Something Evil Lurks in My Grandmother’s House

[00:00:00] Welcome to True Scary Story. Something dark and unexplainable has lingered for decades at a grandmother's house in Long Beach, California. And it's still happening today. My name is Edwin, and here is Cassidy's True Scary Story.

[00:00:24] In 2003, I was roughly five or six years old. Me and my family had just gotten back from a vacation in Texas.

[00:00:36] We all stayed at my grandmother's house because it was closer than ours, and almost everybody was exhausted from the long drive.

[00:00:48] I had slept off and on in the car, so I was almost wide awake, but not fully.

[00:00:55] It was around, I want to say, 2 a.m., and I was in the living room watching one of my DVDs.

[00:01:03] I got through about half of it, and I heard the floor creak from upstairs.

[00:01:15] Then footsteps came down the stairs, and they stopped at the bottom, and there was another creak in the kitchen.

[00:01:23] I figured it was my cousin because he would always come downstairs and get, like, a midnight snack or something.

[00:01:29] But after a few minutes, I didn't hear him go back up.

[00:01:37] It was around 15 minutes later.

[00:01:40] The kitchen floor creaked again, heavier and louder before.

[00:01:47] My cousin, he was very scrawny at the time.

[00:01:52] There was no possible way for the floor to creak that much under his footsteps.

[00:01:57] My parents would always tell me that it was just my imagination whenever I would hear certain sounds, so I believed them at the time.

[00:02:07] I ignored it for a minute, and out of nowhere, everything in the room just felt heavy.

[00:02:15] I turned around, and I looked into the kitchen.

[00:02:20] That was the first time I saw it.

[00:02:23] It was staring directly back at me.

[00:02:27] It was a big, black, shadowy mass.

[00:02:31] It had very light, small piercing to red dots, which I'm just assuming were its eyes.

[00:02:40] It had a face, however, it was just blurry and disoriented.

[00:02:47] I tried to scream, but no sound came out because I was just that terrified.

[00:02:54] It didn't move at all.

[00:02:56] It was just standing there in the corner.

[00:03:00] After a few minutes, it just disappeared through that door that's right next to the stairs that leads to our laundry room.

[00:03:09] It went just straight through the closed door.

[00:03:12] I ran straight upstairs once that heavy feeling was gone.

[00:03:21] I stayed in my parents' room for that night.

[00:03:25] I didn't sleep.

[00:03:30] We went back to our house a couple days later.

[00:03:34] That's when I mentioned to my mom exactly what I had saw.

[00:03:38] Her response was the same as it always was.

[00:03:42] Mija, it's just your imagination.

[00:03:44] We'll make sure your cousin stops watching scary movies around you.

[00:03:48] I didn't sleep well for about a month after that.

[00:03:52] At this point, I had grown insomnia and sleep paralysis from seeing this thing.

[00:04:01] Looking back at it, I feel like she believed me.

[00:04:05] However, at that time, I think that she just didn't want to scare me.

[00:04:12] She started to burn sage around the house almost daily.

[00:04:16] I never knew exactly why at the time.

[00:04:21] But the shadow person went away.

[00:04:24] One experience that I had without that same shadowy mask thing was just shadows around the house.

[00:04:39] If I went into the kitchen or something, I would see one in the corner of my eye.

[00:04:45] But whenever I would turn my head, it would just go back behind the wall it was or go back behind whatever it was behind in the first place.

[00:04:54] Almost as if I didn't want to be seen.

[00:04:56] It was the day of my 12th birthday.

[00:05:05] Everything went well and I had the average birthday party that a 12-year-old would have.

[00:05:10] All my family, my friends, it was just a big party.

[00:05:13] Everybody had left already because it was around 11 p.m.

[00:05:24] I was in bed almost about to fall asleep.

[00:05:28] I decided to turn on my TV.

[00:05:30] I don't know why, but I fell asleep.

[00:05:36] I woke up.

[00:05:37] I felt like I couldn't breathe correctly.

[00:05:41] And the energy in the room, once I became aware, it felt the same as it had before at my grandmother's house.

[00:05:51] I opened my eyes.

[00:05:54] That is when I saw it for the second time.

[00:06:00] It was standing at the edge of my bed this time, just staring back at me with the same red eyes as it had before.

[00:06:08] My door across the room from me slammed.

[00:06:13] I screamed and my mom rushed in within a matter of seconds.

[00:06:20] It was gone.

[00:06:22] My mom was yelling,

[00:06:24] What happened? What happened? Are you okay?

[00:06:26] Just over and over and over.

[00:06:28] And then she sat on the bed with me trying to comfort me.

[00:06:31] I looked at her and her face was just pale.

[00:06:35] I had three long scratches on my chest and bruising around my neck that almost looked like fingerprints.

[00:06:44] The first thing she said after noticing these things was,

[00:06:49] You're not sleeping in here anymore.

[00:06:50] After about a week of me not sleeping in my bedroom anymore,

[00:07:01] She decided to start cleansing again.

[00:07:06] That didn't work this time.

[00:07:09] I don't think it was enough.

[00:07:11] My parents began arguing, which wasn't like them.

[00:07:16] They've always been a very happy couple at that point.

[00:07:19] They were together for a little over 20 years.

[00:07:23] Everybody in the house just became extremely negative.

[00:07:29] Within a few months, they had gotten divorced.

[00:07:35] I remember two months after they divorced, my mom had called my grandma to come over.

[00:07:42] I had no idea what they were talking about.

[00:07:46] But after that, my mom just became severely religious.

[00:07:54] She would constantly pray over me and my room, the house.

[00:08:00] She would constantly bless the house.

[00:08:02] She was doing more sage than before.

[00:08:05] She had put up crosses everywhere in the house.

[00:08:08] And it was just a constant cycle.

[00:08:10] We continued this for months.

[00:08:14] And at this time, she got sick.

[00:08:20] It was cancer, which came completely out of nowhere, like cancer usually does.

[00:08:26] The timing of it, it just lined up a little bit too much.

[00:08:32] It was just a little bit too much.

[00:08:33] It was just a little bit too much.

[00:08:34] That's when she decided that you're going to need professional help.

[00:08:39] She started getting a priest to come around because she didn't have the energy from the chemo

[00:08:45] to do everything like she was before.

[00:08:48] So he would bless the house twice a week, I think it was.

[00:08:52] And he would bless my cousin.

[00:08:54] He would bless me, my mom, just everything.

[00:08:58] It seemed to be helping, but it was just too much, I think, for everybody.

[00:09:05] And my cousin ended up moving out.

[00:09:07] He was 17.

[00:09:11] Me and my mother were still severely negative.

[00:09:14] But after he left the house, about a week after, he was just back to his normal self.

[00:09:33] I was still having the same shadow, the ones that just hide when I look at them.

[00:09:38] They never would scare me, so I wasn't necessarily scared of them because there wasn't any bad energy when I would see them,

[00:09:47] unlike with the other thing.

[00:09:53] It was a Sunday morning, and my mom had woken me up way earlier than she normally would.

[00:10:00] And me being a very moody teenager, I was like, Ma, what do you want?

[00:10:05] And then she said this in a tone that was just heart-stopping, if that makes sense.

[00:10:15] Because my mom isn't a very serious person.

[00:10:18] She's always been very bubbly, like I was before all of this happened.

[00:10:25] She sat on my bed on the edge of it, and she was like, we need to talk.

[00:10:31] This was the moment that changed everything for me for the rest of my life, including today.

[00:10:38] The first thing that she said was, I believe you.

[00:10:44] My jaw dropped, pretty much.

[00:10:47] She finally had told me what her and my grandmother had spoken about that day.

[00:10:53] She told me what my grandma had done years prior to their conversation.

[00:11:01] It was the 70s.

[00:11:04] She had wronged a lady, and the lady had threatened to curse us.

[00:11:11] That would follow through the women in the bloodline.

[00:11:14] I obviously didn't want to believe it, but my mom was very shaken up as she was telling me this.

[00:11:24] She described the same shadowy figure, like the one that had the very heavy energy.

[00:11:32] She described that to a T, and we had been seeing the same exact thing.

[00:11:40] It's just been a pattern.

[00:11:41] My mother has a sister as well, a twin sister, and she had a baby girl.

[00:11:48] That is my cousin, and the same thing happened to her.

[00:11:53] I almost had a sense of relief because I wasn't the only one.

[00:12:00] My grandma hadn't mentioned anything to my mom until that one day they sat down and had to talk.

[00:12:09] This was the point where everything slightly goes blank.

[00:12:14] I don't remember much from that day, but right after she told me that information,

[00:12:21] then she let me know that it's not going to go away and that it's never going to go away.

[00:12:29] Anyone who knew me knows that I have always wanted to be a mother.

[00:12:36] So when my mother told me that I wasn't going to be able to have a baby girl without risking her having the same trauma,

[00:12:47] seeing that same figure as us,

[00:12:49] to say the least,

[00:12:50] to say the least I was very heartbroken after I learned that it was bloodline related.

[00:12:56] I moved out and I moved into a small house now.

[00:13:01] I'm now 21 and I am married.

[00:13:06] I still see that shadowy mass pretty frequently because I'm not cleansing the house like my mother and the priest were doing before to make everything stop.

[00:13:22] I was going to church, but that was all I could really do.

[00:13:29] So I have now come to terms with the fact that this is not going to go away and I'm still going to see that same thing regardless to what I do.

[00:13:44] Considering it's only physically harmed me once, I just don't bother with it.

[00:13:52] When I see it, I'm obviously terrified, but I feel as though it can't really hurt me anymore because I'm not letting it.

[00:14:04] When the first and the last physical attack happened, I was 12.

[00:14:10] So I feel as though I couldn't really force it not to hurt me.

[00:14:15] But now that I'm older and I have matured more, it just stands in the corner now.

[00:14:24] I still have minor experiences with the shadow people who duck behind the doors, but I'm still not getting anything bad from them.

[00:14:36] I think they're just lost, honestly, and they're not quite sure how to move on.

[00:14:46] I am no longer living in Arizona.

[00:14:50] I visit pretty frequently just because my mother is here.

[00:14:57] I am so haunted by this on a daily basis.

[00:15:01] And I hope that my story would help somebody who's going through something similar that is bloodline related.

[00:15:08] It would make me feel less alone, which is the whole reason why I'm sharing this.

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