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When you think of a creepy setting, a place where dark stories take place,

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what comes to mind. Today's story
takes place in a convent, an

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area with walls that were hundreds of
years old, and now we get to

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hear about the experience of someone who
got to stay there and experience the entities

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that seem to roam around freely.
My name is Edwin and here is Martinez

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true scary story. I was born
and raised in Croatia. I spent twenty

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five years there before I decided to
pursue my dreams in Ireland. When I

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was little five or six years old, I was watching the show on the

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Telly and I was like, oh
my god, this is so beautiful.

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One day I'm going to be here
to live in this beautiful country. Eight

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years and two months approximately, I'm
living in Ireland. I manifested pretty well.

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I moved into an old convent and
an orphanage dating back from eighteen oh

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seven. The complex consisted of the
three big buildings, with the church attached

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to a kitchen and the living room. The original rooms were slightly renovated but

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became a hostel slash student accommodation.
It's really hard to find a decent apartment

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or house to rent. That was
really grateful to have a place to stay.

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The convent had around thirty rooms.
Some of them were single bedrooms,

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some were double bedrooms. We had
two kitchens, one living room, a

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billiard piano room, and couple of
bedrooms. It was a decent site for

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all of the residents. People were
staying there from all around the world.

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I was lucky enough to get a
small, private, single bedroom in the

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convent. My bedroom was a small
rectangular shape room, perfect for one person.

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As you would enter the room,
you had the sink on your left

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hand side, and on the right
hand side there was a single bed.

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Right beside the sink was a wardrobe
that was attached desk for like a study

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or whatever. At the bottom of
the room was a window. The doors

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and the window faced to each other. After one month into my stay,

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I got a job as a waitress
in an old pub and a restaurant in

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the city center. This pub was
built back in eighteen eighty six. It

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used to be a morgue in the
basement where we kept beer barrels, spirit

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bottles and cleaning stuff, extra chairs. This pub was known to be hunted.

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I never experienced anything paranormal. In
the basement, you could feel very

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heavy air. It was very uneasy
and a subtle to be there. I

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was avoiding going downstairs unless it was
necessary. Other stuff experienced, empty glasses

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dropping from the shelves, stuff moving
around. Light was flickering. I never

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seen anything. I was always wondering
was it something that followed me home.

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My first encounter in the corn with
was six months into my stay. I

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was walking down the hallway. The
hallways was really dark and the light was

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dimmed. I was always afraid to
walk through that hallway. I always tended

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to run as fast as I can
to the kitchen. One evening, I

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was heading to the kitchen. I
was on my phone, messaging my friend

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if she is around so we can
have a dinner together. The moment I

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lift my head from the screen,
I've seen a dark shadow at the end

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of the hallway leading to the kitchen. The figure was looking just like my

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friend. My friend was a peteeth
girl. She was five point one and

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had dark, curly hair, and
the shadow was looking exactly like her.

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I thought, here is my friend. She's just trying to scare me.

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She must have seen my message and
trying to scare me in the kitchen.

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I sneak to the kitchen, opened
the door, trying to scare her.

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She wasn't there. It was a
pitch black kitchen. No one was around.

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I rang her phone and I was
like, are you around? No,

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I'm not home. I left two
hours ago. I didn't know what

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to do. I run straight through
the hallway into my bedroom and locked the

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doors. A couple of months after, I was sleeping in my room,

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face the wall. In the middle
of the night. I heard noises talking

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behind my back, the murmuring sound
in the language which I couldn't understand.

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As I turned myself towards my sink, I saw a tall black figure standing

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beside my bed, looking directly at
my direction, with the glowing blue eyes,

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murmuring sounds. I turned back,
I said, what do you want

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from me? The figure just disappeared, like a puff in the air.

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Gone. I turned back to sleep. Maybe I was just training. But

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in the morning I woke up.
As I stand up, and I've seen

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some sort of black shadowy thingy on
the floor. I can't think now what

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would be like, but like an
eyeshadow, the black glowing thing. I

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was so scared. I remembered the
dream or whatever that was. I went

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to the closest church, which was
just across the convent. I got myself

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a little bit of holy water and
I reached the entire floor. If I

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just do that, say some prayers
and chanting, this is going to disappear.

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After that encounter, it didn't happen
for about a year later. I

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met a guy we started dating.
His third or fourth visit that he came

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into the convent to mine. We
just fell asleep around midnight. Not long

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after we fall asleep, something like
a footstep sound woke me up. Something

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was pacing around the bed, up
and down, up and down. I

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sat on the bed. I was
looking towards the window. It was a

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pitch black in the rooms. I
didn't see anything. As I sat on

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the bed, the footsteps immediately stopped. I was like, okay, maybe

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it's just it could be a raft
or something. I lay back and tried

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to sleep. Minutes gone by,
I heard the steps again. I sat

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on my bed again. The steps
stopped. I shake my partner hand.

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I was like, can you can
you hear that noise? And I keep

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hearing someone is walking around the bed. He says, yes, I can

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hear the sounds, but I'm just
pretending that I don't because I'm very scared.

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At the moment, I was like, oh my god, can you

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just open the light to see what's
going on. The moment the light shines

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the bedroom, my hanging clothes rack
beside my window fell on the floor like

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something grabbed it pull it down with
the force. This rack was screwed in

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the wall with the screwer. It
was hanging on the hook. We saw

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that rack felling down like I didn't
see anything. He didn't see anything,

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but you could feel that something grabbed. I was keep trying that close every

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single day. I was there for
like two years. In that comment,

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I was using that clothing rack every
single day. I've never seen that force

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that could actually fell on the ground. Something grabbed it and pull it with

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the force. That's how it looks
like. I start screaming, what is

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going on? I was crying hysterically. You could see on his face he

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was really really scared as well.
But we just went back to bed.

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I didn't know what to do.
It was the middle of the night.

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I look up my phone. It
was one thirty in the morning. I

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was staying on my phone the rest
of the night, searching for available rooms

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to rent, and just keep praying
for that thing to leave the room.

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We couldn't fall back to sleep that
night. Morning came and we bolted around

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seven am to grab a coffee.
I stayed in my partner apartment for about

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three four days before I got the
courage to come back to that room.

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So I did eventually move to another
free room with another friend of mine,

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about six months before I move out
completely of the convent and find a proper

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apartment for myself. Everything stopped right
after about six months after I moved to

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another apartment, and luckily I never
had any experiences like this anymore. I

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never mentioned this to the landlord or
the manager of that convent, or even

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the guards. I mentioned this to
my friends. They thought that I'm just

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going crazy. They didn't believe me. I never say this story to anyone

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in particular. All that happening was
from twenty fifteen to two thousand and seventeen.

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I moved in Ireland in two thousand
and fifteen. Twenty seventeen, I

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moved out. Today. There is
no more convent, it's the residents buildings.

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They built up in that area where
the convent was. I would love

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to see a person and would love
to hear the stories if anyone has experienced

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anything. I'm pretty sure they did, because you could feel the air.

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You could feel the heaviness of the
air going around those hallways, and it

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was just maybe the old walls.
The walls were really ticked. There was

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two hundred years old buildings. If
the wolves could talk, that's all I

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can say. I do hope I
will never find out if that was something

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that followed me from the pub where
I used to work, or maybe was

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just an norphan child who was just
having fun with me. I hope I

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will never find out. To share
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I N c O V. If you

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like these stories, tell a friend. But anyway, thank you very much

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