There
was one time I had went to one of my
friend's house and her mom was not really like a
good person. I saw like it wasn't her shadow because
(20:14):
her shadow was in front of her and the light
was behind her. But I could see like this figure
kind of standing behind her. And I told my friend
about it. She told her mom about it. I don't
know what happened, but her mom completely changed, and by
the time I went back over there, her mom had
quit drinking, she had quit doing drugs, she started going
(20:35):
to church, and this like thing behind her was just gone.
I find it weird that, like, I've had this happen
my entire life, and now it's starting to get like
more physical and it's more of the same thing that's
happening instead of like different things. I had a tree
(21:03):
where I was driving in town. There was this guy
next to me. He was kicking me in the face
as I was driving. I was like, I'm just gonna
run off the road and maybe we'll just botho. I
don't know why I had this mindset. I didn't know
what was really going on, but I had ran off
(21:25):
the road. Whenever I woke up, something was choking me.
I could not breathe at all. I said in my head,
I belong to God. It has to leave. Then I
have the same dream that I had whenever I had
(21:48):
the really horrible sleep prosis where I was hurting other people.
I was like, really freaked out about this. So I
wake up to an extent, like while I'm having sleep prolesses,
something knocks on my door, walks in, and it drags
its feet across my floor. It sits on my bed
(22:12):
and it looks at me with its like really dark
red eyes and it says, I'm back. Whenever I finally
woke up, I just didn't go back to sleep. I
was really scared. And my friend got up and I
asked her. I was like, did you come in my
room and choke me out? Like this is not a
(22:33):
funny joke or whatever you're doing? And she said, what
are you talking about? Like why would I come in
your room and choke you out? That's horrible. No one
has been in your room. It was really worrying me
at this point that this same dream, and I want
to say it was like the same spirit that was
trying to scare me, and it was definitely scaring me
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at this point, being Southern Baptist, we don't really talk
about like paranormal and stuff like that. We just kind
of believe that if you just ignore it, it'll go away.
So I looked up some priests online and there was
this Catholic priest and he asked me if I was
ever part of a cult, and I was like WHOA, Like, no,
(23:19):
I have nothing to do with any of that. And
he said, well, it may be a colt that has
a hold of you that won't let you go. He
asked me if I knew any witches. I have no
idea of any colts or any witches. You know, like,
no one of my families really like that. He told
me that I may be like a medium and some
(23:40):
other things like that. He said I could use like
sage and holy water and I could do some prayers
and talk to God more about it and maybe it'll stop.
I told him, I was like, even if I am
a medium, I don't want anything to do with that,
Like I really just want to be left along with it.
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I want to just kind of be Okay. I would
sage the house, I would take the holy water, and
I would kind of put it throughout the house. We
had some more crosses put up and I would have
bibles kind of laying out because I was getting really
freaked out at this point and I didn't want something
to be attached to me. All this kind of happened,
(24:28):
and then I had that exact same sleep proalysis again
with the same thing, and it was the same spirits
that had been bothering me for a couple months now.
It did the same thing again, and at this point,
I'm getting really tired of it, and so I tell
my friend about it, and she said that that night
she had a dream where she was debunking the devil,
(24:52):
she was getting rid of the devil, she was casting
them out. Well, I don't know how to do that,
Like with these dreams that I'm having, I can't control
anything at all. And she said, I've never had anything
like that. I've just had a few things that happened
since we moved in together. This was maybe like a
(25:13):
month ago that she had told me about this dream
and all this other stuff, and I was kind of
getting convinced. I was like, Okay, so it's gonna leave
me alone at this point if I just ignore it
and I just pray, I keep reading the Bible and
doing my devotions and kind of trying to cleanse the
house a little bit. Maybe it will finally leave me alone.
(25:40):
Last night, I had stayed up until about twelve, kind
of hanging out with my friends. Whenever I went to sleep,
I had the exact same dream with the sleep proalysis,
and at this point, the last two times that it happened,
it had never actually like hurt me physically. It was
(26:01):
just kind of mentally training me. So whenever I want
to go wake up, something knocked on my thword three
times and rugged their feet into my ram sat on
my bed, and it grabbed my ankles. My ankles felt
like they were burning, like they felt like they were
on fire. I was trying to kick my legs, but
(26:25):
I couldn't move them. In my head, I'm saying I
belong to God, you have to leave me alone. As
soon as I said the word God, my head felt
like it was going to explode, Like it felt like
my head was on fire. It was so bad. I'm
like starting to cry at this point because it's really
hurting me. And so it gets up and it says
(26:46):
I'm leaving, I'll be back. I see it move out
my door and I can get more of like a
detail of it. I'm about five to two and a half,
and I want to say that this thing is maybe
like six foot. It's tall. It doesn't have any hair
(27:06):
or anything. It's not really a person, but it's got
longer fingernails, and it's kind of muscular, and it has
like furry or if it had kind of like what
looked like a burd coat on, and it looked like
it had like tattoos on the back of its like neck.
It looked like it had horns. But I may be
(27:28):
like mistaken that because everything was kind of blurry at
this point too, and so I could just kind of
see something walking out, but I couldn't see like exactly
what it was. Whenever I woke up, I looked at
my ankles and I have these handprints skinnier and longer
like nails burned into my ankles. It kind of hurts,
(27:53):
and it's just very mentally draining, and I don't know
how to get rid of the same. And I don't
know what it is. I do believe it's something supernatural,
especially for like how much it's happened and how long
it's been going on. I just don't know how exactly
I can get it to stop. It doesn't hurt physically
(28:16):
as much as it does mentally, like it's so draining,
it wants to hurt me and wants me to feel
bad about it. I want it to know like it's
not going to completely drag me down and it's not
going to completely break me apart.
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