r/Paranormal • u/Neonwolf245 • 10h ago
Encounter Someone wanted in
I'm still pretty shaken so please excuse any mistakes, but I need to tell anyone what happened to me tonight.
I'll give a quick background, Im a 34F woman that lives alone with my 3 cats, i live in my small hometown in the appalacian mountains. I live in an old renovated modular home that sits back in the woods from the road. I have woods surounding me and a large bean field to my left. It has original single pane glass windows and heavy metal doors. It has an odd custom multi-level wood porch the original owner built in the 80s, it has several steps and landings leading up a bank to my front door. Its very difficult to get up the porch steps in the dark if you dont know where you are stepping. The electrical work is atrocious so many times at night I dont have the porch light on because if I plug my phone charger into the wrong outlet it will kick the breaker.
At around 11pm last night I turned off my living room light preparing to go to bed. I decided to open up my laptop and install an update for game so it would be ready to play in the morning. I put in my earbuds to play a music while I waited.
Thats when my cat Rosie puffed up, her hair stood on edge. Her ears went flat against her head and she let out this low snarl. Id never heard this sound from her before. She stalked out the hallway still snarling, something was wrong. I took out my one earbud and I heard loud banging. I followed Rosie out the hall thinking it was maybe my other cat playing in a box or rough housing. Then I got to the living room and the loud banging and scraping was coming from my front door. The door was being hit so hard it was moving.
Rosie's growling was so loud and the banging was so loud its all I could hear. My body turned cold and all common sense left me because I walked to the front door and turned on the porch light and looked out the window. The light made a loud snap and flooded the porch with light.
It was taller than me. Long dangling arms. Broad lumbering shoulders and a face of shadows. It darted like an animal off my porch with such speed. I saw as a long arm hit a bush as it darted away. Fear flooded my entire body. It wasnt an animal but it wasnt a person. It was only 5 seconds but I felt like I saw something I shouldn't have.
I called 911. I told the dispatcher someone was trying to get in my house. A patrolling officer was here in 5 minutes. I was shaking and my words were breaking, every shadow felt like it was watching me. The officer inspected my door and confirmed the doorknob had several scratches around it. He thought maybe a screwdriver. He inspected my house and checked every door and into the woods so far. The woods are really thick but he did his best. I told him what I saw, I tried to describe it with the broad shoulder, dangling arms. He said he was going to file a report and let my landlord know, its a small town so he knows him well. He gave me his number but he said if I heard another bang or anything suspicious call him asap.
The officer was gone by midnight. But the shadows still felt like they were watching. I had every light in the house on. Every door was boobytrapped with boxes and heavy random shit I found in my closet. I sat on my couch pointed toward the front door with my gun next to me. I couldn't sleep. I turned on the living room tv, pretending the light and noise would protect me. Rosie never left my side, she was on full alert still. The night still felt dangerous.
I called my friend on the west coast and told him what happened. He stayed on call with me until the adrenaline wore off and my body finally gave in. My eyes closed. I will be the first to admit I have a wild imagination and it seeps into my dreams but this dream didnt feel like mine.
I was in the woods. The woods right behind my house. I smelled the crisp fall leaves and the dampness of the rain that had fallen that day. I couldn't move my feet they were rooted to the ground. A large shadow with broad shoulders, dangling arms, and a face of shadows stood far off in the woods. My feet began to sink into the leaf littered ground and my breath was stolen from me. I grabbed my throat as I watched the air get dragged out of my body toward the shadow. Its gangly long hand raised, its claws long and chipped.
I woke up flailing my hands and yelling. Rosie was on my chest meowing loudly at me. My friend still on call was yelling my name. It took me a bit to gather myself but I was safe on my couch. Id only been alseep for maybe 40 minutes? It felt like 5 minutes. I made myself another coffee and watched my friend play a game and Rosie never left my side.
Its now finally daybreak. Im terrified to open my door. What if its waiting for me in the woods? What do I do? Ive heard of creepy cryptids in the Appalachian mountains but God damn I didnt ask it to come to my house! I never invited anything! I dont want to sleep, I don't want to leave. Rosie is my sole defender and she's getting all the treats she wants.
Doesn't anyone know what this thing could be? I dont think its human at this point. Im so scared.