The Footsteps Followed Me – Paranormal Nightshift Story – Episode 63

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Welcome to Paranormal Night
Shift, your home for all things

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that go bump in the dark and
your fan stories told here.

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Growing up, we all heard fairy
tales and the Grimm brothers.

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Fairy tales are based on things
that are far more tragic than

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the stories that we heard.
But we hadn’t heard.

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Modern day fairy tales.
Encounters with Real Life

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Witches.
Today’s story speaks on that.

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What if a fairy tale became your
reality?

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The sender of today’s story has
asked to stay anonymous.

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She says she still doesn’t feel
safe talking about what she saw,

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but for the story we’re going to
call her Sarah.

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My parents were furious when I
moved into the city, but it was

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the only way to find good work.
I just graduated college and I

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took a great job as a paralegal.
My mom and dad didn’t like it

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because most of the time that
job had me working long hours

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and it had me going home.
It was only a couple blocks

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away, but yes, sometimes I would
be going home late at night by

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myself.
It was about 11:30 PM on a

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Friday night.
I was walking home alone, and as

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usual, I lived in a kind of
small, quiet neighborhood.

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I never felt unsafe or anything
like that, but tonight something

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just felt different.
As I started walking home, I

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started hearing these footsteps
behind me.

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I turned around, but there was
nobody there.

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I I I got a little frightened.
I started walking faster.

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But the footsteps, they they
kept pace with me.

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No matter how fast I want, the
footsteps felt like they were

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right behind me.
I took the long way home and I

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turned down the side street
hoping that maybe I just lose

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the footsteps.
But they followed me.

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Now I was running, but it didn’t
matter.

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The footsteps, they were getting
closer and closer.

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I finally reached my apartment
building and I ran inside.

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I slammed the door shut behind
me and I locked it, but it was

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to no use.
I kept hearing the footsteps all

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the way down the hall, all the
way down the hall to my

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apartment.
I continued to hear these

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footsteps behind me.
I made it into my apartment and

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I locked the door.
My dad was insisted that I had

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three locks, the big bolt.
But I continued to hear the

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footsteps pacing behind the
door, walking up and down the

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hallway right in front of my
house.

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Strange odor started to fill the
air.

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It smelt like sulfur.
It smelt like death.

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And the footsteps, They were
louder and louder outside of my

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door.
Then my doorknob started to

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jiggle.
Something was trying to get in,

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get out, go away, I said.
But it didn’t matter.

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It was pushing against the door,
banging against the door.

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That’s all I could hear.
And all I could smell was so

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overwhelmingly scent of sulfur.
Never felt so trapped in a place

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that felt so safe.
The smell was overwhelming and

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and the door just kept shaking.
Finally, whatever was behind the

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door had broken through.
It pushed me back with such a

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power it had popped all the
locks that were supposed to keep

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me safe.
Then right there there’s this

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this figure standing in my
doorway, so tall, so wide.

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It is rocking out the light and
the smell is overwhelming.

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Now this dark figure is standing
in my doorway, overwhelmingly

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strong sense of of sulfur.
The thing is tall and lanky but

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wide at the same time, with
dark, glowing yellow eyes.

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And and all I can think of is
the smell.

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It’s smelt like death.
It’s smelt like decay, It smelt

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like rot.
Figure doesn’t move, it’s just

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standing there.
I I scream.

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But that seems to awaken.
Whatever this is now, it’s going

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into my apartment.
I I struggle.

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I I I get up.
I run into my room, throwing

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things off of the cabinets,
throwing whatever I can at the

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creature.
But it doesn’t stop this.

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This entity is is in there,
slowly, methodically moving

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towards me to keep a can of
pepper spray next to my bed just

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because my father has always
told me to.

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I grab it and wait for it to
open my room, but it it never

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does.
The creatures just there.

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This figure is is just in my
apartment.

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I can hear it in my apartment.
I grabbed my phone and I call

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the police and tell them that
somebody is in my apartment.

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It took 5 minutes for them to
get there.

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It was the quickest response
that I I I could have ever

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imagined.
But they enter the apartment and

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and no one’s there.
The knock at the door is from

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the Police Department.
The narc on my bedroom door is

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someone identifying themselves
as a police officer.

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I’m on the phone with dispatch
who tells me the police are

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there.
That’s how I identify it.

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I know that the police are in my
apartment now and that I am

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safe.
I open it, I open the door and

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then there it is, just a
policeman just talking to me,

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telling me that clearly they
have been a break in and now

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they wanted to do paperwork.
They they wanted information.

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Nothing was taken.
The the house itself wasn’t in

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any disarray other than what I
had thrown around.

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I tried to explain what I saw.
No one believed me.

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No one believed me at all.
I called my parents and they

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came and stayed with me that
night.

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But I’ll never forget my father.
He smelt it as well, just this

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overwhelming smell of sulfur.
I’ve I’ve not had any more

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experiences.
I leave when other people leave

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and I walk with somebody home.
I’ve got more locks on my door

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now and I’m trying to move back
in with my parents.

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I just have to find a way to
financially do that.

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I don’t know what I encountered.
It’s the thing of nightmares.

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It haunts my dreams sometimes.
These fairy tales that we were

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told as kids, are they reality?