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True Scary Story

The Man in the Top Hat

True Scary Story

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Society & Culture, Arts, Personal Journals

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

A family recounts their chilling encounters with spirits, shadowy figures, and an oppressive dark presence that followed them across multiple homes. With mysterious illnesses, eerie warnings, and unexplained phenomena, this true story explores the terrifying impact of the supernatural on one family’s life.

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Editing and sound design by Sarah Vorhees Wendel of VW Sound

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0:00.0

Growing up in a haunted house is one thing.

0:03.0

But what if the spirits follow you wherever you go?

0:06.0

This is a chilling account of a family tormented by ghosts, demons, and dark entities.

0:12.0

My name is Edwin, and here is Chris's true scary story.

0:33.6

The earliest memory of anything happening that I can remember is I was probably around six years old.

0:36.6

We had this house. My grandparents lived there. It was in Virginia, so it was a very, very old house.

0:44.3

There was a lot of us, so there was my mom, my dad, myself, my two younger siblings, and my youngest brother.

0:51.3

Generally, when there is a lot of people in one home, things become very active.

0:57.0

You'd feel things, you sense things, you pick up on things.

1:02.0

When we moved in, my grandmother told us that there is a spirit in the house.

1:11.3

And my grandmother was involved in a lot of different things like tarot cards and doing readings and things like that.

1:18.4

So she was already very sensitive.

1:21.4

She would tell us, hey, there is a spirit in this house.

1:24.3

We call him angel.

1:26.2

And she just wanted to let us know in case we saw anything

1:29.6

or felt anything. I remember never feeling comfortable in that house. I always felt like somebody

1:38.4

was watching me. I never physically saw anything, but it was just creepy.

1:45.0

I just did not want to be in that house.

1:47.0

I didn't like it.

1:49.0

I didn't like the way it made me feel.

1:55.0

There was this one time that me and my sisters were playing,

2:00.0

and we were playing very, very loudly.

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