The Witch of Cameron Park

Scary FM. We have all heard of an urban legend in our own towns,
but few of us decide to investigate. Today, we'll hear an account
about a visit to the supposed witch that lives in a wooded area of Waco,
Texas. My name is Edward and he is Sarah. True scary story
that started about twenty nineteen, either November or December. I know that it
was around the holidays. We had been out ghost hunning all night. Oh.
It was my boyfriend at the time his family, so his mom and
his sister were with us, and we were going around like local areas in
Waco, Texas, and we were just trying to talk to anything that was
out there, if there were any spirits lingering. So we were messing around
with stuff, but we didn't really get anything the entire night, and so
we decided to go to another location in Waco. And it's very popular and
it's very well known for being haunted. It's an urban legend about there's a
witch that hides in the forest of this park and it's called Cameron Park.
And I don't know how true it is. I've never experienced anything with the
witch, but coming into that night we were driving down the road and it's
a windy road. It's a very windy road, and there's a bunch of
tree coverage everywhere, so your eyes are constantly playing tricks on you as you're
looking down the road. We decided to stop at one portion, and we
were really frustrated that we weren't finding anything. We weren't getting anything at all,
so we just wanted to take a break, chill out, and just
think of what we were going to do. We got out of the car
and had parked down at the bottom of a hill and it was it's like
the radio area for the park rangers. We parked at the base and parked
right in front of the ranger area, and we're looking back up the hill,
my boyfriend and I at the time. We got out of the car
and we decided to walk up the road a little bit, and we were
not far from the car at all, and he decides he's aggravated. He
just wants to get his feelings out, so he just lets out this guttural
yell and he's like antagonizing anything around him, and so he's out there just
letting out all of these yells and roars anything he can think of growling,
and he finally stops, and within a second it was so clear. There
was like a shuffling in the foliage. And I look over towards this light
pole that's like right over across the way. So we were on one side
of the street and the light pole was on the other side of the street,
diagonal from us, and we were about maybe two hundred yards away or
so, so we weren't super close. But in the tree line, I
saw something appear, and at first I thought my eyes were playing tricks on
me, until my boyfriend stopped and zoned in on that thing, and we
look and it's this eight foot tall figure standing right next to the light pole.
And it leans down and kneels on all fours and darts across the street,
just this tall black mass slowly slinking down to the shrink down to the
size of just midway down the telephone pole or the light pole. The light
pole is maybe about fifteen feet high. It comes down to half its height
already at standing, so for it to shrink back down, and then it
looked almost like this giant wolf. I can't describe exactly how it looked other
than it was black. It was very rugged looking, and there are no
wolves in that area. It is impossible for that to have any kind of
animal of that size out there, and especially because that is in the center
of like downtown, so there's nothing as big as that's going to be down
there logically. And it was all black and just extremely shaggy looking. It
had a lot of of loose looking fur. And as it got closer,
like I remember looking back and there was some kind of yellow in its eyes,
but it was bright. It was like a neon yellow as you're looking
at it, and it just it took me forever to get my senses to
come back and be like, you need to get out of there. We're
already in the dark of the night and this thing is pitch black. So
we're watching it, and we are stuck watching this thing move across the street.
The whole time. We could not break our eyes from it. It
literally felt like we were stuck in this loop for eternity, and it was
maybe like a ten second thing. We freaked out, and so once we
finally could gather our senses, we ran back to the car and we got
out of there as fast as we could. I remember talking to my boyfriend
about it, and I was like, did you feel like the need to
run? And he was like yeah, But I couldn't move no matter how
hard we tried, because I tried to turn and I tried to break my
head away to turn back and run towards the car, and I couldn't break
my body. We darted immediately to the car, no questions asked, like
it was me and him and I took off and got there first, and
I told his mom. I was like, start the car, we need
to go. We're getting out of here. Now. She's fumbling with the
car's trying to get the cars started. It was like an older minivan,
probably like an early two thousands minivan, and we're having so much trouble just
getting out of there. And then the I remember, like you already had
to slam your foot on the gas to get it to even go, and
we were at the bottom of a hill, so we had to come up
out of a hill. I looked at my boyfriend and I was like,
do we tell them what happened? What are we gonna do? Do we
keep this between us? And so we didn't want to freak them out too
bad, but we had told them we had just seen something. We didn't
tell them exactly what it was, just that we had watched something come up
out of the bushes and go back. It was something dark. It was
just so terrifying, Like my whole body broke out and chills. I was
crying by the end of us getting in the car, like we were just
so relieved to finally be away from it. I already know you don't mess
with that kind of stuff, like you don't anger them. If you want
to get answers, you have to be respectful, like you're talking to a
friend. You have to be very nice, and especially to get the information
you want. And he just went in there and just went crazy. And
I guess it was just because we were so frustrated with how the night was
going. We weren't getting anything at all. People have talked about seeing apparitions
out there and stuff, but nothing like what we saw. I guess it
was more well known for the witch, like this evil witch that's supposed to
live in this there's it's literally called a witch's hut, and it's in the
middle of the woods the park. It's is a beautiful like overlook of the
city and into the Brazos River, but inside the forest there's a bunch of
hiking trails all over the place, but it's about a three mile hike maybe.
But there's the only thing that's really well known is just the witch because
you can hear her laugh. Which, yeah, so we didn't hear anything,
but people we were friends with have claimed like that they've heard the witches
laugh while they're out running around. My boyfriend's mom decided to mess with a
Ouiji board out there multiple times. I don't know what her experiences were other
than very negative, and she's still to this day will not open up about
it. So this was at least within the following three weeks. We were
in our apartment and I noticed a rift forming between us after this incident.
We were generally in a pretty good place and within our relationships, so there
was no reason for the fighting that was going on. And just like a
lot of arguments over petty things and such, well, this particular incident was
just very out of the blue. We were in an argument, and then
afterwards my boyfriend decided he was going to go downstairs and go outside to the
car. I think he went to go grab something I don't remember exactly,
but I know that I was left alone in the apartment and I had walked
back out of the bedroom, and to the right of my bedroom is the
dining room area, and so it's just this long chandelier that hangs over my
dining table. But I walked back out and he'd already been out of the
house for at least forty five seconds, almost a minute, and I look
over and the chandelier is swinging back and forth. I didn't know what to
do. I'm just standing there looking at it and it's just going nuts.
And I walk over it, and so I stop it and hold it with
my hands and try to just recenter it, and I'm like, what the
heck, And then right before he starts running up the stairs, it starts
swinging again, and it's just swinging in my face and it's going around my
head, and so I stop and I step back and I'm looking at it,
and my boyfriend comes in and it stops stands perfectly still. Nothing after
that. So this thing was antagonizing me when he wasn't around, and it
was terrifying. That was the only incident within that short amount of time.
Other than that, it comes to the dream and that's like the worst part
Sarah's dream and her frightening experienceer coming up right after this. It probably happened
about a month or two after the first initial incident with the figure. I
was home alone. My boyfriend was gone for work, so he was out
of town for two weeks at a time at that moment, so I was
at the apartment by myself, and this was like the beginning of his first
week gone, so he hadn't even been gone for like maybe three days,
and something was already happening. I remember turning off all the lights and I
was getting into bed. I left my blinds cracked, and my blind's being
cracked illuminates the room with the moonlight, and so it's not enough to be
like a super bright light or anything. It's just enough to illuminate the floor.
But with it being white carpet, it reflects very well when you walk
into the room. My bed is on the center wall, the closet is
to the left of the bed, and then the bathroom door is to the
foot of the bed, and my exit door to the living room is next
to the closet door. And I was getting ready for bed and I climbed
in, got comfortable, fell asleep. I started having this stream, and
at first it was very strange because it was like watching a movie, but
it was like watching myself sleep. And so I'm pulled into this outer body
experience and I'm looking down at myself. I recognize my bedroom. It is
exactly the same, completely normal, but it's actually in real time, and
I'm watching myself asleep on my bed and tucked under the covers. As I
pan around the room, I noticed this dark black figure, kind of misty,
standing in the doorway of the bathroom. It has yellow eyes but no
body, so it has no definitive body other than just the eyes and the
eyes of the most terrifying part. And I'm looking at just the wispiness of
it. It's very slinky, very curvy, and no form, just very
blob like. And so I'm watching it and then it finally materializes into an
actual figure of a man. I can see in the dream the figure just
form itself. I'm immediately frozen. I'm like, I know who this is.
I know exactly what this is. This is that thing that followed me
home. I watch it slowly mystify again at the feet, although it starts
from bottom and then heads up to the top, so it slowly starts to
miss again and evaporate, and then it comes down and dives down towards the
floor. It's following the shadows of the room because it won't come near where
the moonlight is coming in and it wouldn't be able to touch anything within the
light. But as I'm watching it move around the room, I look and
it's slowly just curving past my bed, and it's very long, like it's
like watching a snake slither around the room. And I'm watching it slowly creep
up the bed, and it finally starts moving towards the sheets of my bed,
and a mist is just floating above my head. I immediately wake up
and the mist is covering my eyes. It's pitch black. I don't see
the moonlight. And then the figure starts to whisp around me, and it
floats off and just dispears, like the whole mist evaporates. Everything, Like
my face felt cold, I felt sick to my stomach. I immediately sat
up in the bed, freaking out, and I look at my clock and
it's three p thirty three in the morning, and I freaked out. I'm
like crying at this point, just tears, like I'm not even upset or
anything. I don't know what's going on. I'm still trying to grasp everything
that's happened, and I just have tears rolling down my face, terrified.
I'm shivering, shaking. Everything and everything in me told me that thing physically
was there and that was not a dream. I was actually watching it happen
in real time while asleep. I shot about of bed. I look at
the clock. It's three thirty three, and my boyfriend's mom had texted me
and she was like, hey, I have a bad feeling. Are you
okay? And I was like, no way. I'm like there's no way.
She immediately sent that It was probably a minute before I had woken up,
so it was three thirty two am on the text message. When I
had woken up, it was three thirty three. She's just hey, like,
I have a bad feeling. Are you okay? What's going on?
I just call her and I was like, something just happened. I'm coming
over, Like I cannot stay here by myself. I said, I will
be staying with you until my boyfriend gets home. I'm not staying here alone.
I had to just grab all of my stuff. I grabbed all my
clothes, like everything I needed for work for the next week, and just
booked it over to her house and stayed with her and her husband. I
couldn't sleep for weeks, like I was having night terrors about it. It
was becoming something serious. I was terrified, but I realized like the more
fear that you feed it, the stronger it was getting, just because I
could just feel the energy keep growing in the animosity build, but nothing else
happened, like it never came. It just built and built, but it
never snapped or anything. I really think something had attached either to myself or
to my boyfriend and didn't like the fact that I was either there like in
the comfort of my own home, or it just wanted to actually terrify me
to the point of wanting to leave my home. But it was something malicious.
It was very evil, like it was not I wouldn't wish that fear
on my worst enemy. My boyfriend and I had been living with his mom
for a little bit out of time, and we were staying there for a
few weeks or so, and I remember he wanted to go outside to go
sit and smoke a cigarette, and so I just went out there and sat
with him. It was like midnight and we were getting ready for bed and
everything. So we were sitting on the porch and there's just a clear view
to the street, and there's a street light with a telephone pole. Of
course, I look over and this figure appears, But it's not the same
way that it appeared in my dream or when we were on the investigation.
When it appeared this time, it looked like a man wearing a top hat
and just full out black figure, same pitch black, but it had the
same feeling of the energy. I don't know what kept it from entering the
house or anything, but we felt a lot safer inside the house than going
outside, because it felt like if we were outside, it could reach us.
The dreams still occur. I have a lot of trouble falling asleep now.
I don't sleep with the lights off. I can't sleep with the door
open anymore. All doors to my rooms are closed. And really like,
after all of that, it actually really negatively affected my life. I had
to get out of Waco. I wasn't working there anymore, like I left,
so I had actually moved down there for a job opportunity and I had
left with nothing. I completely had to uproot my life like my boyfriend and
I broke up, I lost my job. I couldn't do it, and
so I moved back to be with my family. And it felt like it
had really negatively affected me. It had just come in and taken everything away
within six months of the experience is happening when I left Waco. Nothing has
happened since then. Nothing. Have you ever visited a haunted location or have
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