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to the strange stories.
I talked to something who wasn't

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my sister by many Damage 6313.
So this is my first time ever

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writing anything like this, but
I wanted to get some sort of

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closure for what I experienced
when I was younger.

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For some context, we, my family
and I moved into our current

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house and the house this story
takes place in when I was like 3

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years old.
It is a two-story building

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completed sometime in the early
2000s.

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There are three bedrooms on the
2nd floor.

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The master bedroom is to the
left of this little walkway, at

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the end of the staircase.
Right next to it on the right

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was the room my younger sister
and I used to sleep in when we

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were younger.
And the last room, which was

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meant to be used as my younger
brother's room once he got

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older, was all the way at the
end of the hallway.

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But that room always remained
empty and used as a storage room

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for the most part.
When I was around 7 to 8 years

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old, I had developed this new
schedule of after school

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procrastination.
I would shower and then sit on

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my parents bed to watch PBS in
my mom's bedroom.

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She had the biggest TV and by
far the better graphics than the

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other televisions around the
house at that time.

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It being the TV sat on top of a
large drawer chest in front of

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her bed.
My sister, who is a year and a

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half younger than me, would
usually sit with me to watch

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whatever was playing.
We particularly loved when

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Curious George came on, so we
would always be out of the

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shower and dressed by 3:50 the
latest.

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Considering the show came on at
4:00.

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I'd never really felt anything
off about the room, at least not

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when the sun was still out, but
I always had this feeling about

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it once it became dark.
It's a feeling I still get to

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this day as a 20 year old.
I just can't walk by it late at

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night without getting the heebie
jeebies.

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Something always felt off about
it, especially when I was

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younger.
I hated being upstairs by myself

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even during the daytime.
However, on this particular day,

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for whatever reason, I was up
there by myself.

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It was around October.
November ish and as a result

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they were playing an hour long
special for Curious George.

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I honestly can't remember
whether it was the Halloween or

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Thanksgiving one, but it was a
movie sort of special.

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All I know is that I loved it
enough to sit up there by myself

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and watch it.
I was at least a good 15 to 20

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minutes and when I heard a noise
from outside the hallway I

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thought it was my sister so I
ignored it.

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At some point my sister came in
and proceeded to stand right in

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front of the TV.
My sister had this annoying

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habit of standing in front of
any big screen and blocking the

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view for everyone, and while she
wasn't really blocking my view,

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I knew my mom hated it when she
just stood there.

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She said it was rude or
something along those lines,

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although in that particular
moment I didn't care.

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There had been this scene that
was particularly funny that my

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sister had missed, a part of
only getting to watch the other

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half.
I began to tell her what had

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happened before proceeding to
laugh, expecting her to laugh

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too, but I didn't get a
response, which annoyed me a

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bit.
So I proceeded to say the same

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thing again.
Yet I still didn't get a

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response from her.
She stood still, glancing at the

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TV and away from me because I
was on my mom's bed and the TV

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was right in front of me.
All I could see was her back.

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The third time I got no
response.

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I grew irritated, yelling her
name and telling her to stop

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ignoring me, to look at me.
That's when she turned around.

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Except it wasn't my sister.
I mean, it looked like her

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wearing the same clothes she'd
been wearing earlier, same

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everything, but her eyes were
off.

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All I remember was how
unsettling the eyes were being

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all pitch black, not to mention
the emotionless expression aimed

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at me.
We both stared at each other for

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a while before it turned around
and proceeded to walk out of the

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room.
I was still a bit wary but then

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I got really angry because I was
just blatantly ignored.

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So I got up and walked out of
the room.

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I yelled for my mom tattling
that my sister quote UN quote

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had just ignored me and left me
talking to her quote UN quote

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like an idiot.
My mom's voice was confused as

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she yelled back that that
couldn't be possible.

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My sister had been downstairs
with her the whole time.

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I asked if maybe she had gone
upstairs at some point and she

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just hadn't realized, but she
said no, and even if she had,

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she would have heard the
squeaking of the floorboards

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that are right by her room.
I was baffled but thought maybe

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I had been seeing things.
Yet after that, I didn't feel

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comfortable being in that room
by myself anymore and instead

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decided to stay downstairs with
my mom for a while.

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I have experienced other weird
things that just can't be

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explained, but I often think
about this one instance and

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wonder what it was that I talked
to that day.

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If anyone has any idea or
guesses as to what I could have

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been talking to, please let me
know.

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What I really want to have
happened here is for this to be

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a nightmare that you have
remembered incorrectly as being

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something real that happened
because the alternative to it

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having just been a nightmare is
that this actually happened,

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which I am not in love with.
I'm going to tell you I don't

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love it.
I don't know that I'm enough of

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an expert to say whether or not
this is a Black Eyed Kid, but it

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does sound very similar to all
of the Black Eyed Kid Black Eyed

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Children stories that I've
listened to.

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If someone has not heard of Of
the Black Eyed Kids.

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Not to be confused with the band
of a similar name.

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It's also shortened sometimes to
beks.

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Also not to be confused with a
serial killer with a similar

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name.
Black Eyed Kids are children

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quote UN quote that appear and
when you see them they do not

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have normal eyes.
Their entire eye is black.

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So the sclera, which is the
white part of the eye is black

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and so is the iris and the pupil
all black.

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If you've ever watched
Supernatural, sort of like how

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the demons look in that show,
these Black Eyed children will

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approach people generally alone,
generally also outside of their

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own home.
I haven't heard of any inside

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someone's house but they'll
approach them either in their

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car or while they're walking
outside and they will sound

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extremely creepy and stilted and
not act like a normal child and

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just repeatedly ask very
creepily if they can be let in

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or if you can give them a ride.
They just repeatedly ask the

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same thing over and over.
And if you ask them where are

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your parents, they will just say
please let me in Sir, it's cold

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out here, which I don't want to
ever encounter.

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So I hope for your sake that
this was not a Black Eyed kid.

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I hope this was a nightmare.
Or that you're conflating a

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horror movie with your childhood
and think it's a memory.

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That would be ideal I think.
Hopefully this never happens to

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you again.
And hopefully it didn't ruin

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Curious George for you either,
because he's a cute little

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monkey.
He doesn't deserve that.

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If anyone has any theories or
thoughts on any of these

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stories, I want to hear from
you, and I may even read your

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theories on the show. e-mail me
at madamstrangeways@gmail.com.

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Strange experience at home by
Demure Lion 47.

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I'm not someone who pays much
attention to the paranormal or

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the like, but if anyone has any
ideas what these events could

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mean or could even offer a
rational explanation would be

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appreciated.
About a week ago last Friday, I

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was waking up at a few minutes
past 3:00 AM to see my pillow in

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bed next to me being pulled away
at a steady pace.

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At first I thought it was
falling off my bed, but when I

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pulled it back it was still on
my bed flat.

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I grabbed my phone for the
torch.

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This is also when I noticed the
time.

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I've heard 3 to 4:00 AM is the
time when most paranormal stuff

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happens, and I used an app on my
phone to put my room lights on.

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I couldn't see anything, but
maybe 10 to 20 seconds later my

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cat in the hallway, who is
normally very quiet, started

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meowing very loudly from the
other side of my closed door.

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I went out to check and she
seemed fine.

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Once again, nothing was there.
I kept my lights on low and

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tried to sleep, although I was
super unsettled and was

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partially opening my eyes to
scan the room frequently.

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Eventually I fell asleep, but
two hours later I was woken up

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again, this time a few minutes
past 5:00 AM to my upstairs

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hallway, fire alarm going.
I already figured this was

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something weird, so at first I
stayed in bed but got up when it

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wouldn't turn off.
I opened my door and as soon as

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I took a step into the hallway
it stopped dead.

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Nothing notable has happened
since, but even a week or two

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later I have a hard time
sleeping as my guard is now

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constantly up.
My mum, who I explained this to,

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also has a story from about a
month or two ago.

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She was sat in bed reading, also
around the 3:00 to 4:00 AM time.

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Crazy time to be reading, I
know, and heard what sounded

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like an animal's footsteps
running down the stairs,

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according to my mom.
My cat who was resting on my

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mom's bed with her also
evidently heard it and pricked

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her ears up and was looking
about.

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Mum actually did go downstairs
to check we don't have a cat

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flap and my cat was kept indoors
at the time so there were

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definitely no animals in the
house, but found nothing.

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She described the footsteps as
fast and light, similar to a dog

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or cat and she believes it
sounded like 4 legs not to.

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I've been thinking this over a
lot and I have a few theories.

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Personally, my mom has been
watching loads of these ghosty

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shows which I used to make fun
of her for.

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And in these shows, the
presenters tend to call upon

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spirits and all that likely
staged BS.

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I wondered if the presenters
trying to reach out to spirits

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might have actually encouraged
something into my house even

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though it was just playing
through my TV speakers.

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We also had a big repair done my
bedroom floor a couple weeks

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before and I've heard structural
repairs can disturb spirits or

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something like that.
Another thought I had is that

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after my pillow experience, my
cat meowing loudly in the

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hallway must mean that whatever
it was moved out of my room when

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I was looking around.
The fire alarm also makes me

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think this was a conscious being
rather than just the spirit of

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say, an animal.
Like what footsteps might have

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suggested.
Maybe separate entities or

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something pretending to be an
animal.

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My mum is religious and I keep
an open mind to these things.

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So we performed a blessing on
the House and nothing has

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happened again yet.
I also plan to install a night

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vision Cam in my room and
hallway in case things happen

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again.
Any ideas?

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Or better yet, rational
explanations would be greatly

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appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

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So all cat owners know that
while yes, cats will sing the

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song of their people and scream
in the middle of the night,

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there are particular meows and
when they are different than

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usual, we can tell.
I know I can tell when my cats

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have something new to tell me
than usual.

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When something is out of the
norm, you sort of tune them out

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a little bit until there's a
slight difference in their

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meows.
So I think that your cat 100%

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was trying to tell you something
was different.

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Something was up.
I do wonder what it was your mom

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heard running up and down the
stairs, especially if it had

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four feet.
Since the cat was just meowing

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loudly.
I wonder if it was a ghost cat.

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A friendly ghost cat, perhaps a
mischievous ghost cat?

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That would be nice, wouldn't it?
Just a friendly, benevolent,

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slightly mischievous Kitty cat
ghost.

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That would be nice.
Hopefully your fire alarm does

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not go off again.
Hopefully there are no fires.

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And if you do install a night
vision Cam and find anything

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interesting, I would love to
hear.

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However, I also hope to never
hear from you again because that

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would mean that nothing else
scary is happening to you.

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So keep us updated.
But on the other hand, we hope

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to never hear from you ever
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Shadow of a Crow in the Window
by Persephone 114.

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I honestly don't know where to
start and I'm writing about it

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just because I want to know
what.

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That could have been.
It goes through my head all the

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time.
By the way, English is not my

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mother language, so I apologize
for spelling mistakes.

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I come from Germany.
Five days ago I woke up around

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2:00 AM at night and saw the
shadow of a Raven on the ceiling

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from the window.
My window doesn't have roller

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shutters because it's an old
house and wasn't a bedroom

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before.
We haven't renovated there

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since.
The Raven had a very long thin

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beak, bent down and didn't move.
I didn't hear him either, even

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though my window was open.
I could only see his shadow and

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this long curved beak that went
through my head all the time.

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So I started to Google it.
Here in Germany Ravens sleep at

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night as far as I know and this
kind of Raven does not exist

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here in Germany either.
I then researched the Internet

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and found out that there is a
legend about a quote UN quote

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night crab, a so-called Sandman
who comes in the form of a Raven

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and takes children with him who
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When I saw the pictures of this
night crab I had such goosebumps

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because I had seen exactly this
Raven.

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I'm not a child anymore, but I
still find it very scary.

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This happened five days ago and
I thought I'd share this story

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with Reddit.
It's going through my mind all

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the time and I don't really have
anyone to talk to about it.

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I look forward to your opinions
or answers.

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Persephone, Thank you so much
for that nightmare fuel.

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I have never heard of a Sandman
like that previously to hearing

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this story.
The scariest Sandman I knew of

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was from Metallica.
Enter Sandman.

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I'm going to say that this is
infinitely scarier.

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So I went down a little bit of a
rabbit hole much like you did,

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wanting to read more about this
Nightcrab Sandman.

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And for any non German listeners
I am going to attempt a very bad

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American attempt at a German
accent to redo the actual German

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word.
So the Nacht krop apparently

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literally translates to Night
Raven.

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Which I'm going to say I think
Night Crab is far scarier than

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Night Raven.
But Night Raven also does not

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bode really well either.
You can find it in South Germany

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and in Austria.
Also, apparently similar legends

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exist in Hungary, the Czech
Republic, Poland, and Russia.

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So I will not be going to any of
those countries anytime soon.

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But if anyone from any of those
countries or cultures or

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anywhere in Europe or anywhere
has anything similar to what we

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just listened to, I would love
to hear your story.

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Now Persephone, there are
apparently different types of

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Night Ravens.
You seem to have hopefully

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encountered one of the ones that
doesn't eat people, so thank

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goodness for that.
Hopefully you have not been

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revisited by this Night Raven.
And maybe because you are not a

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child, you were not ripped limb
from limb and eaten messily.

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In this night raven's nest,
which is apparently it's MO, it

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goes out to hunt and if it
encounters children along the

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way at night, it considers them
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So thankfully you are not a
child or you did not encounter

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that sort of knocked crop.
I'm not going to try to

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pronounce that any longer, but I
wanted to give it my go.

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So there's also apparently an
angry Night Raven, which I'm not

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quite sure how you can get more
angry than the child devouring

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Night Raven.
Especially because this Night

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Raven, though less common, does
not abduct or eat children.

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It just terrorizes them to sleep
by crowing really loudly and

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flapping its wings until they
are so scared they go back to

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sleep.
It doesn't sound like that's the

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one that you encountered either,
so moving on.

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There is also apparently a good
Night Raven, which is a

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benevolent and obviously rare
version of the Night Raven, and

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this particular Night Raven
simply goes into a child's room

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and gently lulls them to sleep
with its Raven song being is how

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you did not get serenaded by
this terrifying Night Raven.

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Night Crab Seems like that's
also not the one that you

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encountered.
So maybe there is a fourth type

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of Night Raven and it is just
the quiet, mute, super creepy

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Night Raven that just sits there
and watches you like a weirdo

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until you go back to sleep,
which is what you did.

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So perhaps we have encountered a
new species of Night Raven.

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Thank you to Mini Damage 6313,
Demure Lion 47, and Persephone

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114 for submitting your strange
stories, and thank you so much

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for stopping by for such a
lovely spooky time.

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You're always welcome here.
It's perfect timing, really.

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The rain seems to have just
stopped now.

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Remember, if any of the
strangeness scared you, remind

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yourself that you can feel
afraid and not be in danger.

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You're safe here with me until
next time.

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and narrated by me.

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Madame Strangeways theme music
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marina.ryan@marinamakes.co.
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