Speaker 1: I've seen to take the form of my parents. I've
seen to take the form of her mother, which is bizarre,
friend's family, you name me. Probably every one close.
Speaker 2: To me is probably taken fun of them.
Speaker 3: At some point, he learned to fight young boxing bullies fear.
Nothing ever got to him, but every few months something
waits for him in his bedroom, something he cannot punch outrun.
Speaker 4: Or wake up from. My name is Edwin and here
is Gavin. It's true scary story.
Speaker 1: My experiences started when I was six years old. I
lived at my parents' house in northern Illinois in the US.
It's probably close to three in the morning. That's when
I started. I had just woken up.
Speaker 2: It's obviously pitch black in my room.
Speaker 1: I had no idea what was going on, and only
being six years old, just completely terrified.
Speaker 2: When I came to.
Speaker 1: I couldn't move, I couldn't do anything. All I could
do was move my eyes. It was probably what felt
like a minute or two, and then that's when it started.
The first time I saw whatever you want to call it,
the demon, ghost, sleep, rosses, demon, just whatever thing is.
It came to me in the form of this old lady.
Speaker 2: But it didn't go as usual. Sleep proalysis does that
I've always heard.
Speaker 1: It started out by my door just creaking open to
my room. I'm thinking it's my mother, my dad, a
little sister or something. But the door creaks open and
the handle kind of bumps my wall. I'm looking and
I don't see anything. There's nothing in the doorway. It's
just black. I have a closet that kind of blocks
the entry to my room when the door's open. And
then that door started freaking open until it hit my
bedroom door.
Speaker 2: It just like before.
Speaker 1: Nothing there's nothing in the doorway, nothing there, which blew
my mind because that's when I started.
Speaker 2: Like kind of panicking.
Speaker 1: Another thirty seconds minute goes by, and it's just quiet.
I start hearing footsteps coming down the hallway, which is
not uncommon. It's a very preaky floor, so you can
hear everyone walking them the hallway. So once again I'm
thinking it's like my mother, my father, someone, This just
shadowy figure. I can't see any facial features, nothing, Just
this figure just turns the corner and just starts walking towards.
Speaker 2: My doorway.
Speaker 1: And it walks in and I get a little glimpse
from the street lamp outside into my room, and I.
Speaker 2: Just see this gray face like old lady.
Speaker 1: I'm both terrified and confused. At this time. I'm panicking.
I'm trying to move my body. I just cannot move.
She stops in my doorway and it's just staring at me.
Eventually she starts walking towards the edge of my bed,
and then she crouches down at the foot of my bed,
so I can no longer see her. Another thirty seconds
goes by, and I'm just looking around, trying to see
if I can find her. Just eyes locked on the
edge of my bed.
Speaker 2: I hear breathing to my left. I go to look
on the corner.
Speaker 1: Of my eye, just as far over as I can
look without moving my head, and I just see the
top left of her forehead, just barely in my view.
Speaker 2: All that was going through my head was get up
and run.
Speaker 1: Just run, run as fast as you can. As much
as I tried, I just could not move. The street
lamp outside flickered, but it came back on and she
was gone. A little bit goes by, and then I
see her come up from the edge of my bed,
just start crawling onto my bed. It's on all fours
straight out of a horror movie, the most bizarre thing
I've ever seen, and proceeds to sit on my chest,
not quite fetal position, but like kind of like when
you hug your knees when you're sitting down, and just
bald up right on my chest, and I could just
feel my heart start beating faster and faster. Just complete panic.
It was all I could feel because I just didn't
know what to do.
Speaker 2: I couldn't move. This old lady is sitting on my
chest and I couldn't breathe. My heart was racing.
Speaker 1: And then eventually, right as everything starts getting fuzzy, I.
Speaker 2: Feel my finger twitch.
Speaker 1: I spring up out of bed, just screaming. My parents
come racing in. I'm standing in my bed at this point.
There's no old lady, there's no nothing, and they're just
standing there staring at me.
Speaker 2: What's wrong?
Speaker 1: What happened? Did you have a nightmare? And I couldn't
even speak. I couldn't even open my mouth. I didn't
even know what to say to them. I didn't speak
till the next morning because I just couldn't. That was
my first time going through it. It continued, it was
very irregular schedule. I guess you could call it. There
were times where it would be back to back nights.
There were other times where it would be a month
or two in between, but it was usually the same
kind of dream. But there were times where it would
be in a different location. The sleep ho houses demon
would take a different form, which was bizarre to me
because I've never heard that before from anybody else.
Speaker 2: It would take the form of the old lady.
Speaker 1: A completely shadowy figure of like a man, a six',
four probably two hundred and two fifty pound, man just completely,
black no no facial, features no. Nothing ALL i could
see you were just white, eyes just completely.
Speaker 2: White it would.
Speaker 1: Take you to those two, forms or it would take
the form of SOMEONE i, know whether it was my, mother,
father my little, sister, wife my girlfriend's, mom, Whatever but
it would always end the same, way me jumping out of,
bed trying to get this off my. Chest the most
recent time it happened was probably a week or two,
ago and before THAT i hadn't had one for maybe
a year from What i've, noticed at least the last
the most recent time it, HAPPENED i was, though stressed
out between work and moving and just all that kind of.
Stuff is very stressful time in my, life SO i
would say it's possible that it could have triggered. IT
i don't usually talk about it just because it's kind
of one of those. Things but like BEFORE i even
learned about like sleep presses, ITSELF i would never like
talk about it at all BECAUSE i didn't know if
it was just. ME i didn't know IF i was just.
INSANE i didn't know what it. WAS i didn't even
know what sleep presses was UNTIL i was probably well
into my. Teens it's like that ten, years LIKE i
just didn't talk about.
Speaker 2: It my.
Speaker 1: FATHER i think he was the first PERSON i, told
and that was the next morning after my first. Experience
he didn't know what it was. Either he didn't know
how to respond to, IT i, guess so he just
kind of figured it was all THE tv shows and
like all that kind of stuff getting to. Me i've
had it twice since twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Six started this recent, TIME i was in a different.
Speaker 1: Location and it was it took the form of someone
very close to, me.
Speaker 2: And then the time before, that it was at my parents',
house and then it took the form of the.
Speaker 1: Figure sometimes it'll go a little, excessive and the demon
will like crawl on the ceiling and like crawl across my,
ceiling just just completely creepy.
Speaker 2: Stuff Like it's just bizarre to.
Speaker 1: Me it's gotten to the point to Where i've just
kind of accepted that it's going to. Happen THEN i
just kind of pray THAT i will wake.
Speaker 2: Up i'm a.
Speaker 1: Believer in like the spiritual world and like ghosts and, demons,
angels all that kind of, Stuff SO i do believe
it's something. PARANORMAL i couldn't tell you. What that's WHY
i usually WHEN i refer to, IT i just call
it a thing BECAUSE i.
Speaker 2: Don't know what it.
Speaker 1: Is BUT i do believe it's some sort of demon
or something. Worse i'm not sure how to describe. It
But i've seen it take the form of my. Parents
i've seen it take the form of her, mother which
is bizarre to. Me friend's, family you name, It probably
everyone close to me is probably taken the form of
them at some. Point it takes a lot to like frighten.
ME i was always taught from my, grandfather my, dad
pretty much all of the older men in my family
don't be afraid of anything like stuff like THAT i
did boxing WHEN i was a.
Speaker 2: Teenager that's just kind of HOW i was.
Speaker 1: Raised And i'll wake up screaming at the in the
middle of the, night at like three in the. Morning
this happens like so many. Times IT'S i can't. PINPOINT
i just remember the first time it, happened and then
like the most recent. One as a, KID i just
automatically believed in PARANORMAL i always felt like, NOW i
don't know If i'm just insane And i'm hallucinating or
if it's, real BUT i that shadow figure THAT i
see you WHEN i in sleep. Erolysis sometimes i'll see,
it Like i'll get up to go get a midnight
snack And i'll see it on like the corner of
my eye or, something or like If i'm Playing ghost
in The graveyard with my, buddies you're out at night
run around the. NEIGHBORHOOD i would see it under like
a street lamp or, something AND i would blink and.
Speaker 2: It would be.
Speaker 1: GONE i don't even know when the first TIME i
saw it, was But i've always seen. It one of
the biggest INTERACTIONS i had with it was at my grandmother's.
House she recently passed two years ago, Now so when
we were going through her house and all that to
pack up everything so we can sell, it she had
it was like an old, farmhouse so it's like she
has this upstairs and it's just two bedrooms with like
walking attics on each. Side and one of the bedrooms,
that of COURSE i was assigned to clean, out there
was this glass like creepy. DOLL i despise. DOLLS i
cannot take. DOLLS i don't care if They're barbie dolls
or if they're like. Dolls god protect, me Like, annabelle
like that kind of, doll or Mister, fritz but like
any kind of.
Speaker 2: DOLL i don't care what kind of. Doll it is
just freaks me.
Speaker 1: Out SO i walk over to it and there's like
a little handkerchief under.
Speaker 2: It SO i take it and it's like in a sitting.
Speaker 1: Position it's one of the ones that like if you
lay it, back the eyes will, close and when you
sit it up the eyes will. OPEN i turn it
over AND i just put the handkerchief over it SO
i don't have To just in my, mind it's like
going under the covers when you're, Terrified.
Speaker 2: Like it's you're. Protected it's.
Speaker 1: Fine SO i start cleaning out the room and all
that day, Ends everything goes by.
Speaker 2: FINE i want to.
Speaker 1: SAY a week, later no one's been to the. House show,
up go up there to start finish cleaning the, room and.
Speaker 2: It is sitting exactly how it was BEFORE i touched.
Speaker 1: It it is sitting feet, out eyes, open staring at the.
Doorway And i'm, Like i'm thinking of, myself like someone's been, here, Right,
like surely someone's been. Here, NO i hate, Dollar like
my dad's been here and he's just messing with. Me
AND i go downstairs with my dad And i'm, like,
hey you been. Here did you touch that doll that's
in that room up? There and he's, Like i've never touched.
IT i didn't touch that. Doll And i'm, LIKE i
know you're messing with. Me you DON'T i know you're
messing with. Me he's, LIKE i promise, You i'm not
messing with. YOU i go up there and it hasn't.
Moved but as you go up the, stairs you take
a left and then the two. Rooms it's the room
on the. RIGHT i go to the room on the,
right and next to the room there's an entrance to
the attic like a little. Door that door is.
Speaker 2: Open SO i kind of just like peek my head
in AND i see.
Speaker 1: IT i see the, apparition the shadowy figures standing there
at the.
Speaker 2: End it's the same.
Speaker 1: One it's probably it's hard to tell because he was
kind of hunched, over BUT i would say it's the
same six.
Speaker 2: Foot something, tall just all.
Speaker 1: Black AND i didn't see the eyes at. First but
WHEN i peeked, IN i was kind of looking. Around
saw it didn't register with. Me look the other way
AND i did a double, take and that's WHEN i
saw the. Eyes and as soon AS i saw the,
EYES i grabbed the handle of the, door step, back
slammed a shut AND i was, like, nope walk back.
IN i grab a, DOLL i carry it downstairs AND
i just set it on the.
Speaker 2: Table Then i'm, like all, right let's see what.
Speaker 1: Happens and it didn't move after, that SO i don't
know if someone moved. It it's hard to, explain but,
yeah like that's the thing that gets, me is the
eyes and like the foggy kind of like black mist
coming off. It it's like it just it freaks me.
Out And i've that was probably the Clearest i've seen.
It take like a six foot two, man, bald just completely,
black no skin, tone no facial, features just smooth, black
kind of like he's wearing like a skin, suit and
then just completely, white like white, eyes like the background
of this, recorded just completely white. Eyes but that is
currently at my buddy's house because his mom's into all,
that so she now owns the.
Speaker 2: Doll my buddy who's actively trying to move out of that.
Speaker 1: House he's, like, dude ever since that doll showed, up
there's been some weird stuff.
Speaker 2: Happening my mom is.
Speaker 1: She is like a short temper, sometimes like some weird.
Speaker 2: Stuff is going.
Speaker 1: ON i told, Him i'm, like it's that, Doll, Dude
like there's something a part of that. Doll i'm telling,
you and doll is just there's something about. IT i
don't like.
Speaker 2: IT i have some like creepy things that have happened
to me at.
Speaker 1: Work so the COMPANY i work, for they do like, plumbing, ELECTRICAL,
hvac all that kind of.
Speaker 2: Stuff AND i was with one of the COWORKERS i
know more.
Speaker 1: Personally we were doing a duck cleaning for this lady
out In, Rockford. ILLINOIS i truly believe that her house is.
HAUNTED i don't know by, WHAT i want to, say multiple different.
Entities it's like a longer sized ranch house with a,
basement and the entire time we're, working there's like pictures being,
moved there's like chairs.
Speaker 2: Being, moved but we wouldn't hear.
Speaker 1: It you wouldn't hear Any we just kind of end
up walking by to go like check on our vacuum or.
Something just kind of walk by and it's like this
was not where it was. Before you, know like how
you drop like a fork like silverware on the ground
and it makes that it's like specific. Clanging we heard,
that but we could not find the utensil we heard,
it and we looked around for a solid twenty thirty
minutes and we could not find the utensil that made the.
Speaker 2: Noise i've experienced.
Speaker 1: Some wild stuff in just my twenty years on this,
planet and it gives me the shivers every TIME i
talk about.
Speaker 2: This kind of.
Speaker 1: Stuff it's definitely cool BECAUSE i get to talk about,
it but at the same, time it's like when it,
happens you're, like.
Speaker 2: Get me out of.
Speaker 3: Here, gevin thank you so much for sharing your experiences
with the rest of us here at The True Scary
story community has been, very very creepy learning about the
shadow figures in this. Sense, Now i'm not sure if
a lot of our longtime listeners have noticed, this but
recently we've been getting stories of shadow figures basically mimicking
changing forms into people that we. Know, NOW i know
this has been happening for a, while But i've started
this in several of the previous, episodes where there are familiar,
faces people that we know taking shape into these shadow
figures or the other way. Around, right this shadow figure
is taking shape into these family. Members what is going
on with? This why does it show? Up why would
a shadow figure show up as a family? MEMBER i
love the one someone that we. Know is it something?
Psychological are we imagining them in our sleep state as
someone who we, know or maybe somehow trying to justify
who could be in this room obviously somebody that we've seen,
before somebody that we're familiar, with or is it something
that's trying to manipulate? Us is there an entity out
there that is trying to act like someone else so
we feel maybe a little more comfortable around. Them they're
trying to.
Speaker 4: Approach us or.
Speaker 3: SOMETHING i, mean WHEN i think of, THIS i think
a lot of the children, ghosts you, know when we
hear about entities of a child crying or little child's,
laughing little girl a period kind of, nowhere a little
boy is showing.
Speaker 4: Up you.
Speaker 3: Know there's an interesting STORY i heard from my. Grandma,
actually she told me about a little boy who appears
in the living room.
Speaker 4: Area he's just.
Speaker 3: A little boy wearing, shorts like a kind of a
school uniform kind of. Thing but there is a birthday
cake on his like he's holding it with both of his,
hands his. Arms AND i, mean at, first it seems, like, oh,
man like this is a tragic. Story what if a
little boy died on his birthday or something like. That
because they recently moved into that. HOUSE i, mean it's
not like the one where they lived in the whole,
lives you, know but they showed up, there they fixed
the house and, everything and now they start seeing this
this little. Ghost at, first you hear a story like
this and you feel a little bit sorry for, them,
right and, yeah sometimes we get a sense that they
have this entity might actually be nothing. Bad this is
what My grandma gets from, that. Right but sometimes this
is what we have to be careful because they appear
to be something innocent as a, child but they're.
Speaker 4: Not they're just in.
Speaker 3: Disguise so this is WHAT i think when we see
shadow figures in the middle of the night and they
take shape of someone that we, know they're trying to manipulate,
us make us think that there's someone else to get.
Close So i'm interested in knowing what you think about.
This he says something psychological or is it something? Manipulative
so let me. Know have you ever experienced anything like
these entities while you're? Sleeping, now this is one of
the most intense ones That i've, heard, right also involving
the stories of the, doll involving the stories of The
Old hag in the very. BEGINNING i, mean these are pretty,
intense BUT i know that for, Me i've had sleep paralysis,
before but it wasn't anything WHAT i would describe as.
Creepy it was more LIKE i couldn't move WHEN i woke,
up and that was. That LIKE i, REMEMBER i had
THE tv. On i've talked about this a couple times,
actually BUT i had THE tv on and it was
just at the static. Channel i'm not sure why it
was in the static channel now THAT i really think about.
It it might have just been white nosed for me
to fall. ASLEEP i woke up AND i couldn't move at,
All LIKE i couldn't get even a word.
Speaker 4: OUT i couldn't even move my. HEAD i.
Speaker 3: COULDN'T i wanted to turn off THE. TV i wanted
to just press the remote and turn it. OFF i
think that's the reason WHY i woke, up or kind
of woke, up at least my mind did or my eyes.
Speaker 4: Opened but that was really. EERIE i never saw anything, else.
Speaker 3: THOUGH i did have some experiences WHERE i saw things
like that were in the, room BUT i was able
to move react AND i could still see, them which
was really weird and not something That i've heard about
a lot of people talk. About But i'm sure there
are more things like this that we haven't talked about
that are, happening AND i feel like we need to
find somebody who says them, first and then we'll feel
like we can share. Them, so if anything strange has
happened to you while you're in that half, away half
a sleep, state or if you wake up and you
have sleep paralysis and it doesn't even match with a
lot of these. Things please let me, know send in
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