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I'm writing this story while the entire experience is still fresh in my head. I'm only a few months removed from one of the scariest days of my life. It's kind of a crazy story, so buckle up and get ready. Let me start by saying that.
True scary garage sale horror stories involving supernatural events and eerie discoveries.
Key Takeaways
- Garage sale finds can sometimes lead to unexpected and frightening experiences.
- Skepticism towards the supernatural can be challenged by personal encounters.
- Old objects, especially those with unknown histories, may carry eerie or unexplained phenomena.
- Belief in the supernatural varies greatly between individuals, affecting how experiences are interpreted.
- True stories of paranormal events can be both intriguing and unsettling.
What the video covers
- The narrator recounts a terrifying experience linked to a garage sale purchase.
- He is skeptical about supernatural phenomena, while his girlfriend Lulu believes in them.
- Lulu finds an old leatherbound handwritten book with strange prayers or incantations at a garage sale.
- The book originally belonged to the seller's deceased mother, who was described as somewhat odd.
- Initially, the book seemed harmless and even interesting, but it soon started to display disturbing content.
- Unexplained events occur around the book, including it moving on its own and strange noises at night.
- The couple experiences increasing fear and unease as the book's influence grows.
- The story includes interactions with the seller and exploration of the house where the sale took place.
- The narrator shares his disbelief turning into concern due to the escalating supernatural occurrences.
- The video is part of a series sharing multiple true garage sale horror stories.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Background
- 01:54Lulu's Unique Garage Sale Finds
- 03:20Discovery of the Handwritten Book
- 04:51Book's Strange Prayers and Incantations
- 06:22Seller's Story and Book's Origin
- 08:09The Book's Eerie Effects Begin
- 09:53Unexplained Phenomena and Fear
- 11:00Interactions with the Seller and House Exploration
- 13:01Closing Thoughts and Reflection
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I'm a 31-year-old and in those years, I have never believed in anything even remotely supernatural. I'm the jerk who laughs at people who talk about haunted houses and dark energies. I believe everything can be explained one way or
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I'm a 31-year-old, and in those years, I have never believed in anything even remotely supernatural. I'm the jerk who laughs at people who talk about haunted houses and dark energies. I believe everything can be explained one way or.
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find some treasure at these neighborhood sales. Lulu, on the other hand, is one of those people who basically built her life and wardrobe with things from garage sales, thrift stores, and things like marketplace. She's a weird chick, and that's not to insult her. She loves
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another. Well, almost anything. After what's happened this summer, I may be rethinking this position. My girlfriend and I, who I call Lulu, love to hit up as many garage sales as we can in the summer months. I've been known to.
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spectrum. For example, I said earlier that I'm a guy who makes fun of people who believe in supernatural stuff. Well, Lulu is a firm believer in that world, so naturally, we have a good time bickering back and forth with each
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find some treasure at these neighborhood sales. Lulu, on the other hand, is one of those people who basically built her life and wardrobe with things from garage sales, thrift stores, and things like Marketplace. She's a weird chick, and that's not to insult her. She loves.
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something different. In addition to buying old clothes and furniture, she collected weird and odd trinkets.
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being weird, and I love her because she's unique. I think I know why they say opposites attract. We for sure have a lot of things in common, but there's a ton of things that we stand on completely opposite sides of the.
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to get your attention. I could tell that the owner of the house had either passed away or was in no position to be having the sale themselves.
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spectrum. For example, I said earlier that I'm a guy who makes fun of people who believe in supernatural stuff. Well, Lulu is a firm believer in that world, so naturally, we have a good time bickering back and forth with each.
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has a good feeling about this one. And that's why she wanted to stop. After looking around for a few moments, she found this old brown leatherbound book.
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other. One of the first weekends in June, Lulu and I hit a bunch of the garage sales in the neighborhood. I wasn't having much luck, but she seemed to find something at every house we went to. Every time I turned around, she had.
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I called them prayers. Lulu said that the book called them incantations. It was mostly just nonsense in my opinion, but still very cool. Just to give you an idea, it would have something written at the top of the
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something different. In addition to buying old clothes and furniture, she collected weird and odd trinkets.
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man. Lulu was trying to get the scoop on the book and she kept telling him how cool she thought it was. The man shared with us that all the stuff at the garage sale belonged to his dead mother who had
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Nothing in particular, just weird things she could put on her shelves and bookcases. On this beautiful sunny day, one of the garage sales we visited wasn't very exciting at first glance. It was small and didn't have anything flashy outside.
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He looked freaked out if I'm being honest, but that also could have just been his reaction to dealing with my overexited girlfriend. After seeing how excited Lulu was, he told her she could just have the book for free. He said it
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to get your attention. I could tell that the owner of the house had either passed away or was in no position to be having the sale themselves.
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was in a trance. This was the perfect trinket for her. That night, I was playing some video games. When I went back out into the living room, she was still on the couch reading the book.
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Everything that was for sale looked extremely old, and it smelled on top of that. But Lulu knows to never judge a book by its cover. And I mean that quite literally. Even though I wanted to walk right past this place, she told me she.
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of the book, things started getting weird. Instead of bringing good fortune, it was now saying things like, "To put a curse on someone who wronged you." She put the book down on the shelf and admitted that it was weird. But she was
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has a good feeling about this one. And that's why she wanted to stop. After looking around for a few moments, she found this old brown leatherbound book.
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saw Lulu, with my own four eyes, put the book on the shelf. It didn't make a lot of sense, but I also didn't give it more than a second thought. I put the book back on the shelf, got ready for work,
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When she opened it, it was a handwritten book. It had these weird prayers in it.
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she woke up in the morning, the book was on the ground. I didn't tell her that I found it on the ground, too. So, receiving this message freaked me out a bit. I couldn't tell if she was playing
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I called them prayers. Lulu said that the book called them incantations. It was mostly just nonsense in my opinion, but still very cool. Just to give you an idea, it would have something written at the top of the.
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which I obviously didn't. When I got home from work that afternoon, she was still at her job. As I walked inside, I couldn't believe my eyes. The book was open on the coffee table. I didn't see what the passage said before I closed
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page, a phrase saying something like to bring good fortune, and then it would be a list of words that flowed in an almost rhythmic pattern. She was absolutely in love with this book. When we went to buy the book, the seller was a middle-aged.
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was on her way home. I hung up the phone and when I walked back into the living room, I almost screamed. The book was on the ground again. I have no idea how that was possible, and I have no way of
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man. Lulu was trying to get the scoop on the book, and she kept telling him how cool she thought it was. The man shared with us that all the stuff at the garage sale belonged to his dead mother who had.
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Nobody was home all afternoon except me. I basically threw the book on the shelf and sat down on the couch. I literally sat there and watched the book until she got home 15 minutes later. When Lulu got home, she asked if anything weird
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recently passed away. He said his mom was always a little weird, but he didn't know anything about a handwritten book.
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that it was just a book by a crazy old woman. It's nothing to get freaked out about. She disagreed with me. On the shelf, she has this antique chest. She put the book in the chest and said that
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He looked freaked out if I'm being honest, but that also could have just been his reaction to dealing with my overexcited girlfriend. After seeing how excited Lulu was, he told her she could just have the book for free. He said it.
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in the bedroom for a while. We just wanted a nice light-hearted show to get our heads right. She passed out around midnight. After she went to sleep, I walked through the house and made sure everything was locked and that the
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would make his mother proud knowing that this mysterious book was in the hands of a sweet young woman. His words. After she got the book, we decided to head back to our place. She was still so excited about the book, almost like she.
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morning, she woke me up. She was crying and could barely speak. She finally was able to get the words out. She said she heard something outside the bedroom. It sounded like something was walking in the hallway outside the room, and
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was in a trance. This was the perfect trinket for her. That night, I was playing some video games. When I went back out into the living room, she was still on the couch reading the book.
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was hearing things. When I got up to go look, she grabbed my arm and started to cry. She begged me not to go out there and basically yanked me back down to the bed. I should also add that this is
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However, she didn't have that massive smile she had earlier. When I asked her how the book was treating her, she said it started getting weird. The beginning of the book was positive stuff, but as she started getting into the second half.
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So, I stayed in bed and held her for the rest of the night. Even though I was off from work the next day, I still got up around 6:30 in the morning. When I opened the door, I couldn't believe what
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of the book, things started getting weird. Instead of bringing good fortune, it was now saying things like, "To put a curse on someone who wronged you." She put the book down on the shelf and admitted that it was weird. But she was.
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over again. She grabbed the book and said that we were getting rid of it. We drove about 30 minutes away and hiked out into the woods. When she found a good spot, she locked the book in a chest and buried it in the dirt. I know
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still happy with her new relic. I woke up at 6:00 in the morning for work the next day. When I walked into the living room, I noticed that the book was on the ground. I thought it was weird because I.
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I definitely don't sleep as well. But as for terrifying experiences, I have nothing to report. So, to all the doubters out there, I get it. If someone told me this story, I probably wouldn't believe them either. It's ridiculous and
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saw Lulu, with my own four eyes, put the book on the shelf. It didn't make a lot of sense, but I also didn't give it more than a second thought. I put the book back on the shelf, got ready for work,
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idea what happens. My feeble brain can't figure it out. But I am happy that damn book is out of our house.
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and left for the day. Around 8:00 in the morning, I got a text from Lulu. She asked me why I went through the book. I didn't know what she meant, and I asked her to elaborate. She told me that when.
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messed up the world can be sometimes. I'm a big tech guy. Specifically, I love old and retro tech. Technology is advancing so fast these days, it's easy to forget about the tech of the past, but not me. I love any kind of old and
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she woke up in the morning, the book was on the ground. I didn't tell her that I found it on the ground, too. So, receiving this message freaked me out a bit. I couldn't tell if she was playing.
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Anytime I have an opportunity to grab some old tech, I go for it. One of the best places to do this is at garage sales. You'd be surprised how many people just basically give away cords, hard drives, computers, batteries, and
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a joke or not, so I was kind of dismissive. I downplayed the weirdness of it and told her to just put the book back on the shelf. I told her that I must have bumped into it when I left,
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of the time at garage sales, I'll buy junk that I end up getting rid of anyway. The garage sale I went to on that day several years back was nothing special. The guy was selling a small box that was filled with all sorts of cords
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which I obviously didn't. When I got home from work that afternoon, she was still at her job. As I walked inside, I couldn't believe my eyes. The book was open on the coffee table. I didn't see what the passage said before I closed.
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drive. Because I felt bad, I told the guy that the hard drive alone was worth a lot more than $2, but he didn't care.
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it. I wish I had. I put the book back on the shelf and started to do some work around the house. I was about 90% sure she was playing a joke on me. At 6:30 that night, she called me to tell me she.
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started going through each item. I was surprised that at the bottom of the box was an old cell phone. It was an iPhone 10, I believe. Other than being old and dead, the phone appeared to be in good
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was on her way home. I hung up the phone, and when I walked back into the living room, I almost screamed. The book was on the ground again. I have no idea how that was possible, and I have no way of.
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through a stranger's phone. I didn't have creepy intentions. I truly was just excited that the phone worked. It wasn't until I thought about it later that I realized it was creepy and kind of an invasion of privacy to go through
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explaining it. That 95% that I was sure it was a joke pretty much went to zero.
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and a goatee, probably in his 40s. Even though I knew the phone wouldn't be in service, the first thing I did was pull up the contact list. It was the strangest thing. There wasn't one contact in the phone. When I realized
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Nobody was home all afternoon except me. I basically threw the book on the shelf and sat down on the couch. I literally sat there and watched the book until she got home 15 minutes later. When Lulu got home, she asked if anything weird.
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was just pictures of the dog. Then the videos started and they weren't videos of his dog. They were videos from his point of view. He was driving slowly down the street and then he would occasionally zoom in at certain houses.
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happened. I told her everything that I experienced. She seemed freaked out. She told me that she had a bad feeling in her stomach all day, and she couldn't get the book off her mind. I kept trying to reassure her and myself to some extent.
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I was immediately freaked out by this, but I was trying to give the guy the benefit of the doubt. I was thinking that maybe he knew these people and this was like an inside joke. That theory was about to fade away when I saw the next
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that it was just a book by a crazy old woman. It's nothing to get freaked out about. She disagreed with me. On the shelf, she has this antique chest. She put the book in the chest and said that.
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He was doing the same thing he did from the car, except now he was literally right up at the window. The first video of the three was a family watching TV together. It was mostly just the backs of their heads. The only person whose
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she hopes that would contain whatever was attached to the book. I started laughing at her. I admit all this was weird even for me, but I didn't think it was as serious as she was making it out to be. That night, we watched The Office.
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were having a serious conversation in the kitchen, but you couldn't hear any of the words. You still could only hear this guy breathing. He recorded them for about 30 seconds and then cut the video again. The last video of the three was
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in the bedroom for a while. We just wanted a nice light-hearted show to get our heads right. She passed out around midnight. After she went to sleep, I walked through the house and made sure everything was locked and that the.
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recording. It just felt so invasive and creepy. These poor people had no clue that someone was standing just outside their window recording when they assumed they were in the privacy of their home.
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lights were off. Thankfully, there was no book on the ground. I was hoping that whatever weirdness was happening, it was now over. I got into bed and fell asleep. Unfortunately, that sleep didn't last long. A little after 3:00 in the.
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The first video is the man walking toward this nice house at night. You can barely see anything because it's so dark. The house has no lights except for a front door light. As the man is getting closer to the house, the video
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morning, she woke me up. She was crying and could barely speak. She finally was able to get the words out. She said she heard something outside the bedroom. It sounded like something was walking in the hallway outside the room, and.
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That was because the house in this video was the house that had that garage sale.
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whatever was out there was getting closer and louder. Right before she woke me, she said whatever it was, it sounded like it was right outside the door. I didn't hear anything. I wasn't going to try to be insensitive, but I gen.
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does sound like he's trying to be quieter. You can physically hear his boots on the hardwood floors. He walks by a few closed doors until he gets to the end of this long hallway. There's a slightly open door at the end of the
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hall. He goes inside the room and it's clearly a master bedroom. He quietly sneaks up to the bed and records this woman sleeping for about 10 seconds. The woman is alone in the bed. He takes one more step closer, then off camera, I
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assume coming from behind him. You hear a deep voice yell, "Hey, what are you doing?" After this, all you hear is the sound of a scuffle and the phone hits the ground and slides under the bed. For the next
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several minutes, the camera's recording springs from underneath the bed. You can hear a man yelling and a woman crying.
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That same woman can be heard calling 911. The woman's voice fades because I assume she left the room. The video keeps recording for several minutes until it finally cuts. Nothing happens during the rest of the recording other than a few
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times you can hear that same deep voice yelling in the distance, but you can't tell what he's saying. After I finished watching the video, I sat there for a minute and just processed what I saw.
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Clearly, the guy who sold me this box at the garage sale didn't realize what this phone was since he said all the junk was clutter from his kids. I grabbed the phone and drove back to the house that
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had the garage sale. It was early evening now, so they weren't doing the sale anymore. I knocked on the door, and the guy looked freaked out when he opened up.
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I was all worked up, but I was still able to explain to the guy what I found on the phone, and I told him that he might want to call the police. The man looked like he was going to get sick. He
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told me that 8 years ago, some random guy broke into the house. He was wearing a mask, so they couldn't properly ID him. And as a result, they were never able to catch the man. Now, not only did
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they have this phone with all the videos, but they also had the weird selfie in the background of the phone.
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When he saw the background, he looked even more horrified because it confirmed that he had no clue who the man was. I gave the man the phone and went on my way. As I was walking away, the man
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thanked me and told me that he was going to contact the police and hopefully get some justice. As of me writing the story, I have no idea if they caught the home invader or not. After I left the
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man's driveway that evening, I never heard anything about this again. This is going to sound messed up and kind of dark, but I'm sad I didn't save all the videos before I gave the phone back.
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Every time I look out my windows at night now, I always think about how there could be a man just standing there recording me and I would never know.
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That's just about the scariest thing I could think of. Two years ago, something happened to me that I can't explain. Something that's honestly just creepy. I'm usually a fairly grounded person, and my cage doesn't get rattled easily. Although, on
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that afternoon, I felt differently. It was an early fall day. It was sunny but crisp outside. When I was driving home from work that Saturday in the early afternoon, I passed a sign on the side of the road that was advertising an
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estate sale down the next street. I don't usually ever stop at estate sales, but for some reason this time I did. I turned down the street and followed the signs. The street was a semi- winding road that ended up being a giant circle.
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The house that was directly in the back was an old and beat up house. This was the house that was having the estate sale. I parked my car and I was surprised that there weren't a lot of other cars parked there. I figured I
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wouldn't buy anything. I was just excited to check out the inside of this house. I've never seen a house like this. What I mean by that is the style of the house. It was huge, but very old.
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I walked inside and saw that literally everything had a price tag on it. There were a couple of people walking around and three people sitting in the living room at a table collecting the money.
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The house smelled old. I hate that old smell. As I walked around the house, I noticed that the family still had several of the family photos up. Those were the only things that didn't have a price tag. Before I went upstairs, I was
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checking everything out that was on the ground floor. One of the rooms was filled with an obnoxious amount of boxes, and the boxes were filled with just junk. It would take you days to go through each one of these boxes
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thoroughly. I started to just skim through the top of one of the boxes when I looked over and saw an old man sitting in a metal folding chair in the corner of the room. He startled me. I didn't
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see him at first. I assumed the reason why I missed him was that he just blended in with all the other stuff that was in the room. The man looked very old. He had these thick eyebrows and a
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huge nose. I waved to the man and said hello. He just stared at me like I said something in another language.
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I continued looking through the box and I could feel this man staring at me still. I made a joke about all the stuff in the room, trying to get the guy to laugh, but he just kept looking at me.
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Except now he looked angry. Realizing that I wasn't going to get a laugh out of this man, I turned around and started going through a completely different box. A few seconds later, I turned around to see if he was still looking at
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me. And the man startled me all over again. He wasn't sitting anymore. Now, he was standing and he was only a few feet away from me. I remember being creeped out, not just because this man looked angry and creepy, but because he
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was able to stand up and get that close to me without me hearing a single thing.
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I didn't want to have an altercation with an old man at an estate sale. So, I left the room and the creepy man behind.
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Given his age, and because he wasn't looking at anything, I assumed he was one of the family members of the people having the estate sale. I walked by a couple more rooms, but didn't go into any of them. They had a sign hanging
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over the stairs that said, "Clothes available upstairs, only $5." Since my job is gross, I'm always in the market for cheap clothes that I can beat up.
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So, I went upstairs and I couldn't believe it. I walked into one of the rooms and sitting on the edge of the bed was the man from downstairs.
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At least this time, he wasn't looking at me. He was staring out of the window that was next to the bed. I didn't want to disturb him, but I really wanted to check out the clothes in the closet. I
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basically tiptoed to the closet and started going through the clothes. I was pleased that most of the shirts in the closet were flannels, which make up most of my wardrobe. I found one flannel that I loved and I pulled it out of the
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closet with the intention of buying it. As I turned around, the old man was now standing at the edge of the bed, staring at me again with those horrible, angry eyes.
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In a raspy and unnerving voice, the man said, "Jean wouldn't like that." I didn't react or engage with the man. I was convinced that this had to be a grieving family member who was struggling with the passing of the guy
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who lived in the house. I made my way downstairs to the people running the estate sale. As I was giving the woman the money, she told me that I was buying her father's favorite flannel. I don't know if it was supposed to make me feel
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bad, but it did. I told her she could keep it, but she insisted on me taking it, especially if I was going to wear it. I thanked her and just before leaving, I told them that there was a
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really upset family member who I encountered twice. Once in the box room and once upstairs as nicely as I could, I told them that he was mildly threatening and he might freak some people out. I watched all three of the people running the sale
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look at each other in confusion. The woman told me that the only people her father had left were just the three kids who were the people sitting right here.
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She told me that her father was 99 years old when he passed away. While she was telling me this, the guy who was just sitting down there with her ran upstairs to see who it was. While she was talking
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about her dad, I didn't want to be rude and walk away. A minute later, the man who had just gone upstairs came back down and told me that he didn't see any old guy upstairs. I was shocked because
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I didn't see him walk downstairs. I'm not saying that he couldn't have walked down, but I feel like I would have seen him since the stairs were right behind where they were sitting and collecting the money. When the woman was
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finally done talking about her father, I thanked her again for the flannel and started to leave. Just before walking out the door, something caught my eye.
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On the wall near the door was a picture of an old man wearing the flannel I was now holding in my hands and he had his arm around another old man. And the man in the photo looked exactly like the old
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man I had seen twice during my time in the house. I turned back around and shouted to the three running the sale that I was sure the man I saw was the man in this picture. All three of them
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looked confused. Finally, the daughter spoke up and said that the man in the picture was her father's best friend, Thomas. They were friends throughout childhood and their adult lives. When both of them became widowers, they decided to live together.
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They used to laugh at themselves being roommates at this advanced stage of life. They lived together for about 2 years until Thomas died. She told me that was 5 years ago. So, whoever I saw, it couldn't have been him. I kept
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staring at the picture while she was talking. I mean, if it truly wasn't him, this guy could have been his identical twin. He had the same nose, the same bushy eyebrows, and the same angry eyes.
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I apologized to them for making a mistake, even though I was sure this was the same guy. Just before I walked out the door, the woman said that the room with all the boxes was Thomas's bedroom when he lived there. I smiled and
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laughed at the coincidence. I thanked them all again and finally left. I got to my car and checked my phone before leaving. Just as I was about to drive off, I looked up at the window and standing right there was the old man. He
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was staring directly at me again. I thought about giving the flannel back and just leaving, but I ultimately decided to just drive off. I spent the next few days just telling myself it had to be a coincidence. The whole thing
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made me feel uneasy. I didn't want to wear that flannel because I literally felt like this old man was going to appear in my house if I did. It was almost 6 months later when I finally wore the flannel for the first time.
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Whenever I tell this story, I feel crazy thinking that I saw something I can't explain. I guess all this may be a coincidence in some way. If what I saw is what I think I saw, then this is
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without a doubt the creepiest thing that has ever happened to me.
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