The Curse of the Nightly Visitors

[00:00:00] What if the noises in the night were more than just sounds, and every eerie dream meant someone you loved would die?

[00:00:08] What do superstitions become supernatural?

[00:00:11] My name is Edwin, and here is Lee's true scary story.

[00:00:23] In South Africa, especially within the Afrikaans language community, there's this superstition that if a person is born with the sac still around them, I think they call it an amniotic sac, that you've got a link with the spirit world where you can see or experience supernatural entities or force in some way.

[00:00:48] It was sort of frowned upon. You don't talk about this. You don't talk about seeing spirits.

[00:00:54] My mom and I were actually two in our family born with that sort of thing.

[00:01:06] My dad passed away eight years ago. It will be eight years this year.

[00:01:11] My mom sold the house, and she bought a new house.

[00:01:16] What she didn't know at that point was the lady who owned the house before her, her husband had cancer and passed away in the house.

[00:01:29] Not every night, but every good once in a while.

[00:01:34] She's been having what we like to call nightly visitors.

[00:01:39] The first month or so after my mom moved in, she was sleeping in a bedroom, and she heard this loud noise like there was a printer printing whatever sort of document next to her, and someone typing on the keyboard.

[00:02:00] The first thought my mom had was, oh no, there's someone in the house. I'm going to be robbed. Something's going to happen.

[00:02:12] She turned on the light. She could still hear the noise. It was coming from inside the house.

[00:02:22] She looked around, and it's a small place, and there was nothing there.

[00:02:28] She thought, I'm just going to go back to sleep. Maybe it's just me hallucinating. Maybe it's all the stress from the move.

[00:02:37] She goes back to sleep. She gets woken up at three o'clock in the morning.

[00:02:42] Same thing.

[00:02:49] For the next couple of nights, it's the same story over and over again.

[00:02:55] There's these people typing on a keyboard of a computer.

[00:03:00] There's a noise of a printer. There's paper being crumpled up. General office noise.

[00:03:09] My mom got fed up with it, and she said,

[00:03:13] What the hell is your problem?

[00:03:15] Leave me alone. Just be quiet. I want nothing to do with you.

[00:03:23] And the noise stopped.

[00:03:27] Then a few nights later, the noise picked up again.

[00:03:30] She said the same thing. Leave me alone. I've got nothing to do with you. What is your problem?

[00:03:42] And then a few days later, she got a call from someone who was relatively close to the family to say her husband passed away.

[00:03:54] My mom first thought, oh, it's a coincidence. Maybe it's stress, nightmares, things like that.

[00:04:02] This has been going on for a few years now.

[00:04:05] Every couple of months, she will get a visitor or hear a noise or something.

[00:04:15] And the first thought is, someone is breaking in.

[00:04:19] Oh my goodness, what's going to happen?

[00:04:21] And then she turns on the light.

[00:04:23] She still hears the noise from inside the house.

[00:04:25] She even checked in that space between the roof.

[00:04:30] There was no one there.

[00:04:32] And then a few days later,

[00:04:35] another family friend passed away.

[00:04:38] Someone she knows.

[00:04:41] This has been very upsetting to my mom.

[00:04:44] She was actually in tears

[00:04:45] because she can't sleep.

[00:04:47] She doesn't want to be bothered with this.

[00:04:52] While my dad was still alive,

[00:04:54] my dad was super strict.

[00:04:56] Something was either biblical or it wasn't worth it.

[00:05:01] And she didn't want to talk about it

[00:05:04] because my dad would basically emotionally break her down

[00:05:08] if she mentioned something weird like that.

[00:05:13] And they never had any real experiences

[00:05:16] up until my dad passed away.

[00:05:19] And it really heightened

[00:05:21] when my mom moved into that house

[00:05:24] that she has now.

[00:05:27] He was very strict in his religious beliefs.

[00:05:32] I'm not knocking religion,

[00:05:34] even though I'm not religious myself.

[00:05:36] But it's one of those things that you don't touch.

[00:05:42] It's evil.

[00:05:43] It's of the devil.

[00:05:44] You stay away from it.

[00:05:51] After that, she actually saw a full-bodied figure of my dad.

[00:05:59] He was standing there in the doorway to the bedroom

[00:06:03] and he said,

[00:06:05] He said,

[00:06:05] I'm sorry.

[00:06:06] It's my fault.

[00:06:08] You're going to be okay.

[00:06:09] Sort of that comfort he never gave her in life.

[00:06:16] He's now trying to give her after his passing.

[00:06:21] It gets to the point where I'm also starting to dream.

[00:06:33] I've been having dreams about people who passed away or going to pass away.

[00:06:40] But I don't know it at the time.

[00:06:42] And my mom was telling the story and she said,

[00:06:44] You know what?

[00:06:45] You were born with that thing around you.

[00:06:48] Maybe you can still see spirits.

[00:06:51] I dream it.

[00:06:52] She actually sees years and experiences it physically.

[00:06:57] I see faces.

[00:06:58] I see people that I don't actually really know.

[00:07:04] I would go to my mom and my mom said,

[00:07:06] Oh, I had one of those noises again.

[00:07:09] People were coming into my house.

[00:07:12] They were making noise.

[00:07:13] I had to tell them to get lost.

[00:07:15] And I said,

[00:07:16] No, I've been having a dream about this and this person.

[00:07:19] I don't really know them.

[00:07:20] Do you know them?

[00:07:21] I know it's this far removed relative.

[00:07:24] And then a few minutes later,

[00:07:28] my mom gets a call.

[00:07:29] Oh, this person passed away.

[00:07:34] Maybe it's just stress for me

[00:07:36] that I'm actually seeing this

[00:07:38] or dreaming this.

[00:07:41] I don't want anything to see something

[00:07:43] and see people,

[00:07:45] Oh, you're going to die.

[00:07:46] What happens if it's somebody I really care about?

[00:07:51] At night,

[00:07:52] I'm actually almost too scared to go to sleep

[00:07:55] because I'm not worried about nightmares.

[00:07:59] I actually enjoy nightmares, strangely enough,

[00:08:02] because it gives me good short story ideas.

[00:08:06] But when I see faces of specific people,

[00:08:10] I'm just scared.

[00:08:11] I'm going to see someone I really care about,

[00:08:15] someone I love,

[00:08:16] my wife,

[00:08:17] my son,

[00:08:18] my mom,

[00:08:18] my brother or sister.

[00:08:22] Then that means,

[00:08:24] Oh my goodness,

[00:08:25] something bad's going to happen to them.

[00:08:30] A week ago,

[00:08:33] my aunt passed away

[00:08:34] from a long health battle.

[00:08:37] The night before,

[00:08:40] it was the noisiest she's ever experienced.

[00:08:44] She actually got up,

[00:08:46] moved around the house

[00:08:47] and she was cussing at whatever was there.

[00:08:51] She was telling him,

[00:08:53] get the hell out.

[00:08:54] I want nothing to do with you.

[00:08:55] Leave me alone.

[00:08:57] Stop it.

[00:09:00] Normally,

[00:09:00] whatever is there

[00:09:03] would quieten down

[00:09:04] and almost sort of that feeling of,

[00:09:07] I'm sorry about that.

[00:09:08] I apologize.

[00:09:09] I'll leave you alone now.

[00:09:11] It carried on

[00:09:12] and on

[00:09:13] and on

[00:09:15] until my mom yelled.

[00:09:18] So much so

[00:09:19] that the neighbor

[00:09:20] actually contacted her

[00:09:22] and asked her,

[00:09:22] Are you okay?

[00:09:23] What's going on?

[00:09:24] Is someone inside the house?

[00:09:26] She says,

[00:09:27] No, no, no.

[00:09:27] I'm fine.

[00:09:28] It's just,

[00:09:29] there's this noise

[00:09:30] and it's irritating me

[00:09:32] and it's got me worried.

[00:09:34] I thought there was someone

[00:09:34] inside my house

[00:09:36] and then

[00:09:37] that neighbor

[00:09:38] went to the other neighbor

[00:09:39] and asked him,

[00:09:40] Why are you making a noise?

[00:09:41] And the neighbor said,

[00:09:42] No,

[00:09:42] I'm not making a noise.

[00:09:44] I heard a scream

[00:09:44] and I'm up too.

[00:09:46] And then my mom

[00:09:47] eventually had to admit to them,

[00:09:49] Look,

[00:09:50] this is what happens.

[00:09:52] I'm seeing,

[00:09:53] I'm hearing

[00:09:54] and it's

[00:09:55] got me freaked out

[00:09:57] because I know

[00:09:57] my sister is sick.

[00:10:01] Then that same night

[00:10:02] about

[00:10:03] three o'clock that morning

[00:10:04] I had a dream about my aunt.

[00:10:07] My aunt and I

[00:10:08] were never very close.

[00:10:11] She always used to

[00:10:12] yell at me,

[00:10:13] call me names,

[00:10:15] things like that.

[00:10:16] But I had a dream about her too

[00:10:18] and I thought,

[00:10:19] Oh no.

[00:10:20] If she hasn't passed away,

[00:10:22] she's going to pass away

[00:10:24] and soon.

[00:10:26] So about half past

[00:10:27] seven that morning,

[00:10:28] I'm on my way to work

[00:10:29] and my mom phones.

[00:10:32] She said,

[00:10:33] my aunt passed away.

[00:10:35] And I told her

[00:10:36] I had a dream about her,

[00:10:37] that she was yelling at me,

[00:10:39] moaning at me

[00:10:40] about something

[00:10:41] that I did as a kid.

[00:10:44] The last couple of times,

[00:10:46] my dreams

[00:10:47] and her experiences

[00:10:47] have actually synced up.

[00:10:58] I'm normally

[00:10:59] a very skeptical person,

[00:11:00] but I'm a skeptic

[00:11:02] open to the possibility

[00:11:04] of something.

[00:11:05] But it actually

[00:11:06] freaked me out now

[00:11:07] that what I first thought

[00:11:09] was coincidence,

[00:11:10] now I'm actually

[00:11:12] starting to think,

[00:11:12] okay,

[00:11:13] maybe there's something

[00:11:14] to it

[00:11:14] and that's what's

[00:11:15] got me scared.

[00:11:19] To the point now

[00:11:21] that I'm actually

[00:11:21] going to want

[00:11:22] to see a psychiatrist

[00:11:24] or a doctor

[00:11:25] or something

[00:11:26] that can maybe

[00:11:26] prescribe medication

[00:11:28] that I can sleep

[00:11:29] but not dream.

[00:11:33] My mom doesn't even

[00:11:34] want to come visit

[00:11:34] my house

[00:11:35] because now she's

[00:11:36] telling me

[00:11:36] there's something

[00:11:38] inside my house.

[00:11:43] After I turn off

[00:11:44] the lights

[00:11:45] or even with

[00:11:46] the lights on,

[00:11:47] I feel like

[00:11:48] there's someone

[00:11:49] actually watching me.

[00:11:51] I don't know who,

[00:11:53] I don't know

[00:11:53] what it could be,

[00:11:55] I don't know

[00:11:55] if they're friendly

[00:11:56] or malevolent

[00:11:57] in any way,

[00:11:58] but I just feel like

[00:12:01] there's something

[00:12:03] watching me

[00:12:04] but I don't know

[00:12:06] what the intentions are.

[00:12:09] Mom has a theory

[00:12:10] about it herself

[00:12:11] because she came

[00:12:13] from her very

[00:12:13] abusive childhood,

[00:12:15] serious abuse.

[00:12:18] She thinks maybe

[00:12:19] the way she was born

[00:12:20] and the life

[00:12:21] that she had

[00:12:21] as a child

[00:12:22] might have

[00:12:24] made her

[00:12:25] a conduit

[00:12:26] or something

[00:12:28] that she can

[00:12:29] actually pick up

[00:12:30] on these signals

[00:12:31] because she was

[00:12:32] very good at

[00:12:33] sensing when

[00:12:34] abuse was about

[00:12:36] to happen

[00:12:36] or when something

[00:12:37] bad was about

[00:12:38] to happen.

[00:12:39] she has a very,

[00:12:40] very good gut feeling

[00:12:42] and I think

[00:12:42] since my dad

[00:12:44] passed away,

[00:12:45] since her parents

[00:12:47] have passed away

[00:12:47] years ago,

[00:12:48] that there isn't

[00:12:49] this blockage

[00:12:50] anymore

[00:12:51] and now everything

[00:12:52] is coming

[00:12:52] into her

[00:12:55] tenfold.

[00:12:58] Lately,

[00:12:58] my mom hasn't

[00:12:59] had any

[00:13:00] visitors

[00:13:01] or noises

[00:13:02] but she still

[00:13:04] has that fear

[00:13:05] in her

[00:13:06] that if she

[00:13:07] hears something,

[00:13:09] oh my goodness,

[00:13:10] who's going to be next?

[00:13:13] Luckily,

[00:13:14] my son

[00:13:15] wasn't born with that.

[00:13:17] My sister

[00:13:17] and my brother

[00:13:18] weren't born with that

[00:13:19] so it seems

[00:13:20] like my mom

[00:13:21] and I

[00:13:21] are the only

[00:13:22] two people

[00:13:22] in our family

[00:13:24] who actually

[00:13:25] sees or

[00:13:26] experiences

[00:13:27] these things.

[00:13:30] It's not fun.

[00:13:31] This is something

[00:13:32] I want no part of

[00:13:34] and if I see

[00:13:36] or dream about

[00:13:37] somebody that

[00:13:38] I really care about,

[00:13:40] I'm too scared

[00:13:41] about what's

[00:13:41] going to happen.

[00:13:43] I always say

[00:13:44] to my wife,

[00:13:45] I just want

[00:13:45] peace in my life

[00:13:46] and that's it.

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