The Convent

When you think of a creepy setting, a place where dark stories take place, what comes to mind. Today's story takes place in a convent, an area with walls that were hundreds of years old, and now we get to hear about the experience of someone who got to stay there and experience the entities that seem to roam around freely. My name is Edwin and here is Martinez true scary story. I was born and raised in Croatia. I spent twenty five years there before I decided to pursue my dreams in Ireland. When I was little five or six years old, I was watching the show on the Telly and I was like, oh my god, this is so beautiful. One day I'm going to be here to live in this beautiful country. Eight years and two months approximately, I'm living in Ireland. I manifested pretty well. I moved into an old convent and an orphanage dating back from eighteen oh seven. The complex consisted of the three big buildings, with the church attached to a kitchen and the living room. The original rooms were slightly renovated but became a hostel slash student accommodation. It's really hard to find a decent apartment or house to rent. That was really grateful to have a place to stay. The convent had around thirty rooms. Some of them were single bedrooms, some were double bedrooms. We had two kitchens, one living room, a billiard piano room, and couple of bedrooms. It was a decent site for all of the residents. People were staying there from all around the world. I was lucky enough to get a small, private, single bedroom in the convent. My bedroom was a small rectangular shape room, perfect for one person. As you would enter the room, you had the sink on your left hand side, and on the right hand side there was a single bed. Right beside the sink was a wardrobe that was attached desk for like a study or whatever. At the bottom of the room was a window. The doors and the window faced to each other. After one month into my stay, I got a job as a waitress in an old pub and a restaurant in the city center. This pub was built back in eighteen eighty six. It used to be a morgue in the basement where we kept beer barrels, spirit bottles and cleaning stuff, extra chairs. This pub was known to be hunted. I never experienced anything paranormal. In the basement, you could feel very heavy air. It was very uneasy and a subtle to be there. I was avoiding going downstairs unless it was necessary. Other stuff experienced, empty glasses dropping from the shelves, stuff moving around. Light was flickering. I never seen anything. I was always wondering was it something that followed me home. My first encounter in the corn with was six months into my stay. I was walking down the hallway. The hallways was really dark and the light was dimmed. I was always afraid to walk through that hallway. I always tended to run as fast as I can to the kitchen. One evening, I was heading to the kitchen. I was on my phone, messaging my friend if she is around so we can have a dinner together. The moment I lift my head from the screen, I've seen a dark shadow at the end of the hallway leading to the kitchen. The figure was looking just like my friend. My friend was a peteeth girl. She was five point one and had dark, curly hair, and the shadow was looking exactly like her. I thought, here is my friend. She's just trying to scare me. She must have seen my message and trying to scare me in the kitchen. I sneak to the kitchen, opened the door, trying to scare her. She wasn't there. It was a pitch black kitchen. No one was around. I rang her phone and I was like, are you around? No, I'm not home. I left two hours ago. I didn't know what to do. I run straight through the hallway into my bedroom and locked the doors. A couple of months after, I was sleeping in my room, face the wall. In the middle of the night. I heard noises talking behind my back, the murmuring sound in the language which I couldn't understand. As I turned myself towards my sink, I saw a tall black figure standing beside my bed, looking directly at my direction, with the glowing blue eyes, murmuring sounds. I turned back, I said, what do you want from me? The figure just disappeared, like a puff in the air. Gone. I turned back to sleep. Maybe I was just training. But in the morning I woke up. As I stand up, and I've seen some sort of black shadowy thingy on the floor. I can't think now what would be like, but like an eyeshadow, the black glowing thing. I was so scared. I remembered the dream or whatever that was. I went to the closest church, which was just across the convent. I got myself a little bit of holy water and I reached the entire floor. If I just do that, say some prayers and chanting, this is going to disappear. After that encounter, it didn't happen for about a year later. I met a guy we started dating. His third or fourth visit that he came into the convent to mine. We just fell asleep around midnight. Not long after we fall asleep, something like a footstep sound woke me up. Something was pacing around the bed, up and down, up and down. I sat on the bed. I was looking towards the window. It was a pitch black in the rooms. I didn't see anything. As I sat on the bed, the footsteps immediately stopped. I was like, okay, maybe it's just it could be a raft or something. I lay back and tried to sleep. Minutes gone by, I heard the steps again. I sat on my bed again. The steps stopped. I shake my partner hand. I was like, can you can you hear that noise? And I keep hearing someone is walking around the bed. He says, yes, I can hear the sounds, but I'm just pretending that I don't because I'm very scared. At the moment, I was like, oh my god, can you just open the light to see what's going on. The moment the light shines the bedroom, my hanging clothes rack beside my window fell on the floor like something grabbed it pull it down with the force. This rack was screwed in the wall with the screwer. It was hanging on the hook. We saw that rack felling down like I didn't see anything. He didn't see anything, but you could feel that something grabbed. I was keep trying that close every single day. I was there for like two years. In that comment, I was using that clothing rack every single day. I've never seen that force that could actually fell on the ground. Something grabbed it and pull it with the force. That's how it looks like. I start screaming, what is going on? I was crying hysterically. You could see on his face he was really really scared as well. But we just went back to bed. I didn't know what to do. It was the middle of the night. I look up my phone. It was one thirty in the morning. I was staying on my phone the rest of the night, searching for available rooms to rent, and just keep praying for that thing to leave the room. We couldn't fall back to sleep that night. Morning came and we bolted around seven am to grab a coffee. I stayed in my partner apartment for about three four days before I got the courage to come back to that room. So I did eventually move to another free room with another friend of mine, about six months before I move out completely of the convent and find a proper apartment for myself. Everything stopped right after about six months after I moved to another apartment, and luckily I never had any experiences like this anymore. I never mentioned this to the landlord or the manager of that convent, or even the guards. I mentioned this to my friends. They thought that I'm just going crazy. They didn't believe me. I never say this story to anyone in particular. All that happening was from twenty fifteen to two thousand and seventeen. I moved in Ireland in two thousand and fifteen. Twenty seventeen, I moved out. Today. There is no more convent, it's the residents buildings. They built up in that area where the convent was. I would love to see a person and would love to hear the stories if anyone has experienced anything. I'm pretty sure they did, because you could feel the air. You could feel the heaviness of the air going around those hallways, and it was just maybe the old walls. The walls were really ticked. There was two hundred years old buildings. If the wolves could talk, that's all I can say. I do hope I will never find out if that was something that followed me from the pub where I used to work, or maybe was just an norphan child who was just having fun with me. I hope I will never find out. To share your own story, head on over to true scarystory dot com or find the link to it in the description of this episode. You can get in touch with us over at scary dot FM, on TikTok and Instagram, and if you want to find me, I'm at Edwin Cove. That's E d w I N c O V. If you like these stories, tell a friend. But anyway, thank you very much for listening. Keep it scary everyone, see us soon.