7 true scary experiences

The Keeper

The Keeper narrates 7 true paranormal/disturbing experiences. Below you can find links to the stories.  For bonus content check out my patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheKeeperNarrates  story credits 1-https://www.reddit.com/r/CreepCast_Submissions/comments/1r8jud4/my_sleep_paralysis_is_getting_worse_and_im/ 2-https://www.reddit.com/r/family/comments/1rf8yke/my_grandma_tried_to_steal_me/ 3-https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1rgz7el/i_thought_it_was_just_a_costume_until_it_moved/ 4-https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/1rhf1h1/comment/o7yw810/?context=3 (found in two large comments in this thread) 5-https://www.reddit.com/r/NaturesTemper/comments/1rghdlb/something_strange_happened_the_morning_after_my/ 6-https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1rary2c/a_childhood_memory/ 7-https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1r86onh/long_story_time_creepystrangeunusualspooky/  Thumbnail credit: Image taken by me. Color graded by my friend.  Music credits: intro: from capcut bulk music: Myuu (His song Fading check it out here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWLSW-1jJvs) Story transition music: Morgan Goodman https://www.youtube.com/@morgangoodman?app=desktop   For story submissions or inquiries contact us at thekeeperofficial@proton.me  #paranormal #horror #truescarystory  @thekeepernarrates

Transcript

00:01In this video, we will be exploring 7 scary experiences that people have had and posted on reddit.

00:09If you have any advice for them, please put it down in the comments as they will be checking.

00:16My sleep paralysis is getting worse, and I'm starting to think it isn't just sleep paralysis.

00:22I know most stories on reddit are fake. I usually think the same thing when I read them.

00:27But this one isn't. I wish it was.

00:30In 2020, I joined the military. Before that, I had never experienced sleep paralysis. Not even once.

00:37No night terrors. No shadow people. Nothing.

00:41The first time it happened was in A school, in Gulfport, Mississippi. Builder School.

00:47Just a random weeknight.

00:49My roommate and I went to sleep around 10pm.

00:52He had been playing video games. I had been studying until I was knocked out.

00:58Sometime in the middle of the night, I woke up facing the wall.

01:01I couldn't move. My entire body was locked in place.

01:05I could hear him snoring on the other side of our room.

01:09Our desks were pushed together to form a divider between our beds, so I couldn't see him.

01:14But I could hear him clearly.

01:16My bed was near the sink and bathroom.

01:19His was near the window.

01:21I knew exactly where he was.

01:23And I knew he wasn't the one in my room.

01:26I felt eyes on me.

01:28Not imagined.

01:29Not a vague feeling.

01:31Eyes.

01:32My whole body went cold, like I had been caught doing something I wasn't supposed to.

01:37A heavy, paralyzing dread settled over me.

01:41I felt like someone was standing on the other side of my bed, just watching.

01:45I was so afraid I stopped breathing.

01:48I thought if it was a real person, if someone had come into my room, maybe I could play dead.

01:54Maybe they'd leave.

01:55Holding my breath, I forced my body to jerk itself out of the paralysis for a split second.

02:00Enough to confirm I couldn't move voluntarily.

02:04Enough to know the fear was real.

02:06The logical part of my brain tried to rationalize it.

02:10Sailors assigned to watch over students had key cards.

02:13We shared a bathroom with the room next door.

02:15It wouldn't be impossible for someone to be standing there.

02:19So I prepared myself.

02:21If this person attacked, I'd fight.

02:24I stayed still so long that, eventually, exhaustion pulled me back to sleep.

02:29I didn't tell anyone.

02:31I didn't experience it again for months.

02:34Then, late 2022, after I was stationed in Virginia, it happened again.

02:40Different barracks.

02:42Older base.

02:43First floor.

02:44This time, I had room to myself.

02:47Same feeling.

02:49Same presence.

02:50Facing the wall again.

02:52Something standing just out of sight on the other side of the bed.

02:55The next morning, I mentioned it casually to some coworkers.

03:00One older sailor overheard.

03:02He used to live in those barracks.

03:04He pulled me aside and told me he'd felt the same thing there.

03:07He told me to put a salt circle around my bed and pray.

03:11I would have assumed he was messing with me, but he wasn't even part of the conversation.

03:15He just overheard and looked genuinely unsettled.

03:18In 2023, we detached to Romania.

03:22This was the worst one.

03:24Four of us got put in a separate hotel because we booked the detachment last minute.

03:29I went to sleep at a normal time.

03:32We had worked the next day, and I woke up and was immediately paralyzed.

03:36I held my breath until I broke free enough to look up.

03:40There was something in the room.

03:41It's hard to describe.

03:43Not a detailed figure, more like an outline.

03:46A darker shape, inside the dark.

03:49Standing right next to my bed.

03:52The second I focused on it, it lunged at me.

03:54I woke up, still in bed, still paralyzed.

03:58I held my breath again, looked up, and it was there.

04:02It lunged.

04:03I woke up again.

04:04This repeated over and over.

04:07Lunge.

04:07Wake.

04:08Lunge.

04:09Wake.

04:09I could feel my real body trapped underneath it all.

04:12My real eyes shut.

04:14My chest burning because I was intentionally restricting my breathing to break the paralysis.

04:19Every time I almost forced my eyes open, it would lunge again.

04:23Finally, I managed to pry my eyes open.

04:26The room was empty.

04:28I stayed awake the rest of the night on FaceTime with my girlfriend.

04:32We had different time zones.

04:33She stayed up with me until about 3am my time.

04:38I eventually passed out from exhaustion.

04:40At 6.15, my coworker was shaking me awake.

04:44We were supposed to be downstairs at 6.

04:46I rushed to get ready and asked her if she had asked the hotel to open my door to wake

04:50me up.

04:51She said my door was already open when she got to my floor.

04:55Wide open.

04:56And it was like that all night.

04:58I tried to rationalize it.

05:00Maybe I had left open in my sleep.

05:02Maybe I was losing it.

05:04The next big incident was in early 2025.

05:07Overseas again.

05:08Different hotel.

05:09I woke up at 2am to the sound of the doorbell.

05:12It was loud and clear.

05:14It shook me awake.

05:16After assuming it was a prank, I waited a bit and then checked the hallway.

05:20No one there.

05:21It started happening randomly.

05:24Not every night, but enough that I got paranoid.

05:27One night, it rang again and I sprinted to the door.

05:30I opened it immediately.

05:32The hallway was empty.

05:34I accused a coworker I wasn't close with.

05:36I thought maybe he was knocking and running back to his room down the hall.

05:40I confronted him, but he looked genuinely confused.

05:43He told me I sounded crazy.

05:45So I went to the front desk and asked them to check the cameras.

05:49Later that day, they called me back.

05:51IT had reviewed everything.

05:53They said they saw me running to the door multiple times across several nights.

05:58Opening it and looking out.

06:00But they never saw anyone in the hallway.

06:03No one ringing.

06:04And no one near my door.

06:06By 2026, I'd mostly convinced myself it was stress.

06:10Anxiety and sleep issues.

06:12I made rank.

06:14Moved out of town and lived alone.

06:16Things were quiet for a while.

06:18Until this week.

06:19I woke up to the sound of something running up my stairs.

06:23Not dreamlike or muffled.

06:26Actual footsteps on the stairs in my place.

06:28Then my bedroom door opened.

06:30I couldn't move.

06:32Something ran to the edge of my bed.

06:34I could hear it breathing.

06:35Standing there.

06:37I pretended to be asleep.

06:38I was too afraid to move.

06:41After a few seconds, it walked away.

06:43I heard it leave.

06:45And heard the door close behind it.

06:47My body finally unlocked and I sat there shaking.

06:51Ice cold.

06:52The next day while I was doing dishes, I noticed my neighbors through the windows across the way.

06:57They were arguing.

06:59The woman kept gesturing toward my place.

07:01Anxiety.

07:02The guy was pacing.

07:03He was pale with his hands on his head.

07:06For a second I wondered if she'd caught him sneaking into my place.

07:09But then I realized I never heard my front door open.

07:13I have a ring.

07:14It would have notified me.

07:16The back door creaks loudly.

07:18I would have heard that.

07:19They noticed me watching them.

07:21Then their argument got louder.

07:23She started yelling that they needed to tell someone.

07:26That they needed to call the police.

07:28That they saw something.

07:30Something disturbed them deeply from my house.

07:33They moved out a couple of days later.

07:36The corpsman put me on anxiety medication to help me sleep.

07:39It's been quiet for a few days.

07:41Nothing new has happened, but my contract ends soon.

07:45I'm going home and I'm genuinely afraid this is going to follow me there.

07:49If you've had experiences like this, I need to know.

07:52I don't know if this is normal sleep paralysis, stress, or the beginning of something worse.

07:58I don't know if I'm losing my mind.

08:05I'm twenty and I'm from West Virginia.

08:08A town of about four thousand.

08:10I have been no contact from my maternal grandmother for over a decade.

08:16And will not speak to her again for any reason.

08:19She still stalks me and tries to contact me.

08:23Mentally, she is not well and passed that down to my mom.

08:27My dad has his own share of issues, so there was some turmoil in my childhood.

08:33But I always felt safe at home.

08:36Debbie didn't seem to agree and ended up taking my parents to court to gain grandparents' rights.

08:42Which aren't a thing in West Virginia.

08:44She didn't.

08:46And we were granted a protective order due to her harassment.

08:50I'll talk more about this later as I found out about it this past year.

08:54My mom has dealt with Debbie's control her whole life.

08:58And a lot of intense abuse from her dad.

09:01Her dad has left boot marks on her ribs.

09:04He would have me call him Tom and pretend he was my husband.

09:08Debbie was a kleptomaniac and very bipolar and psychotic.

09:14I do not use these terms lightly.

09:17Her first move was at the Memorial Day parade that ran through town.

09:22From the school down to the Memorial Cemetery.

09:25We were crossing the bridge on Main Street.

09:28My dad driving his truck in the parade in front of my group.

09:32And I heard her yelling for me from the sidewalk.

09:36She was pushing people out of the way and making her way towards me.

09:40And I was doing my best to act normal and ignore her.

09:44My dad noticed and put me in the truck after calling the cops.

09:47But I don't remember what happened after that.

09:50It was terrifying and embarrassing.

09:53Somehow, she outdid herself the second time and showed up to my school.

09:58We had already given the school pictures of her.

10:01Her full name and aliases.

10:03Everything we could do to prevent her from getting access to me.

10:07They let her into the school.

10:09And because of that, when they called up the classroom,

10:11I refused to leave and started having a panic attack.

10:15I had the best teacher in the world.

10:17She put us into lockdown right then and there and called my mom.

10:21At this point, I believed we were granted a full restraining order.

10:25My sister was born a few years later when I was nine.

10:29She was a flaming ginger in contrast to myself and my parents who had dishwater brown hair.

10:35Debbie told everyone in town that my sister belonged to the mailman.

10:39That my mom was on cocaine before getting pregnant with her.

10:43And the list of craziness goes on.

10:45My mom has an autoimmune condition that caused her to go through radiation steroids.

10:51Essentially, they are putting her through hell.

10:54And when she got pregnant with my sister,

10:56in the middle of these treatments and while on birth control,

11:00she went into remission for years.

11:03As soon as she was born, we left the state and she has stalked us for years.

11:08Debbie has made hundreds of Facebook accounts.

11:11She has tried to reach me through every person she could think of and has used hundreds of emails.

11:19When I visited my hometown for the first time since I was nine,

11:23I went to my old house and knocked on my neighbor's door.

11:27After some catching up, we were back to small town drama.

11:31And he told me how she used to shine a flashlight through our windows at night.

11:35And would bounce a basketball on his porch in the middle of the night.

11:39Apparently, she also peed on his porch.

11:42So, to the grandmother I wish I never had.

11:46Let's not meet again.

11:52I thought it was just a costume until it moved.

11:57Last Halloween, something happened to me that I still can't properly explain.

12:02And I swear, I'm not the type of person who imagines things or scares easily.

12:09It was around 11.30 at night when I got home from work and the neighborhood was already quiet

12:15because most of the trick-or-treaters had gone home.

12:19I wasn't sleepy yet, so I decided to take a short walk down my street just to relax a bit.

12:26About halfway down the block, I noticed what I thought was a Halloween decoration standing near a driveway.

12:32It looked like a person wearing a black robe and a plain white mask, the kind people use for creepy

12:39costumes.

12:40And it was standing right near the sidewalk like it was meant to scare anyone walking past.

12:46I didn't think much of it at first because people in my area go all out with decorations.

12:51But the closer I got, the more I started to feel that something wasn't right.

12:56I can't really explain that feeling except that my instincts were telling me to pay attention.

13:02The mask didn't look shiny like plastic decorations usually do.

13:07It looked dull and almost realistic under the streetlight.

13:12And the robe moved slightly in the wind like real fabric.

13:17When I was maybe ten feet away, I heard a faint sound.

13:21And at first, I thought it was just leaves moving.

13:24But then I realized it sounded like breathing.

13:28Slow and steady, like someone standing still.

13:31I stopped walking and stared at it, trying to convince myself it had been some kind of prop making noise.

13:39Because that made more sense than anything else.

13:42Then its head slowly tilted to the side.

13:45Not fast or jerky like a machine, but slow and controlled like a real person reacting to me.

13:52My stomach dropped instantly and I just stood there frozen, staring at it while it stared back at me through

13:59that blank mask.

14:01Before I could react, it shifted its weight and took one quiet step toward me.

14:06And I clearly heard its shoes scrape the concrete.

14:09That was the moment I knew it wasn't a decoration.

14:13I backed up without thinking, and the second I moved, it stopped and went completely still again.

14:21Like it hadn't done anything at all.

14:23I didn't run, but I turned and walked away fast.

14:27My heart pounding so hard I could hear it.

14:31After a few seconds, I looked back over my shoulder.

14:34And the spot where it had been standing was empty.

14:38There was nothing there.

14:39No person.

14:41No costume.

14:42Nothing.

14:43And there wasn't anywhere nearby it could have hidden that quickly.

14:47The next morning, I walked past that same driveway in the daylight.

14:52Just to see if there were decorations that could explain what I saw.

14:56But there was nothing at all.

14:58Not even leftover props.

15:00Or footprints.

15:02Or anything that suggested that someone had been standing there the night before.

15:06I still go out for walks sometimes.

15:08But I never go down that side of the street anymore.

15:12Because I can't shake that feeling that one night.

15:15If I do, I'll see it standing there again.

15:19Perfectly still.

15:21Like it's waiting for me to come close enough to notice its breathing.

15:30I have only ever told this to my ex-husband.

15:32But now I am telling it to the Reddit community.

15:35I started seeing a man when I was 11 years old.

15:39The first time I saw him was at night.

15:41And he was behind a tree.

15:42He peeked out.

15:45Laughed.

15:45And it scared me so much that I ran to my aunt's house.

15:49To be honest, it wasn't something I thought about again.

15:51But when I was 15, I went to visit my godmother for a week.

15:55During this trip, my half-sister came with me.

15:58My sister lives in another city, by the way.

16:01And would come to visit occasionally during summer vacation.

16:04When we were at my godmother's house, she had to spend the night in the hospital.

16:10Because her boyfriend had been in an accident.

16:13My cousin, my sister, and I were there.

16:15The house was huge, with four bedrooms.

16:18My sister and I were going to sleep in the first bedroom.

16:22The one that opened into the kitchen.

16:23That room had two large beds and a bathroom, which was convenient since we didn't have to go out to

16:29the bathroom past the living room in the middle of the night.

16:32We went to sleep, and the next morning when I woke up, my sister wasn't in bed.

16:38I should mention that my sister isn't a morning person, so it seemed strange to me, but I didn't think

16:43much of it.

16:44I went to the kitchen and found my cousin pouring herself some juice.

16:48She asked me,

16:49Did you and your sister argue or something?

16:52I asked her why, and she said,

16:54Well, I woke up and she was sleeping with me.

16:56And I looked at her like,

16:58What in the heck happened?

16:59So I went to ask my sister why she left me sleeping alone.

17:04She told me,

17:05I saw someone in the room, and the door was locked.

17:08There was no way anyone could get into our room because besides the lock on the door,

17:12I had also locked both bolts on the inside.

17:16I thought it was my imagination, so I turned away,

17:19but a few minutes later when I turned around again, he was still there.

17:22And this time, he was pointing at our bed.

17:25I'm not someone who gets scared easily, but something told me to get out of that room.

17:30When I went to your cousin's room, I saw that your cousin's door was open.

17:34I peeked in, and he was asleep, so there was no way it was a joke on his part.

17:39Luckily, your cousin hadn't locked her door, and I went in.

17:42I tried to wake you up, but you wouldn't wake up, which is why you woke up alone in bed.

17:48By the way, I had a few drinks with my cousin that night, but my sister didn't drink anything except

17:53tea.

17:54I asked her what the man she saw looked like, and when she described him,

17:58he was exactly like the man I saw when I was eleven years old.

18:02I didn't say anything, but for the last few days, neither of us slept in that room again.

18:07The third time I saw it was when I was eighteen.

18:10I woke up in the middle of the night, and that thing was just a few steps away from my

18:15bed,

18:16standing at the window, staring at me.

18:19I quickly got up and turned on the light, but it was gone.

18:23A month passed before I slept in my room again.

18:26After that, I got married and my husband at the time and I moved to another country.

18:31One night, when I was twenty-five, I woke up in the middle of the night, and that thing was

18:37just a step from my bed.

18:39I screamed so loudly that I woke my ex-husband.

18:42I told him everything, and he obviously didn't believe me.

18:46He's an atheist and doesn't believe in anything, so he said I was just imagining things.

18:52I'm not imagining things because my sister saw it, and I've never told anyone about it.

18:57It's been eighty years since I last saw it, and I'm terrified it will reappear, since it was just a

19:03step away from my bed.

19:05I'm very afraid.

19:06My current husband and I have been living in our apartment for about two years, and nothing strange ever happened,

19:12until things started disappearing from the house, and other times would just fall off on their own.

19:18We jokingly said it was elves stealing things and playing tricks.

19:22We didn't pay much attention to it, but one night something fell in the bathroom in the middle of the

19:27night,

19:27and it made a really loud noise.

19:29We live on the eighteenth floor of the building, which is new, but less than four years old,

19:34and we're the first ones to live in this apartment.

19:37Anyway, after that loud crash, we got up, and what had fallen was my disposable eraser.

19:43It was impossible for it to have fallen from where it was and to have landed so far.

19:48It seemed like someone had picked it up and thrown it, and the noise didn't make sense.

19:54We don't have any pets, not even rats, and that bathroom doesn't have windows.

19:58The only way to get in is through our bedroom, and we had the door locked.

20:04After summer arrived, we started sleeping with the bedroom door open.

20:07We put a floor fan right in the entryway because I couldn't sleep with the air conditioning on.

20:12It made me congested.

20:14For three days we slept with that fan, and it never moved.

20:18Until one night, around midnight, I felt the heat, and saw that the fan was pointing towards the living room.

20:25I got up and turned it towards the bedroom, and after about ten minutes, it turned back.

20:30I got up and turned it again, and it didn't turn back all night.

20:35The next day, we visited my mother-in-law, and I mentioned that things were falling and going missing, and

20:41we thought it was elves.

20:42I said it jokingly, and my mother-in-law said it could be some kind of entity in our apartment.

20:47I thought she was joking, but then my husband said,

20:50I've been seeing a woman outside our bedroom door.

20:53She can't come in, but she just stares at you.

20:55He has since bought me a small owl, which we placed in front of the TV, facing us, with its

21:01back to the door.

21:02In his beliefs, the owl prevents spirits from entering the room.

21:06After that, we went to the park and bought incense.

21:10Things stopped disappearing or falling, and my husband has told me he never saw her again.

21:19Something strange happened the morning after my mother died.

21:23Back in 2016, my mom was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer,

21:28where only a year later, the doctors would then find three lesions in her brain.

21:34Two years later after her first diagnosis, my mom would sadly pass away.

21:39By this time, in summer of 2018, we had been living in the Irish countryside for only a few months.

21:46My dad told me the news of my mom's passing on a very sunny morning,

21:50and to process this, I went to sit in the back garden.

21:54Almost numb with denial, I then noticed something strange about my shadow.

21:59For some reason, the silhouette of my face looked exactly like that of my mom.

22:04I don't really look that much like my mom, as I more resemble my dad,

22:08but the face I saw in the shadow indeed appeared to be that of my mom.

22:14However, this was by no means the strangest thing to happen that morning.

22:18Only a little time later, still set outside in the back garden,

22:22my dog then starts reacting to something coming from the open back door.

22:27When I go over to investigate, I realize what my dog is reacting to

22:31is a noise coming from the empty trash can directly behind the door.

22:36My dog seemed frightened of whatever this was, so I walk cautiously over to the trash can to peer inside.

22:43What I see at the very bottom of the empty trash can is a tiny shrew, seemingly stuck and trying

22:49hopelessly to find its way out.

22:51If you're wondering why finding a shrew in a trash can is so strange, then let me explain.

22:57My dad used to tell my mom that she had a cute nose, like a shrew, because of how pointy

23:02her nose was.

23:04So finding this shrew the day after my mom passed away was more than a little ironic.

23:09However, what was also strange about this was, there was no way this tiny shrew could have climbed inside the

23:15trash can.

23:16The can was too tall and completely empty, with no trash or anything inside.

23:23So how this shrew got in there and was unable to get out again was rather odd.

23:27Calling my dad from the next room, he then comes to the kitchen and sees the shrew.

23:32My dad's always been good with animals, and so he scoops the shrew carefully into his hands,

23:38brings it to the garden and releases it back into the wild.

23:41To sum up what I'm trying to get at here, on the morning after my mom's passing,

23:46I see my mother's face in my own shadow, and then I find a shrew, my dad's pet name for

23:52her,

23:53that impossibly got itself stuck inside a trash can.

23:56Although we did live in the countryside, and so there were wild animals everywhere,

24:01this is the only shrew I have seen to date.

24:04This experience was very weird to me at the time, and now thinking back on it, it still is.

24:10I know grief does strange things to the brain, but my dad, who considers himself an atheist,

24:16also found the shrew thing very strange.

24:19I don't really know all that much regarding the supernatural connection to death,

24:24and so if anyone has any insight into this experience of mine, I would really appreciate the advice.

24:30I don't believe my mom was reincarnated as a shrew or anything.

24:35And regarding her face in the shadow, I am aware the mind can play tricks on you,

24:40but because I've heard other strange stories of people after losing loved ones,

24:45I'm more inclined to believe all this wasn't just a coincidence.

24:54I have two stories from my childhood that are likely connected.

24:58The first is from when I was in elementary school.

25:01The house we lived in was a ranch or prairie style home,

25:06the majority of the house being on the ground level.

25:09You climb up the front porch and enter into the living room,

25:12which went directly into the dining room,

25:15and then from there it was a straight line to the kitchen and back porch.

25:20The bedrooms and bathroom came off the dining room.

25:23The basement and attic were accessible by a small hallway connecting the kitchen and back porch.

25:30One summer day, my brothers and I were playing hide and seek.

25:34My brother, M, was the seeker.

25:37After some time hiding in the attic and not being found,

25:41I managed to sneak into the dining room, hoping to hide under the dining room table.

25:47When I crawled under, M was there, but staring at me intently

25:52before running back to the porch in a human imitation of a wolf or a dog or such.

25:59Believing I was safe, I crawled out of the table,

26:02only to get caught by M, who was in the living room petting our dog.

26:07Obviously, what was under the table wasn't my brother,

26:10but then what was it?

26:13Flash forward a few years, and I'm in middle school now.

26:16The typical thing was for my grandparents to pick us up from school,

26:20and we would stay at their house until whichever of our parents got off work first to come get us.

26:25Until one day, I was going up and down this kind of steep hill in front of my grandparents' house

26:32on a razor scooter.

26:34I was getting used to the higher steeper parts of the hill.

26:37As I went down the street for a pass, my brother, R, is standing there.

26:42To avoid hitting him, I turned, my wheel caught on the curb and I was thrown into a tree.

26:48I could feel that I scraped my cheek pretty badly, so I meandered into my grandparents' house to seek some

26:55medical attention.

26:56My brother, R, was just staring at me and smiling from the middle of the road.

27:02Anyway, I stepped inside my grandparents' house and my brother, R, was playing a video game.

27:07Perhaps one instance of this I could sum up to hallucination, but my cheek was wrapped in gauze and medical

27:14tape for multiple weeks.

27:16That's not just a hallucination.

27:19And thus, the first instance likely isn't a hallucination either.

27:23And I'll state that I haven't had many instances like those in over two decades, but around four years ago,

27:30in my previous apartment,

27:32I did wake up to a shadowy figure watching over me from my bedroom doorway.

27:37Which I've chalked up to being a sleep paralysis demon, but given the prior experiences, it might not be a

27:45paralysis demon.

27:50I don't know who else has experienced this, but there was this one night where my mom had to go

27:56to work at a night shift,

27:58leaving myself and my grandmother alone in the house.

28:02I was 16 years old at that time, and my mom left probably at 8pm after reminding me what to

28:10do before going to sleep.

28:11I was surfing through the internet that night, using my tablet with my wired headphones plugged in my ears.

28:18Then, about 30 minutes later, after she left, I heard my mother's voice outside the house.

28:25I didn't respond right away because I was waiting for her to tell me what she wanted while calling out

28:31my name from the outside.

28:33So my earphones were still plugged in my ears.

28:36A few seconds later, she was still calling out my name.

28:40After a few seconds, of her still calling out my name, I stood up from the bed, and I still

28:46did not answer her calls for my name.

28:48I just looked outside the window, looking for the source of the noise, but I saw no one.

28:54So I lied down in my bed again, plugged in my earphones and watched YouTube videos.

28:59A few minutes later, I heard her voice again, calling out my name without giving any specific orders or telling

29:06me exactly what she wanted.

29:07I pretended not to hear her voice because I was waiting for her to tell me what she wanted and

29:12waiting for her tone to change because I was purposely ignoring her call.

29:16But even so, I stood up again and looked outside from the window from my room, even extending half of

29:23my body outside of the window just to see the person calling my name.

29:26But there was still no one.

29:28I tried so hard to see some sort of sign that there was a person on the other side of

29:33the door, like feet, legs, or clothing, but there wasn't really anything.

29:38Eventually, I decided to go downstairs.

29:41I walked past my sleeping grandmother, who did not seem to hear my mom calling for me.

29:47She was a light sleeper, and my grandmother would have called my name as well if she had heard my

29:52mom calling for me from the outside.

29:54I continued to open the door without thinking that there might be a person that would attack, rob, or prank

30:00us.

30:00As I opened the door, I saw absolutely no one.

30:04Literally nothing was there but darkness, because it was night time and the neighbors next door that were usually at

30:12each other's throats yelling were not there.

30:14I think they were on vacation at that time and their lights were off, as well as the houses next

30:19to them and ours.

30:21I stepped outside the doorway to double check even though I clearly saw no one at the door.

30:27I continued to observe the neighborhood from where I was standing.

30:31I noticed that there were no other lights turned on on our block, but shrugged it off since there was

30:36nobody outside but myself.

30:38I then stepped inside the house and noticed that the kitchen part of our house was dark.

30:44In order to turn on the kitchen light, I have to press a button on the bulb, but the bulb

30:49is inside the kitchen.

30:51The thing is, is that our kitchen was connected to our bathroom.

30:55There was no hallway.

30:56The kitchen and the bathroom door, where the bathroom light was, is always off after use, so it was no

31:02big deal that it was dark.

31:04But having both the kitchen and bathroom lights off is what gave me the creeps, like someone or something was

31:11there, waiting for someone to go into the kitchen.

31:14I took a mental note and went back to my room, walking past my sleeping grandmother once again.

31:20I plugged in my earphones and continued to surf the internet on my bed.

31:24After a few moments in my room, the realization hit me that I was not alert of my surroundings.

31:30It didn't occur to me that somebody with a weapon could have been behind the door and killed me and

31:35my grandmother.

31:36I also realized that my mother's voice that was calling for me did not change as she kept on calling

31:42for me, from the outside, or from wherever she was.

31:47Normally, she would have been pissed thinking that I was deliberately ignoring her calls and should have yelled louder.

31:53I also noticed that while the lights on our block were off, the lights on the next block were on.

32:00So, I don't really know what that was.

32:03All I know is that it was my mother's voice.

32:06I didn't think anyone or anything would mimic my mother's exact voice that night.

32:11I still don't know if it was a mimic, or what a mimic looks like, or if it was something

32:17else entirely.

32:17This is my first time ever talking about this occurrence.

32:21I haven't told anyone about it, not even my mom.

32:25If I told her, she would scold me for not being alert and just opening the door because I heard

32:29someone call out my name.

32:31After this incident, nothing similar has happened.

32:34But, whenever someone calls my name, in a crowd or when I'm alone, I don't answer or look in that

32:41direction right away.

32:42I wait for them to catch my attention by touching me or walking into my vision so I can see

32:47who called for me.

32:49If any of you have had a similar experience to me, please share.

32:52If any of you have any questions, please share.

32:58I hope you enjoyed this video.

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