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