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3 Allegedly True Paranormal Horror Stories That Will Keep You Awake · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: I live in a small neighborhood home in the suburbs
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  Speaker 1: of a large city. I had a roommate that lived
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  Speaker 1: there with me for almost three years before he eventually
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  Speaker 1: moved out to his own place, and at that point
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  Speaker 1: I was able to afford rent myself, so I didn't
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  Speaker 1: bother finding a new roommate. However, during the weeks following
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  Speaker 1: his absence, I began to experience things that I could
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  Speaker 1: not explain. I have never believed in anything paranormal, but
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  Speaker 1: now I'm not so sure. I had to work late
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  Speaker 1: one night and didn't get home until eight. I did
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  Speaker 1: my usual and made dinner, then sat down to watch
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  Speaker 1: some TV. But as I sat on the couch, scrolling
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  Speaker 1: through movies to watch, I heard the wooden floorboards creaking upstairs.
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  Speaker 1: This wasn't entirely uncommon, due to the house being old,
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  Speaker 1: but it would happen often, and when it did, it
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  Speaker 1: always seemed like they creaked in a distinct pattern, as
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  Speaker 1: if someone was walking. It was definitely a bit creepy,
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  Speaker 1: but I learned to ignore it after a while. However,
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  Speaker 1: on this night, they continued for almost thirty minutes. I
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  Speaker 1: muted the TV and listened as the noises would travel
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  Speaker 1: slowly across the entire upstairs, moving room to room. This
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  Speaker 1: definitely freaked me out more than usual, and I thought
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  Speaker 1: that there might actually be someone upstairs. I stood up
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  Speaker 1: and shouted, hoping to scare them out, or to at
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  Speaker 1: least know that it was just the old house so
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  Speaker 1: I could continue with my night. But as soon as
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  Speaker 1: I shouted, the creaking stopped. I waited, listening for anything else,
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  Speaker 1: but after a few minutes of silence, I decided to
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  Speaker 1: check upstairs myself. I went to the kitchen and grabbed
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  Speaker 1: a knife just in case, and then I made my
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  Speaker 1: way up. I went room to room, checking every inch
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  Speaker 1: of the place, but found nothing. Everything was where it
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  Speaker 1: had been and there were no signs of anyone being here.
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  Speaker 1: I figured it had to be just a really big
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  Speaker 1: coincidence that the noise stopped as soon as I shouted,
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  Speaker 1: and I made my way back to the couch to
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  Speaker 1: try and forget about it. I ended up going to
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  Speaker 1: bed around twelve after watching a short movie. I lay
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  Speaker 1: there in bed for a while. I was really tired,
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  Speaker 1: but for some reason I just couldn't fall asleep. After
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, I got up to use the bathroom,
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  Speaker 1: the way my house is set up. My bedroom is
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  Speaker 1: on the right side of the hallway upstairs, and the
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  Speaker 1: bathroom is right across from it on the left side.
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  Speaker 1: So I opened the door and stepped into the hallway.
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  Speaker 1: But just as I did that, I heard whispering voices
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  Speaker 1: coming from down the hallway and in the spare bedroom
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  Speaker 1: where my roommate used to stay. I stood there for
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  Speaker 1: a few seconds, listening and trying to collect myself. Then
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  Speaker 1: I slowly and quietly moved closer to the spare bedroom,
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  Speaker 1: and as I got up right next to the door,
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  Speaker 1: I leaned with my ear against it. It sounded like
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  Speaker 1: multiple voices whispering to each other, but it was indistinct
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  Speaker 1: or in another language. As I stood there listening, the
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  Speaker 1: voices began getting louder and closer to the other side
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  Speaker 1: of the door, until it seemed as though they were
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  Speaker 1: just inches away. Again, I never believed in anything paranormal before,
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  Speaker 1: and even then I refused to believe it. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: bigger guy and I don't get scared easily. So I
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  Speaker 1: angrily pushed the door open, ready to fight whoever was there.
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  Speaker 1: But with the door wide open, my whole world stood still.
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  Speaker 1: As I saw nothing but an empty room. In that moment,
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  Speaker 1: I was more terrified than I'd ever been in my
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  Speaker 1: entire life. The horror I felt surged through my body
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  Speaker 1: was unbearable. I turned around and ran out of the
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  Speaker 1: house and straight to my parked car. I sat in there,
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  Speaker 1: staring at the house as I called my roommate. It
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  Speaker 1: was so late, I wasn't sure if he'd pick up,
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  Speaker 1: but thankfully he did. My voice was shaking as I
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  Speaker 1: told him what just happened. Even he could tell something
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  Speaker 1: was seriously wrong because he'd never seen or heard me
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  Speaker 1: scared like that. Honestly, he didn't sound too surprised, though,
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  Speaker 1: as he mentioned multiple times that he's heard things in
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  Speaker 1: that house before. What happened that night was an experience
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  Speaker 1: that I'll never forget, and it has since changed my
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  Speaker 1: beliefs on the paranormal. Honestly, I don't even know what
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  Speaker 1: to believe anymore. It's been over a month since that happened,
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  Speaker 1: and I've started sleeping on the couch downstairs every night
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  Speaker 1: instead of my bedroom. But still every once in a
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  Speaker 1: while I wake up hearing something upstairs moving slowly, creaked,
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  Speaker 1: sicking the wooden floors above me. I've had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of inexplicable experiences in my life, some that even today
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  Speaker 1: I can't wrap my head around. My first thought isn't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily that it's the paranormal, as I'm not sure if
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  Speaker 1: I believe in that kind of thing. I have an
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  Speaker 1: open mind, but I don't buy into things that easily.
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  Speaker 1: Most things that happen I blame on my mind playing
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  Speaker 1: tricks on me, or sleep deprivation, or simply the fact
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  Speaker 1: that it could be a mental illness that has gone undiagnosed.
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  Speaker 1: There is one moment, though, or I suppose a few
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  Speaker 1: moments that have been on my mind for some time now.
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  Speaker 1: One happened while I was in the shower, and as
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  Speaker 1: water poured over my head, I heard my brother yell
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  Speaker 1: my name, Bree, Bree. The second one was louder than
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  Speaker 1: the first, as if something was wrong, I could have sworn.
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  Speaker 1: I heard my dog barking as well. Annoyed but concerned,
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  Speaker 1: I got out and cracked the door open, then called
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  Speaker 1: back to them, but after waiting a few seconds, there
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  Speaker 1: was no response. I quickly dried myself off and put
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  Speaker 1: on my robe, then headed downstairs, asking what they needed. Again. However,
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  Speaker 1: I still got no response. My dog was on her bed,
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  Speaker 1: fast asleep, and my brother was nowhere to be found.
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  Speaker 1: I looked out the window and their car wasn't even there.
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  Speaker 1: This wasn't the first time my mind has decided to
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  Speaker 1: play these annoying games, so I didn't really think much
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  Speaker 1: of it. Honestly, I've had auditory hallucinations before, none to
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  Speaker 1: that degree. But maybe they're getting worse and I need
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  Speaker 1: to sleep more. That's my way of trying to reason
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  Speaker 1: with myself, and it worked the next time time that
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  Speaker 1: I heard my brother yell my name and they weren't there.
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  Speaker 1: But then it happened a third time, and then a fourth,
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  Speaker 1: my brother calling for me loudly and distinctly. That's when
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  Speaker 1: I started to get worried. I thought I was genuinely
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  Speaker 1: going crazy. I decided to bring it up to my
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  Speaker 1: brother while playing Borderlands one night. We talked about our
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  Speaker 1: mental health a lot because our parents don't believe in therapy,
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  Speaker 1: so we kind of became each other's safe haven. I
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  Speaker 1: explained everything that's happened over the past month, and instead
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  Speaker 1: of giving advice or sympathizing like he usually does, he
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  Speaker 1: just gets really quiet for a second until he says
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  Speaker 1: he's been experiencing the same thing, except it's been our
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  Speaker 1: mom yelling his name, but she's never been home when
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  Speaker 1: he goes to check. He says it's happened around five
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  Speaker 1: or six times, maybe a month or two ago. But
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  Speaker 1: he also thought his mind was playing tricks. It seemed.
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  Speaker 1: After that talk, things began to stop. I didn't hear
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  Speaker 1: anything for almost three weeks, but then something happened that
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  Speaker 1: I'll never forget and will probably never have an explanation for.
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  Speaker 1: I was sitting in my bed in my room, scrolling
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  Speaker 1: through Instagram when my mom starts aggressively calling my name
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  Speaker 1: from downstairs. I've never heard her voice before. It was
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  Speaker 1: always my brother's, so I didn't even think anything weird
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  Speaker 1: of it. I was about to get up and see
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  Speaker 1: what she wanted, when suddenly my mom burst through the door,
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  Speaker 1: asking me what I wanted. I didn't know what to say,
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  Speaker 1: but I could tell that she was annoyed by the
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  Speaker 1: look she gave me. She asks me again what I wanted,
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  Speaker 1: and I just kind of shook my head trying to
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  Speaker 1: understand what was going on. Then she angrily sighed and
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  Speaker 1: said not to yell her name while she's making dinner
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  Speaker 1: and walked out, leaving the door open. Still in shock,
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  Speaker 1: I got up to close the door, but as I
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  Speaker 1: walked across the room, my heart stopped when I came
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  Speaker 1: to the realization. I immediately sprinted over to the window
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  Speaker 1: and looked at the driveway. My mom was at work.
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  Speaker 1: I slammed my door shut and sat on my bed
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  Speaker 1: crying as I called my brother. I was absolutely terrified
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  Speaker 1: and wanted to get out of the house, but couldn't
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  Speaker 1: even get myself to go downstairs alone. My brother didn't
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  Speaker 1: pick up as he was at work, so I was
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  Speaker 1: left stuck there. I ended up locking myself in my
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  Speaker 1: small bathroom while I waited for either my brother or
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  Speaker 1: my mom to get home from work, though I knew
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  Speaker 1: it would be ours. Thankfully, nothing else happened until my
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  Speaker 1: mom got back, and this time I was very hesitant
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  Speaker 1: when she called for me, but it ended up being okay.
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  Speaker 1: I told my brother that night, and he said he'd
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  Speaker 1: never had anything like that happened to him. To this day,
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  Speaker 1: I still have no answers as to what I was
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  Speaker 1: hearing and seeing. Honestly, I'm writing this and sharing it
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  Speaker 1: and hopes to be able to forget about it and
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  Speaker 1: move on. I don't want to know anymore because I
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  Speaker 1: don't think I can handle the truth if it really
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  Speaker 1: was the paranormal. This happened several years ago. Back in
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  Speaker 1: February of two thousand and one. My friend, who I
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  Speaker 1: will call Jake for privacy reasons, invited me on a
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  Speaker 1: long weekend trip to a remote cabin that his uncle
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  Speaker 1: owned in northern Saskatchewan, and I agreed to join him.
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  Speaker 1: So we drove the long six hours from my house
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  Speaker 1: to get there. Let me give you a brief layout
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  Speaker 1: of the grounds before we continue. It was a small,
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  Speaker 1: single story ranch style cabin with a kitchen, one bedroom,
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  Speaker 1: one bathroom, and a living room. There was no electricity
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  Speaker 1: or running water, and it was surrounded by forest on
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  Speaker 1: all sides. The only way or out was down a long,
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  Speaker 1: unpaved driveway. We arrived at the cabin around dusk. The
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  Speaker 1: next day. Jake and I walked around the forest to
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  Speaker 1: search for some firewood, and about an hour into the walk,
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  Speaker 1: Jake spot in an abandoned house out in the distance.
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  Speaker 1: It was nestled among a group of trees, and this
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  Speaker 1: was rather strange, as we were in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: northern Saskatchewan. And civilization was miles away. Jake wanted to
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  Speaker 1: check out the house out of curiosity, and although I
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  Speaker 1: was hesitant to go inside, I reluctantly joined him. We
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  Speaker 1: entered through a boarded up window. Once inside, we were
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  Speaker 1: greeted with a musty smell. As we were roaming around,
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  Speaker 1: I noticed a door that headed into the basement. Curiosity
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  Speaker 1: got the better of me, and against my better judgment,
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  Speaker 1: I opened the door and slowly made my way down
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  Speaker 1: the steps. Once I reached the bottom, I froze. There
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  Speaker 1: were dimly candles in a circular pattern, as if someone
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  Speaker 1: was performing some kind of satanic ritual. I pointed our
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  Speaker 1: flashlight across the basement to see if someone was hiding,
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  Speaker 1: but no one was there. After doing some exploring, I
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  Speaker 1: discovered there was an empty alcove behind the stairs. As
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  Speaker 1: I made my way back to the steps, I saw
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  Speaker 1: something out of the corner of my eye under the stairs,
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  Speaker 1: which had been cleared just moments before. There was a
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  Speaker 1: black figure staring directly at me. It looked to be
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  Speaker 1: at least eight feet tall, and once I saw its eyes,
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  Speaker 1: I knew I was in the presence of something inhuman.
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  Speaker 1: A pair of glowing red eyes stared back at me,
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  Speaker 1: full of hatred and malice. I then heard a low,
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  Speaker 1: repulsive growling, and without hesitation, I bolted up the stairs.
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  Speaker 1: Jake was still exploring the empty dining room and heard
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  Speaker 1: me coming up the stairs. We needed to get the
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  Speaker 1: fuck out of here. We left through the same way
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  Speaker 1: we entered. Our story, however, does not end there. When
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  Speaker 1: we finally returned to the cabin, I told Jake everything
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  Speaker 1: about what I saw, and to my surprise, he believed me.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see anything myself, but the moment we entered
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  Speaker 1: that place, I felt that something evil lived there. We
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  Speaker 1: decided to put the whole thing behind us and get
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  Speaker 1: some rest. I suddenly woke up and checked the time
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  Speaker 1: on my watch and it said two seventeen am. Things
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  Speaker 1: were dark and quiet, but I felt that something was
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  Speaker 1: a miss. After a while, I heard subtle footsteps outside
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  Speaker 1: the bedroom door. This was also when Jake woke up
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  Speaker 1: as well. What's going on? I told him to be
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  Speaker 1: quiet and listen. The footsteps became louder, and I got
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  Speaker 1: up from my bed and made my way over to
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  Speaker 1: the bedroom door. I then cracked it to see what
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  Speaker 1: was outside. Chills were sent through my body as there
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  Speaker 1: was an intruder in the cabin in the far corner
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  Speaker 1: of the living room, but it was not human. It
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  Speaker 1: was that same creature that I'd seen in the basement
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  Speaker 1: of that abandoned house. The moonlight did not provide adequate illumination,
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  Speaker 1: but I saw the disturbing form twist its head until
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  Speaker 1: its red eyes were looking back at the bedroom door,
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  Speaker 1: or should I say me, I slammed the door shut,
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  Speaker 1: locking it. In a panic, we both fled the cabin
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  Speaker 1: through the bedroom window, leaving all of our belongings behind.
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  Speaker 1: As we ran towards Jake's truck, we both heard a loud,
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  Speaker 1: ear piercing scream. Jake frantically started the truck and floored
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  Speaker 1: it out of there. We remained silent the whole way home,
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  Speaker 1: not saying a word about what we saw. It's been
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  Speaker 1: nearly twenty years since this event, and Jake and I
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  Speaker 1: are still friends to this day, but we never returned
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  Speaker 1: to his uncle's cabin since. I don't know if what
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  Speaker 1: we saw that night was some kind of paranormal entity
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  Speaker 1: or an unknown creature living in the woods, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't plan nor care to find out.