August 13, 2025 • 27 mins
In these true scary stories, we have two first-hand accounts of eerie encounters, one from a home filled with unseen presences, another from a quiet rural night where something unearthly appeared.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It was floating above the ground, maybe one feet above
the ground. We just stared at it. We just stared
at it for what seems to be forever. We were
frozen of fear. We were just looking at the state.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
A child's bedroom becomes the stage for a silent, unblinking presence.
For months, she lay frozen in the dark, knowing that
she wasn't alone. My name is Edwin and here is Olivia.
It's true scary story.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I was very young. I don't remember exactly how young
I was. I was with my parents in the car
and we were driving somewhere September by earth Wind and
Fire came on the radio. My parents have told me
that I said that that was my late grandfather Jay's
favorite song, and they were confused because he died about
(01:08):
fifteen years before I was even born. They called my grandmother,
his wife, and they were like, hey, was this his
favorite song? Like, was this a song he enjoyed? She said, yeah,
that was actually one of his favorite songs. Shortly before
he passed, when he was still in the hospital. That
(01:28):
was the first ever experience I've had. One day, I
was at my grandma's house and I was probably about
seven or eight at the time, because we just moved
into our own house in Houston. My grandmother has these
landline phones where you know, they're just scattered around the
(01:51):
house and you can pick it up. My grandfather just
popped into my mind, and I said, oh, I'm going
to go talk to him. And my mom looked at
me confused, like, what do you mean You're going to
go talk to him? And I said, I'm going to
call Grandpa Jay. At the time, my family was very religious,
and so you know, we were going to church, praying
(02:12):
a lot of that stuff, just hoping for a good
life in this new place. So I picked up the
phone and I dialed a number, but I don't know
if it went through. I put the phone up to
my ear and I said, Hey, God, may I please
speak to Grandpa Jay. I paused for a second, and
(02:34):
then I just started talking to him like he was there,
you know. I was just talking and talking away, and
I remember my grandmother and my mom staring at me
from the kitchen. I was walking circles around the house
talking to someone that I couldn't hear, and they couldn't hear.
I know it freaked them out a little bit, especially
my mom, because she's also had some experiences throughout her life.
(02:59):
I know when her mother passed away, she would hear,
you know, doors opening and closing, and the very faint
creak of footsteps on stairs. She would get whiffs of
the perfume that she used to wear. So this was
something that kind of touched home with my mom seeing
me have these experiences myself. Shortly after that, though, when
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we had just freshly moved into my house, my father
was working about thirty to forty five minutes away from here.
He would get home really late at night, and I
would stay up and wait for him to come in
and give me a good night kiss. There was this
one very memorable night where I was laying in bed.
(03:50):
I heard the door open. So I'm like, okay, I'm
going to pretend like I'm sleeping. My dad's gonna come in.
He's going to give me a kiss. I can go
to bed and go to school. I hear the door.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Shit.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
At the time, we had carpeted stairs. They were still
kind of creaky, but it was harder to hear footsteps.
I waited and I heard very heavy boots coming up
the stairs. The footsteps were so loud It kind of
(04:23):
threw me off because I was like, I don't think
my dad usually sounds like that, you know, when he
comes home. So I waited to see, you know, a
shadow or something from the street light on the wall
for him to come into my room, and then he
just didn't. The footsteps cut off at the end of
the stairs, so I waited probably about five minutes, and
(04:46):
then I got up to go look for him. I
went into my parents' room and it was just my
mom alone in bed. None of the lights were on,
she was asleep, the closet light was off, the bathroom
light was off, there were no other sounds. And then
I downstairs to see if maybe he just went back
down and I didn't hear him, but he wasn't there,
and his car wasn't in the driveway, so he just
(05:08):
wasn't home. And that was the first time in my
house that I was afraid that there was something here.
That happened a couple more times. I don't know what
it was. It never gave me any type of feeling
of strong fear like something was here to hurt me
(05:29):
or my family, Like it was just something that I
guess was coexisting with us. When I was about ten
or so. I remember being up late one night. I
was watching TV when my parents told me that I
should be going to bed. I roll over and I
look up, and in the corner of my room, I
(05:51):
see a very tall woman just standing there. I'm looking
at her, and I'm not immediately scared. When I look
at her, like, she's not looking malicious, She's not giving
off some kind of evil vibe. I guess she looks
like she's staring back at me. And I remember she
(06:12):
was just so tall, but she didn't have on any shoes.
She was wearing this nice, slowy white summer dress, you
could say, because it was airy and it was very pretty,
and it wasn't Victorian era, but it wasn't something that
was super new either. I started to freak out a
little bit, so I closed my eyes and I went
(06:34):
to bed. From that point on, I would occasionally see
her in that same corner of my room. You know,
I would always hear those footsteps, which now I don't
think we're hers. I was just so creeped out by
it that I started to sleep in my brother's old
room after he moved out. The last time I ever
(07:02):
saw her was when I was maybe eleven. I was
in there trying to take a nap. I felt goosebumps
all of a sudden, so I opened my eyes. His
bedroom door was open, and so was mine. So I'm
staring out into the hallway because something is just pulling
(07:23):
my attention there. And then I see her walk down
the hallway, and I remember she was in that same dress,
and her hair was pulled back into a very neat bun,
and she had very bright red lipstick. She stopped right
in front of our two doorways because they're right across
from each other. She slowly turned her head to look
(07:47):
into my room. When she realized I wasn't there, she
slowly turned her head back to face where I was
in my brother's room. I remember just that same like
her staring at me, and I'm staring at her, and
she just has this blank, yet soft expression on her face,
(08:09):
like she's just kind of gazing at me. So I
closed my eyes and I tried to go back to sleep,
and that was the last time I've ever seen her.
My mom would believe me, but she would also tell
me to never try to interact with anything, because I
don't know what I could be bringing into my house,
(08:29):
or you know, in any safe space that.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I have.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
To touch back on the details of my grandmother's house,
I feel that her house is kind of a hot
spot for ghosts. Me and my cousins growing up, when
we would have sleepovers over there, we just were so
afraid to sleep alone in any of the spare bedrooms,
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like we all had to dogpile in the living room
to sleep together, to feel safe, because the intentions of
whatever is lurking in her house are definitely not pleasant.
One night, me and my older cousin were in the
living room and it's two in the morning. It's a
(09:20):
very open space. There's no doorways, but you turn right
from the kitchen into the living room. You can see everything,
you can hear everything. The coffee machine, which we could
see very clearly from where we were laying, just turned
on and it started pouring coffee. And me and my
(09:41):
cousin are confused because no one was there. We hadn't
touched it, no one else had touched it. Everyone else
was in their room sleeping. So I get up and
I turn it off, and he cleans it up behind me.
There's a little closet door at the the very end
of the dining room. I heard it click shut from
(10:06):
behind me, so I turned back around to see, if
you know, maybe one of our other little cousins was
up and we just hadn't realized it. But I go
and I opened the closet and no one is there.
I rushed back to the living room and we sit
down and we turn on the TV because we are
(10:27):
not going back to sleep that night. I was probably
about thirteen and in entering my rebellious phase. So me
and my cousin decided to get a Weiju board. We
were in the other living room, which we call the
(10:48):
big TV Room because that's where the big TV was,
and everyone else was outside because it was a party day.
So we have the weiji board out on the table.
We start asking the basic questions, who are you, what's
your name?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
What do you want?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
And I remember the name being Hillary. When I had
asked the question what do you want, the board stopped moving.
This could have been my cousin messing with me, but
I'm a very strong believer and so was he at
the time. When we asked what do you want, it
(11:27):
just stopped. We got really scared, so we just broke
it up. And threw it away because growing up with
religious family, we were always told never to play with
anything like that, never to bring anything into the house.
I could potentially bring evil into the house. So we
threw it away and we never spoke about it again.
(11:56):
I haven't spent the night over there in years. But
also that's where I have had had interactions with my
late grandfather. We've all had dreams about him. But when
I say we all, I mean me and my parents.
But they've all been so similar that it's just hard
not to believe that it is truly him visiting with us.
(12:20):
My dad has had a few over the years, but
the one that he's told me about that has stuck
with me the most was he was in his hometown
in Massachusetts. He was at some house and he walked
up the sidewalk in the driveway and his father, my grandfather,
was standing there behind an open screen door, and my
(12:41):
dad was trying to talk to him. He said, you know, hey,
how are you What are you doing? And he said
my grandfather was just there staring at him and not
saying anything when he opened his mouth to speak. The
dream ended. Some ones that my mom has had two
days or so before I was born. She had a
(13:03):
dream of him holding me as a newborn, cradling me
in his arms, and he didn't say anything in that
dream either. I believe he was just staring down at
me and holding me, and my mom was watching him
and trying to talk to him, but again, you know,
no words were coming from him. He wasn't saying anything,
he didn't look up. And the two dreams that I
(13:26):
have had of him were standing in this field and
it's just this big, open, grassy field. You know, the
breeze is going and there's just a little bit of
a rainbow in the back. I was young, so I
guess this is just what I had imagined me meeting
him would have been like, because you know, unfortunately I
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was never able to. But he was standing there with me,
and he was holding my hands. We were just kind
of spinning around in circles in the field, and even
though I was dream I remember waking up with just
this complete feeling of like peace. Honestly, probably one of
(14:07):
the best dreams or experiences with the paranormal that I've had.
Me never getting to meet him, he still means so
much to me, and that was just very important to me.
I just truly believe that it is him coming to
(14:28):
see us, check on us. And I haven't had a
dream of him in years and years, no matter how
hard I try to think about him or wish he
would appear to me. So I don't know if he
just comes when he thinks that we need him, but
I do wish he would come more.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Two cousins walking home through a quiet rural night come
face to face with something that was floating and impossibly close.
My name is Edward, and here is William. It's true
scary story.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Name is William. Now I'm here to tell my story
of me and my cousin. I'm now twenty nine years old.
My cousin is thirty years old. Out brought our lives.
We've lived plenty of our normal stories and weird things
that we couldn't explain. It was all small things that
(15:46):
we could just brush off. Me and my cousin Brandon.
We used to live very near to each other and
see each other like every day. We grew up as
brothers or mothers or sisters, so we were with each
(16:06):
other all the time. My mother moved away because she
met somebody, and we moved like an hour an hour
or thirty minutes away from each other, so that was
kind of weird for us to not see each other
every day. In the summer vacations after school, I would
(16:28):
go to his house like for three to two weeks,
and he would come to my house for three to
two weeks. On the city I moved, it was less
of a city place. It was more of a rural
place with fields and forests, which was really nice. We
could play in the woods and everything. My neighborhood was
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actually one they just built, so there was like three
houses not including mine, or four houses, and it was
built on an an old swamp that they just like
transformed into a neighborhood. It was surrounded by a big
soy field and a big forest on the other side,
(17:11):
and the road that leads to the neighborhood. We were
always playing outside. We were always staying super late outside,
like until three or four in the morning, because we
were teenagers and there was nothing all around us to
have dangerous or our parents was okay with that. We
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were walking like we always do in the middle of
the night, speaking to each other and vibing between cousins
all the backyards for the like three to four houses
or the empty plots were connected. There were no fences.
Nobody had built fences yet. At the end of every
(17:57):
yard there was like a little hill that would go
like three the four feet down and it would go
across all of the plots, the plots for cells, and
all the way to my house. So it was like
maybe twenty to thirty five minutes of walk to go
to my house, depending on the things that was laying
around in the grass and everything other left there was
(18:22):
the houses and the blood well houses, one house and
the plots, and on the other side was the soy field.
Behind us was just like green refilleds, so it was
just grass. And on the front, further down there was
my house. Further that there was the forest. It was
(18:44):
like two to three am. It was very very here.
We already we're just speaking to each other, going around everything,
and we know is that there was an ambulance parked
at the house of my neighbor. The lights were flashing,
(19:08):
but no sounds because it was in the middle of
the night and there was nobody to move for traffic.
We walk another five or ten minutes away from the ambulance,
so there was no more lights that we could see
since we were down the hill and as we were speaking,
(19:29):
we both noticed, but we didn't know right now that
we both noticed a white, translucent shape that was just
floating away from us, like maybe seven feet away from us.
We slowed down our speech as we were moving towards
the thing. We just stopped and talked to each other,
(19:53):
me and Brandon, and we were just like, are you
seeing what I'm seeing right now? What's that? We didn't know.
We just looked at the thing and we could see
that shape of it had like a human kind of shape,
like it had arms, it had legs, it had kind
(20:13):
of a head, but it was so you knew that
it was a shape, but a human shape, but you
couldn't like beyond that's the guy, that's my neighbor or whatever.
It was floating above the ground, maybe one feet above
the ground, and we just stared at it. We just
(20:34):
stared at it for what seems to be forever. We
were frozen of fear. We were just looking at this thing.
We noticed that in what serves as its face, I guess,
there was a hole, a black circle, I must say,
a spot, but it was darker than the night in
(20:58):
the forest behind where this thing was. Actually, we were
just kind of looking at it. And the more we
look at the spot or I won't say his eye,
because I don't really know. My breath just starting to
the rays and my heart started to bump blood in
my body, and say I started to have fear. We
(21:21):
also noticed that one of its legs, the right one,
if it was legs, was missing half of it. I
don't know how much time passed right because we were
very scared at this moment, maybe a minute, maybe two,
three minutes maybefore. After this while it started to move
(21:41):
towards us, very slowly, floating its way towards me and
my cousin. We didn't talk to each other. We just
switched sides and ran faster than we could never stopped.
Like we ran like ten minutes straight into the other
side where in hillsbor which was the opposite side of
(22:02):
my house. We then decided to go through the road instead,
which was a gravel road with no lamps and everything.
It was a new neighborhood. When we passed the house
with the ambulance, it was gone, probably it left in
the moment we lived there. We finally reached my house.
(22:26):
We entered my house, and we just went into my
room and we just didn't sleep. We sat with each
others and we just stared at each other for a
whole hour, and we just spoke of like what it was,
what did it wanted? Why did it come towards us.
We still to this day don't know what it was,
(22:46):
and we never saw it again. We talk about it
a lot. Actually, every time that we don't talk to
each other for a week or two, we just come
back and speak about that. Or when everything something spooky,
we just say, do you remember the white floating thing.
(23:08):
There's another story that me and Brendon, my cousin lived
throughout our lives. We were in his home. His mother
was off in a business trip, so it was us
and my uncle, his father. We were playing and we
were talking to each other and we were just like
not fighting, but just like you know, scruffing with a
(23:29):
bunch of boys, just doing that. And one of the
things that my uncle did, it's when we went to
the my cousin's room in the basement. So it's a
two story house, we just went to the basement. My
uncle was very sneaky, so sometimes you would just wait
the time that we want to exit the room because
(23:50):
we were gaining on laptops and everything, and it would
own the door, the knob of the door, and since
it was a stronger man than me and my cousin
couldn't open the door. Right, he was stronger than us.
We were talking to my uncle. We went to the
basement for like an hour, playing a game. When my
(24:12):
cousin tried to exit, it was like, ah, my father's
holding the door. No. I'm like, yeah, all right, I'll
try to help you. And we tried to pry the
door and just opened the knob the knub would it bunch,
So we knew it was him, and we couldn't opened
the door. We were like knocking on the door and saying, hey,
open it. It's not funny anymore. We want to go out, please,
(24:33):
like let us out. And after like I don't know,
twenty to thirty seconds of struggling, we just opened the door.
There was no uncle on the other side of the door.
For him to go back up the stairs this quick
without making a noise. That would be impossible. It was
(24:53):
an old house with graaky stairs, right. That's not the
craziest part. My cousin's phone ring. He just picked up
the phone. It's his father. He's like, hey, sorry, boys,
I'm at the restaurant. You guys want hot dogs with
fries or something, I'm gonna bring it back to you.
(25:17):
So cousin, it's like that, Or you're not at home.
It's like no, no, I've been gone for like an hour.
It was like, okay, you were not in the basement
right now playing the trick at the door. It was like,
what are you talking about. I'm at the door. We
just ran out of the house, just waiting for him
on the yard at the front. They were just like, hey,
(25:37):
the door was big oil that we were it was youth.
It was like, you boys aren't crazy. But the door
was stuck. There was no ghosts, there was nothing, no sounds,
no voices, just the door was locked. And it's a
door that cannot be locked, so it's not like the
lock could have stuck. Right, it's a child bedroom, so
(26:00):
no lock on the door. Nobody in our family just
ear sting at this house or anything like that. But
every time that we're together, maybe we're more sensitive to
this stuff. Maybe we're crazy together, but we're always living
(26:21):
these things together.
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It was floating above the ground, maybe one feet above
the ground. We just stared at it. We just stared
at it for what seems to be forever. We were
frozen of fear. We were just looking at the state.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
A child's bedroom becomes the stage for a silent, unblinking presence.
For months, she lay frozen in the dark, knowing that
she wasn't alone. My name is Edwin and here is Olivia.
It's true scary story.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I was very young. I don't remember exactly how young
I was. I was with my parents in the car
and we were driving somewhere September by earth Wind and
Fire came on the radio. My parents have told me
that I said that that was my late grandfather Jay's
favorite song, and they were confused because he died about
(01:08):
fifteen years before I was even born. They called my grandmother,
his wife, and they were like, hey, was this his
favorite song? Like, was this a song he enjoyed? She said, yeah,
that was actually one of his favorite songs. Shortly before
he passed, when he was still in the hospital. That
(01:28):
was the first ever experience I've had. One day, I
was at my grandma's house and I was probably about
seven or eight at the time, because we just moved
into our own house in Houston. My grandmother has these
landline phones where you know, they're just scattered around the
(01:51):
house and you can pick it up. My grandfather just
popped into my mind, and I said, oh, I'm going
to go talk to him. And my mom looked at
me confused, like, what do you mean You're going to
go talk to him? And I said, I'm going to
call Grandpa Jay. At the time, my family was very religious,
and so you know, we were going to church, praying
(02:12):
a lot of that stuff, just hoping for a good
life in this new place. So I picked up the
phone and I dialed a number, but I don't know
if it went through. I put the phone up to
my ear and I said, Hey, God, may I please
speak to Grandpa Jay. I paused for a second, and
(02:34):
then I just started talking to him like he was there,
you know. I was just talking and talking away, and
I remember my grandmother and my mom staring at me
from the kitchen. I was walking circles around the house
talking to someone that I couldn't hear, and they couldn't hear.
I know it freaked them out a little bit, especially
my mom, because she's also had some experiences throughout her life.
(02:59):
I know when her mother passed away, she would hear,
you know, doors opening and closing, and the very faint
creak of footsteps on stairs. She would get whiffs of
the perfume that she used to wear. So this was
something that kind of touched home with my mom seeing
me have these experiences myself. Shortly after that, though, when
(03:27):
we had just freshly moved into my house, my father
was working about thirty to forty five minutes away from here.
He would get home really late at night, and I
would stay up and wait for him to come in
and give me a good night kiss. There was this
one very memorable night where I was laying in bed.
(03:50):
I heard the door open. So I'm like, okay, I'm
going to pretend like I'm sleeping. My dad's gonna come in.
He's going to give me a kiss. I can go
to bed and go to school. I hear the door.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Shit.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
At the time, we had carpeted stairs. They were still
kind of creaky, but it was harder to hear footsteps.
I waited and I heard very heavy boots coming up
the stairs. The footsteps were so loud It kind of
(04:23):
threw me off because I was like, I don't think
my dad usually sounds like that, you know, when he
comes home. So I waited to see, you know, a
shadow or something from the street light on the wall
for him to come into my room, and then he
just didn't. The footsteps cut off at the end of
the stairs, so I waited probably about five minutes, and
(04:46):
then I got up to go look for him. I
went into my parents' room and it was just my
mom alone in bed. None of the lights were on,
she was asleep, the closet light was off, the bathroom
light was off, there were no other sounds. And then
I downstairs to see if maybe he just went back
down and I didn't hear him, but he wasn't there,
and his car wasn't in the driveway, so he just
(05:08):
wasn't home. And that was the first time in my
house that I was afraid that there was something here.
That happened a couple more times. I don't know what
it was. It never gave me any type of feeling
of strong fear like something was here to hurt me
(05:29):
or my family, Like it was just something that I
guess was coexisting with us. When I was about ten
or so. I remember being up late one night. I
was watching TV when my parents told me that I
should be going to bed. I roll over and I
look up, and in the corner of my room, I
(05:51):
see a very tall woman just standing there. I'm looking
at her, and I'm not immediately scared. When I look
at her, like, she's not looking malicious, She's not giving
off some kind of evil vibe. I guess she looks
like she's staring back at me. And I remember she
(06:12):
was just so tall, but she didn't have on any shoes.
She was wearing this nice, slowy white summer dress, you
could say, because it was airy and it was very pretty,
and it wasn't Victorian era, but it wasn't something that
was super new either. I started to freak out a
little bit, so I closed my eyes and I went
(06:34):
to bed. From that point on, I would occasionally see
her in that same corner of my room. You know,
I would always hear those footsteps, which now I don't
think we're hers. I was just so creeped out by
it that I started to sleep in my brother's old
room after he moved out. The last time I ever
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saw her was when I was maybe eleven. I was
in there trying to take a nap. I felt goosebumps
all of a sudden, so I opened my eyes. His
bedroom door was open, and so was mine. So I'm
staring out into the hallway because something is just pulling
(07:23):
my attention there. And then I see her walk down
the hallway, and I remember she was in that same dress,
and her hair was pulled back into a very neat bun,
and she had very bright red lipstick. She stopped right
in front of our two doorways because they're right across
from each other. She slowly turned her head to look
(07:47):
into my room. When she realized I wasn't there, she
slowly turned her head back to face where I was
in my brother's room. I remember just that same like
her staring at me, and I'm staring at her, and
she just has this blank, yet soft expression on her face,
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like she's just kind of gazing at me. So I
closed my eyes and I tried to go back to sleep,
and that was the last time I've ever seen her.
My mom would believe me, but she would also tell
me to never try to interact with anything, because I
don't know what I could be bringing into my house,
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or you know, in any safe space that.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I have.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
To touch back on the details of my grandmother's house,
I feel that her house is kind of a hot
spot for ghosts. Me and my cousins growing up, when
we would have sleepovers over there, we just were so
afraid to sleep alone in any of the spare bedrooms,
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like we all had to dogpile in the living room
to sleep together, to feel safe, because the intentions of
whatever is lurking in her house are definitely not pleasant.
One night, me and my older cousin were in the
living room and it's two in the morning. It's a
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very open space. There's no doorways, but you turn right
from the kitchen into the living room. You can see everything,
you can hear everything. The coffee machine, which we could
see very clearly from where we were laying, just turned
on and it started pouring coffee. And me and my
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cousin are confused because no one was there. We hadn't
touched it, no one else had touched it. Everyone else
was in their room sleeping. So I get up and
I turn it off, and he cleans it up behind me.
There's a little closet door at the the very end
of the dining room. I heard it click shut from
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behind me, so I turned back around to see, if
you know, maybe one of our other little cousins was
up and we just hadn't realized it. But I go
and I opened the closet and no one is there.
I rushed back to the living room and we sit
down and we turn on the TV because we are
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not going back to sleep that night. I was probably
about thirteen and in entering my rebellious phase. So me
and my cousin decided to get a Weiju board. We
were in the other living room, which we call the
(10:48):
big TV Room because that's where the big TV was,
and everyone else was outside because it was a party day.
So we have the weiji board out on the table.
We start asking the basic questions, who are you, what's
your name?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
What do you want?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
And I remember the name being Hillary. When I had
asked the question what do you want, the board stopped moving.
This could have been my cousin messing with me, but
I'm a very strong believer and so was he at
the time. When we asked what do you want, it
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just stopped. We got really scared, so we just broke
it up. And threw it away because growing up with
religious family, we were always told never to play with
anything like that, never to bring anything into the house.
I could potentially bring evil into the house. So we
threw it away and we never spoke about it again.
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I haven't spent the night over there in years. But
also that's where I have had had interactions with my
late grandfather. We've all had dreams about him. But when
I say we all, I mean me and my parents.
But they've all been so similar that it's just hard
not to believe that it is truly him visiting with us.
(12:20):
My dad has had a few over the years, but
the one that he's told me about that has stuck
with me the most was he was in his hometown
in Massachusetts. He was at some house and he walked
up the sidewalk in the driveway and his father, my grandfather,
was standing there behind an open screen door, and my
(12:41):
dad was trying to talk to him. He said, you know, hey,
how are you What are you doing? And he said
my grandfather was just there staring at him and not
saying anything when he opened his mouth to speak. The
dream ended. Some ones that my mom has had two
days or so before I was born. She had a
(13:03):
dream of him holding me as a newborn, cradling me
in his arms, and he didn't say anything in that
dream either. I believe he was just staring down at
me and holding me, and my mom was watching him
and trying to talk to him, but again, you know,
no words were coming from him. He wasn't saying anything,
he didn't look up. And the two dreams that I
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have had of him were standing in this field and
it's just this big, open, grassy field. You know, the
breeze is going and there's just a little bit of
a rainbow in the back. I was young, so I
guess this is just what I had imagined me meeting
him would have been like, because you know, unfortunately I
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was never able to. But he was standing there with me,
and he was holding my hands. We were just kind
of spinning around in circles in the field, and even
though I was dream I remember waking up with just
this complete feeling of like peace. Honestly, probably one of
(14:07):
the best dreams or experiences with the paranormal that I've had.
Me never getting to meet him, he still means so
much to me, and that was just very important to me.
I just truly believe that it is him coming to
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see us, check on us. And I haven't had a
dream of him in years and years, no matter how
hard I try to think about him or wish he
would appear to me. So I don't know if he
just comes when he thinks that we need him, but
I do wish he would come more.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Two cousins walking home through a quiet rural night come
face to face with something that was floating and impossibly close.
My name is Edward, and here is William. It's true
scary story.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Name is William. Now I'm here to tell my story
of me and my cousin. I'm now twenty nine years old.
My cousin is thirty years old. Out brought our lives.
We've lived plenty of our normal stories and weird things
that we couldn't explain. It was all small things that
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we could just brush off. Me and my cousin Brandon.
We used to live very near to each other and
see each other like every day. We grew up as
brothers or mothers or sisters, so we were with each
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other all the time. My mother moved away because she
met somebody, and we moved like an hour an hour
or thirty minutes away from each other, so that was
kind of weird for us to not see each other
every day. In the summer vacations after school, I would
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go to his house like for three to two weeks,
and he would come to my house for three to
two weeks. On the city I moved, it was less
of a city place. It was more of a rural
place with fields and forests, which was really nice. We
could play in the woods and everything. My neighborhood was
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actually one they just built, so there was like three
houses not including mine, or four houses, and it was
built on an an old swamp that they just like
transformed into a neighborhood. It was surrounded by a big
soy field and a big forest on the other side,
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and the road that leads to the neighborhood. We were
always playing outside. We were always staying super late outside,
like until three or four in the morning, because we
were teenagers and there was nothing all around us to
have dangerous or our parents was okay with that. We
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were walking like we always do in the middle of
the night, speaking to each other and vibing between cousins
all the backyards for the like three to four houses
or the empty plots were connected. There were no fences.
Nobody had built fences yet. At the end of every
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yard there was like a little hill that would go
like three the four feet down and it would go
across all of the plots, the plots for cells, and
all the way to my house. So it was like
maybe twenty to thirty five minutes of walk to go
to my house, depending on the things that was laying
around in the grass and everything other left there was
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the houses and the blood well houses, one house and
the plots, and on the other side was the soy field.
Behind us was just like green refilleds, so it was
just grass. And on the front, further down there was
my house. Further that there was the forest. It was
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like two to three am. It was very very here.
We already we're just speaking to each other, going around everything,
and we know is that there was an ambulance parked
at the house of my neighbor. The lights were flashing,
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but no sounds because it was in the middle of
the night and there was nobody to move for traffic.
We walk another five or ten minutes away from the ambulance,
so there was no more lights that we could see
since we were down the hill and as we were speaking,
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we both noticed, but we didn't know right now that
we both noticed a white, translucent shape that was just
floating away from us, like maybe seven feet away from us.
We slowed down our speech as we were moving towards
the thing. We just stopped and talked to each other,
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me and Brandon, and we were just like, are you
seeing what I'm seeing right now? What's that? We didn't know.
We just looked at the thing and we could see
that shape of it had like a human kind of shape,
like it had arms, it had legs, it had kind
(20:13):
of a head, but it was so you knew that
it was a shape, but a human shape, but you
couldn't like beyond that's the guy, that's my neighbor or whatever.
It was floating above the ground, maybe one feet above
the ground, and we just stared at it. We just
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stared at it for what seems to be forever. We
were frozen of fear. We were just looking at this thing.
We noticed that in what serves as its face, I guess,
there was a hole, a black circle, I must say,
a spot, but it was darker than the night in
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the forest behind where this thing was. Actually, we were
just kind of looking at it. And the more we
look at the spot or I won't say his eye,
because I don't really know. My breath just starting to
the rays and my heart started to bump blood in
my body, and say I started to have fear. We
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also noticed that one of its legs, the right one,
if it was legs, was missing half of it. I
don't know how much time passed right because we were
very scared at this moment, maybe a minute, maybe two,
three minutes maybefore. After this while it started to move
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towards us, very slowly, floating its way towards me and
my cousin. We didn't talk to each other. We just
switched sides and ran faster than we could never stopped.
Like we ran like ten minutes straight into the other
side where in hillsbor which was the opposite side of
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my house. We then decided to go through the road instead,
which was a gravel road with no lamps and everything.
It was a new neighborhood. When we passed the house
with the ambulance, it was gone, probably it left in
the moment we lived there. We finally reached my house.
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We entered my house, and we just went into my
room and we just didn't sleep. We sat with each
others and we just stared at each other for a
whole hour, and we just spoke of like what it was,
what did it wanted? Why did it come towards us.
We still to this day don't know what it was,
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and we never saw it again. We talk about it
a lot. Actually, every time that we don't talk to
each other for a week or two, we just come
back and speak about that. Or when everything something spooky,
we just say, do you remember the white floating thing.
(23:08):
There's another story that me and Brendon, my cousin lived
throughout our lives. We were in his home. His mother
was off in a business trip, so it was us
and my uncle, his father. We were playing and we
were talking to each other and we were just like
not fighting, but just like you know, scruffing with a
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bunch of boys, just doing that. And one of the
things that my uncle did, it's when we went to
the my cousin's room in the basement. So it's a
two story house, we just went to the basement. My
uncle was very sneaky, so sometimes you would just wait
the time that we want to exit the room because
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we were gaining on laptops and everything, and it would
own the door, the knob of the door, and since
it was a stronger man than me and my cousin
couldn't open the door. Right, he was stronger than us.
We were talking to my uncle. We went to the
basement for like an hour, playing a game. When my
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cousin tried to exit, it was like, ah, my father's
holding the door. No. I'm like, yeah, all right, I'll
try to help you. And we tried to pry the
door and just opened the knob the knub would it bunch,
So we knew it was him, and we couldn't opened
the door. We were like knocking on the door and saying, hey,
open it. It's not funny anymore. We want to go out, please,
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like let us out. And after like I don't know,
twenty to thirty seconds of struggling, we just opened the door.
There was no uncle on the other side of the door.
For him to go back up the stairs this quick
without making a noise. That would be impossible. It was
(24:53):
an old house with graaky stairs, right. That's not the
craziest part. My cousin's phone ring. He just picked up
the phone. It's his father. He's like, hey, sorry, boys,
I'm at the restaurant. You guys want hot dogs with
fries or something, I'm gonna bring it back to you.
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So cousin, it's like that, Or you're not at home.
It's like no, no, I've been gone for like an hour.
It was like, okay, you were not in the basement
right now playing the trick at the door. It was like,
what are you talking about. I'm at the door. We
just ran out of the house, just waiting for him
on the yard at the front. They were just like, hey,
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the door was big oil that we were it was youth.
It was like, you boys aren't crazy. But the door
was stuck. There was no ghosts, there was nothing, no sounds,
no voices, just the door was locked. And it's a
door that cannot be locked, so it's not like the
lock could have stuck. Right, it's a child bedroom, so
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no lock on the door. Nobody in our family just
ear sting at this house or anything like that. But
every time that we're together, maybe we're more sensitive to
this stuff. Maybe we're crazy together, but we're always living
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these things together.
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