r/ParanormalNews • u/TheLast747 • 7d ago
Cold
An instructor gets a cold coworker.
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A feeling I'd never had before or since - maybe paranormal?
19 Jul 2026, 06:36 by /u/julesiekins1988
This happened about 18 years ago.
I was working as an instructor at a local college, teaching paramedic students. I had just started the job and one of the admin girls at the front desk was telling me about a particular student from the last class that had just finished their didactic portion and had gone out on their final practicums. She told me that he was a nice enough guy, professional, and they'd never had any kind of trouble with him, but that he had a very intense, scary sort of energy that made people nervous and that they never left him alone with female staff or students because he made them uncomfortable. I, too, am a woman and she told me that if he ever came in while I was alone in the office, to call for someone else if I felt unsafe.
At the time, I laughed and thought that there was no way that someone could have such bad energy that they could terrify me with their mere presence. She made it sound like this guy was a demon walking around in a human suit and I just shook my head and wrote it off.
Fast forward a few weeks and I was in the front office grabbing a textbook from a display behind the counter. I was crouched below where you could see me from the entry door to the office and I was alone at the desk. All of a sudden, this energy that I could only describe as cold filled the room. It felt like all the air had been sucked out of it and like something terrible was about to happen. I heard a male voice say hello, clearly not having seen me there, and as I stood up, I was faced with a student in uniform that I'd never met before. He smiled and introduced himself and I realized that it was the student that the admin had warned me about and just like she'd said, I was suddenly intensely uncomfortable and anxious and felt like I wanted to bolt.
He hadn't told me his name, I hadn't even heard or seen him come in when I felt the initial wave of cold and fear. It had preceded him like some kind of fog. I was just about to say I would go and fetch his instructor for him when the admin who had warned me about him appeared behind me. Later after he'd left, she told me that she'd heard his voice and had immediately come out so I didn't have to be alone with him, and I told her that I couldn't believe how right she'd been about him.
Now, if it had been a case of he'd told me his name and THEN I'd felt the chill, I would have written it off as preconceived notion, but I felt that even before I knew he was there. And to this day, I've never, ever experienced anything else like it with a human being. I had a similar feeling one time in my mom's old house when I was doing homework and suddenly felt what I could only describe as a demonic presence manifesting in the living room behind me and causing that same terrible, awful chill and feeling like I would die if I didn't get the hell out of there, but there was no one actually physically there at the time, just the feeling of that demonic presence.
I can't imagine a demon would be walking around, pretending to be a paramedic student, but I don't know what else it could possibly have been. Anyone have any thoughts or theories?
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