Ghost stories are chilling, but if children are involved in a story like this, it seems twice as scary. Why do children so often witness the otherworldly? Some say that the reason for this is the purity of the gaze, noticing inaccessible to adults, others - that it is only a matter of exuberant children's imagination. But when you get acquainted with these terrible stories, you understand that this cannot be generated by the mere power of children's imagination.
Thursday - rent time
It was deep after midnight, but Brian T. could not sleep and was reading in bed when his five-year-old son suddenly entered the bedroom. After standing a little at the door, the boy quietly said that he could no longer tolerate a woman in his bedroom who climbs into his bed and strokes his hair. “What woman? There is no one here but us,”Brian tried to calm the boy down. In response, he threw up lifeless eyes at him and, in a creaky old woman's voice, said: “Thursday is the time to pay the rent,” and he lost consciousness. Father immediately called a doctor. But the doctors did not find anything disturbing in the boy's condition. Meanwhile, similar episodes began to recur every week. Finally, five months later, on another sleepless night, Brian decided to go up to his son's bedroom. Opening the door, he suddenly sawhow the ugly old woman slipped out of the boy's bed and out the window. Looking out into the street, Brian saw no one. However, fortunately, from that day on, the boy's sleep was no longer disturbing.
There behind the tree
There are eerie rumors among residents of Dublin suburbs about a forest on the city's border. They claim that the ghost of a girl wanders in the forest, luring passers-by into the wilderness. Local legend has it that it is the ghost of a young American woman named Claudia Henry, who was traveling with her parents in Ireland when robbers attacked their car near the Dublin forest. They killed Claudia's father, raped and took the life of the mother and the girl herself. Since then, she wanders through the ominous forest, calling for help in a thin voice. The adults, worried about a lonely child in the woods, follow her - until Claudia lures them into the thicket and they break their heads in some ravine. And although the police do not confirm the mass deaths in this forest, the locals are sure that Kludia Henry is a reality.
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Cold water, warm light
From childhood, the younger brother Cordy was terribly afraid of water. Every attempt to get him to take a bath turned into a real battle. One day Cordy asked her brother, then just a toddler, what frightened him so. She remembered his answer for the rest of her life: “We sailed on a large unsinkable ship, then we collided with an iceberg, and chaos began. Then I got wet and felt cold. And then I got to a place where it was dry and warm, and there I waited for my next family to come. Cordy's mother heard these words too - and never again forced her son to take a bath. It should only be added that brother Cordy was born on April 15, 1992 - exactly 80 years after the day the Titanic sank.
How did he get here?
Tina, a mother of three children, tells how one evening, at ten o'clock, she was reading in the living room when her two daughters, 6 and 9 years old, ran into her. "Where is he?" they asked cheerfully. The startled mother told them that there was no one in the house, and that they themselves should already be in bed. The girls, looking at their mother in disbelief, said that they had just played with the boy in their room, and he had just, before their very eyes, ran into the mother's room! It took Tina at least a quarter of an hour to convince them that there was no boy. A month later, the family moved to a new apartment, and a few weeks later, looking at the photos of the move with her daughters, Tina saw in one of the pictures taken in the living room, a dark-haired boy of about ten in a scout uniform. "It's him! one of the girls exclaimed in amazement. - Our friend!How did he get here? " Tina was horrified, but, fortunately, none of the boy's household saw again.
Meeting by the river
Stephen, father of five-year-old Joseph, was sitting in the living room when the phone rang. Joseph grabbed the receiver - and was silent for a long time, obviously listening carefully to the interlocutor. Finally, the boy hung up and walked silently to his room. The father asked who was calling, but the boy did not seem to hear him. Finally, after persistent questioning, he almost cried out with tears: “It was grandfather! He asked not to tell you, he said it would be a surprise! He's going to meet us by the river tomorrow! Isn't that great? The next morning, Stephen and Joseph did indeed go fishing. Only Joseph's grandfather had died seven years earlier. The boy never saw him.
Green kids from Woolpit
This 12th-century legend still haunts the minds of the people of Suffolk. According to legend, the inhabitants of the village of Woolpit found two children in the forest thicket. They were scared to death, but they had no injuries. But what frightened the villagers most was that their skin was green! They did not speak English and refused to eat anything other than raw beans, which they ate greedily. Soon the boy died of some kind of illness. The little girl lived in Woolpit for many years, learned to speak English and told her story to the villagers. According to her, they came from the underground country of Saint-Martin, where the sun never shines, and the brightest day is like earthly twilight. There people have green skin, and food is strikingly different from the earth. They left the underground city and came to a cave where their cattle were grazing. Then she did not remember anything, and could not tellhow he and his brother ended up in the vicinity of the village. The girl got married and lived to a ripe old age, but whether her story was true, no one was able to accurately say.
Heidi and Mr Gordy
When Heidi was three, her family moved to a small village in Georgia. There were no children in the neighborhood, the girl had no one to play with, so at first her mother was delighted to learn that her daughter had met a neighbor, Mr. Gordy, who was happy to play with her. But her joy turned to horror when she learned that Mr. James Gordy, who once lived in the neighborhood, had died twenty years ago. At first, the adults thought that Mr. Gordy was just an invention of a little girl who accidentally heard the name of a deceased neighbor. However, when she was shown several pictures, Heidi confidently identified her as her adult friend, whom she had never seen during his lifetime. The humble ghost was not shown to anyone else. When Heidi was eight, he stopped dating her.
Shirley the savior
Brenda was the eldest daughter in the family. her younger sister Shirley was born with Down syndrome and heart defect and died when she was two years old. Soon Brenda had a brother, Gerald. Two years later, on a day when Brenda's mother was working in the attic and her father was working in the basement, they both suddenly heard a voice that clearly belonged to Shirley: “Daddy! Mum! A voice came from the house. Both parents rushed into the room, colliding on the threshold, and saw that Gerald, who was playing in the bedroom, was entangled in a plastic bag and was already starting to choke. They came running just in time to save the baby. Since then, Brenda says, her father and mother have believed that their daughter's spirit saved their brother's life.
Whispers of the shadow
Gabby T. is confident that since the age of five she has been communicating with shadow people. She claims that people-shadows are people from another time, who came to our era to change the history of mankind, correcting the mistake that resulted in our existence. According to them, the development of humanity must take a different path, and the shadow people are working on this, preparing to transfer our world to a different universe. Rather, not our world, but those whom they themselves consider valuable to members of society. According to Gaby, when she was five, they informed her that she was their most valuable find. Until now, according to Gaby, the shadow people visit her, telling more and more about their plan. She, in turn, honestly dreams of sharing her knowledge with humanity, but, alas, for some reason few want to listen to her.
Children with black eyes
Byo about two in the morning. Roger was on the road for the fourth day in his wagon. Seeing the parking lot, he stopped to go to the restroom. The parking lot was dark and deserted. He moved to the toilet, but suddenly three children blocked his way. They were 8-9 years old, they wore 19th century clothes, and the eyes of all three were black as night. Having surrounded Roger, they began to ask for a lift, saying that they were lost. Roger was gripped by a chilling fear as he looked at them. No matter how he tried to refuse them, they continued to beg him, still not letting him pass. Finally, the frightened Roger could not stand it - and, turning on his heels, rushed to the truck, slammed the cab door behind him and pressed the gas. The children looked after him in silence. “Whoever they were,” he says with a shudder, “they weren't children, and they didn't get lost. I doubt they were human."
Mind games
Jonathan had known all his life that he was not like everyone else. He knew how to do different tricks - so, he recalls, at school, he once made a local bully fly into the air. He claims to have changed at the age of six. One night, the demons took him away and did not release him until morning. Then it began to repeat itself night after night. No, it was not about his soul: he physically disappeared from the house, and, as his mother recalls, they found him only in the morning, as a rule, in the backyard. What happened to him at night? According to Jonathan himself, the demons trained the power of his mind, taught him to use the lessons learned and control the power given to him. Alas, as he argues, the training went wrong: he never learned to control his emotions. In the end, the demons began to appear less often, and when Jonathan was 17, they left him completely alone.
Ghost under the window
The 14-lazy Samantha, having lingered at a meeting with her friends, returned home at night along a deserted street. Suddenly a dark, ghostly figure stood in her way. The girl froze in place, but after standing in front of her for a minute, the ghost swam away into the bushes. Samantha rushed home. Running into her room, she exhaled a sigh of relief - but, as it turned out, early. Looking out the window, she saw that the ghost was standing on the lawn in front of the house and seemed to be looking directly at her. She drew back from the window and all night long from fear could not close her eyes. The next morning, the fears dissipated, and Samantha began to forget the horror she had experienced - when suddenly, a few weeks later, a ghost, like the last time, appeared in her way - and then again stood at night on the lawn under her windows. Samantha told this story to her friends, her boyfriend, even the teachers at school - but no one believed her. Finally,one night, after another meeting, she saw a ghost, as always, standing at the house. But this time he came very close, the light from the windows fell on him, so that Samantha could see him. Near the house stood her grandfather, who had died two years earlier. However, the ghost did not bother Samantha anymore.
How the water turned red
Stephanie was at home with her four-year-old son Tommy, who played in his room while his mother went about her business. Suddenly there was a loud scream from Tommy's room. Stephanie flew into his bedroom and saw Tommy crying in the corner. She calmed the boy for a long time before he could finally get a word out. “These kids are so scary! he whispered. “They say the water is very cold and all red. Their mom and dad are so awful! " "Where are they?" - only and could ask the frightened Stephanie. “It doesn't matter, they see you anyway,” was the answer. As Stephanie said, her son continued to communicate with the mysterious children from the water for about a year. Then Tommy announced that they went to their home, and now live in Bangor, Maine.
Mysterious ritual
Clyde, a resident of the small town of Dufur, told a chilling story about his foster child, a foundling. His name was Donald, and, in his own words, he almost died at the hands of his own parents. One day, while sitting at home, he suddenly heard muffled singing from the basement. Approaching the crack, out of curiosity, he decided to sort things out. Looking into the basement, he saw a shocking scene - several adults, including his parents, bending over a table on which lay some formless black mass. She didn’t look human, and yet she was staring at Donald. Then one of the participants in the ceremony noticed him, raised his fist - and everything disappeared. The boy woke up only towards morning, in a field, and when he returned home, he saw that his house was boarded up. Clyde noticed an apparently homeless boy on the street, and after a few days Donald finally recovered and was able to speak. It was then that he told this story to his savior. But not even a day had passed since the story, as Donald disappeared, and no one else ever saw him.
