Small Shadow

In the previous episode, we heard Anna's terrifying experiences at the place where she
used to live in Chino Hills, California. The experiences didn't stop there.
An important detail to know it is a shadow figures. Although whatever was bothering
the family, she used to make a hard effort to make itself known.
My name is Edwin. Today we continue with anna true scary story. After
we moved, we did have several other small experiences, and I think that
most of these small experiences make up one big experience. One time I had
stayed home with my siblings. We had grown from three to four. We
had a little brother, and my parents had gone out for the night.
My oldest sister, my younger sister, and my little brother were upstairs putting
their pajamas on. I already had my pajamas on, and I was downstairs
waiting for them. We were going to watch a movie together. I had
the popcorn ready, I had the TV ready, just waiting for them to
come down so I could press play. The living room was dark. We
had a couch that was up against a wall with the windows, and straight
ahead was the TV. To the left of the TV was an opening because
it was like the hallway to go towards the front door. To the right
of that, like it's just a small space. Was a staircase that led
up to the upstairs bedrooms to the left of that. If you walk down
the stairs, you could go to the right towards the front door, or
you could go into the dining room. In between the kitchen and the dining
room, like there's another opening. If someone were to go into the kitchen,
they can go through that opening and be in the dining room, and
they can make their way around and go through that little hallway and they're in
the living room. There's no space, there's nothing separating the kitchen and the
living room. I'm sitting on the couch and I'm waiting for my siblings.
It's dark. I see what I think is my little brother running from the
stairs to the dining room. So I just saw like a small dark shadow
like go by from the stairs to the living room. But it wasn't even
like a shadow. It was it had more form to it, like it
was the shape of a body, and more specifically the shape of a small
child. I thought, Oh, he's trying to scare me. He's gonna
go around the dining room through that little entrance and come in through the kitchen
to try to scare me. Right, I got up, laughing to myself
a bit because I thought I saw him and I'm gonna go around and try
to scare him. I quietly get up, and I'm going through the kitchen,
going through that little entrance, and I turned the corner to face the
dining room. There's nothing, and I'm like, what, you know,
what the heck is going on? At that very moment, my older sister
trying to stairs light on. I see her, my little sister and my
little brother starting to walk downstairs again. I just get so scared and I
run through the kitchen back onto the couch, and I just threw myself on
the couch. I must have done it in such a way that my older
sister knew that there was something wrong or thought that I was doing something I
wasn't supposed to, because she said, what are you doing? She probably
thought that I was doing something. I just shook my head and said nothing.
She asked again, what are you doing? Like why were you running?
I told her I saw our little brother run down the stairs into the
dining room, and she looked at me with a puzzled look on her face,
and she said, no, he's been upstairs. I was putting his
pajamas off. We just left it at that, but I saw someone running
from the stairs. Throughout all these experiences that I've had, I tried to
talk my myself out of it. I keep thinking to myself, Okay,
maybe you know some lights were playing some tricks. It was like a trick
of flights or something like. I don't know. I just keep trying to
make sense of it. But I always go back to no, I know
what I saw. I know what I saw. There's no changing that.
Around this time, there were multiple things happening. We were all going through
a rough time as a family, and I think that this kind of made
my parents try to find them their way back to their religion. One night,
my dad had the Bible out on his nightstand, and Bibles are really
big, really sick. He had it out on his nightstand and all of
a sudden he was awoken by a loud Oh. He wakes up right away,
turns the light on, and he saw that the Bible was across the
room on the floor. That if something had taken the Bible and thrown it
across the room, and I don't know what it could have been, but
clearly there was something that was trying to get our attention. Because sometime maybe
a few months after I saw what I thought was my little brother running from
the stairs to the dining room, my dad saw a small child running from
the hallway from the bedrooms into the laundry room. It's not like it was
like a small space that he saw this and that he could have mistaken someone
else for or just again like seeing something that he did wasn't really there.
It's like a pretty big gap. Heete thought that it was my younger brother,
and he went into the laundry room and there was no one there.
So when I told my parents about what I saw, they cautioned us to
keep an eye on our little brother because from their experiences, when you start
seeing things like this, it's a warning sign that something is going to happen.
It happened when unfortunately my mom had a miscarriage, that they were seeing
shadows and all of a sudden, we're seeing shadows of a small child.
Again. That was very strange. Then fast forward maybe two three years from
that point, I was in my bedroom and I was just putting some clothes
away and my younger sister was going to hang out with me in my bedroom.
She had gone downstairs to grab something. She was making her way back
upstairs. I heard her coming up the stairs, and I know that it
was her because it was only her and I at home at the time.
There was no one else home. She was walking up the stairs and I
heard another set of steps behind her. I thought to myself, Oh,
did you know did they leave my little brother at home? Without me realizing
it? What's going on? I distinctly heard another set of steps behind her.
She runs into the room and immediately turns back to look behind her.
When she does that, I asked her, where's our little brother? She
said, he is not here. Did you hear that too? I told
her the footsteps and she said yeah, and I said, yes, I
heard them. Who was that? And she said, I don't know.
The way that she tells it is she was downstairs grabbing her backpack or whatever
it was, and she's going up the stairs. She said that about halfway
through the first set of steps, she heard someone walking beside behind her.
And the way that I heard it too, it founded like heavy footsteps.
It wasn't like little pitter patter of footsteps. It was almost the way that
I envision it is, a heavy set of boots walking behind her. She
said that she heard that and she was too scared to turn around. She
just made her way up the stairs faster and ran down the hallway into my
bedroom. That's when she finally got the courage to turn around. We both
heard a second set of footsteps. There's no mistaking that. We still talk
about it to this day because we are burm in what we heard and it
was just really odd. But nothing happened directly after that. In that house,
too, is where I had one of the strangest experiences of my entire
life, and A's terrifying experiences continue right after this. Stay with us.
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I was about fourteen. I had been really upset because my older sister and
my younger sister were using my karaoke machine without my permission. I was really
not at them, and I wanted to take it away from them, but
my mom said that I had to let the muse it. So I'm just
being a teenager and bawling my eyes out in the bathroom, when all of
a sudden, I felt a presence in the bathroom with me. I'm just
fitting on my counter, not the sync, but on the counter. I'm
just crying away, and I feel a presence. It was very It was
almost like a spark where it really got my attention. If I look up
and immediately I asked, is someone there? Obviously I didn't get a reply,
there was no response, but it was very evident to me in how
I was feeling that there was someone there. I don't know why to this
day, I can't explain why. I just got the sense that it was
the baby that my mom had miscarried. It sounds very strange, and it
sounds it just sounds very odd, but that's what I felt. And if
you recall at the beginning of this story, I was about three almost four
years old at the time. I had no real idea of what was going
on, of what happened. My parents never really talked to us about it
because one we wouldn't understand, and two it was something that they didn't want
to discuss. It was too sad for them. They never told us what
exactly happened. I never knew why the baby had miscarried. Right I'm fourteen,
and I get the sense of that it's the baby that my mom miscarried
that is in the bathroom with me. I asked it, are you the
baby? I didn't get an audible response. I just got this kind of
overwhelming feeling of almost comfort. There's a very distinct feeling that you get when
it's I guess what you would call a dark entity and what you would call
a light utity. When it's something evil, you feel it, you feel
scared, you feel fear, but when it's something else, you're almost comforted.
I don't know how to explain it other than just warm, fuzzy feelings
inside. That was the feeling that I would get when I would see these
shadows as a child. I almost started talking to it. And the weirdest
part of all of it was not that I was talking to a dead baby,
but that the answers that I was getting were not audible. But it
was almost as if someone were putting a thought in my head. And I
had never known how to explain that before until I explained it that way.
You don't hear anything. It's almost as if you have a thought that's not
your own. I asked it, why did you die? The response that
I was getting was an image in my head. It was almost like a
face. It wasn't very distinct, though, but it was like a face,
and the top of the head was like jagged or it just it was
like there was a chunk missing. The response that I took from that list
there was something wrong with your head, like there was part of your head
was missing. And I thought that was very strange, because why as a
fourteen year old would I have a thought like that. I also got this
thought put in my head that the baby wanted to say that he wished that
he had been born because my mom is a really good mom and he would
have wanted to have her as his mom. I faith he and his because
that's the impression or the feeling that I got was that it was a boy.
I was left very just in awe of this experience. Later on that
day, I was really in my head thinking about this, and my older
sister noticed. She asked me what's wrong, and I told her I had
something weird happen. And I told her what happened, and she convinced me
to tell my mom, even though I didn't want to. Later that day,
we got together with my mom in her bedroom and it was just the
three of us, my older sister and my mom and die, and she
implored me to tell my mom what happened. I started telling her what happened,
and my sister asked, what did the baby die from? My mom
replied and she said. At this point, my mom was crying, and
she said that the baby had died. She had a miscarriage because the baby
had end encephale, which is when the spinal cord. Something happens with the
spinal cord and basically the head doesn't form correctly. The whole baby forms correctly
except for the head, so the head doesn't close properly. There are like
there's like blood cloths flowing out of the baby's head into the womb, and
it can kill the other too. That's not something that can really be fixed,
or I couldn't at the time. I haven't done any more research on
it or anything, but basically, the baby's head doesn't clothe. There's a
hole in their head. So that as soon as she said that, I
started bawling because there was just no way I could have known, no way
I could have known. They had never told us what happened. We were
too young at the time. They never explained it to us, never talked
to us about it. So for me to know that was just absolutely wild.
It was insane, especially the way that I received that infulution. I've
never had that experience before or after. It was a very unique, very
indescribable experience. I had so many experiences and things that scared me, so
I've actively closed myself off to it. This incident took place in the second
home where I had already seen two shadows, and where my passed away or
miscarried sibling spoke to me. In that home, we were experiencing multiple things.
More of my family members were as well. In about two thousand and
ten, we got our first dog. She was a poodle and she was
maybe about eight pounds nine pounds. She was pretty small. On one occasion,
she was old enough to sleep on the bed with us. My younger
sister and I shared a room at the time. She had her twin sized
bed and I was in another, and I had our dog sleeping on the
bed with me. These were high beds. The frame was very high off
the floor, and so was a mattress. For some reason, our dog
wouldn't typically just jump off the bed. It would have been a very high
jump for her and could have been dangerous for her because she could have gotten
hurt. On one particular night, she was sleeping on my bed. I
woke up because I heard her growling. Open my eyes and I see that
she's staring at this corner very intently. In that corner, we had a
night light plugged in, the room wasn't fully dark. I didn't see anything
in that corner, but I thought maybe she's looking at a mosquito, she
saw a bug or something, but she was. The way that she was
growling was it wasn't a oh, I'm annoyed or I want to play.
It was a daring growl, like she was really trying to scare something off.
She's growling at this corner, and I'm lifting myself out of bed,
watching her and asking what's going on, and rubbing her back. And then
my younger sister wakes up because her growls they turned into like snarl. She
was snarling at whatever she was looking at in the corner of the room.
Almost as soon as my sister wakes up, our dog just starts howling.
She's barking at this thing in the corner like the most aggressive bark. I've
ever heard from her before or since. This has never again happened, and
we have four dogs at home now. She is howling and barking, and
then she jumps off and takes off. The door to the room was open,
so she just took off chasing something or what appeared to be chasing something
down the hallway and just sparking like a maniac. I don't know how else
to explain it. She was. It just so aggressive. She just continued
chasing something down the hallway and everything was completely dark, and she chased it
into our loft area. She was so loud and so fast. Everything was
just so intense that like my parents woke up right away, they turned all
the lights on, opened their bedroom door. They thought that something had happened,
like someone had broken in or something, because it was just that intense.
But I never saw anything. It didn't happen again. It was just
very easy because she was like looking at something and then jumped off the bed
and took off chasing something. I think as we started getting more dogs that
just didn't things in the home definitely were minimized. Incidents didn't take place as
much, So I think that perhaps it was something maybe malicious. I think
she sensed something that was definitely there to do some sort of harm, because
they do say that dogs are more sensitive to those types of things. But
also they know when someone carries good energy or bad energy, and that includes
humans. They sometimes don't like certain people and really gravitate towards others. I
think they just feel when someone has all this negative energy and they will not
like them or crowl at them, bark at them. Whatever she saw was
something malicious, and it makes it especially eerie that it was in the corner
of our bedroom, almost as if there was something or someone standing there watching
us. What do you think it could have been? Something malicious? To
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