1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,080 Speaker 1: For years he thought that he was unlucky enough to 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:06,000 live in haunted houses. But after the voice they started 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:09,359 mimicking dead family members, he realized whatever this may have 4 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,800 been was following him the entire time. My name is 5 00:00:12,919 --> 00:00:17,280 Edwin and here is Zach's true scary story. 6 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:26,519 Speaker 2: Is Back in grade school, I want to say it 7 00:00:26,679 --> 00:00:30,960 was third grade. We were in and out of houses. 8 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:33,799 My mom rented a lot of places at the time. 9 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:40,280 This was in New Albany, Indiana. We got evicted from 10 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:42,880 a house because the person was no longer interested in 11 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:45,039 renting and they wanted to sell it, so we moved 12 00:00:45,079 --> 00:00:52,119 into a house down the road. I remember as a 13 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:56,320 kid when we first moved in, I slept in that 14 00:00:56,439 --> 00:01:02,320 room once and never wanted to again. My mom tried everything. 15 00:01:02,359 --> 00:01:04,280 She even got me a fish tank up there so 16 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:06,560 I would have to go up there into that room. 17 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:11,200 I slept on the couch nine times out of ten. Again. 18 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:14,719 I can't remember what happened in that room, but I 19 00:01:14,879 --> 00:01:18,439 never wanted to go up there again. And in this house, 20 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:22,280 weird things would happen. There would be like my mom's jewelry. 21 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:25,079 She kept it in a lock box. If she wanted 22 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:30,000 to wear something out it would be in that lock box, 23 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:34,200 and she'd know what it was where it was. Every 24 00:01:34,239 --> 00:01:36,680 now and again she would open it, go to get 25 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:40,200 something out, and go, hey, where's this necklace. And there 26 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,040 was one time where she had gone into the room 27 00:01:43,079 --> 00:01:46,200 to get said necklace, and I was in the room 28 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:49,439 adjacent to hers, and I saw the necklace float down 29 00:01:49,439 --> 00:01:53,400 the hallway. I didn't see it place itself on the 30 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:55,480 coffee table in the living room, but that's where we 31 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:59,680 found it. And this is what would happen with a 32 00:01:59,719 --> 00:02:03,079 lot of her jewelry. If she was planning on wearing it, 33 00:02:03,079 --> 00:02:06,319 it would find itself on the living room coffee table. 34 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:11,639 She was freaked out by it. I never sensed anything malicious. 35 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:14,240 She didn't either. She use just I don't want to 36 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:20,759 be in the Poltergeist movie. It's basically her takeaway. The 37 00:02:20,879 --> 00:02:24,199 night that we officially moved in there, she had just 38 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:27,319 finished dinner. We sat down at the table. There was 39 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:31,560 a closet under the stairs, and the door just you 40 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:35,439 heard the handle turn. It opened on its own, handle 41 00:02:35,479 --> 00:02:40,080 released and it slowly swung all the way open. My 42 00:02:40,159 --> 00:02:43,479 mom froze and she pointed to me, because I was 43 00:02:43,479 --> 00:02:46,080 the closest to the door, and she said, go shut 44 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:48,840 the door and tell it never to do that again. 45 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:55,240 I think I was twelve. Maybe I did what she said, 46 00:02:55,479 --> 00:03:01,240 and that door never did open again. My stepfather came 47 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:04,479 back into the picture, not a very nice guy, not 48 00:03:04,599 --> 00:03:07,840 to me anyway. I remember the first night he came back. 49 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:14,159 I was watching a movie on the living room TV. 50 00:03:15,479 --> 00:03:19,319 He said, hey, stop the movie, turn off the TV, 51 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:24,159 come and eat. I did that, sat down at the table. 52 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:28,199 The second I sat down, full volume. You hear the 53 00:03:28,319 --> 00:03:31,240 movie music and all coming on. He goes I thought, 54 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:33,680 I told you to turn that off, and I'm like, 55 00:03:33,759 --> 00:03:37,240 I did. He goes in there, he turns off the TV, 56 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:42,759 turns off the DVD player, comes in, sets down the 57 00:03:42,879 --> 00:03:49,159 TV blast white noise, like really loud static, to a 58 00:03:49,199 --> 00:03:51,360 point where we can't even hear each other, and it 59 00:03:51,439 --> 00:03:56,599 was like an old CRTTV. He froze when he sat down. 60 00:03:56,680 --> 00:04:01,319 This happened because not only did he turn off the TV, 61 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:04,599 but I remember him. I remember asking him, I thought, 62 00:04:04,599 --> 00:04:07,199 you turned it off, and he said I did. I 63 00:04:07,319 --> 00:04:11,960 unplugged it and I looked and it was indeed unplugged, 64 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,560 but it was on right When everybody got in the 65 00:04:14,599 --> 00:04:21,439 room and saw it. It turned off that house wound 66 00:04:21,519 --> 00:04:28,920 up burning down while everybody was away. My stepdad a 67 00:04:28,959 --> 00:04:32,639 couple months ago he passed away, and apparently he said 68 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:36,279 that he had done that, but he admitted to a 69 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:41,399 lot of stuff he didn't do too, So I don't 70 00:04:41,399 --> 00:04:44,160 know for sure, but I don't think he did that, 71 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:46,160 or if he did, it's because he was scared of 72 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:49,680 the place. But I've noticed from that point on, I've 73 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:54,360 had something. It always feels like somebody's watching me when 74 00:04:54,399 --> 00:05:00,560 I'm alone. After that house burned down, moved into a 75 00:05:00,639 --> 00:05:05,480 house in Cordon, Indiana, and we were in a we're 76 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:09,079 in a trailer for a bit, and not too much 77 00:05:09,079 --> 00:05:13,800 weird happened, nothing that couldn't be explained. But I've always 78 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:17,839 from at least from that house that burned down on, 79 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:24,360 I noticed that I was extreme, like even more sensitive 80 00:05:24,399 --> 00:05:27,560 than I already was to paranormal stuff. That's what I 81 00:05:27,639 --> 00:05:30,199 think is happening, is something attached itself to me from 82 00:05:30,279 --> 00:05:35,800 that house because I was the first one that had 83 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:41,560 actually gotten home because school let out. I remember there's 84 00:05:41,639 --> 00:05:44,040 like a cooling vent on the one of those spinning 85 00:05:44,079 --> 00:05:47,360 cooling vents on the top of the house, and I 86 00:05:47,399 --> 00:05:49,639 remember seeing a little black smoke coming out. But I 87 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:52,120 thought my mom was burning dinner or something. She put 88 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:54,959 something in forgot so I opened the door and it's 89 00:05:55,079 --> 00:06:00,600 just an inferno. It's weird because I tell you, if 90 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:04,759 you do that, flames can shoot out and burn you 91 00:06:04,959 --> 00:06:11,079 or kill you. The flame sucked into the house. There 92 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:15,839 was a I remember seeing the outline of somebody there. 93 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:20,560 I immediately shut the door, told my neighbor call the 94 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:29,000 fire department, and she did. It was after that we 95 00:06:29,079 --> 00:06:33,600 moved to Gordon. The house that we moved into after 96 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:36,040 we had been in the trailer for a year or two, 97 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:40,879 it apparently had some history as well, from what we 98 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:45,639 gathered from asking neighborsho had been there a while, and 99 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:48,800 from researching the property at the library and wherever else 100 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,720 we could get documents, because after that one house in 101 00:06:51,759 --> 00:06:54,839 New Albany, my mom wanted to know the history of 102 00:06:54,879 --> 00:07:02,120 places before we got fully settled. Apparently, from what she 103 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:08,480 told me, she found the house's previous One of the 104 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:13,680 previous owners lost their daughter who was a teenager preteen, 105 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:19,920 and this was like nineteen tens time that time era. 106 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:27,079 The couple had gotten into seances to try and talk 107 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:30,680 to her and may or may not have been successful. 108 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:37,279 They contacted something. I know because that place you'd hear 109 00:07:37,319 --> 00:07:41,439 people talking to you, addressing you if you were there alone, 110 00:07:42,639 --> 00:07:45,120 and most of the time it was one voice you heard. 111 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:48,160 Sometimes you'd hear two, but you'd hear people moving around 112 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:51,199 upstairs when no one was there. We had dogs and cats, 113 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:55,879 but they It wasn't like a cat run across the 114 00:07:55,879 --> 00:08:01,920 floor or a dog. It was specifically humans steps. The 115 00:08:01,959 --> 00:08:06,000 cadence was that of a full grown adult or it 116 00:08:06,079 --> 00:08:09,920 sounded bipedal, something larger than a dogger cat. And the 117 00:08:09,959 --> 00:08:12,720 cats and dogs would sit at the bottom of the stairs, 118 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:14,759 look up at the top, and growl and bark all 119 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:18,600 the time. The cats would hiss me out at it. Occasionally, 120 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:21,279 when running up or down the stairs, they would suddenly 121 00:08:21,399 --> 00:08:28,439 jump and go a lot faster or turn around. My 122 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:32,639 bedroom was at the bottom of the stairs, immediately to 123 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:36,080 the right. There was a door that led into my room. 124 00:08:37,759 --> 00:08:41,440 There's two really specific incidences. One happened in that room. 125 00:08:42,159 --> 00:08:46,679 My stepfather, I mentioned he's not the nicest guy. On 126 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:50,399 a weekly basis, I could expect to be beat at 127 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:53,440 least once, and he never did it in front of 128 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:56,519 my mom. Just he would do it when he had 129 00:08:56,679 --> 00:09:02,399 the kids there alone. And when he did this one time, 130 00:09:02,399 --> 00:09:05,480 it was right before my mom got home. I was 131 00:09:05,919 --> 00:09:09,720 at this point, almost to the point where I was 132 00:09:09,759 --> 00:09:13,840 moving out. I had it, I was done, but I 133 00:09:13,879 --> 00:09:18,559 wasn't old enough. I got to where I would bravely 134 00:09:18,639 --> 00:09:22,159 and more likely stupidly, I would yell back at him, 135 00:09:22,159 --> 00:09:26,200 and we'd have shouting matches because I was just I 136 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:27,960 was tired of it. I want out of that situation. 137 00:09:28,879 --> 00:09:31,320 One of our shouting matches, my mom comes down the stairs, shoe, 138 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,559 what's going on? Why are you all fighting? He tells 139 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:39,240 her that that I'm going crazy and that I'm saying nonsense. 140 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:44,600 I turn. I forget what I said to him, but 141 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:48,039 I was like, it was something along the lines of 142 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:50,879 you need to shut up and leave me the hell alone. 143 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:54,559 Right when I said that, I was putting away glasses 144 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:58,720 because I had just done the dishes and I had 145 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:01,759 a glass in my hand. I wasn't squeezing it hard 146 00:10:01,799 --> 00:10:04,720 or anything, because I had one my other hand too, 147 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:08,360 but the one in my left hand exploded when I 148 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:11,759 turned and said that to him. He was highly religious. 149 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:14,639 He thought from that moment on that I was possessed 150 00:10:14,639 --> 00:10:18,879 and he was actually scared of me, but that didn't 151 00:10:18,919 --> 00:10:25,159 stop him from continuing his treatment of me. There was 152 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:29,159 a night after that where he and my mom were fighting. 153 00:10:31,279 --> 00:10:36,720 It never got too physical, but he'd lay hands on her. 154 00:10:36,879 --> 00:10:41,600 She had come downstairs and either come in my room 155 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:43,440 to get away from because it was one of the 156 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:47,480 few rooms that had a locke, or the bathroom. I remember, 157 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:49,519 after it was all said and done, I'm laying in bed, 158 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:51,360 trying to get to sleep because I have school the 159 00:10:51,399 --> 00:10:55,080 next day. It was after my mom went upstairs, as 160 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:57,600 after my stepdad went upstairs, and I remember it was 161 00:10:57,639 --> 00:11:01,960 really weird because he actually came in and apologized to me. 162 00:11:03,799 --> 00:11:06,600 That was just something he never did. But I remember 163 00:11:06,639 --> 00:11:12,080 hearing after they had went to bed, just hearing a 164 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:16,279 girl's whisper, just good night. I wasn't half asleep, but 165 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:18,960 I was starting to nod off when I heard it, 166 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:23,720 and I immediately, without thinking, I said it back. And 167 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:27,840 then I jumped awake, like that wasn't a dream, like 168 00:11:27,919 --> 00:11:30,320 it made it. I was going to sleep and it 169 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:33,600 woke me up. But I had talked to my mom. 170 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:35,639 She said she had heard stuff like that too, and 171 00:11:35,759 --> 00:11:39,759 especially after I left, they were still living there. They 172 00:11:39,799 --> 00:11:43,120 said that there was a lot of weird things that 173 00:11:43,159 --> 00:11:47,399 happened after I left, to the point where they had 174 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:50,080 sold the house and moved out. They moved across the 175 00:11:50,159 --> 00:11:56,960 river to Kentucky. Things were quiet for a while. Where 176 00:11:57,039 --> 00:12:01,039 my dad lived and where I currently live is an 177 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:05,000 old military housing unit. It's called the Camp Taylor's the 178 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:10,399 area basically it used to be this massive military housing 179 00:12:10,519 --> 00:12:14,039 area for World War One and World War Two soldiers. 180 00:12:14,639 --> 00:12:16,840 Some people say it was just World War Two, some 181 00:12:16,919 --> 00:12:22,559 people say it was both. I here mixed things, so 182 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:28,799 I just say both to cover my bases. But because 183 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:33,960 it's military housing, like you can imagine the history that's here, 184 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:38,000 a lot of things go bump in the night. So 185 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:45,600 in my dad's house when i'd just gotten basically my 186 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:49,559 life had hit a low point after moving out of 187 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,240 my mom's and being on a high point for a bit, 188 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:57,039 I just stopped college because I took my teacher's advice 189 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:00,679 and they said there's no jobs for or partly any 190 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:04,120 degrees get into a trade. My grandfather passed away a 191 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:09,759 month before my grandmother had just passed away. I'm not 192 00:13:09,799 --> 00:13:13,840 sure I've been told this is not normal and or 193 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:18,279 a gift that I've been given. But basically, if somebody 194 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:22,080 in my family passes away and I know them at all, 195 00:13:23,159 --> 00:13:24,879 I will have a dream with them in it and 196 00:13:24,919 --> 00:13:28,360 we will be like walking down a beach with my grandfather. 197 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:32,080 It was we were walking down a beach, talking, laughing, 198 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:36,559 having a good time, and we stop and he turns 199 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:41,320 to me and goes, it's been really fun and I 200 00:13:41,519 --> 00:13:46,919 love talking to you, but you have to wake up. 201 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:51,240 Like what you mean? He goes, I'm going I have 202 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:54,720 to continue. If you follow me, you're not going to 203 00:13:54,799 --> 00:13:58,759 wake up, So you need to wake up right now. 204 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:03,120 I am woken up by my dad shaking me awake 205 00:14:04,399 --> 00:14:09,600 and he says, hey, Grandpa passed away a couple hours ago. 206 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:13,799 I was like, oh, okay, I was half asleep. I 207 00:14:13,799 --> 00:14:18,720 couldn't process it, especially after what I had just experienced. 208 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:24,399 And then with my grandmother, we were just in a 209 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:29,840 bus station. It was weird because it was just entirely white. 210 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:34,879 As far as you can see. There's just this little 211 00:14:34,879 --> 00:14:38,320 white bench. I sit down on it next to her, 212 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:43,360 and she had als. She got it from it activated 213 00:14:43,399 --> 00:14:46,840 when they used anesthesia on her. I learned there is 214 00:14:46,879 --> 00:14:51,200 a gene that can be carried and not notice that 215 00:14:51,279 --> 00:14:54,960 if you're if you are put under with a certain anesthesia, 216 00:14:55,159 --> 00:14:59,679 it'll cause it to set in. We sat, we talked. 217 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:03,720 She she was very scared of dying. She was terrified 218 00:15:04,559 --> 00:15:09,399 and in denial completely, which I would be too if 219 00:15:09,399 --> 00:15:11,639 I were in her shoes. She was completely healthy up 220 00:15:11,679 --> 00:15:14,080 until she got the als, and then she lived for 221 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:16,440 a few years. After that, she lost the ability to 222 00:15:16,519 --> 00:15:21,159 talk and she was frustrated constantly. But I remember waking 223 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:23,519 up in the middle of the night hearing her crying, 224 00:15:23,559 --> 00:15:26,240 and I walked in the room and said, Hey, what's 225 00:15:26,279 --> 00:15:28,279 the matter, And she just said, I don't want to die. 226 00:15:29,799 --> 00:15:32,559 I kind of chuckled a little bit. I was trying 227 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:35,200 to cheer her up, and I was like, everybody has 228 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:38,279 to eventually. It was like, I don't want you to go, 229 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:41,159 but we all have to go eventually. And this is 230 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:46,879 when she was still alive, when she had passed on again. 231 00:15:47,159 --> 00:15:49,559 I had no knowledge this had happened, but I had 232 00:15:49,559 --> 00:15:51,440 a dream with her in it. We're in that bus station. 233 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:57,159 I can't remember the conversation. I remember it being happy. 234 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:01,639 I remember laughing with her, and then it stopped the 235 00:16:01,679 --> 00:16:04,919 same way and she turns to me, and she goes, 236 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:07,080 I hate to say it, but I have to go, 237 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,759 and you need to wake up soon. If you do not, 238 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:14,679 if you don't wake up, you're not going to I said, 239 00:16:14,679 --> 00:16:17,000 but wait, hold on, I need to ask one thing, 240 00:16:17,159 --> 00:16:20,399 and I need to remember this. I said, I remember 241 00:16:20,559 --> 00:16:25,320 talking with Grandpa last time. I said, do you I 242 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:33,000 want to remember something from this, And I said, what happens? 243 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:40,039 What happens when you go? Where do you go? And 244 00:16:40,159 --> 00:16:44,000 do I have to worry because I am I'm by 245 00:16:44,759 --> 00:16:47,799 and I had a boyfriend at the time, I still do, 246 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:52,399 and I had heard so much from local churches about 247 00:16:52,399 --> 00:16:58,080 how that's basically guaranteed you're going to help. I remember 248 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:05,160 asking her, and she smiled and said, as long as 249 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:07,920 you keep as long as you keep on the path 250 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:11,400 you're on, and you continue to be the person that 251 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:16,519 you are, you're going to be fine. You don't have 252 00:17:16,599 --> 00:17:21,799 to worry. And then I wake up and my dad 253 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:25,000 was He was in tears, which he's a military veteran, 254 00:17:25,079 --> 00:17:29,599 so I knew it was going to be bad. I 255 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:31,480 knew it was going to be coming next because of 256 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:36,200 what happened with my grandfather. And he could barely choke 257 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:45,039 out the words and he said, Grandma's gone. I didn't 258 00:17:45,079 --> 00:17:52,759 expect it to get to me. It's been years. There's 259 00:17:52,799 --> 00:17:55,359 a reason I'm telling this. There's a reason i'm telling 260 00:17:55,359 --> 00:18:04,039 you this aside from that oddity about me. So fast 261 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:08,359 forward to this point where I have applied for the 262 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:12,079 current job I'm in. There was just my dad was 263 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:14,440 upset with me because I dropped out of college. I 264 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:19,400 didn't meet people's expectations. It was just me eating at 265 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:27,000 myself in my head. I was miserable. Me and my 266 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:31,720 stepbrothers who had lived there, always would see something dark 267 00:18:32,319 --> 00:18:36,279 between the bathroom and bedroom doorways when we were sitting there, 268 00:18:36,319 --> 00:18:38,440 and one of my stepbrothers had a temper and he 269 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:40,480 had actually ripped all the doors off so we couldn't 270 00:18:40,519 --> 00:18:46,400 close the doors. But you would hear somebody haul up 271 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:50,000 the stairs as fast as somebody could possibly go, and 272 00:18:50,039 --> 00:18:53,160 you just see this black figure dart into a room. 273 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:57,880 Sometimes the door would slam, sometimes it wouldn't. But I 274 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:03,039 remember waking up one time and see feeling an imprint 275 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:05,440 of somebody sitting on my bedside. I thought it was 276 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:07,720 my dad. So I wake up and I'm like, what's wrong? 277 00:19:07,839 --> 00:19:12,920 And the imprints there and this is a memory for Mattress. 278 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:20,240 By the way imprints there, no one's there knowing the 279 00:19:20,279 --> 00:19:22,400 history of the place. I figured it was a military veteran. 280 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:25,519 I figured it was one of their spirits, and it 281 00:19:25,559 --> 00:19:28,200 was lonely and it just wanted to be with somebody. 282 00:19:29,599 --> 00:19:32,960 So I just started talking to it. I forget what 283 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,359 all I said. It was something along the lines of 284 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,400 if I would appreciate it, if you don't scare me, 285 00:19:38,559 --> 00:19:43,799 but if you need somebody to if you need somebody 286 00:19:43,839 --> 00:19:47,839 to talk to, I am here. I just let me 287 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:50,799 know you're here, and I'll start talking to you. And 288 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:55,359 by no means did I mean follow me around or anything. 289 00:19:56,359 --> 00:20:02,039 After I said that, the imprint lifted. I heard boots 290 00:20:02,039 --> 00:20:04,240 with like steeled you know how they have the little 291 00:20:04,319 --> 00:20:08,559 World War One boots. They had the flat sole of 292 00:20:08,559 --> 00:20:11,359 the boot and they would have little metal studs. They 293 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:15,119 weren't pointed, but they were rounded. And I heard that 294 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:19,359 specific sound walking across the hardwood floor of my bedroom. 295 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:23,559 And when he got to the doorway, it stopped. So 296 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:26,319 there was activity before when I'm about to tell you, 297 00:20:26,519 --> 00:20:31,359 but it that was the That was one, a one 298 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:35,319 off deal that never happened again. I would hear footsteps 299 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:37,960 and stuff and that darting figure like I'd said, but 300 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:42,559 that was the only time that had happened. So back 301 00:20:42,599 --> 00:20:47,079 to the one event and why I explained my grandparents' situation. 302 00:20:48,319 --> 00:20:50,920 I'm laying in bed. One of my stepbrothers still lives 303 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:53,880 in the house with me. I didn't know that he 304 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:58,799 wasn't home, so I go to sleep. I have a 305 00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:02,000 computer on a rolling desk with a TV on it, 306 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:04,920 sitting next to my bed, and I fell asleep watching 307 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:08,440 YouTube videos. I remember waking up and hearing a conversation 308 00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:16,079 and it was very I don't know you could hear. 309 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:18,279 It sounded like it was downstairs and like I should 310 00:21:18,319 --> 00:21:20,920 be able to understand what's being said, but I couldn't. 311 00:21:22,079 --> 00:21:26,559 And it was like people taking turns talking. And I 312 00:21:26,839 --> 00:21:30,559 listened closer, and I realized they are voices of all 313 00:21:30,599 --> 00:21:35,119 my family members. Why is everybody down there, including my stepfather. 314 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:39,559 I heard my mom's voice, my dad's voice. I'm listening 315 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:43,759 and I can finally make out they're asking for me 316 00:21:43,839 --> 00:21:48,160 to come downstairs. Hey, come down here, Hey, we need you, 317 00:21:48,279 --> 00:21:50,440 We need to see you real fast. Can you come down? 318 00:21:51,079 --> 00:21:54,920 I remember I said, what are you all doing here? 319 00:21:55,799 --> 00:21:57,640 I can't come downstairs. I have to sleep. I have 320 00:21:57,759 --> 00:22:02,720 work in the morning. I suddenly I could not move. 321 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:09,400 I would call it sleep paralysis, but I specifically remember 322 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,279 being able to move and talk before I had woken 323 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:18,599 up fully and had turned to the doorway and spoke 324 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:23,119 out of it. And then suddenly after I said that 325 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,920 I was it was like I was locked to the bed. 326 00:22:26,839 --> 00:22:29,559 I could move with a lot of effort, but it 327 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:33,880 took a lot of effort. I remember hearing just like 328 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:37,200 a stampede, like a whole army's coming up the steps 329 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:42,440 where my bed is situated. There's a there, so there 330 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:45,680 is no door, but in the there's a doorway and 331 00:22:45,839 --> 00:22:51,200 three foot of a hallway into the room. It's like 332 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:54,480 a recess door into the room. And to the right 333 00:22:54,519 --> 00:22:56,920 of it there's a closet that has no doors. It's 334 00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:02,200 open and in between, so my bed sits across from that. 335 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,640 The head of my bed faces the closet, and where 336 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,680 the head of my bed meets the corner, there's like 337 00:23:08,799 --> 00:23:10,960 a two inch gap where I can see out of it. 338 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:19,200 And I remember seeing this. It's almost like a long 339 00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:24,359 centipede if you think of the rake. It was spindily 340 00:23:24,519 --> 00:23:28,240 like that, but it was long and repeated arms and legs, 341 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:32,880 A lot of arms and a lot of legs. Freaked 342 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:36,640 me out. I like bugs and stuff. Centipedes don't freak 343 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:40,720 me out. This freaked me out. And I remember trying 344 00:23:40,759 --> 00:23:42,839 to turn away from it because everything in my minds, 345 00:23:42,839 --> 00:23:45,200 do not look at it. Do not look at this. 346 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:47,599 Whatever this is, it is not good. Do not look 347 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:53,319 at it. I turned to my TV against the I 348 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:57,640 hear it wrapping around my bed. This roll up desk 349 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:01,880 pushes against my bed, and I see a hand come 350 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:04,400 over the screen and another one come over to the 351 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,440 other side, and I can see the outline of the 352 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,720 head and I close my eyes and I can't move 353 00:24:10,759 --> 00:24:14,319 my head anymore. So I just closed my eyes, and 354 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:18,079 I remember it grabbing my arm, which is another thing 355 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:21,759 I'm told sleep paralysis, even if it's a sleep preusis demon. 356 00:24:21,799 --> 00:24:24,400 They never touch you, they never grab you. That's what 357 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:27,319 I've always been told. They cannot physically interact with you. 358 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:35,599 But what got me is it started cycling through my 359 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:43,000 family's voices. It started with my dad, and it said, hey, 360 00:24:43,079 --> 00:24:46,759 look at me, and it would just say that, and 361 00:24:46,799 --> 00:24:50,200 it would just it cycled through their voices one by one. 362 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:54,599 I remember hearing my grandma and grandpa's voice, and that's 363 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:56,960 what tipped me off. Something was wrong downstairs. Is I 364 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,160 heard their voice. I'm like, they're dead. What are they 365 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,720 doing here? And that's why I asked, what are you 366 00:25:01,799 --> 00:25:05,440 doing here? But I remember hearing their voices, and it 367 00:25:05,559 --> 00:25:09,279 hit me this is not This is a demon or something. 368 00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:12,880 I don't know. It was very intent on me looking 369 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:15,640 at in the face. It wanted me to look at 370 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:20,000 its face. I was struggling to keep my eyes closed. 371 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,960 I was forcing my eyes to stay closed. I couldn't 372 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:27,640 put my hands over them. My eyes wanting to open, 373 00:25:28,559 --> 00:25:30,799 but I was doing everything I could to keep them 374 00:25:30,799 --> 00:25:36,599 from opening. Eventually, it stopped cycling through the voices. Right 375 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,960 after it screamed at me, and it screamed, look at 376 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:46,920 my face, really loud in my stepfather's voice. Then it started. 377 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:50,079 It sounded like everybody was yelling at once for me 378 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:56,720 to look at it. Then it stopped. It turned. It 379 00:25:56,759 --> 00:26:02,200 sounded like my grandmother again, and it said, don't you 380 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,480 want don't you want to be with me? We can 381 00:26:05,519 --> 00:26:07,359 be with each other again. You just have to look 382 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:09,039 at you just have to look at my face. You 383 00:26:09,079 --> 00:26:14,039 just have to look at me, I said you. I 384 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:19,640 looked at it, and I remember saying, I am protected 385 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:24,680 by God or whatever entity actually is in charge of things. 386 00:26:26,319 --> 00:26:30,640 You in the name of Jesus, you need to go 387 00:26:30,839 --> 00:26:33,480 back to Hell or whatever dark corner of the world 388 00:26:33,519 --> 00:26:39,279 you came from. I am protected by the Good Lord, 389 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:44,799 whoever it is, whatever he is called. It grabbed my 390 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:49,759 head with its other hand, and these hands were it 391 00:26:49,799 --> 00:26:54,839 was like skeleton. They weren't skeleton hands, but they were 392 00:26:55,039 --> 00:27:01,599 long fingers, like a foot long. And I remember that 393 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:04,039 image of them coming down with the screen. It's like 394 00:27:04,079 --> 00:27:07,200 it was trying to scare me. And to this day, 395 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,759 I think whatever it was after my soul, but it 396 00:27:10,799 --> 00:27:17,960 was purposefully scaring me beforehand. I was terrified when I 397 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:22,119 said what I said. Right after it grabs my head. 398 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:31,200 Suddenly I'm awake, sitting up in bed. And it's not 399 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:35,119 like I woke up from sleeping. It was I'm sitting 400 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:40,039 in bed awake. The next day, it was like there's 401 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:44,039 missing time there. I don't know what happened. I don't 402 00:27:44,079 --> 00:27:47,279 know if I fell back asleep. All I know is 403 00:27:47,319 --> 00:27:49,599 I was sitting up in bed when I came to. 404 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:55,680 When I initially felt like I couldn't move. I tried 405 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:57,799 to yell for my stepbrother because again I thought he 406 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:01,039 was in the next room. All I could do is 407 00:28:01,279 --> 00:28:04,519 like rasp out his name, no matter how my vocal 408 00:28:04,599 --> 00:28:07,559 cords were constricting, Like I was trying to yell, but 409 00:28:07,599 --> 00:28:10,480 it was just a whisper. It was all I could muster. 410 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:15,359 It's weird that in the moment where I was talking 411 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:19,720 to the thing itself, I could speak, looking back on 412 00:28:19,759 --> 00:28:21,640 it and being like that was really weird. Why could 413 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,640 I talk to it and not yell for help. I 414 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:30,000 have told many people this story and ask them what 415 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:39,720 entity this could possibly be. I don't know if it 416 00:28:39,799 --> 00:28:42,559 is necessarily what you would call a demon. I don't 417 00:28:42,599 --> 00:28:46,279 know if it is, I don't know, but I know 418 00:28:46,359 --> 00:28:49,920 what I saw. It's very vivid and it still gives 419 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,240 me the creeps, and I know something follows me. 420 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,400 Speaker 1: Zach, thank you so much for sharing your experiences with 421 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,000 the rest of us. Here at the True Scary Story community. 422 00:29:07,759 --> 00:29:14,680 That scene with the bug, the centipede looking thing, my goodness, like, 423 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:17,160 I think that was the cree. I think I told 424 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,000 you this during the call as well. This is probably 425 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,559 the creepiest image I have seen, because when we hear 426 00:29:22,599 --> 00:29:26,920 about shadow figures about sleep prolyssies, we normally imagine just 427 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:30,160 a tall figure standing by our beds. However, there is 428 00:29:30,279 --> 00:29:33,599 one weird thing that I know I have experience, and 429 00:29:33,599 --> 00:29:36,279 I'm curious to know if any of you out there 430 00:29:36,319 --> 00:29:40,559 have experienced this, and it is these strange creature looking 431 00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:44,559 things that you see when you're like half awake in 432 00:29:44,599 --> 00:29:47,720 the middle of the night. Have you ever woken up 433 00:29:48,319 --> 00:29:52,720 and seen this, I don't know, spidery looking thing going 434 00:29:52,799 --> 00:29:55,200 up to the ceiling and you open your eyes and 435 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,400 you're looking at it, and it's just as darker than 436 00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:02,000 dark strange shadow. I'm curious to know it's not just 437 00:30:02,119 --> 00:30:05,039 like for the things that I've seen are as big 438 00:30:05,079 --> 00:30:08,519 as like I don't know, a ceiling lamp, and as 439 00:30:08,599 --> 00:30:12,119 small as maybe I don't know, a box of Kleenex 440 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:14,440 or something, but like it's floating and it's moving and 441 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:16,640 you can open your eyes and follow with your eyes. 442 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:18,559 I don't know if I'm the only one that has 443 00:30:18,599 --> 00:30:22,519 experienced this. I know it's also not a shadow figure necessarily, 444 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,079 but just curious and I just want to get it 445 00:30:25,079 --> 00:30:29,480 out there anyway. This episode of True Scary Story was 446 00:30:29,559 --> 00:30:33,079 edited and sound designed by me Edwin Kovarujez with help 447 00:30:33,119 --> 00:30:35,960 from the Scary FM team, with scheduling, I Bhaka Chavez 448 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,799 and Sophia Pettiz. I've felt this out a ton. Also 449 00:30:38,839 --> 00:30:41,640 a huge shout out to our Scary Plus members. Thank 450 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:43,839 you so much for making this show possible. If you 451 00:30:43,839 --> 00:30:46,200 want to join scary Plus, go to scary plus dot com. 452 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:48,039 You can also find the link to it somewhere on 453 00:30:48,079 --> 00:30:50,759 your app. Should be right there, like in front. 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