Have you ever had a paranormal experience outside of/before working with The Dread Powers? Alternatively, have you ever seen a Fear manifest?
Both!! Full disclosure, I am both very psychically sensitive, and someone who seeks out the paranormal.
A few very intense experiences I've had include:
• the door of the freezer in the morgue I used to work at just being pounded on relentlessly, like a person trying to be let out, but it would stop momentarily if you opened the door
• hearing a woman sob over a spirit box, giving us her name, and later finding her death records, which confirmed she died in the abandoned hospital we were doing a paranormal investigation at
• owning multiple (extremely friendly) haunted dolls with child spirits, finding them moved in the morning after not touching them. My cat looking at them strangely like he would a human visitor, them throwing themselves off of shelves when they want attention
However I do also believe I encountered part of the stranger or the hunt or something in real life once. Buckle up, this story gets long.
So back in like 2020, me and some friends wanted to do something spooky. We were young, dumb, and brand new adults with very little experience fucking around and finding out. We initially wanted to go to the cemetery at night, but one of the girls in the group was very scared and anxious about death, and we didn't want to put her into a panicked state obviously, so we opted to read cards in the woods instead.
So we drove out to the park, which faced a large section of woods. The high beams of the car were on when we parked, which will become important later.
We get to the park and I begin to read and we're just having a good fun time, but I keep seeing this strange light in the distance, and it's getting closer. I could hear footsteps, and my first thought was that it was a person, and that made me nervous, especially because we were not supposed to be in that particular park at that hour.
I'm not easily scared, so when I am, my friends tend to know it's some serious business. I calmly but firmly told everyone to get up and get in the car now, and I began to pick up the items.
As one of my friends starts the vehicle, the high beams of their car turn on and illuminate the forest, and I see it. It's a humanoid creature, standing on its back legs like it's imitating a person very poorly. Once it sees that I'm looking at it, it gets on all fours and begins to sprint at me. I obviously panic and run to the car, screaming at my friend to drive, and we peeled out so hard that her tires squealed.
We all cleansed intensely, and two of the friends left, while one stayed over because I was so rocked by it. It's energy was so horrific that I wanted no part.
I go out into my yard the next day, and not only is there a dead deer that's been gutted and mutilated but NOT eaten, but multiple dead squirrels that were left punctured on tree branches or hanging up in the trees. Three in total. I cleansed and protected my whole property. I am also fortunate enough to live very close to a Buddhist monastery, and after explaining, they were generous enough to do a blessing on the property for free.
That thing looked like the Rake. I didn't even know fear like that was an emotion you could feel. Pure animalistic terror of knowing that you are being hunted. It was the single scariest moment of my life, but in a weird way I really cherish it. It brought me closer to my gods
