Haunting Reddit Stories That Kept Us Up All Night | Haunted Appalachia, Grim Reaper & More (Ep 379)

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My brother tells me that he has been hearing me whispering along with the ghosts. Reddit, baby.

Very spooky.

Hi everyone.

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This is Two Girls One Ghost.

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We are your ghostesses. That is Corinne.

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I'm Sabrina and I'm being a little ominous and spooky because I'm stoked for today's episode.

Yeah.

And I know those of you freaks on YouTube go nuts for this.

Reddit, baby. It goes dark. It goes scary. It goes

creepy, weird, unusual.

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Reddit is my dark web.

No, it feels like it for sure is. I was scared of Reddit for so long because it felt like the dark web.

Yeah, there's just too much.

And you just get lost in it.

Yeah.

Like people talk about doom scrolling, we got to start talking about the black hole that is

Yeah.

Reddit that you go down.

you don't have your like safe graphic thing on, yeah, I've accidentally seen some things that have almost made me throw up and faint.

Like what?

Gross fights and like

Oh, well.

to like real life human beings.

I thought you were going to talk about West Wilson's willy.

Who?

The Summer House drama.

Oh, no, I don't know about Bravo dick, but [laughter] I do know about ghost stories.

Yeah.

And people's creepy ass encounters on Reddit. And that is what we did for today's episode. We're like, okay, let's just go on Reddit and pull some stories from random ass people that we don't know, that have no idea that we plucked their stories.

Reddit scary stories from girls who ghost.

Reddit scary stories.

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Yeah. One of our favorite topics.

Do you want to start?

Sure. Do you know what I picked first?

No.

You don't You don't know?

Is it alien? Is it possession? I didn't look at

It's Appalachia.

Oh, perfect.

Of course, because Appalachia plus Reddit scary stories That's so good.

One of the darkest, spookiest places.

And I feel like I really wanted to find camping and hiking things, too, because it's getting warmer, and I feel like spring and the summer people are being outside a lot more, and

Wait, you're already triggering Yesterday, there's no way I'm going to It's one of those videos that I probably scrolled and like didn't actually click on anything, so I'm not going to be able to find it. But there's a woman who posted on TikTok, and she was in a single-person tent. The tent is like a right on her body. And she was like, "Oh, I didn't sleep at all last night because of this noise." And it was the creepiest noise, and she was like, "It might just be the It was probably just the wind or whatever." Whipping against her tent, but it was like intermittent,

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which is kind of wind-like, too. And it was so loud. It was like right above her head. But then everyone started commenting, and she started freaking out because the comments are like, "Don't you hear the footsteps coming up to your tent before one of those moments?" She was like, "Well, I didn't in the moment, but now that I look back on the video, you literally hear like crunch crunch crunch crunch." And

Perfect. All over the lead up to this story.

Ooh, okay.

Very similar energy. I mean, this is why

I hid all night in the Appalachian Mtns after hearing a scream and footsteps

I I know that a lot of people are being are going outside and stuff, but this might sway you from doing so. Specifically not in Appalachia. Okay, this was posted 10 months ago on Reddit camping and hiking subreddit by a user whose username is now deleted, but it was titled, "I hid all night in the Appalachians after hearing a scream and footsteps. Very similar.

Yeah.

This is what they wrote.

Also, them saying that they hid immediately my mom my mind goes to

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Hunger Games, Peeta painting himself as a rock. Just like

Which we don't talk about how long that must have taken him.

Right. Like no one else found him when he was

Right. Painting himself into the side of the creek. He's not like a chameleon. It doesn't happen instantly. [laughter] Actually, I was on a walk yesterday in nature, but in a city, so it's not scary. Like I'm walking.

Yeah. Um yeah, basically. And but it was so quiet. It was like early It was midday, so like not lunchtime yet, but not early in the morning where people are commuting. And I felt very alone. I was listening to the birds and I was like every time I hear birds, I like picture myself in the Hunger Games. [laughter]

Do you? Well, that's that's like so the opposite of what birds are supposed to make you feel.

the mockingjay in the Hunger Games. I always think of that. Yeah. So, anyone else? Okay. They wrote I have never posted on Reddit before. I literally just made this account and signed up with my phone number. I also

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posted the story a few minutes ago in the Appalachian Trail subreddit, but it's still waiting for moderators to to approve it, so I figured I'd also share it here since this community seems active and experienced with camping. What happened to me a few weeks ago on a solo hiking trip has been stuck in my head ever since. I mentioned it to a couple of people and every single one has brushed it off, said it was probably nothing. But I know what I heard. I know what I saw. And I know it was something because no part of it felt normal. I'm a 28-year-old male and I live in North Carolina. I've been hiking and backpacking solo for years. I work a pretty normal 9-to-5 desk job doing graphic design, and so I use the weekends to get out into the woods and reset. I have hiked and camped this section of the Appalachian Trail before. It runs through Southwest Virginia. It's remote, quiet, barely any foot traffic, and I have had never had a reason to feel unsafe out there.

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Okay. So, already very familiar with the terrain.

Very.

Which makes you perfectly unsuspecting victim.

The hike itself is normal. I started early and did about 12 miles and did not see a single other person the entire time. Around 6:00 p.m., I found a good spot off trail and set up camp. Nothing fancy, just a a hammock, a tarp, bear bag, gear, you know, all that. The weather was perfect and I turned in a little after dark. I woke up around 1:30 a.m. needing to pee. So, I grabbed my headlamp, slipped on my boots, and walked about 15 or 20 ft to behind a tree just slightly away from camp. My phone was in my backpack back at camp. I didn't bother bringing it because I thought I would just be out for a wee and back real quick.

That's like such a tough thing too cuz like having your phone on you is also a lifeline if something goes wrong.

I in the middle of the night if I'm home take my my phone with me to the middle to the bathroom if I wake up in the middle of the

Yeah, like you never know. Like your back

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anywhere. Like having your phone is a safety thing. But I also understand if you're familiar and you're like just going on a quick like

Yeah.

have definitely left my phone at home going on a walk around the neighborhood or whatever. It's sending my husband into a panic when my It's like, "Where's my wife and toddler? They're missing and no one's picking up."

But then also, he has a headlamp cuz I feel like a lot of people use their phone for flashlight, but he has a light source. So, I get it. That is when I heard it. Somewhere deep in the woods, not close, but not far, a scream. A woman's scream. A long, loud, terrified scream that echoed through the trees. It was the scariest [ __ ] thing I've ever heard in my life. It did not sound like a movie scream. It sounded raw and real like someone who truly thought they were about to die. It cracked at the end like her voice was breaking.

[gasps]

And then silence. Complete heavy silence. That made me freeze. At first I thought maybe

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an animal. I don't know. I was trying to rationalize it. But about a minute later, I started hearing footsteps. Again far but close. They were steady, not rushing or running, just slow heavy footsteps walking through the forest.

I haven't seen the movie Apex, but this is what I'm picturing [laughter] like the guy like doing his little dance and pump up before going and hunting a woman in the woods.

No flashlight, no voice, just walking. And it wasn't coming directly toward me. But it was close enough that I did not feel safe where I was. Like they might find me. So I dropped low behind the tree. There were some logs and dry leaves at the base and I laid down flat next to them. And did not move. I didn't dare make a sound. I stayed there terrified, frozen, listening. After a couple of minutes, I saw something in the distance. Through the trees maybe 75 to 100 yards out

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I spotted a faint orange glow moving slowly through the woods. At first I thought it was someone with a lantern, but it got brighter. And I realized they were carrying a torch, like an actual open flame carried by someone.

[ __ ]

And they were not alone.

[sighs and gasps]

There were

Oh, okay. Cuz at first I was thinking of the one example from Ted Bundy where he was like going and trying to visit a body of one of his victims in the woods and there was that couple that was like making out by the tree not knowing that they were by a body, not knowing that Ted Bundy was like walking up and everyone was like completely silent.

No. it's like one of those famous stories from that case. This is a group This is [ __ ] nuts. This is so scary.

Yep. There were two or three figures walking behind whoever was carrying the torch. So, either like three or four people total. I couldn't make out a ton from the distance I was at. And to be honest, I didn't really want to move to warn them of where I was. But what I did see

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will stay with me forever. The person holding the torch had something dark smeared all over their face. Like face paint or mud. It looked like it covered everything but their eyes. They weren't in any sort of uniform or hunting gear either. Just baggy clothing carrying that torch walking slowly through the woods in the middle of the freaking night. They were just moving calm, deliberate. It didn't look like they were looking for anything. They were just moving. Eyes focused forward. I didn't dare move an inch. I was terrified they'd hear my breathing. My phone was still in my bag at camp. No way to call anyone. I had turned my headlamp on. I didn't want to signify where I was. All I could do was lay there and pray that they didn't come closer. They eventually moved out of my eye line. But I didn't. I stayed there all night. I did not sleep. I did not go back to my hammock. I didn't even stand up until the sun was fully out. When it was bright enough to see clearly, I did then make my way back to camp. I grabbed my

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gear and hiked straight back to my car. I didn't stop to eat. I didn't stop to drink. I just wanted out as soon as possible. But here's the thing. Before I did leave my camp I noticed that not a thing was disturbed. There were no tracks and no signs of anyone passing through. But I know what I saw. I did go to the local sheriff's department the next day after I got back to town and I told them everything. I told them where I was camping, what I saw, what I heard, even marked the general area on a map that I gave them. I gave them my name, my contact info and they said they'd check it out and follow up if anything came up. It's been a while, and I've heard nothing. No one's reached out, nothing. But I really can't stop asking myself, who were they? What did I hear? What the hell were they doing that deep in the woods at 2:00 a.m. with torches and face paint? And what was that scream that I heard? Has anyone else ever seen anything like this while hiking or camping? Because I genuinely do not know how to explain what happened that night.

I neither [clears throat] do I.

Isn't that horrifying?

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I I like keep going back and like it doesn't feel paranormal. Like it feels like these are like real human beings doing something.

sacrificed someone?

But then it's creepy that there's no evidence of footprints or anything like that.

It's terrifying. In a way it reminds me a little bit of Hawaii's night marchers.

I was thinking also like American Horror Story Roanoke.

Oh, yes.

Like those people who live across the woods

Mhm.

and are lurking in the woods, but then there is also like the paranormal group that walks through the woods with their lantern.

my opinion, was the scariest season.

I started rewatching it recently cuz I really I loved it.

Yeah, it was it's messed up. Kathy Bates was genius in it.

Yeah. Did you see that they're they're doing Coven? They're bringing back Coven for American Horror Story.

did hear that, but I didn't read anything else about how they're doing it. Is it just like a continuation, another season?

Interesting. Well, Coven was a very We have an episode of a

haunting

American Horror Stories hauntings. So, a lot of it was from the Coven season.

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Terrifying.

Yeah. I'm very curious, and I know we're not going to get an answer, but I'm so curious about the park rangers in police in the area if they get told stuff like this all the time.

Right.

Where there it's either like a cover-up or it's like a known paranormal thing where like they're taking everyone's accounts down who are scared shitless, but they know that there's nothing that they can do about it. Like it just gets filed away.

I know. But also if they do investigate it, like what are they going to find? As far as we know, yes, we heard a scream, but otherwise all this person saw was a group of people weirdly, creepily walking through the Appalachians late at night.

Hey.

Which is not a crime. They don't have a cell phone.

No, it's not. But like have you ever questioned in that moment if it was actually a woman's scream? If you're like, "Okay, well, maybe it's maybe it's just a mountain lion and I haven't heard a mountain lion scream."

Cuz that was a lot of people in the comments for like, "It's just an animal." But I'm like, "Well, then how do you explain this group of people?"

If you couple it with this group of people, you like how are the certainty

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Or like the question, the percentage, the chance of it being an animal goes down significantly. Especially the timing.

not to say that like a woman's getting murdered. Like perhaps someone felt

Or they were doing a ritualistic scream, get rid of all your

Right.

anger. Cuz like no one's around, you're right there. Like

Little like coven, like run around the bonfire, scream to the moon.

Where was this? Do we know?

We don't know specifically, but um a trail in North Carolina. I know this was in Southwest Virginia of the Appalachian Trail.

Honestly, the Virginia area Virginia's the worst part of the Appalachians.

[laughter]

It's the creepiest.

It's the creepiest. Virginia and then the Carolinas are next, but really Virginia.

Yeah. Bits of Georgia.

Occasionally, but really Virginia.

Honestly, the southern portion of the Appalachian Trail

[laughter]

it's got it going on and not in the good way.

Or part of the Appalachian Trail cuz I feel like not much happens up here in comparison.

No, it doesn't have as

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People say Appalachia, but I'm like, "Is it Appalachia or is it just like the South?" Like this area of the South. Is it the mountains?

It's Appalachia and then there's Appalachia.

That's why people should allow us to pronounce the northern part.

Appalachia.

Appalachia.

But you know when you start to say something differently for so long that you start to question how you Like for example, Noemi. Before Noemi, my niece existed, I only knew of Naomi, but now when I try to think of Naomi, I can't say it. Like it it takes so much effort to say Naomi, and it feels so wrong.

cuz your brain's constantly trying to auto-correct it to Noemi.

Yeah. So now Appalachia feels so wrong.

I have to like think about how I had said it for 30 years.

Anyway, that's story number one. Starting off poor fun.

That was a very strong start.

[laughter]

I think I went a little different.

Well, this is the benefit of Reddit scary stories is there are so many different types.

Yeah. I kind of got trapped in the rabbit hole of like death, like experiences related to death, near-death experiences, Grim Reaper experiences,

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like things like that where people almost died or chance encounters with death.

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encounter with the Grim Reaper

Okay, this was posted by Murphy Brock 1 year ago. They write, "Today, Wednesday, February 19th, marks 16 years since the death of my dad. I saw the topic question and I was going to skip past with no contribution to the query until I realized what today was. And as a result, I feel compelled to share this incident. What I chronicle in the following is true. It happened 16 years ago in February of 2009 in the northeastern US. That's where we are.

Appalachia.

[laughter]

An apple apple Appalachian Appalachian.

What [ __ ] You're short-circuiting.

I am. Okay. Here we go. I went to visit my daughter and her family one evening. They live in a rural area that is quite dark at night due to the lack of ambient lighting. I exited my car and I began the walk across the yard toward the house.

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Can I just say a weird thought that I thought of recently?

Yeah.

Is that even when we're seeing moonlight, it's technically sunlight that we're seeing because the moon is reflecting is lit by the sun.

So we're technically still under the sunlight. Isn't that crazy?

What are the UVs?

I mean, nothing cuz it's a reflection. It's like bouncing

is there something? Like it's not zero.

It's probably such a fraction that it's close to closer to zero than it is one.

Interesting.

Tanning under the moonlight?

Like if every structure was white, every man-made structure was white, would we be able to always see at night because there would be such a reflection

Oh, interesting.

that it would the world would be lit up more?

If the moon is full, maybe. But if the moon is if there's no moon, then no.

Or if everything was painted black, would we be able to even see anything even on a full moon? Cuz black absorbs it. I've got questions about color theory [laughter] and how light interacts in space. Okay. I exited my car. I began the walk across the yard to their house. The darkness was such that I couldn't see

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anything before me. However, I was familiar with the property. As I was walking, I came to an abrupt stop raising my arms in front of me. Not by conscious choice, but my body suddenly sensed something before me. It was instinct. Thinking maybe there was a yard toy in front of me, I kicked outward, but nothing was there. I immediately heard a light rustling, distant, but approaching my position and rapidly. The initial sensing of my path being blocked grew stronger. I then saw from across the opposite end of the darkened yard a figure moving swiftly towards me. The figure was moving so rapidly that it appeared as a blur, approaching and darting.

[gasps]

It was only when it passed me and was for a split second aligned with me on my left that I got a closer glimpse. And for a nanosecond, it was headed straight at me and only veered to my left in the last possible moment. And I would describe it as follows. 8 ft in height.

Great start.

And this is based on comparing my

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height, I'm 6 ft 3. However, the figure glided and was leaning forward. It was almost like at a 45° angle. It did not contact the ground. It wore a classic monk-type robe. Brown and black smudges.

GR is that you?

I think it might be Grim Reaper. The material was worn, it was tattered. It had a hood drastically draped down over the facial area, obscuring any facial features. In passing it, it never looked at me. Its body posture and head remained straight ahead, but again, in a leaning forward slanted position. Its movement in passing me created an audible swishing. I stepped forward while looking in the direction of the house. The one step triggered their motion lights, which snapped their floodlights on. But I kept my eyes on what had just passed me until it disappeared into the darkness. The total time after passing me and then losing sight of it, maybe 3 to 4 seconds. When I entered the house, I attempted to tell my daughter what had just happened and she held her finger up

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to her lips and in a low voice said, "Don't say anything around Steve. He's already nervous about us living so close to the old barn. Note, Steve who lived with them grew up believing that the barn was haunted. Still trying to get a grip, I said, "Okay." I gave her what I came out here to take. After a little time, I said I had to scoot. I had to go run a few more errands. We hugged. I walked, this time, across a well-lit yard to my car. Don't blame you. I got in and instead of going in the direction of what passed me, I decided to go the opposite way. After a few minutes, I saw the lights of a Sheets store. I whipped [snorts] in. I found a parking spot and I started off thinking about what I had just experienced. This I knew. What happened really happened. What I saw, I believe, was what we've seen in all of the pictures and literature throughout my life that depicts the Grim Reaper. Grim How am I still alive? Why did it turn at the very

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last second after getting to me? That was Saturday evening. On Sunday morning, I woke up at exactly 5:30 a.m., which was unusual for me. Also unusual that I awoke fully. No momentary grogginess, just bright-eyed, fully awake. I moved to the edge of my bed and I watched the early sun streaming in through the half-closed slats. The room was silent. Before I could stand, a long, single musical note from a trumpet came directly from the right corner of my room.

Oh.

I did not have to look outside to determine the source. The trumpet sound was generated within my room. The acoustics, the sound it made, it was unmistakable. But no one and nothing was there to visibly generate it. I went through Sunday encountering several people who I almost told about the trumpet note and even the sighting of the entity, but I thought better of that. At 6:00 p.m. Sunday, I watched the movie The Untouchables.

Oh my god, a cry a cry fast.

Halfway through, I called my dad who lived in the family home 45 minutes

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away. I knew he liked the movie and so I checked in. After talking for a while, I said, "Hey, I want to tell you about something that happened to me early this morning. You're the first person I've told and you're going to think I'm nuts." Surprisingly, instead of laughing, there was a short pause from his end. "Okay," he said. "You tell me what happened to you and then I'll tell you what happened to me this morning." He told me around 3:00 a.m. he was awoken by the doorbell. But, it had an unusual sound to it, like it was only partly pressed and then released. It was followed seconds later by the identical sound. I said, "Well, who was it?" He said he didn't go and see. He stayed where he was.

Yeah, don't answer your door at 3:00 a.m.

Yeah. He said, "It was damn odd. I wasn't going to move from my bed." Okay, well, very unusual for dad. He's a very un-paranormal guy. 5 days later, I received a call from my step-sister telling me that dad had just died.

No.

He had not been ill. He had not been diagnosed with any

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conditions.

Oh, that's so sad.

He was 79 and he had a heart attack.

Mhm.

So, now I'm left with questions. My dad and I were the same size. We very closely resembled each other. We also shared the same first, last, and middle name. Did this entity resembling the reaper mistake me initially for my dad, then course-corrected the last second? Is that how it works?

Oh, like it's like wrong one.

Yeah. Woo, I have chills. Was the doorbell ringing at his house the reaper entity waiting for dad to answer the door, at which point dad would have died then? Was the trumpet I heard in my bedroom an announcement of dad's impending death? 16 years later and the answers, I surmise, only cause confusion and discomfort. I wish it hadn't occurred, but it did.

That's so sad.

Yeah.

But, I really do believe and we've talked about this before. We did a whole episode on the Grim Reaper, like an encounters episode. I really do believe the Grim Reaper, despite its appearance being really terrifying, is there to

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help you and guide you to the other side and is not responsible for taking lives. It's more of like in some way in the universe, they are informed that someone is going to die soon.

Mhm.

And in preparation, they show up to be there Oh my that scared me so much because the cord moved the curtain and it literally looked Okay,

[laughter]

a charger charger

plugged in, but it's plugged in behind the curtain to Karen's left. And all of a sudden, it the curtain just moved as if something was behind it pressing through.

out.

It That terrified [laughter] me.

I'm sorry. The Grim is coming for you.

Um I want a black cat and name it Grim. Like a grayish black cat

Mhm.

and name it Grim. How cute would that be?

Oh, very.

I just want a ton of cats. Like lots of them. But all to say I don't think that the Grim Reaper is the reason that this user's dad died. I think the Grim was there to help.

Mhm. Mhm.

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usher. But yeah, probably did get confused at first.

Right. And it's also like, well, how does Grim not have all the information? Getting confused, showing up to the dad's door like 5 days before he actually is going to pass. Trying to be let in.

But I do think we in the encounters episode that we read, like there was like one story about someone in an assisted living home, so like older who for days was complaining about this Grim-like entity.

Like that they show up days before to not be as terrifying. Or maybe they're trying to do their own due diligence and like understand what their life is like.

Mhm. Or like usher in other people who've already passed for like a life review or just Right. I don't know. They're the event planner.

They're the event planner. [laughter] Yeah, it's got to It takes time. It doesn't happen overnight. They need at least 5 days at in advance notice. They need to coordinate a of moving parts, a lot of different entities and spirits and people coming through.

Either way, that's very sad.

It's also very scary to be rushed in the dark by an 8-ft tall hooded

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hooded figure.

figure that's gliding in a tattered robe.

That you became aware of their presence before you ever saw them. Like

Like kicking out and like being like, "What is in front of me?"

So scary. That part's really scary.

Which maybe, okay, here's a little twist. Maybe there was whoever is actually responsible for death on the other side or maybe has some part of it. That he couldn't see was right in front of him about to take his life. And Grim was like at the last second, "No!" And that's why like rushed and pushed him, "Wrong one!" That's why he ran right at him.

Maybe.

We don't know.

We have no answers.

We don't.

But one day I will be on the board of Griming and Reaping and

[laughter]

I'll usher you to the other side.

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creepy kid

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Okay, I have and I I went down this rabbit hole because I had researched Harold the doll like just prior to researching this episode and was obsessed with how in part two there was that kid Vincent who was drawing and getting all of these like premonitions and stuff. So I wanted to find creepy kid with drawings.

Oh, okay.

And Reddit delivered.

Ooh, which is immediately reminds me of when we're at the Conjuring house, too.

This will give you that energy. Okay, so this was posted on the paranormal subreddit 2 years ago by feeling number two communicate. He posted a very unsettling photo and wrote, "My 7-year-old son says he sees this on the ceiling outside of his closet at night. When he first handed it to me, I said, 'Nice Venom, bud.' Which I had to look it up. I guess that's a character from Spider-Man. And the kid said, 'That's not Venom.' So the user asked, 'Well, what is it?' And his son responded, 'I don't know, but it's what I see in my

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room.' Here's the photo.

Are you effing kidding me?

There's a lot to unpack here.

Okay, first of all, if you've ever seen like a lamprey, it's that it's kind of what the mouth is giving. It's like jagged teeth all the way around.

Horrifying stuff. Okay, so yeah, for people who aren't watching on video, I'll do my best to describe it. It is a human-sized face-shape looking thing.

Yeah, it's a portrait of a head of a face.

But on the top of the head, there's this like shape with tons of eyes. I would say, okay, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight eyes. And then it does have like where an eyeball of a human would be, and that one looks like it has a spider inside of it. Then there's the mouth, which are the teeth that you were just describing. It's super jagged and sharp and like almost open. Then below it in the neck is a little person.

Oh, I didn't notice that before.

Who is smiling?

Is it a tattoo? Is it a child trapped in there?

And then a nose is very Voldemort-like.

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It's like two little slits.

Yeah.

So, that's the description of the photo. But so, the user failing to communicate asked his son a lot more questions cuz he was very curious. Like

Yeah.

His child is saying that there is this entity that he sees at night outside of his closet. You ask questions of your child.

So, the child said that this is on their ceiling at night. It was gray with sharp teeth and lots of eyes. And the area where the eyes are are flesh-colored, but everything else is gray. His son

said it pops down and stares at him for like 20 minutes every night before then disappearing back into the ceiling.

Excuse me? It pops down every night?

Yep. For 20 minutes and just stares.

What is the kid doing? Just paralyzed with fear in the morning?

Failing to communicate wanted to think it was just his kid's imagination, but prior to meeting his wife and had having their kid, he too had seen something growing up. It didn't look like this, but it was like a shadow figure that would lurk in his bedroom. So, it made him want to believe his kid even more.

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Well, also he saw it as a shadow form. It could be the exact same thing, but his kid is actually seeing the full full figure exposed.

Right. So, he wrote over a decade ago, "I was laying in bed and woke up to my dog growling. I looked where my dog was looking and I could see this shadow figure standing in the hallway at my bedroom door. It looked to be wearing a long coat, but I couldn't see the head. I out loud asked, 'What do you want?' Then this entity's head ducked under the top of the door frame, stuck it into my room. This thing was so tall, it had to duck to peek its head inside. Once it did that, I was so terrified and I yelled, "Get out. Leave me alone." and it faded away. All to say that when his 7-year-old son came up to him with this, he believed him. So, in response, they nailed a blanket up to the ceiling where the entity was lurking. The next morning, his son said to him that he could still see the spirit but just one eye. Like it was peeking through the curtain.

Oh,

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wait, [laughter] this.

They eventually saged and salted the house and taught their son to if they ever saw it again, tell it to go away and set boundaries and it seems to have subsided.

It's just creepy. Like what's it doing?

I don't

minutes coming down and staring?

And why does it have so many eyes?

The eye part reminds me a little bit of like the Is this like a fallen angel? Cuz you know, like angels biblically are kind of like

Horrifying.

a ton of eyes and a bunch of like looping rings. Or are these eyes like every time it collects a soul, it adds another eye to the fleshy part? [clears throat]

person stuck in the throat somehow.

It's like a deformed collection

so cute.

Jeepers Creepers.

[laughter]

[ __ ]

Terrifying. But as far as we know, that was 2 years ago and there's been no update. So, hopefully it did subside.

Oh my gosh, this poor child.

Yeah.

That's really terrifying.

I am glad that the kids are creepy. The kids are so creepy though. I'm so glad

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that both parents took it seriously.

Yeah, that's true.

and helped the child like set boundaries and get rid of it.

and actually get rid of it.

Yeah.

There's like Well, we're different. We're different as parents cuz we come in immediately believing the paranormal.

sure.

I feel like the second anything is said, I'm like, let me go get my arsenal of spiritual weapons to combat this. Oh, man.

Do you have another death one?

I do.

And then I'm going to end on a Ouija board one.

Oh, hell yeah. Okay, this is a near

NDE

death experience. It was posted 13 years ago by I poke smot 420. I love Reddit usernames.

Because a lot of times they're automated like auto generated, so people don't even pick them.

Oh, yeah. I have no idea what mine is. I don't even know if I have an official account or if I just am some anonymous user.

If you might be logged into the It's spend the ghost.

It's our two girls my ghost one.

two girls maybe I am.

[laughter]

Spend the ghost is looking at gardening.

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Why is my child doing this? And then gardening advice.

Okay, when I was eight I learned how to fix small engines. That being said, my dad had an old flathead Briggs and Stratton 5.5 HP engine. That being said

is nonsense? Is that a motorcycle?

Yeah, I guess. Uh

What's it called?

It's a

Sprig and Stratton?

Flathead Briggs and Stratton 5.5 horsepower engine.

Classic engine. Oh, it's a lawn mower or go-kart.

Oh.

It's 5.5 gross torque.

I don't know anything about motors.

know, but now I'm going to Bob's. Bob is the oil guy. The internet's number one motor oil.

sends you on a wild goose chase.

All right, we're still unclear. It's an engine.

It's about to be extremely clear clear cuz the next sentence says, he also had a riding lawn mower that had no engine nor blades. So I think it was once belonging to a lawn mower.

Got you.

He gave me the task of getting the engine running again so I could put it

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into the riding lawn mower and have fun wherever.

[laughter]

Which is so funny. It just like immediately brings me back to when I would pick up my brother from like a play date or whatever in our neighborhood, but I wasn't old enough to drive, so I would drive the lawn mower. And he'd hop on the lawn mower and we'd drive home.

[laughter]

That's so cute.

Oh, man.

It's like a tractor.

Yeah, basically. He gave me the task of getting the engine running so I could put it in the riding lawnmower and have fun wherever. And I was so anxious at school the next day. Well, that day I tore apart the motor and I had it running by bedtime. The next day we had this thing mounted and riding around and flash forward a few weeks me and my older sister were out riding when my shoelace got caught on the back spindle. It pulled me off and it was dragging me. Mind you, only going as fast as it could go, my sister stopped and went in reverse which caused her to go right on top of me. The chain and the chain wheel

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caught my lower back ripping my skin open pulling my large and small intestine out.

What?

Severing my right lung. Breaking my spine in two places. Shredding my right kidney. I felt the thing roll onto me and then everything went black after that. I couldn't see, move, speak, or anything. No pain as well. All I remember was blackness. After my father got my heart beating again, I remember laying there in so much pain. Also, I remember feeling my back and the shortness of breath. I felt what I still believe was my stomach in my hand while I was feeling my back.

How like how do you survive this?

know. Once I was in the ambulance everything went blank except this time I saw myself laying there and the medics were shocking me. I felt a hard pull and I was back into myself. A few minutes later I'm on a table with strangers and white all around me and I remember them in a panic and then standing next to my grandmother. My grandmother who'd passed

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when I was three.

Oh my god.

me that she was my nana.

Oh.

And we were there together watching them jolt my heart with tiny round paddles. She kept telling me it was okay. They called my time of death 6:06 p.m. Ooh, I have chills. Then all of the sudden I wake up. I'm all fixed. I'm stapled up. My parents told me I died three times. The first time for 5 minutes, the second time 12 minutes, but the last time was astonishing to the doctors. My heart stopped beating for 20 minutes. But my parents made them continue jolting my heart. They told me the doctor kept telling them that I would have a 98% chance of being brain dead. I'm now 25 years old, healthy as ever, fully capable of walking as well.

I mean, that's a goddamn miracle.

Isn't that crazy?

I might die.

whiplash of like being in and out of your body and then your nana coming and

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What are the terror that your parents must be feeling?

Oh my gosh, yeah.

Oh, honestly, like for this person personally, best case scenario to be just kind of unaware.

Right.

Or like out of body for this experience.

Just hang out with grandma.

Yeah. And she's like, "Uh, okay."

Oh my god.

Very, very scary.

thread was this on? Were you on like near death experiences or paranormal?

I think they were on different threads, but I was searching like brushes with death, like paranormal accounts of like

Damn.

crossing over.

That is so, I mean, amazing, but also horrifying.

Yeah.

Small intestine, and large intestine ripped out.

kidneys shredded.

Just It was like their torso was just like chopped up, basically. It's crazy that they're alive.

even believe that. Wow.

Yeah.

Okay. Well, this is

why they poke smart now.

And this is Well, this next story is just going to go back to scary. So, there's not much reprieve here.

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ouija board

We're going back to creepy. [laughter]

But hey, that's what people want with scary Reddit stories. This was posted

want a survivor a survival story?

I mean, it's still haunting.

Yeah, it is.

It's terrifying in a different way. Okay, this was posted on Reddit Paranormal 1 year ago by Junior Cellist 3378.

Mhm.

They wrote, "I just found this group, and I have to talk about the scariest things that have ever happened to me. This all happened when I was in high school in my parents' house, and I feel like I've always been sensitive to the paranormal, but this house took it to an entirely new level. I've always believed in ghosts. I've always been obsessed with ghost shows like Ghost Hunters and A Haunting. I've always loved scary movies, and I've always said Halloween is my favorite holiday. So, when two of my best friends asked if I wanted to play a Ouija board, of course, I said yes. Now, in hindsight, this is definitely not one of the best decisions I've ever made.

Usually, that's how

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Especially in high school.

go.

When you don't know how to set an intention.

Right.

So, we went out

have a healthy respect and fear, then you shouldn't play because probably something is going to

Here's a story that will prove that to you.

Mhm. We went out late at night and the small town we lived in had a cemetery right in the middle of town. So, obviously, that's where we went. Which I feel like was definitely just stacking the odds against us, but like, "Hey, we're in high school. Whatever." I'm not going to go into too much detail about the experience because it's more about what happened afterwards that is spooky. But just know, while we were playing the Ouija board, we heard creepy children laughing and spoke to the known Ouija board demon.

Oh, okay. Zozo.

Mhm.

It was enough to make me never want to touch a Ouija board again. But like I said, it's what happened after that really terrified me. Almost immediately, activity started in my house. Like truly that night, as soon as I got home. So, I have to believe that these two things were connected. In my parents' house, my brother and I both stayed in the basement and our rooms shared a wall.

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This is a small town in Nebraska. It was dead of winter, super cold, and our basement had one of those infrared heaters that went on wheels. That night, I heard the heater rolling around on the linoleum floor. Having seen enough scary movies, I knew that the last thing you should do is get up and check out the spooky noises or even acknowledge them. So, I stayed in my room, super freaked out, and hid under my blankets. That was the first night. But as time continued, things got progressively worse. Do you guys remember the old metal pencil sharpeners that you had to spin the little handle?

Oh, yes.

Which also my mom has

God, I want one now.

My mom has one in the basement. You go down the stairs and then on the left is a storage room on the wall.

Is uh that's how often people needed to use them.

Oh my god. Actually, you know what? I think my parents had one in our old house.

Right. It's just like in the storage area.

So much better than the little plastic ones that you'd put in your

I know.

little

Cuz they'll always break so

still have pencil cases? Is that a thing?

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Good question.

God, get me a fresh pencil case.

Do people even do handwriting in school anymore or they all on computers?

How do you pass notes to your best friends?

Good question.

Gel pens, bring those back. Okay.

some.

Do [laughter] you?

I think so, yeah.

Wow, love that for you. Um okay, so they write, "Do you guys remember the old metal pencil sharpeners? For whatever reason

we had one of those mounted on the pillar outside of my room. Every night, in addition to the heater being rolled on the linoleum floor, I would hear this pencil sharpener being rotated. And that's like a specific sound. It's metal.

creaky, all of everything moving inside of it, and then the handle was always loose. So, it would like wiggle and shake the whole thing.

Yes.

It's a very noisy contraption.

Then, inside my room, I had a Mason jar that sat on top of my dresser in my closet. This also started moving around at night, like back and forth. Again, on top of a wooden dresser, so I could hear it. Like I said, I had already decided I was

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never going to acknowledge the spooky ghost, so I wouldn't even look in the direction of the sounds. But this would go on for what felt like hours at a time. And the longer I ignored it, the more aggressive it got. I never looked at it, not until morning. And then, after one particularly rough night, when I looked at my dresser in the morning, there were literal scrapes on the top of the dresser from the Mason jar being moved back and forth. So, this had me totally [ __ ] up. But I still, at this point, had not said anything to my family about it, because they do believe in the paranormal, but had already told me the house was fine. So, I didn't want to bring it up. But then, began the tapping on my walls at night. My bedroom has wooden paneling, and I would hear these taps next to my head. Now, also, you know how it feels when your cat jumps on your bed and starts walking around trying to find a spot to lay down. Well, I would feel that at night, too. But there would be no cat, which was sufficiently creepy. To make matters worse, I started hearing my name being whispered at night from my closet. And this was happening every night. And even

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though I was not acknowledging it, it was getting worse. Then, on the left side of my bed, I had a huge wooden bookcase that my grandparents had made for me because I love reading. And on top of that bookcase was an old flat screen TV with buttons on the back of it that were super loud when you pressed them. These buttons started being pressed at night, too.

Hell no.

So, at this point, I'm hearing the heater, the pencil sharpener, taps on my walls, whispering in my closet, TV buttons being pressed, something crawling onto my bed, and naturally, I was a freaking mess. My point was one specific night when I had a super vivid nightmare. In the nightmare, I was in my room. I'm looking around, and as I look around, I see a little girl huddled in the corner of my closet, and a little boy standing by my bed pressing on my bed. Then, I also see a third spirit, a shadow man behind my bookcase right next to the TV. And another spirit, so four spirits

in the Haunting of Hill House?

in the corner tapping on the wall. So,

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it's like each There's four spirits, and they each have like a haunted house. It's not one entity.

Oh my god.

It was absolutely freaking terrifying. The next morning when I woke up, I was like, I have to talk to someone about it, and I started a conversation with my brother about the nightmare I had. But, this is where [ __ ] gets extra creepy, as if it wasn't already bad enough. As I'm telling him about this nightmare, his eyes go super wide. He interrupts me and describes exactly what the little boy who had been pressing on my bed looked like because my brother had had the exact same nightmare about the exact same four spirits.

[snorts]

They're showing themselves at least. Now you know. It's creepy that there's comfort It's not just like a nightmare built from the noises that you're hearing around the house.

No, it does feel good to have someone else experiencing it. But, so then I start telling him everything that's been happening to me, and he's nodding along telling me that, yeah, he He the heater, he hears the pencil sharpener. He hears the whispers. But to make matters worse,

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he tells me that he has been hearing me whispering along with the ghosts. Are you [ __ ] kidding me? I'm completely dumbfounded and I ask him what he means and he tells me that he's seen me sitting straight up in my bed talking in my sleep to whatever was in my room.

Oh, no.

I personally have no memory of that.

I would never be able to sleep again.

They're right. It gets worse. Right across from my brother's room across the basement was a storage room that didn't have a door. And this room has always given me this like yucky creepy feeling. Like the kind of feeling where I never want to be near it or even look into it in the dark. But I never knew why. My brother's room faced this storage room. He told me that he would wake up at night and see a dark shadow that looked like a man standing in the doorway of that room. Some nights he'd be in the doorway, but other nights he'd be closer to his room halfway between the storage room and his room. Other times he said that he would see this entity standing in the doorway

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of my bedroom watching me.

Hell no.

He said that the man never stepped into either of our rooms. But I had never seen him. I was terrified. But if you can believe it, I felt a little bit better knowing that I wasn't alone in experiencing it. We told our parents, but my dad didn't believe us. My mom did though because she told us sometimes she would hear whispers from downstairs and would hear someone yell "Mom!" from my bedroom when she was home alone. As I started telling people things, it started happening less and less frequently, which is so weird.

Because most of the times

when you talk about something, it like gives it power and then more paranormal activity happens.

Right. Which I almost wonder if these are not evil spirits, but they just wanted to be acknowledged.

Mhm. Mhm.

And then when they were starting like an a cappella group with, you know,

[laughter]

natural noises.

One thing I know for certain, this person should never download, unless they want to be absolutely terrified, like download one of those apps that records you sleeping.

[sighs and gasps]

Oh, but I kind of wish that they did.

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[laughter]

Like what would they catch?

I know. So, I don't necessarily know how everything stopped, but I ended up moving out into an apartment building and experienced a couple of things like all three of my clocks that were in different rooms fell off the walls and shattered at the same time. But I have not experienced anything of that magnitude or the magnitude of what I experienced in my house ever since. My mom and brother told me that the second I moved out of the house, all activity stopped. Like the first night I was no longer living there, they have not experienced anything since.

Which is so interesting because the brother also had the dream. So, I was just thinking it was a haunting of children, but really it was a haunting of this particular person. Because of the Ouija board. Well, I forgot it started with the Ouija board.

spirits home. So, if you made it this far, I'm so thankful that you took the time to read it. I hope it gave you a little spook the way it did when I was experiencing it. It was terrifying.

I'm so curious all the comments underneath that Reddit post.

I can't remember. I think it was a lot of like this is why I never use a Ouija board.

Yeah.

Or people being like, oh I had a similar experience. We love Reddit scary

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stories.

Yeah, love and hate.

I am going to do for our next bonus episode in July.

Mhm.

I'm going to do Reddit scary stories again.

Oh, [ __ ] yes.

So, if you want another one like this, join us on Patreon. That comes out July 14th. You'll be on maternity leave.

Yeah.

But you'll be here for the recording of the episode.

I still have to be here for the recording, so I'm I'll still be spooked in spirit. Yeah, just a month or two ahead.

Mhm.

Damn. All right, well, some people take to Reddit with their scary stories and some people email two girls one ghost podcast@gmail.com.

Email us.

Please email us your ghost stories.

Go to Reddit and email us.

Yeah.

twogirlsoneghostpodcast@gmail.com if you're like, what's the email? And you can't didn't hear us just say it, it's in the show notes or it's on the video on YouTube if you're watching.

Yep. Yeah. You can

join us over on Patreon if you want episodes ad-free one week early. We have a bunch of other stuff like weekly campfire stories where we tell each other well, you tell us. You tell us not us telling each other ghost stories but other people come on and share their

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stories live with us. We book club, witch class, so many different things over there. Very fun. And thank you. We we're switching right now but it feels weird but I'm going to do it. And thank you so much to our editor and producer Jamie Ryan who makes this enjoyable and listenable and watchable for all of you. So, thank you. And thank you to all of you. We love you. And we will see you on the other side.

Very spooky.