This story from the category of horror stories and urban legends appeared on the Internet several years ago and since then has gone to various forums, acquiring details. But, as they say, it was based on a completely real story.
It was a weekday evening in August 1989. I was 18 at the time. My friend and I were sitting in my room and talking about something, my father had already come home from work, and my younger 13-year-old sister was walking with her friends in the yard.
Suddenly the front door opens, my mother runs into the apartment and shouts: “Sasha … Sasha! Where is Lena?! She urgently needs to go home!"
There was such horror in her voice that my friend and I immediately ran out of the room. The father asked my mother what had happened, and she again shouts: “Urgent Lena go home! Death stands there!"
My father and I go out into the street. It's seven or eight hours, it's still light. And we see that near the first entrance (we then lived in the third) there is an old woman. I remember that she was dressed in a white robe with a pattern of green pods (such robes were sold in every store at that time), white leather slippers on her feet, and a white scarf on her head.
We're getting closer. She stands with her back to us, facing the entrance window (the first entrance of the house is located very low in relation to the ground), and sways left and right without bending her knees.
The father calls out to this woman, and here she is, still without bending her knees and swaying, turning to face us. At that time I was studying at the medical institute and worked in the emergency cardiological brigade as an orderly, I was just taking classes in the anatomical, but when I saw this, my hair stood on end.
The stranger's eyeballs were completely sunk into the skull (like that of a corpse a long time after death), the skull itself is completely covered with dried bronze skin. But this did not prevent her from constantly and very quickly adjusting the handkerchief so that her forehead was covered. At the same time, her things were completely new, as if they had just come from the store.
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Still swaying and not bending its knees, this creature began to approach its father. He shouted for us to step back. When she was at a distance of about 2 m from him, the father began to baptize her and said loudly: "In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit …"
The monster stops rooted to the spot, but continues to swing from foot to foot and suddenly begins to emit terrible sounds. It was some kind of inhuman groan or, more correctly, a roar. This continues for some time, then the father turns around, stands on the curb and walks towards us. The creature also stands on the curb and follows it in the trail.
Everything that happened was seen by the grandmothers sitting at the entrances (there was no one at the first entrance). Seeing this sight, the old women scattered to their homes screaming.
We walked along the houses further and further, and the terrible "grandma" followed us. I noticed that she was not looking at the road, but stepping in our footsteps. At the same time, her head was always in one position, and with her hands she constantly straightened the scarf. At the same time, the ends of the scarf were not tied, she held them with her hands.
Apparently, we were seized by some kind of trance, we all walked and walked. And now the darkness thickened, and this creature all followed us.
At some point, all three of us were overcome with such horror that we, without saying a word, rushed to run. The creature did not lag behind. Gradually we fizzled out and again switched to a slow pace, and the "grandma" continued to follow our footsteps.
Suddenly a group of several people came across to meet us. Despite the fact that it was dark, these people saw our pursuer and scattered in different directions in fright, and then she turned sharply, apparently intending to follow them.
Taking advantage of the moment, we rushed in the other direction and hid in the bushes. Then the "grandma" began to spin in place - it looks like she was looking for our tracks with her feet. So she turned around for several minutes, without changing the position of her head, and then slowly moved in the other direction.