1 00:00:06,759 --> 00:00:11,039 Speaker 1: It was creeping along in the air, moving back and 2 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:14,679 forth like a snake. And then I noticed after a while, 3 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:18,199 it wasn't going straight to the ceiling, it was going 4 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:19,160 off to the left. 5 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:24,079 Speaker 2: A night shift alone should be quiet, predictable, but in 6 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:28,039 a call center after midnight, one employee began seeing shadows move, 7 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:32,799 figures crawl, and something watching the dark. My name is 8 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:43,759 Edwin and here is beef. It's true scary story. 9 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:49,359 Speaker 1: When I was thirteen, we moved to an old nineteen 10 00:00:49,439 --> 00:00:56,759 forties housing track in Hayward, California. And when we moved there, 11 00:00:56,799 --> 00:00:59,320 it's just mainly a lot of older people there. They 12 00:00:59,359 --> 00:01:04,480 were retired and it turned out it was the original 13 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:07,280 wife that owned the place, but it wasn't her husband. 14 00:01:08,359 --> 00:01:11,000 It turned out that her husband was very abusive and 15 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:15,040 they think she killed him in the house. Also, I 16 00:01:15,079 --> 00:01:19,159 found out later they had a son there too. We 17 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:22,200 found out from the neighbors actually that their son was 18 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:24,599 a delinquent and he was a delinquent and they used 19 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:27,959 to go around doing petty crimes. But nobody knows what 20 00:01:28,079 --> 00:01:34,400 happened to the sun. The first, very first night we 21 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:36,640 moved in, I remember it was like eight thirty at 22 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:40,200 night and It was my parents, me and my sister 23 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:44,079 and my cousin had moved in with us too, and 24 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:46,159 we were sitting on the couch and my mom was 25 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:50,680 standing in the middle of the living room and this huge, huge, 26 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:54,480 like green orb it had to be big as a softball, 27 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:58,840 just flew from the dining area across the living room 28 00:01:58,879 --> 00:02:02,200 in front of us and into the closet. We had 29 00:02:02,239 --> 00:02:04,879 the Venetian blinds clothes. We were sitting on the couch. 30 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:08,439 The back of us was the actual window. We were 31 00:02:08,479 --> 00:02:11,599 on the second story because the house has everything on 32 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:15,039 the top floor and at the bottom it's a double garage. 33 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:17,960 My mom was like, oh no, that wasn't nothing. It 34 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,360 was just the light. The light came through. We're like 35 00:02:20,439 --> 00:02:22,680 two blocks from a major street, so that it was 36 00:02:22,759 --> 00:02:26,680 eight thirty. Nobody was driving around and this orb just 37 00:02:26,759 --> 00:02:34,599 comes through. After that, we had problems with the kitchen. 38 00:02:34,719 --> 00:02:39,000 For some reason, they put carpeting in the kitchen anytime 39 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:44,400 starting in September until about March. When you go into 40 00:02:44,439 --> 00:02:48,159 the kitchen, you always feel like someone follows you into 41 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:50,800 the kitchen. You always feel like someone's standing next to 42 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:54,039 you in the kitchen. You would walk into the kitchen 43 00:02:54,479 --> 00:02:56,199 and on the other side of the frigerator would be 44 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:59,960 the sink. And if I'm washing dishes and he goes 45 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:02,319 out of the room to use the bathroom, and then 46 00:03:02,319 --> 00:03:04,520 I'll hear him walk back in and stand behind me, 47 00:03:04,719 --> 00:03:08,159 and I'll start talking to him and there's nobody there. 48 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:16,840 And I was very consistent. As the winter sets in 49 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,560 at night, it just gets creepier in the house. It's 50 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:26,879 just really disturbing. One of the main issues I had. 51 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:31,319 It happened to me twice. My mom used to work 52 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:34,680 in the evenings twice a week, and my dad used 53 00:03:34,719 --> 00:03:37,360 to pick her up after work. So when it was 54 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,719 like nine o'clock, we had to go to bed, and 55 00:03:40,759 --> 00:03:43,800 then my dad he would go around the house we have. 56 00:03:43,919 --> 00:03:45,439 We used to live in a bad neighborhood, so we 57 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,439 always locked the doors. We checked them every night. So 58 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:50,680 I would be in bed, my sister would be in bed, 59 00:03:51,759 --> 00:03:53,680 my cousin would be in his room next door, and 60 00:03:53,719 --> 00:03:55,879 I would hear my dad because everything in the house 61 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:59,759 echoes for some weird reason, it just echoes. The houses 62 00:03:59,759 --> 00:04:02,599 are made really weird over here, and they're all different, 63 00:04:03,439 --> 00:04:06,879 and so he would always go to the other end 64 00:04:06,879 --> 00:04:09,759 of the hallway and there was this little metal flap. 65 00:04:11,439 --> 00:04:13,000 He would make sure the door was locked. He would 66 00:04:13,039 --> 00:04:14,960 jiggle the handle and it was this metal flap he 67 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,759 would lift up. It was really flat and it was 68 00:04:17,879 --> 00:04:20,199 connected to the a hinge and you would lift it 69 00:04:20,319 --> 00:04:22,680 up and then place it flush against the door. You 70 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:25,560 could always hear it jiggle, and then you can hear 71 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:29,240 him walk into the kitchen and he would make sure 72 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:32,319 the patio door was locked. He always had the TV 73 00:04:32,439 --> 00:04:34,519 turned off, so it's really quiet in the house. And 74 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:36,480 then he would leave the front door and he would 75 00:04:36,519 --> 00:04:38,480 walk out and you had to close the door because 76 00:04:38,519 --> 00:04:41,680 we live on a vault, so a lot of times 77 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:43,920 the ground shifts and the doors are kind of weird. 78 00:04:44,759 --> 00:04:47,079 And so he would leave and he would do that 79 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:50,040 every Tuesday and Thursday and go pick up my mom 80 00:04:50,079 --> 00:04:52,680 and then they would be back in like twenty thirty minutes. 81 00:04:54,920 --> 00:05:00,720 One time when he left, about ten minutes later, I 82 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:07,360 hear the door just open and close. Well, it's not 83 00:05:07,519 --> 00:05:09,879 normal for it to open and close because it has 84 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:12,680 that same little metal flap. So the metal flap, you 85 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:15,800 have to lift it up and then place it flush 86 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:18,240 against the door. I mean, if you wanted to, you 87 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:19,800 could break down the door, but you would have to 88 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,680 kick it, and you wouldn't been able to just turn 89 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:26,959 the knob open it and close it. So someone came 90 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:29,480 in that door, it just opened and closed. I could 91 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:32,240 hear it. And then I heard someone walk up the 92 00:05:32,319 --> 00:05:35,879 stairs all the way to the top, open and close 93 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:40,120 the door, and I heard my dad put that flap down, 94 00:05:40,959 --> 00:05:43,639 and then I heard the footsteps go down the hallway 95 00:05:44,079 --> 00:05:48,160 to my room open the door. And then I started 96 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:50,439 holding the covers over my head because it was making 97 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:52,800 me really nervous because now the footsteps are in my 98 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:56,480 room and my bed at that time was facing the door, 99 00:05:56,519 --> 00:05:59,680 and I heard the footsteps walk up to the head 100 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:03,600 of my bed where I was at my covers jerk off. 101 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:05,480 And then I woke up and it's the next morning. 102 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,839 I asked my sister she heard anything. She didn't. My 103 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,920 cousin didn't hear anything, And it just made me like 104 00:06:13,959 --> 00:06:16,920 a nervous wreck for a while until I forgot about it. 105 00:06:19,439 --> 00:06:21,680 And then a couple of years later it happened again. 106 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,079 My cousin had moved out of the house because he 107 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:29,759 was an adult. My sister moved into his room, and 108 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:34,040 I had that room by myself, and so my dad goes. 109 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:37,600 He does the same routine again, and he leaves to 110 00:06:37,639 --> 00:06:41,240 go pick up my mom, and this time my sister 111 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:43,920 she has her friend spending the night in the room 112 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,079 next door, and it happened again. You hear the door 113 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:51,360 open over where the driveway is and close because there's 114 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:54,160 no TV on, there's nothing on the house echoes. You 115 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:58,160 hear the footsteps coming up each stairs, and then you 116 00:06:58,199 --> 00:07:00,920 hear the door open and just close like they didn't 117 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:03,439 try to unlock it. They didn't have trouble pushing it 118 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:06,680 open because of the flap. And then you hear the footsteps. 119 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:09,199 It was like heavy footsteps, and you can hear them 120 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:10,680 go all the way to the end of the hallway. 121 00:07:10,839 --> 00:07:13,079 I'm freaking out because I'm thinking of the last time 122 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:16,079 it happened. I'm gripping the blanket like I'm holding it 123 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:18,240 tight because they're not going to take the blanket off 124 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:20,920 of me. I'm just like freaking out. And I can 125 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:23,800 hear my door open and close, and I can hear 126 00:07:23,839 --> 00:07:25,800 them walk because I'm on the other side of the 127 00:07:25,879 --> 00:07:28,639 room now and walk up to the head they pull 128 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:31,040 off my blanket and then I wake up and it's 129 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:35,120 the next morning and then I go to my sister 130 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:39,319 and I asked her, you know, did you hear anything? 131 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:42,759 And before I can ask her that, she tells me 132 00:07:42,839 --> 00:07:45,920 she hears the exact same thing. Her and her friend 133 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:48,680 are in the bedroom. They hear the bottom door open 134 00:07:48,759 --> 00:07:51,120 and close, which they know is impossible because of how 135 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:55,240 it's locked. They hear the footsteps come up the stairway. 136 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:57,920 And then I had told her what happened to me, 137 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:03,519 and we had no idea what was going on. I 138 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:06,480 don't know if it's like Naketivy. I don't know if 139 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:09,800 it's from the sun, if he was dead and coming 140 00:08:09,839 --> 00:08:13,360 back there, I don't know what was going on. We 141 00:08:13,399 --> 00:08:17,879 had some other lighter stuff happen there where I was 142 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:19,519 in the living room by myself, and it was like 143 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:22,639 ten o'clock at night. A close friend of the family, 144 00:08:23,399 --> 00:08:25,600 we lost touch with her and she died of cancer. 145 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:29,199 And that same night she died. In the middle of 146 00:08:29,279 --> 00:08:37,039 the hallway, this weird like portal opened and these people 147 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:39,039 came out. It was like one person and a whole 148 00:08:39,039 --> 00:08:41,960 bunch of other people and they just kind of looked 149 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:45,360 around the room and then they left. And then I 150 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:47,879 had more activity at night too. That night and I 151 00:08:47,919 --> 00:08:52,039 was wondering if she came to visit to say her goodbyes. 152 00:08:53,039 --> 00:08:59,679 I didn't know my very first dog we had. We 153 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:03,279 had for about ten years. The problem is he was 154 00:09:03,399 --> 00:09:07,759 an aggressive dog. My sister's friend came over and we 155 00:09:07,799 --> 00:09:10,039 told him don't touch him. After nine he touched him. 156 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:12,080 He got bit pretty bad by the dog, so we 157 00:09:12,159 --> 00:09:15,759 had to put the dog down. The very next day, 158 00:09:15,799 --> 00:09:18,679 after they put the dog down, his ghost was running 159 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:22,519 around the house. I could see. I don't know if 160 00:09:22,519 --> 00:09:24,879 anybody else saw it. I didn't want to tell other people, 161 00:09:25,399 --> 00:09:28,200 but you couldn't see us below his knees, but you 162 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:31,919 could see very detailed of his curly tail that curled, 163 00:09:31,919 --> 00:09:34,000 and I would always see him run past me, and 164 00:09:34,039 --> 00:09:37,600 I see the texture of his fur, his little triangle ears, 165 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:40,440 and then I would see him behind the couch looking 166 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:44,279 out the window and he would just be running past 167 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:46,200 me and doing his little favorite things. And I would 168 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:48,600 catch him every once in a while. And then after 169 00:09:48,639 --> 00:09:52,200 about a week he disappeared because I think he didn't 170 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:55,159 know he died because they had put him down, and 171 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:57,919 I think his spirit just came back and it just 172 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,000 took a while for him to realize that he wasn't 173 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:09,000 there anymore. One Thanksgiving, This was probably like fifteen years ago. 174 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:11,960 Usually the family comes from all over the Bay area 175 00:10:12,519 --> 00:10:14,799 and they go visit. We go to Thanksgiving to my 176 00:10:14,879 --> 00:10:16,639 uncle's house because he has a bigger house up in 177 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:20,480 the hills, and so we go and we have dinner there. 178 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:24,360 My grandmother and my cousin and his wife are the 179 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:27,399 only ones that lived three hours away out in the valley. 180 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:31,080 My cousin this time, he was going to spend Thanksgiving 181 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:35,080 with his wife's family, and so he dropped her off 182 00:10:35,159 --> 00:10:38,399 at my uncle's house. But she needed someone to drive 183 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:41,679 her home after Thanksgiving. So my sister was like, oh, 184 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:45,879 I'll take you home Thanksgiving ended. I got home probably 185 00:10:45,919 --> 00:10:49,639 around like eight thirty. I lived in a little duplex, 186 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:51,360 so it was like a big house in front, and 187 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:54,279 he had these little tiny houses and they are connected 188 00:10:54,279 --> 00:10:58,679 by garages. The place was always really stuffy, and I 189 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:00,200 was in the back, so I would turn on the 190 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:03,159 porch light. And in the living room, my couch is 191 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:05,519 right against the main window that you can look out 192 00:11:05,519 --> 00:11:08,759 into the property, and so I would always open it 193 00:11:08,799 --> 00:11:10,919 a little bit so my cats could run in and out, 194 00:11:11,519 --> 00:11:14,039 and then against the wall to the left was the television, 195 00:11:14,039 --> 00:11:17,360 so I turned on the television. I fell asleep, and 196 00:11:17,399 --> 00:11:22,759 then I just suddenly woke up and just like a 197 00:11:22,759 --> 00:11:24,279 couple of feet of me, it's a door. I have 198 00:11:24,399 --> 00:11:27,200 the door open. I have that little thing that classed 199 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:29,960 the screen door open just like a couple of inches 200 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:31,840 so the cats can just wipe it and come in. 201 00:11:33,279 --> 00:11:35,919 And I suddenly wake up and it's like the cable 202 00:11:35,919 --> 00:11:39,240 box underneath my television says ten thirty. And I look 203 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:44,559 and I see this this thing that's like five foot tall. 204 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:47,120 But it's not a shadow person, but it's made out 205 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:51,080 of static, and it's just all static. You kind of 206 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:53,360 can tell where the head is because it's smaller at 207 00:11:53,399 --> 00:11:55,639 that part, but it's like an outline of a person, 208 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:58,279 but it's just static, like if you were watching TV. 209 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:02,960 It was just static. And it just stepped through my 210 00:12:03,039 --> 00:12:05,919 screen door because it was only open like maybe an inch. 211 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:10,399 It just stepped through my screen door and it just stopped, 212 00:12:10,919 --> 00:12:13,159 and I felt like it was just looking through the house, 213 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:15,000 and a house so small. It was just a living room, 214 00:12:15,039 --> 00:12:17,559 a kitchen, and then it had two really tiny bedrooms, 215 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:19,759 and it just where its head was moving and it 216 00:12:19,799 --> 00:12:22,600 was looking around I tried to keep my eyes closed 217 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:24,600 as much as I could because I didn't want it 218 00:12:24,639 --> 00:12:27,879 to know I was awake. I didn't know what it was. 219 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:32,120 And then it just stepped back out of my screen door, 220 00:12:32,159 --> 00:12:34,600 went through my screen door and left, and I just 221 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:36,720 kind of freaked out, and I was like, Okay, I'm 222 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:38,840 not I'm not going to get up where I'm visits there. 223 00:12:38,879 --> 00:12:40,919 It's going to jump me or something if I go 224 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:43,159 near the door. So it took me about twenty minutes, 225 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:46,120 and then I got up and I closed the door. 226 00:12:50,639 --> 00:12:53,320 The next day, I ended up talking to my sister 227 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:56,080 and I asked her how was the drive because it's 228 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:58,320 like a two and a half hour drive to take 229 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:00,519 my grandmother home. And then she was in the night 230 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:04,879 and then come back and she said she had the 231 00:13:04,919 --> 00:13:11,000 worst nightmares ever, so every time she would go to sleep. 232 00:13:11,039 --> 00:13:14,639 Because my grandmother's house is actually my great grandparents' house. 233 00:13:15,879 --> 00:13:18,360 The area used to be farming community, but it's like 234 00:13:18,399 --> 00:13:21,919 an old community, old house neighborhood. They were the first 235 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:25,559 ones to live there back in probably nineteen fifties or earlier. 236 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:28,879 The house never fell haunted. It just has like a 237 00:13:28,879 --> 00:13:32,720 little living room, two bedrooms, a little dining area and kitchen. 238 00:13:32,799 --> 00:13:36,840 It was really nice. My great grandparents had died there, 239 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:41,039 but it was never creepy there. And my sister said 240 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:46,240 she slept in my great grandfather's room. She said, every 241 00:13:46,279 --> 00:13:48,559 time she would close her eyes and go to sleep, 242 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:52,399 this demon would get on her and just started choking her. 243 00:13:53,759 --> 00:13:55,879 Was sitting on her and just choking her where she 244 00:13:55,879 --> 00:13:59,399 couldn't breathe, and she would wake up gagging, and she 245 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:03,000 would just try to calm herself down, and it happened 246 00:14:03,039 --> 00:14:05,799 a couple of times where it wasn't stopping, so she 247 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:07,720 just got out of the room, and then she went 248 00:14:07,759 --> 00:14:11,519 and slept with my grandmother. And I said, well, what 249 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:14,000 time did all this happen, and she said around like 250 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:18,000 ten thirty. And I was like, well, that's when I 251 00:14:18,039 --> 00:14:23,360 saw that static thing come in because we used to 252 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:26,559 be roommates. We used to live together at that duplex. 253 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:30,799 She had moved out, probably like a year or two before, 254 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:34,080 and she was staying at another one of the other duplexes. 255 00:14:34,879 --> 00:14:37,480 And I don't know if it was something that was 256 00:14:37,519 --> 00:14:40,559 looking for her and it knew it. She used to 257 00:14:40,559 --> 00:14:42,240 live with me and was looking for and she wasn't 258 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:43,559 at her place, so I went to see if it 259 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:45,960 was at my place and then ended up at my 260 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:50,919 grandmother's place. I didn't get to talk to my grandmother 261 00:14:51,039 --> 00:14:54,840 until Christmas because this was after Thanksgiving, and I spoke 262 00:14:54,879 --> 00:14:58,279 with her and she had horrible nightmares that night too 263 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:01,879 of something trying to ch ocur. But once my sister 264 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,440 was in the bed, it was fine. I know, sometimes 265 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:08,399 you can pick up if you have like people that 266 00:15:08,519 --> 00:15:11,840 aren't nice, sometimes you can pick up bad stuff from them. 267 00:15:12,279 --> 00:15:15,120 That's what I assumed maybe had happened. But it was 268 00:15:15,159 --> 00:15:19,200 weird that my grandmother two and a half hours away 269 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:21,080 and my sister's two and a half hours away. They 270 00:15:21,519 --> 00:15:25,000 actually they didn't see it as a static thing, but 271 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:28,480 it's weird that something happened to them that same night, 272 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:36,080 that something was very kind of violent towards them. I 273 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:39,720 had some weird dreams too at that house, where I 274 00:15:39,799 --> 00:15:42,240 had a really, really vivid dream that I woke up 275 00:15:42,279 --> 00:15:46,519 on a slab stone slab and I was held down 276 00:15:46,559 --> 00:15:48,919 by a whole bunch of people in cloaks, and someone 277 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:52,600 took a giant knife that you would chop like vegetables 278 00:15:52,639 --> 00:15:56,120 with and I could fill it, stab me in the 279 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:59,759 chest and go through my worbcage and hit nick one 280 00:15:59,759 --> 00:16:03,120 of my bones and go into my heart. And it 281 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:06,879 was like really really painful because they made it go 282 00:16:07,039 --> 00:16:10,320 between my rib cage and it only nicked one part 283 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:13,240 of the rib cage and it went into the heart. 284 00:16:13,399 --> 00:16:15,200 And when I woke up the next morning, because I 285 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:18,080 had to be like sixteen at the time, I had 286 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:21,240 like really bad chest pain and I didn't do anything 287 00:16:21,279 --> 00:16:24,840 that caused me to get hurt. But it was just 288 00:16:24,919 --> 00:16:29,440 weird that I had that pain, lingering pain for like 289 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:32,720 a week or so after, and I knew that it 290 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:36,000 nicked part of one of my rib cages and that's 291 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:38,039 why it hurt so bad. On top of it, but 292 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:42,639 I had like weird dreams and we had different stuff 293 00:16:42,639 --> 00:16:46,759 in the closet, and I think about it now, I'm like, well, 294 00:16:46,799 --> 00:16:49,600 we do live on a fault, so I don't know 295 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:52,840 if it's something to do with living on faults, earthquake 296 00:16:52,919 --> 00:16:59,000 faults with the ground changing and maybe something coming from that, 297 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:03,440 I don't know, or if it's something already there because 298 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:06,759 of that man. It's hearsay, but a lot of the 299 00:17:06,799 --> 00:17:10,319 neighbors did believe that the wife couldn't take it anymore, 300 00:17:10,319 --> 00:17:13,359 and they really think she killed him, So I don't 301 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:15,000 know if it's something to do with him in the 302 00:17:15,039 --> 00:17:35,160 house and then that sun disappeared, I don't know. Ten 303 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:37,920 years ago, I worked at a call center in downtown Oakland. 304 00:17:39,079 --> 00:17:43,400 I worked the night shift, and a lot of creepy, 305 00:17:43,599 --> 00:17:47,839 strange things went on in the office at night. I 306 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,359 started working there during the day shift, and then when 307 00:17:50,359 --> 00:17:53,240 the night shift opened up, I started working the night shift. 308 00:17:54,519 --> 00:17:57,119 You get paid more, you get to actually talk to 309 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:02,720 less people at night, and I really enjoyed that. It 310 00:18:02,759 --> 00:18:05,680 would start from eleven pm to seven in the morning. 311 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:10,079 Everybody would leave the office when you come in at 312 00:18:10,799 --> 00:18:14,880 eleven o'clock at night, and I'd have one lady with 313 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:19,160 me that she would stay with me until one and 314 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:29,440 then she would go home for the night. I always 315 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:32,359 thought I would see things at the corner of my eyes, 316 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:35,640 like they were always like a light brown shadow person. 317 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:38,920 You would just kind of at the corner the eye. 318 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:41,680 You would see a person standing there would be kind 319 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:44,079 of three D, but it would just be an outline 320 00:18:44,079 --> 00:18:46,359 of a person. And I thought I'd just watched too 321 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:52,079 many horror pictures and I just dismissed it until one 322 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:54,160 night I was working with a lady who stayed with 323 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:59,480 me until one am. We were chatting in between calls 324 00:18:59,519 --> 00:19:03,480 and was around midnight. She asked me how I liked 325 00:19:03,519 --> 00:19:07,200 my shift, and I told her it was fine, there 326 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:09,599 was nothing wrong with it, and she told me that 327 00:19:09,799 --> 00:19:13,680 she couldn't work the night shift. She asked me if 328 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:19,319 I saw the man that drags himself across the carpet. Basically, 329 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:25,920 there's this gray shadow person that's on his stomach and 330 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:29,519 you could see him reach his arm up above his 331 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:34,319 head towards the floor and just drags himself across the floor. 332 00:19:36,079 --> 00:19:38,920 And I would see him actually a couple of times 333 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:42,279 a week, and I found it kind of disturbing, and 334 00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:47,759 I was very upset that she actually saw it too. 335 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:50,960 When she told me she saw it, I said I 336 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,720 saw it too, and we just never spoke of it again. 337 00:19:54,839 --> 00:20:01,119 It was just really creepy with that specific sh shattle person. 338 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:08,799 He would actually move around a lot more when the atmosphere, 339 00:20:09,319 --> 00:20:12,720 at least five times a month would actually get really 340 00:20:13,599 --> 00:20:19,319 really heavy, and during that time in that office, you 341 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:24,279 would see a lot more shadow people. At night. It 342 00:20:24,319 --> 00:20:27,119 felt like you were in a room with like fifty people, 343 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:32,160 but there was nobody there. But yourself. On those days 344 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:35,559 where it was really heavy, heavy atmosphere, anytime you would 345 00:20:35,599 --> 00:20:41,279 turn around, you would just see multiple shadow figures anywhere 346 00:20:41,319 --> 00:20:45,759 from like a child's age to adult age, so like 347 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:48,519 I would say three or foot foot tall to probably 348 00:20:48,559 --> 00:20:52,599 about five foot tall. You would see several of them, 349 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:56,640 just clustered different areas. And then that's when the man 350 00:20:56,680 --> 00:21:01,240 who drags himself, that's when he actually he moves a lot. 351 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:07,680 He's quick, and you could see him going at the 352 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:10,079 corner of your eye, going in and out of the cubicles. 353 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:14,920 One evening, I actually saw him at the corner of 354 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:19,960 my eye coming around my desk, dragging himself towards me, 355 00:21:20,039 --> 00:21:22,559 and I threw my feet up on my chair and 356 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,440 I almost freaked out. I didn't put my feet down 357 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:27,079 the whole time unless I had to get up and 358 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:30,319 use the bathroom or get my lunch, and I put 359 00:21:30,319 --> 00:21:34,519 my feet down once the next shift came in. I 360 00:21:34,559 --> 00:21:36,480 don't know what was up with that, but it was 361 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:41,200 just when the atmosphere's really thick there, not only do 362 00:21:41,279 --> 00:21:45,880 you see like the gray brown shadow people, you see 363 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:52,839 these weird little blobs all over the floor. I've never 364 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:55,279 heard of this before. I don't know why I saw it. 365 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:58,440 I'm not a medium, I'm not a psychic. I just 366 00:21:58,559 --> 00:22:02,079 worked the night shift, and it would be these little 367 00:22:02,279 --> 00:22:05,640 blobs that are about somewhere big as like a super ball, 368 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:08,480 and others were big at about a softball, and they 369 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,319 were just all over the ground and it was just 370 00:22:11,839 --> 00:22:14,279 shadow people and these little blobs, and you had the 371 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:18,039 guy dragging himself across the floor. It was really weird. 372 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:21,200 And sometimes it would go on two nights in a row, 373 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:24,559 but it would happen at least five times a month. 374 00:22:24,839 --> 00:22:27,920 It was no ever any certain days that it would happen. 375 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:30,440 It would just occur when I would come into work. 376 00:22:36,079 --> 00:22:40,759 I get migraines, and I had a bad migraine coming on, 377 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:43,799 and so I took some tile and all. I always 378 00:22:43,839 --> 00:22:45,720 keep the lights on. I never turned off the lights. 379 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:47,920 It's way too creepy to be in there by myself 380 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:50,839 with the lights off. So during my break, I turned 381 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,519 off the lights. I put my feet up in the chair, 382 00:22:53,839 --> 00:22:58,440 leaning my head back. I had my back of my 383 00:22:58,519 --> 00:23:01,400 head against the back of the the office chair and 384 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:04,279 it was facing up towards the frelescient lights. So I 385 00:23:04,319 --> 00:23:08,839 had like this orange glow and my eyes with my 386 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:12,960 eyes closed. Right after I closed my eyes, like a 387 00:23:13,039 --> 00:23:16,359 couple of minutes later, I see like three women's faces 388 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:19,039 looking down on me. One is to the right of me, 389 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:21,680 one is to the left, and then the third one 390 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:23,920 would have had to stand in my lap, and they 391 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:26,640 were like a foot above my head and they were 392 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:30,960 just looking down at me. All I could make out was, 393 00:23:31,039 --> 00:23:35,119 I know, their hair was done up like I would say, 394 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,640 like eighteen hundreds nineteen hundreds, where women would do their 395 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:41,839 hair up with combs and stuff. And I couldn't get 396 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:45,319 a clear look at them, just you know, eyes, nose, lips, 397 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:50,000 feminine face. And then I opened my eyes and they 398 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,519 were gone. And I found it weird because when I 399 00:23:52,559 --> 00:23:55,319 saw them, they were the same colors of f relescient 400 00:23:55,440 --> 00:24:00,160 light coming in from the lights above. It was making 401 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:05,400 them this like orange kind of tone. It was very strange. 402 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:08,000 But my head, when I get bad migraines, I have 403 00:24:08,079 --> 00:24:10,240 to close my eyes. I have to take a little nap. 404 00:24:10,319 --> 00:24:14,119 I was taking a break otherwise I get sick. And 405 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:17,880 so I decided to close my eyes again and just 406 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:23,799 lean back and hoping it would like help decide the migraine. 407 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:25,480 So I said, well, I'm just going to close my 408 00:24:25,519 --> 00:24:27,519 eyes again. I'm going to try to just rest a 409 00:24:27,559 --> 00:24:32,079 little bit and maybe it'll help calm down the migraine. 410 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:34,960 And then as soon as I closed my eyes, I 411 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:39,720 leaned my head back against the chair. The three women's 412 00:24:39,759 --> 00:24:42,599 faces were like inches from my face. It was the 413 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,119 one woman on the left and the right looking down 414 00:24:45,279 --> 00:24:48,599 just straight at me. The third one again looked like 415 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:50,799 she would have been on my lap, and they were 416 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:54,240 just staring at me. And I just opened my eyes 417 00:24:54,319 --> 00:24:59,319 really really quick because it was really real, really vivid, 418 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,240 but I couldn't focus in on their face. I just 419 00:25:03,319 --> 00:25:06,160 knew that their hair was done up, and it was 420 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,400 just really weird that those three women were looking down 421 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:14,000 at me. Maybe about a year later or two, we 422 00:25:14,039 --> 00:25:16,720 moved into a bigger office across on the other side 423 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,599 of the floor we were on, and it was really 424 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:27,160 nice and I never saw anything there at night. After 425 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:30,200 a year or so, my management decided that we should 426 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:33,720 work from home. The problem was majority of the staff 427 00:25:33,799 --> 00:25:35,960 was able to work from home, but me and a 428 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:40,319 few other people were not, So they moved across town 429 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:44,279 to a building that actually had smaller offices than what 430 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:49,839 we had before. We were downtown Oakland by Lake Merritt, 431 00:25:50,039 --> 00:25:53,720 and then they moved more towards the downtown area closer 432 00:25:53,759 --> 00:25:57,559 to jack London. With this building, I did like it 433 00:25:57,599 --> 00:25:59,799 a lot more because they had a lot of security, 434 00:26:00,279 --> 00:26:03,640 so you always had security at the bottom of the building, 435 00:26:04,079 --> 00:26:05,799 and then you always had a key fob to get 436 00:26:05,839 --> 00:26:09,680 into the building, keyfob to get into the elevator and 437 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:14,240 go to only your floor. There was two walls of 438 00:26:14,279 --> 00:26:18,319 the office that were just pure glass, and during the 439 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:20,960 day it looked like it would have been a beautiful 440 00:26:21,039 --> 00:26:23,680 sight to see, like the downtown area, you could see 441 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:27,920 the bay. But at night, because it's dark outside and 442 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:33,480 light in the office, it actually turns the giant windows 443 00:26:33,519 --> 00:26:37,559 into actually mirrors, and I was very uncomfortable with that. 444 00:26:39,039 --> 00:26:42,079 And they had a series of Venetian blinds going across 445 00:26:42,799 --> 00:26:45,640 both of the walls, and so my co workers always 446 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,240 had the Venetian blinds up, so I always had to 447 00:26:48,279 --> 00:26:53,240 go and take them and release them down and close 448 00:26:53,279 --> 00:26:56,480 them because I felt really uncomfortable working in the middle 449 00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:58,440 of the night and then looking up and seeing just 450 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:02,519 a wall of mirrors looking at myself, and I always 451 00:27:02,519 --> 00:27:05,119 felt like something would be looking back at me if 452 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,440 I look up during the night. So where the two 453 00:27:08,559 --> 00:27:12,200 windows met at the corner of the office, there's this 454 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:16,920 support beam for the building itself, and it was weird 455 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:20,680 because it took up a lot of the corner. And 456 00:27:20,759 --> 00:27:23,240 so I was just next to this big support beam 457 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,680 and then the glass windows went around it, and then 458 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:31,680 the glass windows. They were probably about six inches gap 459 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:36,039 between the support beam and the glass window. And for 460 00:27:36,079 --> 00:27:38,880 some reason I just did not like that area, which 461 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:45,480 was weird. I just felt uncomfortable with it. One night, 462 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:50,279 I got another migraine. I'm just prone to those, and 463 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,519 so I took some tail and all good thing about 464 00:27:53,559 --> 00:27:57,319 this office was they had two sets of lights that 465 00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,160 you could turn on, so I can turn off one, 466 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,079 and I still had for the room lit up. I 467 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,279 turned off half of the lights, put all my timers 468 00:28:05,279 --> 00:28:07,799 so I can take my break, took some tailand awe, 469 00:28:07,839 --> 00:28:09,839 and then just leaned back in the chair, had my 470 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:15,319 head resting on the back of the chair, and then 471 00:28:15,319 --> 00:28:17,319 I had put my feet up and I closed my 472 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:21,359 eyes and I actually kind of fell asleep. Then I 473 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:26,440 woke up. Suddenly I'm just looking straight up at the 474 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:31,720 ceiling and I see dark smoke above me. Not like 475 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:35,440 if you were smoking cigarettes, it would be clear. It 476 00:28:35,559 --> 00:28:38,160 was really dark. It was black with a whole bunch 477 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,599 of shades of gray in it, and it was floating 478 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:47,880 up from my face up to the ceiling. And because 479 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,359 the smoke was so dark, I thought it was you know, 480 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,160 it looked like maybe you were burning like plastics or 481 00:28:53,279 --> 00:28:58,599 chemicals or something. Because the smoke was so dark, I 482 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,160 looked around the office and nothing was on fire. It 483 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,759 couldn't smell anything. And I just stared at it. I 484 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:07,240 just looked around the room, put my head back, and 485 00:29:07,279 --> 00:29:09,920 I was just looking at it. And it was really 486 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:14,559 weird because as it got higher in the air towards 487 00:29:14,599 --> 00:29:19,759 the cilling, it didn't dissipate. Usually smoke goes upward, it's 488 00:29:19,799 --> 00:29:22,519 thicker when it comes out, and then it kind of dissipates. 489 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,319 And then with this, it just went up and it 490 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,640 just stayed this shape. It looked like a like it 491 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:30,880 was four foot long, maybe a half a foot to 492 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:35,680 a foot wide, and it was moving like a solid 493 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,839 like it was an enity, a solid snake or something. 494 00:29:40,359 --> 00:29:42,960 And when it moved, it kind of curved back and 495 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,000 forth like a snake. But it was really choppy. It 496 00:29:46,039 --> 00:29:49,680 was really weird. It was creeping along in the air, 497 00:29:50,359 --> 00:29:52,759 and then I noticed after a while, it wasn't going 498 00:29:52,799 --> 00:29:56,240 straight to the celling. It was going off to the left. 499 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,480 As it was going to the left, it was heading 500 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:05,440 to the ceiling right in between where the glass windows 501 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,960 met the beam, And so I just watched it. It 502 00:30:09,039 --> 00:30:11,720 must have lasted like thirty seconds. It was just really 503 00:30:11,759 --> 00:30:15,039 slow and jerky, and it just was moving like a 504 00:30:15,079 --> 00:30:18,599 snake through the air, and it was just going off 505 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:21,039 to the left, and then the front part of it 506 00:30:21,079 --> 00:30:25,720 touched the ciling in between the part where the glass 507 00:30:25,759 --> 00:30:29,680 and the support beam was and it just slowly wiggled 508 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:33,759 into it and disappeared. I don't know what I went 509 00:30:33,799 --> 00:30:36,799 on with that. I know at that time when we 510 00:30:36,799 --> 00:30:39,319 were in that office, a lot of the employees were 511 00:30:39,799 --> 00:30:43,160 They seemed matter for some reason, and they got upset 512 00:30:43,279 --> 00:30:46,160 very easily. I know we worked with the public, but 513 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:50,559 I don't know. It was strange. It just people had 514 00:30:50,559 --> 00:30:57,079 a different They seemed upset. At that time. I took 515 00:30:57,079 --> 00:31:00,359 another nap when I had a migraine and I couldn't 516 00:31:00,359 --> 00:31:03,200 wake up, but I heard someone come open the door 517 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:06,720 and come into the office, walk around the room and 518 00:31:06,839 --> 00:31:12,720 leave the problem was when I finally woke up, I 519 00:31:12,839 --> 00:31:16,079 was asleep for maybe a couple of minutes. The door 520 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,160 was left Ajar and I always locked the door. I 521 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,920 have a key. Once people leave, I lock the door. 522 00:31:23,119 --> 00:31:24,960 When I go to the bathroom and I go get 523 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,119 by munch, I lock the door. I'm just like that. 524 00:31:29,319 --> 00:31:33,519 And it was weird that something came into the office 525 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,680 and walked around the room and then left. I don't 526 00:31:36,759 --> 00:31:39,279 remember everything that happened, but I remember it came into 527 00:31:39,319 --> 00:31:41,680 the room and then it left. Now it could have 528 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:46,920 been a security guard, but normally the security guards don't 529 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:50,359 come up during the night shift because they have just 530 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:55,720 the person who actually works at the entrance level that's 531 00:31:55,799 --> 00:31:59,400 locked and they have one security guard there. They do 532 00:31:59,519 --> 00:32:02,160 have other security guards around the property, but they don't 533 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:04,799 go through the floors like that. And you have to 534 00:32:04,839 --> 00:32:08,160 have a key fob per floor, whoever you where you 535 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:11,359 work at, especially after the building closes, you have to 536 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,240 have a key fob to get into the building and 537 00:32:13,319 --> 00:32:18,000 go directly to your floor. I'm not sure what happened 538 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:35,119 there After about a year, we moved to a smaller 539 00:32:35,119 --> 00:32:38,319 office because more people were able to work from home. 540 00:32:38,359 --> 00:32:43,640 But I still wasn't. This office was actually behind the elevators. 541 00:32:43,759 --> 00:32:47,279 There's actually two hallways behind the elevators, and we were 542 00:32:47,319 --> 00:32:51,319 the second farthest. And it's so weird how you go 543 00:32:51,559 --> 00:32:55,920 into different parts of this floor. You just get the 544 00:32:55,960 --> 00:33:01,079 weirdest feelings just being there. With this office. It didn't 545 00:33:01,079 --> 00:33:04,480 have a nice view, but it did have a window 546 00:33:05,359 --> 00:33:07,799 that one of the desk words out, but it wasn't mine. 547 00:33:08,039 --> 00:33:12,559 My computer was placed right next to the entrance of 548 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:16,119 the office. I didn't have any bad feelings about the 549 00:33:16,119 --> 00:33:19,559 office in general. It was just the hallway was really creepy. 550 00:33:19,759 --> 00:33:22,359 They had lights since their hallway, so you had to 551 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,359 go in the hallway and really move to get the 552 00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:29,319 lights going because otherwise it was very dale in there. Also, 553 00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:32,400 the hallways were really long, and I really did not 554 00:33:32,759 --> 00:33:36,680 like to look down the hallways. Like if I left 555 00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:40,839 the office to go get my lunch or something, I 556 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:45,400 don't look down the hallways. Another thing is the doors 557 00:33:46,039 --> 00:33:49,640 that the office doors were of solid wood, and then 558 00:33:49,759 --> 00:33:53,440 they had this really dense glass in the middle of 559 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,400 it that went from the bottom to the top, and 560 00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,440 you could just see shadows if someone walked by, and 561 00:33:59,519 --> 00:34:02,279 I felt really uncomfortable with that because I was right 562 00:34:02,319 --> 00:34:04,720 next to it, and I felt like something could watch me. 563 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:10,400 For some reason, the atmosphere. I never liked being out 564 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:14,000 there after two thirty at night in that part of 565 00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:18,000 the floor. It was just really uncomfortable. So I always 566 00:34:18,079 --> 00:34:20,719 made sure I took my lunch by like one thirty 567 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:24,639 at night, two of the latest, and then I would 568 00:34:24,639 --> 00:34:27,000 get back in the office and I wouldn't leave the 569 00:34:27,039 --> 00:34:30,199 office until I took another break, probably like five o'clock 570 00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:33,280 in the morning to use the bathroom. But it was 571 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:39,800 just kind of a creepy hallway. One night, I had 572 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:44,519 a series of just really really really long calls. I 573 00:34:44,559 --> 00:34:47,719 lost track of time, and it was already two thirty 574 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:51,239 in the morning. I haven't taken my lunch yet, and 575 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,760 I had to use the bathroom really bad. I would 576 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,320 rushed out of the office, close the door. I always 577 00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:02,360 make sure it's locked. I look down the hallway when 578 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:04,000 I step out of the door to the right or left, 579 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,360 because the hallways are really long and I'm scared I'm 580 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,039 going to see somebody, so I always look at the 581 00:35:08,039 --> 00:35:10,880 wall ahead of me. And so in between the offices 582 00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:14,320 there's always these huge like sixteen by twenty paintings in 583 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,440 class frames, and so I would always count. I stick 584 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:20,239 at the picture and then I would count three doors down, 585 00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:26,320 going down the hallway to the left, and then once 586 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:30,440 you hit to the third office, that's where the two 587 00:35:30,519 --> 00:35:33,599 hallways merge into one. And so what you do is 588 00:35:33,639 --> 00:35:36,880 you make a sharp write and then a sharp left, 589 00:35:37,039 --> 00:35:39,599 and then you can get to the bathroom, and then 590 00:35:39,599 --> 00:35:41,960 you can go down another hallway and you'll be at 591 00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:43,880 the reception desk, and then you can go to the 592 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:48,320 break room. And so that one night at two thirty, 593 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,119 I go down the hallway, go down three office doors, 594 00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,599 I make a sharp right, and then I just stop 595 00:35:55,599 --> 00:36:01,840 in my tracks. There is these huge, huge black circles. 596 00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:07,239 There was about five of them placed in between where 597 00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:10,119 I had to make a sharp left to the bathroom hallway. 598 00:36:11,079 --> 00:36:16,320 In between that hallway and that second hallway that I 599 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:21,239 turned around to, it was like these huge black circles. 600 00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,480 Like if you were out and it was at the 601 00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:27,039 heat of the day in the afternoon, the sun is 602 00:36:27,079 --> 00:36:29,480 coming down and it's directly over your head and comes 603 00:36:29,519 --> 00:36:33,559 down and you would have this black, you know, really 604 00:36:33,639 --> 00:36:38,480 dark circle around your feet. And that's what I saw. 605 00:36:38,519 --> 00:36:41,920 I sound five big black circles. It looks like if 606 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:45,920 an adult was standing in the peak time of sun 607 00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:50,400 in the afternoon. It was just these huge blast circles. 608 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:52,920 They had to be three maybe three feet or more 609 00:36:53,199 --> 00:36:58,119 in diameter, and they were just spaced out like there 610 00:36:58,159 --> 00:37:02,440 was like five people standing there, and the atmosphere was 611 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:10,760 really really heavy, very heavy. The problem with the black 612 00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:15,719 circles is the carpeting that they had in the hallway 613 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:20,320 was actually light brown and gray, so there was no 614 00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:24,199 black in the pattern of the squares that made the carpet, 615 00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:28,559 and so in my head, I just say, Okay, someone 616 00:37:28,599 --> 00:37:32,639 spilled something. I'm going to go past this. I'm going 617 00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:34,360 to go to the bathroom because I really have to go, 618 00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:35,719 and I're goen to come out and it's going to 619 00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:39,920 be gone. So instead of to get by, I actually 620 00:37:40,039 --> 00:37:43,599 just tried not to step in the circles because I 621 00:37:43,639 --> 00:37:48,760 felt I shouldn't do that. I felt very uncomfortable because 622 00:37:50,559 --> 00:37:52,960 I don't even know why they were there. So I 623 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,679 found little spaces in between, and I walked in between 624 00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:59,800 the circles, ran over to the bathroom, and then when 625 00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:02,880 I came out of the bathroom, the circles were still there, 626 00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:06,880 and Okay, I said, I'm going to go down this 627 00:38:07,039 --> 00:38:09,079 other opposite hallway. I'm going to get my lunch and 628 00:38:09,079 --> 00:38:10,599 we're gonna come back, and the circles were going to 629 00:38:10,639 --> 00:38:15,360 be gone. So I get my lunch fix. Everything takes 630 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,679 probably like five or ten minutes. Come back. The circles 631 00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:20,159 are still there. So I tell myself, well, yeah, well 632 00:38:20,199 --> 00:38:22,559 someone must have had like a pull ladder and I 633 00:38:22,599 --> 00:38:26,360 spilled everything on the floor. Yeah, that's probably what happened. 634 00:38:26,639 --> 00:38:32,599 And so I just walk in between the circles, rushed 635 00:38:32,639 --> 00:38:34,960 back to my office and lock the door. I don't 636 00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:36,960 want to come out of the office, but I have to. 637 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,840 And I stayed in there until about five in the morning, 638 00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:45,039 and then I had to force myself to come out 639 00:38:45,039 --> 00:38:47,119 because I really didn't want to come out because of 640 00:38:47,159 --> 00:38:50,440 those circles being there. It was just and the atmosphere 641 00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:53,239 and everything was just so thick. It was really creepy, 642 00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:55,800 and so I as soon as I walk out of 643 00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:59,320 the office, I locked my door and I walk off 644 00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:04,039 to the left. The airfell is really really, really really light. 645 00:39:04,199 --> 00:39:06,639 After that point, it just felt like you were like 646 00:39:06,679 --> 00:39:10,360 a balloon and you were floating like that heaviness was 647 00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:13,800 completely gone, and it was just weird. It was just 648 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:18,480 like because that heaviness was there before. It was just 649 00:39:18,519 --> 00:39:21,599 this huge distinction of coming out of the office into 650 00:39:21,639 --> 00:39:26,320 that hallway and then turning into that little area where 651 00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:29,960 you go down three offices and then you make a right, 652 00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:34,920 and the circles were just gone. It was just it 653 00:39:35,039 --> 00:39:38,199 was crazy. It was just like they were all five 654 00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:42,199 of those giant circles, all pitch black, were just gone. 655 00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:45,360 And the atmosphere was just like I felt like I 656 00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:52,760 could just float. It was just so nice. Then there 657 00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:56,159 was a third office we moved into that was a 658 00:39:56,159 --> 00:40:00,280 little bit smaller, the third office. It was on the 659 00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:04,679 hallway actually from the kitchen, I could just go straight 660 00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:06,320 when I got off the elevator, i'd be at the 661 00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:08,920 reception desk, and if you went to the left and 662 00:40:09,039 --> 00:40:14,239 behind a little break areas, there's a kitchen and another hallway. 663 00:40:15,039 --> 00:40:18,840 That office was nice. That office. I had no problems 664 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:20,840 with the door. They put me near the door again. 665 00:40:21,519 --> 00:40:25,519 When I came out of the office, though, to the 666 00:40:25,599 --> 00:40:28,639 right was a start of a little five to ten 667 00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:31,960 foot hallway and then you would go left and then 668 00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:35,519 it would be another long, like thirty foot hallway, and 669 00:40:35,559 --> 00:40:38,079 there was just a couple of offices there, and I 670 00:40:38,199 --> 00:40:41,239 still have a issue where I don't look down hallways. 671 00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:45,519 I just don't. I don't want to see whatever I 672 00:40:45,639 --> 00:40:49,920 might see. One night, I always always take my lunch 673 00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:55,719 at one thirty. So one thirty, I go to the door. 674 00:40:56,199 --> 00:40:59,039 I step out of the office, and to my left 675 00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:02,119 is a wall and it heads a painting in the 676 00:41:02,119 --> 00:41:05,000 glass frame, and to my right there's the base of 677 00:41:05,039 --> 00:41:09,960 the hallway started the hallway. Usually, I locked the door 678 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:13,119 and I turned towards the wall. And as I locked 679 00:41:13,119 --> 00:41:15,199 the door and start turning towards the wall, I feel 680 00:41:15,199 --> 00:41:19,760 someone staring at me, really intensely staring at me, like 681 00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:24,719 they're just like in the beginning hallway of next to me. 682 00:41:25,679 --> 00:41:29,519 And so instead of looking in that direction, I look 683 00:41:29,559 --> 00:41:34,480 in the glass frame of a painting and I see 684 00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:41,119 a gray figure, probably about five foot two five foot three. 685 00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,639 She had shoulder length hair. That's all I can The 686 00:41:43,679 --> 00:41:48,199 only detail I had was she was extremely extremely wet. 687 00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:51,400 Her hair was down to her shoulders and there was 688 00:41:51,599 --> 00:41:55,320 just she was just dripping with water. I got the 689 00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:57,880 fill of that, but all I saw was a gray person, 690 00:41:58,039 --> 00:42:01,440 but I could feel that she was just soaking wet 691 00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:03,960 like she just came out of the bay, came out 692 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,760 of the water, and she was just standing there. I 693 00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:11,440 know it was a she, and I just kept looking 694 00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:14,880 at the reflection because there was a little reflection in 695 00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:16,840 the glass that I was looking at, and I had 696 00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:20,239 my back tour and I had just locked the door, 697 00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:25,519 and I was looking into that picture frame. I blinked. 698 00:42:25,679 --> 00:42:28,599 She was still there, and it must have been about 699 00:42:28,639 --> 00:42:32,159 thirty seconds, and then she was just calm. And the 700 00:42:32,199 --> 00:42:37,960 funny thing was with this incident, I never felt really 701 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,480 scared like the other times. The other times they were 702 00:42:41,599 --> 00:42:44,719 just really creepy, but this time I felt like she 703 00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:47,320 was just there wondering why I was there, because I 704 00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:50,119 was the only person that worked the night shift on 705 00:42:50,159 --> 00:42:54,639 that entire floor maybe the building, besides the security people. 706 00:42:55,079 --> 00:42:58,119 So I felt like she came by to see who 707 00:42:58,159 --> 00:43:02,679 I was, what I was doing, and then she just left, 708 00:43:03,119 --> 00:43:06,639 and then I just went fixed my blunch, went to 709 00:43:06,679 --> 00:43:12,840 the bathroom, and went back to the office. That was 710 00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:16,079 the last thing I had that happened to me in 711 00:43:16,079 --> 00:43:20,320 that building before I started working from home. It was interesting. 712 00:43:21,599 --> 00:43:27,280 It's so strange to see just being in different sides 713 00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:32,039 of a floor or hallways and the different things that 714 00:43:32,079 --> 00:43:36,000 you you could see, and it could be like really 715 00:43:36,159 --> 00:43:39,880 pleasant in one area and then just really creepy the 716 00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:44,400 next area. I don't know. It's an old Oakland's a 717 00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:49,920 really old city. You got a lot of different things 718 00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:53,559 that happened throughout the dred couple hundred years, and then 719 00:43:53,599 --> 00:43:56,159 plus you have the nineteen oh six earthquake where they 720 00:43:56,199 --> 00:43:59,599 had a lot of fires and people died. It may 721 00:43:59,639 --> 00:44:02,719 not exp all the stuff that was happening, but it's 722 00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:05,400 a rich city and it had a lot of people 723 00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:09,480 that lived there and died. So I can't say what 724 00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:13,000 specifically was from, but I would assume there would be 725 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:13,960 a lot of ghosts there. 726 00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:24,719 Speaker 3: What did you think of these stories? Imagine working in 727 00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:26,679 the night shift, and I'm always amazed by you guys 728 00:44:26,679 --> 00:44:28,360 who can work in the night shift and listen to 729 00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:30,119 true scary stories at the same time. 730 00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:31,760 Speaker 2: I don't know how you do it. 731 00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:35,800 Speaker 3: Anyway, Sonia Jose and several dms have come in asking 732 00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:38,639 about the Spanish version of this show of true scary story. 733 00:44:39,079 --> 00:44:42,800 That podcast is called de roor Historias Trealis, which is 734 00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:45,440 true Stories of Terror. 735 00:44:45,519 --> 00:44:47,280 Speaker 2: I guess, and the show is still active. 736 00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:49,559 Speaker 3: I know the questions were coming in about that, but 737 00:44:49,599 --> 00:44:51,880 we're still waiting on more stories. So what I do 738 00:44:52,039 --> 00:44:54,119 is I wait for a couple of stories to come in, 739 00:44:54,559 --> 00:44:56,800 then I edit them and publish them. But we haven't 740 00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:58,920 received a lot, and I feel like people get scared 741 00:44:59,159 --> 00:45:01,719 right when and they're supposed to call, like as in 742 00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:04,880 we schedule a phone call, we get ghosted, you know, 743 00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:06,960 right at that point. But I need your help here. 744 00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:09,360 If you know someone who has a story to share, 745 00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:12,480 have them email me. We're gonna find another way to 746 00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:13,840 share it in case they don't want a phone call, 747 00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:15,480 because you just want to send a voicemail. 748 00:45:15,519 --> 00:45:16,199 Speaker 2: We can try that. 749 00:45:16,639 --> 00:45:19,800 Speaker 3: Even those voice notes through whatsapped, we can't even try that, Like, 750 00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:21,719 we just need to get more stories in. And I 751 00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:23,840 feel like it might be a little intimidating to actually 752 00:45:24,079 --> 00:45:26,920 set up a time call and then you know, have 753 00:45:27,039 --> 00:45:29,079 that story set out, Like I think it's that, or 754 00:45:29,119 --> 00:45:30,840 it might be the permission slip, you know, the permission 755 00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:32,760 form that says, hey, yeah, you're allowed to use my 756 00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:34,639 voice and the recording and everything. 757 00:45:35,119 --> 00:45:36,440 Speaker 2: But it does scare some people up. 758 00:45:36,679 --> 00:45:38,960 Speaker 3: But you can also reach out to me, like in 759 00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:43,519 my Instagram account is edwind Cove e d w I nCoV. 760 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:45,039 Speaker 2: You can DM me there. 761 00:45:45,199 --> 00:45:47,079 Speaker 3: It lands on the other inbox in case we're not 762 00:45:47,119 --> 00:45:50,519 following each other, but I get to them. I review 763 00:45:50,559 --> 00:45:52,599 that you know that other inbox every once in a while, 764 00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:55,119 and I will be keeping an eye out for these 765 00:45:55,199 --> 00:45:58,360 kinds of stories. Remember, we're looking for personal paranormal stories 766 00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:00,639 in Spanish, but also we're all. 767 00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:02,360 Speaker 2: Taking stories for this show True Scary Story. 768 00:46:02,559 --> 00:46:05,039 Speaker 3: You can go to true scarystory dot com, fill out 769 00:46:05,039 --> 00:46:08,320 the form, and you know if you think your story 770 00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:10,920 is too short, that is okay, that's perfect. 771 00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:12,800 Speaker 2: We're actually coming up with a way. 772 00:46:12,599 --> 00:46:16,239 Speaker 3: To put them together into kind of a compilation style episode. 773 00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:18,239 Speaker 2: So all you have to do is send it in 774 00:46:18,519 --> 00:46:20,239 and we'll find a way to publish it. 775 00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:23,119 Speaker 3: We did get a couple of reviews on Apple Podcasts. 776 00:46:23,119 --> 00:46:26,000 Thank you so much for these. We have one from 777 00:46:26,119 --> 00:46:28,760 let Me See It comes from Shasta five five five seven. 778 00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:31,239 Recently found this podcast and I love it so far. 779 00:46:31,599 --> 00:46:35,039 Just listen to the Smiling Man episode. Wow, I was enthralled. 780 00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:37,840 Keep them coming. Thank you so much for this Shasta. 781 00:46:38,079 --> 00:46:40,960 Turns out that story The Smiling Man from the Woods 782 00:46:41,679 --> 00:46:45,199 is still our top episode of last year and kind 783 00:46:45,199 --> 00:46:47,320 of it's approaching of all time. It might be already 784 00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:49,719 the most downloaded episode of all time that we have. 785 00:46:50,079 --> 00:46:52,760 Speaker 2: The Smiling Man from the Woods really eerie. 786 00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,760 Speaker 3: I've listened to it multiple times and I always always 787 00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:57,360 listen to I always think I'm just gonna listen to 788 00:46:57,400 --> 00:46:59,639 the first part, but no end up listening all the 789 00:46:59,639 --> 00:47:02,840 way through. It's really long, but it's a cool, cool episode. 790 00:47:03,199 --> 00:47:07,440 Another one for Mirage Finn says good Scary Stuff. Says 791 00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:10,280 good scary stories, good stuff, short and simple. 792 00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:10,719 Speaker 2: Love it. 793 00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:13,159 Speaker 3: Thank you so much for that review. We have another one. 794 00:47:13,199 --> 00:47:16,800 This one's from Lorimer Black says the best. Not only 795 00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:19,440 is this the best true paranormal story podcast, I would 796 00:47:19,519 --> 00:47:22,079 argue that it's the only good one. No obnoxious host, 797 00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:26,079 thank you, no rambling incoherent stories, no one trying desperately 798 00:47:26,119 --> 00:47:29,079 to get their fifteen minutes of podcast fame, nothing too 799 00:47:29,079 --> 00:47:31,920 over the top, just very believable stories told in play 800 00:47:32,039 --> 00:47:37,159 language by average people. Love it and I appreciate that. Lourmer, 801 00:47:37,199 --> 00:47:39,559 thank you so much for this review. If you want 802 00:47:39,559 --> 00:47:41,440 to leave me a review on Apple podcast, i'd be 803 00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:43,960 I always get super excited when I get them and 804 00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,320 I go through them, so thank you so much for this, 805 00:47:46,519 --> 00:47:49,440 but yeah, actually, in that last review, this is exactly 806 00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:51,039 the point of true scary story. 807 00:47:51,159 --> 00:47:54,199 Speaker 2: We share stories of people like regular people like. 808 00:47:54,159 --> 00:47:57,159 Speaker 3: You and me, who just want to share their experiences 809 00:47:57,559 --> 00:47:59,280 and then have the rest of us hear them out. 810 00:47:59,519 --> 00:48:02,320 It's actually one of the main reasons why we get 811 00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:04,639 more stories is when people hear something that they can 812 00:48:04,679 --> 00:48:07,360 relate to, they say, hey, I can tell my story too, 813 00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:09,400 And that's the whole point of this. We don't try 814 00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:11,920 to like overdo it, we don't try to make things 815 00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,559 up or like you know, any of that stuff. We 816 00:48:14,679 --> 00:48:17,760 just get the stories as they happen, as they experienced it. 817 00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:20,000 Speaker 2: That's the whole point of this. So I appreciate that 818 00:48:20,079 --> 00:48:21,840 it's coming through that way. So really cool. 819 00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:26,679 Speaker 3: This episode was edited and sound designed the Sarah Vorhez 820 00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:30,039 Wendel a VW sound with additional production by Bianca Chavez, 821 00:48:30,119 --> 00:48:32,079 Sofia Petes, and Edwin Korujes. 822 00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:34,800 Speaker 2: Here's True. If you're subscribed, I'll be back next week. 823 00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:38,880 Speaker 3: Thank you very much for listening. Keep it Scary everyone soon.