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The Hallway
When I was growing up, very young. My bed used to face the hallway out of my bedroom. At the end of this hallway was a bathroom.
Every night down this hallway figures would walk by, stop and wave, then walk directly into the bathroom. These figures were things that I knew but didn’t know. Sometimes it would be Ernie from Sesame Street, other times it could be a black odd creature that I had never seen before. But they always would stop, look at me, then continue down the hall.
Every night also, my mom would come and tuck me into bed. This was a clockwork routine you do to your kids. Bed time story, kiss, tuck in goodnight etc. One night my mom didn’t, and I remember calling her over and over again.
Finally after calling her, she walks down the hall and into my room. I remember her coming in, she didn’t read to me, but she apologized and tucked the sheets in around me. She kissed me goodnight and told me she loved me. When she left the room she didn’t go down the hallway towards the rest of the house. She went towards the bathroom and didn’t come back out.
I remember sitting there watching the hallway, and getting a sick feeling in my stomach. I waited a while then I called for her, I didn’t get a response. I remember getting up and going to the hallway to see if she was there still. She wasn’t.
I was so freaked out I ran down the other direction of the hallway to the rest of the house. All the lights were off and I remember running to her room. She was asleep in her bed. I went to sleep with her that night. And in the morning I asked her if she came in and tucked me in. She told me she didn’t, and that she was so tired she went to bed also
I have many more stories regarding this hallway in my childhood house. I’m convinced the hallway was a portal of some kind.
Edit: Some people are asking for another story so here’s one that I remember really well. This one is really short, sort of, but I remember my heart sinking into my chest and the shock of it. Nothing paranormal had happened to me in a couple of years, I had basically forgotten about most of the things.
Fast forward a few years, I’m probably around 8/9 at this point I think. But younger than 10. I remember my age because hurricane Ike had just came through and we were ripping up our nasty carpet that had water damage.
My bedroom has changed rooms, not that this information really matters. I’m at the end of the hallway, closer to the bathroom now. My bed no longer faces the door anymore. I haven’t seen the figures in a very long time.
For a little more context, the other end of the hallway leads to two rooms, our kitchen and formal dining room. (The dining room was used as an office since it was more separate from the house) there is a big built in credenza of a sort separating the kitchen from the dining room. It goes all the way to the ceiling, basically a wall I guess. Then both rooms connected to our living room. It was pretty open concept for being built in the 80s originally. Anyways.
This one involves my mom and I again. Her and I are talking, and walking down the hallway. As we walk down the hallway, I’m not looking at her, I was looking at our feet as we walked. We were talking to each other, nothing out of normal. Then we reach the end of the hallway. My mom asks me, “can you feed the dogs?” And we continue walking out of the hallway and to the right, into the dining room which has a door to our porch. The porch is where we feed the dogs. I followed my mother’s feet into the room that would be closest to the porch to feed the dogs after she asked me to feed the dogs.
I’m still looking at her feet as we enter the dining room, we’re now standing by the wall that separates the kitchen from the dining room. No longer walking. I don’t remember what I said to her, I said something. But I remember hearing my moms reply,
From the kitchen. But I was looking at her feet, bellow me, in the dining room.
What happened next was so quick it was over. I remember looking up at this figure. Which happened to be a lady, she was dressed really well. I remember her wearing a vintage sort of hat, and a really pretty dress. I wish I had more details for her, but in the split second I looked at her, shoulder checked my vision towards the kitchen to look for my mom, then looked back. She was gone.
#Unexplained #Unexplained/Paranormal #Creature/Doppelgänger #Creature/Mimic