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Below are encounters with superstition, the paranormal, or beings of local legend, as told by county residents.
"I've been hearing noises too big for my house, and a feeling of being watched in the kitchen."
-Dahlia
"It was beautiful and it called for me, for me! It was wonderful it felt divine. I won’t share photo evidence I want to keep this gift to myself."
-Humble Visitor
"It was somewhere in the forest I forgot it was midnight probably. i was drawn to it from curiosity of hearing somthing like music or somthing else i can't describe. it didn't look right. it looked like something with a deer skull. i don't know it smelled like death. i cant even imagined how something can survive with its ribs protruding from its body. why does it feel so cold......"
-Echo
"Was visiting Gloaming for a few days, took a walk late at night near the woods because I couldn’t sleep (pretty stupid i know). Saw a bunch of deers standing just inside the treeline. I thought they’d run when they noticed me, but they didn’t? There were at least four of them, all facing me, completely still. Their looked really creepy in the dark. I stood there for a bit waiting for them to move…Nothing. I decided to take a photo. Right after I did, one of them tilted its head but the others didn’t react at all. I suddenly got this really weird feeling and went back to the cabin. I’ve seen deers plenty of times and they usually bolt the second they spot you. These just stood there staring? Very odd behaviour." (Click for Image)
- Elioquinne Adira Wijaya
"I was taking a walk with my family the other day, and we decided to take a slightly different route than we usually do, one through the woods outside the back out our land. While we were out I swear I almost broke my leg stepping in a hole in the ground. It was a bigger than any burrow I've ever seen, must have been caused by some rain or moist ground. I was having a little trouble walking after getting my leg stuck, so my brother walked with me back to our house. I could have sworn I heard some sort of melody in the air. It must have been a windy day, but I couldn't help but turn around every once in a while. Remember to always watch your step out in the woods. You never know what you might step on!
Especially when alone."
-Kelly C.
"since shooting that deer, i've heard its screaming and i haven't slept in three days."
-Crybaby
"It stared at me from afar."
-Scott
"Me and my mom were staying in the Gloaming for the night as we were on a roadtrip. I decided at night to go for a little walk and on my walk I saw this weird dude just kinda, off standing there staring off at like nothing. I immediately headed back to my hotel, it only hit me to take a photo once I left. I didn't want to go check it out and my mom said the dude was probably on something so we just stayed there."
-Mr. A
"I'm not really sure, something was in the corner of my room and I was told it's a guardian angel. . . I'm atheist but it didn't look very holy."
-Soren
"sooo uhhh just came back home from work and there's this apple at my doorstep???? not sure who sent it, or why its just...an apple...on the ground
but at least it looks all fresh and ripe. it might be my neighbor Dr. S, i heard they were growing apple trees this season, so uh
thank you to whoever sent this??? might bake it into a pie or smth"
-C. Fennel
"I don't really know if my story applies to what your asking or not, since I am a LONG distance away from Gloaming (I reside in Oklahoma), but I thought I'd just fill out this form anyway. It was a few nights ago, I was having a weird dream I can't remember, then I wake up. The dream itself was weird in its own right, I never had one like it before. It was like.. a deer? A man? Maybe a door..? I dunno, it changes every time I try and think too hard. But anyway, I just can't shake this feeling that something is going to or has happened and things are going to change. I don't even know if it'll be for the worst or not, it'll just change and it can't go back to how it was before. I've had this feeling in the back of my mind and I just can't stop thinking about it and the dream which I can't remember. I might just sound crazy or may just be rambling about nothing odd but I just needed to get this off my chest."
-Tinman
"I was walking down a shortcut through the woods to visit a friend's house. I was doing my photography work along the way when I heard my name being called behind and felt something staring. I turned around and froze as I saw them. I couldn't move just stare as I felt more and more uneasy. I snapped a picture as they moved closer making me sprint the other way." (click for image)
-Ki
"Some crazy stuff man! I was chilling on da couch eating a chip then suddenly my appetite was gone.. it was the despair mannn, started hearing strange noises a few days after. I’m scared sh*tless!"
-Cody
I was driving a few friends right round that water tower, at least in sight. The boys been up drinking and I got pulled into driving those idiots around like I'm some damn unpaid taxi service. Well, was what it was. Anyway, I'm driving somewhere around that watertower while these two idiots were barking and hooting and bleating in the back! Starting making deer noises, or at least that's what they called it. I've never known a deer to bark but that's beside the point. I don't much like driving at night what with the lack of visibility and hollering in the woods and such--Gloaming's drowning in drunks nowadays I swear to God--so I was going kinda slow. Not slow slow, but slow. 25, maybe 30. I don't know. At that rate I was sure to get home by sunup! Pair that with these two idiots making noise and I was at my honest-to-GOD wits end! I turned to look at them, swear to God only took my eyes of the road for a second, then they're both pointing and hollering something, something else. Took me a moment to figure out through all that vodka they were shouting "DEER! DEER! DEER!" I stopped the car on a dime.Then they got real quiet. Like a switch was flicked, y'know? I turned to look. Something just fucking bolted right across the road, just outside my headlights. Had no idea how them boys saw a deer, looked more like a couple sticks just flew right past us to me. Shit got quiet then. Real quiet. We just sat around for a while. I could actually hear myself think! Not that I was doing much thinking in the moment. There was this clicking too, kinda off in the distance. Sounded like a horse galloping down the road. Probably that deer running off, right? Thing is, uh, sounded like a bunch of them. More than I could count. Dozens at least. Felt like it just went on and on and on. It kept going for the rest of the drive, just kinda low in the background. Still heard it when I got home, still heard it when I went to bed, still hear it now. I mostly tune it out during the day. Can't at night. Is what it is I guess. I just wish they didn't laugh at me too.
I don't know how the photo happened, I don't remember taking it. My friends say they didn't either.
I really don't like driving at night around here
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-Giles Rhone
"Not really an encounter so much as an outsider observer looking in. I do hope everything ends out alright. However if things seem to be getting worse, I would recommend getting out as soon as possible. I have seen one too many stories of people staying where they shouldn’t be and paying the price."
-Archivist of Babel
"In the time of being in this town, i've heard tales, the ok, and the bad, and overall, i know about pretty much everything about this town, the "Rot" or something, and pretty much all of it, though I suspected that most of it was fake, that everything in this town isn't just nightmare fuel. but, after this last night, I have no doubt about it now. But, I am glad they are atleast doing something.
So, I was walking down the road between my home and the trees, then I hear this mix between a ruffle of bushes, and some kind of, mush? I don't really know how to discribe it, but it sounded like, a meaty split.
I turn to look around, left, then right, and I focus my eyes between the trees and bushes, then, I saw it. This weird, pale, figure on all fours.. I couldn't make that thing out, i couldn't tell between the brush of the trees, but, i took that as my call to go home, as fast as humanly possible, and then spent the afternoon playing deltarune. though, i hope to god that, that thing did not have the guts to follow me home and if that means that most of it is true?.. whatever. I just hope nothing like this happens to my family."
-G.D. 35
"I was on a walk with my dog when I found an odd plant, it looked pretty and I smelled it. It smelled like my mother's old perfume. After a while I felt sick."
-Charlie
"I heard a trumpet, then a black sky spread."
-Thirteenish
"I was walking by myself with my oils outside when I heard humming and no one was here but the birds."
-Rosie
"I was briefly home alone since my parents went to visit my grandma. I stay up way too late, usualy until 3am or later. An older friend gave me a pack of cigarettes, so i sat on the window, late in the night, trying to get my lighter to work. I don't know what I did, but it suddenly slipped out of my hand, directly in our backyard. Didn't really feel like it, but it was my only lighter, so i went outside to get it.
I'm not the biggest fan of the dark. My brain tries to scare me. The forest not so far away from my house doesn't help it either. There was a faint light of the street lamp, the plastic surface of the lighter reflected it, making it stand out of the grass surrounding it.
Than, there was a bird whistle. A bit strange for the late night, but nothing too bad. I finally reached down for the lighter, the whistling became... Not louder, just, more present.
A cold wind on my neck made me shake in cold, but I found myself being unable to move. The whistle was no longer a familiar sound of a bird, it more so resembled a faint voice. An echoing soprano. My eyes still focused on the lighter, I didn't know if something was different, or if my mind was just playing tricks on me. I could recognize the melody, I sang it in church, back when i still went.
The voice than had pauses, shifts of tone, diverse sounds... Like a language, a language I couldn't recognize. Only than I knew, this wasn't just made up by my mind. My heart beat fast, my vision got blurry, than, i realised i had been holding in my breath.
I gasped for air, I finally looked around. The voice was gone.
I don't know how to explain, but, a part of me understood the lyrics. I know a mission has been given to me. My body is doing it, my mind knows, but I'm only scared... Scared that in a way, I am now gone."
-Teo
"January, 2003. Was in Baltimore, had to get to Tallahassee, Florida. ended up in gloaming as i was going through SC. Stoped at a gas station to get my bearings and figure out where i went wrong and maybe find an energy drink or like 7 so i could survive the rest of the ride, cant let them down now. so i pull up to this station, small, reminds me of some of the rural gas stations up in Maine. i go in, pay for the gas, buy a couple drinks, ect. I go out and i see this guy standing there, looked like a dude, bald, mid 50s ish. it was dark, 3 am in the middle of January, almost no light, you get the gist, so i didn't get a good look at him until later. so he's just standing there and i say "sup" cause hes just staring at me, and he mumbles something to himself, and i cant hear what he said so im like "hey sorry I didn't hear that could you repeat?" and he says nothing, now im thinking that im hallucinating at this point, cause i've been in the car for god knows how long and i dont trust my own sight, but if i was hallucinating i wouldn't be typing this right now would i. this dude mumbles another thing, and i say "sorry?" and to my surprise, he jumps out at me and grabs me by the shoulders and says "the rot! the rot shall befall us all!" before turning around and barreling head first into a tree, left a nasty scar, the attendant rushes out and looks at me and looks at this guy, ragged clothing, knocked out cold under the light of the moon. i turn to him and say "look i gotta be in Tallahassee in like 6 hours." the attendant tells me he'll call authorities and get it all settled, but i gave him my phone just so the police could call me if they needed info. i think about this almost every night, I never heard about any rot coming from Gloaming? then again i'm never in the same place for a week so i Don't get to see much news.
ever since then, i've had the feeling i should go back, see what happened to that guy, i hope he's ok. took a big fall though.
stay safe out there.
-Ver
"Hello. Never been the biggest believer in this supernatural stuff. But I did experience something odd recently, so I figured. Hey, why not send it on over. So. I was taking a hike, been real nice out recently. I was out there walking in the woods, it was something I do a lot, despite my family's bickering about it. Anyways, I'm out there walking and I stumble upon a really interesting tree. I thought it just fell down, but it was actually growing at a diagonal angle! It was pretty cool so I started to head closer to get a better look. I stepped on a branch and a deer poked its head out. It stared at me and the weirdest feeling over took me...So I ran. I can't recall why I ran, it was just a deer. Anyways, that's my story. Not the most interesting. I did make a small drawing of the encounter, though I'm no artist so apologies on how bad it looks.
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-Qui
"I keep seeing weird glowing eyes outside my house at night, right at the edge the forest. They stare at me through my windows. When I shine a light at them they scatter like a bunch of scared cats who don't know where to run just that they need to run."
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-Peter
"Last winter I saw a woman standing outside by the old bus stop by my house. It was freezing cold outside and she was just wearing a loose white dress so I went outside to try to help her but I got this weird feeling in my gut. The stop shelter is about 8 feet tall and she wasn't moving. I chickened out and went back inside, but the guilt got to me. When I got enough courage to try again, she was gone but there weren't any footsteps in the snow."
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-Lainey J.
"I was driving up the road past the old Coroner house when I heard a piercing scream. Obviously, I left my car to go check out what it was. Nothing. Just a few deer behind the house. Haven't felt my best since."
-Anonymous
"I was a visitor, passing through to visit Fort Jackson. Reminisce about Basic Training, times in the Army, all that. Stopped in Gloaming to rest for a few days before getting back on the road. Decided to stay at the campgrounds, cheaper than a hotel.
I settled in, slept for a few hours when I heard something outside my tent. Thought it must be a deer or a possum, until I heard my name come from the woods. Grabbed my Beretta, and held a sight picture of my tent door til morning. Sorry if y’all don’t appreciate firearms in your A.O., but it was a big comfort. Didn’t dare leave until first light, and even then I made a hasty pack up job.
My tent was ringed with hoof and foot prints. I’ve felt watched ever since, even after I got back to Michigan. I might be losing it, or it’s the tinnitus, but I can swear there’s someone playing music in the woods behind my house now that I’m back.
Best idea I could come up with was to send a message to the people who might know what’s happening. Tell me what I gotta do, cause I’m scared that I’m not crazy."
-Sergeant Benjamin Reagan
"My sister told me this would be stupid, yet here we are. I'm visiting for her anniversary of her beating cancer and she insisted we come back here and revisit since we came a lot as kids. Even though I didn't want to, she bought the cabin so I had no choice. When we were settling in for the night I stepped outside to get some air. Long story short we ended up fighting and I ran off for the trees, bolted till I reached the water. Ended up lighting for a smoke and a damn deer jumped out of the bushes and nearly had me light the whole forest on fire. It stared at me for what seemed like forever and then she. She ran at me, I hit her. I had to hit her. I don't know, I ended up back at the cabin to apologize, something about seeing that thing rubbed me the wrong way. We ended up making up, but after I told her I wanted to see if you guys knew anything she shut it down. To hell with her, I don't wanna end up some ward patient."
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-Pomelia
"I remembered this story recently. I was walking, alone in the woods. My classmates had abandoned me. It was dusk and light was beginning to wane. I heard a snapping twig and saw her. She walked across the path with a little one in tow. I held my breath for as long as I could. She and the little one disappeared into the brush. I feel so proud to have been trusted, as if I was chosen. Almost 13 years have passed since that day. I've never been able to make it to that spot again, and I fear I never will again.
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-Joely Nelson
"He visits at night i see him each time through my window he is right there staring gently through the curtain a boy with a face i cannot describe wearing a white sweater soft as wool his gentle stare ensures my sleep i believe him to be an angel sent by our lords domain but why must an angel show itself in this time of turmoil is it because he senses danger or is something more here for me he is the angel of the will lead me to salvation the ground is so cold the ground is so cold the ground is so cold the ground is so cold the ground is so cold the ground is so cold
ʅǝɓuɐ ou sᴉ ǝɥ ǝzɐɓ ǝʅʇuǝɓ ɐ ɥɔns ʎq pǝʌᴉǝɔǝp ǝq ᴉ pʅnoɔ ʍoɥ pʅoɔ ǝɥʇ sʇɹnɥ ʇᴉ ǝɔᴉ sɐ pʅoɔ."
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-ʞɔɒႱ
"This happened to my aunt, not me. We were at a family gathering and my aunt wanted to travel the world, she ended up here and stayed for a few days. For some reason she came straight back home after leaving Gloaming. She said that the animals here act really strangely, especially the deer. I remember her saying that one night she heard weird noises outside, she looked outside and saw a group of deer just staring at something in the woods, it kind of looked like they were twitching. She took a picture of it but when she put her phone down, the deer were staring at her. But what's weirder is that in the photo she took, it looked like there was some something moving by the trees that she couldn't see before the flash. The day she left, she said she had a feeling that she shouldn't leave yet, as if there was something telling her she had to do something before leaving. No, I don't have the photo. She said she wanted to keep it for another trip or something. But I did recreate the photo from memory. Yes, there was a weird blur in the photo, I remember asking her about that. She never explained what it was."
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-Jasper Malkins
"the other day i was looking out my window at the little mini-forest i have in my backyard and i saw a little girl. this is odd cause' i'm quite isolated, even for gloaming. the weird thing is they were staring daggers into my eyes, just straight at me, and they only left when i left. it's today now and i just woke up after a long night of fireworks and festivities, and i see this horrific face in the brush behind my hill. it didn't exactly pick up in the photo but i think it had hole in it's head. despite how disgusting and odd it looked, i'm convinced it's human. it has to be human. it ran away right after i took this photo, and i don't think i'll ever see it again. it seems like it was here for me, like it was lost on it's way home. i hope they finds their way. sorry for how low quality the photo is, it was taken on an old digital camera and compressed during the uploading process."
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-Elle Greenwood
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