Is that even his real voice? I’ve caught bits and pieces here and there and it sounds like he’s just playing a character onscreen.
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Have you read about the giant/s in Nevada in the 1800’s? People from the Smithsonian swiped up the bodies and whisked them away to places unknown. There were even newspaper articles about it/them.
Virtually every ancient civilization I’ve read about has accounts of giants/ enormous, savage hybrid creatures. From Og, Sihon, Goliath, and others in the Bible is the near-Middle East to Beowulf from England recounting Norse accounts to Mayan and Incan accounts in South America, and the list continues.
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Neanderthals were genocided
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You come for the hot blonde women and leave because of the climate.
Speaking of Scandinavian metalheads, many years ago I ended up partying with two metalheads from Gotland who were very proud of the fact that they had an extra vertebrae due to inbreeding.
The Lithuanians outlasted them for almost six hundred years. Well into the 16th century one could stumble in Lithuania upon forest shrines splattered with fresh human blood - a sacrifice to gods Dievas and Perkunas.
I’m partial towards Slavic methodology, the American Gods did Czernobog justice:
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Demons, ghosts, angels all very real (I had to deal with a haunting one time - scariest time of my life)
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I’m listening…
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It’s a bit involved, I am willing to share, probably can’t post the full story until my lunch.
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Yep. Here in North Cali, we just ask if you want a Coke.
If you say yes, then we ask what kind.
I’ve heard some mid-westerners call it pop, and I totally judge them.
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Again…you complete me.
swoon
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Meeee toooo!
gets popcorn
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Well… Hot blonde women > bad weather. I don’t mind bringing some freshness to the genes pool hehehe
Well this is badass. And American Gods is great!
I have a bit of knowledge with the Old slavic Gods due to studying russian culture for a few years in uni, and interest in many Black metal eastern bands. Mainly the Ukrainian scene that use them in their imagery and lyrics
Same! I’m all for getting my beliefs challenged
You are free to judge. Just know that calling all pop “Coke” seems to make less sense than either soda or pop.
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We had a ghost in the house where I grew up, so I am with ya on this.
I asked a Rabbi about that topic (and the specific verse in the Torah regarding the same) and got a brutal “shut-the-f-up, we-don’t-talk-about-such-things” followed by an after-class gentle discussion that some things are left undiscussed.
I am no great Torah/Talmudic scholar, but the ancient texts are all universally opaque on the issues.
It’s like the original Area 51 coverup. Something creepy as shit is going on there. Don’t know what.
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I see your point…
Alright, here it goes @polo77j, @ChickenLittle @Edgy @aldebaran
Obligatory Disclaimers:
- This is presented as what happened to me. Feel free to believe/not believe it doesn’t matter to me. In fact, before this event happened I would have approached a story like this with major skepticism
- I am a Christian (as most of you probably know). This factors into the story a little while later.
- I am not trying to change anyone’s opinion/beliefs.
This story takes place starting in the fall of 2011. I had just moved to Rockford, Illinois for my first engineering job post college. The town was brand new to me and I knew no one there. First week of October I moved into a decent two bedroom apartment on the top (3rd) floor of an apartment complex. The layout (will help with the story later) was as follows: Walk in the door and that opens to the living room on the left and the good sized kitchen/dining room on the right. There is a short hallway that ends in a T. To the left is the master bedroom, to the right is a guest bedroom and right at the intersection of the T is the single bathroom.
Things were normal for the first couple of weeks. Started my new job, got set up at a new gym (of course), etc… One morning, about the middle of October, I woke up about 5 am to go the gym. I turned from my bedroom into the hallway towards the kitchen in the dark. As I am walking forward I see what appears to be two eyes that some light reflected off of and instantly got goosebumps and my hair stood up. A little rattled, I shook it off as a reflection of the light from the balcony coming through the blinds and reflecting off the light fixture above the kitchen sink (about the place where I saw eyes).
Nothing really happened the next few weeks except my master bedroom was always significantly colder than the rest of the apartment. Again, this wasn’t weird at the time because it had a north facing wall and the temperature was starting to drop quite a bit (October in the midwest).
A few weeks later I meet a beautiful young lady (who is now wife). She tells me she is fairly spiritual and sometimes “sees” things (think medium more than psychic). I shrug it off as a weird quirk. One night we were at my apartment and she says she sees a spirit crouched in the hallway. I couldn’t see it, but she was legitimately freaked out so I told the spirit to leave as this was my apartment. My g/f said it went away and she appeared relieved. I than told her about me witnessing the eyes a few weeks back, she got shivers but didn’t say much.
Shortly before I left for Christmas, I had an experience where I woke up from a dead sleep, terrified, and witnessed a 3 fingered plus thumb clawed had pulling the comforter down from my chin. I sat bolt upright, terrified and flipped on the bedside light. Saw nothing, but couldn’t go back to sleep that night.
Holidays come and go and in January things really start getting scary. My girlfriend had her son (now my step son) with her one night and he was going to hang out with us at my apartment. He had done so once before and fell asleep on my loveseat while my g/f and I watched movies. He was just shy (a few weeks) of turning 4. He asked what we were going to do that night and when we told him that we were going to my apartment he freaked and said he never wanted to go there again. We asked why and he was just too scared to provide a logical response. We spent the night instead at one of my g/f’s friend’s houses (the friend had kids the boy’s age).
Next weekend my wife was by herself (son was with bio-dad) and we are lying in bed in the master bedroom. On the verge of sleep, my wife screamed that something scratched her leg. She initially blamed me, but I was holding her in my arms so it couldn’t have been. I turn on the light and examine her leg - three long scratches ran from near her knee down to the bottom of her calf muscle on the side of her leg. No blood, but definite scratch marks. We slept with the light on that night. My wife said she thought there was a malevolent spirit/demon in the apartment (stems from both of our Christian backgrounds). I didn’t want to believe it, but I couldn’t explain the scratches or the eyes or the cold feeling in that room or the fact that her son wouldn’t come near my apartment (he was playful with me everywhere else).
Middle of that week I am laying down in bed by myself (work night) and I feel a distinct thump like someone kicked the underside of my bed. I didn’t have pets so it freaked me out. Whatever the thing was knew i was freaked and did it twice more. Not really knowing what to do, I turned to prayer and asked God for protection from whatever this thing was.
Next thing I know it sounds like there is a wrestling match going on in my room. I feel the foot of my bed get bumped into, I hear something crashing into the closet doors repeatedly, hear the window get banged up against and more. All of a sudden it’s dead still in the room. I can’t hear or see anything. I turn on the light and notice the room is warmer than it has been since I moved in. My thought was okay, this thing is gone.
Boy, was I wrong.
Next time my wife stayed the night with me was quite possibly the worst night of my life. We laid down in bed and fell asleep. Next thing I know, I wake up and see her leg outstretched in the air like something lifted it off the bed. Then she starts moving like something is pulling her out of bed (almost like the scene in the movie “Paranormal Activity” - see first seconds of video)
I did the first thing that came to mind and jumped on top of her to try and hold her in the bed. She wakes up at this point screaming and can feel the thing pulling on her leg. I am holding her back and it is taking all my strength to keep her in my arms (note, i was benching almost 350 at the time and weighed 260 at my 6’3 height). Whatever this thing was did not like my wife being there. I legit thought we were both going to be killed. Finally we prayed out loud together and whatever it was let her go (maybe not wanting another fight with “good” spirits/angels). We talked about it and consulted our Bibles and respective pastors coming to the conclusion that this thing was a demon and the best bet was to leave the apartment.
The next week I moved into my future mother-in-laws house (don’t know why she let me stay there, I had only been dating her daughter for about 4 months) after my wife explained the situation to her.
I took extra precautions not to place anything that had where I was currently staying in that apartment. I came back for my stuff only in the daylight . thankfully I only had to forgo one month’s rent as it was a 6 month lease and they found someone to take the apartment for my last month (March, I moved out in first week of February).
The manager asked why i was moving out early and I flat out told her the place was haunted by a demon. She didn’t believe me. A few months later I was passing by and stopped by the office to see if the new tenants had any issue and she said none were reported.
I still pass by this apartment sometimes since my in-laws still live in Rockford and we go up for holidays. To this day, I can’t stand going past it.
TL;DR: Moved into my first apartment in a new city. Had a demon. Terrifying paranormal activity ensued for months.
Edit: I have no clue why this wonderful woman stayed with me after this and became my wife. We had been dating less a month when the incident in the hallway happened.
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The Hell, man. Good thing I read this in broad daylight ahahahah. Thanks for sharing!
Quite literally from Hell in my opinion.
Took me a few years to get the point where I could share confidently.
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Damn man … thanks for sharing … frightening stuff.
Most I’ve ever encountered was moved loaves of bread and the TV turning on and off/changing channels to old black and white movies when I was a kid.
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this hasn’t been true for decades, aside from maybe towns of less than 1000 people who all think the mineral water in their town cures cancer. But for some reason people still think the joke is hilarious.
I’m in Texas. We say soda.
EDIT: wtf you’re in Texas too? You know this then, lol.