The Thing in the Reflection

In this house. There were mirrors everywhere, even above the bed, and that's creepy already, But then this child wakes up in the night and see something stepping out of the reflection itself. My name is Edwin, and here is Juliana's true scary story. My name is Juliana. I live in Colorado, but I was mostly raised in Arizona, going back and forth between my mom and my grandma for as long as I can remember, I was surrounded by family members who are white witches, So I'm not really fearful of that stuff, although I know there's some things bad that can happen within that. I just want to talk about when I was four years old. I don't remember the age. All I know is that I was pretty young, but old enough to speak. It's happened at in Arizona. I lived with my grandma. I was sleeping. I feel like it was in the middle of the night, and I was sleeping with my grandma and her husband at the time. So was me at the edge of the bed in the middle of my grandma, and then at the other end was my grandma's husband. I suddenly woke up to a weeping woman at the door. The door was wide open. She had like her hair in her face. Her face was backwards, so she was standing like if a a person was standing, she'd be facing the other way and not towards me. But since her head was flipped backwards, she was staring at me and her feet were also facing me. She was weeping. If I could think of it, it almost reminds me of like the Urana, like how they would say like how she was weeping like in pain. Her hair was in her face, but it was almost like if you're underwater and your hair flooks they heirs moving. Most of it was in her face, so I couldn't really see her face. I don't know who's to say that. Maybe she was facing me, maybe she was not, I don't know. But her hair was like very flowy, and she was wearing like a white nightgown. I was so scared. I once I realized that this woman was standing there looking like that, I jumped in between my grandma and her husband and they were like, oh my gosh, like what They woke up suddenly like oh my gosh, what what? Like what's going on? What's going on? And I was like, there's a woman, there's a woman. There's a woman right there, there's a woman. It took a long time for my grandma to try to calm me down at the time. Like when I was little, I would always like drink chocolate meat, so she always gave me that to help me go to sleep, and even that didn't work at that time. So she did stay up with me and we talked about it. And I've never watched scary movies at this time of age. I don't even like the concept of scary things and scary movies, like haven't even been I'm too young to even like process or think of things like that. And I'm like, I'm telling you, women, I saw this thing, and she was just like, oh my gosh. Like that's when she was like, well, we're family of witches. I'll do something to protect us all. I'll do something to the house. Don't worry about it. You're safe. I'm here. That type of is the conversation. I know. My grandma is a witch for a fact, and my uncle and they were kind of like founder group of other witches too, and where they would do like all the cleanings and they would always meet up to like read card readings and like more training. Another time, I was visiting my grandma in Arizona. This time I'm a bit much older. I don't remember why we had to go to this family member's house, but she kind of told me like, we're gonna visit there for a little bit, We're just gonna stay. So I was like, oh, okay, like wherever my grandma goes. I went and we walked in the house and the first thing I noticed is like, Wow, this is like a lot of mirrors. She had mirrors, like in every inch of her home. I'm surprised she didn't even put mirrors on her ceiling. And what's crazy is that she had that amount of mirrors, but it felt so like dark and like cloudy, like heavy. I made that observation at that time. I was like, that is crazy how she has this amount of mirrors and it feels this way. You know. We went about our day, did the things that we did. I really don't remember much about the day, but let me tell you, I do remember very much about the night. We were sleeping, my grandma and I in this room, in this guess bedroom. Before going to bed, I noted that she had closeted mirrors, and then she had a mirror above our bed, the headboard, so I was like, okay, like not surprise, at this point, we're going to sleep again. It feels like it's very much in the middle of the night. It's almost like my body woke up to feeling something negative was going to happen, and sure enough I woke up and I looked. It's almost like my body knew where to look. And that's the first thing I did was look straight at the closet. What came out of the closet first was like a circle, and then zoomed out to a full body, and the full body was black. It had wings, red eyes, and a red mouth like when you open your mouth. It was red. I was like, oh my, like I was almost in shock. And then out of nowhere shuffled out like a copy of that thing, surrounding me and my grandma in our bed. I never noticed it before, but it was almost like it was holding like a book in its hands, and it started. They all started chanting at the same time. I don't know what this language was, but I know it was a language because it sound gibberish. It sounded very much like they were speaking a language, very old language. They all started chanting, and I was like, Okay, now I know for a fact that this is not going to be good if I let them finish the chant And that's when I was like, Grandma, Grandma, wake up, Grandma, Grandma, wake up Grandma. And she would just not wake up, which is very weird because she's a very light sleeper. She finally woke up and I told her what happened. All I remember her saying, Okay, we need to pray. Let's pray. Let's pray. So we grabbed each other's hands and we just started praying, and all I remembers falling asleep to my grandma praying. She was very scared when I told her all of this, and she wasn't surprised. Actually, She's like, mirrors are a portal for anything good or bad. That's kind of like where my fear of mirrors started. I don't sleep with any sort of reflection towards mine or my kid's beds. I will not allow it. And if there's a TV or anything, I will cover it up in the night. I just happened to watch this show with my husband. It's on Netflix called Haunted. If you go to season one, episode three and go to eleven twenty. At that point, this demon thing pops out and that is literally the copy of what I saw that night. And I had to literally pause and tell my husband that is what I saw when I was little. The only difference is the red eyes and the red mouth. That's the only difference that it didn't have. But other than that, everything looked exactly like it, with the bumps and the black skin and the little horns and the wings. Why do you think I'm scared of mirrors? And why this night is so vivid in my head because of that. Most of the time that this stuff has happened to me, it was either was my grandma and my uncle, who say they are white witch, so that I find that very interesting. I mean, I'm not saying that the sunthamb It is like very evil spirit or I don't even know what she really is, but she is creepy looking, and I don't know the fact that they would have her in their homes and almost like give her, you know, foods and drinks and stuff like that. I'm almost like, I don't know, like maybe maybe not. I want to talk about again, sleeping over at my grandma's house. This happened in Greyley, Colorado. I am much older, I want to say, like ten eleven twelve, almost like pretty teenage years and my sister and I were up in midnight and we were like, how cool would it be to do life like a camping in the living room. The living room roof had like a skyline glass so we could see the stars. We were like, that would be so cool if we could sleep in the living room and look at the stars and talk like silly, funny stories and be very girly. And in the middle of us, like just talking having a good time, we hear like a very loud like and we look at the sliding doors and it sounded like it came from outside. So we found it weird that the blinds were like swifting back and forth because of how loud the bang was. I'm assuming that's probably what it is. I quickly looked like who did that? And there was nothing. How quick I looked, you could at least see like someone like kind of running off, like maybe the back part of it, whether that's an animal or a person, you can kind of see like at least the back of it from someone running away. But there was literally nothing at night, we turned on like all the back lights, and so we had the light on in the backyard. This also took place. The sliding doors took place in the backyard. There's nowhere anybody could run without me seeing them in the backyard. I want to talk about another story. I am very much older. I am in my early twenties. My husband and I found out that I am pregnant and it's our first baby, and at this time we don't know what the gender of our baby is. We were super excited and when we went to bed, we knew that the next day was going to be the appointment to find out the gender of our baby. I am asleep, but I can feel and I can hear things, if that makes sense. And I felt like a light, warm pressure on my belly, and then a woman whisper in my left ear, telling me it's a point. I suddenly opened my eyes and I wake up and I look everywhere in the room and there's no one mind you. Where I sleep. It's in the corner. There's a wall where my head is at, and then there's a wall where I'm facing, So there's no way anybody could stand there, like a visible person to stand there, unless what I am assuming is a ghost whispering that through the wall. This thing didn't feel scary or evil. It felt warm and nice, and I was kind of thinking about it, and I was wondering, I wonder if that's my husband's grandma who had passed. This grandma was close to him and he adored his grandma, so I was wondering if that was her. But the only thing is that she spoke English, and the grandma speaks fully Spanish. But I've heard that sometimes when spirits pass, or most of the time when spirits passed, their language barrier is like they can speak all types of different languages if they're willing to make that connection with humans. I just felt like maybe it felt someone like comforting, so I was curious if that was my husband's grandma. The next following day, we go to our appointment and they put you know, the gender in the little slip because my husband and I wanted to have like a personal, you know, little gender reveal. When we went to the gender reveal, we opened up the slip and sure enough, it's a boy. And that's when I told my husband the story. I was like, there's no way that this actually happened. He started to get a little emotional. He was like, you really think it was my grandma? And I'm like, I don't know. It just felt like someone warm and like like I know this person. And he just started getting just emotional and he's like, I believe you. I believe you. I do have two more stories that I want to talk about. At this time. I am sleeping over at my uncle's apartment. He's like the cool uncle. We always sleep over and like have game nights and drink a lot of soda and stay up late and watch all the movies we want to watch that our mom maybe not be okay with, but like appropriate age type. Just to throw that out there in this uncle I know is a witch. He was very open about that. So we're sleeping over and we're sleeping in his guest bedroom. We're the first room that hits after walking in the living room in the hallway. Next to the guest bedroom would be his bedroom, and then next the dead end of the bedroom of his Next to it would be the bathroom, and then the hallway closet. The way the door of the guest bedroom was facing was part of the long length of the L shaped hallway. We had the door closed, and it's my sister and I sleeping in the guest bedroom. At this time, he didn't really have much furniture, so he slept on like a mattress floor and we found it cool. We were like, oh my gosh, it's like camping, I guess in a sense. And we're sleeping and again it's almost like I woke up sensing something is wrong, and I hear a man walking, like you can hear him walking, like back and forth, just walking, walking, walking back and forth, which I find weird that you can hear him walking because the apartment was carpet. It's almost like if this man was walking on wood, but we have carpet. When I woke up, like fully woke up, like what realizing what was happening, he stopped in front of the door, like you can hear him stop in front of the door, and you can hear him take one deep breath in and go Juliana. And I'm waking up my sister. She's saying forever to wake up. I'm telling her what's happening, like in the middle of her or like not waking up. I'm texting my uncle, I'm calling my uncle. I'm calling my aunt. I'm texting my aunt and I'm like, this is what's happening, Like oh my gosh, please someone wake up because I'm not gonna walk in that hallway to come get y'all, like please wake up. Finally, I'm telling my sister this stuff and my aunt comes running in and she's like, what's going on? What's happening? And I'm like, you know, I tell her the story and I'm like, I am telling you that this happened. I don't know how it could happen. I don't know how I can hear him walk when we have carpet. There's no way that can happen. And how did he know my name? I'm like, was was my uncle up? Is he messing around? Is he's doing a prank on us? Because he would he would, you know, do pranks on us, But I can't see him like doing that. I just think I was just like in shock in that moment, and she's like, no, honey, we're all asleep. We're all asleep. It's late, it's late, it's middle of the night. She's like, don't worry about it. Your uncle will like cleanse it and do stage tomorrow, like, don't worry about it. And I was like, oh my gosh, thank god that this is the last night sleeping here, because I'm ready to go home. The guest bedroom that we were sleeping in, they had like a mural. It was with her dead friend who had died recently in a motorcycle accident, and the next to it was the statue of the Santa Muertan. They had like all that stuff right there with the candles and like the picture of this, you know, their friend, and the food and the drinks and all that stuff on there. So I'm not sure if that might have triggered something or not. I don't know. I've always kind of felt kind of weirded out in my uncle's apartment, especially in that hallway and in that closet right next to the bathroom. I've always felt weird about that closet in that bathroom, and I'm like, I'm not sure if it's like a like a trauma response of the things have happened with closets, And of course when you watch scary movies, you're like, you know, oohs, closets, they're spooky. But I've always felt very weird about that hallway. Anywhere else I felt fine, It's just that hallway always felt very like dark and heavy, and like you weren't alone in that hallway. A couple of days later, my uncle goes, you know how you said that that thing happened that night a couple of days ago. Was passing through there and I saw this big, black, dark shadow thing in that room and he's like, that's crazy that you saw that. And I saw that, and he's like, I got to cleaning it, cleansing it, cleaning it and saging it. And he's like that and I haven't seen anything or felt anything ever since I saw that dark shadow thing in the in the room. He's like, that's crazy. I fully believe you. Now, I fully believe you. And I'm always thinking, I'm thinking to myself like, sir, like the things that you do and and this and that, and you barely believed me, Like this is crazy. And every time like the stuff would happen to me and I would mention it to family members. My family, especially the ones that were witches, were like, yeah, you're special, like you you can see this stuff. This is why we got into the things that we did because we felt the same way and actually eventually at some point, you know, they tried to teach me how to read cards and be like a white witch. I did learn how to do it. I think I only did it like one time for like my uncle. What it's crazy is when I read his cards, it ended up coming true that him and his wife are gonna break up and it's gonna be very huge and drastic, and it's gonna break not only their hearts but everyone else's hearts because when I pulled the card out, had like the cards of Swords in his heart. Everyone else who reads cards can interpret it differently of how they feel or sometimes they have like a little book to tell them and stuff. But I based it off of how I felt, and I was like, oh, no, I think you're gonna get a very big heartbreak deal, like it's gonna be sad. This is not good, Like it's gonna be sad, And ended up happening that year. Yeah, and his wife broke up and it was huge, huge breakup. And that's the only thing that my uncle taught me. And it's crazy too because when my uncle taught me that and my grandma found out, she was like, why would you do that? No, don't even be teaching her that stuff like no, like leave that alone, don't be doing that. And it's almost like I got like a I guess, like a little warning on that, and I was like, Oh, I don't think I should be doing this stuff. Although I felt like it was clean and the spirit that I chose to put into the cards to protect myself and the person that I was reading, which was my uncle, was white and the white light, I still felt like, Yeah, I probably shouldn't be doing this. The last story that I have is has to do with my son. Ever since I was like pregnant, my uncle and my my grandma would always say that is a special baby you were carrying. You have a special baby. Every night, when I want to say, like months old leading up to like a toddler age, like the early toddler age, my son would always like wake up screaming his head off, and you know, as parents, you want to like fix it, like, oh my gosh, like what's wrong, Like what's going on? Like maybe he's sick, Like let's give him a little bit of medicine and let's try to fix it. And then like this would always happen like mostly every night, this would always happen. And I want to say, once my son was able to talk, you know, it came into pieces in his life. The older he got, he would say, there's a thing watching me in the corner. There's a thing watching me in the corner. And then another night, Mama, this thing try to grab me, try to grab my leg and try to grab my leg. It has long black hands, long black nails, and try to grab my leg and try to take me. And then when he got older, I want to say, like five years old is when he was able to be like, this thing is very bad, Mama. It's trying to take me, doesn't like me, and it tries to take Aliyah, which is my daughter. It tries to take Aaliyah, but I protect her. I tell it to go away, and I kick it and I kick it out away and then it stops. Mama. It stops. And I'm like just standing there like, oh my gosh, Like I can't believe, like this stuff is happening now to my son. Although my husband and I love scary, spooky stuff and we like to watch those things and are sitting and treating that stuff, we never really we don't introduce that stuff to like our kids, and the fact that he was able to describe something like that, I believed him. I believed him because I I never want my kids to not feel like they're not believed. So I called my grandma up and I told her what happened and what my son feels. And she right away told me to put a rosary under his bed, put coly water every corner in our house, and then salt the barrier of our house, and she told me to stage the home. When I called my grandma and she told me to do those things, she's like, do those things and I will do something on my end. And ever since then, my son hasn't talked about any of that stuff that he sees at night. When he mentioned seeing this monster and he described it, I almost felt like, oh my gosh, that thing that I saw in the mirror is now coming from my son. Like I felt that way. When I say I think that way, I feel like that's different from how I feel. Those two things are separate. I felt like because I wasn't able to come for me, now it's trying to come for my kids. That's what I felt. And I'm not the only one that's like went through all this stuff, and I do remember at night, in the middle of the night, my dad came and he made such like a ruckus that, you know, my sister and I woke up and we're like, what's going on? And we went upstairs and my dad I was telling my mom like I don't really remember what he was saying, but he said that like something happened, and like, look at my back, Look at my back. And we lifted his shirt and he had like three like claw marks in threes, so it's three clow marks and then going one and two and three on his back and they were like very fresh, like almost kind of like bleeding a little bit like under the under the skin, not bleeding like where it's like draining all the way on his back, but bleeding in the wounds. My sisters mentioned some stuff that she's seen. My brothers have went through sleep paralysis and seeing stuff that they've seen, and so I'm like, not the only one, but I just feel like I'm not the one to say you know their stories. Thank you so much, Yuleianna for sharing your experiences with the rest of us here at the True Scary Story community. It's very easy to hear about I think what really got me was that very first part where you, as a child saw this figure, this woman appear. The description itself was obviously really creepy, but also the idea that as a young child who has never been exposed to anything like this before, has not watched movies about this, has not seen any anything about this, can see that. I think it tells a little bit like and kind of hint at say, you know what this is true? Like this is something that why would your mind make it up? Like why would you imagine that the whole part about trying to wake up your grandma, she wouldn't wake up. It just it makes me wonder like this thing had intentions, right, They wanted to do something, They wanted something out of you, out of them, maybe just to be noticed. I don't know. This is what makes it interesting to me thinking about the paranormal. What could this be? Like? What would an entity like that want? Very bizarre thing. Also, let's not forget about the wing creature, right, the figure with wings, And this is where we have a little bit of a debate, right, because we have angels, we have demons, and both of them, how we visualize them, sometimes have wings, Right, in different cultures, different time periods, entities like this, they were both perceived as having wing. So what other things like why do we see them as this? Are they the same kind of entity? Do they fall under the same category? I know we have some listeners who are huge, you know, nerds when it comes to this kind of thing, when it comes to I don't know, like cultural perception of entities or maybe angels or people who have actually studied demons and the idea of them coming to earth or to our plane, or how we perceive them and their purpose. And so if you're listening, you're aware of this, like what could it have been? Just curious curious to know here. Also another thing that I noticed about the mirrors. Obviously we can't skip that part with people who believe that mirrors hold a certain kind of power, like their portals. Do you have any mirrors in your bedroom or any that face you while you're sleeping. I know there's some people out there, you know, like there was some I don't know, people who are just really like mirrors because they make a room look you know much, I don't know, brighter, larger, whatever, But also people who absolutely avoid them, even in closeted mirrors. I know in my childhood bedroom we had huge like as in the mirrors were the doors like of a closets. I go from like the floor to the ceiling basically almost And it creeped me out when I would wake up in the middle of night and look at the mirror and see the rest of the room through the mirror. But I never thought anything of, you know, anything creepy about it. I just thought it was it was weird, as in it would creep me out, but just because I'm seeing myself in the middle of the night, something move in the dark, but not like it's a portal or anything like that. I mean, I didn't know anything about this. Right now that I do, I'm gonna think a little bit more about having mirrors around while I'm sleeping. Also, here's this other note that I have during our conversation with Juliana, which was the language the language barrier. Right, If you are dreaming and some entity or something as talking to you and you don't know what language it's speaking, it's equally as creepy. If you're listening and you can understand and you can communicate in another language, you don't even know what it is. Right, This is where we have this other thing that gets commonly reported in all these other encounters, we have verbal and also non human communication. And throughout the stories, if you listened to more than one more than this episode here on the podcast, if you listen to you know some of the older stories we met some some of them mentioned like, oh yeah, somebody was speaking in the language I didn't understand, or I was able to communicate in a language I didn't or just even just a previous episode, it was somebody communicating in Spanish, or even though they're not fluent in Spanish, they would communicate perfectly in Spanish. So do these entities or do does this realm even have limits? Because I don't know if you ever thought about this, but in paranormal shows, when people are doing the whole EVP electromagnetic what is it? Electronic voice phenomena, not even electronic voice phenomena when you have did I say EVP? I hope I did. It's when you record something and you basically catch voices or words being spoken to you. Also with through radio signals and everything, you can hear voices in electronic devices. Anyway, have you ever wondered why if you go to China you might hear and you do one of these experiments, you might be able to hear the ghosts speak in English or would you hear them in Chinese. It's interesting because for me, right, if I'm in Mexico recording and I hear a ghost, will it say will it speak in Spanish or will it say it in English? What if I speak both languages and I can understand and perceive both, but I hear more messages. I'm pretty sure somebody else talked about this before. Very curious to know. Anyway, Thanks again you Lenna for sharing your story. 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