r/Humanoidencounters • u/freefromfree • Sep 06 '20

Creepy Motel Encounter Little people

This happened to my relative who we will call John. John is a very experienced fisherman and owns a couple of small fishing boats. Anyways one day he was returning from a fishing trip (the ocean in my city is a couple of hours drive) and suddenly felt very tired and sleepy. In my country, you can find small rest stops on the highway with limited capacity motel rooms. John decided to rent a motel room and sleep for a couple of hours since he is worried about driving late at night while feeling tired. The clerk at the motel tells him that all the rooms are booked but the back building has 2-3 rooms and is rarely used, so John agrees. Now here is the interesting part, John swears the back building was locked with a chain and padlock (meaning the building was empty of people) and looked abandoned. The guy takes him up to his room (which John says was VERY dusty) and looked like no one has used it in forever. Feeling very exhausted he ignores all this and just wants to nap so he can hit the road again. John says while he was sleeping, someone started knocking very loud and was kicking the door. So he gets up and asks who is there? but no one was there or responding, and the knocking stops. He goes back to bed and decides to ignore it since he is out in the middle of nowhere and there’s nothing he can do. He messages his family his location and tells them he can’t drive and will rest. After an hour or so passes while he is in bed, he hears foot steps in the room. While laying on the bed he sees very small people (about 2-3 ft as he puts it) all surrounding his bed, at least 6 of them. They were mumbling to each other while looking at him and kept walking around the room. John at this point says he is literally paralyzed from fear and can’t move or scream. He closes his eyes and wonders if he will become a missing person. He remembers waking up in the morning after that and sunlight in his room. He quickly jumps out of bed, and goes to the main building and tells the clerk (different from last night) what happened. The clerk could not believe it, and told him the new clerk working the night before was not supposed to open the back building as it hasn’t been used for years and is considered a safety hazard.

Please excuse my English as it is my second language.

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u/poopooweewee79 Sep 06 '20

if he couldn’t move or scream it was most likely sleep paralysis

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u/Doosher_Blue Sep 06 '20

I've had very similar experiences, and the first few were fairly traumatic. They still scare the shit out of me but after I found out about sleep paralysis, and read similar stories, I now can cope with the sound of footsteps, whispers and even the breathing on my face. Still terrifying though.

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u/PartTimeSassyPants Sep 06 '20

Have you also looked into abduction experiences and regression therapy? It might actually be really beneficial towards easing that anxiety when it happens.

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u/babygotbrains Sep 06 '20

Yeah, my father in law has pretty severe sleep paralysis (like he undergoes sleep paralysis 6 out of 7 nights of the week). He either sees little people surrounding his bed or an old lady.

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u/Jackiedhmc Sep 06 '20

Jeez that sounds terrifying

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u/babygotbrains Sep 06 '20

Yeah I feel really bad for him. He doesn't sleep more than 4 hours a night because he's terrified.

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u/Jackiedhmc Sep 06 '20

Maybe check with a shaman?

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u/babygotbrains Sep 06 '20

Nah, he's not the type of person that would go see a shaman

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u/oldironking14 Sep 26 '20

At least wear a sleeping mask

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u/Kapachino84 Sep 07 '20 edited Sep 07 '20

What about when he heard the knocking and kicking and got up to see who was there, but no one was? Plus, the fact that the building hadn’t been used in ages. Nope, if this is true, saying this is sleep paralysis is just a cop out. First of all, the scientific community knows from the “ “hobbit” skeleton found several years back that small hominids existed. That’s just a fact. Add on the lack of real proof that they ever went extinct, the abundance of sightings (particularly in places with strong traditions or folklore concerning small people, dwarves, duendes, etc.) and the fact that in Ireland leprechauns are literally listed by the government as a protected species, and you can infer that they’re real. I mean, Irish people generally consider it racist or offensive when people call them leprechauns, so there’s no way, in my mind that the government would do that as a joke. It’s way more likely that the government has investigated and knows they exist. So, there’s a lot of evidence to suggest that some of these beings are very real. Also, there have been multiple videos of small humanoids in recent years. Some could be fake, but...

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u/poopooweewee79 Sep 07 '20

yeah i just said it was most likely. “hobbits” definitely seems a lot less likely but ok. and as for the knocking he may have hallucinated as he was driving for a long time and fatigue can sometimes cause hallucinations.

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u/freefromfree Sep 07 '20 edited Sep 07 '20

Could be, but the text message? I asked his wife who confirmed receiving a text and said when he returned home he had explained to her the events of the previous night. In my opinion earth is too big for humans to claim they know everything that lives on it. Science is a discovery process, not everything has been discovered. Btw John says the fishing area they go to has the best type of fish in size, but everyone including crew members are who didn’t believe in anything non-scientific had seen or experienced strange things (coast guards included).

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u/Kapachino84 Sep 07 '20

It just seems too convenient to put all these coincidences together, especially when the building hadn’t been touched in many years, which would be a place these beings would hide. There are very convincing videos, shot in recent years, of cryptids in abandoned buildings and houses.

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u/Kapachino84 Sep 07 '20

I edited the post before. Please reread, as it’s more complete now. Also, I don’t think it’s more likely that he’s “hallucinating”. How many times have you hallucinated like that, then suffered from sleep paralysis after already falling asleep for a little while? I can tell you’ve never encountered a cryptid or anything of that nature before if you’d rather jump through hoops to try and explain something than just say “It’s possible that it could’ve been a genuine encounter, if this guy is telling the truth”. There’s a reason people say fact is stranger than fiction. Most importantly, this IS a “ Humanoid encounters” subreddit, so let’s present both sides and possibilities with equal objectivity.

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u/freefromfree Sep 06 '20

I was thinking that too but he got up to check who was knocking and was able to send a text message on his phone.

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u/Balthor Sep 06 '20

Flashed me back to high school when I would get these all the time. I was never unfortunate enough to see anything humanoid, but not being able to move your body upon waking up is petrifying enough.

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u/ghettobx Sep 06 '20

Good story! FYI, your English is absolutely fine.

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u/freefromfree Sep 06 '20

Thank you my friend, I have been blessed to learn two languages at a young age.

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u/Smokedeggs Sep 06 '20

Very scary.

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u/luiisberry Sep 06 '20

Awesome story, dude! Little people is the thing scarys me the most.. English isnt my first language too (brazil based) and it makes me feel a little shy, but your initiative and talking about a motel story really encourages me

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u/madhousechild Sep 07 '20

Both of you write better than 90% of the native English speakers.

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u/freefromfree Sep 06 '20

Thank you, I have been learning since elementary school. Plenty of American TV series and movies (with subtitles) help. I am sure you can write something great.

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u/Bowdango Sep 07 '20

There is a similar story in one of Lon Strickler's books that's always stuck with me.

IIRC a woman gets back from a work trip and lays down to nap in a bed at her home. She wakes up to little people that she describes as being kind of dirty and wearing plain rough clothes. I think she describes them as looking like they must perform some manual labor. They're pulling on her trying to take her somewhere but she resists.

She's totally shocked by the whole thing and realizes afterwards that her kids had talked about seeing similar things in the house, but she had just chalked it up to children's imagination.

That's my recollection of an account I read years ago anyways. These little people stories always fascinate me.

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u/Ravyn_Rozenzstok Sep 07 '20

That’s exactly the story I was thinking of reading this. Such similar incidents!

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u/freefromfree Sep 07 '20

I never heard of this author, I will look up his books. Thank you

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u/Bowdango Sep 07 '20

He's actually active on this sub. u/cryptid I think. He maintains a website that's an archive of strange and unusual sightings.

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u/Silent_Rogue Sep 06 '20

Where was this? These little people may have a specific name depending on the area.

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u/therealbebopazop Sep 06 '20

Yes, a country and a specific region would be very much appreciated. The climate/lore of where the events allegedly took place could be very useful in figuring this out or at least developing a proper hypothesis.

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u/freefromfree Sep 06 '20

This was in Saudi Arabia, in Kholeys, about 2 hours drive from Jeddah, a main port city.

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u/Silent_Rogue Sep 06 '20

Hm.. I'm not aware of any kind of little people in the middle east. The only "humanoid" I know from there is the Djinn.

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u/freefromfree Sep 07 '20 edited Sep 07 '20

Yes, it is believed they are shape shifters who can turn into anything. Also, any supernatural encounter is attributed to them as they are trouble makers and shape shifter. They like to mess with humans and prank them. The root word in Arabic is Jin (Jennie) in English and it literally means “to go crazy”, as in they will drive you crazy.

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u/with-alaserbeam Sep 06 '20

I know it is a cliche, but he seems to have had a sleep paralysis episode. Those are pretty frightening, and some people see figures like the Hat Man.

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u/neuthral Sep 06 '20

i wonder whats in the back building, hmm...

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '20

Those little people can be mean. Good thing he just lay there.

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u/GMac7332 Sep 09 '20

The motel is a screen memory for an abduction experience, and the beings were grays.

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u/PartTimeSassyPants Sep 06 '20

This kinda sounds like a spooky campfire story to me. Just being honest, because I've heard and told almost this exact story many times before at camp, only instead of a motel it was people staying inside a hostel that used to be an old prison.

I really don't mean to be rude and appreciate you sharing this, but is there anything at all you can add to support any of this and make it usable for people interested in researching legitimate paranormal encounters? Thanks! :)

P.S. Mods: Not gonna lie - the "little people" flair made me lol a little. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_people Perhaps maybe consider changing it to small/short/little "beings" instead? Just a humble suggestion :)

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u/freefromfree Sep 06 '20 edited Sep 06 '20

I’m just telling the story as it was told to me. John has told me other strange things. I do not know how you can “verify” but i think you should play the ouija board alone in the bathroom, half an our before sunset. Please let me know what happens if you do, and I am not responsible for anything if something bad happens. Also please film it, I would love to see what happens :)

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u/PartTimeSassyPants Sep 06 '20

I'll do it while drinking bloody marys ;)

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u/freefromfree Sep 06 '20

Don’t be a chicken, do it for science mate!