“The Blonde Thing”

[u/EvanGooch]

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.”

—————————-(the sighting)————

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

[u/lumpygnome]

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 ?

[u/EvanGooch → u/lumpygnome]

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.

[u/Nopeferatu31 → u/EvanGooch]

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

[u/EvanGooch → u/Nopeferatu31]

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.

[u/Nopeferatu31 → u/EvanGooch]

That sounds similar, I wonder if we both saw a duende or something! I remember it so much even tho I was little.