While horror movie watching is a year-round event, this is that time of year when all of us can flourish, embracing the weird.
So, come one, come all, beasties unite! It’s Haunt-Tober time!
Reader’s Stories are an opportunity for YOU to share your strange occurrences. We want to know what you hear or see in the dark! Submit here.
This comes from a submission from one of our readers, Ron Oliver:
Back in 2000, while on the job (at the time, I was a grounds keeper for an apartment complex). It was around 11:50 am, a nice clear day…I was pushing my supply cart back to the work shop and enroute, about thirty to thirty five feet in front of me, I had noticed an odd looking individual (or so I thought, at that brief moment) that appeared to have moved really quickly in front of me between the apartment complex carport areas, it was moving from one carport area going across to the back end of the apartment building. It looked as though it was actually floating, almost sliding close to the ground rather quickly, it definitely wasn’t walking fast! It was all black (like a black shadow) and it looked as if it had a hood over its head. It looked really strange, the figure was humanoid, but I couldn’t see any facial features, arms or skin, etc.The best way to describe what I saw was a black shadowy being, a three dimentional silhouette. It did however, have two legs…but I didn’t see it’s feet…maybe that explains why it was floating/sliding along the ground and not walking. I quickly ran up to where it had passed (out of curiosity) and it vanished and nothing was there.This encounter had taken place really quick, it lasted just a few seconds…then it was gone! Just like that! The carports were all empty, there were no cars or people in the carports…everyone was gone. To this day, I still don’t know exactly what it was that I saw. But it was a really freaky encounter for me with the unexplained/paranormal. And I will never forget it. I saw this shadow being in broad daylight and for me, it will forever leave a lasting impression in my life. The shadow being that I saw looked as though it could’ve been a deceased hooded monk in spirit form, or maybe a demonic presence. But I’m thinking it was a spirit of an ancient monk or something akin to that. I didn’t feel any sense of dread or fear from seeing it. Though that’s not to say that it was a good guy so speak, either. Truthfully, I think shadow beings could be deceased humans that are bound to only a certain realm or realms in the afterlife. Many near death experiencers say that there are multiple realms, some say 7 layers or realms. All I know, is that I find it truly amazing! I do believe in a life after our mortal death hear on earth. Many believe that when we die, it’s just our natural human body that dies. The true part of us, our essence, our souls live on in celestial form, whether in orb form, celestial humanoid form, or mist-like form…maybe we transition from one form to another, depending on what realm we may enter when we depart from our current plane? Something to think about.
It certainly is! Thank you for sharing!!
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