1 00:00:10,439 --> 00:00:15,080 When you hear noises around the house, you might go for the logical explanation, 2 00:00:16,359 --> 00:00:19,679 But what do you do when those sounds appear to be taunting you? 3 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:28,160 But when the sounds become more than that? As in full manifestations. My 4 00:00:28,239 --> 00:00:43,920 name is Edwin and here is Anna through scary story. I think that it's 5 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:48,640 important to start at the very beginning, and that starts before I was born. 6 00:00:49,719 --> 00:00:56,000 This took place when my parents had their first child, which is my 7 00:00:56,079 --> 00:01:00,960 older sister. At the time, they were living with my grandma. My 8 00:01:02,039 --> 00:01:07,200 older sister was a baby. My parents lived with my grandma. They were 9 00:01:07,239 --> 00:01:12,079 set up in the house. In the bedroom. Their bed was next to 10 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:18,799 the wall, and my dad slept next to the wall and my mom slept 11 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:23,000 on the other side so that she could be closest to the crib. One 12 00:01:23,079 --> 00:01:29,640 night, they were getting ready for bed, my dad went over to the 13 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:34,680 window at the end of the room that faced down to the street below. 14 00:01:34,439 --> 00:01:40,879 He went over to shut the window. He got this feeling something's wrong and 15 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:45,799 he should check. He didn't see anything that would cause immediate danger. He's 16 00:01:45,799 --> 00:01:49,920 thinking, there's nothing there. I'm just going to dismiss this feeling. He 17 00:01:49,959 --> 00:01:57,040 shuts the window and they go to bed. Later in the night, my 18 00:01:57,159 --> 00:02:02,319 mom is having a nightmare where she's getting ready to go to bed, and 19 00:02:02,959 --> 00:02:07,240 she goes to sit down on the bed put her hands down to climb into 20 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:13,240 bed. As she does that, she realizes that there's someone beneath her. 21 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:17,199 Beneath where she's putting her hands. She turns around and she sees that it's 22 00:02:17,199 --> 00:02:23,000 the man. She goes to scream, but the man covers her mouth. 23 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:28,800 She's still trying to scream and trying to fight him. He moves himself from 24 00:02:28,879 --> 00:02:31,759 underneath her and climbs on top of her and is holding her mouth down and 25 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:37,960 holding her down. She's feeling this pressure on her chest while she's having the 26 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:44,280 stream. In reality, she was actually screaming. As soon as she starts 27 00:02:44,319 --> 00:02:50,879 screaming, the baby starts screaming too. I guess it scared her. My 28 00:02:51,039 --> 00:02:55,759 dad jumps over my mom and grabs the baby. When he does this, 29 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:04,000 he wasn't fully awake or even awake at all. My mom screaming, Dad 30 00:03:04,159 --> 00:03:09,159 is holding the baby and nothing's happening. They're in the dark until my grandma 31 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:14,199 runs into the room and turns the light on. As soon as she turned 32 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:17,120 the light on. It was as if they woke up. My mom stopped 33 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:22,800 screaming, opened her eyes, my dad opened his eyes, and that's when 34 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:27,319 they were really woken up. And as they were calming down, they noticed 35 00:03:27,479 --> 00:03:34,000 that the baby had a scratch on her forehead, my dad had scratches on 36 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:40,680 his cheek, and my mom had scratches across her mouth from one cheek straight 37 00:03:40,719 --> 00:03:47,000 to another. This is very alarming because it's not like they were all scratching 38 00:03:47,039 --> 00:03:53,919 themselves in their sleep. They were terrified. They were just afraid to really 39 00:03:53,159 --> 00:03:58,800 go to bed for many nights after and they would sleep with the lights on. 40 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:06,360 Very shortly after that, my grandma got sick, and she was sick 41 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:12,800 for a very long time. There was really no explanation for it other than 42 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:17,199 maybe she just was sick from the impact of the fear, or perhaps there 43 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:23,160 was something so malicious that caused it. In a way, that story is 44 00:04:23,199 --> 00:04:28,920 important to tell because two things. It was the feeling that my dad got 45 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:32,319 before they went to bed for the night, when he was at the window 46 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:36,399 and felt that there was something wrong. He had this feeling of dread, 47 00:04:38,319 --> 00:04:46,399 and because my mom had felt that pressure on her chest. Fast forward five 48 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:54,000 years, I was born. My older sister was about five at the time. 49 00:04:54,079 --> 00:04:58,879 We're in a new house. I'm about three years old, and this 50 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:05,560 took place in Chino Hills, California. We lived in a small mobile home 51 00:05:05,639 --> 00:05:10,399 park, but the houses are small. It's like a little community there. 52 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:15,759 I remember that around this time, when I was three almost four years old, 53 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:24,759 I would see shadows around the house. But I never got a dreadful 54 00:05:24,759 --> 00:05:29,959 feeling from it. I was never scared. I felt almost comforted when I 55 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,600 would see these shadows. And it wouldn't be like lingering shadows. I was 56 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,399 sitting somewhere and all of a sudden, I'd see a shadow zoom by. 57 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:41,839 It was very evident that it was something that was there. It wasn't just 58 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,319 my imagination or my eyes playing tricks on me. It wasn't like my older 59 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:49,439 sister. This happened a lot when I was alone. If I was alone 60 00:05:49,519 --> 00:05:55,319 in the bedroom or in the bathroom, I would see these shadows. I 61 00:05:55,399 --> 00:06:00,720 remember even thinking to myself, maybe it's my grandpa on my dad's side that 62 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:05,279 passed away before I was born. I used to think, maybe he's looking 63 00:06:05,319 --> 00:06:12,120 over me, and he's protecting me. It was just this sensation that I 64 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:16,160 got this feeling that it was nice. I was never scared. But what 65 00:06:16,199 --> 00:06:21,720 I didn't know was that at the time, my mom had actually suffered a 66 00:06:21,759 --> 00:06:27,920 miscarriage. This is why I know that I was about three years old at 67 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:31,160 the time, almost four, because this is when she lost the baby. 68 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:35,519 I don't remember if it was before or after the miscarriage that I was seeing 69 00:06:35,519 --> 00:06:43,560 the shadows. I know that before the miscarriage, my parents were also seeing 70 00:06:43,639 --> 00:06:53,399 shadows. They started seeing shadows and feeling just that something was off before my 71 00:06:53,439 --> 00:06:58,839 mom lost the baby. They also had strange experiences where one time, my 72 00:06:59,079 --> 00:07:02,519 mom, my older sister, and I were in the kitchen. We hear 73 00:07:03,519 --> 00:07:10,439 just a jumble of noise in the bathroom. We walk over to the bathroom. 74 00:07:10,959 --> 00:07:14,120 All the cabinet doors in the bathroom and all the drawers were open. 75 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,720 I don't know what my parents thought at the time. I don't remember thinking 76 00:07:17,759 --> 00:07:26,240 anything, but it was little things like that that started happening before the miscarriage. 77 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:32,839 My mom started feeling like there was someone walking next to her. With 78 00:07:33,879 --> 00:07:39,560 a lot of these experiences, and when people experience something paranormal, is that 79 00:07:40,879 --> 00:07:44,000 a lot of the times you can't explain it. You can't explain how you 80 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:51,759 know something or how something specifically feels. But she always said it felt like 81 00:07:51,839 --> 00:07:57,279 there was a child walking next to her. That was happening before the miscarriage, 82 00:07:57,319 --> 00:08:05,959 and unfortunately she did lose the baby. But it was just strange and 83 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:13,000 almost a warning sign no for them, because they were seeing these shadows and 84 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:18,680 having weird experiences before that happened. They say that when things like that happen, 85 00:08:18,279 --> 00:08:22,600 it's a warning sign, right, that something's about to happen. This 86 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:30,079 all happened in that house in China Hills, but it was almost as if 87 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:37,399 that whole house or that area the land was kind of tainted in some way. 88 00:08:37,279 --> 00:08:46,440 I remember too that my older sister and I would hear children playing or 89 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:54,200 laughing out in the living room. It was always something different, and it 90 00:08:54,279 --> 00:09:01,000 happened on several occasions. We would hear that someone was out in the living 91 00:09:01,039 --> 00:09:07,360 room and sometimes that was children laughing, or we would hear my mom's decorative 92 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:15,799 bells that she kept on the little dining room table. We would hear them 93 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:22,440 ringing in the night. It was just very strange because we could never make 94 00:09:22,519 --> 00:09:28,039 sense of why that was happening. We would go out there expecting to see 95 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:31,840 someone or find something, and it was always just a dark living room or 96 00:09:31,879 --> 00:09:37,440 a dark dining room. It was frustrating and confusing. Is when you're a 97 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:43,559 child, if you hear something, you expect to see something making that sound, 98 00:09:43,639 --> 00:09:50,080 and we never saw anything. The scariest one of fall during that time 99 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:58,559 was what I always described as the Witch. I'm not sure why exactly I 100 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:03,759 described it as the witch, but it was a laugh a woman laughing, 101 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:09,720 and it sounded or it felt feevil malicious. I would get scared because when 102 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:15,799 I would hear the children laughing or playing. I don't know that I got 103 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:20,080 scared. I was more confused. But when I would hear the witch, 104 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:26,639 that's when I wouldn't want to go out and check the living room. That 105 00:10:26,799 --> 00:10:33,960 house always was full of these weird experiences. It's hard to explain, but 106 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:39,600 sometimes we would be woken up. As I think back on it now, 107 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:48,080 perhaps the noises, the sounds of the children laughing, weren't that loud that 108 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:56,000 we would hear them. It was more of a when you hear your phone 109 00:10:56,240 --> 00:11:00,960 buzzing when you're dead asleep and you hear your phone buzzing and you're not sure 110 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:05,919 if it's a dream or actually your phone. So you start hearing something and 111 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:11,639 all of a sudden you're awake. I think the sound of the children laughing, 112 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:18,200 or when we would hear the witch or the bells, I think it 113 00:11:18,399 --> 00:11:24,159 was directed at my sister, and I was meant for only us to hear. 114 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:30,679 I never heard my parents get up to check on anything. I never 115 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:35,879 saw them get up to check on anything, and they never ever mentioned hearing 116 00:11:35,919 --> 00:11:39,559 those sounds that we would hear. It was almost as if we were just 117 00:11:39,759 --> 00:11:46,480 woken up on purpose and we started hearing the children laughing or the witch. 118 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:54,080 We always thought that it was someone breaking in or something, because even as 119 00:11:54,120 --> 00:12:01,080 a young kid, sometimes you go towards a more logical thing. You expect 120 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:07,240 to see something. If you're hearing a noise, we would always say, 121 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:13,120 okay, there must be someone in the house, and we would grab a 122 00:12:13,159 --> 00:12:18,080 hair brush or whatever it may be and go out to check. We thought 123 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:22,639 that we were going to encounter someone, and we just thought, okay, 124 00:12:22,639 --> 00:12:24,960 we're doing this. I don't know why we didn't think to wake my parents 125 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:31,799 up, because they were just in the next room. We never found anything. 126 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:37,480 You get more of a sensation of what is there. You don't have 127 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:43,320 to see it with your eyes to feel the presence of children or to feel 128 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:50,600 the presence of something malicious. Was it was someone that did not have good 129 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:56,759 intent. She felt like someone that's putting you down and making fun of you 130 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:03,200 and laughing about it. That's what it felt like, like she was tricking 131 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:13,679 us and messing around with us. During this time that we were hearing children 132 00:13:13,759 --> 00:13:22,080 in our house, my neighbors had an experience. One night, my parents 133 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:26,600 were getting ready to go to bed. They're doing their bedtime routine, and 134 00:13:26,799 --> 00:13:31,200 they go out into the kitchen. They go move from their bedroom, which 135 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:35,960 is at the end of the house, walk down this hallway and towards the 136 00:13:37,039 --> 00:13:41,879 left side of the house there's the kitchen and the entryway. They go and 137 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:48,519 turn the lights off, lock the door. As they're walking back down that 138 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:52,759 same hallway, they get a chill. They think it's weird, but they 139 00:13:52,799 --> 00:13:58,559 dismiss it. They go to bed. Later that night, my mom started 140 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:05,320 screaming in her sleep because she started feeling this pressure on her chest, the 141 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:13,200 same pressure that she felt many years ago when they were woken up with scratches 142 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:18,120 on their faces. You know. My dad wakes her up and they talk 143 00:14:18,159 --> 00:14:22,200 about it. They're calming down, they're getting ready to fall asleep again. 144 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:26,879 They start seeing lights coming through their window, like flashlights. So they look 145 00:14:26,879 --> 00:14:35,240 out the window and they see that there are policemen searching in my parents' cars 146 00:14:35,279 --> 00:14:39,279 and underneath the car around our house. They're really worried. They don't know 147 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:43,759 what's going on. They see that my neighbor's out there too. They walk 148 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:48,240 out and they start asking, like, what's going on, what's happening. 149 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:56,720 My neighbor starts telling them that he had heard noises in his living room. 150 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:03,039 He went out to to see what was going on, and he saw that 151 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:05,200 there were children in his living room. The big group of children in his 152 00:15:05,279 --> 00:15:11,639 living room. They're like climbing on the couches. One of them is scratching 153 00:15:11,919 --> 00:15:16,440 at a family picture that he has on a mantle. The kid is just 154 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:22,440 scratching at it. He starts shouting at them, and he runs back to 155 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:26,080 his bedroom to grab a bat and bangs on his brother in law's door. 156 00:15:28,399 --> 00:15:31,600 He says, there are some kids in the house, help me get them 157 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:35,559 out. They start running back, but as they're running back, they see 158 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:41,320 that the kids are running out of the house. They go out to chase 159 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:45,879 the kids, but all of a sudden they're gone. They're not on the 160 00:15:45,919 --> 00:15:50,200 street. They don't see them anywhere. You can't just run from one house 161 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:56,879 to another without being seen. These weren't big houses, so it's not like 162 00:15:56,919 --> 00:16:00,519 it would take them ages to run through a house where then all of a 163 00:16:00,559 --> 00:16:03,559 sudden you wouldn't see the kids on the street. That just doesn't make sense. 164 00:16:07,559 --> 00:16:12,440 The kids have disappeared. They called the police and they told them there 165 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:15,679 were some kids in my living room. I don't know where they went. 166 00:16:17,879 --> 00:16:21,279 I don't know what to do. The police comes over and that's when they 167 00:16:21,279 --> 00:16:25,440 started looking for the kids, and that's when my parents saw the lights coming 168 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:29,279 through their windows. They checked the entire area, couldn't find any kids. 169 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:33,360 At the time, we lived in a mobile home park. Everyone knew everyone 170 00:16:33,679 --> 00:16:38,639 in that community. Mobile home parks are closed off, they have small streets 171 00:16:40,159 --> 00:16:45,960 within them. We knew all the kids in that neighborhood. If there were 172 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:49,639 children in his neighborhood, he would have known who it was. Chino Hills 173 00:16:49,639 --> 00:16:55,720 at the time was an area that was not fully developed. A lot of 174 00:16:55,720 --> 00:17:00,000 it was still farm land. But it's not like some children from another neighborhood 175 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:07,559 or the next town over just came by to break into people's houses. These 176 00:17:07,559 --> 00:17:11,680 were small children. It wasn't like a group of teenagers. It didn't make 177 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:15,839 sense. But the police ended up leaving. They couldn't do anything about it, 178 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:21,839 so they left. My neighbor's wife at the time worked at a gas 179 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:29,519 station a graveyard shift, and she came home while they were still outside talking 180 00:17:29,559 --> 00:17:33,799 about the incident, and she's asking what happened because they're out there in the 181 00:17:33,839 --> 00:17:40,279 middle of the night. They started telling her that there were these kids that 182 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:45,279 were in the house and that were causing chaos in the living room. As 183 00:17:45,279 --> 00:17:51,680 they're telling her about this, she tells them, I saw some kids running 184 00:17:52,039 --> 00:17:56,559 from one house to another a few streets over. She was like, there's 185 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:02,000 some now, there's some now. She starts pointing behind her husband and her 186 00:18:02,039 --> 00:18:07,359 brother. They saw a group of kids running into an abandoned house. It 187 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:17,119 was just strange that they had a strange experience the same night that my parents 188 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:21,960 had that weird sensation, that dreadful feeling, and that my mom again woke 189 00:18:22,039 --> 00:18:26,279 up screaming with that pressure on her chest. It was almost as if something 190 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:33,079 moved from our house over to their house. It's interesting that it was children, 191 00:18:33,279 --> 00:18:38,400 because my sister and I always heard the sound of children playing or children 192 00:18:38,599 --> 00:18:47,240 laughing in our living room. I don't know the history of that place, 193 00:18:47,839 --> 00:18:55,880 but it's just very odd that both of us, both these families had these 194 00:18:55,920 --> 00:19:06,759 experiences with children. The occurrences around the house do not end there present. 195 00:19:06,839 --> 00:19:10,880 It's about to make it self known and lead to a discovery within their own 196 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:15,119 family. The rest of Anna's story is coming up right after this. Stay 197 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:22,720 with us. This episode is brought to you by Betterhelp. When I'm not 198 00:19:22,799 --> 00:19:26,000 doing podcast stuff, I do regular people things, reading, scrolling on my 199 00:19:26,079 --> 00:19:30,920 phone, and listening to music. 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The backyard was outlined by a fence, a metal fence 232 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:15,559 that you can see through. It wasn't like a big brick wall or a 233 00:22:15,559 --> 00:22:18,759 big picket fence. It was a metal fence that I could see through. 234 00:22:19,599 --> 00:22:27,039 We're outside playing and my older sister is holding onto my shirt as I ride 235 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:33,400 my bike. She's on roller skates and I'm riding a bike and She's holding 236 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:37,440 onto my shirt, so I'm pulling her right and I'm getting really mad. 237 00:22:37,519 --> 00:22:42,519 I'm getting really annoyed. I start shouting in Spanish. Done done, Tell 238 00:22:42,599 --> 00:22:48,160 Norma to leave me alone. Tell Norman to get off. I'm shouting at 239 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:53,359 him in the backyard because I see that there's a man standing there. It 240 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:59,079 was the weirdest thing because I kept going around in circles on the street and 241 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:03,720 I kept shouting at I was growing more and more frustrated because I was like, 242 00:23:03,039 --> 00:23:08,160 why isn't my dad doing anything. He's listening to me screaming at him 243 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:12,799 and at my sister, and he's just standing there. I didn't really think 244 00:23:12,799 --> 00:23:18,519 about it in that moment, but years on I looked back and I was 245 00:23:18,559 --> 00:23:22,839 like, I didn't even see his face. Really, it wasn't I didn't 246 00:23:22,839 --> 00:23:30,559 see any distinguishable features on that man. It was just black. It was 247 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:37,759 almost a dark, outlined shadow of a man that was just standing in the 248 00:23:37,799 --> 00:23:42,440 backyard. The weirdest part was not only that he wasn't listening to me and 249 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:47,759 he was ignoring me, It was that he wasn't moving. He was just 250 00:23:47,799 --> 00:23:53,480 in this pose. It looked like he was maybe holding something or getting ready 251 00:23:53,559 --> 00:24:00,359 to grab something. His right arm was in an l position, his forearm 252 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:04,519 was parallel to the ground almost and I just saw him standing there and he 253 00:24:04,559 --> 00:24:10,759 wasn't moving, wasn't saying anything. I was growing more and more frustrated. 254 00:24:11,599 --> 00:24:15,559 On the last loop that I made around the street, I'm still shouting at 255 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:19,119 him. I'm seeing that shadow or that person standing in the backyard. And 256 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:25,240 at that moment, my dad opened the front door of the house. He 257 00:24:25,279 --> 00:24:26,680 comes out and he's like, what, like, what's going on? My 258 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:33,200 mouth dropped. I got so scared because I thought, if you're there, 259 00:24:33,519 --> 00:24:37,640 then who's over there. I jumped off my bike, dropped it, and 260 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:41,000 I ran and said it and I told him like, there's someone in the 261 00:24:41,039 --> 00:24:45,279 backyard. There's someone in the backyard. They ran out and looked, didn't 262 00:24:45,319 --> 00:24:51,519 find anyone. They called the police to check because they thought someone was stealing 263 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:56,119 things. The police didn't find any evidence of anything being moved around. My 264 00:24:56,200 --> 00:25:00,200 parents checked the backyard because my dad had a tool shit back there, and 265 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:06,319 they checked all of that and nothing seemed to be missing or nothing was moved 266 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:11,240 or misplaced. If someone were back there, that's it's very probable that they 267 00:25:11,279 --> 00:25:15,079 would go to steal something. Or maybe try to find a way to break 268 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:22,599 in. I don't know, something a bit more logical other than just standing 269 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:26,319 there watching us. I think that's the other thing too. I couldn't see 270 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:32,559 I couldn't see anything on that man's face. I can't see any features. 271 00:25:32,839 --> 00:25:37,359 But I knew that he was looking at us. I knew that it wasn't 272 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,559 his back turned to us. I knew that he was facing us. I 273 00:25:40,599 --> 00:25:42,680 knew that it was a man. I don't know how I knew. It 274 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:48,039 was really scary to me because, as I had said before, like I 275 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:52,039 was going round and random circles on the street, like shouting at him. 276 00:25:52,079 --> 00:25:56,400 It felt like I had been shouting at him for five minutes. Maybe. 277 00:25:56,680 --> 00:26:02,160 For someone to be standing out there for that long not moving definitely felt off 278 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:07,000 to me, even as a child. That's not normal. It is absolutely 279 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:14,079 possible that it could have been an actual human man that was standing out there, 280 00:26:15,039 --> 00:26:18,839 but it doesn't seem probable, just because of the area that we were 281 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:29,680 in. Around that same time that we were having these experiences, my older 282 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:34,599 sister had an experience. I was about six years old at the time, 283 00:26:36,279 --> 00:26:40,240 my younger sister was about a year old. We only lived in a two 284 00:26:40,279 --> 00:26:45,920 bedroom house. My parents slept in one bedroom, and my older sister, 285 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:51,440 my younger sister, and I slept in the other bedroom. We shared a 286 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:59,160 big bed, a big queen's size bed. On this particular night, my 287 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:06,119 dad was putting us to bed, and he got the same sensation that he 288 00:27:06,279 --> 00:27:11,880 felt the very first time that they had an experience when my older sister was 289 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:18,960 a baby. He was shutting our bathroom door and he got that feeling of 290 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:26,279 dread and looming danger. He told himself, there's nothing here. I'm seeing 291 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:32,839 everything that's here and I don't see any present danger. He just dismissed it, 292 00:27:33,599 --> 00:27:36,759 just brushed it off, put us to bed, went to bed. 293 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:45,519 Later that night, my parents woke up because they heard my older sister crying. 294 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:52,519 They walk into the room and asked what's going on. She says, 295 00:27:53,039 --> 00:27:59,759 someone was bothering. Someone was bothering our little sister. They're not letting her. 296 00:28:00,319 --> 00:28:04,720 My parents are immediately scared. They think that someone's in the house. 297 00:28:06,519 --> 00:28:11,680 They start checking our closet, our bathroom, start looking around, and there's 298 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:15,240 no one there. Our little sisters slept in between my older sister and I. 299 00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:22,279 She was tossing and turning. She was whimpering in her sleep, and 300 00:28:22,559 --> 00:28:26,720 she wasn't able to really have a RESTful sleep. My older sister wakes up. 301 00:28:29,039 --> 00:28:34,119 She never saw anyone, but she felt that there was a man bothering 302 00:28:34,279 --> 00:28:41,559 our little sister. She put the covers over her head, and she was 303 00:28:41,599 --> 00:28:48,279 super scared, and all of a sudden, she senses that man is walking 304 00:28:48,359 --> 00:28:56,079 over from my side of the bed over to her side of the bed, 305 00:28:56,240 --> 00:29:00,920 and again my sister was in the middle in between us. She heard when 306 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:06,039 the man stepped on the grate that was on the floor for the air conditioning 307 00:29:06,039 --> 00:29:11,160 and the heating. She heard him step on it. When he got to 308 00:29:11,319 --> 00:29:15,680 her side of the bed, she felt a cold gust of air. That's 309 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:19,839 when she started crying. Soon after, my parents ran into the room. 310 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:26,039 She didn't see anyone, but she felt it. She had that sensation of 311 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:33,000 she knows that someone is there, she knows that there bothering our little sister, 312 00:29:34,319 --> 00:29:41,160 and our sister is having an actual physical reaction to what my other sister 313 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:47,720 is feeling. She said, there's someone bothering Alex, and Alex is actually 314 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:52,440 moving around, tossing, turning, whimpering in her sleep. After that, 315 00:29:52,839 --> 00:29:56,920 she felt the cold gust of air, and she heard that person step on 316 00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:00,680 the grate. Our bedroom at the time it did have a window, but 317 00:30:03,359 --> 00:30:08,880 the window was behind the bed in order to get through that window, if 318 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:14,240 someone were trying to break in from outside, they would be stepping over us 319 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:25,400 to get into the room. After that experience, my parents actually moved us 320 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:30,079 from that bedroom to the bedroom where they used to sleep. This was the 321 00:30:30,119 --> 00:30:37,839 bedroom that was closest to the end of the house. They now slept in 322 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:47,440 the bedroom that had the bathroom and the window behind the bed, and they 323 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:52,200 had a closet to their left. One night, shortly after that experience, 324 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:59,680 I woke up because I was having a nightmare. I couldn't go back to 325 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:04,599 sleep. I went to my parents' room and I told them that I was 326 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:10,240 scared and I wanted to sleep with them. My mom woke up. She 327 00:31:10,359 --> 00:31:14,240 told me to stay in bed with my dad. She would go to the 328 00:31:14,279 --> 00:31:18,839 other room to sleep with my sisters. I thought, Okay, that's not 329 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:22,039 really what I wanted, but sure, I'll take it. I climb into 330 00:31:22,079 --> 00:31:27,680 bed and my dad is sleeping on the right side of the bed. I'm 331 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:33,720 sleeping on the left side of the bed, closest to that closet. I 332 00:31:33,799 --> 00:31:37,920 see my mom shut the door on her way out. I'm laying in bed 333 00:31:38,319 --> 00:31:42,960 looking up at the ceiling fan. It was somewhere at the time, because 334 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:47,720 the ceiling fan was on and I could see it spinning right. All of 335 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:53,279 a sudden, from the closet, I hear what sounds like my older sister's 336 00:31:53,359 --> 00:32:02,000 voice saying my name. I just hear. I thought right away, it's 337 00:32:02,039 --> 00:32:05,880 my older sister, right, And I thought, what are you doing here? 338 00:32:06,319 --> 00:32:10,039 How did you get in without me seeing you? I reply, and 339 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:17,759 I say what she says from the closet, Ask Dad what you're afraid of? 340 00:32:20,079 --> 00:32:22,920 And it sounds like my older sister. Instead of answering the question, 341 00:32:22,599 --> 00:32:28,319 I tell her, what are you doing? I'm trying to find an explanation 342 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,519 as to why she's in the closet in the middle of the night. Rather 343 00:32:30,559 --> 00:32:35,440 than focusing on the question that she's asking me. She ignores this and again 344 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:39,279 repeats the question, Ask Dad what he's afraid of? Ask Dad what he's 345 00:32:39,319 --> 00:32:45,839 afraid of? I thought, okay, My dad's back was to me. 346 00:32:45,559 --> 00:32:53,200 I nudge him, pushing on his back, and I ask him in Spanish, 347 00:32:54,119 --> 00:33:00,119 Dad Norma wants to know what you're afraid of. He's not really answering 348 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:05,480 me, so I keep nudging at him and I repeat the question. Norma 349 00:33:05,559 --> 00:33:07,720 wants to know what you're afraid of? What you're afraid and he does get 350 00:33:07,759 --> 00:33:14,440 me like an answer, and he says, scary movies and the dark, 351 00:33:15,839 --> 00:33:20,319 and I go, Okay. I roll over to my left side again and 352 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:27,119 I tell her Dad says scary movies and the dark. At that same time 353 00:33:27,119 --> 00:33:32,960 that I'm to her, I kind of sense that she's moving from the closet 354 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:38,960 to the edge of the bed, but I don't see her. I just 355 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:45,000 sense that. Then from the side of the bed, I hear her say, 356 00:33:45,039 --> 00:33:50,920 no, ask Dad what he's really afraid of? No, ask Dad 357 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:55,319 what he's really afraid of. I'm over here peering over the side of the 358 00:33:55,359 --> 00:34:00,240 bed, like trying to see where she is, because I couldn't see her 359 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:05,079 when she was in the closet, but the closet was dark, right, 360 00:34:05,799 --> 00:34:10,639 But once she was at the side of the bed, I couldn't see her 361 00:34:10,679 --> 00:34:15,880 either. She could not have fit underneath the bed. I'm looking around, 362 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:21,480 I don't see her anywhere, and I'm just so confused, wondering, how 363 00:34:21,519 --> 00:34:25,320 are you talking to me? If I can't see you. So I go, 364 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:29,039 okay, whatever, right, I'm going to do this. So I 365 00:34:29,039 --> 00:34:32,679 started nugging my dad again, and this time he isn't waking up. I 366 00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:37,519 tried to tell her Dad's not waking up, my Dad's not waking up, 367 00:34:37,639 --> 00:34:45,119 and she doesn't answer, She's gone. The next day, I confront her 368 00:34:45,119 --> 00:34:49,840 about that and I tell her, like, why were you asking me that? 369 00:34:50,159 --> 00:34:52,480 Why were you telling me to do that? Why were you asking me 370 00:34:52,559 --> 00:34:55,960 to ask dad what he was afraid of. She had no clue what I 371 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:07,480 was talking about. I was getting really annoyed because I was saying, like, 372 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:09,960 no, you're lying, You're lying. I know that you were talking 373 00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:14,400 to me last night. She keeps denying it. So I go to my 374 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:19,519 mom and I tell her, like, Mom, was Norma? Did Norma 375 00:35:19,599 --> 00:35:25,280 leave the room at night? And she said no, My mom had been 376 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:32,079 up watching TV in the bed with my sisters after she had sent me to 377 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,880 their bed. My mom would have known if my sister had walked out of 378 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:44,960 the room and went into our bedroom. I know that I wasn't dreaming because 379 00:35:45,039 --> 00:35:47,960 I remember those details of I saw the stealing fan. I was lying there 380 00:35:49,199 --> 00:35:53,760 and it happened almost immediately after my mom walked out of the room. It 381 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:59,800 wasn't like I had been laying there for thirty minutes or an hour. It 382 00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:02,519 was almost immediately after that. So it scares me the most that it said, 383 00:36:04,199 --> 00:36:08,800 no, ask Dad what he's really afraid of. I've tried to talk 384 00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:14,119 myself out of that experience, but you can't lie to yourself. I know 385 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:16,599 that happened, and it's just one of those things that I've never been able 386 00:36:16,639 --> 00:36:23,719 to explain. However, in that moment, I wasn't really afraid, not 387 00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:30,199 because I didn't feel negative energy from that, but more so because I was 388 00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:39,000 confused. After those two experiences in that bedroom, my parents called my aunt 389 00:36:39,079 --> 00:36:45,800 and uncle, who were very involved in the church at that time. They 390 00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:51,000 called him over to do a blessing in the house. I don't have a 391 00:36:51,039 --> 00:36:58,239 lot of memory from this, but the image that is seared into my mind 392 00:36:59,199 --> 00:37:07,079 is when the whole family is in that bedroom that we had the most experiences, 393 00:37:07,079 --> 00:37:14,199 and they're in that bedroom. My uncle was standing to the right throwing 394 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:17,039 holy water into the closet. My Dad is on the other side of the 395 00:37:17,079 --> 00:37:24,000 bed with another bible. I just remember that scene because I was standing at 396 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:30,800 the entrance of the bedroom with my older sister, my mom, and my 397 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:37,199 aunt. I'm watching this happen. I think my aunt was like praying there. 398 00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:42,159 All of a sudden, she grabbed me from the top of the shoulders 399 00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:45,039 and she's squeezing me, almost like she was trying to hug me, but 400 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:52,159 it was more of a squeeze. She's looking up and her face is bright 401 00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:57,599 red. She's crying like there are tears streaming down her face, and she's 402 00:37:57,639 --> 00:38:01,679 speaking in tongues. And it sounds absolutely crazy, But I know that it 403 00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:06,559 happened and that it was real because other people experienced it too. Other people 404 00:38:06,599 --> 00:38:09,559 heard it, adults heard it. It's not like she could just make up 405 00:38:09,599 --> 00:38:16,159 gibberish. It just sounded like another language. She's holding me and she's like 406 00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:21,800 looking up with a bright red face, the tears streaming down her face. 407 00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:28,719 She's shouting in what sounds like another language, but it's really it's not a 408 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:32,559 language that i'd heard before, that I've heard. Since she was speaking in 409 00:38:32,639 --> 00:38:40,880 tongues, I don't know how else to explain that. I've tried to recreate 410 00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:45,320 that in my head, and you can't what was coming out of her mouth. 411 00:38:47,599 --> 00:38:52,800 It was really no other way to put it. But she was speaking 412 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:57,280 in tongues. And I know it's not just me that interpreted it that way 413 00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:01,079 because my parents were there too. My mom was standing right next to her. 414 00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:07,039 She has confirmed this. Yes she grabbed you, Yes she was squeezing 415 00:39:07,079 --> 00:39:15,119 you. Yes, she was crying and speaking in something that wasn't any language 416 00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:20,920 that we know of my aunt. She speaks primarily Spanish. Her English is 417 00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,800 pretty good, but I don't think she speaks any other language. It was 418 00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:31,239 just very scary. What they did say was after the blessing and all of 419 00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:37,119 that, they said, just people that are closer to God can sometimes speak 420 00:39:37,159 --> 00:39:42,920 in tongues. I'm not sure how much of an explanation that was, but 421 00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:47,239 I think that at the time there were so many strange things going on that 422 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:53,639 they didn't really question it as much or push the issue. I did ask 423 00:39:53,679 --> 00:39:59,119 my parents about that as well. I asked them, didn't you want to 424 00:39:59,119 --> 00:40:01,880 find out more, like why did this happen? But they were just like, 425 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:06,519 no, that's what they told us, and we saw it happen. 426 00:40:06,599 --> 00:40:09,199 We know what was happening in the house, so we just figured that it 427 00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:15,400 was part of the whole experience. In a way, there's no explanation for 428 00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:21,639 it. I've never heard my aunt do that before or after. It was 429 00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:28,639 just a very impactful experience. And I remember that while she was squeezing me, 430 00:40:28,679 --> 00:40:31,719 because it felt like she was squeezing me for five minutes or something. 431 00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:37,480 I just kept thinking, when will this be over? Because she was hurting 432 00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:39,880 me at that point. I don't know. I wonder if if anyone has 433 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:45,280 ever experienced something similar, but that was one of the craziest experiences there. 434 00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:52,679 From what my parents tell me, the experiences did stop after that in that 435 00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:58,559 house, however, we did have several other experiences after we moved. After 436 00:40:58,599 --> 00:41:05,480 my aunt and uncle blessed the house, those experiences did stop, and I 437 00:41:05,599 --> 00:41:12,639 do not remember experiencing anything else in that house we moved when I was nine. 438 00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:20,599 From seven to nine, I do not remember experiencing anything else. We 439 00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:27,840 never really got any answers as to who was invading our space or who was 440 00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:35,880 haunting the home or the surrounding area. I know, about fifteen years after 441 00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:42,239 that experience, my aunt, uncle, and my whole family were having dinner 442 00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:47,679 and we were talking about those experiences that we had. I had never told 443 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:53,800 my uncle about what I experienced with the voice coming from the closet. Never 444 00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:58,480 told him about that. I had maybe only mentioned it to my parents once 445 00:41:58,559 --> 00:42:05,400 or twice. But when we were talking about that, he said, oh, 446 00:42:05,559 --> 00:42:12,559 yes, I remember there was something evil in that closet. My jaw 447 00:42:12,679 --> 00:42:17,559 dropped because I had never told him about what I heard in that closet. 448 00:42:19,079 --> 00:42:24,519 For him to say that kind of validated my experience, and it was the 449 00:42:24,599 --> 00:42:30,880 reassurance that I needed that there was something in that closet and that I wasn't 450 00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:37,440 just making something up in my own head. Other than that, we didn't 451 00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:43,760 get any answers to why we were experiencing that or who any of those entities 452 00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:52,960 were. It just happened and then stopped happening. Maybe it was entities that 453 00:42:52,000 --> 00:43:01,679 were there before we started living there, because it didn't feel very personal. 454 00:43:04,039 --> 00:43:08,960 We didn't know anyone that had passed away at the time. I think that 455 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:15,480 it was something that was in that area before we got there, especially because 456 00:43:15,559 --> 00:43:31,840 we weren't the only family that had experiences like this. To share your own 457 00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:37,800 story, go to true scarystory dot com and fill out the form to get 458 00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:43,079 ad free episodes and early release help out through scaryplus dot com or our Apple 459 00:43:43,119 --> 00:43:47,760 podcast Channel. Thanks again for your messages and stories. Let see you soon.