Speaker 1: I wake up, and I'm looking around, and I look
at the door, and I see the shadow peaking out,
like peaking out at us.
Speaker 2: In the early nineteen fifties, his grandmother encountered a strange,
mysterious figure, and even today the haunting continues generations later.
My name is Edwin and here is james true scary story.
Speaker 1: I'm James' from Saintania and Texas. The story is that
I'm gonna tell you all evolves around a neighborhood that
I grew up in from two thousand and eight all
the way up to it, like twenty eighteen, I lived
in a trailer park. Ocrest Point is my neighborhood. By
like in the nineteen fifties, right next to it, it
was a farmhouse, but the farmhouse owned the property. Back
then that farmhouse was also a church. Rumors has it
that the church was also the cemetery, and the cemetery
they moved to the cemetery and built in my neighborhood
back in my grandma's the first one that moves in.
So how the trailer was set up, It was the
front room, the middle room, and her room was the
back room. I was in the middle room before. She
would have these porcelain dolls that were like it was
like these porcelain dolls, but they could turn their heads
and they can move their arms and everything and can
adjust them. She had like three rows of porcelain dolls,
and ag each row had at least like six of them.
My first night there, I was asleep in the middle room.
I could see the porcelain dolls. All of them just
starts like turning their heads and staring me. I didn't
like it, so I want to go to my grandma.
The next day, she turned them all around. I was
like that, I see now they can't look at you.
You know, just go back to sleep, We're fine. The
next night they turned around. I go to sleep and
out of nowhere, and when I wake up, all of
them are facing towards me. Every single one of them
was just staring at me. So I moved out of
that room into the front room. When I moved to
the front room, my grandma, she wouldn't say that. She
would feeling like a boy, like a little boy's presence
coming up to her every night and putting his arms
around her and hugging her. And she would wake up
and going check on me and I would be just fastest.
Her husband at the time, he would tell me that
he would see footsteps walking, like if someone's passing the window,
but he wouldn't see like the shadow. He would see
like the legs passing. But the thing is that the
window was at least five feet off the ground. That's
when everything like really started kicking off in this neighborhood.
I'm gonna tell you about four trailers that I had
really bad experiences. In twenty ten, we finally moved into
the neighborhood. My grandma, she lives in the front, we
lives in the back. My mom would say that she
would she would see like little kids walking from door
to door. She would look nothing, and I was like, Okay, no,
it's whatever. It's's just my imagination. Then I told my mom.
I was like, hey, I keep seeing stuff, and so
whatever I saw is I was in my room, I
had the TV on, the lights off. There's my TV,
my bedroom door, and right next to my bedroom with
my closet. I was facing my TV and right in
the corner of my eye, I see the little kids
starts to form. It went from nothing to a little kid.
I saw it formed to a little kid, So I
looked saw it, got extremely scared and went to my
mom told him what I saw, and she was like, oh,
it's crazy because I saw I keep seeing the team.
This happened to my mom and my brother. They're sitting
in the living room watching TV, and then all of
a sudden, you know, like those old school sharpeners at
school where you just put it in and you drank
the thing and it starts to like sharpen the pencil. Well,
we had one of those right on the counter, and
then I was sudden. My mom and my brothers said,
out of nowhere, they saw it lift up off the
counter and just fly across the room and hit my
brother in the head. A couple of years later, my
cousin moves in and he keeps telling me, Hey, why
are you and your brother keep playing at three in
the morning. It's three in the morning, y'all need to
be asleep. You're talking about ther sleep. He's like, oh, man,
that's crazy, because I keep hearing kids laughing and jumping
on the beds. They remember one time we hed like
a bang. It sounded like like the biggest bang I've
ever heard in my life, Like it sounded like someone
just put a gunshot in the house. You know. It
was massive bang. So we all like like woke up.
Oh my god, what was that? What was that? Me
and my friend we went walking. We looked in the
inside and nothing. We looked on the outside, and we
stepped outside. We heard it again. This time we knew
exactly what it was. It was the side of the house.
So we ran. We looked and when we point the light,
we saw like a black shadow kneeling. When we looked
at each other, we point the light out of it
and we put it back. It was standing and it
was facing us like with like the arms all white,
you know, like like it was ready to like to
attack us, like to come at us, and it was
just it was scary. They had like a kitchen window
that was about like fifteen feet from the ground. I remember,
I wake up and I go into the kitchen to
make myself like a sandwich, and all of a sudden,
like I look and there's this woman, this old woman
that was just looking into the kitchen through the kitchen window,
you know, just staring at me, just like with this
curious face, like what are you doing, Which would be
impossible because the window is fifteen feet from the ground,
you know, so you would have to step on a
ladder just to look into the window. Another time, at
my other friend's house, I was like about like sixteen
seventeen at the time. Him and his family, they were
very spiritual. They messed with mediums, they messed with terror cards, crystals, everything,
everything that you can think of. They were doing it.
His mom would see things. Remember one time she called
into the room and she's like, hey, I just want
to let you know. I want to let you know
have a medium and I wanted to want to say
that there's a boy. There's a little boy that's following me.
My friend, her son, he was he was like my
best friend growing up. He would also see things and
he said that he saw the little boy like touch
me and just disappear into me. But it's just weird
because it's just the same little boy that was at
my grandma's house, that was tucking her, that attached yourself
to me. I don't know. A couple of months past
and I moved in to their house just for like
a couple of weeks. I'm using the restaurant and out
of nowhere, I heard a whistle. It was just a
random whistle trying to get my attention type whistle. I
brush it off and I saw my friend about it,
and he was like, hey, that's crazy because I when
I'm using the Russian I heard that whistle too. Stepdad
at the time would tell us that he would see
like this little kid playing with the with the red
ball outside of their house all the time. But the
thing is that there's no kids that live around the neighborhood.
It's meant for elderly people. There's rarely any kids. Like
if you found the kids, it's it's rare. I remember,
I remember one time, everyone's asleep. I'm the only one awake.
I'm on the computer just watching YouTube, and all of
a sudden, I hear my friend have a full on
conversation with our other friend, which I think is our
other friend. I'm hearing them have a full on conversation
and they're they're talking loud, like they're talking too loud
to where like I had to go in there and
be like, hey, bro, like shut out. As soon as
I go in there, he's dead asleep, nights are off,
he's knocked out. But I swear I heard him and
her other friend just start having a full conversation. So yeah,
I moved out after that. It was a scary neighborhood.
I will sneak out, and I was just being a
teenager sneaking out. I would just go walk around the
neighborhood that would have nothing else to do. And as
soon as you walk out, I walk out of your house,
you could just feel something where someone is just watching you.
It's creepy. At first, You're like, oh, okay, yeah that's creepy,
but you get used to it thout the years. This
one time I was walking if you're cutting the trailers
just to get somewhere, and it's a good fifteen feet
from trailer trailer and then a good four feet from
like back to back of a trailer. So I was
turning through trailers and I saw just two shadow legs
just walk right by it. I got scared around. I
don't know what it is, but all my stories, I
don't see the upper high. It's all the legs. I
just see legs, the legs walking or the feet walking. Now,
another time, my mom's asleep, my cousin's spending the night,
and I'm looking for a pot. That's how I saw
I can make some noodles. You know, I'm just looking
for a pot, and I'm like, how was this pot at?
But in my head I'm like, where's this pot? And
then all of a sudden, I hear a woman's voice saying,
what are you looking for? James? I turn right. When
I turned, me and my cousin like eyes and she
was like, you hurt that? Like yeah, I heard that,
Like thank god, I'm not the only one that actually
hurt that. Careers goes by and I move out and
then I moved back in. When I moved back in,
it's just me and my wife at this time. You
know that feeling where you feel like you're being rushed
up on, like oh, extremely bad. Well, I was leaning
in the fridge trying to find like something to eat
and I had and I felt that feeling. And when
I turned to look, I saw two legs start walking
towards me, but fast. You know what, I blinked, like
what the hell? You know? I looked and it wasn't there.
Nothing was there. But you know, it's so crazy that
people think that when whenever they see apparitions or they
see spirits, they're white. But I don't know if it's
just me, but I see it as like a smoky yellow.
And then I've been seeing that, and I know their
spirits because I've been seeing in my entire life. My wife,
she said that she was in the hundred room, you know,
and you know how whenever you're getting around out of
the out of the dry hair, you start to like
ring it out. She did that three times, and then
like on the third time she did it, she like
flung it out, and she said she saw a woman's
face with maggots on her face. There's no eyes, it's
just darkness. They're like sunking in darkness, like rotten, like
like you can tell like she's like rotting. She blinked
her eyes and gone. One day, it was me and
my wife. We had our bed in the living room
because we wanted to have like a movie night. She
was sleeping on the bed like in the middle of
the living room, and I was on the couch. I
was just scrolling on my phone from my kitchen to
where I was on the other side of the living room.
It's quite of a distance to go to, you know,
like you're on a walk. I did ten steps, so
I'm scrawling and I swear I saw a shadow start
crawling towards me. It's not like just a crawl. It
was like more of like a twitch Like it was
twitching and crawling and like got right up on me.
Like I looked down and it just disappeared, like I
looked at the time. And of course it was staying
in the morning, so I was like, you know, I'm
I'm going to sleep. I don't know what I just saw,
but I'm going to sleep. This was my friend's trailer,
which is actually behind my Grandmaseuse. It was it was
like it was a corner house. His wife would have
like seizures. She would say that there is this man
that was just staring at her, you know, that would
like point and every time he would point, she would
break into a seizure. I witnessed that, you know, and
it was hard. The plan would make her have seizures.
After me and my wife moved out, it was that
trailer that trailer were in. By the time we left,
it was just negative energy off a back, like as
soon as you walk in, you could feel just that
achiness of just oh, you know, it's just like as
soon as you walk in, you could just feel it,
you know, whatever was in that house or whatever is
in that neighborhood, it followed me from that trailer to now,
like my mom moved on, she got a house, and
I want to go stay at that house. When I
went at the house, my mom says that she doesn't
notice anything, you know, like she's never experienced anything in
that house. And this is how I know. I feel
like it's I feel like either I'm haunted or something's
attached to me. Because as soon as I started saying though,
I saw my mom was asleep. My brother and he
was he was gone with his friends, and I was.
I was in my room playing the game. All of
a sudden, I hear the doorknob jiggle. What's that? You know?
So I look and I actually see the doorknob jiggle. Okay,
you know, let me go see s's here. I go
and I look, nothing's there, and it's dark. My mom
was asleep, my brother still had his friends. I say.
A couple months pass and I'm dead asleep, you know,
and something wakes me up out of my out of
my sleep. But like I'm facing the wall and I'm
till like I'm toil that point where I'm like I'm
I'm asleep, but I'm still like like aware and know
what I'm saying. I hear my ear turn around, James,
I have something for you, and I'm like, yeah, no,
I'm not turning around. I'm not looking. I'm just going
to sleep. I'm just going back to sleep. I'm not
I'm not I'm not dealing with this, but it was.
It was scary because it was broad daylight in the morning.
My wife, we were just hanging out. We were watching
that ghost on YouTube. All of a sudden, we hear
this roes brutal, ugly moan like they gave me chills,
like just it still gives me chills day. It was brutal.
It was brutal, and we looked at each other and like,
what was that. I mean, we winded the video and
it was it wasn't there, like it wasn't on the video,
so we actually heard he heard it. I don't know
if this ever happens to anyone or I don't know
if this is something, but I feel like whenever I
bring it stays and then comes back to me. I
was experiencing it. My mom wasn't. I left moved out,
and then my mom said that my daughter was spending
the night with him and she just woke up, I
don't know, and couldn't see it back to sleep. So
she went to the the garage that was converted into
like a family room, and she was in there. Her
ressroom was right next to the converted room, so you
can hear exactly like every single thing from her room
into that room. She said that she was on the
on the couch and then all of a sudden, she
hears like a like if a kid fell, and started crying,
like really crying. And so she said that she heard
that she had her baby cry like a kid cry.
She went, she looked nothing. It wasn't there. It was
nothing there. We moved into another trailer park and I
didn't experience anything there, but my wife would tell me
that she would be giving the kids in a bath
and they would be looking over her shoulder and would saying, oh,
hi Dad, Hi dad, you know, hi dad, and she's
ago his dad here, and she loved, no one's there.
I'm at work, And she said that she would feel
presence like if someone's there. So then we moved to
my mom mother in law's. From there, everything just amplifies
one night, my wife is giving my daughter a bath
and I'm in the I'm in the living room, you know,
and I'm like half asleep. I opened my eyes just
a little bit and I see a little girl dark
to the corner of the cow. I was like, hey,
you stop, you know, he carry me out? Quit it.
And then all of a sudden, my wife was like,
what are you talking about, Like I'm giving her a bath,
and I was like, oh, hold up, like what ho up? What?
I seen that little girl two times at that house.
So how my in law's house is there's two living
rooms in one. I was in the first living room
and I was like just taking a nap, and all
of a sudden, I opened my eyes and I see
the same little girl dark from behind the kitchen island.
And I knew it wasn't my daughter because she was
at school at the time, you know. So I was like, okay, yeah,
that's that's creeky. I have six kids. My wife never
she said that one time every single kid she would
wake up and she would see a white mist like
walking to the crib and looking at the baby. But
she did she didn't get scared and nothing like that.
She said it wasn't scary. It wasn't a scared like
aevil spirit or anything. But she felt she said that
she felt like it was like good. It was a
good spirit. She said. Every single kid, all of our kids,
all six of them, said that that that has had
to happen to her. I kind of figured because I
have my grandma's ashes and she has her grandma's ashes
and her hair. So yeah, because like like something like
Messkan Coultes, I guess they would keep their hair and
the ashes and then they would put it like like
in a box. It would basically be like an urn.
If it was our grandma's. Then all that's cool, you know,
that's stuff happened there. And then we go to the
house that we're in now. At first it wasn't. At
first it was going good, and then my wife started
saying that, oh, I'm seeing shadow people. They're starting to
peek around the corners. Of course is I'm a believer,
So I wake up one day. So how our room
was at first, how my when we first moved in,
we had a room set up where it was the door,
the playpen, and our bed was right across right right
across the room from the door. I wake up now.
Something wakes me up. I don't know what wakes me up,
but something wakes me up. And I'm looking around and
I look at the door and I see the shadow
peeking out, like peeking out at us. And then as
soon as I look at it, it moves like it
moves away. The more I think about it, the more
I'm getting more scared about it. Like the more it's
creeping me out, how long was that shadow staring at us? Like?
How long was it there until it got noticed? And
I wasn't staring at us all night? Did it just appear?
The more you think about it, the more creepier it gets.
I see ghost kids more than anything, you know. I
don't know what it is like, but like, I don't
see adults, I just see little kids. You know. It's weird,
and I hate it because I feel like seeing an operation.
Seeing an adult, I guess a ghost it's okay, But
seeing kids, it's that's another story, man. It's it's it's
like a whole level of creepiness, you know. So that
one time I go into my room and I push
open the door and I swing it open, and I
saw a little girl and she had blonde hair, ponytails, overalls,
a white shirt, and she looked scared. I don't know
if my wife is attracts it. I attracted, but there's
something that follows us, and I'm one hundred percent it
follows us from my mom's first trailer. It's terrifying because
now we don't know what it is. I want to
figure out what it is, but I'm scared. I want
to figure out, Okay, what's been following us for the
past decade, what's been following me? You know? But I'm
scared to find out because I don't want to know.
I don't want to know if I'm cursed or if
my family is cursed. I don't want to know if
I'm haunted, if my wife's haunted, or if we see
the stuff or I don't know, but then again, I do,
but I'm just scared. So that's basically what's stopping me
from figuring things out. The thing is that I don't
let it. I don't let it mess with me, you know, because, uh, like,
like I tell it, I gonna lie like I tell it,
like like if it's still living, like, hey, don't mess
with me. I'm not gonna mess with you. If you
want to be here, fine, figging to be here, I
don't care. Just don't mess with me and don't mess
with my family. If you do, I promise you I'm
gonna bash you from this house and you're never welcome
here ever again. You know, and it just never messes
with us.
Speaker 2: I really hope you enjoyed the story. Thanks a lot,
James for sharing it with us. Like all the experiences
that happened, all these things do have a connection, and
I find these interesting. First off, let's start off with
the man in the hat, right, the man in the
top hat. This one is one of those figures that
gets reported all the time by people who experience sleep paralysis,
and even in generation like not in generations, but like
in I guess different historical context where people talk about this.
There's been what you would call like early day illustrations, reports,
journal entries of this figure that keeps popping up over
and over. Even today, we don't know what it is,
who this man in the hat is, or why we
even see a man in the hat. Find it really odd.
But also if that thing is crossing over generations history,
you know, time and lands and everything, there must be
something there, right, or is it just a collective kind
of thing that we have. You know how they say
us as humans, we learn to be afraid of certain
things just because of I don't know, to keep us alive,
like an evolutionary protection kind of system. Why a lot
of us are afraid of spiders, snakes, things like I
don't know, different like large animals or heights. All these
kinds of fears are passed down, so we kind of
learned them, but then we get these kinds of things right.
I don't know if you ever listen to Actually it's
one of those stories that we have in Spanish on
this podcast called der ro ristoris realies. It's terror true
story something like that. But there was one story in
particular where this woman who is talking about her grandmother
mentions that the family doesn't want to acknowledge or even
mention that the grand mother once she passed away, hauntings
that were around the house stopped. And it made me wonder,
like I connected this thing right where we see sometimes
where we think a person's haunted, but also what if
families carry a haunting thing with them, like this haunting
gene or like there's something that's tied up with a family.
I know that in some of the stories that we've
heard in true scary story, we hear about things being
passed down, or we have the grandmother who used to
practice things what they would call white magic. But some
people believe that white magic is not a thing, like
white a white witch is not really a thing. What
if they were actually being tied up with something else.
Speaker 1: So let me know if you or.
Speaker 2: Your family you know somebody who has practiced or has
looked for help in the occult and it has done
anything to generations that followed. Find that very interesting because
it's one of those recurring that would keep popping up
where if somebody says, hey, I don't understand why these
things are happening around me or my family, and we
poke around, we ask around, and we're like, hey, you
know what, they suddenly seem to remember a mother, grandmother,
great grandmother used to practice certain things or sought help
in the occult in the dark in these what they
would call white witches that turned out to be something else.
So if you have any experiences like that, please reach out.
I want to hear about them.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Another topic from this story that we heard today by
James we hear about childhood fears, right, Like, I guess
not necessarily in that way, like a direct childhood fear,
but memories, things that we're afraid of, things that traumatized us.
So the dolls, you know, when we talk about dolls,
how they could traumatize a child, we think of, obviously,
at least for my generation, Chucky and movies like that
that really really scared people in terms of a doll
coming alive. And if we think about that nowadays, we
might kind of, I don't know, be a little freaked
out by dolls, but we have no true, like little
real explanation as to why. Then it turns out we
look back, we're like, hey, maybe not scared because of
this movie, you know, but other other things. Is there
something else that's scaring you, something that you have this
irrational fear of you can't understand, Like for me, things
like buildings, structures, bridges. I don't know why I'm not
like like afraid, like to the point where I'm not
going to be in a building or across a bridge,
but like I can't trust the structure, and it makes
me wonder, what if something happened in some previous life
or I don't know. Whatever you want to believe, something's
trying to protect me with that, I don't know. Maybe
there's there's something there, but anyway, thank you so much
for listening to this episode and also for getting this
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