Middle-aged opinion - Paranormal encounters

Episode Date: June 26, 2024

Today we dived into paranormal events stories of people that have experienced unexplainable things. Thanks to everyone that’s following along. We hope you’re enjoying the episode so far.https://youtube.com/@middle-agedopinion?si=U66AP9xd7NeuosmG

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Yes, do you want me to check? I feel like that's your professional. It was a mess. Yeah, I feel like I am. You in? Yeah, I don't know. I'm in my chair. Half your chair?

There. Crap. That's it. That's it. I'm in. I just want to make sure people can hear you from my loud mouth. Because. Now they're faced the right way

show me show me i do feel like i've taken like because uh i stole your thunder with the literal jenna said that um she was nervous to be on camera and i said then don't look at the camera i said so when we're doing it so we'll share it kind of like this because we're both really loud i said to her don't worry because um you haven't got a look so just talk to us normally. But isn't it funny how far we've come compared to when we started? I still look at it, though. I know.

I know. You look at the camera more than I look at the camera. You look at the camera with reactions of whatever I'm doing, and you're like, mm, uh, uh, and the eye. Can we talk about how long my fringe is? My fringe. My fringe, yeah. Do you like the fringe?

Considering I started here. I know, right started here yeah i feel like a spaghetti doll what we're thinking today don't even have female friends to be able to talk to about these things because surely what you're thinking so we haven't done yet okay we've done jellies what about croissants and gingerbread? Go on then. No, let's do croissants and gingerbread. I love a gingerbread man. There's a bit of me doing this as well. Yeah, we're still waiting for you all to notice, yeah? What you ain't noticed, noticed, noticed. No one's made any comments.

None. Fucking rude bruv. Right there. Although we appreciate that you're so much fun Yeah we do like that We really appreciate everyone that's following And enjoying the podcast We appreciate you Oh Have you seen that one

Where he's in the dentist And Oh my energy's dropping. I know, because I've been traumatised. My heart rate's going up. Literally, where he's in the dentist, and then the dentist goes to reach for the stuff to put in, does this, and then the bloke in the chair does the heart back,

and then he slaps his hand and he does it again. That would so be me. Are you putting them in? This is what I've been doing. I know. Have you got earrings? Have you got nails for tonight? I've got to put on my nails for tonight.

I was going to put them on, but then I was like, I've got to go to the farm. Yeah. I was going to put mine on and I was like I've got to shampoo my hair blah blah blah blah blah blah why because I can't go back after today oh okay I'm like sorry guys I can't let you out in the field considering you haven't even chose what you're gonna wear yet not me not me I can't let you out. They all started on me. Chickens are growling. Growling? Yeah.

Chickens growl? Oh, okay. I love chickens. Guys, girls, ladies. Gentlemen. There's no gentlemen. I know. You ain't got cock.

Only guts. We've got plenty of cocks. We don't need any more. Only guts. Well, no, you've got two. There are two male goats as well, but I can't remember their names. Tom and Jerry. Tom and Jerry. Tom and Jerry.

I don't know which was which. Right. Are we going to start with Paranormal? Sure. And then move on to True Crime. Yeah. Okay. I found one that actually is English as well.

On what? On Reddit. What do you mean english it happens in england oh okay oh okay cool i know i'm like oh it's only down the road there was one that i wanted to read because it was quite a good story um maybe i will another time and then but because it took place in china i couldn't really pronounce a lot of the words so then i started googling the words and then it pronounced it for me and I thought the whole episode would be me trying to like because I don't want to offend anybody by pronouncing something wrong I mean that's not any even anything to do with my dyslexia that anybody would struggle do you know what I mean that isn't from that country but the story is great so I might do it on a different episode and then ask

for forgiveness later. Right so look shall I do the introduction? Okay hello am I what do I say hello hello governor hello welcome to middle-aged opinion I'm your host Ellie and I'm Emily and what did we say? Paranormal. We are going to be looking at paranormal stories. Yeah. Today, am I starting or are you starting? You start. You sure? Yeah. Do you?

I feel like I always start. We're going to rock, paper, scissor it. Okay. Rock, paper, scissor, shoot. Rock, paper, scissor, shoot. Alright. It's me, I'm going first. No, it, scissors it. Okay. Rock, paper, scissors, shoot. Rock, paper, scissors, shoot. All right. It's me.

I'm going first. No, it's I am. No. You've got to rock and I won. Yeah. So then I go first. Sorry, you're saying it's whoever loses. Yeah, I lost. No, you can go first.

Yeah, well, I am now. I feel like we don't understand rock, paper, scissors. Both of our minds went completely different right so this is from paranormal encounters uh amazon driver paranormal encounter okay sweet here's my story last year i took a job working for an amazon dsp uh although my work although my work there didn't last long i definitely had an experience that i wish i could explain scientifically a lot of my roots ended up being in the back woods of the border of New York and penny I can't even say see if you can read that word for me there you go Pennsylvania it's a big one for me I encounter I absolutely hated being there

these roads I had I absolutely hated what is going on I absolutely hated being on these roads i i absolutely hated what is going on i absolutely hated being on these roads past dark um which happened quite often and to the houses would always be miles apart so this particular foggy night i am on these back roads and as i'm driving i these lights. This is the suburbs of America, yeah? Yes, I'm assuming just the outskirts. Every single horror movie, it always takes place. Generally in Connecticut, actually. Never live in the suburbs of America. Generally Connecticut.

Right. Lights show up in the sky. At that point, I chalked it up to high powered flashlights i'm trying to i've had a sip of coke so i feel like i'm gonna go in the thingy bob um flashing lights being flashing lights uh being lights being pointed up into the sky after a few more stops from my you laughing at the dog from my route i began to notice the direction that the lights are coming from keep changing at this point it's annoying because i can't move it up at this point i'm just weirded out and trying to keep myself focused on the road it was at this point that i literally drove past what i can only

describe as three semi translucent old miners now i'm uh i'm talking old beam up beaten up denim, scrambled arse beards, pick axes and those hard hats with lights on, standing at the shoulder to shoulder, literally on the side of the road. I'm driving, going maybe 45 miles per hour and the encounter maybe lasted two seconds. Did I turn around? around no i didn't literally i wasn't about to scooby-doo that i literally gotta say that i give major points for those that live out in the middle of nowhere y'all can keep y'all y'all can keep. Y'all. Y'all can keep that to yourselves. Motherfucker. It was a bit like.

So I don't know. So we've gone from lights in the sky. All over the shop. To translucent. Translucent. Translucent. Translucent. Figures on the side of the road.

What are they called? Not miners. Do you know in Toy Story? What is it? Where, where, where? Little Aliens? No, in Toy Story. Yeah. Two.

Right. They get another little doll who's got a little pickaxe. Oh, the little old man. What is he? I don oh the little old man what is he i don't know a cutie pie i don't know no you ain't it's paddy i don't know i'm trying to think toy story two seven divorce this is what just happened oh okay yeah oh my god i've got to tell you let's finish this and then there's something i've got to tell you about it yeah so i don't know if we're gonna have another round but anyway so I don't know if he's encountered aliens or ghosts because I don't really understand the lights in the sky wow man if that eyebrow could get any higher what do you think

i think he's high as a kite and he does not know what's going on i don't think he's high i think he saw something but i don't know whether that was ghosts or something else comment there's not really many comments there's only one comment he said do you know if there were any mining that was done in the area interesting story makes me curious about local history so i think this person thinks that they're mined back in dan you know a lot of them collapsed and killed a lot of miners i mean that there was supposedly as the seacomb mines in the in the county the area was known for a railway railway road as well so you definitely i definitely believe you saw something because i don't you know people do we've even ourselves we've seen something like no yeah i mean i would definitely be like it's a no because I don't I

don't like it I don't go looking for trouble and you know like when you know when I know things are going to happen right and that is true I do um I don't even dig into that I mean my sister says to me a lot of the time you know really open your third eye and you know but i actually don't want to so it because i'm not i have enough problems of my own right i see enough dicks on a daily to not need to like do it but i have to tell you this i don't know if it's going to irritate you or not but i don't really care oh yeah there was something else i've saved as well good job I saved all this to talk about with you so sing me the seven dwarf songs

yes I need you to sing hi ho hi ho hi ho do I have to do all of that? yeah just the chorus that everybody knows hi ho

it's off to work we go oh noho. It's off to work we go. Oh, no, it's never been off to work we go. It's back! And Jesus agrees with me. Now we've cracked it. Now we're bringing it to light. They're coming to get us. The government's in on it!

All right, sit down now. Why did you throw that at me? I didn't. But that was like, believe her. Don't you think that's weird that that changed? And I was like, oh my God, I've got to tell her. Okay, so what did you tell her? Hi-ho, hi-ho.

It's off to homework we go. Homework we go. Something like that, yeah. I can't find the picture. It's off to work we go. You don't have to tell me, picture i'm off the work we go you don't have to tell me bruv not anymore hi ho hi ho hi not that you know it or anything you see that you just made that up so that is what is so frustrating with it oh it's like no it's not so i have no idea why they've changed that but yeah i've got another one for the encounters for you,

which relates to me as a child, but you do your story. So we agree. He saw something. We don't know what he saw. Oh, listen, he absolutely saw something.

Yeah. That's fine. That's fair. Yeah. What? I don't know. Who knows? The only thing that doesn't make sense to me is the lights,

unless it did collapse and then they were searching lights. Do you know what I mean? Like a ghost scene was being reenacted, if that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah, like on a loop. Yeah, maybe. Yeah. Like, I mean, I know that's a bit far.

Did you say it was like a woody area? Yeah, so apparently, I mean, I don't know. I've never been lucky enough to go to America. Never probably will, but I'd love to. So invite us. We're poor, though. Yeah, so apparently New York, it's the outskirts of New York. So I'm assuming once you leave the city, it's more countryside.

So that was his delivery route. Very cool. Okay. Okay? side so that was his delivery route very cool okay okay yeah okay so mine is uh reddit paranormal he's got a little subheading of deathbed paranormal phenomena right okay I was not the only patient who ran away from her oh okay well a lot of people before we get into the story a lot of people are scared of grave sites right yeah and I'm not I don't I actually don't think they're haunted. I feel more uncomfortable in certain parts of the hospital. Right. And when I've spoken to some of the girls before, and I'm not scared of grave sites,

because I think that's not where you'd haunt. You would haunt where you've had a tragic death. Makes more sense to me. It's more calm. Yes. That is where people are at rest. Right. So if there are ghosts there ghosts they're not there in a

negative way come on mom i agree come on mom chuck it ahead next time i hit my hand as well on the table right like the choking maybe it's my mum coming through me right sorry yes go I was not the only patient who ran away from her I was I was confined a hospital in Manila for severe phenomena I'm going to start that again. I actually think when I struggle the first it rubs off on you. I know, I feel like it's your fault.

No, I do as well. Mum, chuck it. I was confined at a hospital in Manila Sorry for any words we're not saying correctly we do not mean to offend severe phenomena back in 2021 right this was during the pandemic lockdown when masks were mandatory i was about to be assigned a room when i saw a happy toddler in red polka dots galloping around the emergency room. Then left the glass entrance. She had no mask on, so I asked security if children were allowed.

The guard said in Filipino. Oh, I'm sorry. I apologize now. That's why I already apologised. Baro, bata, ditto, meaning no children allowed. Right. I was confused. Didn't he see the kid? After I was confined on the fifth floor, I fell asleep and had a weird

dream. I went downstairs and saw the young girl outside the emergency room only she was weeping in anger and holding a hammer oh when she looked up chucky's girlfriend screamed back it mo echo, inner one. Which is translated, not what I just said, but it's supposed to translate. Why did you leave me? Oh. And now I'm goose pimply. Scared of being hit with a hammer, I ran up the dim stairwell back to the fifth floor. Slowly I was losing breath, but I looked back and saw she was floating up the staircase.

It felt like I ascended over 20 floors, all the while a humming voice saying, Pah! Sorry, I shouldn't laugh. Saying, Pah! Sorry, I shouldn't laugh. Same, pah! By the time I reached my bed, I was already out of breath and that's when I woke up in a dangerously low oxygen level. I was intubated for a few days after that. Sorry. abated for a few days after that. When I regained my consciousness, I narrated my dream to my

attending nurse. To my surprise, she asked, knock up, I wish you would just tell me what she said. In English, and just say the English part. part no it doesn't tell me oh i went to read on to my surprise she asked knacker polka dot dress bar i asked how she knew so i'm guessing she said did she have a polka dot dress on right i asked how did she know to which she replied that my dream was similar to over 10 stories from different patients across decades. That is, a certain girl also in polka dot dress showed up in their dreams and chased them inside the stairwell. It's an open secret among hospital staff that the ghostly little girl exists, It's an open secret among hospital staff that the ghostly little girl exists and that is because some of the older staff have actually seen the girl in real life.

Yeah, so hell no. The backstory goes like this. In the 1970s, there was a small dengue-infected kid. Dengue. Dengue fever. Dengue fever. I'm pretty sure it's dengue fever. Infected kid who was brought to the hospital

by a young Chinese dad in his 20s for reasons unknown, probably a legitimate child not recognised by the dad's parents. I don't know. The dad left the kid in the hospital to die. Nice. Never to return again. The hospital recorded no proper identity for the little girl and she eventually died alone. That's that. She was buried in the cemetery right across the hospital.

A group of nurses, one of which was my nurse's former colleague, helped bury the girl. They named her Shobi, Chinese Filipino name for youngest daughter. She wore a polka dot dress. The nurse then told me that they had never seen the girl because the ghost only shows herself to certain people. Apparently they were something common among patients with the similar encounter. East Asian looking men, i.e. Chinese, in their 20s, average build and on the brink of death. Maybe somebody who resembled her dad? Apparently I fit the description.

Is that why she called me pa? I figured the ghost of the girl is still on the search for her dad. Not going to lie, it felt like I was running away from death, catching up with me. It's really sad. The girl just wanted a dad in her afterlife. I was relieved I survived the ordeal. I went back to the hospital last year for a routine check-up, but I never saw the girl again. I hope she finds peace wherever she is. Yeah, I think it's really sad. Sad, isn't it? Although I don't think I'd be happy being chased by her. No, I wouldn't either,

but at the same time, it's like she's never going to be able to move forward if she doesn't make peace. I think it's really sad, like a trapped soul. She's just a little girl. Yeah, no, I think that's a really sad story, actually. What kind of a piece of shit doesn't, like, talk to his kid, like, drops them off and leaves them to die.

Well, if she was poorly and potentially from a poor family, they're not going to be able to pay for it. I suppose so, but still, left her to die. It is really sad. But, yeah, I'm like, that's all hospitals. Yeah. Yeah, no, I do think hospitals are definitely, I mean, the amount of stuff that goes on there

but yeah there we are it's quite sad really we're not crying i'm not crying no not like uh the other week right aggressive being in home aggressive this is again from paranormal encounters aggressive being in home i wish i'd proofread this one if it's shit then i'm just gonna have to because i've proved before i found the paranormal encounters it was paranormal and i proofread all of them but i like read a little bit and then i was like that's cool but anyway aggressive being in home there was a time a couple of years ago that I was home alone and in the bathroom had the door locked and while I waited for the shower and while I waited for the shower and I heard what sounded like somebody trying to open the bathroom door turning the knob the door knob i just read knob

i think it's because i think it's because i've seen so many this morning the door knob i looked up and sure enough i could vividly see the door knob moving back and forth that was a weird knock. I did not like that. I'm gonna have to start that story again. Fucking comedians. That was weird, wasn't it? Yeah. Should name her for a parcel. There you go, darling. Thank you. See ya. Bye bye. You were right. He's her boy. right i'm just going to start this story again is that right right aggressive being in home paranormal encounters this was a a time there was a time a couple of

years ago that i was home alone and in the bathroom had the door locked and while i waited for the shower i heard what sounded like trying to open the bathroom door turning the doorknob i looked up and sure enough i could vividly see the doorknob moving back and forth I Linda it does say Linda laughed because I was in denial this was happening and immediately after I did it immediately after I did it, it got more aggressive. Oh, immediately after she laughed, it got more aggressive. That was weird. And I heard clicking noises coming from a N-H-I.

Do we know what that means? Yeah, like it was talking. nhi i froze honestly because i realized this was actually happening i heard a cat out in the hallway doing a big projected growl and hissing at it things were quiet for a sec then i heard at then I heard it banging its fists on my living room window my god you got it yeah moving on uh then I heard it banging its fists on my living room window then it moved out to my kitchen and started banging its fist down on my kitchen counter. After everything went quiet, I stayed frozen in the bathroom till my roommate got home and he was freaking out.

He could tell something had happened. I was literally shaking. I was so scared. I'd like have to move I'd have to move with tits out and all me as well babe yeah because somebody's in my house the universe

is mental. You did a great job and you chose love over fear. Obviously, he wasn't too strong. He. So we're just gender assuming, aren't we? I don't get it. He didn't mean it. Yeah, it's him.

He wasn't too strong because it's only nature being a natural wonder. And then somebody else said, I'll DM you. Weird, weird. That would scare the shit out of me, I'm not going to lie. That would really scare the shit out of me. I would be like, I don't want to live here anymore. Don't tell me i've only got two from that no that's three four that's all right i thought i'd only had two uh stories for

true crime that we're doing after but no i don't okay oh my god my next story is gonna be very very interesting very interesting i, I'm so excited about it. So I've got a couple, but I'm not sure which one I want. So you help. So. Yeah. I saw a classic white dress, long black hair, goes as a child. Okay.

Was it those men on the piss? I tripped through the screaming woods. Okay. Or am I being stalked by a mimic? men on the piss. My trip through the screaming woods. Okay. Or am I being stalked by a mimic? Mimic. Yeah.

Yeah. You knew I'd go for that. But I've also got am I tripping or was I in danger? And I also got I thought I was going to hell as a child.

I think do mimic and then going to hell as a child. I think we're going to hell I'm taking you with me For the stuff I send her So this is also reddit paranormal encounters and am I being stalked by a mimic Am I being stalked by a mimic? Am I being stalker? Honestly, people.

Am I being stalked by a mimic? Please help. It's been happening constantly for three weeks now. Okay. This was posted five days ago. Right. So new. It's new.

It's new, new. New, new. For content, I have severe mental health issues oh i don't feel like they should have started it off with that i do think it helps to give them a diagnosis because we're doctors i don't think that means anything i think they people say that because they're like am i crazy or is this happening and i think stuff happens and then people put it down to people being crazy but that's not always the case i feel like they've just given somebody like the tools to go yeah you're crazy exactly um yeah i have severe mental health issues and dissociate a lot a lot this comes in

later recently after going to visit my uncle who everyone in our family thinks attracts negative spirits I feel I've had one come home with me two days Two days exactly after visiting him, I had a severe dissociative episode during this episode. This should have been a full stop, sorry. It's alright, it's not your fault. It's not my fault. I had a severe dissociative episode. Dissociative episode. During this episode is what I can only describe as my boyfriend calling my name. At the time since I was so dissociated, I thought it was my boyfriend. I'm really sorry, I should have said it first.

Is it dissociated or disorientated? No, it's not disorientated. I feel like they mean disorientated. I feel like I should have read it first. Yeah, I do that all the time. I had a severe dissociative episode. During this episode is what I can only describe as my boyfriend calling my name at the time since i was dissociated i thought i was it was my boyfriend because he's british

and has a thick accent my boyfriend wasn't over at the time he lives an hour away and is too anxious to get his license so he normally takes buses to my house and it was around 12 when this happened so no buses were in service now randomly during the night when I dissociated, which happens a lot, I see figures that look like my boyfriend but whatever it is, it's back is turned to me. I hear him calling me by my nickname when he isn't there. Due to a disorder of mine, I do experience favourite people and what is happening keeps using my boyfriend who's my favorite person as a target and keeps happening when I'm in a vulnerable position which is a dissociative episode I'm really sorry I feel like I'm reading somebody else's writing mine Mine. No. Yeah, I know who you mean. That's why I said mine. I don't know if it's a mimic or something else trying to lead me in. This is an edit. I spoke to my sister last night to confide in her to see if maybe I needed to back to my psychiatrist and get medication change she's been hearing me call her

name when I'm not at home and out with my boyfriend she also she's also been seeing figures in the house now right I think something is going on, especially if her sister is... My gimmicks were of you. No, so not necessarily, but there is... I keep, like... Every time we talk about this thingy-bob, it's not just that.

Are those gimmick things? Those big, buckly-eyed head things? No, you're thinking of... Stretcher Man or whatever he's called. I don't know. Yeah. There is... of uh uh stretcher man or whatever he's called yeah there is um it's gonna piss me off so after they yeah i think hold on i'm gonna have to open another page because i just saved that um there's something else they call it something i said i like because i love all this sort of thing so basically what do you think i i think she might have mental health problems by the sound of it

obviously but i don't think that's what's going on no because she is saying am i having a mental health crisis to my to her sister shall i go back to my my psychologist and perhaps change my meds and all that? But then her sister's like, actually, I... She's hearing her. That's what I'm saying. I keep hearing you when you're not here. There is... It's going to really piss me off, but there is something like, in America,

they call it something else. It's not called a mimic. It's called something... Skinwalker. Skinwalker. So if you do, a little they again imitate on one of these some of these um give you images and there was like this fucking weird white thing like that's fake that's where my head goes yeah you you do yeah so these skinwalkers in like the himalaya mountains

and all of that they're like if you live in the himalaya mountains you have to be in before dark um let me find this woman oh my gosh yeah that's yeah yes yes that's disgusting yeah woman hold on Yes Woman Who answers Watch this Yeah Only if it comes up If not There you go Okay

If you're like me And you're looking for new signatures signature scent that, like, will have you needing to be off men, be off paws, but you know what I mean, like, you don't have to be no, what? Let me rethink this. Basically, everybody will hunt you down and be like, what are you wearing? Because one time, I had left left the room and this chick followed me and she was like,

even though you're no longer in the room, I can still smell you. What is that? Bitches. Come on. No, no, no, nothing. Something else. Which one do I even love?

I don't know. Okay, first of all, why didn't anyone tell me that you have, yeah? There's nobody home with her. Keeps calling her name Mel. So there's better videos where you like it goes straight into it and then someone goes Mel and she goes yeah and then she's like there's no one here and then you

hear Mel again but even louder and clearer um I would leave first I'd throw the kids and Paul, then I'd leave. I'd be like, it's a no from me. So these skinwalkers are, again, I'm assuming it's similar to a mimic, where they mimic so you fall into the trap of going to wherever they are and feeling comfortable with that. What is their agenda? To cause harm. it's evil so i don't know whether to read the story first i'm going to read you the story and then it would be interesting to see if it's ever happened to you because millions of people around the world have the same story and i only realized that when i googled it after having the having it

happen to me as a child now i've now i've come out that i'm not gonna be able to bloody find it no here we go what what else no one no one's very supportive, because she said I've got mental health issues. Right, so paranormal encounters. My encounter with the hat man. I like it already. Does that mean anything to you? A hat man.

What kind of hat do you visualise? A tall one. Like a bowl hat? No, like a top hat. Yes bowl i call that a bowl hat but yes yes no they're different okay top hat's a tall one and a bowl hat would be like it sort of goes around but it has like a rim okay okay yeah yeah okay i know what you mean so my my visualization is in between because of what happened as a child but anyway my encounter with the hat man it was about a year a year ago now and i'm yes yes

are you going to google about bowl hat? No, not called that, but yeah. Okay. Bowler hat. Oh, okay. Bowler hat. Yes. Yeah. There's not a massive difference in the sense of the rim. It's all to do with the height, right? And the shape.

Yeah. Okay. Right. My encounter with the hat man. This isn't my story. It was about a year ago now. And I think of it to this day, I was laying in bed next to my partner. We both fell asleep around 10 or 11 that night, which was kind of out of the ordinary for us because we are normally night owls I want I wanna piece preface this story right I want a phrase that's a difficult word for me to me it's preface but it's phrase this story right here before going any further that neither of us are on drugs drink

and both not overly even smoke weed since november of 2022 because people are like you're on drugs you know what people are i don't know why people go on the forums if they're not in if they're everyone's a liar just don't go on the forum isn't it I find it really frustrating yeah it's not nice especially if she does have mental health conditions right it has been at least a month or two at this point and neither of us smoked so two months off of weed have you ever had a dream inside of a dream? It was one of those. So I didn't think I was sleeping, but certainly was. This is very, very similar to everyone else's encounter, including mine.

I turned over and checked my phone. It's about 2am and everything seemed real normal. Then the door opens. It has opened only enough for a person to slip in and out i open my eyes in the dream and i see what appears to be a man that's around eight to nine foot tall standing at the foot of my bed he leans it's my whole body he leans over my partner and stares at him dead in the face. But while standing there, just slowly gets closer and closer and gets so close it's like he could kiss him. The odd part is he's still at the edge of the bed and his body is leaned over the bed so he's standing at the base of the bed and

his face is he's that tall his face is now parallel with the partner i would have left the partner then right we have a queen size bed and it's raised humanly that wouldn't be possible. I try to move, but it feels like there's bricks on my chest. I'm stuck. My partner, on the other hand, I hear him make uncomfortable sounds in his sleep, like something is wrong, but I can't wake him up. I began the only bit I grabbed the only bit of strength that I had left in my body to tap my boyfriend with my hand we're both laying backs flat side by side and I'm on the edge I'm finally able to pull myself out of it I wake up as he stands straight up and moved towards my side oh my god my body of the bed my eyes open he sees me he looks as if he's moving from the end of the bed to the side of the bed where I am at at the and then I raise my body up, it's weird, it was kind of like I scared him,

if I was to put into words, he slowly walked to the centre of the room, he's facing away from me now, at my whole body, honestly, then I, then the figure is less than two seconds vanished into thin air our room door is always shut at night and obviously at this point I'm not going back to sleep so I get up and check the door and it's cracked open I checked my phone and it was 2 32 a.m how long did this go on for i wonder was it real how did it happen i am a witch i thought i was protected oh i am a witch i thought i was protected the truth is no one's safe from the hat man now what first of all what do you think before i go off on my never-ending tangents don't google don't google yet don't google yet I'm going to show you I've got I've got a thing for you

don't google yet because I want to talk about it first what do you think do you think that that was really happening or do you think she was having sleep paralysis because sleep paralysis is completely different from that story I told you about when I thought I could have died if I wanted to. So she's asleep in her dream but she wakes up in her dream? Yeah, that's right. Or she's asleep but she wakes up.

Yeah, have you ever woken up in a dream and realised you are in a dream? You don't realise you're in a dream until you wake up again, do you? Yeah, no. When it feels so real. So when I had a dream about my mum, maybe about a year ago, we were doing normal things. Yeah, but you dreamt normal sort of shit. No, but I said to my mum, this is a dream, you're dead.

Then I woke up. So I knew that I was dreaming in my dream. Not for a while. And then I was like, hold on a minute, you're dead? And then that was it. I come to from the dream. I can't think of any time I have thought I was dreaming in my dream. Okay.

Like where I woke myself up that way. But the hat man? Why do you think it's so significant? Right. but the hat man why do you think it's so significant right so the hat man there is a phenomena across the world about the hat man there is forums everywhere so as a child when i lived so i was i was born in middleinn and Middlesex. I don't know him. Okay, good. And I don't want to now. Yeah, well, he's going to come tonight. I'm on my own tonight. I'm on my own. I was born in Pinn and Middlesex,

aka where Elton John was born, just saying. I remember that. Yeah. It's irrelevant. And we lived above a bank, and then there was, so we had like a balcony, massive balcony, and at the bottom there was metal stairs every night for a very long time I would wake up in my dream fly out the window horizontal and be at the top of the stairs and bang my head on every step and at the bottom of

the steps the hat man was waiting for me. All the time it happened. All the time. My mum, my dad, Lisa, Chris, everybody knows about this dream because it was happening so often. So a few years ago now, I Googled, and there is a phenomenon about this man. Has anybody dreamt about the hat man? Has anybody dreamt about the hat man? Has anybody dreamt about the hat man?

I've saved a picture of the hat man. It's not nice. It's not pleasant. This is the hat man. Is it going to upset me? I don't know. If I want to see it, if I don't know what it looks like,

then I don't know how I'm going to... I don't know. Tell me. I don't know. That was really random. That is the hat man. So this is the hat man so this is the hat man he waits he comes to you and he waits this is my interpretation of the man waiting at the bottom of the stairs for me just before i got to him i would wake up every night every night for a very long time not really

when i moved here i don't recall having that dream but it has stayed with me to the point when i googled it i could not believe the phenomenon about people dreaming of the man with the hat the hat man there you go he's everywhere these these are these are millions of people that have seen the hat man does he have red eyes not for me i couldn't see that is what he looked like for me waiting at the bottom of those metal stairs every every day but i would bang my head every every night yeah but that's a child so people's interpretations are slightly different but the it's the hat man that is the phenomenon it's fascinating that so many people worldwide have this this man it's i don't know what it means i don't know does he have a face not for me not for me

for some people maybe but we do have quite a lot of comments someone said this sounds like sleep paralysis op said it almost was except when i woke up out of it i could still see the thing i never saw this man away you love this shit and this shit just scares the shit out of me it's not i don't love it when it's happening to me. I did not love that. I did not love that. But you've got to remember, growing up, my mum loved horror. So we grew up watching horror stories. Yeah, but this wasn't the horror I grew up watching.

This scares me. I grew up with Alien. Yeah. You know, Alien was as good as... Yeah, love that. Yeah, watch that, watch that. Those types of stories. Yeah, I've got the whole franchise on DVD.

Loved it. It was ghost stories. This scares the shit out of stories. Yeah, I've got the whole franchise on DVD. Loved it. It was a ghost story. This scares the shit out of me. I tell you what else I noticed doing this paranormal episode is that a lot of people have seen that dark figure man that I saw in the corner that night. There's a lot of them talking about it. And then near-death experiences.

I found that quite fascinating as well. So I think that thing that scared me was death no that is something else he was something else I was a child but he went away and then when I researched it that is um I couldn't believe how many people did your boyfriend express feelings of seeing anyone once he woke up you said he was making uncomfortable noises but I'm curious what happened in the end like he was being pressed against does he yeah does he remember anything yeah I can only show I've I've never touched wood had sleep paralysis that's not what that was for me that was what happens when I get to the bottom of the stairs trying to fight

everything in you but you can't you can't do anything with your body and just before you get there that's when I'd wake up very strange um I've been seeing him around the same time and have the same feelings around him. It's so terrifying. This is a random person that's seen him. Someone else, I agree. This happens to me when my ex-husband, 13 years ago, almost identical situation, the hat man, everybody, this is a phenomenon that nobody can explain i know i'm saying that wrong it's quite um but when i uh because i thought let me google in there like you know you can search in there for a pacific story and i thought i wonder if people are talking about the hat man straight away i was like oh my god, the good old hat man. So as a young child, as a pre-bulescent child and adult,

touch wood, he hasn't come back to me. The only thing I've had was that one night when, I don't know, after reading a lot of stories, I'm wondering if that was death and they were like, that's up to you if that's death or not very strange right really it's fucked up it's scary and that's my little bit about the hat man man no they're they're not horror stories that i grew up with like at all or my worst dreams yeah are almost a little bit pathetic probably they're not horror stories that I grew up with like at all or my worst dreams yeah are almost a little bit pathetic probably not because it they're dreams that felt so fucking real then you wake up and you realize you're in a dream what was it don't laugh at me okay

Go. Covid. I don't know why, but again, I've never done ghost story type horrors. That's fine. Some families don't. I'm like, you're five. Watch it. Watch it, children. The Conjuring. Great film.

It was always like vampires or werewolves. Mystical. It was always very sci-fi. Mystical, yeah. And it was just, like, not real. Yeah. So mine always was, oh, what is it called?

Do you know Ginger Snaps? Have you ever watched that? No. It's about a werewolf. Right. It's about a young girl being a werewolf. Right. But she was the most fucking ugliest, bald werewolf. Like a... A La Peisha werewolf. Right. But she was the most fucking ugliest,

bald werewolf. Like a... A La Pecha werewolf. They're like, do you know the werewolf show? Do you know the werewolf in Harry Potter?

Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It looked like that. Right. And my nightmare was always it crept in my room and my whole body would go stiff.

That's scary. And it would be right there next to my head. But because I didn't move, it didn't eat me. Yeah. But, you know, when you actually, your whole body is stiff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And not physically move.

That's like sleep paralysis. It was horrid. Yeah, it is. So I don't like wolves. I don't like wolves. I had, when I, no werewolves for me. Yeah, Twilight. Is it werewolves or the it was always Edward over Jacob for me I mean I thought he was so good looking as a human it'd be probably like the werewolf guy Jacob yeah not for me

although when he had long hair I thought he looked lovely um anywho yeah so i i you know with the werewolves and all that we watched freddy krueger i think it was jenna's night birthday party and uh i mean that was terrifying because then i did dream about freddy krueger reaching out and woke up going back into the fireplace like I jumped out of bed into the fireplace you're still upset um but like I say mum watched horrors and mine have grown up with horrors so now my my kids can watch any horror and be absolutely fine should I tell him the story about the conjuring I mean I took it too far as a parent right so I mean I knew I took it too far but I was like right so where I used to live we had like

the fuse box in the kitchen and we had just watched we had just watched the conjuring too which took place in England and that is the first time you see the nun in the conjuring if you're a fan you'll know what I'm talking about so uh after the film I can't even think how old mine would have been we have a quick little google and see when it came out because I think uh it's going to help paint I mean they were they were quite young it was really bad conjuring two a year a year old yeah no no come on get busy right so 2016 i'm trying to think but the country too yeah 2016 so how old would they have been? We're 2024. Eight years ago. Mm-hmm. How old are they?

So 10 and 8. 10 and 8. And I... So after the Cundringham finish, and you know, it's my house and all that, that he does, great film, loved it, I decide it would be a great time, it's night time as well,

to get my black dressing gown go into the kitchen hit the fuse box so all the lights in the whole flat and everything went off put the dressing gown and went it's my house from the kitchen they were screaming and crying i was like oh i've taken it i've taken it too far put the lights back on i was like i'm so i'm so sorry but it will still forever be one of the funniest things i've done as a parent perhaps um child services should have got involved at that point it was well funny though mum They were in counselling like Jimmy Van Damme. Mum pretended to be the nun from country.

Just a figure of me in the kitchen. It's me, yes. That was brilliant, that was. But they're not scared of horrors anymore. Why would they need to be? They don't need to be. Right. So. anymore right so yes where who just read yeah did I know I did the Hat Man yeah oh yeah no cuz I was thinking of your story before yeah no fine well where they were like your mental I like. Am I tripping or was I in danger? I thought I was going to kill a child.

I like I thought I was going to hell. Or screaming wood. Ooh, maybe both. Classic white dress. You might have to do both. I think pump both of those out one after another. Okay, I thought I was going to hell. Yeah. That's what I mean. Okay, so paranormal I was going to hell. Yeah. That's what I mean.

Okay, so paranormal encounters on Reddit. I thought I was going to hell when I was a child. When I was little, I was in boarding schools. Oh, it's already scary. Why? Because she's in boarding school? Yeah, they are scary buildings. I don't know. I've never been to one. The films say they are.

Yeah. No, no thank you. It's not about you, it's not the Hattie show Come here Look she's backing up Turn around you weirdo She's like backing up with her arse You're a speck Look at Cookie

She's like fuck your shit She doesn't care Yeah Look at Cookie. Look. She's like, fuck your shit. She knows better. She doesn't care. Yeah. When I was little, I was in boarding school in a room with three beds. The room was divided into two parts. One part with a single bed at the back of the room and the other with a bunk bed. One day, I slept in a single bed for the first time,

and for some reason I couldn't sleep. I was hearing noises, I felt hot, and around 3am the closet a few metres from me began to open, a few centimetres per minute. A few centimetres per minute. It couldn't have been the wind or random chance because the doors were magnetically closed. After almost an hour, I started to hear noises like a bull snorting loudly. After a few minutes, that felt like like hours I turned to face the wall. What face the wall? Turn away from it don't look. Sometimes it's better to not look

under the duvet. Me what is it? What's your problem? I turned to face the wall with my back to the closet because I was scared and thought I shouldn't show that I was awake. After nearly an hour, I began to hear hoofbeats hitting the floor. Hoofs though, bruv. Hoofs. Moving step by step towards me, the breaking point for me was the sound, the sound of a bag made of a material similar to burlap or something like that. Okay. Finally, just as the footsteps got closer, I heard a very deep malicious laugh as if someone was playing a cruel joke on me.

I sat up, my throat tight and my eyes filled with tears. Straw bag. And I shouted to my roommate to turn on the light the night the night watch came rushing into the room and turned on the light I glanced at the closet and damn it was indeed open not wide open but not closed anymore either I I know I wasn't I know it wasn't a dream because I could see my alarm clock glowing in the dark. I know it sounds crazy but I can swear and promise that what I experienced that night was entirely real and that I wasn't asleep. Every time I talk about it, like now, tears come to my eyes and I feel extremely hot. I know I didn't hallucinate. Anyone has ever experienced anything

similar during his childhood? That sounds stupid, but I thought someone wanted to drag me to hell yeah it sounds really scary I mean the hoof part you automatically think the devil don't you there's only one comment he says I believe you which means I don't believe you I do I do I always believe there's no reason to not believe someone who is you know terrified yeah i enjoyed it it was a good story i enjoyed it i enjoyed her trauma i found it fantastic yeah uh what did we say screaming words yeah, see, it's not long. No. So, again, Reddit Paranormal, my trip through the Screaming Woods. Okay.

This has got a little subheading of findings. I haven't worked out what these little heading thingies mean yet. No. I'll work on it. So, yesterday, as in a day ago, really recent. Yeah. Don't come to us, ghosts. We're busy tonight.

We're going out, out. Well, to be honest, I saved this yesterday. Oh, then you must have saved it after it was put on. Like they literally posted it and I saved it? Yeah. Weird. Yeah. I was meant to see it.

Yeah. Yeah. Dun, dun, dun. Right. posted it and I saved it yeah yeah yeah you yeah done done right so yesterday me and my mate decided to go to plucky plucky pluckley. Pluckley. Most haunted village in England, supposedly. I think we should go. It was a lovely little town and we had a nice time in the village itself. After which we made our way to Daringwoods, nicknamed the Screaming Woods. Daringwoods, Daringwoods, nicknamed the Screaming Woods. And I will say as far as forests go, it was a beautiful place with lush green fauna and dense landscape. But beyond the beauty of the forest lied a darker and more sinister look to us.

In 1948, 20 dead bodies were discovered in these woods. No, we're not going. I smell camping in my future. I was getting the tense out. It was discovered in these woods, making it very haunted, supposedly. It'd be like the Blair Witch Project. We pulled up outside in the car park and got out. We walked around the gates to the entrance and a man with a dog walked past us, but my friend, Kian, is convinced he saw a woman walking the way we would soon go. No one else saw her. Keeping in mind my friend Kian is a very honest and trustworthy guy.

We kept walking deeper and deeper into the woods till the path we was on become overgrown and signs of human activity seemed to dwindle faster and faster we then kept hearing what was a woman mumbling off in the distance weird but not paranormal we hiked deeper and deeper and we was off trail now in the deepest part of the forest. This was when we asked, is anyone there? Please make yourself known. Stupid people. You want to play?

And I couldn't lie about this if I tried, and all my friends heard it. We heard a woman, maybe 30, 40, whisper something unintelligible. Unintelligible? About 30 or so metres away from us. We all froze and our hearts sunk. We just made a beeline for the trail, not knowing we was running deeper and deeper again and we was lost at this point.

And the feeling of uneasiness had set in for us all the constant thumps off in the distance and the whispers seemed to get more frequent we wanted we wanted out at this point and so we kept searching for an exit whilst we were convinced we were being followed we made it out and we're all okay but definitely a scared scary experience just to clear up there was no one in the woods with us the guy who drove us there stayed in the car for the three hours we were gone and he said no one entered those woods whilst we were there and the man with the dog left an hour after we went in. I think we should go and camp. I want to know where it is. What are people saying?

what are people saying i know this will sound very odd did you uh did the burning smell have an acid smell burning smell have an acid smell to it like a surf sulfur like sulfur which means evil to a campfire or did it just smell like fire i know that is odd but fire has a hot low smoke odor like i said it sounds really odd yes we smell vinegar at one point also sounds evil i want to know why 20 people we're gonna have to research on that forest and go for the weekend so 1948 20 bodies were discovered yeah in what forest uh during woods d-e-r-i-n-g woods in pluckley or screaming woods yeah in Pluckley or Screaming Woods. Yeah.

Four students went missing in 1998. Never to be seen again. Oh my God, there's a whole thing on it. Screaming Woods is more popularly called Durling Woods after a local family story. Yeah, I'm going to really have to get into that. Yeah, we're really going to have to get into that. Yeah, because it looks really interesting. Yeah, no, very cool.

And in our country. Yeah. It's not an American one. Yeah, I don't know where that is, but, you know, we make it. We'll make it there. I go to Somerset once a year. Why not make it there?

Go on. I'm just looking at directions. Yeah, we're going this weekend. No, we're not. Oh, it's not far. I feel like I've been there, you know. You just didn't know that you almost died. It's an hour and 28 minutes away.

I feel like I've been there when like my first boyfriend situation we went out on the car and he tried to kill you no he didn't get out we locked the door and i remember being really fucking scared generally when i go on my bike rides i go through all the woods i like it right during the day i do i've got one to finish this off with now this is what I said to you about uh now I think that figure was death yeah because after reading people's stories dynamic dynamic I'm saying that wrong oh dynamic experience right dynamic experience I still feel like that's wrong dynamic dynamic experience so this happened on the 10th of May very recently I felt the need to share the story on this sub I am by no means a writer English isn't my first language but I'll try to express the situation as best I can

first language but I'll try to express the situation as best I can. So two weeks ago Thursday I went to bed as usual I was going to visit my girlfriend the following day due to the nature of her work we only see each other every other weekend and I decided to get into bed early and to get the rest before the long drive the next day. I remember waking up and seeing this man standing over my bed wearing black clothes just staring at me. I've had this vision before the night my aunt died. The first time however I saw him in my dream and he was standing at the end of the hallway. and he was standing at the end of the hallway. Hello, darling. I remember screaming in my sleep,

and my brother running into the room and comforting me. I was... What do you think of that? What don't you think of that? I think that's how it's going to be.