In Florida
Hi! So I wanna preface by saying the obligatory ”This is a true story”, I’m on mobile, and this is a semi-throwaway account. I am NOT a ‘skeptic’, I am very well-versed in paranormal and weird shit. So is my family. We all seem to be sensitive to spirits. My entire family has experienced unexplainable shit. This is also not super climactic.
My family moved from Upstate, New York to a small town near Bradenton, Florida. I moved with them. Their house is in a wildernessy neighborhood that hasn’t existed there for long. Native Americans used to occupy the land, from what we’ve heard.
My room had a huge sliding glass window with no screens and was the only one in the house to directly face the woods out back. Right when we moved in I felt uneasy about being near the window, looking into the woods, or having my blinds open.
A few weeks after moving in, I started having what I think are night terrors. I would wake up screaming and thinking something was in my room trying to get me. I’ve never ever had this happen even as a child. Freaky and unnerving, for both me and my sleeping partner.
I started hearing knocking on my window at night. At first I thought I was hearing things but then I started getting really freaked out. I always ignored it, and never went up to the window, looked outside, or opened it. My partner never heard this, he was always asleep and brushed me off when I told him. I just adamantly kept my window locked from there on out.
Then I started hearing my neighbor/friend next door knocking on my window at night, whispering my name and asking me if I’m up and if I wanna come out and smoke with her. I answered this by saying a sleepy “no” and would go back to sleep. I asked her about this and she said she was never doing that and I was just getting increasingly freaked out.
I started feeling very alone and powerless and wondered if I was going crazy.
One night, I put a lucky protective crystal on my window sill for protection. Side note- don’t judge me for this, I didn’t know if this was happening in my head or not. I didn’t know what to do for protection. Anyway, I woke up and the crystal was in the same spot, broken in half and looked like lightning or something struck it.
I saw black figures in my room a couple of times. Nothing ever happened, I would only see them and they would be gone and it was always at night when I was barely awake. I figured there were spirits in the home so I did a couple of things to help mitigate that (like using salt, burning cedarwood, and spraying holy water on the walls).
Our back porch was screened in and a nice place to sit outside. I meditated a couple of times out there and heard all the wildlife and creatures outside. The noises would stop and it would just be silent, dead air. I would listen for anything and just hear nothing aside from creepy snapping branch sounds. I would run inside after that. We had bobcats, raccoons, alligators, wild boar, so I figured it was an animal.
Luckily, I moved back to Upstate New York for personal and career reasons. So obviously, nothing else really happened for me.
I visited my family around Halloween time about a year after moving. My sister and I stayed up late watching Pet Sematary, and started talking about creepy stuff. She turns to me and says “Did dad tell you he thought he saw some kind of slender man thing in the woods?” I immediately got freaked out and slept horribly that night.
I asked my dad the next day what he saw, and he said it was a very tall creature (about 9 feet he guessed), extremely skinny that almost looked like a black tree, moving abnormally fast and smoothly through the woods in broad daylight. He did just have laser eye surgery a few weeks before so he thought possibly it was his eyes fucking up or him misinterpreting something.
I dislike sleeping at my parents house when I visit Florida now.
#Location/US/Florida #Creature/Humanoid #Area/Woods