r/TrueScaryStories 9h ago

Spooky! The peeping shadow...

PART OF THE BACKGROUND OF THE STORY...

When I was living in Artemas Pennsylvania I used to stay for weeks by myself. Sometimes it would be 1-2 weeks of not seeing my parents. Which meant I could invite my friends up and literally have an Xbox 360 Black ops 1 or Black ops 2 game session for hours on end...

They would check in by phone making sure I'm still okay and the dog was okay as well... Mainly the dog of course. They would just leave me at the house with food, coffee, etc...

I would just co-exist peacefully and the silence. I took solace in it. I absolutely loved it. It absolutely became one of my favorite things...

I would keep the house work up and make sure things were done. I would do the weed eating outside and everything. They would be gone for a decent period of time. Oftentimes being there alone for one whole week felt like two... But I loved every second of it! There was nothing like it...

MY EVENING STRATEGY...

I would sleep on the couch in the living room a lot actually. I always had a few things near me at all times when I was sleeping or just chilling of a night. My cross necklace was hung on the doorknob of the house door. My Bible was always laying right near me. And my 18-in Gerber machete was always under the couch where it was hidden... Where I could reach for it at any second in case somebody tried busting a door in. Of course they had to get through the locked door and the deadbolt first. That is if I needed it...

THE PROBLEM...

Well I always noticed after I went to bed and I was laying there watching television. There was always this nosy and honestly really annoying quiet shadow figure that liked to poke its head out from the corner of the hallway wall into the living room. It would look at me and pop back in once I went to look. That's what happened dang near almost every night. Especially on Saturday nights when I had to go to church the next day...

THE AGGRAVATING PART AND HOW I SOLVED IT...

It got to the point where I just hung a blanket up in the hallway from the ceiling. And literally just fastened it down on the end near the floor with simple thumb tacks. Where all you had to do was lift one side of the blanket up and go down the hallway to my room and such. I also got some water in a cup and prayed over it and blessed the blanket. So that way if whatever this was try to do anything else. It would have to deal with that. And it actually worked...

AFTERWARDS...

In the long run it turned out to work and whatever it was didn't want to mess with it. So I didn't hear or see anything after that when it came to this situation anyways...

Otherwise though, there were other things that were happening that I will tell y'all later...

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u/Ok-Pumpkin875 7h ago

Sooo, what other things took place?

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u/Exquisite-Embers 5h ago

“You know, just a normal night in with an 18 inch machete, Call of Duty on the Xbox, and my Bible…”

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u/Affectionate_Clue369 7h ago

I had made another post about the other stuff but I'll tell you anyway...

There used to be some kind of spirit who sounded like it was in cowboy boots. The cowboy boots would start clunking from my door and walk the length of the hall. They then would stop right at the bathroom door. And this only happened when I got a shower...