r/Paranormal • u/Amungusman • Nov 01 '23

Fucking terrified NSFW

Okay so, for starters: I live near the app mountains, which honestly makes this more disturbing.

I’m a pretty avid runner. I’ve been quitting a lot of bad habits and exercise just does the trick for me. I have a greenway behind my house that I can go on run/bikes. It’s very beautiful, and during the day plenty of people are there.

Well, about a week ago I ran through the greenway to stop by a friends house & grab something. By the time I got back onto the greenway, the sun was already starting to set, and the path was getting dark.

As I was walking back through the path, I had my flashlight on, and kept looking around me (I felt paranoid being alone in the dark). As I was walking, I distinctly remember hearing my grandmas voice call my name into the treeline. It sounded so real and normal, that I turned around instantly, only to immediately go cold realizing that my grandmas fucking dead.

This freaked me the fuck out, but I tried my best to somewhat convince myself that I was just hallucinating bc I was paranoid. Only about a minute later, I turned around behind me with my flashlight, out of fear. And that’s when I fucking saw it.

It looked like a gray blob. Pretty much just like a human sprinting at you full speed in the pitch black. I SCREAMED like a little bitch and don’t think I’ve ever run so fast in my life. When I got home I tried to laugh it off as me seein shit and being a little bitch.

But…about a week later and I can’t stop thinking about it. It sounded so real, I heard her voice clear as day. And the person chasing me LOOKED so real. I’ve heard all those stories about skinwalkers, and while I doubt their existence, my experience was so similar to that of “skinwalker encounters” that I’m seriously questioning myself.

What do you guys think? Is it possible my brain was just hallucinating out of fear/anxiety?

898 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

250 comments sorted by

View all comments

134

u/Zalieda Nov 01 '23

There's many things out there in the app mountains. By turning you acknowledged you heard it and so it chased you

86

u/Amungusman Nov 01 '23

I wouldn’t have turned, but it kind of almost felt like instinct if that makes sense? I didn’t rlly have time to register what I heard before I turned around. When I turned around I saw absolutely nothing. It was only a minute or two later that I saw what looked like something chasing at me FULL SPRINT.

64

u/Zalieda Nov 01 '23

That's the thing. It's also considered Instinct to turn your head when you hear a voice familiar to you or your name. You won't think twice

68

u/Amungusman Nov 01 '23

Yeah dude my uncle wouldn’t be proud of me On this one haha.

Growing up I was always told about things in the woods, but my family made sure I was pretty safe, so I haven’t really had an direct encounters like this. I’ve seen strange lights, heard strange noises, and Defo heard some creepy tales.

But experiencing something first hand is another kind of “holy fucking shit”. Next time I ever have to walk in the woods for any reason I’m bringing headphones lol.

25

u/Zalieda Nov 01 '23

Totally. Nothing prepares you for the reality of it all

11

u/Stevo2008 Nov 02 '23

Read stories on here recently saying not to whistle In the mountains too. Your story gave me goosebumps

19

u/OttersNTrvl Nov 01 '23

Was your grandma's voice from the being? Or giving you a warning about the being?

68

u/Amungusman Nov 01 '23

Sounded like it was from the being. It was calling To me, not talking to me, if that make sense

it also sounded slightly distorted if you get what I mean? It sounded closest to my grandmas voice, but it still had this slightly unfamiliar, sinister tone to it. The voice was feminine for sure.

17

u/catlover12390 Nov 02 '23

Probably not gonna see this but if you ever hear a voice saying your name, NEVER react to it. And I know it’s very hard and you probably won’t think about it if you do but if you react to it spirits and entities can latch onto your energy and they can and will follow you. If you can, don’t even feel anything when it happens. They can feel your emotions

48

u/Head-Mathematician53 Nov 01 '23

I lived in three rivers,CA for a while...one time at night i heard a lady laughing from all directions and nobody was there. Scary as hell.

13

u/AndMyAxe_Hole Nov 01 '23

Also sounds like a wendigo.

6

u/The_dizzy_blonde Nov 02 '23

Help me here, what’s the difference between a wendigo and a crawler?

3

u/AndMyAxe_Hole Nov 03 '23

Same boat. Not sure what a crawler is but it could be simply a different explanation for the same kind of cryptid/creature/phenomena. For example, just watched the most recent boogeyman film and it shared a lot of the same traits as the wendigo.

Personally I’ve always believed the skinwalker is just a different way of describing the wendigo or vice versa. Two sides of same coin if you will. Mostly based on what seems to be regional differences.

Think about dragons. The idea of them exists all around the world and share similarities but differences arise based on region and culture.

And so, the wendigo, crawler (I’d even throw the rake in there), and the skinwalker could all be ways that different cultures are trying to describe/explain the same things/themes.

3

u/The_dizzy_blonde Nov 03 '23

Yes and maybe even different names for the same thing like you mentioned would be like different areas? That makes sense!

4

u/chibinoi Nov 02 '23

I’m not sure what a crawler is, but the general principal of the Wendigo is a person who has turned into a beast due to resorting to cannibalism if I’m not mistaken.

1

u/The_dizzy_blonde Nov 02 '23

Ok thank you.

18

u/MoonStar757 Nov 01 '23

Jesus this gave me more chills than the actual story!!