WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.279 --> 00:00:06.839 In the middle of the night. They just ran out 2 00:00:06.879 --> 00:00:11.720 of the house. They didn't even take their stuff, they 3 00:00:11.800 --> 00:00:14.119 left everything. They just ran out of the house and 4 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:15.320 they never came back. 5 00:00:18.359 --> 00:00:22.079 A mysterious figure under a street light, footsteps in an 6 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:25.000 empty room, and a growl in the darkness are only 7 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:29.079 the beginning of Tonight's unsettling account. My name is Edwin, 8 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:38.719 and here's towards true scary story. 9 00:00:40.880 --> 00:00:44.840 I grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. From the age 10 00:00:44.840 --> 00:00:47.880 of five years old. I lived with my mom and 11 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:51.560 my dad in this old house. I think this house 12 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:55.560 was like one hundred and fifty years old. My whole 13 00:00:55.600 --> 00:00:59.039 life growing up, I would hear what I thought was 14 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:04.159 my mom calling my I'd go down to the stairs 15 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:07.000 and I'd say, Mom, what did you need? And she 16 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:10.319 would tell me I didn't call for you, honey. I 17 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:19.760 didn't say anything. One of my first experiences that I remember, 18 00:01:20.599 --> 00:01:24.799 I had just gotten a new phone and I had 19 00:01:24.879 --> 00:01:27.840 set up my voicemail. Now I don't know why I 20 00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:31.120 did this, I'm a weird kid, but in the middle 21 00:01:31.159 --> 00:01:33.959 of recording my voicemail, I went to the next room 22 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:37.799 next to me to pretend that I was doing something 23 00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:41.640 I don't know, kids are weird. And when I come 24 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:44.920 back out after recording my voicemail, I listened to it 25 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:47.840 over and when it came to the part where I 26 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:54.519 left the room, I could hear voices. It sounded really 27 00:01:54.920 --> 00:02:00.280 gurgly and just ron. I went and visited my friend 28 00:02:00.359 --> 00:02:03.640 later and I showed her like, hey, look at this voicemail. 29 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:06.400 Do you hear that? And she goes, oh my god, 30 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:13.919 you have demons following you. Another time, I had my 31 00:02:14.199 --> 00:02:17.159 one of my best friends come over and we were 32 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:22.159 just hanging out, having a slumber party. We were in 33 00:02:22.199 --> 00:02:25.879 my room playing. All of a sudden, we both look 34 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:30.560 over and see this hand pop out of my wall. 35 00:02:33.240 --> 00:02:36.520 I remember it distinctly because the sleeve was all ruffled, 36 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:42.120 and I was like, did you see that? She's like, yeah, 37 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:46.120 I did. We just kind of rushed it off. We 38 00:02:46.199 --> 00:02:51.000 went back to playing. I have windows that are right 39 00:02:51.039 --> 00:02:54.520 next to my bed, and we were just about to 40 00:02:54.599 --> 00:02:57.800 lay down for a bed I happened to look out, 41 00:02:58.039 --> 00:03:00.479 and I have a fenced in yard and then I 42 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:05.159 have a street light right next to it. I saw 43 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:09.280 somebody standing right next to that street lamp, just like 44 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:15.879 looking towards my house, towards my window. I freak out. 45 00:03:15.960 --> 00:03:18.520 I'm like, do you see that person? Like that has 46 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:23.080 to be a person, right, and she goes, yeah, I 47 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:28.159 see that too. I'm thinking that this person can see me, 48 00:03:28.280 --> 00:03:31.680 so I lay back down. I'm laying down because I'm 49 00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:34.240 like trying to hide from his view. I'm like freaked out. 50 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:37.080 And then I get back up, like a few minutes 51 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:39.360 later to see if it's still there, and it's gone. 52 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:45.439 As a kid, when I was living at this house, 53 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:50.479 I had this cat. His name was little Harley. Little 54 00:03:50.520 --> 00:03:53.000 Harley had to be put down, and I was sad. 55 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:56.280 And so the first night I slept without him, I 56 00:03:56.319 --> 00:03:58.960 had to have like twelve stuffed animals on my bed 57 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:01.919 with me, and I just remember how sad I was. 58 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:07.000 At some point in the night, I remember feeling something 59 00:04:07.520 --> 00:04:12.639 jumped on the bed and walked up to me. I 60 00:04:12.719 --> 00:04:16.199 sat up, I was like Harley. I didn't open my 61 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:18.279 eyes because I was afraid of what I might see. 62 00:04:18.319 --> 00:04:20.879 I don't know, I was a kid, but I felt 63 00:04:20.879 --> 00:04:23.839 like a tail brush across my face and I felt 64 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:29.480 him laying down by me. I felt good about that, 65 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:32.360 and so I laid back down and I went to bed. 66 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:39.399 A couple of years later, my dad ended up passing away. 67 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:43.600 I was like sixteen and we had to move. But 68 00:04:43.759 --> 00:04:46.120 for like the first month before we moved, we had 69 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:50.240 to stay in that house. I just remember how cold 70 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:55.920 it got. It got really really cold. My mom would 71 00:04:55.959 --> 00:04:58.759 even notice. She'd be like, Tori, do you notice how 72 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:00.720 cold it got in here? And I'm like, yeah, I do. 73 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:04.879 We ended up moving out and moved in with my 74 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:08.560 uncle and everything was fine. And then I met my 75 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:11.040 ex when I was eighteen, and then I moved down 76 00:05:11.079 --> 00:05:20.000 to Missouri. So this is where stuff starts getting really creepy. 77 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:24.199 I moved down to this house with him, and right 78 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:26.959 when I pulled up to the house, I had this 79 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:29.279 feeling that it was off. Like I got out of 80 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:30.879 the car and I looked at it and it just 81 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:36.000 looked off. A few days go by, everything was normal. 82 00:05:37.519 --> 00:05:40.360 It was right outside middle of the day. I'm sitting 83 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:42.160 there and I think I was one of the only 84 00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:44.120 people in the house. I don't know if my stepdaughter 85 00:05:44.279 --> 00:05:48.279 was there or my ex, but I just remember I 86 00:05:48.399 --> 00:05:51.120 was in the living room by myself and I'm watching TV. 87 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:55.079 There were two doors in the living room that led 88 00:05:55.120 --> 00:05:59.240 to the outside, and one of the doors I saw 89 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:02.800 it on my proofree vision. I saw this man in 90 00:06:02.839 --> 00:06:06.399 a dressed in a blue shirt walk by, and I 91 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:11.000 was like, what is somebody here? I get up and 92 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:13.480 I go look, but there's nobody there. So that kind 93 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:15.800 of freaked me out, but I tried to brush it off. 94 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:24.480 This one night in particular, everybody is asleep. It's in 95 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:27.360 the middle of the night. I wake up for some 96 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:31.000 reason and I start hearing what sounds like people yelling 97 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:35.959 outside my window. So I'm thinking the neighbors are fighting. 98 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:38.199 So I get up and I move the curtain and 99 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:40.439 I'm like, what is that like when people are trying 100 00:06:40.439 --> 00:06:45.639 to sleep. I don't see anybody. I just brush it off, 101 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:47.680 you know. I go and I lay back down, and 102 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:52.759 then I hear it again. I move the curtain more 103 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:55.720 and I really try to get a good look because 104 00:06:55.759 --> 00:06:59.639 maybe I just didn't see them at first. I still 105 00:06:59.720 --> 00:07:03.879 don't see anybody, so I just figured I'm just going 106 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:10.079 to ignore this and go back to sleep. A few 107 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:14.199 minutes past and I start hearing what sounds like footsteps 108 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:18.480 coming across the carpet. Now I have carpet, so I 109 00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:21.319 don't know how I heard this, but I heard footsteps 110 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:26.959 coming from the living room into our room and then 111 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:34.199 I start hearing growling. My heart starts racing. I'm like, 112 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:38.680 what is going on. I'm a big believer that if 113 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:43.680 you experience anything with a paranormal you just ignore it, 114 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:47.120 don't even acknowledge it, because that feeds into it and 115 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:52.279 that gives it power. So I didn't do anything. I'm 116 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:56.120 still turned over, my eyes are still closed, and then 117 00:07:56.639 --> 00:08:02.800 I feel a hand touched my shoulder. Again, I just 118 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:07.680 ignore it. I start praying. I'm like, please watch over me, 119 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:11.439 please protect me, Please, whatever is in this house, get 120 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:13.759 it out. I don't want this around me. I'm just 121 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:18.759 trying to sleep. It eventually goes away and I'm fine. 122 00:08:21.480 --> 00:08:24.279 Another night, it's in the middle of the night again, 123 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:29.279 I turn over to like readjust how I'm sleeping, and 124 00:08:29.319 --> 00:08:33.159 I turn over and I look. I see this person 125 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:38.000 standing in front of my ex This hair is all scraggling. 126 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:41.679 It's pitch black. Now, this room is already dark, but 127 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:47.440 this figure was pitch black and it had scraggly, curly 128 00:08:47.559 --> 00:08:50.879 hair all around its head, and it just was like 129 00:08:51.080 --> 00:08:57.120 staring at him. I tried to open my eyes further 130 00:08:57.360 --> 00:09:05.320 to see what is this, and it just disappears. My 131 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:09.799 stepdaughter would be playing in her room with her friend. 132 00:09:10.840 --> 00:09:13.679 Her and her friend for some reason, was playing in 133 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:19.639 her closet, but her closet it locked on her and 134 00:09:19.679 --> 00:09:24.200 it kept her inside. I'm in the living room and 135 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:28.240 I'm watching TV and I start hearing the kids screaming. 136 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:32.679 I'm thinking they're just playing, but it just keeps getting 137 00:09:32.840 --> 00:09:36.799 louder and I go and I open the door and 138 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:40.960 they're like, we were locked inside. I'm like, what, you 139 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:43.679 couldn't get out? And they were explaining to me how 140 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:46.759 they were playing in the closet and the door slams 141 00:09:46.799 --> 00:09:52.279 on them and they couldn't open the door. I was 142 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:55.200 really freaked out. She was really freaked out about that. 143 00:09:57.360 --> 00:10:01.799 I would go into the kitchen sometimes and there would 144 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:06.639 be orbs. I would see orbs flying around. There was 145 00:10:06.679 --> 00:10:08.279 this one time in the middle of that night, I 146 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:10.679 had to go to the kitchen for something I can't remember. 147 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:14.720 I go into the kitchen and I see this orb 148 00:10:14.799 --> 00:10:19.360 flying around the ceiling light. It was white. It was 149 00:10:19.480 --> 00:10:23.919 like a small, white, little circle orb. It was weird 150 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:28.080 because like, I've never seen anything like that before. And 151 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:31.759 I go in there and it's just flying around and 152 00:10:31.799 --> 00:10:35.039 it disappears once it notices that I'm looking, but I 153 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:37.480 just thought that was really weird because I've never seen 154 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:45.000 anything like that. I would experience these dreams. I would 155 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:47.639 be laying there still, and all of a sudden, I 156 00:10:47.639 --> 00:10:50.519 would feel these hands go around my neck and start 157 00:10:50.600 --> 00:10:56.519 choking me. I would feel myself thrashing, like trying to 158 00:10:56.559 --> 00:11:00.679 claw and punch at anything, at what whatever it was 159 00:11:00.759 --> 00:11:04.039 that was holding me holding my neck because I was 160 00:11:04.039 --> 00:11:07.320 like freaking out. But at the same time, I was 161 00:11:07.399 --> 00:11:12.279 still laying there still. And I have never met anybody 162 00:11:12.639 --> 00:11:17.559 or heard anybody have that same kind of dream. And 163 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:21.080 it's like I'm fighting back. I can feel my body 164 00:11:21.120 --> 00:11:25.000 like fighting back, trying to get these hands away from me, 165 00:11:25.879 --> 00:11:33.639 but yet my body is still laying still. One time, 166 00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:37.720 I'm taking a shower. It's in the middle of the day. 167 00:11:37.759 --> 00:11:42.519 I think I'm washing my hair, and all of a sudden, 168 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:47.960 I look over and I see a little kid hand 169 00:11:49.080 --> 00:11:52.600 brush across like the shadow of a hand brush across 170 00:11:52.639 --> 00:11:56.600 the shower curtain. So I moved the shower curtain, thinking 171 00:11:56.639 --> 00:12:01.559 that somebody was there, but nobody was there. I would 172 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:05.399 come home from work a lot of the times and 173 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:10.799 I would smell sulfur or an old, old woman's perfume. 174 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:15.600 I wasn't wearing perfume back then, so it was really 175 00:12:15.639 --> 00:12:20.159 odd to us all that it smelled like that old perfume. 176 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:28.399 One night, I send my stepdaughter to bed and ad 177 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:31.399 This is after we got into an argument. But I 178 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:34.080 send her to bed, and I'm in the kitchen. I'm 179 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:37.039 still cleaning up or doing whatnot, and out of the 180 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:41.039 corner of my eye, I see what looks to be 181 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:45.960 her standing in the doorway, in the same pajamas, same hair, 182 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:49.559 same everything. It looked like her, but her hair was 183 00:12:49.639 --> 00:12:53.639 like half in her face, and it looks like she's 184 00:12:53.679 --> 00:12:56.679 looking down at me, like her face was like half 185 00:12:56.720 --> 00:13:01.320 tilted down, and she had like this angry look about her. 186 00:13:02.360 --> 00:13:05.799 And I look like directly at where she was, and 187 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:13.440 it wasn't there. It was gone. Fast forward a couple 188 00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:17.960 of years, it's twenty fifteen. We move it to this 189 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:23.399 house ten miles into the country. My sister comes down 190 00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:26.919 from Tennessee to come help, because at this time I 191 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:32.000 had just had my daughter. So she comes and you know, 192 00:13:32.120 --> 00:13:36.200 she tries to help. So we're all staying in this house. Now. 193 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:38.720 This house, it was a double wine mobile home. It 194 00:13:38.759 --> 00:13:43.240 was really nice. My sister had gotten me these new slippers, 195 00:13:44.440 --> 00:13:46.519 and I really liked them, you know, I wore them 196 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:50.200 the whole night because I love them so much. And 197 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:55.840 then it comes to bedtime. Everybody's in bed. It's in 198 00:13:55.919 --> 00:14:00.679 the middle of the night. All of a sudden, I 199 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:06.879 hear this huge, like a gunshot in the next room, 200 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:10.759 the living room. I shoot up out of my spot 201 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:15.720 because I'm like, what the heck was that. I look around. 202 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:20.679 My ex is still fast asleep, and nobody else is awake, 203 00:14:20.840 --> 00:14:23.240 so I'm the only one who woke up and heard it. 204 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:28.480 And then a few minutes go by and I start 205 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:33.679 hearing what sounds like my slippers shuffling across the floor 206 00:14:34.519 --> 00:14:38.639 from the kitchen all the way through the living room 207 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:45.440 into the doorway. It stopped at my doorway to my bedroom. 208 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:48.600 All of a sudden, it makes this really high pitched 209 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:55.960 screeching sound. And I'm telling you, I have never heard 210 00:14:56.120 --> 00:15:00.399 any sound like this before, but it sounded all high 211 00:14:59.799 --> 00:15:05.120 p screeching. I don't know why I did this, but 212 00:15:05.320 --> 00:15:08.919 in my head, I start praying again and I start 213 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:12.360 saying to the entity, to whoever is there, I said, 214 00:15:12.360 --> 00:15:16.200 in my head instead of out loud, you need to 215 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:18.559 get out of this house. If you do not leave 216 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:21.159 this house, I am going to grab my Bible and 217 00:15:21.240 --> 00:15:27.440 I'll make you leave. Luckily, thank the Lord, it did 218 00:15:27.759 --> 00:15:31.360 end up leaving and I never experienced anything else at 219 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:48.840 that house. Fast forward again a couple of years, we 220 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:53.279 had to move up to Iowa. In Burlington, there was 221 00:15:53.320 --> 00:15:58.639 this three story brick house on twelfth Street. When we 222 00:15:58.799 --> 00:16:02.279 first arrived here, it was supposed to be my ex, 223 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:08.639 my other sister Brittany, and then my stepdaughter and my daughter, Lucybeth. 224 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:15.519 The landlord shows us around this house because he just 225 00:16:15.559 --> 00:16:18.200 wanted us to get a feel of the place before 226 00:16:18.279 --> 00:16:22.200 these other tenants move out and we take the house. Now, 227 00:16:22.279 --> 00:16:24.679 the other tenant was still there, but it was only 228 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:27.799 that one person. Apparently there was a whole bunch of 229 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:31.519 other people staying there with him. So the first thing 230 00:16:31.559 --> 00:16:34.320 that struck me as odd. If you walk into the 231 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:38.360 living room, you have the living room on the left, 232 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:41.879 and then you have this big staircase that goes upstairs 233 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:43.960 to like right in front of you, and then a 234 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:47.320 hallway that goes all the way to the kitchen. I 235 00:16:47.360 --> 00:16:51.159 had the staircase that leads upstairs, but I noticed to 236 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:54.559 the left where the living room is. What I thought 237 00:16:54.600 --> 00:16:57.919 was odd was there was like three or four couches, 238 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:04.000 like that's where they all slept on. We go upstairs, 239 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:07.359 we're looking in all the bedrooms. He's showing us around. 240 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:13.200 The first thing I noticed is there are symbols scratched 241 00:17:13.240 --> 00:17:19.519 into the doorframe of these doors, Like the door to 242 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:25.359 the bedroom, there's symbols etched on the doorframe. And I 243 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:28.279 thought that was odd because I have never ever seen 244 00:17:28.319 --> 00:17:32.799 anything like that. It reminded me of something that would 245 00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:37.480 ward off these different spirits. I'm not sure I've never 246 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:41.000 seen anything like it, but for some reason, we never 247 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:45.039 did ask anybody. I don't know why I didn't. But 248 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:47.480 then we get to the bedroom that was going to 249 00:17:47.519 --> 00:17:52.359 be ours. There was this burned spot in the middle 250 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:55.640 of the floor where my bed was going to be. Eventually, 251 00:17:57.359 --> 00:18:00.599 I noticed that the closet, this was the only closet 252 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:04.839 in the whole house that was painted like a blood 253 00:18:04.920 --> 00:18:11.279 red and the whole closet was painted like that. I 254 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:13.400 thought that was a little weird because you got the 255 00:18:13.400 --> 00:18:16.400 burned spot on the floor and then the closet is 256 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:20.920 painted this color. After he shows us around the house, 257 00:18:21.319 --> 00:18:24.720 we're sitting outside, and I happened to look back and 258 00:18:25.559 --> 00:18:28.680 the tenant who currently was staying there, he was staring 259 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:34.680 out the door at us in this like deadpan, blank face. 260 00:18:35.839 --> 00:18:40.039 It just gave me this off feeling. We ended up 261 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:44.480 moving in. Everything was okay for the first night or two. 262 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:50.319 There's this little area in the hallway to the right 263 00:18:50.599 --> 00:18:54.200 where our toolbox is and where you could put like 264 00:18:54.359 --> 00:18:56.640 maybe a desk or whatever there. It's just like this 265 00:18:56.680 --> 00:19:01.160 little cut out area from the hallway. And then my 266 00:19:01.240 --> 00:19:03.759 ex tells me that he was standing there one night 267 00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:08.440 and doing whatever he was doing, and he saw like 268 00:19:08.480 --> 00:19:14.880 the shadow walk past him. Obviously there's nobody there. I 269 00:19:14.920 --> 00:19:19.079 would see faces whenever I would walk throughout the house. 270 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:22.920 One time, I'm coming upstairs and I see this face 271 00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:26.079 pop around from the corner, and I'll never forget this face. 272 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:29.440 It looked all like he was baring his teeth. It 273 00:19:29.480 --> 00:19:34.640 was like this distorted face with weird eyes and scrunched 274 00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:42.480 up like he was like sneering at me. One day, 275 00:19:43.359 --> 00:19:47.599 I'm downstairs in the living room with my stepdaughter. My 276 00:19:47.720 --> 00:19:51.839 ex leaves to go do something and it's just her 277 00:19:51.839 --> 00:19:54.880 and I in the house. As soon as he walks 278 00:19:54.920 --> 00:20:00.839 out the door. We hear a woman screaming from upstairs. 279 00:20:02.079 --> 00:20:04.839 We both stop what we're doing and we're both looking 280 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:09.599 at each other like, uh my stepdaughter, She goes, did 281 00:20:09.680 --> 00:20:12.880 you hear that? And I'm like, I did, but we're 282 00:20:12.920 --> 00:20:16.000 just gonna ignore it. And that's literally what I did. 283 00:20:16.039 --> 00:20:19.240 I just went back to what I was doing, and 284 00:20:19.319 --> 00:20:27.440 that was that. Another night, I was coming home from 285 00:20:27.480 --> 00:20:32.279 the store from down the street, I could see this 286 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:38.160 big wood fence that surrounds our house. I saw what 287 00:20:38.359 --> 00:20:42.400 looked like a huge black figure that was like peeking 288 00:20:42.440 --> 00:20:46.319 its head above the fence. It was just standing towards 289 00:20:46.359 --> 00:20:50.960 the road like where I was. As soon as I 290 00:20:51.000 --> 00:20:56.480 saw it, it ducked under the wood. So I go 291 00:20:57.039 --> 00:20:59.599 and I get home, and I opened the gate to 292 00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:03.440 the house and I don't see anybody behind the fence. 293 00:21:04.599 --> 00:21:11.960 There's nobody. My stepdaughter would always tell me how she 294 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:17.160 felt sleep paralysis whenever she was in that house. And 295 00:21:17.240 --> 00:21:22.599 I still have dreams about that house. I have dreams 296 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:27.599 where I'm living in this house again, but it's bigger almost, 297 00:21:28.079 --> 00:21:33.079 and it has more rooms. The one thing that always 298 00:21:33.119 --> 00:21:36.599 freaks me out is it has that same negative energy 299 00:21:38.200 --> 00:21:43.279 and I feel like there's always something watching me. When 300 00:21:43.319 --> 00:21:49.960 I'm in that house. In my dream at the same place, 301 00:21:50.880 --> 00:21:56.799 my stepdaughter had found bones outside on the ground. She 302 00:21:57.440 --> 00:22:00.000 was digging doing something I don't know, being a little 303 00:22:01.039 --> 00:22:05.319 but she come in and she goes, Daddy, I found bones. 304 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:10.039 He was like, no, no, this isn't good. You found bones. 305 00:22:10.200 --> 00:22:12.960 You need to go take that outside. You know, you 306 00:22:13.039 --> 00:22:16.359 don't know if anything can attach itself to you or 307 00:22:16.400 --> 00:22:18.720 follow you in here. You need to take it outside. 308 00:22:18.720 --> 00:22:23.400 You can't keep that. In the middle of him talking 309 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:27.559 to her, I think they leave the room, but I'm 310 00:22:27.599 --> 00:22:30.839 in the kitchen. I'm standing there and all of a sudden, 311 00:22:31.519 --> 00:22:39.759 I hear some deep voice behind me laughing, and so 312 00:22:40.039 --> 00:22:47.160 I turn around and there's nothing. I almost felt like 313 00:22:47.240 --> 00:22:52.759 it was laughing at the situation. I don't know. I 314 00:22:52.799 --> 00:22:59.640 thought that was really strange. One day, we're talking to 315 00:22:59.640 --> 00:23:03.839 the name and the neighbor tells us a little bit 316 00:23:03.880 --> 00:23:09.200 of information. He goes, you know, there was a lot 317 00:23:09.279 --> 00:23:11.880 of people that used to live in this house. A 318 00:23:11.920 --> 00:23:15.079 lot of people have come and gone. And we're like, oh, really, 319 00:23:15.799 --> 00:23:20.960 and he goes, there are a couple of girls that 320 00:23:21.279 --> 00:23:25.160 just happened to move in and they weren't here very long, 321 00:23:26.119 --> 00:23:30.160 maybe a couple days later after moving in, in the 322 00:23:30.200 --> 00:23:34.079 middle of the night, they just ran out of the house. 323 00:23:34.920 --> 00:23:38.480 They didn't even take their stuff, they left everything. They 324 00:23:38.559 --> 00:23:44.160 just ran out of the house and they never came back. Apparently, 325 00:23:44.279 --> 00:23:49.720 any other family that has lived there, they have never 326 00:23:49.759 --> 00:23:53.720 stayed that long. They just they kept moving too, and 327 00:23:53.759 --> 00:23:57.240 we still stayed there. We stayed there for about seven 328 00:23:57.400 --> 00:24:02.200 eight months, and it got to the point that before 329 00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:06.200 we went to bed, we would have to say the 330 00:24:06.240 --> 00:24:11.799 prayer Psalms ninety one out of the Bible, the whole 331 00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:17.240 verse Psalms ninety one. After saying that prayer, we wouldn't 332 00:24:17.319 --> 00:24:27.680 experience anything. One night, however, after saying that prayer, my 333 00:24:27.759 --> 00:24:29.680 ex told me that in the middle of the night 334 00:24:30.160 --> 00:24:34.920 he heard footsteps coming towards the door of our bedroom, 335 00:24:35.640 --> 00:24:39.680 but it stopped right at the door, like it couldn't 336 00:24:39.720 --> 00:24:42.519 go any pass like anymore, like it couldn't go past 337 00:24:42.599 --> 00:24:50.799 the door. It realized this and it started growling. It 338 00:24:50.839 --> 00:24:55.079 would more happen to him. He would see stuff, or 339 00:24:55.799 --> 00:24:59.240 my stepdaughter would feel stuff. I would see stuff or 340 00:24:59.359 --> 00:25:03.160 hear stuff, but I always ignored it, so I didn't 341 00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:07.359 experience it as much. But my ex come to me 342 00:25:07.400 --> 00:25:09.359 one day and he was like, listen, we got a 343 00:25:09.400 --> 00:25:11.960 move because this is just getting too much. I think 344 00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:15.720 it just got too much for him to handle all 345 00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:18.240 the stuff that was going on because it was every 346 00:25:18.319 --> 00:25:21.880 single day. We just felt like we couldn't get a 347 00:25:21.880 --> 00:25:25.759 peaceful night's sleep without saying the prayer or anything. So 348 00:25:26.480 --> 00:25:32.559 seven eight months later we ended up leaving. As we're 349 00:25:32.599 --> 00:25:37.400 packing and we're getting our stuff and we're leaving, I 350 00:25:37.599 --> 00:25:41.079 was one of the last people to go in. I 351 00:25:41.119 --> 00:25:44.359 don't know if this really means anything, but we had 352 00:25:45.559 --> 00:25:50.079 there were mice in the middle of the floor and 353 00:25:50.119 --> 00:25:52.519 they were just like keeled over dead. They were just 354 00:25:52.599 --> 00:25:57.599 laying there dead. That's weird because mice don't really do that. 355 00:25:58.200 --> 00:26:02.039 I don't think it's so oh. My ex and I 356 00:26:02.119 --> 00:26:06.839 both thought, you know, maybe these entities here were just 357 00:26:06.920 --> 00:26:09.839 so bored that they had to mess with these mice 358 00:26:09.960 --> 00:26:12.599 because these mice were just in the middle of the 359 00:26:12.640 --> 00:26:17.480 floor dead and I have never seen anything like that 360 00:26:17.559 --> 00:26:27.119 in my life. I ended up leaving my ex and 361 00:26:27.160 --> 00:26:32.160 then I met my now fiance. We ended up getting 362 00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:37.440 our own place where we are living now, and it's 363 00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:43.480 a little apartment. I haven't really experienced anything. Except one 364 00:26:43.559 --> 00:26:48.960 day I'm in the shower and my fiances in there 365 00:26:49.000 --> 00:26:55.359 doing something at the sink and I see this shadow 366 00:26:56.079 --> 00:27:02.039 go from the sink over to the door. I look 367 00:27:02.079 --> 00:27:05.640 out and I'm like, Chris, was that you? And he goes, no, 368 00:27:05.880 --> 00:27:08.319 I haven't moved from this spot. I'm like, you literally 369 00:27:08.359 --> 00:27:12.240 didn't just go towards the door. You didn't move it all. 370 00:27:12.559 --> 00:27:15.079 You didn't just walk away from the sink and move 371 00:27:15.160 --> 00:27:17.720 and he goes, no, I didn't do that at all. 372 00:27:19.680 --> 00:27:24.519 And I literally that that kind of freaked me out 373 00:27:24.599 --> 00:27:27.319 because I was like, am I really seeing stuff? I 374 00:27:27.400 --> 00:27:31.960 literally thought I saw a shadow move and no, it 375 00:27:32.079 --> 00:27:41.000 wasn't anything. So I'll be completely honest. My ex wasn't 376 00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:45.559 really a good person. So part of me wonders if 377 00:27:46.720 --> 00:27:49.039 all the stuff that was going on when I was 378 00:27:49.119 --> 00:27:53.440 with him, if it wasn't like attached to him because 379 00:27:53.480 --> 00:28:00.400 he held his own negative energy around him. The fact 380 00:28:00.440 --> 00:28:04.200 that these things were happening wherever I was with him, 381 00:28:04.880 --> 00:28:08.680 I almost wonder if like they were feeding off of 382 00:28:08.759 --> 00:28:18.400 his energy and like showing themselves. I've never really looked 383 00:28:18.440 --> 00:28:23.000 into why I'm so aware of these things, but I 384 00:28:23.119 --> 00:28:26.599 kind of almost wonder if I'm sensitive to this stuff. 385 00:28:28.119 --> 00:28:31.119 I'm also very thankful that you know, none of that 386 00:28:31.200 --> 00:28:37.519 has ever followed me. And maybe it's because I haven't 387 00:28:37.559 --> 00:28:40.880 reacted to them, is why they don't really follow me. 388 00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:44.039 I'm not sure, but I think it has helped that 389 00:28:44.640 --> 00:28:48.839 every experience that I've had, it hasn't gotten any worse 390 00:28:48.920 --> 00:29:04.319 with me because all I've ever done is ignore it. 391 00:29:04.400 --> 00:29:06.880 A huge thank you to Tory for sharing her experiences 392 00:29:06.880 --> 00:29:08.480 with the rest of us here at the True Scary 393 00:29:08.480 --> 00:29:10.839 Story community and for everyone else. If you have a 394 00:29:10.880 --> 00:29:13.519 scary story that you want to share something that happened 395 00:29:13.559 --> 00:29:16.799 to you, head on over to true scarystory dot com 396 00:29:16.839 --> 00:29:19.599 because I want to hear about it. 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