9. Never Take The 2am Shortcut | True spooky ghost stories of the strange & unusual

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That's MAD.
AM E.

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Oh, hello.
I didn't hear you come in.

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No, I'm always happy to see you.
As always.

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It looks like the rain just
started, so have a seat.

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Help yourself to a fresh batch
of honey cakes made with some

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blue Lotus honey from ancient
Egypt.

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They found it in King Tut's
tomb.

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Even after 3000 years it's still
good, just a little

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crystallized.
But I may do a curse on the

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honey.
Hmm, Well, there's only one way

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to find out.
Let me know if you start feeling

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the ominous presence of a long
dead pharaoh.

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But in the meantime, I've got
some new strange stories for you

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here on Madam Strange Ways.
Ghost outside my door by Daddio

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I was living in a mobile home
with a friend of mine in 2001.

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I had moved in within the last
few months.

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My room was in the back of the
home at the end of the hallway.

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My friend usually went out on
weekends and didn't get home

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until late, but when he did get
home he would almost always walk

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back and knock on my door to see
if I was up so he could tell me

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about his outing.
One Saturday night I was in my

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room watching TV and didn't feel
like talking because I was

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really into what I was watching.
So when I heard the door open

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and footsteps in the kitchen, I
made-up my mind to pause what I

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was watching and just stay quiet
and act like I was already

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asleep when he came back and
knocked on the door.

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After a minute or so I heard him
walking down the hallway towards

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my room, so I just sat still
waiting for him to knock.

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When the footsteps stopped
outside the door, I could hear

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him breathing, but there was no
knock.

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I figured he was just standing
there listening for me to make a

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sound, indicating that I was
still awake so he could knock

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and tell me about his night.
But he just stood outside the

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door breathing for about a
minute until the sound of

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breathing stopped.
I was expecting to hear him walk

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back to the living room and turn
on the TV as usual, but there

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was nothing.
No sound at all.

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I was beginning to get a little
spooked at this point.

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Either he was still standing
outside the door being as quiet

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as he could, or I had just heard
something terrifying.

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After 5 minutes or so of no
sound, I finally got the courage

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to open the door and find out
what was going on.

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As soon as I open the door I
noticed that he wasn't there.

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There were no lights on and no
indication that he was there at

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all.
I looked out to see if his car

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was there and it wasn't.
I knew it was impossible for him

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to go back out and leave without
me hearing him, so now I could

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feel my heart pounding.
I went back to my room and

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closed the door.
I was no longer concerned with

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the program I was watching.
Instead, I was just waiting for

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him to get home so I could find
out if he somehow managed to

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leave again without me hearing
him.

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That was the only logical
explanation for what I heard,

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but when he finally did arrive,
he told me he was still more

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than an hour's drive from home
when this happened.

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I had a few more strange
experiences in the home before I

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moved out, but this was the 1st
and scariest of them all.

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What a relatable story.
Maybe not all of us have had a

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ghost lingering outside of our
closed bedroom door.

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However, when you were like, I
really don't want to talk to my

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roommate.
I just want to watch my show and

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I don't want to talk.
So I'm just going to be quiet

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and pretend that I'm asleep and
then he will think I'm asleep

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and then he will leave me alone
and I can go back to watching my

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television in peace.
That is the most relatable thing

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that I have heard all day.
So Daddy, Oh, I get it.

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What this actually reminds me of
not a ghost necessarily, but

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it's sort of related to a
doppelganger, but not quite a

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doppelganger.
And it's also sort of like Deja

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vu, but in reverse.
Reverse Deja vu.

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So it's it's in Finnish and who
I practiced these, I practice

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these.
I did my research, but I don't

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speak Finnish and Scandinavian
languages are scary because I

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struggle with Canadian
pronunciations or things that

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are even in America like
Quinnipiac, which I'm not even

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sure that I pronounced that
right in a previous episode, but

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I have not heard differently.
So anyway, this is Finnish and

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the concept is from Finnish
folklore.

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So it's exactly what you
experienced, which is, you know,

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you're waiting for someone to
come home, you hear them come

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home, you're sure that you heard
them come home and then they're

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not home.
And typically the way that this

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ends is that while you're being
freaked out later, they do come

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home and they repeat the exact
same sounds or the exact same

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things that you heard them do
previously.

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Now, obviously you, you probably
didn't let him come to your

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door, right, because you were
scared.

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So we'll never know if he would
have lingered outside of your

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door, you know, exactly like
that.

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But I mean, I think it sounds
exactly like it.

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So, OK, right, the words.
So the, the concept of this

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happening, I think it's like the
actual happening itself is

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referred to as Etienne.
Please forgive me, Finnish, all

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of my 5 million Finnish
listeners, I don't even know how

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many people live there in
Finland.

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I'm not sure, but I don't think
I have one Finnish listener.

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But if I do, then I'm trying
real hard, OK?

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Please don't, please don't,
Please don't be angry at me.

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I think it sounds like the
actual happening is Etienne, but

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then the quote UN quote
doppelganger itself, like the

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name of the entity that you're
hearing mimicking your roommate

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that is Vadoga is what that
would be called a Vadoga.

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And so that sounds like what you
experienced, honestly, rather

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than it being a ghost.
I mean, you said you had other

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experiences, so maybe, maybe
that's not true, but I think

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we're on to something.
There's there's also something

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to be said about when you're
expecting to hear something and

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you're waiting on something and
then your brain hears something

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outside or something in the
house that you would normally

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pass off as nothing.
But because you're attuned and

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you're waiting and you're
primed, you know, maybe, maybe

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you didn't actually hear someone
outside your door.

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Wouldn't that be nice?
Wouldn't that be nice?

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But what if it had knocked
instead of just standing there

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breathing like a creep?
What if it had knocked?

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Would you have pooped your
pants?

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Because I would have pooped
mine.

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The Man on the Path by TJ
Hotter, creator and narrator for

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Tapes of Trepidation.
Throughout my life, I've had

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several encounters that I can
only explain as paranormal.

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I was never a firm believer in
such things until I was older.

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I guess I always thought things
needed an explanation.

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However, when you experience
strange things that you just

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cannot logically explain, no
matter how hard you try, it

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makes you a believer.
At least it sure as hell did for

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me.
Now, most of my encounters that

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are significant happened in my
early 20s while working in a

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small shop in an older building.
Stories for another time,

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perhaps.
However, these experiences

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weren't the first time I had
what I can only rationally

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explain as a paranormal
encounter.

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I had two before, and I'd like
to share one with you that left

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me very shaken to say the least.
I grew up in a rural community

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just outside of a small town.
My childhood home was pretty

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close to a major highway that
was just through a forest behind

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my house.
The forest was large enough that

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we didn't really get much of the
noise, but it was a small enough

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forest you could walk through it
in about two hours.

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Also close to my house on this
highway was a large rest stop

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area for truck drivers and
travellers.

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It was a place a lot of young
people started out their working

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careers at, myself included at
the age of 17.

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Luckily for me, there was a back
Rd. that acted as an emergency

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access Rd. for the building that
led to the rest stop just down

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the road from me.
I was able to walk to work all

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the time without any issues.
You'd walk down the back Rd. and

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could continue past the access
gate to a nature park area of

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sorts and then be at the
building.

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Alternatively, you could cut
across a path about halfway down

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the back Rd. that led through
the forest to the building.

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It was once a maintenance access
Rd. that had since been

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abandoned and overgrown.
I always took the path to work.

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It cut at least 10 minutes off
my walk and I walked down it a

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few dozen times since I was a
kid.

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However, I never walked down it
at night.

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My parents always picked me up
since there wasn't a lot of

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lights along the main back Rd.
aside from the occasional porch

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light.
It wasn't so much that they were

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worried about my safety, but
that they didn't want me coming

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across a skunk or some wild
animal of the night, which was a

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real possibility where I lived.
I didn't mind.

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Who wants to walk home after a
long shift anyway?

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One night I ended up working
much later than normal, so I

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told my parents not to wait up.
Walking home wouldn't hurt me

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anyway.
Right around 2:45, AMI set out

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to begin my walk down the
overgrown, abandoned path I had

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walked down dozens of times.
It was dark, but a fear of the

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dark has never been my thing.
Unfortunately for me, my iPod

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had died and this was a little
ways before smartphones.

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All I had was the sounds of the
surrounding woods to keep me

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company.
The moon was incredibly bright

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that night.
It almost felt like I was

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walking during the day.
Not that I was complaining, I

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didn't have to worry about
accidentally stumbling into any

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critters now.
Unless they jumped out from the

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shadows of course.
As I walked deeper down the path

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and closer to the edge of the
forest, I suddenly started to

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get a rather uneasy feeling.
I'd never felt anything like it

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before.
It made the hair on my arms

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start to rise, and I felt the
wrong kind of butterflies in my

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stomach.
It felt as if I was being

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watched.
A few seconds after this feeling

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hit me, I noticed that the
surrounding forest had grown

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quiet, which made me feel even
more uneasy.

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I picked up the pace, I was only
a couple minutes from the main

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back Rd.
I'd be fine, I just kept telling

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myself.
My worry was that a coyote was

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stalking me in the dark, which
was rare but not unheard of in

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our area of rural southern
Ontario, Canada.

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It turned out though, it wasn't
an animal watching me.

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As I saw lights from a car drive
by in the distance on the road,

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I let out a sigh of relief.
For some reason that made me

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feel better, until I heard a
voice yell from behind me, clear

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as day.
What the hell do you think

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you're doing?
I spun around, startled more

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than I'd care to admit, and saw
a man standing in the distance

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by the tree line of an area I
had walked past.

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After taking a second to settle
myself down, I just responded

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with sorry I'm just heading
home, I work at the rest stop.

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I yelled back in my most polite
tone.

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The man in the distance seemed
to be scowling from what I could

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see and was giving off a very
negative energy.

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Clearly he was pissed off.
He moved towards me a little and

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yelled at me again.
You can't just walk through

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here.
This is my goddamn land.

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I was super confused, the
Township owned this area, at

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least to my knowledge.
I tried to apologize and said I

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was just cutting through and
would leave right away.

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He just kept yelling at me and
mumbling about this being his

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land and he was sick of people
not respecting that.

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For a second I was a little
concerned for the guy.

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He was elderly, his clothes were
ratty, and his mumbling became

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more incoherent near the end of
our exchange.

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I quickly took several steps
towards him to ask if he was OK,

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and I noticed he looked pale.
Like really pale, Unnaturally

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so, nothing like I had ever seen
before.

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After a few more steps, I
stopped in my tracks.

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The man looked at me, still
mumbling to himself, but as I

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looked closer at him I noticed
his mouth wasn't moving at all,

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he was just staring at me with
an expression of pure

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malcontent.
This is when I realized

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something that made me turn
around and run faster than I

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ever had in my life.
The man was definitely standing,

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hell he was taller than me by a
bit and I'm about 6 foot.

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He was out in the open, no grass
or bushes were obscuring him.

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So when I got even closer and
could see his whole body without

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any shadows, I realized I didn't
see any legs under his body.

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This man was just floating there
staring at me.

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I didn't think, I just turned
and ran faster than I ever had

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in my life.
I turned around to see if he was

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chasing me, but he was gone.
It had only been a few seconds.

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No normal human being would have
been fast enough to leave my

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field of vision that quickly.
Even if he had run into the

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forest, I would have seen him,
or at the very least still see

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the trees moving.
He was gone with no trace.

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I kept running, got to the main
road and collapsed onto the

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ground, breathing heavily from
the run, but also from fear.

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I couldn't rationalize what I
had just experienced, and truth

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be told, I didn't want to.
That night, and for several

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nights after, the man haunted my
dreams.

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He'd never say a word.
He would just stare at me with

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that same look of pure disdain
and malcontent on his face.

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After a few nights, the
nightmares randomly stopped.

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I was grateful for that.
I never told my parents about

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what happened, or anyone else
for that matter really.

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I kept replaying it in my head
over and over again.

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I know I really had seen and
interacted with this man, but

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his skin, not seeing his legs,
Was it a trick of the light?

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I don't think so.
Do I believe a man had moved

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into the woods or was lost?
No.

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The authoritative way he spoke.
He knew where he was and what he

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was doing.
It was the sort of tone that had

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a strong purpose behind it.
I did walk down that path again,

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but only during the day and
never alone.

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I didn't have any encounters
like that again, but I also

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didn't go looking for anything
to happen either.

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Some people I worked with said
they always felt weird walking

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down that road at night too, but
they never had any encounters

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like that, although they were
never on that road as late as I

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was.
What do I think happened that

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night?
The only answer I've been able

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to come up with is I believe
that area must have once been

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the man's property and he feels
the need to watch over it.

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It's well known that people's
energy can be tied to a

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location, and the fact that it
was around 3:00 AM, I'm sure

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that was a coincidence, but it
is when the path between this

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plane and the next opens.
After all.

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It makes sense to me and it's
what I've told myself to make

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peace with it.
If that's the case, I don't

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blame the guy for yelling at me
or scaring me the way he did.

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After all, who wants random
people walking through their

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yard?
First of all, Tji suspect that

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you purposely typed out Ontario,
Canada just to make me read that

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out loud, so thank you for that.
But now I know how to pronounce

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it, so joke's on you.
Secondly, wow, I I don't know

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how you ever took that path ever
again.

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If this cranky old man with no
legs, I mean, no, that's a, you

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know, I will walk 10 more
minutes.

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Actually, now that I'm saying
that maybe that would be worth

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shaving 10 minutes off of my
walk to see it.

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Horrible angry old man
apparition.

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Those the no legs thing is so
scary because, you know, OK, so

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was it that his apparition, you
know, was only able to show up

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in that moment because he was so
mad that he used his ghost

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energy?
And so he was.

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He seemed kind of fully formed.
And then, like you said, he

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started mumbling, right?
And you couldn't really

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understand what he was saying.
And he got more and more

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incoherent.
And that's when you noticed, Oh

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my God, this man doesn't have
legs.

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So, you know, either one, did he
run out of ghost juice or two,

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in life, did he have some kind
of accident?

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You know, maybe that's how he
died.

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I mean, we'll never know.
We could find out.

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All you have to do is go back to
this back Rd. and AT2230, go

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back to this road at 2:30 AM and
then report back.

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You might need to do it a few
times.

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You might need to go back there
a few times.

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So, you know, just keep doing it
until you see him again.

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Just be, you know, I mean, you
were polite the first time, so

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maybe be a little more
disrespectful.

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Maybe try that.
Maybe that would be better.

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So keep us updated.
More to come everyone, more to

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come.
I'm not sure why my only old man

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voice is southern.
It just feels right.

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It's either like southern or
from England or maybe Ireland.

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Maybe just I can just be safe
and just say the UK.

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Those are the old men voices
that I came up with, not

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Canadian.
And I didn't want to do an

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insulting impression of
Canadians, seeing as how I have

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already embarrassed myself
within the Canadian community.

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So it is what it is now,
Strangelings, if you also enjoy

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fictional horror narration, go
ahead and check out TJ Hotter's

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Tapes of Trepidation, which is a
podcast or also a YouTube

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channel.
So go ahead, check it out.

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Tell him the Madam sent you.
Thank you so much for stopping

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by for such a lovely spooky
time.

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Now 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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Thank you for listening.
Until I heard a voice yell from

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behind me, clear as day.
What the hell do you think

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you're doing?
Why was that my accent?

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This is Canada, where was that
from?

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Thank you so much for stopping
by for such a lovely spooky

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time.
Remind yourself that you can

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feel afraid and not be in
danger.

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Until next time.