Haunted at 3:33 AM: What’s Scratching Him in the Dark?

[00:00:02] Welcome to Tell Me A Ghost Story, the late night call in podcast where we delve into the world of the supernatural and explore the eerie and unexplained. I'm your host, Michelle Newman. This podcast features true stories from our callers that will send shivers down your

[00:00:32] spine and leave you questioning the existence of the afterlife. So grab a cozy blanket, turn down the lights. Hey my name is Carl and I'm from a small town in Texas called Vienna. Our church was divided into two different buildings pretty much.

[00:00:57] One of them was outside the main church and that's kind of where we would go to just kind of hang out, maybe have some food or something. So there was nobody there, it was just me, my cousins and I think maybe one other friend.

[00:01:12] And so we're like hey let's go in there, let's turn all the lights out and play hide and seek with the tag or whatever right? So really yeah that's a good idea. So we get in here and we're playing, I think we'll play like two games or something

[00:01:26] like that. And I'm sitting there beside my cousin and I look up at the stairs because this second building had about the upstairs in the bottom or first floor and second floor. And we had that tall white on upstairs.

[00:01:43] Now look up there and there's this man just standing up there at the top. It was like a shadow figure I guess you'd say and it had like a hat on and then it's

[00:01:56] lower body, almost kind of faded out but it looks like he had some kind of coat on. And I'm sitting there looking at this thing but it was like he was sitting up there watching us and he kind of disappeared after a second or so.

[00:02:11] I turned to my cousin and I'm like did you see that? And she's like see what? And I was like never mind, I thought I saw something standing up there and she's like okay that's really freaky because it was kind of like ended up thing.

[00:02:24] I'm like yeah it is. And so a little bit later she's like oh my god and I'm like what? What? She's like I just saw it and she kind of described it to me and I was like yeah that's it, that's it.

[00:02:39] And I'm like I told you so until we turn all the lights on and we get out of there. Thanks for calling in Carl. I wonder if anyone else has felt watched by that man at your church or if he just likes to watch the children. Next message.

[00:02:59] Hi my name is Hector and I'm from New Mexico and this is more of a personal experience that I've had which started happening in 2013. I wasn't necessarily seeing any ghosts or apparitions but more of being physically touched or scratched or attacked however you want to interpret that.

[00:03:26] The first time this happened to me was in 2013 and I had went to my local gym, came home got ready for the day and as I was getting ready I noticed I had three long scratches on the back of my forearm.

[00:03:43] I don't know how those scratches appeared or where they came from so I took a picture of it only because it was just one of those situations that's kind of hard to believe that something like that happens.

[00:03:56] I wasn't necessarily scared but definitely questioned a lot of things that go on and as far as me trying to debunk it I just wasn't able to. So this went on over the course of the next ten years.

[00:04:17] There would be times where I would just be doing normal everyday things and I would get scratched. Sometimes it was two scratches, sometimes it was three scratches so the most intense experience I've had with that was one night and I had a nightmare of something just kind

[00:04:43] of evil menacing figure. They were short, maybe the height of a young adult maybe and they had this menacing look on their face and they were kind of laughing and then they had approached me and then

[00:05:02] they just kind of sped off in the other direction at the speed of light. It was pretty insane. Well I woke up and it was 3.33 in the morning so the following night, sleeping, sound asleep

[00:05:18] and I hear this loud banging, just a solid bang loud enough to wake me up. My bedroom door at the time always kept it shut and it was just a janky door that you had to kind of forcefully push to close it and kind of pull to open.

[00:05:40] Well when I heard this loud bang I woke up, I checked the time it was 3.33 in the morning and once I got my senses about me I looked over and sure enough my door was open.

[00:05:57] It wasn't open all the way but it was open to where I knew that I didn't get up and open the door and so when I got out of bed I just felt a really bad sensation.

[00:06:14] I had the chills up and down my body, all my senses were heightened. Just something felt like it was there for a brief moment that shouldn't be there and after those few moments the air was a little lighter.

[00:06:29] I felt okay after that but that was probably the most intense experience that I had with that. Now what do these scratches mean? I have no idea. They do happen in threes a lot more than anything. Sometimes it's a single scratch.

[00:06:49] I'm at a point now where I'm kind of just used to it. It doesn't really bother me because I don't let things like that bother me and again you know it's just open to one's own personal beliefs.

[00:07:02] You know I don't believe that anyone's particular belief is right or wrong. Definitely I do keep an open mind about it but just wanted to share that story. Thanks. Thanks Hector for your story. 3.33 a.m. Known to many as the witching hour.

[00:07:24] It's thought to be a time when the veil separating our dimension from the next is at its thinnest. It sounds like you might have accidentally caught a glimpse of your scratcher. Next message. Hi Michelle, it's me again Yvonne from The Philippines.

[00:07:45] I just want to share a short story that happened way back when I was still living with my parents and my brother. I was possibly like 16-18 years old, late 2000 when this happened and it was possibly like 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

[00:08:05] Just a little context before this happened. I like and enjoy scaring my brother. I know it sounds cruel but I like hiding and popping out of nowhere and just scaring him.

[00:08:25] So he in turn as a revenge tries to do it but more often than not I catch him in the act even before he gets to scare me because he's a really big boy at that time even at his

[00:08:38] age so we can actually see him in the corner whenever he does something. So given that the lights were off in my room and the wings were so light was outside of my bedroom door which is which was coming from the living room.

[00:08:56] Then there were many buddy who would walk past the door would cast a shadow or I would see their silhouette. So when I was sitting down I noticed him, my brother, walk in although I couldn't really actually see his face.

[00:09:13] I know it was him, it was shaped as him although boy and he was just walking slowly and he stopped to defend my bed so I couldn't see him and he just stuck down.

[00:09:29] I wanted to give him a bit of a doubt but I had to tell him off because I really needed that time alone at that point and I can't remember why but I was asking him to stop

[00:09:42] I told him I saw you it's okay can get out of the room now it's fine and he wouldn't respond and I think maybe he's thinking that I would check so it could

[00:09:56] scare me but I was a little bit impatient at that point so I was like a little bit annoying asked him to get out of the room he still wouldn't bunch so I had no choice but to

[00:10:11] peep down with the foot of the bed to see and asking to go away when it peeped down he was there. So logically you would think check under the bed he's under the bed

[00:10:29] there's no way for him to fit there because under the bed are boxes and boxes and boxes of his toys it's basically the storage of all his toys so there's no way he would fit there

[00:10:47] but I still checked because I couldn't understand how he could just disappear after seeing him a few seconds ago just stuck him down hiding there so I checked every corner possibly where he could fit can't see him so the only option was to just tell on him

[00:11:08] so I just yelled out to mom and then told her don't leave me alone please ask him to stop stuff like that and when I looked to look at my mom she had this really confused face

[00:11:25] like what are you talking about and then she told me you do know that your brother is not at home and he hasn't come back home since his afternoon and that was when I do is that I saw something else

[00:11:45] thanks again Yvonne for another spooky treat keep those stories coming that's all we have this week folks do you have a ghost story call 701-484-2666 that's 701-484-2666 or go to tellmeagostory.com and leave your story there

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