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6 Nightmarish True Camping Ghost Stories

For generations, both old and new, camping has been something loved by all. Camping and hiking are both great ways to break out of your city cycle for a week or two. For some of us, the best moments are around a campfire, with a mug of coco and a bone-chilling tale of bigfoot. But what happens when these tales come to life… What happens when they begin to unfold in front of your very eyes ! From strange noises to apparitions gliding silently through the trees. Here are six of the greatest, true camping encounters.

 

Is That a Little Girl Crying ?

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A family where out camping and a guy who was 11 at the time had trouble sleeping. The tent was so hot and uncomfortable. At around 1 or 2 in the morning, they began to hear what sounded like a faint whimpering coming from somewhere in the distance. Sure it was creepy, but they just shrugged it off and presumed it was an animal of some kind. But then it got louder and louder and then it turned into crying… At this point the boys are sitting up, eyes wide but to scared to call for mum and dad. Then the footsteps began. They got closer until a little girl could be heard directly outside their tent with branches crunching in circles around them. 

It didn’t die off. It got louder and again, louder and stood in the same point outside the tent, the entire time. This indicates that she was looking directly at the boy’s tent. It got worse, the cries turned into a scream which made both the boys sit up, petrified with fear. The Scream lasted a few seconds and then cut out. They both stuffed their head into their pillows and left the next day.

 

The Appalachian Trail

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The Appalachian Trail has always been something of a dare more than a hike. Supposedly one of the most haunted Native American sites in the world, it has produced some pretty horrific tales. One of the best tales consists of two brothers taking on the dare in 2007. They were enjoying their hiking trip until they hit a particularly crooked tree that just looked out of place. Then they noticed a man hanging from one of the branches. They sprinted up to him and one brother held his legs whilst the other cut the rope with his pocket knife. He was icy cold and clearly dead but they thought it was wrong to leave him there. So one called 911 and went down the trail to meet them. 

Upon his return the second brother came sprinting down the hill, ashen faced. He vomited as soon as he reached them and managed to splurt out ” body gone “. So the police went to investigate. When the group arrived at the spot the body was left all they found was a gnarled looking old stump, but where was the body ? This is not the first time the Hanging Man of the Appalachian Trail has been encountered and definitely not the last.

 

The Cabin in the Woods

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A young couple had rented a huge riverside cabin up in North Michigan for the night. There were rumours of this site being haunted but they decided to brave the night and ignore the gossip. They were just tucking in for the night when a huge cracking sound erupted from the black of the forest. They assumed some old tree had a branch snapped or something of the sort. 

They left the living room and went back to bed. But the guy returned to the living room and turned off the lights after forgetting. It was then he noticed a strange light coming through the window, it was abnormally strong… Then it began to pulse. The light intensified throughout the night, at one point you could read a book. Then a strange humming came from the back of the house, it sounded like a women humming a nursery rhyme. The couple ran for the door but just as they opened it, the light died and the humming stopped… They stayed up until the sun rose and then they fled without hesitation. There were no more noises reported through the night apart from that of a loud cracking sound. 

 

A Blue Threat

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A group of friends began their night by walking just outside this strange looking circle of cabins. It was a brighter night than normal with all the stars shining and the moon being well lit. There was a campfire in the centre of the cabins and obviously some kind of party going on in another. But as they walked they had a strange chill climb both of their spines, they turned towards to sea to check for a strong wind or breeze and to their horror they saw a large blue figure about 7ft tall, gliding through the trees. 

It was a silent and emitting a dim blue glow. The yelled at the figure ” Who are you !? ” but it did not even turn towards them. It simply began to glide out of view, until it was completely gone. Terrified the friends ran back to camp to find one of their friends white and wide-eyed proclaiming that he had just seen that very figure walking into the distance… 

 

Footsteps Unseen

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There is an old log cabin on a lake in the Northwoods. It is a lake with zero public access. Opposite the house is an old girls camp that was falling apart and directly in the centre was an old two-story main house. One day a couple decided to go and check out the camp out one day, so they grabbed a canoe crossed the lake and went directly to the main house. They explored for a little while and stopped in there tracks by the sound of heavy footsteps coming above them. Slowly they sped up and headed towards the staircase that led to the level the couple was on. 

They ran for it, but instead of heading back to the canoe they went straight into the forest. Then they heard footsteps storming after them all the way from the house and into the forest, it wasn’t long before they reached home but they never saw who or what was chasing them…

 

Followed by What ?

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Two guys decided to go out in the forest and fish around a particularly secluded lake. One was from the city and never spent any time in the woods at night. At around 10:30pm they set off armed with their fishing poles and flashlights. On there way to the lake they both heard something walking in a pitch black part of the wood directly to their left. One of the guys had spent a lot of time around this lake and managed to convince his buddy it was just a deer, but the other was sure he saw something stand on two legs, not four… So they climbed over a fence into a fishing farm. But then something else began to climb the fence. Deer can not climb fences…

They both turned and shone the light behind them at the thing following, and what they saw made them sprint head out, screaming the nearest light. They ended up finding a house and smashed on the door until they could get an answer. An old man answered and let them in the house. After conveying their full story the man agreed and told them this is not the first time this has happened here and it will not be the last. He gave them a lift home and they spoke about the thing in the woods all the way back. To this day nobody will speak of what they saw and the locals keep it a secret…

Credits for these awesome stories go out to the users over at https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/

The Legend of the Yucca Man

The Yucca man is one of the most disputed mysteries in California today. For a long time, this yellowish figure has been spotted throughout the Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California since 1973. Some say it’s Joshua Tree’s very own bigfoot, others claim it’s a spectre roaming the dry plains of the national park. Ofcourse, this could just be a hoax, but then a simple hoax has attracted the attention of both the FBI and the CIA. 

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The First Sightings

The first sighting of the Yucca man was reported in 1971, it came from a man who was dead set against anything paranormal. An on-duty Marine guard at the nearby military base of Twentynine Palms was found later in the same area with his rifle bent in half. He was in shock so to draw any information out of him was near impossible, but he did manage to inform his fellow officers that a huge man had come out of the shrub and towards him. He raised his rifle and ordered the man to halt but as he drew closer, he realised the man was covered in hair. The figure then moved too quickly for the man to react, he took the rifle from the Marine, bent it in half and then knocked the officer out. 

Both the FBI and the CIA immediately begun an investigation. There have been at least two other sightings of similar figures in the same night. One agent reported a figure being 12ft tall with a smaller figure alongside.  Hikers in the area also reported there dogs going mad and barking at a strange presence in the area. In the same year, there were also numerous reports from a lot of the Joshua Park employees. 

 

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The Reports Continue

The reports of the Yucca man continued to come in, one, especially in 1979, came from an elderly couple. They claimed their car was stopped one night by a large hairy man near the Condominium in Desert Hot Springs. They said that he stepped out from behind a yucca bush and stood over the front of their car. They described him and being monumental, with a chest the size of a refrigerator, its arms dangling below its knees. It had long tan hair and an angry expression. It stopped in front of the car, looked at those inside and then vanished into the night. 

Later evidence would be found in the form of 17 footprints that the creature had left behind. He would be seen on two separate occasions in two nearby areas. The footprints were a foot and a half long and six feet apart… Bigfoot fanatics would later stake out the area but find nothing else. 

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The Yucca Man Photo

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Later on, towards the 1990’s the legend began to fade… Until a rock climber returned from a camping trip in Joshua Tree and he found something in his photographs later on, something that would shock the world. The campsite had been near a kind of cave, an ideal location for such a creature to live and he snapped a photo of the trail to his camp, he captured the figure above and created a new uproar in the paranormal community. The Yucca Man is here !!!

The Yucca man could easily be an urban legend, a training exercise for the marines, a paranormal creature, something that travels between dimensions, or simply a huge and hairy homeless man. We will only find out when man has developed sufficient technology to detect such creatures and then, just maybe, we can begin to understand them. 

 

Links :

http://www.theoccultmuseum.com/mysterious-legend-yucca-man/

A Victorian Haunting : 50 Berkeley Square

50 Berkeley Square has the most horrific ghost stories out of any location in Greater London. To this day  police notice stands on the wall inside of 50 Berkeley Square proclaiming that the upper levels are forbidden to guests and owners alike. Following a string of strange deaths and rumours of conjuration and satanic worship inside it stands today as London’s most haunted and mysterious location.

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Building a Legend

50 Berkeley Square is situated in one of the most influential parts of London called Mayfair.It was designed and then built by William Kent during the late 18th century. Almost immediately after its doors opened to tenants the residents of Berkeley Square began to tell tales of mysterious residents and then they saw the proof, when a young woman called Adeline jumped from the top floor window to escape her abusive uncle. She has been seen ever since throwing herself out of the window again and again. 

Then there was Mr. Dupre… Mr. Dupre kept his mad brother locked on the upper floor of the building and fed him through a hole in the door. A little girl has been seen around the building since that day and it is thought that she was put in the locked room with the insane sibling, nobody knows what he did to her but the end result is obvious.  

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The Haunting Begins

 The first long-term resident of 50 Berkeley Square was former Prime Minister George Canning, who lived there until the day he died in 1827. He was the first person to experience activity within the house in the form of inexplicable sounds and horrific nightmares. Following his death

Following his death, a few people moved in and out of the house through the 1850’s. But this seemed to awaken whatever was lying dormant within the property, this thing showed itself for the first time when a maid was spending the night alone on the top floor. She was found there, screaming, her face twisted with fear. She survived but never left the sanatorium. 

After this incident, rumours began to circulate around London. This was a time where the paranormal was something of a phenomenon and incredibly popular, even Charles Dickens himself took interest in the house. 

An advert was published in the local newspaper stating that only the bravest men could spend the night in 50 Berkely Square. So, of course, one stood up and claimed he had no fear. They set up a bell system in the house so that the man could ring once for fear and two rings for help. The man went to sleep. About 15 minutes later the bell starting ringing frantically, he was found rigid, with a look of horror etched into his face and dead.  For a while following this, a little old lady called Miss Curzon bought the house and she lived the last of her few years in the luxury townhouse. 

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50 Berkeley Square Today

 

The Monster Inside

After a short while the house came back to market. It was purchased by a Viscount Bearsted who in turn leased it to a youth named Mr Myers who was on the verge of marriage. After the unexpected death of his bride to be, Mr Myers locked himself into isolation in the townhouse he had furnished so beautifully for her. But in his isolation, he got into some messed up shiz. 

The neighbours would report seeing him walking, as if with no soul, from window to window, room to room. It is unclear what exactly happened to him, but there is strong evidence that he tried all manner of experiments to get back in touch with his lost love. Including satanic worship, which woke something that had previously lay dormant. 

Mr. Myers disappeared. No-one even saw him leave. But he was gone. In 1872 an aristocrat decided to stay the night in London’s most sinister townhouse with his trusted shotgun. He claimed that a mass of brown tentacles shot out at him from the shadow and he shot, but there was no trace of the monster. 

 

In 1873 the local council summoned the owners of 5o Berkeley Square over back taxes. Neither the viscount or Bearsted turned up. They had both disappeared, the townhouses reputation led to the council dropping the charged and the building, once again, lay dormant. During this period, the neighbours called out the police numerous times, with complaints of screaming, the sound of furniture being dragged, windows slamming, and the sound of bells ringing, despite the fact all of the bells had been removed. All coming from the shell of 50 Berkely Square. 

1879 after being dormant for 6 years, London’s most haunted house was purchased by a man with two teenage daughters. When they moved in the eldest daughter claimed that the house smelled like zoo animals in a cage. Two days later as the top floor bedrooms for where prepared for the arrival of her betrothed , the maid was found collapsed and in hysterics in the guest room. She was crying ” Don’t let it touch me” over and over and over, all the way to the sanitarium.

The Captain arrived late, and somehow he ended up in the basement. The family could not find him for over an hour until screams were heard, followed by gunshots. He was found like the others petrified and dead. The Mayfair Magazine wrote about the entire affair and dubbed the creature the Nameless Horror. 50 Berkeley Square’s Nameless Horror soon became known throughout the world. 

Is the monster in the basement of 50 Berkeley Square ?
Is the monster in the basement of 50 Berkeley Square ?

 

A Conclusion

By the late 19th century the house had been abandoned and vanished from the public eye. But it wasn’t the last time it would kill. On Christmas Eve 1887, two sailors on leave from the HMS Penelope were looking for a place to spend the night after partying. The two of them stumbled on 50 Berkeley Square and settled into one of the upper bedrooms. At some time, during the night, one of the sailors were awoken by heavy footsteps before the ghost of Myers entered the room. The other sailor awoke to his fellow sailor ensnared by tentacles and ran from the room. When he returned with the authorities they discovered the man lying dead. 

Since then an elderly couple have owned the house and turned it into an antique bookstore. They absolutely refused to acknowledge claims of the haunting. But they still never went upstairs. 

The bookstore was recently closed and the new owners report objects being thrown around and a strange brown mist seen floating around the premises. Perhaps now it will be possible to investigate the building, all we can do is try. But a notice still stands on the door from the 1800’s stating that the top floors of 50 Berkeley Square are not to be used by anyone for any reason. That includes the actual owners of the buildings themselves…

The Cryptic Blackbird of Cheronobyl

In the year 1986 human kind saw one of its worst nuclear disasters to date. An event that killed 31 people but had long term affects on over 500,000. As horrific as this event is, there is something else around this abandon town, something that even the military began to take notice of. People have reported seeing the ghosts of those who died here still roaming, but what about Chernobyl’s Blackbird ?

 

The Blackbird

The year before Chernobyl’s power plant blew in 1968 the people working and living in Chernobyl began to report strange events. Sightings of a strange creature, described to have huge and thick black, it was said to be a bird like creature with the body of a man, colossal black wings that stretched over 20ft, no head and glowing red eyes coming from the pit where its neck should have begun. blackbird-of-chernobyl

 

People who had actually seen the Blackbird began to suffer from horrific nightmares, they received threatening phone calls and some had more encounters with the winged beast. Reports of the beast continued to increase until the morning of April 26th, 1986. 1.23am reactor No.4 at the Chernobyl power plant exploded in the former Soviet Union. 

The Powerplant suffered a cataclysmic steam explosion that began a chain of events that resulted in a nuclear meltdown. The power plant then regurgitated a world changing amount of radioactive fallout. The fallout spread over parts of the Western Soviet Union, Eastern & Western Europe, Scandanavia, the Uk, Ireland and North Merica within 48 hours. 

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When the firefighters arrived and attempted to flight the flame over 500 people reported seeing this winged creature swirling in and out of the rising black smoke. No further sightings of the Blackbird were reported that day. However this is not the only time in history this being has been reported. 

 

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The Mothman

The ” Mothman ” has been seen for thousands of years. It is an omen of death and disaster and it’s description matches perfectly with the Blackbird. It has been noticed more and more throughout history especially in more recent times where we find it easier to connect with other people and hear their stories from around the world. 

One of the best-known accounts of the Mothman apart from Chernobyl occurred in the old West Virginia Ordnance, an area known as ” TNT Area”

The TNT Area dates back to WWII. The facility during its operation manufactured ammunition and dynamite. It is mainly a large woodland area but it is riddled with little concrete igloo like buildings that hold large amounts of TNT. It is also a maze of underground tunnels with random storage units of gunpowder. Most of which, these days are flooded or have been sealed off. 

In 1979, the fisherman in the area reported that chemicals that been left in the water of the TNT area. It was unchecked for so long that by 1983 it became an environmental disaster and the area became one of the most polluted in America. It was here on November 15th, 1966, that two young couples would encounter this strange creature. These two young couples were taking a cross country trip in a black chevy. It was the youngest female, Linda who noticed the creature first. She saw two glowing red eyes in the darkness beside the old power plant. They quickly noticed that the eyes belong to a human looking 7ft tall, black figure. Obviously, they drove off and to their horror, it followed. The creature spread its wings and chased them down Highway 62 at speeds over 100mph.

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They arrived in town and felt stupid, they began to try and make some sense of what just happened. They settled on the fact that this was just a large bird… So they returned to face their fears. It wasn’t long until the Black Bird showed itself again, apparently, it was waiting for them on Route 62. They quickly realised this was no bird and it stood in the shape of a man. It shot up vertically into the air at an impossible speed and disappeared above the tree line. 

They returned to town, in shock to report the story to the sheriff. The story actually made headlines ; ” Couple sees man-sized, bird…Creature…Something”. It was a disturbing experience for all. Linda the youngest female who first encountered the Mothman suffered a nervous breakdown in later years, but it is common for those who have encountered this beast to suffer in such ways.

 

 

Continued Sightings

The creature would be seen throughout the next thirteen months in Point Pleasant. There was roughly over 100 sightings around this time. The Mothman was seen so much that it took the attention of the government to a point where witnesses were being harassed by the Men in Black, they were warned not to speak out about this creature. I think that proves that fact that something paranormal was occurring in the area. The sightings all seemed to arise just before the collapse of The Silver Bridge in that area. 

There have been soooooooo many sightings around the modern world of this creature and it is always followed by disaster. It was recently seen in Freiburg Germany, where a Mothman-like creature chased miners away shortly before a collapse. There was also multiple sightings around the Minnesota Bridge collapse time and even before and after 9/11…

 

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The Legend Goes On

Mothman sightings have been associated at least two other cryptids. Thunderbirds with grey bodies and red eyes were sighting in the same area and at the same time as the Silver Bridge incident. Owlman is also an identical creature with black wings and red eyes in Cornwall.

Two legends from Shawnee Indian lore mention creatures identical to Mothman deemed Misignwa and Waupee. 

Some believe the Mothman is an Angel, Demon or the product of a blood curse. In our experience looking at these things we find demon like creatures always seem to have the glowing red eyes and appear and large black figures. But what is this Blackbird, Mothman, Owlman Misignwa. There is no doubt it exists, there are just too many reports around the world of this creature. But is it an Omen of Death ? An Angel that warns those who are in danger by appearing ? Only further investigation can tell us more. Soon we will be heading down to Cornwall in hunt of the Owlman himself, so keep an eye on the facebook page you can find on the sidebar. We will solve this mystery. 

 

Links

http://cryptidz.wikia.com/wiki/Mothman

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/blackbirdofchernobyl.php

3 Of The Greatest Unsolved Paranormal Mysteries

Some things simply just don’t make sense. Some people try to explain them with different, intricate explanations. You see some lights in the sky, upload it to youtube, someone is always going to say ” It’s just a plane”. But what happens when there is no explanation, and all people can say is ” It’s a Hoax”. You can believe what you chose to believe, that’s all good. But if there is proof that this event did happen like the Malaysian airline and there is still NO reasonable explanation for it, what then ? We have listed 3 of the greatest unsolved paranormal mysteries on planet earth.

 

 

The Ourang Medan Ghost Ship

The tales of ghost ships out on the sea have haunted sailors, fisherman, and merchants for hundreds of years. Passed down through generations to warn their successors of the untold dangers of the sea. The Flying Dutchman is the most famous ghost ship. But there is another more modern tale, but this one is true. The Ourang Medan ghost ship is an incredible phenomenon and it has been recorded. 

In June 1947, multiple ships traveling across the trade routes of the straits of malacca, which is located between the shores of Sumatra and Malaysia, began to pick up a series of SOS signals. The mysterious ships message was grim and simple : ” All officers, including captain, are dead, lying in chartroom and bridge. Possibly whole crew dead”. This would then be followed by a burst of indecipherable Morse code, then the final message : ” I die.” Then it would end with silence.

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The two ships that received the distress signal were American as well as listening posts belonging to British and Dutch. They eventually deduced that the signal was coming from a ship called the SS Ourang Medan, which at the time, was navigating the straits of Malacca. The conscripted American merchant ship called the Silver Star was closest to the presumed location. It took only a few hours to locate the ship, the SS Ourang Medan was rising and falling in the rough waters of the Malacca Straight. When they tried to communicate with the lost ship, there was no reply. So they left the safety of the Silver Star and prepared to board, with no idea they were about to walk into a living nightmare. 

As soon as the American crew boarded, they realized the distress calls were not overexaggerate. The deck was literally littered with corpses. There eyes where wild with fear, their arms were grasping at unseen assailants, their faces were twisted into horrific visages of agony and fear. Even the ship’s dog was dead, its face still curled into a defense snarl. The Captain was also exactly where the mysterious message said he would be, with his officers were scattered across the wheelhouse and chartroom. The last body they found was that of the communications officer, he was as dead as his crew, face just as twisted with fear and his finger still resting on the telegraph. All of the corpses had the same expression of fear.

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The Captain of the Silver Star ordered that his crew was to toe the ghost ship to the shore, so its crew could be buried properly. However, whatever else was onboard that ship disagreed. Almost as quickly as the crew and attached the toe rope, the SS Ourang Medan exploded… 

The crew watched in amazement as the ship sunk to the depths of the ocean, with the ship went its crew… Later on, when reporting the ship’s destruction and the death of its crew, the Captain of the Silver Star was informed that the ship never existed. A true ghost ship… There are some awesome theories on what it could have been, or what the cause could have been, you can check them out at Mysterious Universe.

 

 

 

Dyatlov Pass Incident

The story that has baffled the world for over 50 years. The legend begins in the deep mid-winter of 1958. A Group of students decided to take a trip, all of whom were experienced hikers and skiers. They went through the Otorten Mountains in the Northen Urals.  Just as the terrain became more inhospitable than ever, one of the group turned back due to illness, he was the last person to see his companions alive. 

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Two weeks went by and there had been no word from any of the group. So a low ranking USSR officer received a phone call and he is instructed to lead a team to find the missing hikers. He and his team took a helicopter to the exposed side of the Otorten Mountain ( Death Mountain ), and they eventually come across a tent, half buried in fallen snow. So they land and discover the tent is empty…

Nothing even looked disturbed or out of place, what struck the crew, however, was that all of the group’s outdoor gear was still inside the tent. With the nearest town being miles away and the temperatures being below -30 in the night was reason could they have !? They soon discovered footprints leading from the tent and down the mountain face, shortly followed by the first body. 

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The Footprints, first of all, told the investigating crew that the crew had fled in the night, some of them barefoot and the side of the tent had been cut open, from the inside. The majority of the bodies themselves had injuries such a fractured skulls and ribs, injuries induced by impact from a blunt object. The team later found signs of radiation and a final cryptic photo of the crew…

This event had been unanswered for decades. Easy to say it was a bunch of murders or crazy people in the mountains, but radiation ? For some possible answers check out The Dead Mountain Book.

 

 

The Green Children of Woolpit

The Children of Woolpit is an ancient account, dating right back to the 12th century. The town from which the story originates still has a sign, with the villages name with the two green children above. It tells us of two children that appeared on the edge of a small English village called Woolpit. There was a young boy and girl who both had dark green skin and wore clothes made from a strange material, and their speech was an unknown language . They were taken into the village and later into the home of a local landowner, Sir Richard de Caine Wilkes.

The children refused to eat any of the local food despite the fact they looked starving until they were brought harvested beans. They survived on just beans for 4 months until they tasted bread. 

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The children began to integrate with the village and villagers, but they both became sick. The boy died shortly after but the girl survived. She later learned the language and even grew old enough to marry a man at King’s Lynn, in the county of Norfolk. Legend tells us that she took the name ‘Agnes Barre’ and the man she married was an ambassador of Henry II. But most incredibly she relayed the story of her and her brother’s origins. 

She reported that they both came from the ” Land of Saint Martin”, where there was no sun, but a constant twilight and all who lived there were green. She also described another land that could be seen from across from the river. The siblings were looking after their father’s flock when they found a cave. After entering they wandered, lost for a long time until they came out of the other side and were blinded by the sun. It was then they were found by the villagers. 

There is a lot and i mean ALOT of speculation around this paranormal mystery and some pretty crazy explanations that make sense. For more check out Myths.e

 

The Satire In The Wood’s, Goat-man’s Woods

There are places in the world that are truly fucked up. Places where inhuman things like ; murder, kidnap or occult activities happen every day. The theory stands that activities in this nature open a kind of doorway to the other side. But what happens when these acts have been happening in one area countless times ?  This is The Goatman Forest, and this is one of the most paranormally active locations in the world.

 

Oscar Washburn

Oscar Washburn was a black man who lived in Denton, Texas during the 1900’s. Oscar was successful and honest, everything the local Klu Klux Klan hated in the black population. Oscar raised a sign and wrote, ” Goatman this way”. 

In 1938 the Klu Klux went to Oscars home, kidnapped him and hung him from the Old Alton Bridge. They then proceeded to take his family and burn them in the yard in front of their house. But when they went back to raise Oscar’s body and bring it to burn with his family, he had gone. The rope hung below, bare. There was nobody to be seen. 

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The legend states that it is the spirit is causing havoc and attracting death in this forest, that he is patrolling the forest causing harm to any other living person, taking vengeance for the injustice that befell him and his loved ones. 

However, whatever is here is victimising women and it has clearly identified itself as ” Steve” more than once. Is it possible that hate can transform what you are on the other side ? Or is it the sheer amount of satanic activity in the forest that has attracted something a lot worse than Oscar Washburn. 

 

The Haunting in the Woods

There is a lot going on in the forest and especially surrounding that bridge. It is recorded that lynching was a popular past time for the wacky locals, on the bridge and in the surrounding area. There are records of children going into the forest and are lost to the shrub, some even came back women with a wiped memory. There is a shit

There is a shit tonne of evidence for satanic worship in the forest and cursed booby traps left for the unwary to pick up. Every day people are finding new evidence or occultists. People who live around the forest report figures dressed in black with white candles crossing the bridge into the forest. So all of a sudden it becomes a lot more logical that ” The Goatman” is something conjured up by these cultists. 

Inside of the woods themselves, there are the remnants of an asylum, an old church and the actual remains of the Goatman’s house. There is a lot of activity in these areas, especially around the old house. Hikers have been pushed, scratched, they have heard screams, moans, and malicious laughter. Some have even reported seeing old goaty on a night time. 

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What Did They Conjure ?

The Alton Bridge, and surrounding Denton forest is one of the world’s most active hotspots for satanic activities. People find a ton of evidence they are there, including a picture of a Goatman inside of the old goat herders house. There is no doubt that they are there. 

These activities ; the death, the rituals, the kidnap etc always attracts something demonic in nature. We see it all around the world in places like the suicide forest in Japan. 

People in this forest report constantly, that they have been viciously attacked and hurt by unseen forces, some have been picked up and flung 20 ft in the air ! Like Aaron from ghost adventures in their Halloween special. Hikers have seen red glowing eyes staring at them through the shrub, other have been bitten and scratched. All of these are plus signs on a demonic presence. There is no doubt in my mind that this location is one of the most dangerously haunted locations on the planet. So where else is this haunted and unheard of ? We are discovering them every single day… And some say ghosts don’t exist…

 

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http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/topic/237639-the-truth-behind-the-goatmans-bridge/

Built By The Devil, America’s Most Haunted House

There is an old mansion in Pittsburgh, America that have been forgotten. A location lost to history, but the stories that originated from the events that took place in Congelier  Mansion will never die.

When you think of the most haunted houses around the world, instantly certain places spring to mind like ; The Amytivalle Horror House, or the Exorcist House maybe the Enfield Poltergeist house in the UK. That’s all because of the storm of media attention these places have attracted over the years. With their own movies, documentaries etc…. The former residents are practically celebrities . But what happens to the locations that have terrified resident after resident, terrified them to a point that they refused to remember. This is Congelier Mansion and this is one of the most brutally haunted locations on the planet. 

 

The Congelier Origin

Congelier Mansion was built on 1129 Ridge Ave during the 1960’s, in Pittsburgh’s Northside. Charles Congelier was the man who built his dream mansion, he lived there with his wife Lyda and their maid Essie. Charles has made his fortune as a direct result of the Civil War and settled in Pittsburgh, which at the time was a booming industrial industry, ” happy families ” did not last long… 

Lyda found her husband in bed with Essie the maid. She calmly walked to the kitchen picked up two knives, went back into the bedroom and slaughtered her unfaithful husband and his lover. She was found three days later sitting in an armchair in the parlor with her husband’s severed head on her lap.  

congeliermansionIndustrial Pittsburgh in the 1800’s.

 

Dr. Adolph C, Brunrichter

After the murders the house lay abandoned for many years. The neighbors, however, called the police a lot of times during those years, because they thought they saw or heard vagrants moving around in the house, the police never found anyone there and the house would still be locked. 

In 1892 the house was purchased by a railroad company, who had planned to turn it into housing for their staff. That was short lived. After several workers refused to stay because of strange noises and seeing something in the house, the company put it up for sale and it lay, once again abandoned until the 1900’s.

Then the mad Doctor, Adolph C Brunrichter bought the house. He was known for being strange and elusive, he rarely left his home. The house remained resolute and silent, nobody knew what he was up to, or if she was just a quiet man..

On August 12th, 1901 the neighbors called the police after they heard a women’s scream and saw the lights flickering in the house. The police arrived to find the decapitated corpse of a young lady, and the doctor had vanished…

But that was nothing compared to what the police found next. They discovered a hidden laboratory in the basement with even more body parts and even more human heads. Turns out he was trying to keep the severed heads alive…

The doctor disappeared, for over 30 years. Then a strange man in New york was drunk and he claimed to have conducted strange experiments in Pittsburgh. Police actually released him and deemed him drunk, but harmless. He was never heard from again… 

 

Most Haunted Locations in Pittsburgh

 

A Place for Ghosts

Throughout the mansion’s evil rise, which only seemed to increase with each new tenant, the house became a kind of home for ghosts. It became quite famous in the local area for ghost busting enthusiasts, even Thomas Edison had investigated the building at one point.The investigators or daring visitors all had strange accounts in the house, but they agreed on one thing more than any other, this house is home to something evil…

It lay dormant again for many years until it as finally purchased by the Equitable Gas Company, to be converted, once again in living quarters for their workers. The house by this period, however, was a completely different animal. Workers reported the usual activity, such as ; the bumps and bangs, strange voices, inexplicable lights, etc… It was kind of liveable until two builders were found dead in the basement… 

The company moved the men out of the building quickly and stayed in the area until November 1927, when a gas explosion killed 27 people and injured over 500. The house itself was wiped out. The police never found any signs of harm on the bodies of the two men found in the basement, like they just dropped dead, also, there was no cause found for the explosion…

Ever since the house was demolished, people have been reported strange and disturbing events in the surround homes and area. Some even went as far to say and they had seen or been visited by the devil himself, which earned this location of the nickname of ” The House The Devil Built”.

4 F*$cked Up Scary Games To Try This Halloween

There are some pretty messed up games out there that a lot of people from famous vloggers to your nan have tried. A lot of these games revolve around conjuring up some spirit of demonic entity, and Halloween night is said to be when the dead can walk the earth some something like that anyways. They are fun and creepy af ! But dangerous at the same time, if you’re going to try any one of these make sure you close it down as instructed below. We are simply informing you of these games and in no way encourage you to try them ! 😉

Charlie Charlie 

Charlie, Charlie is a crazy popular game right now, you set up the game and then apparently summon a dead kid called Charlie. It comes from Mexico where it was called “Juego de la Lapicera”, also nicknamed the poor man’s Ouija board. It is said that Charlie was a young Mexican kid who killed himself, died in a car accident or a Mexican deity who Convenes with the Christian Devil…

How To Play ;

Step 1: Open your Vine and get the camera rolling. (If you don’t have Vine, you ARE too old for this.)

Step 2: Draw an X on a piece of paper.

Step 3: Label two of the resulting quadrants “no,” and the other two “yes.”

Step 4: Place two overlapping pencils on each axis of your grid, crossing them in the middle.

Step 5: Say “Charlie, Charlie, are you there?” and ask a question. (i.e., “is one of my friends going to die soon,” “will I go to prom next May.” )

Step 6: Scream, probably.

There have been some pretty messed up things happening to people after they have played the game so remember when you are finished, say ” Charlie, Charlie can you leave?”, then keep pushing until he points the pencil towards yes.

 

 

Dry Bones

The Dry Bones Ritual basically involved summoning a demon to play a kind of tag with you. If you win the game your wish is granted and if not the demon gets to do what it wants with you. If it ” Wins ” the result is obviously far from good.

How To Play ;

First up, you will need a bathroom with a mirror, some matches and to make sure you are alone in the house. This includes pets or any animals. This game must be played at 12:01am, all doors in your house must be closed, locked and secured, this includes cabinets, cupboards etc… Turn off all lights and electronic devices, tv etc… When the house is completely silent you can begin. *A word of warning if there are any strange sounds before you begin, Leave The House and do not return until the following morning. That means he is already there and watching…

The Game

Step 1: Picture something realistic that you want ( No floating houses)

Step 2: Light a match and wait until it burns out. It has to last at least 15 seconds

Step 3:Next say, loud and clear ” I am aware of your presence, I welcome you into my home, but not my body. Come Now”

Step 4: Go to the largest room in your house. ( This may take 5 mins or 5hours, so be patient)

Step 5: When you hear a strange sound, most commonly an unearthly moan. * If you hear any voices or feel anything strange, leave your house immediately.

Step 6: He will try and find you straight away, so hide quickly and remain hidden until 3am. Only at 3am is it safe to come out, also if anyone comes into your house during this time they are pretty much screwed.Step 4: Go to the largest room in your house. ( This may take 5 mins or 5hours, so be patient)

Step 7: At 3:01am go to the largest room in your house and say  ” Thank you for playing, but please leave now, you are no longer welcome”. Then wait until you hear a sound of some kind and repeat a few times, ” You are no longer welcome, please leave now”

Step 8: If you won, you will be rewarded soon.

A couple of final rules, Do not wish harm to anyone. He may decide that the price you paid was not enough for that, and only play this game once. If he did find you, then seek help, go to the church and ask for a blessing and just be strong in your own mind.

 

Bloody Mary

Bloody Mary is a very old and very frightening game. The legend is that Mary the Queen of Scotts is the culprit for the horrific attacks following the ritual, but there are also rumours that it´s the spirit of a young girl who killed herself in front of the mirror. Whatever it is, it is bone chilling.

How To Play ;

Firstly, you’ll need to get some items ready, including; a candle, a bathroom, a mirror, some scared friends or none believers and a video camera . Don’t forget the first three, they are kind of essential. Oh and Do Not!, lock the bathroom door!

Step 1: Turn out the lights, light your candle and run the tap/faucet

Step 2: Begin chanting. ” Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary” thirteen times, loud and clear

Step 3:Look into the mirror and confront the bloody Queen herself

Step 4: Get out, and lick your wounds

Don’t actually lick your wounds, take a picture instead. Yup, Bloody Mary is well known for marking her victims. But made no mistake this is a demonic conjuring and if it works ( we have never tried ) then you need to state clearly for the thing to leave, or it might just stay.

 

Three Kings

Three Kings is considered to be the most dangerous of all the games, so don’t take it lightly and see it all the way through . There is not a lot known about the origins of this sinister game, apart from that te fact that it was posted on Reddit back in 2013 and its been a storm of attempts ever since, ironically that post was called Do Not Try This !!! The results have been nightmarish. The rules are also very specific so follow them bit by bit. 

 

How To Play 

You’ll need another person with you, a large windowless room ( or just cover windows), a pack of candles, a lighter, a bucket of water, a mug, an electric fan, 2 large mirrors, 3 chairs, 1 alarm clock, 1 fully charged mobile phone and a small object with some sentimental value. 

The Set Up

Step 1: Begin at 11pm. Do not begin without your partner, he/she should with you at all times. 

Step 2: Place one chair facing north in the centre of your chosen room. This will be your throne, then place two other chairs at opposite sides of the throne, about arms length away. These will be your queen and fool’s chairs.

Step 3:Place on of the two mirrors on the queen’s chair and the other on the fool’s. The mirrors should be perpendicular to the chairs seats and facing both of each other and you. You should be able to see each mirror, your own reflection from your peripheral vision while seating on the centre chair ( throne).

Step 4: Place the bucket of water and the mug just in front of you but just out of reach, then place the fan behind your chair on a medium or low setting ( never high ) and turn it on, make sure its stationary

Step 5: Leave the room but keep the door open.

Step 6: Go to your bedroom. Set the candles, lighter, alarm clock, and cell phone next to your bed and make sure your phone is charging and set your alarm for 3.30am

Step 7: Turn the lights off, hold your prechosen object of sentimental value ( power object) and go to sleep.

The Game

Step 1: Wake up at 3.30am, keep the lights turned off, pick up your cell phone and power object, light a candle and return to the dark room. 

Step 2: Do NOT Proceed if the following occur;
. Your alarm did not go off
. Your mobile did not charge
. You approach the dark room and find the door closed
. Your approach the dark room and find the fan turned off
. You are not seated in the throne by 3.33am

Should any of these things happen, take your partner and any other living thing in your house and get the fudge out. Do not return until 6.am

Step 3:If none of the incidents above occurred, proceed. Take your thrones, but do not look directly at either of the mirrors and do not let the candle go out. Use your body to protect the flame from the fan. 

Step 4:Keep your eyes focused at the darkness in front of you. Again, do not look at the mirrors and do not look at the candle. Should you have any questions you wish to ask, you may ask them now. You may or may not receive a response; if you do, your response will come from the direction of one of the mirrors. Do NOT turn to look at the mirrors. Any answers received should be taken with the proverbial grain of salt; one of the mirrors is the queen and one is the fool, but it may not be clear which is which. Also note that to whatever may settle in the mirrors, you yourself are either the queen or the fool.

Step 5: Remain in the chair until 4.34am.

Step 6: At 4.34 am, your partner should call out your name to end the game. If this does not work your partner should call your mobile and if that doesn’t work, your partner should enter the room without touching you and pour the bucket or mug of water over you. ( These are to awake you from any strange state you will be in).

Concerning fail safes, If your body is suddenly moved, the fan will blow out the candle, ending the game. Should you become lost or disoriented, your power object will guide your way back. Do NOT ignore any of the previously noted red flags prior to seating yourself in your throne. Do NOT attempt to stay in your home should these red flags appear. Do NOT attempt if you do not completely and totally trust your partner.

During this hour, shit can get really messed up. This one we have tried and it was disturbing ( video posting soon ). our experiences were similar to others such as voices coming from each mirror saying kind of the opposite things. Objects were moving, my chair was thrown, the psychical activity was terrifying but the voices were so damn clear and contradicting each other when answering my questions… I’ll never know for sure if i was hallucinating or just tripping. But i do know that it was something i will never forget. 

 

Daruma-san or The Bath Game

Daruma-san is best known as the Bath Game and its kind of like a deadly version of red Red Light, Green Light. After the initial summoning, it follows the same rules as a Japanese children’s game called Darumasan ga Koronda, literally, ” The Daruma doll fell down”. During the corse of the game , Daruma-san attempts to catch the player, the player is ” it “. But if the Daruma-san catches you then let’s just say it doesn’t end well.  

 

How To Play 

You will need a bathtub and obviously a bathroom.

The Set Up

  1. Begin at night, just before you got to bed.
  2. Shed your clothing and enter the bathroom. Fill the bathtub with water and turn out the lights.
  3. Climb into the tub and sit down facing the faucet and taps. Close your eyes and begin washing your hair.
  4. As you wash your hair, repeat the words “Daruma-san fell down. Daruma-san fell down.” Do not stop repeating them until you have finished washing your hair. Do not open your eyes.
  5. If you have performed this action correctly, you will gain a mental image of a Japanese woman standing in a bathtub. She will slip and fall, landing face first on a rusty tap and gouging her right eye out.
  6. Should you hear any noise behind you or feel movement in the tub, do NOT turn around and do NOT open your eyes. Ask aloud, ‘Why did you fall in the bathtub?”
  7. Allow the question to hang in the air. Then, keeping your eyes shut, carefully stand up and get out of the tub. Do not trip and fall yourself, and do not drain the tub. Exit the bathroom, shutting the door behind you.
  8. You may now open your eyes. Leave the bathroom as you left it — water in the tub, door shut — until morning. Do not turn on any lights.
  9. Go to sleep.

The Game

Step 1. Awaken at your usual time. The game begins the moment you open your eyes.

Step2. Go about your day as normal. You will feel a constant presence behind you; it is likely that, should you turn to look, you will see nothing. However, glancing over your right shoulder may occasionally reveal a glimpse of her. Her hair will be black and tangled, and she will have only one eye.

Step3. She will attempt to get closer and closer to you as the day goes on. Should you spot her and find that she is too close for comfort, shout “Tomare!” — that is, “Stop!” — and run away. The idea is to put some distance between you and her; do NOT allow her to catch you.

The Ending:

Step 1. Capture her in your gaze by looking over your right shoulder.

Step 2. Shout “Kitta!” — that is, “I cut you loose!” — while swinging your arm down in a chopping motion. If you have performed this action correctly, a winning condition will have been achieved and the game will be over.

Step3. If you have NOT performed this action correctly… run.

Some of the other things you should know about the Daruma-san is that she is fond of water and dark spaces. It is highly recommended that you avoid all dark spaces and crossing running water until the end of the game.

Use the “Tomare!” command sparingly. Each time you use it, the amount of time for which it will stall her will diminish. Use it only when absolutely necessary.

The ending MUST be performed before midnight. Failing to do so will grant her permission to enter your dreams. Do NOT allow her to do this. Additionally, performing the ending is not as easy as it seems. If she suspects you are about to try to end the game, she may hide. You MUST have her in your sights when you perform the “Kitta!” command.

It is NOT recommended that you play this game more than once. Should you play it a second time, she will begin in the same position she was in at the conclusion of the previous game. This will not provide adequate distance to escape her.

Do NOT let her catch you.

6 Terrifying Halloween Ghost Stories That Really Happened

There are ghost stories dating back thousands of years BC. People have been telling of their paranormal encounters for generations and there are hundred´s of thousands of them out there right now, yet people still think its fake ? Fake or not there’s nothing to get the goosebumps going like a good old ghost story. Here are the six of the creepiest ones that we could find. Enjoy !

 

Laughter In The Middle Of The Night

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When I was a child, I lived in an old Victorian house, and I would always hear laughing while I was trying to sleep. I was an only child with a single mother, and when I was about 5-6, I would wake up hearing laughter in the hallway in the middle of the night. After mentioning this to my mum, she swore it was probably just the TV being left on late.

One night, I awoke to hear the laughter in my room. I went to sit up but felt like there was someone holding my shoulders down, invisible hands gripping into my shoulders while I heard laughing. I screamed my little heart out. My mum ran into my room, flicking on the bedside lamp, convincing me it was just a dream until I said: “but my shoulders hurt.” She lifted up my t-shirt and there were two adult-sized hand prints on my shoulders.

I honestly thought I had imagined it and that it had never happened, but the other day I mentioned it in passing to my mum and she went blanket white and said: “I don’t want to remember that.”

Source: Reddit, D_Aeon

 

 

” I Was Never Outside”

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This isn’t my story, so it takes away from the horror factor a bit, but it’s from a good friend that I know doesn’t make shit up.

His story happens when he was about 8. He was playing hide and seek with his friend at his house, it was late… Probably about 10ish. It’s my friends turn to find his friend. He’s looking everywhere around the house, but he can’t seem to find him anywhere. He eventually decides he must be hiding outside. So he leaves the house to find him.

He starts searching around some bushes when he hears his friends voice coming from a dark corner maybe 20 feet away. They voice calls for him to come over. He didn’t, because he was already spooked out enough being outside in the pitch black. My friend yelled back, “no! You come over here!”

That’s when he said it really started to get spooky. He told me the voice that sounded just like his friend kept insisting that he come over to the dark corner. My friend kept saying no over and over again. At this point, he said the the voice suddenly changed to a dark, horrible sounding voice demanding he come over. At this point he ran back inside, only to see his friend in the living room. When questioned how he got inside so fast, the friend said he never went outside.

Now, I know both of these 2 guys. None of them make up shit. And I doubt it’s the case of an “imagination gone wild”.

Whatever that voice was, it still spooks me just thinking about this story.

Source: Reddit, Kickagnome

 

 

 

 

Army Days

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Back in those days, army bunk beds were double decker and we have to fill the bottom bed before anyone can sleep on the top. So what happened was that the squad of 10 filled the bottom bed and nobody was sleeping on the top bed. A friend of mine woke up one night at around 2am, wanting to go to the toilet. So he woke up and as he was about to stand up he saw two pairs of legs hanging from the top of the bed. Both were white and by the shape of their legs he could tell that it was an elderly lady and a little boy. He didn’t know what to do and so he pretended to be asleep and he overheard their conversation,

“Grandma, could I play the ball now?”

“No dear.”

“But why not? Everyone is asleep I promise I wouldn’t be loud.”

“I know you wouldn’t be loud, but not everyone is asleep.”

Source: Reddit, Germinnn

 

 

The Last Visit 

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Our elderly neighbour fell sick and had to go to the hospital. Her niece asked us to take care of her dog while she was away. So after school work and dinner and all, me and my brother were sent over to make sure he was doing ok.

So it was late at night, in this weird old lady’s house, my brother was in the shed with the dog and I was in the living room looking at the creepy old photos on the mantelpiece.
What follows is true: I heard the door creak and then a woman’s voice called out the dog’s name.

I freaked out, turned around, obviously there was nobody about. I thought maybe it was the neighbour’s niece, but it had that weird “Did I hear that outside my head or inside it?” echo to it (you know what I mean?) so I also thought I was just letting the creepy house get to me.

But then I went out to my brother and Knocky and he was freaking out too because he thought he’d heard a woman’s voice inside the shed with him saying “Oh there you are”.

We both agreed the voice had that weird in-your-head sound to it and were convinced there were ghosts in the place. Left the dog in the shed, went home, and were greeted by Dad who told us the neighbour’s niece had just called to say the neighbour passed away in the hospital a few hours ago.

Source: Reddit, Trachtas

 

 

 

 

Demons In The Desert 

My dad has some stories from his experiences living in California, so I recorded one of them over break and thought I would share.

Me and this guy, a friend of mine, were out drinking beer one night, driving around, running amuck out in the middle of the desert, out by 29 palms. We were miles from anywhere or anything, literally just bonsai-ing out on these old, old roads waay out in the middle of flippin’ nowhere. I mean, we are 20-25 miles from the nearest telephone pole. We come across this Dotson B2-10 (that was like brand new back in the seventies), and it was burned from the firewall back. But the front of the car, the paint was still on it and everything! So we all like, “Oh man, check out this car!” We pull up and we got our lights on it—and its super dark, no moon, in the middle of the desert and it is just completely black out there (except for his headlights and the KC lights on his truck).

It had a good engine in it! We had a whole truck full of tools and a whole bunch of beer, so hell! We just started tearing at it. I go, “f**ck check it out man, I can use this engine in my truck! This is perfect!” So we started taking the engine apart and taking it out. We’re drinking beer, we got the speakers up on the hood of the car, and we’re in there twisting wrenches and just having a time.

He didn’t have an auto-reverse cassette deck, so we had to go back and reverse/change the tape every time it ended. You had to go over there and physically take it out and turn it around and put it back in. There were no radio stations, so that’s all we were listening to.

We’re almost getting ready to get the engine out and the tape ends again. But we’re in the middle of doing something and we couldn’t jump up to go change it. So we’re twisting wrenches in this unbelievable, dead-of-night quiet. And then we could hear something running around. You know where the light from the headlights and KC lights stops being light and it turns to darkness? That’s where we heard it. We heard it running around. You’d hear it from over here and /running/ to over there, a little pitter-patter running through the sand, across the desert and brushes and stuff like that. We were like, “What the hell?”

[He stopped to tell us that he had the chills and goosebumps there in the room. Said he could remember it like it was yesterday.]

We look at each other and are like, ‘whisper’ “whatthef*ckwasthat?” We stopped and were completely silent. You could almost hear your heart beat…. and you’d hear it again over there, so we’d turn our heads and look over there [using gestures to point]… and we’d look over here on this side…. And we looked at each other like……. [wtf face and mutterings under the breath] … We take our flashlights and look over there. Can’t see anything…. We’d get back to work, then hear it again, and we were like, “fck it, we’re outta here. This is freaking us out.”

So we took off, came back the next day– during the day –and finished pulling the engine out. Well, we went out and looked around. I was kicking around out in the brush where we heard the tracks and there were all these little… teeny little footprints. Like, little kid, barefoot kid footprints. Barefoot in the sand, all around the perimeter of where we were.

It wasn’t us! We had boots on and we are big, size 11/12 guys. And we’re miles and miles from anything.

But there was nothing out there, no houses, nothing. Just little footprints running around in the dark. But there’s a lot of activity out there, probably 200 miles from Area 51, another 80 miles from Death Valley. There’s tons and tons and tons of just barren, desert wasteland nothing. But there was something out there that wouldn’t come into the light that night.

Source: Reddit, xaphonia

 

 

 

 

“Your Not Allowed To Touch Them”

When I was eight my family moved from urban south Florida to a really small town in north Florida. It was like from a Goosebumps book. A lot of weird stuff has happened in the 15 years since we moved there, but the weirdest has got to be when my sister moved back in with my parents.

My sister’s husband had been shipped off to Afghanistan so she was left alone with a newborn son. Not wanting to go through the soul crushing loneliness of raising a newborn all alone in a trailer in the woods, she moved back into my parents house for a while.

She said it started first when the headboard of her bed would slam every now and then. Then one day she woke up because somebody was tickling her.

She didn’t really think about it until one night she woke my mom up by screaming(my sister is almost 30, she’s not a little kid), and my mom went in and THE WHOLE FUCKING BED WAS ROCKING AND SHAKING LIKE. Really violently up down, to the sides, like a boat going through white water.

But, my mom and sister have been through a lot of shit, so they persevered. One night my sister was nursing her son and something grabbed her pony tail and started yanking her head around. My mom went in the room and very sternly, like talking to a bad kid, said,”I understand things are different. There’s a little baby here and there never has been before. You’re curious, I understand that. But you WILL NOT touch them anymore. You can look, you can stay. You were here before us, but I swear to god you are NOT ALLOWED TO TOUCH THEM.”

It stopped happening.

Source: Reddit, PeeingInLove:

 

 

The Mysterious Moving Coffins of the Chase Family

The Chase Family Vault is located in the seemingly harmless and beautiful Barbados. A tropical paradise with nothing but sunshine and good vibes. However, the locals are aware of a deeper and more frightening energy resides beneath one of the islands most treasured historical sites. The Christ Church Parish cemetery is home to one of the most mysteriously disturbing occurrences in Carribean history. To this day there is still no explanation for the moving coffins of the Chase family…

 

The Chase Family 

The Chase family where an eccentric and wealthy family where known and despised by the local community for their vile, brutal treatment of their slaves.  

The Chase Vault was originally constructed for Mr James Elliot in 1724. By the time the Chase family bought the vault in 1808, it was already pretty time-worn, but it was sealed with a huge slab of pristine blue marble that took eight men to move . It had only been used once previously as the final resting place for Ms. Thomasina Goddard in 1807. The family thought it best to leave her body even though it was, by law, their property. Ms Goddard got to share the tomb before long.

chase-family-vaultSome of the chase slaves.

In 1808 the same year the tomb was purchased, the Chase family saw the death of their most senior member, quickly followed by the death of a newborn who had been named Mary-Anne Chase. Both members were buried in heavy iron caskets. These caskets took three men to lift. Another death struck the Chase family shortly after, the death of another young member of the family. Dorcas Chase. The cause of her death is still unknown. It is known, however, that she endured endless torment and beatings from her father. It is rumoured that he eventually starved her to death…

Death was not done with the Chase family just yet. The abusive father, Thomas Chase committed suicide just two months after the accused murder of his daughter. He too was buried within the vault and he had the largest coffin of them all. The coffin weighed 240 pounds and took eight men to move. 

Related Content ; Haunted Locations Barbados

 

The Chase Family Vault Mystery

 

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Following the death of Thomas Chase, they moved him into the tomb. This is when the paranormal occurrences begin.The labourers moved the marble slab and  found that two of the coffins had moved… Not just a little either, the coffins of Dorcas Chase and the stillborn baby were standing against the wall. The men moving Thomas Chase’s coffin were astonished as it would have taken several grave robbers to move the marble slab blocking entrance and then move the heavy iron coffins. However, the seals on the coffins had not been disturbed. 

The family forgot about it and attributed it to vandals. They rearranged the coffins back to the way they originally were and resealed the family tomb. 

1816, yet another family member died. The 11-year-old Charles Brewster Ames. His body was taken down to the vault, but when they once again opened the tomb, they realised that something surreal was going on here. The coffins, including the 240-pound coffin, were scattered across the tomb. Some were open, the coffin of Thomas was on top of that of Dorcas Chase and the others were slung around. Again the seals on the coffins remained, perfect and untouched. Once again they put them back in place and resealed the vault. 

 

The Stories Spread Around Town

 

 

After the second discovery, it didn’t take long for the news to spread around town. People began to guess at what was going on down there. The stories ranged from tales of black magic, voodoo, ghosts and a family curse. Some claimed that at night when passing they would hear moans and shrieks slipping through the cracks around the marble seal.

Others swore that their horses would rear up and panic, or run away when coming towards the tomb, some even went as far to say that their horses would be driven insane. This attracted the attention of Governor Lord Combermere, who was a paranormal fanatic and he vowed to solve this mystery himself. 

 

The Ghost of Lord Combermere 

 

After the Ames’s death, the vault would be opened two more times. 1816 to bury Samuel Brewster and again in 1819. Both times, the vault was found in chaos with the coffins scattered. However, the most curious oddity amongst the disarray was the fact that the coffin on Thomasina Goddard was never moved… despite the fact that it was made up of cheap, light wood. 

Lord Combermere ordered an inspection of the tomb and found the only entrance to the tomb was through the enormous blue marble slab. So he set a trap. 

He rearranged the caskets into a special order and covered the vault floor with fine sand, in order to record footprints of any intruders. He also sealed the vault with mortar in which, he and a few other important members of society placed their seals in the wet cement all around the entrance. 

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8 months passed until Lord Combermere responded to countless reports of noises coming from within the tomb. He and a crew of soldiers inspected the entrance and found it had not been tampered with at all, all the seals still remained intact. 

However, what they found inside was repulsive. The huge coffin of Thomas Chase and been pushed right up to the door to bar the entrance. It took twelve men to get it open. All of the coffins had been violently thrown around the room, the babies casket, in particular, had been thrown so hard that it had cracked the iron. The coffin of Thomasina Goddard remained undisturbed and the sand was as undisturbed as the day they laid it. 

Lord Combermere was so disturbed that he ordered the coffins to be removed and each buried separately in their own plots. 

 

The Chase Vault Today

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Lord Combermere following that day, made an official statement that all of the activity had ceased but had it ? There have been ghost stories revolving around these mysterious tombs from hundreds of years since. Stories of poltergeist activity down there, bangs, screams, as well as people being pushed or nudged.

Today the tombs remain open to the public, although it is advised that you stay away or risk being affected by the Chase Family Curse. 

Links;

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/07/the-mysterious-moving-coffins-of-barbados/

http://allday.com/post/10361-the-unsolved-mystery-of-the-chase-family-vault-continues-to-haunt-the-people-of-barbados/

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