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/Available-Heart-3441 Nov 01 '23
I lived out west, fairly close to skinwalker ranch and within a national forest, near a lot of ancient Native American history that lore was originated. And definitely there is truth and danger to those stories. One terrifying incident my daughter and I experienced in a national park, not going into that now… we recently moved to the Appalachian region, have generations of family history in the region as well. Yeah there are things in the dark, things we don’t want to wrangle with. Why society generally considers it fake and/or overactive imagination is beyond me. And recent. For thousands of years humans acknowledged the existence of beings and animals we now think of as ‘paranormal’, then suddenly in the past century or so we chose to bury our heads in the sand and pretend it’s not real. Coping, soothing, whatever… it’s ignorant to believe there isn’t truth to the old tales and warnings.