Masks occupy an important place in the cultural traditions of mankind. In different centuries and in different countries, they were used to hide the true face, to intimidate or intimidate.
Many people have found and are still finding in masks a lot that is frightening and at the same time attracting to themselves. And of course, sometimes very unpleasant entities can settle in them.
A Reddit user with the nickname "Maddogmitch56" said that he once flew to Guatemala as a volunteer for a program to help the poor and for some time they lived in dirty houses almost in the middle of the jungle. One day off he went to the local market and decided to buy souvenirs for himself and his friends. An interesting wooden mask caught his eye and he bought it.
“The mask was covered with pink paint and painted with different ethnic symbols. Wherein. despite its bright color, it gave an eerie impression and had well-cut, sharp teeth in its mouth. her overall expression was rather angry, but she didn't bother me until that particular night."
That night this man was awakened by the voices of other volunteers. They discussed an unusual incident, namely that the front door slammed shut with all its might by itself, and then a loud knock, like a drum, began to be heard. One person went to inspect everything, but did not find anything that could make such a sound.
“When I went upstairs, I saw that all the windows in the rooms were wide open and it was clearly not in the wind, since there was no wind at all. Then one of us said that in his room he saw strange shadowy figures and that he needed to go for the pastor so that he drove out the spirits.
We were all very excited and began to discuss what could have caused this incident and somehow suddenly switched to the fact that all this could come from my evil mask hanging on the wall. And when the pastor came to us soon, he immediately stated that it could be a mask.
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After that, I took the mask off the wall and decided to throw it away. Our house was on a hill, and so when I threw her out the door, she rolled down the slope. However, the rest of the night passed in the same eerie environment. We heard something scraping against the walls and running quickly across the ceiling.
The next morning we were all exhausted and sleepy, and when we joined the other part of our group for breakfast, we told them about the night incident. They immediately stated that they had nightmares that night and that someone had noticed a shadowy figure.
A local translator intervened in our conversation and said that we need to find this damned mask and burn it and then everything will calm down. We started looking for the mask where I threw it away, but we could not find it, and then suddenly we saw it in a burning pile of garbage. It turns out that the gardener found it early in the morning and immediately decided to burn it. After that, all the oddities stopped."
A similar story came from a user with the nickname "Maskthrow" who traveled to Liberia and bought a mask similar to the head of the male genital organ, which was worn by Sandé, the secret society of women.
Women from the secret society Sandé with masks on their heads.
“I bought this mask and brought it to Europe and since then at night I began to hear low female screams in my room. At first I thought they were coming from somewhere off the street, but I heard them too often for our generally quiet and small town. At the same time, the mask felt to me as something unfriendly.
Last night I heard women's screams again and they sounded louder and clearer now, and in the background there were other women's voices that sang a song. When in the morning I entered the living room where this mask hangs, I immediately felt that she was looking at me. This feeling was even when I turned her against the wall.
I don't know what to do with it, I don't want to destroy the mask and I don't want to give it to anyone. I also don't want to involve priests in this. I live alone and maybe the mask feels upset about something?"
Another story about the possessed mask was posted on the Haunting Darkness website. The woman wrote that her sister Rose kept a similar mask for some time.
“My sister is esoteric and believes in chakras and negative energy. She helps people who have problems. One of her clients brought this mask, stating that it has dark energy and that the mask wants to be with her. This man was terrified of this mask and asked to take it to rid him of this thing.
The sister began to work with the mask and believes that she managed to establish contact with this spirit and free it from the mask, after which she returned the mask to its previous owner. I am skeptical about my sister's line of work, but I'm glad. that it all ended so well."
Another story called "The Devil's Mask" came back from Reddit. The user who told it claimed to be from an Indian tribe and that this mask is part of a very dark story.
Once there was an Indian shaman who had tremendous power to heal and even raise people from the dead. At the same time, he used dark rituals for this, including bloody sacrifices. With the help of rituals and spells, he could castrate an unwanted man, have a forced abortion, remove important organs from the body of a living person, drink people's blood, mutilate them and do other terrible things.
Once they decided to take revenge on the shaman, they caught him and sentenced him to death. But at the last moment, he managed to put on a mask made of human skin and bones and declared that if he was killed, their suffering would be even worse.
Nevertheless, he was beheaded, the remains were burned to ashes, and the mask was also thrown into the fire, but, to the amazement of the avengers, it did not suffer from the heat at all. Therefore, the mask was hidden in a secret and secluded place. However, this did not stop her destructive power.
Soon the inhabitants of the village where the avengers came from began to get sick and die. The elder's grandson died first, then an incomprehensible disease attacked people, the fields dried up, pregnant women began to suffer from miscarriages, healthy adult men died on the spot from heart attacks, and so on. It was only then that it ended. when the damned mask was taken much further and buried in a deep ravine.
And now this user assured that he managed to find this mask in an old antique store.
“She stood in the window and was signed as an authentic Indian mask for sale, she looked creepy, was blood red and had horns on her forehead. Seeing her, I immediately remembered the same legend about the shaman. I looked at the mask and she looked at me through the glass of the showcase, there was a feeling that she sees right through me with my fears and thoughts.
Then I called my great-grandfather and told about the mask and he immediately excitedly asked me where it was. I said that I saw her in an antique shop and then we went there together. But we were late.
When we arrived, it turned out that there was a fire in the building next to the store and the flames quickly spread to this store. Several people and many objects died in the fire, but I know for sure. that the mask did not warm and was not in the window. This damn thing just disappeared."
The Traveling Museum of the Paranormal and the Occult, the American traveling museum of unusual things, contains a mask in which something strange lives. She is bright red with bulging eyes and swollen cheeks. The museum gave her the name "Blowing Face"
According to the owners of the museum, Dana and Greg Newkirk, the mask was sent to them by mail by an anonymous sender and along with it in the package there was only a strange note "Excuse me."
The mask was dirty and covered with traces of urine, but then it was cleaned and the person who cleaned it, of course, tried to apply it to his face. Many of us would do this with different masks. But half an hour later, he felt bad, he felt nausea, dizziness and he had a feeling that his soul was leaving his body.
Subsequently, many who tried to wear this mask felt the same way. In addition, they were suddenly filled with strong negative emotions such as jealousy or rage.
The mask is still kept in this unusual museum and anyone can feel its harmful effects on themselves.