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00:00I moved to an old house in Birmingham, England back in 1986 with my mum, dad, and my sister.

00:14I was only five at the time, and my sister had just turned one.

00:18The house was quite old, and built sometime in the 1920s, I think.

00:22It was one of those houses that's joined to another house on one side.

00:25Our street was really nice, with big trees everywhere that made it feel quiet and peaceful.

00:32Being so little, I can't remember loads about those early days.

00:36But one thing I do remember clearly is having these two imaginary friends.

00:41I called them Ida and Udamanawi.

00:44Honestly, I have no clue where on earth I came up with those names.

00:49They weren't your typical kids' imaginary friend names like Sarah or Tracy or anything normal like that.

00:55The house felt huge to me back then, probably because I was so small.

01:00There were lots of rooms to explore, and I remember spending hours playing with Ida and Udamanawi,

01:06having proper conversations with them like they were really there.

01:10Mum told me I used to play with them mostly up in the loft and down in the laundry room.

01:14Then after a few years, Ida and Udamanawi just weren't there anymore.

01:19They disappeared.

01:21I guess that's pretty normal, though.

01:23Lots of kids have pretend friends when they're little.

01:27I was quite a quiet kid who liked playing alone anyway.

01:30But thinking about those strange names now still gives me the shivers a bit.

01:35A few years went by, and when I was about 9 or 10, weird things started happening to me at night.

01:41I'd be having a dream, then suddenly I'd wake up.

01:45But even though I was awake, I couldn't move my body at all.

01:48It felt like someone heavy was sitting on top of me, holding me down.

01:53I'd be so scared, but I just couldn't move anything.

01:56Not my arms, not my legs.

01:59Nothing.

02:00This scary thing kept happening to me for about two years.

02:04It was really frightening every time it happened.

02:07Then strange things started happening with our TV, and the old record player in the living room.

02:12We also had this tall lamp.

02:16They would all turn on and off by themselves, but not all together.

02:21It would happen quietly, one at a time, and only when I was alone in the room.

02:27When I told people about it, no one believed me.

02:31Everyone said I was just making things up and that I had too much imagination.

02:35After that, I started seeing dark shapes moving around.

02:39There was this one corner of the living room that always felt really scary and gave me the creeps.

02:46Something just felt wrong about that spot.

02:49When I got to about 11 or 12 years old, that's when the really scary stuff started happening in earnest.

02:56Most of it was centered around my bedroom, which was the smallest one in the house.

03:02I'd ended up with that room because my little sister got the bigger one.

03:05But looking back, maybe I got the raw deal for more reasons than just size.

03:12My bedroom was right at the back of the house, and when I looked out my window, I could see our whole long garden stretching out.

03:20Right in the middle stood this gorgeous old cherry tree that would bloom pink every spring.

03:25At the very bottom of the garden, almost hidden by all the greenery, was this old concrete air raid shelter left over from the Second World War.

03:32What I didn't know at the time was that my bedroom was apparently the creepiest room in the entire house.

03:38Mom only admitted this to me years later after we'd moved out.

03:42She said she'd always gotten weird vibes from that room but hadn't wanted to worry me.

03:47The thing that really got to me was what kept happening with my belongings.

03:51I was quite an organized kid.

03:54Everything had its place, you know.

03:56Every single night before bed, I'd do my little routine of putting everything exactly where it belonged.

04:03But morning after morning, I'd wake up and find my stuff had been moved around.

04:08Not dramatically.

04:09It wasn't like everything was thrown about the room or anything.

04:13But my hairbrush might be on the windowsill instead of the dressing table.

04:17Or the remote would be on the floor by the door.

04:20Small moves.

04:21But definitely not where I'd left them.

04:24It happened so often that I started to doubt myself.

04:28Wondering if I was just forgetting where I'd put things.

04:31But deep down, I knew something wasn't right.

04:35I kept hearing rustling noises coming from one corner of my bedroom.

04:39It happened all the time.

04:41I'd get up to check what it was.

04:44But there was never anything there.

04:45I always felt like someone else was in the room with me, even when I knew I was alone.

04:52As I got older, the scary things got even worse.

04:56My bedroom door would slowly close by itself during the night.

05:00This really freaked me out because I never closed my door.

05:04It made me too nervous to sleep with it shut.

05:06Plus, it was one of those heavy doors that you had to pull really hard because it dragged on the carpet.

05:13There's no way it could just close on its own.

05:16Then something even scarier started happening.

05:19My duvet would get slowly pulled off me while I was sleeping.

05:23This happened so many times that I started thinking I was losing my mind.

05:28But one night, I decided to test it.

05:29I pinched myself to make sure I was really awake.

05:34Then I put my hands flat on top of my duvet cover, right on my chest.

05:39I felt the duvet being pulled away from under my hands.

05:43It was definitely really happening.

05:45I wasn't imagining it.

05:47We didn't have any pets that could have done it.

05:50And it wasn't my little sister playing tricks on me either.

05:53She just wasn't that type of kid to do something like that.

05:56The TV in my room would turn on and off by itself too, even when the remote was nowhere near me.

06:03I had this old desk with a lid that you pulled down to write on.

06:07It was really stiff and hard to move.

06:09You had to give it a proper pull to get it open or closed.

06:12But sometimes, it would just slam down on its own for no reason at all.

06:18Loads more strange things happened that I can't even remember everything now.

06:22But one night, things got really weird.

06:24I was a teenager by then.

06:27So this was sometime in the mid-1990s.

06:30There was a big storm outside.

06:32And it was about one in the morning when I woke up to this massive bang.

06:36It sounded exactly like a whole pile of books had fallen off a bookshelf.

06:40Really loud.

06:42The noise was so loud, it woke up my mom and dad too.

06:45They thought the sound had come from my sister's room.

06:48So they got up and went to check on her.

06:51But when they looked, there was nothing wrong.

06:53No books on the floor.

06:55Nothing out of place.

06:57They just went back to bed after that.

07:00Then the loft hatch suddenly flew open.

07:03This was one of those heavy hatches that you needed to push up with a long stick to open.

07:08It didn't just open by itself.

07:09The bang woke my parents up again.

07:13They got out of bed and checked the whole house, but couldn't find anything wrong.

07:18Because it was such a stormy night, they just thought maybe the wind had somehow done it.

07:22But then a third thing happened.

07:25By this time, I was wide awake and really scared.

07:28The smoke alarm downstairs suddenly started going off for no reason at all.

07:31There was no smoke, no fire, nothing burning.

07:37It just started beeping loudly in the middle of the night.

07:40Really strange.

07:42When I turned 18, I moved away to go to university.

07:47Around that time, my parents started sleeping in separate bedrooms.

07:51So mom ended up sleeping in my old room.

07:53For years and years, everyone had told me that all the scary stuff was just in my head.

07:59That I was making it up, or imagining things.

08:03The only time they believed me was that stormy night when they heard and saw things too.

08:09But years later, mom finally told me the truth.

08:13She admitted that she got a really creepy, uneasy feeling when she slept in my old bedroom.

08:18Just like me, she couldn't bear to sleep with the door closed.

08:21It made her too nervous.

08:23She said the room just creeped her out completely.

08:27So I wasn't going mad after all.

08:29She'd felt exactly the same things I had.

08:32But nobody had believed me when I was a kid.

08:36There's more strange stuff that happened that I haven't even mentioned.

08:40But that's basically the whole story.

08:42It was definitely a haunted house.

08:45And I'm glad we eventually moved out of there.

08:47Weird stuff has been happening to me my whole life.

08:55Ever since I was a little kid.

08:57But there was this one night that still gives me chills when I think about it.

09:01It was just so strange and creepy.

09:03Like nothing I'd ever experienced before.

09:07Now I've always had this weird feeling.

09:09Like something from another world is trying to pull me somewhere.

09:11It's hard to explain.

09:14But it's always there in the background.

09:17Maybe it started because I was the kind of kid who would sneak downstairs and watch scary movies way past my bedtime.

09:23My parents had no idea I was sitting there in the living room at 2am.

09:28Watching horror films in complete darkness.

09:31Just me and whatever monsters were on the TV screen.

09:35I guess the darkness never really bothered me that much.

09:39I always figured if there was something bad out there, there was something good watching over me too.

09:45Still, that one night was different.

09:48It made me question everything I thought I knew about what's really out there.

09:52But maybe it changed how I think about what darkness really brings with it.

09:57It was one of those perfect summer days.

09:59Warm, but not too hot.

10:01With this nice cool breeze coming through my bedroom window.

10:05I remember just throwing myself onto my bed around noon.

10:09I honestly can't pinpoint when I drifted off to sleep.

10:13One minute I was laughing at Dexter yelling at his sister.

10:16And the next thing I knew, it was morning.

10:19That's the weird part though.

10:20I'm usually such a light sleeper that even my neighbor's dog barking or a car door slamming outside will wake me up instantly.

10:27But that night, I slept like I was knocked out cold.

10:31When I finally opened my eyes the next morning and looked around my room,

10:35I noticed something that made my stomach drop.

10:38Something that definitely wasn't there when I fell asleep.

10:40When I sat up and looked around, my bedsheet was lying on the floor in the exact same position it had been covering me.

10:48I mean exactly the same.

10:50It was stretched out perfectly flat.

10:53Not a single wrinkle anywhere.

10:55Like someone had carefully placed it there with a ruler.

10:57At first I thought maybe it just slid off during the night, because I moved around or something.

11:04I mean that would make sense, right?

11:06Even though I've never really been one of those people who thrashes around in their sleep.

11:10My mom always used to joke that I slept like a statue.

11:13But then I really looked at where it was.

11:16And that's when it got seriously weird.

11:18The blanket wasn't just on the floor next to my bed, where it would naturally fall.

11:23It was on the complete opposite side of my bed.

11:26All the way over by my headboard, right where I put my head on the pillow.

11:31How does a blanket travel from covering your feet to the other end of the bed, without waking you up?

11:36I immediately went downstairs and started questioning everyone.

11:40Did you come in my room last night?

11:43Did you hear anything weird?

11:45Was anyone walking around upstairs?

11:48Everyone looked at me like I was losing it.

11:51Nobody had been awake.

11:52The house had been dead quiet all night.

11:55After two or three days went by, I basically shrugged it off and tried to forget about the whole thing.

12:01You know how it is.

12:02Weird stuff happens.

12:04You can't explain it.

12:05So you just move on with your life.

12:08But this next night?

12:10This is the one that's burned into my memory forever.

12:13I swear I will never, ever forget what happened.

12:16It's been years now.

12:18And I can still picture every single detail, like it just happened yesterday.

12:22So my whole family had already crashed.

12:26I could hear my dad snoring from down the hall.

12:29And the house had that quiet, settled feeling it gets when everyone's deep asleep.

12:33I thought I was sleeping too.

12:36At least, I must have been at some point.

12:39Because I remember being in that weird, in-between state where you're not sure if you're awake or dreaming.

12:45I have no idea what time it was when it happened.

12:48I didn't even have a chance to look at my clock or think about anything else.

12:53Because everything happened so fast.

12:56Our bedroom had this mirror mounted on the wall right next to the bathroom door.

13:00It was one of those basic rectangular mirrors.

13:03Nothing fancy, but it reflected most of the room from where it hung.

13:06That night, my eyes just shot open out of absolutely nowhere.

13:12I had been completely dead to the world.

13:15You know that deep, heavy sleep where you're not even dreaming.

13:19One second I was out cold, and the next second I was wide awake,

13:23heart already starting to race for no reason I could understand.

13:27That's when I saw it.

13:29Right there, moving across the space between my bed and the wall,

13:32was this massive black shadow.

13:35It wasn't like a regular shadow cast by something in the room.

13:39This thing had its own presence, its own shape.

13:43At first, it was moving in this weird slow motion,

13:45like it was gliding through thick water or something.

13:49I could make out what looked like the outline of a person,

13:52but bigger, darker, more solid than any shadow should be.

13:57I'm lying there frozen, not even breathing,

14:00just watching this thing move toward the mirror on the wall.

14:04And then, I swear this is the part that still gives me chills.

14:09It was like the shadow suddenly realized I was awake and watching.

14:12In that instant, it moved lightning fast,

14:16and just disappeared straight into the mirror.

14:19Every instinct I had was screaming at me to get up,

14:21to turn on the lights,

14:23to go check that mirror and make sure I wasn't losing my mind.

14:27I tried to sit up, tried to move my arms,

14:30but it was like some invisible force was pushing down on me.

14:34My eyelids started feeling like they weighed a thousand pounds.

14:37I fought it as hard as I could,

14:41but within seconds,

14:42I was pulled back into the deepest sleep I'd ever experienced.

14:46When I finally woke up the next morning,

14:48the sun was already high in the sky,

14:50way later than I usually sleep.

14:53For a few minutes,

14:54I just lay there thinking

14:55it had to have been the most vivid,

14:58realistic nightmare of my life.

15:01But deep down,

15:02I knew the truth.

15:03Dreams don't feel that real.

15:06Dreams don't leave you with that cold,

15:08unsettling feeling in your gut

15:09that stays with you all day.

15:19This happened about three weeks ago,

15:22and I still can't get it out of my head.

15:25So every night around nine,

15:27I go for these walks in the woods behind my house.

15:29It's literally like a five-minute walk from my back door,

15:33and honestly,

15:35nothing weird ever happens there.

15:37It's just this quiet forest area

15:39that most people don't even know about.

15:41I always take the exact same route

15:43because I'm lazy like that.

15:45There's this paved bike path

15:47that winds through the trees

15:48and leads to this old wooden bridge over a creek.

15:51It's actually really peaceful,

15:53which is why I love going there

15:55to clear my head after work.

15:57So anyway,

15:58I had my headphones in like I always do,

16:01probably listening to some podcast or whatever,

16:03just doing my usual walk

16:05and not really paying attention to anything.

16:08That's when I looked up

16:09and saw these two people on horses

16:10coming straight toward me on the path.

16:13I remember thinking it was weird

16:15because I'd never seen anyone on horses there before,

16:18not once in all the times I've walked that route.

16:21It wasn't really weird by itself

16:23because there's actually a horse riding school

16:26maybe like half a mile down the road,

16:27so seeing people on horses isn't totally crazy.

16:32But the way they looked at me was just off.

16:35Not mean or anything that would make me scared,

16:38but more like they were trying to warn me about something.

16:40I don't know how to explain it exactly.

16:44Like when someone gives you that look that says,

16:47maybe you shouldn't go that way.

16:49But they don't actually say anything.

16:52Anyway,

16:53I just shrugged it off and kept walking with my music on.

16:56Maybe five minutes later,

16:57I hear this bike coming up behind me.

17:00Some kid,

17:01probably like 12 or 13 years old,

17:03riding one of those mountain bikes.

17:04He passes me pretty quickly,

17:07and I watch him continue down the path ahead of me.

17:10That's when things got really strange.

17:13I could see him in the distance when he reached this guy

17:15who was just standing there on the path.

17:18I couldn't hear what they said because of my headphones,

17:20but they talked for maybe 10 seconds at most.

17:23Then suddenly the kid just whipped his bike around

17:26and started pedaling back toward me as fast as he could.

17:31Like he was in a hurry to get out of there.

17:33I still didn't think much about it at first.

17:36Maybe the kid was just doing laps or practicing tricks or something.

17:40Kids do weird stuff like that all the time, right?

17:43But then I got close enough to actually see this guy the kid had been talking to.

17:47And I'm not even kidding when I say

17:49I have never seen anything so bizarre in my entire life.

17:51This dude looked like he was maybe 30,

17:55maybe a little older,

17:56and he was dressed up like some kind of clown.

17:59But not like a normal party clown or anything.

18:02It was more like someone who had just thrown together

18:04the weirdest outfit they could find.

18:07He was wearing this cheap-looking rainbow wig

18:09that was all messy and crooked,

18:11and these enormous novelty glasses.

18:14Like Groucho Marx glasses, but without the mustache.

18:17They made his eyes look huge and distorted,

18:20which was honestly pretty unsettling.

18:22But here's the part that really freaked me out.

18:25He was wearing wooden clogs.

18:27Like actual traditional wooden shoes

18:29that you'd see in old pictures of Dutch people.

18:33Every single step he took made this loud clack sound

18:35that echoed through the woods.

18:37I could literally hear him from like 100 feet away.

18:41Just this rhythmic wooden clacking getting louder as I got closer.

18:44It was so out of place and creepy in that peaceful forest setting.

18:48At first, I genuinely thought

18:50maybe some group of friends were playing an elaborate prank

18:53on random people walking through the woods,

18:55or something like that.

18:57Like maybe they were trying to see how people would react

18:59to this weird clown guy just standing there.

19:01But the more I thought about it,

19:04the less sense it made.

19:06This guy didn't even acknowledge me at all.

19:09Didn't look at me.

19:10Didn't try to scare me.

19:12Didn't say anything.

19:13Plus, it was getting pretty dark by then.

19:18Probably around 9.30.

19:20So there really weren't that many other people around to prank anyway.

19:24Most normal people don't go walking alone in the woods

19:26when it's getting dark.

19:28He just stood there completely motionless.

19:31Staring straight ahead down the path.

19:34Like he was looking at something only he could see.

19:36And when I had to walk past him,

19:39I tried my best to act like everything was completely normal

19:42and this was just another regular evening walk.

19:45I kept my headphones in and tried to look casual.

19:48But inside, I was actually pretty terrified.

19:52The only thing that made me feel a little better

19:54was that I could still hear those wooden clogs

19:57clacking behind me.

19:59At least I knew he was walking away in the other direction

20:02and not following me or anything.

20:04But then maybe a minute later,

20:07the clacking sound just stopped.

20:10Complete silence.

20:12I tried to tell myself it was fine.

20:14Maybe he just stopped to tie his shoe or something.

20:17But it was bugging me so much

20:18that I finally turned around to look.

20:21And he was just gone.

20:23Like completely vanished.

20:25I have no idea where he could have gone that fast.

20:29I mean yeah,

20:30there are trees on both sides of the path.

20:32But it's not like there are any buildings

20:33or hiding spots right in that area.

20:36The woods aren't super thick there either, so...

20:39Even if he went into the trees,

20:41I should have been able to see him.

20:43Or at least hear him crashing through the branches and leaves.

20:46I still take that same walk every single night.

20:49Because I'm not going to let some weird guy ruin my routine.

20:52But I've never seen him again.

20:54Not once.

20:56Not the clown guy.

20:57Not anyone else dressed weird.

20:59Nothing.

21:00It's been three weeks,

21:02and I still think about it every time I walk past that spot.

21:05What do you guys think happened?

21:07I still think about it every time I walk past that spot.

21:08I'm not going to let some of you go.

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