I don’t know what age I started this but I could not remember I time before. Every night when I was little I would be screaming for water and apparently my parents would give me some. I have no memory of a single night of me screaming or getting water. I was never really allowed to go to sleepovers that much because I would always end up screaming for water in the middle of the night. I think it was around the time I was going to junior high my mom was fed up with this every night so in stead of going to me she just prayed to God and then I stopped screaming I have not had that happen to me since I still have no clue what happed

A few years later my mom had already told her family all about this so they all know that this is something that happened. One of my cousins that is very similar to me stared having the same thing happen to her but now my ant knows my story so when she caught on to the similarities she prayed to God for help like my mom did. My cousin stopped crying. My ant apparently keeps her door open during the night and my cousins room is right across from hers. So when she was done praying she looked into the hallway and outside my cousins room was a dark figure with white glasses or eyes.

I have been trying for years to figure this out my family has always been more spiritual than most. My mom was made fun of when she was in school because of this so my mom drilled it in my head that I shouldn’t tell anyone this story. But now I’m old enough and out of school which I think nothing would have happened knowing all my classmates. I have a few more stories like this that my family has been through in the past.

Chapter 1: Unveiling the Past

So, before the story begins, we need to go back to 2015 when I first remember going to Mexico in the state of Michoacán, where my mom's side of the family lived. My mom's uncle owned a ranch surrounded by avocado trees. Now, before you actually enter the ranch, you have to go up this path where trees surround you left and right. It didn’t take long to get there, maybe 1 minute or a minute and a half. During the day, that path didn’t bother me. Now, keep in mind I was 7 at the time. During the night, when we returned from the Pueblo, which is about 6 minutes away driving. It creeped the hell out of me I would always believe something was lurking behind a tree starting at me or something and upon arrival to the ranch it was nothing but darkness except the light from the house where everyone was.

So that’s basically the backstory and introduction to my uncle's ranch in Mexico now there is the Pueblo I mentioned but I won’t be getting into detail about it in this story.

Chapter 2: Return to Michoacán

July 17, 2023.

My last visit to Michoacán was in 2019. With the pandemic and everything, it prevented me from going. Now, returning this time around made me excited to a point where I felt like a kid on Christmas waiting to open the presents. Upon arrival at my uncle's ranch at around 1 pm, everything was normal. I greeted family members and waited for my cousin (who we're going to call "K") to arrive, so my other cousin (who we're going to call "D") and I could go for a walk deep into the ranch. Now, keep in mind that by the time we arrived, got settled, and eventually went to the ranch, it took 5 hours, and the sun was about to set. While on the path to the ranch, I asked "K" if he thinks this path is haunted at night, to which he replied, "Claro que sí" (of course). We laughed it off and talked about how we've been. After arriving, we walked deep into the ranch, and everything seemed normal until we stumbled across giant holes in the ground. I said to "K", "¿Qué es esto?" (What is this?), to which he replied, "Eso es de los trabajadores" (that's from the workers). We walked for about another while, and as we were walking, we all heard distant sounds of tractors and machines. I said, “¿Por qué se oyen los tractores?” (Why can we hear the tractors?) "K" replied, “No sé, güey, si ya no es acabó las horas de trabajo” (I don’t know, man, the work hours are over). “D” shouted jokingly, “¡Nos van a espantar!” (We're going to get scared!). "D" had always been the one to not believe in stuff like that, and we passed it off, but still were confused and a little creeped out by it. After some more walking, the sun had set, and it was our time to return. All of us turned on our phone flashlights and talked about what we were going to do these 10 days that we were here. "K" sees someone in the distance, and we all assumed it was a family member coming to get us, and we all yelled, “¡Aquí estamos!” (We're over here!). We didn’t walk to who we saw as we can barely make out who it was. A minute passed, and no response. Both "D" and "K" turned around and proceeded to walk back, assuming it was a lost animal. However, I wasn’t stupid because clearly it was someone; it didn’t have the shape of an animal. Before turning around, I saw that thing run into a tree and hide behind it. I instantly yelled, “¡Ay, no, güey, esa persona no es familiar, a la verga!” (That person isn’t a family member!). We all started running, and in the distance, we could see the houses' lights. When we got close enough, we stopped running and turned around to see nothing but darkness. All of us were relieved and began walking to the house. Before entering, we heard distant sounds of a woman screaming, which terrified the fuck out of us, and we sprinted into the house, locking it. Now we returned because we were called for dinner. Upon entering the kitchen, nobody was there. As I turned the lights on, I looked at the glass sliding door in the far back corner and saw a shadow peeking over. As I turned the lights on, it disappeared. Now creeped out, I tell my cousins, “Yo vi a alguien afuera” (I saw somebody outside). We discovered that we were having dinner not at the house at the ranch, but the house that was down the path to get to the ranch. So, in 2016-2017, my uncle built a house along the path that gets you to the ranch. When we saw that message, we were terrified to walk back, so we make a call to our other uncle who we're gonna call “N”. Now, once we get picked up, “D” goes in the passenger seat, and “K” and I go in the trunk and try not to fall off. While driving back, “K” and I see two figures at the gates to enter the ranch. We yell, “¡Dale, ‘N’, viene alguien atrás de nosotros!” (Go, ‘N’, there’s somebody behind us!). He speeds up, and we arrive at the house and sprint inside. We tell everyone our story, but as usual, they don’t believe us. I went to bed that night terrified as that was my first encounter with anything paranormal.

Chapter 3: Shadows Linger

July 22, 2023.

Days after not going to the ranch except for dinner, I was chilling. I had just finished eating tacos with my cousins, and my aunt is in distress as she could not find her iPhone for work. She then located it on her Mac, and I asked where it is. She replied, "It’s on the path to the ranch." My heart skipped a beat as she wanted me to come with her. Thankfully, driving and not walking, we drove for a little, and after being in the area of the phone, we heard beeping in the distance. We walked to the phone, where she picked it up and found it. I looked over at the gate, remembering what I saw a few nights ago on our way back. I looked out of the window and looked back. I saw a woman in white clothes and dark hair peeking behind a tree. I sat back down and told my aunt to take me to the Pueblo instead of the house. She could tell I was scared and drove me. I never returned to the ranch for the rest of the trip.

Chapter 4: The Dread Returns

March 22, 2024

I had just gotten news a few days ago that the family is returning to Mexico later this year, this time for the whole summer. I’m terrified to return, but I hope you enjoyed this story of my first paranormal experience.

Hi I am Ankit a 15 yrs old boy. I live in a small town Kumarghat in a state name Tripura,India. I don't know how many of you will believe this incident but this is true and this still haunts mee. I always used to hear from my dad tha there are many paranormal actives that took place in kumarghat . But this incident used to happen with me . Every night at 11 pm I used to go to the bad with my family . But nothing unusual used to happen but at the age of 13 I started sleeping alone in another room . And ever since I sleep alone something unusual used to happen .

After I go to the bed I used to fall in a deep sleep and no one is able to wake me up . But suddenly one day I.woke up without any apparent reason and it was at night 3 am . According to Psychology I someone wake up at night 3 am then someone is starring at them . And also some priest also used to believe that this is the time where devil used to do there work . But I didn't believe all those . But after that day every night I used to woke up at 3 am without any reason . I and day by day I started feeling that someone is staring at mee . One day I heard a voice that someone was pronouncing my name I was literally scared at that time . I gave my whole effort and replied who is this is this u mom? No reply I ignored it maybe this was my imagination . But after someday I again heard that voice and it feels like that voice was coming from the kitchen I get down from the bed and I replied who are u and wt do u want no reply I got scared and woke up my daddy and told all this thing and after that day I shifted my house cause even some of the neighbors used to say that they also used to hear some noises coming from this house . After shifting also this incident still haunts me it feels like that voice is still following me

I was 18yrs old at the time this incident happened to me. I slept in the basement of our house which we've been told multiple times after we lived there that an elderly lady fell and passed right in front of the basement closet. We never thought much about it since it was what we could afford at the time. Everyone has always felt uneasy going downstairs. Of course we had a big family and rooms were limited so I had no choice but to occupy the basement.

There has always been a dark brown large stain on the carpet in front of my closet obviously looks like it has been cleaned before but probably not good enough. We've never cared for it but on the back of my mind, I've always thought "maybe it was blood from the old lady everyone keeps talking about". I've always brushed it off cause I was excited having my own room for the first time of my life.

Fast forward to one year later. One night I got home for work at about 2:30am, showered, and went straight to bed. I was tossing and turning but couldn't sleep at all even though I was exhausted from my 10hr shift. I heard something fall in the closet which was closed. I have a ton of stuff so I just assumed my stuff must've fell from the shelf considering it wasn't that loud. I closed my eyes hoping I would sleep but suddenly I heard my closet door opened really slowly. I looked over and it was indeed opened. "What? I know I definitely closed it before I laid in bed" I thought to myself. That's when I realized I was in the state of sleep paralysis. I couldn't move at all except for my eyes. I knew that I definitely didn't fall asleep yet.

I kept my eyes on the closet door as there was some moonlight shining through my window. That's when I noticed a dark skinny, tall, and long hair figure peeking out my closet as if it was checking to see if I've noticed it. At this point, I was freaking out. I could hear my heartbeat as loud as a drum. That figure completely came out from the closet and very slowly floating off the ground coming towards me. I couldn't make out how she looked like but she was definitely really skinny with long hair. She eventually stopped right next to my bed and hovered over me. Her face was probably an inch away from mine but I still couldn't see her face. Her whole body looked just like a pitch black shadow.

She stared at me for what felt like an eternity then stood straight up and slowly glide towards the foot of my bed (I slept on a queen size at the time). She slowly got on my bed and slept right next to me. She sat up after laying there for probably 30sec. I saw how she actually looked like. She was very pale, almost like a light gray color, and very skinny to the point where I only saw skin and bone. Her hair was indeed every long and straight but it looked wet. She was in a black but dirty night gown and never once turned to look at me. She just sat there and looked at the foot of my bed. I never thought this night would end but being so scared, I must've passed out.

I woke up the next morning from the sun shining into my eyes and remembered what happened during the night. I thought to myself "It wasn't real right?" I glanced over at my closet and saw my closet door was really opened which confirmed what had happened last night was real. I ran upstairs to my family an never spoke of it to them. Till this day, I will never sleep with the closet door open even though I don't live there anymore.

I was talking to a friend a while ago about something I saw years ago when I was young, and they said that they've heard of it before. I guess it's a common experience like the "have you seen this man" stuff but it totally freaked me out. When I was like 7 or 9, I was staying the night at my cousin's house and got up to get something from the kitchen. I didn't turn the lights on since I could already see pretty well, but I saw well enough to notice a figure in the dark. I can still remember the way my heart dropped, completely frozen just standing in the kitchen. I could see the outline of a tall man wearing a cloak and a hat, something like that, and I ran. The next morning, going out to the kitchen in broad daylight, I looked back to the corner I saw him in. There was nothing there that could even form the shadow of a man. Telling this story to my friend, they mentioned a creepy pasta (?) of "the hat man". I still get chills just thinking about it.

Hello redditors! Im new to this platform. Before I continue with this story, the reason why im posting this is to find some answers. Me and a friend had this conversation the other day, and we came to the conclusion that we both had seen her. if these 3 characters I mention remind you anything similar you have experienced, please let us know.

[ The start] For both of us , it started innocently. For me [3 F at that time], it started as a friendship. I really liked playing at the attic. Nobody lived there no more, so I just kept my toys there and didn't go anywhere till somebody would call me out. As a kid, I was very shy and socially awkward. I was afraid of people, so I didn't have company. So I just had some imaginary friends. They were 3.

1. Amilia.

She was a teenager. She was pretty. She had long black hair ,fair to pale skin , and a long white dress with puffy sleeves. She was quiet like me , so even if we didn't speak much, we got along well. 2. Her grandad. I didn't like him. He liked to shape shift into anything my current fear was. If I was afraid of masks , he would try to scare me with it , always behind the corner of a door. The only time I saw him without shapeshift on , was when i was 8. I don't remember much of him, just that he had a sweet looking smile, wavy hair, a stripped shirt with an anchor patch and a blue aura all around him. I never saw him again. 3. Amilia's mom. This, is the reason im writing and posting this. We don't know her name but for it to make sense let's call her Eleanor for now. I wasn't supposed to know about her. I met her by accident. It was 5am, and my father was up getting ready for work. I woke up too by a noise, so I just went to hug my dad and go play at the attic. Now, fyi, the attic doesn't have any sources of electricity or water. The windows were open. I remember her standing in front of a grey wall that had turned orange , due to the sunlight. She was thin, to an unhealthy point where bones were distinguished , abnormally tall, with long arms and nails, a slim face with black void eyes and without a mouth. She was wearing a lavender coloured knitted jumper, torn on the edges and big pearls, that would totally weight as much as dog chains. She had an expression, like furious and terrified

I didn't think much of her , I just closed the door shut and ran back to the house.

For my friend Irene, [ F11 at that time] it started like this. It all started from a nightmare. The nightmare started like this.

Her grandmother's house , who had passed out unfortunately at that time was falling apart. Someone was wrecking it down. in the nightmare, Irene and her father tried to keep the house from being destroyed, and she was there. Eleanor. She was screaming repeatedly, "get out of my house, who are you, what are you doing here? Get out now!".

Then, it started. Eleanor would mess around with Irene. She would walk around the house, slowly, Hit her nails on the kitchen counter with slow Rhythm , hide behind doors and peak at Irene and her family and mess with the light switch. All of this, during nighttime. Then, she started making her appearance. She was everywhere Irene's eyes would land on. For example, At school, they had high windows near the ceiling And she would spot Eleanor peaking her from there. She would always sense her around, feel her vision watching her, without her doing anything, other than scaring her.

[Most recent events]

For me, she made her comeback on 2021. Every summer, till the summer of 2023. Summer 2021: I firstly saw her again at an abandoned building. Full of dirt, dust and fallen apart. I had the same nightmare for 7 days. It was the same scenario, I would go to a lake during night-time with a girl. As we would walk, she would turn into a goat and features like her eyes, nails and teeth would grow sharper. My mission was to save myself. I had to keep myself away from the lake, as I knew that all she wanted was to drown me. I would point at flowers, stars , animals, anything! Just to delay her from taking me to the lake. Then, when the sun came out, she would sprint away from me back to the forest But on the seventh day, she didn't run away. She grabbed me and said "you'll never win me."

Summer 2022: I had to pull all nighters , because I could see her peaking at me through the door and I would feel eyes on me all the time. Sometimes, I would hear noises coming from the living room. Whenever I laid eyes on her She would vanish and move back.

Summer 2023: It all came down bad. I would hear noises like scratching, opening cupboards, nail hitting, Heavy breathing, walking, doors opening, running sometimes. But the worst was, whenever the home landline would ring during the night ane in the morning, there would be no missed calls or anything that would explain the ringing. The lack of sleep, food, rest and my hallucinations were driving me crazy. At some points , I would get out of my house in the middle of the night because my hallucinations were making me anxious, to the point of panic attacks.

For Irene, there was a comeback also in 2021. Again, the same thing. Noises, hearing steps during the night.. And at that time, Irene was trying to figure out how to read auras. She remembers a heavy foggy black aura around the house, almost suffocating.

Its 2024. Me and Irene became friends at the end of 2022. I was talking to her about how many of my stuff were disappearing nowadays , how I heard noises at at random points of my day, or whenever my ears would ring , and so on. We tried to read what was going on, with classic card deck. I asked "are you Amilia's mom?" The answer was yes. I explained and described Eleanor to Irene And she told me that we both have seen her. We both knew. We thought that it was our imagination, but...would we see the same ghost at the exact same ages, doing the same things ? We can't find any information about her. Please, if you see her, let us know.

So I live alone and I started noticing every morning I’ve had bites on my arms and legs and I posted it on the medical subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/medical/s/4FFCGGONIf if you wanna actually see it) and I had some people say I did it in my sleep and to get a camera or something so I did. Next morning I had no bites and the camera picked nothing up, but the next morning after that day I had bites and I looked at the cameras to see a tall skinny what I think was a homeless woman who came in my room and would bite and suck on my fucking arms. I called the police and it turns out she’s been living In my garages basement for the last few weeks, (I never really gone down there cause there’s no point). The lady was arrested. This will be embedded in my head forever and idk if I’m able to sleep anymore

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I'm Brazilian but I decided to post this here hoping that someone believes me.

When I was around 8 years ago, I didn't like sleeping in the afternoon, just like any other child my age. However, that day my father said that I had to go to sleep, and as I was always a little afraid of my father for fear that he would hit me, I obeyed and went to bed, but I didn't sleep but I stayed awake rolling from one side to the other. another from the bed.

Just to put it into context, my father was mowing the lawn at home, so it made a lot of noise while he was using the lawnmower. As my room at the time was close to the back door, every time it was open I could see the sun shining through the gap below my door. That's where the terror begins.

While my dad was mowing the lawn, I look at the light that's coming through from under my door, and I see someone walking, and no, it wasn't my mom, she was working and wouldn't arrive until later and besides us, it wasn't to have no one else in the house. So I wonder who those footprints were, then again I was always very attentive to any red flag, and that was definitely one, after a while I left my room pretending that I had really slept, I called my father in a corner and I told him about it, and he, as always, was very "setic"

He however said that it was a bird and that I shouldn't worry, but I think that birds don't make noise with their boots and much less leave mud on the floor.

A few days later I heard a conversation between my parents and I heard my father say: "today when I disappeared to fix the wiring in the bathroom, I saw that there were some lunch boxes and scissors next to the cut wiring", when I saw this I was more sure than I never saw that what I saw that day wasn't just a little bird

If you made it this far, I appreciate you reading my story, nowadays I no longer live in that house and we also never found out who cut our wires... tell me what you thought and what you would have done in my place 😄

(20M) this story is short and brief but true. It was nearly 11:30PM and I decided to call it a night as I laid in bed I soon enough knocked out, I can recall waking up at 5PM and it was still dark out and as I sleep I can picture myself being viewed by someone else’s eyes and it was from the edge of my bed near my face. About say 3 seconds of this I hear the voice say in a feminine manner “I can see you” I instantly opened my eyes and as I fully woke up in sweat and fear I heard “-an see you” As if I woke up mid sentence. I laid down in my bed staring at the edge even though I definitely didn’t want to I couldn’t look away and I just couldn’t produce a sound. Eventually I got up and laid down with my brother in his room.. scary stuff!

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This is a SubReddit I created to write about something that happened to my siblings cousins and myself at night (December 2023)

This story isn’t a joke, trust me I thought it was at first too. My boyfriend (18M) saw something he can’t explain. It was New Year’s Eve and he was driving home after our date night so it was around 1AM. I was laying in bed scrolling on my phone when I got a call from him. I didn’t think anything of it, assuming he was calling because he was bored on his drive home or something. I answered kind of half asleep when he told me he just saw something terrifying and he didn’t know what to do.

He said, “Listen I know this sounds insane and I can’t tell anyone else because no one will believe me, but I’m scared.”

Something you should know about my boyfriend is he does not get scared often. He’s rational, he views everything with statistics and science. He doesn’t believe in the paranormal. I thought he was just fucking with me, he was trying to scare me or something. I told him to explain what happened.

“I was driving down the interstate and I saw this deer, but it wasn’t deer. It was fucking huge. At first I thought it was just a really big deer, but as I got closer I realize deer don’t get that big. Elk don’t even get that big.”

It was at this point at I realized he was telling the truth. His voice was shaking and he was talking frantically. I’ve never heard him that scared before. He continued.

“It was hunched over, it looked like a man, a really big fucking man, but it had deer antlers and fur all over it. I thought I was tweaking until I looked in my rear view mirror after I drove past it and it was still there and other cars were swerving away from it.”

That night he didn’t sleep, he kept a loaded gun by his bed and watched the security cameras around his house all night.

Last night we were talking about it again. As he was talking his eyes were darting around, he would check behind us every 30 seconds or so.

He gave me a better description of it: it stood about 8 feet tall, it looked like a man hunched over with his hands on the ground. It had a human face and massive deer antlers. Standing upright it probably would’ve been about 12 feet tall. It was covered in fur and stood deer-like. It was standing on the side of the interstate just watching the cars go by.

Here is where shit gets wild.

His house is about a mile from the interstate, some woods separating them. He’s explored these woods before. He was telling me about a bridge in the woods that’s he’s explored before, and it shouldn’t technically be there. Every bridge in the state of Kentucky is registered with a serial number. This one wasn’t. He described it like it looked brand new. There was no rust, the stone and metal was pristine, there was no graffiti. Under the bridge there was a tunnel. This tunnel would logically be a drainage tunnel, but it was always bone dry. He doesn’t know how long it is, but he knows it is at least 2 miles long.

He said it has been a couple of years since he’s been there and he doesn’t want to go back. He thinks that thing he saw is from there. He said bridges are supposed to be registered but it isn’t in the Kentucky registry. Everything about the bridge is just wrong, and something about it reminded him of the thing he saw on the interstate.

He told me there’s only been one other experience in his life that was like this one. It was right when he turned 17 and he was out alone hunting in the woods. If you’ve never been hunting before, you can see the woods wake up around you. As the sun rises the birds wake up, the squirrels come out and run around, and the deer come out for dinner (since they’re nocturnal). He told me this time, nothing was there. The birds weren’t chirping, there was nothing in sight. The leaves were still, there was no wind, everything was dead silent except the sound of his own breath. It was around noon and he decided something was off and left to go home. He told me he didn’t think much of it then, but now it genuinely scares him to think of that day.

Has anyone ever seen anything like this before? I don’t know if It was a wendigo or someone pulling a prank, but I know I’ve never heard my boyfriend sound like that before. I believe him, I believe there was something there that night that is unexplainable, and I need someone to confirm we aren’t crazy. I need some sort of explanation.

Hi, my name is Alex. Today something happened to me that made my blood run cold and I would like to know if I am the only one who was a victim of this event. I've always been afraid of my house and I've always believed that someone inside was spying on me but I never expected something like this. Today, I was studying in my room, my mother was in the living room and my cell phone was in the kitchen because I was doing a challenge to see how long I could go without my cell phone. While I was studying, I heard a call from a simple cell phone with an iPhone "opening" ringtone... now you are thinking that everything is normal, right? Well, it's not. At first I thought it was my PC making this sound since I was also listening to a video with headphones that explained the thing I had to study, however, after hearing the ringing for a while I took off the headphones and realized that the call was coming from a part of the room near me and not from my PC headphones. It was impossible for the sound to come from my room because apart from my PC there were no cell phones in the room. I checked everywhere, in every corner of the room but I didn't find anything. While I was looking for the cell phone that was receiving the call it stopped ringing. I also called my mother to ask her if there was an iPhone or another cell phone in my room but she said no. The thing that scares me the most is that before the cell phone finished ringing, I approached the closet and heard that the sound was louder from there... right at that moment that I tried to see what was in there, the sound stopped. At first I didn't think about anything serious, I simply saw on some sites what it could mean. The only thing I got out of those sites was that I had a hallucination. I don't think that's the case, also because the sound was too real. Now I logged onto reddit just to ask if any of you know what may have happened and if there is anyone or anything in my house that should make me worry. Please help me because this thing happened to me recently and I still have chills.