Every House Was Haunted: A San Antonio Family Mystery

I wake up, and I'm looking around, and I look at the door, and I see the shadow peaking out, like peaking out at us. In the early nineteen fifties, his grandmother encountered a strange, mysterious figure, and even today the haunting continues generations later. My name is Edwin and here is james true scary story. I'm James' from Saintania and Texas. The story is that I'm gonna tell you all evolves around a neighborhood that I grew up in from two thousand and eight all the way up to it, like twenty eighteen, I lived in a trailer park. Ocrest Point is my neighborhood. By like in the nineteen fifties, right next to it, it was a farmhouse, but the farmhouse owned the property. Back then that farmhouse was also a church. Rumors has it that the church was also the cemetery, and the cemetery they moved to the cemetery and built in my neighborhood back in my grandma's the first one that moves in. So how the trailer was set up, It was the front room, the middle room, and her room was the back room. I was in the middle room before. She would have these porcelain dolls that were like it was like these porcelain dolls, but they could turn their heads and they can move their arms and everything and can adjust them. She had like three rows of porcelain dolls, and ag each row had at least like six of them. My first night there, I was asleep in the middle room. I could see the porcelain dolls. All of them just starts like turning their heads and staring me. I didn't like it, so I want to go to my grandma. The next day, she turned them all around. I was like that, I see now they can't look at you. You know, just go back to sleep, We're fine. The next night they turned around. I go to sleep and out of nowhere, and when I wake up, all of them are facing towards me. Every single one of them was just staring at me. So I moved out of that room into the front room. When I moved to the front room, my grandma, she wouldn't say that. She would feeling like a boy, like a little boy's presence coming up to her every night and putting his arms around her and hugging her. And she would wake up and going check on me and I would be just fastest. Her husband at the time, he would tell me that he would see footsteps walking, like if someone's passing the window, but he wouldn't see like the shadow. He would see like the legs passing. But the thing is that the window was at least five feet off the ground. That's when everything like really started kicking off in this neighborhood. I'm gonna tell you about four trailers that I had really bad experiences. In twenty ten, we finally moved into the neighborhood. My grandma, she lives in the front, we lives in the back. My mom would say that she would she would see like little kids walking from door to door. She would look nothing, and I was like, Okay, no, it's whatever. It's's just my imagination. Then I told my mom. I was like, hey, I keep seeing stuff, and so whatever I saw is I was in my room, I had the TV on, the lights off. There's my TV, my bedroom door, and right next to my bedroom with my closet. I was facing my TV and right in the corner of my eye, I see the little kids starts to form. It went from nothing to a little kid. I saw it formed to a little kid, So I looked saw it, got extremely scared and went to my mom told him what I saw, and she was like, oh, it's crazy because I saw I keep seeing the team. This happened to my mom and my brother. They're sitting in the living room watching TV, and then all of a sudden, you know, like those old school sharpeners at school where you just put it in and you drank the thing and it starts to like sharpen the pencil. Well, we had one of those right on the counter, and then I was sudden. My mom and my brothers said, out of nowhere, they saw it lift up off the counter and just fly across the room and hit my brother in the head. A couple of years later, my cousin moves in and he keeps telling me, Hey, why are you and your brother keep playing at three in the morning. It's three in the morning, y'all need to be asleep. You're talking about ther sleep. He's like, oh, man, that's crazy, because I keep hearing kids laughing and jumping on the beds. They remember one time we hed like a bang. It sounded like like the biggest bang I've ever heard in my life, Like it sounded like someone just put a gunshot in the house. You know. It was massive bang. So we all like like woke up. Oh my god, what was that? What was that? Me and my friend we went walking. We looked in the inside and nothing. We looked on the outside, and we stepped outside. We heard it again. This time we knew exactly what it was. It was the side of the house. So we ran. We looked and when we point the light, we saw like a black shadow kneeling. When we looked at each other, we point the light out of it and we put it back. It was standing and it was facing us like with like the arms all white, you know, like like it was ready to like to attack us, like to come at us, and it was just it was scary. They had like a kitchen window that was about like fifteen feet from the ground. I remember, I wake up and I go into the kitchen to make myself like a sandwich, and all of a sudden, like I look and there's this woman, this old woman that was just looking into the kitchen through the kitchen window, you know, just staring at me, just like with this curious face, like what are you doing, Which would be impossible because the window is fifteen feet from the ground, you know, so you would have to step on a ladder just to look into the window. Another time, at my other friend's house, I was like about like sixteen seventeen at the time. Him and his family, they were very spiritual. They messed with mediums, they messed with terror cards, crystals, everything, everything that you can think of. They were doing it. His mom would see things. Remember one time she called into the room and she's like, hey, I just want to let you know. I want to let you know have a medium and I wanted to want to say that there's a boy. There's a little boy that's following me. My friend, her son, he was he was like my best friend growing up. He would also see things and he said that he saw the little boy like touch me and just disappear into me. But it's just weird because it's just the same little boy that was at my grandma's house, that was tucking her, that attached yourself to me. I don't know. A couple of months past and I moved in to their house just for like a couple of weeks. I'm using the restaurant and out of nowhere, I heard a whistle. It was just a random whistle trying to get my attention type whistle. I brush it off and I saw my friend about it, and he was like, hey, that's crazy because I when I'm using the Russian I heard that whistle too. Stepdad at the time would tell us that he would see like this little kid playing with the with the red ball outside of their house all the time. But the thing is that there's no kids that live around the neighborhood. It's meant for elderly people. There's rarely any kids. Like if you found the kids, it's it's rare. I remember, I remember one time, everyone's asleep. I'm the only one awake. I'm on the computer just watching YouTube, and all of a sudden, I hear my friend have a full on conversation with our other friend, which I think is our other friend. I'm hearing them have a full on conversation and they're they're talking loud, like they're talking too loud to where like I had to go in there and be like, hey, bro, like shut out. As soon as I go in there, he's dead asleep, nights are off, he's knocked out. But I swear I heard him and her other friend just start having a full conversation. So yeah, I moved out after that. It was a scary neighborhood. I will sneak out, and I was just being a teenager sneaking out. I would just go walk around the neighborhood that would have nothing else to do. And as soon as you walk out, I walk out of your house, you could just feel something where someone is just watching you. It's creepy. At first, You're like, oh, okay, yeah that's creepy, but you get used to it thout the years. This one time I was walking if you're cutting the trailers just to get somewhere, and it's a good fifteen feet from trailer trailer and then a good four feet from like back to back of a trailer. So I was turning through trailers and I saw just two shadow legs just walk right by it. I got scared around. I don't know what it is, but all my stories, I don't see the upper high. It's all the legs. I just see legs, the legs walking or the feet walking. Now, another time, my mom's asleep, my cousin's spending the night, and I'm looking for a pot. That's how I saw I can make some noodles. You know, I'm just looking for a pot, and I'm like, how was this pot at? But in my head I'm like, where's this pot? And then all of a sudden, I hear a woman's voice saying, what are you looking for? James? I turn right. When I turned, me and my cousin like eyes and she was like, you hurt that? Like yeah, I heard that, Like thank god, I'm not the only one that actually hurt that. Careers goes by and I move out and then I moved back in. When I moved back in, it's just me and my wife at this time. You know that feeling where you feel like you're being rushed up on, like oh, extremely bad. Well, I was leaning in the fridge trying to find like something to eat and I had and I felt that feeling. And when I turned to look, I saw two legs start walking towards me, but fast. You know what, I blinked, like what the hell? You know? I looked and it wasn't there. Nothing was there. But you know, it's so crazy that people think that when whenever they see apparitions or they see spirits, they're white. But I don't know if it's just me, but I see it as like a smoky yellow. And then I've been seeing that, and I know their spirits because I've been seeing in my entire life. My wife, she said that she was in the hundred room, you know, and you know how whenever you're getting around out of the out of the dry hair, you start to like ring it out. She did that three times, and then like on the third time she did it, she like flung it out, and she said she saw a woman's face with maggots on her face. There's no eyes, it's just darkness. They're like sunking in darkness, like rotten, like like you can tell like she's like rotting. She blinked her eyes and gone. One day, it was me and my wife. We had our bed in the living room because we wanted to have like a movie night. She was sleeping on the bed like in the middle of the living room, and I was on the couch. I was just scrolling on my phone from my kitchen to where I was on the other side of the living room. It's quite of a distance to go to, you know, like you're on a walk. I did ten steps, so I'm scrawling and I swear I saw a shadow start crawling towards me. It's not like just a crawl. It was like more of like a twitch Like it was twitching and crawling and like got right up on me. Like I looked down and it just disappeared, like I looked at the time. And of course it was staying in the morning, so I was like, you know, I'm I'm going to sleep. I don't know what I just saw, but I'm going to sleep. This was my friend's trailer, which is actually behind my Grandmaseuse. It was it was like it was a corner house. His wife would have like seizures. She would say that there is this man that was just staring at her, you know, that would like point and every time he would point, she would break into a seizure. I witnessed that, you know, and it was hard. The plan would make her have seizures. After me and my wife moved out, it was that trailer that trailer were in. By the time we left, it was just negative energy off a back, like as soon as you walk in, you could feel just that achiness of just oh, you know, it's just like as soon as you walk in, you could just feel it, you know, whatever was in that house or whatever is in that neighborhood, it followed me from that trailer to now, like my mom moved on, she got a house, and I want to go stay at that house. When I went at the house, my mom says that she doesn't notice anything, you know, like she's never experienced anything in that house. And this is how I know. I feel like it's I feel like either I'm haunted or something's attached to me. Because as soon as I started saying though, I saw my mom was asleep. My brother and he was he was gone with his friends, and I was. I was in my room playing the game. All of a sudden, I hear the doorknob jiggle. What's that? You know? So I look and I actually see the doorknob jiggle. Okay, you know, let me go see s's here. I go and I look, nothing's there, and it's dark. My mom was asleep, my brother still had his friends. I say. A couple months pass and I'm dead asleep, you know, and something wakes me up out of my out of my sleep. But like I'm facing the wall and I'm till like I'm toil that point where I'm like I'm I'm asleep, but I'm still like like aware and know what I'm saying. I hear my ear turn around, James, I have something for you, and I'm like, yeah, no, I'm not turning around. I'm not looking. I'm just going to sleep. I'm just going back to sleep. I'm not I'm not I'm not dealing with this, but it was. It was scary because it was broad daylight in the morning. My wife, we were just hanging out. We were watching that ghost on YouTube. All of a sudden, we hear this roes brutal, ugly moan like they gave me chills, like just it still gives me chills day. It was brutal. It was brutal, and we looked at each other and like, what was that. I mean, we winded the video and it was it wasn't there, like it wasn't on the video, so we actually heard he heard it. I don't know if this ever happens to anyone or I don't know if this is something, but I feel like whenever I bring it stays and then comes back to me. I was experiencing it. My mom wasn't. I left moved out, and then my mom said that my daughter was spending the night with him and she just woke up, I don't know, and couldn't see it back to sleep. So she went to the the garage that was converted into like a family room, and she was in there. Her ressroom was right next to the converted room, so you can hear exactly like every single thing from her room into that room. She said that she was on the on the couch and then all of a sudden, she hears like a like if a kid fell, and started crying, like really crying. And so she said that she heard that she had her baby cry like a kid cry. She went, she looked nothing. It wasn't there. It was nothing there. We moved into another trailer park and I didn't experience anything there, but my wife would tell me that she would be giving the kids in a bath and they would be looking over her shoulder and would saying, oh, hi Dad, Hi dad, you know, hi dad, and she's ago his dad here, and she loved, no one's there. I'm at work, And she said that she would feel presence like if someone's there. So then we moved to my mom mother in law's. From there, everything just amplifies one night, my wife is giving my daughter a bath and I'm in the I'm in the living room, you know, and I'm like half asleep. I opened my eyes just a little bit and I see a little girl dark to the corner of the cow. I was like, hey, you stop, you know, he carry me out? Quit it. And then all of a sudden, my wife was like, what are you talking about, Like I'm giving her a bath, and I was like, oh, hold up, like what ho up? What? I seen that little girl two times at that house. So how my in law's house is there's two living rooms in one. I was in the first living room and I was like just taking a nap, and all of a sudden, I opened my eyes and I see the same little girl dark from behind the kitchen island. And I knew it wasn't my daughter because she was at school at the time, you know. So I was like, okay, yeah, that's that's creeky. I have six kids. My wife never she said that one time every single kid she would wake up and she would see a white mist like walking to the crib and looking at the baby. But she did she didn't get scared and nothing like that. She said it wasn't scary. It wasn't a scared like aevil spirit or anything. But she felt she said that she felt like it was like good. It was a good spirit. She said. Every single kid, all of our kids, all six of them, said that that that has had to happen to her. I kind of figured because I have my grandma's ashes and she has her grandma's ashes and her hair. So yeah, because like like something like Messkan Coultes, I guess they would keep their hair and the ashes and then they would put it like like in a box. It would basically be like an urn. If it was our grandma's. Then all that's cool, you know, that's stuff happened there. And then we go to the house that we're in now. At first it wasn't. At first it was going good, and then my wife started saying that, oh, I'm seeing shadow people. They're starting to peek around the corners. Of course is I'm a believer, So I wake up one day. So how our room was at first, how my when we first moved in, we had a room set up where it was the door, the playpen, and our bed was right across right right across the room from the door. I wake up now. Something wakes me up. I don't know what wakes me up, but something wakes me up. And I'm looking around and I look at the door and I see the shadow peeking out, like peeking out at us. And then as soon as I look at it, it moves like it moves away. The more I think about it, the more I'm getting more scared about it. Like the more it's creeping me out, how long was that shadow staring at us? Like? How long was it there until it got noticed? And I wasn't staring at us all night? Did it just appear? The more you think about it, the more creepier it gets. I see ghost kids more than anything, you know. I don't know what it is like, but like, I don't see adults, I just see little kids. You know. It's weird, and I hate it because I feel like seeing an operation. Seeing an adult, I guess a ghost it's okay, But seeing kids, it's that's another story, man. It's it's it's like a whole level of creepiness, you know. So that one time I go into my room and I push open the door and I swing it open, and I saw a little girl and she had blonde hair, ponytails, overalls, a white shirt, and she looked scared. I don't know if my wife is attracts it. I attracted, but there's something that follows us, and I'm one hundred percent it follows us from my mom's first trailer. It's terrifying because now we don't know what it is. I want to figure out what it is, but I'm scared. I want to figure out, Okay, what's been following us for the past decade, what's been following me? You know? But I'm scared to find out because I don't want to know. I don't want to know if I'm cursed or if my family is cursed. I don't want to know if I'm haunted, if my wife's haunted, or if we see the stuff or I don't know, but then again, I do, but I'm just scared. So that's basically what's stopping me from figuring things out. The thing is that I don't let it. I don't let it mess with me, you know, because, uh, like, like I tell it, I gonna lie like I tell it, like like if it's still living, like, hey, don't mess with me. I'm not gonna mess with you. If you want to be here, fine, figging to be here, I don't care. Just don't mess with me and don't mess with my family. If you do, I promise you I'm gonna bash you from this house and you're never welcome here ever again. You know, and it just never messes with us. I really hope you enjoyed the story. Thanks a lot, James for sharing it with us. Like all the experiences that happened, all these things do have a connection, and I find these interesting. First off, let's start off with the man in the hat, right, the man in the top hat. This one is one of those figures that gets reported all the time by people who experience sleep paralysis, and even in generation like not in generations, but like in I guess different historical context where people talk about this. There's been what you would call like early day illustrations, reports, journal entries of this figure that keeps popping up over and over. Even today, we don't know what it is, who this man in the hat is, or why we even see a man in the hat. Find it really odd. But also if that thing is crossing over generations history, you know, time and lands and everything, there must be something there, right, or is it just a collective kind of thing that we have. You know how they say us as humans, we learn to be afraid of certain things just because of I don't know, to keep us alive, like an evolutionary protection kind of system. Why a lot of us are afraid of spiders, snakes, things like I don't know, different like large animals or heights. All these kinds of fears are passed down, so we kind of learned them, but then we get these kinds of things right. I don't know if you ever listen to Actually it's one of those stories that we have in Spanish on this podcast called der ro ristoris realies. It's terror true story something like that. But there was one story in particular where this woman who is talking about her grandmother mentions that the family doesn't want to acknowledge or even mention that the grand mother once she passed away, hauntings that were around the house stopped. And it made me wonder, like I connected this thing right where we see sometimes where we think a person's haunted, but also what if families carry a haunting thing with them, like this haunting gene or like there's something that's tied up with a family. I know that in some of the stories that we've heard in true scary story, we hear about things being passed down, or we have the grandmother who used to practice things what they would call white magic. But some people believe that white magic is not a thing, like white a white witch is not really a thing. What if they were actually being tied up with something else. So let me know if you or. Your family you know somebody who has practiced or has looked for help in the occult and it has done anything to generations that followed. Find that very interesting because it's one of those recurring that would keep popping up where if somebody says, hey, I don't understand why these things are happening around me or my family, and we poke around, we ask around, and we're like, hey, you know what, they suddenly seem to remember a mother, grandmother, great grandmother used to practice certain things or sought help in the occult in the dark in these what they would call white witches that turned out to be something else. So if you have any experiences like that, please reach out. I want to hear about them. Now. Another topic from this story that we heard today by James we hear about childhood fears, right, Like, I guess not necessarily in that way, like a direct childhood fear, but memories, things that we're afraid of, things that traumatized us. So the dolls, you know, when we talk about dolls, how they could traumatize a child, we think of, obviously, at least for my generation, Chucky and movies like that that really really scared people in terms of a doll coming alive. And if we think about that nowadays, we might kind of, I don't know, be a little freaked out by dolls, but we have no true, like little real explanation as to why. Then it turns out we look back, we're like, hey, maybe not scared because of this movie, you know, but other other things. Is there something else that's scaring you, something that you have this irrational fear of you can't understand, Like for me, things like buildings, structures, bridges. I don't know why I'm not like like afraid, like to the point where I'm not going to be in a building or across a bridge, but like I can't trust the structure, and it makes me wonder, what if something happened in some previous life or I don't know. Whatever you want to believe, something's trying to protect me with that, I don't know. Maybe there's there's something there, but anyway, thank you so much for listening to this episode and also for getting this far into the into the actual audio. This episode was edited and sound designed by Sarah Vorhees a VW sound, with additional production by me Edwin Kovarubias and the Scary FM team. Scheduling was done by Bianca Chavez and Sophia Bettis. As always, we're here in case you want to listen to the stories without ads, if you want to listen to them early when they come out early, if you want to listen to some of the behind the scenes kind of conversations that we have, you can find the rest of this material on scary plus. That's scaryplus dot com. Obviously, all of our stories are going to be available all the time, so you don't need to worry about that. 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