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The Natural World Turned Upside Down
Swishy Raccoon
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I am a skeptic. I never believe what I'm told without proof, and I sometimes have to see proof multiple times before I am satisfied. However, a story a friend related to me has made me question several items in the past few months that have got me quite perturbed as to what really happened. To get you in the right frame of mind, I will tell her story as she told it to me.
She told me that while she was living in her house in Patterson, just a few miles from the town where we both live now, she had an experience that left her quite shaken up. While her parent's were out, she was left alone at home to do her chores. It was getting close to the time when her parent's were to be home and her dog had pissed in the kitchen so she went to clean it up before they got home. Where the kitchen is, she can see down a hall that terminates at her bedroom before turning to another hall that leads to another room and as she walked into the kitchen, she says that she felt an unusual feeling of dread; that tight grip one gets in the pit of their stomach when they sense something bad is going to happen. She ignored it, and started cleaning up the mess and in her peripheral vision, saw something she describes as dark and of a distorted shape compared to that of a cat or a dog that moved on all fours and was quicker than anything she had seen before. It ran from the room next to hers down the hallway, but as it past her room, her bedroom door slammed shut; to her all the more terrifying because she said she had been cleaning her room and had had a rather large pile of clothing piled in front of her door and that she could not move the door with the clothes there, let alone slam it shut to the point of hurling her clothes halfway down the hall. She said she stood in the kitchen dazed for a moment, and I asked her if it could have been one of her dogs, to which she said no because neither was that dark, that fast, or that big and that they were both outside anyway. She did however go check her room because sometimes when her window is open and a window was open elsewhere in the house when a breeze blew through it would slam her door shut, but her window was closed and locked.
I practically interrogated her to see if there was anything she could possibly be lying about or making up or possibilities she may not have seen but all I got from her was that another friend of ours had told her that someone he was talking to saw something similar and called it an imp, and she asked me what they were. I knew imps were mythological beings of some kind, though their origins and description were lost to me other than what I had seen in video games, movies and art. So I got home and looked up what an imp really is, just to see, and sure enough not only is their physical description pretty accurate to what she described and their behaviors could explain some of the unexplainable things that I have seen and felt.
I learned that they are tricksters, much like poltergeists if not as malevolent in nature, and most of their tricks involve misplacing small items like socks and keys, or placing objects in pathways that unsuspecting victims travel in to stub their toes. Another thing that I thought of before knowing this from my friend's description of her event was that their could have been a pair of whatever it was playing or 2 totally different creatures of unknown origin and the one she saw was fleeing from the other. After reading more about imps though, it seems like it could be the former as they travel in groups most of the time.
The only reason I am puzzling over this matter is because I, too, have seen a thing that I am not too sure about. It happened one night driving home from work when something bigger than a cat but smaller than a dog dashed across the road in front of my car in a manner that had me baffled as I was doing about 85 mph and it started to cross the road not more than 2 yards ahead of my car. I didn't slam on the breaks or swerve my vehicle to not hit it (as I would do with any non-human being trying to out run my car) and it not only cleared my car, but the entire road as well, and when I turned my head instinctively to make sure I didn't hit it, I couldn't see anything moving under the orange glow of the street lamp. Other things too have happened that I have felt or have seen the after math of, if not seen anything out of place in the world as we know it. Mostly little things that bother me such as placing an object on my desk before I go to sleep, having my bedroom door locked (and it has a real lock on it with a deadbolt that needs a unique key, not those things with the circular hole that can be opened with a screwdriver) as well as having photographed evidence of it being there 10 minutes before I remember falling asleep and have that very same object be missing when I open my eyes in the morning.
For those who care to know, I had been trying to see if I could use an xbox 360 wireless network adapter on my PC and had given up and left it on my desk and I took a picture of something (I don't recall what) and the adapter was there in the picture I took (dated 2/27/2007 3:47 am) but at 12:30pm when I woke up, it was gone. I tore my room apart looking for it and didn't find it. I did find something else that I had lost in a similar matter though and in a very unlikely place. A few weeks earlier to this I had thought I had misplaced a 2.5mm to 3.5mm headphone jack adapter in the same place on my desk; set it down, couldn't find it when I got up and I looked everywhere that seemed obvious to me that I would put it or have dropped it (on and around the desk, in the drawers and under my chair and even by my game consoles). I gave up hope on it and bought a new one, but when I was looking for the 360 network adapter, I pulled the drawers out from my bed frame because I keep my controllers in there and I had a box sitting in there and thought I might have unknowingly put it in there in a drowsy state and not remembered (though why I don't know) and it slipped off the back of the drawer and feel to the floor. The only thing I found in the space under the drawers on the floor under my bed was the headphone adapter and lint.
I don't know what any of you think about all this, and I am by no means saying that I now believe in imps, but it does make me wonder at the mysteries of the world and whether or not some things we claim to be myth.
She told me that while she was living in her house in Patterson, just a few miles from the town where we both live now, she had an experience that left her quite shaken up. While her parent's were out, she was left alone at home to do her chores. It was getting close to the time when her parent's were to be home and her dog had pissed in the kitchen so she went to clean it up before they got home. Where the kitchen is, she can see down a hall that terminates at her bedroom before turning to another hall that leads to another room and as she walked into the kitchen, she says that she felt an unusual feeling of dread; that tight grip one gets in the pit of their stomach when they sense something bad is going to happen. She ignored it, and started cleaning up the mess and in her peripheral vision, saw something she describes as dark and of a distorted shape compared to that of a cat or a dog that moved on all fours and was quicker than anything she had seen before. It ran from the room next to hers down the hallway, but as it past her room, her bedroom door slammed shut; to her all the more terrifying because she said she had been cleaning her room and had had a rather large pile of clothing piled in front of her door and that she could not move the door with the clothes there, let alone slam it shut to the point of hurling her clothes halfway down the hall. She said she stood in the kitchen dazed for a moment, and I asked her if it could have been one of her dogs, to which she said no because neither was that dark, that fast, or that big and that they were both outside anyway. She did however go check her room because sometimes when her window is open and a window was open elsewhere in the house when a breeze blew through it would slam her door shut, but her window was closed and locked.
I practically interrogated her to see if there was anything she could possibly be lying about or making up or possibilities she may not have seen but all I got from her was that another friend of ours had told her that someone he was talking to saw something similar and called it an imp, and she asked me what they were. I knew imps were mythological beings of some kind, though their origins and description were lost to me other than what I had seen in video games, movies and art. So I got home and looked up what an imp really is, just to see, and sure enough not only is their physical description pretty accurate to what she described and their behaviors could explain some of the unexplainable things that I have seen and felt.
I learned that they are tricksters, much like poltergeists if not as malevolent in nature, and most of their tricks involve misplacing small items like socks and keys, or placing objects in pathways that unsuspecting victims travel in to stub their toes. Another thing that I thought of before knowing this from my friend's description of her event was that their could have been a pair of whatever it was playing or 2 totally different creatures of unknown origin and the one she saw was fleeing from the other. After reading more about imps though, it seems like it could be the former as they travel in groups most of the time.
The only reason I am puzzling over this matter is because I, too, have seen a thing that I am not too sure about. It happened one night driving home from work when something bigger than a cat but smaller than a dog dashed across the road in front of my car in a manner that had me baffled as I was doing about 85 mph and it started to cross the road not more than 2 yards ahead of my car. I didn't slam on the breaks or swerve my vehicle to not hit it (as I would do with any non-human being trying to out run my car) and it not only cleared my car, but the entire road as well, and when I turned my head instinctively to make sure I didn't hit it, I couldn't see anything moving under the orange glow of the street lamp. Other things too have happened that I have felt or have seen the after math of, if not seen anything out of place in the world as we know it. Mostly little things that bother me such as placing an object on my desk before I go to sleep, having my bedroom door locked (and it has a real lock on it with a deadbolt that needs a unique key, not those things with the circular hole that can be opened with a screwdriver) as well as having photographed evidence of it being there 10 minutes before I remember falling asleep and have that very same object be missing when I open my eyes in the morning.
For those who care to know, I had been trying to see if I could use an xbox 360 wireless network adapter on my PC and had given up and left it on my desk and I took a picture of something (I don't recall what) and the adapter was there in the picture I took (dated 2/27/2007 3:47 am) but at 12:30pm when I woke up, it was gone. I tore my room apart looking for it and didn't find it. I did find something else that I had lost in a similar matter though and in a very unlikely place. A few weeks earlier to this I had thought I had misplaced a 2.5mm to 3.5mm headphone jack adapter in the same place on my desk; set it down, couldn't find it when I got up and I looked everywhere that seemed obvious to me that I would put it or have dropped it (on and around the desk, in the drawers and under my chair and even by my game consoles). I gave up hope on it and bought a new one, but when I was looking for the 360 network adapter, I pulled the drawers out from my bed frame because I keep my controllers in there and I had a box sitting in there and thought I might have unknowingly put it in there in a drowsy state and not remembered (though why I don't know) and it slipped off the back of the drawer and feel to the floor. The only thing I found in the space under the drawers on the floor under my bed was the headphone adapter and lint.
I don't know what any of you think about all this, and I am by no means saying that I now believe in imps, but it does make me wonder at the mysteries of the world and whether or not some things we claim to be myth.
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Her god pissed in the kitchen? Might be time to switch religions.
Oops lol sorry I'm lysdexic.
"... and my Mom got scared."
But nooooooo.
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have you seen these things before in one of your episodes, dogg?
my stories are in the D&D scariest things thread
that will fix them
i hope you bought some before you entered the house dungeon because you can't leave until you beat the final boss
i'll check it out
is it weird that i kind of want you to hang out in denver and sleep over at my place so i can wake up to you screaming in the night, trying to kill one of my plants?
I'm sorry, I don't speak "crazy bitch".
you're also fucking retarded
that comic in some gamer magazine where i worked got me reading pa
Back during high school, in my room there was a light switch on my wall that turned a certain power outlet on or off. That power outlet used to service a lamp, but when I set up my computer in the room I changed it to a power strip, as it was the only socket available, and plugged the lamp into the strip. I normally turn my computer off when I go to bed, so I turn the switch off too, after shutting down, as it's easier than cranking the lamp's little dial thingy.
Now, one day I need to leave my computer on all night to download something, so I turn off the lamp with the knobby thing and leave the switch on. When I wake up in the morning, the switch is off. I write it off as one of my parents having come in to wake me up and fiddling with the switch (they would turn the light on to wake me up). However, as it interrupted my download and force shut down my computer, I remember the incident and am sort of angry about it.
Flash forward a few days and my parents are going to Yosemite with old college friends, and my sister's out somewhere, leaving me alone in the house. For some reason I have occasion to leave my computer on overnight again, and so do the exact same thing as last time; switch on, lamp knob off. And when I wake up, the switch is once again off.
This severely creeped me out at the time. Actually it still sort of does, come to think of it.
But giant rock animals give better head.
After a little investigation we found out that a few years before we started renting the house a kid had been murdered in the living room and hidden in the crawl space of my parents bedroom. Apparently they don't have to tell you these things when you rent a house. We started looking for a new place to live shortly thereafter.
Anyone have any explanation for what happened other than ghosts imps and the sort?
If better means heavier and more painful, yes.
Terrifying
I guess so. I wish I could come up with a logical explanation like oh the neighbor kids had a super powered magnet pointed at the key but that's even crazier than hell beatss wanting us to leave the house. The neighbor kids were morons, they couldn't construct a super magnet.
That's what I was talking about.
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