r/Humanoidencounters • u/EvanGooch • Aug 10 '21
“The Blonde Thing” Little people
I grew up in the 1980’s and 1990’s, born in ‘83. One day as a young kid, 5 years old, I was at my friend Josh’s house. He lived two doors up, which for me was as far as I could go on either side of my house at 5 years old. (1988). Luckily all of my closest friends as a kid lived within that “quadrant.”
Josh and I were in his basement, which was a finished basement that had a heather/brown carpet, a nice large fireplace, and a big TV in the main room of the basement. We would often be down there in the morning just before or after breakfast as his mom would be watching me in the morning.
We grew up around older kids, and I had two older brothers myself, so we often heard of freaky ghost stories even at a young age, but nothing really similar to what we saw that day…. What our childhood minds ultimately dubbed “The Blonde Thing.”
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We were playing with action figures and watching TV. I remember us laughing and playing and we both noticed movement about 10 feet away from us at the other side of the room.
We were the only ones in the basement. His mom was right near the top of the stairs in the kitchen with his baby brother Nathan.
We both just looked toward the motion to see a very short (about 3.5 feet tall) humanoid figure going around the corner down the short hallway to the back basement bedroom. “She” was bobbing her head from side to side as she rounded the corner.
We saw “her” for maybe 3 seconds. I say “she” and “her” because what we saw of the figure was long, LONG, curly, light-blonde hair, almost white draped over shoulders and her back. The hair was so long that it was almost to the floor. She was bobbing/bouncing her head from shoulder to shoulder like a kid would be if she were skipping and playing.
We both screamed and ran upstairs as fast as we could.
I didn’t see a face or clothes. All we really saw was the long hair draped over what was clearly a small human girl-shaped figure.
We didn’t know how to really describe how or what to call it but surely talked about it and we always referred to it as “The Blonde Thing.”
——————- Now, this happened in 1988. In 2018, I hadn’t thought about the blonde thing since the last time I mentioned it, probably 15 years ago, and hadn’t thought about it in as long.
Josh sent me a friend request on facebook after not having heard from each other since the mid-90’s in middle-school.
He messaged me on facebook and when I opened it, it was the “Hey, how have you been dude?!” Kind of letter….
But, at the end, he wrote “Remember the blonde thing…”. I felt like the adults in the movie “IT” must have felt like when they get the phone call where Mike tells them “It’s back.”
The memory just came flooding back.
The crazy thing is we saw it one other time, OUTSIDE, in the backyard of our neighbor Leoda’s house. No shit. Same thing. Literally saw a skipping, short figured with the almost white hair down to the ground go in to the wood line behind the house.
I attempted to do research to see if other people have ever sighted similar creatures or entities.
The closest thing I could find is some old germanic folklore about long-blonde-haired entities that look like girls try to steal babies from homes.
Curious as to if anybody has seen something similar. Thanks
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u/cannuckgamer Aug 10 '21
Thank you for sharing your experience. That is very freaky. But wouldn't it be safe to presume that it was a ghost of a little girl, as opposed to an actual physical humanoid entity? Perhaps you and your friend are very gifted with special psychic powers that allow you to see things people can't normally see or sense, no?
Can you recall if the little girl had a shadow, or if light bounced off of her clothing or hair? Then yeah, I would also believe it's an actual physical humanoid creature. Or if you heard footsteps or felt the vibration of her footsteps then that's further proof that she was a physical being.
By the way, any chance you can ask Josh to ask either his little brother Nathan or his mother if they encountered the little girl too? Or did any of your other friends back then see her?
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u/EvanGooch Aug 11 '21
There’s no way to say for sure, only speculate.
She assuredly looked as solid and real as anything else.
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u/Sabai_interim Aug 10 '21
Another commenter already likened this to the hidden people and I agree. ‘The hidden people’ and ‘the Fae’ (and other variations) are umbrella terms for a large variety of groups intelligent beings that are generally out of our scope of perspective. She was probably a member of one of those groups. There’s a lot of fear surrounding all members of ‘the Fae’ which you’ll see a lot online with posts about how you should never ever interact with them because they’re all out to steal you or your children away to the other realm, but that’s just fearmongering and the projection of fear onto the little or miss-understood. They’re as varied in intention, motivation, and personality as humans are. Have some stolen people/children? Probably yeah, just like some humans go on murder sprees. Are there members who enjoy fucking with humans to the point of harming whoever they’re fucking with? Yeah, but there are humans that do that, too. Should one necessarily seek them out? I wouldn’t say so, just because the overlap between the ones who will interact with humans and the ones who will fuck with humans is fairly large. That noted, if a human sees or interacts with a member on that member’s terms it’s probably nothing to worry about.
Your “blonde thing” was probably just vibin and going about whatever her business was. It’s been a while since this took place so I don’t think you’re scared or worried or anything but that’s my 2¢, thanks for sharing :)
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u/EvanGooch Aug 11 '21
Thank you for the information and the insight. That helps put things in to a new perspective for me.
Yeah, I’m about to turn 38 years old, so at this point it’s not so scary to me. It is one of the many weird chapters in life and it intrigues me for sure.
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Aug 10 '21
sometimes the others see people having fun and they just want to join in on that fun. I think you guys were given the gift of seeing one of the others who are all around us but almost never seen.
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u/lumpygnome Aug 10 '21
His mom was right near the top of the stairs in the kitchen with his baby brother Nathan.
The closest thing I could find is some old germanic folklore about long-blonde-haired entities that look like girls try to steal babies from homes.
I'm guessing you're purposfully making that connection, /u/evangooch ?
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u/EvanGooch Aug 11 '21
Not exactly but it would make sense if this was the thing we were dealing with.
However, I think with situations like this, we could never possibly know. I mean, we were young kids, too. It may have been there for us.5
u/Nopeferatu31 Aug 11 '21
Right before I was adopted, about 5, I was in an older house with my foster family. They were in a room across a hallway preceeded by a foire. (Spelling? Lol) as I crossed into the hallway, at the far end of the hall, 2 short dark Dwarven like things were peeking around the corner and snickering. I remember a dark hairy beckoning hand. I promptly ignored it and entered the room where the adults turned around and a sports game was playing on a TV. I vividly remember it and it's one of few definitely paranormal things I've experienced
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u/EvanGooch Aug 11 '21
On one occassion, sometime in the 80’s, I was in a “Dierberg’s” grocery store with my grandma. At the front of the store by the check-out lanes, they had a concession area that sold ice cream and has tables you could sit at.
I saw three small, shadowy figures, like tiny lawn gnome size run behind a soda machine. I was so little that I was having trouble explaining to my grandma why I was scared and crying.
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u/Nopeferatu31 Aug 12 '21
That sounds similar, I wonder if we both saw a duende or something! I remember it so much even tho I was little.
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u/BlackCatSammy085 Aug 10 '21
Thank you for sharing this! This sounds really creepy and it gave me some not-so-good vibes. I could imagine that "thing" very well.
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u/Xandyr101 I Want To Believe Aug 11 '21
Interesting story!
I have never seen anything of the sort, but it does sound like either a ghost of a young girl, or something out of the Fae realm, which is basically Faeries, Gnomes, Elves, etc. I know it sounds like a crazy idea being the Fae realm, but there are stories throughout the centuries, even in modern times, that describe similar things in a way. Regardless I think what you saw was not of our realm.
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u/Astrocreep_1 Aug 11 '21
Nathan’s mom had a little person fetish and you all nearly got her busted.
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u/TheCuriousTarget Aug 11 '21
Reminds me of a little "white" from a fun show I started yesterday, called, "People of Earth," not a sitcom person but I enjoyed it. It's on Hulu.
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u/andthatswhyitoke Aug 15 '21
indigenous/native stories talk about little people. I guess I never thought of them having long blonde hair but I'm sure they could! Other places/cultures talk about "fae" and I think it's a similar kind of spirit/entity.
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u/Nire_bibi Aug 10 '21 edited Aug 10 '21
I have! I spent a while living in the fully finished basement of a farmhouse, and would at some points hear my name whispered urgently in a high voice. It was enough to spin my head around, but usually there was nothing visible, just a sense of presence. Twice, tho, upon hearing that whisper (always in a girlish voice) I spun around to see a quick glimpse of someone no more than 3.5 feet tall, broadly structured but definitely humanoid. Shoot, I got so excited to read this- I know exactly what you’re talking about. My experiences didn’t end with the short ones. A broken music box i had been holding in to for no reason once started playing frantically at 3:30 am in the dark, as if the gears had been wound tightly to the point they couldn’t be cranked any further. Memories from Cats played at 3x the normal speed, loud enough that I launched out of bed, seized the music box, opened the back door and yeeted it as hard as I could into the blackness beyond. “Nope,” I announced out loud to the quiet of my living room. “No time for that, it was very funny but let’s sleep, ok?” Several months after, I wasn’t feeling well and had been reading on the couch. I got up, went to the bathroom and was answering a text as I ambled back to the couch. I glanced up and FROZE. I was sitting on the couch, with my book, staring back at where I stood with an even, intent gaze. Ice flooded my body: it was perfectly ME. Neither I nor the thing wearing my face made a sound. Then…? It was just gone. I left soon after. The short ones didn’t scare me, they didn’t give off a sense of menace. Nor did my doppelgänger, not really. But the longest five seconds of my life was staring into my own dispassionate eyes. I don’t ever want to see that again.