Skinwalker or Illusion? #RedditStories

Scary stories Story one where is Ashley my small town was pretty uneventful and quiet just like most small towns this was the type of place where everywhere you went you would bump into someone familiar so anything of even the slightest interest would have everyone absolutely buzzing with conversation

Where got out pretty quickly that a distraught family had awoken to realize their daughter was missing we had a sense of camaraderie in our small community looking out for each other was the norm besides what else do we have if not each other Ashley was your stereotypical little girl she loved her

Dolls and Barbies and would spend countless hours hosting tea parties with them missing poster signs sprang up all over town there wasn’t a place you could go that you wouldn’t see her picture plastered up on a poster police investigations always turned up nothing everyone started to become increasingly

Frustrated that there were no leads no signs of Breakin no signs of a struggle just nothing Ashley had seemingly just vanished Into Thin Air and the parents became more and more disheartened with each passing day all they wanted was their precious little girl back becoming worried that the police would soon shut

The case Ashley’s parents decided it was time to take matters into their own hands if their daughter was out there they were going to find her no matter the cost as stated this was a tight neck community and everyone was devastated for the family people were often visiting The Grieving family to offer

Condolences and support in any way they could help who would do this to an innocent little girl their hearts hurt right there with them Ashley’s parents suggested it would be a good idea to gather as many of the town’s people as they could and go on their own search

Even though police had done their own sweep they assumed they had to be overlooking something people don’t just vanish from their beds at night never to be seen again now with a decently sized group of people they started their search scrounging every single area of the Town turned up nothing they started

To question if they should venture out farther from the town before someone asked has anyone checked in the woods it was a valid question because that particular area seemed to have been the only place at this point that wasn’t thoroughly searched by the town’s people by this time Nightfall would be coming

Soon they knew they wouldn’t be prepared Asis everyone r rushed to their homes to gather flashlights and supplies to Aid them with the search after everyone had gathered what they needed it was time to begin the search these Woods were very dense and dark even during the day so

Finding Ashley would prove to be difficult if she was even in there to begin with they also feared for the worst if they did discover her after a long hike and search everyone started to feel like Ashley would never be found then from the back of the group someone

Stated hey there’s something on the ground over here everyone rushed over to where the man was pointing his light looking down everyone became heartbroken when they discovered it was one of Ashley’s favorite dolls their heartbreak turned to horror when they discovered another doll laying beside it holding

Hands a doll that was unfamiliar to her parents that they knew she didn’t have one that resembled the little girl identically Ashley was finally found story two my Skinwalker story to preface this I’m somewhere in the middle of a skeptic and a believer in the Paranormal

So take my story how you will I’m just recounting what I saw I apologize for the wall of text my dad is from a small village in southern Mexico in the rainforest a very third world country type of place no internet no hot water people still speak May when I was 18 we

Visited for the first time when he got his papers fixed and it was a beautiful experience the second day we were there was a Sunday so everyone in the village goes to church we go start meeting people and a very old couple come up to

Us and start talking to us in Mayan we don’t know it so our family is translating for us and long story short turns out they are witches and they live up in the mountains and every Sunday they come down to church walking and it takes them 6 hours to get there and

Another six to get back I brush this off and we go home a few hours later they showed up at our Grandma’s house my aunt tells my dad you have to offer them something and they’ll go away and leave you alone so to play along my dad does

This he gets two bags and fills it with food and drinks they go on their way but before they do the lady walks up to my mom and tells her something in mine with a big smile on her face they left and my mom asked my aunt what she said my aunt

Said the lady had told my mom I want to take you home with me and eat you at this point the whole situation is we weird and were not really sure what to think about this whole witch thing but it’s over or so I thought it was at

Around 5:30 p.m. I was bored and decided to go for a little walk to the river 15 minutes away when I’m almost there I noticed it started to get dark and rain clouds started to form I was already almost there so I decided to keep going

As soon as I get there it starts to rain like crazy and there’s thunderstorms the sky is now completely dark and there’s no street lights out there of any sort so it’s pitch black I started walking back disappointed cause I wanted to chill there 5 minutes into my walk back

In the rain and darkness I seen a silhouette about 40 ft away it was something on all fours so I thought it was my family’s dog he would follow us whenever we walked anywhere this would have been a pretty big dog in this case which he was I wasn’t alarmed I walked

Closer calling his name out as I get closer I swear to God I see this thing start to slowly go from all fours to standing up keep in mind it’s pitch black out there so all I’m really seeing as a silhouette I’m not really freaking

Out at the moment I think I was too shocked to have a reaction to What was going going on now getting closer this thing is standing up walking and what would you know as we walk past each other I can finally make out what it is

And it’s the old witch lady from earlier from there I walked home and never looked back told the family and they told me their stories of skinwalkers there but they never believed them we never saw the old lady again after that not even at church the next week I don’t

Know what I saw but my guess would be this lady is actually a witch and she can Skinwalker so here’s my true story I hope you enjoyed it Story three trophies of horror in my hometown of n we had three different science teachers in the winter semester of my senior year

We all loved Mrs Harper but she went on maternity leave her replacement was a nutcase she was a complete psycho she lasted 2 weeks before the principal had to let her go they had a disagreement about what science is and what religion is she is replaced by Mr Christensen the

First thing he does is redecorate the science lab with all his Taxidermy some are pretty cool but it freaked out many kids especially the Freshman he had all kinds of animals stationed all around the lab on his desk ask up front he had an armadillo and on top of the chemistry

Cabinet a raccoon the girls found the posum the creepiest because its eyes were so bright and seemed to stare at you from wherever you were in the room I was fascinated by the Taxidermy and looked closely at the animals with Mr Christensen he’s weird but knowledgeable he said Taxidermy has been his hobby

Since he was in high school I complimented his work and he just swelled with pride he was more used to criticism and shrieks than compliments several classmates accused me of sucking up to get a better grade but I was AED by the realness of the eyes Mr

Christensen even said the eyes are the key to Great Taxidermy in life the eyes of humans and animals are the most intricately designed feature of our faces our eyes are as unique as our personalities our eyes aren’t just the windows to our souls they are our souls

Fast forwarding 10 years I’m working in Nashville and married my wife and I love these crime scene investigation shows so in the evenings before bed we watch one night they are dissecting the crimes of a serial killer and they put a picture of a man’s face up on the screen it was

My senior year science teacher I screamed that’s Bill Christensen he wasn’t the victim on the coroner’s table he was the killer he was our science teacher only for a few months as Mrs Harper returned after her maternity leave in the spring but for 3 months we

Had a serial killer as our teacher it was worse than simply murdering multiple people he mutilated their bodies but the scariest thing was that he took trophies from each victim if you already guessed it was their eyes you would be correct Story 4 I bought some land for hunting

But got more than I bargained for I purchased a hunting property in southern Maryland a few years ago it’s a decent chunk of land over 400 Acres almost entirely wooded its history goes all the way back to the 1660s when it was deeded to some English military Kel it has an

Old plantation style house built in the 1870s we were told the original house had burned down it has a family Cemetery with gravestones that go back to the 1780s and a lot of overgrown boxwood bushes the place did seem a little creepy right off the bat but but I’ve

Always been a pragmatic kind of person I didn’t give that stuff a second thought the land had been leased by a hunting club for the past 20 or so years all the stands were set up and trails were already established it was a perfect fit

For us at one point I made an off-handed joke to the hunting club guy about the haunted house it really does look like one he said something along the lines of yay this place will make your hair stand up sometimes he seemed surprisingly serious I thought he was going to make a

Joke back about it again I didn’t make much of it but it stuck out in my mind the house was unlivable at the time of purchase so we were commuting back and forth from a friend anytime we needed to be down there to get work done I had

Never been there at night by the time deer season came around me and four other guys went to the opening day for rifles we have to get to our stands pretty early when it’s still dark we each go alone to different stands in different areas first light is usually

Around 6:15 so we got there around 5:15 it’s about a 15minute hike through the woods to the stand I was at opening day no issues nothing weird happened kind of a slow morning saw a couple deer but nothing worth taking second day with the same schedule I got there at 5:15 and

Started my hike out part of this hike is on a long and straight logging path once I got on this logging path I started to get the sense that someone was watching me the feeling came out of nowhere I’ve hunted since I was a kid and have had

Deer snort and stomp at me in the dark I know the wildlife is always watching but this felt very different I shine the flashlight through the trees in all directions didn’t see anything and choked it up to be paranoid because of what the hunting club I said it was an

Intense feeling I got to my stand which is what we call a ladder stand it’s basically a ladder going up a tree with a seat at the top got situated and was looking down at my phone since it was still dark out of the top of my vision I

Saw a bright light looked up real quick and it was a bluish white glow that lasted about 2 seconds at about 1 15 minutes 200 yard out straight ahead my adrenaline was pumping like crazy I thought to myself what the heck was that the next closest Hunter was probably

Close 500 yd away but to my left there’s there’s no way I could have ever seen his light through the trees I kept my stare at that same spot for what felt like forever but never saw it again I ended up trying to justify it in my head

As either like seeing stars or maybe a hallucination of some sort around 9: or 10:00 a.m. I got down and walked in that general direction to see if I could see anything real quick but there was nothing we’re on private land there’s no one else out here two guys got deer that

Morning I did not decided not to mention the light to anyone it was probably just in my head anyways a three we switched up who went to witch stands since the two guys who got deer weren’t there one of the guys did end up going to the

Stand I was at let’s call him John the day went on as normal but was another bummer none of us saw anything worth taking John didn’t mention anything out of the ordinary and by that point I had started to forget about the light and didn’t care anymore day four was our

Last day and was another normal day but thankfully I had finally gotten my deer a small seveno point but I was happy John ended up taking a spike for the meat and the other guy decided not to take anything we went our separate ways a couple weeks later I decided to put up

Some trail cams and sent out a text to the group with a joke about maybe catching the old Colonel wandering around that’s when I got a call from John and he told me he forgot to tell me that he saw lights in the woods at the

Same stand I did my heart dropped I said dude you’re not going to believe this but I saw the same thing I asked what color it was in in which direction he said it was like a bright blue or white straight out said it was quick on and

Off so he couldn’t say exactly I thought for sure at that point the place was haunted but had to go out there I immediately drove down and scoured the area in front of that stand after about 15 minutes walking around in the vicinity of where I thought that light

Was I found an old ladder stand looked like it had been there for a long time maybe 5 minutes 10 years still could be used but it wouldn’t be safe we had a poacher on the property I called the game warden but she said unless I caught

The guy there was nothing they could do just told me to take the old stand down which I did I set up cameras in that area and never saw anybody I wish I had told Jon about the light I still feel like an ass it was an incredibly

Dangerous situation for for both of us thankfully nothing bad happened it’s been about 3 years since then and I haven’t had any issues have done a lot of walking looking for old stands and I actually have found a couple more I took down I tell everyone now who hunts here

To tell me if they see anything out of the ordinary Story five the man in the kitchen one day I was with my mom and we went to her best friend house I want to say I was around 3/4 her house was located on the east side of La she

Stayed in this big brown three-bedroom old school type of home it had an upstairs and basement the house already gave spooky Vibes during the night time just by the way it looked but anyways we ended up staying over all day my mom’s friend had this stairway that led to the

Upstairs bedrooms I remember it was night time and the lights in the house were on but no one was downstairs I heard my mom and Pooh laughing talking Etc the TV downstairs was on and on the screen was Rugrats I was watching TV from the staircase I remember sliding

Down each stair one by one all the way to the bottom when I reached the bottom I’m now in this spacious living room just standing there looking around I wasn’t all that familiar with the house yet so I just explored with my eyes now looking around my focus stops right at

The kitchen I see an older African American man sitting in a chair at the kitchen table he had on reading glasses he wasn’t facing me it was like he was just living not once did he look my way and not once did I go near him I wasn’t

Scared he didn’t make me feel uneasy he just literally sat there looking like he was just waiting for his morning coffee or something I of course I did crawl my ass back up the stairs as fast as I could to my mom and Pooh and told them immediately now here’s the scary part

After telling them what I just saw they both looked at me crazily I scared my mom’s best friend because the description of the man I saw in the kitchen was her dad who passed away from a heart attack in that house years before I was born my mom knew him as

Well since they were teenagers she told me that he used to smoke his cigarettes and he’d always be in that kitchen sitting down with his newspaper I scared my mom’s best friend to the point that every time she would see me after this altercation she’d ask me if I saw

Anything else sadly I never saw him again but I’ve definitely itely been in that house more than once overall I like to think that was his comfort spot his familiarity his energy was watching over his house years later after that encounter my mom’s best friend’s house

Had burned down I’m 26 now yet I remember this like it was yesterday Story 6 the time I felt true fear and bravery I was 15 at the time watching YouTube with my friend in Discord when my phone gave me a notification that my front door was unlocked I didn’t think

Much of it since my parents said they would be home soon after like 5 minutes I was a little suspicious since my parents usually come to check on me when they get back from any shopping trip or trip since me and my friend were watching break-in stories I myself

Started to get a little suspicious the door never locked and decided to go investigate I told my friend I would be right back and turned my mic volume all the way up since it could hear almost anything in the house so if someone bad was there he would hear it as I opened

My door an eerie feeling came over me as I saw all the lights directly outside of my room were turned off I grabbed my phone and turned on the flashlight to calm my nerves nerves after heading down the stairs I noticed my dog wasn’t where he was sitting normally and after

Calling his name he didn’t come to me I ran back upstairs and described the situation to my friend and joined the call on my phone and turned my camera on I told him that if someone was there then that way he could call the police since he knew my address after walking

Back down I explored more I should say that my legs were shaking in fear but I kept telling myself I had to keep looking even though I would much rather hide after going into my garage I saw a green whiffle ball bat and picked it up for self-defense afterwards I noticed

That a cup was on the counter I checked and saw my dog’s leash was not where we put it I texted my mom and dad asking if they were walking the dog no response that didn’t sit well with me so I went back upstairs and with my newfound

Weapon I checked the rest of the rooms when I got to my parents’ room I turned the light on and heard a noise behind me my heart jumped out of my chest until I heard my dog’s leash Hit the Floor turns out my parents just opened the door and

Took my dog for a walk not sure if it was the horror stories I was watching beforehand making me paranoid or if truly was paranoid but either way that was my first truly terrifying experience