Here is a list of some of the freaky paranormal things that me and my family have experienced:
- One time I got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and the second I set foot out of the bathroom the huge mirror that was hanging there (which wasn’t lose or anything) fell down.
- In our old home my mother and sister were standing in the kitchen and saw knives jump off the counter to the floor.
- In that same house I was behind my computer one night and dishes that were standing on the counter all fell down, the strange thing is that they fell too far from the place they were standing for it to be natural.
- This was probably the scariest thing, one day my sister came home from school and saw me sitting on the couch while I was lying in bed. She said hi and both me and the person on the couch said hi back at the same time.
- One time I was sitting behind the computer and saw an old man sitting in the living room, when I turned around to look again, he was gone.
- We’ve also seen a lot of glasses break. When our neighbor was over it seemed like every glass he held broke, usually multiple glasses a day which is too weird to be a coincidence. The glass breaking continued for about a month, it seemed like glasses were breaking daily even when the neighbor wasn’t there.
_ My mother was shopping in a store one time and saw a person who recently died shopping there too (it was a shop she used to go to a lot) wearing the same clothes she normally does. It was too freaky for her so she didn’t go up to that person but according to my mother it looked like the person that passed away recognized her.
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i am being followed, maybe… i see this paranormal being where ever i go. he is my age and often whispers in my ear. he says things like hi, what’s up, are you gonna take that?, and i want to help you. he does follow me to school and twice in the shower. he actually handed me my conditioner(at which point i got out screaming). one friend of mine has seen him, katy. she mentioned it to me, so there was no reason she should’ve been looking for him. i don’t think he intends to hurt me, but he mustn’t like me too much either because once i woke up and he was standing over my bed with a butter knife. any ideas to get it to be nice to me? he just said his name is edward… and to click submit
well i was out with some mates down at this field and i was near a train track people have died there and not been seen again people have been raped kil and alsort you name it it has happened. well anyway i was down there with some friends lets dust say im quiet differant to you lot in a way you wont understand anyway i was stood near the train tracks and suddenly a train went past thers was a fence in fornt so i felt safe but i saw it this thing stood there black 7foot tall and had yellow eyes like a cat my friend saw it aswell i think its death a blackf form of species that can mess with your head when you least expect it but the thing is is that it wasnt a normal human…..
I am also being followed by a poltergeist sometimes it shuts down my laptop and i can hear someone laugh and cackle when it does
One time ( my bedroom is directly across to the lounge room) and i stood out in the hall way to a noise saying KILL YOU I WILL KILL YOU and when i looked around at 1:00am I saw some figure dash past me and laugh then i felt like i was being watched so i walked back into my room and then i carried a buddah necklace around with me becoz i am thai and then i found my buddah necklace smashed against the walls and the little pendant gone.
I was camping with a friend of mine and she said that there was someone outside watching what we were doing when I opened the tent for about three seconds there was a long shadow that stood at around 7ft and had really piercing eyes
When we got home the next day she ran out of the bathroom screaming there is someone in there with me and I went in to find the towels on the floor the taps had all been turned on including the shower and the towel rack was upside down
my friend was downstairs and she said it whispered help me find my wife and then appeared to her in the mirror
I was reading a story on the internet at around midnight and i got tired after an hour so i got ready 2 go bed, i turned off the lights and closed my eyes 4 just 5 minutes and something pulled me down and screamed in my ears, it was a high pitched voice, it didnt say or do anything else but only screamed, this hasnt only happened one but 3 times in different nights. The first time happened in my old room so i moved rooms and just 2 nights ago it happened again and i was sure because it screamed in my ears more than once.
one time, i was trying to sleep.. i was halfway asleep when i heard a loud shattering sound outside of my house. i froze, got really scared.. but stayed in my bed. in the morning, when i woke up, i looked outside and the glass covering over the light outside was shattered on the ground.
there was also a small rock by the glass, but the thing was.. if someone threw the rock, how could he get it on the first throw and why would he aim for that?
also, it didnt just fall down because the ring was still around the lightbulb.
and if someone did throw the rock, they’d have to throw it pretty hard because the glass was pretty thick.
me and my friend were jumping on my bed just havin fun when i felt something push me. i fell into my friend and we got out screaming.
we laughed it off and went back in my room but this time, we turned the light on. we continued goofing off when my light suddenly burnt out, i immediately turned on my lamp and we got pretty scared. 5 minutes later, my lamp burnt out and we ran out screaming.
coincedence?
well…
last night I was reading some ghost stories to pass the time away, I came across one that oddly enough was similiar to a expierience I had when i was a kid.
The writer said she/he was about 6 years old and one time woke up to a lady in pink and asked why her aunt whispered his/her name, but the figure didn’t reply. So the person then asked why their mother was standing there. He/She described that mom wore similiar pajamas.
When i was a kid, very small, not too small, I use to sleep with my parents due to too many people living in our 3 bedroom home. My mother use to wake up early in the morning to go to work. I woke up one day, (not sure if it was early or not), but I saw a lady in a baby blue night gown that looked exactly to my mom, I asked if she was going to work and the lady that looked at my mom stood there smiling. The lady then waves by to me for some reason. I look to my right and there was my mom sleeping…my friend, she sees ghosts, a lot and told me it could’ve been a guardian angel. I don’t have any expieriences (thank God), but that’s one I vividly remember.
Any suggestions?
About when I was 7 years old I woke up at night and I was in my bedroom, and my door was open. I was laying there on my side until I turned over. I have a deceased great-grandmother whom I saw in the doorway just standing there, atleast I think it was my grandmother…and when I was 12 (about a year ago) I woke up after a small nap ‘cus I wasn’t feeling good and when I woke up things, I don’t know what they were, were spinning above my head and I just wave my hands quickly as I shut my eyes and they were gone, and not the other day I was in my room listening to some music to help me sleep and I opened my eyes to see a white face in front of mine so I closed my eyes and it disappeared, if you ask me the place I live at now is very creepy, but atleast I don’t live with my Aunt…
Creepy. I have this real squeaky bed and when you sit on it,it creaks. Many times I would be on the computer or something and my bed would creak like somebody sat on it. The bed wasn’t pressed down anywhere so I thought,just let it go. It creaked again and I could have sworn I heard footsteps walking down the hall,away from my room. Creepy,eh?
i was at my friends house and she knew that her house was haunted but she didnt tell me that. her and i were watching tv she had to go to the restroom so she went. i was just there sitting down when i saw this black figure walk across the room to the restroom which is were my friend was.she walked out of the restroom i came running to her.she asked me what was wrong. i asked you didnt see anything? i told her what i saw.she got freaked out becouse she didnt even tell me anything and i saw something.
My first paranormal experience happened when I was 12 years old. I was in my grandmother’s kitchen washing dishes talking to my mom who was standing next to me. I was chatting away and happened to glance over to where I thought my mom was standing and got the shock of my life. To my right, was a transparent figure. I couldn’t see the face, it was too blurry, but I did happen to see the dress this person was wearing. It was a light blue long sleeved dress, and the collar came up high on the neck with ruffles around it. I was too scared to scream. I looked at my dishes, and when I looked back toward the image, it was gone. That is when I screamed for my mom. Her and my grandmother came running into the kitchen wondering what had just happened. I explained to both of them. My mother said I was just seeing things, but my grandmother was very intrigued. She asked me again to describe what the dress on the woman looked like. After that, she took me into her room and pulled a trunk from her closet. She opened the trunk and took out a photo album. She began flipping through the pages, and came to photographs of my Aunt that had passed away 8 years earlier. She was only 21 and was murdered by her then boyfriend. My grandmother stopped turning the pages when she came to pictures of my aunt’s funeral. My grandmother pointed to a picture and said “Is this what you saw?” The picture was that of my aunt laying in her casket wearing a light blue dress with a high ruffled collar.
this story is scary. Hope your family is OK. when i was young the dishes would always fall and i thought it was wierd.
BYE!!!
After going deeply through most of the paranormal expriences posted here. i had got an opinion that most of the expriences were self constructed or just an imagination. however, i can rely on some of the incidences…
One time i was studying in our kitchen table (the kitchen table is faced in front of our stairs and comfort room),when suddenly i could feel someone watching me so as i faced to the stairs but i couldn’t see anything so i continue studying my then after minutes i felt a little cold but the windows werent open so i was very much afraid then suddenly white flashes came running back and fort to our livig room to our stairs so when i looked at it i could see a girl that has long black hair until her shoulders and she was wearing a white dress,but i couldnt see her face actually it’s like a blurr so when i wink it was gone but this time i saw a boy at the stairs also wearing the same dress but has short hair so i was so scared that i couldnt move,but when my helper walk by i could move again so i screamed at the top of my lungs!(it’s good that my parents arent there because i am sure they will get mad) so then whenever i walk by to our stairs i would say such words like “pls excuse me” so they don’t show up anymore but i still could feel them
Just a shout to all who believe! I have a story for ya. My great-grandfather lived to be 93yrs old. Well, as he got older he had fogotten how to tie his shoes. He would walk around with them slapping against the floor. After he died, at night you could hear that unmistakeable noise go down the hall from the kitchen to his room! Also, I was only aroung 10, but I will never forget this! He had a favorite queen-ann chair that only he sat in (unless one of us kids snuck in it) After he died, my grandmother and several aunts bought my great-granny a small dog for company. One day we were sitting in the livingroom and the dog jumped into “pappy’s” chair. All of a sudden, we here him yelp and look over to see him on the floor looking up at the chair as if someone had pushed him off!!! He never got in that chair agin and sometimes, he would sit in front of it and bark as if someone was there!!!!
I had a stange experience once when I was around about 6 or 7 years old. We had just moved into a new house and were getting ready to go on a long trip out of state. We had gotten up early in the morning to get a head start on the traffic. I had finished getting ready and was waiting in the living room quietly while my parents drank their coffee in the kitchen and the other kids where still getting ready. As I sat on the couch in the living room I could hear the muffled sounds of whispering behind me. It at first I wasn’t frightened as I thought it was one of my brothers playing a joke on me. I go up and looked behind the couch and to my amazement there was no one there. This kinda startled me but did not really frighten me. I sat back down on the same couch again waiting patiently and quietly when the same noises started again the sound of whispering as if two were talking about me. After seeing again that there was no one physically there I went to tell my parents what I was hearing. But in typical religious fashion my mother just told me it was the devil trying to scare me and to play about it to Jesus. To this day I still don’t know what those voices were. As the years passed many unforunate and strange things would occur in this house which just added to my questioning about this house maybe in some way it may have been haunted. Email me if you have any comments or questions. Thank you for listening.
hey those stories are pretty scary
I was at my house alone while my mom was out on a date and i was just sitting there and all af a sudden all of the movies and games in my room were all an the floor so i called my freind and he came over to spine the night and like it was about 3:05 and i went in my room to get some batteris and it felt like something slaped me and i herd runnung around down stares and my freind herd it to and we found out that my house was soposd to be hunted my a famly of 6 2 boys and 2 girls and the mom and dad had died there couse somone had come in with a gun and shot the hole family
my mum was reading in bed and i was watching tv and then the tv fliked and then a face was in the reflection of the screen of an old woman i ran into my mums room and i told her i went and told my dad he told me a lady had died i the house 12 years ago
I work in federal law enforcement, so I am not in the habit of fabricating events. It was the summer of 95 when I was searching for a suitable rent house. I found what appeared to be a fantastic deal. It was a turn of the century brick home at 501 Johnson in Big Spring Tx. I was immediately impressed with the stone fireplace with glassed in book shelves on either side. The dining room had a massive chandelier. The kitchen was large and open. Three bedroom, one bath, and a large fenced yard. I agreed upon $400 monthly with a $250 deposit. I remember the day my wife and I moved in. She was 6 months pregnant, and it was over a hundred degrees outside. She smiled when she touched the handle of the antique door. She busied herself putting away kitchen items, while I moved the heavier furnishings. Her condition obviously precluded her from assisting me. As night fell, we were both too exhausted to put the four poster bed together, and settled on folding out the couch mattress. Bo Bo, our yorkshire terrier joined us. We had settled in for the night at midnight. I think I was asleep before my head even hit the pillow. For some unexplained reason I awoke. I rubbed my eyes and looked at the small digital clock I had placed on the floor. The numbers read three A.M. As I looked at the clock, it slid accross the floor. It moved all by itself, almost a foot in distance. It was then that I noticed that the dog was growling, and also staring at the clock. The series of events that were to follow are still fresh in my memory. I remember getting calls from my wife late at night while I worked. On one occasion she witnessed a large portrait of Christ float off the dining room wall, and then smash into the floor with tremendous force. My wife collected figurines which she placed in the window sills facing us. Every morning, all of them would be facing as though they were looking out the windows. As the time for the lease to expire was approaching, the events became more frequent and more profound. Kitchen drawers would open and close. The dog would be growling and barking, and going room to room as if following some unseen entity. Needless to say, we moved as soon as the lease expired. I still drive by, every few months. And to this day. There is almost always a different vehicle parked outside. I guess some things just dont go away.
Chipper, you should elaborate your story and post it as its own story.It is very interesting.I’d like to know more and what has happened since, if anything, or if you’ve had previous experiences.If you go to yourghoststories.com you can do it there if you can’t do it here.I’m new here so I don’t know about submitting your own story.You have an interesting tale to tell.
one time i was with my parentz out seeinq a mOvie nd wen i came Out of the mOvie theater i saw thisz black fiqure standinq b4 mii.
i thought it was juzt my imagination so i ignored it nd i acted lyk i neva saw it.
then my parentz went into a fast food place 2 order some take out buh i desided 2 wait outside. nd then it was there aqain. it had a black coat on nd its eyes were glowinq red!! i was totally freak3d out!! nd it seemd lyk it wanted somethinq buh i couldnt fiqure out wat! nd it was gettinq closer nd closer! i couldnt move. then wen my parentz came out it disapeard. i didnt tell them wat happend cuzz i new that they wouldnt belive mii nd then they wud send mii 2 some kind of doctor. i never saw the fiqure aqain!
I was about five when this happened.In my old house I was sleeping under a big window in the living room with my brother on the other couch by me.(we didn’t have good air conditioning so we left the back door open)my mom was sitting in a chair across from me just watching us.a dark gray figure came through the window over me with its arms stretched out.I woke up looked at it and walked to my mom.I don’t know how but I was calm at this time and not startled.My mom saw it and grabbed me.As I saw just a figure she saw a face…it looked at us and she said it was a man with a beard.I had told my mom ‘close the door,the pit bulls are coming’.she walked with me and closed the door but we went back to the same spot for some reason and kept looking at it. I said ‘it can’t hurt you when I’m here’.My mom replied ‘why?’.I then said ‘because I’m god.’.My mom told me I said that cause I don’t remember saying I was god.She thinks that god was protecting us at that moment.I don’t know what to think.But I knew the house was haunted.Outside every time I came home from school I would always look at the wall in front of our door.It always had the word DIE on it in dry blood.When we first walked inside the house before we bought it, there was blood on the wall inside.The truth about the house was the first person that lived there was going to die but died right at the door.The next person that lived the had answered the door and got shot in the head.they had found his body 2 weeks later so the house smelt horrible but they had already fixed that problem.The wall that had blood on it my dad took out and Me and my brother were watching sailor moon in the room and that was the one room that was full of mosquito’s and nowhere else had them.I don’t remember every detail of the story but thats what happened and we would also see large orbs there.
This iz really creepy!!!!
!!!!My cat died. And then he lived again!!!!
I know you guys may think i am crazy, but thats ok….. When i was 9 years old i used to live in a house that looked so welcoming. It looked good from outside but for some reason i just couldnt step in the house, i always have to have one of my parents to get me through the door. Everytime i went into the house, the house smelled like blood and rotting animal or human. The weird thing is that i was the only one who can smell it. Since i couldnt speak until the age of 10( dont know why) i always tried to sign language my mom. She would clean the house everyday and it still smell.
Things started to get weird after a couple of weeks.I started seeing shadows, demons, and little elfs and only once did i see ” him” (the devil). He was frightening, but i didnt scream. I just looked into his white eyes and disformed face.He gave me a creepy smile and i just started to talk to him. ( that was the only time i talked until 10) ” Why are you here? DOnt you have somewhere to go?” He just responded ” Ah, you see…daughter, i am the one who created you and i wanted to see how you were.” I just looked at him and he sat down on my bed.”Daughter? I am not your daughter…” Yes, you are and i got proof too. You see those birthmarks on your face?… If you connect them you get a 5 pointed star , my face appeared when you were born.” i just smiled for some reason and responded”well you are wrong since i only have 4 birthmarks” “No, check under your left ear…” I looked in the mirror and there it was, the 5th birthmark. .” Why are you here? ” i asked” i just want to tell you a little message, that once the two tallest towers fall, you will start to develop your own little, hell. ” ( this was a couple of months before 9/11) With that he dissapeared and i havent talked to him.
I guess my mom saw and heard the conversation since after that she just looked down whenever she talked to me and she always prays before talking to me. ( I know it is weird) But my eyes used to be dark green but ever since i talked to “him” my eyes became reddish brown and i couldnt feel any pain, physically but emotionally i felt it.
Also i have been able to sense and see demons, ghost and other starnge things. I am also able to see the future at times and see other peoples aura. If you ever see me, dont be afraid please….i have 5 friends only and they are my bestest friends ever. You probably could recounize me because of my birthmarks on my left side.
I just wanted to take this out of my chest, but i bet poeple will try to kill me and exercise me and stuff, but basically i am just a normal girl who’s father is supposedly the devil.
By the way i am now 15.
My story doesn’t top the above; however, it is 100% authentic.
It all started approx. 10 years ago. My family was going through a divorce and we all were pretty fucked up. I was 18 and my mother and 2 sisters moved out of my father’s place and rented a house out in town for 8 months. During my stay in this house I became a severe alcoholic and quit my job and university and my life was going south real fast. We had house parties every day and even had the cops visit a few times. I hated life and my family. ODD things started happening in this house that began with my sister claiming she saw multiple black shadows leaving my room and entering. My mother (who worked at a mental hospital) also claimed she saw black shadows in the house. I never believed in ghost, and at this point in my life my religion was shaken up to the point that I no longer believed in an after life. Anyway, One night I returned home (on a school night) after going to the gym (didn’t have any alcohol or drugs) and had a regular night fighting with my mother about money. It was storming out that consisted of thunder and lightning along with rain. I sat down upstairs on the couch and started watching T.V. My family went to sleep and soon I feel asleep as well. The upstairs living room was approx. 300 sq feet and had a love chair on the left side and the couch in the middle. There was also a coffee table in front of the couch and a small 27 inch old T.V 10 foot in front of the coffee table in the right corner of the room (the storm went all night).
At 7am I woke up abruptly to the sound of the T.V blaring on channel 99 (no channel, white fuzzy channel). My head and body was pointed towards the back of the couch. When I woke up, I instantly opened my eyes but didn’t move. I felt a cold shiver through my body and felt as though someone was watching me. I felt scared because I thought someone broke in. I quickly twisted my head and looked up towards the love chair. My entire body froze which felt like an eternity. What I saw was unlike anything I’ve ever seen or read about. I saw an 8 foot giant Entity that looked identical to the white fuzzy channel on the T.V in the shape of a huge human. It was approx. 2 feet from my head and it had small dark blue piercing eyes and locked on to mine and froze my entire body. I could make out the head, eyes, body, and huge hands, and see it in my mine every day as if I saw it yesterday. I’ll never forget the site ever. The being was looking right through me. The odd thing was once I saw it my fear was gone. I felt as though the being wanted to wake me and reveal itself to me. The being never moved and never even appeared to have any eye lids. The moment I blinked (which felt like an eternity) the entity was gone.
Now I’ve heard my family claim they may of seen I ghost or something, and I’ve heard my friends say the same, however, I have never heard any of them say they saw an entity 2 feet from there face that was approx. 8 feet tall and huge. I want to know what the hell it was. Some people tell me that it sounds like a demon. I still don’t fully believe in demons, but I can tell you this, after I saw that powerful being, I have turned my entire life around, went back to school, got a degree, and bought a house and am married now. I have a very profitable job and am happy now. I’m convinced that if I didn’t see that thing, I probably would be addicted to crack by now. I fully believe that seeing that entity was the best thing that ever happened to me because it revived my faith in an after life and the belief in God.
Some of my friends claim that I was still sleeping when I saw the being. They don’t seem to realize that I was awake for a good minute before I even turned my whole body to see what I saw. Once I blinked, it was gone, and I immediately stood up and turned off the very, very loud T.V. which also woke up my family. I told my mother what happened because I know she would believe me, however, I never told anyone else for 8 years. Every night after that, I prayed to god for forgiveness and to protect me and my family from evil, and I state in my prayers every night that I don’t want to see that being again.
So my question to everyone is:
What the hell did I see? Was it an Alien (don’t believe in), was it a demon (not sure about that), or was it my guardian angel looking over me and wanting to help me because of the way my life was going?
well i must say my story isn’t as freaky and descriptive as the others but about a year ago I moved into my new house, just me and my mum. second night of being here, I had to sleep in my mums room because my new bed hadn’t arrived yet, I remember strangely waking up at 3/4 in the morning to hear someone talking in my ear, growling and muttering it sounded like an old man, I wondered if my mum could hear it too but she was fast asleep. The talking went on for about half an hour until it stopped. I thought nothing of it seeing as I’d never expierenced any ghostly encounters. I’ve been in this house about a year now and I still feel like someone is watching me although I’ve never seen them, it’s one
of those gut feelings, that your sure about. nothing else had happened til recently I was watching telly and felt a sting in my arm, I pulled my sleeve down and noticed I had a long red scratch down my arm and a small one across my wrist. the pain was horrible. I couldn’t of scratched them myself because my nails are REALLY short. I’m happy for someone to tell me anything similar to my experiences or anyone who suggests anything, I’m all ears:) thankyouuu…XXXXXXXX
Wow. It’s been a while since anyone has posted on this site.
My story isn’t particularly scary, or at least less scary than some of the stories I’ve read. About 7 years ago, when I was 15, I’d gotten up from my computer after playing a solid few hours of FIFA and gone to my bedroom window to open it. As I turned around my gaze fell upon my cellphone…sliding across my desk. Now this could be attributed to the fact that I’d been transfixed, staring at 22 players running up and down a field for several hours; and all this happening on a box that didn’t move. Maybe my eyes were still adjusting to noticeably adle goings-on of my bedroom that I’d imagined my cellphone…sliding across my desk. But then why was the backlight on my cellphone on? I thought I’d received a message but when I checked the phone there was nothing.
Seeing as though I’ve opened a can of worms I may as well carry on a lil longer…
I hated scary movies as a kid. Ever since I watched It! The Clown, horrors scared me senseless. But as I got to about 16 years old I started forcing myself to watch horror movies. This irrational fear had to be conquered. So I went about collecting as many of the scariest horrors I could find: Darkness Falls, The Grudge (regardless of what people say, this movie freaked me out), The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Paranormal Activity (and so did this one), The Fourth Kind. Anything that could really give me a good scarying so this fear could be warranted. Sometimes trying to be rational isn’t always the best answer…
I’d just come from watching Paranormal Activity at the cinema and we (2 friends and myself) were taking the train back to our neighbourhood. It was fairly late but there were a number of people in our carriage. There were four more stops before ours and we were acting a fool on the train, talking loudly about how Paranormal Activity scared us. We didn’t think anyone would actually know what we were talking about because the movie had only premiered the week before and not very many people had gone to see it. As we were goofing around I noticed an old lady sitting directly opposite me. Her hands were folded and she was looking up and down the carriage as if expecting someone. Then she looked directly at me and smiled. I thought she was rather odd but smiled back anyway. She then went back to looking up and down the carriage. I decided that she must’ve been senile and as I was about to turn back to my friends she looked at me once more and beckoned me towards her. I felt sorry for this old lady, sitting all alone on the train in the middle of the night and so went over to her. I sat down next to her and she held my hand. I was immediately overcome by an intense sadness and felt like breaking down. I asked her, “Why are you sitting on your own, ma’am? Are you with someone?” And she said, “Yes, I’m with my husband. I’m just waiting for him to come back from the toilet.” I felt myself swallow my breath because I knew there weren’t any toilets on these trains, not anymore anyway; and I had the sudden sense that she may have had alzheimers and may have wandered off from her home. Just to be sure I shouted across to my friends, “Are there any toilets on the train!?” and, as I suspected, their response was, “No!” One of my friends tried to be smart and shouted, “You’re gonna have to hold it in!” I was reluctant to say anything that might upset the old lady so I asked her, “How long have you and your husband been married?” “Ooo, 54 years.” she said. “54 beautiful years. And we’ll stay married for another 54 years if God permits it.” “Tell me about your husband.” I said. “The most beautiful man you’ve ever seen. So tall he could scoop down a cloud and feed me cotton candy if he wanted. Curly black hair, sharp features accentuating his olive skin. My parents weren’t too happy when they heard of our union but I didn’t care much for their antics. We were married before they could forbid it. My husband is so good at impersonating my father. Wait, here he comes. I’ll ask him to show you.” “Oka…” Wait, what!? He actually exists? I looked to my left and saw a man no shorter than 6″2 walking our way. I stood up to let him sit down, still flabbergasted at the fact that the old lady wasn’t senile and that her husband actually existed. She introduced her husband and referred to me as “a charming young man”. As they were sitting next to each other I noticed that they didn’t look as old as would be expected. If they’d been married for 54 years they should be well past 70 yet they resembled very little greying, whatsoever. So, after much deliberation, I ventured to ask when they’d been married. “1833″ What happened after that is pretty much a blur: the train jerked about violently (and even though this was what constituted a normal train ride it felt like the train was about to de-rail); the lights in our carriage flickered like they were about to fuse; I heard a scream, that usually signified someone getting mugged but I had to look. No surprise when I saw someone running in the other direction with a handbag. I turned back and I guess there was less of a surprise that the old couple had vanished.
I must’ve stood there for the next 15 minutes trying to comprehend everything that had happened. As we were walking home from the station I asked my friends if they’d seen the old couple but they only recalled seeing the old woman. They admitted not seeing her after “that woman got mugged” but attributed that to not looking her way until after we’d passed the next stop. That’s when I decided I’d had enough with horror movies.
Truth or fiction? You decide.