The Experiment

Jackson was warned about watching scary movies and listening to scary podcasts because of the consequences, being told that these might open a pathway for the paranormal, and today he's sharing his experiences. My name is Edwin and here is Jackson's true scary story. It was at Pensacola Christian College. It's your average Christian college, but it's got a few differences, like the rules and regulations can be a little more strict, and some of the buildings are older, but that's normal compared to most colleges. I wanted to be able to branch out into something more mean because my entire life it's I fall into what my parents expected me, and I thought I'd do something new with my life, like watching scary movies, or maybe going out and about by myself into town for once, maybe trying to be responsible with my own money. Just things that your average adult would do. And on the top of my list was of course, watching scary movies or doing things like listening to podcasts, and obviously this Scary Story podcast was the first one I listened to. It was in twenty twenty one, the last year, October twenty eighth, I believe. It was getting close to Halloween and some of my friends are telling me they're going to watch some scary movies on campus for Halloween to get set for the move. Because the college doesn't celebrate it and they don't allow costume dress ups or movies out itself on campus. You had to be sneaky with that. But I decided to get it with my friends because you know, why not try something new. The first scary movie I ever watched was the very first paranormal activity that I was shook after that. I like the aspect of movies when it feels so real. It felt so real, just the environments, the aspects fit and I really did enjoy it, but obviously nothing weird happened immediately afterwards. My parents would always say, if you watch movies like that, it could let something into your life, blah blah blah, but I never took it for something that serious. Now do I still take their word for it? No. I still enjoy scary movies to this day, But I remember there was that first time some unexplained things would happen. I was working at a maintenance warehouse at the time on the campus. We would go and fix things I would get off work closer to the ten o'clock in the afternoon, after the chapels and everything and gotten out and I just wanted to go back to my room change get it quick that before going my next class. It was a big long haul, lots of guys. On my way back down the hall towards my room, I thought I heard my best friends from behind me call out my name. It was super weird. I just yelled back, Hey, Ethan, how you doing? And I looked back and there was nothing there. So I was a little bit nervous about this, but I wasn't like shook or anything. It was just okay, that's weird. I went back down the hall just for verification. I didn't when it sounds like a nut job or anything. I went down the hall. I asked my friends on the hall when I knocked on their doors, hey have you seen Eathan? And they said it was dawn, but they didn't tell me where. I decided to check out the lobby and there was no sign them. But then I checked up to the class schedules of my friends and I remember that he has a class at that time, So I thought that was weird because either I actually did hear him and he was just late for class, which is very unlikely, or heard something else call my name and it sounded like him. Then about a week later, and this was after I'd heard my name called from different voices of people I recognized, just in random places at work, at Sonic, down the street, that drive through movie theaters, just random places. The big thing, I definitely said it in a stone for me. I went back to my room and it was in the evening, and all my friends, which I didn't remember, chill later. They hadn't gone out to do something. I just had to take a shower when nobody else is in the room because I like to play the music in the background. It's loud. Just get myself ready to go for class or for dinner. I get in the shower and I'm cleaning myself off, and I heard the door to my room from outside the bathroom open and then close. I was too comfortable. I just wanted to finish my shower, get ready and just leave go do something fun. I remember the door opening and then closing again. But as I'm just about finishing up, I called out and I say, hey, I'm in the shower, leave me alone, and then there's no response, so I just waved it off as okay, maybe I just I'm just hearing things. This is how I know this is not normal. The shower had on those porcelain tiles on the walls on the ground, and the sheet I need to call it that the sheet you would if she got wet, you could stick it to the porcelain on the sides to keep it closed, because it was one of those like super wrinkly types. I took the curtain and stuck it to the sides after I'd call it to my friend or whoever I thought was out there, and I just stuck it there, went back to do my shower. But the weirdest thing happened afterwards, as this is maybe five minutes afterwards, because I remember the song I was listening to in the bathroom, which was playing from my laptop. It was on rewind, so I heard the same song over and over again. That curtain I was just talking about the ones that's supposed to stick to the walls. It just flew open, as if someone ripped it open from the other side, and I turned around expecting someone to stand there, but there was no one there. So my initial reaction was get the person that opened it. So I looked out and see if anybody had just gotten out of the bathroom, but there was no one there. How does it just open up on its own there? Every times, if you let it dry out after you got done with the shower, it would just dry off and then hang back to his position. But no, this was like flown open. And I'm not gonna say I was scared, but I was definitely confused and a little bit on edge. I just remember thinking when my parents had told me, it'll can let stuff into your life, and I thought, surely this is like one of those things where you invited demon to kind of hurt you wherever. I just felt uneasy, And to this day, I can't explain why. I think I told one person, my best friend Ethan. I mentioned him the story when I thought he was the one calling my name. I remember telling him like, hey, this happens, and I think he's reaction was either like whoa dude, that's crazy or I don't know if you're messing with me, bro, But I mostly kept it to myself. If I told my family, they were just they would either wave it off as being something crazy that, or try to finally excuse us to why it couldn't have been that I felt it was, or just say, oh, you stop scary movies. We're currently building a shop, just like we call it, like a shophouse. It's a big house, but it's built like a shop, like a warehouse. But at the moment, we're living an RV on a hill. To get around. We have a UTV and it's one of those ranger types. At night, I decided to head over to this little shed that me and my brother. You're like, that's where we're camping out because the RV can't hold all seven of us. They're eight in the family total. My brother is still at college, but me and the rest of the thing, they are just here waiting for the house to get built. But anyway, I'm in the UTV. Got to drive over to the shed for the night because I get up early in the mornings for work and it gets pretty dark up here. It was about nine twenty and I head back, so it's dark. I get into UTV and I just take off the break. I back up and I start driving on the little road to the shed, and I look in the rear of a mirror, just like how you wove when you're driving, just so you look at the mirror from where you're sitting. And that's a pretty small driving apartment because it's a UTV with like power sports and across, just driving all over the countryside, and the mirror is set in a position to where the glass that's behind you that'll lets you look behind. The glass is plastic. I don't even know why I call it glass. It's plastic, so you can see the reflection. So if you look at the mirror, you can see the reflection of the back of your head from the mirror, so you're seeing yourself and your silhouette. So it was super weird because, like I was saying, I glanced at the plastic that was shown through the mirror, and I thought the silhouette and version of myself was looking back at me, not like the reflection type, but as if the silhouette on that side had turned around and started staring at me. Just for a little bit. I'm sitting there driving, the silhouette version got up into the passenger seat to start staring at me, and I was like, oh, heck no. I stopped, and I'm like I'm waiting, just watching the reflection. Is there anything? And it'd gone back to normal. But I didn't know if I felt threatened, but I felt like, what the heck was going on? While exploring the curiosity that I myself feel when it comes to the paranormal. Jackson begins an experiment, this time with a creepy doll. I had a few friends, and one of them was they liked to collect the creepy things with antiques, primarily dolls, and I had other friends that would take it upon themselves to get rid of it. I would always just say, leave the doll alone, treat it with respect. But I have a friend and he was he grew up Catholic, and he's one of those types where if you see something that gives that feels off, exercise whatever it is that's inside. I just said, no, that's the worst thing you could possibly do, not because I doubt that whatever it is you're doing without the power of the Lord or whatever. But I'm just saying, don't if there is anything, don't anger it, and if there isn't anything, don't let something in. So I just thought, it's just a doll. Treat it for what it is, and maybe it won't come alive and kill you. My friends. Her name was Christina. She was telling me about the doll, and I said, hey, what do you mind if I kept the doll for a couple of days to do some experiments on it, because she said that child keep this very vague. I've actually asked to tell her this, but this is why is hesitant. But she said that she's very sensitive to the whole spiritual like realm with it. But she said that one time, with the doll in the room, she woke up. She would wake up in the middle of the night and just because but one of the time she woke up, she saw a pale lady standing in the corner of her room by the window with glowing blue eyes just from like the moonlight, and it was just staring at her and she didn't know if it was being malicious or if it was just there. And she was really freaked out about it at the time. So I said, hey, look, give me the doll. I will do some research on it. I'll just keep it in my place hoping that something doesn't happen. But if something does happen, that we're burning this thing. And she was like, okay, so I took the doll for a couple. I didn't want to keep it over the weekend, and I had roommates at the time. It was the same roommates as before, and I told them just look, don't touch the doll. This is my experiment, like my homework, and everything would be fine. So the first day nothing happened. But at night, I set up the doll in the bathroom with the lights on and everything. I just wanted to keep it just and the light is possible, and I set up my laptop with a computer on. I recorded it all night, just sitting right there in front of the camera. Didn't I wanted to see if it moved. I wanted to see if it tilted its head or anything. And that first night, nothing happened. So I decided to change my experiment a little. I would have my laptop just recording it so like a FaceTime all night with the lights on, and like I said, nothing happened. The second night, I decided to change it, because yeah, adapt and improvise when it comes to experiments, just in case something had get different results. So I decided to turn the lights off with the laptop having just enough light to where I could see it, but it would like still be dark and if anything was to come out and whatever. That second night, there was no evident changes. When I woke up, I would turn off the laptop, but I would leave the doll there and just hope for the best. The third night, I decided to do something different with it, and I decided to take the doll and put it into the room in the open, right, thinking, Okay, if it's with us in the room, will it do anything. And I would have the lamp light up against the wall. It's just shining just enough on it to where I wouldn't make us up. But the computer's still recording. And fourth night, nothing happened, so I thought, Okay, maybe she was just exaggerating a little bit. Maybe it's just her being sensitive. But one of my friends, I decided to put it back in the bathroom when I'm not in the room with it, just in case when something happens. Now I keep my laptop in there just because. But when my friends, which I did not know, he had taken the doll and he had decided to lock its arm to one of the coat racks like the towel racks in the bathroom, so he took the doll. It basically handcuffed it to one of the rails that would hold the towels, and I just knew that was a bad idea. I came back and I saw like the doll lock to it. I'm like, which one of you did this? And he told me. I'm not going to say his name, but he told me he had done it. And I thought, okay, that was a very bad idea because I still have no results, but this may be a game changer. And this is definitely when it gets weird. So instantly everyone was like the super stress. I was the one that was being most calm about because this is my experiment. But I was mad because they touched my experiment quote unquote. My other friends were freaking out, saying, Okay, if this thing's haunted, why are we doing it with it? We'll just burn it. I'm like, you know, this is one heard all two. I'm not done yet, haven't got any results, give me a few more nights, and they said fine. Over the next couple of days, it definitely they said that they could feel like the presence, just the presence of the room, just the intense the situation. They just felt more stressed for no reason whenever they were in the room. So I'm thinking, okay, maybe something can happen. Just as an idea, I decided to go out just out in the town and hope for the best. So then nothing happens, and all my friends were out and about they were. We went to a place called Culvertsus for dinner, just to get away from the doll in the room. We get back. Remember I can keep it in the bathroom like this whole time, whenever when I'm not with it, it's in the room. The bathroom that is. Let me describe the rooms. River its four people. So there are two bunk beds on the forest eide of the wall on the left. When you walk in, the bathroom's immediately on your left, and if you walk past the bathroom, you have a little sink that's on the outside there with the two bunk beds. You have a few dressers on the far end of the room by the window, and then you have more dresses on the right. And the bunk beds were built up of aside the mattress you had like it's basically metal and wire and the springs and whatnot. We get back and the doll was zip tide to the underside of one of my roommate's beds to where it would be looking down on the person who had locked it to the shower rack. Zip ties everywhere. I was like, very nervous. It was a raggedy an doll. But when I say this thing was like, zip tide to it frantically zip tide its arms and legs and neck and everything. It would just zip tied to the springs underneath the bed from the top side to where it'd be looking down on the bottom bunk where he he being the one who locked it to the shower rack. And I was interrogating my friends. I'm like, did you do this to mess with him? And they were like, no, we didn't do it, I swear, And we were all like I was starting to freak out. Okay, maybe this is the this is it. It just when we weren't here, when I wasn't recording, maybe something happened. But either way, one of the friends come down to all he heard about it. He came in, took the doll out and gave it to the friend that I mentioned before. That was very I grew up Catholic, and that's when he decided to try to exercise it. And he he called me when he had just done his little thing and he said, Jackson, I'm really stressed right now. I just said there's something different, there's something wrong with this. And I said, calm down, what did you do? And he was just like very angry, like for no reason. I didn't raise my voice or anything, but he was just saying, I told you that this doll was a bad idea. Well, I say that doll was haunted. Maybe not, but I definitely know that it brought out sides of my friends that I'd never thought i'd see. Like my friend who tried to do the exorcism on that doll. He is very chill, like the surfer day kind of a chill like you, and he uses on edge aggressive almost immediately after being in contact with that doll. And my other friends who were like very chill and on the routy side, they were just panicked. These guys you would never expect them to. This got them freaked out and has ever seen any thought of that again? Do you believe scary games and movies can attract negative spirits? Tell me your story by going to true Scarystory dot com, or by finding me on social media. Details are in the description of this episode. You can also email me at hello at true scarystory dot com. We are currently collecting your stories for the spooky season coming up. Thank you so much for listening and for your DMS and emails. It really means a lot. Until next time, let's see us soon.