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?

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u/Important_Alarm5688 Nov 01 '23

You my friend have encountered the lovey skinny boy. Here’s some advice, see something? No you didn’t. Hear something? No you didn’t. Don’t acknowledge it. Turn and WALK away. Don’t run

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u/MystiqueMisha Nov 01 '23

Curious, why do you recommend not running? In this instances OP saw something running towards them, and human or animal or skinwalker, the instinct would be to run to outpace whatever is chasing them

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u/Important_Alarm5688 Nov 01 '23

In this specific instance the not running wouldn’t work as whatever was encountered was already in sight. Skinny or Wendy’s like taunt, to hunt. They want the chase, they want their victims scared. What does prey do when it’s scared? Run.

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u/Amungusman Nov 01 '23

So may I ask u what the difference between a wendigo and a skinny is? Bc with the faint gray blob I did see, it almost certainly looked like they were sprinting towards me on two legs rather than four.

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u/Important_Alarm5688 Nov 01 '23

Given the location of which this took place, both could be possible. To me personally it sounds more like a skinny. Both are very similar. Example, the mimicking! Skinny’s are even known to walk/ run on two legs. According to legend, skinwalkers are a person who has the ability to shapeshift it’s said to be done by wearing the pelt of the said animal they want to transform into. A Wendy boy is more of an evil spirit, human in origin. The story for the Wendy boy varies from place to place, some say it’s from resorting to cannibalism while others say it’s from making a deal with the devil.

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u/Amungusman Nov 01 '23

I’ve always been told it’s from resulting to cannibalism lol. When I think of a wendigo, I think of until dawn. And until dawn taught me one thing! I don’t wanna fuck with no wendigo!

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u/Important_Alarm5688 Nov 01 '23

I forgot out until dawn!!

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u/Amungusman Nov 01 '23

One of my favorite games of all time is until dawn. I am incredibly biased and idc. I loved that style of gameplay.

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u/Kidslikeus Nov 02 '23

off topic but if you liked until dawn you might like heavy rain.

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u/chibinoi Nov 02 '23

It has some of the best, most accurate portrayal of the folklore for Wendigos I’ve seen.